Alexander the Great's Greatest Victory
The Ancients
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The Legend of Darius and the Battle of Vissus
Darius escapes with his life, and he flees eastwards across the river euphrates. So darius flees east to gather a huge new army. Alexander doesn't pursue straight away. Instead, he starts marching south towards these rich, prostigious maritime cities that dotted the eastern mediterranean coast line,. largely in what is modern day lebanon. This is the ancient region of phoenicia. The phoenicians are remarkable ancient people who we need to do a separate podcast about in the future. Alexander was gong to whistle away the persian navy without fighting it directly. But this will changes when he reaches the city of tyre.
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