Chapter 10
After the Granicus, we pushed on through Sardis and Ephesus to Miletus and Halicarnassus. In each of these cities, we meted out justice and set up governments according to their due.
“Such inconsistency will lead to confusion among the peoples,” the older generals and younger Companions alike demurred. “They will think you don’t know how to rule.”
“On the contrary, this is precisely how you rule,” I countered: “You consider individual need and want and then respond to those needs and wants, individually.”
To Sardis, a Persian stronghold in Lydia that had surrendered without fuss, we granted freedom, safeguarded by a Macedonian governor and a Greek garrison, of course. To Miletus, a Greek port under the Persian thumb, we granted clemency, mindful of earlier days when the citi
