A Battle Under the Whole Sky

Classical Greece · November, 333 BC

A Battle Under the Whole Sky

Alexander breaks the Persian king, and a German paints it from somewhere near the moon

The plain at Issus, on the coast of what is now southern Turkey, was too cramped for the Persians to bring their numbers to bear, and in November 333 BC Alexander caught the Persian king Darius III there.

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