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Granicus to Gaugamela 334-331 BCE

Granicus to Gaugamela 334-331 BCE. Alexander’s campaign to liberate the Greeks, seize the Persian treasury, and avenge the Persian Wars of 499-479. Halys River. Gordion. Battle of Granicus. Cilician Gates. Euphrates R. Tigris River. Gaza. Light-armed troops. (deep array).

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Granicus to Gaugamela 334-331 BCE

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  1. Granicus to Gaugamela334-331 BCE Alexander’s campaign to liberate the Greeks, seize the Persian treasury,and avenge the Persian Wars of 499-479

  2. Halys River Gordion Battle of Granicus Cilician Gates Euphrates R. Tigris River Gaza

  3. Light-armed troops (deep array) Macedoniancavalry Cavalry • Alexander’s strategy: • attack the lighter-armed Asian troops • aim for Darius & bodyguard in center • Darius’ strategy: • separate Alexander from phalanx • attack phalanx on right obliquely • push Thessalian cavalry backwards Thessalian cavalry

  4. Losses Persians: 100,000 troops, 10,000 cavalry Macedonians: 200-300 dead, 500 wounded Flight of Darius

  5. Alexander Mosaic, ca. 100 BCEBattle of Issus (copy of 4th c. BCE original)

  6. Tapestry (c. 1600, artist unknown) Alexander receives Darius’ family

  7. Tyre’s natural sandbar, 332 BCE

  8. Tyre today

  9. Old Tyre Alexander’s mole & siege engines (by Duncan Campbell) N

  10. Alexander besieges and captures Tyre(1696)

  11. Losses Persians: 300,000 Macedonians: 100

  12. Athenian tyrannicides, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, taken by Xerxes in 480, returned by Alexander in 331

  13. Persian (Achaemenid) Empire of King Dariusca. 331 BCE

  14. Persian Empire and ancient Greece compared with the USA

  15. Persepolis: before and after 331

  16. Coin commemorating victory over Porus in 326 BCE, struck in Babylon c. 323

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