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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:03:03,976 --> 00:03:06,520 Alexander, the army will divide. 2 00:03:06,687 --> 00:03:09,815 Satrapies will revolt. Without orders, there'll be war. 3 00:03:10,024 --> 00:03:12,526 We beg you. Tell us who. 4 00:04:12,127 --> 00:04:14,338 Our world is gone now. 5 00:04:16,131 --> 00:04:18,884 I'm the last left alive. 6 00:04:21,262 --> 00:04:24,098 Whether that's a blessing or a curse... 7 00:04:24,265 --> 00:04:27,142 ...who by Hades would know. Ha, ha. 8 00:04:29,603 --> 00:04:31,689 But I've paid my price... 9 00:04:32,314 --> 00:04:34,233 ...in blood... 10 00:04:36,860 --> 00:04:39,697 ...and in broken dreams. 11 00:04:40,990 --> 00:04:44,034 I say we were the greatest fighting force... 12 00:04:44,201 --> 00:04:46,328 ...ever known to man. 13 00:04:48,664 --> 00:04:53,210 Greater even than the expedition to Troy. 14 00:04:54,586 --> 00:04:58,382 But how can I say it? How can I tell you what it was like... 15 00:04:58,549 --> 00:05:03,053 ...to be young, to dream big dreams? 16 00:05:03,220 --> 00:05:08,100 To believe when Alexander looked you in the eye, you could do anything. 17 00:05:08,267 --> 00:05:10,144 Anything- 18 00:05:12,062 --> 00:05:18,569 In his presence, by the light of Apollo, we were better than ourselves. 19 00:05:20,654 --> 00:05:22,072 Truly... 20 00:05:22,698 --> 00:05:29,204 ...I've known many great men in my life, but only one colossus. 21 00:05:29,371 --> 00:05:32,249 And only now, when old, do I understand... 22 00:05:32,416 --> 00:05:36,920 ...who this force of nature really was. 23 00:05:41,133 --> 00:05:43,010 Or do I? 24 00:05:43,886 --> 00:05:48,390 Did such a man as Alexander exist? Of course not. 25 00:05:48,557 --> 00:05:51,894 We idolize him, make him better than he was. 26 00:05:52,061 --> 00:05:56,857 Men, all men, reach and fall... 27 00:05:57,691 --> 00:06:00,277 ...reach and fall. 28 00:06:05,449 --> 00:06:11,955 In the East, the vast Persian Empire ruled almost all the known world. 29 00:06:13,123 --> 00:06:17,669 In the West, the once great Greek city-states... 30 00:06:17,836 --> 00:06:22,841 ...Thebes, Athens, Sparta, had fallen from pride. 31 00:06:23,425 --> 00:06:27,554 For 100 years now, the Persian kings had bribed the Greeks... 32 00:06:27,721 --> 00:06:31,016 ...with their gold to fight as mercenaries. 33 00:06:31,517 --> 00:06:36,522 It was Philip, the one-eyed, who changed all this... 34 00:06:36,688 --> 00:06:41,527 ...uniting tribes of illiterate sheepherders from the high and lowlands. 35 00:06:41,693 --> 00:06:45,864 With his blood and guts, he built a professional army... 36 00:06:46,031 --> 00:06:49,993 ...that brought the devious Greeks to their knees. Heh. 37 00:06:51,036 --> 00:06:53,580 He then turned his eye on Persia... 38 00:06:53,747 --> 00:06:57,543 ...where it was said the Great King Darius himself... 39 00:06:57,709 --> 00:07:01,755 ...on his throne in Babylon, feared Philip. 40 00:07:06,260 --> 00:07:08,303 Philip was murdered... 41 00:07:08,470 --> 00:07:12,599 ...much to Persia's delight and perhaps sponsored by their gold. 42 00:07:12,766 --> 00:07:14,143 And Alexander, at 20... 43 00:07:14,309 --> 00:07:17,855 ...became the new ruler of Macedonia. 44 00:07:18,021 --> 00:07:20,774 Announcing revenge for the death of Philip... 45 00:07:21,233 --> 00:07:24,945 ...Alexander liberated all of the cities of Western Asia... 46 00:07:25,112 --> 00:07:27,489 ...south to Egypt-- 47 00:07:28,115 --> 00:07:34,079 ...where he was declared Pharaoh of Egypt, worshipped as a god. 48 00:07:37,749 --> 00:07:41,420 Finally, he provoked the rise to battle... 49 00:07:42,963 --> 00:07:47,217 ...in the heart of the Persian Empire, near Babylon. 50 00:07:57,811 --> 00:07:58,854 It was mad. 51 00:07:59,021 --> 00:08:01,482 Forty thousand of us against hundreds of thousands... 52 00:08:01,648 --> 00:08:04,318 ...of barbarian races unknown to us... 53 00:08:04,485 --> 00:08:07,696 ...gathered under Darius himself. 54 00:08:09,615 --> 00:08:12,284 East and west had now come together... 55 00:08:12,451 --> 00:08:15,871 ...to decide the fate of the known world. 56 00:08:17,289 --> 00:08:23,003 It was the day Alexander had waited for all his life. 57 00:08:23,795 --> 00:08:25,756 Son of a god. 58 00:08:27,216 --> 00:08:29,510 It was a myth, of course. 59 00:08:29,676 --> 00:08:31,678 At least it started as a myth. 60 00:08:32,471 --> 00:08:34,640 I know. 61 00:08:34,806 --> 00:08:37,017 I was there. 62 00:08:46,151 --> 00:08:49,154 Seen one before. Still alive. 63 00:09:04,211 --> 00:09:05,921 To whom do you pray? 64 00:09:06,838 --> 00:09:08,882 Phobos. 65 00:09:09,967 --> 00:09:11,176 Fear? 66 00:09:14,638 --> 00:09:16,473 A bad omen. 67 00:09:18,475 --> 00:09:20,686 More so for Darius. 68 00:09:26,692 --> 00:09:32,364 I've come to believe that fear of death drives all men, Hephaistion. 69 00:09:32,531 --> 00:09:35,284 This we didn't learn as schoolboys. 70 00:09:36,910 --> 00:09:39,037 - So, mighty Crateros. - Your Majesty. 71 00:09:39,871 --> 00:09:41,623 Are you ready for tomorrow's dawn? 72 00:09:41,790 --> 00:09:43,166 Ah. It's been too long coming. 73 00:09:43,625 --> 00:09:45,669 The men are skittish as colts... 74 00:09:45,836 --> 00:09:48,922 - ...and the damn bulls won't shut their snouts. - Good. 75 00:09:49,089 --> 00:09:51,425 Fear makes men fight better. 76 00:09:52,551 --> 00:09:54,595 Post your sentries alertly but rest them well. 77 00:09:54,761 --> 00:09:59,016 Don't worry, general. I'm known to sleep with my eyes open as a baby's arse. 78 00:09:59,182 --> 00:10:02,436 Only because someone might steal his loot, sire. 79 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,731 Well, someone owes Crateros for his cheapness. 80 00:10:05,897 --> 00:10:09,026 He buys neither gloves nor blankets to warm himself. 81 00:10:09,192 --> 00:10:11,862 Who needs gloves when you come from Thrace? 82 00:10:12,529 --> 00:10:15,282 Who needs clothes when you can fight naked? 83 00:10:16,867 --> 00:10:19,953 After tomorrow, even the thrifty among you shall be kings. 84 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:21,747 The gods are with us, Your Majesty. 85 00:10:21,913 --> 00:10:25,250 You'll stain the ground with Persian blood. 86 00:10:26,501 --> 00:10:28,879 You're on the first row tomorrow, boy. 87 00:10:30,839 --> 00:10:34,468 I've always believed, Alexander. 88 00:10:34,635 --> 00:10:37,471 But this seems so much bigger than us. 89 00:10:37,638 --> 00:10:39,139 Did Patroclus doubt Achilles... 90 00:10:39,306 --> 00:10:42,392 ...when they stood side by side at the siege of Troy? 91 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,437 Patroclus died first. 92 00:10:45,604 --> 00:10:47,356 If you do... 93 00:10:48,148 --> 00:10:52,694 If you were to fall, Hephaistion, even if Macedonia were to lose a king... 94 00:10:52,861 --> 00:10:55,447 ...I will avenge you... 95 00:10:55,614 --> 00:10:58,492 ...and follow you down to the house of death. 96 00:10:58,659 --> 00:11:00,952 I would do the same. 97 00:11:10,629 --> 00:11:15,175 On the eve of battle, it's hardest to be alone. 98 00:11:16,009 --> 00:11:17,469 Yeah. 99 00:11:19,346 --> 00:11:21,598 Then perhaps... 100 00:11:23,308 --> 00:11:26,561 Perhaps this is farewell... 101 00:11:27,145 --> 00:11:29,314 ...my Alexander. 102 00:11:29,856 --> 00:11:32,401 Fear not, Hephaistion. 103 00:11:33,527 --> 00:11:36,029 We are at the beginning. 104 00:12:10,021 --> 00:12:12,399 Blood makes the world rise. 105 00:12:14,943 --> 00:12:18,447 Blood makes the rain fall. 106 00:12:21,283 --> 00:12:25,162 Blood makes the earth grow. 107 00:12:26,288 --> 00:12:32,627 And in blood, all men are born and die. 108 00:12:34,337 --> 00:12:40,093 Blood is the food of the gods below. 109 00:13:01,656 --> 00:13:05,327 Come, Bucephalus. Today we ride to our destiny. 110 00:13:08,121 --> 00:13:12,125 Company, group! Regroup! 111 00:13:23,470 --> 00:13:26,515 Phalanx, turn! 112 00:13:32,395 --> 00:13:37,067 Phalanx, attention! 113 00:13:58,713 --> 00:14:01,383 Neoptolemus. 114 00:14:01,550 --> 00:14:04,636 I remember you the day you took the siege tower at Tyre. 115 00:14:04,803 --> 00:14:07,806 You were a giant. And today, how will you fight? 116 00:14:13,478 --> 00:14:16,022 Dexippos, by Athena. 117 00:14:16,189 --> 00:14:20,318 How far was it you threw your man wrestling at the last Olympic Games? 118 00:14:20,485 --> 00:14:21,820 Will you match it with your spear? 119 00:14:27,659 --> 00:14:32,998 And Timander, son of Menander, a great soldier to my father. 120 00:14:33,164 --> 00:14:37,919 I still mourn your brother, Addaios, who died so bravely at Halicarnassus. 121 00:14:38,086 --> 00:14:41,673 What an honored family you descend from, Timander. 122 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,801 You fight for them today. 123 00:14:46,219 --> 00:14:52,309 You've all honored your country and your ancestors. 124 00:14:52,475 --> 00:14:57,314 And now we come to this most distant place in Asia... 125 00:14:57,522 --> 00:15:03,904 ...where across from us, Darius has at last gathered a vast army... 126 00:15:04,070 --> 00:15:05,280 ...to stand with him and fight. 127 00:15:22,422 --> 00:15:23,965 Yes... 128 00:15:24,716 --> 00:15:28,261 ...these Persians do seem to be so many. 129 00:15:28,428 --> 00:15:31,056 But look again at this horde... 130 00:15:31,222 --> 00:15:32,849 ...and ask yourselves... 131 00:15:33,224 --> 00:15:38,605 ...who is this great king who pays assassins in gold coins... 132 00:15:38,772 --> 00:15:40,941 ...to murder my father, our king... 133 00:15:41,316 --> 00:15:46,196 ...in a most despicable and cowardly manner? 134 00:15:46,363 --> 00:15:51,743 Who is this great king, Darius, who enslaves his own men to fight? 135 00:15:51,910 --> 00:15:56,081 Who is this king but a king of air? 136 00:15:56,539 --> 00:15:59,501 These men do not fight for their homes. 137 00:15:59,668 --> 00:16:03,129 They fight because this king tells them they must. 138 00:16:03,922 --> 00:16:07,801 And when they fight, they will melt away like the air... 139 00:16:07,968 --> 00:16:10,512 ...because they know no loyalty to a king of slaves. 140 00:16:11,596 --> 00:16:14,891 But we are not here today as slaves. 141 00:16:15,266 --> 00:16:17,394 We are here today... 142 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,147 ...as Macedonian freemen! 143 00:16:35,704 --> 00:16:37,539 Some of you... 144 00:16:39,207 --> 00:16:41,584 ...perhaps myself... 145 00:16:41,751 --> 00:16:44,546 ...will not live to see the sun set over these mountains today. 146 00:16:47,465 --> 00:16:50,218 For I will be in the very thick... 147 00:16:50,385 --> 00:16:53,054 ...of battle with you. 148 00:16:54,347 --> 00:16:56,933 But remember this... 149 00:16:57,142 --> 00:16:59,144 ...the greatest honor... 150 00:16:59,310 --> 00:17:01,312 ...a man can ever achieve... 151 00:17:01,479 --> 00:17:04,274 ...is to live with great courage... 152 00:17:04,441 --> 00:17:06,568 ...and to die with his countrymen... 153 00:17:07,444 --> 00:17:09,863 ...in battle for his home. 154 00:17:12,407 --> 00:17:14,284 I say to you... 155 00:17:14,993 --> 00:17:19,039 ...what every warrior has known since the beginning of time. 156 00:17:19,205 --> 00:17:21,666 Conquer your fear... 157 00:17:21,833 --> 00:17:25,128 ...and I promise you, you will conquer death. 158 00:17:51,654 --> 00:17:55,366 When they ask you why you fought so bravely at Gaugamela... 159 00:17:56,576 --> 00:17:58,369 ...you will answer... 160 00:17:58,536 --> 00:18:03,333 ...with all the strength of your great, great hearts: 161 00:18:03,541 --> 00:18:06,461 "I was here this day at Gaugamela... 162 00:18:08,379 --> 00:18:10,799 ...for the freedom... 163 00:18:11,925 --> 00:18:15,011 ...and glory... 164 00:18:17,013 --> 00:18:19,265 ...of Greece!" 165 00:18:25,772 --> 00:18:28,441 Zeus be with us! 166 00:18:55,468 --> 00:18:59,055 Cassander! Four columns, go! 167 00:19:04,686 --> 00:19:06,604 Where does he go? 168 00:19:06,771 --> 00:19:08,982 I don't know, Majesty. 169 00:19:09,149 --> 00:19:11,985 Envelop him, Bessus. 170 00:19:15,905 --> 00:19:18,783 Hephaistion, go! 171 00:19:27,375 --> 00:19:30,086 Phalanx! 172 00:19:48,521 --> 00:19:51,858 He makes a mistake, Pharnakes. 173 00:19:54,944 --> 00:19:56,529 Yes, great king. 174 00:20:59,008 --> 00:21:01,219 Be brave, men. 175 00:21:02,595 --> 00:21:04,180 Steady on the left, lads! 176 00:21:04,681 --> 00:21:07,433 Bend if you must, but never break. 177 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,519 And keep watching the cavalry on the left. 178 00:21:43,177 --> 00:21:45,346 Pick up the pace! 179 00:21:55,273 --> 00:21:57,608 Prepare to repel chariots! 180 00:23:27,657 --> 00:23:29,575 Cassander! 181 00:23:29,951 --> 00:23:32,078 Forward, men! 182 00:23:43,047 --> 00:23:47,176 - Left turn! - Infantry, clear! Out now! 183 00:24:56,454 --> 00:24:58,164 Hold your positions! 184 00:24:58,331 --> 00:25:00,583 Hold your positions! 185 00:25:29,654 --> 00:25:32,281 Father. We must fall back to the gully, Father. 186 00:25:32,448 --> 00:25:33,783 No, hold. 187 00:25:33,950 --> 00:25:37,870 Where is he? We're far too thin! Get word to Alexander! 188 00:25:38,079 --> 00:25:40,414 - Move! - Yes, sir. 189 00:25:58,975 --> 00:26:02,520 Come, Macedonians! Ride! Ride! 190 00:26:09,527 --> 00:26:11,862 Drive for the hole! 191 00:26:12,446 --> 00:26:15,533 - Drive for the hole! - Drive for the hole! 192 00:26:49,066 --> 00:26:52,236 Pharnakes, bring these men up. 193 00:27:17,887 --> 00:27:21,724 Back and to the left! Back and to the left! 194 00:27:22,433 --> 00:27:24,185 Get to home at all costs. 195 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,063 I cannot see! 196 00:27:27,229 --> 00:27:30,232 - Philotas! Philotas! - Father. 197 00:27:30,399 --> 00:27:32,443 Go. Tell Alexander yourself. 198 00:27:32,610 --> 00:27:37,198 And if he won't listen, then survive me and avenge this betrayal! 199 00:27:41,077 --> 00:27:42,244 Hiya! 200 00:28:18,406 --> 00:28:21,701 Pay attention, lad! Your father still watches over you! 201 00:29:07,997 --> 00:29:10,624 Darius! 202 00:29:11,125 --> 00:29:12,877 Find your horses. 203 00:29:28,684 --> 00:29:31,103 Darius! 204 00:29:52,166 --> 00:29:53,918 Go! GO! 205 00:30:11,602 --> 00:30:16,106 We can reach those mountains by sunset, go all night and catch Darius at dawn. 206 00:30:16,273 --> 00:30:17,858 Provision the horses. 207 00:30:19,693 --> 00:30:23,447 Alexander! Alexander, my father's lost. 208 00:30:23,614 --> 00:30:26,408 They've overrun the flank. They're into the baggage train. 209 00:30:26,575 --> 00:30:27,827 Parmenion's crumbling. 210 00:30:29,161 --> 00:30:33,332 Alexander, if you chase him, you risk losing your army here. 211 00:30:33,707 --> 00:30:35,876 And if we capture him, we gain an empire. 212 00:30:46,178 --> 00:30:48,806 You can run to the ends of the earth, you coward... 213 00:30:48,973 --> 00:30:51,767 ...but you'll never run far enough! 214 00:30:52,101 --> 00:30:54,603 To Parmenion! 215 00:31:25,175 --> 00:31:26,760 You bleed free, my lord. 216 00:31:26,927 --> 00:31:30,264 - May I tend to your wound? - No, Hermolaus, not now. 217 00:31:30,431 --> 00:31:32,683 There's far worse than me. Go to them. 218 00:31:32,850 --> 00:31:34,643 Help them. 219 00:31:58,709 --> 00:32:00,878 How was this done, soldier? 220 00:32:01,503 --> 00:32:03,505 A spear. 221 00:32:04,882 --> 00:32:07,051 But I got two of the buggers. 222 00:32:10,346 --> 00:32:15,142 - Your Majesty. - You're very brave. 223 00:32:16,685 --> 00:32:18,437 What shall I call you? 224 00:32:18,604 --> 00:32:21,398 - Glaukos, my king. - Glaukos. 225 00:32:22,650 --> 00:32:25,319 - And where's your home? -Illyria. 226 00:32:27,905 --> 00:32:30,616 Let your body go loose. 227 00:32:33,994 --> 00:32:36,163 Think of home now. 228 00:32:36,372 --> 00:32:38,874 Be brave again, Glaukos... 229 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,795 ...and you will live on in glory. 230 00:32:45,798 --> 00:32:47,925 Alexander. 231 00:32:57,726 --> 00:33:02,022 The Persian Empire, the greatest the world had yet known... 232 00:33:02,189 --> 00:33:04,400 ...was destroyed. 233 00:33:08,862 --> 00:33:13,575 And Alexander, at 25, was now king of all. 234 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,926 If you hesitate, she will strike. 235 00:33:34,471 --> 00:33:36,598 Yes. 236 00:33:38,308 --> 00:33:40,102 They are like people. 237 00:33:41,186 --> 00:33:47,693 You can love them for years. Feed them, nurture them... 238 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:52,990 ...but still, they can turn on you. 239 00:33:56,368 --> 00:33:58,162 Mm. 240 00:34:00,497 --> 00:34:03,000 Don't hurt her. 241 00:34:04,418 --> 00:34:06,211 Good. 242 00:34:08,672 --> 00:34:10,090 Come. 243 00:34:16,430 --> 00:34:18,390 He calls me a barbarian. 244 00:34:18,557 --> 00:34:21,018 He makes a mockery of Dionysus every night. 245 00:34:36,492 --> 00:34:40,621 Some called his mother, Queen Olympias, a Sorceress... 246 00:34:40,829 --> 00:34:43,957 ...and said that Alexander was the child of Zeus. 247 00:34:54,134 --> 00:34:57,930 But truly, there was not a man in Macedonia who didn't look... 248 00:34:58,097 --> 00:35:03,393 ...at father and son, side by side, and wonder. 249 00:35:07,606 --> 00:35:09,233 Mm. 250 00:35:16,323 --> 00:35:18,784 My little Achilles. 251 00:35:27,793 --> 00:35:29,503 Mm. 252 00:35:40,180 --> 00:35:43,308 Stay, Alexander, down. Down. 253 00:35:44,810 --> 00:35:46,770 What is it you--? 254 00:35:46,937 --> 00:35:48,814 Six months. Did you miss me? 255 00:35:48,981 --> 00:35:52,651 - No. Not here! - Proud bitch. I'm still your king. 256 00:35:52,818 --> 00:35:55,863 King of what? Sheepherders? 257 00:36:00,784 --> 00:36:05,706 - I am of Achilles' royal blood. - The blood of Herakles runs in my veins. 258 00:36:05,873 --> 00:36:07,624 You are nothing but a drunken whore. 259 00:36:07,791 --> 00:36:08,792 Shut your mouth. 260 00:36:08,959 --> 00:36:11,044 You 10-titted bitch from Hades! 261 00:36:11,211 --> 00:36:14,673 Which god could I curse to have ever laid eyes on you! 262 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,676 Do you think people respect you? 263 00:36:17,843 --> 00:36:20,721 You think they don't know your bastards? 264 00:36:23,682 --> 00:36:24,725 What? 265 00:36:29,521 --> 00:36:32,482 Damn your sorceress soul! You keep him here like one of your snakes! 266 00:36:32,649 --> 00:36:34,109 I told you not! I told you not. 267 00:36:35,903 --> 00:36:38,572 - You'll obey me. - I will not. 268 00:36:38,739 --> 00:36:43,577 You'll obey me, or I'll kill you with my own hands. 269 00:36:46,121 --> 00:36:47,164 Let her go! 270 00:36:47,539 --> 00:36:52,002 No! Stop! Papa! No! 271 00:36:52,461 --> 00:36:55,964 - Obey me! - Your Majesty! No! 272 00:36:57,716 --> 00:36:59,509 In the name of the gods. 273 00:36:59,676 --> 00:37:04,890 He will never be yours! Never! 274 00:37:05,057 --> 00:37:09,728 In my womb, I carried my avenger! 275 00:37:19,279 --> 00:37:22,407 In the world he grew up to... 276 00:37:22,574 --> 00:37:27,788 ...I've come to believe it was in friendship that Alexander found his sanity. 277 00:37:27,955 --> 00:37:31,375 You don't need much to fight. 278 00:37:31,541 --> 00:37:33,961 When you're in the front ranks of a battle... 279 00:37:34,127 --> 00:37:37,714 ...facing some Northern barbarian tribe... 280 00:37:37,881 --> 00:37:42,219 ...courage won't be in the soles of your feet, Perdiccas... 281 00:37:42,844 --> 00:37:45,639 ...or in the thickness of your tunic, Philotas... 282 00:37:45,806 --> 00:37:48,558 ...or in the lining of your stomach, Nearchus. 283 00:37:48,934 --> 00:37:52,896 It's in the heart of a man. 284 00:37:53,855 --> 00:37:58,860 You don't need to eat every day or until you're full, Ptolemy. 285 00:37:59,027 --> 00:38:01,446 You don't need to lie in bed in a morning... 286 00:38:01,613 --> 00:38:04,199 ...when you can have some good bean soup, Cassander... 287 00:38:04,366 --> 00:38:05,784 ...after a forced night march. 288 00:38:06,743 --> 00:38:08,495 Come on, Alexander. 289 00:38:09,413 --> 00:38:13,292 Where's your hunger to twist Hephaistion's head off? 290 00:38:13,792 --> 00:38:15,585 Is he stronger than you? 291 00:38:15,752 --> 00:38:17,504 Then beat him another way. 292 00:38:17,671 --> 00:38:19,339 Come on! 293 00:38:19,506 --> 00:38:22,426 Who will respect you as a king? You think because of your father? 294 00:38:22,592 --> 00:38:28,765 The first rule of war is to do what you ask your men to do. No more, no less. 295 00:38:32,311 --> 00:38:33,937 Good. That's it. 296 00:38:34,271 --> 00:38:38,608 Well done. Good wrestling, Hephaistion. That's what I want. 297 00:38:38,775 --> 00:38:40,152 Come, come, come. 298 00:38:40,861 --> 00:38:42,529 You did well, but you lost. 299 00:38:42,696 --> 00:38:47,784 Now, both of you, congratulate the other. Go on. 300 00:38:48,618 --> 00:38:51,079 Would you want me to let you win, Alexander? 301 00:38:53,248 --> 00:38:55,542 You're right. 302 00:38:55,709 --> 00:38:58,795 But I promise you, I will beat you one day, Hephaistion. 303 00:39:05,886 --> 00:39:09,181 PTOLEMY". It was said later that Alexander was never defeated... 304 00:39:09,348 --> 00:39:11,683 ...except by Hephaistion's thighs. 305 00:39:12,309 --> 00:39:14,770 Although an inferior race... 306 00:39:14,936 --> 00:39:20,317 ...the Persians control at least four-fifths of the known world. 307 00:39:20,484 --> 00:39:23,111 From Ethiopia and Egypt in the south... 308 00:39:23,278 --> 00:39:26,365 ...the Caucasus and the two inland seas in the north... 309 00:39:26,531 --> 00:39:28,700 PTOLEMY". Philip brought such as Aristotle from Athens... 310 00:39:28,867 --> 00:39:30,369 ...to educate our rough people. 311 00:39:30,535 --> 00:39:35,040 They rule, and we sit around like frogs. 312 00:39:35,499 --> 00:39:36,541 - Master? - Yes? 313 00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:37,959 - Master! - Out with it! 314 00:39:38,126 --> 00:39:41,338 - Why are the Persians so cruel? - Oh, come on, Nearchus. 315 00:39:41,505 --> 00:39:43,799 That is not the subject for today, Nearchus. 316 00:39:43,965 --> 00:39:48,261 But it is true that the Oriental races are known for their barbarity... 317 00:39:48,428 --> 00:39:50,931 ...and their slavish devotion to their senses... 318 00:39:51,098 --> 00:39:53,850 ...which are so dull, they castrate... 319 00:39:54,017 --> 00:39:56,561 ...young boys, such as yourselves... 320 00:39:56,728 --> 00:39:58,939 - ...for their sexual pleasure. - Ha, ha. 321 00:39:59,106 --> 00:40:00,315 Yes. 322 00:40:00,482 --> 00:40:04,236 Excess in all things is the undoing of men. 323 00:40:04,403 --> 00:40:06,446 That is why we Greeks are superior. 324 00:40:06,613 --> 00:40:09,699 We practice control of our senses. 325 00:40:09,866 --> 00:40:12,160 Moderation, heh, we hope. 326 00:40:12,327 --> 00:40:14,121 And what of Achilles at Troy, master? 327 00:40:15,789 --> 00:40:20,752 - Was he not excessive? - Achilles simply lacks restraint. 328 00:40:20,919 --> 00:40:24,923 He dominates others so completely that even when he withdraws from battle... 329 00:40:25,090 --> 00:40:28,301 ...crazed with grief over his dead lover, Patroclus... 330 00:40:28,468 --> 00:40:33,390 ...he seriously endangers his own army. He is a deeply selfish man. 331 00:40:33,557 --> 00:40:37,477 Would you say the love between Achilles and Patroclus is a corrupting one? 332 00:40:38,937 --> 00:40:42,149 When men lie together in lust, it is a surrender to the passions... 333 00:40:42,315 --> 00:40:46,153 ...and does nothing for the excellence in us. 334 00:40:46,319 --> 00:40:50,740 Nor does any other excess, Cassander, jealousy among them. 335 00:40:51,324 --> 00:40:52,701 But when men lie together... 336 00:40:52,868 --> 00:40:56,329 ...and knowledge and virtue are passed between them... 337 00:40:56,496 --> 00:41:00,083 ...that is pure and excellent. 338 00:41:00,250 --> 00:41:04,421 When they compete to bring out the good, the best in each other... 339 00:41:04,588 --> 00:41:08,508 ...this is the love between men that can build a city-state... 340 00:41:08,675 --> 00:41:11,636 ...and lift us from our frog pond. 341 00:41:14,347 --> 00:41:16,308 But can a man love a woman equally, master? 342 00:41:16,683 --> 00:41:18,351 A woman? Of course not. 343 00:41:18,518 --> 00:41:20,979 A woman is a slave to her passion, Hephaistion. 344 00:41:21,146 --> 00:41:24,441 Oh, naturally there are exceptions, and we must honor them. 345 00:41:24,608 --> 00:41:28,778 Such as Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom and war. 346 00:41:28,945 --> 00:41:31,865 But never forget, she is sprung not from the loins of Zeus... 347 00:41:32,032 --> 00:41:33,658 ...but from his mind. 348 00:41:33,825 --> 00:41:37,454 Now, you think on all this, my young frogs... 349 00:41:37,621 --> 00:41:41,750 ...for in you resides the future of Greek civilization. 350 00:41:41,917 --> 00:41:44,294 To strive for honor... 351 00:41:44,461 --> 00:41:46,421 ...is the highest purpose of all. 352 00:41:46,588 --> 00:41:49,132 To rule over our baser emotions. 353 00:41:49,299 --> 00:41:52,969 To follow reason, the divine part in each of you. 354 00:41:53,136 --> 00:41:54,638 Yes... 355 00:41:54,804 --> 00:41:58,850 ...to love excellence is truly to love the gods. 356 00:42:01,186 --> 00:42:02,771 Now, will you stop distracting me? 357 00:42:03,230 --> 00:42:05,815 Back to geography and things that we know. 358 00:42:05,982 --> 00:42:11,488 Is it possible that the source of Egypt's mighty River Nile... 359 00:42:11,655 --> 00:42:15,325 ...could rise in these distant mountains of the outer earth? 360 00:42:15,659 --> 00:42:21,540 If so, an experienced navigator could find his way here... 361 00:42:21,706 --> 00:42:26,586 ...by this river east, down into the great plains of India... 362 00:42:26,753 --> 00:42:31,466 ...out into the eastern ocean at end of the world... 363 00:42:31,633 --> 00:42:35,387 ...and by this route up the Nile... 364 00:42:35,554 --> 00:42:41,518 ...back to Egypt, into the Middle Sea and home to Greece. 365 00:42:42,310 --> 00:42:45,605 Now, if only these frogs could look outward... 366 00:42:45,772 --> 00:42:49,067 ...and act on their favored position at the center... 367 00:42:49,776 --> 00:42:51,695 ...Greece could rule the world. 368 00:42:52,112 --> 00:42:57,867 Why is it, master, in myth, these lands you speak of are known? 369 00:42:59,452 --> 00:43:03,748 India, where Herakles and Dionysus traveled. 370 00:43:04,374 --> 00:43:09,879 All these men who went east, Theseus, Jason, Achilles, were victorious. 371 00:43:10,046 --> 00:43:13,717 From generation to generation, their stories have been passed on. 372 00:43:13,883 --> 00:43:16,469 Why? Unless there was truth to them? 373 00:43:16,636 --> 00:43:20,348 Tales of Amazons? Minotaurs, Gorgons, Icarus flying into the sun? 374 00:43:20,724 --> 00:43:22,350 No, Alexander. 375 00:43:22,517 --> 00:43:26,229 Only common people believe these tales, as they believe most anything. 376 00:43:26,688 --> 00:43:31,026 We are here precisely to educate ourselves against such foolish passions. 377 00:43:31,568 --> 00:43:35,739 But if we are superior to the Persians, as you say, why do we not rule them? 378 00:43:36,615 --> 00:43:41,411 It is-- It has always been our Greek dream to go east. 379 00:43:42,329 --> 00:43:44,456 My father long wants it. 380 00:43:45,123 --> 00:43:50,462 The East has a way of swallowing men and their dreams. 381 00:43:50,629 --> 00:43:54,007 But still, to think it's these myths... 382 00:43:54,174 --> 00:43:56,468 ...that lead us forward to the greatest glory. 383 00:43:56,843 --> 00:43:59,054 Why is it wrong to act on them? 384 00:44:00,221 --> 00:44:02,891 I can only warn you, not teach you. 385 00:44:03,975 --> 00:44:06,770 Beware of what you dream for. 386 00:44:08,021 --> 00:44:11,524 The gods have a way of punishing such pride. 387 00:44:22,118 --> 00:44:26,164 Growing more ambitious, Philip now planned the invasion of Persia. 388 00:44:32,796 --> 00:44:36,716 The best you can do, Cleitus? Back to the phalanx with you, I'll ride him myself. 389 00:44:36,883 --> 00:44:39,427 No one will ride that beast, Your Majesty. 390 00:44:39,594 --> 00:44:40,762 Not with your leg. 391 00:44:40,929 --> 00:44:43,098 He's been beaten far too often. 392 00:44:45,850 --> 00:44:48,436 My noble king, he's a high-spirited animal, yes. 393 00:44:48,603 --> 00:44:52,399 High-spirited and worthy of Philip of Macedon. 394 00:44:52,565 --> 00:44:54,734 For three and a half talents... 395 00:44:54,901 --> 00:44:57,570 ...I couldn't make a profit on him, but for you-- 396 00:44:58,029 --> 00:45:00,657 Why would I want such a beast? I already have a wife. 397 00:45:02,784 --> 00:45:04,077 Do I seem so old? 398 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,837 Stay down, stay down. 399 00:45:28,601 --> 00:45:32,105 A broken neck comes free. He's too nervous for battle. Sell him for meat. 400 00:45:32,272 --> 00:45:35,817 Buy him for me, Father. I'll ride him. 401 00:45:40,572 --> 00:45:41,990 And if you don't? 402 00:45:42,157 --> 00:45:45,577 - I'll pay for him myself. - With what, your singing voice? 403 00:45:45,744 --> 00:45:47,495 I'll pay you! 404 00:45:47,704 --> 00:45:51,708 I tell you, the horse can't be ridden, lad. His mind is broken. 405 00:45:54,043 --> 00:45:57,046 He can be ridden. By me. 406 00:45:57,380 --> 00:46:00,008 If you can rule that horse, I'll make him yours... 407 00:46:00,175 --> 00:46:02,135 ...at half the price. 408 00:46:02,302 --> 00:46:04,554 That horse will kill him, Philip. 409 00:46:04,721 --> 00:46:06,848 - He'll break the boy in two. - Will he? 410 00:46:07,015 --> 00:46:09,851 Perhaps she'll make a musician out of him yet. 411 00:46:25,325 --> 00:46:28,328 You don't like your shadow, do you? 412 00:46:28,495 --> 00:46:32,457 It's like a dark spirit coming up to get you. 413 00:46:32,624 --> 00:46:35,710 Do you see? That's us. 414 00:46:37,462 --> 00:46:40,381 It's just a trick of Apollo's. 415 00:46:40,548 --> 00:46:45,053 He's the god of the sun. 416 00:46:46,387 --> 00:46:48,181 Shh. 417 00:46:48,348 --> 00:46:52,560 But I'll show you how to outwit him, you and me together. 418 00:47:00,568 --> 00:47:01,569 Shh. 419 00:47:02,821 --> 00:47:06,157 The boy doesn't have the craft. He could hurt himself. 420 00:47:06,324 --> 00:47:10,578 He'll have to figure that out for himself. It's time. 421 00:47:10,787 --> 00:47:12,664 Good idea. 422 00:47:12,831 --> 00:47:16,042 Indeed there are times, Philip, I wonder if he is your blood. 423 00:47:16,209 --> 00:47:18,837 - I only worry that-- - What was that, Attalus? 424 00:47:19,003 --> 00:47:20,129 Nothing. 425 00:47:20,296 --> 00:47:25,260 I was just noticing how the people like seeing you and Eurydice together. 426 00:47:29,347 --> 00:47:30,431 You go, boy. 427 00:47:31,474 --> 00:47:34,143 You ride that horse, and by Zeus I say... 428 00:47:34,310 --> 00:47:36,062 ...you can rule the world. 429 00:47:43,695 --> 00:47:45,530 Shh. 430 00:47:46,364 --> 00:47:48,032 Shh. 431 00:47:48,533 --> 00:47:49,993 Shh. 432 00:47:54,372 --> 00:47:56,124 Shh. 433 00:48:00,336 --> 00:48:01,337 Bucephalus. 434 00:48:02,672 --> 00:48:06,342 That's what I'll call you. Strong and stubborn. 435 00:48:09,095 --> 00:48:12,181 Bucephalus and Alexander. 436 00:48:13,766 --> 00:48:17,353 Come now, let's ride together. 437 00:48:50,136 --> 00:48:52,055 He's got some Titan in him yet. 438 00:48:52,221 --> 00:48:56,392 Attalus! Cleitus! For Zeus' sake, he beat you, man! 439 00:48:56,559 --> 00:48:57,560 Ha, ha! 440 00:49:01,731 --> 00:49:05,068 Now, Bucephalus, show them. 441 00:49:37,976 --> 00:49:39,310 My son. 442 00:49:39,477 --> 00:49:41,187 My Son! 443 00:49:55,368 --> 00:49:57,912 The world was nothing but blood feuds. 444 00:50:01,332 --> 00:50:03,501 You remember Prometheus, don't you? 445 00:50:03,668 --> 00:50:07,505 Stole the secret of fire and gave it to man. 446 00:50:07,672 --> 00:50:10,258 It made Zeus so angry... 447 00:50:10,425 --> 00:50:13,511 ...he chained Prometheus to a rock in the Great Caucasus... 448 00:50:13,678 --> 00:50:17,473 ...and each day, his eagle pecked out the poor man's liver. 449 00:50:18,266 --> 00:50:22,812 Each night, it grew back again so that it could be eaten the next day. 450 00:50:22,979 --> 00:50:24,230 Miserable fate. 451 00:50:26,858 --> 00:50:33,865 Oedipus tore out his eyes when he found out he'd murdered his father... 452 00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:39,454 ...and married his mother. Knowledge that came too late. 453 00:50:39,620 --> 00:50:41,456 Jason... 454 00:50:42,665 --> 00:50:45,460 ...he went east and brought back the Golden Fleece... 455 00:50:45,626 --> 00:50:48,796 ...and married a barbarian wife, Medea. 456 00:50:48,963 --> 00:50:53,342 Later, when he left her for a younger wife... 457 00:50:53,509 --> 00:50:57,388 ...Medea slaughtered their two children in vengeance. 458 00:51:09,567 --> 00:51:12,653 My mother would never hurt me. 459 00:51:19,786 --> 00:51:22,663 It's never easy to escape our mothers, Alexander. 460 00:51:23,206 --> 00:51:29,712 All your life, beware of women. They're far more dangerous than men. 461 00:51:37,637 --> 00:51:40,598 I'm sure you remember Achilles from Tales of Troy. 462 00:51:40,932 --> 00:51:43,726 - He's my favorite. - Why? 463 00:51:43,935 --> 00:51:47,730 Because he loved Patroclus and avenged his death. 464 00:51:48,606 --> 00:51:51,609 Because he lived without fear, and slew Hector. 465 00:51:51,776 --> 00:51:55,655 Some say he was a hotheaded fool who fought only for himself and not for the Greeks. 466 00:51:55,822 --> 00:51:57,448 But he was a hero. 467 00:51:57,615 --> 00:51:59,742 The greatest at Troy. 468 00:51:59,909 --> 00:52:00,952 And his fate? 469 00:52:01,119 --> 00:52:04,914 That he must die young, with great glory. 470 00:52:05,081 --> 00:52:06,874 Did he have a choice? 471 00:52:07,542 --> 00:52:13,422 Oh, yes. He could have a long life, but there would be no glory. 472 00:52:16,551 --> 00:52:20,930 You dream of glory, Alexander. Your mother encourages you. 473 00:52:21,097 --> 00:52:24,767 There's no glory without suffering, and this she will not allow. 474 00:52:24,934 --> 00:52:26,853 She makes you weak. 475 00:52:28,396 --> 00:52:30,731 The gods have never made it easy for man. 476 00:52:30,898 --> 00:52:32,233 Look. 477 00:52:32,733 --> 00:52:39,699 Herakles. Even after he accomplished his 12 labors... 478 00:52:41,409 --> 00:52:46,831 ...he was punished with madness, slaughtered his three children. 479 00:52:47,874 --> 00:52:49,584 Poor Herakles. 480 00:52:51,669 --> 00:52:53,754 Great Herakles. 481 00:52:53,921 --> 00:52:56,424 All greatness comes from loss. 482 00:52:56,591 --> 00:53:02,597 Even you, the gods will one day judge harshly. 483 00:53:02,763 --> 00:53:04,640 When I'm king like you, Father? 484 00:53:04,807 --> 00:53:08,603 Don't rush the day, boy. You risk all. 485 00:53:09,729 --> 00:53:13,816 My father threw me into battle before I knew how to fight. 486 00:53:13,983 --> 00:53:16,527 When I killed my first man, he said: 487 00:53:16,694 --> 00:53:18,946 "Now you know." 488 00:53:19,572 --> 00:53:23,826 I hated him then, but I understand why now. 489 00:53:23,993 --> 00:53:26,412 A king isn't born, Alexander. 490 00:53:26,579 --> 00:53:30,333 He's made by steel and by suffering. 491 00:53:31,542 --> 00:53:35,546 A king must know how to hurt those he loves. 492 00:53:39,342 --> 00:53:41,761 It's lonely. Ask Herakles. 493 00:53:43,012 --> 00:53:46,474 Ask any of them. Fate is cruel. 494 00:53:47,725 --> 00:53:53,397 No man or woman can be too powerful or too beautiful without disaster befalling. 495 00:53:53,564 --> 00:53:56,859 They laugh when you rise too high... 496 00:53:57,026 --> 00:53:59,862 ...and crush everything you've built with a whim. 497 00:54:00,613 --> 00:54:04,492 What glory they give, in the end, they take away. 498 00:54:05,910 --> 00:54:09,038 They make of us slaves. 499 00:54:25,096 --> 00:54:29,183 Truth is in our hearts, and none will tell you this but your father. 500 00:54:29,892 --> 00:54:32,687 Men hate the gods. 501 00:54:33,813 --> 00:54:35,856 The only reason we worship any of them... 502 00:54:36,023 --> 00:54:38,234 ...is because we fear worse. 503 00:54:39,151 --> 00:54:42,530 - What's worse? - The Titans. 504 00:54:43,072 --> 00:54:45,825 If they were ever to be set free... 505 00:54:45,992 --> 00:54:49,120 ...it'd be a darkness such as we've never seen before. 506 00:54:49,287 --> 00:54:51,330 Could they ever come back? 507 00:54:52,623 --> 00:54:55,710 Couldn't Zeus imprison the Titans forever under Mount Olympus? 508 00:54:55,876 --> 00:54:57,920 It's said that when Zeus... 509 00:54:58,713 --> 00:55:01,257 ...burned them to dust with his lightning bolt... 510 00:55:01,424 --> 00:55:04,260 ...they took the Titans' ashes and, in cold revenge... 511 00:55:04,427 --> 00:55:06,971 ...mixed it with those of mortal men. 512 00:55:07,138 --> 00:55:08,514 Why? 513 00:55:12,893 --> 00:55:14,937 Who knows these things? 514 00:55:15,771 --> 00:55:18,607 One day, things will change. 515 00:55:19,859 --> 00:55:21,819 Men will change. 516 00:55:21,986 --> 00:55:25,656 But first, the gods must change. 517 00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:33,873 But all this you'll forget, Alexander. 518 00:55:34,999 --> 00:55:37,043 That's why we call them myths. 519 00:55:38,252 --> 00:55:40,713 We can't bear to remember them. 520 00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:42,256 I'll remember. 521 00:55:42,965 --> 00:55:45,843 One day, I'll be on walls like these. 522 00:55:54,101 --> 00:55:56,312 Alexander once said to me: 523 00:55:56,479 --> 00:56:00,733 "We are most alone when we are with the myths." 524 00:56:02,109 --> 00:56:03,319 Phalanx! 525 00:56:05,279 --> 00:56:07,239 And thus, it came to pass in a dream... 526 00:56:07,406 --> 00:56:11,952 ...as mythical to all Greeks as Achilles defeating the Trojans. 527 00:56:12,119 --> 00:56:15,331 At this one glorious moment in time... 528 00:56:15,498 --> 00:56:19,710 ...Alexander was loved by all. 529 00:56:21,921 --> 00:56:26,258 But in the end, I believe Babylon was a far easier mistress to enter... 530 00:56:26,675 --> 00:56:29,220 ...than she was to leave. 531 00:57:18,686 --> 00:57:23,190 Sikander! Sikander! 532 00:57:48,048 --> 00:57:53,304 Aristotle may have called them barbarians, but he never saw Babylon. 533 00:57:53,471 --> 00:57:56,182 We have enough gold here to support three generations... 534 00:57:56,348 --> 00:57:58,058 ...of Macedonian armies. 535 00:57:58,434 --> 00:58:01,061 And Macedonia would soon corrupt, Cassander. 536 00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:03,522 Wealth in great quantities brings the crows. 537 00:58:03,689 --> 00:58:06,066 Not for the men who fought, I trust. 538 00:58:07,193 --> 00:58:11,280 We'll pay them well, Antigonus, but not as mercenaries for future services. 539 00:58:11,447 --> 00:58:12,865 Now you sound like Philip. 540 00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:15,701 Philip never saw Babylon. 541 00:58:16,660 --> 00:58:18,370 No, he didn't, Hephaistion. 542 00:58:20,331 --> 00:58:22,208 - Hello! - Hello! 543 00:58:22,708 --> 00:58:26,212 Alexander, I know you think me a stiff old sod... 544 00:58:26,378 --> 00:58:28,923 ...but whatever our differences, know this day... 545 00:58:29,089 --> 00:58:32,468 ...your father would be very proud of you. 546 00:58:34,553 --> 00:58:36,722 Thank you, Parmenion. 547 00:58:36,931 --> 00:58:41,477 I ask you to forgive me my own anger, my pride. 548 00:58:41,644 --> 00:58:43,521 They, too, blind me. 549 00:58:47,483 --> 00:58:50,778 Magnificent mainland work from the last century. 550 00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:53,447 The golden age, Alexander. 551 00:58:53,614 --> 00:58:56,784 Worth much to Athens and to our alliances. 552 00:58:56,992 --> 00:58:59,245 Take back what is ours... 553 00:58:59,411 --> 00:59:01,705 ...but spare what belongs to the Persians. 554 00:59:05,292 --> 00:59:06,961 Yes. 555 00:59:07,711 --> 00:59:11,173 We're the richest men to walk the earth, my friends. 556 00:59:11,340 --> 00:59:13,092 Not if we keep giving it all away. 557 00:59:13,259 --> 00:59:16,136 The grandsons of goat herders... 558 00:59:16,303 --> 00:59:20,474 ...we now rule 2 million square miles. 559 00:59:21,350 --> 00:59:22,685 But... 560 00:59:23,686 --> 00:59:29,525 ...none of you fear that this great fortune may drive us all to destruction. 561 00:59:29,692 --> 00:59:31,360 You overvalue us. 562 00:59:31,527 --> 00:59:35,197 For as long as Darius breathes, he is the legitimate king of Asia... 563 00:59:35,406 --> 00:59:37,992 ...and I but the king of air. 564 00:59:38,158 --> 00:59:40,786 - But he has no power, Alexander. - Whoo! 565 00:59:40,953 --> 00:59:43,163 He's lost in the mountains with no army. 566 00:59:43,330 --> 00:59:46,584 As long as he's lost, Philotas, he can be believed in. 567 00:59:46,750 --> 00:59:49,753 Only when he's found will it be decided. 568 00:59:51,714 --> 00:59:53,632 It seems you've already made up your mind. 569 00:59:53,799 --> 00:59:56,719 We must finish what we failed to do at Gaugamela. 570 00:59:56,885 --> 00:59:58,971 We must hunt Darius down to the ends of earth. 571 00:59:59,138 --> 01:00:01,765 - That was not your father's mission. - And I am not my father. 572 01:00:05,311 --> 01:00:07,563 Come on. Have you so quickly forgotten? 573 01:00:07,730 --> 01:00:08,772 Fortune favors the bold. 574 01:00:14,028 --> 01:00:16,780 No wonder Darius fled when he had this to come back to. 575 01:00:16,947 --> 01:00:19,742 One for every night of the year. 576 01:00:46,268 --> 01:00:48,771 How will I go back to Lysimache after this? 577 01:00:48,937 --> 01:00:51,774 I advise you not to touch, Leonnatus. Here, I'll take care of it for you. 578 01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:13,921 Aristotle was perhaps prescient. 579 01:01:17,841 --> 01:01:22,096 Do these images fool us with their beauty and degrade our souls? 580 01:01:52,126 --> 01:01:55,629 Bagoas, great king. Darius' boy. 581 01:01:55,796 --> 01:01:57,381 Bagoas. 582 01:01:57,673 --> 01:02:00,551 Nicely gelded, Your Majesty. 583 01:02:00,718 --> 01:02:02,302 Most successful. 584 01:02:02,469 --> 01:02:04,847 He was certainly one of the great king's favorites. 585 01:02:08,225 --> 01:02:11,937 Oh, he's writ well with the years. 586 01:02:14,148 --> 01:02:17,901 What are you now, Bagoas? Eighteen, 19? 587 01:02:18,193 --> 01:02:21,280 - Where does he come from? - The north, sire. 588 01:02:23,157 --> 01:02:25,492 From the hills near Susa. 589 01:02:25,659 --> 01:02:27,578 You speak our language. 590 01:02:27,745 --> 01:02:31,248 - Good. I'd like to learn yours. - It is learnable, my lord. 591 01:02:44,887 --> 01:02:47,055 So tell me, Bagoas... 592 01:02:47,431 --> 01:02:50,517 ...do my eyes betray me, or do you wish to be set free... 593 01:02:50,684 --> 01:02:52,352 ...to go back to your homeland? 594 01:02:56,774 --> 01:02:59,276 All my family's long dead, great king. 595 01:02:59,777 --> 01:03:03,238 With your permission, I will stay on. 596 01:03:06,450 --> 01:03:07,910 Very well then, Bagoas. 597 01:03:09,119 --> 01:03:11,663 Ptolemy, administer this. 598 01:03:14,583 --> 01:03:16,835 And that's the same of every person in the harem... 599 01:03:17,002 --> 01:03:18,629 ...woman and eunuch. 600 01:03:18,796 --> 01:03:21,965 Whoever wishes to be sent home to their families, let them. 601 01:03:22,424 --> 01:03:23,592 What? 602 01:03:23,759 --> 01:03:27,095 Hear that, boys? Set them free. 603 01:03:47,658 --> 01:03:49,034 Don't worry, Alexander. 604 01:03:49,201 --> 01:03:52,246 - I'm on your side. - Get off. 605 01:04:00,754 --> 01:04:04,299 Great King Alexander. 606 01:04:07,302 --> 01:04:09,304 The Princess of the Thousand Roses... 607 01:04:09,471 --> 01:04:12,224 ...and eldest daughter of the formerly Great King Darius... 608 01:04:13,809 --> 01:04:15,894 ...Stateira. 609 01:04:16,436 --> 01:04:17,855 Noble Alexander... 610 01:04:25,279 --> 01:04:28,615 ...I come to beg for the lives... 611 01:04:28,782 --> 01:04:29,992 ...of my sisters... 612 01:04:31,368 --> 01:04:33,912 ...my mother, my grandmother. 613 01:04:38,750 --> 01:04:42,880 You are not wrong, Princess Stateira. 614 01:04:43,088 --> 01:04:44,965 He, too, is Alexander. 615 01:04:48,927 --> 01:04:50,429 Please. 616 01:04:51,305 --> 01:04:54,600 I plead for my family's lives. 617 01:04:56,184 --> 01:04:59,313 - Sell me as a slave, great king, but-- - Look now... 618 01:04:59,479 --> 01:05:01,356 ...in my eyes... 619 01:05:02,774 --> 01:05:03,817 ...princess... 620 01:05:05,819 --> 01:05:07,404 ...and tell me... 621 01:05:07,946 --> 01:05:10,157 ...how would you like to be treated? 622 01:05:12,826 --> 01:05:14,745 As I am... 623 01:05:14,912 --> 01:05:16,955 ...a princess. 624 01:05:20,334 --> 01:05:21,960 Then so be it. 625 01:05:23,712 --> 01:05:26,798 You and your family shall be treated as my family. 626 01:05:29,468 --> 01:05:32,638 You shall live in this palace as long as you choose. 627 01:05:33,305 --> 01:05:36,642 Have you any other requests for me, my noble princess? 628 01:05:39,394 --> 01:05:40,771 No. 629 01:05:42,022 --> 01:05:44,858 Everything I wish... 630 01:05:45,025 --> 01:05:47,945 ...I have requested. 631 01:05:49,154 --> 01:05:50,989 You truly are... 632 01:05:51,156 --> 01:05:52,908 ...a queen. 633 01:05:59,414 --> 01:06:01,917 Yes, she would be a perfect match for you... 634 01:06:02,834 --> 01:06:04,711 ...but you do nothing. 635 01:06:04,878 --> 01:06:08,465 Three months you've been in Babylon and leave me in Pella... 636 01:06:08,674 --> 01:06:12,844 ...at the mercy of your enemies, of which you have many. 637 01:06:13,011 --> 01:06:16,139 Antipater, accustomed now to the power that you have given him. 638 01:06:16,473 --> 01:06:18,850 I must watch him grow stronger. 639 01:06:26,233 --> 01:06:29,361 I'm certain that he communicates secretly with Parmenion... 640 01:06:29,528 --> 01:06:31,029 ...who is dangerous. 641 01:06:31,196 --> 01:06:34,282 But beware, most of all, of those closest to you. 642 01:06:34,866 --> 01:06:35,909 They are like snakes... 643 01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:38,370 ...and can be turned. 644 01:06:38,745 --> 01:06:40,205 General Crateros. 645 01:06:43,125 --> 01:06:47,629 Cassander is Antipater's son. 646 01:06:47,838 --> 01:06:51,550 Even Cleitus, your father's favorite... 647 01:06:51,717 --> 01:06:54,177 ...and Ptolemy, your friend, yes. 648 01:06:54,386 --> 01:06:56,596 But beware of men who think too much. 649 01:06:57,222 --> 01:06:59,474 They blind themselves. 650 01:07:02,811 --> 01:07:05,355 Only Hephaistion do I leave out. 651 01:07:06,273 --> 01:07:08,900 But all of them you make rich... 652 01:07:09,109 --> 01:07:14,906 ...while your mother and yourself, you leave in generous poverty. 653 01:07:15,699 --> 01:07:18,076 Why won't you ever believe me? 654 01:07:18,869 --> 01:07:24,666 It is only a dark mind like mine that can know these secrets of the heart. 655 01:07:24,833 --> 01:07:27,461 For they are dark, Alexander. 656 01:07:27,753 --> 01:07:30,297 So dark. 657 01:07:30,464 --> 01:07:31,548 But in you... 658 01:07:32,132 --> 01:07:36,970 ...the son of Zeus, lies the light of the world. 659 01:07:37,137 --> 01:07:41,183 Your companions will be shadows in the underworld... 660 01:07:41,349 --> 01:07:45,729 ...when you are a name living forever in history as the most glorious... 661 01:07:45,896 --> 01:07:50,275 ...shining light of youth, forever young, forever inspiring. 662 01:07:50,442 --> 01:07:53,987 Never will there be an Alexander like you. 663 01:07:54,154 --> 01:07:56,698 Alexander the Great. 664 01:07:57,949 --> 01:08:01,453 Remember, bring me to Babylon as you promised. 665 01:08:01,661 --> 01:08:04,831 I can only help you, for they know if they harm you... 666 01:08:04,998 --> 01:08:08,877 ...they will face my wrath, as Queen of Babylon. 667 01:08:10,796 --> 01:08:14,424 It's a high ransom she charges for nine months' lodging in the womb. 668 01:08:14,591 --> 01:08:16,593 Bring her, Alexander. 669 01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:19,471 - It'll give her such joy. - Joy? 670 01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:23,934 When I'm the cracked mirror of her dreams? 671 01:08:26,436 --> 01:08:28,855 Stay with me tonight, Hephaistion. 672 01:08:35,612 --> 01:08:37,197 I'll take my own bath. 673 01:08:38,573 --> 01:08:39,783 Thank you, Bagoas. 674 01:08:48,375 --> 01:08:49,459 What bothers you? 675 01:08:51,711 --> 01:08:54,840 I see in her everything I fear. 676 01:08:56,049 --> 01:08:58,426 Yet I have no idea what it is... 677 01:08:59,177 --> 01:09:01,179 ...this fear. 678 01:09:05,809 --> 01:09:09,271 She was always so sure I was born of Zeus. 679 01:09:09,938 --> 01:09:11,857 Why, Hephaistion? 680 01:09:13,692 --> 01:09:18,280 I think there are things beyond our imagining... 681 01:09:19,447 --> 01:09:20,949 ...like the lightning... 682 01:09:21,116 --> 01:09:24,161 ...tales of strange conceptions. 683 01:09:25,912 --> 01:09:28,039 I don't doubt it. 684 01:09:28,206 --> 01:09:30,792 What is being told me? 685 01:09:30,959 --> 01:09:34,796 What destiny do--? Do I have'? 686 01:09:36,506 --> 01:09:39,342 Well, if I'm Patroclus... 687 01:09:39,509 --> 01:09:41,803 ...I die first. 688 01:09:42,012 --> 01:09:44,764 Then you, Achilles. 689 01:09:50,687 --> 01:09:53,481 The generals are upset. 690 01:09:54,858 --> 01:09:57,485 They question your obsession with Darius. 691 01:09:58,153 --> 01:10:01,323 They say it was never meant for you to be king of Asia. 692 01:10:01,489 --> 01:10:03,033 Naturally. 693 01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:07,537 They want only to return to their homes, rich with gold. But I've seen the future. 694 01:10:07,704 --> 01:10:10,999 I've seen it now 1000 times, on 1000 faces. 695 01:10:11,166 --> 01:10:13,335 These people want... 696 01:10:14,085 --> 01:10:16,171 Need change. 697 01:10:17,214 --> 01:10:19,883 Aristotle was wrong about them. 698 01:10:20,050 --> 01:10:21,718 How so? 699 01:10:21,885 --> 01:10:24,012 Look at those we've conquered. 700 01:10:24,179 --> 01:10:26,223 They leave their dead unburied. 701 01:10:26,389 --> 01:10:29,351 They smash their enemies' skulls and drink them as dust. 702 01:10:29,517 --> 01:10:31,519 They mate in public. 703 01:10:31,686 --> 01:10:36,566 What can they think or sing or write when none can read? 704 01:10:36,733 --> 01:10:41,363 But as Alexander's army, they can go where they never thought possible. 705 01:10:41,529 --> 01:10:44,616 They can soldier or work in the cities. 706 01:10:44,783 --> 01:10:48,995 The Alexandrias, from Egypt to the outer ocean. 707 01:10:49,496 --> 01:10:52,415 We could connect these lands, Hephaistion... 708 01:10:52,582 --> 01:10:53,833 ...and the people. 709 01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:59,631 Some say these Alexandrias have become extensions of Alexander himself. 710 01:11:00,382 --> 01:11:03,468 They draw people into the cities to make slaves of them. 711 01:11:03,635 --> 01:11:07,931 But we freed them, Hephaistion, from the Persia where everyone lived as slaves. 712 01:11:09,933 --> 01:11:12,477 To free the people of the world... 713 01:11:13,395 --> 01:11:17,941 ...such would be beyond the glory of Achilles, beyond Herakles... 714 01:11:18,108 --> 01:11:20,735 ...a feat to rival Prometheus... 715 01:11:21,528 --> 01:11:24,197 ...who was always a friend to man. 716 01:11:24,406 --> 01:11:26,741 Remember the fates of these heroes. 717 01:11:26,908 --> 01:11:31,121 - They suffered greatly. - Oh, we all suffer. 718 01:11:31,538 --> 01:11:35,125 Your father, mine. 719 01:11:35,917 --> 01:11:38,003 They all came to the end of their time. 720 01:11:38,169 --> 01:11:42,215 And in the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done. 721 01:11:43,550 --> 01:11:48,346 You once said, "The fear of death drives all men." 722 01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:50,473 Are there no other forces? 723 01:11:51,725 --> 01:11:54,477 Is there not love in your life... 724 01:11:56,062 --> 01:11:58,064 ...Alexander? 725 01:12:01,901 --> 01:12:06,531 What would you do if you ever reached the end of the world? 726 01:12:08,408 --> 01:12:11,244 I'd turn back and conquer its opposite. 727 01:12:16,458 --> 01:12:21,463 I wonder sometimes if it's not your mother you run from. 728 01:12:22,881 --> 01:12:26,843 So many years, so many miles between you. 729 01:12:28,470 --> 01:12:30,472 What is it you fear? 730 01:12:31,973 --> 01:12:34,225 Who knows these things? 731 01:12:35,810 --> 01:12:40,982 When I was a child, my mother thought me divine. My father, weak. 732 01:12:43,485 --> 01:12:46,154 Which am I, Hephaistion? 733 01:12:46,321 --> 01:12:48,239 Weak or divine? 734 01:12:51,826 --> 01:12:53,745 All I know is... 735 01:12:53,912 --> 01:12:56,998 ...I trust only you in this world. 736 01:12:57,165 --> 01:12:59,250 I've missed you. 737 01:12:59,918 --> 01:13:01,044 I need you. 738 01:13:03,254 --> 01:13:04,798 It is you I love, Hephaistion. 739 01:13:07,217 --> 01:13:09,386 No other. 740 01:13:13,306 --> 01:13:16,184 You're everything I care for... 741 01:13:16,351 --> 01:13:20,021 ...and by the sweet breath of Aphrodite... 742 01:13:20,522 --> 01:13:23,441 ...I'm so jealous of losing you to this world you want. 743 01:13:23,858 --> 01:13:26,528 You'll never lose me, Hephaistion. 744 01:13:27,153 --> 01:13:30,407 I'll be with you always. 745 01:13:31,032 --> 01:13:32,951 Till the end. 746 01:13:46,464 --> 01:13:49,134 PTOLEMY". The campaign in the northeast of Persia... 747 01:13:49,300 --> 01:13:54,139 ...turned into a hard guerrilla war of almost three years. 748 01:13:57,016 --> 01:14:03,064 We chased Darius towards Bactria but missed taking him by hours. 749 01:14:05,900 --> 01:14:08,278 He was dying when we found him, sire. 750 01:14:08,445 --> 01:14:10,238 He asked for water. 751 01:14:10,405 --> 01:14:12,907 He drank and died. 752 01:14:19,539 --> 01:14:24,252 The Great King Darius had been betrayed by his own commanders. 753 01:14:52,322 --> 01:14:54,324 Fully honoring his corpse... 754 01:14:54,491 --> 01:14:59,412 ...Alexander hunted down these commanders into unknown lands... 755 01:15:00,371 --> 01:15:05,210 ...crossing even beyond the River Oxus into Sogdia. 756 01:15:09,464 --> 01:15:13,760 We fought them as far as the unknown steppes of Scythia... 757 01:15:14,469 --> 01:15:17,764 ...where only legendary heroes had once trod. 758 01:15:17,972 --> 01:15:20,433 The surveyors told us we were now on the borders... 759 01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:23,353 ...of where Europe and Asia meet. 760 01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:27,398 In fact, we were totally lost. 761 01:15:28,233 --> 01:15:31,152 Here, Alexander founded his 10th Alexandria... 762 01:15:31,319 --> 01:15:33,696 ...and settled it with veterans, their women... 763 01:15:33,863 --> 01:15:36,407 ...and any who would dare the frontier life. 764 01:15:37,617 --> 01:15:40,453 Unable to accept defeat in any form... 765 01:15:40,662 --> 01:15:45,375 ...Alexander persisted in breaking every tribe that resisted... 766 01:15:45,542 --> 01:15:49,128 ...until the day he received the head of his last enemy in surrender. 767 01:15:54,217 --> 01:15:58,846 For Alexander, there could be no pretender to the throne of Asia... 768 01:16:00,014 --> 01:16:04,435 ...which now included all of Sogdia and Bactria. 769 01:16:06,437 --> 01:16:11,067 It was here that he made one of his most mysterious decisions. 770 01:16:14,612 --> 01:16:18,908 Ten years after his mother's insistence he marry a Macedonian... 771 01:16:19,075 --> 01:16:21,119 Through our union... 772 01:16:21,286 --> 01:16:24,205 ...Greek and barbarian... 773 01:16:24,372 --> 01:16:26,124 ...may be reconciled in peace. 774 01:16:26,541 --> 01:16:31,004 ...the most powerful man in the world took a girl of no political significance. 775 01:16:37,176 --> 01:16:38,219 Why? 776 01:16:39,846 --> 01:16:43,141 Some say it was for alliance with the tribes. 777 01:16:45,143 --> 01:16:47,186 Others, the desire for a successor. 778 01:16:49,939 --> 01:16:54,902 And yet others said Alexander truly fell in love. 779 01:16:56,154 --> 01:16:58,072 Who Roxane really was... 780 01:16:58,239 --> 01:17:04,370 ...I doubt any of us ever saw further than the pools of those black eyes. 781 01:17:05,622 --> 01:17:08,124 On this glorious occasion... 782 01:17:09,917 --> 01:17:12,629 ...I toast this great army that has given so much. 783 01:17:12,837 --> 01:17:17,091 And in honor of them, those of you who set outwith us seven long years ago... 784 01:17:17,258 --> 01:17:21,679 ...I pronounce all your debts paid forthwith from the royal treasury. 785 01:17:23,514 --> 01:17:24,974 Praise Alexander! 786 01:17:29,228 --> 01:17:31,105 And in honor of my bride... 787 01:17:34,901 --> 01:17:37,403 ...my beautiful bride... 788 01:17:37,570 --> 01:17:41,908 ...we recognize the many women who've shared the long road with us... 789 01:17:42,075 --> 01:17:45,620 ...and grant them dowries befitting a proper marriage. 790 01:17:54,379 --> 01:17:57,006 And what about our boys? 791 01:17:57,423 --> 01:17:58,675 And lastly... 792 01:17:59,008 --> 01:18:02,136 ...lastly, the gods demand no less of us... 793 01:18:02,428 --> 01:18:05,765 ...that your children be given a proper Greek education... 794 01:18:05,932 --> 01:18:10,395 ...and military training under our protection... 795 01:18:10,895 --> 01:18:14,816 ...so as to be the new soldiers of our kingdom... 796 01:18:15,149 --> 01:18:17,485 ...in Asia. 797 01:18:33,584 --> 01:18:35,712 Your father must be turning in his grave. 798 01:18:35,878 --> 01:18:37,714 After all this, a hill chief's daughter. 799 01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:38,923 Not tonight, Parmenion. 800 01:18:39,090 --> 01:18:41,092 You call this tribal wedding legitimate? 801 01:18:41,259 --> 01:18:44,137 Do you forget, Parmenion, my father took a barbarian as his queen? 802 01:18:44,303 --> 01:18:47,014 Yes, but few would call it a profoundly happy marriage. 803 01:18:48,349 --> 01:18:51,185 But what's the point, Alexander? She's your captive. 804 01:18:51,352 --> 01:18:53,271 Just take her as your concubine. 805 01:18:53,438 --> 01:18:56,441 Because I want a son. Damn you, Philotas. 806 01:18:56,858 --> 01:19:02,405 Then half your nobles have sisters who'd make fine Macedonian mothers. 807 01:19:02,572 --> 01:19:07,160 To take an Asian as my queen, not a captive, is a sign of deep respect. 808 01:19:07,493 --> 01:19:10,288 It will bring us together, unify us. 809 01:19:10,455 --> 01:19:12,540 Which is not to say I won't take a Macedonian. 810 01:19:12,749 --> 01:19:15,752 As a second wife? You insult Macedonia. 811 01:19:16,794 --> 01:19:20,506 Never will our people accept this girl's son as king. 812 01:19:21,048 --> 01:19:22,550 They'll be angry when they find out... 813 01:19:22,717 --> 01:19:25,303 ...their husbands all have second wives in Barbaria. 814 01:19:25,470 --> 01:19:26,512 Then they'll learn. 815 01:19:26,679 --> 01:19:30,183 By Athena's justice, this girl has spirit. 816 01:19:30,391 --> 01:19:32,643 She'll breed a brave son. 817 01:19:32,810 --> 01:19:34,353 Alexander! 818 01:19:35,062 --> 01:19:37,732 This is about the honor of our kingdom. 819 01:19:37,899 --> 01:19:40,401 Exactly. What can be won, Alexander? 820 01:19:40,568 --> 01:19:43,863 We're in Asia to punish them for their crimes. We've achieved that. 821 01:19:44,030 --> 01:19:47,533 Seven years from home, now we drift from one far region to another... 822 01:19:47,700 --> 01:19:51,370 ...chasing nomads and bandits when Macedonia bleeds its manpower. 823 01:19:51,537 --> 01:19:54,457 For what? To build roads in Asia? 824 01:19:54,624 --> 01:19:56,667 To give these people cities? 825 01:19:56,834 --> 01:19:58,127 And now make an army of them? 826 01:19:58,294 --> 01:20:01,881 To found cities and expand our reach is not to drift. 827 01:20:02,048 --> 01:20:04,258 - What benefit to Macedon? - It's far richer! 828 01:20:04,425 --> 01:20:06,844 - Look what you give them. - With respect... 829 01:20:07,011 --> 01:20:10,223 ...had you fought better at Gaugamela when your flank was crumbling-- 830 01:20:10,431 --> 01:20:13,726 - How dare you, Nearchus? - General Nearchus to you, boy. 831 01:20:13,893 --> 01:20:17,522 Alexander spread our flank too thin! There was nothing my father... 832 01:20:17,688 --> 01:20:19,899 -...or any of you could've done! - Philotas! 833 01:20:26,113 --> 01:20:28,491 Alexander, I've known you since you were born. 834 01:20:29,450 --> 01:20:32,411 I supported you at your father's death. 835 01:20:32,578 --> 01:20:35,206 At the very least, for Zeus' sake... 836 01:20:35,498 --> 01:20:38,626 ...and in respect to the council that chose you king... 837 01:20:38,793 --> 01:20:40,628 ...give us a Macedonian heir. 838 01:20:41,087 --> 01:20:42,505 A Macedonian heir. 839 01:20:49,136 --> 01:20:50,888 - You've been heard clearly. - But-- 840 01:20:51,055 --> 01:20:52,932 Parmenion! 841 01:20:53,099 --> 01:20:56,644 After the wedding, take two brigades to Babylon, where I look to you... 842 01:20:57,103 --> 01:21:01,941 ...and Antipater in Greece, to maintain our empire and supply this expedition. 843 01:21:02,692 --> 01:21:04,777 I'll winter with my army at Marakand. 844 01:21:04,986 --> 01:21:08,906 I pray to Apollo you realize how far you've turned from your father's path. 845 01:21:09,073 --> 01:21:11,617 Damn you, Parmenion, by the gods and your Apollo. 846 01:21:11,784 --> 01:21:15,204 What was in my father's guts wasn't overripe in reason like yours! 847 01:21:15,371 --> 01:21:19,333 He never lusted for war, Alexander, or enjoyed it so. 848 01:21:19,500 --> 01:21:24,755 He consulted his peers in council, among equals, hmm, the Macedonian way. 849 01:21:24,922 --> 01:21:27,341 He didn't decide based on his personal desires. 850 01:21:27,508 --> 01:21:30,970 I've taken us further than my father ever dreamed. 851 01:21:31,137 --> 01:21:32,471 Old man... 852 01:21:32,638 --> 01:21:35,016 ...we're in new worlds. 853 01:21:36,017 --> 01:21:39,687 Alexander, be reasonable! 854 01:21:39,854 --> 01:21:42,023 Were they ever meant to be our equals? 855 01:21:42,523 --> 01:21:44,442 Share our rewards? 856 01:21:44,609 --> 01:21:46,652 You remember what Aristotle said. 857 01:21:46,819 --> 01:21:48,154 An Asian? 858 01:21:48,321 --> 01:21:52,074 What would a vow mean to a race that's never kept their word to a Greek? 859 01:21:52,241 --> 01:21:54,327 - Aristotle be damned! - Alexander! 860 01:21:54,535 --> 01:21:56,078 By Zeus and all the gods... 861 01:21:56,245 --> 01:22:00,333 ...what makes you so much better than them, Cassander? 862 01:22:00,541 --> 01:22:04,670 Better than you really are. In you and those like you is this. 863 01:22:06,339 --> 01:22:07,882 Alexander. 864 01:22:10,843 --> 01:22:15,264 What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgment. 865 01:22:18,601 --> 01:22:22,063 It's your contempt for a world far older than ours. 866 01:22:54,929 --> 01:22:57,223 If I ever kneel down like that to any man... 867 01:22:57,390 --> 01:23:00,142 -...kill me. - Have another drink, Cleitus. 868 01:23:00,810 --> 01:23:03,854 - Shouldn't you be bound to a king? - Cleitus. 869 01:23:04,563 --> 01:23:08,776 Alexander, you look weak when you not accept these honors. 870 01:23:08,943 --> 01:23:12,488 I understand, my dear father, but it's against Greek ways. 871 01:23:12,655 --> 01:23:14,949 Then Greek ways are weak. 872 01:23:15,116 --> 01:23:17,868 I still think she got the better of him in this bargain. 873 01:23:18,035 --> 01:23:21,122 My daughter, Roxane... 874 01:23:21,288 --> 01:23:23,249 ...she shall make you a good wife. 875 01:23:23,416 --> 01:23:25,835 She shall kill for you. 876 01:23:30,131 --> 01:23:31,590 Lord Sikander... 877 01:23:31,757 --> 01:23:35,177 ...ruler of heaven... 878 01:23:37,221 --> 01:23:39,015 ...and earth. 879 01:23:44,729 --> 01:23:48,024 In honor of this great alliance... 880 01:23:48,190 --> 01:23:51,235 ...l, Oxyartes... 881 01:23:51,402 --> 01:23:54,655 - ...offer you these great gifts. - Alexander... 882 01:23:54,822 --> 01:23:57,867 ...I would like to honor a toast to you from my people. 883 01:24:02,496 --> 01:24:04,290 Good morning, sire. 884 01:24:05,499 --> 01:24:08,210 Come now, Alexander. Give us a kiss. 885 01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:27,730 We shall fight for you, Alexander. 886 01:24:27,897 --> 01:24:29,774 It shall be bloody. 887 01:24:31,859 --> 01:24:33,736 Who's the bear? 888 01:24:35,404 --> 01:24:37,156 Parmenion. 889 01:24:37,656 --> 01:24:40,451 You've been in complete control of your supply lines. 890 01:24:40,618 --> 01:24:42,745 His pessimism is infectious. 891 01:24:43,370 --> 01:24:45,372 But he'll stay loyal... 892 01:24:46,916 --> 01:24:49,126 ...as long as his son remains with us. 893 01:27:06,513 --> 01:27:07,556 Hey! 894 01:27:15,356 --> 01:27:20,277 Her eyes tell me she cares for you, Alexander. 895 01:27:21,862 --> 01:27:23,030 Perhaps too much. 896 01:27:27,451 --> 01:27:30,037 In the ways of my country... 897 01:27:30,204 --> 01:27:34,625 ...those who love too much lose everything... 898 01:27:35,125 --> 01:27:37,920 ...and those who love with irony... 899 01:27:39,588 --> 01:27:41,006 ...last. 900 01:28:19,253 --> 01:28:21,130 Shh. 901 01:28:31,890 --> 01:28:33,100 I found it in Egypt. 902 01:28:36,020 --> 01:28:38,397 The man who sold it said it came from a time... 903 01:28:38,564 --> 01:28:42,693 ...when man worshipped sun and stars. 904 01:28:48,324 --> 01:28:50,576 I'll always think of you... 905 01:28:51,243 --> 01:28:53,537 ...as the sun, Alexander. 906 01:28:53,746 --> 01:28:57,666 And I pray your dream will shine on all men. 907 01:29:06,717 --> 01:29:08,844 I wish you a son. 908 01:29:10,512 --> 01:29:12,890 You're a great man. 909 01:29:17,269 --> 01:29:20,314 Many will love you, Alexander, but none so pure and deep... 910 01:29:37,331 --> 01:29:38,791 You... 911 01:29:38,957 --> 01:29:40,292 ...love him? 912 01:29:49,551 --> 01:29:52,971 He is Hephaistion. 913 01:30:12,116 --> 01:30:14,076 Thank you, Bagoas. 914 01:30:19,915 --> 01:30:21,542 Your boy? 915 01:30:21,708 --> 01:30:25,212 There are many different ways to love, Roxane. 916 01:30:25,754 --> 01:30:27,589 Come. 917 01:30:42,312 --> 01:30:43,564 No. 918 01:30:43,730 --> 01:30:44,773 No, no. 919 01:31:35,491 --> 01:31:37,409 You have no fear. 920 01:31:39,077 --> 01:31:40,871 It's fitting. 921 01:31:42,289 --> 01:31:45,626 A man searches for a woman at Earth's top... 922 01:31:45,792 --> 01:31:47,794 ...and finds her. 923 01:32:05,145 --> 01:32:06,730 The myth becomes real. 924 01:32:18,033 --> 01:32:19,493 Great man? 925 01:32:19,910 --> 01:32:22,079 Sikander. 926 01:32:22,246 --> 01:32:23,705 You, I kill now. 927 01:32:29,545 --> 01:32:31,129 Do it. 928 01:32:31,547 --> 01:32:34,007 End it. I would do-- 929 01:32:34,675 --> 01:32:36,843 I would do the same. 930 01:32:37,803 --> 01:32:40,430 I'll die a fool for this... 931 01:32:40,889 --> 01:32:42,599 ...love. 932 01:33:29,730 --> 01:33:31,565 My life is now yours. 933 01:33:56,465 --> 01:34:00,260 You will have my son. 934 01:34:54,731 --> 01:34:59,319 Who is this woman you call your queen, Alexander? 935 01:34:59,486 --> 01:35:01,947 A hill girl? 936 01:35:02,155 --> 01:35:04,658 You, with your breeding. 937 01:35:04,825 --> 01:35:09,287 Already she makes enemies with her strong, clumsy nature. 938 01:35:13,125 --> 01:35:15,544 Do not confuse us. 939 01:35:15,711 --> 01:35:19,589 I was never a barbarian as Philip said. 940 01:35:19,756 --> 01:35:22,217 We are of Achilles' royal blood. 941 01:35:23,218 --> 01:35:26,263 Zeus is your father. 942 01:35:27,806 --> 01:35:31,768 Oh, I understand she brings you some happiness. 943 01:35:33,061 --> 01:35:34,896 But how can she help you? 944 01:35:35,564 --> 01:35:38,525 You must know that she does not speak in your name... 945 01:35:38,692 --> 01:35:42,738 ...which is yours and yours alone. 946 01:35:42,904 --> 01:35:45,949 Preserve it, secret it... 947 01:35:46,158 --> 01:35:51,288 ...and hear me when I tell you, act and act soon. 948 01:35:51,455 --> 01:35:53,457 After seven years, people wonder: 949 01:35:53,665 --> 01:35:55,917 "Who is this King Alexander?" 950 01:35:56,084 --> 01:36:02,007 I have given you ample proof. Antipater daily undermines your authority. 951 01:36:02,174 --> 01:36:05,010 Return to Babylon and strengthen your center. 952 01:36:05,969 --> 01:36:08,096 Or come home to Macedonia and reorganize. 953 01:36:08,263 --> 01:36:10,807 But do not chase your dream... 954 01:36:10,974 --> 01:36:13,143 ...further east. 955 01:36:13,310 --> 01:36:16,146 Your life and mine depend on it. 956 01:36:18,023 --> 01:36:19,691 Remember... 957 01:36:19,858 --> 01:36:23,445 ...my only thoughts are of you. 958 01:36:23,612 --> 01:36:27,908 As you, too, must face your glorious destiny. 959 01:36:28,074 --> 01:36:30,285 Think kindly of your mother. 960 01:36:30,452 --> 01:36:31,912 Provide for me. 961 01:36:32,078 --> 01:36:35,707 Protect me from your enemies when you are gone. 962 01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:39,878 And remember always... 963 01:36:40,045 --> 01:36:43,632 ...it is I who love you more than any. 964 01:36:49,888 --> 01:36:53,141 If only you were not a pale reflection... 965 01:36:53,350 --> 01:36:54,559 ...of my mother's heart. 966 01:37:14,746 --> 01:37:18,250 Pregnant so soon. The little whore. 967 01:37:18,416 --> 01:37:22,546 He will marry her in the spring, during Dionysus' Festival... 968 01:37:22,712 --> 01:37:25,465 ...and when her first son is born... 969 01:37:25,632 --> 01:37:30,846 ...her sweet uncle Attalus will convince Philip to name the boy his successor... 970 01:37:31,137 --> 01:37:33,390 ...with himself as regent. 971 01:37:33,849 --> 01:37:35,809 And you... 972 01:37:35,976 --> 01:37:39,980 ...you will be sent on some impossible mission... 973 01:37:40,146 --> 01:37:42,732 ...against some monstrous Northern tribe... 974 01:37:42,899 --> 01:37:48,280 ...to be mutilated in one more meaningless battle over cattle. 975 01:37:48,446 --> 01:37:52,409 And I, no longer queen, will be put to death... 976 01:37:52,576 --> 01:37:56,705 ...with your sister and the remaining members of our family. 977 01:37:56,872 --> 01:38:01,585 I wish sometimes you could see the light, Mother. 978 01:38:01,751 --> 01:38:06,256 The truth is, he's taken nothing from you that you've not been long without. 979 01:38:08,008 --> 01:38:10,302 The only way is to strike. 980 01:38:10,510 --> 01:38:13,221 Announce your marriage to a Macedonian now. 981 01:38:13,847 --> 01:38:18,226 Beget a child of pure blood. He would be one of them, not mine... 982 01:38:18,393 --> 01:38:21,688 ...and he would have no choice but to make you king. 983 01:38:21,897 --> 01:38:24,065 There is still Kynnane. 984 01:38:25,901 --> 01:38:29,863 Eurydice was perfect. If your father, that pig, had not ravaged her first! 985 01:38:30,030 --> 01:38:32,657 Say nothing more of my father. 986 01:38:32,824 --> 01:38:35,660 Do you hear me? Say nothing. 987 01:38:36,661 --> 01:38:38,371 You're right. 988 01:38:39,414 --> 01:38:41,416 Forgive me. 989 01:38:41,583 --> 01:38:44,419 A mother loves too much. 990 01:38:50,634 --> 01:38:53,261 Who shall I sing to sleep at night anymore? 991 01:38:58,391 --> 01:39:03,355 I wish-- I wish we could spend more time together. 992 01:39:04,105 --> 01:39:08,568 Like we used to, when you were the sweetest boy. 993 01:39:13,907 --> 01:39:15,992 There's never been time, Mother. 994 01:39:16,826 --> 01:39:21,706 Since I was a child, I've been groomed to be ever the best. 995 01:39:22,749 --> 01:39:27,212 My poor child, you're like Achilles... 996 01:39:27,379 --> 01:39:29,839 ...cursed by your greatness. 997 01:39:34,970 --> 01:39:36,471 Take my strength. 998 01:39:42,185 --> 01:39:49,192 You must never confuse your feelings with your duties, Alexander. 999 01:39:50,151 --> 01:39:54,698 A king must make public gestures for the common people. 1000 01:39:54,864 --> 01:39:58,326 I know, but you will be 19 this summer... 1001 01:39:58,493 --> 01:40:03,206 ...and the girls already say you don't like them. You like Hephaistion more. 1002 01:40:03,373 --> 01:40:06,793 I understand. It's natural for a young man. 1003 01:40:06,960 --> 01:40:11,172 But if you go to Asia without leaving your successor, you risk all. 1004 01:40:11,339 --> 01:40:17,679 Hephaistion loves me, as I am... 1005 01:40:17,846 --> 01:40:19,055 ...not who. 1006 01:40:20,557 --> 01:40:24,060 Loves? Loves? 1007 01:40:26,062 --> 01:40:28,606 In the name of Dionysus... 1008 01:40:29,941 --> 01:40:36,614 ...understand how Philip thinks, for your own sake. 1009 01:40:36,781 --> 01:40:40,952 Your life hangs in the balance. 1010 01:40:41,119 --> 01:40:43,663 I know these things, Alexander. 1011 01:40:43,830 --> 01:40:46,833 You are nothing to him. 1012 01:40:47,417 --> 01:40:51,588 His spies are inside your closest circle... 1013 01:40:52,172 --> 01:40:55,383 ...to ensure that you don't plot against him. 1014 01:40:55,550 --> 01:40:58,470 And still you sleep. 1015 01:41:00,305 --> 01:41:02,766 You will not live out this year... 1016 01:41:02,932 --> 01:41:05,351 -...unless you act. - Stop! 1017 01:41:07,687 --> 01:41:10,565 I'm his only worthy son. 1018 01:41:10,732 --> 01:41:12,650 You crazed woman. 1019 01:41:13,735 --> 01:41:15,779 He'd never hurt me. 1020 01:41:16,905 --> 01:41:21,534 Even if Eurydice had a boy, he'd be 20 before he'd let him rule. 1021 01:41:21,826 --> 01:41:25,205 Yes, and you would be 40. 1022 01:41:25,371 --> 01:41:31,795 Old and wise like Parmenion. And Philip's young son would be 20. 1023 01:41:31,961 --> 01:41:38,384 Like you now, but raised by him, his blood. 1024 01:41:38,885 --> 01:41:42,305 He will never give you the throne now, Alexander. 1025 01:41:42,472 --> 01:41:44,057 Never. 1026 01:41:46,142 --> 01:41:48,269 What would you have me do? 1027 01:41:49,270 --> 01:41:51,606 Whatever is necessary. 1028 01:41:55,235 --> 01:41:58,238 Where have you lost your mind? 1029 01:41:58,404 --> 01:42:00,740 There'd be civil war, clan against clan, chaos. 1030 01:42:00,907 --> 01:42:04,035 Yes. And you would win... 1031 01:42:04,202 --> 01:42:07,497 ...because the young ones love you like a god. 1032 01:42:07,664 --> 01:42:09,707 I forbid you to ever talk to me like that! 1033 01:42:09,874 --> 01:42:13,211 Such a man would be forever chased by the Furies! 1034 01:42:13,378 --> 01:42:16,464 What have you to fear from the Furies... 1035 01:42:16,631 --> 01:42:20,093 ...for killing an impostor to the throne... 1036 01:42:20,260 --> 01:42:23,388 ...before he murders you and your mother? 1037 01:42:23,596 --> 01:42:25,974 Why won't you ever believe me? 1038 01:42:26,558 --> 01:42:29,686 Philip did not want you. 1039 01:42:30,812 --> 01:42:32,647 You had a condition of the breathing... 1040 01:42:32,814 --> 01:42:35,358 ...and he wanted to leave you in the mountains... 1041 01:42:35,525 --> 01:42:38,570 ...for the birds to peck at your eyes. 1042 01:42:39,863 --> 01:42:42,198 What you don't know, my poor child. 1043 01:42:42,365 --> 01:42:45,160 Lanice knows nothing of this. 1044 01:42:45,326 --> 01:42:46,369 Lanice. 1045 01:42:47,245 --> 01:42:49,789 I was there. 1046 01:42:49,956 --> 01:42:52,250 Lanice was not. 1047 01:42:52,959 --> 01:42:55,170 No, Alexander... 1048 01:42:55,336 --> 01:42:58,798 ...Zeus is your father. 1049 01:42:59,632 --> 01:43:01,384 I lay with him that night... 1050 01:43:01,551 --> 01:43:04,345 ...in the wind, as sure as any mortal man. 1051 01:43:04,512 --> 01:43:06,431 Never have I been made love to... 1052 01:43:06,598 --> 01:43:08,266 ...as I was then. 1053 01:43:08,433 --> 01:43:09,642 Enough. 1054 01:43:10,643 --> 01:43:14,022 Half the mothers in Greece share such a fantasy. 1055 01:43:15,064 --> 01:43:17,066 I warn you, Mother. 1056 01:43:17,233 --> 01:43:18,860 Make no mistake. 1057 01:43:20,320 --> 01:43:24,616 You will treat this girl as nothing more important than his other wives. 1058 01:43:24,991 --> 01:43:28,244 You will behave as we always have. 1059 01:43:28,411 --> 01:43:30,330 As the first. 1060 01:43:40,632 --> 01:43:42,592 I wonder... 1061 01:43:44,010 --> 01:43:45,303 ...did you ever love him? 1062 01:43:49,140 --> 01:43:50,808 What? 1063 01:43:53,144 --> 01:43:55,230 I never stopped. 1064 01:44:29,514 --> 01:44:31,516 What is it, Orestes? 1065 01:44:36,271 --> 01:44:38,147 I beg your forgiveness, my king. 1066 01:44:39,190 --> 01:44:41,317 I cannot be part of this. 1067 01:44:42,944 --> 01:44:44,862 Who did this? 1068 01:44:47,740 --> 01:44:49,450 Tell me. 1069 01:44:49,617 --> 01:44:51,577 - Say it! - Hermolaus. 1070 01:45:03,381 --> 01:45:05,967 Death to all tyrants. 1071 01:45:07,510 --> 01:45:10,346 All of youse, I didn't do this. 1072 01:45:11,055 --> 01:45:15,143 I've known you and loved you as long as I know. 1073 01:45:16,477 --> 01:45:19,188 Never will you find a man as devoted as I. 1074 01:45:19,355 --> 01:45:24,485 The conspiracy, such as it was, deeply upset Alexander... 1075 01:45:24,652 --> 01:45:27,030 ...not only because it involved the young people... 1076 01:45:27,196 --> 01:45:28,698 ...who'd shared his dream... 1077 01:45:28,865 --> 01:45:32,452 ...but, more intimately, it implicated Philotas... 1078 01:45:32,618 --> 01:45:34,787 ...his companion from boyhood... 1079 01:45:34,954 --> 01:45:36,247 ...when a page confessed... 1080 01:45:36,414 --> 01:45:39,459 ...that a few days before, he'd informed Philotas. .. 1081 01:45:39,625 --> 01:45:40,668 Alexander. 1082 01:45:40,835 --> 01:45:42,503 PTOLEMY". ...of the plot. 1083 01:45:43,629 --> 01:45:45,048 Remember me for who I am. 1084 01:45:46,549 --> 01:45:52,263 I do remember you, Philotas, but not as you remember yourself. 1085 01:45:52,472 --> 01:45:54,724 And it appears to me and others here... 1086 01:45:54,891 --> 01:45:57,352 ...from the testimony given by your mistress... 1087 01:45:58,102 --> 01:46:01,939 ...that the true weather of your soul is ambition. 1088 01:46:02,732 --> 01:46:04,650 - No. - We all felt... 1089 01:46:04,817 --> 01:46:07,570 ...there was more here than sexual bickering. 1090 01:46:07,737 --> 01:46:09,947 Alexander wanted the truth... 1091 01:46:10,114 --> 01:46:12,241 ...and Philotas' answers were lacking merit. 1092 01:46:12,867 --> 01:46:13,868 Please take him away. 1093 01:46:14,035 --> 01:46:16,037 PTOLEMY". Alexander put him, silently and quickly... 1094 01:46:16,204 --> 01:46:18,122 - ...to trial by his peers... - Remove him. 1095 01:46:18,289 --> 01:46:20,291 PTOLEMY". ...and whether plotter or opportunist... 1096 01:46:20,458 --> 01:46:22,377 ...Philotas was found guilty of treason. 1097 01:46:22,543 --> 01:46:24,295 - No, Alexander, no! - Remove him. 1098 01:46:24,462 --> 01:46:27,173 The suspects were all executed. 1099 01:46:27,590 --> 01:46:30,134 None of us defended Philotas. 1100 01:46:30,301 --> 01:46:32,678 Then again, none of us ever liked him. 1101 01:46:39,102 --> 01:46:43,314 And, of course, his power was carved up by the rest of us. 1102 01:46:45,149 --> 01:46:47,610 Before he died, we tortured him... 1103 01:46:47,777 --> 01:46:50,822 ...to find out what his father, Parmenion, knew. 1104 01:46:51,030 --> 01:46:53,157 But this we never learned. 1105 01:46:53,324 --> 01:46:57,412 What to do with Parmenion and his 20,000 troops guarding our supply lines... 1106 01:46:57,578 --> 01:46:59,664 ...was a far more delicate matter. 1107 01:46:59,831 --> 01:47:03,584 Was he innocent in this, or had he decided to act... 1108 01:47:03,751 --> 01:47:06,546 ...before age further withered his power? 1109 01:47:06,712 --> 01:47:10,049 - The men will follow their king. - Alexander won't be there. 1110 01:47:11,384 --> 01:47:13,302 Necessity required Alexander to act. 1111 01:47:13,469 --> 01:47:14,804 The infantry will follow me. 1112 01:47:14,971 --> 01:47:16,931 And he sealed the camp within the hour... 1113 01:47:17,098 --> 01:47:20,059 ...of the first accusations against Philotas. 1114 01:47:21,269 --> 01:47:25,189 Then go, Antigonus, and Cleitus. 1115 01:47:25,356 --> 01:47:27,233 And go quickly. 1116 01:47:30,111 --> 01:47:36,033 Three days' hard riding sent Antigonus and Cleitus to Parmenion... 1117 01:47:36,200 --> 01:47:39,787 ...the general most loyal to Philip. 1118 01:47:46,127 --> 01:47:49,630 His soldiers accepted the finding of guilt against Parmenion... 1119 01:47:49,797 --> 01:47:52,175 ...as they understood well the code of vengeance... 1120 01:47:52,341 --> 01:47:54,594 ...that made the head of family responsible... 1121 01:47:54,760 --> 01:47:57,346 ...for the behavior of all. 1122 01:47:59,599 --> 01:48:03,811 Many of us felt we were better off without that pompous thorn, Parmenion... 1123 01:48:03,978 --> 01:48:09,317 ...as Alexander promoted all of us generously. 1124 01:48:23,831 --> 01:48:28,377 If we issue the gold bullion in the name of Alexander, there'd be little resistance. 1125 01:48:28,586 --> 01:48:30,838 Cleitus. Antigonus. 1126 01:48:31,005 --> 01:48:32,757 Parmenion. 1127 01:50:46,140 --> 01:50:49,518 Come, Alexander, drink this sadness away. 1128 01:50:49,685 --> 01:50:51,979 If only thirst could quench sorrow, Ptolemy. 1129 01:50:55,358 --> 01:50:59,654 There's only one thing better than winning a battle, son... 1130 01:51:00,446 --> 01:51:03,282 ...and that's the taste of a new woman. 1131 01:51:03,449 --> 01:51:08,329 You'll find it far sweeter than self-pity. 1132 01:51:08,496 --> 01:51:11,791 Pausanias, you bore me. Be gone with you. 1133 01:51:11,957 --> 01:51:13,959 Alexander, I found you the right girl. 1134 01:51:14,126 --> 01:51:16,253 - What's your name, darling? - Antigone. 1135 01:51:16,420 --> 01:51:18,381 - What's your name? - Antigone. Whoo! 1136 01:51:20,341 --> 01:51:21,384 I love you. 1137 01:51:21,550 --> 01:51:23,010 And I love you, Cleitus. 1138 01:51:24,387 --> 01:51:26,764 - Please, no! - There you go. 1139 01:51:30,643 --> 01:51:32,937 I'll sleep in my grave, Hephaistion. 1140 01:51:33,104 --> 01:51:35,940 While alive, I prefer dancing. 1141 01:51:36,107 --> 01:51:37,858 Pausanias. 1142 01:51:38,859 --> 01:51:40,194 Who's your new friend? 1143 01:51:40,736 --> 01:51:42,780 - There's your new friend. - Please don't! 1144 01:51:42,947 --> 01:51:44,865 No! Please, no! 1145 01:51:45,032 --> 01:51:46,534 No! Please! 1146 01:51:55,668 --> 01:51:56,711 A toast. 1147 01:51:57,336 --> 01:51:58,796 A toast! 1148 01:51:59,380 --> 01:52:04,677 I drink to our Greek friends and to our new union... 1149 01:52:04,844 --> 01:52:10,808 ...Macedonia and Greece, equals in greatness! 1150 01:52:12,893 --> 01:52:19,900 And to Philip, our king, without whom this union could not be possible. 1151 01:52:20,067 --> 01:52:22,903 Come, Attalus, leave some damn air in the hall! 1152 01:52:24,572 --> 01:52:30,411 And last, I drink to the king's marriage to my niece, Eurydice... 1153 01:52:30,578 --> 01:52:33,622 ...a Macedonian queen we can be proud of! 1154 01:52:36,751 --> 01:52:39,837 To Philip and Eurydice... 1155 01:52:40,004 --> 01:52:43,466 ...and to their legitimate sons! 1156 01:52:45,551 --> 01:52:46,719 Alexander, don't! 1157 01:52:46,886 --> 01:52:49,638 What am I, you son of a dog? Come, then. 1158 01:53:01,734 --> 01:53:05,070 - Shut up. - Shut up. 1159 01:53:05,237 --> 01:53:06,947 Shut up, all of you! 1160 01:53:07,364 --> 01:53:09,950 This is my wedding, not some public brawl. 1161 01:53:10,117 --> 01:53:12,119 insolent pup. 1162 01:53:12,286 --> 01:53:15,706 Apologize, by Zeus, before you dishonor me. 1163 01:53:15,915 --> 01:53:19,084 You defend the man who called my mother a whore and me a bastard. 1164 01:53:19,251 --> 01:53:22,630 - And I dishonor you? - Ha! You listen like your mother. 1165 01:53:22,797 --> 01:53:24,799 Attalus is my family now, the same as you. 1166 01:53:24,965 --> 01:53:27,843 Then choose your relatives more carefully. 1167 01:53:28,010 --> 01:53:31,096 Don't expect me to sit here and watch you shame yourself. 1168 01:53:31,263 --> 01:53:34,433 - You insult me! - I insult you! 1169 01:53:34,600 --> 01:53:37,436 A man not fit to lick the ground my mother walks on. 1170 01:53:37,603 --> 01:53:40,689 - You dog, questioning your queen. - Shame? 1171 01:53:40,856 --> 01:53:44,652 I've nothing to be ashamed of, you arrogant brat. 1172 01:53:44,819 --> 01:53:48,614 I'll marry the girl if I want, and I'll have as many sons as I want. 1173 01:53:48,781 --> 01:53:51,534 There's nothing you or your harpy mother can do. 1174 01:53:51,700 --> 01:53:53,327 Why, drunken man, must you think... 1175 01:53:53,494 --> 01:53:55,996 ...everything I do and say comes from my mother? 1176 01:53:56,163 --> 01:53:59,083 Because I know her heart, by Hera... 1177 01:53:59,250 --> 01:54:01,460 ...and I see her in your eyes. 1178 01:54:01,627 --> 01:54:04,046 You covet this throne too much. 1179 01:54:05,464 --> 01:54:10,803 We all know that she-wolf of a mother of yours wants me dead. 1180 01:54:10,970 --> 01:54:13,264 Well, you can both dream, boy. 1181 01:54:13,430 --> 01:54:16,559 Philip, this is the wine talking. Leave the boy. It'll wait. 1182 01:54:16,725 --> 01:54:18,310 NOW! 1183 01:54:19,478 --> 01:54:21,355 I command you. 1184 01:54:22,606 --> 01:54:24,817 Apologize to your kinsman. 1185 01:54:33,534 --> 01:54:35,244 Apologize. 1186 01:54:35,411 --> 01:54:37,788 No kinsman to me. 1187 01:54:41,417 --> 01:54:43,294 Good night, old man. 1188 01:54:45,004 --> 01:54:49,216 And when my mother remarries, I'll invite you to her wedding. 1189 01:54:49,967 --> 01:54:51,719 You bastard! 1190 01:54:57,558 --> 01:54:59,226 You'll obey me. Come here. 1191 01:55:18,203 --> 01:55:22,041 And this is the man who is going to take you from Greece to Persia? 1192 01:55:22,207 --> 01:55:24,460 He can't even make it from one couch to the next. 1193 01:55:24,919 --> 01:55:28,672 Get out of my palace! You're exiled, you bastard! 1194 01:55:29,548 --> 01:55:33,010 Banished from the land. You're not welcome here. 1195 01:55:33,719 --> 01:55:35,930 You're no son of mine! 1196 01:56:15,511 --> 01:56:19,640 In the spring, Alexander marched an army of 150, 000... 1197 01:56:19,807 --> 01:56:22,851 ...across the passes of the Hindu Kush... 1198 01:56:23,394 --> 01:56:25,396 ...into the unknown. 1199 01:56:26,647 --> 01:56:31,485 In his dream, it was the promised route to the end of the world. 1200 01:56:31,652 --> 01:56:33,529 We were now a mobile empire... 1201 01:56:33,696 --> 01:56:37,574 ...stretching back thousands of miles to Greece. 1202 01:56:37,741 --> 01:56:40,661 Cooks and architects, doctors, surveyors... 1203 01:56:40,828 --> 01:56:42,287 ...moneylenders and wives... 1204 01:56:42,454 --> 01:56:45,332 . . . children, lovers, whores. 1205 01:56:45,541 --> 01:56:47,376 And slaves... 1206 01:56:47,584 --> 01:56:52,089 ...that anonymous, bent, working spine of this new beast. 1207 01:56:52,297 --> 01:56:56,135 Ravaged or expanded, for better or worse. .. 1208 01:56:57,011 --> 01:57:01,598 ...no occupied territory remained the same again. 1209 01:57:04,977 --> 01:57:06,979 Although devoted to Roxane... 1210 01:57:07,146 --> 01:57:10,274 ...Alexander's visits to her tent diminished... 1211 01:57:10,441 --> 01:57:15,446 ...as a year, then two, went by without a successor... 1212 01:57:16,363 --> 01:57:19,450 ...wounding Alexander's great pride. 1213 01:57:19,992 --> 01:57:22,870 The surveyors are saying that Zeus chained Prometheus up there. 1214 01:57:23,746 --> 01:57:26,081 In one of those caves. 1215 01:57:26,832 --> 01:57:29,626 They say there's a giant eagle's nest just above it. 1216 01:57:29,877 --> 01:57:34,673 I suppose he drops down each night to peck out poor Prometheus' liver. 1217 01:57:37,301 --> 01:57:40,763 You remember what Aristotle told us of these mountains? 1218 01:57:41,638 --> 01:57:43,307 Yes, I do. 1219 01:57:44,141 --> 01:57:46,226 That when we reach these heights... 1220 01:57:46,393 --> 01:57:49,605 ...we'd look back and see Macedonia to the west... 1221 01:57:49,772 --> 01:57:52,399 ...and the outer ocean to the east. 1222 01:57:56,487 --> 01:58:01,700 But I fear this world is far larger than anyone dreamed. 1223 01:58:01,867 --> 01:58:03,994 A world of Titans. 1224 01:58:04,161 --> 01:58:08,165 The scouts have been up every known trail, Alexander. 1225 01:58:08,332 --> 01:58:10,375 There is no way across. 1226 01:58:10,959 --> 01:58:15,172 Except to the south, into India. 1227 01:58:15,506 --> 01:58:18,592 Were we gods, we'd breach these walls to the eastern ocean. 1228 01:58:19,426 --> 01:58:21,136 We will, Alexander. 1229 01:58:21,303 --> 01:58:23,972 In a few years' time, we will return. 1230 01:58:24,181 --> 01:58:27,935 But first, the men must see their homes. 1231 01:58:29,394 --> 01:58:31,563 Have you found your home... 1232 01:58:31,772 --> 01:58:33,357 ...Ptolemy? 1233 01:58:38,070 --> 01:58:41,198 More and more, I think it will be Alexandria. 1234 01:58:43,408 --> 01:58:45,452 Well, at least it's hot. 1235 01:58:46,453 --> 01:58:48,205 And Thais... 1236 01:58:49,248 --> 01:58:51,125 ...she loved it there. 1237 01:58:53,085 --> 01:58:55,212 Women bring men home. 1238 01:58:56,463 --> 01:59:01,301 - I have no such feeling. - You have Babylon, Alexander. 1239 01:59:01,468 --> 01:59:03,512 Where your mother awaits your invitation. 1240 01:59:03,929 --> 01:59:06,723 Yes, I have Babylon. 1241 01:59:06,890 --> 01:59:11,186 But each land, each boundary I cross... 1242 01:59:11,353 --> 01:59:13,480 ...I strip away another illusion. 1243 01:59:14,940 --> 01:59:17,234 I sense death will be the last. 1244 01:59:19,903 --> 01:59:23,365 Yet still I push harder and harder... 1245 01:59:23,532 --> 01:59:27,119 ...to reach this home. 1246 01:59:32,749 --> 01:59:34,084 Where has our eagle gone? 1247 01:59:38,881 --> 01:59:40,841 We must go on, Ptolemy. 1248 01:59:42,259 --> 01:59:43,802 Until we find an end. 1249 02:01:30,242 --> 02:01:33,912 India, the land where the sun was born... 1250 02:01:34,079 --> 02:01:36,581 ...fabled to be even richer than Persia... 1251 02:01:36,748 --> 02:01:40,919 ...had never been explored or conquered. 1252 02:01:41,086 --> 02:01:46,425 From the beginning, Alexander struggled to unify a land without a center. 1253 02:01:46,591 --> 02:01:49,344 Kings who conspired against one another. 1254 02:01:49,511 --> 02:01:53,557 A labyrinth of tribes urged on by zealots and philosophers... 1255 02:01:53,765 --> 02:01:58,145 ...to die by the thousands for their strange gods. 1256 02:02:03,859 --> 02:02:07,821 Crateros, in the advance party, fought against men with hairy skins... 1257 02:02:08,030 --> 02:02:10,991 ...who were tiny and lived in the tops of trees. 1258 02:02:17,998 --> 02:02:19,249 They're animals. 1259 02:02:19,416 --> 02:02:21,877 Until Hephaistion convinced us these were animals... 1260 02:02:22,044 --> 02:02:24,171 ...who imitated men but wore their own skin. 1261 02:02:24,338 --> 02:02:25,714 Keep that away from me. 1262 02:02:25,881 --> 02:02:27,841 It's a monkey. Very intelligent. 1263 02:02:28,008 --> 02:02:29,176 Hello, little man. 1264 02:02:30,177 --> 02:02:33,597 - Do they speak? - No, but they do sing... 1265 02:02:33,764 --> 02:02:34,973 ...and make noises. 1266 02:02:41,229 --> 02:02:43,148 PTOLEMY". We saw men who walked naked in public... 1267 02:02:43,315 --> 02:02:47,903 ...and spent hours at a time staring and doing nothing. 1268 02:02:49,738 --> 02:02:52,532 And then, there was the rain. 1269 02:02:58,288 --> 02:03:02,042 Never before had we seen water that fell from the gods... 1270 02:03:02,209 --> 02:03:04,920 ...for 60 days and nights. 1271 02:03:08,757 --> 02:03:10,759 You know better, Machatas. 1272 02:03:14,429 --> 02:03:15,764 What's your son going to say? 1273 02:03:16,181 --> 02:03:18,475 Come on, man. The older you get, the stronger. 1274 02:03:18,642 --> 02:03:20,560 Right, my king. 1275 02:03:20,727 --> 02:03:22,187 Give me my horse, Alexander. 1276 02:03:22,354 --> 02:03:25,357 I'll be with you at your side. Aah! 1277 02:03:25,524 --> 02:03:27,025 Watch out for the serpent. 1278 02:03:27,192 --> 02:03:28,944 PTOLEMY". Everything rotted in this rain. 1279 02:03:29,111 --> 02:03:33,365 Scores of men died miserably from the tiny serpents... 1280 02:03:33,532 --> 02:03:35,951 -...that were everywhere in this evil land. - Cleitus, bring the snake healers! 1281 02:03:36,118 --> 02:03:37,744 Pauvanus. Someone bring Pauvanus. 1282 02:03:37,911 --> 02:03:39,037 Where's the bite? 1283 02:03:39,204 --> 02:03:40,789 - What happened? - It's to the neck. 1284 02:03:40,956 --> 02:03:43,458 Oh, no. Zeus, no. 1285 02:03:43,625 --> 02:03:45,085 Hold on. Hold on. 1286 02:03:47,129 --> 02:03:49,256 - Aah! - Be brave. 1287 02:03:49,464 --> 02:03:51,133 Be brave. 1288 02:03:51,299 --> 02:03:53,260 Oh, Zeus. 1289 02:03:55,095 --> 02:03:58,473 Our quest for gold and glory evaporated as we realized... 1290 02:03:58,932 --> 02:04:01,059 ...there was none to be had. 1291 02:04:01,768 --> 02:04:03,603 Tempers worsened. 1292 02:04:03,770 --> 02:04:06,731 We massacred all Indians who resisted. 1293 02:04:06,898 --> 02:04:09,025 And with the local water putrid... 1294 02:04:09,192 --> 02:04:11,903 ...we drank the strong wine. 1295 02:05:05,874 --> 02:05:08,585 And as we moved south and east... 1296 02:05:08,752 --> 02:05:13,590 ...Alexander often returned the lands we conquered to their defeated kings... 1297 02:05:13,757 --> 02:05:16,384 ...so as to make them allies. 1298 02:05:16,551 --> 02:05:18,762 But this did not sit well with the army... 1299 02:05:18,929 --> 02:05:20,263 ...who began to wonder: 1300 02:05:21,014 --> 02:05:23,099 "Were we here for riches?" 1301 02:05:23,266 --> 02:05:27,229 Or had Alexander, in some remorseless and crazed quest... 1302 02:05:27,395 --> 02:05:30,398 ...to imitate the glory of Herakles, forgotten them? 1303 02:05:31,316 --> 02:05:34,569 One thing an army knows quickly in their bones... 1304 02:05:34,736 --> 02:05:37,697 ...is which way the gods are blowing. 1305 02:05:56,383 --> 02:05:57,884 Come on. 1306 02:06:04,683 --> 02:06:06,309 Kiss him! 1307 02:06:29,291 --> 02:06:31,876 - To Bagoas. - To Bagoas! 1308 02:06:37,382 --> 02:06:41,511 - And to my mother's god, Dionysus... - Dionysus! 1309 02:06:41,678 --> 02:06:45,932 ...who, we're told by our Indian allies, traveled here before Herakles... 1310 02:06:46,099 --> 02:06:48,852 ...some 6000 years ago. 1311 02:06:49,019 --> 02:06:50,395 To a hero. 1312 02:06:50,562 --> 02:06:52,689 To a hero! 1313 02:07:12,459 --> 02:07:13,793 Roxane. 1314 02:07:20,759 --> 02:07:23,219 You lose face. 1315 02:07:23,386 --> 02:07:24,929 These Indians... 1316 02:07:25,138 --> 02:07:26,890 ...they are a low, evil people. 1317 02:07:27,057 --> 02:07:29,267 You don't try to understand them. 1318 02:07:29,684 --> 02:07:31,936 I try. 1319 02:07:32,145 --> 02:07:35,148 But this I know, Alexander. 1320 02:07:35,315 --> 02:07:38,443 In Persia, you are a great king. 1321 02:07:38,652 --> 02:07:40,153 Here... 1322 02:07:40,320 --> 02:07:42,280 ...they hate you. 1323 02:07:45,075 --> 02:07:48,203 Let us go back to Babylon. 1324 02:07:49,371 --> 02:07:50,872 There, you are strong. 1325 02:07:53,249 --> 02:07:55,377 We'll talk about this later. 1326 02:07:55,585 --> 02:07:57,170 Yes. 1327 02:07:57,337 --> 02:07:58,880 Later. 1328 02:07:59,047 --> 02:08:00,590 Talk. 1329 02:08:03,385 --> 02:08:05,345 I shall come. 1330 02:08:05,512 --> 02:08:06,638 Tonight. 1331 02:08:07,806 --> 02:08:09,683 And I shall wait. 1332 02:08:11,476 --> 02:08:13,603 Good night, my king. 1333 02:08:15,146 --> 02:08:17,482 Your Majesty. 1334 02:08:18,983 --> 02:08:21,945 Come, Alexander, drink with us. 1335 02:08:24,447 --> 02:08:27,575 - Alexander. - Alexander. 1336 02:08:29,494 --> 02:08:32,372 I remember a time you hated... 1337 02:08:32,539 --> 02:08:36,209 -...how your father drank. - Now I know why. 1338 02:08:38,002 --> 02:08:41,840 Dionysus is hero... 1339 02:08:43,174 --> 02:08:46,803 ...but he is also mind-breaker. 1340 02:08:47,011 --> 02:08:50,098 He destroys our self-control. 1341 02:08:50,932 --> 02:08:54,394 Self-control is a lover I've known too long, Ptolemy. 1342 02:08:57,897 --> 02:08:59,899 The struggle wearies me to the bone. 1343 02:09:01,985 --> 02:09:04,946 And success I find to be as corrupt as failure. 1344 02:09:06,322 --> 02:09:07,824 But Dionysus... 1345 02:09:07,991 --> 02:09:10,493 ...bless his ancient soul... 1346 02:09:10,660 --> 02:09:12,954 ...frees me from myself. 1347 02:09:13,872 --> 02:09:17,250 And then, I'm with them. 1348 02:09:20,336 --> 02:09:23,047 I am simply Alexander. 1349 02:09:27,177 --> 02:09:28,970 A toast to Bagoas. 1350 02:09:30,680 --> 02:09:35,351 And the 30,000 beautiful Persian boys... 1351 02:09:35,518 --> 02:09:37,937 ...we're training to fight in this great army. 1352 02:09:40,940 --> 02:09:42,984 And to the memory of Philip. 1353 02:09:43,193 --> 02:09:46,070 Had he lived to see his Macedonians... 1354 02:09:46,237 --> 02:09:49,157 ...transformed into such... 1355 02:09:49,324 --> 02:09:50,992 ...a pretty am“!- 1356 02:09:53,369 --> 02:09:54,662 To Philip. 1357 02:09:54,829 --> 02:09:56,831 To a real hero. 1358 02:09:57,040 --> 02:09:59,375 Philip! 1359 02:10:02,170 --> 02:10:06,883 And to Cleitus and his new appointment as satrap of Bactria. 1360 02:10:07,091 --> 02:10:08,760 Cleitus. 1361 02:10:10,303 --> 02:10:12,931 That's a fancy way of putting it, Ptolemy. 1362 02:10:13,097 --> 02:10:16,100 But we all know what a pension and an exile is... 1363 02:10:16,267 --> 02:10:18,645 ...after 30 years' service. 1364 02:10:18,812 --> 02:10:20,230 Exile? 1365 02:10:20,605 --> 02:10:22,357 From what, Cleitus? 1366 02:10:22,524 --> 02:10:25,610 From my home, Alexander, Macedonia. 1367 02:10:25,777 --> 02:10:29,072 You could've asked me where I wanted to spend the rest of my life. 1368 02:10:29,280 --> 02:10:33,201 You call governing this major province exile? 1369 02:10:33,451 --> 02:10:36,538 Has Your Majesty given any of his closest companions... 1370 02:10:37,413 --> 02:10:39,499 ...a province so far from home? 1371 02:10:39,666 --> 02:10:41,960 Then you won't make a very good satrap, will you, Cleitus? 1372 02:10:46,339 --> 02:10:47,882 So be it. 1373 02:10:48,091 --> 02:10:51,761 Let me rot in Macedonian rags... 1374 02:10:51,928 --> 02:10:54,055 ...rather than shine... 1375 02:10:54,222 --> 02:10:55,390 ...in Eastern pomp. 1376 02:10:56,850 --> 02:11:00,603 I won't quake and bow down like the sycophants you have around you. 1377 02:11:00,979 --> 02:11:04,816 - Hephaistion, Nearchus, Perdiccas. - Hey. 1378 02:11:05,525 --> 02:11:09,988 As governor of one of our most Asian of satrapies... 1379 02:11:10,154 --> 02:11:14,993 ...Cleitus, does it not occur to you that if my Persian subjects... 1380 02:11:15,159 --> 02:11:18,121 ...bow down before me, it's important for them to do so? 1381 02:11:18,288 --> 02:11:21,040 Do I insist on Greeks doing the same? 1382 02:11:21,457 --> 02:11:26,170 You accept Greek offerings as a son of Zeus, do you not? 1383 02:11:28,339 --> 02:11:29,674 Only when offered. 1384 02:11:29,841 --> 02:11:32,260 Why don't you refuse these vain flatteries? 1385 02:11:32,927 --> 02:11:35,388 What freedom is this, to bow before you? 1386 02:11:35,763 --> 02:11:38,349 You bow before Herakles, and he was mortal... 1387 02:11:38,558 --> 02:11:40,184 ...but a son of Zeus. 1388 02:11:40,351 --> 02:11:43,855 How can you, so young, compare yourself to Herakles? 1389 02:11:45,273 --> 02:11:47,025 Why not? 1390 02:11:49,736 --> 02:11:52,113 I've achieved more in my years. 1391 02:11:52,280 --> 02:11:53,907 Traveled as far. 1392 02:11:54,073 --> 02:11:55,116 Probably farther. 1393 02:11:55,283 --> 02:11:57,493 Herakles did it by himself. 1394 02:11:57,660 --> 02:12:00,872 Did you conquer Asia by yourself, Alexander? 1395 02:12:01,039 --> 02:12:02,665 Who planned the Asian invasion... 1396 02:12:02,832 --> 02:12:06,669 ...when you were still being spanked on your bottom by my sister Lanice? 1397 02:12:07,003 --> 02:12:08,922 Was it not your father? 1398 02:12:09,088 --> 02:12:10,965 Or is his blood no longer good enough? 1399 02:12:11,591 --> 02:12:15,094 - Zeus-Amon, is it? - You insult me, Cleitus. 1400 02:12:15,261 --> 02:12:17,805 You mock my family. Be careful. 1401 02:12:18,306 --> 02:12:21,768 Never would your father have taken barbarians as his friends... 1402 02:12:21,935 --> 02:12:24,604 ...asked us to fight with them as equals in war. 1403 02:12:24,771 --> 02:12:26,648 Are we not good enough any longer? 1404 02:12:26,940 --> 02:12:29,192 I remember a time... 1405 02:12:29,359 --> 02:12:31,903 ...when we could talk as men, straight to the eye. 1406 02:12:32,070 --> 02:12:34,739 None of this scraping, groveling. 1407 02:12:35,406 --> 02:12:37,700 I remember a time when we hunted... 1408 02:12:37,867 --> 02:12:40,495 ...when we wrestled on the gymnasium floor. 1409 02:12:41,079 --> 02:12:43,081 Now you kiss them? 1410 02:12:44,499 --> 02:12:49,504 Take a barbarian, childless wife and dare call her queen? 1411 02:12:52,215 --> 02:12:55,718 Go quickly, Cleitus, before you ruin your life. 1412 02:12:59,681 --> 02:13:03,309 Doesn't your great pride fear the gods any longer? 1413 02:13:04,519 --> 02:13:07,814 This army... This army is your blood, boy! 1414 02:13:08,022 --> 02:13:10,024 Without it, you're nothing! 1415 02:13:15,321 --> 02:13:18,866 You no longer serve the purpose of this march! 1416 02:13:19,033 --> 02:13:21,828 - Get him from my sight! - I don't serve your purpose? 1417 02:13:21,995 --> 02:13:25,832 What was I serving when I saved your puppy life at Gaugamela? 1418 02:13:25,999 --> 02:13:27,083 Were you Zeus' boy? 1419 02:13:27,250 --> 02:13:29,335 What if I left you to die in the dust there? 1420 02:13:29,502 --> 02:13:32,922 Do you think we'd be forced now to mate with brown apes? 1421 02:13:33,297 --> 02:13:34,507 Alexander! 1422 02:13:34,674 --> 02:13:36,968 Turn out the guards! Arrest him for treason! 1423 02:13:44,517 --> 02:13:46,185 - Who's with him? - No. 1424 02:13:46,561 --> 02:13:47,895 Who's with him? 1425 02:13:48,688 --> 02:13:50,690 I call Father Zeus to witness. 1426 02:13:51,065 --> 02:13:53,151 I call you to trial before him! 1427 02:13:53,317 --> 02:13:55,820 And we'll see how deep this conspiracy cuts! 1428 02:13:55,987 --> 02:13:58,239 - Take him! - In the name of the gods, get him out! 1429 02:13:58,698 --> 02:14:00,199 Now look at you! 1430 02:14:00,366 --> 02:14:02,827 Great white arse, Alexander. 1431 02:14:02,994 --> 02:14:04,704 Hiding behind his fairy god! 1432 02:14:04,871 --> 02:14:08,750 Or are you too great to remember... 1433 02:14:08,916 --> 02:14:11,377 ...whose life was saved by me? 1434 02:14:11,544 --> 02:14:14,047 I am more man than you'll ever be! 1435 02:14:14,213 --> 02:14:16,841 - Aah! - Eve r! 1436 02:14:17,800 --> 02:14:20,261 - He's gone. He's gone. - Get him out! 1437 02:14:20,428 --> 02:14:23,097 - Alexander! Alexander! - Come on! 1438 02:14:23,514 --> 02:14:25,641 What a tyrant you are! 1439 02:14:25,808 --> 02:14:28,144 Evil tyrant you've become, Alexander. 1440 02:14:28,311 --> 02:14:31,355 You speak about plots against you? What about poor Parmenion? 1441 02:14:31,522 --> 02:14:33,191 - Parmenion? - Yeah. 1442 02:14:33,357 --> 02:14:34,650 He served you well. 1443 02:14:34,817 --> 02:14:37,904 Look how you repaid him. You made me do your foul deed. 1444 02:14:38,071 --> 02:14:40,114 - Have you no shame? - You ungrateful wretch! 1445 02:14:40,281 --> 02:14:42,950 No one, not my vilest enemy, has spoken like you to me. 1446 02:14:43,117 --> 02:14:44,160 Hear what I say! 1447 02:14:44,327 --> 02:14:45,536 Despot. False king. 1448 02:14:47,789 --> 02:14:50,500 You and your barbarian mother live in shame. 1449 02:15:15,316 --> 02:15:16,901 Cleitus. 1450 02:15:17,193 --> 02:15:19,028 Oh, my Cleitus. 1451 02:15:26,661 --> 02:15:28,204 - Let me pass. - None can enter. 1452 02:15:28,371 --> 02:15:30,289 I am the queen. 1453 02:15:38,339 --> 02:15:40,591 I want to see him. I've waited three days. 1454 02:15:40,758 --> 02:15:43,261 He says none, not even you. 1455 02:15:44,595 --> 02:15:48,516 - He needs me. - No, he doesn't. 1456 02:15:48,683 --> 02:15:50,226 And he needs you? 1457 02:15:52,019 --> 02:15:53,646 Hephaistion, you make a mistake. 1458 02:15:57,441 --> 02:15:59,694 The army grows restless... 1459 02:15:59,861 --> 02:16:01,737 ...questioning. 1460 02:16:02,738 --> 02:16:04,532 Alexander. 1461 02:16:07,201 --> 02:16:08,744 They need your reassurance. 1462 02:16:10,037 --> 02:16:11,622 Yes. 1463 02:16:11,789 --> 02:16:15,918 Like an old lover they forgive, but they will never forget. 1464 02:16:16,085 --> 02:16:18,629 He was an aging drunk. 1465 02:16:18,796 --> 02:16:20,756 He was my friend. 1466 02:16:22,884 --> 02:16:25,428 His sister Lanice nursed me. 1467 02:16:26,512 --> 02:16:28,890 And how did I repay her? 1468 02:16:30,141 --> 02:16:33,603 Two brothers dead, fighting, and by my own hands... 1469 02:16:33,769 --> 02:16:36,189 ...her last remaining blood. 1470 02:16:39,609 --> 02:16:44,071 What will she do but weep on the day of my birth? 1471 02:16:45,406 --> 02:16:46,449 Come. 1472 02:16:46,616 --> 02:16:47,950 You know more than any... 1473 02:16:48,117 --> 02:16:52,580 ...great deeds are done by men who took and never regretted. 1474 02:16:52,747 --> 02:16:54,582 You're Alexander. 1475 02:16:54,749 --> 02:16:57,585 Pity and grief will only destroy you. 1476 02:16:57,752 --> 02:17:01,881 Have I become so arrogant that I am blind? 1477 02:17:03,925 --> 02:17:04,967 Sometimes... 1478 02:17:05,134 --> 02:17:07,762 ...to expect the best of everyone... 1479 02:17:07,929 --> 02:17:10,890 ...is arrogance. 1480 02:17:12,850 --> 02:17:15,478 Then Cleitus spoke true. 1481 02:17:15,645 --> 02:17:18,064 I am become a tyrant. 1482 02:17:18,940 --> 02:17:20,650 No. 1483 02:17:22,944 --> 02:17:25,029 But perhaps a stranger. 1484 02:17:27,073 --> 02:17:29,325 You've gone too far. 1485 02:17:30,409 --> 02:17:32,870 They don't understand you anymore. 1486 02:17:34,830 --> 02:17:38,793 They speak of Philip now... 1487 02:17:38,960 --> 02:17:42,213 ...as if I were a passing cloud... 1488 02:17:42,880 --> 02:17:45,174 ...soon to be forgotten. 1489 02:17:47,301 --> 02:17:49,136 I've failed... 1490 02:17:49,303 --> 02:17:50,930 ...utterly. 1491 02:17:53,140 --> 02:17:55,142 You're mortal. 1492 02:17:55,309 --> 02:17:57,228 And they know it. 1493 02:17:57,395 --> 02:18:01,732 And they forgive you because you make them proud of themselves. 1494 02:18:02,566 --> 02:18:05,152 Philip once said... 1495 02:18:07,405 --> 02:18:09,991 ...that there's a Titan in all of us. 1496 02:18:11,117 --> 02:18:13,911 That they wait, mixed in our ashes. 1497 02:18:19,458 --> 02:18:22,378 It wasn't because of the wine I killed him. 1498 02:18:22,586 --> 02:18:24,839 It was because I wanted to. 1499 02:18:52,992 --> 02:18:56,203 Philip, King of Macedonia... 1500 02:18:56,412 --> 02:18:58,122 ...and leader of the Greeks. 1501 02:18:58,998 --> 02:19:03,961 All my life, I've waited to see Greeks grovel with respect for Macedonia. 1502 02:19:05,212 --> 02:19:07,256 Today is that day. 1503 02:19:11,927 --> 02:19:14,638 They say already, "Philip was a great general... 1504 02:19:14,805 --> 02:19:18,684 ...but Alexander is simply great." 1505 02:19:20,186 --> 02:19:22,772 But if you ever insult me again... 1506 02:19:22,938 --> 02:19:24,857 ...I'll kill you. 1507 02:19:30,780 --> 02:19:32,239 I've missed you. 1508 02:19:32,406 --> 02:19:34,950 In the spring, Persia... 1509 02:19:35,117 --> 02:19:37,453 ...you'll command my horse from the right. 1510 02:19:37,620 --> 02:19:39,246 I'm honored, Father. 1511 02:19:39,413 --> 02:19:41,707 I wouldn't miss it for all the gold in the world. 1512 02:19:41,874 --> 02:19:43,334 Which, one day, you'll have. 1513 02:20:00,976 --> 02:20:03,437 Making himself a 13th god. 1514 02:20:03,604 --> 02:20:05,731 He's drunk so much wine, my poor Philip. 1515 02:20:05,898 --> 02:20:07,942 He's lost his mind. 1516 02:20:10,986 --> 02:20:13,656 - Your Majesty. - Attalus. 1517 02:20:18,285 --> 02:20:21,080 I hope the prince is enjoying the spectacle... 1518 02:20:21,247 --> 02:20:24,166 ...as much as our regent. 1519 02:20:24,333 --> 02:20:25,876 He's very tired. 1520 02:20:30,089 --> 02:20:31,507 Hey- 1521 02:20:34,844 --> 02:20:37,888 - Pausanias, bring the rest of the guard. - Royal guard! 1522 02:20:38,264 --> 02:20:40,975 To the arena! March! 1523 02:20:41,142 --> 02:20:44,019 No guard, Your Majesty? In all this crowd? 1524 02:20:44,186 --> 02:20:47,982 - Greeks all over the place. - Cleitus, Cleitus. 1525 02:20:48,149 --> 02:20:49,817 My Cleitus. 1526 02:20:50,276 --> 02:20:52,778 This man you can always trust, Alexander. 1527 02:20:53,362 --> 02:20:54,947 Treat him as you would me. 1528 02:20:55,114 --> 02:20:57,158 He'll guard your back for you. 1529 02:20:57,825 --> 02:20:59,410 Yes, Father. 1530 02:20:59,743 --> 02:21:02,621 My people are guard enough today. 1531 02:21:02,788 --> 02:21:06,292 Let these Greeks see for themselves how I can walk through my people. 1532 02:21:06,459 --> 02:21:07,918 Then let them call me tyrant. 1533 02:21:08,627 --> 02:21:11,839 Bring the main guard in after my entry only. 1534 02:21:12,006 --> 02:21:15,676 Cleitus, make sure the wine flows steady all day. 1535 02:21:15,843 --> 02:21:17,887 I want them to like me. 1536 02:21:25,019 --> 02:21:27,646 Weren't you told? I go in alone. 1537 02:21:27,813 --> 02:21:29,899 Follow with the main guard. 1538 02:21:30,107 --> 02:21:31,525 Go on. 1539 02:21:34,612 --> 02:21:37,740 - Go on. - Father, it's best I go with you. 1540 02:21:40,034 --> 02:21:43,120 You want the world to see you're my successor. 1541 02:21:43,329 --> 02:21:45,206 Is that what she wants? 1542 02:21:45,831 --> 02:21:48,542 Don't look so hurt all the time, Alexander. Be a man. 1543 02:21:48,709 --> 02:21:52,880 You count yourself lucky you were here at all today, after your public display. 1544 02:21:56,717 --> 02:21:58,886 By Herakles, by Zeus, by all the gods... 1545 02:21:59,053 --> 02:22:01,514 ...obey me this once! 1546 02:22:02,890 --> 02:22:05,476 Have courage, Father. 1547 02:22:05,643 --> 02:22:08,145 And go on your way rejoicing that at each step... 1548 02:22:08,354 --> 02:22:10,564 ...you may recall your valor. 1549 02:22:46,225 --> 02:22:50,271 And now, our beloved King Philip... 1550 02:22:50,437 --> 02:22:53,524 ...in whose honor these wedding games begin. 1551 02:23:11,667 --> 02:23:14,169 Pausanias, I told you-- Ugh. 1552 02:23:23,095 --> 02:23:26,015 Who's your new friend? There's your new friend. 1553 02:23:27,099 --> 02:23:29,184 No! Please, no! 1554 02:23:32,730 --> 02:23:34,607 Please, no! 1555 02:25:09,076 --> 02:25:11,578 The king lives! 1556 02:25:11,745 --> 02:25:15,082 Alexander, son of Philip! 1557 02:25:15,249 --> 02:25:17,876 May the gods bless the king! 1558 02:25:18,669 --> 02:25:20,212 Long live Alexander! 1559 02:25:21,630 --> 02:25:24,007 Alexander is king! 1560 02:25:26,885 --> 02:25:29,888 You're king now. You're king. 1561 02:25:30,431 --> 02:25:32,933 Long live Alexander! 1562 02:25:34,893 --> 02:25:36,186 Alexander! 1563 02:25:36,353 --> 02:25:39,148 - King Alexander! - Alexander is king! 1564 02:25:39,314 --> 02:25:42,025 - Alexander! - Alexander! 1565 02:25:43,819 --> 02:25:46,238 Alexander is king! 1566 02:25:46,405 --> 02:25:48,490 Alexander is king! 1567 02:25:50,200 --> 02:25:53,537 May the gods bless Alexander! 1568 02:25:55,330 --> 02:25:58,459 May the gods bless the king! 1569 02:25:58,667 --> 02:26:01,879 - Alexander! - Alexander! 1570 02:26:10,053 --> 02:26:11,472 Get out. 1571 02:26:12,890 --> 02:26:14,391 Go. 1572 02:26:19,146 --> 02:26:21,732 How can you behave so shamelessly in public? 1573 02:26:21,899 --> 02:26:24,485 Because it was meant to be. 1574 02:26:24,651 --> 02:26:26,487 This isn't how I wanted to become king. 1575 02:26:26,653 --> 02:26:29,490 - No one blames you. - They blame me already behind my back! 1576 02:26:29,740 --> 02:26:31,742 - In secret. - Slander is not power. 1577 02:26:32,075 --> 02:26:37,247 Shame is? Who killed my father? 1578 02:26:37,998 --> 02:26:39,583 Tell me. 1579 02:26:39,750 --> 02:26:42,461 Tell me, or shall I put you on trial for his murder? 1580 02:26:42,628 --> 02:26:45,255 - Pausanias. - He had help! 1581 02:26:45,422 --> 02:26:47,341 Did you help him? 1582 02:26:54,640 --> 02:26:56,725 No, never. 1583 02:26:57,434 --> 02:27:00,395 Why? Why would I? 1584 02:27:01,396 --> 02:27:03,148 So many wanted it. 1585 02:27:03,315 --> 02:27:05,943 Greeks, Persians, men, women... 1586 02:27:06,109 --> 02:27:08,904 I would be shocked if there were not a god or two he had not profaned. 1587 02:27:09,071 --> 02:27:10,614 How ironic though, in the end... 1588 02:27:10,781 --> 02:27:14,117 ...a boy he rodded with once too often, returned the favor. 1589 02:27:14,284 --> 02:27:16,411 - You're mad. You're cursed. - Ah. 1590 02:27:16,578 --> 02:27:19,373 You've unleashed Furies, you don't know their power. 1591 02:27:19,540 --> 02:27:22,417 Now who is exaggerating? 1592 02:27:23,377 --> 02:27:25,879 Even if it was the wish of your heart-- 1593 02:27:26,088 --> 02:27:28,173 That's a lie! He was my father! I loved him! 1594 02:27:28,382 --> 02:27:30,384 He was not your father! 1595 02:27:30,551 --> 02:27:32,719 You owe no blood debt to that man. 1596 02:27:32,886 --> 02:27:35,722 You lie and lie and lie. 1597 02:27:35,889 --> 02:27:38,934 So many lies you've spun like a sorceress, confusing me. 1598 02:27:39,101 --> 02:27:42,521 Look at you. Look at you. 1599 02:27:42,688 --> 02:27:46,191 You are everything that he was not. 1600 02:27:46,358 --> 02:27:49,611 He was coarse, you are refined. 1601 02:27:49,778 --> 02:27:53,699 He was a general, and you are a king. 1602 02:27:53,866 --> 02:27:55,701 He could not rule himself... 1603 02:27:56,201 --> 02:27:59,288 ...and you shall rule the world. 1604 02:27:59,496 --> 02:28:03,208 You're so cursed by all the gods when you speak like this. 1605 02:28:03,375 --> 02:28:05,419 Such thick pride... 1606 02:28:05,586 --> 02:28:07,296 ...and no mourning for your husband. 1607 02:28:07,504 --> 02:28:08,881 Mourn... 1608 02:28:09,047 --> 02:28:10,632 ...him? 1609 02:28:11,592 --> 02:28:14,136 What do you know of Philip? 1610 02:28:15,637 --> 02:28:19,933 No, Alexander. Zeus is your father. 1611 02:28:20,642 --> 02:28:24,396 - Act like it. - My first act would be to kill you! 1612 02:28:25,647 --> 02:28:27,983 You murdered me in my cradle. 1613 02:28:28,150 --> 02:28:30,402 You birthed me in a sack of hate. 1614 02:28:30,569 --> 02:28:32,738 Hate you have for those stronger than you. 1615 02:28:32,905 --> 02:28:36,783 - Hate you have for men. - I taught you my heart, Alexander! 1616 02:28:36,950 --> 02:28:39,870 And by Zeus and Dionysus, you grew beautiful. 1617 02:28:40,037 --> 02:28:42,289 Damn your sorceress soul. 1618 02:28:42,456 --> 02:28:44,958 Your soul is mine, Alexander. 1619 02:28:46,501 --> 02:28:48,003 No! No! 1620 02:28:48,670 --> 02:28:52,549 You've taken from me everything I've ever loved and made me you! 1621 02:28:53,175 --> 02:28:55,218 Stop it. Stop acting like a boy. 1622 02:28:55,385 --> 02:28:58,055 You're a king. Act like one. 1623 02:28:58,221 --> 02:28:59,765 Parmenion is with us, for once. 1624 02:28:59,973 --> 02:29:02,100 Execute Attalus without delay. 1625 02:29:02,267 --> 02:29:04,937 Confiscate their lands and root out that family forever. 1626 02:29:05,103 --> 02:29:06,521 Eurydice? Never. 1627 02:29:06,688 --> 02:29:08,106 Laugh, you monster. 1628 02:29:08,273 --> 02:29:09,691 You heartbreaker. 1629 02:29:09,858 --> 02:29:12,903 How will you live out the year like this? 1630 02:29:13,070 --> 02:29:17,616 - Have you learned nothing from Philip? - No. From you, Mother. 1631 02:29:20,786 --> 02:29:22,537 The best. 1632 02:29:32,547 --> 02:29:37,135 What have I done to make you hate me so? 1633 02:29:39,721 --> 02:29:44,393 One day, you will understand this. 1634 02:29:44,559 --> 02:29:47,938 But I have only you in my heart. 1635 02:29:50,732 --> 02:29:53,986 I know what you need. 1636 02:29:54,903 --> 02:29:57,030 Now is the time. 1637 02:29:57,364 --> 02:29:59,449 The gods favor you. 1638 02:29:59,950 --> 02:30:03,161 Great wealth, power, conquest. 1639 02:30:03,412 --> 02:30:05,163 All you desire. 1640 02:30:05,372 --> 02:30:08,000 The world is yours! 1641 02:30:08,166 --> 02:30:10,085 Take it. 1642 02:30:14,548 --> 02:30:16,425 Take it. 1643 02:30:38,530 --> 02:30:41,992 PTOLEMY". He never saw his mother again. 1644 02:30:45,620 --> 02:30:48,957 And while he was away, fighting the Northern tribes... 1645 02:30:49,124 --> 02:30:54,796 ...Olympias had Philip's new wife, Eurydice, and her infant son murdered. 1646 02:30:55,338 --> 02:30:56,381 By necessity... 1647 02:30:56,548 --> 02:31:00,844 ...Alexander had her uncle Attalus executed. 1648 02:31:15,984 --> 02:31:18,320 You break my heart, you men. 1649 02:31:18,487 --> 02:31:20,197 Afraid. 1650 02:31:21,698 --> 02:31:23,283 Of course you have fears. 1651 02:31:23,450 --> 02:31:24,868 We all have fears... 1652 02:31:25,035 --> 02:31:28,497 ...because no one has ever gone this far before. 1653 02:31:28,789 --> 02:31:33,085 And now we are weeks from the encircling ocean, our route home. 1654 02:31:33,543 --> 02:31:35,045 We'll build a fleet of ships... 1655 02:31:35,212 --> 02:31:38,173 ...and sail all the way back down the Nile to Egypt. 1656 02:31:38,340 --> 02:31:41,510 And from Alexandria, we shall be home within weeks. 1657 02:31:42,010 --> 02:31:44,221 There to be reunited with our loved ones. 1658 02:31:44,387 --> 02:31:47,974 To share our great treasures and tales of Asia. 1659 02:31:48,141 --> 02:31:52,854 And to enjoy our imperishable glory to the ends of time. 1660 02:31:54,272 --> 02:31:57,567 - Follow Alexander. - I'll follow you. 1661 02:32:02,197 --> 02:32:03,865 What? 1662 02:32:04,032 --> 02:32:07,619 - Silence? - We're with you, Alexander! 1663 02:32:07,953 --> 02:32:09,454 Crateros. 1664 02:32:11,581 --> 02:32:12,833 Crateros. 1665 02:32:12,999 --> 02:32:14,167 And another one. 1666 02:32:26,179 --> 02:32:27,472 My king. 1667 02:32:27,639 --> 02:32:29,474 I'm a fighting man. 1668 02:32:29,683 --> 02:32:33,645 I don't like no bellyaching. I won't tolerate it in any of my units. 1669 02:32:35,105 --> 02:32:37,315 I lost many a man. 1670 02:32:38,400 --> 02:32:41,069 Young ones, never been with a woman. 1671 02:32:42,195 --> 02:32:44,364 Some died of disease. 1672 02:32:44,948 --> 02:32:49,161 Some were butchered in Scythia by the banks of the Oxus. 1673 02:32:49,327 --> 02:32:51,079 Some died good. 1674 02:32:51,246 --> 02:32:54,291 Some just didn't get no luck. 1675 02:32:55,167 --> 02:32:56,918 But they died. 1676 02:32:59,254 --> 02:33:02,174 Forty thousand I come over with eight years ago. 1677 02:33:02,340 --> 02:33:06,428 And we march after you more than 10,000 miles. 1678 02:33:07,470 --> 02:33:11,141 In the rain and the sun, we fought for you. 1679 02:33:11,308 --> 02:33:14,394 Some of us, 50 battles we've been in. 1680 02:33:15,270 --> 02:33:17,647 We killed many a barbarian. 1681 02:33:19,316 --> 02:33:24,029 And now when I look around, how many of them faces do I see? 1682 02:33:24,529 --> 02:33:28,116 Now you want us to fight more of these crazy monkey tribes east of here. 1683 02:33:28,283 --> 02:33:31,828 We hear talk of thousands of these elephant monsters... 1684 02:33:31,995 --> 02:33:33,205 ...cross a hundred more rivers. 1685 02:33:35,790 --> 02:33:39,794 - Crateros. Good Crateros. - Quiet! 1686 02:33:40,712 --> 02:33:45,884 Who better than you to speak, most noble of men. 1687 02:33:46,968 --> 02:33:50,805 But you know there's no part of me without a scar or a bone broken. 1688 02:33:50,972 --> 02:33:54,309 By sword, knife, stone, catapult and club. 1689 02:33:54,476 --> 02:33:56,728 I've shared every hardship with all of you. 1690 02:33:56,895 --> 02:34:00,273 You have, my king, and we love you for it. 1691 02:34:01,608 --> 02:34:04,903 But, by Zeus, too many have died. 1692 02:34:05,654 --> 02:34:08,949 You have no children, Alexander, and we're just... 1693 02:34:09,115 --> 02:34:13,912 ...humble men, we seek no disturbance with the gods. All we wish for... 1694 02:34:14,120 --> 02:34:20,919 ...is to see our children and our wives and our grandchildren one last time... 1695 02:34:21,127 --> 02:34:24,756 ...before we join our brothers in that dark house they call Hades. 1696 02:34:28,843 --> 02:34:32,514 Yes. You're right, Crateros. 1697 02:34:32,681 --> 02:34:33,848 I have been negligent. 1698 02:34:36,059 --> 02:34:38,937 I should've sent you veterans home sooner, and I will. 1699 02:34:39,145 --> 02:34:41,856 The first of you shall be the Silver Shields. 1700 02:34:42,023 --> 02:34:44,818 Then every man who's served seven years. 1701 02:34:44,985 --> 02:34:47,028 With full pensions from our treasury. 1702 02:34:48,446 --> 02:34:52,075 And respected, rich, loved. 1703 02:34:52,242 --> 02:34:54,703 You'll be treated by your wives and children... 1704 02:34:54,869 --> 02:34:56,997 ...as heroes for the rest of your lives... 1705 02:34:57,163 --> 02:35:01,376 ...and enjoy a peaceful death. 1706 02:35:03,003 --> 02:35:04,796 But you dream, Crateros. 1707 02:35:05,672 --> 02:35:09,968 Your simplicity long ended when you took Persian mistresses and children... 1708 02:35:10,176 --> 02:35:14,389 ...and you thickened your holdings with plunder and jewels. 1709 02:35:15,223 --> 02:35:20,562 Because you've fallen in love with all the things in life that destroy men. 1710 02:35:21,563 --> 02:35:23,773 Do you not see? 1711 02:35:25,066 --> 02:35:28,320 And you, as well as I, know... 1712 02:35:28,486 --> 02:35:32,741 ...that as the years decline and the memories stale... 1713 02:35:32,907 --> 02:35:35,744 ...and all your great victories fade... 1714 02:35:35,910 --> 02:35:41,583 ...it will always be remembered, you left your king in Asia! 1715 02:35:41,750 --> 02:35:44,294 For I will go on, with my Asians. 1716 02:35:47,922 --> 02:35:49,966 To the jackals with you, then, Alexander. 1717 02:35:50,133 --> 02:35:52,177 We come for you, and you discard us. 1718 02:35:52,344 --> 02:35:54,763 - Shame! - We want to go home, Alexander. 1719 02:35:54,929 --> 02:35:56,556 We're tired of glory. 1720 02:35:56,723 --> 02:35:59,642 We want to see our wives and children before we die. 1721 02:36:01,770 --> 02:36:03,730 I've got children I haven't even seen. 1722 02:36:07,609 --> 02:36:10,528 I want to see my children. 1723 02:36:10,695 --> 02:36:14,616 I paid for your bastard children. I've taken nothing for myself. 1724 02:36:14,783 --> 02:36:16,785 And all I've asked of you is one more month. 1725 02:36:16,951 --> 02:36:18,828 - Shame. - That's your king. 1726 02:36:20,288 --> 02:36:21,373 What would your father say? 1727 02:36:21,539 --> 02:36:24,709 I've taken you further than my father ever dreamed. 1728 02:36:24,876 --> 02:36:28,838 So go home. I look to the barbarians for their courage. 1729 02:36:30,298 --> 02:36:31,716 I go east. 1730 02:36:31,883 --> 02:36:33,843 He wants us dead so we can't speak of his crimes. 1731 02:36:34,010 --> 02:36:36,262 - Who said that? - We won't make it to Macedonia. 1732 02:36:36,429 --> 02:36:38,223 You despicable coward. Come forth. 1733 02:36:38,390 --> 02:36:41,309 - Make your accusations public. - So you can have us killed? 1734 02:36:41,476 --> 02:36:42,560 Son of Zeus. 1735 02:36:42,727 --> 02:36:44,479 You desecrate your real father's memory. 1736 02:36:44,646 --> 02:36:46,773 Or did you murder him like you did Cleitus? 1737 02:36:46,940 --> 02:36:50,944 Hide. Hide in this mob because I will take your-- 1738 02:37:00,870 --> 02:37:05,667 You men insult my honor, my paternity. Arrest him. 1739 02:37:05,834 --> 02:37:09,712 And him. Yes. And you, this loudmouth Demetrius. 1740 02:37:09,879 --> 02:37:13,550 You call me murderer? I have no such blood on my hands. 1741 02:37:13,716 --> 02:37:16,845 And him. Yes, you'll know the pain of treason. 1742 02:37:18,096 --> 02:37:22,016 You mock my shame for Cleitus and say I'd harm a hair of my father's head. 1743 02:37:22,725 --> 02:37:26,521 Arrest him. After all I've done for you, you swine. 1744 02:37:26,688 --> 02:37:28,606 You cowards. Traitors. 1745 02:37:31,151 --> 02:37:33,528 Come on, then. Where are your daggers? 1746 02:37:35,947 --> 02:37:40,118 In smashing the mutiny and executing the ringleaders... 1747 02:37:40,326 --> 02:37:45,457 ...he did nothing, to my mind, that any general in wartime would not have done. 1748 02:37:45,707 --> 02:37:49,085 But clearly, the army was divided. 1749 02:37:50,044 --> 02:37:54,090 And Alexander was no longer loved by all. 1750 02:37:57,093 --> 02:38:01,681 He drove on, south to the outer ocean. 1751 02:38:03,224 --> 02:38:05,727 I confess a disappointment. 1752 02:38:05,894 --> 02:38:10,064 Especially on these reports of your taking on Eastern ways. 1753 02:38:10,231 --> 02:38:12,609 Beware how these manners... 1754 02:38:12,775 --> 02:38:16,237 ...inflame the senses with pride. 1755 02:38:16,446 --> 02:38:20,074 However, I have lived long enough now... 1756 02:38:20,700 --> 02:38:22,243 ...to question... 1757 02:38:22,410 --> 02:38:25,663 ...when so many others invest such emotion... 1758 02:38:25,830 --> 02:38:28,124 ...in their disrespect for you. 1759 02:38:28,958 --> 02:38:32,378 I can only hope that you continue what you began... 1760 02:38:32,545 --> 02:38:35,340 ...as the boy I knew at 12. 1761 02:38:35,507 --> 02:38:38,176 Be that man always, Alexander... 1762 02:38:38,343 --> 02:38:40,345 ...and you will not slip. 1763 02:38:40,512 --> 02:38:45,600 And perhaps you will prove this old materialist... 1764 02:38:45,767 --> 02:38:48,520 ...as you always thought me... 1765 02:38:48,686 --> 02:38:51,564 ...a dreamer after all. 1766 02:38:53,274 --> 02:38:55,318 Aristotle. 1767 02:39:10,667 --> 02:39:11,709 Stay calm. 1768 02:39:13,294 --> 02:39:15,547 Together we are strong as gods. 1769 02:39:16,506 --> 02:39:21,135 Cover with your left, strike hard with your right. 1770 02:39:24,847 --> 02:39:27,183 Fear is rot. A waste of time. 1771 02:39:33,398 --> 02:39:35,650 Lock shields. 1772 02:39:38,069 --> 02:39:40,238 Battle positions. 1773 02:39:44,742 --> 02:39:46,327 Move. 1774 02:39:52,542 --> 02:39:55,753 Choppers, prepare your knives. 1775 02:39:56,129 --> 02:39:57,672 Follow me. 1776 02:40:10,143 --> 02:40:13,605 Strike hard, boys. Strike hard. 1777 02:40:31,748 --> 02:40:36,294 Come, Macedonians. Why do you hang back? Hurry. 1778 02:40:36,461 --> 02:40:38,671 Cavalry! 1779 02:40:47,263 --> 02:40:50,516 Split to thirds. Regroup and encircle. 1780 02:41:09,786 --> 02:41:11,788 Hold the line! 1781 02:41:55,915 --> 02:42:01,337 - Oh, no. Cavalry on me. - Follow Alexander. 1782 02:42:04,716 --> 02:42:08,469 Charge. Charge. Charge. 1783 02:42:11,931 --> 02:42:13,516 The phalanx is in jeopardy. 1784 02:42:13,683 --> 02:42:17,019 Meleager, ride to Pharnakes and tell him return to the center. 1785 02:42:17,186 --> 02:42:21,023 Find Hephaistion at the riverbank and bring all cavalry to the center. 1786 02:42:21,190 --> 02:42:24,360 We must reach Crateros before it's too late. 1787 02:42:47,842 --> 02:42:50,762 Hephaistion. To the center. 1788 02:42:53,848 --> 02:42:56,184 Come, Macedonians. Ride. 1789 02:42:56,350 --> 02:42:58,770 Ride. 1790 02:43:55,243 --> 02:43:57,829 Coenus! Get out of there. 1791 02:43:59,747 --> 02:44:01,249 No. 1792 02:44:30,987 --> 02:44:33,739 - The horses won't go. - On foot, then. 1793 02:44:40,246 --> 02:44:44,375 Fall back, men! Fall back! 1794 02:44:45,626 --> 02:44:47,253 Come, Bucephalus. 1795 02:44:52,133 --> 02:44:53,968 Fear not, my friend. 1796 02:44:56,721 --> 02:44:58,598 Bucephalus. 1797 02:44:58,764 --> 02:45:00,433 'Tis only sun and shadow. 1798 02:45:03,561 --> 02:45:05,146 Bucephalus and Alexander. 1799 02:45:05,313 --> 02:45:06,814 One last time. It's you and I. 1800 02:45:09,275 --> 02:45:12,361 Isn't it a lovely thing to live with great courage... 1801 02:45:12,862 --> 02:45:15,323 ...and to die leaving an everlasting fame? 1802 02:45:16,032 --> 02:45:19,327 Come, Macedonians. Why do you retreat? 1803 02:45:19,493 --> 02:45:25,333 Do you want to live forever? In the name of Zeus, attack. 1804 02:45:41,557 --> 02:45:43,643 Attack. 1805 02:45:44,727 --> 02:45:47,146 - Alexander! - Aah! 1806 02:45:58,032 --> 02:46:00,034 Alexander. 1807 02:47:32,793 --> 02:47:34,503 - The king is down! - To the king! 1808 02:48:59,004 --> 02:49:01,006 It was the bloodiest of his battles. 1809 02:49:06,345 --> 02:49:08,139 Pure butchery. 1810 02:49:13,769 --> 02:49:15,646 We'd never be men again. 1811 02:51:03,879 --> 02:51:06,382 He lives! Alexander! 1812 02:51:10,052 --> 02:51:12,972 Alexander! 1813 02:51:29,613 --> 02:51:31,699 Men of Macedon... 1814 02:51:32,574 --> 02:51:34,743 ...we're going home. 1815 02:51:35,661 --> 02:51:38,247 - What? - What? 1816 02:51:38,414 --> 02:51:40,082 - We're going home. - Home? 1817 02:51:40,291 --> 02:51:42,418 We're going. 1818 02:51:47,006 --> 02:51:49,008 We're going home. 1819 02:52:16,160 --> 02:52:18,078 Yes! 1820 02:52:56,116 --> 02:52:59,203 His life should have ended in India... 1821 02:52:59,870 --> 02:53:01,080 ...but that's myth. 1822 02:53:02,873 --> 02:53:08,128 In life, Herakles died of a poisoned shirt, given him in error by his jealous wife. 1823 02:53:08,337 --> 02:53:12,007 Great Zeus, we have worshiped you in blood. 1824 02:53:13,300 --> 02:53:15,844 Look kindly on our homeward steps... 1825 02:53:16,011 --> 02:53:20,140 ...and smile upon our backs. 1826 02:53:23,477 --> 02:53:25,813 May all those who come here after us... 1827 02:53:26,021 --> 02:53:28,273 ...know, when they see this altar... 1828 02:53:28,899 --> 02:53:32,653 ...that Titans were once here. 1829 02:53:47,126 --> 02:53:50,921 PTOLEMY". Making his devotions to the gods at the end of the great journey... 1830 02:53:51,130 --> 02:53:55,843 ...Alexander bade the East farewell and marched his army directly west... 1831 02:53:56,009 --> 02:53:58,345 ...across the great Gedrosian desert... 1832 02:53:58,512 --> 02:54:01,932 ...seeking the shortest route home to Babylon. 1833 02:54:04,476 --> 02:54:09,314 Here, he watched helplessly the cruel breaking of his army. 1834 02:54:09,481 --> 02:54:12,234 Not by any human form... 1835 02:54:12,443 --> 02:54:14,653 ...but by nature. 1836 02:54:15,946 --> 02:54:20,492 To this day, there is no accounting of how many died. 1837 02:54:20,659 --> 02:54:24,496 It was the worst blunder of his life. 1838 02:54:25,247 --> 02:54:29,918 And when he finally reentered Babylon, after six years in the Far East... 1839 02:54:30,085 --> 02:54:35,966 ...Alexander again seized the imagination of the world by taking two more wives. 1840 02:54:37,009 --> 02:54:39,470 Now Alexander had three wives. .. 1841 02:54:39,636 --> 02:54:40,679 ...two lovers... 1842 02:54:40,846 --> 02:54:43,599 ...a contentious mother and a turbulent Greece... 1843 02:54:43,765 --> 02:54:47,227 ...satraps of dubious loyalty in several provinces... 1844 02:54:47,394 --> 02:54:50,522 ...generals questioning his every decision. 1845 02:54:50,689 --> 02:54:53,817 And beneath it all, a restive new army... 1846 02:54:53,984 --> 02:54:56,904 ...made up of 10 Asians for every Greek... 1847 02:54:57,070 --> 02:55:00,199 ...all held together by one slender thread. 1848 02:55:00,365 --> 02:55:03,577 They took another reading. The harbor can only be dredged to 20 feet. 1849 02:55:03,744 --> 02:55:05,954 Get me a second opinion from the Phoenicians. 1850 02:55:06,121 --> 02:55:08,790 - I tell you, it goes deeper. - Alexander. 1851 02:55:08,999 --> 02:55:11,710 We're well over 12,000 talents on wood alone for the fleet. 1852 02:55:11,877 --> 02:55:14,630 And their armor costs are staggering. 1853 02:55:16,048 --> 02:55:18,842 - Cast another dye, we shall back them. - How? 1854 02:55:19,009 --> 02:55:22,012 - Aren't our treasuries--? - With our future, Cassander. 1855 02:55:22,179 --> 02:55:23,347 The best capital we have. 1856 02:55:23,514 --> 02:55:26,099 Even so, Majesty, I seriously doubt the Phoenicians... 1857 02:55:26,266 --> 02:55:27,976 ...can make a timber quote in time. 1858 02:55:28,143 --> 02:55:30,229 Perhaps we could sail with fewer ships... 1859 02:55:30,395 --> 02:55:34,024 -...or delay until the spring-- - There'll be no delays, Nearchus. 1860 02:55:34,191 --> 02:55:36,318 Ptolemy, how goes our library? 1861 02:55:36,485 --> 02:55:38,946 - Trees are falling as we speak, Your Majesty. - Good. 1862 02:55:39,154 --> 02:55:40,489 We must not forget our libraries. 1863 02:55:40,656 --> 02:55:43,200 All the Alexandrias we have, I want libraries. 1864 02:55:52,960 --> 02:55:55,587 - Just last night he was-- - It's the water, Your Majesty. 1865 02:55:55,796 --> 02:55:58,048 He mixed it with the wine. 1866 02:55:59,091 --> 02:56:00,717 But how can this be? 1867 02:56:01,176 --> 02:56:04,930 - Typhus of India? - I wouldn't tax yourself, Your Majesty. 1868 02:56:05,097 --> 02:56:10,352 A few good nights' rest will do it. But no wine or cold chicken. 1869 02:56:10,519 --> 02:56:12,813 With the regimen of care that I've put in place-- 1870 02:56:14,106 --> 02:56:15,357 Come, doctor. 1871 02:56:28,495 --> 02:56:30,831 I feel better. 1872 02:56:31,456 --> 02:56:35,043 Soon, I'll be up. 1873 02:56:36,211 --> 02:56:40,173 We leave for Arabia in the spring, and I couldn't leave without you. 1874 02:56:40,799 --> 02:56:42,843 Arabia. 1875 02:56:46,305 --> 02:56:50,934 You used to dress me up like a sheik... 1876 02:56:51,977 --> 02:56:53,854 ...wave your wooden scimitar. 1877 02:56:54,021 --> 02:56:57,149 You were the only one who'd never let me win. 1878 02:56:58,900 --> 02:57:01,987 The only one who's ever been honest with me. 1879 02:57:02,404 --> 02:57:05,365 You saved me from myself. 1880 02:57:07,826 --> 02:57:10,996 Please don't leave me, Hephaistion. 1881 02:57:19,504 --> 02:57:26,511 I remember the young man who wanted to be Achilles and then outdid him. 1882 02:57:27,346 --> 02:57:29,264 And then what happened? 1883 02:57:29,514 --> 02:57:32,684 Ours is a myth only young men believe. 1884 02:57:33,477 --> 02:57:39,650 - But how beautiful a myth it was. - We reach, we fall. 1885 02:57:40,901 --> 02:57:43,862 Oh, Hephaistion. 1886 02:57:49,493 --> 02:57:55,082 - I worry for you without me. - I am nothing without you. 1887 02:57:56,041 --> 02:57:59,795 Come, fight, Hephaistion. 1888 02:58:00,045 --> 02:58:02,547 We will die together. 1889 02:58:05,592 --> 02:58:07,678 We'll have children with our wives... 1890 02:58:07,844 --> 02:58:10,972 ...and our sons will play together as we once did. 1891 02:58:12,057 --> 02:58:15,644 A thousand ships we'll launch from here, Hephaistion. 1892 02:58:16,395 --> 02:58:21,108 We'll round Arabia and sail up the gulf to Egypt. 1893 02:58:21,942 --> 02:58:26,405 From there, we'll build a channel through the desert and out to the Middle Sea. 1894 02:58:26,571 --> 02:58:28,281 Then we'll move on Carthage. 1895 02:58:28,448 --> 02:58:32,494 And that great island, Sicily, they'll pay large tribute. 1896 02:58:32,661 --> 02:58:36,373 After that, the Roman tribe, good fighters. We'll beat them. 1897 02:58:37,666 --> 02:58:40,168 And then explore the northern forests... 1898 02:58:40,335 --> 02:58:43,296 ...and out the Pillars of Herakles to the western ocean. 1899 02:58:44,131 --> 02:58:48,176 And then one day, populations will mix and travel freely. 1900 02:58:48,593 --> 02:58:50,929 Asia and Europe will come together. 1901 02:58:53,098 --> 02:58:56,727 And we'll grow old, Hephaistion... 1902 02:58:57,728 --> 02:59:03,066 ...looking out our balcony at this new world. 1903 02:59:09,906 --> 02:59:11,950 Hephaistion? 1904 02:59:13,702 --> 02:59:15,704 Hephaistion? 1905 02:59:16,830 --> 02:59:18,832 No! 1906 02:59:23,044 --> 02:59:27,340 - Where is this doctor? - I can't explain this, Your Majesty. 1907 02:59:27,549 --> 02:59:31,887 -It's not possible. I swear by Apollo. - Execute him! 1908 02:59:32,971 --> 02:59:36,266 Take him out now and execute him. 1909 02:59:36,433 --> 02:59:40,645 - Come away, come away. - Liars. You all hated him. All of you. 1910 02:59:41,605 --> 02:59:45,317 Get out. Get out now! 1911 02:59:55,911 --> 03:00:00,749 Be gone with you! Harpies! Get out! Get out! 1912 03:00:00,916 --> 03:00:02,876 Are you drunk again? 1913 03:00:03,043 --> 03:00:04,377 - Get out. - He's dead. 1914 03:00:04,544 --> 03:00:07,422 - Who? - Many hated him... 1915 03:00:07,589 --> 03:00:10,300 ...but I don't think any other would have dared. 1916 03:00:12,010 --> 03:00:14,095 Hephaistion is dead? 1917 03:00:18,099 --> 03:00:19,976 Are you mad? 1918 03:00:22,103 --> 03:00:23,480 You monster. 1919 03:00:23,647 --> 03:00:27,776 - Aah! Are you mad? - You've taken from me all I've ever loved. 1920 03:00:27,943 --> 03:00:31,947 May all the Furies through time damn your miserable heart. Obey me. 1921 03:00:33,031 --> 03:00:37,744 Alexander. I have your child. Alexander. 1922 03:00:39,371 --> 03:00:42,040 - Alexander, we have a son. - No. 1923 03:00:43,667 --> 03:00:46,169 - The child. - Oh, Your Majesty, no. 1924 03:00:46,461 --> 03:00:52,759 Alexander, I have your child. Alexander, my husband, my king. 1925 03:00:52,968 --> 03:00:55,345 We have a son. 1926 03:00:56,054 --> 03:00:59,224 My poor, poor, ill-fated son. 1927 03:01:01,059 --> 03:01:02,602 Never touch me again. 1928 03:01:06,147 --> 03:01:09,442 No! 1929 03:01:13,822 --> 03:01:16,575 One last toast! 1930 03:01:19,911 --> 03:01:21,830 Before the dawn. 1931 03:01:28,712 --> 03:01:32,007 To my old friends. 1932 03:01:48,940 --> 03:01:52,611 - And to the myths. - To the myths. 1933 03:02:02,787 --> 03:02:05,123 Drink it down, Alexander. 1934 03:02:05,290 --> 03:02:07,250 Drink it down. 1935 03:02:21,806 --> 03:02:25,185 Yes, come on. Finish it. 1936 03:02:46,081 --> 03:02:48,124 To the next dawn. 1937 03:02:54,547 --> 03:02:57,300 Men hate the gods. 1938 03:02:59,552 --> 03:03:02,222 --Is because we fear worse. 1939 03:03:02,931 --> 03:03:04,516 The Titans. 1940 03:03:15,902 --> 03:03:17,445 Mm. 1941 03:03:24,577 --> 03:03:26,621 My little Achilles. 1942 03:03:36,006 --> 03:03:37,841 Mm. 1943 03:03:49,436 --> 03:03:51,438 Lord, we love you. 1944 03:03:52,647 --> 03:03:53,898 Bless you, Alexander. 1945 03:04:02,615 --> 03:04:05,410 My lord, these herbs are from Delphi. 1946 03:04:05,577 --> 03:04:08,163 They saved my brother at Ghilam. 1947 03:04:08,830 --> 03:04:11,416 - Bless your soul. - Thank you. 1948 03:04:11,708 --> 03:04:14,753 - We love you, Alexander. - Section of the Iliad... 1949 03:04:19,257 --> 03:04:20,884 Alexander. 1950 03:04:23,053 --> 03:04:24,804 Alexander. 1951 03:04:28,933 --> 03:04:31,144 We love you, Alexander. 1952 03:04:32,395 --> 03:04:34,355 And your seed. 1953 03:04:36,858 --> 03:04:39,110 Keep moving, men. 1954 03:04:44,532 --> 03:04:46,868 Yes, come. 1955 03:04:47,035 --> 03:04:53,541 Come to Babylon. I await you. Your only loving son. 1956 03:04:59,631 --> 03:05:01,299 For the men. 1957 03:05:01,466 --> 03:05:03,259 Bagoas. 1958 03:05:09,516 --> 03:05:13,186 Can you prop me up a little? It catches me here. 1959 03:05:22,487 --> 03:05:24,572 I've never been so idle. 1960 03:05:24,739 --> 03:05:27,867 The fleet will never get out by spring. I must go. 1961 03:05:45,635 --> 03:05:48,179 You have given me all... 1962 03:05:49,222 --> 03:05:50,348 ...Bagoas. 1963 03:05:50,515 --> 03:05:52,642 And you have given me... 1964 03:05:52,809 --> 03:05:56,604 ...the happiest times in my life, Alexander. 1965 03:05:57,647 --> 03:05:59,941 Happy? 1966 03:06:00,150 --> 03:06:01,985 Why happy? 1967 03:06:04,320 --> 03:06:08,032 When your mind and body are stretched to breaking... 1968 03:06:08,241 --> 03:06:11,119 ...and you have no thought beyond the next. 1969 03:06:12,787 --> 03:06:15,415 And you look back then... 1970 03:06:15,623 --> 03:06:18,334 ...and there it was, happiness. 1971 03:06:19,335 --> 03:06:22,088 In the doing, never the thinking. 1972 03:06:24,215 --> 03:06:29,220 Still, you have made me so happy. 1973 03:06:37,520 --> 03:06:39,898 It is done, Bagoas. 1974 03:06:42,358 --> 03:06:44,152 It is done. 1975 03:07:07,550 --> 03:07:09,844 Wait. We have a son. 1976 03:07:10,011 --> 03:07:11,971 Alexander. 1977 03:07:12,180 --> 03:07:15,433 Wait. Wait. 1978 03:07:16,976 --> 03:07:18,937 Vultures. Wait. 1979 03:07:19,103 --> 03:07:20,772 We have a son. 1980 03:07:21,105 --> 03:07:23,900 Just three more months. 1981 03:07:24,067 --> 03:07:25,985 Please live. 1982 03:07:28,863 --> 03:07:31,574 Alexander, the army will divide. 1983 03:07:31,741 --> 03:07:34,744 Satrapies will revolt. Without your orders, there'll be war. 1984 03:07:35,203 --> 03:07:37,413 We beg you. Tell us who. 1985 03:07:40,291 --> 03:07:42,543 Who will rule this great empire if you leave us? 1986 03:07:42,710 --> 03:07:44,045 Who do you want, Alexander? 1987 03:07:44,212 --> 03:07:46,673 - We beg you. Tell us who. - Fear not. 1988 03:07:47,799 --> 03:07:49,926 The myth becomes real. 1989 03:07:55,265 --> 03:07:57,600 Beyond Herakles. 1990 03:08:06,317 --> 03:08:09,279 Zeus is your father. 1991 03:08:14,575 --> 03:08:15,868 Who Will it be? 1992 03:08:17,328 --> 03:08:19,622 Pray tell us, who. 1993 03:08:22,208 --> 03:08:24,669 - What did he say? - "To the best." 1994 03:08:26,921 --> 03:08:29,299 - He said, "To the best." - What? 1995 03:08:29,465 --> 03:08:31,551 - No, he said, "To Crateros." - To Crateros? 1996 03:08:31,718 --> 03:08:33,678 Why would he say Crateros? 1997 03:09:36,115 --> 03:09:40,370 On the 10th of June, a month short of his 33rd year... 1998 03:09:40,536 --> 03:09:44,957 ...Alexander's great heart finally gave out. 1999 03:09:45,124 --> 03:09:49,337 And as he vowed, he joined Hephaistion. 2000 03:09:52,423 --> 03:09:55,134 But in his short life, he achieved, without doubt... 2001 03:09:55,301 --> 03:10:00,640 ...the mythic glory of his ancestor Achilles and more. 2002 03:10:05,645 --> 03:10:08,523 Olympias' transgression in the murder of his father... 2003 03:10:08,731 --> 03:10:11,484 ...is, to my mind, a probability. 2004 03:10:11,651 --> 03:10:14,278 His, a burden. 2005 03:10:15,988 --> 03:10:19,659 Alexander was too in love with glory for him to steal it. 2006 03:10:24,705 --> 03:10:28,835 But by blood, and blood alone, he was guilty. 2007 03:10:29,001 --> 03:10:31,170 No! 2008 03:10:41,556 --> 03:10:42,723 Bolt the doors. 2009 03:10:42,890 --> 03:10:46,018 - The body stays in Babylon. - The body belongs to Macedon. 2010 03:10:46,185 --> 03:10:48,479 - This must be decided... - Within hours... 2011 03:10:48,646 --> 03:10:52,275 ...we were fighting like jackals for his corpse. 2012 03:10:52,442 --> 03:10:54,652 The wars of the world had begun. 2013 03:10:54,819 --> 03:10:57,155 Forty years, off and on, they endured. 2014 03:10:57,321 --> 03:11:01,576 Cassander in Greece. Crateros and Antigonus in western Asia. 2015 03:11:01,742 --> 03:11:06,038 Solucas and Perdiccas in the East. Myself in Egypt. 2016 03:11:06,247 --> 03:11:11,669 - Until we divided his empire in four parts. - Gentlemen, we are not savages. 2017 03:11:11,836 --> 03:11:13,796 We are the future--! 2018 03:11:14,005 --> 03:11:17,383 I think Alexander would have been disappointed in us. 2019 03:11:20,219 --> 03:11:22,638 Naturally, rumors grew he'd been poisoned... 2020 03:11:22,805 --> 03:11:25,475 ...by one faction of his generals or another. 2021 03:11:25,850 --> 03:11:27,810 But the truth in these matters... 2022 03:11:27,977 --> 03:11:30,646 ...has long since been driven from currency. 2023 03:11:33,524 --> 03:11:37,445 Cassander saw to that with his fake diaries... 2024 03:11:37,945 --> 03:11:42,366 ...painting Alexander as a sick and bloated drunk. 2025 03:11:43,034 --> 03:11:47,455 Many believed, to remove suspicion from himself. 2026 03:11:50,583 --> 03:11:55,713 He certainly proved he had the temperament for politics and murder. 2027 03:11:55,922 --> 03:12:00,468 ...when seven years later, he executed Olympias... 2028 03:12:01,844 --> 03:12:05,223 ...who met her death with great courage. 2029 03:12:06,641 --> 03:12:11,229 Five years-- No, it was six years after that... 2030 03:12:11,562 --> 03:12:13,940 ...Cassander finally achieved... 2031 03:12:14,148 --> 03:12:17,652 ...the complete destruction of Alexander's bloodline... 2032 03:12:17,818 --> 03:12:20,613 ...when he poisoned Roxane... 2033 03:12:20,821 --> 03:12:24,784 ...and Alexander's 13-year-old son... 2034 03:12:25,868 --> 03:12:29,247 ...the true heir to the empire. 2035 03:12:33,251 --> 03:12:36,754 But Roxane, too, like Olympias... 2036 03:12:36,921 --> 03:12:39,799 ...played by stern rules. 2037 03:12:40,591 --> 03:12:42,635 Supported by several generals... 2038 03:12:42,802 --> 03:12:45,763 ...days after Alexander's death... 2039 03:12:45,930 --> 03:12:48,474 ...she had Stateira poisoned. 2040 03:12:49,600 --> 03:12:52,937 It was reason enough for some to believe she was the one behind... 2041 03:12:53,145 --> 03:12:55,356 ...Hephaistion's sudden demise. 2042 03:12:55,523 --> 03:12:58,234 But this is unproven in my mind. 2043 03:12:58,401 --> 03:13:01,654 Bagoas disappeared from the histories entirely. 2044 03:13:01,862 --> 03:13:04,031 A wise move perhaps. 2045 03:13:05,366 --> 03:13:08,494 But I will say his love and devotion for Alexander... 2046 03:13:08,661 --> 03:13:13,541 ...were unquestionable and extraordinary. 2047 03:13:21,215 --> 03:13:25,344 Now I am the keeper of his body... 2048 03:13:25,511 --> 03:13:29,432 ...embalmed here, in the Egyptian ways. 2049 03:13:29,599 --> 03:13:34,937 I followed him as Pharaoh and have now ruled 40 years. 2050 03:13:37,690 --> 03:13:39,650 I have two sons... 2051 03:13:39,817 --> 03:13:42,945 ...each jealous of the other's power. 2052 03:13:45,364 --> 03:13:49,535 But they will grow to make fine fathers and husbands... 2053 03:13:49,702 --> 03:13:51,787 ...and I trust... 2054 03:13:51,954 --> 03:13:53,748 ...will be just in their affairs. 2055 03:13:55,458 --> 03:13:58,252 But they have never seen... 2056 03:13:58,419 --> 03:14:01,047 ...the great cavalry charge at Gaugamela... 2057 03:14:01,380 --> 03:14:04,467 ...or the mountains of the Hindu Kush... 2058 03:14:05,176 --> 03:14:10,556 ...when we crossed a 100,000-man army into India. 2059 03:14:17,772 --> 03:14:21,150 He was a god, Cadmos... 2060 03:14:21,317 --> 03:14:24,278 ...or as close as anything I've ever known. 2061 03:14:24,445 --> 03:14:28,240 "Tyrant!" they yell so easily. I laugh. 2062 03:14:28,407 --> 03:14:31,035 No tyrant ever gave back so much. 2063 03:14:31,202 --> 03:14:33,746 What do they know of the world, these schoolboys? 2064 03:14:34,622 --> 03:14:36,999 It takes strong men to rule. 2065 03:14:37,166 --> 03:14:40,961 Alexander was more, he was a Prometheus, a friend to man. 2066 03:14:41,128 --> 03:14:43,673 He changed the world. 2067 03:14:44,131 --> 03:14:47,259 Before him, there were tribes... 2068 03:14:47,426 --> 03:14:51,764 ...and after him, all was possible. 2069 03:14:51,931 --> 03:14:56,769 There was suddenly a sense the world could be ruled by one king... 2070 03:14:56,936 --> 03:14:59,438 ...and be better for all. 2071 03:15:01,315 --> 03:15:04,902 Eighteen great Alexandrias he built across this world. 2072 03:15:05,111 --> 03:15:10,700 It was an empire, not of land and gold, but of the mind. 2073 03:15:12,034 --> 03:15:15,204 A Hellenic civilization... 2074 03:15:15,413 --> 03:15:19,500 ...open to all. 2075 03:15:23,254 --> 03:15:26,924 But the truth is never simple... 2076 03:15:27,675 --> 03:15:29,844 ...and yet it is. 2077 03:15:30,302 --> 03:15:33,180 The truth is, We did kill him. 2078 03:15:37,101 --> 03:15:40,354 By silence, we consented. 2079 03:15:40,813 --> 03:15:42,732 Because-- 2080 03:15:42,940 --> 03:15:45,484 Because we couldn't go on. 2081 03:15:45,651 --> 03:15:47,903 What, by Ares, did we look forward to... 2082 03:15:48,070 --> 03:15:50,990 ...but to be discarded in the end, like Cleitus? 2083 03:15:51,157 --> 03:15:53,826 After all this time, to give away our wealth... 2084 03:15:53,993 --> 03:15:56,370 ...to Asian sycophants we despised? 2085 03:15:56,537 --> 03:15:59,165 Mixing the races, harmony? 2086 03:15:59,331 --> 03:16:00,583 Ha! 2087 03:16:00,750 --> 03:16:03,502 Oh, he talked of these things... 2088 03:16:03,669 --> 03:16:06,172 ...but wasn't it really about Alexander... 2089 03:16:06,338 --> 03:16:09,467 ...and another population ready to obey him? 2090 03:16:10,509 --> 03:16:13,429 I never believed in his dream. 2091 03:16:13,596 --> 03:16:15,556 None of us did. 2092 03:16:17,475 --> 03:16:19,727 That's the truth of his life. 2093 03:16:19,894 --> 03:16:22,521 The dreamers exhaust us. 2094 03:16:23,230 --> 03:16:27,401 They must die before they kill us with their blasted dreams. 2095 03:16:28,778 --> 03:16:31,614 Oh, just throw all that away, Cadmos. 2096 03:16:31,781 --> 03:16:34,241 It's an old fool's rubbish. 2097 03:16:36,076 --> 03:16:41,332 You shall write, "He died of fever and a weakened condition." 2098 03:16:42,291 --> 03:16:44,126 Yes, great Pharaoh. 2099 03:16:44,293 --> 03:16:48,047 Oh, he could've stayed home in Macedonia, married, raised a family. 2100 03:16:49,423 --> 03:16:52,510 He'd have died a celebrated man. 2101 03:16:54,887 --> 03:16:57,640 But this was not Alexander. 2102 03:16:58,015 --> 03:17:03,896 All his life, he fought to free himself from fear. 2103 03:17:04,063 --> 03:17:10,236 And by this, and this alone, he was made free. 2104 03:17:11,612 --> 03:17:15,574 The freest man I've ever known. 2105 03:17:17,243 --> 03:17:22,248 His tragedy was one of increasing loneliness... 2106 03:17:22,414 --> 03:17:26,168 ...and impatience with those who could not understand. 2107 03:17:26,544 --> 03:17:29,296 And if his desire... 2108 03:17:29,463 --> 03:17:34,260 ...to reconcile Greek and barbarian ended in failure... Heh. 2109 03:17:36,804 --> 03:17:39,932 What failure! Heh. 2110 03:17:40,182 --> 03:17:46,689 His failure towered over other men's successes. 2111 03:17:51,068 --> 03:17:52,778 I've lived-- 2112 03:17:52,987 --> 03:17:55,364 I've lived long life, Cadmos... 2113 03:17:55,573 --> 03:17:57,867 ...but the glory and the memory of man... 2114 03:17:58,075 --> 03:18:02,997 ...will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions. 2115 03:18:03,455 --> 03:18:08,711 And the greatest of these is the one they now call... 2116 03:18:10,045 --> 03:18:13,799 ...Megas Alexandros. 2117 03:18:15,384 --> 03:18:18,470 The greatest Alexander of them all. 2118 03:26:41,973 --> 03:26:43,975 163454

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