Coragus and Dioxippus: A battle between the gods

Murray Dahm

In early 325 BC, Alexander led the storming of a city of the Sydracae (Diodorus 17.98-99), during which he was seriously wounded by an arrow which struck him in the breast. He fought on with difficulty and was eventually rescued, taken back to the Macedonian camp. While the king recovered – and it seems it was not sure he would – 3000 Greek settlers in Bactria and Sogdiana, told that Alexander had died, took the opportunity to revolt and made their way home (Diodorus, 17.99.5–6). Alexander's wound seems to have brought to the surface simmering tensions in Alexander's army. Only Diodorus (17.100.2-101.6) and Curtius (9.7.16-26) record a remarkable (and unexpected) result of these tensions – the combat between the Macedonian Coragus, whom Curtius calls Corratas (9.7.17), and the Athenian Dioxippus,…

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