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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... troops outside fled at sight of the Mace- donians , leaving behind the freshly killed bodies of nine victims just sacrificed for victory — three black rams , three boys and three girls . ( No wonder Alexander did not care to dwell on ...
... troops outside fled at sight of the Mace- donians , leaving behind the freshly killed bodies of nine victims just sacrificed for victory — three black rams , three boys and three girls . ( No wonder Alexander did not care to dwell on ...
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... troops under his command , the brutal punishments of the Roman army . No regiment of his was ever " decimated " -numbered off in tens and every tenth man killed . Yet his discipline was meticulous . Once when his troops were drawn up in ...
... troops under his command , the brutal punishments of the Roman army . No regiment of his was ever " decimated " -numbered off in tens and every tenth man killed . Yet his discipline was meticulous . Once when his troops were drawn up in ...
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... troops to mutiny - a contingency he had no power whatever to prevent - could only have been run in the firm belief that a still worse danger threatened . ( Only the other day , modern Europe has seen the mere dismissal of a popular ...
... troops to mutiny - a contingency he had no power whatever to prevent - could only have been run in the firm belief that a still worse danger threatened . ( Only the other day , modern Europe has seen the mere dismissal of a popular ...
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Achilles Alex Alexander Alexander's ancient ander Antipater Aristobulus Aristotle army Arrian Arrian says Artabazus Asia asked Athenian Athens Attalus Babylon Bactria Bagoas battle began Bessus bride Callisthenes campaign Cassander cavalry chariot Cleitus command court Craterus Curtius Cyrus danger Darius dead death Demosthenes Diodorus divine donians doubt Ecbatana Egypt elephants enemy envoys eunuch exile father fight fled fleet force friends garrison gold Greece Greek Harpalus Hephaestion Hephaestion's honour horses Illyrians Indian infantry killed King knew known land later legend lived Mace Macedon Macedonian mercenaries murder Nabarzanes Nearchus never night numbers Ochus offered officers Olympias once palace Parmenion passed Pausanias Perdiccas perhaps Persepolis Persian Peucestas Philip Philotas Plutarch Plutarch says Porus pride probably Ptolemy river route Roxane royal satrap seems sent ships siege Sisygambis Sogdiana soldiers story survived Susa talents Thebans Thebes thought tion told took troops walls wound