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Outflanked by Alexander, Bessus flees beyond the …
Years: 329BCE - 329BCE
Outflanked by Alexander, Bessus flees beyond the Oxus (modern Amu Darya).
Alexander, marching west to Bactra-Zariaspa (modern Balkh [Wazirabad] in Afghanistan), appoints loyal satraps in Bactria and Aria.
Crossing the Oxus, he sends Ptolemy in pursuit of Bessus, who has meanwhile been overthrown by the Sogdian Spitamenes.
Bessus is captured, flogged, and sent to Bactra, where he is later mutilated after the Persian manner (losing his nose and ears); in due course, he is publicly executed, by crucifixion, at Ecbatana.
Meanwhile, Alexander threatens to severely punish the Daylamites (an Iranian people of northern Iran) for kidnapping his beloved war-horse Bucephalus, which they promptly return to him.
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- Iranian peoples
- Persian people
- Macedon, Argead Kingdom of
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
- Bactria
- Alexander, Empire of
- Greece, Hellenistic
- Greeks, Hellenistic
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- Iron Age Cold Epoch
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Years: 329BCE - 329BCE
Locations
People
Groups
- Iranian peoples
- Persian people
- Macedon, Argead Kingdom of
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
- Bactria
- Alexander, Empire of
- Greece, Hellenistic
- Greeks, Hellenistic
Topics
- Iron Age India
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Alexander the Great, Wars of
- Alexander's Asiatic Campaign
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions