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"And what of Alexander himself? What were his own thoughts before the end? We will never know what lay behind the self-destructive course of the last months. For all we know, it may have been the simple fact, recorded by Plutarch, that the king was now 'at an utter loss to know what he should do with the rest of his life.'"

"Curtius, for once renouncing rhetoric, gives his parting words. When Perdiccas asked him at what times he wished to have his divine honours paid him, he answered, "When you are happy."

A dark mist crossed the sky, and a bolt of lightning was seen to fall from heaven into the sea, and with it a great eagle. And the bronze statue of Arimazd in Babylon quivered; and the lightning ascended into heaven, and the eagle went with it, taking with it a radiant star. And when the star disappeared in the sky, Alexander too had shut his eyes.

The legend had begun."