Hello Centrix. thanks for you kind words
sorry for the misspelling ! I meaned Poros(Paurava) and not Pyrrhus!
Yes I guess you 're right about your estimations about Plutarch. Although he is a great biograph with very useful informations his nimbers are laughable... In the battle of gaugamela/arbela he say that the persian army is one million men strong( Herodot said the Persians were 5 million men if I remember correct)
About the 100.000 troops of Alexander I'm though more sceptic. Mostly the historians tend to exagerate the numbers of the enemys , not of the own nation. I saw long time ago a documentary about Alexanders campaign( I think it was from BBC '' in the footsteps of alexander the great) and if I remember correct they said that Alexander had reinforcements which were 70.000 men strong. I repeat I'm not sure about the number!!!!!
I will see the documantary again...
I think very useful would be also to learn about the enemys of the Macedonian-Greeks and of the Xsyongnu. I mean the fighting art of the PErsians and of the Chinsese. We can compare them to see if they have similarities or rather not ....
That's for now!! Greetings :D :D