7) Persia was the only game in town. It was the heart of the world at the time (something greco-centric classics tends to forget). Basically the east was where the action was, so east he went.
Re: Alexanders choice of conquest.
7) Persia was the only game in town. It was the heart of the world at the time (something greco-centric classics tends to forget). Basically the east was where the action was, so east he went.
History is for the future not the past. The dead don't read.
Operam et vitam do Europae Barbarorum.
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. - Max Beerbohm
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