Alexander attempts at Bactra to impose the…

Alexander attempts at Bactra to impose the Persian court ceremonial, involving prostration (proskynesis), on the Greeks and Macedonians too; but to them this custom, habitual for Persians entering the king's presence, implies an act of worship and is intolerable before a man.

Even Callisthenes, whose ostentatious flattery has perhaps encouraged Alexander to see himself in the role of a god, refuses to abase himself.

(It is known that Callisthenes alluded to the story of Alexander's divine birth and may have been the first to do so.)

Macedonian laughter causes the experiment to founder, and Alexander abandons it.

Late in 328, Alexander attacks Oxyartes and the remaining barons who hold out in the hills of Paraetacene (modern Tadzhikistan); volunteers seize the crag on which Oxyartes has his stronghold, and among the captives is his daughter, Roxana.

In reconciliation, Alexander marries her, and the rest of his opponents are either won over or crushed.