ABSTRACT
The force of about 10,000 men which Philip sent into Asia had found a redoubtable opponent in Memnon of Rhodes, who commanded the Great King’s mercenaries. 2 At the beginning of Alexander’s reign, the Macedonians held only Rhceteion in the Troad and the great city of Abydos on the Hellespont, when Parmenion was called back to prepare for the departure of the great army. It crossed the straits in the spring of 334.
