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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Page 109
... told him to come out with his treasure under pretence of taking flight . He was followed , there- fore , by a panic crowd , including the harems of the Persian nobles engaged at Issus . These ladies , not being royal game , were not so ...
... told him to come out with his treasure under pretence of taking flight . He was followed , there- fore , by a panic crowd , including the harems of the Persian nobles engaged at Issus . These ladies , not being royal game , were not so ...
Page 121
... told what the ques- tion was . He is said to have written to Olympias that he would tell her in private when he got back to Macedon . Any- thing he would tell her , he probably told Hephaestion ; if so , he was as silent as the grave to ...
... told what the ques- tion was . He is said to have written to Olympias that he would tell her in private when he got back to Macedon . Any- thing he would tell her , he probably told Hephaestion ; if so , he was as silent as the grave to ...
Page 203
... told them acidly that they must at least allow him to leave India , not bolt from it . He had just had reliable information that the Indus did not flow into the Nile , but into the Endless Ocean . Baulked of reaching it eastward , he ...
... told them acidly that they must at least allow him to leave India , not bolt from it . He had just had reliable information that the Indus did not flow into the Nile , but into the Endless Ocean . Baulked of reaching it eastward , he ...
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