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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... divine honours from their fellow citizens - present company of course excepted . Here and there the stream of calumny met intractable rocks of fact , too firmly fixed to be washed away . Work- ing this awkward material in , the ...
... divine honours from their fellow citizens - present company of course excepted . Here and there the stream of calumny met intractable rocks of fact , too firmly fixed to be washed away . Work- ing this awkward material in , the ...
Page 121
... divine guidance comes as pressure on their shoulders . ) This strange procession may have been visible from the courtyard . Its meaning , how- ever , was revealed to Alexander only , within the shrine . If he had indeed intended , as ...
... divine guidance comes as pressure on their shoulders . ) This strange procession may have been visible from the courtyard . Its meaning , how- ever , was revealed to Alexander only , within the shrine . If he had indeed intended , as ...
Page 231
... Divine honours , however solemnly awarded , car- ried no specific rights or immunities . To the rationalist in- tellectuals of the day , they were an important distinction , like a Nobel Prize ; to the many for whom religion still had ...
... Divine honours , however solemnly awarded , car- ried no specific rights or immunities . To the rationalist in- tellectuals of the day , they were an important distinction , like a Nobel Prize ; to the many for whom religion still had ...
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