From article: "Here, in the Battle of Issus, Alexander's army of 75,000 Greeks faced Darius' vastly superior force of approximately 600,000 Persian troops."
From Wikipedia: "Modern historians find Arrian's count of 600,000 men highly unlikely. They argue that the logistics of fielding more than 100,000 soldiers in battle was extremely difficult at the time."
Basically, the ancient agricultural landscape would be unable to feed an army of more than 100,000.
The next paragraph, or actually next sentence adresses this immediately:
> These ancient written sourced troop numbers are likely greatly exaggerated as more modern accounting of the battle puts the numbers much lower, but it is how the story was told for the better part of 2,300 years.
Was disappointed to see that it wasn't being shown in the museum when I went there 1.5 years ago. The penis room was also closed, not sure what was worse.
From article: "Here, in the Battle of Issus, Alexander's army of 75,000 Greeks faced Darius' vastly superior force of approximately 600,000 Persian troops."
From Wikipedia: "Modern historians find Arrian's count of 600,000 men highly unlikely. They argue that the logistics of fielding more than 100,000 soldiers in battle was extremely difficult at the time."
Basically, the ancient agricultural landscape would be unable to feed an army of more than 100,000.
The next paragraph, or actually next sentence adresses this immediately:
> These ancient written sourced troop numbers are likely greatly exaggerated as more modern accounting of the battle puts the numbers much lower, but it is how the story was told for the better part of 2,300 years.
Macedonian war propaganda, still going strong 2K years later.
Yeah 600k seems pretty outsized for battles of that time, even compared just "reported" numbers.
Was disappointed to see that it wasn't being shown in the museum when I went there 1.5 years ago. The penis room was also closed, not sure what was worse.
I was there a week ago and it still wasn't back. The penis room was wide open though.