babylon, plot alex. life

a spiropoulos · Post by **a spiropoulos** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:54 am

below is listing for week. It describes in brief his taking of babylon, and avesosis plot on his life.BABYLON AND PERSOPOLIS ALEXANDER HEARING THAT DARIUS HAD GONE TO BABYLON,
IMMEDIATELY ATTACKED THIS ANCIENT FORTRESS.
BABYLON HAD AS ITS DEFENSE A WIDE LARGE MOAT,
WHEN THE DrAW BRIDGES WERE BROUGHT UP,CREATED AN
IMPASSABLE BODY OF WATER. THE BABYLONIANS ON TOP
OF THEIR WALLS, HEEDING DARIUS MESSAGE TO RESIST
TO THE LAST MAN, DEFENDED THEIR CITY WITH
DEADLY ARROWs OF FIRE FROM ITS WALLS.
ALEXANDER SEEING THE GREAT LOSSES TO HIS FOUSATTA,
CALLED OFF THE ASSAULT AND CALLED A MEETING OF HIS
GENERALS AND ADVISERS.
DIOGENES TOLD HIM, HE MUST DIVERT THIS RIVER EUPHRATES
OF FORGET TAKING THIS FORTRESS CITY.
ALEXANDER SEEING THE WISDOM OF THIS,ORDERED HIS
FOUSATTA TO GO DOWNRIVER AND BUILD HUGE DITCHES,
WHEN COMPLETED,HE JOINED THEM TO THE RIVER,
THEREBY CUTTING OFF THE WATER SOURCE TO THESE MOATS.
THE BABYLONIANS WERE MAKING MERRY TO THEIR GOD APOLLO,
ALEXANDERS FOUSTTA,SET HUGE BONFIRES AGAINST THE WALLS
OF THE CITY, AND PROCEEDED TO ATTACK, AND MOUNT THE WALLS.
THE BABYLONIANS SEEING WHAT ALEXANDER HAD DONE,
STARTED YELLING TO ALEXANDER, MERCY ALEXANDER WE ACCEPT
YOU AS KING AND RULER, THEY OPENED THEIR GATES AND STOPPED
RESISTING, ALEXANDER ORDERED THE ASSUALT TO STOP.
HE PUT THE FIRES OUT.
THE GATES OPENED AND ALEXANDER MARCHED INTO THE CITY ,
AND HE WAS WITH GREETED LONG LIVE KING ALEXNDER.
THEY ORDERED GIFTS TO BE BROUGHT TO HIM.
HE WAS GIVEN THE ARMOR OF XEXESES, MADE OF THE
SKIN AND NAILS OF REPTILES. ALSO THEIR GREATEST TREASURE,
THE CROWN OF KING SOSHOHOS, FIRST BABYLONIAN GOD KING MENTIONED,
IN BIBLE,WHO RULED ALL PERSIA AND EGYPT.
HIS STELE WAS LATER FOUND BY ALEXANDER AT BEDDERA AT
FRESH WATER LAKES OF THE DEAD SEA.
TURNING TO HIS FOUSATTA HE SAID,BY THE MIGHT OF ALMIGHTY SABAOTH,
I HAVE BROKEN AND CONQUERED THE PERSIAN MIGHT, AS TOLD TO ME BY
JEREMIAH, RESTING ALEXANDER PROCEEDED TO PERSOPOLIS AND DARIUS
LAST STRONG HOLD. ALEXANDER ENROUTE TO PERSEPOLIS,RESTED AND REGROUPED. DARIUS
IN THE MEANTIME HEARD OF BABYLONS FALL,AND WAS BESIDE HIMSELF,
PACING THE FLOORS AND SAYING TO ALL AROUND HIM,
THIS ALEXANDER THE LEAST OF ALL IN MY KINGDOM IS NOW
THE MOST POWERFUL IN MY DOMAIN. HE HAS TAKEN BABYLON ,
THE PRIDE OF MY EMPIRE, AND NOW SEEKS MY LIFE.
ONE OF HIS GENERALS NAMED AVESOS, SAID TO HIM, HE IS BUT A MAN,
I KING DARIUS WILL GO AND KILL HIM FOr YOU.
I HAVE IN MY POSSE

a spiropoulos · Post by **a spiropoulos** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 10:13 am

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