Macedonian Phalangite vs Persian Warrior by Murray Dahm & Peter Dennis

Author:Murray Dahm & Peter Dennis
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472832184
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

The casualty numbers recorded by the various sources offer another conundrum, although they may also help us to establish a more likely course of events of the battle. Arrian (1.16.4) tells us that the Macedonians lost 25 Companion cavalry in the first charge, 60 more cavalry and approximately 30 infantry later. Plutarch (Alexander 16.15) quotes Aristobulus as saying there were only 34 Macedonian dead, nine of whom were infantrymen (the remaining 25 accords with Arrian’s number of the Companions who fell). Justin (11.6.12) tells us that nine infantry and 120 cavalry fell on the Macedonian side; his numbers agree partially with the other sources. Diodorus does not specify the Macedonian casualty numbers.

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