NB. TO BE INSERTED INTO EXTRA INFO PAGES: LETTERS EXCHANGED BETWEEN ALEX AND DARIUS.

1 AFTER THE BATTLE OF ISSUS DARIUS SENT ALEX A LETTER REQUESTING THE RELEASE OF HIS FAMILY AND CONDEMNING ALEX'S ACT OF AGRESSION. HE SAYS THAT HE IS ONLY RIGHTFULLY DEFENDING WHAT IS HIS. THUS HE ASKS ALEX TO SEND REPRESENTATIVES TO HIM SO THAT AN AGREEMENT CAN BE REACHED. 2 ALEX'S REPLY STATED THAT DARIUS'S ANCESTORS HAD CAUSED HAVOC IN GREECE AND THAT NOW THEY ARE BEING PUNISHED FOR IT. HE ALSO SAYS THAT DARIUS HAD SENT AID TO SOME GROUPS WHO HAD REBELLED AGAINST PHILIP. HE SAYS THAT DARIUS IS NOT THE RIGHTFUL SUCCESSOR TO THE THRONE ANYWAY AND THAT "BY GOD'S HELP I AM MASTER OF YOUR COUNTRY". SO IF DARIUS IS TO COME TO HIM IT MUST BE AS THE LORD OF ASIA. ANY FUTURE LETTERS ARE TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE KING OF ALL ASIA."EVERYTHING YOU POSSESS IS NOW MINE". 3 DURING THE SIEGE OF TYRE ALEX RECEIVED AN OFFER FROM DARIUS OF 10,000 TALENTS AND ALL TERRITORY WEST OF THE EUPHRATES IN RETURN FOR HIS FAMILY AND AN ALLIANCE INCLUDING MARRIAGE TO DARIUS'S DAUGHTER. PARMENIO IS SAID TO HAVE SAID THAT IF HE WERE ALEX HE WOULD BE HAPPY TO END THE WAR ON SUCH TERMS. ALEX'S REPLY IS "THAT IS WHAT I SHOULD DO IF I WERE PARMENIO". HIS REPLY TO DARIUS WAS THAT HE DID NOT NEED MONEY AND WAS ALREADY LORD OF ALL ASIA, HE WOULD MARRY BARSINE IF HE WANTED TO AND IF DARIUS NEEDED ANYTHING HE SHOULD JUST COME AND ASK.