The Nature of Alexander

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by Mary Renault


  Phocians, 47, 49, 50, 83, 84, 85, 145

  Phoenicians, 107, 112, 114, 215

  Phoenix, 28, 113

  Pindar, 85

  Pixodorus, 59, 60, 94-5, 96-7

  Plataeans, 50, 83, 84, 85

  Plato, 10, 39, 40, 42, 43, 45, 54, 73

  Plutarch, 13, 23, 29-30, 34, 41, 44, 45, 59, 60, 63, 65, 69, 73, 76, 85, 90, 98, 104, 105, 109, 113-14, 125, 128, 129, 131, 134, 142, 143, 147, 148, 153, 154, 155, 160, 162, 164, 180, 220, 224, 237, 239, 241, 242, 249, 250, 258, 259-60, 262, 267

  Porus, 9, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197-9, 204

  Poseidon, 89, 180-1, 213, 231

  Pseudo-Callisthenes, 14, 159, 242, 243, 261

  Ptolemy I, 5-7, 13, 30-2, 43, 48, 79, 84, 86, 89, 91, 101, 111, 120, 147, 148, 155, 161, 164, 170, 174, 179, 187, 191, 192, 194-5, 196, 198, 204 ff., 218, 219, 224, 226, 227, 234, 243 ff.

  Punjab, 189, 190, 193, 200, 203, 214

  Pythagoras, 256

  Red Sea, 250, 251

  Roman d’Alexandre, 16

  Rome, Romans, 7, 11-12, 15, 73, 78, 101, 108, 127, 134, 140, 188, 221, 223, 233, 236, 245, 250

  Roxane, 3, 16, 17, 110, 183-5, 186, 190, 204, 211, 220, 221, 226, 227, 239, 243, 247, 248, 250, 267-8

  Royal Journal, 256, 261

  Royal Kindred, 173, 176, 235

  Royal Road, 5, 139, 142, 233, 247

  Sacred Band, 20, 34, 51, 52, 53, 83, 85

  Sacred League, 47, 49, 51, 75

  Sambus of Sind, 212

  Samarkand, 171, 178

  Samos, 231

  Samothrace, 19, 21

  Sangala, 200

  Sarapis, 243, 264

  Sardis, 82, 93, 96, 109

  Sarpedon, 52

  Satibarzanes, 168

  Scythians, 47, 171, 172, 245

  Seleucus, 196, 226

  Semiramis, 211, 219

  Shakespeare, William, 71, 97

  Sicily, 115, 131, 250

  Sidon, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114

  Sisygambis, 104, 105, 106, 128, 132, 137, 144, 153, 225, 246, 253, 268

  Siwah, 57, 120, 243, 258

  Socrates, 36, 37, 39, 41, 71, 73, 108, 264

  Sogdiana, 129, 171, 182-3, 184, 185, 190, 203

  Sparta, Spartans, 20, 25, 35, 49, 54, 110, 112, 126, 173, 223, 230, 249

  Speusippus, 39

  Spitamenes, 182, 226

  Stagira, 40, 46

  Stateira, 104-5, 131-2, 154, 205

  Stateira-Barsine. See Barsine-Stateira

  Stein, Sir Aurel, 192

  Stories of Alexander (Chares), 226

  Strabo, 194

  Successors, 230, 235

  Susa, 139, 142, 143, 144, 146, 147, 221, 224, 225, 227, 229, 230, 238, 239, 244, 246, 247, 248

  Syria, 5, 6

  Syrian seer, 186-7

  Tarn, Sir William, 17, 89, 148

  Tarsus, 99

  Taxila, 190, 193, 198, 204, 210, 211

  Thais, 147, 148

  Theagenes, 85

  Thebes, 19-20, 34, 36, 49, 50, 51, 53, 76, 82-3, 84-5, 86, 89, 110, 120

  Theophrastus, 11

  Thermopylae, 49, 75, 144

  Thessaly, 26, 35, 49, 75, 82, 198

  Thettalus, 59, 60-1, 123, 227

  Thrace, Thracians, 22, 24, 26, 32, 40, 44, 45, 46, 47, 76, 77, 80, 84, 86, 98, 174, 196

  Tigris, 5, 129, 130, 131, 233, 246

  Triballians, 47, 76, 78

  Troy, Trojans, 22, 24, 44, 52, 68, 89-90, 207, 221

  Trojan War, 159

  Tyre, Tyrians, 6, 112, 113, 114-15, 123, 140

  Uxians, 144

  Valerius, Julius, 14-15

  Vasco of Lucena, 16

  Warburton, Sir Robert, 190, 191

  Wilcken, Ulrich, 116, 142

  Williams, John, 67

  Xenocrates, 54

  Xenophon, 33-4, 71-3, 79, 92, 101, 102, 106, 107, 126, 127, 131, 133, 139, 147, 169, 170, 222

  Xerxes I, the Great, 49, 108, 116, 140, 144, 146, 147, 246

  Zeus, 8, 24, 57, 67, 80, 87, 93-4, 120, 122, 143, 180, 231

  Zoroaster, 9, 154

  A Biography of Mary Renault

  Mary Renault (1905–1983) was an English writer best known for her historical novels on the life of Alexander the Great: Fire from Heaven (1969), The Persian Boy (1972), and Funeral Games (1981).

  Born Eileen Mary Challans into a middle-class family in a London suburb, Renault enjoyed reading from a young age. Initially obsessed with cowboy stories, she became interested in Greek philosophy when she found Plato’s works in her school library. Her fascination with Greek philosophy led her to St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where one of her tutors was J. R. R. Tolkien. Renault went on to earn her BA in English in 1928.

  Renault began training as a nurse in 1933. It was at this time that she met the woman that would become her life partner, fellow nurse Julie Mullard. Renault also began writing, and published her first novel, Purposes of Love (titled Promise of Love in its American edition), in 1939. Inspired by her occupation, her first works were hospital romances. Renault continued writing as she treated Dunkirk evacuees at the Winford Emergency Hospital in Bristol and later as she worked in a brain surgery ward at the Radcliffe Infirmary.

  In 1947, Renault received her first major award: Her novel Return to Night (1946) won an MGM prize. With the $150,000 of award money, she and Mullard moved to South Africa, never to return to England again. Renault revived her love of ancient Greek history and began to write her novels of Greece, including The Last of the Wine (1956) and The Charioteer (1953), which is still considered the first British novel that includes unconcealed homosexual love.

  Renault’s in-depth depictions of Greece led many readers to believe she had spent a great deal of time there, but during her lifetime, she actually only visited the Aegean twice. Following The Last of the Wine and inspired by a replica of a Cretan fresco at a British museum, Renault wrote The King Must Die (1958) and its sequel, The Bull from the Sea (1962).

  The democratic ideals of ancient Greece encouraged Renault to join the Black Sash, a women’s movement that fought against apartheid in South Africa. Renault was also heavily involved in the literary community, where she believed all people should be afforded equal standard and opportunity, and was the honorary chair of the Cape Town branch of PEN, the international writers’ organization.

  Renault passed away in Cape Town on December 13, 1983.

  Renault in 1940.

  Renault and Julie Mullard on board the Cairo in 1948, on their way to South Africa, where they settled in Durban.

  Renault in a Black Sash protest in 1955. She was among the first to join this women’s movement against apartheid.

  Renault and Michael Atkinson installing her cast of the Roman statue of the Apollo Belvedere in the garden of Delos, Camps Bay, in the late 1970s.

  Renault working in her “Swiss Bank” study with Mandy and Coco, the dogs.

  Renault and Mullard walking the dogs on the beach at Camps Bay in 1982.

  Delos, Greece, with a view over the beach at Camps Bay.

  Portrait of Renault in 1982.

  All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.

  The publishers are indebted to the following for permission to quote from their publications: Mrs. George Bambridge and Eyre Methuen, and Doubleday & Co., Inc. (Rudyard Kipling, “The Young British Soldier,” from Barrack-Room Ballads); Liverpool University Press (E. W. Marsden, The Campaign of Gaugamela); University of Chicago Press (Richmond Lattimore, tr., The Iliad of Homer).

  Copyright © 1975 by Mary Renault

  Cover design by Mimi Bark

  978-1-4804-3294-9

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