Dr. Graham Wrightson

alliance of Greek states and the Greeks are not happy to start with so he has to put down the revolt of Thebes almost as soon as he becomes king and destroys the entire city and enslaves everybody except for Pindar's house, the poet, because he loves Pindar and so that sort of keeps the Greeks in line and he forces them to send him 7,000 soldiers as their contribution to the campaign army and then they go off and invade Persia and so it's initially planned as a punishment for the Persian wars against Greece

But Alexander just keeps on going and he conquers the whole Persian Empire and refuses Darius's offer of splitting the kingdom and marriage with his daughter and all this other different stuff that goes on early on. And he conquers and there's a split in the scholarship as to whether he chooses to turn around in India or whether he's forced to turn around by his own soldiers.

But Alexander just keeps on going and he conquers the whole Persian Empire and refuses Darius's offer of splitting the kingdom and marriage with his daughter and all this other different stuff that goes on early on. And he conquers and there's a split in the scholarship as to whether he chooses to turn around in India or whether he's forced to turn around by his own soldiers.

But Alexander just keeps on going and he conquers the whole Persian Empire and refuses Darius's offer of splitting the kingdom and marriage with his daughter and all this other different stuff that goes on early on. And he conquers and there's a split in the scholarship as to whether he chooses to turn around in India or whether he's forced to turn around by his own soldiers.

I'm on the choice side because my supervisor... is the main proponent of that, Waldemar Haeckel. So he, in my view, rightfully continued the argument raised by others earlier that Alexander, if you go around the borders of all of Alexander's empire, he goes about two kilometers, I think it is, out past the Persian army and then makes sacrifices and then changes direction.

I'm on the choice side because my supervisor... is the main proponent of that, Waldemar Haeckel. So he, in my view, rightfully continued the argument raised by others earlier that Alexander, if you go around the borders of all of Alexander's empire, he goes about two kilometers, I think it is, out past the Persian army and then makes sacrifices and then changes direction.

I'm on the choice side because my supervisor... is the main proponent of that, Waldemar Haeckel. So he, in my view, rightfully continued the argument raised by others earlier that Alexander, if you go around the borders of all of Alexander's empire, he goes about two kilometers, I think it is, out past the Persian army and then makes sacrifices and then changes direction.

He does the same thing in India and there's various other different arguments. So Alexander conquers Persia and goes a little further to make his empire bigger. And then he turns around and has his new plans. When he comes back to Babylon, the center, the just new center of his new empire, as opposed to Persis, which was the center of the Persian empire.

He does the same thing in India and there's various other different arguments. So Alexander conquers Persia and goes a little further to make his empire bigger. And then he turns around and has his new plans. When he comes back to Babylon, the center, the just new center of his new empire, as opposed to Persis, which was the center of the Persian empire.

He does the same thing in India and there's various other different arguments. So Alexander conquers Persia and goes a little further to make his empire bigger. And then he turns around and has his new plans. When he comes back to Babylon, the center, the just new center of his new empire, as opposed to Persis, which was the center of the Persian empire.

He specifically chooses Babylon as his to connect with the, the hanging guns, Babylon and all the Babylonian history of Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi and all that stuff. And then he dies when he's in there. So he, He dies very shortly after finishing his Indian conquests. But by the time he dies, you know, Egypt. Western Asia, they've been ruled by the Macedonians for over a decade by this point.

He specifically chooses Babylon as his to connect with the, the hanging guns, Babylon and all the Babylonian history of Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi and all that stuff. And then he dies when he's in there. So he, He dies very shortly after finishing his Indian conquests. But by the time he dies, you know, Egypt. Western Asia, they've been ruled by the Macedonians for over a decade by this point.

He specifically chooses Babylon as his to connect with the, the hanging guns, Babylon and all the Babylonian history of Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi and all that stuff. And then he dies when he's in there. So he, He dies very shortly after finishing his Indian conquests. But by the time he dies, you know, Egypt. Western Asia, they've been ruled by the Macedonians for over a decade by this point.

So they're not necessarily close to leaving. He's founded cities in all these places. He's implemented Greek settlers in all these places. So he's begun the process in his Western conquests of integration of conquered peoples with the Hellenistic culture that comes around. So when he dies, there's no real...

So they're not necessarily close to leaving. He's founded cities in all these places. He's implemented Greek settlers in all these places. So he's begun the process in his Western conquests of integration of conquered peoples with the Hellenistic culture that comes around. So when he dies, there's no real...

So they're not necessarily close to leaving. He's founded cities in all these places. He's implemented Greek settlers in all these places. So he's begun the process in his Western conquests of integration of conquered peoples with the Hellenistic culture that comes around. So when he dies, there's no real...

threat in most places anyway of separation from alexander right and part of that is his propaganda presenting himself as the savior of these places he modeled himself on cyrus the great who famously freed the babylonians from their evil uh persian dominance even though he's doing the same thing and he you know you get cyrus cylinder where he claims that he has

threat in most places anyway of separation from alexander right and part of that is his propaganda presenting himself as the savior of these places he modeled himself on cyrus the great who famously freed the babylonians from their evil uh persian dominance even though he's doing the same thing and he you know you get cyrus cylinder where he claims that he has

threat in most places anyway of separation from alexander right and part of that is his propaganda presenting himself as the savior of these places he modeled himself on cyrus the great who famously freed the babylonians from their evil uh persian dominance even though he's doing the same thing and he you know you get cyrus cylinder where he claims that he has

He was welcomed in as a friend to Babylon without a fight and all this other propagandistic, ridiculous concepts. So Alexander does the same stuff with his personal historians, saying that he's the savior, freeing the people from Persian dominance. But now you have a new... And you're just not supposed to realize that point. So in most of those areas, it's fine. In India, it's newly conquered.