Alexander the Great & The Persian Thermopylae (Part Two)
The Ancients
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Alexander's Army, the Scodos, the Codos
In command of this sizable portion of the army, alexander placed one of his most dependable adjutants at this moment in time. Parmenion who had commanded the left flank, the left wing of alexander's army at the battle of galgamela a few months before. And is interesting with parmenion because he was probably also labelled as the codos. The scodos was the administrative figure who was in charge of the baggage train and took care of the animals. Administering this key part of aLexander's army. So we've reached early three 30 b c. But with this smaller elite force, they bid farewell to parmenion and
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