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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