NAGY SÁNDOR TRANSOXANIÁBAN
ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN TRANSOXANIA
Author(s): János HarmattaSubject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Military history, Ancient World
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Alexander; ethnic-and geographic names; massagetai; daai; Nautaka; Surxan-darya; Orxantes; Sir-darya;
Summary/Abstract: Arrian (Anab. III. 25.3 etc., IV. 16 etc.) describes Alexander’s military expedition in Transoxania, where he and his Macedonian army had to confront Iranian nomadic cavalry for the first time. His experience and strategy influenced the Antique civilization’s behaviour and defence against those people nearly a thousand years long. The present paper locates the historical site of events by explaining and interpreting the personal, ethnic and geographic names in Arrian’s and Strabo’s texts. The location of these sites has not been clarified yet sufficiently in the secondary literature.
Journal: Antik Tanulmányok
- Issue Year: 48/2004
- Issue No: 1(2)
- Page Range: 35-42
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Hungarian
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