Alexander receives complimentary embassies the following spring …
Years: 323BCE - 323BCE
Alexander receives complimentary embassies the following spring at Babylon, which he plans to make the capital of his empire, from the Libyans and from the Bruttians, Etruscans, and Lucanians of Italy. (The story that more distant peoples, such as Carthaginians, Celts, Iberians, and even Romans, had sent embassies is most probably a later invention.)
Representatives of the cities of Greece also appear, garlanded as befits Alexander's divine status.
Following up Nearchus' voyage, he now founds an Alexandria at the mouth of the Tigris and makes plans to develop sea communications with India, for which an expedition along the Arabian coast is to be a preliminary.
He also dispatches Heracleides, an officer, to explore the Hyrcanian (i.e., Caspian) Sea.
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- Alexander the Great
- Antipater
- Craterus
- Eumenes of Cardia
- Leonnatus
- Lysimachus
- Nearchus
- Perdiccas
- Philip III Arrhidaeus
- Ptolemy I Soter
- Roxana
- Seleucus I
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Years: 323BCE - 323BCE
Locations
People
- Alexander the Great
- Antipater
- Craterus
- Eumenes of Cardia
- Leonnatus
- Lysimachus
- Nearchus
- Perdiccas
- Philip III Arrhidaeus
- Ptolemy I Soter
- Roxana
- Seleucus I
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Commodoties
Subjects
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