Note 48 — Chapter I · THE CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER

Plutarch, Crassus, c. XXXIII. The play acted was the Bacchae, and a Greek tragic actor, one Jason of Tralles, had been imported for the principal part. In the essay De Alex. fortitudine, I. c. 5, Plutarch says that no sooner had Alexander subdued Asia than Homer became a favourite reading-book, and Persian, Susianan, and Gedrosian boys learned to chant the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides.