A SHADE OF ECBATANA
/ UMBLED, lying out in a coma before the ring of Macedonians, Alexander mumbled that he hoped they saw to it that the strongest one amongst them should be king. Yet malaria and wine and a mess of meat and means had stalled the stoutest heart in all that band who built and named fine towns throughout the world-and killed the Cossaeans, ’ Probably mosquitoes and erratic dieting had broken-off Hephaestion’s time as well (and-later-he had spoken through a pandering oracle to a grieving Alexander who, elated, drank and dined himself into the first delirium). And warriors, who displayed the callouses made by unlined helmet-ritns and unkind vests, watchedafraid-while the Son of Zéus pined in a paralysis. and they must have known it was just a little too much -of that one shade from Ecbatana that eclipsed his sun.
Kevin
Jowsey
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 901, 9 November 1956, Page 15
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143A SHADE OF ECBATANA New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 901, 9 November 1956, Page 15
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