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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,720 Alexander, the army will divide. 2 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:09,000 Satrapies will revolt. Without your orders, there'll be war. 3 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,681 We beg you. Tell us who. 4 00:04:11,485 --> 00:04:13,525 Our world is gone now. 5 00:04:15,205 --> 00:04:18,165 I'm the last left alive. 6 00:04:20,445 --> 00:04:23,206 Whether that's a blessing or a curse... 7 00:04:23,406 --> 00:04:25,686 ...who by Hades would know. 8 00:04:28,686 --> 00:04:31,246 But I've paid my price... 9 00:04:31,446 --> 00:04:33,126 ...in blood. 10 00:04:35,887 --> 00:04:38,527 And in broken dreams. 11 00:04:40,127 --> 00:04:45,527 They say we were the greatest fighting force ever known to man. 12 00:04:47,807 --> 00:04:52,368 Greater even than the expedition to Troy. 13 00:04:53,768 --> 00:04:55,368 But how can I say it? 14 00:04:55,568 --> 00:04:58,568 How can I tell you what it is like to be young... 15 00:04:58,728 --> 00:05:02,208 ...and to dream big dreams? 16 00:05:02,368 --> 00:05:07,209 To believe when Alexander looked you in the eye, you could do anything. 17 00:05:07,369 --> 00:05:09,089 Anything. 18 00:05:11,329 --> 00:05:17,730 In his presence, by the light of Apollo, we were better than ourselves. 19 00:05:19,690 --> 00:05:24,810 Truly, I've known many great men in my life... 20 00:05:25,570 --> 00:05:27,930 ...but only one colossus. 21 00:05:28,450 --> 00:05:30,610 And only now, when old... 22 00:05:30,810 --> 00:05:35,811 ...do I understand who this force of nature really was. 23 00:05:40,211 --> 00:05:42,091 Or do I? 24 00:05:42,931 --> 00:05:47,572 Did such a man as Alexander exist? Of course not. 25 00:05:47,772 --> 00:05:51,092 We idolize him, make him better than he was. 26 00:05:51,252 --> 00:05:55,972 Men, all men, reach and fall... 27 00:05:56,852 --> 00:05:59,453 ...reach and fall. 28 00:06:04,733 --> 00:06:11,133 In the East, the vast Persian Empire ruled almost all the known world. 29 00:06:12,373 --> 00:06:16,694 In the West, the once great Greek city-states... 30 00:06:17,014 --> 00:06:21,934 ...Thebes, Athens, Sparta, had fallen from pride. 31 00:06:22,574 --> 00:06:26,974 For 100 years now, the Persian kings had bribed the Greeks... 32 00:06:27,174 --> 00:06:30,135 ...with their gold to fight as mercenaries. 33 00:06:30,815 --> 00:06:35,655 It was Philip, the one-eyed, who changed all this... 34 00:06:35,855 --> 00:06:40,655 ...uniting tribes of illiterate sheepherders from the high and lowlands. 35 00:06:40,855 --> 00:06:45,016 With his blood and guts, he built a professional army... 36 00:06:45,176 --> 00:06:48,976 ...that brought the devious Greeks to their knees. 37 00:06:50,216 --> 00:06:52,616 He then turned his eye on Persia... 38 00:06:52,776 --> 00:06:56,737 ...where it was said the Great King Darius himself... 39 00:06:56,897 --> 00:07:00,937 ...on his throne in Babylon, feared Philip. 40 00:07:05,417 --> 00:07:07,417 Philip was murdered... 41 00:07:07,617 --> 00:07:11,658 ...much to Persia's delight and perhaps sponsored by their gold. 42 00:07:11,858 --> 00:07:17,058 And Alexander, at 20 became the new ruler of Macedonia. 43 00:07:17,218 --> 00:07:19,978 Announcing revenge for the death of Philip... 44 00:07:20,378 --> 00:07:24,139 ...Alexander liberated all of the cities of western Asia... 45 00:07:24,339 --> 00:07:26,859 ...south to Egypt... 46 00:07:27,259 --> 00:07:31,099 ...where he was declared Pharaoh of Egypt... 47 00:07:31,259 --> 00:07:33,699 ...and worshipped as a god. 48 00:07:36,819 --> 00:07:40,660 And finally, he provoked the rise to battle... 49 00:07:42,060 --> 00:07:46,860 ...in the heart of the Persian Empire, near Babylon. 50 00:07:56,781 --> 00:07:57,901 it was mad. 51 00:07:58,061 --> 00:08:00,581 Forty thousand of us against hundreds of thousands... 52 00:08:00,741 --> 00:08:03,421 ...of barbarian races unknown to us... 53 00:08:03,581 --> 00:08:07,022 ...gathered under Darius himself. 54 00:08:08,702 --> 00:08:11,382 East and west had now come together... 55 00:08:11,542 --> 00:08:15,062 ...to decide the fate of the known world. 56 00:08:16,462 --> 00:08:21,463 it was the day Alexander had waited for all his life. 57 00:08:22,983 --> 00:08:25,143 Son of a god. 58 00:08:26,303 --> 00:08:28,383 it was a myth, of course. 59 00:08:28,543 --> 00:08:31,343 At least it started as a myth. 60 00:08:31,983 --> 00:08:33,423 i know. 61 00:08:34,424 --> 00:08:36,024 i was there. 62 00:08:36,304 --> 00:08:40,344 In the crack of the Persian line, we'll go for the head. 63 00:08:41,184 --> 00:08:42,344 Kill Darius? 64 00:08:42,504 --> 00:08:45,664 The gods have brought him to us at last. 65 00:08:46,624 --> 00:08:48,905 If I die, it's one Macedonian. 66 00:08:49,065 --> 00:08:52,865 But the Persians, they cannot move without Darius' command. 67 00:08:53,025 --> 00:08:57,345 Here. Right here, we cut the throat of the Persian army. 68 00:08:57,505 --> 00:09:00,825 This is madness. You'll never get within 100 paces of him. 69 00:09:00,985 --> 00:09:02,986 Have you seen the sheer size of his force? 70 00:09:03,146 --> 00:09:07,666 Not if you hold them on the left, my brave Parmenion... 71 00:09:07,826 --> 00:09:12,226 ...with your son Philotas for just one, two hours tomorrow. 72 00:09:13,586 --> 00:09:18,427 And you, unbreakable Antigonus, the center phalanx. 73 00:09:18,627 --> 00:09:22,747 Perdiccas, Leonnatus... 74 00:09:23,027 --> 00:09:26,827 ...Nearchus, Polyperchon. 75 00:09:26,987 --> 00:09:31,108 If you pin them on the walls of your sarissas, here in the center... 76 00:09:31,308 --> 00:09:34,268 ...their cavalry will follow me out to the right. 77 00:09:34,428 --> 00:09:37,908 And when bold Cassander breaks, stretching their left... 78 00:09:38,108 --> 00:09:40,948 ...a hole will open. Then I and my cavalry- 79 00:09:41,148 --> 00:09:43,508 Our revered Cleitus... 80 00:09:43,668 --> 00:09:46,949 ...Ptolemy and Hephaistion. 81 00:09:47,109 --> 00:09:49,149 - will strike through that gap... 82 00:09:49,909 --> 00:09:52,709 ...and deal the deathblow to Darius' head. 83 00:09:52,869 --> 00:09:57,389 Since when, by the light of Apollo, has cavalry been used to break an infantry line? 84 00:09:57,549 --> 00:09:59,510 What was it we did to Chaeronea, Parmenion? 85 00:09:59,670 --> 00:10:03,550 Alexander, even with luck, timing, the gods, they're at least five to our one... 86 00:10:03,710 --> 00:10:07,790 ...which means in truth we must rout them tomorrow, destroy their army completely. 87 00:10:07,950 --> 00:10:11,470 Or we'll be picked apart by bandit tribes on the long journey home. 88 00:10:11,670 --> 00:10:13,711 Right. 89 00:10:13,991 --> 00:10:18,311 You speak of home and retreat... 90 00:10:18,591 --> 00:10:21,311 ...but do you understand, Parmenion? 91 00:10:22,831 --> 00:10:25,111 Babylon's my new home. 92 00:10:27,992 --> 00:10:29,672 Alexander... 93 00:10:29,872 --> 00:10:32,112 ...if we must fight... 94 00:10:32,272 --> 00:10:34,072 ...do so with stealth. 95 00:10:34,392 --> 00:10:39,192 Use your numbers well. We should attack tonight when they least expect us. 96 00:10:48,593 --> 00:10:52,873 I didn't cross Asia to steal this victory, Cassander. 97 00:10:53,033 --> 00:10:56,794 No, you are too honorable for that. 98 00:10:56,954 --> 00:11:00,554 No doubt influenced from sleeping with Tales of Troy under your pillow. 99 00:11:02,514 --> 00:11:05,434 But your father was no lover of Homer's. 100 00:11:05,594 --> 00:11:09,595 The lands west of the Euphrates, Alexander, the hand of his daughter in marriage. 101 00:11:09,755 --> 00:11:11,875 Since when has a Greek been given such honors? 102 00:11:12,035 --> 00:11:16,195 There are not honors, Parmenion, they're bribes... 103 00:11:16,355 --> 00:11:19,155 ...which the Greeks have accepted too long. 104 00:11:22,315 --> 00:11:24,716 Do you forget that the man who murdered my father... 105 00:11:24,876 --> 00:11:27,396 - ... lies across the valley floor? - Come, Alexander... 106 00:11:27,596 --> 00:11:31,396 ...we're still not really sure if it was Persian gold behind the assassination. 107 00:11:31,596 --> 00:11:33,596 But that is no matter! 108 00:11:33,796 --> 00:11:37,797 Your father taught you never to surrender your reason to your passion. 109 00:11:37,997 --> 00:11:39,797 Now I urge you... 110 00:11:39,957 --> 00:11:43,037 ...with all my experience, regroup. 111 00:11:43,197 --> 00:11:45,357 Fall back to the coast, raise a larger force. 112 00:11:46,797 --> 00:11:50,117 I would, if I were Parmenion. 113 00:11:51,358 --> 00:11:53,478 But I am Alexander. 114 00:11:53,638 --> 00:11:57,398 And no more than Earth has two suns will Asia bear two kings. 115 00:11:58,038 --> 00:11:59,558 These are my terms. 116 00:11:59,758 --> 00:12:04,278 And if Darius isn't a coward who hides behind his men... 117 00:12:04,438 --> 00:12:06,599 ...then he'll come to me tomorrow. 118 00:12:06,759 --> 00:12:10,839 And when he bows down to Greece... 119 00:12:11,959 --> 00:12:14,559 ...Alexander will be merciful. 120 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:24,960 By Ares' chains, he has got balls, men. 121 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,960 I mean, give the man his due, Parmenion. 122 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:35,521 And, lads, feast tonight, for tomorrow we will dine in Hades. 123 00:12:45,641 --> 00:12:48,722 I've seen one before. It was still alive. 124 00:13:03,603 --> 00:13:05,643 To whom do you pray? 125 00:13:08,163 --> 00:13:09,723 Phobos. 126 00:13:11,243 --> 00:13:12,603 Fear? 127 00:13:16,044 --> 00:13:17,644 A bad omen. 128 00:13:19,884 --> 00:13:22,044 More so for Darius. 129 00:13:28,044 --> 00:13:33,565 I've come to believe the fear of death drives all men, Hephaistion. 130 00:13:33,765 --> 00:13:36,365 And this we didn't learn as schoolboys. 131 00:13:36,885 --> 00:13:40,565 It is the cause of all of our misfortunes. 132 00:13:41,165 --> 00:13:43,405 - So, mighty Crateros. - Your Majesty. 133 00:13:44,086 --> 00:13:47,566 - Are you ready for tomorrow? - It's been too long coming if you ask me. 134 00:13:47,726 --> 00:13:52,126 The men are skittish as colts and the damn bulls won't shut their snouts. 135 00:13:52,286 --> 00:13:55,766 Good. Fear makes men fight better. 136 00:13:56,886 --> 00:13:58,967 Post your sentries alertly but rest them well. 137 00:13:59,127 --> 00:14:03,407 Don't you worry, general. I'm known to sleep with my eyes open as a baby's arse. 138 00:14:03,567 --> 00:14:06,687 Only because someone might steal his loot, sire. 139 00:14:07,447 --> 00:14:09,967 Well, someone owes Crateros for his cheapness. 140 00:14:10,167 --> 00:14:13,408 He buys neither gloves nor blankets to warm himself. 141 00:14:13,568 --> 00:14:16,288 Who needs gloves when you come from grace? 142 00:14:16,728 --> 00:14:19,328 Who needs clothes when you can fight naked? 143 00:14:19,968 --> 00:14:21,128 He's right. 144 00:14:21,288 --> 00:14:24,208 After tomorrow, even the thrifty among you shall be kings. 145 00:14:24,368 --> 00:14:27,489 - The gods are with us, Your Majesty. - We'll stain the ground... 146 00:14:27,689 --> 00:14:29,649 ...in Persian blood, my king. 147 00:14:30,809 --> 00:14:33,289 You're on the first row tomorrow, boy. 148 00:14:35,129 --> 00:14:38,449 I've always believed, Alexander... 149 00:14:38,889 --> 00:14:41,810 ...but this seems so much bigger than us. 150 00:14:42,010 --> 00:14:46,650 Did Patroclus doubt Achilles when they stood side by side at the seat of Troy? 151 00:14:46,930 --> 00:14:48,690 Patroclus died first. 152 00:14:49,850 --> 00:14:51,530 If you do... 153 00:14:52,450 --> 00:14:56,051 If you were to fall, Hephaistion, even if Macedonia were to lose a king... 154 00:14:57,051 --> 00:14:58,971 ...I will avenge you. 155 00:14:59,731 --> 00:15:02,011 And follow you down to the house of death. 156 00:15:02,931 --> 00:15:05,331 I would do the same. 157 00:15:14,932 --> 00:15:19,172 On the eve of battle, it's hardest to be alone. 158 00:15:23,653 --> 00:15:25,813 Then perhaps... 159 00:15:27,573 --> 00:15:30,493 Perhaps this is farewell then... 160 00:15:31,493 --> 00:15:33,693 ...my Alexander. 161 00:15:34,173 --> 00:15:39,814 Fear not, Hephaistion. We are at the beginning. 162 00:16:14,296 --> 00:16:18,416 Blood makes the world rise. 163 00:16:19,297 --> 00:16:22,777 Blood makes the rain fall. 164 00:16:25,617 --> 00:16:29,497 Blood makes the earth grow. 165 00:16:30,697 --> 00:16:36,978 And in blood, all men are born and die. 166 00:16:38,738 --> 00:16:44,498 Blood is the food of the gods below. 167 00:16:58,739 --> 00:17:02,380 Come, Bucephalus. Today we ride to our destiny. 168 00:17:05,220 --> 00:17:08,980 Company, group! Regroup! 169 00:17:20,301 --> 00:17:23,301 Phalanx, turn right! 170 00:17:40,462 --> 00:17:45,143 Phalanx, attention! 171 00:18:06,544 --> 00:18:09,424 Neoptolemus. 172 00:18:09,584 --> 00:18:12,465 I remember you the day you took the siege tower at Tyre. 173 00:18:12,625 --> 00:18:15,905 You were a giant. And today, how will you fight? 174 00:18:21,305 --> 00:18:23,985 Dexippos, by Athena. 175 00:18:24,145 --> 00:18:28,306 How far was it you threw your man wrestling at the last Olympic Games? 176 00:18:28,506 --> 00:18:31,146 Will you match it with your spear? 177 00:18:35,666 --> 00:18:41,027 And Timander, son of Menander, a great soldier to my father. 178 00:18:41,227 --> 00:18:45,947 I still mourn your brother, Addaios, who died so bravely at Halicarnassus. 179 00:18:46,107 --> 00:18:49,707 What an honored family you descend from, Timander. 180 00:18:49,907 --> 00:18:52,827 You fight for them today. 181 00:18:54,268 --> 00:19:00,308 You've all honored your country and your ancestors. 182 00:19:00,468 --> 00:19:05,228 And now we come to this most distant place in Asia... 183 00:19:05,588 --> 00:19:12,029 ...where across from us, Darius has at last gathered a vast army... 184 00:19:39,191 --> 00:19:40,871 But ask yourselves... 185 00:19:41,151 --> 00:19:46,591 ...who is this great king who pays assassins in gold coins... 186 00:19:46,751 --> 00:19:49,031 ...to murder my father, our king... 187 00:19:49,231 --> 00:19:54,072 ...in a most despicable and cowardly manner? 188 00:19:54,232 --> 00:19:59,872 Who is this great king, Darius, who enslaves his own men to fight? 189 00:20:00,032 --> 00:20:04,112 Who is this king but a king of air? 190 00:20:04,312 --> 00:20:07,553 These men do not fight for their homes. 191 00:20:07,713 --> 00:20:11,193 They fight because this king tells them they must. 192 00:20:11,793 --> 00:20:15,353 And when they fight, they will melt away like the air... 193 00:20:15,513 --> 00:20:18,554 ...because they know no loyalty to a king of slaves. 194 00:20:19,674 --> 00:20:22,994 But we are not here today as slaves. 195 00:20:23,154 --> 00:20:25,394 We are here today... 196 00:20:25,554 --> 00:20:29,234 ...as Macedonian freemen! 197 00:20:44,635 --> 00:20:46,796 And though outnumbered... 198 00:20:47,956 --> 00:20:51,676 ...I say to you who know the price of tyranny... 199 00:20:53,076 --> 00:20:56,876 ...who've carried the Persian yoke too long... 200 00:20:57,876 --> 00:21:01,437 ...you have a strength born of your hearts... 201 00:21:02,997 --> 00:21:05,637 ...and all their arms, their numbers... 202 00:21:05,797 --> 00:21:09,277 ...their chariots and all their fine horses... 203 00:21:09,437 --> 00:21:12,237 ...will mean nothing in the hands of slaves. 204 00:21:12,757 --> 00:21:14,637 Some of you... 205 00:21:16,318 --> 00:21:18,718 ...perhaps myself... 206 00:21:18,918 --> 00:21:23,758 ...will not live to see the sun set over these mountains today. 207 00:21:24,558 --> 00:21:29,559 For I will be in the very thick of battle with you. 208 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:33,439 But remember this: 209 00:21:34,039 --> 00:21:38,319 The greatest honor a man can ever achieve... 210 00:21:38,519 --> 00:21:43,720 ...is to live with great courage and to die with his countrymen... 211 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,720 ...in battle for his home. 212 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000 I say to you... 213 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,641 ...what every warrior has known since the beginning of time. 214 00:21:59,801 --> 00:22:02,201 Conquer your fear... 215 00:22:02,361 --> 00:22:05,801 ...and I promise you, you will conquer death. 216 00:22:30,803 --> 00:22:33,603 And someday I vow to you... 217 00:22:33,763 --> 00:22:39,564 ...your sons and your grandsons will look into your eyes. 218 00:22:40,284 --> 00:22:44,284 And when they ask why you fought so bravely at Gaugamela... 219 00:22:45,204 --> 00:22:47,044 ...you will answer... 220 00:22:47,204 --> 00:22:52,084 ...with all the strength of your great, great hearts: 221 00:22:52,244 --> 00:22:55,165 "I was here this day at Gaugamela... 222 00:22:57,045 --> 00:22:59,445 ...for the freedom... 223 00:23:00,605 --> 00:23:03,685 ...and glory... 224 00:23:05,725 --> 00:23:08,006 ...of Greece!" 225 00:23:14,566 --> 00:23:17,246 Zeus be with us! 226 00:23:44,208 --> 00:23:47,808 Cassander! Four columns, go! 227 00:23:53,449 --> 00:23:55,209 Where does he go? 228 00:23:55,369 --> 00:23:57,729 I don't know, Majesty. 229 00:23:57,889 --> 00:24:00,729 Envelop him, Bessus. 230 00:24:04,410 --> 00:24:07,530 Hephaistion, go! 231 00:24:16,890 --> 00:24:18,771 Phalanx! 232 00:24:37,212 --> 00:24:40,572 He makes a mistake, Pharnakes. 233 00:24:43,692 --> 00:24:45,252 Yes, great king. 234 00:25:47,817 --> 00:25:50,377 Be brave, men. 235 00:25:51,377 --> 00:25:52,977 Steady on the left, lads! 236 00:25:53,457 --> 00:25:56,017 Bend if you must, but never break. 237 00:25:56,217 --> 00:25:59,218 And keep watching the cavalry on the left. 238 00:26:31,940 --> 00:26:34,060 Pick up the pace! 239 00:26:43,901 --> 00:26:47,581 Prepare to repel chariots! 240 00:27:24,664 --> 00:27:26,464 Forward! 241 00:28:16,307 --> 00:28:18,348 Cassander! 242 00:28:18,548 --> 00:28:20,868 - Forward, men! - Forward! 243 00:28:31,789 --> 00:28:35,909 - Left turn! - Infantry, clear! Out now! 244 00:29:45,234 --> 00:29:49,874 Hold your positions! 245 00:30:18,516 --> 00:30:20,876 Father! We must fall back to the gully, Father. 246 00:30:21,076 --> 00:30:22,596 No, hold. 247 00:30:22,756 --> 00:30:26,677 Where is he? We're far too thin! Get word to Alexander! 248 00:30:26,837 --> 00:30:29,237 - Move! - Yes, sir. 249 00:30:47,798 --> 00:30:51,318 Come, Macedonians! Ride! Ride! 250 00:30:58,279 --> 00:31:00,679 Drive for the hole! 251 00:31:01,159 --> 00:31:04,239 - Drive for the hole! - Drive for the hole! 252 00:31:37,802 --> 00:31:41,002 Prince Merdicus, bring these men up. 253 00:32:06,644 --> 00:32:09,684 Back and to the left! Back and to the left! 254 00:32:09,844 --> 00:32:12,924 - General! - Get to your home! And go home fast. 255 00:32:14,124 --> 00:32:15,844 I cannot see! 256 00:32:16,004 --> 00:32:19,005 - Philotas! Philotas! - Father. 257 00:32:19,205 --> 00:32:21,245 Go. Tell Alexander yourself. 258 00:32:21,405 --> 00:32:26,005 And if he won't listen, then survive me and avenge this betrayal! 259 00:33:07,128 --> 00:33:11,728 Pay attention, lad! Your father still watches over you! 260 00:33:56,652 --> 00:33:59,292 Darius! 261 00:33:59,612 --> 00:34:01,652 Find your horses. 262 00:34:17,453 --> 00:34:19,893 Darius! 263 00:34:40,935 --> 00:34:43,535 Go! Go! 264 00:35:00,376 --> 00:35:04,776 We can reach those mountains by sunset, go all night and catch Darius at dawn. 265 00:35:04,936 --> 00:35:07,817 Provision the horses. 266 00:35:08,457 --> 00:35:12,217 Alexander! Alexander, my father's lost. 267 00:35:12,377 --> 00:35:15,137 They've overrun the flank. They're into the baggage train. 268 00:35:15,297 --> 00:35:17,457 Parmenion's crumbling. 269 00:35:17,777 --> 00:35:22,258 Alexander, if you chase him, you risk losing your army here. 270 00:35:22,418 --> 00:35:24,658 And if we capture him, we gain an empire. 271 00:35:34,819 --> 00:35:37,499 You can run to the ends of the earth, you coward... 272 00:35:37,659 --> 00:35:40,619 ...but you'll never run far enough! 273 00:35:40,779 --> 00:35:43,459 To Parmenion! 274 00:36:14,101 --> 00:36:15,501 You bleed free, my lord. 275 00:36:15,661 --> 00:36:18,942 - May I tend to your wound? - No, Hermolaus, not now. 276 00:36:19,102 --> 00:36:21,542 There's far worse than me. Go to them. 277 00:36:21,702 --> 00:36:23,582 Help them. 278 00:36:47,024 --> 00:36:49,264 How was this done, soldier? 279 00:36:50,344 --> 00:36:52,464 Spear. 280 00:36:53,624 --> 00:36:55,864 But I got two of the buggers. 281 00:36:59,105 --> 00:37:00,745 Your Majesty. 282 00:37:02,025 --> 00:37:03,985 You're very brave. 283 00:37:05,345 --> 00:37:07,145 What shall I call you? 284 00:37:07,345 --> 00:37:10,185 - Glaukos, my king. - Glaukos. 285 00:37:11,265 --> 00:37:14,106 - And where's your home? - Illyria. 286 00:37:16,586 --> 00:37:19,186 Let your body go loose. 287 00:37:22,666 --> 00:37:24,666 Think of home now. 288 00:37:24,866 --> 00:37:27,307 Be brave again, Glaukos... 289 00:37:28,867 --> 00:37:31,387 ...and you will live on in glory. 290 00:37:34,547 --> 00:37:36,627 Alexander. 291 00:37:46,468 --> 00:37:50,748 The Persian Empire, the greatest the world had yet known... 292 00:37:50,908 --> 00:37:53,108 ...was destroyed. 293 00:37:57,589 --> 00:38:02,429 And Alexander, at 25, was now king of all. 294 00:38:16,550 --> 00:38:20,630 If you hesitate, she will strike. 295 00:38:23,231 --> 00:38:25,351 Yes. 296 00:38:27,031 --> 00:38:28,911 They are like people. 297 00:38:29,871 --> 00:38:36,111 You can love them for years. Feed them, nurture them... 298 00:38:37,111 --> 00:38:41,672 ...but still, they can turn on you. 299 00:38:49,272 --> 00:38:51,673 Don't hurt her. 300 00:38:53,193 --> 00:38:54,993 Good. 301 00:38:57,433 --> 00:38:58,873 Now... 302 00:39:05,153 --> 00:39:07,074 He calls me a barbarian. 303 00:39:07,274 --> 00:39:09,834 He makes a mockery of Dionysus every night. 304 00:39:25,195 --> 00:39:29,475 Some called his mother, Queen Olympias, a sorceress... 305 00:39:29,635 --> 00:39:33,075 ...and said that Alexander was the child of Zeus. 306 00:39:33,395 --> 00:39:36,716 Others, Dionysus. 307 00:39:37,196 --> 00:39:43,476 Women are the only ones who know Dionysus. 308 00:39:53,957 --> 00:39:57,637 But truly, there was not a man in Macedonia who didn't look... 309 00:39:57,797 --> 00:40:03,118 ...at father and son, side by side, and wonder. 310 00:40:16,079 --> 00:40:18,559 My little Achilles. 311 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,080 Stay, Alexander, down. Down. 312 00:40:44,601 --> 00:40:46,561 What is it you want? 313 00:40:46,721 --> 00:40:48,601 Six months. Did you miss me? 314 00:40:48,761 --> 00:40:52,281 - No. Not here! - Proud bitch. I'm still your king. 315 00:40:52,481 --> 00:40:55,641 King of what? Sheepherders? 316 00:41:00,562 --> 00:41:05,162 - I am of Achilles' royal blood. - The blood of Herakles runs in my veins. 317 00:41:05,362 --> 00:41:08,002 - You are nothing but a drunken whore. - Shut your mouth. 318 00:41:08,202 --> 00:41:09,802 You 10-titted bitch from Hades! 319 00:41:10,002 --> 00:41:12,963 Which god could I curse to have ever laid eyes on you! 320 00:41:14,763 --> 00:41:17,403 Do you think people respect you? 321 00:41:17,563 --> 00:41:20,283 You think they don't know your bastards? 322 00:41:28,884 --> 00:41:32,084 Damn your sorceress soul! You keep him here like one of your snakes! 323 00:41:32,244 --> 00:41:35,484 I told you not! I told you not. 324 00:41:35,644 --> 00:41:38,404 - You'll obey me. - I will not. 325 00:41:38,604 --> 00:41:42,925 You'll obey me, or I'll kill you with my own hands. 326 00:41:46,005 --> 00:41:50,565 Let her go! No! Stop! Papa! 327 00:41:52,285 --> 00:41:55,766 - Obey me! - Your Majesty! No! 328 00:41:57,526 --> 00:41:59,326 In the name of the gods. 329 00:41:59,526 --> 00:42:04,726 He will never be yours! Never! 330 00:42:04,886 --> 00:42:09,527 In my womb, I carried my avenger! 331 00:42:18,927 --> 00:42:22,247 in the world he grew up to... 332 00:42:22,447 --> 00:42:27,368 ...I�ve come to believe it was in friendship that Alexander found his sanity. 333 00:42:27,528 --> 00:42:30,968 You don't need much to fight. 334 00:42:31,488 --> 00:42:37,409 When you're in the front ranks of a battle, facing some Northern barbarian tribe... 335 00:42:37,569 --> 00:42:42,449 ...courage won't be in the soles of your feet, Perdiccas. 336 00:42:42,609 --> 00:42:45,489 Or in the thickness of your tunic, Philotas. 337 00:42:45,649 --> 00:42:48,409 Or in the lining of your stomach, Nearchus. 338 00:42:48,609 --> 00:42:52,970 It's in the heart of a man. 339 00:42:53,530 --> 00:42:58,210 You don't need to eat every day or until you're full, Ptolemy. 340 00:42:58,370 --> 00:43:01,290 You don't need to lie in bed in a morning... 341 00:43:01,490 --> 00:43:05,691 ...when you can have some good bean soup, Cassander, after a forced night march. 342 00:43:06,491 --> 00:43:08,331 Come on, Alexander. 343 00:43:09,211 --> 00:43:13,171 Where's your hunger to twist Hephaistion's head off? 344 00:43:13,611 --> 00:43:16,611 Is he stronger than you? Then beat him another way. 345 00:43:19,372 --> 00:43:22,332 Who will respect you as a king? You think because of your father? 346 00:43:22,492 --> 00:43:28,612 The first rule of war is to do what you ask your men to do. No more, no less. 347 00:43:32,132 --> 00:43:33,773 Good, Hephaistion. That's it. 348 00:43:34,053 --> 00:43:38,493 Well done. Good wrestling, Hephaistion. That's what I want. 349 00:43:38,653 --> 00:43:40,013 Come, come, come. 350 00:43:40,493 --> 00:43:42,093 You did well, but you lost. 351 00:43:42,293 --> 00:43:47,654 Now, both of you, congratulate the other. Go on. 352 00:43:48,254 --> 00:43:50,934 Would you want me to let you win, Alexander? 353 00:43:53,014 --> 00:43:55,214 You're right. 354 00:43:55,414 --> 00:43:58,454 But I promise you, I will beat you one day, Hephaistion. 355 00:44:05,655 --> 00:44:09,695 it was said later that Alexander was never defeated... 356 00:44:09,895 --> 00:44:11,815 ...except by Hephaistion's thighs. 357 00:44:11,975 --> 00:44:14,495 Although an inferior race... 358 00:44:14,695 --> 00:44:20,136 ...the Persians control at least four-fifths of the known world. 359 00:44:20,296 --> 00:44:22,776 From Ethiopia and Egypt in the south... 360 00:44:22,976 --> 00:44:25,496 ...to Caucasus and the two inland seas in the north... 361 00:44:25,656 --> 00:44:30,177 Philip brought such as Aristotle from Athens to educate our rough people. 362 00:44:30,377 --> 00:44:34,897 They rule, and we sit around like frogs. 363 00:44:35,057 --> 00:44:36,297 - Master? - Yes? 364 00:44:36,497 --> 00:44:37,777 - Master! - Out with it! 365 00:44:37,937 --> 00:44:40,777 - Why are the Persians so cruel? - Oh, come on, Nearchus. 366 00:44:40,937 --> 00:44:42,937 That is not the subject for today, Nearchus. 367 00:44:43,137 --> 00:44:48,098 But it is true that the Oriental races are known for their barbarity... 368 00:44:48,298 --> 00:44:50,538 ...and their slavish devotion to their senses. 369 00:44:50,738 --> 00:44:54,818 Which are so dull, they castrate young boys... 370 00:44:54,978 --> 00:44:57,779 ...such as yourselves, for their sexual pleasure. 371 00:44:58,939 --> 00:45:03,979 Yes. Excess in all things is the undoing of men. 372 00:45:04,139 --> 00:45:06,059 That is why we Greeks are superior. 373 00:45:06,259 --> 00:45:09,459 We practice control of our senses. 374 00:45:09,659 --> 00:45:11,860 Moderation, we hope. 375 00:45:12,060 --> 00:45:13,980 Then what of Achilles at Troy, master? 376 00:45:15,660 --> 00:45:20,580 - Was he not excessive? - Achilles simply lacks restraint. 377 00:45:20,740 --> 00:45:24,540 He dominates others so completely that even when he withdraws from battle... 378 00:45:24,700 --> 00:45:27,981 ...crazed with grief over his dead lover, Patroclus... 379 00:45:28,181 --> 00:45:33,221 ...he seriously endangers his own army. He is a deeply selfish man. 380 00:45:33,421 --> 00:45:37,301 Would you say the love between Achilles and Patroclus is a corrupting one? 381 00:45:38,461 --> 00:45:41,982 When men lie together in lust, it is a surrender to the passions... 382 00:45:42,142 --> 00:45:45,902 ...and does nothing for the excellence in us. 383 00:45:46,102 --> 00:45:50,582 Nor does any other excess, Cassander, jealousy among them. 384 00:45:51,142 --> 00:45:56,103 But when men lie together, and knowledge and virtue are passed between them... 385 00:45:56,303 --> 00:45:59,903 ...that is pure and excellent. 386 00:46:00,063 --> 00:46:04,263 When they compete to bring out the good, the best in each other... 387 00:46:04,423 --> 00:46:08,344 ...this is the love between men that can build a city-state... 388 00:46:08,504 --> 00:46:10,984 ...and lift us from our frog pond. 389 00:46:14,064 --> 00:46:16,184 But can a man love a woman equally, master? 390 00:46:16,424 --> 00:46:18,024 A woman? Of course not. 391 00:46:18,184 --> 00:46:20,824 A woman is a slave to her passion, Hephaistion. 392 00:46:20,984 --> 00:46:24,145 Oh, naturally there are exceptions, and we must honor them. 393 00:46:24,345 --> 00:46:28,345 Such as Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom and war. 394 00:46:28,545 --> 00:46:32,865 But never forget, she is sprung not from the loins of Zeus, but from his mind. 395 00:46:33,585 --> 00:46:36,666 Now, you think on all this, my young frogs... 396 00:46:36,826 --> 00:46:41,586 ...for in you resides the future of Greek civilization. 397 00:46:41,746 --> 00:46:46,026 To strive for honor is the highest purpose of all. 398 00:46:46,226 --> 00:46:48,746 To rule over our baser emotions. 399 00:46:48,906 --> 00:46:52,747 To follow reason, the divine part in each of you. 400 00:46:52,907 --> 00:46:54,267 Yes... 401 00:46:54,467 --> 00:46:58,707 ...to love excellence is truly to love the gods. 402 00:47:00,907 --> 00:47:02,507 Now, will you stop distracting me? 403 00:47:02,947 --> 00:47:05,548 Back to geography and things that we know. 404 00:47:05,748 --> 00:47:11,348 Is it possible that the source of Egypt's mighty River Nile... 405 00:47:11,508 --> 00:47:15,188 ...could rise in these distant mountains of the outer earth? 406 00:47:15,348 --> 00:47:21,349 If so, an experienced navigator could find his way here... 407 00:47:21,509 --> 00:47:26,269 ...by this river east, down into the great plains of India... 408 00:47:26,429 --> 00:47:31,029 ...out into the eastern ocean at end of the world... 409 00:47:31,189 --> 00:47:35,110 ...and by this route up the Nile... 410 00:47:35,270 --> 00:47:41,350 ...back to Egypt, into the Middle Sea and home to Greece. 411 00:47:41,990 --> 00:47:45,150 Now, if only these frogs could look outward... 412 00:47:45,310 --> 00:47:49,271 ...and act on their favored position at the center... 413 00:47:49,431 --> 00:47:51,551 ...Greece could rule the world. 414 00:47:51,831 --> 00:47:57,271 Why is it, master, in myth, these lands you speak of are known? 415 00:47:59,071 --> 00:48:03,792 India, where Herakles and Dionysus traveled. 416 00:48:03,952 --> 00:48:09,472 All these men who went east, Theseus, Jason, Achilles, were victorious. 417 00:48:09,632 --> 00:48:13,592 From generation to generation, their stories have been passed on. 418 00:48:13,752 --> 00:48:16,273 Why? Unless there was truth to them? 419 00:48:16,433 --> 00:48:22,073 Tales of Amazons? Minotaurs, Gorgons, Icarus flying into the sun? No, Alexander. 420 00:48:22,233 --> 00:48:26,073 Only common people believe these tales, as they believe most anything. 421 00:48:26,273 --> 00:48:30,834 We are here precisely to educate ourselves against such foolish passions. 422 00:48:31,314 --> 00:48:36,114 But if we are superior to the Persians, as you say, why do we not rule them? 423 00:48:36,314 --> 00:48:41,274 It is- It has always been our Greek dream to go east. 424 00:48:42,034 --> 00:48:44,115 My father long wants it. 425 00:48:44,915 --> 00:48:50,115 The East has a way of swallowing men and their dreams. 426 00:48:50,275 --> 00:48:56,315 But still, to think it's these myths that lead us forward to the greatest glory... 427 00:48:56,555 --> 00:48:58,876 ...why is it wrong to act on them? 428 00:48:59,876 --> 00:49:02,676 I can only warn you, not teach you. 429 00:49:03,636 --> 00:49:06,916 Beware of what you dream for. 430 00:49:07,676 --> 00:49:11,357 The gods have a way of punishing such pride. 431 00:49:21,597 --> 00:49:26,038 And growing more ambitious, he now planned the invasion of Persia. 432 00:49:32,358 --> 00:49:36,638 The best you can do, Cleitus? Back to the phalanx with you, I'll ride him myself. 433 00:49:36,798 --> 00:49:39,158 No one will ride that beast, Your Majesty. 434 00:49:39,759 --> 00:49:41,319 Not with your leg. 435 00:49:42,679 --> 00:49:44,399 He's been beaten far too often. 436 00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:48,279 My noble king, he's a high-spirited animal, yes. 437 00:49:48,439 --> 00:49:52,239 High-spirited and worthy of Philip of Macedon. 438 00:49:52,399 --> 00:49:54,560 For three and a half talents... 439 00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,400 ...I couldn't make a profit on him, but for you- 440 00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,360 Why would I want such a beast? I already have a wife. 441 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:03,920 Do I seem so old? 442 00:50:10,281 --> 00:50:13,521 - Stay down, stay down. - Hold him! 443 00:50:27,802 --> 00:50:32,082 A broken neck comes free. He's too nervous for battle. Sell him for meat. 444 00:50:32,242 --> 00:50:35,642 Buy him for me, Father. I'll ride him. 445 00:50:40,283 --> 00:50:41,683 And if you don't? 446 00:50:41,843 --> 00:50:45,443 - I'll pay for him myself. - With what, your singing voice? 447 00:50:45,603 --> 00:50:47,403 I'll pay you! 448 00:50:47,563 --> 00:50:51,004 I tell you, that horse can't be ridden, lad. His mind is broken. 449 00:50:53,924 --> 00:50:56,924 He can be ridden. By me. 450 00:50:57,084 --> 00:50:59,844 If you can rule that horse, I'll make him yours... 451 00:51:00,004 --> 00:51:02,004 ...at half the price. 452 00:51:02,164 --> 00:51:04,205 That horse will kill him, Philip. 453 00:51:04,405 --> 00:51:06,685 - He'll break the boy in two. - Will he? 454 00:51:06,845 --> 00:51:09,645 Perhaps she'll make a musician out of him yet. 455 00:51:25,046 --> 00:51:28,126 You don't like your shadow, do you? 456 00:51:28,286 --> 00:51:32,327 It's like a dark spirit coming up to get you. 457 00:51:32,487 --> 00:51:36,407 Do you see? That's us. 458 00:51:37,327 --> 00:51:40,247 It's just a trick of Apollo's. 459 00:51:40,447 --> 00:51:44,887 He's the god of the sun. 460 00:51:48,208 --> 00:51:52,488 But I'll show you how to outwit him, you and me together. 461 00:52:02,689 --> 00:52:05,769 The boy doesn't have the craft, Philip. He could hurt himself. 462 00:52:05,969 --> 00:52:10,369 He'll have to figure that out for himself. It's time. 463 00:52:10,529 --> 00:52:12,369 Good idea. 464 00:52:12,649 --> 00:52:15,810 Indeed there are times, Philip, when I wonder if he is your blood. 465 00:52:15,970 --> 00:52:18,570 - I only worry that- - What was that, Attalus? 466 00:52:18,730 --> 00:52:20,050 Nothing. 467 00:52:20,210 --> 00:52:25,170 I was just noticing how the people like seeing you and Eurydice together. 468 00:52:29,131 --> 00:52:30,291 You go, boy! 469 00:52:31,251 --> 00:52:35,691 You ride that horse and by Zeus I say, you can rule the world. 470 00:53:00,133 --> 00:53:02,013 Bucephalus. 471 00:53:02,173 --> 00:53:06,133 That's what I'll call you. Strong and stubborn. 472 00:53:08,973 --> 00:53:12,054 Bucephalus and Alexander. 473 00:53:13,454 --> 00:53:17,174 Come now, let's ride together. 474 00:53:50,016 --> 00:53:51,776 He's got some Titan in him yet. 475 00:53:51,936 --> 00:53:56,577 Attalus! Cleitus! For Zeus' sake, he beat you, man! 476 00:54:01,617 --> 00:54:04,937 Now, Bucephalus, show them. 477 00:54:37,860 --> 00:54:39,180 My son. 478 00:54:39,340 --> 00:54:41,060 My son! 479 00:54:52,501 --> 00:54:54,541 You remember Prometheus... 480 00:54:54,701 --> 00:54:58,621 ...who stole the secret of fire and gave it to man. 481 00:54:58,781 --> 00:55:01,421 It made Zeus so angry... 482 00:55:01,781 --> 00:55:04,822 ...he chained Prometheus to a rock in the great Caucasus... 483 00:55:04,982 --> 00:55:08,862 ...and each day, his eagle pecked out the poor man's liver. 484 00:55:09,422 --> 00:55:14,142 Each night, it grew back again so that it could be eaten the next day. 485 00:55:14,342 --> 00:55:15,542 Miserable fate. 486 00:55:18,103 --> 00:55:23,023 Oedipus tore out his eyes when he found out... 487 00:55:23,183 --> 00:55:25,423 ...he'd murdered his father... 488 00:55:25,623 --> 00:55:30,143 ...and married his mother. Knowledge that came too late. 489 00:55:30,983 --> 00:55:32,384 Jason... 490 00:55:33,864 --> 00:55:36,584 ...he went east and brought back the Golden Fleece... 491 00:55:36,744 --> 00:55:39,944 ...and married a barbarian wife, Medea. 492 00:55:40,104 --> 00:55:44,584 Later, when he left her for a younger wife... 493 00:55:44,744 --> 00:55:48,705 ...Medea slaughtered their two children in vengeance. 494 00:56:00,946 --> 00:56:03,706 My mother would never hurt me. 495 00:56:11,066 --> 00:56:14,027 It's never easy to escape our mothers, Alexander. 496 00:56:14,627 --> 00:56:21,107 All your life, beware of women. They're far more dangerous than men. 497 00:56:28,708 --> 00:56:31,988 I'm sure you remember Achilles from Tales of Troy. 498 00:56:32,148 --> 00:56:34,628 - He's my favorite. - Why? 499 00:56:35,268 --> 00:56:39,068 Because he loved Patroclus and avenged his death. 500 00:56:39,468 --> 00:56:42,869 Because he lived without fear, and slew Hector. 501 00:56:43,029 --> 00:56:44,709 Some say he was a hotheaded fool... 502 00:56:44,909 --> 00:56:46,949 ...who fought for himself and not the Greeks. 503 00:56:47,109 --> 00:56:50,709 But he was a hero, the greatest at Troy. 504 00:56:50,909 --> 00:56:52,109 And his fate? 505 00:56:52,269 --> 00:56:56,150 That he must die young but with great glory. 506 00:56:56,310 --> 00:56:58,310 Did he have a choice? 507 00:56:58,790 --> 00:57:04,750 Oh, yes. He could have a long life, but there would be no glory. 508 00:57:07,750 --> 00:57:12,071 You dream of glory, Alexander. Your mother encourages you. 509 00:57:12,271 --> 00:57:15,831 There's no glory without suffering, and this she will not allow. 510 00:57:16,031 --> 00:57:18,191 She makes you weak. 511 00:57:19,511 --> 00:57:21,871 The gods have never made it easy for man. 512 00:57:22,031 --> 00:57:25,672 Look, Herakles. 513 00:57:27,352 --> 00:57:31,072 Even after he accomplished his 12 labors... 514 00:57:32,632 --> 00:57:38,152 ...he was punished with madness, slaughtered his three children. 515 00:57:39,033 --> 00:57:40,953 Poor Herakles. 516 00:57:43,033 --> 00:57:44,753 Great Herakles. 517 00:57:44,913 --> 00:57:47,233 All greatness comes from loss. 518 00:57:47,713 --> 00:57:53,874 Even you, the gods will one day judge harshly. 519 00:57:54,034 --> 00:57:56,034 When I'm king like you, Father? 520 00:57:56,194 --> 00:57:59,994 Don't rush the day, boy. You risk all. 521 00:58:01,034 --> 00:58:05,114 My father threw me into battle before I knew how to fight. 522 00:58:05,274 --> 00:58:07,835 When I killed my first man, he said: 523 00:58:07,995 --> 00:58:10,235 "Now you know." 524 00:58:10,875 --> 00:58:14,955 I hated him then, but I understand why now. 525 00:58:15,115 --> 00:58:17,435 A king isn't born, Alexander. 526 00:58:17,595 --> 00:58:21,636 He's made by steel and by suffering. 527 00:58:22,636 --> 00:58:26,876 A king must know how to hurt those he loves. 528 00:58:30,676 --> 00:58:33,156 It's lonely. Ask Herakles. 529 00:58:34,156 --> 00:58:37,837 Ask any of them. Fate is cruel. 530 00:58:38,837 --> 00:58:44,557 No man or woman can be too powerful or too beautiful without disaster befalling. 531 00:58:44,717 --> 00:58:51,158 They laugh when you rise too high and crush everything you've built with a whim. 532 00:58:51,798 --> 00:58:55,838 What glory they give, in the end, they take away. 533 00:58:56,878 --> 00:59:00,438 They make of us slaves. 534 00:59:16,199 --> 00:59:20,400 Truth is in our hearts, and none will tell you this but your father. 535 00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:24,040 Men hate the gods. 536 00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:29,600 The only reason we worship any of them is because we fear worse. 537 00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,121 What's worse? 538 00:59:32,321 --> 00:59:34,161 The Titans. 539 00:59:34,321 --> 00:59:37,081 If they were ever to be set free... 540 00:59:37,241 --> 00:59:40,241 ...it would be a darkness such as we have never seen before. 541 00:59:40,401 --> 00:59:42,601 Could they ever come back? 542 00:59:43,801 --> 00:59:46,922 Can Zeus imprison the Titans forever under Mount Olympus? 543 00:59:47,082 --> 00:59:52,482 It's said that when Zeus burned them to dust with his lightning bolt... 544 00:59:52,642 --> 00:59:55,402 ...they took the Titans' ashes and, in a cold revenge... 545 00:59:55,602 --> 00:59:58,122 ...mixed it with those of mortal men. 546 00:59:58,282 --> 00:59:59,803 Why? 547 01:00:04,083 --> 01:00:06,203 Who knows these things? 548 01:00:06,963 --> 01:00:09,723 One day, things will change. 549 01:00:11,083 --> 01:00:13,043 Men will change. 550 01:00:13,203 --> 01:00:16,444 But first, the gods must change. 551 01:00:22,204 --> 01:00:25,164 But all this you'll forget, Alexander. 552 01:00:26,124 --> 01:00:28,365 That's why we call them myths. 553 01:00:29,605 --> 01:00:31,805 We can't bear to remember them. 554 01:00:32,165 --> 01:00:33,645 I'll remember. 555 01:00:34,085 --> 01:00:37,245 And one day, I'll be on walls like these. 556 01:00:45,326 --> 01:00:47,526 Alexander once said to me: 557 01:00:47,686 --> 01:00:52,126 "We are most alone when we are with the myths." 558 01:00:53,166 --> 01:00:54,326 Phalanx! 559 01:00:56,047 --> 01:00:58,407 And thus, it came to pass in a dream... 560 01:00:58,607 --> 01:01:02,647 ...as mythical to all Greeks as Achilles defeating the Trojans. 561 01:01:03,407 --> 01:01:06,567 At this one glorious moment in time... 562 01:01:06,727 --> 01:01:10,968 ...Alexander was loved by all. 563 01:01:13,048 --> 01:01:17,608 But in the end, i believe Babylon was a far easier mistress to enter... 564 01:01:17,768 --> 01:01:20,568 ...than she was to leave. 565 01:02:11,572 --> 01:02:15,212 Sikander! Sikander! 566 01:02:39,254 --> 01:02:44,654 Aristotle may have called them barbarians, but he never saw Babylon. 567 01:02:44,854 --> 01:02:49,495 We have enough gold here to support three generations of Macedonian armies. 568 01:02:49,695 --> 01:02:52,655 And Macedonia would soon corrupt, Cassander. 569 01:02:52,815 --> 01:02:57,495 - Wealth in great quantities brings the crows. - Not for the men who fought, I trust. 570 01:02:58,375 --> 01:03:02,496 We'll pay them well, Antigonus, but not as mercenaries for future services. 571 01:03:02,656 --> 01:03:04,616 Now you sound like Philip. 572 01:03:05,496 --> 01:03:07,096 Philip never saw Babylon. 573 01:03:07,896 --> 01:03:09,776 No, he didn't, Hephaistion. 574 01:03:11,616 --> 01:03:13,616 - Hello! - Hello! 575 01:03:14,056 --> 01:03:17,457 Alexander, I know you think me a stiff old sod... 576 01:03:17,617 --> 01:03:20,137 ...but whatever our differences, know this day... 577 01:03:20,297 --> 01:03:23,857 ...your father would be very proud of you. 578 01:03:25,737 --> 01:03:27,337 Thank you, Parmenion. 579 01:03:28,097 --> 01:03:32,618 I ask you to forgive me my own anger, my pride. 580 01:03:32,778 --> 01:03:34,938 They, too, blind me. 581 01:03:38,658 --> 01:03:41,978 A magnificent mainland work from the last century. 582 01:03:42,418 --> 01:03:48,019 The golden age, Alexander. Worth much to Athens and to our alliances. 583 01:03:48,179 --> 01:03:50,299 Take back what is ours... 584 01:03:50,539 --> 01:03:53,019 ...but spare what belongs to the Persians. 585 01:03:56,539 --> 01:04:02,420 Yes. We're the richest men to walk the earth, my friends. 586 01:04:02,580 --> 01:04:07,300 - Not if you keep giving it all away. - The grandsons of goat herders... 587 01:04:07,460 --> 01:04:11,060 ...we now rule 2 million square miles. 588 01:04:12,540 --> 01:04:14,061 But... 589 01:04:14,901 --> 01:04:20,301 None of you fear that this great fortune may drive us all to destruction. 590 01:04:20,741 --> 01:04:22,541 You overvalue us. 591 01:04:22,701 --> 01:04:26,381 For as long as Darius breathes, he is the legitimate king of Asia... 592 01:04:26,541 --> 01:04:28,902 ...and I but the king of air. 593 01:04:29,062 --> 01:04:34,102 But he has no power, Alexander. He's lost in the mountains with no army. 594 01:04:34,302 --> 01:04:37,702 As long as he's lost, Philotas, he can be believed in. 595 01:04:37,862 --> 01:04:41,143 Only when he's found will it be decided. 596 01:04:42,863 --> 01:04:44,943 It seems you've already made up your mind. 597 01:04:45,143 --> 01:04:48,063 We must finish what we failed to do at Gaugamela. 598 01:04:48,223 --> 01:04:50,103 We must hunt Darius down. 599 01:04:50,263 --> 01:04:53,743 - That was not your father's mission. - And I am not my father. 600 01:04:56,464 --> 01:04:58,864 Come on. Have you so quickly forgotten? 601 01:04:59,064 --> 01:05:00,104 Fortune favors the bold. 602 01:05:04,904 --> 01:05:07,864 No wonder Darius fled when he had this to come back to. 603 01:05:08,064 --> 01:05:11,665 One for every night of the year. 604 01:05:37,427 --> 01:05:39,947 How will I go back to Lysimache after this? 605 01:05:40,147 --> 01:05:44,027 I advise you not to touch, Leonnatus. Here, I'll take care of it for you. 606 01:06:03,188 --> 01:06:05,268 Aristotle was perhaps prescient. 607 01:06:09,029 --> 01:06:12,829 Do these images fool us with their beauty and degrade our souls? 608 01:06:43,271 --> 01:06:46,751 Bagoas, great king. Darius' boy. 609 01:06:46,951 --> 01:06:51,952 - Bagoas. - Nicely gilded, Your Majesty. 610 01:06:52,152 --> 01:06:57,512 Most successful. He was certainly one of the great king's favorites. 611 01:06:59,472 --> 01:07:03,313 How old? Is great well with the years. 612 01:07:05,353 --> 01:07:09,313 What are you now, Bagoas? Eighteen, 19? 613 01:07:09,473 --> 01:07:12,673 - Where does he come from? - The north, sire. 614 01:07:14,433 --> 01:07:16,634 From the hills near Susa. 615 01:07:16,794 --> 01:07:18,834 You speak our language. 616 01:07:18,994 --> 01:07:22,634 - Good. I'd like to learn yours. - Is learnable, my lord. 617 01:07:36,075 --> 01:07:37,435 So tell me, Bagoas... 618 01:07:38,635 --> 01:07:41,915 ...do my eyes betray me or do you wish to be set free... 619 01:07:42,075 --> 01:07:43,795 ...to go back to your homeland? 620 01:07:47,916 --> 01:07:50,676 All my family's long dead, great king. 621 01:07:50,996 --> 01:07:54,556 With your permission, I will stay on. 622 01:07:57,596 --> 01:07:59,357 Very well then, Bagoas. 623 01:08:00,517 --> 01:08:03,237 Ptolemy, administer this. 624 01:08:05,917 --> 01:08:09,797 And that's the same of every person in the harem, woman and eunuch. 625 01:08:09,957 --> 01:08:13,318 Whoever wishes to be sent home to their families, let them. 626 01:08:13,598 --> 01:08:14,718 What? 627 01:08:14,878 --> 01:08:18,358 - Hear that, boys? - He set us free. 628 01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:55,641 Great King Alexander. 629 01:08:58,161 --> 01:09:00,721 The princess of the thousand roses... 630 01:09:00,921 --> 01:09:03,641 ...and eldest daughter of the formerly Great King Darius... 631 01:09:05,001 --> 01:09:07,041 ...Stateira. 632 01:09:07,721 --> 01:09:09,242 Noble Alexander... 633 01:09:16,402 --> 01:09:19,362 ...I come to beg for the lives... 634 01:09:19,922 --> 01:09:21,402 ...of my sisters... 635 01:09:22,482 --> 01:09:25,363 ...my mother, my grandmother. 636 01:09:29,963 --> 01:09:34,083 You are not wrong, Princess Stateira. 637 01:09:34,243 --> 01:09:36,363 He, too, is Alexander. 638 01:09:40,204 --> 01:09:41,404 Please. 639 01:09:42,524 --> 01:09:46,124 I plead for my family's lives. 640 01:09:47,444 --> 01:09:50,564 - Sell me as a slave, great king, but- - Look now... 641 01:09:50,724 --> 01:09:52,845 ...in my eyes... 642 01:09:54,005 --> 01:09:55,205 ...princess... 643 01:09:57,245 --> 01:09:58,925 ...and tell me... 644 01:09:59,125 --> 01:10:01,565 ...how would you like to be treated? 645 01:10:04,085 --> 01:10:06,166 As I am... 646 01:10:06,366 --> 01:10:08,406 ...a princess. 647 01:10:11,646 --> 01:10:13,406 Then so be it. 648 01:10:15,166 --> 01:10:18,166 You and your family shall be treated as my family. 649 01:10:20,847 --> 01:10:24,007 You shall live in this palace as long as you choose. 650 01:10:24,447 --> 01:10:28,087 Have you any other requests for me, my noble princess? 651 01:10:30,647 --> 01:10:32,247 No. 652 01:10:33,167 --> 01:10:36,288 Everything I wish... 653 01:10:36,448 --> 01:10:39,328 ...I have requested. 654 01:10:40,248 --> 01:10:42,128 You truly are... 655 01:10:42,288 --> 01:10:43,568 ...a queen. 656 01:10:50,529 --> 01:10:53,289 Yes, she would be a perfect match for you... 657 01:10:54,009 --> 01:10:55,889 ...but you do nothing. 658 01:10:56,289 --> 01:10:59,649 Three months you've been in Babylon and leave me in Pella... 659 01:10:59,809 --> 01:11:03,650 ...at the mercy of your enemies, of which you have many. 660 01:11:03,810 --> 01:11:07,530 Antipater, accustomed now to the power that you have given him. 661 01:11:07,770 --> 01:11:10,290 i must watch him grow stronger. 662 01:11:17,531 --> 01:11:22,491 I�m certain that he communicates secretly with Parmenion, who is dangerous. 663 01:11:22,691 --> 01:11:25,691 But beware, most of all, of those closest to you. 664 01:11:26,131 --> 01:11:27,371 They are like snakes... 665 01:11:28,451 --> 01:11:29,852 ...and can be turned. 666 01:11:30,012 --> 01:11:31,652 General Crateros. 667 01:11:34,612 --> 01:11:38,252 Cassander is Antipater's son. 668 01:11:39,252 --> 01:11:43,012 Even Cleitus, your father's favorite... 669 01:11:43,212 --> 01:11:45,653 ...and Ptolemy, your friend, yes. 670 01:11:45,813 --> 01:11:48,053 But beware of men who think too much. 671 01:11:48,413 --> 01:11:50,573 They blind themselves. 672 01:11:54,253 --> 01:11:56,533 Only Hephaistion do i leave out. 673 01:11:57,653 --> 01:12:00,214 But all of them you make rich... 674 01:12:00,374 --> 01:12:06,254 ...while your mother and yourself, you leave in generous poverty. 675 01:12:07,054 --> 01:12:10,094 Why won't you ever believe me? 676 01:12:10,254 --> 01:12:15,935 it is only a dark mind like mine that can know these secrets of the heart. 677 01:12:16,095 --> 01:12:18,895 For they are dark, Alexander. 678 01:12:19,135 --> 01:12:21,495 So dark. 679 01:12:21,655 --> 01:12:25,215 But in you, the son of Zeus... 680 01:12:25,375 --> 01:12:28,256 ...lies the light of the world. 681 01:12:28,416 --> 01:12:32,456 Your companions will be shadows in the underworld... 682 01:12:32,616 --> 01:12:36,936 ...when you are a name living forever in history as the most glorious... 683 01:12:37,136 --> 01:12:41,537 ...shining light of youth, forever young, forever inspiring. 684 01:12:41,737 --> 01:12:45,257 Never will there be an Alexander like you. 685 01:12:45,417 --> 01:12:48,177 Alexander the Great. 686 01:12:49,217 --> 01:12:52,737 Remember, bring me to Babylon as you promised. 687 01:12:52,897 --> 01:12:56,138 i can only help you, for they know if they harm you... 688 01:12:56,298 --> 01:12:59,418 ...they will face my wrath, as Queen of Babylon. 689 01:13:02,018 --> 01:13:05,658 It's a high ransom she charges for nine months' lodging in the womb. 690 01:13:05,858 --> 01:13:07,858 Bring her, Alexander. 691 01:13:08,018 --> 01:13:10,979 - It'll give her such joy. - Joy? 692 01:13:11,899 --> 01:13:15,139 When I'm the cracked mirror of her dreams? 693 01:13:17,619 --> 01:13:20,339 Stay with me tonight, Hephaistion. 694 01:13:26,860 --> 01:13:28,660 I'll take my own bath. 695 01:13:29,780 --> 01:13:31,260 Thank you, Bagoas. 696 01:13:39,621 --> 01:13:40,941 What bothers you? 697 01:13:42,941 --> 01:13:45,701 I see in her everything I fear. 698 01:13:47,341 --> 01:13:52,382 Yet I have no idea what it is, this fear. 699 01:13:57,102 --> 01:14:00,702 She was always so sure I was born of Zeus. 700 01:14:01,222 --> 01:14:03,342 Why, Hephaistion? 701 01:14:05,023 --> 01:14:10,023 I think there are things beyond our imagining... 702 01:14:10,783 --> 01:14:15,823 ...like the lightning, tales of strange conceptions. 703 01:14:17,143 --> 01:14:19,224 I don't doubt it. 704 01:14:19,504 --> 01:14:21,704 What is being told me? 705 01:14:22,184 --> 01:14:25,784 What destiny do we-? Do I have? 706 01:14:27,824 --> 01:14:32,945 Well, if I'm Patroclus, I die first. 707 01:14:33,225 --> 01:14:35,145 Then you, Achilles. 708 01:14:41,905 --> 01:14:44,745 The generals are upset. 709 01:14:45,985 --> 01:14:49,306 They question your obsession with Darius. 710 01:14:49,506 --> 01:14:52,666 They say it was never meant for you to be king of Asia. 711 01:14:52,826 --> 01:14:54,346 Naturally. 712 01:14:54,546 --> 01:14:58,866 They want only to return to their homes, rich with gold. But I've seen the future. 713 01:14:59,026 --> 01:15:02,347 I've seen it now 1000 times, on 1000 faces. 714 01:15:02,507 --> 01:15:04,627 These people want... 715 01:15:05,427 --> 01:15:07,667 Need change. 716 01:15:08,547 --> 01:15:13,027 - Aristotle was wrong about them. - How so? 717 01:15:13,347 --> 01:15:15,348 Look at those we've conquered. 718 01:15:15,508 --> 01:15:17,628 They leave their dead unburied. 719 01:15:17,788 --> 01:15:20,468 They smash their enemies' skulls and drink them as dust. 720 01:15:20,668 --> 01:15:22,908 They mate in public. 721 01:15:23,108 --> 01:15:27,948 What can they think or sing or write when none can read? 722 01:15:28,148 --> 01:15:32,749 But as Alexander's army, they can go where they never thought possible. 723 01:15:32,949 --> 01:15:35,989 They can soldier or work in the cities. 724 01:15:36,189 --> 01:15:40,389 The Alexandrias, from Egypt to the outer ocean. 725 01:15:40,869 --> 01:15:43,830 We could connect these lands, Hephaistion... 726 01:15:43,990 --> 01:15:45,190 ...and the people. 727 01:15:45,350 --> 01:15:50,830 Some say these Alexandrias have become extensions of Alexander himself. 728 01:15:51,710 --> 01:15:54,870 They draw people into the cities to make slaves of them. 729 01:15:55,030 --> 01:15:59,391 But we freed them, Hephaistion, from the Persia where everyone lived as slaves. 730 01:16:01,351 --> 01:16:04,551 To free the people of the world... 731 01:16:04,751 --> 01:16:09,351 ...such would be beyond the glory of Achilles, beyond Herakles... 732 01:16:09,511 --> 01:16:12,152 ...a feat to rival Prometheus... 733 01:16:12,952 --> 01:16:15,592 ...who was always a friend to man. 734 01:16:15,792 --> 01:16:18,152 Remember the fates of these heroes. 735 01:16:18,312 --> 01:16:22,512 - They suffered greatly. - We all suffer. 736 01:16:22,952 --> 01:16:26,513 Your father, mine. 737 01:16:27,313 --> 01:16:29,393 They all came to the end of their time. 738 01:16:29,553 --> 01:16:33,633 And in the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done. 739 01:16:34,953 --> 01:16:39,754 You once said, "The fear of death drives all men." 740 01:16:40,074 --> 01:16:41,994 Are there no other forces? 741 01:16:43,154 --> 01:16:46,034 Is there not love in your life... 742 01:16:47,434 --> 01:16:49,434 ...Alexander? 743 01:16:53,194 --> 01:16:57,635 What would you do if you ever reached the end of the world? 744 01:16:59,555 --> 01:17:02,715 I'd turn back and conquer its opposite. 745 01:17:07,756 --> 01:17:12,956 I wonder sometimes if it's not your mother you run from. 746 01:17:14,236 --> 01:17:17,676 So many years, so many miles between you. 747 01:17:19,836 --> 01:17:21,797 What is it you fear? 748 01:17:23,277 --> 01:17:25,597 Who knows these things? 749 01:17:27,197 --> 01:17:32,277 When I was a child, my mother thought me divine. My father, weak. 750 01:17:34,877 --> 01:17:37,478 Which am I, Hephaistion? 751 01:17:37,638 --> 01:17:39,758 Weak or divine? 752 01:17:43,278 --> 01:17:45,198 All I know is... 753 01:17:45,358 --> 01:17:48,318 ...I trust only you in this world. 754 01:17:48,478 --> 01:17:50,439 I've missed you. 755 01:17:51,239 --> 01:17:52,559 I need you. 756 01:17:54,639 --> 01:17:56,279 It is you I love, Hephaistion. 757 01:17:58,679 --> 01:18:00,839 No other. 758 01:18:04,600 --> 01:18:07,520 You're everything I care for... 759 01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:11,320 ...and by the sweet breath of Aphrodite... 760 01:18:11,840 --> 01:18:14,920 ...I'm so jealous of losing you to this world you want. 761 01:18:15,440 --> 01:18:18,080 You'll never lose me, Hephaistion. 762 01:18:18,481 --> 01:18:21,761 I'll be with you always. 763 01:18:22,401 --> 01:18:24,481 Till the end. 764 01:18:37,722 --> 01:18:40,362 The campaign in the northeast of Persia... 765 01:18:40,522 --> 01:18:45,642 ...turned into a hard guerrilla war of almost three years. 766 01:18:48,243 --> 01:18:50,923 We chased Darius towards Bactria... 767 01:18:51,083 --> 01:18:53,883 ...but missed taking him by hours. 768 01:18:57,123 --> 01:18:59,483 He was dying when we found him, sire. 769 01:18:59,643 --> 01:19:01,564 He asked for water. 770 01:19:01,724 --> 01:19:04,084 He drank and died. 771 01:19:10,764 --> 01:19:15,485 The Great King Darius had been betrayed by his own commanders. 772 01:19:43,607 --> 01:19:45,567 Fully honoring his corpse... 773 01:19:45,727 --> 01:19:50,647 ...Alexander hunted down these commanders into unknown lands... 774 01:19:51,607 --> 01:19:56,447 ...crossing even beyond the River Oxus into Sogdia. 775 01:20:00,608 --> 01:20:04,728 We fought them as far as the unknown steppes of Scythia... 776 01:20:05,728 --> 01:20:09,048 ...where only legendary heroes had once trod. 777 01:20:09,208 --> 01:20:14,529 The surveyors told us we were now on the borders of where Europe and Asia meet. 778 01:20:14,689 --> 01:20:17,969 in fact, we were totally lost. 779 01:20:19,489 --> 01:20:22,489 Here, Alexander founded his 10th Alexandria... 780 01:20:22,649 --> 01:20:27,930 ...and settled it with veterans, their women and any who would dare the frontier life. 781 01:20:28,970 --> 01:20:31,930 Unable to accept defeat in any form... 782 01:20:32,130 --> 01:20:36,450 ...Alexander persisted in breaking every tribe that resisted... 783 01:20:36,810 --> 01:20:40,611 ...until the day he received the head of his last enemy who'd surrendered. 784 01:20:45,491 --> 01:20:50,131 For Alexander, there could be no pretender to the throne of Asia... 785 01:20:51,251 --> 01:20:55,652 ...which now included all of Sogdia and Bactria. 786 01:20:58,732 --> 01:21:02,972 it was here that he made one of his most mysterious decisions. 787 01:21:05,932 --> 01:21:10,293 Ten years after his mother's insistence he marry a Macedonian... 788 01:21:10,453 --> 01:21:12,453 Through our union... 789 01:21:12,653 --> 01:21:15,493 ...Greek and barbarian... 790 01:21:15,653 --> 01:21:17,613 ...may be reconciled in peace. 791 01:21:17,853 --> 01:21:23,454 ...the most powerful man in the world took a girl of no political significance. 792 01:21:28,534 --> 01:21:30,094 Why? 793 01:21:31,214 --> 01:21:34,614 Some say it was for alliance with the tribes. 794 01:21:36,415 --> 01:21:38,695 Others, the desire for a successor. 795 01:21:41,175 --> 01:21:46,215 And yet others said Alexander truly fell in love. 796 01:21:47,455 --> 01:21:49,335 Who Roxane really was... 797 01:21:49,496 --> 01:21:55,296 ...I doubt that any of us ever saw further than the pools of those black eyes. 798 01:21:56,936 --> 01:21:59,656 On this glorious occasion... 799 01:22:01,296 --> 01:22:04,137 ...I toast this great army that has given so much. 800 01:22:04,337 --> 01:22:08,417 And in honor of them, those of you who set out with us seven long years ago... 801 01:22:08,577 --> 01:22:14,817 ...I pronounce all your debts paid forthwith from the royal treasury. 802 01:22:15,217 --> 01:22:16,457 Praise Alexander! 803 01:22:20,538 --> 01:22:22,618 And in honor of my bride... 804 01:22:26,218 --> 01:22:28,698 ...my beautiful bride... 805 01:22:28,898 --> 01:22:33,419 ...we recognize the many women who've shared the long road with us... 806 01:22:33,579 --> 01:22:37,099 ...and grant them dowries befitting a proper marriage. 807 01:22:45,739 --> 01:22:48,540 And what about our boys? 808 01:22:48,700 --> 01:22:50,180 And lastly... 809 01:22:50,380 --> 01:22:53,620 ...lastly, the gods demand no less of us... 810 01:22:53,820 --> 01:22:57,140 ...that your children be given a proper Greek education... 811 01:22:57,300 --> 01:23:01,901 ...and military training under our protection... 812 01:23:02,101 --> 01:23:06,301 ...so as to be the new soldiers of our kingdom... 813 01:23:06,501 --> 01:23:08,941 ...in Asia. 814 01:23:24,822 --> 01:23:30,263 Your father must be turning in his grave. After all this time, a hill chief's daughter. 815 01:23:30,543 --> 01:23:32,343 You call this tribal wedding legitimate? 816 01:23:32,503 --> 01:23:35,263 Do you forget my father took a barbarian as his queen? 817 01:23:35,463 --> 01:23:38,303 Yes, but few would call it a profoundly happy marriage. 818 01:23:39,543 --> 01:23:42,744 But what's the point, Alexander? She's your captive. 819 01:23:42,904 --> 01:23:44,744 Just take her as your concubine. 820 01:23:44,944 --> 01:23:47,784 Because I want a son. Damn you, Philotas. 821 01:23:48,304 --> 01:23:53,744 Then half your nobles have sisters who'd make fine Macedonian mothers. 822 01:23:53,904 --> 01:23:56,625 To take an Asian as my queen, not a captive... 823 01:23:56,825 --> 01:23:58,665 ...is a sign of respect for our subjects. 824 01:23:58,865 --> 01:24:01,185 It will bring us together, unify us. 825 01:24:01,705 --> 01:24:03,825 Which is not to say I won't take a Macedonian. 826 01:24:03,985 --> 01:24:07,265 As a second wife? You insult Macedonia. 827 01:24:08,065 --> 01:24:12,026 Never will our people accept this girl's son as king. 828 01:24:12,346 --> 01:24:16,506 They'll be angry enough to find out their husbands all have second wives in Barbaria. 829 01:24:16,706 --> 01:24:17,986 Then they'll learn! 830 01:24:18,186 --> 01:24:21,426 By Athena's justice, this girl has spirit. 831 01:24:21,586 --> 01:24:23,866 She'll breed a brave son. 832 01:24:24,026 --> 01:24:25,787 Alexander! 833 01:24:26,387 --> 01:24:29,027 This is about the honor of our kingdom. 834 01:24:29,227 --> 01:24:31,347 Exactly. What can be won, Alexander? 835 01:24:31,507 --> 01:24:35,027 We're in Asia to punish them for their crimes. We've achieved that. 836 01:24:35,227 --> 01:24:38,828 Seven years from home, now we drift from one far region to another... 837 01:24:38,988 --> 01:24:42,628 ...chasing nomads and bandits when Macedonia bleeds its manpower. 838 01:24:42,788 --> 01:24:45,748 For what? To build roads in Asia? 839 01:24:45,908 --> 01:24:49,348 - To give these people cities? - And now make an army of them? 840 01:24:49,548 --> 01:24:52,909 To found cities and expand our reach is not to drift. 841 01:24:53,069 --> 01:24:55,469 - What benefit to Macedon? - It's far richer! 842 01:24:55,629 --> 01:24:57,869 - Look what you give them. - With respect... 843 01:24:58,029 --> 01:25:01,749 ...had you fought better at Gaugamela when your flank was crumbling- 844 01:25:01,909 --> 01:25:05,229 - How dare you, Nearchus?! - General Nearchus to you, boy. 845 01:25:05,429 --> 01:25:08,910 Alexander spread our flank too thin! There was nothing my father... 846 01:25:09,070 --> 01:25:11,430 - ... or any of you could've done! - Philotas! 847 01:25:17,390 --> 01:25:20,030 Alexander, I've known you since you were born. 848 01:25:20,710 --> 01:25:23,711 I supported you at your father's death. 849 01:25:23,871 --> 01:25:26,751 At the very least, for Zeus' sake... 850 01:25:26,911 --> 01:25:29,871 ...and in respect to the council that chose you king... 851 01:25:30,031 --> 01:25:32,191 ...give us a Macedonian heir. 852 01:25:32,351 --> 01:25:34,031 A Macedonian heir. 853 01:25:40,392 --> 01:25:42,432 - You've been heard clearly. - But- 854 01:25:42,592 --> 01:25:48,152 Parmenion! After the wedding, take two brigades to Babylon, where I look to you... 855 01:25:48,312 --> 01:25:53,153 ...and Antipater in Greece, to maintain our empire and supply this expedition. 856 01:25:53,953 --> 01:25:56,033 I'll winter with my army at Marakand. 857 01:25:56,193 --> 01:26:00,273 I pray to Apollo you realize how far you've turned from your father's path. 858 01:26:00,433 --> 01:26:03,154 Damn you, Parmenion, by the gods and your Apollo. 859 01:26:03,314 --> 01:26:06,434 What was in my father's guts wasn't overripe in reason like yours! 860 01:26:06,634 --> 01:26:10,594 He never lusted for war, Alexander, or enjoyed it so. 861 01:26:10,754 --> 01:26:16,034 He consulted his peers in council, among equals, the Macedonian way. 862 01:26:16,194 --> 01:26:18,715 He didn't decide based on his personal desires. 863 01:26:18,915 --> 01:26:22,315 I've taken us further than my father ever dreamed. 864 01:26:22,475 --> 01:26:23,755 Old man... 865 01:26:23,955 --> 01:26:26,355 ...we're in new worlds. 866 01:26:27,315 --> 01:26:30,995 Alexander, be reasonable! 867 01:26:31,196 --> 01:26:33,596 Were they ever meant to be our equals? 868 01:26:33,876 --> 01:26:35,596 Share our rewards? 869 01:26:35,796 --> 01:26:37,916 You remember what Aristotle said. 870 01:26:38,076 --> 01:26:39,396 An Asian? 871 01:26:39,596 --> 01:26:43,396 What would a vow mean to a race that's never kept their word to a Greek? 872 01:26:43,556 --> 01:26:45,597 - Aristotle be damned! - Alexander! 873 01:26:45,797 --> 01:26:47,277 By Zeus and all the gods... 874 01:26:47,477 --> 01:26:51,597 ...what makes you so much better than them, Cassander? 875 01:26:51,757 --> 01:26:56,277 Better than you really are. In you and those like you is this. 876 01:26:57,597 --> 01:26:59,438 Alexander. 877 01:27:02,118 --> 01:27:06,798 What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgment. 878 01:27:09,878 --> 01:27:13,599 It's your contempt for a world far older than ours. 879 01:27:46,241 --> 01:27:48,881 Five to any man who bothers to kill me. 880 01:27:49,041 --> 01:27:51,441 Have another drink, Cleitus. 881 01:27:52,081 --> 01:27:55,241 - Shouldn't you be bound to a king? - Cleitus. 882 01:27:55,882 --> 01:28:00,162 Alexander, you look weak when you not accept these honors. 883 01:28:00,322 --> 01:28:02,442 I understand, my dear father... 884 01:28:02,602 --> 01:28:06,322 - ... but it's against Greek ways. - Then Greek ways are weak. 885 01:28:06,482 --> 01:28:09,122 I still think she got the better of him in this bargain. 886 01:28:09,322 --> 01:28:12,523 My daughter, Roxane... 887 01:28:12,683 --> 01:28:14,763 ...she shall make you good wife. 888 01:28:14,963 --> 01:28:17,323 She shall kill for you. 889 01:28:21,483 --> 01:28:26,884 Raw skunk, ruler of heaven... 890 01:28:28,484 --> 01:28:30,084 ...and earth. 891 01:28:36,044 --> 01:28:39,405 In honor of this great alliance... 892 01:28:39,565 --> 01:28:44,845 ...I, Oxyartes, offer you these great gifts. 893 01:28:45,005 --> 01:28:47,925 I would like to honor a toast to you from my people. 894 01:28:53,966 --> 01:28:55,526 Good morning, sire. 895 01:29:16,087 --> 01:29:18,327 We shall fight for you, Alexander. 896 01:29:19,207 --> 01:29:21,328 It shall be bloody. 897 01:29:23,208 --> 01:29:25,088 Who's the bear? 898 01:29:26,768 --> 01:29:28,448 Parmenion. 899 01:29:28,968 --> 01:29:31,848 You've been in complete control of your supply lines. 900 01:29:32,008 --> 01:29:34,288 His pessimism is infectious. 901 01:29:34,729 --> 01:29:36,689 But he'll stay loyal... 902 01:29:38,449 --> 01:29:40,689 ...as long as his son remains with us. 903 01:31:57,459 --> 01:31:58,739 Hey! 904 01:32:06,619 --> 01:32:10,940 Her eyes tell me she cares for you, Alexander. 905 01:32:13,180 --> 01:32:14,540 Perhaps too much. 906 01:32:18,860 --> 01:32:21,220 In the ways of my country... 907 01:32:21,580 --> 01:32:25,341 ...those who love too much lose everything... 908 01:32:26,421 --> 01:32:29,221 ...and those who love with irony... 909 01:32:30,781 --> 01:32:31,901 ...last. 910 01:33:23,225 --> 01:33:24,705 I found it in Egypt. 911 01:33:27,345 --> 01:33:29,785 The man who sold it said it came from a time... 912 01:33:29,945 --> 01:33:33,826 ...when man worshipped sun and stars. 913 01:33:39,666 --> 01:33:41,946 I'll always think of you... 914 01:33:42,706 --> 01:33:45,026 ...as the sun, Alexander. 915 01:33:45,226 --> 01:33:49,227 And I pray your dream will shine on all men. 916 01:33:58,187 --> 01:34:00,307 I wish you a son. 917 01:34:02,108 --> 01:34:04,508 You're a great man. 918 01:34:08,628 --> 01:34:11,908 Many will love you, Alexander, but none so pure and deep... 919 01:34:28,789 --> 01:34:30,230 You... 920 01:34:30,390 --> 01:34:31,870 ...love him? 921 01:34:40,950 --> 01:34:43,990 He is Hephaistion. 922 01:35:03,632 --> 01:35:05,512 Thank you, Bagoas. 923 01:35:11,352 --> 01:35:13,073 Your boy? 924 01:35:13,233 --> 01:35:16,713 There are many different ways to love, Roxane. 925 01:35:17,273 --> 01:35:18,753 Come. 926 01:35:33,874 --> 01:35:35,114 No. 927 01:35:35,274 --> 01:35:36,674 No, no. 928 01:35:52,595 --> 01:35:54,435 No. No. 929 01:36:26,998 --> 01:36:28,998 You have no fear. 930 01:36:30,638 --> 01:36:32,398 It's fitting. 931 01:36:33,678 --> 01:36:37,119 A man searches for a woman at Earth's top... 932 01:36:37,279 --> 01:36:39,319 ...and finds her. 933 01:36:56,680 --> 01:36:58,320 The myth becomes real. 934 01:37:09,561 --> 01:37:13,481 Great man, Sikander... 935 01:37:13,801 --> 01:37:15,281 ...you I kill now. 936 01:37:21,002 --> 01:37:22,482 Do it. 937 01:37:23,082 --> 01:37:25,602 End it. I would do the- 938 01:37:26,202 --> 01:37:30,242 I would do the same. I'll die a fool... 939 01:37:30,402 --> 01:37:33,843 ...for this love. 940 01:38:21,286 --> 01:38:23,166 My life is now yours. 941 01:38:48,008 --> 01:38:51,248 You will have my son. 942 01:39:46,292 --> 01:39:52,812 Who is this woman you call your queen, Alexander? A hill girl? 943 01:39:53,692 --> 01:39:56,133 You with your breeding. 944 01:39:56,293 --> 01:40:01,333 Already she makes enemies with her strong, clumsy nature. 945 01:40:04,693 --> 01:40:07,053 Do not confuse us. 946 01:40:07,213 --> 01:40:10,974 I was never a barbarian as Philip said. 947 01:40:11,134 --> 01:40:13,814 We are of Achilles' royal blood. 948 01:40:14,774 --> 01:40:17,774 Zeus is your father. 949 01:40:19,414 --> 01:40:23,815 Oh, I understand she brings you some happiness... 950 01:40:24,535 --> 01:40:26,895 ...but how can she help you? 951 01:40:27,055 --> 01:40:30,055 You must know that she does not speak in your name... 952 01:40:30,215 --> 01:40:34,255 ...which is yours and yours alone. 953 01:40:34,415 --> 01:40:37,456 Preserve it, secret it... 954 01:40:37,616 --> 01:40:40,736 ...and hear me when I tell you, act... 955 01:40:40,936 --> 01:40:42,816 ...and act soon. 956 01:40:42,976 --> 01:40:44,976 After seven years, people wonder: 957 01:40:45,176 --> 01:40:47,456 "Who is this King Alexander?" 958 01:40:47,616 --> 01:40:53,417 I have given you ample proof. Antipater daily undermines your authority. 959 01:40:53,617 --> 01:40:56,577 Return to Babylon and strengthen your center. 960 01:40:57,497 --> 01:40:59,577 Or come home to Macedonia and reorganize. 961 01:40:59,737 --> 01:41:02,337 But do not chase your dream... 962 01:41:02,497 --> 01:41:04,577 ...further east. 963 01:41:04,738 --> 01:41:08,538 Your life and mine depend on it. 964 01:41:09,418 --> 01:41:11,098 Remember... 965 01:41:11,298 --> 01:41:14,978 ...my only thoughts are of you. 966 01:41:15,138 --> 01:41:19,459 As you, too, must face your glorious destiny. 967 01:41:19,619 --> 01:41:21,739 Think kindly of your mother. 968 01:41:21,899 --> 01:41:23,459 Provide for me. 969 01:41:23,619 --> 01:41:27,219 Protect me from your enemies when you are gone. 970 01:41:28,579 --> 01:41:31,339 And remember always... 971 01:41:31,499 --> 01:41:34,940 ...it is I who love you more than any. 972 01:41:41,220 --> 01:41:44,540 If only you were not a pale reflection... 973 01:41:44,740 --> 01:41:46,140 ...of my mother's heart. 974 01:42:06,182 --> 01:42:09,662 Pregnant so soon. The little whore. 975 01:42:09,862 --> 01:42:13,982 He will marry her in the spring, during Dionysus' Festival... 976 01:42:14,142 --> 01:42:16,783 ...and when her first son is born... 977 01:42:16,943 --> 01:42:22,463 ...her sweet uncle Attalus will convince Philip to name the boy his successor... 978 01:42:22,623 --> 01:42:25,063 ...with himself as regent. 979 01:42:25,223 --> 01:42:27,183 And you... 980 01:42:27,383 --> 01:42:31,424 ...you will be sent on some impossible mission... 981 01:42:31,624 --> 01:42:34,184 ...against some monstrous Northern tribe... 982 01:42:34,384 --> 01:42:39,824 ...to be mutilated in one more meaningless battle over cattle. 983 01:42:40,024 --> 01:42:43,865 And I, no longer queen, will be put to death... 984 01:42:44,065 --> 01:42:48,105 ...with your sister and the remaining members of our family. 985 01:42:48,305 --> 01:42:53,065 I wish sometimes you could see the light, Mother. 986 01:42:53,225 --> 01:42:57,946 The truth is, he's taken nothing from you that you've not been long without. 987 01:42:59,506 --> 01:43:01,906 The only way is to strike. 988 01:43:02,066 --> 01:43:04,826 Announce your marriage to a Macedonian now. 989 01:43:05,386 --> 01:43:09,666 Beget a child of pure blood. He would be one of them, not mine... 990 01:43:09,826 --> 01:43:13,187 ...and he would have no choice but to make you king. 991 01:43:13,347 --> 01:43:15,547 There is still Kynnane. 992 01:43:17,307 --> 01:43:21,187 Eurydice was perfect. If your father, that pig, had not ravaged her first! 993 01:43:21,347 --> 01:43:24,147 Say nothing more of my father. 994 01:43:24,347 --> 01:43:27,308 Do you hear me? Say nothing. 995 01:43:28,228 --> 01:43:29,908 You're right. 996 01:43:30,908 --> 01:43:32,988 Forgive me. 997 01:43:33,188 --> 01:43:35,988 A mother loves too much. 998 01:43:42,229 --> 01:43:44,829 Who shall I sing to sleep at night anymore? 999 01:43:49,989 --> 01:43:54,950 I wish- I wish we could spend more time together. 1000 01:43:55,710 --> 01:44:00,150 Like we used to, when you were the sweetest boy. 1001 01:44:05,430 --> 01:44:07,550 There's never been time, Mother. 1002 01:44:08,391 --> 01:44:13,311 Since I was a child, I've been groomed to be ever the best. 1003 01:44:14,351 --> 01:44:18,791 My poor child, you're like Achilles... 1004 01:44:18,991 --> 01:44:21,471 ...cursed by your greatness. 1005 01:44:25,912 --> 01:44:28,072 Yes. Take my strength. 1006 01:44:33,752 --> 01:44:38,073 You must never confuse your feelings... 1007 01:44:38,233 --> 01:44:41,353 ...with your duties, Alexander. 1008 01:44:41,753 --> 01:44:46,233 A king must make public gestures for the common people. 1009 01:44:46,433 --> 01:44:49,833 I know, but you will be 19 this summer... 1010 01:44:49,993 --> 01:44:54,754 ...and the girls already say you don't like them. You like Hephaistion more. 1011 01:44:54,914 --> 01:44:58,394 I understand. It's natural for a young man. 1012 01:44:58,554 --> 01:45:02,754 But if you go to Asia without leaving your successor, you risk all. 1013 01:45:02,914 --> 01:45:08,395 Hephaistion loves me, as I am... 1014 01:45:09,355 --> 01:45:10,675 ...not who. 1015 01:45:12,155 --> 01:45:15,635 Loves? Loves? 1016 01:45:17,635 --> 01:45:20,196 In the name of Dionysus... 1017 01:45:21,556 --> 01:45:27,996 ...understand how Philip thinks, for your own sake. 1018 01:45:28,196 --> 01:45:32,116 Your life hangs in the balance. 1019 01:45:32,557 --> 01:45:38,397 I know these things, Alexander. You are nothing to him. 1020 01:45:38,957 --> 01:45:43,197 His spies are inside your closest circle... 1021 01:45:43,597 --> 01:45:46,958 ...to ensure that you don't plot against him. 1022 01:45:47,118 --> 01:45:50,158 And still you sleep. 1023 01:45:51,718 --> 01:45:55,278 You will not live out this year unless you act! 1024 01:45:55,438 --> 01:45:56,918 Stop! 1025 01:45:59,238 --> 01:46:01,999 I'm his only worthy son. 1026 01:46:02,159 --> 01:46:04,159 You crazed woman. 1027 01:46:05,279 --> 01:46:07,279 He'd never hurt me. 1028 01:46:08,399 --> 01:46:13,159 Even if Eurydice had a boy, he'd be 20 before he'd let him rule. 1029 01:46:13,359 --> 01:46:16,760 Yes, and you would be 40. 1030 01:46:16,920 --> 01:46:23,320 Old and wise like Parmenion. And Philip's young son would be 20. 1031 01:46:23,480 --> 01:46:29,841 Like you now, but raised by him, his blood. 1032 01:46:30,441 --> 01:46:33,841 He will never give you the throne now, Alexander. 1033 01:46:34,001 --> 01:46:35,521 Never. 1034 01:46:37,761 --> 01:46:39,881 What would you have me do? 1035 01:46:40,721 --> 01:46:43,482 Whatever is necessary. 1036 01:46:46,842 --> 01:46:49,522 Where have you lost your mind? 1037 01:46:49,962 --> 01:46:52,362 It would be civil war, clan against clan, chaos. 1038 01:46:52,562 --> 01:46:55,442 Yes. And you would win. 1039 01:46:55,602 --> 01:46:58,243 Because the young ones love you like a god. 1040 01:46:58,443 --> 01:47:00,723 I forbid you to ever talk to me like that! 1041 01:47:01,243 --> 01:47:04,123 Such a man would be forever chased by the Furies! 1042 01:47:04,283 --> 01:47:07,923 What have you to fear from the Furies... 1043 01:47:08,083 --> 01:47:11,244 ...for killing an impostor to the throne... 1044 01:47:11,444 --> 01:47:15,004 ...before he murders you and your mother? 1045 01:47:15,164 --> 01:47:17,884 Why won't you ever believe me? 1046 01:47:18,044 --> 01:47:21,684 Philip did not want you. 1047 01:47:22,244 --> 01:47:24,164 You had a condition of the breathing... 1048 01:47:24,324 --> 01:47:26,765 ...and he wanted to leave you in the mountains... 1049 01:47:26,925 --> 01:47:30,045 ...for the birds to peck at your eyes. 1050 01:47:31,325 --> 01:47:33,605 What you don't know, my poor child. 1051 01:47:33,805 --> 01:47:36,565 Lanice knows nothing of this. 1052 01:47:36,765 --> 01:47:38,005 Lanice. 1053 01:47:38,805 --> 01:47:41,326 I was there. 1054 01:47:41,486 --> 01:47:44,126 Lanice was not. 1055 01:47:44,526 --> 01:47:46,766 No, Alexander... 1056 01:47:46,926 --> 01:47:50,446 ...Zeus is your father. 1057 01:47:51,126 --> 01:47:55,967 I laid with him that night in the wind, as sure as any mortal man. 1058 01:47:56,167 --> 01:47:59,727 Never have I been made love to as I was then. 1059 01:47:59,887 --> 01:48:01,287 Enough. 1060 01:48:02,127 --> 01:48:05,927 Half the mothers in Greece share such a fantasy. 1061 01:48:06,487 --> 01:48:08,448 I warn you, Mother. 1062 01:48:08,648 --> 01:48:10,768 Make no mistake. 1063 01:48:11,728 --> 01:48:16,208 You will treat this girl as nothing more important than his other wives. 1064 01:48:16,408 --> 01:48:19,848 You will behave as we always have. 1065 01:48:20,048 --> 01:48:21,769 As the first. 1066 01:48:32,249 --> 01:48:34,089 I wonder... 1067 01:48:35,409 --> 01:48:36,930 ...did you ever love him? 1068 01:48:40,650 --> 01:48:42,250 What? 1069 01:48:44,650 --> 01:48:46,690 I never stopped. 1070 01:49:21,013 --> 01:49:22,893 What is it, Orestes? 1071 01:49:27,733 --> 01:49:29,773 I beg your forgiveness, my king. 1072 01:49:30,733 --> 01:49:32,934 I cannot be part of this. 1073 01:49:34,374 --> 01:49:36,334 Who did this? 1074 01:49:39,254 --> 01:49:40,854 Tell me. 1075 01:49:41,214 --> 01:49:43,254 - Say it! - Hermolaus! 1076 01:49:54,935 --> 01:49:58,455 Death to all tyrants. 1077 01:50:01,016 --> 01:50:02,896 I didn't do this! 1078 01:50:03,496 --> 01:50:07,736 I've known you and loved you as long as I know. 1079 01:50:08,856 --> 01:50:11,576 Never will you find a man as devoted as I. 1080 01:50:11,736 --> 01:50:14,337 The conspiracy, such as it was... 1081 01:50:14,497 --> 01:50:16,937 ...deeply upset Alexander. 1082 01:50:17,097 --> 01:50:21,017 Not only because it involved the young people who shared his dream... 1083 01:50:21,177 --> 01:50:26,857 ...but more intimately, it implicated Philotas, his companion from boyhood... 1084 01:50:27,057 --> 01:50:32,018 ...when a page confessed that a few days before, he'd informed Philotas... 1085 01:50:32,178 --> 01:50:34,138 - Alexander. - ... of the plot. 1086 01:50:35,938 --> 01:50:37,538 Remember me for who I am. 1087 01:50:38,978 --> 01:50:44,339 I do remember you, Philotas, but not as you remember yourself. 1088 01:50:44,979 --> 01:50:49,979 And it appears to me and others here from the testimony given by your mistress... 1089 01:50:50,499 --> 01:50:53,979 ...that the true weather of your soul is ambition. 1090 01:50:55,059 --> 01:50:56,019 No. 1091 01:50:56,219 --> 01:50:59,940 We all felt there was more here than sexual bickering. 1092 01:51:00,100 --> 01:51:04,740 Alexander wanted the truth and Philotas' answers were lacking merit. 1093 01:51:05,100 --> 01:51:06,060 Please take him away. 1094 01:51:06,260 --> 01:51:10,501 Alexander put him silently and quickly to trial by his peers... 1095 01:51:10,661 --> 01:51:14,661 ...and whether plotter or opportunist, Philotas was found guilty of treason. 1096 01:51:14,821 --> 01:51:16,661 - No, Alexander, no! - Remove him. 1097 01:51:16,821 --> 01:51:19,701 The suspects were all executed. 1098 01:51:19,861 --> 01:51:22,581 None of us defended Philotas... 1099 01:51:22,741 --> 01:51:26,142 ...but then again, none of us ever liked him. 1100 01:51:31,382 --> 01:51:35,822 And of course his power was carved up by the rest of us. 1101 01:51:37,542 --> 01:51:39,863 Before he died, we tortured him... 1102 01:51:40,023 --> 01:51:43,223 ...to find out what his father Parmenion knew. 1103 01:51:43,383 --> 01:51:45,583 But this we never learned. 1104 01:51:45,783 --> 01:51:49,743 What to do with Parmenion and his 20,000 troops guarding our supply lines... 1105 01:51:49,903 --> 01:51:53,584 ...was a far more delicate matter. Was he innocent in this? 1106 01:51:53,784 --> 01:51:58,904 Or had he decided to act before age further withered his power? 1107 01:51:59,064 --> 01:52:02,584 - The men will follow their king. - Alexander won't be there. 1108 01:52:03,744 --> 01:52:07,185 Necessity required Alexander to act... 1109 01:52:07,345 --> 01:52:12,265 ...and he sealed the camp within the hour of the first accusations against Philotas. 1110 01:52:13,585 --> 01:52:17,545 Then go, Antigonus, and Cleitus. 1111 01:52:17,745 --> 01:52:19,545 And go quickly. 1112 01:52:22,546 --> 01:52:26,986 Three days' hard riding sent Antigonus and Cleitus... 1113 01:52:27,146 --> 01:52:32,186 ...to Parmenion, the general most loyal to Philip. 1114 01:52:38,467 --> 01:52:41,987 His soldiers accepted the finding of guilt against Parmenion... 1115 01:52:42,147 --> 01:52:44,667 ...as they understood well the code of vengeance... 1116 01:52:44,827 --> 01:52:49,708 ...that made the head of family responsible for the behavior of all. 1117 01:52:51,988 --> 01:52:56,188 Many of us felt we were better off without that pompous thorn, Parmenion... 1118 01:52:56,388 --> 01:53:01,508 ...as Alexander promoted all of us generously. 1119 01:53:16,309 --> 01:53:20,830 If we issue the gold bullion in the name of Alexander then we meet a resistance. 1120 01:53:20,990 --> 01:53:23,270 Cleitus. Antigonus. 1121 01:53:23,430 --> 01:53:25,070 Parmenion. 1122 01:55:38,640 --> 01:55:41,920 Come, Alexander, drink this sadness away. 1123 01:55:42,080 --> 01:55:44,480 If only thirst could quench sorrow, Ptolemy. 1124 01:55:47,880 --> 01:55:52,161 There's only one thing better than winning a battle, son... 1125 01:55:52,921 --> 01:55:55,801 ...and that's the taste of a new woman. 1126 01:55:55,961 --> 01:56:00,801 You'll find it far sweeter than self-pity. 1127 01:56:00,961 --> 01:56:03,121 - Pausanias, you bore me. - Alexander! 1128 01:56:03,321 --> 01:56:06,322 - Be gone with you. - Alexander, I found you the right girl. 1129 01:56:06,522 --> 01:56:08,762 - What's your name, darling? - Antigone. 1130 01:56:08,962 --> 01:56:10,922 - What's your name? - Antigone. 1131 01:56:12,842 --> 01:56:16,042 - I love you. - And I love you, Cleitus. 1132 01:56:16,842 --> 01:56:19,482 - Please, no! - There you go. 1133 01:56:23,123 --> 01:56:25,443 I'll sleep in my grave, Hephaistion. 1134 01:56:25,643 --> 01:56:28,483 While alive, I prefer dancing. 1135 01:56:28,643 --> 01:56:30,163 Pausanias. 1136 01:56:31,243 --> 01:56:32,683 Who's your new friend? 1137 01:56:32,963 --> 01:56:35,044 - There's your new friend. - Please don't! 1138 01:56:35,244 --> 01:56:38,764 Don't! Please, no! No. 1139 01:56:48,004 --> 01:56:49,205 A toast. 1140 01:56:49,925 --> 01:56:51,325 A toast! 1141 01:56:51,845 --> 01:56:57,205 I drink to our Greek friends and to our new union... 1142 01:56:57,365 --> 01:57:03,286 ...Macedonia and Greece, equals in greatness! 1143 01:57:05,926 --> 01:57:12,206 And to Philip, our king, without whom this union could not be possible. 1144 01:57:12,366 --> 01:57:15,366 Come, Attalus, leave some damn air in the hall! 1145 01:57:17,047 --> 01:57:22,807 And last, I drink to the king's marriage to my niece, Eurydice... 1146 01:57:23,007 --> 01:57:26,087 ...a Macedonian queen we can be proud of! 1147 01:57:29,287 --> 01:57:32,368 To Philip and Eurydice... 1148 01:57:32,528 --> 01:57:35,808 ...and to their legitimate sons! 1149 01:57:38,008 --> 01:57:39,008 Don't! 1150 01:57:39,168 --> 01:57:42,128 What am I, you son of a dog? Come, then. 1151 01:57:53,129 --> 01:57:55,609 What a disgrace. 1152 01:57:55,769 --> 01:57:56,769 Shut up! 1153 01:57:57,609 --> 01:57:59,450 - Shut up, all of you! - Please. 1154 01:57:59,970 --> 01:58:02,570 This is my wedding, not some public brawl. 1155 01:58:02,730 --> 01:58:04,690 Insolent pup. 1156 01:58:04,850 --> 01:58:08,210 Apologize, by Zeus, before you dishonor me. 1157 01:58:08,370 --> 01:58:11,530 You defend the man who called my mother a whore and me a bastard. 1158 01:58:11,690 --> 01:58:15,091 - And I dishonor you? - You listen like your mother. 1159 01:58:15,251 --> 01:58:17,291 Attalus is my family now, the same as you. 1160 01:58:17,451 --> 01:58:20,171 Then choose your relatives more carefully. 1161 01:58:20,371 --> 01:58:23,571 Don't expect me to sit here and watch you shame yourself. 1162 01:58:23,771 --> 01:58:26,771 - You insult me! - I insult you! 1163 01:58:26,971 --> 01:58:29,932 A man not fit to lick the ground my mother walks on. 1164 01:58:30,092 --> 01:58:33,132 - You dog, questioning your queen. - Shame? 1165 01:58:36,892 --> 01:58:40,772 I'll marry the girl if I want, and I'll have as many sons as I want. 1166 01:58:40,932 --> 01:58:43,533 There's nothing you or your harpy mother can do. 1167 01:58:43,693 --> 01:58:45,493 Why, drunken man, must you think... 1168 01:58:45,693 --> 01:58:48,133 ...everything I do and say comes from my mother? 1169 01:58:48,293 --> 01:58:51,253 Because I know her heart, by Hera... 1170 01:58:51,413 --> 01:58:53,613 ...and I see her in your eyes. 1171 01:58:53,773 --> 01:58:56,334 You covet this throne too much. 1172 01:58:57,614 --> 01:59:03,014 We all know that she-wolf of a mother of yours wants me dead. 1173 01:59:03,174 --> 01:59:05,414 Well, you can both dream, boy. 1174 01:59:05,574 --> 01:59:08,654 Philip, this is the wine talking. Leave the boy. It'll wait. 1175 01:59:08,854 --> 01:59:10,415 Now! 1176 01:59:11,615 --> 01:59:13,495 I command you. 1177 01:59:14,495 --> 01:59:17,815 Apologize to your kinsman. 1178 01:59:25,456 --> 01:59:27,176 Apologize. 1179 01:59:27,376 --> 01:59:29,896 No kinsman to me. 1180 01:59:33,456 --> 01:59:35,416 Good night, old man. 1181 01:59:36,976 --> 01:59:41,377 And when my mother remarries, I'll invite you to her wedding. 1182 01:59:41,937 --> 01:59:43,857 You bastard! 1183 01:59:49,697 --> 01:59:51,377 You'll obey me. Come here. 1184 02:00:10,299 --> 02:00:13,939 This is the man who is going to take you from Greece to Persia? 1185 02:00:14,099 --> 02:00:16,579 He can't even make it from one couch to the next. 1186 02:00:16,899 --> 02:00:20,860 Get out of my palace! You're exiled, you bastard! 1187 02:00:21,620 --> 02:00:24,940 Banished from the land. You're not welcome here. 1188 02:00:25,860 --> 02:00:28,100 You're no son of mine! 1189 02:01:11,863 --> 02:01:15,983 In the spring, Alexander marched an army of 150,000... 1190 02:01:16,143 --> 02:01:19,184 ...across the passes of the Hindu Kush... 1191 02:01:19,744 --> 02:01:21,744 ...into the unknown. 1192 02:01:23,024 --> 02:01:27,824 in his dream, it was the promised route to the end of the world. 1193 02:01:27,984 --> 02:01:29,904 We were now a mobile empire... 1194 02:01:30,064 --> 02:01:33,945 ...stretching back thousands of miles to Greece. 1195 02:01:34,105 --> 02:01:36,825 Cooks and architects, doctors, surveyors... 1196 02:01:36,985 --> 02:01:38,625 ...moneylenders and wives... 1197 02:01:38,785 --> 02:01:41,665 ...children, lovers, whores. 1198 02:01:41,825 --> 02:01:43,585 And slaves... 1199 02:01:43,785 --> 02:01:48,426 ...that anonymous, bent, working spine of this new beast. 1200 02:01:48,626 --> 02:01:52,426 Ravaged or expanded, for better or worse... 1201 02:01:53,306 --> 02:01:57,906 ...no occupied territory remained the same again. 1202 02:02:01,267 --> 02:02:03,267 Although devoted to Roxane... 1203 02:02:03,467 --> 02:02:06,547 ...Alexander's visits to her tent diminished... 1204 02:02:06,747 --> 02:02:11,827 ...as a year, then two, went by without a successor... 1205 02:02:12,628 --> 02:02:15,868 ...wounding Alexander's great pride. 1206 02:02:16,188 --> 02:02:19,788 The surveyors are saying that Zeus chained Prometheus up there. 1207 02:02:19,988 --> 02:02:21,188 In one of those caves. 1208 02:02:23,188 --> 02:02:25,908 They say there's a giant eagle's nest just above it. 1209 02:02:26,228 --> 02:02:31,029 I suppose he drops down each night to peck out poor Prometheus' liver. 1210 02:02:33,669 --> 02:02:37,109 You remember what Aristotle told us of these mountains? 1211 02:02:37,989 --> 02:02:39,669 Yes, I do. 1212 02:02:40,469 --> 02:02:42,550 That when we reach these heights... 1213 02:02:42,750 --> 02:02:45,950 ...we'd look back and see Macedonia to the west... 1214 02:02:46,150 --> 02:02:48,750 ...and the outer ocean to the east. 1215 02:02:52,830 --> 02:02:57,831 But I fear this world is far larger than anyone dreamed. 1216 02:02:58,031 --> 02:03:00,151 A world of Titans. 1217 02:03:00,311 --> 02:03:04,311 The scouts have been up every known trail, Alexander. 1218 02:03:04,511 --> 02:03:06,711 There is no way across. 1219 02:03:07,311 --> 02:03:11,472 Except to the south, into India. 1220 02:03:11,872 --> 02:03:14,912 Were we gods, we'd breach these walls to the eastern ocean. 1221 02:03:15,752 --> 02:03:17,472 We will, Alexander. 1222 02:03:17,632 --> 02:03:20,312 In a few years' time, we will return. 1223 02:03:20,472 --> 02:03:24,273 But first, the men must see their homes. 1224 02:03:25,753 --> 02:03:27,753 Have you found your home... 1225 02:03:27,953 --> 02:03:29,633 ...Ptolemy? 1226 02:03:34,273 --> 02:03:37,514 More and more, I think it will be Alexandria. 1227 02:03:39,674 --> 02:03:41,794 Well, at least it's hot. 1228 02:03:42,794 --> 02:03:44,514 And Thais... 1229 02:03:45,394 --> 02:03:47,474 ...she loved it there. 1230 02:03:49,234 --> 02:03:51,515 Women bring men home. 1231 02:03:52,595 --> 02:03:57,555 - I have no such feeling. - You have Babylon, Alexander. 1232 02:03:57,715 --> 02:03:59,835 Where your mother awaits your invitation. 1233 02:04:00,275 --> 02:04:02,755 Yes, I have Babylon. 1234 02:04:02,955 --> 02:04:07,316 But each land, each boundary I cross... 1235 02:04:07,476 --> 02:04:09,836 ...I strip away another illusion. 1236 02:04:11,196 --> 02:04:13,516 I sense death will be the last. 1237 02:04:16,276 --> 02:04:19,717 Yet still I push harder and harder... 1238 02:04:19,917 --> 02:04:23,477 ...to reach this home. 1239 02:04:29,037 --> 02:04:30,477 Where has our eagle gone? 1240 02:04:35,078 --> 02:04:37,198 We must go on, Ptolemy. 1241 02:04:38,478 --> 02:04:40,158 Until we find an end. 1242 02:06:29,846 --> 02:06:33,446 India, the land where the sun was born... 1243 02:06:33,646 --> 02:06:36,246 ...fabled to be even richer than Persia... 1244 02:06:36,406 --> 02:06:40,447 ...had never been explored or conquered. 1245 02:06:40,607 --> 02:06:45,927 From the beginning, we struggled to unify a land without a center. 1246 02:06:46,127 --> 02:06:48,847 Kings who conspired against one another. 1247 02:06:49,007 --> 02:06:53,087 A labyrinth of tribes urged on by zealots and philosophers... 1248 02:06:53,247 --> 02:06:57,448 ...to die by the thousands for their strange gods. 1249 02:07:02,048 --> 02:07:05,848 We saw things we'd never dreamed and could hardly describe. 1250 02:07:06,248 --> 02:07:09,209 We saw birds that could talk and men that couldn't. 1251 02:07:11,089 --> 02:07:15,089 Craterus, in the advance party, fought against men with hairy skins... 1252 02:07:15,289 --> 02:07:17,729 ...who were tiny and lived in the tops of trees. 1253 02:07:23,450 --> 02:07:26,210 - Over there! - They're animals. 1254 02:07:26,410 --> 02:07:29,930 Until Hephaistion convinced us these were animals who imitated men... 1255 02:07:30,090 --> 02:07:32,170 ...but wore their own skin. 1256 02:07:33,450 --> 02:07:36,410 They called this tribe "monkey." 1257 02:07:37,051 --> 02:07:40,051 Monkey. Monkey. 1258 02:07:41,091 --> 02:07:44,851 But we saw little difference with the tribes who lived among them. 1259 02:07:46,611 --> 02:07:49,971 - Look at his hand. - It's so much like ours. 1260 02:07:53,652 --> 02:07:54,892 Hello, little man. 1261 02:07:55,772 --> 02:08:00,692 - Do they speak? - No, but they do sing and make noises... 1262 02:08:00,852 --> 02:08:02,972 ...from the roofs of the forest. 1263 02:08:06,933 --> 02:08:08,813 We saw men who walked naked in public... 1264 02:08:08,973 --> 02:08:13,173 ...and spent hours at a time staring and doing nothing. 1265 02:08:13,453 --> 02:08:16,613 Some who lived 200 years. 1266 02:08:18,173 --> 02:08:20,894 And then, there was the rain. 1267 02:08:26,734 --> 02:08:30,494 Never before had we seen water that fell from the gods... 1268 02:08:30,654 --> 02:08:32,134 ...for 60 days and nights. 1269 02:08:33,375 --> 02:08:35,415 Well done today. 1270 02:08:37,575 --> 02:08:39,855 Make sure the women and children are fed. 1271 02:08:45,655 --> 02:08:47,736 You know better, Machatas. 1272 02:08:51,296 --> 02:08:52,696 What's your son going to say? 1273 02:08:53,056 --> 02:08:55,496 Come on, man. The older you get, the stronger. 1274 02:08:55,656 --> 02:08:59,176 Right, my king. You're my horse, Alexander. 1275 02:08:59,336 --> 02:09:01,657 I'll be with you at your side. 1276 02:09:04,137 --> 02:09:05,937 Everything rotted in this rain... 1277 02:09:06,097 --> 02:09:10,337 ...and scores of men died miserably from the tiny serpents... 1278 02:09:10,497 --> 02:09:14,217 ...that were everywhere in this evil land. 1279 02:09:16,058 --> 02:09:17,698 - What happened? - It's to the neck. 1280 02:09:17,858 --> 02:09:20,298 Oh, no. Zeus, no. 1281 02:09:20,498 --> 02:09:22,018 Hold on. Hold on. 1282 02:09:24,898 --> 02:09:28,058 Be brave. 1283 02:09:28,218 --> 02:09:30,259 Oh, Zeus. 1284 02:09:31,979 --> 02:09:35,419 Our quest for gold and glory evaporated as we realized... 1285 02:09:35,859 --> 02:09:38,019 ...there was none to be had. 1286 02:09:38,699 --> 02:09:40,499 Tempers worsened. 1287 02:09:40,659 --> 02:09:43,620 We massacred all Indians who resisted. 1288 02:09:43,820 --> 02:09:45,900 And with the local water putrid... 1289 02:09:46,060 --> 02:09:48,820 ...we drank the strong wine. 1290 02:10:42,864 --> 02:10:45,504 And as we moved south and east... 1291 02:10:45,664 --> 02:10:50,584 ...Alexander often returned the lands we'd conquered to their defeated kings... 1292 02:10:50,744 --> 02:10:52,624 ...so as to make them allies. 1293 02:10:52,784 --> 02:10:55,785 But this did not sit well with the army... 1294 02:10:55,985 --> 02:10:57,225 ...who began to wonder: 1295 02:10:58,065 --> 02:11:01,145 Were we here for riches? Or had Alexander... 1296 02:11:01,305 --> 02:11:05,705 ...in some remorseless and crazed quest to imitate the glory of Herakles... 1297 02:11:05,865 --> 02:11:07,385 ...forgotten them? 1298 02:11:08,146 --> 02:11:11,546 One thing an army knows quickly in their bones... 1299 02:11:11,746 --> 02:11:14,146 ...is which way the gods are blowing. 1300 02:12:42,272 --> 02:12:44,072 Kiss him! 1301 02:13:08,674 --> 02:13:11,234 - To Bagoas. - To Bagoas! 1302 02:13:16,715 --> 02:13:20,875 - And to my mother's god, Dionysus... - Dionysus! 1303 02:13:21,035 --> 02:13:25,355 ...who, we're told by our Indian allies, traveled here before Herakles... 1304 02:13:25,555 --> 02:13:28,315 ...some 6000 years ago. 1305 02:13:28,475 --> 02:13:29,916 To a hero. 1306 02:13:30,076 --> 02:13:32,076 To a hero! 1307 02:13:51,917 --> 02:13:53,277 Roxane. 1308 02:14:00,158 --> 02:14:02,598 You lose face. 1309 02:14:02,758 --> 02:14:04,278 These Indians... 1310 02:14:04,438 --> 02:14:06,198 ...they are a low, evil people. 1311 02:14:06,398 --> 02:14:08,798 You don't try to understand them. 1312 02:14:09,078 --> 02:14:11,279 I try. 1313 02:14:11,439 --> 02:14:14,439 But this I know, Alexander. 1314 02:14:14,679 --> 02:14:17,679 In Persia, you are a great king. 1315 02:14:18,039 --> 02:14:19,599 Here... 1316 02:14:19,759 --> 02:14:21,719 ...they hate you. 1317 02:14:24,519 --> 02:14:27,720 Let us go back to Babylon. 1318 02:14:28,760 --> 02:14:30,400 There, you are strong. 1319 02:14:32,640 --> 02:14:34,920 We'll talk about this later. 1320 02:14:35,080 --> 02:14:36,560 Yes. 1321 02:14:36,720 --> 02:14:38,280 Later. 1322 02:14:38,440 --> 02:14:39,961 Talk. 1323 02:14:42,721 --> 02:14:44,761 I shall come. 1324 02:14:44,921 --> 02:14:46,161 Tonight. 1325 02:14:47,201 --> 02:14:49,041 And I shall wait. 1326 02:14:50,881 --> 02:14:53,001 Good night, my king. 1327 02:14:54,522 --> 02:14:56,682 Your Majesty. 1328 02:14:58,442 --> 02:15:01,482 Come, Alexander, drink with us. 1329 02:15:03,842 --> 02:15:06,962 - Alexander. - Alexander! 1330 02:15:08,963 --> 02:15:13,683 I remember a time you hated how your father drank. 1331 02:15:13,843 --> 02:15:15,843 Now I know why. 1332 02:15:17,443 --> 02:15:21,444 Dionysus is hero. 1333 02:15:22,604 --> 02:15:26,284 But he is also mind breaker. 1334 02:15:26,484 --> 02:15:29,804 He destroys our self-control. 1335 02:15:30,324 --> 02:15:33,884 Self-control is a lover I've known too long, Ptolemy. 1336 02:15:37,365 --> 02:15:40,205 The struggle worries me to the bone. 1337 02:15:41,445 --> 02:15:44,485 And success I find to be as corrupt as failure. 1338 02:15:45,685 --> 02:15:49,886 But Dionysus, bless his ancient soul... 1339 02:15:50,046 --> 02:15:52,806 ...frees me from myself. 1340 02:15:53,166 --> 02:15:56,766 And then, I move up. 1341 02:15:59,766 --> 02:16:02,406 I'm simply, Alexander. 1342 02:16:06,647 --> 02:16:08,447 A toast to Bagoas. 1343 02:16:10,087 --> 02:16:14,727 And the 30,000 beautiful Persian boys... 1344 02:16:14,887 --> 02:16:17,407 ...we're training to fight in this great army. 1345 02:16:20,368 --> 02:16:22,408 And to the memory of Philip. 1346 02:16:22,608 --> 02:16:25,528 Had he lived to see his Macedonians... 1347 02:16:25,688 --> 02:16:28,728 ...transformed into such... 1348 02:16:28,888 --> 02:16:30,488 ...a pretty army. 1349 02:16:32,809 --> 02:16:34,089 To Philip. 1350 02:16:34,289 --> 02:16:36,369 To a real hero. 1351 02:16:36,529 --> 02:16:38,809 Philip! 1352 02:16:41,649 --> 02:16:46,410 To Cleitus and his new appointment as satrap of Bactria. 1353 02:16:46,610 --> 02:16:48,210 Cleitus. 1354 02:16:49,610 --> 02:16:52,330 That's a fancy way of putting it, Ptolemy. 1355 02:16:52,490 --> 02:16:55,530 But we all know what a pension and an exile is... 1356 02:16:55,690 --> 02:16:57,850 ...after 30 years' service. 1357 02:16:58,050 --> 02:16:59,730 Exile? 1358 02:17:00,010 --> 02:17:01,771 From where, Cleitus? 1359 02:17:01,931 --> 02:17:04,651 From my home, Alexander, Macedonia. 1360 02:17:04,851 --> 02:17:08,491 You could've asked me where I wanted to spend the rest of my life. 1361 02:17:08,731 --> 02:17:12,731 You call governing this major province exile? 1362 02:17:12,931 --> 02:17:16,012 Has Your Majesty given any of his closest companions... 1363 02:17:16,772 --> 02:17:18,932 ...a province so far from home? 1364 02:17:19,132 --> 02:17:22,532 Then you won't make a very good satrap, will you, Cleitus? 1365 02:17:25,812 --> 02:17:27,412 So be it. 1366 02:17:27,612 --> 02:17:31,213 Let me rot in Macedonian rags... 1367 02:17:31,373 --> 02:17:33,493 ...rather than shine... 1368 02:17:33,653 --> 02:17:35,813 ...in Eastern pomp. 1369 02:17:36,293 --> 02:17:40,093 I won't quake and bow down like the sycophants you have around you. 1370 02:17:40,293 --> 02:17:44,334 Hephaistion, Nearchus, Perdiccas. 1371 02:17:44,974 --> 02:17:49,374 As governor of one of our most Asian of satrapies... 1372 02:17:49,574 --> 02:17:54,414 ...Cleitus, does it not occur to you that if my Persian subjects... 1373 02:17:54,614 --> 02:17:57,615 ...bow down before me, it's important for them to do so? 1374 02:17:57,815 --> 02:18:00,535 Do I insist on Greeks doing the same? 1375 02:18:00,695 --> 02:18:05,775 You accept Greek offerings as a son of Zeus, do you not? 1376 02:18:07,775 --> 02:18:09,135 Only when offered. 1377 02:18:09,295 --> 02:18:12,136 Why don't you refuse these vain flatteries? 1378 02:18:12,296 --> 02:18:14,856 What freedom is this, to bow before you? 1379 02:18:15,056 --> 02:18:17,816 You bow before Herakles, and he was mortal... 1380 02:18:17,976 --> 02:18:19,576 ...but a son of Zeus. 1381 02:18:19,736 --> 02:18:23,336 How can you, so young, compare yourself to Herakles? 1382 02:18:24,577 --> 02:18:26,577 Why not? 1383 02:18:29,177 --> 02:18:31,617 I've achieved more in my years. 1384 02:18:31,817 --> 02:18:33,337 Traveled as far. 1385 02:18:33,497 --> 02:18:34,577 Probably farther. 1386 02:18:34,777 --> 02:18:37,017 Herakles did it by himself. 1387 02:18:37,177 --> 02:18:40,298 Did you conquer Asia by yourself, Alexander? 1388 02:18:40,458 --> 02:18:42,218 Who planned the Asian invasion... 1389 02:18:42,378 --> 02:18:46,218 ...when you were still being spanked on your bottom by my sister Lanice? 1390 02:18:46,378 --> 02:18:48,298 Was it not your father? 1391 02:18:48,498 --> 02:18:50,458 Or is his blood no longer good enough? 1392 02:18:50,938 --> 02:18:54,499 - Zeus-Amon, is it? - You insult me, Cleitus. 1393 02:18:54,699 --> 02:18:57,299 You mock my family. Be careful. 1394 02:18:57,819 --> 02:19:01,259 Never would your father have taken barbarians as his friends... 1395 02:19:01,419 --> 02:19:04,059 ...asked us to fight with them as equals in war. 1396 02:19:04,219 --> 02:19:06,179 Are we not good enough any longer? 1397 02:19:06,339 --> 02:19:08,420 I remember a time... 1398 02:19:08,620 --> 02:19:11,340 ...when we could talk as men, straight to the eye. 1399 02:19:11,500 --> 02:19:14,260 None of this scraping, groveling. 1400 02:19:14,900 --> 02:19:17,060 I remember a time when we hunted... 1401 02:19:17,260 --> 02:19:20,260 ...when we wrestled on the gymnasium floor. 1402 02:19:20,500 --> 02:19:22,301 Now you kiss them? 1403 02:19:23,941 --> 02:19:28,981 Take a barbarian, childless wife and dare call her queen? 1404 02:19:31,301 --> 02:19:35,262 Go quickly, Cleitus, before you ruin your life. 1405 02:19:39,102 --> 02:19:42,582 Doesn't your great pride fear the gods any longer? 1406 02:19:43,942 --> 02:19:47,342 This army... This army is your blood, boy! 1407 02:19:47,502 --> 02:19:49,583 Without it, you're nothing! 1408 02:19:54,743 --> 02:19:58,063 You no longer serve the purpose of this march! 1409 02:19:58,543 --> 02:20:01,263 - Get him from my sight! - I don't serve your purpose?! 1410 02:20:01,423 --> 02:20:05,144 What was I serving when I saved your puppy life at Gaugamela? 1411 02:20:05,344 --> 02:20:08,824 Were you Zeus' boy? What if I left you to die in the dust there? 1412 02:20:09,024 --> 02:20:12,584 Do you think we'd be forced now to mate with brown apes? 1413 02:20:12,744 --> 02:20:13,984 Alexander! 1414 02:20:14,144 --> 02:20:17,705 Turn out the guards! Arrest him for treason! 1415 02:20:22,225 --> 02:20:23,865 - I'll go with him. - Alexander. 1416 02:20:24,065 --> 02:20:25,665 - Who's with him? - No. 1417 02:20:25,865 --> 02:20:27,385 Who's with him? 1418 02:20:28,025 --> 02:20:30,185 I call Father Zeus to witness. 1419 02:20:30,345 --> 02:20:32,666 I call you to trial before him! 1420 02:20:32,826 --> 02:20:35,306 And we'll see how deep this conspiracy cuts! 1421 02:20:35,506 --> 02:20:38,026 - Take him! - In the name of the gods, get him out! 1422 02:20:38,186 --> 02:20:42,306 Now look at you! Great white ass, Alexander. 1423 02:20:42,466 --> 02:20:44,266 Hiding behind his fairy god! 1424 02:20:44,426 --> 02:20:50,187 Or are you too great to remember whose life was saved by me?! 1425 02:20:50,907 --> 02:20:56,227 - I am more a man than you'll ever be! Ever! - Get him out! 1426 02:20:57,067 --> 02:21:01,068 - He's gone. He's gone. - Alexander. 1427 02:21:01,228 --> 02:21:02,428 Come on! 1428 02:21:02,948 --> 02:21:07,708 What a tyrant you are! An evil tyrant you've become, Alexander. 1429 02:21:07,868 --> 02:21:10,908 You speak of plots against you? What about poor Parmenion? 1430 02:21:11,508 --> 02:21:12,508 Get out! 1431 02:21:12,668 --> 02:21:15,429 He served you well. Look how you repaid him. 1432 02:21:15,629 --> 02:21:18,389 You made me do your foul deed. Have you no shame? 1433 02:21:18,549 --> 02:21:22,469 You ungrateful wretch! No one, not my vilest enemy, has spoken like you to me. 1434 02:21:22,629 --> 02:21:25,869 Getting what I say?! Despot. False king. 1435 02:21:27,309 --> 02:21:30,030 You and your barbarian mother live in shame. 1436 02:21:54,871 --> 02:21:56,392 Cleitus. 1437 02:21:56,752 --> 02:21:59,232 Oh, my Cleitus. Cleitus. 1438 02:22:06,072 --> 02:22:07,592 - Let me pass. - None can enter. 1439 02:22:07,752 --> 02:22:09,672 I am the queen. 1440 02:22:17,753 --> 02:22:19,913 I want to see him. I've waited three days. 1441 02:22:20,073 --> 02:22:22,793 He says none, not even you. 1442 02:22:23,913 --> 02:22:27,834 - He needs me. - No, he doesn't. 1443 02:22:27,994 --> 02:22:29,754 And he needs you? 1444 02:22:31,474 --> 02:22:33,194 Hephaistion, you make a mistake. 1445 02:22:36,914 --> 02:22:40,955 The army grows restless, questioning. 1446 02:22:42,195 --> 02:22:43,915 Alexander. 1447 02:22:46,595 --> 02:22:48,355 They need your reassurance. 1448 02:22:49,475 --> 02:22:51,195 Heinous. 1449 02:22:51,395 --> 02:22:55,196 Like an old lover they forgive, but they will never forget. 1450 02:22:55,596 --> 02:23:00,276 - He was an aging drunk. - He was my friend. 1451 02:23:02,196 --> 02:23:04,996 His sister Lanice nursed me. 1452 02:23:05,876 --> 02:23:08,077 And how did I repay her? 1453 02:23:09,557 --> 02:23:12,957 Two brothers dead, fighting him by my own hands. 1454 02:23:13,117 --> 02:23:15,597 Her last remaining blood. 1455 02:23:19,077 --> 02:23:23,238 What will she do but weep on the day of my birth? 1456 02:23:24,878 --> 02:23:26,998 Come. You know more than any... 1457 02:23:27,198 --> 02:23:31,958 ...great deeds are done by men who took and never regretted. 1458 02:23:32,118 --> 02:23:34,038 You're Alexander. 1459 02:23:34,198 --> 02:23:36,959 Pity and grief will only destroy you. 1460 02:23:37,119 --> 02:23:40,759 Have I become so arrogant that I am blind? 1461 02:23:43,519 --> 02:23:49,040 Sometimes, to expect the best of everyone is... 1462 02:23:49,200 --> 02:23:50,680 ...arrogance. 1463 02:23:52,200 --> 02:23:57,600 Then Cleitus spoke true. I have become a tyrant. 1464 02:23:58,400 --> 02:23:59,960 No. 1465 02:24:02,440 --> 02:24:04,561 But perhaps a stranger. 1466 02:24:06,361 --> 02:24:07,601 You've gone too far. 1467 02:24:09,721 --> 02:24:12,441 They don't understand you anymore. 1468 02:24:14,241 --> 02:24:18,242 They speak of Philip now... 1469 02:24:18,402 --> 02:24:22,322 ...as if I were a passing cloud... 1470 02:24:22,522 --> 02:24:24,602 ...soon to be forgotten. 1471 02:24:26,762 --> 02:24:28,562 I've failed... 1472 02:24:28,762 --> 02:24:30,442 ...utterly. 1473 02:24:32,563 --> 02:24:34,403 You're mortal. 1474 02:24:34,843 --> 02:24:36,803 And they know it. 1475 02:24:36,963 --> 02:24:41,283 And they forgive you because you make them proud of themselves. 1476 02:24:41,963 --> 02:24:44,883 Philip once said... 1477 02:24:46,884 --> 02:24:49,484 ...that there's a Titan in all of us. 1478 02:24:50,484 --> 02:24:53,484 That they wait, mixed in our ashes. 1479 02:24:58,924 --> 02:25:01,325 It wasn't because of the wine, I killed. 1480 02:25:01,885 --> 02:25:04,245 It was because I wanted to. 1481 02:25:32,447 --> 02:25:35,607 Philip, King of Macedonia... 1482 02:25:35,807 --> 02:25:37,687 ...and leader of the Greeks. 1483 02:25:38,447 --> 02:25:43,408 All my life, I've waited to see Greeks grovel with respect for Macedonia. 1484 02:25:44,688 --> 02:25:46,808 Today is that day. 1485 02:25:51,288 --> 02:25:54,048 They say already, "Philip was a great general... 1486 02:25:54,208 --> 02:25:58,089 ...but Alexander is simply great." 1487 02:25:59,649 --> 02:26:02,329 But if you ever insult me again... 1488 02:26:02,489 --> 02:26:04,129 ...I'll kill you. 1489 02:26:10,290 --> 02:26:11,690 I've missed you. 1490 02:26:11,850 --> 02:26:14,410 In the spring, Persia. 1491 02:26:14,610 --> 02:26:16,850 You'll command my horse from the right. 1492 02:26:17,050 --> 02:26:19,250 I'm honored, Father. I wouldn't miss it... 1493 02:26:19,450 --> 02:26:21,170 ...for all the gold in the world. 1494 02:26:21,330 --> 02:26:23,450 Which, one day, you'll have. 1495 02:26:40,452 --> 02:26:42,892 Making himself a 13th god. 1496 02:26:43,052 --> 02:26:47,292 He's drunk so much wine, my poor Philip, he's lost his mind. 1497 02:26:50,572 --> 02:26:53,253 - Your Majesty. - Attalus. 1498 02:26:57,773 --> 02:27:00,653 I hope the prince is enjoying the spectacle... 1499 02:27:00,813 --> 02:27:03,733 ...as much as our regent. 1500 02:27:03,893 --> 02:27:05,413 He's very tired. 1501 02:27:09,734 --> 02:27:11,934 Hey. 1502 02:27:14,334 --> 02:27:17,414 - Pausanias, bring the rest of the guard. - Royal guard! 1503 02:27:17,694 --> 02:27:20,375 To the arena! March! 1504 02:27:20,575 --> 02:27:23,455 No guard, Your Majesty? In all this crowd? 1505 02:27:23,655 --> 02:27:27,015 - Greeks all over the place. - Cleitus, Cleitus. 1506 02:27:27,695 --> 02:27:29,215 My Cleitus. 1507 02:27:29,735 --> 02:27:32,335 This man you can always trust, Alexander. 1508 02:27:32,775 --> 02:27:34,376 Treat him as you would me. 1509 02:27:34,536 --> 02:27:36,736 He'll guard your back for you. 1510 02:27:37,256 --> 02:27:39,096 Yes, Father. 1511 02:27:39,256 --> 02:27:42,136 My people are guard enough today. 1512 02:27:42,336 --> 02:27:45,776 Let these Greeks see for themselves how I can walk through my people. 1513 02:27:45,976 --> 02:27:47,496 Then let them call me tyrant. 1514 02:27:48,016 --> 02:27:51,337 Bring the main guard in after my entry only. 1515 02:27:51,497 --> 02:27:55,177 Cleitus, make sure the wine flows steady all day. 1516 02:27:55,337 --> 02:27:57,337 I want them to like me. 1517 02:28:04,498 --> 02:28:07,178 Weren't you told? I go in alone. 1518 02:28:07,338 --> 02:28:09,338 Follow with the main guard. 1519 02:28:09,538 --> 02:28:10,938 Go on. 1520 02:28:13,978 --> 02:28:17,339 - Go on. - Father, it's best I go with you. 1521 02:28:19,539 --> 02:28:22,699 You want the world to see you're my successor. 1522 02:28:22,859 --> 02:28:24,819 Is that what she wants? 1523 02:28:25,259 --> 02:28:28,019 Don't look so hurt all the time, Alexander. Be a man. 1524 02:28:28,219 --> 02:28:32,420 You count yourself lucky you were here at all today, after your public display. 1525 02:28:36,220 --> 02:28:38,340 By Herakles, by Zeus, by all the gods... 1526 02:28:38,500 --> 02:28:41,060 ...obey me this once! 1527 02:28:42,380 --> 02:28:45,021 Have courage, Father. 1528 02:28:45,181 --> 02:28:47,661 And go on your way rejoicing that at each step... 1529 02:28:47,821 --> 02:28:50,021 ...you may recall your valor. 1530 02:29:25,783 --> 02:29:29,704 And now, our beloved King Philip... 1531 02:29:29,864 --> 02:29:33,064 ...in whose honor these wedding games begin. 1532 02:29:50,945 --> 02:29:53,345 Pausanias, I told you- 1533 02:30:02,506 --> 02:30:03,546 Who's your new friend? 1534 02:30:03,746 --> 02:30:05,466 There's your new friend. 1535 02:30:06,626 --> 02:30:09,187 No! Please, don't! No! 1536 02:31:48,594 --> 02:31:51,234 The king lives! 1537 02:31:51,394 --> 02:31:54,674 Alexander, son of Philip! 1538 02:31:54,874 --> 02:31:57,474 May the gods bless the king! 1539 02:32:01,114 --> 02:32:03,875 Alexander is king! 1540 02:32:06,435 --> 02:32:09,155 You're king now. You're king. 1541 02:32:09,995 --> 02:32:12,675 Long live Alexander! 1542 02:32:14,355 --> 02:32:18,516 - Alexander! - King Alexander! 1543 02:32:18,676 --> 02:32:22,156 Alexander! 1544 02:32:23,156 --> 02:32:26,156 Alexander is king! 1545 02:32:29,756 --> 02:32:33,117 May the gods bless Alexander! 1546 02:32:34,877 --> 02:32:38,037 May the gods bless the king! 1547 02:32:38,197 --> 02:32:39,997 Alexander! 1548 02:32:57,318 --> 02:33:00,039 You break my heart, you men. 1549 02:33:00,239 --> 02:33:02,039 Afraid. 1550 02:33:03,439 --> 02:33:05,079 Of course you have fears. 1551 02:33:05,239 --> 02:33:06,679 We all have fears... 1552 02:33:06,839 --> 02:33:09,999 ...because no one has ever gone this far before. 1553 02:33:10,559 --> 02:33:14,960 And now we are weeks from the encircling ocean, our route home. 1554 02:33:15,240 --> 02:33:16,880 We'll build a fleet of ships... 1555 02:33:17,040 --> 02:33:20,000 ...and sail all the way back down the Nile to Egypt. 1556 02:33:20,200 --> 02:33:23,320 And from Alexandria, we shall be home within weeks. 1557 02:33:23,680 --> 02:33:25,920 There to be reunited with our loved ones. 1558 02:33:26,080 --> 02:33:29,721 To share our great treasures and tales of Asia. 1559 02:33:29,881 --> 02:33:34,681 And to enjoy our imperishable glory to the ends of time. 1560 02:33:35,921 --> 02:33:39,401 - Follow Alexander. - I'll follow you. 1561 02:33:44,002 --> 02:33:45,762 What? 1562 02:33:45,962 --> 02:33:49,242 - Silence? - We're with you, Alexander! 1563 02:33:49,602 --> 02:33:51,122 Crateros. 1564 02:33:53,402 --> 02:33:54,643 Crateros. 1565 02:33:54,843 --> 02:33:56,523 And another one. 1566 02:34:08,003 --> 02:34:09,284 My king. 1567 02:34:09,444 --> 02:34:11,404 I'm a fighting man. 1568 02:34:11,564 --> 02:34:15,524 I don't like no bellyaching. I won't tolerate it in any of my units. 1569 02:34:16,924 --> 02:34:19,124 I lost many a man. 1570 02:34:20,204 --> 02:34:22,845 Young ones, never been with a woman. 1571 02:34:24,005 --> 02:34:26,165 Some died of disease. 1572 02:34:26,765 --> 02:34:31,005 Some were butchered in Scythia by the banks of the Oxus. 1573 02:34:31,165 --> 02:34:32,885 Some died good. 1574 02:34:33,045 --> 02:34:36,125 Some just didn't get no luck. 1575 02:34:36,926 --> 02:34:38,646 But they died. 1576 02:34:40,906 --> 02:34:43,826 Forty thousand I come over with eight years ago. 1577 02:34:43,986 --> 02:34:48,066 And we march after you more than 10,000 miles. 1578 02:34:49,146 --> 02:34:52,907 In the rain and the sun, we fought for you. 1579 02:34:53,067 --> 02:34:56,147 Some of us, 50 battles we've been in. 1580 02:34:56,907 --> 02:34:59,307 We killed many a barbarian. 1581 02:35:00,987 --> 02:35:05,828 And now when I look around, how many of them faces do I see? 1582 02:35:05,988 --> 02:35:09,748 Now you want us to fight more of these crazy monkey tribes east of here. 1583 02:35:09,908 --> 02:35:13,468 We hear talk of thousands of these elephant monsters... 1584 02:35:13,668 --> 02:35:16,588 ...cross a hundred more rivers. 1585 02:35:17,468 --> 02:35:21,549 Crateros. Good Crateros. 1586 02:35:22,389 --> 02:35:27,549 Who better than you to speak, most noble of men. 1587 02:35:28,589 --> 02:35:32,469 But you know there's no part of me without a scar or a bone broken. 1588 02:35:32,629 --> 02:35:38,430 By sword, knife, stone, catapult and club. I've shared every hardship with all of you. 1589 02:35:38,630 --> 02:35:42,030 Aye, you have, my king, and we love you for it. 1590 02:35:42,990 --> 02:35:46,590 But, by Zeus, too many have died. 1591 02:35:47,191 --> 02:35:50,711 You have no children, Alexander, and we're just... 1592 02:35:50,911 --> 02:35:55,591 ...humble men, we seek no disturbance with the gods. All we wish for... 1593 02:35:55,751 --> 02:36:02,272 ...is to see our children and our wives and our grandchildren one last time... 1594 02:36:02,752 --> 02:36:06,552 ...before we join our brothers in that dark house they call Hades. 1595 02:36:10,472 --> 02:36:14,152 Yes. You're right, Crateros. 1596 02:36:14,312 --> 02:36:15,633 I have been negligent. 1597 02:36:17,793 --> 02:36:20,633 I should've sent you veterans home sooner, and I will. 1598 02:36:20,793 --> 02:36:23,513 The first of you shall be the Silver Shields. 1599 02:36:23,713 --> 02:36:28,753 Then every man who's served seven years. With full pensions from our treasury. 1600 02:36:30,114 --> 02:36:33,714 And respected, rich, loved. 1601 02:36:33,914 --> 02:36:38,794 You'll be treated by your wives and children as heroes for the rest of your lives... 1602 02:36:38,954 --> 02:36:43,154 ...and enjoy a peaceful death. 1603 02:36:44,435 --> 02:36:46,595 But you dream, Crateros. 1604 02:36:47,315 --> 02:36:51,635 Your simplicity long ended when you took Persian mistresses and children... 1605 02:36:51,795 --> 02:36:56,115 ...and you thickened your holdings with plunder and jewels. 1606 02:36:56,875 --> 02:37:02,196 Because you've fallen in love with all the things in life that destroy men. 1607 02:37:03,196 --> 02:37:05,556 Do you not see? 1608 02:37:06,716 --> 02:37:09,956 And you, as well as I, know... 1609 02:37:10,156 --> 02:37:14,397 ...that as the years decline and the memories stale... 1610 02:37:14,597 --> 02:37:17,397 ...and all your great victories fade... 1611 02:37:17,557 --> 02:37:23,237 ...it will always be remembered, you left your king in Asia! 1612 02:37:23,397 --> 02:37:26,038 For I will go on, with my Asians. 1613 02:37:29,558 --> 02:37:33,838 - To the jackals with you, then, Alexander. - We come for you, and you discard us. 1614 02:37:33,998 --> 02:37:36,398 - Shame! - We want to go home, Alexander. 1615 02:37:36,558 --> 02:37:38,318 We're tired of glory. 1616 02:37:38,478 --> 02:37:41,399 We want to see our wives and children before we die. 1617 02:37:43,399 --> 02:37:45,479 I've got children I haven't even seen. 1618 02:37:49,279 --> 02:37:52,319 I want to see my children. 1619 02:37:52,479 --> 02:37:56,240 I paid for your bastard children. I've taken nothing for myself. 1620 02:37:56,440 --> 02:37:58,520 And all I've asked of you is one more month. 1621 02:37:58,680 --> 02:38:00,560 - Shame. - That's your king. 1622 02:38:01,800 --> 02:38:03,160 What would your father say? 1623 02:38:03,320 --> 02:38:06,520 I've taken you further than my father ever dreamed. 1624 02:38:06,680 --> 02:38:10,641 So go home. I look to the barbarians for their courage. 1625 02:38:11,921 --> 02:38:13,521 I go east. 1626 02:38:13,681 --> 02:38:15,721 He wants us dead so we can't speak of his crimes. 1627 02:38:15,881 --> 02:38:18,081 - Who said that? - We won't make it to Macedonia. 1628 02:38:18,241 --> 02:38:20,001 You despicable coward. Come forth. 1629 02:38:20,201 --> 02:38:23,082 - Make your accusations public. - So you can have us killed? 1630 02:38:23,242 --> 02:38:26,242 - Son of Zeus. - You desecrate your real father's memory. 1631 02:38:26,442 --> 02:38:32,562 - Or did you murder him like you did Cleitus? - Hide in this mob because I'll take your life. 1632 02:38:42,563 --> 02:38:47,443 You men insult my honor, my paternity. Arrest him. 1633 02:38:47,603 --> 02:38:51,524 And him. Yes. And you, this loudmouth Demetrius. 1634 02:38:51,684 --> 02:38:55,324 You call me murderer? I have no such blood on my hands. 1635 02:38:55,564 --> 02:38:58,604 And him. Yes, you'll know the pain of treason. 1636 02:38:59,844 --> 02:39:03,804 You mock my shame for Cleitus and say I'd harm a hair of my father's head. 1637 02:39:04,525 --> 02:39:08,285 Arrest him. After all I've done for you, you swine. 1638 02:39:08,485 --> 02:39:10,365 You cowards. Traitors. 1639 02:39:12,925 --> 02:39:15,285 Come on, then. Where are your daggers? 1640 02:39:17,565 --> 02:39:21,766 In smashing the mutiny and executing the ringleaders... 1641 02:39:21,966 --> 02:39:27,206 ...he did nothing, to my mind, that any general in wartime would not have done. 1642 02:39:27,446 --> 02:39:30,846 But clearly, the army was divided. 1643 02:39:31,806 --> 02:39:35,847 And Alexander was no longer loved by all. 1644 02:39:38,687 --> 02:39:43,207 He drove on, south to the outer ocean. 1645 02:39:44,887 --> 02:39:47,488 I confess a disappointment. 1646 02:39:47,688 --> 02:39:51,888 Especially on these reports of your taking on Eastern ways. 1647 02:39:52,048 --> 02:39:57,568 Beware how these manners inflame the senses with pride. 1648 02:39:58,168 --> 02:40:02,169 However, I have lived long enough now... 1649 02:40:02,369 --> 02:40:04,009 ...to question... 1650 02:40:04,169 --> 02:40:09,889 ...when so many others invest such emotion in their disrespect for you. 1651 02:40:10,689 --> 02:40:17,090 I can only hope that you continue what you began as the boy I knew at 12. 1652 02:40:17,250 --> 02:40:22,130 Be that man always, Alexander, and you will not slip. 1653 02:40:22,290 --> 02:40:27,330 And perhaps you will prove this old materialist... 1654 02:40:27,490 --> 02:40:30,211 ...as you always thought me: 1655 02:40:30,411 --> 02:40:33,371 A dreamer after all. 1656 02:40:52,852 --> 02:40:54,292 Stay calm. 1657 02:40:54,612 --> 02:40:56,452 Together we are strong as gods. 1658 02:40:58,213 --> 02:41:02,693 Cover with your left, strike hard with your right. 1659 02:41:06,493 --> 02:41:08,933 Fear is rot. A waste of time. 1660 02:41:15,014 --> 02:41:17,214 Lock shields. 1661 02:41:19,774 --> 02:41:21,934 Battle positions. 1662 02:41:24,054 --> 02:41:25,935 Move. 1663 02:41:34,295 --> 02:41:37,495 Choppers, prepare your knives. 1664 02:41:37,815 --> 02:41:39,416 Follow me. 1665 02:41:51,856 --> 02:41:55,337 Strike hard, boys. Strike hard. 1666 02:42:13,578 --> 02:42:18,058 Come, Macedonians. Why do you hang back? Hurry. 1667 02:42:18,258 --> 02:42:20,538 Cavalry! 1668 02:42:28,939 --> 02:42:32,299 Split to thirds. Regroup and encircle. 1669 02:42:51,501 --> 02:42:53,021 Hold the line. 1670 02:42:55,821 --> 02:42:56,981 We must hide! 1671 02:43:36,744 --> 02:43:42,184 - Oh, no. Cavalry on me. - Follow Alexander. 1672 02:43:45,784 --> 02:43:49,385 Charge. Charge. Charge. 1673 02:43:52,825 --> 02:43:54,385 The phalanx is in jeopardy. 1674 02:43:54,585 --> 02:43:57,905 Meleager, ride to Pharnakes and tell him return to the center. 1675 02:43:58,145 --> 02:44:01,906 Find Hephaistion at the riverbank and bring all cavalry to the center. 1676 02:44:02,106 --> 02:44:05,266 We must reach Crateros before it's too late. 1677 02:44:28,828 --> 02:44:30,828 Hephaistion. To the center. 1678 02:44:34,748 --> 02:44:37,108 Come, Macedonians. Ride. 1679 02:44:37,388 --> 02:44:39,708 Ride! 1680 02:45:36,152 --> 02:45:38,753 Coenus! Get out of there. 1681 02:45:40,673 --> 02:45:42,153 No. 1682 02:46:12,075 --> 02:46:14,635 - The horses won't go. - On foot, then. 1683 02:46:21,356 --> 02:46:25,276 Fall back, men! Fall back! 1684 02:46:26,676 --> 02:46:28,156 Come, Bucephalus. 1685 02:46:33,116 --> 02:46:34,996 Fear not, my friend. 1686 02:46:37,517 --> 02:46:39,197 Bucephalus. 1687 02:46:39,357 --> 02:46:41,397 'Tis only sun and shadow. 1688 02:46:44,397 --> 02:46:46,077 Bucephalus and Alexander. 1689 02:46:46,277 --> 02:46:47,757 One last time, it's you and me. 1690 02:46:50,158 --> 02:46:53,638 Isn't it a lovely thing to live with great courage... 1691 02:46:53,798 --> 02:46:56,278 ...and to die leaving an everlasting fame? 1692 02:46:56,958 --> 02:47:00,278 Come, Macedonians. Why do you retreat? 1693 02:47:00,438 --> 02:47:06,279 Do you want to live forever? In the name of Zeus, attack. 1694 02:47:22,520 --> 02:47:24,560 Attack. 1695 02:47:25,520 --> 02:47:28,040 Alexander! 1696 02:47:38,961 --> 02:47:40,961 Alexander. 1697 02:49:13,728 --> 02:49:15,408 - The king is down! - To the king! 1698 02:50:39,774 --> 02:50:43,374 It was the bloodiest of his battles. 1699 02:50:47,294 --> 02:50:49,095 Pure butchery. 1700 02:50:54,615 --> 02:50:56,615 We'd never be men again. 1701 02:52:15,581 --> 02:52:16,941 Get out. 1702 02:52:18,421 --> 02:52:19,901 Go. 1703 02:52:24,621 --> 02:52:27,221 How can you behave so shamelessly in public? 1704 02:52:27,382 --> 02:52:29,902 Because it was meant to be. 1705 02:52:30,102 --> 02:52:31,942 This isn't how I wanted to become king. 1706 02:52:32,102 --> 02:52:36,102 - No one blames you. - They blame me behind my back! In secret. 1707 02:52:36,262 --> 02:52:38,342 - Slander is not power. - Shame is? 1708 02:52:40,862 --> 02:52:42,863 Who killed my father? 1709 02:52:43,383 --> 02:52:44,983 Tell me. 1710 02:52:45,143 --> 02:52:47,903 Tell me, or shall I put you on trial for his murder? 1711 02:52:48,103 --> 02:52:50,623 - Pausanias. - He had help! 1712 02:52:50,903 --> 02:52:52,943 Did you help him? 1713 02:53:00,024 --> 02:53:02,344 No, never. 1714 02:53:02,904 --> 02:53:05,744 Why? Why would I? 1715 02:53:06,864 --> 02:53:08,544 So many wanted it. 1716 02:53:08,704 --> 02:53:11,385 Greeks, Persians, men, women. 1717 02:53:11,545 --> 02:53:14,305 I'd be shocked if there were not a god he had not profaned. 1718 02:53:14,465 --> 02:53:15,985 How ironic though, in the end... 1719 02:53:16,185 --> 02:53:19,625 ...a boy he rutted with once too often returned the favor. 1720 02:53:19,865 --> 02:53:21,825 You're mad. You're cursed. 1721 02:53:21,985 --> 02:53:24,666 You've unleashed Furies, you don't know their power. 1722 02:53:24,826 --> 02:53:27,706 Now who is exaggerating? 1723 02:53:28,626 --> 02:53:31,466 Even if it was the wish of your heart... 1724 02:53:31,626 --> 02:53:33,786 That's a lie! He was my father! I loved him! 1725 02:53:33,946 --> 02:53:35,866 He was not your father! 1726 02:53:36,026 --> 02:53:38,147 You owe no blood debt to that man. 1727 02:53:38,307 --> 02:53:41,107 You lie and lie and lie. 1728 02:53:41,267 --> 02:53:44,387 So many lies you've spun like a sorceress, confusing me. 1729 02:53:44,587 --> 02:53:48,027 Look at you. Look at you. 1730 02:53:48,187 --> 02:53:51,587 You are everything that he was not. 1731 02:53:51,828 --> 02:53:55,108 He was coarse, you are refined. 1732 02:53:55,308 --> 02:53:59,228 He was a general, and you are a king. 1733 02:53:59,388 --> 02:54:01,308 He could not rule himself... 1734 02:54:01,668 --> 02:54:04,788 ...and you shall rule the world. 1735 02:54:04,948 --> 02:54:08,669 You're so cursed by all the gods when you speak like this. 1736 02:54:08,829 --> 02:54:10,909 Such thick pride... 1737 02:54:11,069 --> 02:54:12,789 ...and no mourning for your husband. 1738 02:54:12,989 --> 02:54:14,389 Mourn... 1739 02:54:14,549 --> 02:54:16,109 ...him? 1740 02:54:17,069 --> 02:54:19,589 What do you know of Philip? 1741 02:54:21,110 --> 02:54:25,430 No, Alexander. Zeus is your father. 1742 02:54:26,150 --> 02:54:29,870 - Act like it. - My first act would be to kill you! 1743 02:54:31,150 --> 02:54:33,510 You murdered me in my cradle. 1744 02:54:33,710 --> 02:54:35,911 You birthed me in a sack of hate. 1745 02:54:36,071 --> 02:54:38,231 Hate you have for those stronger than you. 1746 02:54:38,391 --> 02:54:42,311 - Hate you have for men. - I taught you my heart, Alexander! 1747 02:54:42,471 --> 02:54:45,391 And by Zeus and Dionysus, you grew beautiful. 1748 02:54:45,591 --> 02:54:47,751 Damn your sorceress soul. 1749 02:54:47,911 --> 02:54:50,592 Your soul is mine, Alexander. 1750 02:54:52,072 --> 02:54:53,592 No! No! 1751 02:54:54,272 --> 02:54:58,152 You've taken from me everything I've ever loved and made me you! 1752 02:54:58,832 --> 02:55:00,792 Stop it. Stop acting like a boy. 1753 02:55:00,952 --> 02:55:03,473 You're a king. Act like one. 1754 02:55:03,673 --> 02:55:05,353 Parmenion is with us, for once. 1755 02:55:05,513 --> 02:55:07,393 Execute Attalus without delay. 1756 02:55:07,553 --> 02:55:10,353 Confiscate their lands and root out that family forever. 1757 02:55:10,553 --> 02:55:12,113 Eurydice? Never. 1758 02:55:12,273 --> 02:55:13,673 Laugh, you monster. 1759 02:55:13,833 --> 02:55:15,193 You heartbreaker. 1760 02:55:15,393 --> 02:55:18,274 How will you live out the year like this? 1761 02:55:18,434 --> 02:55:23,194 - Have you learned nothing from Philip? - No. From you, Mother. 1762 02:55:26,274 --> 02:55:27,994 The best. 1763 02:55:38,155 --> 02:55:42,595 What have I done to make you hate me so? 1764 02:55:45,316 --> 02:55:49,916 One day, you will understand this. 1765 02:55:50,076 --> 02:55:53,556 But I have only you in my heart. 1766 02:55:56,316 --> 02:55:59,557 I know what you need. 1767 02:56:00,437 --> 02:56:02,637 Now is the time. 1768 02:56:02,877 --> 02:56:05,037 The gods favor you. 1769 02:56:05,477 --> 02:56:08,717 Great wealth, power, conquest. 1770 02:56:08,917 --> 02:56:10,717 All you desire. 1771 02:56:10,917 --> 02:56:13,518 The world is yours! 1772 02:56:13,718 --> 02:56:15,638 Take it. 1773 02:56:20,158 --> 02:56:21,958 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 --> 02:57:00,201 ...Olympias had Philip's new wife, Eurydice, and her infant son murdered. 1777 02:57:00,881 --> 02:57:06,401 By necessity, Alexander had her uncle Attalus executed. 1778 02:57:46,884 --> 02:57:50,484 He lives! Alexander! 1779 02:58:12,606 --> 02:58:14,806 Men of Macedon... 1780 02:58:15,566 --> 02:58:17,686 ...we're going home. 1781 02:58:18,686 --> 02:58:21,087 - What? - What? 1782 02:58:22,167 --> 02:58:25,287 - Home? - We're going. 1783 02:58:29,927 --> 02:58:31,887 We're going home. 1784 02:59:39,012 --> 02:59:42,092 His life should have ended in India... 1785 02:59:42,732 --> 02:59:44,213 ...but that's myth. 1786 02:59:45,733 --> 02:59:51,173 In life, Herakles died of a poisoned shirt, given him in error by his jealous wife. 1787 02:59:51,333 --> 02:59:52,613 Great Zeus... 1788 02:59:52,813 --> 02:59:55,053 ...we have worshipped you in blood. 1789 02:59:56,213 --> 02:59:58,774 Look kindly on our homeward steps... 1790 02:59:58,934 --> 03:00:03,374 ...and smile upon our backs. 1791 03:00:06,414 --> 03:00:11,734 May all those who come here after us know, when they see this altar... 1792 03:00:11,894 --> 03:00:15,575 ...that Titans were once here. 1793 03:00:30,096 --> 03:00:33,856 Making his devotions to the gods at the end of the great journey... 1794 03:00:34,016 --> 03:00:38,696 ...Alexander bade the East farewell and marched his army directly west... 1795 03:00:38,896 --> 03:00:41,257 ...across the great Gedrosian desert... 1796 03:00:41,417 --> 03:00:44,617 ...seeking the shortest route home to Babylon. 1797 03:00:47,457 --> 03:00:52,337 Here, he watched helplessly the cruel breaking of his army. 1798 03:00:52,497 --> 03:00:54,978 Not by any human foe... 1799 03:00:55,458 --> 03:00:57,738 ...but by nature. 1800 03:00:58,978 --> 03:01:03,458 To this day, there is no accounting of how many died. 1801 03:01:03,658 --> 03:01:06,578 It was the worst blunder of his life. 1802 03:01:08,178 --> 03:01:12,979 And when he finally reentered Babylon, after six years in the Far East... 1803 03:01:13,139 --> 03:01:19,059 ...Alexander again seized the imagination of the world by taking two more wives. 1804 03:01:19,979 --> 03:01:23,620 Now Alexander had three wives, two lovers... 1805 03:01:23,820 --> 03:01:26,660 ...a contentious mother and a turbulent Greece... 1806 03:01:26,820 --> 03:01:30,180 ...satraps of dubious loyalty in several provinces... 1807 03:01:30,340 --> 03:01:33,420 ...generals questioning his every decision. 1808 03:01:33,580 --> 03:01:39,861 And beneath it all, a restive new army made up of 10 Asians for every Greek... 1809 03:01:40,021 --> 03:01:42,981 ...all held together by one slender thread. 1810 03:01:43,141 --> 03:01:46,501 They took another reading. The harbor can only be dredged to 20 feet. 1811 03:01:46,661 --> 03:01:49,701 Then get a second opinion from the Phoenicians. It goes deeper. 1812 03:01:49,901 --> 03:01:54,782 Alexander. We'll well over 12,000 talents on wood alone for the fleet. 1813 03:01:55,462 --> 03:01:57,982 And their armor costs are staggering. 1814 03:01:59,102 --> 03:02:01,822 - Cast another dye, we shall back them. - How? 1815 03:02:01,982 --> 03:02:03,182 Our armor... Our Treasury... 1816 03:02:03,342 --> 03:02:06,223 With our future, Cassander, the best capital we have. 1817 03:02:06,383 --> 03:02:10,943 Even so, I seriously doubt the Phoenicians can make a timber quote in time. 1818 03:02:11,103 --> 03:02:14,503 Perhaps we could sail with fewer ships or delay until the spring... 1819 03:02:14,703 --> 03:02:16,943 There'll be no delays, Nearchus. 1820 03:02:17,143 --> 03:02:21,184 - Ptolemy, how goes our library? - The trees are falling as we speak. 1821 03:02:21,344 --> 03:02:23,224 Good. We must not forget our libraries. 1822 03:02:24,264 --> 03:02:26,504 All the Alexandrias we have, I want libraries. 1823 03:02:35,865 --> 03:02:38,665 - Just last night he was... - It's the water, Your Majesty. 1824 03:02:38,865 --> 03:02:41,225 He mixed it with the wine. 1825 03:02:42,145 --> 03:02:43,785 But how can this be? 1826 03:02:44,145 --> 03:02:47,946 - Typhus of India? - I wouldn't tax yourself, Your Majesty. 1827 03:02:48,146 --> 03:02:53,466 A few good nights' rest will do it. But no wine or cold chicken. 1828 03:02:53,626 --> 03:02:55,906 With the regimen of cares that I've put in place... 1829 03:02:57,106 --> 03:02:58,426 Come, doctor. 1830 03:03:11,467 --> 03:03:13,787 I feel better. 1831 03:03:14,427 --> 03:03:18,108 Soon, I'll be up. 1832 03:03:19,188 --> 03:03:22,628 We leave for Arabia in the spring, and I couldn't leave without you. 1833 03:03:23,628 --> 03:03:25,948 Arabia. 1834 03:03:28,988 --> 03:03:34,029 You used to dress me up like a sheik... 1835 03:03:34,909 --> 03:03:36,789 ...wave your wooden scimitar. 1836 03:03:36,989 --> 03:03:40,069 You were the only one who'd never let me win. 1837 03:03:41,869 --> 03:03:44,910 The only one who's ever been honest with me. 1838 03:03:45,390 --> 03:03:48,310 You saved me from myself. 1839 03:03:50,750 --> 03:03:53,910 Please don't leave me, Hephaistion. 1840 03:04:02,591 --> 03:04:07,031 I remember the young man who wanted to be Achilles... 1841 03:04:07,191 --> 03:04:10,191 ...and then outdid him. 1842 03:04:10,351 --> 03:04:12,232 And then what happened? 1843 03:04:12,432 --> 03:04:15,792 Ours is a myth only young men believe. 1844 03:04:16,392 --> 03:04:22,552 - But how beautiful a myth it was. - We reach, we fall. 1845 03:04:23,912 --> 03:04:26,753 Oh, Hephaistion. 1846 03:04:32,553 --> 03:04:37,953 - I worry for you without me. - I am nothing without you. 1847 03:04:39,113 --> 03:04:42,194 Come, fight, Hephaistion. 1848 03:04:43,114 --> 03:04:45,594 We will die together. 1849 03:04:48,554 --> 03:04:54,155 We'll have children with our wives, and our sons will play together as we once did. 1850 03:04:55,115 --> 03:04:58,715 A thousand ships we'll launch from here, Hephaistion. 1851 03:04:59,435 --> 03:05:04,155 We'll round Arabia and sail up the gulf to Egypt. 1852 03:05:04,995 --> 03:05:09,516 From there, we'll build a channel through the desert and out to the Middle Sea. 1853 03:05:09,676 --> 03:05:14,596 And then we'll move on Carthage. And that great island, Sicily, they'll pay large tribute. 1854 03:05:15,596 --> 03:05:19,476 After that, the Roman tribe, good fighters. We'll beat them. 1855 03:05:20,556 --> 03:05:23,077 And then explore the northern forests... 1856 03:05:23,277 --> 03:05:26,437 ...and out the Pillars of Herakles to the western ocean. 1857 03:05:27,077 --> 03:05:31,277 And then one day, populations will mix and travel freely. 1858 03:05:31,477 --> 03:05:34,157 Asia and Europe will come together. 1859 03:05:36,077 --> 03:05:39,958 And we'll grow old, Hephaistion... 1860 03:05:40,678 --> 03:05:46,318 ...looking out our balcony at this new world. 1861 03:05:52,999 --> 03:05:54,719 Hephaistion? 1862 03:05:56,479 --> 03:05:58,239 Hephaistion? 1863 03:05:59,839 --> 03:06:01,959 No! 1864 03:06:05,920 --> 03:06:10,480 - Where is this doctor? - I can't explain this, Your Majesty. 1865 03:06:10,640 --> 03:06:15,040 - It's not possible. I swear by Apollo. - Execute him! 1866 03:06:16,000 --> 03:06:19,081 Take him out now and execute him. 1867 03:06:19,521 --> 03:06:23,721 - Come away, come away. - Liars. Liars. You all hated him. All of you. 1868 03:06:24,441 --> 03:06:28,041 Get out. Get out now! 1869 03:06:38,722 --> 03:06:43,802 Be gone with you! Harpies! Get out! Get out! 1870 03:06:43,962 --> 03:06:45,682 Are you drunk again? 1871 03:06:45,842 --> 03:06:47,403 - Get out. - He's dead. 1872 03:06:47,563 --> 03:06:50,443 - Who? - Many hated him... 1873 03:06:50,603 --> 03:06:53,403 ...but I don't think any other would have dared. 1874 03:06:54,963 --> 03:06:57,003 Hephaistion is dead? 1875 03:07:01,164 --> 03:07:03,124 Are you mad? 1876 03:07:05,044 --> 03:07:06,564 You monster. 1877 03:07:07,884 --> 03:07:10,964 - Are you mad? - You've taken from me all I've ever loved. 1878 03:07:11,124 --> 03:07:15,085 May all the Furies through time damn your miserable heart. Obey me. 1879 03:07:16,165 --> 03:07:20,805 Alexander. I have your child. Alexander. 1880 03:07:22,325 --> 03:07:25,125 - Alexander, we have a son. - No. 1881 03:07:26,765 --> 03:07:29,286 - The child. - Oh, Your Majesty, no. 1882 03:07:29,446 --> 03:07:35,846 Alexander, I have your child. Alexander, my husband, my king. 1883 03:07:36,046 --> 03:07:38,486 We have a son. 1884 03:07:38,966 --> 03:07:42,326 My poor, poor, ill-fated son. 1885 03:07:44,007 --> 03:07:45,687 Never touch me again. 1886 03:07:49,087 --> 03:07:51,087 No! 1887 03:07:56,727 --> 03:07:59,528 One last toast! 1888 03:08:02,848 --> 03:08:04,728 Before the dawn. 1889 03:08:11,769 --> 03:08:14,929 To my old friends. 1890 03:08:31,970 --> 03:08:35,570 - And to the myths. - To the myths. 1891 03:09:04,732 --> 03:09:08,093 Yes, come on. Finish it. 1892 03:09:29,134 --> 03:09:31,254 To the next dawn. 1893 03:10:07,617 --> 03:10:09,777 My little Achilles. 1894 03:10:31,458 --> 03:10:34,499 - Bless you, Alexander. - Lord, we love you. 1895 03:10:35,739 --> 03:10:38,019 Bless you, Alexander. 1896 03:10:45,619 --> 03:10:48,540 My lord, these herbs are from Delphi. 1897 03:10:48,700 --> 03:10:51,300 They saved my brother. 1898 03:10:51,820 --> 03:10:53,500 - Rest yourself. - Thank you. 1899 03:10:54,700 --> 03:10:56,780 We love you, Alexander. 1900 03:11:02,301 --> 03:11:04,061 Alexander. 1901 03:11:06,141 --> 03:11:07,621 Alexander. 1902 03:11:11,861 --> 03:11:14,302 We love you, Alexander... 1903 03:11:15,542 --> 03:11:17,782 ...and your seed. 1904 03:11:20,022 --> 03:11:22,222 Keep moving, men, please. 1905 03:11:27,662 --> 03:11:29,983 Yes, come. 1906 03:11:30,143 --> 03:11:36,703 Come to Babylon. I await you. Your only loving son. 1907 03:11:42,744 --> 03:11:44,304 For the men. 1908 03:11:44,664 --> 03:11:46,224 Bagoas. 1909 03:11:52,624 --> 03:11:55,904 Can you prop me up a little? It catches me. 1910 03:12:05,625 --> 03:12:07,745 I've never been so idle. 1911 03:12:07,905 --> 03:12:10,946 The fleet will never get out by spring. I must go. 1912 03:12:28,667 --> 03:12:31,067 You have given me all. 1913 03:12:32,267 --> 03:12:35,587 - Bagoas. - And you have given me... 1914 03:12:35,747 --> 03:12:39,308 ...the happiest times of my life, Alexander. 1915 03:12:40,708 --> 03:12:45,268 Happy? What is happy? 1916 03:12:47,428 --> 03:12:50,788 While in your mind and body are stretched to breaking... 1917 03:12:51,388 --> 03:12:54,389 ...you have no thought beyond the next. 1918 03:12:55,629 --> 03:12:58,189 And you look back then... 1919 03:12:58,749 --> 03:13:01,349 ...and there it was, happiness. 1920 03:13:02,349 --> 03:13:05,069 In the doing, never the thinking. 1921 03:13:07,310 --> 03:13:12,310 Still, you have made me so happy. 1922 03:13:20,550 --> 03:13:22,991 It is done, Bagoas. 1923 03:13:25,471 --> 03:13:27,351 It is done. 1924 03:13:50,593 --> 03:13:52,833 Wait. We have his son. 1925 03:13:52,993 --> 03:13:56,233 Alexander. Wait. 1926 03:13:57,433 --> 03:13:58,913 Wait. 1927 03:13:59,993 --> 03:14:02,033 Vultures. Wait. 1928 03:14:02,193 --> 03:14:03,914 We have his son. 1929 03:14:04,194 --> 03:14:07,034 Just three more months. 1930 03:14:07,194 --> 03:14:09,154 Please live. 1931 03:14:11,874 --> 03:14:14,594 Alexander, the army will divide. 1932 03:14:14,754 --> 03:14:17,875 Satrapies will revolt. Without orders, there'll be war. 1933 03:14:18,115 --> 03:14:20,555 We beg you. Tell us who. 1934 03:14:23,435 --> 03:14:25,315 Who will rule this great empire? 1935 03:14:25,475 --> 03:14:29,675 - Who do you want to, Alexander? - We beg you, tell us. 1936 03:14:30,875 --> 03:14:32,516 The myth becomes real. 1937 03:14:49,477 --> 03:14:52,397 Zeus is your father. 1938 03:14:57,717 --> 03:14:58,997 Who will it be? 1939 03:15:00,318 --> 03:15:02,838 Pray tell us, who? 1940 03:15:05,118 --> 03:15:07,758 - What did he say? - "To the best." 1941 03:15:09,918 --> 03:15:12,358 - He said, "To the best." - What? 1942 03:15:12,518 --> 03:15:14,719 - No, he said, "To Crateros." - To Crateros? 1943 03:15:14,879 --> 03:15:16,559 Why would he say Crateros? 1944 03:16:19,123 --> 03:16:23,403 On the 10th of June, a month short of his 33rd year... 1945 03:16:23,563 --> 03:16:28,004 ...Alexander's great heart finally gave out. 1946 03:16:28,204 --> 03:16:32,404 And as he vowed, he joined Hephaistion. 1947 03:16:35,564 --> 03:16:38,284 But in his short life, he achieved, without doubt... 1948 03:16:38,445 --> 03:16:43,765 ...the mythic glory of his ancestor Achilles and more. 1949 03:16:48,765 --> 03:16:51,525 Olympias' transgression in the murder of his father... 1950 03:16:51,685 --> 03:16:54,526 ...is, to my mind, a probability. 1951 03:16:54,686 --> 03:16:57,246 His, a burden. 1952 03:16:59,046 --> 03:17:03,846 Alexander was too in love with glory for him to steal it. 1953 03:17:07,807 --> 03:17:12,087 But by blood, and blood alone, he was guilty. 1954 03:17:12,247 --> 03:17:16,607 No! 1955 03:17:24,648 --> 03:17:27,488 - Bolt the doors. - The body stays in Babylon. 1956 03:17:27,648 --> 03:17:31,528 - The body belongs to Macedon. - Within hours... 1957 03:17:31,688 --> 03:17:35,289 ...we were fighting like jackals for his corpse. 1958 03:17:35,489 --> 03:17:40,169 The wars of the world had begun. Forty years, off and on, they endured. 1959 03:17:40,329 --> 03:17:44,569 Cassander in Greece. Crateros and Antigonus in western Asia. 1960 03:17:44,769 --> 03:17:49,210 Solucas and Perdiccas in the East. Myself in Egypt. 1961 03:17:49,410 --> 03:17:52,770 Until we divided his empire in four parts. 1962 03:17:52,930 --> 03:17:54,810 Gentlemen, we are not savages. 1963 03:17:54,970 --> 03:17:56,570 - We are the future... - Get out! 1964 03:17:57,130 --> 03:18:00,490 I think Alexander would have been disappointed in us. 1965 03:18:03,291 --> 03:18:08,651 Naturally, rumors grew he'd been poisoned by one faction of his generals or another... 1966 03:18:08,811 --> 03:18:14,251 ...but the truth in these matters has long since been driven from currency. 1967 03:18:16,531 --> 03:18:20,852 Cassander saw to that with his fake diaries... 1968 03:18:21,012 --> 03:18:25,852 ...painting Alexander as a sick and bloated drunk. 1969 03:18:26,172 --> 03:18:30,772 Many believed, to remove suspicion from himself. 1970 03:18:33,693 --> 03:18:38,733 He certainly proved he had the temperament for politics and murder... 1971 03:18:38,893 --> 03:18:44,053 ...when seven years later, he executed Olympias. 1972 03:18:45,013 --> 03:18:48,654 Met her death with great courage. 1973 03:18:49,694 --> 03:18:54,454 Five years... No, it was six years after that... 1974 03:18:54,614 --> 03:19:00,735 ...Cassander finally achieved the complete destruction of Alexander's bloodline... 1975 03:19:00,895 --> 03:19:03,575 ...when he poisoned Roxane... 1976 03:19:03,935 --> 03:19:07,495 ...and Alexander's 13-year-old son... 1977 03:19:09,055 --> 03:19:11,855 ...the true heir to the empire. 1978 03:19:16,216 --> 03:19:19,696 But Roxane too, like Olympias... 1979 03:19:19,896 --> 03:19:25,656 ...played by stern rules, supported by several generals. 1980 03:19:25,816 --> 03:19:31,697 Days after Alexander's death, she had Stateira poisoned. 1981 03:19:32,377 --> 03:19:34,337 It was reason enough for some to believe... 1982 03:19:34,497 --> 03:19:38,297 ...she was the one behind Hephaistion's sudden demise. 1983 03:19:38,457 --> 03:19:41,257 But this is unproven in my mind. 1984 03:19:41,417 --> 03:19:44,658 Bagoas disappeared from the histories entirely... 1985 03:19:44,858 --> 03:19:47,498 ...a wise move, perhaps. 1986 03:19:48,338 --> 03:19:51,658 But I will say his love and devotion for Alexander... 1987 03:19:53,698 --> 03:19:56,979 ...were unquestionable and extraordinary. 1988 03:20:04,259 --> 03:20:08,379 Now I am the keeper of his body... 1989 03:20:08,579 --> 03:20:11,740 ...embalmed here in the Egyptian ways. 1990 03:20:12,580 --> 03:20:18,060 I followed him as Pharaoh, and have now ruled 40 years. 1991 03:20:20,700 --> 03:20:25,821 I have two sons, each jealous of the other's power. 1992 03:20:28,421 --> 03:20:32,581 But they will grow to make fine fathers and husbands. 1993 03:20:32,781 --> 03:20:36,941 And I trust they'll be just in their affairs. 1994 03:20:38,502 --> 03:20:41,302 But they have never seen... 1995 03:20:41,462 --> 03:20:44,222 ...the great cavalry charge of Gaugamela... 1996 03:20:44,422 --> 03:20:47,662 ...or the mountains of the Hindu Kush... 1997 03:20:48,142 --> 03:20:53,663 ...when we crossed the 100,000 men army into India. 1998 03:21:00,823 --> 03:21:03,423 He was a god, Cadmos... 1999 03:21:04,303 --> 03:21:07,224 ...or as close as anything I've ever known. 2000 03:21:07,384 --> 03:21:11,264 "Tyrant!" they yell so easily. I laugh. 2001 03:21:11,424 --> 03:21:14,144 No tyrant ever gave back so much. 2002 03:21:14,304 --> 03:21:16,944 What do they know of the world, these schoolboys? 2003 03:21:17,584 --> 03:21:19,944 It takes strong men to rule. 2004 03:21:20,105 --> 03:21:26,385 Alexander was more, he was a Prometheus, a friend to man. He changed the world. 2005 03:21:27,225 --> 03:21:30,105 Before him, there were tribes... 2006 03:21:30,545 --> 03:21:34,826 ...and after him, all was possible. 2007 03:21:34,986 --> 03:21:39,746 There was suddenly a sense the world could be ruled by one king... 2008 03:21:39,906 --> 03:21:42,066 ...and be better for all. 2009 03:21:44,426 --> 03:21:47,986 Eighteen great Alexandrias he built across this world. 2010 03:21:48,146 --> 03:21:53,907 It was an empire, not of land and gold, but of the mind. 2011 03:21:55,147 --> 03:21:58,307 It was a Hellenic civilization... 2012 03:21:58,507 --> 03:22:02,308 ...open to all. 2013 03:22:06,348 --> 03:22:09,988 But the truth is never simple... 2014 03:22:10,868 --> 03:22:12,948 ...and yet it is. 2015 03:22:13,388 --> 03:22:16,308 The truth is, we did kill him. 2016 03:22:20,029 --> 03:22:23,429 By silence, we consented. 2017 03:22:23,869 --> 03:22:25,869 Because... 2018 03:22:26,029 --> 03:22:28,549 Because we couldn't go on. 2019 03:22:28,709 --> 03:22:33,990 What, by Ares, did we look forward to but to be discarded in the end, like Cleitus? 2020 03:22:34,150 --> 03:22:39,470 After all this time, to give away our wealth to Asian sycophants we despised? 2021 03:22:39,630 --> 03:22:42,830 Mixing the races, harmony? 2022 03:22:43,830 --> 03:22:46,591 Oh, he talked of these things... 2023 03:22:46,791 --> 03:22:52,551 ...but wasn't it really about Alexander and another population ready to obey him? 2024 03:22:53,591 --> 03:22:56,511 I never believed in his dream. 2025 03:22:56,671 --> 03:22:58,752 None of us did. 2026 03:23:00,552 --> 03:23:02,832 That's the truth of his life. 2027 03:23:02,992 --> 03:23:05,592 The dreamers exhaust us. 2028 03:23:06,312 --> 03:23:10,512 They must die before they kill us with their blasted dreams. 2029 03:23:11,872 --> 03:23:14,753 Oh, just throw all that away, Cadmos. 2030 03:23:14,913 --> 03:23:17,353 It's an old fool's rubbish. 2031 03:23:19,193 --> 03:23:24,513 You shall write, "He died of fever and a weakened condition." 2032 03:23:25,393 --> 03:23:27,154 Yes, great Pharaoh. 2033 03:23:27,314 --> 03:23:31,274 Oh, he could have stayed home in Macedonia, married, raised a family. 2034 03:23:32,474 --> 03:23:35,554 He'd have died a celebrated man. 2035 03:23:37,914 --> 03:23:40,674 But this was not Alexander. 2036 03:23:41,115 --> 03:23:46,835 All his life, he fought to free himself from fear. 2037 03:23:46,995 --> 03:23:53,355 And by this, and this alone, he was made free. 2038 03:23:54,755 --> 03:23:58,716 The freest man I've ever known. 2039 03:24:00,396 --> 03:24:05,396 His tragedy was one of increasing loneliness... 2040 03:24:05,556 --> 03:24:09,277 ...and impatience with those who could not understand. 2041 03:24:09,637 --> 03:24:12,317 And if his desire... 2042 03:24:12,517 --> 03:24:17,397 ...to reconcile Greek and barbarian ended in failure... 2043 03:24:19,957 --> 03:24:23,157 What failure! 2044 03:24:23,318 --> 03:24:29,518 His failure towered over other men's successes. 2045 03:24:34,158 --> 03:24:35,918 I've lived... 2046 03:24:36,118 --> 03:24:38,439 I've lived long life, Cadmos... 2047 03:24:38,599 --> 03:24:41,039 ...but the glory and the memory of man... 2048 03:24:41,199 --> 03:24:46,119 ...will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions. 2049 03:24:46,599 --> 03:24:51,840 And the greatest of these is the one they now call... 2050 03:24:53,040 --> 03:24:56,960 ...Megas Alexandros. 2051 03:24:58,400 --> 03:25:01,560 The greatest of them all. 161218