Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c14: Chapter II—Alexander's Campaigns in India

Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c14

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Chapter II—Alexander's Campaigns in India

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Breloer, B. : Alexander's Kampf Gegen Poros (Stuttgart, 1932-3).

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Cambridge History of India : I, (1922) chapters XV and XVII beginning.

Cambridge Ancient History, VI, ch. XIII, esp. iv-vii. In his account of the battle of Jhelam, Tarn, following Baer, says that Alexander divided his cavalry force in order to draw the Indian cavalry, a weaker force than his own, to charge him and thus draw them away from the elephants (1928).

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Cavaignac, E. : A propos de la bataille d'Alexandre contre Porus (JA.1923 ii 332-4), points out that Alexander crossed the river above his camp as Curtius (viii. 13) says that Ptolemy's troops watched by Porus occupied the bank of the river lower down. (Contra. C.H.I. i, p. 361 n. 2 and p. 365).

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Holdich : The gates of India (London, 1910)—'Aornos appears to have been a kind of generic name with the Greeks, applied to mountain positions of a certain class' (109). 'We shall never recognise Aornos by its superficial features' (118).

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Lassen : Indische Alterthumskunde² ii pp. 124—205 (Leipzig 1874).

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McCrindle, J.W. : The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great as described by Arrian, Curtius, Diodorus, Plutarch and Justin (Westminster, 1896)

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McCrindle, J. W. : Strabo and the Itinerary of Alexander the Great (pp. 6-101, and 150-155 of Ancient India as described in Classical literature).

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(I have followed Arrian's narrative in the main ; where I have preferred Curtius or Diodorus, this is indicated in the text. For the references, very few, to occurrences after Alexander's death I have depended on citations in standard modern works).

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Smith, V. A. : Early History of India—chapters III and IV, (Oxford, 1924).

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Stein : Alexander's campaign on the Indian N. W. Frontier, Geographical Journal, 1927.

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Stein : On Alexander's track to the Indus (London. 1929). Stein : An Archaeological Tour in Upper Swat and adjacent Hills Tracts (A.S.I. Memoir, No. 42 ; 1930). Stein : Serindia, Vol. i. pp. 1-5 (London, 1921). Thirlwall : History of Greece Vol. vii (pp. 1-75), (London, 1852).

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Historiae Alexandri Magni — Q. Curtius Rufus, Latin