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 The Persian Boy is a 1972 historical novel written by Mary Renault and narrated by Bagoas, a young Persian from an aristocratic family who is captured by his father's enemies, castrated, and sold as a slave to the king Darius III, who makes him his... 
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 New Internationalist Persian brides.
07/01/2000: 304 words, approx. 1 pages Persian Brides by Dorit Rabinyan translated by Yael Lotan (Canongate, ISBN 0 86241 851 8) Israeli author Dorit Rabinyan's tragi-comic novel, Persian Brides, is a strikingly mature and polished debut. Set at the turn of the century in the Jewish quarter... summary from source:
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society The Persian Empire
12/01/2006: 1,035 words, approx. 4 pages The Persian Empire. By Lindsay Alien. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, 224 pp., $39.95. Lindsay Allen's book is a must read for the scholar who is interested in the Persian Empire, the rise of Alexander the Great, and the biblical books of...
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 Critical Essay by Robert J. Lenardon
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The multiple facets of Renault's art, familiar to a host of admirers, are once again apparent [in The Persian Boy], a particularly sensitive depiction of boyhood and youth; an astounding grasp of the facts and the spirit of the ancient world; an unerring sense of the dramatic which, along with her superb descriptive powers, brings to life a great historical period. There is plenty of joy and terror in this book, tempered by a gloriously romantic idealism which is uplifting because it reflects a profo...
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