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The Great Battles of Alexander is a computer wargame. [1] [2] It recreates the historical military exploits of Alexander the Great via turn-based gameplay.[3] [1] The game takes place on a hex map, and simulates combat at the tactical level; the player navigates an army of predetermined units on discrete battlefields, in a manner that PC PowerPlay compared to chess. [3]
Roxana (died c. 310 BC, [1] Ancient Greek: Ῥωξάνη, Rhōxánē; Old Iranian: *Raṷxšnā-"shining, radiant, brilliant", Persian: روشنک, romanized: Rošanak) sometimes known as Roxanne, Roxanna and Roxane was a Sogdian [2] [3] or a Bactrian [4] princess whom Alexander the Great married after defeating Darius, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire, and invading Persia.
Emperor Julian in his satire called "The Caesars", describes a contest between the previous Roman emperors, with Alexander the Great called in as an extra contestant, in the presence of the assembled gods. [291] The Itinerarium Alexandri is a 4th-century Latin description of Alexander the Great's campaigns.
Oxyartes of Bactria had sent his wife and daughters, one of whom was Roxane, to take refuge in the fortress, as it was thought to be impregnable, and was provisioned for a long siege. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] When Alexander asked the defenders to surrender, they refused, telling him that he would need "men with wings" to capture it.
Alexander died soon after receiving this letter; Mary Renault suggests that his grief over Hephaestion's death had led him to be careless with his health. Alexander was overwhelmed by his grief for Hephaestion, so much that Arrian records that Alexander "flung himself on the body of his friend and lay there nearly all day long in tears, and ...
The Great Battles is a historical turn-based combat series. Players control one of three military commanders depending on the title, Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar. Alternatively, players can also control the corresponding aggressors of each military commander, such as Darius or Pompey, and fight against them. Combat in game is turn based, and ...
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Alexander, who may have felt genuinely saddened at Darius' death, buried Darius next to his Achaemenid predecessors in a full military funeral. Alexander claimed that, while dying, Darius had named Alexander as his successor to the Achaemenid throne and had asked Alexander to avenge his death, a striking irony since it was Alexander who had ...