Twelve Greeks and Romans Who Changed the World by Richard Carl J

Author:Richard, Carl J. [Richard, Carl J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780585466804
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
Published: 2013-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

The Death of Alexander

By then Alexander’s empire was the largest in the world, stretching from the Adriatic Sea in the west to the Indus River in the east and from the Caspian Sea in the north to the Upper Nile in the south. The only battle Alexander ever lost was to a mysterious fever, aggravated by a wound suffered in India and by excessive drinking, a Macedonian habit. Some historians believe that the fever was induced by strychnine poisoning instigated by Antipater, the governor of Macedon in Alexander’s absence. Antipater had just been ordered to Babylon by Alexander, obviously for execution. Not yet thirty-three, Alexander died at Babylon in 323 B.C. At the time, he was supervising the construction of a temple and the exploration of the Caspian Sea. He planned to extend his empire into the Arabian Peninsula. Olympias had many men killed on suspicion of poisoning her son.

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