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unusual facts about Fire from Heaven


Quintus Curtius Rufus

Historical novelist Mary Renault, in the preface to her biography of Alexander Fire from Heaven, discusses the various sources which she studied in preparation for her work, expressing considerable exasperation with Curtius who "had access to invaluable primary sources, now lost", which in her opinion he misunderstood and garbled.



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Foel Fenlli

He was admonished for opposing Saint Germanus, and he and his castle were "consumed by fire from heaven", so the legend goes.