Mary Renault: The Nature of Alexander

The Nature of Alexander


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Combines contemporaneous accounts, critically studied legends, reproductions of pertinent artworks, and photographs to provide a full-scale, nonideological biography of the Macedonian conqueror and empire builder

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Author: Mary Renault
Number of Pages: 288 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2005
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780394738253
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Workshop Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Environments