Frank L. Holt
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520238817
- eISBN:
- 9780520938786
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520238817.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
Percy Gardner struggled mightily against a compelling connection between numismatics and history. When he associated the elephant battle on the Franks medallion with an invasion of nomads during the ...
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Percy Gardner struggled mightily against a compelling connection between numismatics and history. When he associated the elephant battle on the Franks medallion with an invasion of nomads during the reign of Eucratides or his son, this line of argument required the total rejection of a more obvious historical attribution. The fighting became desperate and at times undisciplined due to the mud, rampaging elephants, and crowded lines of opposing infantry. Porus turned his elephant and attacked Taxiles. The existing accounts of Porus' surrender are quite at odds given the overall state of the sources. A personal duel between Alexander and Porus is described. Numismatists have learned to trace the size and sequence of a mintage based upon die linkage.Less
Percy Gardner struggled mightily against a compelling connection between numismatics and history. When he associated the elephant battle on the Franks medallion with an invasion of nomads during the reign of Eucratides or his son, this line of argument required the total rejection of a more obvious historical attribution. The fighting became desperate and at times undisciplined due to the mud, rampaging elephants, and crowded lines of opposing infantry. Porus turned his elephant and attacked Taxiles. The existing accounts of Porus' surrender are quite at odds given the overall state of the sources. A personal duel between Alexander and Porus is described. Numismatists have learned to trace the size and sequence of a mintage based upon die linkage.
Waldemar Heckel
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- March 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190076689
- eISBN:
- 9780197501146
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190076689.003.0014
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, World History: BCE to 500CE
Having settled affairs in Bactria and Sogdiana, Alexander recrossed the Hindu Kush and began his march to the Indus River, subduing as he went the satrapy of Gandhāra. Perdiccas and Hephaestion were ...
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Having settled affairs in Bactria and Sogdiana, Alexander recrossed the Hindu Kush and began his march to the Indus River, subduing as he went the satrapy of Gandhāra. Perdiccas and Hephaestion were sent ahead to bridge the Indus and accept the submission of Taxiles, who lived beyond the river. Taxiles, however, preferred to meet the king in person at Nicaea in Gandhāra. The campaign proved difficult, since the various tribes—the Aspasians, Assacenians, and Guraeans—withdrew into their mountain fastnesses and forced the Macedonians to conduct sieges of their major towns. One final attempt at resistance at Aornus, which was situated by the banks of the Indus, failed, and its capture enhanced Alexander’s reputation for invincibility.Less
Having settled affairs in Bactria and Sogdiana, Alexander recrossed the Hindu Kush and began his march to the Indus River, subduing as he went the satrapy of Gandhāra. Perdiccas and Hephaestion were sent ahead to bridge the Indus and accept the submission of Taxiles, who lived beyond the river. Taxiles, however, preferred to meet the king in person at Nicaea in Gandhāra. The campaign proved difficult, since the various tribes—the Aspasians, Assacenians, and Guraeans—withdrew into their mountain fastnesses and forced the Macedonians to conduct sieges of their major towns. One final attempt at resistance at Aornus, which was situated by the banks of the Indus, failed, and its capture enhanced Alexander’s reputation for invincibility.
