The Nature of AlexanderKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 12 nov. 1979 - 288 pages The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault, the author of Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, two best-selling novels about Alexander. |
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... siege in eastern Thrace , appointed his son Regent of Macedon . It is of course evident that he had already been at war . No record of it remains ; but the trust committed to him was no sinecure . Though the experienced Antipater was ...
... siege in eastern Thrace , appointed his son Regent of Macedon . It is of course evident that he had already been at war . No record of it remains ; but the trust committed to him was no sinecure . Though the experienced Antipater was ...
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... siege . One of its two commanders was the expert Memnon . Arrian de- scribes in detail the filling of its great moat to bring up the siege towers , the sorties from the fort to burn them , the final breach of the wall . When the city ...
... siege . One of its two commanders was the expert Memnon . Arrian de- scribes in detail the filling of its great moat to bring up the siege towers , the sorties from the fort to burn them , the final breach of the wall . When the city ...
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... siege included raising a high earthwork to bring his engines in range . While he was up there , some bird of prey dropped a stone on his head ; perhaps mistaking his helmet for a tortoise whose shell it wished to crack , like the bald ...
... siege included raising a high earthwork to bring his engines in range . While he was up there , some bird of prey dropped a stone on his head ; perhaps mistaking his helmet for a tortoise whose shell it wished to crack , like the bald ...
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