Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers with me, Murray, your 10-minute

weekly escape from the world to think about ancient warfare.

What I do of course is you send in questions, you ask a question via postcard, via email,

you comment on a previous

YouTube video or podcast, and I will attempt to answer the question if I think I can. And of

course, we can also get questions from patrons, so on Patreon, you can back us at one of three

different levels. There is legio, legionary, optio, and centurion.

Legio, no wait, that's the name of the unit.

Now, today's question is from Valentine, and he says,

I have just finished rereading your excellent article.

Thank you.

Men, you can trust in volume 16, 6 of ancient warfare.

A question arose in my mind that you may be able to answer.

With the bulk of Alexander's army in Asia and especially India,

why did no foreign invader seek to take advantage of the situation

by invading parts of Macedonia?

Fascinating.

And of course, there are some rebellions.

There's a rebellion in Sparta in 331 BC

that fails. And of course, as soon as Alexander dies in 323 BC, there's a launch by the

remaining Greek states in the Lamian War to try and reassert their independence. That's the Athenians, several cities in the Peloponnese, and the Atoleon League, and the

Salians, but we'll get to that in the minute.

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