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Helios and Selene in Alexandria on the Oxus
In my introduction to Alexandria on the Oxus, I teased a little with my questioning the common assumption - the tradition - that this Hellenistic trading city in the East was founded by Alexander the Great. The name of the founder is inscribed on a funerary monument there:
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Founding of Alexandria
No archaeology has ever been found to support the traditional accounts of Alexander the Great founding Alexandria (Egypt). This, despite the very many modern histories repeating the tradition as a proven fact - which raises a question as to what historians and archaeologists are actually doing.
More than 2,000 years after Alexander the Great founded ( Read more... ) -
The archaeology of Alexander the Great: 3. Babylonian Diary
The only (accepted) primary source on Alexander is the Astronomical Diary that was kept in the temple of the Babylonian supreme god Marduk. It is written in Babylonian.
The Battle of Gaugamela (also called the Battle of Arbela) in 331 BCE between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia, resulted in victory for Alexander and led to the fall of ( Read more... )
