Intimations of Immortality

Hour after hour Darius kept up his headlong flight, over bad mountain roads, in pitch darkness, accompanied only by a few staff officers and attendants, determined to put as many miles between himself and Alexander as he could before daybreak. Next morning he was joined by other disorganized groups...

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Published inAlexander of Macedon, 356-323 B. C p. 236
Main Author Green, Peter
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of California Press 09.12.2012
Edition1
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Ancient history: to c 500 CE
Armed forces
Armies
Behavioral sciences
Cash
Civil service
Coinage
Consuls
Diplomats
Doctrinal theology
Economics
Families
Family members
Foreign service
Government
Government officials
Governors
Heads of state
Human populations
Human societies
Immortality
Kings
Macroeconomics
Mercenaries
Military science
Monarchs
Money
Mothers
Persons
Political science
Population studies
Public administration
Queens
Religion
Social institutions
Social sciences
Sociology
Sons
Systematic theology
Theology
Token money
Women
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Summary:Hour after hour Darius kept up his headlong flight, over bad mountain roads, in pitch darkness, accompanied only by a few staff officers and attendants, determined to put as many miles between himself and Alexander as he could before daybreak. Next morning he was joined by other disorganized groups of fugitives, including some 4,000 Greek mercenaries. With this scratch force he rode on eastward, never slackening rein until he had crossed the Euphrates and reached Babylon (Arrian 2.13.1; QC 4.1.1–3; Diod. 17.39.1). The Great King was, for the moment, a very frightened man. He clearly expected Alexander to be
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