Alexander conquered most parts of the Western World, but there is a great deal of controversy over his invasion of India, the least known of his campaigns. In BC 327 Alexander came to India, and tried to cross the Jhelum river for the invasion, but was then confronted by King Porus who ruled an area in what is now the Punjab. According to Indian history he was stopped by Porus at his entry into the country, but most of the world still believes that Alexander won the battle. Fearing the prospect of facing other large armies and exhausted by years of campaigning, Alexander's army mutinied at the Hyphasis River, refusing to march farther east. This river thus marks the easternmost extent of Alexander's conquests.

Twelve papers in this volume examine aspects of Alexander’s Indian campaign, the relationship between him and his generals, the potential to use Indian sources, and evidence for the influence of policies of Alexander in neighbouring areas such as Iran and Russia.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: C. Antonetti and P. Biagi
• Part I: Babylon, the Upper Satrapies and the Iranian Peoples
  • 1. “Kislīmu Day 10, Year 31, Seleucus and Antiochus the Kings”: Greek Elements in Babylonian Sources: P. Corò
  • 2. Aspects of Seleucid Iconography and Kingship: V. Messina
  • 3. Alexandre le Grand en Asie Centrale. Geographie et Strategie de la Conquete des Portes Caspiennes à l’Inde: C. Rapin
  • 4. The Scythians and the Eastern Limits of the Greek Influence: The Pazyryk Culture and Its Foreign Artistic Influences: L. Crescioli
  • 5. Alexandre le Grand et les Russes: Un Regard sur le Conquérant Porté depuis l’Asie Centrale: S. Gorshenina
  • 6. Parthia, Bactria and India: The Iranian Policies of Alexander of Macedonia (330–323): M. Olbrycht
• Part II: From Paropamisus to the Indus Mouth and to the Persian Gulf
  • 7. The Indian Caucasus from Alexander to Eratosthenes: F. Prontera
  • 8. Megasthenes Thirty Years Later: A. Zambrini
  • 9. Indian Ethnography in Alexandrian Sources: A Missed Opportunity?: S. Beggiora
  • 10. Uneasy Riders: With Alexander and Nearchus from Pattala to Rhambakia: P. Biagi
  • 11. From the Indus to the Pasitigris: Some Remarks on the Periplus of Nearchus in the Arrian’s Indiké: V. Bucciantini
• Bibliography