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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER LIII ALEXANDER'S CAMPAIGNS IN INDIA TO HIS RETREAT FROM THE HYPHASIS
- CHAP. LIV ALEXANDER'S PASSAGE DOWN THE INDUS AND RETURN TO SUSA
- CHAP. LV FROM ALEXANDER'S RETURN TO SUSA TO HIS DEATH
- CHAP. LVI FROM THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER TO THE END OF THE LAMIAN WAR
- CHAP. LVII FROM THE END OF THE LAMIAN WAR TO CASSANDER'S OCCUPATION OF ATHENS
- CHAP. LVIII FROM CASSANDER'S OCCUPATION OF ATHENS TO THE TREATY BETWEEN ANTIGONUS AND PTOLEMY, CASSANDER AND LYSIMACHUS, IN 311 B. C.
- CHAP. LIX FROM THE PEACE OF 311 TO THE BATTLE OF IPSUS
CHAPTER LIII - ALEXANDER'S CAMPAIGNS IN INDIA TO HIS RETREAT FROM THE HYPHASIS
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER LIII ALEXANDER'S CAMPAIGNS IN INDIA TO HIS RETREAT FROM THE HYPHASIS
- CHAP. LIV ALEXANDER'S PASSAGE DOWN THE INDUS AND RETURN TO SUSA
- CHAP. LV FROM ALEXANDER'S RETURN TO SUSA TO HIS DEATH
- CHAP. LVI FROM THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER TO THE END OF THE LAMIAN WAR
- CHAP. LVII FROM THE END OF THE LAMIAN WAR TO CASSANDER'S OCCUPATION OF ATHENS
- CHAP. LVIII FROM CASSANDER'S OCCUPATION OF ATHENS TO THE TREATY BETWEEN ANTIGONUS AND PTOLEMY, CASSANDER AND LYSIMACHUS, IN 311 B. C.
- CHAP. LIX FROM THE PEACE OF 311 TO THE BATTLE OF IPSUS
Summary
After the conquest of the Bactrian satrapy, there remained only one province of the Persian empire into which Alexander had not yet carried his arms: it was that which tempted his curiosity, as well as his ambition, perhaps more than any other. Already, indeed, before he crossed the Paropamisus, he had made himself master of a great part of the country which the Persians called India, and perhaps had very nearly reached the utmost limits within which the authority of the Great King was acknowledged in the latter years of the monarchy. But the power of the first Darius had certainly been extended much further eastward. It seems probable that a part of his Indian tribute was collected in the Pendjab, and there is some reason to believe that it was on the Hydaspes Scylax began his voyage of discovery. After the death of Darius, the attention of the Persian kings was so much turned toward the west, or distracted by wars with their revolted subjects, that they would scarcely have had leisure for fresh conquests in India, even if the spirit of Cyrus had lived in his successors: and it is very uncertain, whether their territories reached so far as the Indus. The greater part of the peninsula was, as we see from the accounts of Herodotus and Ctesias, utterly unknown to the Persians. The India of Herodotus is bounded on the east by a sandy desert, which, it seems, he believed to be terminated by the ocean which girded his earth, and was inhabited chiefly by pastoral and savage, even it was said cannibal tribes.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 1 - 31Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1840