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The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great.
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MARY RENAULT has written over a dozen novels, has had her work adapted for radio, stage, and screeen, and has been the subject of documentaries and biographies. She is as widely known for her forthright treatment of gay relationships as she is her historical restructions of ancient Greece. She was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained as a nurse, where she met her lifelong partner Julie Mullard. After during World War II, she and Mullard settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her historical novels, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine, and The Persian Boy. The biography The Nature of Alexander is one of her only non-fiction books. She died in Cape Town in 1983.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1. English Alexander the Great, like his boyhood hero Achilles, traded long life for lasting fame. His fame has lasted?far longer than the knowledge of his world, which is needed to understand him. He has been seen by every age in terms of its own life style. Romance has wrapped him in fantasy. Propaganda has exploited him since the days of imperial Rome. He has been condemned for sins which to men of his time were merits; and credited with nineteenth-century virtues which his own culture despised. The aim of Mary Renault?s study has been to peel off from this complex and dynamic human being the accumulated layers of wishful thinking, both idealizing and ideological, and show him not in our terms but his: as he saw himself, and was seen by his friends, his enemies, the men he led and the peoples he conquered. Besides the statements of those who knew him in life, of which many fragments have been preserved, she has studied the folk memory, ?which can be neither enforced nor bought?, handed down in the lands he ruled. She describes his youth spent between embattled parents, themselves sprung from royal houses under constant threat from usurpation and war; the ideals and ambitions urged on him by his teacher Aristotle; and the reactions he produced in those around him when his status was insecure and he had no means of rewarding loyalty. Mary Renault?s best-selling novels about Alexander, Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, have involved her in some years? close study of his life. Crucial episodes which she has re-examined are the murder of his father Philip, in which he has been accused of complicity; the sack of Thebes; the death of his general Parmenion; and the wishes he expressed upon his deathbed. From a study of the medical evidence she has suggested important possibilities about Alexander?s death, and that of his lifelong friend Hephaestion. This hard-hitting, controversial biography, firmly based on the sources, challenges the ideological interpreters of Alexander, past and present, who have sought to wrench him out of the context of his era. The text is supported by carefully chosen illustrations, many of them specially commissioned, reproducing contemporary art, documents or reconstructions of events, and modern photographs of the territories Alexander covered in his travels. Contents: IMAGES 10; MACEDON 24; TROY 66; PERSIA 115; INDIA 163; THE MARCH TO BABYLON 183; POSTSCRIPT 233; ANCIENT SOURCES 234; ILLUSTRATIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 234; INDEX OF PROPER NAMES 236. Seller Inventory # 10123689
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