Read Online The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)

The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2) - It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.The Atlantic Monthly The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexanders life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with Alexander after the Macedon army conquered his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alexander as he weathers assassination plots, the demands of two foreign wives, a sometimes-mutinous army, and his own ferocious temper. After Alexanders mysterious death, we are left wondering if this Persian boy understood the great warrior and his ambitions better than anyone.


Read Online The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)

Book Details

⚡️Book Title : The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
⚡Book Author : Mary Renault
⚡Page : 432 pages
⚡Published February 12th 1988 by Vintage (first published 1972)

The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)

It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.The Atlantic Monthly The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexanders life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with Alexander after the Macedon army conquered his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alexander as he weathers assassination plots, the demands of two foreign wives, a sometimes-mutinous army, and his own ferocious temper. After Alexanders mysterious death, we are left wondering if this Persian boy understood the great warrior and his ambitions better than anyone.