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Released:
Sep 13, 2019
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“I am engaged in a land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a wall of steel confronting my soldiers. You have brought only one Alexander into the world, but every mother in this land has brought an Alexander into the world.” – Alexander the Great, in a letter written to his mother Olympias from BactriaSynopsis: Five years of campaigning brought Alexander the Great to the doorstep of Bactria, but he’d spend much of the next three years - arguably the most difficult of his life - trying to control the region. In this first episode of an occasional series called “The Ancient World – Spotlight” I’m joined by historian and author Tristan Hughes to discuss the uprising of the Sogdian warlord Spitamenes, quite possibly Alexander’s greatest foe, and the later revolts of Hellenic troops upon news of Alexander’s death.http://s407341505.onlinehome.us/Episode_S1_Alexander_in_Bactria.mp3Tristan Hughes @BattlesAncients on TwitterBattles of the Ancients website www.turningpointsoftheancientworld.com
Released:
Sep 13, 2019
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Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 11 – The Rise of Assyria: “I slew 14,000 of their warriors with the sword. Like Adad, I rained destruction on them. I scattered their corpses far and wide, and covered the face of the desolate plain with their wide-spreading armies. by The Ancient World