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Alexander the Great at Bactra: A Burning Question

Publication date: 22.12.2015

ELECTRUM, 2015, Volume 22, pp. 9 - 15

https://doi.org/ 10.4467/20800909EL.15.001.3491

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Frank L. Holt
University of Houston
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Alexander the Great at Bactra: A Burning Question

Abstract

Scholars have generally claimed that Alexander the Great’s extraordinary order that his army burn all of its non-essential personal possessions occurred in Hyrcania, on the eve of the Bactrian invasion. The evidence, however, shows that the event more likely happened at Bactra several years later, at the end of the Bactrian campaign.
 

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Information: ELECTRUM, 2015, Volume 22, pp. 9 - 15

Article type: Original article

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University of Houston

Published at: 22.12.2015

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