who was alexander the great fighting when he got shot with an arrow which lead to his death?

Question

I wish I could get an intelligable response from someone who is not a semite/indian...

Answer 1

Alexander the Great died when he had returned to Babylonia
on June 10, 323 B.C. No one knows for sure what he died from but malaria and poisoning are among the suggestions. He did have a slow death, the struggle lasted for days. There were no arrow. But ...

There is a story about Alexander being shot with an arrow that penetrated his amour and injured his shoulder at Gaza. He was already angry but the pain fueled that anger and when he took Gaza there is a link to Achilles. Achilles killed Hector and dragged the dead body around the city walls. According to the story Alexander executed Batis by tying a rope through his heels and dragging him around the city until he died.

When trying to take the fortified city Mallians Alexander was the first one up the ladder leaving his men behind. He was shot with an arrow to the ribs and clubbed over the head. The rumor that he was dead spread, but he survived his injuries.

While fighting in Samarkand an arrow stuck his leg and broke his bone.

There are also suggestions that old injuries could have gotten infected and that was what lead to his death, but I've never seen the injuries defined as to what caused them.


I did a quick Google search and found a page about a book "Alexander the Great" by Fiona Beddall. It seems to be used as teaching material and at down the page there is something called "students activities" one of the activities is to "tick" the things that happened in chapter 9. One of the suggested things are "(b) Alexander is shot dead with a long arrow." A false statement that should be removed by the students or an error in the book. If it's the later then I'm, appalled.

Edit to add a suggestion:
If he died from arrow injuries then he had to have been in a fight not long before. When Hephaestion died Alexander massacred the Cossaeans nation, that's within less than a year from his own death. Hephaestion died during the fall and then Alexander died the next summer, Alexander is said to have mourned by Hephaestions side for months so the time frame is theoretically likely.

I'm curious about what information you have been given that spawned this question. The death of famous people often spawns different theories and I'm wondering if you have seen one that I haven't seen before. :)

Answer 2

Alexander the Great died, probably of the flu. Your thinking of Achilles who was shot in the ankle by an archer during the fight for Troy by the Greeks. He was then dragged around the walls of Troy by Ulysses and Ulysses was severely scolded by the Gods and bond to wander the world forever.

Homers "Iiliad" explains it all.

Answer 3

Alexander from a return looting trip from India and Persia was shot in Egypt ... he was a rogue thieving Macedonian savage who came to the advanced Persian culture and burned the libraries and thriving culture. Same destruction he did in India.

He was not the hero the West makes him out to be... but a savage.

Answer 4

thank you for all the answers!