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this is a matter of geography and i wonder why you insist since you have no map?
download google earth. and watch closely Alexander's route from egypt to babylon and spot where the desert lies, where issus is, where Damascus and where babylon.

Oh that cant be done. You cant go eg from babylon straight to Damascus or Egypt or Sidon with a large army cause there is a desert between. You have to follow the course i said, from Susa to babylon up to northern Iraq and then west along the Turkey-Syria borders to the mediteranean where Issus lies...

r u sure? the persian army went up through mesopotamia, Damascus is not on the way to Issus. One has to make a big arch and head 400km south to reach Damascus. If Darius was coming from Egypt to Issus it would make more sense. Well maybe they all together marched towards the mediteranean and when th...

I know there must have been some kind of reason but why?

What chances do you give for Alexander having ordered the murder of Memnon? (if there was a murder at all)

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I made an effort to add some placemarks concerning alexander's campaign on google earth.

I found it fun and i would like it if some coords were corrected by our friends and some more places are added.

amyntoros there were certain generals that feared him! I dont recall the name of the general Alexander was going to replace Antipater with. And let's don't forget that the macedonian enemies of Alexander were countless and i am reffering to the relatives of those Alexander murdered when he took powe...

It's sad but i agree. As Philotas confessed he and his father wanted to kill Alexander from the start but if they did while Darius was still alive it would benefit Darius more than them. So After the death of Darius they went for it. But failed. That stunned many enemies of Alexander who knew that f...

marcus your right, i too wonder why arsenic hadnt been brought up before...

I ve heard that the mere fact of luck of adequate information on the symptoms and their timeline smells like a cover up. Truth is now that all the external enemies are wiped Alexander had the most internal enemies willing to act than ever. And the mentions of the names of only that thessalian guy fr...

Somewhere i read about some people who think alexander's symptoms match arsenic poisoning. Plutarch rejects any poisoning accusation telling his body wouldn't 'smell' in the heat and humidity of Babylon, but that could be a side effect of arsenic, it preserves i read. Moreover the acute pain after d...

I ve read somewhere i guess in Arrian that Alexander avoided the company of the musicians...

Cavalry? Given his occupation wouldnt he be more useful as a foot soldier?

Do we know in which battles he participated?

I am so sick of the fact that the most critical questions will never be answered from the historical sources.