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[Abner Macoto]

I-¦m searching for one column linked with Alexander as a Trajan Column.

[jona]

Trajan's a famous monument in Rome, see http://cheiron.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~trajan/How it is related to Alexander, I will be glad to learn. This emperor (98-117) did conquer Mesopotamia and sail on the Persian Gulf. When his contemporary Arrian wrote a biography of Alexander, he included a story about Alexander sailing on the same waters; his contemporaries must have seen a litterary allusion.Jona

[amyntoros]

A coincidence here - only yesterday I was searching Cassius Dio for references to Alexander and the results included these three from his chapter on Trajan:"He [Trajan] wanted to go down to the mouth of the Tigris and see the ocean, and when he got there and saw a ship sailing to India he said: GÇÿI should certainly have crossed over to the Indians too, if I were still young.GÇÖ For he was very interested in the Indians and regarded Alexander as having been fortunate. Yet he himself used to say that he had advanced further than Alexander and wrote this to the Senate, even though he was unable to retain all the territory which he had conquered.""(30) Trajan learned of this at Babylon; for he had gone there both because of its fame GÇö though he saw nothing but mounds and stones and ruins to justify this GÇö and because of Alexander, to whose spirit he offered sacrifice in the room where he had died.""Many indeed say that Trajan had it in mind to die without a definite successor, following the example of Alexander the Macedonian."Best regards,Linda Ann

[Abner Macoto]

Thanks for Jona and for LindaBut I am not researching Trajan but Alexander Regards
Abner