TY - JOUR
TI - Alexander the Great at Bactra: A Burning Question
AU - Holt, Frank L.
TI - Alexander the Great at Bactra: A Burning Question
AB - 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. 
VL - 2015
IS - Volume 22
PY - 2015
SN - 1897-3426
C1 - 2084-3909
SP - 9
EP - 15
DO -  10.4467/20800909EL.15.001.3491
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/electrum/article/alexander-the-great-at-bactra-a-burning-question
KW - Alexander the Great
KW - Hyrcania
KW - Bactria
KW - India
KW - logistics