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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:03:02,940 --> 00:03:05,660 Alexander, the army will divide. 2 00:03:05,860 --> 00:03:08,940 Satrapies will revolt. Without your orders, there'll be war. 3 00:03:09,180 --> 00:03:11,620 We beg you. Tell us who. 4 00:04:11,420 --> 00:04:13,460 Our world is gone now. 5 00:04:15,140 --> 00:04:18,100 I'm the last left alive. 6 00:04:20,380 --> 00:04:23,140 Whether that's a blessing or a curse... 7 00:04:23,340 --> 00:04:25,620 who by Hades would know. 8 00:04:28,620 --> 00:04:31,180 But I've paid my price... 9 00:04:31,380 --> 00:04:33,060 in blood. 10 00:04:35,820 --> 00:04:38,460 And in broken dreams. 11 00:04:40,060 --> 00:04:45,460 They say we were the greatest fighting force ever known to man. 12 00:04:47,740 --> 00:04:52,300 Greater even than the expedition to Troy. 13 00:04:53,700 --> 00:04:55,300 But how can I say it? 14 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:58,500 How can I tell you what it is like to be young... 15 00:04:58,660 --> 00:05:02,140 and to dream big dreams? 16 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:07,140 To believe when Alexander looked you in the eye, you could do anything. 17 00:05:07,300 --> 00:05:09,020 Anything. 18 00:05:11,260 --> 00:05:17,660 In his presence, by the light of Apollo, we were better than ourselves. 19 00:05:19,620 --> 00:05:24,740 Truly, I've known many great men in my life... 20 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:27,860 but only one colossus. 21 00:05:28,380 --> 00:05:30,540 And only now, when old... 22 00:05:30,740 --> 00:05:35,740 do I understand who this force of nature really was. 23 00:05:40,140 --> 00:05:42,020 Or do I? 24 00:05:42,860 --> 00:05:47,500 Did such a man as Alexander exist? Of course not. 25 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:51,020 We idolize him, make him better than he was. 26 00:05:51,180 --> 00:05:55,900 Men, all men, reach and fall... 27 00:05:56,780 --> 00:05:59,380 reach and fall. 28 00:06:04,660 --> 00:06:11,060 In the East, the vast Persian Empire ruled almost all the known world. 29 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:16,620 In the West, the once great Greek city-states... 30 00:06:16,940 --> 00:06:21,860 Thebes, Athens, Sparta, had fallen from pride. 31 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:26,900 For 100 years now, the Persian kings had bribed the Greeks... 32 00:06:27,100 --> 00:06:30,060 with their gold to fight as mercenaries. 33 00:06:30,740 --> 00:06:35,580 It was Philip, the one-eyed, who changed all this... 34 00:06:35,780 --> 00:06:40,580 uniting tribes of illiterate sheepherders from the high and lowlands. 35 00:06:40,780 --> 00:06:44,940 With his blood and guts, he built a professional army... 36 00:06:45,100 --> 00:06:48,900 that brought the devious Greeks to their knees. 37 00:06:50,140 --> 00:06:52,540 He then turned his eye on Persia... 38 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:56,660 where it was said the Great King Darius himself... 39 00:06:56,820 --> 00:07:00,860 on his throne in Babylon, feared Philip. 40 00:07:05,340 --> 00:07:07,340 Philip was murdered... 41 00:07:07,540 --> 00:07:11,580 much to Persia's delight and perhaps sponsored by their gold. 42 00:07:11,780 --> 00:07:16,980 And Alexander, at 20 became the new ruler of Macedonia. 43 00:07:17,140 --> 00:07:19,900 Announcing revenge for the death of Philip... 44 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:24,060 Alexander liberated all of the cities of western Asia... 45 00:07:24,260 --> 00:07:26,780 south to Egypt... 46 00:07:27,180 --> 00:07:31,020 where he was declared Pharaoh of Egypt... 47 00:07:31,180 --> 00:07:33,620 and worshipped as a god. 48 00:07:36,740 --> 00:07:40,580 And finally, he provoked the rise to battle... 49 00:07:41,980 --> 00:07:46,780 in the heart of the Persian Empire, near Babylon. 50 00:07:56,700 --> 00:07:57,820 It was mad. 51 00:07:57,980 --> 00:08:00,500 Forty thousand of us against hundreds of thousands... 52 00:08:00,660 --> 00:08:03,340 of barbarian races unknown to us... 53 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:06,940 gathered under Darius himself. 54 00:08:08,620 --> 00:08:11,300 East and west had now come together... 55 00:08:11,460 --> 00:08:14,980 to decide the fate of the known world. 56 00:08:16,380 --> 00:08:21,380 It was the day Alexander had waited for all his life. 57 00:08:22,900 --> 00:08:25,060 Son of a god. 58 00:08:26,220 --> 00:08:28,300 It was a myth, of course. 59 00:08:28,460 --> 00:08:31,260 At least it started as a myth. 60 00:08:31,900 --> 00:08:33,340 I know. 61 00:08:34,340 --> 00:08:35,940 I was there. 62 00:08:36,220 --> 00:08:40,260 In the crack of the Persian line, we'll go for the head. 63 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:42,260 Kill Darius? 64 00:08:42,420 --> 00:08:45,580 The gods have brought him to us at last. 65 00:08:46,540 --> 00:08:48,820 If I die, it's one Macedonian. 66 00:08:48,980 --> 00:08:52,780 But the Persians, they cannot move without Darius' command. 67 00:08:52,940 --> 00:08:57,260 Here. Right here, we cut the throat of the Persian army. 68 00:08:57,420 --> 00:09:00,740 This is madness. You'll never get within 100 paces of him. 69 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:02,900 Have you seen the sheer size of his force? 70 00:09:03,060 --> 00:09:07,580 Not if you hold them on the left, my brave Parmenion... 71 00:09:07,740 --> 00:09:12,140 with your son Philotas for just one, two hours tomorrow. 72 00:09:13,500 --> 00:09:18,340 And you, unbreakable Antigonus, the center phalanx. 73 00:09:18,540 --> 00:09:22,660 Perdiccas, Leonnatus... 74 00:09:22,940 --> 00:09:26,740 Nearchus, Polyperchon. 75 00:09:26,900 --> 00:09:31,020 If you pin them on the walls of your sarissas, here in the center... 76 00:09:31,220 --> 00:09:34,180 their cavalry will follow me out to the right. 77 00:09:34,340 --> 00:09:37,820 And when bold Cassander breaks, stretching their left... 78 00:09:38,020 --> 00:09:40,860 a hole will open. Then I and my cavalry... 79 00:09:41,060 --> 00:09:43,420 Our revered Cleitus... 80 00:09:43,580 --> 00:09:46,860 Ptolemy and Hephaistion. 81 00:09:47,020 --> 00:09:49,060 Will strike through that gap... 82 00:09:49,820 --> 00:09:52,620 and deal the deathblow to Darius' head. 83 00:09:52,780 --> 00:09:57,300 Since when, by the light of Apollo, has cavalry been used to break an infantry line? 84 00:09:57,460 --> 00:09:59,420 What was it we did to Chaeronea, Parmenion? 85 00:09:59,580 --> 00:10:03,460 Alexander, even with luck, timing, the gods, they're at least five to our one... 86 00:10:03,620 --> 00:10:07,700 which means in truth we must rout them tomorrow, destroy their army completely. 87 00:10:07,860 --> 00:10:11,380 Or we'll be picked apart by bandit tribes on the long journey home. 88 00:10:11,580 --> 00:10:13,620 Right. 89 00:10:13,900 --> 00:10:18,220 You speak of home and retreat... 90 00:10:18,500 --> 00:10:21,220 but do you understand, Parmenion? 91 00:10:22,740 --> 00:10:25,020 Babylon's my new home. 92 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:29,580 Alexander... 93 00:10:29,780 --> 00:10:32,020 if we must fight... 94 00:10:32,180 --> 00:10:33,980 do so with stealth. 95 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:39,100 Use your numbers well. We should attack tonight when they least expect us. 96 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:52,780 I didn't cross Asia to steal this victory, Cassander. 97 00:10:52,940 --> 00:10:56,700 No, you are too honorable for that. 98 00:10:56,860 --> 00:11:00,460 No doubt influenced from sleeping with Tales of Troy under your pillow. 99 00:11:02,420 --> 00:11:05,340 But your father was no lover of Homer's. 100 00:11:05,500 --> 00:11:09,500 The lands west of the Euphrates, Alexander, the hand of his daughter in marriage. 101 00:11:09,660 --> 00:11:11,780 Since when has a Greek been given such honors? 102 00:11:11,940 --> 00:11:16,100 There are not honors, Parmenion, they're bribes... 103 00:11:16,260 --> 00:11:19,060 which the Greeks have accepted too long. 104 00:11:22,220 --> 00:11:24,620 Do you forget that the man who murdered my father... 105 00:11:24,780 --> 00:11:27,300 - Lies across the valley floor? - Come, Alexander... 106 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:31,300 we're still not really sure if it was Persian gold behind the assassination. 107 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:33,500 But that is no matter! 108 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:37,700 Your father taught you never to surrender your reason to your passion. 109 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:39,700 Now I urge you... 110 00:11:39,860 --> 00:11:42,940 with all my experience, regroup. 111 00:11:43,100 --> 00:11:45,260 Fall back to the coast, raise a larger force. 112 00:11:46,700 --> 00:11:50,020 I would, if I were Parmenion. 113 00:11:51,260 --> 00:11:53,380 But I am Alexander. 114 00:11:53,540 --> 00:11:57,300 And no more than Earth has two suns will Asia bear two kings. 115 00:11:57,940 --> 00:11:59,460 These are my terms. 116 00:11:59,660 --> 00:12:04,180 And if Darius isn't a coward who hides behind his men... 117 00:12:04,340 --> 00:12:06,500 then he'll come to me tomorrow. 118 00:12:06,660 --> 00:12:10,740 And when he bows down to Greece... 119 00:12:11,860 --> 00:12:14,460 Alexander will be merciful. 120 00:12:20,780 --> 00:12:24,860 By Ares' chains, he has got balls, men. 121 00:12:25,060 --> 00:12:27,860 I mean, give the man his due, Parmenion. 122 00:12:29,300 --> 00:12:35,420 And, lads, feast tonight, for tomorrow we will dine in Hades. 123 00:12:45,540 --> 00:12:48,620 I've seen one before. It was still alive. 124 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:05,540 To whom do you pray? 125 00:13:08,060 --> 00:13:09,620 Phobos. 126 00:13:11,140 --> 00:13:12,500 Fear? 127 00:13:15,940 --> 00:13:17,540 A bad omen. 128 00:13:19,780 --> 00:13:21,940 More so for Darius. 129 00:13:27,940 --> 00:13:33,460 I've come to believe the fear of death drives all men, Hephaistion. 130 00:13:33,660 --> 00:13:36,260 And this we didn't learn as schoolboys. 131 00:13:36,780 --> 00:13:40,460 It is the cause of all of our misfortunes. 132 00:13:41,060 --> 00:13:43,300 - So, mighty Crateros. - Your Majesty. 133 00:13:43,980 --> 00:13:47,460 - Are you ready for tomorrow? - It's been too long coming if you ask me. 134 00:13:47,620 --> 00:13:52,020 The men are skittish as colts and the damn bulls won't shut their snouts. 135 00:13:52,180 --> 00:13:55,660 Good. Fear makes men fight better. 136 00:13:56,780 --> 00:13:58,860 Post your sentries alertly but rest them well. 137 00:13:59,020 --> 00:14:03,300 Don't you worry, general. I'm known to sleep with my eyes open as a baby's arse. 138 00:14:03,460 --> 00:14:06,580 Only because someone might steal his loot, sire. 139 00:14:07,340 --> 00:14:09,860 Well, someone owes Crateros for his cheapness. 140 00:14:10,060 --> 00:14:13,300 He buys neither gloves nor blankets to warm himself. 141 00:14:13,460 --> 00:14:16,180 Who needs gloves when you come from grace? 142 00:14:16,620 --> 00:14:19,220 Who needs clothes when you can fight naked? 143 00:14:19,860 --> 00:14:21,020 He's right. 144 00:14:21,180 --> 00:14:24,100 After tomorrow, even the thrifty among you shall be kings. 145 00:14:24,260 --> 00:14:27,380 - The gods are with us, Your Majesty. - We'll stain the ground... 146 00:14:27,580 --> 00:14:29,540 in Persian blood, my king. 147 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:33,180 You're on the first row tomorrow, boy. 148 00:14:35,020 --> 00:14:38,340 I've always believed, Alexander... 149 00:14:38,780 --> 00:14:41,700 but this seems so much bigger than us. 150 00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:46,540 Did Patroclus doubt Achilles when they stood side by side at the seat of Troy? 151 00:14:46,820 --> 00:14:48,580 Patroclus died first. 152 00:14:49,740 --> 00:14:51,420 If you do... 153 00:14:52,340 --> 00:14:55,940 If you were to fall, Hephaistion, even if Macedonia were to lose a king... 154 00:14:56,940 --> 00:14:58,860 I will avenge you. 155 00:14:59,620 --> 00:15:01,900 And follow you down to the house of death. 156 00:15:02,820 --> 00:15:05,220 I would do the same. 157 00:15:14,820 --> 00:15:19,060 On the eve of battle, it's hardest to be alone. 158 00:15:23,540 --> 00:15:25,700 Then perhaps... 159 00:15:27,460 --> 00:15:30,380 Perhaps this is farewell then... 160 00:15:31,380 --> 00:15:33,580 my Alexander. 161 00:15:34,060 --> 00:15:39,700 Fear not, Hephaistion. We are at the beginning. 162 00:16:14,180 --> 00:16:18,300 Blood makes the world rise. 163 00:16:19,180 --> 00:16:22,660 Blood makes the rain fall. 164 00:16:25,500 --> 00:16:29,380 Blood makes the earth grow. 165 00:16:30,580 --> 00:16:36,860 And in blood, all men are born and die. 166 00:16:38,620 --> 00:16:44,380 Blood is the food of the gods below. 167 00:16:58,620 --> 00:17:02,260 Come, Bucephalus. Today we ride to our destiny. 168 00:17:05,100 --> 00:17:08,860 Company, group! Regroup! 169 00:17:20,180 --> 00:17:23,180 Phalanx, turn right! 170 00:17:40,340 --> 00:17:45,020 Phalanx, attention! 171 00:18:06,420 --> 00:18:09,300 Neoptolemus. 172 00:18:09,460 --> 00:18:12,340 I remember you the day you took the siege tower at Tyre. 173 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:15,780 You were a giant. And today, how will you fight? 174 00:18:21,180 --> 00:18:23,860 Dexippos, by Athena. 175 00:18:24,020 --> 00:18:28,180 How far was it you threw your man wrestling at the last Olympic Games? 176 00:18:28,380 --> 00:18:31,020 Will you match it with your spear? 177 00:18:35,540 --> 00:18:40,900 And Timander, son of Menander, a great soldier to my father. 178 00:18:41,100 --> 00:18:45,820 I still mourn your brother, Addaios, who died so bravely at Halicarnassus. 179 00:18:45,980 --> 00:18:49,580 What an honored family you descend from, Timander. 180 00:18:49,780 --> 00:18:52,700 You fight for them today. 181 00:18:54,140 --> 00:19:00,180 You've all honored your country and your ancestors. 182 00:19:00,340 --> 00:19:05,100 And now we come to this most distant place in Asia... 183 00:19:05,460 --> 00:19:11,900 where across from us, Darius has at last gathered a vast army... 184 00:19:39,060 --> 00:19:40,740 But ask yourselves... 185 00:19:41,020 --> 00:19:46,460 who is this great king who pays assassins in gold coins... 186 00:19:46,620 --> 00:19:48,900 to murder my father, our king... 187 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:53,940 in a most despicable and cowardly manner? 188 00:19:54,100 --> 00:19:59,740 Who is this great king, Darius, who enslaves his own men to fight? 189 00:19:59,900 --> 00:20:03,980 Who is this king but a king of air? 190 00:20:04,180 --> 00:20:07,420 These men do not fight for their homes. 191 00:20:07,580 --> 00:20:11,060 They fight because this king tells them they must. 192 00:20:11,660 --> 00:20:15,220 And when they fight, they will melt away like the air... 193 00:20:15,380 --> 00:20:18,420 because they know no loyalty to a king of slaves. 194 00:20:19,540 --> 00:20:22,860 But we are not here today as slaves. 195 00:20:23,020 --> 00:20:25,260 We are here today... 196 00:20:25,420 --> 00:20:29,100 as Macedonian freemen! 197 00:20:44,500 --> 00:20:46,660 And though outnumbered... 198 00:20:47,820 --> 00:20:51,540 I say to you who know the price of tyranny... 199 00:20:52,940 --> 00:20:56,740 who've carried the Persian yoke too long... 200 00:20:57,740 --> 00:21:01,300 you have a strength born of your hearts... 201 00:21:02,860 --> 00:21:05,500 and all their arms, their numbers... 202 00:21:05,660 --> 00:21:09,140 their chariots and all their fine horses... 203 00:21:09,300 --> 00:21:12,100 will mean nothing in the hands of slaves. 204 00:21:12,620 --> 00:21:14,500 Some of you... 205 00:21:16,180 --> 00:21:18,580 perhaps myself... 206 00:21:18,780 --> 00:21:23,620 will not live to see the sun set over these mountains today. 207 00:21:24,420 --> 00:21:29,420 For I will be in the very thick of battle with you. 208 00:21:31,220 --> 00:21:33,300 But remember this: 209 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:38,180 The greatest honor a man can ever achieve... 210 00:21:38,380 --> 00:21:43,580 is to live with great courage and to die with his countrymen... 211 00:21:44,380 --> 00:21:46,580 in battle for his home. 212 00:21:52,860 --> 00:21:54,860 I say to you... 213 00:21:55,580 --> 00:21:59,500 what every warrior has known since the beginning of time. 214 00:21:59,660 --> 00:22:02,060 Conquer your fear... 215 00:22:02,220 --> 00:22:05,660 and I promise you, you will conquer death. 216 00:22:30,660 --> 00:22:33,460 And someday I vow to you... 217 00:22:33,620 --> 00:22:39,420 your sons and your grandsons will look into your eyes. 218 00:22:40,140 --> 00:22:44,140 And when they ask why you fought so bravely at Gaugamela... 219 00:22:45,060 --> 00:22:46,900 you will answer... 220 00:22:47,060 --> 00:22:51,940 with all the strength of your great, great hearts: 221 00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:55,020 "I was here this day at Gaugamela..." 222 00:22:56,900 --> 00:22:59,300 for the freedom... 223 00:23:00,460 --> 00:23:03,540 and glory... 224 00:23:05,580 --> 00:23:07,860 "...of Greece!" 225 00:23:14,420 --> 00:23:17,100 Zeus be with us! 226 00:23:44,060 --> 00:23:47,660 Cassander! Four columns, go! 227 00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:55,060 Where does he go? 228 00:23:55,220 --> 00:23:57,580 I don't know, Majesty. 229 00:23:57,740 --> 00:24:00,580 Envelop him, Bessus. 230 00:24:04,260 --> 00:24:07,380 Hephaistion, go! 231 00:24:16,740 --> 00:24:18,620 Phalanx! 232 00:24:37,060 --> 00:24:40,420 He makes a mistake, Pharnakes. 233 00:24:43,540 --> 00:24:45,100 Yes, great king. 234 00:25:47,660 --> 00:25:50,220 Be brave, men. 235 00:25:51,220 --> 00:25:52,820 Steady on the left, lads! 236 00:25:53,300 --> 00:25:55,860 Bend if you must, but never break. 237 00:25:56,060 --> 00:25:59,060 And keep watching the cavalry on the left. 238 00:26:31,780 --> 00:26:33,900 Pick up the pace! 239 00:26:43,740 --> 00:26:47,420 Prepare to repel chariots! 240 00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:26,300 Forward! 241 00:28:16,140 --> 00:28:18,180 Cassander! 242 00:28:18,380 --> 00:28:20,700 - Forward, men! - Forward! 243 00:28:31,620 --> 00:28:35,740 - Left turn! - Infantry, clear! Out now! 244 00:29:45,060 --> 00:29:49,700 Hold your positions! 245 00:30:18,340 --> 00:30:20,700 Father! We must fall back to the gully, Father. 246 00:30:20,900 --> 00:30:22,420 No, hold. 247 00:30:22,580 --> 00:30:26,500 Where is he? We're far too thin! Get word to Alexander! 248 00:30:26,660 --> 00:30:29,060 - Move! - Yes, sir. 249 00:30:47,620 --> 00:30:51,140 Come, Macedonians! Ride! Ride! 250 00:30:58,100 --> 00:31:00,500 Drive for the hole! 251 00:31:00,980 --> 00:31:04,060 - Drive for the hole! - Drive for the hole! 252 00:31:37,620 --> 00:31:40,820 Prince Merdicus, bring these men up. 253 00:32:06,460 --> 00:32:09,500 Back and to the left! Back and to the left! 254 00:32:09,660 --> 00:32:12,740 - General! - Get to your home! And go home fast. 255 00:32:13,940 --> 00:32:15,660 I cannot see! 256 00:32:15,820 --> 00:32:18,820 - Philotas! Philotas! - Father. 257 00:32:19,020 --> 00:32:21,060 Go. Tell Alexander yourself. 258 00:32:21,220 --> 00:32:25,820 And if he won't listen, then survive me and avenge this betrayal! 259 00:33:06,940 --> 00:33:11,540 Pay attention, lad! Your father still watches over you! 260 00:33:56,460 --> 00:33:59,100 Darius! 261 00:33:59,420 --> 00:34:01,460 Find your horses. 262 00:34:17,260 --> 00:34:19,700 Darius! 263 00:34:40,740 --> 00:34:43,340 Go! Go! 264 00:35:00,180 --> 00:35:04,580 We can reach those mountains by sunset, go all night and catch Darius at dawn. 265 00:35:04,740 --> 00:35:07,620 Provision the horses. 266 00:35:08,260 --> 00:35:12,020 Alexander! Alexander, my father's lost. 267 00:35:12,180 --> 00:35:14,940 They've overrun the flank. They're into the baggage train. 268 00:35:15,100 --> 00:35:17,260 Parmenion's crumbling. 269 00:35:17,580 --> 00:35:22,060 Alexander, if you chase him, you risk losing your army here. 270 00:35:22,220 --> 00:35:24,460 And if we capture him, we gain an empire. 271 00:35:34,620 --> 00:35:37,300 You can run to the ends of the earth, you coward... 272 00:35:37,460 --> 00:35:40,420 but you'll never run far enough! 273 00:35:40,580 --> 00:35:43,260 To Parmenion! 274 00:36:13,900 --> 00:36:15,300 You bleed free, my lord. 275 00:36:15,460 --> 00:36:18,740 - May I tend to your wound? - No, Hermolaus, not now. 276 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:21,340 There's far worse than me. Go to them. 277 00:36:21,500 --> 00:36:23,380 Help them. 278 00:36:46,820 --> 00:36:49,060 How was this done, soldier? 279 00:36:50,140 --> 00:36:52,260 Spear. 280 00:36:53,420 --> 00:36:55,660 But I got two of the buggers. 281 00:36:58,900 --> 00:37:00,540 Your Majesty. 282 00:37:01,820 --> 00:37:03,780 You're very brave. 283 00:37:05,140 --> 00:37:06,940 What shall I call you? 284 00:37:07,140 --> 00:37:09,980 - Glaukos, my king. - Glaukos. 285 00:37:11,060 --> 00:37:13,900 - And where's your home? - Illyria. 286 00:37:16,380 --> 00:37:18,980 Let your body go loose. 287 00:37:22,460 --> 00:37:24,460 Think of home now. 288 00:37:24,660 --> 00:37:27,100 Be brave again, Glaukos... 289 00:37:28,660 --> 00:37:31,180 and you will live on in glory. 290 00:37:34,340 --> 00:37:36,420 Alexander. 291 00:37:46,260 --> 00:37:50,540 The Persian Empire, the greatest the world had yet known... 292 00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:52,900 was destroyed. 293 00:37:57,380 --> 00:38:02,220 And Alexander, at 25, was now king of all. 294 00:38:16,340 --> 00:38:20,420 If you hesitate, she will strike. 295 00:38:23,020 --> 00:38:25,140 Yes. 296 00:38:26,820 --> 00:38:28,700 They are like people. 297 00:38:29,660 --> 00:38:35,900 You can love them for years. Feed them, nurture them... 298 00:38:36,900 --> 00:38:41,460 but still, they can turn on you. 299 00:38:49,060 --> 00:38:51,460 Don't hurt her. 300 00:38:52,980 --> 00:38:54,780 Good. 301 00:38:57,220 --> 00:38:58,660 Now... 302 00:39:04,940 --> 00:39:06,860 He calls me a barbarian. 303 00:39:07,060 --> 00:39:09,620 He makes a mockery of Dionysus every night. 304 00:39:24,980 --> 00:39:29,260 Some called his mother, Queen Olympias, a sorceress... 305 00:39:29,420 --> 00:39:32,860 and said that Alexander was the child of Zeus. 306 00:39:33,180 --> 00:39:36,500 Others, Dionysus. 307 00:39:36,980 --> 00:39:43,260 Women are the only ones who know Dionysus. 308 00:39:53,740 --> 00:39:57,420 But truly, there was not a man in Macedonia who didn't look... 309 00:39:57,580 --> 00:40:02,900 at father and son, side by side, and wonder. 310 00:40:15,860 --> 00:40:18,340 My little Achilles. 311 00:40:39,740 --> 00:40:42,860 Stay, Alexander, down. Down. 312 00:40:44,380 --> 00:40:46,340 What is it you want? 313 00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:48,380 Six months. Did you miss me? 314 00:40:48,540 --> 00:40:52,060 - No. Not here! - Proud bitch. I'm still your king. 315 00:40:52,260 --> 00:40:55,420 King of what? Sheepherders? 316 00:41:00,340 --> 00:41:04,940 - I am of Achilles' royal blood. - The blood of Herakles runs in my veins. 317 00:41:05,140 --> 00:41:07,780 - You are nothing but a drunken whore. - Shut your mouth. 318 00:41:07,980 --> 00:41:09,580 You 10-titted bitch from Hades! 319 00:41:09,780 --> 00:41:12,740 Which god could I curse to have ever laid eyes on you! 320 00:41:14,540 --> 00:41:17,180 Do you think people respect you? 321 00:41:17,340 --> 00:41:20,060 You think they don't know your bastards? 322 00:41:28,660 --> 00:41:31,860 Damn your sorceress soul! You keep him here like one of your snakes! 323 00:41:32,020 --> 00:41:35,260 I told you not! I told you not. 324 00:41:35,420 --> 00:41:38,180 - You'll obey me. - I will not. 325 00:41:38,380 --> 00:41:42,700 You'll obey me, or I'll kill you with my own hands. 326 00:41:45,780 --> 00:41:50,340 Let her go! No! Stop! Papa! 327 00:41:52,060 --> 00:41:55,540 - Obey me! - Your Majesty! No! 328 00:41:57,300 --> 00:41:59,100 In the name of the gods. 329 00:41:59,300 --> 00:42:04,500 He will never be yours! Never! 330 00:42:04,660 --> 00:42:09,300 In my womb, I carried my avenger! 331 00:42:18,700 --> 00:42:22,020 In the world he grew up to... 332 00:42:22,220 --> 00:42:27,140 I've come to believe it was in friendship that Alexander found his sanity. 333 00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:30,740 You don't need much to fight. 334 00:42:31,260 --> 00:42:37,180 When you're in the front ranks of a battle, facing some Northern barbarian tribe... 335 00:42:37,340 --> 00:42:42,220 courage won't be in the soles of your feet, Perdiccas. 336 00:42:42,380 --> 00:42:45,260 Or in the thickness of your tunic, Philotas. 337 00:42:45,420 --> 00:42:48,180 Or in the lining of your stomach, Nearchus. 338 00:42:48,380 --> 00:42:52,740 It's in the heart of a man. 339 00:42:53,300 --> 00:42:57,980 You don't need to eat every day or until you're full, Ptolemy. 340 00:42:58,140 --> 00:43:01,060 You don't need to lie in bed in a morning... 341 00:43:01,260 --> 00:43:05,460 when you can have some good bean soup, Cassander, after a forced night march. 342 00:43:06,260 --> 00:43:08,100 Come on, Alexander. 343 00:43:08,980 --> 00:43:12,940 Where's your hunger to twist Hephaistion's head off? 344 00:43:13,380 --> 00:43:16,380 Is he stronger than you? Then beat him another way. 345 00:43:19,140 --> 00:43:22,100 Who will respect you as a king? You think because of your father? 346 00:43:22,260 --> 00:43:28,380 The first rule of war is to do what you ask your men to do. No more, no less. 347 00:43:31,900 --> 00:43:33,540 Good, Hephaistion. That's it. 348 00:43:33,820 --> 00:43:38,260 Well done. Good wrestling, Hephaistion. That's what I want. 349 00:43:38,420 --> 00:43:39,780 Come, come, come. 350 00:43:40,260 --> 00:43:41,860 You did well, but you lost. 351 00:43:42,060 --> 00:43:47,420 Now, both of you, congratulate the other. Go on. 352 00:43:48,020 --> 00:43:50,700 Would you want me to let you win, Alexander? 353 00:43:52,780 --> 00:43:54,980 You're right. 354 00:43:55,180 --> 00:43:58,220 But I promise you, I will beat you one day, Hephaistion. 355 00:44:05,420 --> 00:44:09,460 It was said later that Alexander was never defeated... 356 00:44:09,660 --> 00:44:11,580 except by Hephaistion's thighs. 357 00:44:11,740 --> 00:44:14,260 Although an inferior race... 358 00:44:14,460 --> 00:44:19,900 the Persians control at least four-fifths of the known world. 359 00:44:20,060 --> 00:44:22,540 From Ethiopia and Egypt in the south... 360 00:44:22,740 --> 00:44:25,260 to Caucasus and the two inland seas in the north... 361 00:44:25,420 --> 00:44:29,940 Philip brought such as Aristotle from Athens to educate our rough people. 362 00:44:30,140 --> 00:44:34,660 They rule, and we sit around like frogs. 363 00:44:34,820 --> 00:44:36,060 - Master? - Yes? 364 00:44:36,260 --> 00:44:37,540 - Master! - Out with it! 365 00:44:37,700 --> 00:44:40,540 - Why are the Persians so cruel? - Oh, come on, Nearchus. 366 00:44:40,700 --> 00:44:42,700 That is not the subject for today, Nearchus. 367 00:44:42,900 --> 00:44:47,860 But it is true that the Oriental races are known for their barbarity... 368 00:44:48,060 --> 00:44:50,300 and their slavish devotion to their senses. 369 00:44:50,500 --> 00:44:54,580 Which are so dull, they castrate young boys... 370 00:44:54,740 --> 00:44:57,540 such as yourselves, for their sexual pleasure. 371 00:44:58,700 --> 00:45:03,740 Yes. Excess in all things is the undoing of men. 372 00:45:03,900 --> 00:45:05,820 That is why we Greeks are superior. 373 00:45:06,020 --> 00:45:09,220 We practice control of our senses. 374 00:45:09,420 --> 00:45:11,620 Moderation, we hope. 375 00:45:11,820 --> 00:45:13,740 Then what of Achilles at Troy, master? 376 00:45:15,420 --> 00:45:20,340 - Was he not excessive? - Achilles simply lacks restraint. 377 00:45:20,500 --> 00:45:24,300 He dominates others so completely that even when he withdraws from battle... 378 00:45:24,460 --> 00:45:27,740 crazed with grief over his dead lover, Patroclus... 379 00:45:27,940 --> 00:45:32,980 he seriously endangers his own army. He is a deeply selfish man. 380 00:45:33,180 --> 00:45:37,060 Would you say the love between Achilles and Patroclus is a corrupting one? 381 00:45:38,220 --> 00:45:41,740 When men lie together in lust, it is a surrender to the passions... 382 00:45:41,900 --> 00:45:45,660 and does nothing for the excellence in us. 383 00:45:45,860 --> 00:45:50,340 Nor does any other excess, Cassander, jealousy among them. 384 00:45:50,900 --> 00:45:55,860 But when men lie together, and knowledge and virtue are passed between them... 385 00:45:56,060 --> 00:45:59,660 that is pure and excellent. 386 00:45:59,820 --> 00:46:04,020 When they compete to bring out the good, the best in each other... 387 00:46:04,180 --> 00:46:08,100 this is the love between men that can build a city-state... 388 00:46:08,260 --> 00:46:10,740 and lift us from our frog pond. 389 00:46:13,820 --> 00:46:15,940 But can a man love a woman equally, master? 390 00:46:16,180 --> 00:46:17,780 A woman? Of course not. 391 00:46:17,940 --> 00:46:20,580 A woman is a slave to her passion, Hephaistion. 392 00:46:20,740 --> 00:46:23,900 Oh, naturally there are exceptions, and we must honor them. 393 00:46:24,100 --> 00:46:28,100 Such as Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom and war. 394 00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:32,620 But never forget, she is sprung not from the loins of Zeus, but from his mind. 395 00:46:33,340 --> 00:46:36,420 Now, you think on all this, my young frogs... 396 00:46:36,580 --> 00:46:41,340 for in you resides the future of Greek civilization. 397 00:46:41,500 --> 00:46:45,780 To strive for honor is the highest purpose of all. 398 00:46:45,980 --> 00:46:48,500 To rule over our baser emotions. 399 00:46:48,660 --> 00:46:52,500 To follow reason, the divine part in each of you. 400 00:46:52,660 --> 00:46:54,020 Yes... 401 00:46:54,220 --> 00:46:58,460 to love excellence is truly to love the gods. 402 00:47:00,660 --> 00:47:02,260 Now, will you stop distracting me? 403 00:47:02,700 --> 00:47:05,300 Back to geography and things that we know. 404 00:47:05,500 --> 00:47:11,100 Is it possible that the source of Egypt's mighty River Nile... 405 00:47:11,260 --> 00:47:14,940 could rise in these distant mountains of the outer earth? 406 00:47:15,100 --> 00:47:21,100 If so, an experienced navigator could find his way here... 407 00:47:21,260 --> 00:47:26,020 by this river east, down into the great plains of India... 408 00:47:26,180 --> 00:47:30,780 out into the eastern ocean at end of the world... 409 00:47:30,940 --> 00:47:34,860 and by this route up the Nile... 410 00:47:35,020 --> 00:47:41,100 back to Egypt, into the Middle Sea and home to Greece. 411 00:47:41,740 --> 00:47:44,900 Now, if only these frogs could look outward... 412 00:47:45,060 --> 00:47:49,020 and act on their favored position at the center... 413 00:47:49,180 --> 00:47:51,300 Greece could rule the world. 414 00:47:51,580 --> 00:47:57,020 Why is it, master, in myth, these lands you speak of are known? 415 00:47:58,820 --> 00:48:03,540 India, where Herakles and Dionysus traveled. 416 00:48:03,700 --> 00:48:09,220 All these men who went east, Theseus, Jason, Achilles, were victorious. 417 00:48:09,380 --> 00:48:13,340 From generation to generation, their stories have been passed on. 418 00:48:13,500 --> 00:48:16,020 Why? Unless there was truth to them? 419 00:48:16,180 --> 00:48:21,820 Tales of Amazons? Minotaurs, Gorgons, Icarus flying into the sun? No, Alexander. 420 00:48:21,980 --> 00:48:25,820 Only common people believe these tales, as they believe most anything. 421 00:48:26,020 --> 00:48:30,580 We are here precisely to educate ourselves against such foolish passions. 422 00:48:31,060 --> 00:48:35,860 But if we are superior to the Persians, as you say, why do we not rule them? 423 00:48:36,060 --> 00:48:41,020 It is-It has always been our Greek dream to go east. 424 00:48:41,780 --> 00:48:43,860 My father long wants it. 425 00:48:44,660 --> 00:48:49,860 The East has a way of swallowing men and their dreams. 426 00:48:50,020 --> 00:48:56,060 But still, to think it's these myths that lead us forward to the greatest glory... 427 00:48:56,300 --> 00:48:58,620 why is it wrong to act on them? 428 00:48:59,620 --> 00:49:02,420 I can only warn you, not teach you. 429 00:49:03,380 --> 00:49:06,660 Beware of what you dream for. 430 00:49:07,420 --> 00:49:11,100 The gods have a way of punishing such pride. 431 00:49:21,340 --> 00:49:25,780 And growing more ambitious, he now planned the invasion of Persia. 432 00:49:32,100 --> 00:49:36,380 The best you can do, Cleitus? Back to the phalanx with you, I'll ride him myself. 433 00:49:36,540 --> 00:49:38,900 No one will ride that beast, Your Majesty. 434 00:49:39,500 --> 00:49:41,060 Not with your leg. 435 00:49:42,420 --> 00:49:44,140 He's been beaten far too often. 436 00:49:45,460 --> 00:49:48,020 My noble king, he's a high-spirited animal, yes. 437 00:49:48,180 --> 00:49:51,980 High-spirited and worthy of Philip of Macedon. 438 00:49:52,140 --> 00:49:54,300 For three and a half talents... 439 00:49:54,500 --> 00:49:57,140 I couldn't make a profit on him, but for you... 440 00:49:57,340 --> 00:50:00,100 Why would I want such a beast? I already have a wife. 441 00:50:02,220 --> 00:50:03,660 Do I seem so old? 442 00:50:10,020 --> 00:50:13,260 - Stay down, stay down. - Hold him! 443 00:50:27,540 --> 00:50:31,820 A broken neck comes free. He's too nervous for battle. Sell him for meat. 444 00:50:31,980 --> 00:50:35,380 Buy him for me, Father. I'll ride him. 445 00:50:40,020 --> 00:50:41,420 And if you don't? 446 00:50:41,580 --> 00:50:45,180 - I'll pay for him myself. - With what, your singing voice? 447 00:50:45,340 --> 00:50:47,140 I'll pay you! 448 00:50:47,300 --> 00:50:50,740 I tell you, that horse can't be ridden, lad. His mind is broken. 449 00:50:53,660 --> 00:50:56,660 He can be ridden. By me. 450 00:50:56,820 --> 00:50:59,580 If you can rule that horse, I'll make him yours... 451 00:50:59,740 --> 00:51:01,740 at half the price. 452 00:51:01,900 --> 00:51:03,940 That horse will kill him, Philip. 453 00:51:04,140 --> 00:51:06,420 - He'll break the boy in two. - Will he? 454 00:51:06,580 --> 00:51:09,380 Perhaps she'll make a musician out of him yet. 455 00:51:24,780 --> 00:51:27,860 You don't like your shadow, do you? 456 00:51:28,020 --> 00:51:32,060 It's like a dark spirit coming up to get you. 457 00:51:32,220 --> 00:51:36,140 Do you see? That's us. 458 00:51:37,060 --> 00:51:39,980 It's just a trick of Apollo's. 459 00:51:40,180 --> 00:51:44,620 He's the god of the sun. 460 00:51:47,940 --> 00:51:52,220 But I'll show you how to outwit him, you and me together. 461 00:52:02,420 --> 00:52:05,500 The boy doesn't have the craft, Philip. He could hurt himself. 462 00:52:05,700 --> 00:52:10,100 He'll have to figure that out for himself. It's time. 463 00:52:10,260 --> 00:52:12,100 Good idea. 464 00:52:12,380 --> 00:52:15,540 Indeed there are times, Philip, when I wonder if he is your blood. 465 00:52:15,700 --> 00:52:18,300 - I only worry that- - What was that, Attalus? 466 00:52:18,460 --> 00:52:19,780 Nothing. 467 00:52:19,940 --> 00:52:24,900 I was just noticing how the people like seeing you and Eurydice together. 468 00:52:28,860 --> 00:52:30,020 You go, boy! 469 00:52:30,980 --> 00:52:35,420 You ride that horse and by Zeus I say, you can rule the world. 470 00:52:59,860 --> 00:53:01,740 Bucephalus. 471 00:53:01,900 --> 00:53:05,860 That's what I'll call you. Strong and stubborn. 472 00:53:08,700 --> 00:53:11,780 Bucephalus and Alexander. 473 00:53:13,180 --> 00:53:16,900 Come now, let's ride together. 474 00:53:49,740 --> 00:53:51,500 He's got some Titan in him yet. 475 00:53:51,660 --> 00:53:56,300 Attalus! Cleitus! For Zeus' sake, he beat you, man! 476 00:54:01,340 --> 00:54:04,660 Now, Bucephalus, show them. 477 00:54:37,580 --> 00:54:38,900 My son. 478 00:54:39,060 --> 00:54:40,780 My son! 479 00:54:52,220 --> 00:54:54,260 You remember Prometheus... 480 00:54:54,420 --> 00:54:58,340 who stole the secret of fire and gave it to man. 481 00:54:58,500 --> 00:55:01,140 It made Zeus so angry... 482 00:55:01,500 --> 00:55:04,540 he chained Prometheus to a rock in the great Caucasus... 483 00:55:04,700 --> 00:55:08,580 and each day, his eagle pecked out the poor man's liver. 484 00:55:09,140 --> 00:55:13,860 Each night, it grew back again so that it could be eaten the next day. 485 00:55:14,060 --> 00:55:15,260 Miserable fate. 486 00:55:17,820 --> 00:55:22,740 Oedipus tore out his eyes when he found out... 487 00:55:22,900 --> 00:55:25,140 he'd murdered his father... 488 00:55:25,340 --> 00:55:29,860 and married his mother. Knowledge that came too late. 489 00:55:30,700 --> 00:55:32,100 Jason... 490 00:55:33,580 --> 00:55:36,300 he went east and brought back the Golden Fleece... 491 00:55:36,460 --> 00:55:39,660 and married a barbarian wife, Medea. 492 00:55:39,820 --> 00:55:44,300 Later, when he left her for a younger wife... 493 00:55:44,460 --> 00:55:48,420 Medea slaughtered their two children in vengeance. 494 00:56:00,660 --> 00:56:03,420 My mother would never hurt me. 495 00:56:10,780 --> 00:56:13,740 It's never easy to escape our mothers, Alexander. 496 00:56:14,340 --> 00:56:20,820 All your life, beware of women. They're far more dangerous than men. 497 00:56:28,420 --> 00:56:31,700 I'm sure you remember Achilles from Tales of Troy. 498 00:56:31,860 --> 00:56:34,340 - He's my favorite. - Why? 499 00:56:34,980 --> 00:56:38,780 Because he loved Patroclus and avenged his death. 500 00:56:39,180 --> 00:56:42,580 Because he lived without fear, and slew Hector. 501 00:56:42,740 --> 00:56:44,420 Some say he was a hotheaded fool... 502 00:56:44,620 --> 00:56:46,660 who fought for himself and not the Greeks. 503 00:56:46,820 --> 00:56:50,420 But he was a hero, the greatest at Troy. 504 00:56:50,620 --> 00:56:51,820 And his fate? 505 00:56:51,980 --> 00:56:55,860 That he must die young but with great glory. 506 00:56:56,020 --> 00:56:58,020 Did he have a choice? 507 00:56:58,500 --> 00:57:04,460 Oh, yes. He could have a long life, but there would be no glory. 508 00:57:07,460 --> 00:57:11,780 You dream of glory, Alexander. Your mother encourages you. 509 00:57:11,980 --> 00:57:15,540 There's no glory without suffering, and this she will not allow. 510 00:57:15,740 --> 00:57:17,900 She makes you weak. 511 00:57:19,220 --> 00:57:21,580 The gods have never made it easy for man. 512 00:57:21,740 --> 00:57:25,380 Look, Herakles. 513 00:57:27,060 --> 00:57:30,780 Even after he accomplished his 12 labors... 514 00:57:32,340 --> 00:57:37,860 he was punished with madness, slaughtered his three children. 515 00:57:38,740 --> 00:57:40,660 Poor Herakles. 516 00:57:42,740 --> 00:57:44,460 Great Herakles. 517 00:57:44,620 --> 00:57:46,940 All greatness comes from loss. 518 00:57:47,420 --> 00:57:53,580 Even you, the gods will one day judge harshly. 519 00:57:53,740 --> 00:57:55,740 When I'm king like you, Father? 520 00:57:55,900 --> 00:57:59,700 Don't rush the day, boy. You risk all. 521 00:58:00,740 --> 00:58:04,820 My father threw me into battle before I knew how to fight. 522 00:58:04,980 --> 00:58:07,540 When I killed my first man, he said: 523 00:58:07,700 --> 00:58:09,940 "Now you know. " 524 00:58:10,580 --> 00:58:14,660 I hated him then, but I understand why now. 525 00:58:14,820 --> 00:58:17,140 A king isn't born, Alexander. 526 00:58:17,300 --> 00:58:21,340 He's made by steel and by suffering. 527 00:58:22,340 --> 00:58:26,580 A king must know how to hurt those he loves. 528 00:58:30,380 --> 00:58:32,860 It's lonely. Ask Herakles. 529 00:58:33,860 --> 00:58:37,540 Ask any of them. Fate is cruel. 530 00:58:38,540 --> 00:58:44,260 No man or woman can be too powerful or too beautiful without disaster befalling. 531 00:58:44,420 --> 00:58:50,860 They laugh when you rise too high and crush everything you've built with a whim. 532 00:58:51,500 --> 00:58:55,540 What glory they give, in the end, they take away. 533 00:58:56,580 --> 00:59:00,140 They make of us slaves. 534 00:59:15,900 --> 00:59:20,100 Truth is in our hearts, and none will tell you this but your father. 535 00:59:20,740 --> 00:59:23,740 Men hate the gods. 536 00:59:24,700 --> 00:59:29,300 The only reason we worship any of them is because we fear worse. 537 00:59:30,140 --> 00:59:31,820 What's worse? 538 00:59:32,020 --> 00:59:33,860 The Titans. 539 00:59:34,020 --> 00:59:36,780 If they were ever to be set free... 540 00:59:36,940 --> 00:59:39,940 it would be a darkness such as we have never seen before. 541 00:59:40,100 --> 00:59:42,300 Could they ever come back? 542 00:59:43,500 --> 00:59:46,620 Can Zeus imprison the Titans forever under Mount Olympus? 543 00:59:46,780 --> 00:59:52,180 It's said that when Zeus burned them to dust with his lightning bolt... 544 00:59:52,340 --> 00:59:55,100 they took the Titans' ashes and, in a cold revenge... 545 00:59:55,300 --> 00:59:57,820 mixed it with those of mortal men. 546 00:59:57,980 --> 00:59:59,500 Why? 547 01:00:03,780 --> 01:00:05,900 Who knows these things? 548 01:00:06,660 --> 01:00:09,420 One day, things will change. 549 01:00:10,780 --> 01:00:12,740 Men will change. 550 01:00:12,900 --> 01:00:16,140 But first, the gods must change. 551 01:00:21,900 --> 01:00:24,860 But all this you'll forget, Alexander. 552 01:00:25,820 --> 01:00:28,060 That's why we call them myths. 553 01:00:29,300 --> 01:00:31,500 We can't bear to remember them. 554 01:00:31,860 --> 01:00:33,340 I'll remember. 555 01:00:33,780 --> 01:00:36,940 And one day, I'll be on walls like these. 556 01:00:45,020 --> 01:00:47,220 Alexander once said to me: 557 01:00:47,380 --> 01:00:51,820 "We are most alone when we are with the myths. " 558 01:00:52,860 --> 01:00:54,020 Phalanx! 559 01:00:55,740 --> 01:00:58,100 And thus, it came to pass in a dream... 560 01:00:58,300 --> 01:01:02,340 as mythical to all Greeks as Achilles defeating the Trojans. 561 01:01:03,100 --> 01:01:06,260 At this one glorious moment in time... 562 01:01:06,420 --> 01:01:10,660 Alexander was loved by all. 563 01:01:12,740 --> 01:01:17,300 But in the end, I believe Babylon was a far easier mistress to enter... 564 01:01:17,460 --> 01:01:20,260 than she was to leave. 565 01:02:11,260 --> 01:02:14,900 Sikander! Sikander! 566 01:02:38,940 --> 01:02:44,340 Aristotle may have called them barbarians, but he never saw Babylon. 567 01:02:44,540 --> 01:02:49,180 We have enough gold here to support three generations of Macedonian armies. 568 01:02:49,380 --> 01:02:52,340 And Macedonia would soon corrupt, Cassander. 569 01:02:52,500 --> 01:02:57,180 - Wealth in great quantities brings the crows. - Not for the men who fought, I trust. 570 01:02:58,060 --> 01:03:02,180 We'll pay them well, Antigonus, but not as mercenaries for future services. 571 01:03:02,340 --> 01:03:04,300 Now you sound like Philip. 572 01:03:05,180 --> 01:03:06,780 Philip never saw Babylon. 573 01:03:07,580 --> 01:03:09,460 No, he didn't, Hephaistion. 574 01:03:11,300 --> 01:03:13,300 - Hello! - Hello! 575 01:03:13,740 --> 01:03:17,140 Alexander, I know you think me a stiff old sod... 576 01:03:17,300 --> 01:03:19,820 but whatever our differences, know this day... 577 01:03:19,980 --> 01:03:23,540 your father would be very proud of you. 578 01:03:25,420 --> 01:03:27,020 Thank you, Parmenion. 579 01:03:27,780 --> 01:03:32,300 I ask you to forgive me my own anger, my pride. 580 01:03:32,460 --> 01:03:34,620 They, too, blind me. 581 01:03:38,340 --> 01:03:41,660 A magnificent mainland work from the last century. 582 01:03:42,100 --> 01:03:47,700 The golden age, Alexander. Worth much to Athens and to our alliances. 583 01:03:47,860 --> 01:03:49,980 Take back what is ours... 584 01:03:50,220 --> 01:03:52,700 but spare what belongs to the Persians. 585 01:03:56,220 --> 01:04:02,100 Yes. We're the richest men to walk the earth, my friends. 586 01:04:02,260 --> 01:04:06,980 - Not if you keep giving it all away. - The grandsons of goat herders... 587 01:04:07,140 --> 01:04:10,740 we now rule 2 million square miles. 588 01:04:12,220 --> 01:04:13,740 But... 589 01:04:14,580 --> 01:04:19,980 None of you fear that this great fortune may drive us all to destruction. 590 01:04:20,420 --> 01:04:22,220 You overvalue us. 591 01:04:22,380 --> 01:04:26,060 For as long as Darius breathes, he is the legitimate king of Asia... 592 01:04:26,220 --> 01:04:28,580 and I but the king of air. 593 01:04:28,740 --> 01:04:33,780 But he has no power, Alexander. He's lost in the mountains with no army. 594 01:04:33,980 --> 01:04:37,380 As long as he's lost, Philotas, he can be believed in. 595 01:04:37,540 --> 01:04:40,820 Only when he's found will it be decided. 596 01:04:42,540 --> 01:04:44,620 It seems you've already made up your mind. 597 01:04:44,820 --> 01:04:47,740 We must finish what we failed to do at Gaugamela. 598 01:04:47,900 --> 01:04:49,780 We must hunt Darius down. 599 01:04:49,940 --> 01:04:53,420 - That was not your father's mission. - And I am not my father. 600 01:04:56,140 --> 01:04:58,540 Come on. Have you so quickly forgotten? 601 01:04:58,740 --> 01:04:59,780 Fortune favors the bold. 602 01:05:04,580 --> 01:05:07,540 No wonder Darius fled when he had this to come back to. 603 01:05:07,740 --> 01:05:11,340 One for every night of the year. 604 01:05:37,100 --> 01:05:39,620 How will I go back to Lysimache after this? 605 01:05:39,820 --> 01:05:43,700 I advise you not to touch, Leonnatus. Here, I'll take care of it for you. 606 01:06:02,860 --> 01:06:04,940 Aristotle was perhaps prescient. 607 01:06:08,700 --> 01:06:12,500 Do these images fool us with their beauty and degrade our souls? 608 01:06:42,940 --> 01:06:46,420 Bagoas, great king. Darius' boy. 609 01:06:46,620 --> 01:06:51,620 - Bagoas. - Nicely gilded, Your Majesty. 610 01:06:51,820 --> 01:06:57,180 Most successful. He was certainly one of the great king's favorites. 611 01:06:59,140 --> 01:07:02,980 How old? Is great well with the years. 612 01:07:05,020 --> 01:07:08,980 What are you now, Bagoas? Eighteen, 19? 613 01:07:09,140 --> 01:07:12,340 - Where does he come from? - The north, sire. 614 01:07:14,100 --> 01:07:16,300 From the hills near Susa. 615 01:07:16,460 --> 01:07:18,500 You speak our language. 616 01:07:18,660 --> 01:07:22,300 - Good. I'd like to learn yours. - Is learnable, my lord. 617 01:07:35,740 --> 01:07:37,100 So tell me, Bagoas... 618 01:07:38,300 --> 01:07:41,580 do my eyes betray me or do you wish to be set free... 619 01:07:41,740 --> 01:07:43,460 to go back to your homeland? 620 01:07:47,580 --> 01:07:50,340 All my family's long dead, great king. 621 01:07:50,660 --> 01:07:54,220 With your permission, I will stay on. 622 01:07:57,260 --> 01:07:59,020 Very well then, Bagoas. 623 01:08:00,180 --> 01:08:02,900 Ptolemy, administer this. 624 01:08:05,580 --> 01:08:09,460 And that's the same of every person in the harem, woman and eunuch. 625 01:08:09,620 --> 01:08:12,980 Whoever wishes to be sent home to their families, let them. 626 01:08:13,260 --> 01:08:14,380 What? 627 01:08:14,540 --> 01:08:18,020 - Hear that, boys? - He set us free. 628 01:08:51,620 --> 01:08:55,300 Great King Alexander. 629 01:08:57,820 --> 01:09:00,380 The princess of the thousand roses... 630 01:09:00,580 --> 01:09:03,300 and eldest daughter of the formerly Great King Darius... 631 01:09:04,660 --> 01:09:06,700 Stateira. 632 01:09:07,380 --> 01:09:08,900 Noble Alexander... 633 01:09:16,060 --> 01:09:19,020 I come to beg for the lives... 634 01:09:19,580 --> 01:09:21,060 of my sisters... 635 01:09:22,140 --> 01:09:25,020 my mother, my grandmother. 636 01:09:29,620 --> 01:09:33,740 You are not wrong, Princess Stateira. 637 01:09:33,900 --> 01:09:36,020 He, too, is Alexander. 638 01:09:39,860 --> 01:09:41,060 Please. 639 01:09:42,180 --> 01:09:45,780 I plead for my family's lives. 640 01:09:47,100 --> 01:09:50,220 - Sell me as a slave, great king, but- - Look now... 641 01:09:50,380 --> 01:09:52,500 in my eyes... 642 01:09:53,660 --> 01:09:54,860 princess... 643 01:09:56,900 --> 01:09:58,580 and tell me... 644 01:09:58,780 --> 01:10:01,220 how would you like to be treated? 645 01:10:03,740 --> 01:10:05,820 As I am... 646 01:10:06,020 --> 01:10:08,060 a princess. 647 01:10:11,300 --> 01:10:13,060 Then so be it. 648 01:10:14,820 --> 01:10:17,820 You and your family shall be treated as my family. 649 01:10:20,500 --> 01:10:23,660 You shall live in this palace as long as you choose. 650 01:10:24,100 --> 01:10:27,740 Have you any other requests for me, my noble princess? 651 01:10:30,300 --> 01:10:31,900 No. 652 01:10:32,820 --> 01:10:35,940 Everything I wish... 653 01:10:36,100 --> 01:10:38,980 I have requested. 654 01:10:39,900 --> 01:10:41,780 You truly are... 655 01:10:41,940 --> 01:10:43,220 a queen. 656 01:10:50,180 --> 01:10:52,940 Yes, she would be a perfect match for you... 657 01:10:53,660 --> 01:10:55,540 but you do nothing. 658 01:10:55,940 --> 01:10:59,300 Three months you've been in Babylon and leave me in Pella... 659 01:10:59,460 --> 01:11:03,300 at the mercy of your enemies, of which you have many. 660 01:11:03,460 --> 01:11:07,180 Antipater, accustomed now to the power that you have given him. 661 01:11:07,420 --> 01:11:09,940 I must watch him grow stronger. 662 01:11:17,180 --> 01:11:22,140 I'm certain that he communicates secretly with Parmenion, who is dangerous. 663 01:11:22,340 --> 01:11:25,340 But beware, most of all, of those closest to you. 664 01:11:25,780 --> 01:11:27,020 They are like snakes... 665 01:11:28,100 --> 01:11:29,500 and can be turned. 666 01:11:29,660 --> 01:11:31,300 General Crateros. 667 01:11:34,260 --> 01:11:37,900 Cassander is Antipater's son. 668 01:11:38,900 --> 01:11:42,660 Even Cleitus, your father's favorite... 669 01:11:42,860 --> 01:11:45,300 and Ptolemy, your friend, yes. 670 01:11:45,460 --> 01:11:47,700 But beware of men who think too much. 671 01:11:48,060 --> 01:11:50,220 They blind themselves. 672 01:11:53,900 --> 01:11:56,180 Only Hephaistion do I leave out. 673 01:11:57,300 --> 01:11:59,860 But all of them you make rich... 674 01:12:00,020 --> 01:12:05,900 while your mother and yourself, you leave in generous poverty. 675 01:12:06,700 --> 01:12:09,740 Why won't you ever believe me? 676 01:12:09,900 --> 01:12:15,580 It is only a dark mind like mine that can know these secrets of the heart. 677 01:12:15,740 --> 01:12:18,540 For they are dark, Alexander. 678 01:12:18,780 --> 01:12:21,140 So dark. 679 01:12:21,300 --> 01:12:24,860 But in you, the son of Zeus... 680 01:12:25,020 --> 01:12:27,900 lies the light of the world. 681 01:12:28,060 --> 01:12:32,100 Your companions will be shadows in the underworld... 682 01:12:32,260 --> 01:12:36,580 when you are a name living forever in history as the most glorious... 683 01:12:36,780 --> 01:12:41,180 shining light of youth, forever young, forever inspiring. 684 01:12:41,380 --> 01:12:44,900 Never will there be an Alexander like you. 685 01:12:45,060 --> 01:12:47,820 Alexander the Great. 686 01:12:48,860 --> 01:12:52,380 Remember, bring me to Babylon as you promised. 687 01:12:52,540 --> 01:12:55,780 I can only help you, for they know if they harm you... 688 01:12:55,940 --> 01:12:59,060 they will face my wrath, as Queen of Babylon. 689 01:13:01,660 --> 01:13:05,300 It's a high ransom she charges for nine months' lodging in the womb. 690 01:13:05,500 --> 01:13:07,500 Bring her, Alexander. 691 01:13:07,660 --> 01:13:10,620 - It'll give her such joy. - Joy? 692 01:13:11,540 --> 01:13:14,780 When I'm the cracked mirror of her dreams? 693 01:13:17,260 --> 01:13:19,980 Stay with me tonight, Hephaistion. 694 01:13:26,500 --> 01:13:28,300 I'll take my own bath. 695 01:13:29,420 --> 01:13:30,900 Thank you, Bagoas. 696 01:13:39,260 --> 01:13:40,580 What bothers you? 697 01:13:42,580 --> 01:13:45,340 I see in her everything I fear. 698 01:13:46,980 --> 01:13:52,020 Yet I have no idea what it is, this fear. 699 01:13:56,740 --> 01:14:00,340 She was always so sure I was born of Zeus. 700 01:14:00,860 --> 01:14:02,980 Why, Hephaistion? 701 01:14:04,660 --> 01:14:09,660 I think there are things beyond our imagining... 702 01:14:10,420 --> 01:14:15,460 like the lightning, tales of strange conceptions. 703 01:14:16,780 --> 01:14:18,860 I don't doubt it. 704 01:14:19,140 --> 01:14:21,340 What is being told me? 705 01:14:21,820 --> 01:14:25,420 What destiny do we-? Do I have? 706 01:14:27,460 --> 01:14:32,580 Well, if I'm Patroclus, I die first. 707 01:14:32,860 --> 01:14:34,780 Then you, Achilles. 708 01:14:41,540 --> 01:14:44,380 The generals are upset. 709 01:14:45,620 --> 01:14:48,940 They question your obsession with Darius. 710 01:14:49,140 --> 01:14:52,300 They say it was never meant for you to be king of Asia. 711 01:14:52,460 --> 01:14:53,980 Naturally. 712 01:14:54,180 --> 01:14:58,500 They want only to return to their homes, rich with gold. But I've seen the future. 713 01:14:58,660 --> 01:15:01,980 I've seen it now 1000 times, on 1000 faces. 714 01:15:02,140 --> 01:15:04,260 These people want... 715 01:15:05,060 --> 01:15:07,300 Need change. 716 01:15:08,180 --> 01:15:12,660 - Aristotle was wrong about them. - How so? 717 01:15:12,980 --> 01:15:14,980 Look at those we've conquered. 718 01:15:15,140 --> 01:15:17,260 They leave their dead unburied. 719 01:15:17,420 --> 01:15:20,100 They smash their enemies' skulls and drink them as dust. 720 01:15:20,300 --> 01:15:22,540 They mate in public. 721 01:15:22,740 --> 01:15:27,580 What can they think or sing or write when none can read? 722 01:15:27,780 --> 01:15:32,380 But as Alexander's army, they can go where they never thought possible. 723 01:15:32,580 --> 01:15:35,620 They can soldier or work in the cities. 724 01:15:35,820 --> 01:15:40,020 The Alexandrias, from Egypt to the outer ocean. 725 01:15:40,500 --> 01:15:43,460 We could connect these lands, Hephaistion... 726 01:15:43,620 --> 01:15:44,820 and the people. 727 01:15:44,980 --> 01:15:50,460 Some say these Alexandrias have become extensions of Alexander himself. 728 01:15:51,340 --> 01:15:54,500 They draw people into the cities to make slaves of them. 729 01:15:54,660 --> 01:15:59,020 But we freed them, Hephaistion, from the Persia where everyone lived as slaves. 730 01:16:00,980 --> 01:16:04,180 To free the people of the world... 731 01:16:04,380 --> 01:16:08,980 such would be beyond the glory of Achilles, beyond Herakles... 732 01:16:09,140 --> 01:16:11,780 a feat to rival Prometheus... 733 01:16:12,580 --> 01:16:15,220 who was always a friend to man. 734 01:16:15,420 --> 01:16:17,780 Remember the fates of these heroes. 735 01:16:17,940 --> 01:16:22,140 - They suffered greatly. - We all suffer. 736 01:16:22,580 --> 01:16:26,140 Your father, mine. 737 01:16:26,940 --> 01:16:29,020 They all came to the end of their time. 738 01:16:29,180 --> 01:16:33,260 And in the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done. 739 01:16:34,580 --> 01:16:39,380 You once said, "The fear of death drives all men. " 740 01:16:39,700 --> 01:16:41,620 Are there no other forces? 741 01:16:42,780 --> 01:16:45,660 Is there not love in your life... 742 01:16:47,060 --> 01:16:49,060 Alexander? 743 01:16:52,820 --> 01:16:57,260 What would you do if you ever reached the end of the world? 744 01:16:59,180 --> 01:17:02,340 I'd turn back and conquer its opposite. 745 01:17:07,380 --> 01:17:12,580 I wonder sometimes if it's not your mother you run from. 746 01:17:13,860 --> 01:17:17,300 So many years, so many miles between you. 747 01:17:19,460 --> 01:17:21,420 What is it you fear? 748 01:17:22,900 --> 01:17:25,220 Who knows these things? 749 01:17:26,820 --> 01:17:31,900 When I was a child, my mother thought me divine. My father, weak. 750 01:17:34,500 --> 01:17:37,100 Which am I, Hephaistion? 751 01:17:37,260 --> 01:17:39,380 Weak or divine? 752 01:17:42,900 --> 01:17:44,820 All I know is... 753 01:17:44,980 --> 01:17:47,940 I trust only you in this world. 754 01:17:48,100 --> 01:17:50,060 I've missed you. 755 01:17:50,860 --> 01:17:52,180 I need you. 756 01:17:54,260 --> 01:17:55,900 It is you I love, Hephaistion. 757 01:17:58,300 --> 01:18:00,460 No other. 758 01:18:04,220 --> 01:18:07,140 You're everything I care for... 759 01:18:07,300 --> 01:18:10,940 and by the sweet breath of Aphrodite... 760 01:18:11,460 --> 01:18:14,540 I'm so jealous of losing you to this world you want. 761 01:18:15,060 --> 01:18:17,700 You'll never lose me, Hephaistion. 762 01:18:18,100 --> 01:18:21,380 I'll be with you always. 763 01:18:22,020 --> 01:18:24,100 Till the end. 764 01:18:37,340 --> 01:18:39,980 The campaign in the northeast of Persia... 765 01:18:40,140 --> 01:18:45,260 turned into a hard guerrilla war of almost three years. 766 01:18:47,860 --> 01:18:50,540 We chased Darius towards Bactria... 767 01:18:50,700 --> 01:18:53,500 but missed taking him by hours. 768 01:18:56,740 --> 01:18:59,100 He was dying when we found him, sire. 769 01:18:59,260 --> 01:19:01,180 He asked for water. 770 01:19:01,340 --> 01:19:03,700 He drank and died. 771 01:19:10,380 --> 01:19:15,100 The Great King Darius had been betrayed by his own commanders. 772 01:19:43,220 --> 01:19:45,180 Fully honoring his corpse... 773 01:19:45,340 --> 01:19:50,260 Alexander hunted down these commanders into unknown lands... 774 01:19:51,220 --> 01:19:56,060 crossing even beyond the River Oxus into Sogdia. 775 01:20:00,220 --> 01:20:04,340 We fought them as far as the unknown steppes of Scythia... 776 01:20:05,340 --> 01:20:08,660 where only legendary heroes had once trod. 777 01:20:08,820 --> 01:20:14,140 The surveyors told us we were now on the borders of where Europe and Asia meet. 778 01:20:14,300 --> 01:20:17,580 In fact, we were totally lost. 779 01:20:19,100 --> 01:20:22,100 Here, Alexander founded his 10th Alexandria... 780 01:20:22,260 --> 01:20:27,540 and settled it with veterans, their women and any who would dare the frontier life. 781 01:20:28,580 --> 01:20:31,540 Unable to accept defeat in any form... 782 01:20:31,740 --> 01:20:36,060 Alexander persisted in breaking every tribe that resisted... 783 01:20:36,420 --> 01:20:40,220 until the day he received the head of his last enemy who'd surrendered. 784 01:20:45,100 --> 01:20:49,740 For Alexander, there could be no pretender to the throne of Asia... 785 01:20:50,860 --> 01:20:55,260 which now included all of Sogdia and Bactria. 786 01:20:58,340 --> 01:21:02,580 It was here that he made one of his most mysterious decisions. 787 01:21:05,540 --> 01:21:09,900 Ten years after his mother's insistence he marry a Macedonian... 788 01:21:10,060 --> 01:21:12,060 Through our union... 789 01:21:12,260 --> 01:21:15,100 Greek and barbarian... 790 01:21:15,260 --> 01:21:17,220 may be reconciled in peace. 791 01:21:17,460 --> 01:21:23,060 The most powerful man in the world took a girl of no political significance. 792 01:21:28,140 --> 01:21:29,700 Why? 793 01:21:30,820 --> 01:21:34,220 Some say it was for alliance with the tribes. 794 01:21:36,020 --> 01:21:38,300 Others, the desire for a successor. 795 01:21:40,780 --> 01:21:45,820 And yet others said Alexander truly fell in love. 796 01:21:47,060 --> 01:21:48,940 Who Roxane really was... 797 01:21:49,100 --> 01:21:54,900 I doubt that any of us ever saw further than the pools of those black eyes. 798 01:21:56,540 --> 01:21:59,260 On this glorious occasion... 799 01:22:00,900 --> 01:22:03,740 I toast this great army that has given so much. 800 01:22:03,940 --> 01:22:08,020 And in honor of them, those of you who set out with us seven long years ago... 801 01:22:08,180 --> 01:22:14,420 I pronounce all your debts paid forthwith from the royal treasury. 802 01:22:14,820 --> 01:22:16,060 Praise Alexander! 803 01:22:20,140 --> 01:22:22,220 And in honor of my bride... 804 01:22:25,820 --> 01:22:28,300 my beautiful bride... 805 01:22:28,500 --> 01:22:33,020 we recognize the many women who've shared the long road with us... 806 01:22:33,180 --> 01:22:36,700 and grant them dowries befitting a proper marriage. 807 01:22:45,340 --> 01:22:48,140 And what about our boys? 808 01:22:48,300 --> 01:22:49,780 And lastly... 809 01:22:49,980 --> 01:22:53,220 lastly, the gods demand no less of us... 810 01:22:53,420 --> 01:22:56,740 that your children be given a proper Greek education... 811 01:22:56,900 --> 01:23:01,500 and military training under our protection... 812 01:23:01,700 --> 01:23:05,900 so as to be the new soldiers of our kingdom... 813 01:23:06,100 --> 01:23:08,540 in Asia. 814 01:23:24,420 --> 01:23:29,860 Your father must be turning in his grave. After all this time, a hill chief's daughter. 815 01:23:30,140 --> 01:23:31,940 You call this tribal wedding legitimate? 816 01:23:32,100 --> 01:23:34,860 Do you forget my father took a barbarian as his queen? 817 01:23:35,060 --> 01:23:37,900 Yes, but few would call it a profoundly happy marriage. 818 01:23:39,140 --> 01:23:42,340 But what's the point, Alexander? She's your captive. 819 01:23:42,500 --> 01:23:44,340 Just take her as your concubine. 820 01:23:44,540 --> 01:23:47,380 Because I want a son. Damn you, Philotas. 821 01:23:47,900 --> 01:23:53,340 Then half your nobles have sisters who'd make fine Macedonian mothers. 822 01:23:53,500 --> 01:23:56,220 To take an Asian as my queen, not a captive... 823 01:23:56,420 --> 01:23:58,260 is a sign of respect for our subjects. 824 01:23:58,460 --> 01:24:00,780 It will bring us together, unify us. 825 01:24:01,300 --> 01:24:03,420 Which is not to say I won't take a Macedonian. 826 01:24:03,580 --> 01:24:06,860 As a second wife? You insult Macedonia. 827 01:24:07,660 --> 01:24:11,620 Never will our people accept this girl's son as king. 828 01:24:11,940 --> 01:24:16,100 They'll be angry enough to find out their husbands all have second wives in Barbaria. 829 01:24:16,300 --> 01:24:17,580 Then they'll learn! 830 01:24:17,780 --> 01:24:21,020 By Athena's justice, this girl has spirit. 831 01:24:21,180 --> 01:24:23,460 She'll breed a brave son. 832 01:24:23,620 --> 01:24:25,380 Alexander! 833 01:24:25,980 --> 01:24:28,620 This is about the honor of our kingdom. 834 01:24:28,820 --> 01:24:30,940 Exactly. What can be won, Alexander? 835 01:24:31,100 --> 01:24:34,620 We're in Asia to punish them for their crimes. We've achieved that. 836 01:24:34,820 --> 01:24:38,420 Seven years from home, now we drift from one far region to another... 837 01:24:38,580 --> 01:24:42,220 chasing nomads and bandits when Macedonia bleeds its manpower. 838 01:24:42,380 --> 01:24:45,340 For what? To build roads in Asia? 839 01:24:45,500 --> 01:24:48,940 - To give these people cities? - And now make an army of them? 840 01:24:49,140 --> 01:24:52,500 To found cities and expand our reach is not to drift. 841 01:24:52,660 --> 01:24:55,060 - What benefit to Macedon? - It's far richer! 842 01:24:55,220 --> 01:24:57,460 - Look what you give them. - With respect... 843 01:24:57,620 --> 01:25:01,340 had you fought better at Gaugamela when your flank was crumbling... 844 01:25:01,500 --> 01:25:04,820 - How dare you, Nearchus?! - General Nearchus to you, boy. 845 01:25:05,020 --> 01:25:08,500 Alexander spread our flank too thin! There was nothing my father... 846 01:25:08,660 --> 01:25:11,020 - Or any of you could've done! - Philotas! 847 01:25:16,980 --> 01:25:19,620 Alexander, I've known you since you were born. 848 01:25:20,300 --> 01:25:23,300 I supported you at your father's death. 849 01:25:23,460 --> 01:25:26,340 At the very least, for Zeus' sake... 850 01:25:26,500 --> 01:25:29,460 and in respect to the council that chose you king... 851 01:25:29,620 --> 01:25:31,780 give us a Macedonian heir. 852 01:25:31,940 --> 01:25:33,620 A Macedonian heir. 853 01:25:39,980 --> 01:25:42,020 - You've been heard clearly. - But... 854 01:25:42,180 --> 01:25:47,740 Parmenion! After the wedding, take two brigades to Babylon, where I look to you... 855 01:25:47,900 --> 01:25:52,740 and Antipater in Greece, to maintain our empire and supply this expedition. 856 01:25:53,540 --> 01:25:55,620 I'll winter with my army at Marakand. 857 01:25:55,780 --> 01:25:59,860 I pray to Apollo you realize how far you've turned from your father's path. 858 01:26:00,020 --> 01:26:02,740 Damn you, Parmenion, by the gods and your Apollo. 859 01:26:02,900 --> 01:26:06,020 What was in my father's guts wasn't overripe in reason like yours! 860 01:26:06,220 --> 01:26:10,180 He never lusted for war, Alexander, or enjoyed it so. 861 01:26:10,340 --> 01:26:15,620 He consulted his peers in council, among equals, the Macedonian way. 862 01:26:15,780 --> 01:26:18,300 He didn't decide based on his personal desires. 863 01:26:18,500 --> 01:26:21,900 I've taken us further than my father ever dreamed. 864 01:26:22,060 --> 01:26:23,340 Old man... 865 01:26:23,540 --> 01:26:25,940 we're in new worlds. 866 01:26:26,900 --> 01:26:30,580 Alexander, be reasonable! 867 01:26:30,780 --> 01:26:33,180 Were they ever meant to be our equals? 868 01:26:33,460 --> 01:26:35,180 Share our rewards? 869 01:26:35,380 --> 01:26:37,500 You remember what Aristotle said. 870 01:26:37,660 --> 01:26:38,980 An Asian? 871 01:26:39,180 --> 01:26:42,980 What would a vow mean to a race that's never kept their word to a Greek? 872 01:26:43,140 --> 01:26:45,180 - Aristotle be damned! - Alexander! 873 01:26:45,380 --> 01:26:46,860 By Zeus and all the gods... 874 01:26:47,060 --> 01:26:51,180 what makes you so much better than them, Cassander? 875 01:26:51,340 --> 01:26:55,860 Better than you really are. In you and those like you is this. 876 01:26:57,180 --> 01:26:59,020 Alexander. 877 01:27:01,700 --> 01:27:06,380 What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgment. 878 01:27:09,460 --> 01:27:13,180 It's your contempt for a world far older than ours. 879 01:27:45,820 --> 01:27:48,460 Five to any man who bothers to kill me. 880 01:27:48,620 --> 01:27:51,020 Have another drink, Cleitus. 881 01:27:51,660 --> 01:27:54,820 - Shouldn't you be bound to a king? - Cleitus. 882 01:27:55,460 --> 01:27:59,740 Alexander, you look weak when you not accept these honors. 883 01:27:59,900 --> 01:28:02,020 I understand, my dear father... 884 01:28:02,180 --> 01:28:05,900 - But it's against Greek ways. - Then Greek ways are weak. 885 01:28:06,060 --> 01:28:08,700 I still think she got the better of him in this bargain. 886 01:28:08,900 --> 01:28:12,100 My daughter, Roxane... 887 01:28:12,260 --> 01:28:14,340 she shall make you good wife. 888 01:28:14,540 --> 01:28:16,900 She shall kill for you. 889 01:28:21,060 --> 01:28:26,460 Raw skunk, ruler of heaven... 890 01:28:28,060 --> 01:28:29,660 and earth. 891 01:28:35,620 --> 01:28:38,980 In honor of this great alliance... 892 01:28:39,140 --> 01:28:44,420 I, Oxyartes, offer you these great gifts. 893 01:28:44,580 --> 01:28:47,500 I would like to honor a toast to you from my people. 894 01:28:53,540 --> 01:28:55,100 Good morning, sire. 895 01:29:15,660 --> 01:29:17,900 We shall fight for you, Alexander. 896 01:29:18,780 --> 01:29:20,900 It shall be bloody. 897 01:29:22,780 --> 01:29:24,660 Who's the bear? 898 01:29:26,340 --> 01:29:28,020 Parmenion. 899 01:29:28,540 --> 01:29:31,420 You've been in complete control of your supply lines. 900 01:29:31,580 --> 01:29:33,860 His pessimism is infectious. 901 01:29:34,300 --> 01:29:36,260 But he'll stay loyal... 902 01:29:38,020 --> 01:29:40,260 as long as his son remains with us. 903 01:31:57,020 --> 01:31:58,300 Hey! 904 01:32:06,180 --> 01:32:10,500 Her eyes tell me she cares for you, Alexander. 905 01:32:12,740 --> 01:32:14,100 Perhaps too much. 906 01:32:18,420 --> 01:32:20,780 In the ways of my country... 907 01:32:21,140 --> 01:32:24,900 those who love too much lose everything... 908 01:32:25,980 --> 01:32:28,780 and those who love with irony... 909 01:32:30,340 --> 01:32:31,460 last. 910 01:33:22,780 --> 01:33:24,260 I found it in Egypt. 911 01:33:26,900 --> 01:33:29,340 The man who sold it said it came from a time... 912 01:33:29,500 --> 01:33:33,380 when man worshipped sun and stars. 913 01:33:39,220 --> 01:33:41,500 I'll always think of you... 914 01:33:42,260 --> 01:33:44,580 as the sun, Alexander. 915 01:33:44,780 --> 01:33:48,780 And I pray your dream will shine on all men. 916 01:33:57,740 --> 01:33:59,860 I wish you a son. 917 01:34:01,660 --> 01:34:04,060 You're a great man. 918 01:34:08,180 --> 01:34:11,460 Many will love you, Alexander, but none so pure and deep... 919 01:34:28,340 --> 01:34:29,780 You... 920 01:34:29,940 --> 01:34:31,420 love him? 921 01:34:40,500 --> 01:34:43,540 He is Hephaistion. 922 01:35:03,180 --> 01:35:05,060 Thank you, Bagoas. 923 01:35:10,900 --> 01:35:12,620 Your boy? 924 01:35:12,780 --> 01:35:16,260 There are many different ways to love, Roxane. 925 01:35:16,820 --> 01:35:18,300 Come. 926 01:35:33,420 --> 01:35:34,660 No. 927 01:35:34,820 --> 01:35:36,220 No, no. 928 01:35:52,140 --> 01:35:53,980 No. No. 929 01:36:26,540 --> 01:36:28,540 You have no fear. 930 01:36:30,180 --> 01:36:31,940 It's fitting. 931 01:36:33,220 --> 01:36:36,660 A man searches for a woman at Earth's top... 932 01:36:36,820 --> 01:36:38,860 and finds her. 933 01:36:56,220 --> 01:36:57,860 The myth becomes real. 934 01:37:09,100 --> 01:37:13,020 Great man, Sikander... 935 01:37:13,340 --> 01:37:14,820 you I kill now. 936 01:37:20,540 --> 01:37:22,020 Do it. 937 01:37:22,620 --> 01:37:25,140 End it. I would do the... 938 01:37:25,740 --> 01:37:29,780 I would do the same. I'll die a fool... 939 01:37:29,940 --> 01:37:33,380 for this love. 940 01:38:20,820 --> 01:38:22,700 My life is now yours. 941 01:38:47,540 --> 01:38:50,780 You will have my son. 942 01:39:45,820 --> 01:39:52,340 Who is this woman you call your queen, Alexander? A hill girl? 943 01:39:53,220 --> 01:39:55,660 You with your breeding. 944 01:39:55,820 --> 01:40:00,860 Already she makes enemies with her strong, clumsy nature. 945 01:40:04,220 --> 01:40:06,580 Do not confuse us. 946 01:40:06,740 --> 01:40:10,500 I was never a barbarian as Philip said. 947 01:40:10,660 --> 01:40:13,340 We are of Achilles' royal blood. 948 01:40:14,300 --> 01:40:17,300 Zeus is your father. 949 01:40:18,940 --> 01:40:23,340 Oh, I understand she brings you some happiness... 950 01:40:24,060 --> 01:40:26,420 but how can she help you? 951 01:40:26,580 --> 01:40:29,580 You must know that she does not speak in your name... 952 01:40:29,740 --> 01:40:33,780 which is yours and yours alone. 953 01:40:33,940 --> 01:40:36,980 Preserve it, secret it... 954 01:40:37,140 --> 01:40:40,260 and hear me when I tell you, act... 955 01:40:40,460 --> 01:40:42,340 and act soon. 956 01:40:42,500 --> 01:40:44,500 After seven years, people wonder: 957 01:40:44,700 --> 01:40:46,980 "Who is this King Alexander?" 958 01:40:47,140 --> 01:40:52,940 I have given you ample proof. Antipater daily undermines your authority. 959 01:40:53,140 --> 01:40:56,100 Return to Babylon and strengthen your center. 960 01:40:57,020 --> 01:40:59,100 Or come home to Macedonia and reorganize. 961 01:40:59,260 --> 01:41:01,860 But do not chase your dream... 962 01:41:02,020 --> 01:41:04,100 further east. 963 01:41:04,260 --> 01:41:08,060 Your life and mine depend on it. 964 01:41:08,940 --> 01:41:10,620 Remember... 965 01:41:10,820 --> 01:41:14,500 my only thoughts are of you. 966 01:41:14,660 --> 01:41:18,980 As you, too, must face your glorious destiny. 967 01:41:19,140 --> 01:41:21,260 Think kindly of your mother. 968 01:41:21,420 --> 01:41:22,980 Provide for me. 969 01:41:23,140 --> 01:41:26,740 Protect me from your enemies when you are gone. 970 01:41:28,100 --> 01:41:30,860 And remember always... 971 01:41:31,020 --> 01:41:34,460 it is I who love you more than any. 972 01:41:40,740 --> 01:41:44,060 If only you were not a pale reflection... 973 01:41:44,260 --> 01:41:45,660 of my mother's heart. 974 01:42:05,700 --> 01:42:09,180 Pregnant so soon. The little whore. 975 01:42:09,380 --> 01:42:13,500 He will marry her in the spring, during Dionysus' Festival... 976 01:42:13,660 --> 01:42:16,300 and when her first son is born... 977 01:42:16,460 --> 01:42:21,980 her sweet uncle Attalus will convince Philip to name the boy his successor... 978 01:42:22,140 --> 01:42:24,580 with himself as regent. 979 01:42:24,740 --> 01:42:26,700 And you... 980 01:42:26,900 --> 01:42:30,940 you will be sent on some impossible mission... 981 01:42:31,140 --> 01:42:33,700 against some monstrous Northern tribe... 982 01:42:33,900 --> 01:42:39,340 to be mutilated in one more meaningless battle over cattle. 983 01:42:39,540 --> 01:42:43,380 And I, no longer queen, will be put to death... 984 01:42:43,580 --> 01:42:47,620 with your sister and the remaining members of our family. 985 01:42:47,820 --> 01:42:52,580 I wish sometimes you could see the light, Mother. 986 01:42:52,740 --> 01:42:57,460 The truth is, he's taken nothing from you that you've not been long without. 987 01:42:59,020 --> 01:43:01,420 The only way is to strike. 988 01:43:01,580 --> 01:43:04,340 Announce your marriage to a Macedonian now. 989 01:43:04,900 --> 01:43:09,180 Beget a child of pure blood. He would be one of them, not mine... 990 01:43:09,340 --> 01:43:12,700 and he would have no choice but to make you king. 991 01:43:12,860 --> 01:43:15,060 There is still Kynnane. 992 01:43:16,820 --> 01:43:20,700 Eurydice was perfect. If your father, that pig, had not ravaged her first! 993 01:43:20,860 --> 01:43:23,660 Say nothing more of my father. 994 01:43:23,860 --> 01:43:26,820 Do you hear me? Say nothing. 995 01:43:27,740 --> 01:43:29,420 You're right. 996 01:43:30,420 --> 01:43:32,500 Forgive me. 997 01:43:32,700 --> 01:43:35,500 A mother loves too much. 998 01:43:41,740 --> 01:43:44,340 Who shall I sing to sleep at night anymore? 999 01:43:49,500 --> 01:43:54,460 I wish-I wish we could spend more time together. 1000 01:43:55,220 --> 01:43:59,660 Like we used to, when you were the sweetest boy. 1001 01:44:04,940 --> 01:44:07,060 There's never been time, Mother. 1002 01:44:07,900 --> 01:44:12,820 Since I was a child, I've been groomed to be ever the best. 1003 01:44:13,860 --> 01:44:18,300 My poor child, you're like Achilles... 1004 01:44:18,500 --> 01:44:20,980 cursed by your greatness. 1005 01:44:25,420 --> 01:44:27,580 Yes. Take my strength. 1006 01:44:33,260 --> 01:44:37,580 You must never confuse your feelings... 1007 01:44:37,740 --> 01:44:40,860 with your duties, Alexander. 1008 01:44:41,260 --> 01:44:45,740 A king must make public gestures for the common people. 1009 01:44:45,940 --> 01:44:49,340 I know, but you will be 19 this summer... 1010 01:44:49,500 --> 01:44:54,260 and the girls already say you don't like them. You like Hephaistion more. 1011 01:44:54,420 --> 01:44:57,900 I understand. It's natural for a young man. 1012 01:44:58,060 --> 01:45:02,260 But if you go to Asia without leaving your successor, you risk all. 1013 01:45:02,420 --> 01:45:07,900 Hephaistion loves me, as I am... 1014 01:45:08,860 --> 01:45:10,180 not who. 1015 01:45:11,660 --> 01:45:15,140 Loves? Loves? 1016 01:45:17,140 --> 01:45:19,700 In the name of Dionysus... 1017 01:45:21,060 --> 01:45:27,500 understand how Philip thinks, for your own sake. 1018 01:45:27,700 --> 01:45:31,620 Your life hangs in the balance. 1019 01:45:32,060 --> 01:45:37,900 I know these things, Alexander. You are nothing to him. 1020 01:45:38,460 --> 01:45:42,700 His spies are inside your closest circle... 1021 01:45:43,100 --> 01:45:46,460 to ensure that you don't plot against him. 1022 01:45:46,620 --> 01:45:49,660 And still you sleep. 1023 01:45:51,220 --> 01:45:54,780 You will not live out this year unless you act! 1024 01:45:54,940 --> 01:45:56,420 Stop! 1025 01:45:58,740 --> 01:46:01,500 I'm his only worthy son. 1026 01:46:01,660 --> 01:46:03,660 You crazed woman. 1027 01:46:04,780 --> 01:46:06,780 He'd never hurt me. 1028 01:46:07,900 --> 01:46:12,660 Even if Eurydice had a boy, he'd be 20 before he'd let him rule. 1029 01:46:12,860 --> 01:46:16,260 Yes, and you would be 40. 1030 01:46:16,420 --> 01:46:22,820 Old and wise like Parmenion. And Philip's young son would be 20. 1031 01:46:22,980 --> 01:46:29,340 Like you now, but raised by him, his blood. 1032 01:46:29,940 --> 01:46:33,340 He will never give you the throne now, Alexander. 1033 01:46:33,500 --> 01:46:35,020 Never. 1034 01:46:37,260 --> 01:46:39,380 What would you have me do? 1035 01:46:40,220 --> 01:46:42,980 Whatever is necessary. 1036 01:46:46,340 --> 01:46:49,020 Where have you lost your mind? 1037 01:46:49,460 --> 01:46:51,860 It would be civil war, clan against clan, chaos. 1038 01:46:52,060 --> 01:46:54,940 Yes. And you would win. 1039 01:46:55,100 --> 01:46:57,740 Because the young ones love you like a god. 1040 01:46:57,940 --> 01:47:00,220 I forbid you to ever talk to me like that! 1041 01:47:00,740 --> 01:47:03,620 Such a man would be forever chased by the Furies! 1042 01:47:03,780 --> 01:47:07,420 What have you to fear from the Furies... 1043 01:47:07,580 --> 01:47:10,740 for killing an impostor to the throne... 1044 01:47:10,940 --> 01:47:14,500 before he murders you and your mother? 1045 01:47:14,660 --> 01:47:17,380 Why won't you ever believe me? 1046 01:47:17,540 --> 01:47:21,180 Philip did not want you. 1047 01:47:21,740 --> 01:47:23,660 You had a condition of the breathing... 1048 01:47:23,820 --> 01:47:26,260 and he wanted to leave you in the mountains... 1049 01:47:26,420 --> 01:47:29,540 for the birds to peck at your eyes. 1050 01:47:30,820 --> 01:47:33,100 What you don't know, my poor child. 1051 01:47:33,300 --> 01:47:36,060 Lanice knows nothing of this. 1052 01:47:36,260 --> 01:47:37,500 Lanice. 1053 01:47:38,300 --> 01:47:40,820 I was there. 1054 01:47:40,980 --> 01:47:43,620 Lanice was not. 1055 01:47:44,020 --> 01:47:46,260 No, Alexander... 1056 01:47:46,420 --> 01:47:49,940 Zeus is your father. 1057 01:47:50,620 --> 01:47:55,460 I laid with him that night in the wind, as sure as any mortal man. 1058 01:47:55,660 --> 01:47:59,220 Never have I been made love to as I was then. 1059 01:47:59,380 --> 01:48:00,780 Enough. 1060 01:48:01,620 --> 01:48:05,420 Half the mothers in Greece share such a fantasy. 1061 01:48:05,980 --> 01:48:07,940 I warn you, Mother. 1062 01:48:08,140 --> 01:48:10,260 Make no mistake. 1063 01:48:11,220 --> 01:48:15,700 You will treat this girl as nothing more important than his other wives. 1064 01:48:15,900 --> 01:48:19,340 You will behave as we always have. 1065 01:48:19,540 --> 01:48:21,260 As the first. 1066 01:48:31,740 --> 01:48:33,580 I wonder... 1067 01:48:34,900 --> 01:48:36,420 did you ever love him? 1068 01:48:40,140 --> 01:48:41,740 What? 1069 01:48:44,140 --> 01:48:46,180 I never stopped. 1070 01:49:20,500 --> 01:49:22,380 What is it, Orestes? 1071 01:49:27,220 --> 01:49:29,260 I beg your forgiveness, my king. 1072 01:49:30,220 --> 01:49:32,420 I cannot be part of this. 1073 01:49:33,860 --> 01:49:35,820 Who did this? 1074 01:49:38,740 --> 01:49:40,340 Tell me. 1075 01:49:40,700 --> 01:49:42,740 - Say it! - Hermolaus! 1076 01:49:54,420 --> 01:49:57,940 Death to all tyrants. 1077 01:50:00,500 --> 01:50:02,380 I didn't do this! 1078 01:50:02,980 --> 01:50:07,220 I've known you and loved you as long as I know. 1079 01:50:08,340 --> 01:50:11,060 Never will you find a man as devoted as I. 1080 01:50:11,220 --> 01:50:13,820 The conspiracy, such as it was... 1081 01:50:13,980 --> 01:50:16,420 deeply upset Alexander. 1082 01:50:16,580 --> 01:50:20,500 Not only because it involved the young people who shared his dream... 1083 01:50:20,660 --> 01:50:26,340 but more intimately, it implicated Philotas, his companion from boyhood... 1084 01:50:26,540 --> 01:50:31,500 when a page confessed that a few days before, he'd informed Philotas... 1085 01:50:31,660 --> 01:50:33,620 - Alexander. - Of the plot. 1086 01:50:35,420 --> 01:50:37,020 Remember me for who I am. 1087 01:50:38,460 --> 01:50:43,820 I do remember you, Philotas, but not as you remember yourself. 1088 01:50:44,460 --> 01:50:49,460 And it appears to me and others here from the testimony given by your mistress... 1089 01:50:49,980 --> 01:50:53,460 that the true weather of your soul is ambition. 1090 01:50:54,540 --> 01:50:55,500 No. 1091 01:50:55,700 --> 01:50:59,420 We all felt there was more here than sexual bickering. 1092 01:50:59,580 --> 01:51:04,220 Alexander wanted the truth and Philotas' answers were lacking merit. 1093 01:51:04,580 --> 01:51:05,540 Please take him away. 1094 01:51:05,740 --> 01:51:09,980 Alexander put him silently and quickly to trial by his peers... 1095 01:51:10,140 --> 01:51:14,140 and whether plotter or opportunist, Philotas was found guilty of treason. 1096 01:51:14,300 --> 01:51:16,140 - No, Alexander, no! - Remove him. 1097 01:51:16,300 --> 01:51:19,180 The suspects were all executed. 1098 01:51:19,340 --> 01:51:22,060 None of us defended Philotas... 1099 01:51:22,220 --> 01:51:25,620 but then again, none of us ever liked him. 1100 01:51:30,860 --> 01:51:35,300 And of course his power was carved up by the rest of us. 1101 01:51:37,020 --> 01:51:39,340 Before he died, we tortured him... 1102 01:51:39,500 --> 01:51:42,700 to find out what his father Parmenion knew. 1103 01:51:42,860 --> 01:51:45,060 But this we never learned. 1104 01:51:45,260 --> 01:51:49,220 What to do with Parmenion and his 20,000 troops guarding our supply lines... 1105 01:51:49,380 --> 01:51:53,060 was a far more delicate matter. Was he innocent in this? 1106 01:51:53,260 --> 01:51:58,380 Or had he decided to act before age further withered his power? 1107 01:51:58,540 --> 01:52:02,060 - The men will follow their king. - Alexander won't be there. 1108 01:52:03,220 --> 01:52:06,660 Necessity required Alexander to act... 1109 01:52:06,820 --> 01:52:11,740 and he sealed the camp within the hour of the first accusations against Philotas. 1110 01:52:13,060 --> 01:52:17,020 Then go, Antigonus, and Cleitus. 1111 01:52:17,220 --> 01:52:19,020 And go quickly. 1112 01:52:22,020 --> 01:52:26,460 Three days' hard riding sent Antigonus and Cleitus... 1113 01:52:26,620 --> 01:52:31,660 to Parmenion, the general most loyal to Philip. 1114 01:52:37,940 --> 01:52:41,460 His soldiers accepted the finding of guilt against Parmenion... 1115 01:52:41,620 --> 01:52:44,140 as they understood well the code of vengeance... 1116 01:52:44,300 --> 01:52:49,180 that made the head of family responsible for the behavior of all. 1117 01:52:51,460 --> 01:52:55,660 Many of us felt we were better off without that pompous thorn, Parmenion... 1118 01:52:55,860 --> 01:53:00,980 as Alexander promoted all of us generously. 1119 01:53:15,780 --> 01:53:20,300 If we issue the gold bullion in the name of Alexander then we meet a resistance. 1120 01:53:20,460 --> 01:53:22,740 Cleitus. Antigonus. 1121 01:53:22,900 --> 01:53:24,540 Parmenion. 1122 01:55:38,100 --> 01:55:41,380 Come, Alexander, drink this sadness away. 1123 01:55:41,540 --> 01:55:43,940 If only thirst could quench sorrow, Ptolemy. 1124 01:55:47,340 --> 01:55:51,620 There's only one thing better than winning a battle, son... 1125 01:55:52,380 --> 01:55:55,260 and that's the taste of a new woman. 1126 01:55:55,420 --> 01:56:00,260 You'll find it far sweeter than self-pity. 1127 01:56:00,420 --> 01:56:02,580 - Pausanias, you bore me. - Alexander! 1128 01:56:02,780 --> 01:56:05,780 - Be gone with you. - Alexander, I found you the right girl. 1129 01:56:05,980 --> 01:56:08,220 - What's your name, darling? - Antigone. 1130 01:56:08,420 --> 01:56:10,380 - What's your name? - Antigone. 1131 01:56:12,300 --> 01:56:15,500 - I love you. - And I love you, Cleitus. 1132 01:56:16,300 --> 01:56:18,940 - Please, no! - There you go. 1133 01:56:22,580 --> 01:56:24,900 I'll sleep in my grave, Hephaistion. 1134 01:56:25,100 --> 01:56:27,940 While alive, I prefer dancing. 1135 01:56:28,100 --> 01:56:29,620 Pausanias. 1136 01:56:30,700 --> 01:56:32,140 Who's your new friend? 1137 01:56:32,420 --> 01:56:34,500 - There's your new friend. - Please don't! 1138 01:56:34,700 --> 01:56:38,220 Don't! Please, no! No. 1139 01:56:47,460 --> 01:56:48,660 A toast. 1140 01:56:49,380 --> 01:56:50,780 A toast! 1141 01:56:51,300 --> 01:56:56,660 I drink to our Greek friends and to our new union... 1142 01:56:56,820 --> 01:57:02,740 Macedonia and Greece, equals in greatness! 1143 01:57:05,380 --> 01:57:11,660 And to Philip, our king, without whom this union could not be possible. 1144 01:57:11,820 --> 01:57:14,820 Come, Attalus, leave some damn air in the hall! 1145 01:57:16,500 --> 01:57:22,260 And last, I drink to the king's marriage to my niece, Eurydice... 1146 01:57:22,460 --> 01:57:25,540 a Macedonian queen we can be proud of! 1147 01:57:28,740 --> 01:57:31,820 To Philip and Eurydice... 1148 01:57:31,980 --> 01:57:35,260 and to their legitimate sons! 1149 01:57:37,460 --> 01:57:38,460 Don't! 1150 01:57:38,620 --> 01:57:41,580 What am I, you son of a dog? Come, then. 1151 01:57:52,580 --> 01:57:55,060 What a disgrace. 1152 01:57:55,220 --> 01:57:56,220 Shut up! 1153 01:57:57,060 --> 01:57:58,900 - Shut up, all of you! - Please. 1154 01:57:59,420 --> 01:58:02,020 This is my wedding, not some public brawl. 1155 01:58:02,180 --> 01:58:04,140 Insolent pup. 1156 01:58:04,300 --> 01:58:07,660 Apologize, by Zeus, before you dishonor me. 1157 01:58:07,820 --> 01:58:10,980 You defend the man who called my mother a whore and me a bastard. 1158 01:58:11,140 --> 01:58:14,540 - And I dishonor you? - You listen like your mother. 1159 01:58:14,700 --> 01:58:16,740 Attalus is my family now, the same as you. 1160 01:58:16,900 --> 01:58:19,620 Then choose your relatives more carefully. 1161 01:58:19,820 --> 01:58:23,020 Don't expect me to sit here and watch you shame yourself. 1162 01:58:23,220 --> 01:58:26,220 - You insult me! - I insult you! 1163 01:58:26,420 --> 01:58:29,380 A man not fit to lick the ground my mother walks on. 1164 01:58:29,540 --> 01:58:32,580 - You dog, questioning your queen. - Shame? 1165 01:58:36,340 --> 01:58:40,220 I'll marry the girl if I want, and I'll have as many sons as I want. 1166 01:58:40,380 --> 01:58:42,980 There's nothing you or your harpy mother can do. 1167 01:58:43,140 --> 01:58:44,940 Why, drunken man, must you think... 1168 01:58:45,140 --> 01:58:47,580 everything I do and say comes from my mother? 1169 01:58:47,740 --> 01:58:50,700 Because I know her heart, by Hera... 1170 01:58:50,860 --> 01:58:53,060 and I see her in your eyes. 1171 01:58:53,220 --> 01:58:55,780 You covet this throne too much. 1172 01:58:57,060 --> 01:59:02,460 We all know that she-wolf of a mother of yours wants me dead. 1173 01:59:02,620 --> 01:59:04,860 Well, you can both dream, boy. 1174 01:59:05,020 --> 01:59:08,100 Philip, this is the wine talking. Leave the boy. It'll wait. 1175 01:59:08,300 --> 01:59:09,860 Now! 1176 01:59:11,060 --> 01:59:12,940 I command you. 1177 01:59:13,940 --> 01:59:17,260 Apologize to your kinsman. 1178 01:59:24,900 --> 01:59:26,620 Apologize. 1179 01:59:26,820 --> 01:59:29,340 No kinsman to me. 1180 01:59:32,900 --> 01:59:34,860 Good night, old man. 1181 01:59:36,420 --> 01:59:40,820 And when my mother remarries, I'll invite you to her wedding. 1182 01:59:41,380 --> 01:59:43,300 You bastard! 1183 01:59:49,140 --> 01:59:50,820 You'll obey me. Come here. 1184 02:00:09,740 --> 02:00:13,380 This is the man who is going to take you from Greece to Persia? 1185 02:00:13,540 --> 02:00:16,020 He can't even make it from one couch to the next. 1186 02:00:16,340 --> 02:00:20,300 Get out of my palace! You're exiled, you bastard! 1187 02:00:21,060 --> 02:00:24,380 Banished from the land. You're not welcome here. 1188 02:00:25,300 --> 02:00:27,540 You're no son of mine! 1189 02:01:11,300 --> 02:01:15,420 In the spring, Alexander marched an army of 150,000... 1190 02:01:15,580 --> 02:01:18,620 across the passes of the Hindu Kush... 1191 02:01:19,180 --> 02:01:21,180 into the unknown. 1192 02:01:22,460 --> 02:01:27,260 In his dream, it was the promised route to the end of the world. 1193 02:01:27,420 --> 02:01:29,340 We were now a mobile empire... 1194 02:01:29,500 --> 02:01:33,380 stretching back thousands of miles to Greece. 1195 02:01:33,540 --> 02:01:36,260 Cooks and architects, doctors, surveyors... 1196 02:01:36,420 --> 02:01:38,060 moneylenders and wives... 1197 02:01:38,220 --> 02:01:41,100 children, lovers, whores. 1198 02:01:41,260 --> 02:01:43,020 And slaves... 1199 02:01:43,220 --> 02:01:47,860 that anonymous, bent, working spine of this new beast. 1200 02:01:48,060 --> 02:01:51,860 Ravaged or expanded, for better or worse... 1201 02:01:52,740 --> 02:01:57,340 no occupied territory remained the same again. 1202 02:02:00,700 --> 02:02:02,700 Although devoted to Roxane... 1203 02:02:02,900 --> 02:02:05,980 Alexander's visits to her tent diminished... 1204 02:02:06,180 --> 02:02:11,260 as a year, then two, went by without a successor... 1205 02:02:12,060 --> 02:02:15,300 wounding Alexander's great pride. 1206 02:02:15,620 --> 02:02:19,220 The surveyors are saying that Zeus chained Prometheus up there. 1207 02:02:19,420 --> 02:02:20,620 In one of those caves. 1208 02:02:22,620 --> 02:02:25,340 They say there's a giant eagle's nest just above it. 1209 02:02:25,660 --> 02:02:30,460 I suppose he drops down each night to peck out poor Prometheus' liver. 1210 02:02:33,100 --> 02:02:36,540 You remember what Aristotle told us of these mountains? 1211 02:02:37,420 --> 02:02:39,100 Yes, I do. 1212 02:02:39,900 --> 02:02:41,980 That when we reach these heights... 1213 02:02:42,180 --> 02:02:45,380 we'd look back and see Macedonia to the west... 1214 02:02:45,580 --> 02:02:48,180 and the outer ocean to the east. 1215 02:02:52,260 --> 02:02:57,260 But I fear this world is far larger than anyone dreamed. 1216 02:02:57,460 --> 02:02:59,580 A world of Titans. 1217 02:02:59,740 --> 02:03:03,740 The scouts have been up every known trail, Alexander. 1218 02:03:03,940 --> 02:03:06,140 There is no way across. 1219 02:03:06,740 --> 02:03:10,900 Except to the south, into India. 1220 02:03:11,300 --> 02:03:14,340 Were we gods, we'd breach these walls to the eastern ocean. 1221 02:03:15,180 --> 02:03:16,900 We will, Alexander. 1222 02:03:17,060 --> 02:03:19,740 In a few years' time, we will return. 1223 02:03:19,900 --> 02:03:23,700 But first, the men must see their homes. 1224 02:03:25,180 --> 02:03:27,180 Have you found your home... 1225 02:03:27,380 --> 02:03:29,060 Ptolemy? 1226 02:03:33,700 --> 02:03:36,940 More and more, I think it will be Alexandria. 1227 02:03:39,100 --> 02:03:41,220 Well, at least it's hot. 1228 02:03:42,220 --> 02:03:43,940 And Thais... 1229 02:03:44,820 --> 02:03:46,900 she loved it there. 1230 02:03:48,660 --> 02:03:50,940 Women bring men home. 1231 02:03:52,020 --> 02:03:56,980 - I have no such feeling. - You have Babylon, Alexander. 1232 02:03:57,140 --> 02:03:59,260 Where your mother awaits your invitation. 1233 02:03:59,700 --> 02:04:02,180 Yes, I have Babylon. 1234 02:04:02,380 --> 02:04:06,740 But each land, each boundary I cross... 1235 02:04:06,900 --> 02:04:09,260 I strip away another illusion. 1236 02:04:10,620 --> 02:04:12,940 I sense death will be the last. 1237 02:04:15,700 --> 02:04:19,140 Yet still I push harder and harder... 1238 02:04:19,340 --> 02:04:22,900 to reach this home. 1239 02:04:28,460 --> 02:04:29,900 Where has our eagle gone? 1240 02:04:34,500 --> 02:04:36,620 We must go on, Ptolemy. 1241 02:04:37,900 --> 02:04:39,580 Until we find an end. 1242 02:06:30,060 --> 02:06:33,660 India, the land where the sun was born... 1243 02:06:33,860 --> 02:06:36,460 fabled to be even richer than Persia... 1244 02:06:36,620 --> 02:06:40,660 had never been explored or conquered. 1245 02:06:40,820 --> 02:06:46,140 From the beginning, we struggled to unify a land without a center. 1246 02:06:46,340 --> 02:06:49,060 Kings who conspired against one another. 1247 02:06:49,220 --> 02:06:53,300 A labyrinth of tribes urged on by zealots and philosophers... 1248 02:06:53,460 --> 02:06:57,660 to die by the thousands for their strange gods. 1249 02:07:02,260 --> 02:07:06,060 We saw things we'd never dreamed and could hardly describe. 1250 02:07:06,460 --> 02:07:09,420 We saw birds that could talk and men that couldn't. 1251 02:07:11,300 --> 02:07:15,300 Craterus, in the advance party, fought against men with hairy skins... 1252 02:07:15,500 --> 02:07:17,940 who were tiny and lived in the tops of trees. 1253 02:07:23,660 --> 02:07:26,420 - Over there! - They're animals. 1254 02:07:26,620 --> 02:07:30,140 Until Hephaistion convinced us these were animals who imitated men... 1255 02:07:30,300 --> 02:07:32,380 but wore their own skin. 1256 02:07:33,660 --> 02:07:36,620 They called this tribe "monkey. " 1257 02:07:37,260 --> 02:07:40,260 Monkey. Monkey. 1258 02:07:41,300 --> 02:07:45,060 But we saw little difference with the tribes who lived among them. 1259 02:07:46,820 --> 02:07:50,180 - Look at his hand. - It's so much like ours. 1260 02:07:53,860 --> 02:07:55,100 Hello, little man. 1261 02:07:55,980 --> 02:08:00,900 - Do they speak? - No, but they do sing and make noises... 1262 02:08:01,060 --> 02:08:03,180 from the roofs of the forest. 1263 02:08:07,140 --> 02:08:09,020 We saw men who walked naked in public... 1264 02:08:09,180 --> 02:08:13,380 and spent hours at a time staring and doing nothing. 1265 02:08:13,660 --> 02:08:16,820 Some who lived 200 years. 1266 02:08:18,380 --> 02:08:21,100 And then, there was the rain. 1267 02:08:26,940 --> 02:08:30,700 Never before had we seen water that fell from the gods... 1268 02:08:30,860 --> 02:08:32,340 for 60 days and nights. 1269 02:08:33,580 --> 02:08:35,620 Well done today. 1270 02:08:37,780 --> 02:08:40,060 Make sure the women and children are fed. 1271 02:08:45,860 --> 02:08:47,940 You know better, Machatas. 1272 02:08:51,500 --> 02:08:52,900 What's your son going to say? 1273 02:08:53,260 --> 02:08:55,700 Come on, man. The older you get, the stronger. 1274 02:08:55,860 --> 02:08:59,380 Right, my king. You're my horse, Alexander. 1275 02:08:59,540 --> 02:09:01,860 I'll be with you at your side. 1276 02:09:04,340 --> 02:09:06,140 Everything rotted in this rain... 1277 02:09:06,300 --> 02:09:10,540 and scores of men died miserably from the tiny serpents... 1278 02:09:10,700 --> 02:09:14,420 that were everywhere in this evil land. 1279 02:09:16,260 --> 02:09:17,900 - What happened? - It's to the neck. 1280 02:09:18,060 --> 02:09:20,500 Oh, no. Zeus, no. 1281 02:09:20,700 --> 02:09:22,220 Hold on. Hold on. 1282 02:09:25,100 --> 02:09:28,260 Be brave. 1283 02:09:28,420 --> 02:09:30,460 Oh, Zeus. 1284 02:09:32,180 --> 02:09:35,620 Our quest for gold and glory evaporated as we realized... 1285 02:09:36,060 --> 02:09:38,220 there was none to be had. 1286 02:09:38,900 --> 02:09:40,700 Tempers worsened. 1287 02:09:40,860 --> 02:09:43,820 We massacred all Indians who resisted. 1288 02:09:44,020 --> 02:09:46,100 And with the local water putrid... 1289 02:09:46,260 --> 02:09:49,020 we drank the strong wine. 1290 02:10:43,060 --> 02:10:45,700 And as we moved south and east... 1291 02:10:45,860 --> 02:10:50,780 Alexander often returned the lands we'd conquered to their defeated kings... 1292 02:10:50,940 --> 02:10:52,820 so as to make them allies. 1293 02:10:52,980 --> 02:10:55,980 But this did not sit well with the army... 1294 02:10:56,180 --> 02:10:57,420 who began to wonder: 1295 02:10:58,260 --> 02:11:01,340 Were we here for riches? Or had Alexander... 1296 02:11:01,500 --> 02:11:05,900 in some remorseless and crazed quest to imitate the glory of Herakles... 1297 02:11:06,060 --> 02:11:07,580 forgotten them? 1298 02:11:08,340 --> 02:11:11,740 One thing an army knows quickly in their bones... 1299 02:11:11,940 --> 02:11:14,340 is which way the gods are blowing. 1300 02:12:42,460 --> 02:12:44,260 Kiss him! 1301 02:13:08,860 --> 02:13:11,420 - To Bagoas. - To Bagoas! 1302 02:13:16,900 --> 02:13:21,060 - And to my mother's god, Dionysus... - Dionysus! 1303 02:13:21,220 --> 02:13:25,540 Who, we're told by our Indian allies, traveled here before Herakles... 1304 02:13:25,740 --> 02:13:28,500 some 6000 years ago. 1305 02:13:28,660 --> 02:13:30,100 To a hero. 1306 02:13:30,260 --> 02:13:32,260 To a hero! 1307 02:13:52,100 --> 02:13:53,460 Roxane. 1308 02:14:00,340 --> 02:14:02,780 You lose face. 1309 02:14:02,940 --> 02:14:04,460 These Indians... 1310 02:14:04,620 --> 02:14:06,380 they are a low, evil people. 1311 02:14:06,580 --> 02:14:08,980 You don't try to understand them. 1312 02:14:09,260 --> 02:14:11,460 I try. 1313 02:14:11,620 --> 02:14:14,620 But this I know, Alexander. 1314 02:14:14,860 --> 02:14:17,860 In Persia, you are a great king. 1315 02:14:18,220 --> 02:14:19,780 Here... 1316 02:14:19,940 --> 02:14:21,900 they hate you. 1317 02:14:24,700 --> 02:14:27,900 Let us go back to Babylon. 1318 02:14:28,940 --> 02:14:30,580 There, you are strong. 1319 02:14:32,820 --> 02:14:35,100 We'll talk about this later. 1320 02:14:35,260 --> 02:14:36,740 Yes. 1321 02:14:36,900 --> 02:14:38,460 Later. 1322 02:14:38,620 --> 02:14:40,140 Talk. 1323 02:14:42,900 --> 02:14:44,940 I shall come. 1324 02:14:45,100 --> 02:14:46,340 Tonight. 1325 02:14:47,380 --> 02:14:49,220 And I shall wait. 1326 02:14:51,060 --> 02:14:53,180 Good night, my king. 1327 02:14:54,700 --> 02:14:56,860 Your Majesty. 1328 02:14:58,620 --> 02:15:01,660 Come, Alexander, drink with us. 1329 02:15:04,020 --> 02:15:07,140 - Alexander. - Alexander! 1330 02:15:09,140 --> 02:15:13,860 I remember a time you hated how your father drank. 1331 02:15:14,020 --> 02:15:16,020 Now I know why. 1332 02:15:17,620 --> 02:15:21,620 Dionysus is hero. 1333 02:15:22,780 --> 02:15:26,460 But he is also mind breaker. 1334 02:15:26,660 --> 02:15:29,980 He destroys our self-control. 1335 02:15:30,500 --> 02:15:34,060 Self-control is a lover I've known too long, Ptolemy. 1336 02:15:37,540 --> 02:15:40,380 The struggle worries me to the bone. 1337 02:15:41,620 --> 02:15:44,660 And success I find to be as corrupt as failure. 1338 02:15:45,860 --> 02:15:50,060 But Dionysus, bless his ancient soul... 1339 02:15:50,220 --> 02:15:52,980 frees me from myself. 1340 02:15:53,340 --> 02:15:56,940 And then, I move up. 1341 02:15:59,940 --> 02:16:02,580 I'm simply, Alexander. 1342 02:16:06,820 --> 02:16:08,620 A toast to Bagoas. 1343 02:16:10,260 --> 02:16:14,900 And the 30,000 beautiful Persian boys... 1344 02:16:15,060 --> 02:16:17,580 we're training to fight in this great army. 1345 02:16:20,540 --> 02:16:22,580 And to the memory of Philip. 1346 02:16:22,780 --> 02:16:25,700 Had he lived to see his Macedonians... 1347 02:16:25,860 --> 02:16:28,900 transformed into such... 1348 02:16:29,060 --> 02:16:30,660 a pretty army. 1349 02:16:32,980 --> 02:16:34,260 To Philip. 1350 02:16:34,460 --> 02:16:36,540 To a real hero. 1351 02:16:36,700 --> 02:16:38,980 Philip! 1352 02:16:41,820 --> 02:16:46,580 To Cleitus and his new appointment as satrap of Bactria. 1353 02:16:46,780 --> 02:16:48,380 Cleitus. 1354 02:16:49,780 --> 02:16:52,500 That's a fancy way of putting it, Ptolemy. 1355 02:16:52,660 --> 02:16:55,700 But we all know what a pension and an exile is... 1356 02:16:55,860 --> 02:16:58,020 after 30 years' service. 1357 02:16:58,220 --> 02:16:59,900 Exile? 1358 02:17:00,180 --> 02:17:01,940 From where, Cleitus? 1359 02:17:02,100 --> 02:17:04,820 From my home, Alexander, Macedonia. 1360 02:17:05,020 --> 02:17:08,660 You could've asked me where I wanted to spend the rest of my life. 1361 02:17:08,900 --> 02:17:12,900 You call governing this major province exile? 1362 02:17:13,100 --> 02:17:16,180 Has Your Majesty given any of his closest companions... 1363 02:17:16,940 --> 02:17:19,100 a province so far from home? 1364 02:17:19,300 --> 02:17:22,700 Then you won't make a very good satrap, will you, Cleitus? 1365 02:17:25,980 --> 02:17:27,580 So be it. 1366 02:17:27,780 --> 02:17:31,380 Let me rot in Macedonian rags... 1367 02:17:31,540 --> 02:17:33,660 rather than shine... 1368 02:17:33,820 --> 02:17:35,980 in Eastern pomp. 1369 02:17:36,460 --> 02:17:40,260 I won't quake and bow down like the sycophants you have around you. 1370 02:17:40,460 --> 02:17:44,500 Hephaistion, Nearchus, Perdiccas. 1371 02:17:45,140 --> 02:17:49,540 As governor of one of our most Asian of satrapies... 1372 02:17:49,740 --> 02:17:54,580 Cleitus, does it not occur to you that if my Persian subjects... 1373 02:17:54,780 --> 02:17:57,780 bow down before me, it's important for them to do so? 1374 02:17:57,980 --> 02:18:00,700 Do I insist on Greeks doing the same? 1375 02:18:00,860 --> 02:18:05,940 You accept Greek offerings as a son of Zeus, do you not? 1376 02:18:07,940 --> 02:18:09,300 Only when offered. 1377 02:18:09,460 --> 02:18:12,300 Why don't you refuse these vain flatteries? 1378 02:18:12,460 --> 02:18:15,020 What freedom is this, to bow before you? 1379 02:18:15,220 --> 02:18:17,980 You bow before Herakles, and he was mortal... 1380 02:18:18,140 --> 02:18:19,740 but a son of Zeus. 1381 02:18:19,900 --> 02:18:23,500 How can you, so young, compare yourself to Herakles? 1382 02:18:24,740 --> 02:18:26,740 Why not? 1383 02:18:29,340 --> 02:18:31,780 I've achieved more in my years. 1384 02:18:31,980 --> 02:18:33,500 Traveled as far. 1385 02:18:33,660 --> 02:18:34,740 Probably farther. 1386 02:18:34,940 --> 02:18:37,180 Herakles did it by himself. 1387 02:18:37,340 --> 02:18:40,460 Did you conquer Asia by yourself, Alexander? 1388 02:18:40,620 --> 02:18:42,380 Who planned the Asian invasion... 1389 02:18:42,540 --> 02:18:46,380 when you were still being spanked on your bottom by my sister Lanice? 1390 02:18:46,540 --> 02:18:48,460 Was it not your father? 1391 02:18:48,660 --> 02:18:50,620 Or is his blood no longer good enough? 1392 02:18:51,100 --> 02:18:54,660 - Zeus-Amon, is it? - You insult me, Cleitus. 1393 02:18:54,860 --> 02:18:57,460 You mock my family. Be careful. 1394 02:18:57,980 --> 02:19:01,420 Never would your father have taken barbarians as his friends... 1395 02:19:01,580 --> 02:19:04,220 asked us to fight with them as equals in war. 1396 02:19:04,380 --> 02:19:06,340 Are we not good enough any longer? 1397 02:19:06,500 --> 02:19:08,580 I remember a time... 1398 02:19:08,780 --> 02:19:11,500 when we could talk as men, straight to the eye. 1399 02:19:11,660 --> 02:19:14,420 None of this scraping, groveling. 1400 02:19:15,060 --> 02:19:17,220 I remember a time when we hunted... 1401 02:19:17,420 --> 02:19:20,420 when we wrestled on the gymnasium floor. 1402 02:19:20,660 --> 02:19:22,460 Now you kiss them? 1403 02:19:24,100 --> 02:19:29,140 Take a barbarian, childless wife and dare call her queen? 1404 02:19:31,460 --> 02:19:35,420 Go quickly, Cleitus, before you ruin your life. 1405 02:19:39,260 --> 02:19:42,740 Doesn't your great pride fear the gods any longer? 1406 02:19:44,100 --> 02:19:47,500 This army... This army is your blood, boy! 1407 02:19:47,660 --> 02:19:49,740 Without it, you're nothing! 1408 02:19:54,900 --> 02:19:58,220 You no longer serve the purpose of this march! 1409 02:19:58,700 --> 02:20:01,420 - Get him from my sight! - I don't serve your purpose?! 1410 02:20:01,580 --> 02:20:05,300 What was I serving when I saved your puppy life at Gaugamela? 1411 02:20:05,500 --> 02:20:08,980 Were you Zeus' boy? What if I left you to die in the dust there? 1412 02:20:09,180 --> 02:20:12,740 Do you think we'd be forced now to mate with brown apes? 1413 02:20:12,900 --> 02:20:14,140 Alexander! 1414 02:20:14,300 --> 02:20:17,860 Turn out the guards! Arrest him for treason! 1415 02:20:22,380 --> 02:20:24,020 - I'll go with him. - Alexander. 1416 02:20:24,220 --> 02:20:25,820 - Who's with him? - No. 1417 02:20:26,020 --> 02:20:27,540 Who's with him? 1418 02:20:28,180 --> 02:20:30,340 I call Father Zeus to witness. 1419 02:20:30,500 --> 02:20:32,820 I call you to trial before him! 1420 02:20:32,980 --> 02:20:35,460 And we'll see how deep this conspiracy cuts! 1421 02:20:35,660 --> 02:20:38,180 - Take him! - In the name of the gods, get him out! 1422 02:20:38,340 --> 02:20:42,460 Now look at you! Great white ass, Alexander. 1423 02:20:42,620 --> 02:20:44,420 Hiding behind his fairy god! 1424 02:20:44,580 --> 02:20:50,340 Or are you too great to remember whose life was saved by me?! 1425 02:20:51,060 --> 02:20:56,380 - I am more a man than you'll ever be! Ever! - Get him out! 1426 02:20:57,220 --> 02:21:01,220 - He's gone. He's gone. - Alexander. 1427 02:21:01,380 --> 02:21:02,580 Come on! 1428 02:21:03,100 --> 02:21:07,860 What a tyrant you are! An evil tyrant you've become, Alexander. 1429 02:21:08,020 --> 02:21:11,060 You speak of plots against you? What about poor Parmenion? 1430 02:21:11,660 --> 02:21:12,660 Get out! 1431 02:21:12,820 --> 02:21:15,580 He served you well. Look how you repaid him. 1432 02:21:15,780 --> 02:21:18,540 You made me do your foul deed. Have you no shame? 1433 02:21:18,700 --> 02:21:22,620 You ungrateful wretch! No one, not my vilest enemy, has spoken like you to me. 1434 02:21:22,780 --> 02:21:26,020 Getting what I say?! Despot. False king. 1435 02:21:27,460 --> 02:21:30,180 You and your barbarian mother live in shame. 1436 02:21:55,020 --> 02:21:56,540 Cleitus. 1437 02:21:56,900 --> 02:21:59,380 Oh, my Cleitus. Cleitus. 1438 02:22:06,220 --> 02:22:07,740 - Let me pass. - None can enter. 1439 02:22:07,900 --> 02:22:09,820 I am the queen. 1440 02:22:17,900 --> 02:22:20,060 I want to see him. I've waited three days. 1441 02:22:20,220 --> 02:22:22,940 He says none, not even you. 1442 02:22:24,060 --> 02:22:27,980 - He needs me. - No, he doesn't. 1443 02:22:28,140 --> 02:22:29,900 And he needs you? 1444 02:22:31,620 --> 02:22:33,340 Hephaistion, you make a mistake. 1445 02:22:37,060 --> 02:22:41,100 The army grows restless, questioning. 1446 02:22:42,340 --> 02:22:44,060 Alexander. 1447 02:22:46,740 --> 02:22:48,500 They need your reassurance. 1448 02:22:49,620 --> 02:22:51,340 Heinous. 1449 02:22:51,540 --> 02:22:55,340 Like an old lover they forgive, but they will never forget. 1450 02:22:55,740 --> 02:23:00,420 - He was an aging drunk. - He was my friend. 1451 02:23:02,340 --> 02:23:05,140 His sister Lanice nursed me. 1452 02:23:06,020 --> 02:23:08,220 And how did I repay her? 1453 02:23:09,700 --> 02:23:13,100 Two brothers dead, fighting him by my own hands. 1454 02:23:13,260 --> 02:23:15,740 Her last remaining blood. 1455 02:23:19,220 --> 02:23:23,380 What will she do but weep on the day of my birth? 1456 02:23:25,020 --> 02:23:27,140 Come. You know more than any... 1457 02:23:27,340 --> 02:23:32,100 great deeds are done by men who took and never regretted. 1458 02:23:32,260 --> 02:23:34,180 You're Alexander. 1459 02:23:34,340 --> 02:23:37,100 Pity and grief will only destroy you. 1460 02:23:37,260 --> 02:23:40,900 Have I become so arrogant that I am blind? 1461 02:23:43,660 --> 02:23:49,180 Sometimes, to expect the best of everyone is... 1462 02:23:49,340 --> 02:23:50,820 arrogance. 1463 02:23:52,340 --> 02:23:57,740 Then Cleitus spoke true. I have become a tyrant. 1464 02:23:58,540 --> 02:24:00,100 No. 1465 02:24:02,580 --> 02:24:04,700 But perhaps a stranger. 1466 02:24:06,500 --> 02:24:07,740 You've gone too far. 1467 02:24:09,860 --> 02:24:12,580 They don't understand you anymore. 1468 02:24:14,380 --> 02:24:18,380 They speak of Philip now... 1469 02:24:18,540 --> 02:24:22,460 as if I were a passing cloud... 1470 02:24:22,660 --> 02:24:24,740 soon to be forgotten. 1471 02:24:26,900 --> 02:24:28,700 I've failed... 1472 02:24:28,900 --> 02:24:30,580 utterly. 1473 02:24:32,700 --> 02:24:34,540 You're mortal. 1474 02:24:34,980 --> 02:24:36,940 And they know it. 1475 02:24:37,100 --> 02:24:41,420 And they forgive you because you make them proud of themselves. 1476 02:24:42,100 --> 02:24:45,020 Philip once said... 1477 02:24:47,020 --> 02:24:49,620 that there's a Titan in all of us. 1478 02:24:50,620 --> 02:24:53,620 That they wait, mixed in our ashes. 1479 02:24:59,060 --> 02:25:01,460 It wasn't because of the wine, I killed. 1480 02:25:02,020 --> 02:25:04,380 It was because I wanted to. 1481 02:25:32,580 --> 02:25:35,740 Philip, King of Macedonia... 1482 02:25:35,940 --> 02:25:37,820 and leader of the Greeks. 1483 02:25:38,580 --> 02:25:43,540 All my life, I've waited to see Greeks grovel with respect for Macedonia. 1484 02:25:44,820 --> 02:25:46,940 Today is that day. 1485 02:25:51,420 --> 02:25:54,180 They say already, "Philip was a great general... 1486 02:25:54,340 --> 02:25:58,220 but Alexander is simply great." 1487 02:25:59,780 --> 02:26:02,460 But if you ever insult me again... 1488 02:26:02,620 --> 02:26:04,260 I'll kill you. 1489 02:26:10,420 --> 02:26:11,820 I've missed you. 1490 02:26:11,980 --> 02:26:14,540 In the spring, Persia. 1491 02:26:14,740 --> 02:26:16,980 You'll command my horse from the right. 1492 02:26:17,180 --> 02:26:19,380 I'm honored, Father. I wouldn't miss it... 1493 02:26:19,580 --> 02:26:21,300 for all the gold in the world. 1494 02:26:21,460 --> 02:26:23,580 Which, one day, you'll have. 1495 02:26:40,580 --> 02:26:43,020 Making himself a 13th god. 1496 02:26:43,180 --> 02:26:47,420 He's drunk so much wine, my poor Philip, he's lost his mind. 1497 02:26:50,700 --> 02:26:53,380 - Your Majesty. - Attalus. 1498 02:26:57,900 --> 02:27:00,780 I hope the prince is enjoying the spectacle... 1499 02:27:00,940 --> 02:27:03,860 as much as our regent. 1500 02:27:04,020 --> 02:27:05,540 He's very tired. 1501 02:27:09,860 --> 02:27:12,060 Hey. 1502 02:27:14,460 --> 02:27:17,540 - Pausanias, bring the rest of the guard. - Royal guard! 1503 02:27:17,820 --> 02:27:20,500 To the arena! March! 1504 02:27:20,700 --> 02:27:23,580 No guard, Your Majesty? In all this crowd? 1505 02:27:23,780 --> 02:27:27,140 - Greeks all over the place. - Cleitus, Cleitus. 1506 02:27:27,820 --> 02:27:29,340 My Cleitus. 1507 02:27:29,860 --> 02:27:32,460 This man you can always trust, Alexander. 1508 02:27:32,900 --> 02:27:34,500 Treat him as you would me. 1509 02:27:34,660 --> 02:27:36,860 He'll guard your back for you. 1510 02:27:37,380 --> 02:27:39,220 Yes, Father. 1511 02:27:39,380 --> 02:27:42,260 My people are guard enough today. 1512 02:27:42,460 --> 02:27:45,900 Let these Greeks see for themselves how I can walk through my people. 1513 02:27:46,100 --> 02:27:47,620 Then let them call me tyrant. 1514 02:27:48,140 --> 02:27:51,460 Bring the main guard in after my entry only. 1515 02:27:51,620 --> 02:27:55,300 Cleitus, make sure the wine flows steady all day. 1516 02:27:55,460 --> 02:27:57,460 I want them to like me. 1517 02:28:04,620 --> 02:28:07,300 Weren't you told? I go in alone. 1518 02:28:07,460 --> 02:28:09,460 Follow with the main guard. 1519 02:28:09,660 --> 02:28:11,060 Go on. 1520 02:28:14,100 --> 02:28:17,460 - Go on. - Father, it's best I go with you. 1521 02:28:19,660 --> 02:28:22,820 You want the world to see you're my successor. 1522 02:28:22,980 --> 02:28:24,940 Is that what she wants? 1523 02:28:25,380 --> 02:28:28,140 Don't look so hurt all the time, Alexander. Be a man. 1524 02:28:28,340 --> 02:28:32,540 You count yourself lucky you were here at all today, after your public display. 1525 02:28:36,340 --> 02:28:38,460 By Herakles, by Zeus, by all the gods... 1526 02:28:38,620 --> 02:28:41,180 obey me this once! 1527 02:28:42,500 --> 02:28:45,140 Have courage, Father. 1528 02:28:45,300 --> 02:28:47,780 And go on your way rejoicing that at each step... 1529 02:28:47,940 --> 02:28:50,140 you may recall your valor. 1530 02:29:25,900 --> 02:29:29,820 And now, our beloved King Philip... 1531 02:29:29,980 --> 02:29:33,180 in whose honor these wedding games begin. 1532 02:29:51,060 --> 02:29:53,460 Pausanias, I told you... 1533 02:30:02,620 --> 02:30:03,660 Who's your new friend? 1534 02:30:03,860 --> 02:30:05,580 There's your new friend. 1535 02:30:06,740 --> 02:30:09,300 No! Please, don't! No! 1536 02:31:48,700 --> 02:31:51,340 The king lives! 1537 02:31:51,500 --> 02:31:54,780 Alexander, son of Philip! 1538 02:31:54,980 --> 02:31:57,580 May the gods bless the king! 1539 02:32:01,220 --> 02:32:03,980 Alexander is king! 1540 02:32:06,540 --> 02:32:09,260 You're king now. You're king. 1541 02:32:10,100 --> 02:32:12,780 Long live Alexander! 1542 02:32:14,460 --> 02:32:18,620 - Alexander! - King Alexander! 1543 02:32:18,780 --> 02:32:22,260 Alexander! 1544 02:32:23,260 --> 02:32:26,260 Alexander is king! 1545 02:32:29,860 --> 02:32:33,220 May the gods bless Alexander! 1546 02:32:34,980 --> 02:32:38,140 May the gods bless the king! 1547 02:32:38,300 --> 02:32:40,100 Alexander! 1548 02:32:57,420 --> 02:33:00,140 You break my heart, you men. 1549 02:33:00,340 --> 02:33:02,140 Afraid. 1550 02:33:03,540 --> 02:33:05,180 Of course you have fears. 1551 02:33:05,340 --> 02:33:06,780 We all have fears... 1552 02:33:06,940 --> 02:33:10,100 because no one has ever gone this far before. 1553 02:33:10,660 --> 02:33:15,060 And now we are weeks from the encircling ocean, our route home. 1554 02:33:15,340 --> 02:33:16,980 We'll build a fleet of ships... 1555 02:33:17,140 --> 02:33:20,100 and sail all the way back down the Nile to Egypt. 1556 02:33:20,300 --> 02:33:23,420 And from Alexandria, we shall be home within weeks. 1557 02:33:23,780 --> 02:33:26,020 There to be reunited with our loved ones. 1558 02:33:26,180 --> 02:33:29,820 To share our great treasures and tales of Asia. 1559 02:33:29,980 --> 02:33:34,780 And to enjoy our imperishable glory to the ends of time. 1560 02:33:36,020 --> 02:33:39,500 - Follow Alexander. - I'll follow you. 1561 02:33:44,100 --> 02:33:45,860 What? 1562 02:33:46,060 --> 02:33:49,340 - Silence? - We're with you, Alexander! 1563 02:33:49,700 --> 02:33:51,220 Crateros. 1564 02:33:53,500 --> 02:33:54,740 Crateros. 1565 02:33:54,940 --> 02:33:56,620 And another one. 1566 02:34:08,100 --> 02:34:09,380 My king. 1567 02:34:09,540 --> 02:34:11,500 I'm a fighting man. 1568 02:34:11,660 --> 02:34:15,620 I don't like no bellyaching. I won't tolerate it in any of my units. 1569 02:34:17,020 --> 02:34:19,220 I lost many a man. 1570 02:34:20,300 --> 02:34:22,940 Young ones, never been with a woman. 1571 02:34:24,100 --> 02:34:26,260 Some died of disease. 1572 02:34:26,860 --> 02:34:31,100 Some were butchered in Scythia by the banks of the Oxus. 1573 02:34:31,260 --> 02:34:32,980 Some died good. 1574 02:34:33,140 --> 02:34:36,220 Some just didn't get no luck. 1575 02:34:37,020 --> 02:34:38,740 But they died. 1576 02:34:41,000 --> 02:34:43,920 Forty thousand I come over with eight years ago. 1577 02:34:44,080 --> 02:34:48,160 And we march after you more than 10,000 miles. 1578 02:34:49,240 --> 02:34:53,000 In the rain and the sun, we fought for you. 1579 02:34:53,160 --> 02:34:56,240 Some of us, 50 battles we've been in. 1580 02:34:57,000 --> 02:34:59,400 We killed many a barbarian. 1581 02:35:01,080 --> 02:35:05,920 And now when I look around, how many of them faces do I see? 1582 02:35:06,080 --> 02:35:09,840 Now you want us to fight more of these crazy monkey tribes east of here. 1583 02:35:10,000 --> 02:35:13,560 We hear talk of thousands of these elephant monsters... 1584 02:35:13,760 --> 02:35:16,680 cross a hundred more rivers. 1585 02:35:17,560 --> 02:35:21,640 Crateros. Good Crateros. 1586 02:35:22,480 --> 02:35:27,640 Who better than you to speak, most noble of men. 1587 02:35:28,680 --> 02:35:32,560 But you know there's no part of me without a scar or a bone broken. 1588 02:35:32,720 --> 02:35:38,520 By sword, knife, stone, catapult and club. I've shared every hardship with all of you. 1589 02:35:38,720 --> 02:35:42,120 Aye, you have, my king, and we love you for it. 1590 02:35:43,080 --> 02:35:46,680 But, by Zeus, too many have died. 1591 02:35:47,280 --> 02:35:50,800 You have no children, Alexander, and we're just... 1592 02:35:51,000 --> 02:35:55,680 humble men, we seek no disturbance with the gods. All we wish for... 1593 02:35:55,840 --> 02:36:02,360 is to see our children and our wives and our grandchildren one last time... 1594 02:36:02,840 --> 02:36:06,640 before we join our brothers in that dark house they call Hades. 1595 02:36:10,560 --> 02:36:14,240 Yes. You're right, Crateros. 1596 02:36:14,400 --> 02:36:15,720 I have been negligent. 1597 02:36:17,880 --> 02:36:20,720 I should've sent you veterans home sooner, and I will. 1598 02:36:20,880 --> 02:36:23,600 The first of you shall be the Silver Shields. 1599 02:36:23,800 --> 02:36:28,840 Then every man who's served seven years. With full pensions from our treasury. 1600 02:36:30,200 --> 02:36:33,800 And respected, rich, loved. 1601 02:36:34,000 --> 02:36:38,880 You'll be treated by your wives and children as heroes for the rest of your lives... 1602 02:36:39,040 --> 02:36:43,240 and enjoy a peaceful death. 1603 02:36:44,520 --> 02:36:46,680 But you dream, Crateros. 1604 02:36:47,400 --> 02:36:51,720 Your simplicity long ended when you took Persian mistresses and children... 1605 02:36:51,880 --> 02:36:56,200 and you thickened your holdings with plunder and jewels. 1606 02:36:56,960 --> 02:37:02,280 Because you've fallen in love with all the things in life that destroy men. 1607 02:37:03,280 --> 02:37:05,640 Do you not see? 1608 02:37:06,800 --> 02:37:10,040 And you, as well as I, know... 1609 02:37:10,240 --> 02:37:14,480 that as the years decline and the memories stale... 1610 02:37:14,680 --> 02:37:17,480 and all your great victories fade... 1611 02:37:17,640 --> 02:37:23,320 it will always be remembered, you left your king in Asia! 1612 02:37:23,480 --> 02:37:26,120 For I will go on, with my Asians. 1613 02:37:29,640 --> 02:37:33,920 - To the jackals with you, then, Alexander. - We come for you, and you discard us. 1614 02:37:34,080 --> 02:37:36,480 - Shame! - We want to go home, Alexander. 1615 02:37:36,640 --> 02:37:38,400 We're tired of glory. 1616 02:37:38,560 --> 02:37:41,480 We want to see our wives and children before we die. 1617 02:37:43,480 --> 02:37:45,560 I've got children I haven't even seen. 1618 02:37:49,360 --> 02:37:52,400 I want to see my children. 1619 02:37:52,560 --> 02:37:56,320 I paid for your bastard children. I've taken nothing for myself. 1620 02:37:56,520 --> 02:37:58,600 And all I've asked of you is one more month. 1621 02:37:58,760 --> 02:38:00,640 - Shame. - That's your king. 1622 02:38:01,880 --> 02:38:03,240 What would your father say? 1623 02:38:03,400 --> 02:38:06,600 I've taken you further than my father ever dreamed. 1624 02:38:06,760 --> 02:38:10,720 So go home. I look to the barbarians for their courage. 1625 02:38:12,000 --> 02:38:13,600 I go east. 1626 02:38:13,760 --> 02:38:15,800 He wants us dead so we can't speak of his crimes. 1627 02:38:15,960 --> 02:38:18,160 - Who said that? - We won't make it to Macedonia. 1628 02:38:18,320 --> 02:38:20,080 You despicable coward. Come forth. 1629 02:38:20,280 --> 02:38:23,160 - Make your accusations public. - So you can have us killed? 1630 02:38:23,320 --> 02:38:26,320 - Son of Zeus. - You desecrate your real father's memory. 1631 02:38:26,520 --> 02:38:32,640 - Or did you murder him like you did Cleitus? - Hide in this mob because I'll take your life. 1632 02:38:42,640 --> 02:38:47,520 You men insult my honor, my paternity. Arrest him. 1633 02:38:47,680 --> 02:38:51,600 And him. Yes. And you, this loudmouth Demetrius. 1634 02:38:51,760 --> 02:38:55,400 You call me murderer? I have no such blood on my hands. 1635 02:38:55,640 --> 02:38:58,680 And him. Yes, you'll know the pain of treason. 1636 02:38:59,920 --> 02:39:03,880 You mock my shame for Cleitus and say I'd harm a hair of my father's head. 1637 02:39:04,600 --> 02:39:08,360 Arrest him. After all I've done for you, you swine. 1638 02:39:08,560 --> 02:39:10,440 You cowards. Traitors. 1639 02:39:13,000 --> 02:39:15,360 Come on, then. Where are your daggers? 1640 02:39:17,640 --> 02:39:21,840 In smashing the mutiny and executing the ringleaders... 1641 02:39:22,040 --> 02:39:27,280 he did nothing, to my mind, that any general in wartime would not have done. 1642 02:39:27,520 --> 02:39:30,920 But clearly, the army was divided. 1643 02:39:31,880 --> 02:39:35,920 And Alexander was no longer loved by all. 1644 02:39:38,760 --> 02:39:43,280 He drove on, south to the outer ocean. 1645 02:39:44,960 --> 02:39:47,560 I confess a disappointment. 1646 02:39:47,760 --> 02:39:51,960 Especially on these reports of your taking on Eastern ways. 1647 02:39:52,120 --> 02:39:57,640 Beware how these manners inflame the senses with pride. 1648 02:39:58,240 --> 02:40:02,240 However, I have lived long enough now... 1649 02:40:02,440 --> 02:40:04,080 to question... 1650 02:40:04,240 --> 02:40:09,960 when so many others invest such emotion in their disrespect for you. 1651 02:40:10,760 --> 02:40:17,160 I can only hope that you continue what you began as the boy I knew at 12. 1652 02:40:17,320 --> 02:40:22,200 Be that man always, Alexander, and you will not slip. 1653 02:40:22,360 --> 02:40:27,400 And perhaps you will prove this old materialist... 1654 02:40:27,560 --> 02:40:30,280 as you always thought me: 1655 02:40:30,480 --> 02:40:33,440 A dreamer after all. 1656 02:40:52,920 --> 02:40:54,360 Stay calm. 1657 02:40:54,680 --> 02:40:56,520 Together we are strong as gods. 1658 02:40:58,280 --> 02:41:02,760 Cover with your left, strike hard with your right. 1659 02:41:06,560 --> 02:41:09,000 Fear is rot. A waste of time. 1660 02:41:15,080 --> 02:41:17,280 Lock shields. 1661 02:41:19,840 --> 02:41:22,000 Battle positions. 1662 02:41:24,120 --> 02:41:26,000 Move. 1663 02:41:34,360 --> 02:41:37,560 Choppers, prepare your knives. 1664 02:41:37,880 --> 02:41:39,480 Follow me. 1665 02:41:51,920 --> 02:41:55,400 Strike hard, boys. Strike hard. 1666 02:42:13,640 --> 02:42:18,120 Come, Macedonians. Why do you hang back? Hurry. 1667 02:42:18,320 --> 02:42:20,600 Cavalry! 1668 02:42:29,000 --> 02:42:32,360 Split to thirds. Regroup and encircle. 1669 02:42:51,560 --> 02:42:53,080 Hold the line. 1670 02:42:55,880 --> 02:42:57,040 We must hide! 1671 02:43:36,800 --> 02:43:42,240 - Oh, no. Cavalry on me. - Follow Alexander. 1672 02:43:45,840 --> 02:43:49,440 Charge. Charge. Charge. 1673 02:43:52,880 --> 02:43:54,440 The phalanx is in jeopardy. 1674 02:43:54,640 --> 02:43:57,960 Meleager, ride to Pharnakes and tell him return to the center. 1675 02:43:58,200 --> 02:44:01,960 Find Hephaistion at the riverbank and bring all cavalry to the center. 1676 02:44:02,160 --> 02:44:05,320 We must reach Crateros before it's too late. 1677 02:44:28,880 --> 02:44:30,880 Hephaistion. To the center. 1678 02:44:34,800 --> 02:44:37,160 Come, Macedonians. Ride. 1679 02:44:37,440 --> 02:44:39,760 Ride! 1680 02:45:36,200 --> 02:45:38,800 Coenus! Get out of there. 1681 02:45:40,720 --> 02:45:42,200 No. 1682 02:46:12,120 --> 02:46:14,680 - The horses won't go. - On foot, then. 1683 02:46:21,400 --> 02:46:25,320 Fall back, men! Fall back! 1684 02:46:26,720 --> 02:46:28,200 Come, Bucephalus. 1685 02:46:33,160 --> 02:46:35,040 Fear not, my friend. 1686 02:46:37,560 --> 02:46:39,240 Bucephalus. 1687 02:46:39,400 --> 02:46:41,440 'Tis only sun and shadow. 1688 02:46:44,440 --> 02:46:46,120 Bucephalus and Alexander. 1689 02:46:46,320 --> 02:46:47,800 One last time, it's you and me. 1690 02:46:50,200 --> 02:46:53,680 Isn't it a lovely thing to live with great courage... 1691 02:46:53,840 --> 02:46:56,320 and to die leaving an everlasting fame? 1692 02:46:57,000 --> 02:47:00,320 Come, Macedonians. Why do you retreat? 1693 02:47:00,480 --> 02:47:06,320 Do you want to live forever? In the name of Zeus, attack. 1694 02:47:22,560 --> 02:47:24,600 Attack. 1695 02:47:25,560 --> 02:47:28,080 Alexander! 1696 02:47:39,000 --> 02:47:41,000 Alexander. 1697 02:49:13,760 --> 02:49:15,440 - The king is down! - To the king! 1698 02:50:39,800 --> 02:50:43,400 It was the bloodiest of his battles. 1699 02:50:47,320 --> 02:50:49,120 Pure butchery. 1700 02:50:54,640 --> 02:50:56,640 We'd never be men again. 1701 02:52:15,600 --> 02:52:16,960 Get out. 1702 02:52:18,440 --> 02:52:19,920 Go. 1703 02:52:24,640 --> 02:52:27,240 How can you behave so shamelessly in public? 1704 02:52:27,400 --> 02:52:29,920 Because it was meant to be. 1705 02:52:30,120 --> 02:52:31,960 This isn't how I wanted to become king. 1706 02:52:32,120 --> 02:52:36,120 - No one blames you. - They blame me behind my back! In secret. 1707 02:52:36,280 --> 02:52:38,360 - Slander is not power. - Shame is? 1708 02:52:40,880 --> 02:52:42,880 Who killed my father? 1709 02:52:43,400 --> 02:52:45,000 Tell me. 1710 02:52:45,160 --> 02:52:47,920 Tell me, or shall I put you on trial for his murder? 1711 02:52:48,120 --> 02:52:50,640 - Pausanias. - He had help! 1712 02:52:50,920 --> 02:52:52,960 Did you help him? 1713 02:53:00,040 --> 02:53:02,360 No, never. 1714 02:53:02,920 --> 02:53:05,760 Why? Why would I? 1715 02:53:06,880 --> 02:53:08,560 So many wanted it. 1716 02:53:08,720 --> 02:53:11,400 Greeks, Persians, men, women. 1717 02:53:11,560 --> 02:53:14,320 I'd be shocked if there were not a god he had not profaned. 1718 02:53:14,480 --> 02:53:16,000 How ironic though, in the end... 1719 02:53:16,200 --> 02:53:19,640 a boy he rutted with once too often returned the favor. 1720 02:53:19,880 --> 02:53:21,840 You're mad. You're cursed. 1721 02:53:22,000 --> 02:53:24,680 You've unleashed Furies, you don't know their power. 1722 02:53:24,840 --> 02:53:27,720 Now who is exaggerating? 1723 02:53:28,640 --> 02:53:31,480 Even if it was the wish of your heart... 1724 02:53:31,640 --> 02:53:33,800 That's a lie! He was my father! I loved him! 1725 02:53:33,960 --> 02:53:35,880 He was not your father! 1726 02:53:36,040 --> 02:53:38,160 You owe no blood debt to that man. 1727 02:53:38,320 --> 02:53:41,120 You lie and lie and lie. 1728 02:53:41,280 --> 02:53:44,400 So many lies you've spun like a sorceress, confusing me. 1729 02:53:44,600 --> 02:53:48,040 Look at you. Look at you. 1730 02:53:48,200 --> 02:53:51,600 You are everything that he was not. 1731 02:53:51,840 --> 02:53:55,120 He was coarse, you are refined. 1732 02:53:55,320 --> 02:53:59,240 He was a general, and you are a king. 1733 02:53:59,400 --> 02:54:01,320 He could not rule himself... 1734 02:54:01,680 --> 02:54:04,800 and you shall rule the world. 1735 02:54:04,960 --> 02:54:08,680 You're so cursed by all the gods when you speak like this. 1736 02:54:08,840 --> 02:54:10,920 Such thick pride... 1737 02:54:11,080 --> 02:54:12,800 and no mourning for your husband. 1738 02:54:13,000 --> 02:54:14,400 Mourn... 1739 02:54:14,560 --> 02:54:16,120 him? 1740 02:54:17,080 --> 02:54:19,600 What do you know of Philip? 1741 02:54:21,120 --> 02:54:25,440 No, Alexander. Zeus is your father. 1742 02:54:26,160 --> 02:54:29,880 - Act like it. - My first act would be to kill you! 1743 02:54:31,160 --> 02:54:33,520 You murdered me in my cradle. 1744 02:54:33,720 --> 02:54:35,920 You birthed me in a sack of hate. 1745 02:54:36,080 --> 02:54:38,240 Hate you have for those stronger than you. 1746 02:54:38,400 --> 02:54:42,320 - Hate you have for men. - I taught you my heart, Alexander! 1747 02:54:42,480 --> 02:54:45,400 And by Zeus and Dionysus, you grew beautiful. 1748 02:54:45,600 --> 02:54:47,760 Damn your sorceress soul. 1749 02:54:47,920 --> 02:54:50,600 Your soul is mine, Alexander. 1750 02:54:52,080 --> 02:54:53,600 No! No! 1751 02:54:54,280 --> 02:54:58,160 You've taken from me everything I've ever loved and made me you! 1752 02:54:58,840 --> 02:55:00,800 Stop it. Stop acting like a boy. 1753 02:55:00,960 --> 02:55:03,480 You're a king. Act like one. 1754 02:55:03,680 --> 02:55:05,360 Parmenion is with us, for once. 1755 02:55:05,520 --> 02:55:07,400 Execute Attalus without delay. 1756 02:55:07,560 --> 02:55:10,360 Confiscate their lands and root out that family forever. 1757 02:55:10,560 --> 02:55:12,120 Eurydice? Never. 1758 02:55:12,280 --> 02:55:13,680 Laugh, you monster. 1759 02:55:13,840 --> 02:55:15,200 You heartbreaker. 1760 02:55:15,400 --> 02:55:18,280 How will you live out the year like this? 1761 02:55:18,440 --> 02:55:23,200 - Have you learned nothing from Philip? - No. From you, Mother. 1762 02:55:26,280 --> 02:55:28,000 The best. 1763 02:55:38,160 --> 02:55:42,600 What have I done to make you hate me so? 1764 02:55:45,320 --> 02:55:49,920 One day, you will understand this. 1765 02:55:50,080 --> 02:55:53,560 But I have only you in my heart. 1766 02:55:56,320 --> 02:55:59,560 I know what you need. 1767 02:56:00,440 --> 02:56:02,640 Now is the time. 1768 02:56:02,880 --> 02:56:05,040 The gods favor you. 1769 02:56:05,480 --> 02:56:08,720 Great wealth, power, conquest. 1770 02:56:08,920 --> 02:56:10,720 All you desire. 1771 02:56:10,920 --> 02:56:13,520 The world is yours! 1772 02:56:13,720 --> 02:56:15,640 Take it. 1773 02:56:20,160 --> 02:56:21,960 Take it. 1774 02:56:44,120 --> 02:56:47,520 He never saw his mother again. 1775 02:56:51,160 --> 02:56:54,440 And while he was away, fighting the Northern tribes... 1776 02:56:54,600 --> 02:57:00,200 Olympias had Philip's new wife, Eurydice, and her infant son murdered. 1777 02:57:00,880 --> 02:57:06,400 By necessity, Alexander had her uncle Attalus executed. 1778 02:57:46,880 --> 02:57:50,480 He lives! Alexander! 1779 02:58:12,600 --> 02:58:14,800 Men of Macedon... 1780 02:58:15,560 --> 02:58:17,680 we're going home. 1781 02:58:18,680 --> 02:58:21,080 - What? - What? 1782 02:58:22,160 --> 02:58:25,280 - Home? - We're going. 1783 02:58:29,920 --> 02:58:31,880 We're going home. 1784 02:59:39,000 --> 02:59:42,080 His life should have ended in India... 1785 02:59:42,720 --> 02:59:44,200 but that's myth. 1786 02:59:45,720 --> 02:59:51,160 In life, Herakles died of a poisoned shirt, given him in error by his jealous wife. 1787 02:59:51,320 --> 02:59:52,600 Great Zeus... 1788 02:59:52,800 --> 02:59:55,040 we have worshipped you in blood. 1789 02:59:56,200 --> 02:59:58,760 Look kindly on our homeward steps... 1790 02:59:58,920 --> 03:00:03,360 and smile upon our backs. 1791 03:00:06,400 --> 03:00:11,720 May all those who come here after us know, when they see this altar... 1792 03:00:11,880 --> 03:00:15,560 that Titans were once here. 1793 03:00:30,080 --> 03:00:33,840 Making his devotions to the gods at the end of the great journey... 1794 03:00:34,000 --> 03:00:38,680 Alexander bade the East farewell and marched his army directly west... 1795 03:00:38,880 --> 03:00:41,240 across the great Gedrosian desert... 1796 03:00:41,400 --> 03:00:44,600 seeking the shortest route home to Babylon. 1797 03:00:47,440 --> 03:00:52,320 Here, he watched helplessly the cruel breaking of his army. 1798 03:00:52,480 --> 03:00:54,960 Not by any human foe... 1799 03:00:55,440 --> 03:00:57,720 but by nature. 1800 03:00:58,960 --> 03:01:03,440 To this day, there is no accounting of how many died. 1801 03:01:03,640 --> 03:01:06,560 It was the worst blunder of his life. 1802 03:01:08,160 --> 03:01:12,960 And when he finally reentered Babylon, after six years in the Far East... 1803 03:01:13,120 --> 03:01:19,040 Alexander again seized the imagination of the world by taking two more wives. 1804 03:01:19,960 --> 03:01:23,600 Now Alexander had three wives, two lovers... 1805 03:01:23,800 --> 03:01:26,640 a contentious mother and a turbulent Greece... 1806 03:01:26,800 --> 03:01:30,160 satraps of dubious loyalty in several provinces... 1807 03:01:30,320 --> 03:01:33,400 generals questioning his every decision. 1808 03:01:33,560 --> 03:01:39,840 And beneath it all, a restive new army made up of 10 Asians for every Greek... 1809 03:01:40,000 --> 03:01:42,960 all held together by one slender thread. 1810 03:01:43,120 --> 03:01:46,480 They took another reading. The harbor can only be dredged to 20 feet. 1811 03:01:46,640 --> 03:01:49,680 Then get a second opinion from the Phoenicians. It goes deeper. 1812 03:01:49,880 --> 03:01:54,760 Alexander. We'll well over 12,000 talents on wood alone for the fleet. 1813 03:01:55,440 --> 03:01:57,960 And their armor costs are staggering. 1814 03:01:59,080 --> 03:02:01,800 - Cast another dye, we shall back them. - How? 1815 03:02:01,960 --> 03:02:03,160 Our armor... Our Treasury... 1816 03:02:03,320 --> 03:02:06,200 With our future, Cassander, the best capital we have. 1817 03:02:06,360 --> 03:02:10,920 Even so, I seriously doubt the Phoenicians can make a timber quote in time. 1818 03:02:11,080 --> 03:02:14,480 Perhaps we could sail with fewer ships or delay until the spring... 1819 03:02:14,680 --> 03:02:16,920 There'll be no delays, Nearchus. 1820 03:02:17,120 --> 03:02:21,160 - Ptolemy, how goes our library? - The trees are falling as we speak. 1821 03:02:21,320 --> 03:02:23,200 Good. We must not forget our libraries. 1822 03:02:24,240 --> 03:02:26,480 All the Alexandrias we have, I want libraries. 1823 03:02:35,840 --> 03:02:38,640 - Just last night he was... - It's the water, Your Majesty. 1824 03:02:38,840 --> 03:02:41,200 He mixed it with the wine. 1825 03:02:42,120 --> 03:02:43,760 But how can this be? 1826 03:02:44,120 --> 03:02:47,920 - Typhus of India? - I wouldn't tax yourself, Your Majesty. 1827 03:02:48,120 --> 03:02:53,440 A few good nights' rest will do it. But no wine or cold chicken. 1828 03:02:53,600 --> 03:02:55,880 With the regimen of cares that I've put in place... 1829 03:02:57,080 --> 03:02:58,400 Come, doctor. 1830 03:03:11,440 --> 03:03:13,760 I feel better. 1831 03:03:14,400 --> 03:03:18,080 Soon, I'll be up. 1832 03:03:19,160 --> 03:03:22,600 We leave for Arabia in the spring, and I couldn't leave without you. 1833 03:03:23,600 --> 03:03:25,920 Arabia. 1834 03:03:28,960 --> 03:03:34,000 You used to dress me up like a sheik... 1835 03:03:34,880 --> 03:03:36,760 wave your wooden scimitar. 1836 03:03:36,960 --> 03:03:40,040 You were the only one who'd never let me win. 1837 03:03:41,840 --> 03:03:44,880 The only one who's ever been honest with me. 1838 03:03:45,360 --> 03:03:48,280 You saved me from myself. 1839 03:03:50,720 --> 03:03:53,880 Please don't leave me, Hephaistion. 1840 03:04:02,560 --> 03:04:07,000 I remember the young man who wanted to be Achilles... 1841 03:04:07,160 --> 03:04:10,160 and then outdid him. 1842 03:04:10,320 --> 03:04:12,200 And then what happened? 1843 03:04:12,400 --> 03:04:15,760 Ours is a myth only young men believe. 1844 03:04:16,360 --> 03:04:22,520 - But how beautiful a myth it was. - We reach, we fall. 1845 03:04:23,880 --> 03:04:26,720 Oh, Hephaistion. 1846 03:04:32,520 --> 03:04:37,920 - I worry for you without me. - I am nothing without you. 1847 03:04:39,080 --> 03:04:42,160 Come, fight, Hephaistion. 1848 03:04:43,080 --> 03:04:45,560 We will die together. 1849 03:04:48,520 --> 03:04:54,120 We'll have children with our wives, and our sons will play together as we once did. 1850 03:04:55,080 --> 03:04:58,680 A thousand ships we'll launch from here, Hephaistion. 1851 03:04:59,400 --> 03:05:04,120 We'll round Arabia and sail up the gulf to Egypt. 1852 03:05:04,960 --> 03:05:09,480 From there, we'll build a channel through the desert and out to the Middle Sea. 1853 03:05:09,640 --> 03:05:14,560 And then we'll move on Carthage. And that great island, Sicily, they'll pay large tribute. 1854 03:05:15,560 --> 03:05:19,440 After that, the Roman tribe, good fighters. We'll beat them. 1855 03:05:20,520 --> 03:05:23,040 And then explore the northern forests... 1856 03:05:23,240 --> 03:05:26,400 and out the Pillars of Herakles to the western ocean. 1857 03:05:27,040 --> 03:05:31,240 And then one day, populations will mix and travel freely. 1858 03:05:31,440 --> 03:05:34,120 Asia and Europe will come together. 1859 03:05:36,040 --> 03:05:39,920 And we'll grow old, Hephaistion... 1860 03:05:40,640 --> 03:05:46,280 looking out our balcony at this new world. 1861 03:05:52,960 --> 03:05:54,680 Hephaistion? 1862 03:05:56,440 --> 03:05:58,200 Hephaistion? 1863 03:05:59,800 --> 03:06:01,920 No! 1864 03:06:05,880 --> 03:06:10,440 - Where is this doctor? - I can't explain this, Your Majesty. 1865 03:06:10,600 --> 03:06:15,000 - It's not possible. I swear by Apollo. - Execute him! 1866 03:06:15,960 --> 03:06:19,040 Take him out now and execute him. 1867 03:06:19,480 --> 03:06:23,680 - Come away, come away. - Liars. Liars. You all hated him. All of you. 1868 03:06:24,400 --> 03:06:28,000 Get out. Get out now! 1869 03:06:38,680 --> 03:06:43,760 Be gone with you! Harpies! Get out! Get out! 1870 03:06:43,920 --> 03:06:45,640 Are you drunk again? 1871 03:06:45,800 --> 03:06:47,360 - Get out. - He's dead. 1872 03:06:47,520 --> 03:06:50,400 - Who? - Many hated him... 1873 03:06:50,560 --> 03:06:53,360 but I don't think any other would have dared. 1874 03:06:54,920 --> 03:06:56,960 Hephaistion is dead? 1875 03:07:01,120 --> 03:07:03,080 Are you mad? 1876 03:07:05,000 --> 03:07:06,520 You monster. 1877 03:07:07,840 --> 03:07:10,920 - Are you mad? - You've taken from me all I've ever loved. 1878 03:07:11,080 --> 03:07:15,040 May all the Furies through time damn your miserable heart. Obey me. 1879 03:07:16,120 --> 03:07:20,760 Alexander. I have your child. Alexander. 1880 03:07:22,280 --> 03:07:25,080 - Alexander, we have a son. - No. 1881 03:07:26,720 --> 03:07:29,240 - The child. - Oh, Your Majesty, no. 1882 03:07:29,400 --> 03:07:35,800 Alexander, I have your child. Alexander, my husband, my king. 1883 03:07:36,000 --> 03:07:38,440 We have a son. 1884 03:07:38,920 --> 03:07:42,280 My poor, poor, ill-fated son. 1885 03:07:43,960 --> 03:07:45,640 Never touch me again. 1886 03:07:49,040 --> 03:07:51,040 No! 1887 03:07:56,680 --> 03:07:59,480 One last toast! 1888 03:08:02,800 --> 03:08:04,680 Before the dawn. 1889 03:08:11,720 --> 03:08:14,880 To my old friends. 1890 03:08:31,920 --> 03:08:35,520 - And to the myths. - To the myths. 1891 03:09:04,680 --> 03:09:08,040 Yes, come on. Finish it. 1892 03:09:29,080 --> 03:09:31,200 To the next dawn. 1893 03:10:07,560 --> 03:10:09,720 My little Achilles. 1894 03:10:31,400 --> 03:10:34,440 - Bless you, Alexander. - Lord, we love you. 1895 03:10:35,680 --> 03:10:37,960 Bless you, Alexander. 1896 03:10:45,560 --> 03:10:48,480 My lord, these herbs are from Delphi. 1897 03:10:48,640 --> 03:10:51,240 They saved my brother. 1898 03:10:51,760 --> 03:10:53,440 - Rest yourself. - Thank you. 1899 03:10:54,640 --> 03:10:56,720 We love you, Alexander. 1900 03:11:02,240 --> 03:11:04,000 Alexander. 1901 03:11:06,080 --> 03:11:07,560 Alexander. 1902 03:11:11,800 --> 03:11:14,240 We love you, Alexander... 1903 03:11:15,480 --> 03:11:17,720 and your seed. 1904 03:11:19,960 --> 03:11:22,160 Keep moving, men, please. 1905 03:11:27,600 --> 03:11:29,920 Yes, come. 1906 03:11:30,080 --> 03:11:36,640 Come to Babylon. I await you. Your only loving son. 1907 03:11:42,680 --> 03:11:44,240 For the men. 1908 03:11:44,600 --> 03:11:46,160 Bagoas. 1909 03:11:52,560 --> 03:11:55,840 Can you prop me up a little? It catches me. 1910 03:12:05,560 --> 03:12:07,680 I've never been so idle. 1911 03:12:07,840 --> 03:12:10,880 The fleet will never get out by spring. I must go. 1912 03:12:28,600 --> 03:12:31,000 You have given me all. 1913 03:12:32,200 --> 03:12:35,520 - Bagoas. - And you have given me... 1914 03:12:35,680 --> 03:12:39,240 the happiest times of my life, Alexander. 1915 03:12:40,640 --> 03:12:45,200 Happy? What is happy? 1916 03:12:47,360 --> 03:12:50,720 While in your mind and body are stretched to breaking... 1917 03:12:51,320 --> 03:12:54,320 you have no thought beyond the next. 1918 03:12:55,560 --> 03:12:58,120 And you look back then... 1919 03:12:58,680 --> 03:13:01,280 and there it was, happiness. 1920 03:13:02,280 --> 03:13:05,000 In the doing, never the thinking. 1921 03:13:07,240 --> 03:13:12,240 Still, you have made me so happy. 1922 03:13:20,480 --> 03:13:22,920 It is done, Bagoas. 1923 03:13:25,400 --> 03:13:27,280 It is done. 1924 03:13:50,520 --> 03:13:52,760 Wait. We have his son. 1925 03:13:52,920 --> 03:13:56,160 Alexander. Wait. 1926 03:13:57,360 --> 03:13:58,840 Wait. 1927 03:13:59,920 --> 03:14:01,960 Vultures. Wait. 1928 03:14:02,120 --> 03:14:03,840 We have his son. 1929 03:14:04,120 --> 03:14:06,960 Just three more months. 1930 03:14:07,120 --> 03:14:09,080 Please live. 1931 03:14:11,800 --> 03:14:14,520 Alexander, the army will divide. 1932 03:14:14,680 --> 03:14:17,800 Satrapies will revolt. Without orders, there'll be war. 1933 03:14:18,040 --> 03:14:20,480 We beg you. Tell us who. 1934 03:14:23,360 --> 03:14:25,240 Who will rule this great empire? 1935 03:14:25,400 --> 03:14:29,600 - Who do you want to, Alexander? - We beg you, tell us. 1936 03:14:30,800 --> 03:14:32,440 The myth becomes real. 1937 03:14:49,400 --> 03:14:52,320 Zeus is your father. 1938 03:14:57,640 --> 03:14:58,920 Who will it be? 1939 03:15:00,240 --> 03:15:02,760 Pray tell us, who? 1940 03:15:05,040 --> 03:15:07,680 - What did he say? - "To the best. " 1941 03:15:09,840 --> 03:15:12,280 - He said, "To the best." - What? 1942 03:15:12,440 --> 03:15:14,640 - No, he said, "To Crateros." - To Crateros? 1943 03:15:14,800 --> 03:15:16,480 Why would he say Crateros? 1944 03:16:19,040 --> 03:16:23,320 On the 10th of June, a month short of his 33rd year... 1945 03:16:23,480 --> 03:16:27,920 Alexander's great heart finally gave out. 1946 03:16:28,120 --> 03:16:32,320 And as he vowed, he joined Hephaistion. 1947 03:16:35,480 --> 03:16:38,200 But in his short life, he achieved, without doubt... 1948 03:16:38,360 --> 03:16:43,680 the mythic glory of his ancestor Achilles and more. 1949 03:16:48,680 --> 03:16:51,440 Olympias' transgression in the murder of his father... 1950 03:16:51,600 --> 03:16:54,440 is, to my mind, a probability. 1951 03:16:54,600 --> 03:16:57,160 His, a burden. 1952 03:16:58,960 --> 03:17:03,760 Alexander was too in love with glory for him to steal it. 1953 03:17:07,720 --> 03:17:12,000 But by blood, and blood alone, he was guilty. 1954 03:17:12,160 --> 03:17:16,520 No! 1955 03:17:24,560 --> 03:17:27,400 - Bolt the doors. - The body stays in Babylon. 1956 03:17:27,560 --> 03:17:31,440 - The body belongs to Macedon. - Within hours... 1957 03:17:31,600 --> 03:17:35,200 we were fighting like jackals for his corpse. 1958 03:17:35,400 --> 03:17:40,080 The wars of the world had begun. Forty years, off and on, they endured. 1959 03:17:40,240 --> 03:17:44,480 Cassander in Greece. Crateros and Antigonus in western Asia. 1960 03:17:44,680 --> 03:17:49,120 Solucas and Perdiccas in the East. Myself in Egypt. 1961 03:17:49,320 --> 03:17:52,680 Until we divided his empire in four parts. 1962 03:17:52,840 --> 03:17:54,720 Gentlemen, we are not savages. 1963 03:17:54,880 --> 03:17:56,480 - We are the future... - Get out! 1964 03:17:57,040 --> 03:18:00,400 I think Alexander would have been disappointed in us. 1965 03:18:03,200 --> 03:18:08,560 Naturally, rumors grew he'd been poisoned by one faction of his generals or another... 1966 03:18:08,720 --> 03:18:14,160 but the truth in these matters has long since been driven from currency. 1967 03:18:16,440 --> 03:18:20,760 Cassander saw to that with his fake diaries... 1968 03:18:20,920 --> 03:18:25,760 painting Alexander as a sick and bloated drunk. 1969 03:18:26,080 --> 03:18:30,680 Many believed, to remove suspicion from himself. 1970 03:18:33,600 --> 03:18:38,640 He certainly proved he had the temperament for politics and murder... 1971 03:18:38,800 --> 03:18:43,960 when seven years later, he executed Olympias. 1972 03:18:44,920 --> 03:18:48,560 Met her death with great courage. 1973 03:18:49,600 --> 03:18:54,360 Five years... No, it was six years after that... 1974 03:18:54,520 --> 03:19:00,640 Cassander finally achieved the complete destruction of Alexander's bloodline... 1975 03:19:00,800 --> 03:19:03,480 when he poisoned Roxane... 1976 03:19:03,840 --> 03:19:07,400 and Alexander's 13-year-old son... 1977 03:19:08,960 --> 03:19:11,760 the true heir to the empire. 1978 03:19:16,120 --> 03:19:19,600 But Roxane too, like Olympias... 1979 03:19:19,800 --> 03:19:25,560 played by stern rules, supported by several generals. 1980 03:19:25,720 --> 03:19:31,600 Days after Alexander's death, she had Stateira poisoned. 1981 03:19:32,280 --> 03:19:34,240 It was reason enough for some to believe... 1982 03:19:34,400 --> 03:19:38,200 she was the one behind Hephaistion's sudden demise. 1983 03:19:38,360 --> 03:19:41,160 But this is unproven in my mind. 1984 03:19:41,320 --> 03:19:44,560 Bagoas disappeared from the histories entirely... 1985 03:19:44,760 --> 03:19:47,400 a wise move, perhaps. 1986 03:19:48,240 --> 03:19:51,560 But I will say his love and devotion for Alexander... 1987 03:19:53,600 --> 03:19:56,880 were unquestionable and extraordinary. 1988 03:20:04,160 --> 03:20:08,280 Now I am the keeper of his body... 1989 03:20:08,480 --> 03:20:11,640 embalmed here in the Egyptian ways. 1990 03:20:12,480 --> 03:20:17,960 I followed him as Pharaoh, and have now ruled 40 years. 1991 03:20:20,600 --> 03:20:25,720 I have two sons, each jealous of the other's power. 1992 03:20:28,320 --> 03:20:32,480 But they will grow to make fine fathers and husbands. 1993 03:20:32,680 --> 03:20:36,840 And I trust they'll be just in their affairs. 1994 03:20:38,400 --> 03:20:41,200 But they have never seen... 1995 03:20:41,360 --> 03:20:44,120 the great cavalry charge of Gaugamela... 1996 03:20:44,320 --> 03:20:47,560 or the mountains of the Hindu Kush... 1997 03:20:48,040 --> 03:20:53,560 when we crossed the 100,000 men army into India. 1998 03:21:00,720 --> 03:21:03,320 He was a god, Cadmos... 1999 03:21:04,200 --> 03:21:07,120 or as close as anything I've ever known. 2000 03:21:07,280 --> 03:21:11,160 "Tyrant!" they yell so easily. I laugh. 2001 03:21:11,320 --> 03:21:14,040 No tyrant ever gave back so much. 2002 03:21:14,200 --> 03:21:16,840 What do they know of the world, these schoolboys? 2003 03:21:17,480 --> 03:21:19,840 It takes strong men to rule. 2004 03:21:20,000 --> 03:21:26,280 Alexander was more, he was a Prometheus, a friend to man. He changed the world. 2005 03:21:27,120 --> 03:21:30,000 Before him, there were tribes... 2006 03:21:30,440 --> 03:21:34,720 and after him, all was possible. 2007 03:21:34,880 --> 03:21:39,640 There was suddenly a sense the world could be ruled by one king... 2008 03:21:39,800 --> 03:21:41,960 and be better for all. 2009 03:21:44,320 --> 03:21:47,880 Eighteen great Alexandrias he built across this world. 2010 03:21:48,040 --> 03:21:53,800 It was an empire, not of land and gold, but of the mind. 2011 03:21:55,040 --> 03:21:58,200 It was a Hellenic civilization... 2012 03:21:58,400 --> 03:22:02,200 open to all. 2013 03:22:06,240 --> 03:22:09,880 But the truth is never simple... 2014 03:22:10,760 --> 03:22:12,840 and yet it is. 2015 03:22:13,280 --> 03:22:16,200 The truth is, we did kill him. 2016 03:22:19,920 --> 03:22:23,320 By silence, we consented. 2017 03:22:23,760 --> 03:22:25,760 Because... 2018 03:22:25,920 --> 03:22:28,440 Because we couldn't go on. 2019 03:22:28,600 --> 03:22:33,880 What, by Ares, did we look forward to but to be discarded in the end, like Cleitus? 2020 03:22:34,040 --> 03:22:39,360 After all this time, to give away our wealth to Asian sycophants we despised? 2021 03:22:39,520 --> 03:22:42,720 Mixing the races, harmony? 2022 03:22:43,720 --> 03:22:46,480 Oh, he talked of these things... 2023 03:22:46,680 --> 03:22:52,440 but wasn't it really about Alexander and another population ready to obey him? 2024 03:22:53,480 --> 03:22:56,400 I never believed in his dream. 2025 03:22:56,560 --> 03:22:58,640 None of us did. 2026 03:23:00,440 --> 03:23:02,720 That's the truth of his life. 2027 03:23:02,880 --> 03:23:05,480 The dreamers exhaust us. 2028 03:23:06,200 --> 03:23:10,400 They must die before they kill us with their blasted dreams. 2029 03:23:11,760 --> 03:23:14,640 Oh, just throw all that away, Cadmos. 2030 03:23:14,800 --> 03:23:17,240 It's an old fool's rubbish. 2031 03:23:19,080 --> 03:23:24,400 You shall write, "He died of fever and a weakened condition. " 2032 03:23:25,280 --> 03:23:27,040 Yes, great Pharaoh. 2033 03:23:27,200 --> 03:23:31,160 Oh, he could have stayed home in Macedonia, married, raised a family. 2034 03:23:32,360 --> 03:23:35,440 He'd have died a celebrated man. 2035 03:23:37,800 --> 03:23:40,560 But this was not Alexander. 2036 03:23:41,000 --> 03:23:46,720 All his life, he fought to free himself from fear. 2037 03:23:46,880 --> 03:23:53,240 And by this, and this alone, he was made free. 2038 03:23:54,640 --> 03:23:58,600 The freest man I've ever known. 2039 03:24:00,280 --> 03:24:05,280 His tragedy was one of increasing loneliness... 2040 03:24:05,440 --> 03:24:09,160 and impatience with those who could not understand. 2041 03:24:09,520 --> 03:24:12,200 And if his desire... 2042 03:24:12,400 --> 03:24:17,280 to reconcile Greek and barbarian ended in failure... 2043 03:24:19,840 --> 03:24:23,040 What failure! 2044 03:24:23,200 --> 03:24:29,400 His failure towered over other men's successes. 2045 03:24:34,040 --> 03:24:35,800 I've lived... 2046 03:24:36,000 --> 03:24:38,320 I've lived long life, Cadmos... 2047 03:24:38,480 --> 03:24:40,920 but the glory and the memory of man... 2048 03:24:41,080 --> 03:24:46,000 will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions. 2049 03:24:46,480 --> 03:24:51,720 And the greatest of these is the one they now call... 2050 03:24:52,920 --> 03:24:56,840 Megas Alexandros. 2051 03:24:58,280 --> 03:25:01,440 The greatest of them all. 164534