ANCIENT WARFARE XVI-6 - ALEXANDER VS DARIUS

King at just 20, Alexander of Macedon spent two years securing his northern borders and Greece. In 334 he crossed the Hellespont to begin the campaign his father had prepared: the invasion of Achaemenid Persia.

Theme: Alexander attacks Persia

• Jeremy Solel, 'Alexander's invasion of Asia Minor - Hellenism ascendant'.
• Mark McCaffery, 'Finally facing Darius - Alexander at Issus'.
• Nicholas Sekunda, 'Conflicting accounts of a famous battle - The charge across the River Granicus'.
• Sean Manning, 'Phalangites with javelins - A preponderance of points'.
• Murray Dahm, 'Alexander's phalanx commanders - Men you can trust'.

Features:

• Olle Bergman, 'The mysterious massacre at Sandby Borg in AD 500 - Scandinavia's bloody Pompeii'.
• Jo Ball, 'A cruel but unusual punishment - Decimation in the Roman army'.
• Boris Dreyer et al., 'Testing reconstructed Roman ballistae - In the engine's sights'.
• Murray Dahm, 'The Domitius Ahenobarbus reliefs - Detail in the census'.
• Briana C. Jackson, 'Akhenaten's Nubian campaign - The pacificst goes to war'.
• Duncan B Campbell, 'Painters and decorators in the Roman army - Tectores et pictores'.
• Jo Ball, 'The tombstone of Viatorinus - Felled by Franks'.