The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great as described by Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodoros, Plutarch and Justin: Being Translations of such portions of the Works of these and other Classical Authors as describe Alexander's Campaigns in Afghanistan, the Panjâb, Sindh, Gedrosia and Karmania — John Shaqi
The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great as described by Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodoros, Plutarch and Justin: Being Translations of such portions of the Works of these and other Classical Authors as describe Alexander's Campaigns in Afghanistan, the Panjâb, Sindh, Gedrosia and KarmaniaMcCrindle, John Watson
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The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great as described by Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodoros, Plutarch and Justin: Being Translations of such portions of the Works of these and other Classical Authors as describe Alexander's Campaigns in Afghanistan, the Panjâb, Sindh, Gedrosia and Karmania
McCrindle, John Watson
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.; India -- History -- To 324 B.C. -- Sources
ALEXANDER THE GREAT MOURNING FOR BOUKEPHALOS _Frontispiece_
_By the Autotype Company from a French MS. in the British Museum
of the Life of Alexander the Great, written in the fifteenth
century._
FIG. PAGE
1. LYSIMACHOS Gold coin of Lysimachos (B.C.
306-281), struck at Lysimachia,
in the British Museum 16
2. ARISTOTLE From an intaglio gem, engraved
on sard, in the British Museum 16
3. SEAL OF DARIUS From a cylinder of chalcedony,
inscribed “I am Darius the great
king,” in Persian, Median, and
Babylonian, in the Brit. Museum 29
4. ALEXANDER THE GREAT On a silver coin struck in Thrace
by Lysimachos, in the Brit. Museum 48
5. DIODOTOS On a gold stater struck in Baktria,
in the British Museum 52
6. ANTIOCHOS THE GREAT On a gold coin (B.C. 222-187), in
the British Museum 52
7. EUTHYDÊMOS On a silver Baktrian coin, in the
British Museum 53
8. THE TYRIAN HERAKLÊS On a silver coin struck at Tyre (B.C.
125), in the British Museum 71
9. EUMENÊS Silver coin of Eumenês I. (B.C.
263-241), struck at Pergamos,
in the British Museum 120
10. PTOLEMY SÔTÊR On a silver coin (B.C. 306-284),
in the British Museum 151
11. INDIAN BOWMAN From a coin of Chandragupta II. (A.D.
395-415), in the Brit. Mus. 210
12. SÔPHYTÊS From a silver coin, in the Brit. Mus. 280
13. GREEK WARSHIP From a silver coin of Sidon, in the
British Museum 316
14. SELEUCUS NICATOR Obverse of a silver coin struck in
Pergamos, in the British Museum 327
15. EUKRATIDÊS On a silver Baktrian coin, in the
British Museum 344
16. ANTIMACHOS On a silver Baktrian coin, in the
British Museum 370
17. AGATHOKLÊS Silver coin of Agathoklês, in the
British Museum 371
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