Chapter I: Front Matter

A
YOUNG MACEDONIAN
_IN THE ARMY OF_
ALEXANDER THE GREAT

BY THE
REV. ALFRED J. CHURCH, M.A.
_Lately Professor of Latin in University College, London_

_With Sixteen Illustrations_

LONDON
SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED
ESSEX STREET, STRAND
1890

The visit of Alexander to Jerusalem is recorded by Josephus only. The fact that it is not mentioned by Arrian, who had contemporary diaries before him, by Quintus Curtius, or by Diodorus Siculus, certainly throws some doubt upon it. But it must be remembered that Jerusalem was not more interesting than any other Syrian town to these writers. Bishop Westcott thinks that Josephus’s narrative may be true, and I am content to make this opinion my defence for introducing the incident into my story.

A. C.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. A WRONG 1

II. A REVENGE 9

III. PREPARATIONS 24

IV. AT TROY 40

V. AT THE GRANĪCUS 48

VI. HALICARNASSUS 60

VII. MEMNON 73

VIII. AT SEA 83

IX. IN GREECE AGAIN 98

X. AT ATHENS 114

XI. A PERILOUS VOYAGE 122

XII. ON THE WRONG SIDE 137

XIII. DAMASCUS 150

XIV. MANASSEH THE JEW 162

XV. ANDROMACHÉ 173

XVI. TO JERUSALEM 180

XVII. TYRE 190

XVIII. THE ESCAPE 204

XIX. THE HIGH PRIEST 213

XX. FROM TYRE TO THE TIGRIS 226

XXI. ARBELA 237

XXII. AT BABYLON 251

XXIII. A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE 261

XXIV. VENGEANCE 273

XXV. DARIUS 284

XXVI. INVALIDED 294

XXVII. NEWS FROM THE EAST 300

XXVIII. THE END 315

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE DEPARTURE _Frontispiece_

ALEXANDER THE GREAT 18

ALEXANDER AND DIOGENES 36

BARSINÉ 82

APOLLO AND CHEIRON 102

DEMOSTHENES 108

DARIUS 134

ALEXANDER AND BUCEPHALUS 146

THE TREASURE CARAVAN 156

THE SWING 160

HUNTING 220

AMMON 224

THE COMPANIONS 248

IN THE GARDENS OF BABYLON 258

THE BANQUET AT MARACANDA 304

THE INDIAN BACCHUS 312

A YOUNG MACEDONIAN