We are tracing the routes followed by Alexander the Great as he and his army attempted to conquer the entire known world and establish the greatest empire ever seen.
Alexander began his campaigns in 334 BC and went on to defeat the Persian Empire, march into Central Asia and penetrate deep into the Indian Subcontinent. In the process he was deified and worshipped as a god, proved himself a great military commander and gained untold wealth. But he also suffered many setbacks, and his project was eventually frustrated when his army forced him to stop fighting and turn back. He never made it back to Greece. His empire quickly broke up into successor kingdoms.
But Alexander's legacy lived on in the power these successor states wielded across Europe, Asia and Egypt. The era of Hellenism, in which Greek civilisation affected three continents, began with his conquests. And western civilisation would not be the same without his achievements.
Our project is to take Arrian's history of Alexander - written in the second century AD - and map the campaigns from beginning to end.
This blog is the record of what we have set out to do and how we did it.
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