id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-1441	Iglesias-Zoido, J. C.	The Pre-Battle Speeches of Alexander at Issus and Gaugamela	2010	27	.pdf	application/pdf	9693	333	50	Such speeches are of interest to historians as they provide insights into the different motivational factors to which soldiers reacted at crucial battles.5 Above all, however, pre-battle speeches are a privileged example of the influence of rhetoric on ancient historiography, since the presentation of the general’s words before a battle provided an excellent op- portunity to apply historians’ rhetorical training.6 In our opinion, rhetoric and historiography went together in the ancient world. T1 (I.S.) 4.14.8–26: Darius’ pre-battle speech to his troops.	cache/grbs-1441.pdf	txt/grbs-1441.txt