Battle of Issus
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
battle of Issus · the battle · the fight in the passes
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Battle between Alexander the Great and Darius III, cited as the occasion for burial honors to the enemy dead.
Alexander ordered those of the enemy, that were killed at the battle of Issus to be honoured with the rites of burial, and Hannibal did the same to Caius Flaminius, Publius Aemilius, Tiberius Gracchus, and Marcellus, the Roman Generals.
Alexander
Decisive battle in which Alexander, vastly outnumbered, routs Dareius's forces, is wounded, and captures Dareius's chariot, bow, and family.
Chares says this wound was given him by Dareius, with whom he had a hand-to-hand combat, but Alexander, in a letter to Antipater about the battle, did not say who it was that gave him the wound;
But having missed one another in the night, they both turned back again, Alexander rejoicing in his good fortune, and eager to meet his enemy in the passes, while Dareius was as eager to extricate his forces from the passes and regain his former camping-ground.