HIST 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Battle Of Gaugamela, Amun, Arrian
24 Dec 2017
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We also touched upon his training in relation to the battle of. He is very young when his dad was assassinate, Is the shift from classical and hellenistic period. So his death is the end of the classical period. Aristotle is the one who takes the education of alexander. Tries to mount a revolt and they will be put down by alex"s generals. The map includes the persian and greek empire. How it changes the greek outlook of the world because of alex. Alexander does not seem like a mortal man. He had callisthenes as a court historian (there is a desire to captivate that) The majority of the historians are not persevere that is a problem a. We end up with a picture of alex that are relying on plutarch and arrian and the sources they are using can be subjective. He is not writing history he is writing a biography.
