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Fire from Heaven Information
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 Fire From Heaven is a 1969 historical novel by Mary Renault about the childhood and youth of Alexander the Great. It reportedly was a major inspiration for the Oliver Stone film...


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Critical Essay by Campbell Black
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 In Fire from Heaven [Mary Renault] continues to work in the vein that has brought her so much success—justifiably, since she has reconstructed her historic period with all the care of an archaeologist…. [Where] she excels is in her close eye for detail. Apart from rather ordinary set-pieces connected with Alexander's childhood—the snake that he keeps in his bed, his relationship with his mother, Olympias, his antagonism towards his father, King Philip, all of which could mutatis ...


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