Meleager (d.323 BC) was a Macedonian general, who served as an infantry commander under Alexander the Great. Following Alexander's death, he led the infantry in their conflict over the succession with the cavalry (led by Perdiccas), urging the succession of Alexander's illegitimate half-brother Arrhidaeus. In the compromise that followed, Meleager was to act as lieutenant to Perdiccas, who was made regent, but he was soon arrested and murdered by Perdiccas.
Generally the Macedonian side under Alexander is roughly based on a 1:100 ratio, whereas the Indians of Porus are less well defined, with one infantry and cavalry man representing about 200 real life soldiers.
The terrain is mostly a flat sandy plain with the Indians formed with their left flank on the muddy banks of the Hydaspes.
Alexander’s general Craterus held the crossing points in force, and Porus needed to leave some troops behind to cover the river crossing.
About 60 B.C., the sophist and poet, Meleager of Gadara, undertook to combine the choicest effusions of his predecessors into a single body of fugitive poetry.
In the age of the emperor Tiberius (or Trajan, according to others) the work of Meleager was continued by another epigrammatist, Philippus of Thessalonica, who first employed the term anthology.
Meleager of Gadara was a Syrian; his taste was less severe, and his temperament more fervent than those of his Greek predecessors; his pieces are usually erotic, and their glowing imagery sometimes reminds us of the Song of Solomon.
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