Granicus River

Trailing behind was a delegation from Athens that had journeyed all the way from Greece to ask the king for clemency on behalf of the Athenian mercenaries captured months earlier at the battle on the Granicus River.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Trailing behind was a delegation from Athens that had journeyed all the way from Greece to ask the king for clemency on behalf of the Athenian mercenaries captured months earlier at the battle on the Granicus River.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

The Persian governors and generals of Asia Minor were encamped only twenty miles away across the Granicus River at the town of Zeleia.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

The Persian governors and generals of Asia Minor were encamped only twenty miles away across the Granicus River at the town of Zeleia.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

The Granicus River rises in the mountains beyond Troy and flows north across the coastal plain into the sea.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

The Persian governors and generals of Asia Minor were encamped only twenty miles away across the Granicus River at the town of Zeleia.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

The Granicus River rises in the mountains beyond Troy and flows north across the coastal plain into the sea.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Trailing behind was a delegation from Athens that had journeyed all the way from Greece to ask the king for clemency on behalf of the Athenian mercenaries captured months earlier at the battle on the Granicus River.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

The Granicus River rises in the mountains beyond Troy and flows north across the coastal plain into the sea.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Alexander had always liked and trusted Cleitus, in spite of his being part of the old guard faction of conservative Macedonians, all the more so since he had saved the king’s life on the battlefield at the Granicus River.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011