Here's one about the Greek invasion of the Near East.
It's called "How We Heard the Name."
"The river brought down dead horses, dead men
and military debris, indicative of war or official
acts upstream, but it went by, it all
goes by, that is the thing about the river.
Then a soldier on a log went by.
He seemed drunk and we asked him, why had he
and this junk come down to us so from the past upstream.
Friends, he said, the great Battle of Granicus
has just been won by all of the Greeks
except the Lacedaemonians and myself--
this is a joke between me and a man
named Alexander, whom all of you ba-bas will hear of as a God."