![]() ![]() That passion drives them ruthlessly toward the ends of theĮarth. ![]() Love for their brilliant commander is pushed to the brink by his unquenchableĭesire for glory. That place is held by Alexander's army, whose BagoasĮventually understands that his two potential rivals for the king's physicalĪffection, his long-time companion Hephaistion and his young bride Roxanne, are Mounting toll on body and spirit of a life lived on a sword's edge. Beside him, Bagoas faces conspiracy, mutiny, and the direīecause the narrator's personal tragedy hasīarred him from training as a soldier, the novel's focus is less on the manyīattles fought along the way - although these are treated with Renault's usualĬare - than on the qualities that made Alexander a leader of men, and the Through his eyes, with their distinctly Persian bias, we followĪlexander as he leads his armies through a series of hard campaigns in BactriaĪnd beyond to India. More than one of the Persian king's many exquisite possessions, Bagoas soonįinds himself lover and beloved of the brilliant young man who has toppled hisįormer master. His beauty for the bed of the Great King Darius. Robbed by betrayal and capture of his prospect for manhood, groomed because of ![]() The novel shows Alexander from the perspective of the Persian eunuchīagoas, named by historians as the Macedonian conqueror's lover. The Great's later life, from his defeat of Darius to his early death inīabylon. Persian Boy Mary Renault spins out a rich, believable account of Alexander ![]()
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