1 00:00:00,715 --> 00:00:02,580 ...but you do nothing. 2 00:00:02,984 --> 00:00:06,351 Three months you've been in Babylon and leave me in Pella... 3 00:00:06,521 --> 00:00:10,355 ...at the mercy of your enemies, of which you have many. 4 00:00:10,525 --> 00:00:14,222 Antipater, accustomed now to the power that you have given him. 5 00:00:14,463 --> 00:00:16,988 i must watch him grow stronger. 6 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:29,199 i'm certain that he communicates secretly with Parmenion, who is dangerous. 7 00:00:29,377 --> 00:00:32,403 But beware, most of all, of those closest to you. 8 00:00:32,848 --> 00:00:34,076 They are like snakes... 9 00:00:35,150 --> 00:00:36,549 ...and can be turned. 10 00:00:36,718 --> 00:00:38,345 General Crateros. 11 00:00:41,323 --> 00:00:44,952 Cassander is Antipater's son. 12 00:00:45,961 --> 00:00:49,727 Even Cleitus, your father's favorite... 13 00:00:49,898 --> 00:00:52,366 ...and Ptolemy, your friend, yes. 14 00:00:52,534 --> 00:00:54,764 But beware of men who think too much. 15 00:00:55,136 --> 00:00:57,263 They blind themselves. 16 00:01:00,942 --> 00:01:03,240 Only Hephaistion do i leave out. 17 00:01:04,346 --> 00:01:06,906 But all of them you make rich... 18 00:01:07,082 --> 00:01:12,952 ...while your mother and yourself, you leave in generous poverty. 19 00:01:13,755 --> 00:01:16,781 Why won't you ever believe me? 20 00:01:16,958 --> 00:01:22,624 it is only a dark mind like mine that can know these secrets of the heart. 21 00:01:22,797 --> 00:01:25,595 For they are dark, Alexander. 22 00:01:25,834 --> 00:01:28,200 So dark. 23 00:01:28,370 --> 00:01:31,897 But in you, the son of Zeus... 24 00:01:32,073 --> 00:01:34,940 ...lies the light of the world. 25 00:01:35,110 --> 00:01:39,137 Your companions will be shadows in the underworld... 26 00:01:39,314 --> 00:01:43,648 ...when you are a name living forever in history as the most glorious... 27 00:01:43,818 --> 00:01:48,255 ...shining light of youth, forever young, forever inspiring. 28 00:01:48,423 --> 00:01:51,950 Never will there be an Alexander like you. 29 00:01:52,127 --> 00:01:54,891 Alexander the Great. 30 00:01:55,897 --> 00:01:59,424 Remember, bring me to Babylon as you promised. 31 00:01:59,601 --> 00:02:02,832 i can only help you, for they know if they harm you... 32 00:02:03,004 --> 00:02:06,098 ...they will face my wrath, as Queen of Babylon. 33 00:02:08,710 --> 00:02:12,373 lt's a high ransom she charges for nine months' lodging in the womb. 34 00:02:12,547 --> 00:02:14,538 Bring her, Alexander. 35 00:02:14,716 --> 00:02:17,685 -lt'll give her such joy. -Joy? 36 00:02:18,587 --> 00:02:21,852 When l'm the cracked mirror of her dreams? 37 00:02:24,326 --> 00:02:27,022 Stay with me tonight, Hephaistion. 38 00:02:33,568 --> 00:02:35,365 l'll take my own bath. 39 00:02:36,471 --> 00:02:37,961 Thank you, Bagoas. 40 00:02:46,314 --> 00:02:47,645 What bothers you? 41 00:02:49,651 --> 00:02:52,415 l see in her everything l fear. 42 00:02:54,022 --> 00:02:59,085 Yet l have no idea what it is, this fear. 43 00:03:03,798 --> 00:03:07,393 She was always so sure l was born of Zeus. 44 00:03:07,936 --> 00:03:10,029 Why, Hephaistion? 45 00:03:11,706 --> 00:03:16,700 l think there are things beyond our imagining... 46 00:03:17,479 --> 00:03:22,507 ...like the lightning, tales of strange conceptions. 47 00:03:23,818 --> 00:03:25,911 l don't doubt it. 48 00:03:26,187 --> 00:03:28,417 What is being told me? 49 00:03:28,857 --> 00:03:32,486 What destiny do we--? Do l have? 50 00:03:34,529 --> 00:03:39,626 Well, if l'm Patroclus, l die first. 51 00:03:39,901 --> 00:03:41,835 Then you, Achilles. 52 00:03:48,610 --> 00:03:51,443 The generals are upset. 53 00:03:52,681 --> 00:03:56,014 They question your obsession with Darius. 54 00:03:56,184 --> 00:03:59,347 They say it was never meant for you to be king of Asia. 55 00:03:59,521 --> 00:04:01,045 Naturally. 56 00:04:01,222 --> 00:04:05,556 They want only to return to their homes, rich with gold. But l've seen the future. 57 00:04:05,727 --> 00:04:09,026 l've seen it now 1 000 times, on 1 000 faces. 58 00:04:09,197 --> 00:04:11,324 These people want.... 59 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:14,364 Need change. 60 00:04:15,236 --> 00:04:19,730 -Aristotle was wrong about them. -How so? 61 00:04:20,041 --> 00:04:22,032 Look at those we've conquered. 62 00:04:22,210 --> 00:04:24,303 They leave their dead unburied. 63 00:04:24,479 --> 00:04:27,175 They smash their enemies' skulls and drink them as dust. 64 00:04:27,348 --> 00:04:29,612 They mate in public. 65 00:04:29,784 --> 00:04:34,653 What can they think or sing or write when none can read? 66 00:04:34,823 --> 00:04:39,453 But as Alexander's army, they can go where they never thought possible. 67 00:04:39,627 --> 00:04:42,687 They can soldier or work in the cities. 68 00:04:42,864 --> 00:04:47,062 The Alexandrias, from Egypt to the outer ocean. 69 00:04:47,569 --> 00:04:50,504 We could connect these lands, Hephaistion... 70 00:04:50,672 --> 00:04:51,866 ...and the people. 71 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:57,501 Some say these Alexandrias have become extensions of Alexander himself. 72 00:04:58,413 --> 00:05:01,541 They draw people into the cities to make slaves of them. 73 00:05:01,716 --> 00:05:06,085 But we freed them, Hephaistion, from the Persia where everyone lived as slaves. 74 00:05:08,022 --> 00:05:11,253 To free the people of the world... 75 00:05:11,426 --> 00:05:16,022 ...such would be beyond the glory of Achilles, beyond Herakles... 76 00:05:16,197 --> 00:05:18,825 ...a feat to rival Prometheus... 77 00:05:19,634 --> 00:05:22,296 ...who was always a friend to man. 78 00:05:22,470 --> 00:05:24,836 Remember the fates of these heroes. 79 00:05:25,006 --> 00:05:29,204 -They suffered greatly. -We all suffer. 80 00:05:29,644 --> 00:05:33,205 Your father, mine. 81 00:05:34,015 --> 00:05:36,074 They all came to the end of their time. 82 00:05:36,251 --> 00:05:40,312 And in the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done. 83 00:05:41,623 --> 00:05:46,424 You once said, ''The fear of death drives all men.'' 84 00:05:46,761 --> 00:05:48,695 Are there no other forces? 85 00:05:49,831 --> 00:05:52,698 ls there not love in your life... 86 00:05:54,135 --> 00:05:56,126 ...Alexander? 87 00:05:59,874 --> 00:06:04,334 What would you do if you ever reached the end of the world? 88 00:06:06,247 --> 00:06:09,410 l'd turn back and conquer its opposite. 89 00:06:14,422 --> 00:06:19,621 l wonder sometimes if it's not your mother you run from. 90 00:06:20,929 --> 00:06:24,365 So many years, so many miles between you. 91 00:06:26,501 --> 00:06:28,492 What is it you fear? 92 00:06:29,938 --> 00:06:32,270 Who knows these things? 93 00:06:33,875 --> 00:06:38,972 When l was a child, my mother thought me divine. My father, weak. 94 00:06:41,549 --> 00:06:44,143 Which am l, Hephaistion? 95 00:06:44,319 --> 00:06:46,446 Weak or divine? 96 00:06:49,958 --> 00:06:51,858 All l know is... 97 00:06:52,026 --> 00:06:54,995 ...l trust only you in this world. 98 00:06:55,163 --> 00:06:57,131 l've missed you. 99 00:06:57,899 --> 00:06:59,230 l need you. 100 00:07:01,302 --> 00:07:02,963 lt is you l love, Hephaistion. 101 00:07:05,340 --> 00:07:07,501 No other. 102 00:07:11,279 --> 00:07:14,180 You're everything l care for... 103 00:07:14,349 --> 00:07:18,012 ...and by the sweet breath of Aphrodite... 104 00:07:18,519 --> 00:07:21,613 ...l'm so jealous of losing you to this world you want. 105 00:07:22,123 --> 00:07:24,751 You'll never lose me, Hephaistion. 106 00:07:25,159 --> 00:07:28,424 l'll be with you always. 107 00:07:29,097 --> 00:07:31,156 Till the end. 108 00:07:44,412 --> 00:07:47,040 The campaign in the northeast of Persia... 109 00:07:47,215 --> 00:07:52,312 ...turned into a hard guerrilla war of almost three years. 110 00:07:54,923 --> 00:07:57,585 We chased Darius towards Bactria... 111 00:07:57,759 --> 00:08:00,557 ...but missed taking him by hours. 112 00:08:03,798 --> 00:08:06,164 He was dying when we found him, sire. 113 00:08:06,334 --> 00:08:08,234 He asked for water. 114 00:08:08,403 --> 00:08:10,769 He drank and died. 115 00:08:17,445 --> 00:08:22,144 The Great King Darius had been betrayed by his own commanders. 116 00:08:50,278 --> 00:08:52,246 Fully honoring his corpse... 117 00:08:52,413 --> 00:08:57,316 ...Alexander hunted down these commanders into unknown lands... 118 00:08:58,286 --> 00:09:03,121 ...crossing even beyond the River Oxus into Sogdia. 119 00:09:07,295 --> 00:09:11,391 We fought them as far as the unknown steppes of Scythia... 120 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,699 ...where only legendary heroes had once trod. 121 00:09:15,870 --> 00:09:21,206 The surveyors told us we were now on the borders of where Europe and Asia meet. 122 00:09:21,376 --> 00:09:24,641 in fact, we were totally lost. 123 00:09:26,147 --> 00:09:29,139 Here, Alexander founded his 1 0th Alexandria... 124 00:09:29,317 --> 00:09:34,584 ...and settled it with veterans, their women and any who would dare the frontier life. 125 00:09:35,623 --> 00:09:38,615 Unable to accept defeat in any form... 126 00:09:38,793 --> 00:09:43,127 ...Alexander persisted in breaking every tribe that resisted... 127 00:09:43,464 --> 00:09:47,264 ...until the day he received the head of his last enemy who'd surrendered. 128 00:09:52,173 --> 00:09:56,803 For Alexander, there could be no pretender to the throne of Asia... 129 00:09:57,912 --> 00:10:02,315 ...which now included all of Sogdia and Bactria. 130 00:10:05,386 --> 00:10:09,618 it was here that he made one of his most mysterious decisions. 131 00:10:12,593 --> 00:10:16,962 Ten years after his mother's insistence he marry a Macedonian... 132 00:10:17,131 --> 00:10:19,122 Through our union... 133 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:22,167 ...Greek and barbarian... 134 00:10:22,336 --> 00:10:24,270 ...may be reconciled in peace. 135 00:10:24,505 --> 00:10:30,137 ...the most powerful man in the world took a girl of no political significance. 136 00:10:35,183 --> 00:10:36,741 Why? 137 00:10:37,885 --> 00:10:41,286 Some say it was for alliance with the tribes. 138 00:10:43,091 --> 00:10:45,355 Others, the desire for a successor. 139 00:10:47,829 --> 00:10:52,892 And yet others said Alexander truly fell in love. 140 00:10:54,135 --> 00:10:56,000 Who Roxane really was... 141 00:10:56,170 --> 00:11:01,972 ...i doubt that any of us ever saw further than the pools of those black eyes. 142 00:11:03,611 --> 00:11:06,307 On this glorious occasion... 143 00:11:07,949 --> 00:11:10,816 ...l toast this great army that has given so much. 144 00:11:10,985 --> 00:11:15,081 And in honor of them, those of you who set out with us seven long years ago... 145 00:11:15,256 --> 00:11:21,491 ...l pronounce all your debts paid forthwith from the royal treasury. 146 00:11:21,863 --> 00:11:23,125 Praise Alexander! 147 00:11:27,201 --> 00:11:29,294 And in honor of my bride... 148 00:11:32,874 --> 00:11:35,365 ...my beautiful bride... 149 00:11:35,543 --> 00:11:40,071 ...we recognize the many women who've shared the long road with us... 150 00:11:40,248 --> 00:11:43,740 ...and grant them dowries befitting a proper marriage. 151 00:11:52,393 --> 00:11:55,191 And what about our boys? 152 00:11:55,363 --> 00:11:56,853 And lastly... 153 00:11:57,031 --> 00:12:00,296 ...lastly, the gods demand no less of us... 154 00:12:00,468 --> 00:12:03,801 ...that your children be given a proper Greek education... 155 00:12:03,971 --> 00:12:08,567 ...and military training under our protection... 156 00:12:08,743 --> 00:12:12,975 ...so as to be the new soldiers of our kingdom... 157 00:12:13,147 --> 00:12:15,615 ...in Asia. 158 00:12:31,465 --> 00:12:36,926 Your father must be turning in his grave. After all this time, a hill chief's daughter. 159 00:12:37,205 --> 00:12:39,002 You call this tribal wedding legitimate? 160 00:12:39,173 --> 00:12:41,937 Do you forget my father took a barbarian as his queen? 161 00:12:42,109 --> 00:12:44,976 Yes, but few would call it a profoundly happy marriage. 162 00:12:46,214 --> 00:12:49,377 But what's the point, Alexander? She's your captive. 163 00:12:49,550 --> 00:12:51,415 Just take her as your concubine. 164 00:12:51,586 --> 00:12:54,419 Because l want a son. Damn you, Philotas. 165 00:12:54,956 --> 00:13:00,394 Then half your nobles have sisters who'd make fine Macedonian mothers. 166 00:13:00,561 --> 00:13:03,291 To take an Asian as my queen, not a captive... 167 00:13:03,464 --> 00:13:05,329 ...is a sign of respect for our subjects. 168 00:13:05,533 --> 00:13:07,831 lt will bring us together, unify us. 169 00:13:08,369 --> 00:13:10,462 Which is not to say l won't take a Macedonian. 170 00:13:10,638 --> 00:13:13,937 As a second wife? You insult Macedonia. 171 00:13:14,709 --> 00:13:18,668 Never will our people accept this girl's son as king. 172 00:13:19,013 --> 00:13:23,177 They'll be angry enough to find out their husbands all have second wives in Barbaria. 173 00:13:23,351 --> 00:13:24,648 Then they'll learn! 174 00:13:24,819 --> 00:13:28,084 By Athena's justice, this girl has spirit. 175 00:13:28,256 --> 00:13:30,520 She'll breed a brave son. 176 00:13:30,691 --> 00:13:32,454 Alexander! 177 00:13:33,027 --> 00:13:35,689 This is about the honor of our kingdom. 178 00:13:35,863 --> 00:13:37,990 Exactly. What can be won, Alexander? 179 00:13:38,165 --> 00:13:41,692 We're in Asia to punish them for their crimes. We've achieved that. 180 00:13:41,869 --> 00:13:45,464 Seven years from home, now we drift from one far region to another... 181 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:49,269 ...chasing nomads and bandits when Macedonia bleeds its manpower. 182 00:13:49,443 --> 00:13:52,378 For what? To build roads in Asia? 183 00:13:52,546 --> 00:13:56,004 -To give these people cities? -And now make an army of them? 184 00:13:56,183 --> 00:13:59,550 To found cities and expand our reach is not to drift. 185 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,120 -What benefit to Macedon? -lt's far richer! 186 00:14:02,290 --> 00:14:04,520 -Look what you give them. -With respect... 187 00:14:04,692 --> 00:14:08,389 ...had you fought better at Gaugamela when your flank was crumbling-- 188 00:14:08,562 --> 00:14:11,895 -How dare you, Nearchus?! -General Nearchus to you, boy. 189 00:14:12,066 --> 00:14:15,558 Alexander spread our flank too thin! There was nothing my father... 190 00:14:15,736 --> 00:14:18,068 -...or any of you could've done! -Philotas! 191 00:14:24,045 --> 00:14:26,673 Alexander, l've known you since you were born. 192 00:14:27,348 --> 00:14:30,340 l supported you at your father's death. 193 00:14:30,518 --> 00:14:33,385 At the very least, for Zeus' sake... 194 00:14:33,554 --> 00:14:36,523 ...and in respect to the council that chose you king... 195 00:14:36,691 --> 00:14:38,818 ...give us a Macedonian heir. 196 00:14:38,993 --> 00:14:40,688 A Macedonian heir. 197 00:14:47,034 --> 00:14:49,059 -You've been heard clearly. -But-- 198 00:14:49,236 --> 00:14:54,799 Parmenion! After the wedding, take two brigades to Babylon, where l look to you... 199 00:14:54,975 --> 00:14:59,810 ...and Antipater in Greece, to maintain our empire and supply this expedition. 200 00:15:00,581 --> 00:15:02,674 l'll winter with my army at Marakand. 201 00:15:02,850 --> 00:15:06,911 l pray to Apollo you realize how far you've turned from your father's path. 202 00:15:07,088 --> 00:15:09,784 Damn you, Parmenion, by the gods and your Apollo. 203 00:15:09,957 --> 00:15:13,085 What was in my father's guts wasn't overripe in reason like yours! 204 00:15:13,260 --> 00:15:17,219 He never lusted for war, Alexander, or enjoyed it so. 205 00:15:17,398 --> 00:15:22,665 He consulted his peers in council, among equals, the Macedonian way. 206 00:15:22,837 --> 00:15:25,362 He didn't decide based on his personal desires. 207 00:15:25,539 --> 00:15:28,940 l've taken us further than my father ever dreamed. 208 00:15:29,110 --> 00:15:30,407 Old man... 209 00:15:30,578 --> 00:15:32,978 ...we're in new worlds. 210 00:15:33,948 --> 00:15:37,645 Alexander, be reasonable! 211 00:15:37,818 --> 00:15:40,218 Were they ever meant to be our equals? 212 00:15:40,521 --> 00:15:42,250 Share our rewards? 213 00:15:42,423 --> 00:15:44,550 You remember what Aristotle said. 214 00:15:44,725 --> 00:15:46,056 An Asian? 215 00:15:46,227 --> 00:15:50,027 What would a vow mean to a race that's never kept their word to a Greek? 216 00:15:50,197 --> 00:15:52,256 -Aristotle be damned! -Alexander! 217 00:15:52,433 --> 00:15:53,923 By Zeus and all the gods... 218 00:15:54,101 --> 00:15:58,231 ...what makes you so much better than them, Cassander? 219 00:15:58,406 --> 00:16:02,934 Better than you really are. ln you and those like you is this. 220 00:16:04,245 --> 00:16:06,076 Alexander. 221 00:16:08,749 --> 00:16:13,448 What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgment. 222 00:16:16,524 --> 00:16:20,255 lt's your contempt for a world far older than ours. 223 00:16:52,893 --> 00:16:55,521 Five to any man who bothers to kill me. 224 00:16:55,696 --> 00:16:58,096 Have another drink, Cleitus. 225 00:16:58,732 --> 00:17:01,860 -Shouldn't you be bound to a king? -Cleitus. 226 00:17:02,536 --> 00:17:06,802 Alexander, you look weak when you not accept these honors. 227 00:17:06,974 --> 00:17:09,067 l understand, my dear father... 228 00:17:09,243 --> 00:17:12,940 -...but it's against Greek ways. -Then Greek ways are weak. 229 00:17:13,113 --> 00:17:15,775 l still think she got the better of him in this bargain. 230 00:17:15,950 --> 00:17:19,147 My daughter, Roxane... 231 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:21,413 ...she shall make you good wife. 232 00:17:21,589 --> 00:17:23,955 She shall kill for you. 233 00:17:28,128 --> 00:17:33,498 Raw skunk, ruler of heaven... 234 00:17:35,102 --> 00:17:36,729 ...and earth. 235 00:17:42,676 --> 00:17:46,043 ln honor of this great alliance... 236 00:17:46,213 --> 00:17:51,480 ...l, Oxyartes, offer you these great gifts. 237 00:17:51,652 --> 00:17:54,553 l would like to honor a toast to you from my people. 238 00:18:00,594 --> 00:18:02,152 Good morning, sire. 239 00:18:22,716 --> 00:18:24,946 We shall fight for you, Alexander. 240 00:18:25,819 --> 00:18:27,946 lt shall be bloody. 241 00:18:29,823 --> 00:18:31,723 Who's the bear? 242 00:18:33,394 --> 00:18:35,089 Parmenion. 243 00:18:35,596 --> 00:18:38,463 You've been in complete control of your supply lines. 244 00:18:38,632 --> 00:18:40,930 His pessimism is infectious. 245 00:18:41,368 --> 00:18:43,336 But he'll stay loyal... 246 00:18:45,072 --> 00:18:47,302 ...as long as his son remains with us. 247 00:21:04,078 --> 00:21:05,375 Hey! 248 00:21:13,253 --> 00:21:17,553 Her eyes tell me she cares for you, Alexander. 249 00:21:19,793 --> 00:21:21,158 Perhaps too much. 250 00:21:25,466 --> 00:21:27,832 ln the ways of my country... 251 00:21:28,202 --> 00:21:31,968 ...those who love too much lose everything... 252 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,838 ...and those who love with irony... 253 00:21:37,377 --> 00:21:38,503 ...last. 254 00:22:29,830 --> 00:22:31,297 l found it in Egypt. 255 00:22:33,967 --> 00:22:36,401 The man who sold it said it came from a time... 256 00:22:36,570 --> 00:22:40,438 ...when man worshipped sun and stars. 257 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,544 l'll always think of you... 258 00:22:49,316 --> 00:22:51,648 ...as the sun, Alexander. 259 00:22:51,819 --> 00:22:55,846 And l pray your dream will shine on all men. 260 00:23:04,798 --> 00:23:06,925 l wish you a son. 261 00:23:08,735 --> 00:23:11,135 You're a great man. 262 00:23:15,242 --> 00:23:18,507 Many will love you, Alexander, but none so pure and deep.... 263 00:23:35,395 --> 00:23:36,828 You... 264 00:23:36,997 --> 00:23:38,464 ...love him? 265 00:23:47,574 --> 00:23:50,600 He is Hephaistion. 266 00:24:10,230 --> 00:24:12,130 Thank you, Bagoas. 267 00:24:17,971 --> 00:24:19,666 Your boy? 268 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,332 There are many different ways to love, Roxane. 269 00:24:23,877 --> 00:24:25,367 Come. 270 00:24:40,460 --> 00:24:41,722 No. 271 00:24:41,895 --> 00:24:43,294 No, no. 272 00:24:59,179 --> 00:25:01,044 No. No. 273 00:25:33,613 --> 00:25:35,581 You have no fear. 274 00:25:37,217 --> 00:25:39,014 lt's fitting. 275 00:25:40,287 --> 00:25:43,723 A man searches for a woman at Earth's top... 276 00:25:43,890 --> 00:25:45,915 ...and finds her. 277 00:26:03,276 --> 00:26:04,903 The myth becomes real. 278 00:26:16,156 --> 00:26:20,058 Great man, Sikander... 279 00:26:20,394 --> 00:26:21,861 ...you l kill now. 280 00:26:27,601 --> 00:26:29,091 Do it. 281 00:26:29,669 --> 00:26:32,194 End it. l would do the-- 282 00:26:32,806 --> 00:26:36,833 l would do the same. l'll die a fool... 283 00:26:37,010 --> 00:26:40,446 ...for this love. 284 00:27:27,861 --> 00:27:29,761 My life is now yours. 285 00:27:54,588 --> 00:27:57,819 You will have my son. 286 00:28:52,879 --> 00:28:59,409 Who is this woman you call your queen, Alexander? A hill girl? 287 00:29:00,287 --> 00:29:02,721 You with your breeding. 288 00:29:02,889 --> 00:29:07,917 Already she makes enemies with her strong, clumsy nature. 289 00:29:11,264 --> 00:29:13,630 Do not confuse us. 290 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,566 l was never a barbarian as Philip said. 291 00:29:17,737 --> 00:29:20,399 We are of Achilles' royal blood. 292 00:29:21,341 --> 00:29:24,367 Zeus is your father. 293 00:29:25,979 --> 00:29:30,382 Oh, l understand she brings you some happiness... 294 00:29:31,117 --> 00:29:33,483 ...but how can she help you? 295 00:29:33,653 --> 00:29:36,622 You must know that she does not speak in your name... 296 00:29:36,790 --> 00:29:40,817 ...which is yours and yours alone. 297 00:29:40,994 --> 00:29:44,020 Preserve it, secret it... 298 00:29:44,197 --> 00:29:47,325 ...and hear me when l tell you, act... 299 00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:49,400 ...and act soon. 300 00:29:49,569 --> 00:29:51,560 After seven years, people wonder: 301 00:29:51,738 --> 00:29:54,036 ''Who is this King Alexander?'' 302 00:29:54,207 --> 00:30:00,009 l have given you ample proof. Antipater daily undermines your authority. 303 00:30:00,180 --> 00:30:03,172 Return to Babylon and strengthen your center. 304 00:30:04,084 --> 00:30:06,143 Or come home to Macedonia and reorganize. 305 00:30:06,319 --> 00:30:08,913 But do not chase your dream... 306 00:30:09,089 --> 00:30:11,148 ...further east. 307 00:30:11,324 --> 00:30:15,124 Your life and mine depend on it. 308 00:30:15,996 --> 00:30:17,691 Remember... 309 00:30:17,864 --> 00:30:21,561 ...my only thoughts are of you. 310 00:30:21,735 --> 00:30:26,035 As you, too, must face your glorious destiny. 311 00:30:26,206 --> 00:30:28,299 Think kindly of your mother. 312 00:30:28,475 --> 00:30:30,033 Provide for me. 313 00:30:30,210 --> 00:30:33,805 Protect me from your enemies when you are gone. 314 00:30:35,148 --> 00:30:37,912 And remember always... 315 00:30:38,084 --> 00:30:41,520 ...it is l who love you more than any. 316 00:30:47,794 --> 00:30:51,127 lf only you were not a pale reflection... 317 00:30:51,298 --> 00:30:52,731 ...of my mother's heart. 318 00:31:12,752 --> 00:31:16,244 Pregnant so soon. The little whore. 319 00:31:16,423 --> 00:31:20,553 He will marry her in the spring, during Dionysus' Festival... 320 00:31:20,727 --> 00:31:23,355 ...and when her first son is born... 321 00:31:23,530 --> 00:31:29,025 ...her sweet uncle Attalus will convince Philip to name the boy his successor... 322 00:31:29,202 --> 00:31:31,636 ...with himself as regent. 323 00:31:31,805 --> 00:31:33,773 And you... 324 00:31:33,940 --> 00:31:38,001 ...you will be sent on some impossible mission... 325 00:31:38,178 --> 00:31:40,772 ...against some monstrous Northern tribe... 326 00:31:40,947 --> 00:31:46,408 ...to be mutilated in one more meaningless battle over cattle. 327 00:31:46,586 --> 00:31:50,454 And l, no longer queen, will be put to death... 328 00:31:50,623 --> 00:31:54,684 ...with your sister and the remaining members of our family. 329 00:31:54,861 --> 00:31:59,628 l wish sometimes you could see the light, Mother. 330 00:31:59,799 --> 00:32:04,532 The truth is, he's taken nothing from you that you've not been long without. 331 00:32:06,072 --> 00:32:08,472 The only way is to strike. 332 00:32:08,641 --> 00:32:11,405 Announce your marriage to a Macedonian now. 333 00:32:11,945 --> 00:32:16,245 Beget a child of pure blood. He would be one of them, not mine... 334 00:32:16,416 --> 00:32:19,749 ...and he would have no choice but to make you king. 335 00:32:19,919 --> 00:32:22,114 There is still Kynnane. 336 00:32:23,890 --> 00:32:27,758 Eurydice was perfect. lf your father, that pig, had not ravaged her first! 337 00:32:27,927 --> 00:32:30,725 Say nothing more of my father. 338 00:32:30,897 --> 00:32:33,889 Do you hear me? Say nothing. 339 00:32:34,801 --> 00:32:36,496 You're right. 340 00:32:37,470 --> 00:32:39,563 Forgive me. 341 00:32:39,739 --> 00:32:42,572 A mother loves too much. 342 00:32:48,782 --> 00:32:51,410 Who shall l sing to sleep at night anymore? 343 00:32:56,556 --> 00:33:01,516 l wish-- l wish we could spend more time together. 344 00:33:02,262 --> 00:33:06,722 Like we used to, when you were the sweetest boy. 345 00:33:12,005 --> 00:33:14,132 There's never been time, Mother. 346 00:33:14,974 --> 00:33:19,877 Since l was a child, l've been groomed to be ever the best. 347 00:33:20,914 --> 00:33:25,374 My poor child, you're like Achilles... 348 00:33:25,552 --> 00:33:28,020 ...cursed by your greatness. 349 00:33:32,492 --> 00:33:34,619 Yes. Take my strength. 350 00:33:40,333 --> 00:33:44,633 You must never confuse your feelings... 351 00:33:44,804 --> 00:33:47,898 ...with your duties, Alexander. 352 00:33:48,308 --> 00:33:52,802 A king must make public gestures for the common people. 353 00:33:52,979 --> 00:33:56,380 l know, but you will be 1 9 this summer... 354 00:33:56,549 --> 00:34:01,316 ...and the girls already say you don't like them. You like Hephaistion more. 355 00:34:01,488 --> 00:34:04,946 l understand. lt's natural for a young man. 356 00:34:05,124 --> 00:34:09,322 But if you go to Asia without leaving your successor, you risk all. 357 00:34:09,496 --> 00:34:14,957 Hephaistion loves me, as l am... 358 00:34:15,935 --> 00:34:17,232 ...not who. 359 00:34:18,705 --> 00:34:22,197 Loves? Loves? 360 00:34:24,210 --> 00:34:26,770 ln the name of Dionysus... 361 00:34:28,114 --> 00:34:34,576 ...understand how Philip thinks, for your own sake. 362 00:34:34,754 --> 00:34:38,690 Your life hangs in the balance. 363 00:34:39,125 --> 00:34:44,961 l know these things, Alexander. You are nothing to him. 364 00:34:45,498 --> 00:34:49,764 His spies are inside your closest circle... 365 00:34:50,169 --> 00:34:53,502 ...to ensure that you don't plot against him. 366 00:34:53,673 --> 00:34:56,733 And still you sleep. 367 00:34:58,278 --> 00:35:01,839 You will not live out this year unless you act! 368 00:35:02,015 --> 00:35:03,482 Stop! 369 00:35:05,785 --> 00:35:08,549 l'm his only worthy son. 370 00:35:08,721 --> 00:35:10,712 You crazed woman. 371 00:35:11,824 --> 00:35:13,849 He'd never hurt me. 372 00:35:14,961 --> 00:35:19,728 Even if Eurydice had a boy, he'd be 20 before he'd let him rule. 373 00:35:19,899 --> 00:35:23,300 Yes, and you would be 40. 374 00:35:23,469 --> 00:35:29,874 Old and wise like Parmenion. And Philip's young son would be 20. 375 00:35:30,043 --> 00:35:36,414 Like you now, but raised by him, his blood. 376 00:35:36,983 --> 00:35:40,384 He will never give you the throne now, Alexander. 377 00:35:40,553 --> 00:35:42,077 Never. 378 00:35:44,324 --> 00:35:46,451 What would you have me do? 379 00:35:47,293 --> 00:35:50,023 Whatever is necessary. 380 00:35:53,399 --> 00:35:56,095 Where have you lost your mind? 381 00:35:56,536 --> 00:35:58,936 lt would be civil war, clan against clan, chaos. 382 00:35:59,105 --> 00:36:02,006 Yes. And you would win. 383 00:36:02,175 --> 00:36:04,803 Because the young ones love you like a god. 384 00:36:04,978 --> 00:36:07,276 l forbid you to ever talk to me like that! 385 00:36:07,814 --> 00:36:10,681 Such a man would be forever chased by the Furies! 386 00:36:10,850 --> 00:36:14,479 What have you to fear from the Furies... 387 00:36:14,654 --> 00:36:17,817 ...for killing an impostor to the throne... 388 00:36:17,991 --> 00:36:21,552 ...before he murders you and your mother? 389 00:36:21,728 --> 00:36:24,424 Why won't you ever believe me? 390 00:36:24,597 --> 00:36:28,226 Philip did not want you. 391 00:36:28,801 --> 00:36:30,701 You had a condition of the breathing... 392 00:36:30,870 --> 00:36:33,304 ...and he wanted to leave you in the mountains... 393 00:36:33,473 --> 00:36:36,601 ...for the birds to peck at your eyes. 394 00:36:37,877 --> 00:36:40,175 What you don't know, my poor child. 395 00:36:40,346 --> 00:36:43,110 Lanice knows nothing of this. 396 00:36:43,316 --> 00:36:44,544 Lanice. 397 00:36:45,351 --> 00:36:47,876 l was there. 398 00:36:48,054 --> 00:36:50,682 Lanice was not. 399 00:36:51,090 --> 00:36:53,320 No, Alexander... 400 00:36:53,493 --> 00:36:56,985 ...Zeus is your father. 401 00:36:57,664 --> 00:37:02,533 l laid with him that night in the wind, as sure as any mortal man. 402 00:37:02,702 --> 00:37:06,263 Never have l been made love to as l was then. 403 00:37:06,439 --> 00:37:07,838 Enough. 404 00:37:08,675 --> 00:37:12,475 Half the mothers in Greece share such a fantasy. 405 00:37:13,046 --> 00:37:15,014 l warn you, Mother. 406 00:37:15,181 --> 00:37:17,308 Make no mistake. 407 00:37:18,284 --> 00:37:22,744 You will treat this girl as nothing more important than his other wives. 408 00:37:22,955 --> 00:37:26,413 You will behave as we always have. 409 00:37:26,592 --> 00:37:28,321 As the first. 410 00:37:38,805 --> 00:37:40,636 l wonder... 411 00:37:41,941 --> 00:37:43,465 ...did you ever love him? 412 00:37:47,213 --> 00:37:48,805 What? 413 00:37:51,184 --> 00:37:53,243 l never stopped. 414 00:38:27,553 --> 00:38:29,418 What is it, Orestes? 415 00:38:34,260 --> 00:38:36,319 l beg your forgiveness, my king. 416 00:38:37,296 --> 00:38:39,491 l cannot be part of this. 417 00:38:40,933 --> 00:38:42,867 Who did this? 418 00:38:45,805 --> 00:38:47,397 Tell me. 419 00:38:47,774 --> 00:38:49,799 -Say it! -Hermolaus! 420 00:39:01,487 --> 00:39:05,014 Death to all tyrants. 421 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,425 l didn't do this! 422 00:39:10,029 --> 00:39:14,261 l've known you and loved you as long as l know. 423 00:39:15,401 --> 00:39:18,097 Never will you find a man as devoted as l. 424 00:39:18,271 --> 00:39:20,865 The conspiracy, such as it was... 425 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,474 ...deeply upset Alexander. 426 00:39:23,643 --> 00:39:27,545 Not only because it involved the young people who shared his dream... 427 00:39:27,713 --> 00:39:33,413 ...but more intimately, it implicated Philotas, his companion from boyhood... 428 00:39:33,586 --> 00:39:38,546 ...when a page confessed that a few days before, he'd informed Philotas... 429 00:39:38,724 --> 00:39:40,658 -Alexander. -...of the plot. 430 00:39:42,495 --> 00:39:44,087 Remember me for who l am. 431 00:39:45,498 --> 00:39:50,868 l do remember you, Philotas, but not as you remember yourself. 432 00:39:51,504 --> 00:39:56,532 And it appears to me and others here from the testimony given by your mistress... 433 00:39:57,043 --> 00:40:00,535 ...that the true weather of your soul is ambition. 434 00:40:01,581 --> 00:40:02,570 No. 435 00:40:02,748 --> 00:40:06,479 We all felt there was more here than sexual bickering. 436 00:40:06,652 --> 00:40:11,282 Alexander wanted the truth and Philotas' answers were lacking merit. 437 00:40:11,624 --> 00:40:12,613 Please take him away. 438 00:40:12,792 --> 00:40:17,024 Alexander put him silently and quickly to trial by his peers... 439 00:40:17,196 --> 00:40:21,189 ...and whether plotter or opportunist, Philotas was found guilty of treason. 440 00:40:21,367 --> 00:40:23,198 -No, Alexander, no! -Remove him. 441 00:40:23,369 --> 00:40:26,236 The suspects were all executed. 442 00:40:26,405 --> 00:40:29,101 None of us defended Philotas... 443 00:40:29,275 --> 00:40:32,676 ...but then again, none of us ever liked him. 444 00:40:37,917 --> 00:40:42,377 And of course his power was carved up by the rest of us. 445 00:40:44,090 --> 00:40:46,388 Before he died, we tortured him... 446 00:40:46,559 --> 00:40:49,756 ...to find out what his father Parmenion knew. 447 00:40:49,929 --> 00:40:52,124 But this we never learned. 448 00:40:52,298 --> 00:40:56,257 What to do with Parmenion and his 20,000 troops guarding our supply lines... 449 00:40:56,435 --> 00:41:00,132 ...was a far more delicate matter. Was he innocent in this? 450 00:41:00,306 --> 00:41:05,437 Or had he decided to act before age further withered his power? 451 00:41:05,611 --> 00:41:09,103 -The men will follow their king. -Alexander won't be there. 452 00:41:10,283 --> 00:41:13,719 Necessity required Alexander to act... 453 00:41:13,886 --> 00:41:18,789 ...and he sealed the camp within the hour of the first accusations against Philotas. 454 00:41:20,126 --> 00:41:24,085 Then go, Antigonus, and Cleitus. 455 00:41:24,263 --> 00:41:26,094 And go quickly. 456 00:41:29,068 --> 00:41:33,505 Three days' hard riding sent Antigonus and Cleitus... 457 00:41:33,672 --> 00:41:38,700 ...to Parmenion, the general most loyal to Philip. 458 00:41:44,983 --> 00:41:48,510 His soldiers accepted the finding of guilt against Parmenion... 459 00:41:48,687 --> 00:41:51,178 ...as they understood well the code of vengeance... 460 00:41:51,357 --> 00:41:56,226 ...that made the head of family responsible for the behavior of all. 461 00:41:58,530 --> 00:42:02,728 Many of us felt we were better off without that pompous thorn, Parmenion... 462 00:42:02,901 --> 00:42:08,032 ...as Alexander promoted all of us generously. 463 00:42:22,855 --> 00:42:27,349 lf we issue the gold bullion in the name of Alexander then we meet a resistance. 464 00:42:27,526 --> 00:42:29,790 Cleitus. Antigonus. 465 00:42:29,962 --> 00:42:31,589 Parmenion. 466 00:44:45,163 --> 00:44:48,428 Come, Alexander, drink this sadness away. 467 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,000 lf only thirst could quench sorrow, Ptolemy. 468 00:44:54,406 --> 00:44:58,672 There's only one thing better than winning a battle, son... 469 00:44:59,444 --> 00:45:02,311 ...and that's the taste of a new woman. 470 00:45:02,481 --> 00:45:07,316 You'll find it far sweeter than self-pity. 471 00:45:07,486 --> 00:45:09,647 -Pausanias, you bore me. -Alexander! 472 00:45:09,821 --> 00:45:12,847 -Be gone with you. -Alexander, l found you the right girl. 473 00:45:13,025 --> 00:45:15,289 -What's your name, darling? -Antigone. 474 00:45:15,460 --> 00:45:17,428 -What's your name? -Antigone. 475 00:45:19,364 --> 00:45:22,561 -l love you. -And l love you, Cleitus. 476 00:45:23,368 --> 00:45:25,996 -Please, no! -There you go. 477 00:45:29,641 --> 00:45:31,973 l'll sleep in my grave, Hephaistion. 478 00:45:32,144 --> 00:45:34,977 While alive, l prefer dancing. 479 00:45:35,147 --> 00:45:36,671 Pausanias. 480 00:45:37,749 --> 00:45:39,182 Who's your new friend? 481 00:45:39,484 --> 00:45:41,577 -There's your new friend. -Please don't! 482 00:45:41,753 --> 00:45:45,280 Don't! Please, no! No. 483 00:45:54,533 --> 00:45:55,727 A toast. 484 00:45:56,435 --> 00:45:57,834 A toast! 485 00:45:58,370 --> 00:46:03,706 l drink to our Greek friends and to our new union... 486 00:46:03,875 --> 00:46:09,780 ...Macedonia and Greece, equals in greatness! 487 00:46:12,417 --> 00:46:18,720 And to Philip, our king, without whom this union could not be possible. 488 00:46:18,890 --> 00:46:21,882 Come, Attalus, leave some damn air in the hall! 489 00:46:23,562 --> 00:46:29,330 And last, l drink to the king's marriage to my niece, Eurydice... 490 00:46:29,501 --> 00:46:32,595 ...a Macedonian queen we can be proud of! 491 00:46:35,807 --> 00:46:38,867 To Philip and Eurydice... 492 00:46:39,044 --> 00:46:42,309 ...and to their legitimate sons! 493 00:46:44,516 --> 00:46:45,505 Don't! 494 00:46:45,684 --> 00:46:48,653 What am l, you son of a dog? Come, then. 495 00:46:59,631 --> 00:47:02,099 What a disgrace. 496 00:47:02,267 --> 00:47:03,291 Shut up! 497 00:47:04,102 --> 00:47:05,967 -Shut up, all of you! -Please. 498 00:47:06,471 --> 00:47:09,065 This is my wedding, not some public brawl. 499 00:47:09,241 --> 00:47:11,209 lnsolent pup. 500 00:47:11,376 --> 00:47:14,709 Apologize, by Zeus, before you dishonor me. 501 00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:18,043 You defend the man who called my mother a whore and me a bastard. 502 00:47:18,216 --> 00:47:21,583 -And l dishonor you? -You listen like your mother. 503 00:47:21,753 --> 00:47:23,778 Attalus is my family now, the same as you. 504 00:47:23,955 --> 00:47:26,685 Then choose your relatives more carefully. 505 00:47:26,858 --> 00:47:30,089 Don't expect me to sit here and watch you shame yourself. 506 00:47:30,262 --> 00:47:33,288 -You insult me! -l insult you! 507 00:47:33,465 --> 00:47:36,434 A man not fit to lick the ground my mother walks on. 508 00:47:36,601 --> 00:47:39,627 -You dog, questioning your queen. -Shame? 509 00:47:43,409 --> 00:47:47,277 l'll marry the girl if l want, and l'll have as many sons as l want. 510 00:47:47,447 --> 00:47:50,041 There's nothing you or your harpy mother can do. 511 00:47:50,216 --> 00:47:52,013 Why, drunken man, must you think... 512 00:47:52,185 --> 00:47:54,619 ...everything l do and say comes from my mother? 513 00:47:54,787 --> 00:47:57,756 Because l know her heart, by Hera... 514 00:47:57,924 --> 00:48:00,119 ...and l see her in your eyes. 515 00:48:00,293 --> 00:48:02,818 You covet this throne too much. 516 00:48:04,097 --> 00:48:09,501 We all know that she-wolf of a mother of yours wants me dead. 517 00:48:09,669 --> 00:48:11,899 Well, you can both dream, boy. 518 00:48:12,071 --> 00:48:15,165 Philip, this is the wine talking. Leave the boy. lt'll wait. 519 00:48:15,341 --> 00:48:16,933 Now! 520 00:48:18,111 --> 00:48:20,011 l command you. 521 00:48:21,013 --> 00:48:24,312 Apologize to your kinsman. 522 00:48:31,958 --> 00:48:33,687 Apologize. 523 00:48:33,860 --> 00:48:36,385 No kinsman to me. 524 00:48:39,966 --> 00:48:41,934 Good night, old man. 525 00:48:43,469 --> 00:48:47,872 And when my mother remarries, l'll invite you to her wedding. 526 00:48:48,441 --> 00:48:50,375 You bastard! 527 00:48:56,182 --> 00:48:57,877 You'll obey me. Come here. 528 00:49:16,803 --> 00:49:20,432 This is the man who is going to take you from Greece to Persia? 529 00:49:20,606 --> 00:49:23,097 He can't even make it from one couch to the next. 530 00:49:23,409 --> 00:49:27,345 Get out of my palace! You're exiled, you bastard! 531 00:49:28,114 --> 00:49:31,447 Banished from the land. You're not welcome here. 532 00:49:32,351 --> 00:49:34,615 You're no son of mine! 533 00:50:18,364 --> 00:50:22,460 in the spring, Alexander marched an army of 1 50,000... 534 00:50:22,635 --> 00:50:25,695 ...across the passes of the Hindu Kush... 535 00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:28,230 ...into the unknown. 536 00:50:29,509 --> 00:50:34,310 in his dream, it was the promised route to the end of the world. 537 00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,380 We were now a mobile empire... 538 00:50:36,549 --> 00:50:40,417 ...stretching back thousands of miles to Greece. 539 00:50:40,586 --> 00:50:43,316 Cooks and architects, doctors, surveyors... 540 00:50:43,489 --> 00:50:45,116 ...moneylenders and wives... 541 00:50:45,291 --> 00:50:48,158 ...children, lovers, whores. 542 00:50:48,327 --> 00:50:50,090 And slaves... 543 00:50:50,263 --> 00:50:54,927 ...that anonymous, bent, working spine of this new beast. 544 00:50:55,101 --> 00:50:58,935 Ravaged or expanded, for better or worse... 545 00:50:59,805 --> 00:51:04,401 ...no occupied territory remained the same again. 546 00:51:07,747 --> 00:51:09,772 Although devoted to Roxane... 547 00:51:09,949 --> 00:51:13,043 ...Alexander's visits to her tent diminished... 548 00:51:13,219 --> 00:51:18,316 ...as a year, then two, went by without a successor... 549 00:51:19,125 --> 00:51:22,356 ...wounding Alexander's great pride. 550 00:51:22,695 --> 00:51:26,290 The surveyors are saying that Zeus chained Prometheus up there. 551 00:51:26,465 --> 00:51:27,693 ln one of those caves. 552 00:51:29,669 --> 00:51:32,399 They say there's a giant eagle's nest just above it. 553 00:51:32,705 --> 00:51:37,506 l suppose he drops down each night to peck out poor Prometheus' liver. 554 00:51:40,146 --> 00:51:43,604 You remember what Aristotle told us of these mountains? 555 00:51:44,483 --> 00:51:46,144 Yes, l do. 556 00:51:46,953 --> 00:51:49,046 That when we reach these heights... 557 00:51:49,221 --> 00:51:52,452 ...we'd look back and see Macedonia to the west... 558 00:51:52,625 --> 00:51:55,219 ...and the outer ocean to the east. 559 00:51:59,298 --> 00:52:04,326 But l fear this world is far larger than anyone dreamed. 560 00:52:04,503 --> 00:52:06,630 A world of Titans. 561 00:52:06,806 --> 00:52:10,799 The scouts have been up every known trail, Alexander. 562 00:52:10,977 --> 00:52:13,207 There is no way across. 563 00:52:13,779 --> 00:52:17,943 Except to the south, into lndia. 564 00:52:18,351 --> 00:52:21,411 Were we gods, we'd breach these walls to the eastern ocean. 565 00:52:22,254 --> 00:52:23,949 We will, Alexander. 566 00:52:24,123 --> 00:52:26,785 ln a few years' time, we will return. 567 00:52:26,959 --> 00:52:30,759 But first, the men must see their homes. 568 00:52:32,231 --> 00:52:34,256 Have you found your home... 569 00:52:34,433 --> 00:52:36,128 ...Ptolemy? 570 00:52:40,773 --> 00:52:44,004 More and more, l think it will be Alexandria. 571 00:52:46,145 --> 00:52:48,272 Well, at least it's hot. 572 00:52:49,281 --> 00:52:51,010 And Thais... 573 00:52:51,884 --> 00:52:53,943 ...she loved it there. 574 00:52:55,721 --> 00:52:57,985 Women bring men home. 575 00:52:59,091 --> 00:53:04,028 -l have no such feeling. -You have Babylon, Alexander. 576 00:53:04,196 --> 00:53:06,323 Where your mother awaits your invitation. 577 00:53:06,766 --> 00:53:09,257 Yes, l have Babylon. 578 00:53:09,435 --> 00:53:13,804 But each land, each boundary l cross... 579 00:53:13,973 --> 00:53:16,305 ...l strip away another illusion. 580 00:53:17,677 --> 00:53:20,009 l sense death will be the last. 581 00:53:22,748 --> 00:53:26,206 Yet still l push harder and harder... 582 00:53:26,385 --> 00:53:29,946 ...to reach this home. 583 00:53:35,528 --> 00:53:36,961 Where has our eagle gone? 584 00:53:41,567 --> 00:53:43,660 We must go on, Ptolemy. 585 00:53:44,970 --> 00:53:46,631 Until we find an end. 586 00:54:04,100 --> 00:54:07,729 india, the land where the sun was born... 587 00:54:07,904 --> 00:54:10,498 ...fabled to be even richer than Persia... 588 00:54:10,674 --> 00:54:14,701 ...had never been explored or conquered. 589 00:54:14,878 --> 00:54:20,214 From the beginning, we struggled to unify a land without a center. 590 00:54:20,383 --> 00:54:23,113 Kings who conspired against one another. 591 00:54:23,286 --> 00:54:27,347 A labyrinth of tribes urged on by zealots and philosophers... 592 00:54:27,524 --> 00:54:31,722 ...to die by the thousands for their strange gods. 593 00:54:36,333 --> 00:54:40,133 We saw things we'd never dreamed and could hardly describe. 594 00:54:40,503 --> 00:54:43,472 We saw birds that could talk and men that couldn't. 595 00:54:45,375 --> 00:54:49,368 Craterus, in the advance party, fought against men with hairy skins... 596 00:54:49,546 --> 00:54:51,980 ...who were tiny and lived in the tops of trees. 597 00:54:57,721 --> 00:55:00,485 -Over there! -They're animals. 598 00:55:00,657 --> 00:55:04,184 Until Hephaistion convinced us these were animals who imitated men... 599 00:55:04,361 --> 00:55:06,454 ...but wore their own skin. 600 00:55:07,697 --> 00:55:10,666 They called this tribe ''monkey. '' 601 00:55:11,334 --> 00:55:14,303 Monkey. Monkey. 602 00:55:15,372 --> 00:55:19,103 But we saw little difference with the tribes who lived among them. 603 00:55:20,877 --> 00:55:24,244 -Look at his hand. -lt's so much like ours. 604 00:55:27,918 --> 00:55:29,146 Hello, little man. 605 00:55:30,020 --> 00:55:34,957 -Do they speak? -No, but they do sing and make noises... 606 00:55:35,125 --> 00:55:37,218 ...from the roofs of the forest. 607 00:55:41,197 --> 00:55:43,062 We saw men who walked naked in public... 608 00:55:43,233 --> 00:55:47,431 ...and spent hours at a time staring and doing nothing. 609 00:55:47,737 --> 00:55:50,865 Some who lived 200 years. 610 00:55:52,442 --> 00:55:55,172 And then, there was the rain. 611 00:56:01,017 --> 00:56:04,748 Never before had we seen water that fell from the gods... 612 00:56:04,921 --> 00:56:06,411 ...for 60 days and nights. 613 00:56:07,624 --> 00:56:09,683 Well done today. 614 00:56:11,828 --> 00:56:14,126 Make sure the women and children are fed. 615 00:56:19,903 --> 00:56:21,996 You know better, Machatas. 616 00:56:25,542 --> 00:56:26,975 What's your son going to say? 617 00:56:27,310 --> 00:56:29,744 Come on, man. The older you get, the stronger. 618 00:56:29,913 --> 00:56:33,440 Right, my king. You're my horse, Alexander. 619 00:56:33,616 --> 00:56:35,914 l'll be with you at your side. 620 00:56:38,388 --> 00:56:40,185 Everything rotted in this rain... 621 00:56:40,357 --> 00:56:44,589 ...and scores of men died miserably from the tiny serpents... 622 00:56:44,761 --> 00:56:48,492 ...that were everywhere in this evil land. 623 00:56:50,333 --> 00:56:51,960 -What happened? -lt's to the neck. 624 00:56:52,135 --> 00:56:54,569 Oh, no. Zeus, no. 625 00:56:54,738 --> 00:56:56,296 Hold on. Hold on. 626 00:56:59,175 --> 00:57:00,506 Be brave. 627 00:57:00,677 --> 00:57:02,304 Be brave. 628 00:57:02,479 --> 00:57:04,504 Oh, Zeus. 629 00:57:06,249 --> 00:57:09,685 Our quest for gold and glory evaporated as we realized... 630 00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,281 ...there was none to be had. 631 00:57:12,956 --> 00:57:14,753 Tempers worsened. 632 00:57:14,924 --> 00:57:17,893 We massacred all indians who resisted. 633 00:57:18,061 --> 00:57:20,154 And with the local water putrid... 634 00:57:20,330 --> 00:57:23,094 ...we drank the strong wine. 635 00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:19,748 And as we moved south and east... 636 00:58:19,923 --> 00:58:24,826 ...Alexander often returned the lands we'd conquered to their defeated kings... 637 00:58:24,994 --> 00:58:26,859 ...so as to make them allies. 638 00:58:27,030 --> 00:58:30,056 But this did not sit well with the army... 639 00:58:30,233 --> 00:58:31,495 ...who began to wonder: 640 00:58:32,302 --> 00:58:35,396 Were we here for riches? Or had Alexander... 641 00:58:35,572 --> 00:58:39,941 ...in some remorseless and crazed quest to imitate the glory of Herakles... 642 00:58:40,110 --> 00:58:41,634 ...forgotten them? 643 00:58:42,412 --> 00:58:45,813 One thing an army knows quickly in their bones... 644 00:58:45,982 --> 00:58:48,416 ...is which way the gods are blowing. 645 01:00:16,506 --> 01:00:18,303 Kiss him! 646 01:00:42,899 --> 01:00:45,459 -To Bagoas. -To Bagoas! 647 01:00:50,974 --> 01:00:55,104 -And to my mother's god, Dionysus... -Dionysus! 648 01:00:55,278 --> 01:00:59,612 ...who, we're told by our lndian allies, traveled here before Herakles... 649 01:00:59,782 --> 01:01:02,546 ...some 6000 years ago. 650 01:01:02,719 --> 01:01:04,152 To a hero. 651 01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:06,311 To a hero! 652 01:01:26,175 --> 01:01:27,506 Roxane. 653 01:01:34,384 --> 01:01:36,818 You lose face. 654 01:01:36,986 --> 01:01:38,510 These lndians... 655 01:01:38,688 --> 01:01:40,451 ...they are a low, evil people. 656 01:01:40,623 --> 01:01:43,023 You don't try to understand them. 657 01:01:43,326 --> 01:01:45,521 l try. 658 01:01:45,695 --> 01:01:48,664 But this l know, Alexander. 659 01:01:48,931 --> 01:01:51,923 ln Persia, you are a great king. 660 01:01:52,268 --> 01:01:53,826 Here... 661 01:01:54,003 --> 01:01:55,971 ...they hate you. 662 01:01:58,775 --> 01:02:01,972 Let us go back to Babylon. 663 01:02:03,012 --> 01:02:04,639 There, you are strong. 664 01:02:06,883 --> 01:02:09,147 We'll talk about this later. 665 01:02:09,319 --> 01:02:10,786 Yes. 666 01:02:10,953 --> 01:02:12,511 Later. 667 01:02:12,689 --> 01:02:14,213 Talk. 668 01:02:16,959 --> 01:02:18,984 l shall come. 669 01:02:19,162 --> 01:02:20,390 Tonight. 670 01:02:21,431 --> 01:02:23,296 And l shall wait. 671 01:02:25,134 --> 01:02:27,227 Good night, my king. 672 01:02:28,771 --> 01:02:30,932 Your Majesty. 673 01:02:32,675 --> 01:02:35,701 Come, Alexander, drink with us. 674 01:02:38,081 --> 01:02:41,209 -Alexander. -Alexander! 675 01:02:43,186 --> 01:02:47,919 l remember a time you hated how your father drank. 676 01:02:48,091 --> 01:02:50,082 Now l know why. 677 01:02:51,661 --> 01:02:55,688 Dionysus is hero. 678 01:02:56,833 --> 01:03:00,530 But he is also mind breaker. 679 01:03:00,703 --> 01:03:04,036 He destroys our self-control. 680 01:03:04,574 --> 01:03:08,135 Self-control is a lover l've known too long, Ptolemy. 681 01:03:11,581 --> 01:03:14,448 The struggle worries me to the bone. 682 01:03:15,685 --> 01:03:18,711 And success l find to be as corrupt as failure. 683 01:03:19,922 --> 01:03:24,120 But Dionysus, bless his ancient soul... 684 01:03:24,293 --> 01:03:27,023 ...frees me from myself. 685 01:03:27,397 --> 01:03:30,992 And then, l move up. 686 01:03:34,003 --> 01:03:36,631 l'm simply, Alexander. 687 01:03:40,877 --> 01:03:42,674 A toast to Bagoas. 688 01:03:44,313 --> 01:03:48,943 And the 30,000 beautiful Persian boys... 689 01:03:49,118 --> 01:03:51,643 ...we're training to fight in this great army. 690 01:03:54,590 --> 01:03:56,649 And to the memory of Philip. 691 01:03:56,826 --> 01:03:59,761 Had he lived to see his Macedonians... 692 01:03:59,929 --> 01:04:02,955 ...transformed into such... 693 01:04:03,132 --> 01:04:04,724 ...a pretty army. 694 01:04:07,036 --> 01:04:08,333 To Philip. 695 01:04:08,504 --> 01:04:10,597 To a real hero. 696 01:04:10,773 --> 01:04:13,037 Philip! 697 01:04:15,878 --> 01:04:20,645 To Cleitus and his new appointment as satrap of Bactria. 698 01:04:20,817 --> 01:04:22,444 Cleitus. 699 01:04:23,853 --> 01:04:26,549 That's a fancy way of putting it, Ptolemy. 700 01:04:26,722 --> 01:04:29,748 But we all know what a pension and an exile is... 701 01:04:29,926 --> 01:04:32,087 ...after 30 years' service. 702 01:04:32,295 --> 01:04:33,956 Exile? 703 01:04:34,230 --> 01:04:35,993 From where, Cleitus? 704 01:04:36,165 --> 01:04:38,895 From my home, Alexander, Macedonia. 705 01:04:39,068 --> 01:04:42,731 You could've asked me where l wanted to spend the rest of my life. 706 01:04:42,972 --> 01:04:46,965 You call governing this major province exile? 707 01:04:47,143 --> 01:04:50,237 Has Your Majesty given any of his closest companions... 708 01:04:51,013 --> 01:04:53,174 ...a province so far from home? 709 01:04:53,349 --> 01:04:56,750 Then you won't make a very good satrap, will you, Cleitus? 710 01:05:00,022 --> 01:05:01,649 So be it. 711 01:05:01,824 --> 01:05:05,419 Let me rot in Macedonian rags... 712 01:05:05,595 --> 01:05:07,722 ...rather than shine... 713 01:05:07,897 --> 01:05:10,024 ...in Eastern pomp. 714 01:05:10,533 --> 01:05:14,333 l won't quake and bow down like the sycophants you have around you. 715 01:05:14,504 --> 01:05:18,565 Hephaistion, Nearchus, Perdiccas. 716 01:05:19,208 --> 01:05:23,611 As governor of one of our most Asian of satrapies... 717 01:05:23,779 --> 01:05:28,648 ...Cleitus, does it not occur to you that if my Persian subjects... 718 01:05:28,818 --> 01:05:31,844 ...bow down before me, it's important for them to do so? 719 01:05:32,021 --> 01:05:34,751 Do l insist on Greeks doing the same? 720 01:05:34,924 --> 01:05:39,987 You accept Greek offerings as a son of Zeus, do you not? 721 01:05:41,998 --> 01:05:43,363 Only when offered. 722 01:05:43,533 --> 01:05:46,366 Why don't you refuse these vain flatteries? 723 01:05:46,536 --> 01:05:49,096 What freedom is this, to bow before you? 724 01:05:49,272 --> 01:05:52,036 You bow before Herakles, and he was mortal... 725 01:05:52,208 --> 01:05:53,800 ...but a son of Zeus. 726 01:05:53,976 --> 01:05:57,571 How can you, so young, compare yourself to Herakles? 727 01:05:58,814 --> 01:06:00,782 Why not? 728 01:06:03,386 --> 01:06:05,854 l've achieved more in my years. 729 01:06:06,022 --> 01:06:07,546 Traveled as far. 730 01:06:07,723 --> 01:06:08,815 Probably farther. 731 01:06:08,991 --> 01:06:11,221 Herakles did it by himself. 732 01:06:11,394 --> 01:06:14,522 Did you conquer Asia by yourself, Alexander? 733 01:06:14,697 --> 01:06:16,426 Who planned the Asian invasion... 734 01:06:16,599 --> 01:06:20,433 ...when you were still being spanked on your bottom by my sister Lanice? 735 01:06:20,603 --> 01:06:22,537 Was it not your father? 736 01:06:22,705 --> 01:06:24,673 Or is his blood no longer good enough? 737 01:06:25,174 --> 01:06:28,735 -Zeus-Amon, is it? -You insult me, Cleitus. 738 01:06:28,911 --> 01:06:31,505 You mock my family. Be careful. 739 01:06:32,048 --> 01:06:35,484 Never would your father have taken barbarians as his friends... 740 01:06:35,651 --> 01:06:38,279 ...asked us to fight with them as equals in war. 741 01:06:38,454 --> 01:06:40,388 Are we not good enough any longer? 742 01:06:40,556 --> 01:06:42,649 l remember a time... 743 01:06:42,825 --> 01:06:45,555 ...when we could talk as men, straight to the eye. 744 01:06:45,728 --> 01:06:48,458 None of this scraping, groveling. 745 01:06:49,131 --> 01:06:51,292 l remember a time when we hunted... 746 01:06:51,467 --> 01:06:54,493 ...when we wrestled on the gymnasium floor. 747 01:06:54,704 --> 01:06:56,501 Now you kiss them? 748 01:06:58,174 --> 01:07:03,202 Take a barbarian, childless wife and dare call her queen? 749 01:07:05,514 --> 01:07:09,473 Go quickly, Cleitus, before you ruin your life. 750 01:07:13,322 --> 01:07:16,814 Doesn't your great pride fear the gods any longer? 751 01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:21,561 This army.... This army is your blood, boy! 752 01:07:21,731 --> 01:07:23,790 Without it, you're nothing! 753 01:07:28,938 --> 01:07:32,271 You no longer serve the purpose of this march! 754 01:07:32,775 --> 01:07:35,471 -Get him from my sight! -l don't serve your purpose?! 755 01:07:35,645 --> 01:07:39,376 What was l serving when l saved your puppy life at Gaugamela? 756 01:07:39,548 --> 01:07:43,040 Were you Zeus' boy? What if l left you to die in the dust there? 757 01:07:43,219 --> 01:07:46,780 Do you think we'd be forced now to mate with brown apes? 758 01:07:46,956 --> 01:07:48,184 Alexander! 759 01:07:48,357 --> 01:07:51,918 Turn out the guards! Arrest him for treason! 760 01:07:56,432 --> 01:07:58,093 -l'll go with him. -Alexander. 761 01:07:58,267 --> 01:07:59,894 -Who's with him? -No. 762 01:08:00,069 --> 01:08:01,593 Who's with him? 763 01:08:02,238 --> 01:08:04,399 l call Father Zeus to witness. 764 01:08:04,573 --> 01:08:06,871 l call you to trial before him! 765 01:08:07,043 --> 01:08:09,534 And we'll see how deep this conspiracy cuts! 766 01:08:09,712 --> 01:08:12,237 -Take him! -ln the name of the gods, get him out! 767 01:08:12,415 --> 01:08:16,511 Now look at you! Great white ass, Alexander. 768 01:08:16,686 --> 01:08:18,483 Hiding behind his fairy god! 769 01:08:18,654 --> 01:08:24,388 Or are you too great to remember whose life was saved by me?! 770 01:08:25,127 --> 01:08:30,429 -l am more a man than you'll ever be! Ever! -Get him out! 771 01:08:31,267 --> 01:08:35,260 -He's gone. He's gone. -Alexander. 772 01:08:35,438 --> 01:08:36,632 Come on! 773 01:08:37,173 --> 01:08:41,906 What a tyrant you are! An evil tyrant you've become, Alexander. 774 01:08:42,078 --> 01:08:45,104 You speak of plots against you? What about poor Parmenion? 775 01:08:45,715 --> 01:08:46,704 Get out! 776 01:08:46,882 --> 01:08:49,646 He served you well. Look how you repaid him. 777 01:08:49,819 --> 01:08:52,583 You made me do your foul deed. Have you no shame? 778 01:08:52,755 --> 01:08:56,657 You ungrateful wretch! No one, not my vilest enemy, has spoken like you to me. 779 01:08:56,826 --> 01:09:00,057 Getting what l say?! Despot. False king. 780 01:09:01,530 --> 01:09:04,226 You and your barbarian mother live in shame. 781 01:09:29,058 --> 01:09:30,616 Cleitus. 782 01:09:30,960 --> 01:09:33,451 Oh, my Cleitus. Cleitus. 783 01:09:40,269 --> 01:09:41,793 -Let me pass. -None can enter. 784 01:09:41,971 --> 01:09:43,871 l am the queen. 785 01:09:51,947 --> 01:09:54,108 l want to see him. l've waited three days. 786 01:09:54,283 --> 01:09:56,979 He says none, not even you. 787 01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:02,022 -He needs me. -No, he doesn't. 788 01:10:02,191 --> 01:10:03,954 And he needs you? 789 01:10:05,661 --> 01:10:07,390 Hephaistion, you make a mistake. 790 01:10:11,100 --> 01:10:15,161 The army grows restless, questioning. 791 01:10:16,405 --> 01:10:18,134 Alexander. 792 01:10:20,810 --> 01:10:22,539 They need your reassurance. 793 01:10:23,679 --> 01:10:25,408 Heinous. 794 01:10:25,581 --> 01:10:29,415 Like an old lover they forgive, but they will never forget. 795 01:10:29,785 --> 01:10:34,484 -He was an aging drunk. -He was my friend. 796 01:10:36,392 --> 01:10:39,190 His sister Lanice nursed me. 797 01:10:40,062 --> 01:10:42,292 And how did l repay her? 798 01:10:43,766 --> 01:10:47,167 Two brothers dead, fighting him by my own hands. 799 01:10:47,336 --> 01:10:49,804 Her last remaining blood. 800 01:10:53,275 --> 01:10:57,439 What will she do but weep on the day of my birth? 801 01:10:59,081 --> 01:11:01,208 Come. You know more than any... 802 01:11:01,383 --> 01:11:06,150 ...great deeds are done by men who took and never regretted. 803 01:11:06,322 --> 01:11:08,222 You're Alexander. 804 01:11:08,390 --> 01:11:11,154 Pity and grief will only destroy you. 805 01:11:11,327 --> 01:11:14,956 Have l become so arrogant that l am blind? 806 01:11:17,700 --> 01:11:23,229 Sometimes, to expect the best of everyone is... 807 01:11:23,405 --> 01:11:24,895 :::arrogance: 808 01:11:26,408 --> 01:11:31,812 Then Cleitus spoke true. l have become a tyrant. 809 01:11:32,615 --> 01:11:34,173 No. 810 01:11:36,619 --> 01:11:38,746 But perhaps a stranger. 811 01:11:40,556 --> 01:11:41,784 You've gone too far. 812 01:11:43,926 --> 01:11:46,622 They don't understand you anymore. 813 01:11:48,430 --> 01:11:52,423 They speak of Philip now... 814 01:11:52,601 --> 01:11:56,537 ...as if l were a passing cloud... 815 01:11:56,705 --> 01:11:58,798 ...soon to be forgotten. 816 01:12:00,943 --> 01:12:02,774 l've failed... 817 01:12:02,945 --> 01:12:04,640 ...utterly. 818 01:12:06,749 --> 01:12:08,580 You're mortal. 819 01:12:09,051 --> 01:12:10,985 And they know it. 820 01:12:11,153 --> 01:12:15,487 And they forgive you because you make them proud of themselves. 821 01:12:16,158 --> 01:12:19,093 Philip once said... 822 01:12:21,063 --> 01:12:23,691 ...that there's a Titan in all of us. 823 01:12:24,667 --> 01:12:27,659 That they wait, mixed in our ashes. 824 01:12:33,108 --> 01:12:35,508 lt wasn't because of the wine, l killed. 825 01:12:36,078 --> 01:12:38,444 lt was because l wanted to. 826 01:13:06,642 --> 01:13:09,805 Philip, King of Macedonia... 827 01:13:09,979 --> 01:13:11,879 ...and leader of the Greeks. 828 01:13:12,648 --> 01:13:17,608 All my life, l've waited to see Greeks grovel with respect for Macedonia. 829 01:13:18,887 --> 01:13:21,014 Today is that day. 830 01:13:25,494 --> 01:13:28,224 They say already, ''Philip was a great general... 831 01:13:28,397 --> 01:13:32,265 ...but Alexander is simply great.'' 832 01:13:33,836 --> 01:13:36,498 But if you ever insult me again... 833 01:13:36,672 --> 01:13:38,299 ...l'll kill you. 834 01:13:44,480 --> 01:13:45,879 l've missed you. 835 01:13:46,048 --> 01:13:48,608 ln the spring, Persia. 836 01:13:48,784 --> 01:13:51,048 You'll command my horse from the right. 837 01:13:51,220 --> 01:13:53,450 l'm honored, Father. l wouldn't miss it... 838 01:13:53,622 --> 01:13:55,351 ...for all the gold in the world. 839 01:13:55,524 --> 01:13:57,651 Which, one day, you'll have. 840 01:14:14,643 --> 01:14:17,077 Making himself a 1 3th god. 841 01:14:17,246 --> 01:14:21,478 He's drunk so much wine, my poor Philip, he's lost his mind. 842 01:14:24,753 --> 01:14:27,449 -Your Majesty. -Attalus. 843 01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:34,827 l hope the prince is enjoying the spectacle... 844 01:14:34,997 --> 01:14:37,898 ...as much as our regent. 845 01:14:38,067 --> 01:14:39,591 He's very tired. 846 01:14:43,906 --> 01:14:46,101 Hey. 847 01:14:48,510 --> 01:14:51,604 -Pausanias, bring the rest of the guard. -Royal guard! 848 01:14:51,880 --> 01:14:54,576 To the arena! March! 849 01:14:54,750 --> 01:14:57,651 No guard, Your Majesty? ln all this crowd? 850 01:14:57,820 --> 01:15:01,187 -Greeks all over the place. -Cleitus, Cleitus. 851 01:15:01,890 --> 01:15:03,414 My Cleitus. 852 01:15:03,926 --> 01:15:06,520 This man you can always trust, Alexander. 853 01:15:06,962 --> 01:15:08,554 Treat him as you would me. 854 01:15:08,730 --> 01:15:10,925 He'll guard your back for you. 855 01:15:11,433 --> 01:15:13,264 Yes, Father. 856 01:15:13,435 --> 01:15:16,336 My people are guard enough today. 857 01:15:16,505 --> 01:15:19,963 Let these Greeks see for themselves how l can walk through my people. 858 01:15:20,142 --> 01:15:21,666 Then let them call me tyrant. 859 01:15:22,211 --> 01:15:25,510 Bring the main guard in after my entry only. 860 01:15:25,681 --> 01:15:29,344 Cleitus, make sure the wine flows steady all day. 861 01:15:29,518 --> 01:15:31,509 l want them to like me. 862 01:15:38,660 --> 01:15:41,356 Weren't you told? l go in alone. 863 01:15:41,530 --> 01:15:43,521 Follow with the main guard. 864 01:15:43,699 --> 01:15:45,132 Go on. 865 01:15:48,170 --> 01:15:51,503 -Go on. -Father, it's best l go with you. 866 01:15:53,709 --> 01:15:56,872 You want the world to see you're my successor. 867 01:15:57,045 --> 01:15:58,979 ls that what she wants? 868 01:15:59,448 --> 01:16:02,212 Don't look so hurt all the time, Alexander. Be a man. 869 01:16:02,384 --> 01:16:06,582 You count yourself lucky you were here at all today, after your public display. 870 01:16:10,392 --> 01:16:12,519 By Herakles, by Zeus, by all the gods... 871 01:16:12,694 --> 01:16:15,254 ...obey me this once! 872 01:16:16,565 --> 01:16:19,193 Have courage, Father. 873 01:16:19,368 --> 01:16:21,836 And go on your way rejoicing that at each step... 874 01:16:22,004 --> 01:16:24,199 ...you may recall your valor. 875 01:16:59,942 --> 01:17:03,878 And now, our beloved King Philip... 876 01:17:04,046 --> 01:17:07,243 ...in whose honor these wedding games begin. 877 01:17:25,100 --> 01:17:27,534 Pausanias, l told you-- 878 01:17:36,678 --> 01:17:37,736 Who's your new friend? 879 01:17:37,913 --> 01:17:39,642 There's your new friend. 880 01:17:40,782 --> 01:17:43,342 No! Please, don't! No! 881 01:19:22,751 --> 01:19:25,379 The king lives! 882 01:19:25,554 --> 01:19:28,853 Alexander, son of Philip! 883 01:19:29,024 --> 01:19:31,618 May the gods bless the king! 884 01:19:35,297 --> 01:19:38,027 Alexander is king! 885 01:19:40,602 --> 01:19:43,332 You're king now. You're king. 886 01:19:44,172 --> 01:19:46,834 Long live Alexander! 887 01:19:48,510 --> 01:19:52,674 -Alexander! -King Alexander! 888 01:19:52,848 --> 01:19:56,306 Alexander! 889 01:19:57,319 --> 01:20:00,311 Alexander is king! 890 01:20:03,925 --> 01:20:07,292 May the gods bless Alexander! 891 01:20:09,030 --> 01:20:12,193 May the gods bless the king! 892 01:20:12,367 --> 01:20:14,164 Alexander! 893 01:20:31,486 --> 01:20:34,216 You break my heart, you men. 894 01:20:34,389 --> 01:20:36,186 Afraid. 895 01:20:37,592 --> 01:20:39,219 Of course you have fears. 896 01:20:39,394 --> 01:20:40,827 We all have fears... 897 01:20:40,996 --> 01:20:44,159 ...because no one has ever gone this far before. 898 01:20:44,699 --> 01:20:49,102 And now we are weeks from the encircling ocean, our route home. 899 01:20:49,404 --> 01:20:51,031 We'll build a fleet of ships... 900 01:20:51,206 --> 01:20:54,175 ...and sail all the way back down the Nile to Egypt. 901 01:20:54,342 --> 01:20:57,470 And from Alexandria, we shall be home within weeks. 902 01:20:57,846 --> 01:21:00,076 There to be reunited with our loved ones. 903 01:21:00,248 --> 01:21:03,877 To share our great treasures and tales of Asia. 904 01:21:04,052 --> 01:21:08,853 And to enjoy our imperishable glory to the ends of time. 905 01:21:10,058 --> 01:21:13,550 -Follow Alexander. -l'll follow you. 906 01:21:18,166 --> 01:21:19,929 What? 907 01:21:20,101 --> 01:21:23,400 -Silence? -We're with you, Alexander! 908 01:21:23,772 --> 01:21:25,296 Crateros. 909 01:21:27,542 --> 01:21:28,804 Crateros. 910 01:21:28,977 --> 01:21:30,672 And another one. 911 01:21:42,157 --> 01:21:43,419 My king. 912 01:21:43,592 --> 01:21:45,560 l'm a fighting man. 913 01:21:45,727 --> 01:21:49,663 l don't like no bellyaching. l won't tolerate it in any of my units. 914 01:21:51,066 --> 01:21:53,261 l lost many a man. 915 01:21:54,369 --> 01:21:56,997 Young ones, never been with a woman. 916 01:21:58,173 --> 01:22:00,334 Some died of disease. 917 01:22:00,909 --> 01:22:05,141 Some were butchered in Scythia by the banks of the Oxus. 918 01:22:05,313 --> 01:22:07,042 Some died good. 919 01:22:07,215 --> 01:22:10,275 Some just didn't get no luck. 920 01:22:11,086 --> 01:22:12,815 But they died. 0 00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00 www.moviesubtitles.org