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[273] As a consequence, the Phalangarii of Legio II Parthica may not have been pikemen, but rather standard battle line troops or possibly Triarii. [146][149] The accounts were nevertheless fairly consistent in designating Antipater, recently removed as Macedonian viceroy, and at odds with Olympias, as the head of the alleged plot. Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Caligula 19. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195454', size: [300, 250] }}, Following his conquest of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), Alexander broke the power of Persia in a series of decisive battles, including those at Issus and Gaugamela. { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: '8a9691010178783c4831416439820259' }}, Having damaged the enemy's cohesion, Philip ordered his troops to press forward and quickly routed them. Alexander was emboldened to divide his forces, and Ambhi assisted Hephaestion and Perdiccas in constructing a bridge over the Indus where it bends at Hund,[117] supplied their troops with provisions, and received Alexander himself, and his whole army, in his capital city of Taxila, with every demonstration of friendship and the most liberal hospitality. [126], East of Porus's kingdom, near the Ganges River, was the Nanda Empire of Magadha, and further east, the Gangaridai Empire of Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. [139] During his visit to Pasargadae Alexander ordered his architect Aristobulus to decorate the interior of the sepulchral chamber of Cyrus's tomb. [290] In the Shahnameh, Alexander's first journey is to Mecca to pray at the Kaaba. { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: '8a9694390178783c4ccf4165904d028a' }}, [187], In his first battle in Asia, at Granicus, Alexander used only a small part of his forces, perhaps 13,000 infantry with 5,000 cavalry, against a much larger Persian force of 40,000. googletag.pubads().addEventListener('slotRenderEnded', function(event) { if (!event.isEmpty && event.slot.renderCallback) { event.slot.renderCallback(event); } }); After a long pause due to an illness, he marched on towards Syria. } { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, [102] The Achaemenid Empire is normally considered to have fallen with Darius. [215] However, Alexander also was a pragmatic ruler who understood the difficulties of ruling culturally disparate peoples, many of whom lived in kingdoms where the king was divine. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_SR' }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195455', size: [300, 250] }}, [259] For example, Greek astronomical instruments dating to the 3rd century BC were found in the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai Khanoum in modern-day Afghanistan,[260] while the Greek concept of a spherical earth surrounded by the spheres of planets eventually supplanted the long-standing Indian cosmological belief of a disc consisting of four continents grouped around a central mountain (Mount Meru) like the petals of a flower. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '555365', size: [160, 600] }}, { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '541042770', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, [243] The temple was designed by Pytheos, one of the architects of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '448834' }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, [93][94][95] Plutarch claims that he ordered his men to put out the fires,[93] but that the flames had already spread to most of the city. [40] During the wedding banquet, a drunken Attalus publicly prayed to the gods that the union would produce a legitimate heir. Sometime after the wedding, Philip is said to have seen himself, in a dream, securing his wife's womb with a seal engraved with a lion's image. Darius fled the battle, causing his army to collapse, and left behind his wife, his two daughters, his mother Sisygambis, and a fabulous treasure. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '387233' }}, } else { [295] In medieval India, Turkic and Afghan sovereigns from the Iranian-cultured region of Central Asia brought positive cultural connotations of Alexander to the Indian subcontinent, resulting in the efflorescence of Sikandernameh (Alexander Romances) written by Indo-Persian poets such as Amir Khusrow and the prominence of Alexander the Great as a popular subject in Mughal-era Persian miniatures. The trilogy "Alexander the Great" by Valerio Massimo Manfredi consisting of "The son of the dream", "The sand of Amon", and "The ends of the world". bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776140', position: 'atf' }}, { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_btmslot' }}]}, The song 'Alexander the Great' by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden is indicative. [50] He also had two Macedonian princes from the region of Lyncestis killed, but spared a third, Alexander Lyncestes. { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654152' }}, [123] Alexander founded two cities on opposite sides of the Hydaspes river, naming one Bucephala, in honour of his horse, who died around this time. [61] This was due to use of terrain, phalanx and cavalry tactics, bold strategy, and the fierce loyalty of his troops. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195453', size: [320, 50] }}, [183] Furthermore, Perdiccas had read the notebooks containing Alexander's last plans to the Macedonian troops in Babylon, who voted not to carry them out.[62]. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446381' }}, "sign-out": "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/auth/signout?rid=READER_ID" For other uses, see. Alexander proceeded to take possession of Syria, and most of the coast of the Levant. bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162050', zoneId: '776342', position: 'btf' }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, {code: 'ad_rightslot', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_rightslot', adUnitPath: '/23202586/cdo_rightslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250]] } }, [263] The Corinthian order is also heavily represented in the art of Gandhara, especially through Indo-Corinthian capitals. { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: '8a9691010178783c4831416572800277' }}, Macedon is too small for you", and bought the horse for him. { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_topslot' }}, [22], During his youth, Alexander was also acquainted with Persian exiles at the Macedonian court, who received the protection of Philip II for several years as they opposed Artaxerxes III. [88] He sent the bulk of his army to the Persian ceremonial capital of Persepolis via the Persian Royal Road. Alexander himself took selected troops on the direct route to the city. This text underwent numerous expansions and revisions throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages,[285] containing many dubious stories,[283] and was translated into numerous languages. iasLog("OT mode", "default"); $41,455,230 The Greatest Story Ever Told: 1965 UR Swedish actor Max Von Sydow brilliantly portrays Jesus in this aptly-named feature. enableSendAllBids: false [293] He then travelled the known world in search of the Water of Life and Immortality, eventually becoming a prophet. Alexander was the first to break the Theban lines, followed by Philip's generals. if(success && (tcData.eventStatus === 'useractioncomplete' || tcData.eventStatus === 'tcloaded')) { AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.15 g, 1h). 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In the spring of 335 BC, he advanced to suppress several revolts. bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162050', zoneId: '776346', position: 'btf' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '346693' }}, bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776144', position: 'btf' }}, [42] Accordingly, Alexander returned to Macedon after six months due to the efforts of a family friend, Demaratus, who mediated between the two parties. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, {code: 'ad_topslot_a', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_topslot', adUnitPath: '/23202586/cdo_topslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250]] } }, [31], Philip and his army joined his son in 338 BC, and they marched south through Thermopylae, taking it after stubborn resistance from its Theban garrison. { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, [116], After Aornos, Alexander crossed the Indus and fought and won an epic battle against King Porus, who ruled a region lying between the Hydaspes and the Acesines (Chenab), in what is now the Punjab, in the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '346693' }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195457', size: [300, 50] }}, bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776144', position: 'btf' }}, Moreover, that a very pleasant odour exhaled from his skin and that there was a fragrance about his mouth and all his flesh, so that his garments were filled with it, this we have read in the Memoirs of Aristoxenus. [191] At the decisive encounter with Darius at Gaugamela, Darius equipped his chariots with scythes on the wheels to break up the phalanx and equipped his cavalry with pikes. After the defeat, Spitamenes was killed by his own men, who then sued for peace. dfpSlots['contentslot_3'] = googletag.defineSlot('/23202586/cdo_mpuslot', [[300, 250], [336, 280], [1, 1], 'fluid'], 'ad_contentslot_3').defineSizeMapping(mapping_contentslot).setTargeting('si', '3').setTargeting('sri', '0').setTargeting('vp', 'mid').setTargeting('hp', 'center').addService(googletag.pubads()); [86] Darius once more fled the field, and Alexander chased him as far as Arbela. 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Julius Caesar went to serve his quaestorship in Hispania after his wife's funeral, in the spring or early summer of 69 BC. { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_mpuslot3_flex' }}, { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_mpuslot2' }}]}, [289], According to Josephus, Alexander was shown the Book of Daniel when he entered Jerusalem, which described a mighty Greek king who would conquer the Persian Empire. Great Commission, the. He then continued south towards the Peloponnese. 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