The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c15.5

c15.5

The original authorities, the Macedonian officers of Alexander's army, probably expressed the date in terms of the Macedonian calendar, and the divergent statements made by the historians may be due to errors in the conversion of Macedonian into Attic and Roman dates. As Mr. Hogarth has observed, it is impossible for a modern scholar to check such conversions, because our knowledge of the details of the Macedonian calendar is very imperfect, and little is known of the methods used for converting Macedonian dates into those expressed in terms of other calendars.¹