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Alexander the Great

  1. The Anabasis of Alexander
    Arrian c. 130 CE

    This military history follows Alexander the Great's campaigns from Greece through Persia to India. It describes how his exhausted soldiers refused to march farther east at the Hyphasis River.

    7h 7m reading time