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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... never mind who I am ; never mind my name although it is not unknown among men ; never mind my country , or my family , or any rank I have held among compatriots . I would rather say : for me , this book of mine is country , kindred and ...
... never mind who I am ; never mind my name although it is not unknown among men ; never mind my country , or my family , or any rank I have held among compatriots . I would rather say : for me , this book of mine is country , kindred and ...
Page 95
... never drawn sexually to older women . He preferred the filial role . Later he was to assume it with much deeper ... never wasteful of theirs , a fact well known to them and never undervalued . He breached and stormed the Miletus walls ...
... never drawn sexually to older women . He preferred the filial role . Later he was to assume it with much deeper ... never wasteful of theirs , a fact well known to them and never undervalued . He breached and stormed the Miletus walls ...
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... never been the wife of a king , only the mother , and that late in life . But to the old aristocrat who had bewailed her son's heroic death , the truth of his survival may have been a greater blow . She and Alexander seem to have found ...
... never been the wife of a king , only the mother , and that late in life . But to the old aristocrat who had bewailed her son's heroic death , the truth of his survival may have been a greater blow . She and Alexander seem to have found ...
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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