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Alexander the Great, the End of the Persian Empire, and the Descent into India
Season 5 · Episode 96

Alexander the Great, the End of the Persian Empire, and the Descent into India

Tides of History · Audible / Patrick Wyman

October 10, 202440m 30s

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Show Notes

Alexander the Great's campaigns didn't end once he had defeated the Persian king Darius III and conquered the heart of his empire; he went still further, into the vastness of the Iranian Plateau and Central Asia, and then south into India.


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