The Danger Zone: Avoid being in Alexander the Great's Army

Avoid being chosen as an envoy. The last one was thrown into the sea!
Clever looters only take valuables that are light - you've got to carry them!
Starving? Try chewing a local weed called sylphium. It soothes the stomach.
If you're dying of thirst and reach water, don't drink too fast. It will kill you!
If you believe in omens, and seers warn you not to do something, perhaps you'd better not!