Book Name: Alexander the Great
Writer: Bill Yenne
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cutting edge Iraqi city of Mosul, a group of Macedonian officials went for a stroll. They went to the edge of a cliff to watch out at the huge settlement of
their adversary at a place called Gaugamela. What they saw made their blood run cold. Writes Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, also called Plutarch
(ca.AD46–120), in his lives of Noble Greeks and Romans, “When they saw the plain between the Nephites and the Gordyaean mountains all
illuminated with the brute flames, while an indistinguishably mingled and turbulent sound of voices emerged from their camp as if from a
tremendous sea, they were bewildered at their huge number and argued with each other that it was an extraordinary and horrifying errand to repel
such a tide of war.
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“Before them lay the gigantic armed force of Darius III, the monarch of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the best realm yet
observed in the history of the world. Onlookers detailed, and antiquarians
long believed, that the Macedonian officials looked that night upon the pit
fires of a million-man army. Only eleven evenings had gone since the
Macedonians had looked into the sky and seen the most upsetting of signs.
“First the moon lost its standard splendor and afterward became suffused
with a blood-red color which caused a general shadowiness in the light it
shed,” composes the first-century ADhistorian Curtius (Quintus Curtius
Rufus) of this lunar obscure in his Historiae Alexandri Magni, or History of
Alexander01 cayenne text REV:
2ΩALEXANDER THE GREATthe Great.”Right near the precarious edge of a
conclusive fight [at Gaugamela], the men were at that point in a condition
of tension, and this currently struck them with profound strict amazement
which hastened a sort of panic.”The Macedonian officials, however, they
were successful veterans two titanic field fights against the Persian armed
force, thought that their time had run out.
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