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Alexander’s Campaigns

Alexander’s Campaigns. Lecture for History 222 February 4, 2008. Historiographical Preface. Facts: what role to play in ancient history? Analogy: reconstructing temples Example: divinity of Alexander Example 2: Philip’s death Extended Example: Alexander’s Campaigns and Battles.

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Alexander’s Campaigns

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  1. Alexander’s Campaigns Lecture for History 222 February 4, 2008

  2. Historiographical Preface • Facts: what role to play in ancient history? • Analogy: reconstructing temples • Example: divinity of Alexander • Example 2: Philip’s death • Extended Example: Alexander’s Campaigns and Battles

  3. Raw Material

  4. Comparative StudyTemple of Hephaistos

  5. Play with existing parts a bitTemple at Aphaia

  6. Reconstructed Model

  7. Add some color

  8. Alexander’s Divinity

  9. Philip’s Murder I • Plutarch (p. 145): “But the disorders of his family, chiefly caused by his new marriages and attachments (the troubles that began in the women’s chambers spreading, so to say, to the whole kingdom), raised various complaints and differences between them, which the violence of Olympias, a woman of a jealous and implacable temper, made wider, by exasperating Alexander against his father.”

  10. Philip’s Murder II • Plutarch (p. 146): Pausanias…murdered him (Philip). The guilt of which fact was laid for the most part upon Olympias, who was said to have encouraged and exasperated the enraged youth to revenge; and som sort of suspicion attached even to Alexander himself…”

  11. Alexander’s Campaigning

  12. Battle at river Granicus (334)

  13. Map

  14. Battle at Issus I (333)

  15. Battle at Issus II

  16. Battle at Issus III

  17. Map

  18. Siege of Tyre (332)

  19. Map

  20. Battle of Gaugamela I (331)

  21. Battle of Gaugamela II

  22. Map

  23. Battle at river Hydaspes I (326)

  24. Battle at River Hydaspes II

  25. Side Trips?

  26. Other Perspectives? • Common Soldiers • Locals • Women • “Artists” • Friends back in Greece/Macedonia

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