As a last resort Alexander’s staff, knowing their young king’s touchy Homeric pride, tried to raise religious objections. It was now May, the Macedonian month Daisios, during which, it seems, military campaigning was taboo – a prohibition originally connected with the need to get the harvest in.
Alexander retorted by making an ad hoc intercalation to the calendar, so that the month became – by royal decree, as it were – a second Artemisios [basically April]. He had made up his mind, and nothing, it seemed, would budge him.
Source:
Green, Peter. “The Captain-General.” Alexander of Macedon: 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography. Univ. of California Press, 2005. 175. Print.
Original Source Listed:
cf. Hamilton, PA, p. 39, and reff. there cited.
Further Reading:
Alexander III of Macedon / Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας (Alexander the Great)
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