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AHST 222 / 322 Lecture 5:
The Final Years of Alexander's Reign

People and Places:
 
Persepolis  Ecbatana Parmenio Bessus Philotas Spitamenes
Cleitus Roxanne (her father) The "Epigonoi" Proskynesis Hephaestion
Porus Hydaspes River Hypaphis River The "Mallian town" Carmania Gedrosia
Craterus Antipater Cassander Serapis Eumenes Ptolemy

Sources for Alexander's Final Month:

The "Ephemerides" or "Royal Journal": Arrian and Plutarch, Aelian.

Alexander's "Last Plans" or "Hypomnemata": Diodorus Siculus, Austin Doc. 18.
Compare Pausanias, Polybius, and others.

The "Liber de Morte".