Transcript
Book 1, Chapter Seven: The Ascent, Pages 161 and 162
and marched
from Greece to Asia beside you.
Now our armours, our spirits and our bodies
are little more than rags.
Have we not travelled far enough?
Have we not won enough glory for Macedon?
How many more happy years away from home
must we sacrifice?
Please, Alexander,
are you still not satisfied?
No more.”
Alexander’s exasperation nearly boiled to rage. Carefully, he crafted his response.
“Did you forget, Coenus? I too marched with you.”
Chapter Seven 161-162
Shoutout to that spread from Shaun Tan’s The Arrival for the inspiration behind this sequence.
Footnotes:
The Mutiny at Hyphasis – a summary
The account from Arrian (Chapter 25 to 28)
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