. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . n madness because heventured to rebuke the conqueror — an event generally said tohave taken place at Samarkand — combined with a traditionof the loss of his favorite, Hephsestion, who died at Hamadanand whose death Alexander mourned in a wild despair.^Plutarch describes the circumstances attending upon this 1 Those natives of Hamadan who and the body was accordingly interred, maintain that Alexander is really This note I have on the authority of buried in their city narrate a legend t
. Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . n madness because heventured to rebuke the conqueror — an event generally said tohave taken place at Samarkand — combined with a traditionof the loss of his favorite, Hephsestion, who died at Hamadanand whose death Alexander mourned in a wild despair.^Plutarch describes the circumstances attending upon this 1 Those natives of Hamadan who and the body was accordingly interred, maintain that Alexander is really This note I have on the authority of buried in their city narrate a legend to Mr. H. L. Eabino of Kermanshah. The the effect that he gave orders that after symbolism in the legend can easily be his death his body should be carried recognized. with outstretched arms, holding earth 2 gee Plutarch, Alexander, 50, 51, in the hand, about the kingdoms which 72, ed. Bekker, Leipzig, 1858 ; transl. he had conquered. His corpse should Langhorne, 5, 256-259, 282-283; of. be buried wherever he withdrew his McCrindle, Invasion of India, p. 43, hand. This happened at Hamadan London, Bridge over the RI^ kr at H\m\dav — ^loixr Alvand inTHK Background LEGENDS OF ALEXANDER 165 latter event. Alexander had returned to Ecbatana fromIndia, and on reaching the ancient capital, of which he wasnow the victorious lord, he gave himself up to celebrating hissuccesses with all the wanton luxuriousness of the East, forhis habits had been growing more and more Asiatic, much tothe distress of his hardier Macedonian leaders. The rejoicingswere accompanied by games and public festivities conducted inregal fashion. In the midst of these celebrations, which Plu-tarch pictures as little better than drunken orgies, Hephaestiondied. Alexanders grief knew no bounds, he says. Heimmediately ordered the manes of the horses and mules tobe shorn as a sign of mourning, and tore down the battlementsof the towns in the vicinity; ^ he caused the unfortunate physi-cian who had attended H
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