. The eastern nations and Greece. ers dearest friend, Ilephaistion, diedat Ecbatana. Alexander indulged in most extravagant expressions of grief. He causeda funeral pyre to be erected at a cost, it is said, of 10,000 talents (;f 12,000,000), andinstituted in memory of his friend magnificent funeral games. Me even ordered thetops of the towers of the surrounding cities to be cut off, and the horses and mules tobe put in mourning by having their manes docked. 264 ALEXANDER THE GREAT [§292 hundred battlefields filed sorrowfully past the couch of their dyingcommander. His body was carried first to
. The eastern nations and Greece. ers dearest friend, Ilephaistion, diedat Ecbatana. Alexander indulged in most extravagant expressions of grief. He causeda funeral pyre to be erected at a cost, it is said, of 10,000 talents (;f 12,000,000), andinstituted in memory of his friend magnificent funeral games. Me even ordered thetops of the towers of the surrounding cities to be cut off, and the horses and mules tobe put in mourning by having their manes docked. 264 ALEXANDER THE GREAT [§292 hundred battlefields filed sorrowfully past the couch of their dyingcommander. His body was carried first to Memphis, but afterwardsit was taken to Alexandria, in Egypt, and there inclosed in a goldencoffin, over which was raised a splendid mausoleum. His ambitionfor celestial honors was gratified in his death, for in Egypt and else-where temples were dedicated to him and divine worship was paidto his statues. 292. Results of Alexanders Conquests. The remarkable conquestsof Alexander had important and far-reaching consequences. First,. I l«Jl«(W/
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