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Diodorus Siculus, Library, Book XVII, Chapter 24 (search)
ur that he bestowed on this woman. For straightway all the cities sent missions and presented the king with golden crowns and promised to co-operate with him in everything.Alexander encamped near the city and set in motion an active and formidable siege.Arrian. 1.20.5-23.6. Diodorus omits Alexander's abortive attack on Myndus (Arrian. 1.20.5-7), and his narrative is told rather from the Persian than from the Macedonian side (W. W. Tarn, Alexander the Great, 2 (1948), 73 f.). At first he made continued assaults on the walls with relays of attackers and spent whole days in active fighting. Later he brought up all sorts of engines of war, filled in the trenches in front of the city with the aid of sheds to protect the workers, and rocked the towers and the curtains between them with his battering rams. Whenever he overthrew a portion of the wall, he attempted by hand-to-hand fighting to force an entry into the city over the ru