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With this post, I conclude my read through of Plutarch’s Life of Alexander over on Tumblr, here are the links to Chapters 71-77.

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Chapter Seventy-One - The Mutiny at Opis
Chapter Seventy-Two - Hephaestion’s Death and Alexander’s Grief
Chapter Seventy-three - Portents of Alexander’s Death
Chapter Seventy-Four - The Antipatrids’ Alleged Rôle in Alexander’s Death
Chapter Seventy-Five - Superstition and Heavy Drinking
Alexander’s Letter to Cleomenes
Chapter Seventy-Six - Alexander’s Last Eleven Days, a day-by-day account
Chapter Seventy-Seven - Was Alexander Poisoned?

As I continue my read through of Plutarch’s Life of Alexander over on Tumblr, here are the links to Chapters 64-70.

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Chapter Sixty-Four - The Gymnosophists
Chapter Sixty-Five - Calanus and Dandamis
Chapter Sixty-Six - Ocean and Desert
Chapter Sixty-Seven - Carmanian Revel
Chapter Sixty-Eight - Restoring Order to the Empire
Chapter Sixty-Nine - Cyrus the Great’s Tomb & Calanus’ Self-Immolation
Chapter Seventy - The Susa Weddings

As I continue my read through of Plutarch’s Life of Alexander over on Tumblr, here are the links to Chapters 57-63.

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Chapter Fifty-Seven - Baggage Burning, Ill Omens, and the Discovery of Oil
Chapter Fifty-Eight - Sisimithres, the Younger Alexander, Nysa
Chapter Fifty-Nine - Generous to Taxiles, Ruthless towards the Indian Mercenaries
Chapter Sixty - The Battle of the Hydaspes River
Chapter Sixty-One - On Bucephalas
Chapter Sixty-Two - At The Hyphasis River
Chapter Sixty-Three - The Siege of the Mallian City

As I continue my read through of Plutarch’s Life of Alexander over on Tumblr, here are the links to Chapters 50-56.

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Chapter Fifty - Alexander’s and Black Cleitus’s Confrontation
Chapter Fifty-One - Black Cleitus’ Downfall
Chapter Fifty-Two - Alexander’s Remorse
Chapter Fifty-Three - Callisthenes’ Character
Chapter Fifty-Four - Callisthenes’ Lack of Common Sense
Chapter Fifty-Five - Callisthenes’ Downfall
Chapter Fifty-Six - Concerning Demaratus the Corinthian

As I continue my read through of Plutarch’s Life of Alexander over on Tumblr, here are the links to Chapters 43-49.

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Chapter Forty-Three - Finding Darius
Chapter Forty-Four - A Matter of Inaccurate Geography
Chapter Forty-Five - Alexander adopts Perso-Median dress/His army’s reaction
Chapter Forty-Six - Thallestris, Queen of the Amazons
Chapter Forty-Seven Splits within the Macedonian army and bringing East and West together
Chapter Forty-Eight - Philotas’ Character
Chapter Forty-Nine - The Philotas Affair

As I continue my read through of Plutarch’s Life of Alexander over on Tumblr, here are the links to Chapters 36-42.

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Chapter Thirty-Six - Susa’s riches
Chapter Thirty-Seven - Through Persia to Persepolis
Chapter Thirty-Eight - Thaïs of Athens
Chapter Thirty-Nine - Alexander’s Insistent Generosity
Chapter Forty - The Macedonian Officers’ Indulgence
Chapter Forty-One - Alexander’s Forbearance with his Friends
Chapter Forty-Two - Alexander the Correspondent, later decline and Pursuit of Darius III

With apologies for its lateness here are my links to Chapter 29 - 35 of my Plutarch read-through, which I am currently doing on this blog’s Tumblr page.

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Chapter Twenty-Nine - Sacrifices and contests in Phoenicia
Chapter Thirty - Stateira I’s death; Darius III and Tireos
Chapter Thirty-One - Gaugamela: Through Mesopotamia to the Eve of Battle
Chapter Thirty-Two - Gaugamela: The morning of the Battle and some of its actions
Chapter Thirty-Three - The Battle of Gaugamela
Chapter Thirty-Four - From Gaugamela to Babylon
Chapter Thirty-Five - On Naphtha

I’m writing this not one week after posting my last weekly up date but about one minute! While writing it I realised that I should have posted the Chapter 15 - 21 list last week and completely forgot so apologies for that.

Here is today’s list. The links will take you to The Second Achilles‘ Tumblr page where I am writing my read through of Plutarch’s Life.

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Chapter Twenty-Two - More on Alexander’s self-restraint
Chapter Twenty-Three - Alexander’s Routine
Chapter Twenty-Four - Damascus and Tyre
Chapter Twenty-Five - Aristander
Chapter Twenty-Six - Alexandria to Siwah
Chapter Twenty-Seven - The Son of Zeus
Chapter Twenty-Eight - Man and God

These links will take you to The Second Achilles‘ Tumblr site where I am reading Plutarch’s Life of Alexander.

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Chapter Fifteen - Alexander at Troy
Chapter Sixteen - The Battle of the Granicus River
Chapter Seventeen - Alexander’s Indecision
Chapter Eighteen - Prophecies and Dreams
Chapter Nineteen - Parmenion vs Philip of Acarnania
Chapter Twenty - The Battle of Issus
Chapter Twenty-One - Alexander’s Attitude to Women

Here are the links to this week’s posts on Plutarch’s Life over on Tumblr.

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Chapter Eight - Alexander the healer and literary man
Days and Dates in Ancient Macedon
Chapter Nine - War on the Battlefield and at Home
Chapter Ten - The Pixodarus Affair
Chapter Eleven - Alexander inherits the Throne
Chapter Twelve - Timocleia’s Revenge
Chapter Thirteen - Alexander’s Regret
Chapter Fourteen - Diogenes of Sinope