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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... Ochus had been poisoned the year before by his eunuch Grand Vizier , the king - maker Bagoas , whose power he had tried to curb ; Arses his son was young and occupied with these internal dangers . The coastal satraps ' resistance seems ...
... Ochus had been poisoned the year before by his eunuch Grand Vizier , the king - maker Bagoas , whose power he had tried to curb ; Arses his son was young and occupied with these internal dangers . The coastal satraps ' resistance seems ...
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Mary Renault. said by Diodorus to have won renown during Ochus ' reign by killing in single combat a Cilician champion whom no other warrior would face . He was now about fifty ; the duel , if it ever took place , may have been fought a ...
Mary Renault. said by Diodorus to have won renown during Ochus ' reign by killing in single combat a Cilician champion whom no other warrior would face . He was now about fifty ; the duel , if it ever took place , may have been fought a ...
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... Ochus and his heir had both been murdered ; the makeshift Darius had been an unmitigated disaster ; Bessus was for some a hero , for others a regicide beside whom this foreign conqueror was no great change for the worse since he seemed ...
... Ochus and his heir had both been murdered ; the makeshift Darius had been an unmitigated disaster ; Bessus was for some a hero , for others a regicide beside whom this foreign conqueror was no great change for the worse since he seemed ...
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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