BATTLE OF ARBELA
(331 B.C.): When Athens wasted herself against Sicily, Sparta grew to -power and fell in her turn to Thebes. Thebes fell with her conquering Epaminondas, and the power of Sparta, Thebes, and Athens was balanced, Rome, meanwhile, was gaining strength in Italy. The northern tribes had invaded Italy and conquered Rome’s enemies as well as Rome. But Rome recovered. Concurrently, in Greece, the three leading cities bowed in their turn to Macedon as Philip created the power which Alexander the Great was to use against most of the known world, Under Alexander the Greeks went East and South. Egypt fell to them and spoke their language. The great library of Alexandria was a product of those times. And where Athens had played her part in stemming the invasion of the Persians, Macedon completed the task by cutting into Persia itself. On his conera way to India, Alexander met arius the Persian at Arbela, which was a city near the village of Gaugemela, on the plains between the Tigris and the hills of Kurdestan, Alexander won a great victory, and the power of the Eastern despotisms was finally broken.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 63, 6 September 1940, Page 8
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