This article examines 30kafas (short, monorhymed poems) about Alexander the Great and Darius III in a sixteenth-century Armenian manuscript. The anthologist of these poems drew from many hundreds circulating alongside and separately from the ArmenianAlexander Romanceto create a unique set, describing ...
Alexander and his men moved on. Next , Alexander and his army freed Greek cities along the Aegean Sea . Darius III , theking of Persia , went to fight Alexander and the Greeks in the Battle of Issus.The Persians again lost to the Macedonians ...
Darius: Darius (by whose name you are called), if history tell true, long ago laid waste all the Greek cities on the coast of the Hellespont; all the Ionian colonies on that side. Neither was he content with this, but passing the sea with a vast army, made a second invasion; but ...
Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt in 332 BC. After defeating the Persian emperor Darius for control of Syria, Alexander marched to Egypt.
Along with the letter in which you make a display of your great power you have sent me a scourge, a ball, a coffer filled with gold, and an assload of sesame; all of which I refer to good fortune and regard as auspicious sighs. The scourge portends that I shall be the instrument ...
Battle of Issus, (333 bce), conflict early in Alexander the Great’s invasion of Asia in which he defeated a Persian army under King Darius III. This was one of the decisive victories by which Alexander conquered the Achaemenian Empire. Issus is a plain
Alexander the Great: Battle of IssusDetail of the Battle of Issus between Alexander and Darius III, mosaic from the House of the Faun in Pompeii, c. 2nd centurybce; in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy. © Alfio Ferlito/Shutterstock.com ...
But his army encountered resistance in the cities of Miletus, Mylasa and Halicarnassus. Under siege yet not beaten, Halicarnassus held out long enough for King Darius III, the newest Persian king, to amass a substantial army. Featured How Alexander the Great Conquered the Persian Empire Alexander...
Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern-day Turkey, the Middle East, and as far away as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Alexander routed Persian king Darius III, taking the empire for his own. His territory now extended from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River — and he...
Timeline of Alexander the Great July 356 B.C. Born at Pella, Macedonia, to King Philip II and Olympias 338 B.C. August Battle of Chaeronea 336 B.C. Alexander becomes ruler of Macedonia 334 B.C. Wins Battle of the Granicus River against Darius III of Persia 333 B.C. Wins Battle...