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Alexander, the army will divide.

2
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Satrapies will revolt.
Without orders, there'll be war.

3
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We beg you. Tell us who.

4
00:04:12,127 --> 00:04:14,337
Our world is gone now.

5
00:04:16,131 --> 00:04:18,881
I'm the last left alive.

6
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Whether that's a blessing or a curse…

7
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… who by Hades would know. Ha, ha.

8
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But I've paid my price…

9
00:04:32,314 --> 00:04:34,234
… in blood…

10
00:04:36,860 --> 00:04:39,700
… and in broken dreams.

11
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I say we were the greatest fighting force…

12
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… ever known to man.

13
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Greater even than the expedition to Troy.

14
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But how can I say it?
How can I tell you what it was like…

15
00:04:58,548 --> 00:05:03,048
… to be young, to dream big dreams?

16
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To believe when Alexander looked you
in the eye, you could do anything.

17
00:05:08,266 --> 00:05:10,136
Anything.

18
00:05:12,062 --> 00:05:18,572
In his presence, by the light of Apollo,
we were better than ourselves.

19
00:05:20,654 --> 00:05:22,074
Truly…

20
00:05:22,697 --> 00:05:29,197
… I've known many great men
in my life, but only one colossus.

21
00:05:29,371 --> 00:05:32,251
And only now, when old,
do I understand…

22
00:05:32,415 --> 00:05:36,915
… who this force of nature really was.

23
00:05:41,132 --> 00:05:43,012
Or do I?

24
00:05:43,885 --> 00:05:48,385
Did such a man as Alexander exist?
Of course not.

25
00:05:48,557 --> 00:05:51,887
We idolize him,
make him better than he was.

26
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Men, all men, reach and fall…

27
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… reach and fall.

28
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In the East, the vast Persian Empire
ruled almost all the known world.

29
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In the West,
the once great Greek city-states…

30
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… Thebes, Athens, Sparta,
had fallen from pride.

31
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For 100 years now, the Persian kings
had bribed the Greeks…

32
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… with their gold to fight as mercenaries.

33
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It was Philip, the one-eyed,
who changed all this…

34
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… uniting tribes of illiterate sheepherders
from the high and lowlands.

35
00:06:41,693 --> 00:06:45,863
With his blood and guts,
he built a professional army…

36
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… that brought the devious Greeks
to their knees. Heh.

37
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He then turned his eye on Persia…

38
00:06:53,747 --> 00:06:57,537
… where it was said
the Great King Darius himself…

39
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… on his throne in Babylon,
feared Philip.

40
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Philip was murdered…

41
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… much to Persia's delight
and perhaps sponsored by their gold.

42
00:07:12,766 --> 00:07:14,136
And Alexander, at 20…

43
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… became the new ruler of Macedonia.

44
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Announcing revenge
for the death of Philip…

45
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… Alexander liberated all of the cities
of Western Asia…

46
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… south to Egypt…

47
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… where he was declared Pharaoh
of Egypt, worshipped as a god.

48
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Finally,
he provoked the rise to battle…

49
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… in the heart of the Persian Empire,
near Babylon.

50
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<i>It was mad.</i>

51
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<i>Forty thousand of us
against hundreds of thousands…</i>

52
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<i>… of barbarian races unknown to us…</i>

53
00:08:04,484 --> 00:08:07,704
<i>… gathered under Darius himself.</i>

54
00:08:09,614 --> 00:08:12,284
<i>East and west had now come together…</i>

55
00:08:12,450 --> 00:08:15,870
<i>… to decide the fate of the known world.</i>

56
00:08:17,288 --> 00:08:22,998
<i>It was the day Alexander
had waited for all his life.</i>

57
00:08:23,795 --> 00:08:25,755
<i>Son of a god.</i>

58
00:08:27,215 --> 00:08:29,505
<i>It was a myth, of course.</i>

59
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<i>At least it started as a myth.</i>

60
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<i>I know.</i>

61
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<i>I was there.</i>

62
00:08:46,151 --> 00:08:49,151
Seen one before. Still alive.

63
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To whom do you pray?

64
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Phobos.

65
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Fear?

66
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A bad omen.

67
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More so for Darius.

68
00:09:26,691 --> 00:09:32,361
I've come to believe that fear
of death drives all men, Hephaistion.

69
00:09:32,530 --> 00:09:35,280
This we didn't learn as schoolboys.

70
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– So, mighty Crateros.
– Your Majesty.

71
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Are you ready for tomorrow's dawn?

72
00:09:41,790 --> 00:09:43,170
Ah. It's been too long coming.

73
00:09:43,625 --> 00:09:45,665
The men are skittish as colts…

74
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– … and the damn bulls won't
shut their snouts. - Good.

75
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Fear makes men fight better.

76
00:09:52,550 --> 00:09:54,590
Post your sentries alertly
but rest them well.

77
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Don't worry, general. I'm known to sleep
with my eyes open as a baby's arse.

78
00:09:59,182 --> 00:10:02,442
Only because someone
might steal his loot, sire.

79
00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,730
Well, someone owes Crateros
for his cheapness.

80
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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 --> 00:10:15,279
Who needs clothes
when you can fight naked?

83
00:10:16,866 --> 00:10:19,946
After tomorrow, even the thrifty
among you shall be kings.

84
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The gods are with us, Your Majesty.

85
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You'll stain the ground with Persian blood.

86
00:10:26,501 --> 00:10:28,881
You're on the first row tomorrow, boy.

87
00:10:30,839 --> 00:10:34,469
I've always believed, Alexander.

88
00:10:34,634 --> 00:10:37,474
But this seems
so much bigger than us.

89
00:10:37,637 --> 00:10:39,137
Did Patroclus doubt Achilles…

90
00:10:39,305 --> 00:10:42,385
… when they stood side by side
at the siege of Troy?

91
00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,439
Patroclus died first.

92
00:10:45,603 --> 00:10:47,363
If you do…

93
00:10:48,147 --> 00:10:52,687
If you were to fall, Hephaistion,
even if Macedonia were to lose a king…

94
00:10:52,861 --> 00:10:55,451
… I will avenge you…

95
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… and follow you down
to the house of death.

96
00:10:58,658 --> 00:11:00,948
I would do the same.

97
00:11:10,628 --> 00:11:15,168
On the eve of battle,
it's hardest to be alone.

98
00:11:16,009 --> 00:11:17,469
Yeah.

99
00:11:19,345 --> 00:11:21,595
Then perhaps…

100
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Perhaps this is farewell…

101
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… my Alexander.

102
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Fear not, Hephaistion.

103
00:11:33,526 --> 00:11:36,026
We are at the beginning.

104
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Blood makes the world rise.

105
00:12:14,943 --> 00:12:18,453
Blood makes the rain fall.

106
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Blood makes the earth grow.

107
00:12:26,287 --> 00:12:32,627
And in blood, all men are born and die.

108
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Blood is the food of the gods below.

109
00:13:01,656 --> 00:13:05,326
Come, Bucephalus.
Today we ride to our destiny.

110
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Company, group! Regroup!

111
00:13:23,469 --> 00:13:26,509
Phalanx, turn!

112
00:13:32,395 --> 00:13:37,065
Phalanx, attention!

113
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Neoptolemus.

114
00:14:01,549 --> 00:14:04,639
I remember you the day
you took the siege tower at Tyre.

115
00:14:04,802 --> 00:14:07,812
You were a giant.
And today, how will you fight?

116
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Dexippos, by Athena.

117
00:14:16,189 --> 00:14:20,319
How far was it you threw your man
wrestling at the last Olympic Games?

118
00:14:20,485 --> 00:14:21,845
Will you match it with your spear?

119
00:14:27,658 --> 00:14:32,998
And Timander, son of Menander,
a great soldier to my father.

120
00:14:33,164 --> 00:14:37,924
I still mourn your brother, Addaios,
who died so bravely at Halicarnassus.

121
00:14:38,086 --> 00:14:41,666
What an honored family
you descend from, Timander.

122
00:14:41,839 --> 00:14:44,799
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 --> 00:14:57,305
And now we come to this
most distant place in Asia…

125
00:14:57,522 --> 00:15:03,902
… 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
00:15:22,421 --> 00:15:23,971
Yes…

128
00:15:24,715 --> 00:15:28,255
… these Persians do seem to be so many.

129
00:15:28,428 --> 00:15:31,058
But look again at this horde…

130
00:15:31,222 --> 00:15:32,852
… and ask yourselves…

131
00:15:33,224 --> 00:15:38,604
… who is this great king
who pays assassins in gold coins…

132
00:15:38,771 --> 00:15:40,941
… to murder my father, our king…

133
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… in a most despicable
and cowardly manner?

134
00:15:46,362 --> 00:15:51,742
Who is this great king, Darius,
who enslaves his own men to fight?

135
00:15:51,909 --> 00:15:56,079
Who is this king but a king of air?

136
00:15:56,539 --> 00:15:59,499
These men do not fight for their homes.

137
00:15:59,667 --> 00:16:03,127
They fight because
this king tells them they must.

138
00:16:03,921 --> 00:16:07,801
And when they fight,
they will melt away like the air…

139
00:16:07,967 --> 00:16:10,507
… because they know no loyalty
to a king of slaves.

140
00:16:11,596 --> 00:16:14,886
But we are not here today as slaves.

141
00:16:15,266 --> 00:16:17,386
We are here today…

142
00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,150
… as Macedonian freemen!

143
00:16:35,703 --> 00:16:37,543
Some of you…

144
00:16:39,207 --> 00:16:41,577
… perhaps myself…

145
00:16:41,751 --> 00:16:44,551
… will not live to see the sun set
over these mountains today.

146
00:16:47,465 --> 00:16:50,215
For I will be in the very thick…

147
00:16:50,384 --> 00:16:53,054
… of battle with you.

148
00:16:54,347 --> 00:16:56,927
But remember this…

149
00:16:57,141 --> 00:16:59,141
… the greatest honor…

150
00:16:59,310 --> 00:17:01,310
… a man can ever achieve…

151
00:17:01,479 --> 00:17:04,269
… is to live with great courage…

152
00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,570
… and to die with his countrymen…

153
00:17:07,443 --> 00:17:09,863
… in battle for his home.

154
00:17:12,406 --> 00:17:14,276
I say to you…

155
00:17:14,992 --> 00:17:19,042
… what every warrior has known
since the beginning of time.

156
00:17:19,205 --> 00:17:21,665
Conquer your fear…

157
00:17:21,832 --> 00:17:25,132
… and I promise you,
you will conquer death.

158
00:17:51,654 --> 00:17:55,374
When they ask you why you fought
so bravely at Gaugamela…

159
00:17:56,575 --> 00:17:58,365
… you will answer…

160
00:17:58,536 --> 00:18:03,326
… 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
00:18:11,924 --> 00:18:15,014
… and glory…

164
00:18:17,013 --> 00:18:19,273
… of Greece!"

165
00:18:25,771 --> 00:18:28,441
Zeus be with us!

166
00:18:55,468 --> 00:18:59,058
Cassander! Four columns, go!

167
00:19:04,685 --> 00:19:06,595
Where does he go?

168
00:19:06,771 --> 00:19:08,981
I don't know, Majesty.

169
00:19:09,148 --> 00:19:11,978
Envelop him, Bessus.

170
00:19:15,905 --> 00:19:18,775
Hephaistion, go!

171
00:19:27,375 --> 00:19:30,085
Phalanx!

172
00:19:48,521 --> 00:19:51,861
He makes a mistake, Pharnakes.

173
00:19:54,944 --> 00:19:56,534
Yes, great king.

174
00:20:59,008 --> 00:21:01,218
Be brave, men.

175
00:21:02,595 --> 00:21:04,175
Steady on the left, lads!

176
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,430
Bend if you must, but never break.

177
00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,520
And keep watching
the cavalry on the left.

178
00:21:43,177 --> 00:21:45,347
Pick up the pace!

179
00:21:55,272 --> 00:21:57,612
Prepare to repel chariots!

180
00:23:27,656 --> 00:23:29,576
Cassander!

181
00:23:29,950 --> 00:23:32,080
Forward, men!

182
00:23:43,047 --> 00:23:47,177
- – Left turn!
- Infantry, clear! Out now!

183
00:24:56,453 --> 00:24:58,163
Hold your positions!

184
00:24:58,330 --> 00:25:00,580
Hold your positions!

185
00:25:29,653 --> 00:25:32,283
Father.
We must fall back to the gully, Father.

186
00:25:32,448 --> 00:25:33,778
No, hold.

187
00:25:33,949 --> 00:25:37,869
Where is he? We're far too thin!
Get word to Alexander!

188
00:25:38,078 --> 00:25:40,408
– Move!
– Yes, sir.

189
00:25:58,974 --> 00:26:02,524
Come, Macedonians! Ride! Ride!

190
00:26:09,526 --> 00:26:11,856
Drive for the hole!

191
00:26:12,446 --> 00:26:15,526
- Drive for the hole!
- Drive for the hole!

192
00:26:49,066 --> 00:26:52,236
Pharnakes, bring these men up.

193
00:27:17,886 --> 00:27:21,716
Back and to the left!
Back and to the left!

194
00:27:22,432 --> 00:27:24,182
Get to home at all costs.

195
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,060
I cannot see!

196
00:27:27,229 --> 00:27:30,229
- – Philotas! Philotas!
- Father.

197
00:27:30,399 --> 00:27:32,439
Go. Tell Alexander yourself.

198
00:27:32,609 --> 00:27:37,199
And if he won't listen, then survive me
and avenge this betrayal!

199
00:27:41,076 --> 00:27:42,236
Hiya!

200
00:28:18,405 --> 00:28:21,695
Pay attention, lad!
Your father still watches over you!

201
00:29:07,996 --> 00:29:10,616
Darius!

202
00:29:11,124 --> 00:29:12,884
Find your horses.

203
00:29:28,684 --> 00:29:31,104
Darius!

204
00:29:52,165 --> 00:29:53,915
Go! Go!

205
00:30:11,601 --> 00:30:16,111
We can reach those mountains by sunset,
go all night and catch Darius at dawn.

206
00:30:16,273 --> 00:30:17,863
Provision the horses.

207
00:30:19,693 --> 00:30:23,453
Alexander!
Alexander, my father's lost.

208
00:30:23,613 --> 00:30:26,413
They've overrun the flank.
They're into the baggage train.

209
00:30:26,575 --> 00:30:27,825
Parmenion's crumbling.

210
00:30:29,161 --> 00:30:33,331
Alexander, if you chase him,
you risk losing your army here.

211
00:30:33,707 --> 00:30:35,877
And if we capture him,
we gain an empire.

212
00:30:46,178 --> 00:30:48,808
You can run to the ends of the earth,
you coward…

213
00:30:48,972 --> 00:30:51,772
… but you'll never run far enough!

214
00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:54,600
To Parmenion!

215
00:31:25,175 --> 00:31:26,755
You bleed free, my lord.

216
00:31:26,927 --> 00:31:30,257
- – May I tend to your wound?
- No, Hermolaus, not now.

217
00:31:30,430 --> 00:31:32,680
There's far worse than me. Go to them.

218
00:31:32,849 --> 00:31:34,639
Help them.

219
00:31:58,708 --> 00:32:00,878
How was this done, soldier?

220
00:32:01,503 --> 00:32:03,513
A spear.

221
00:32:04,881 --> 00:32:07,051
But I got two of the buggers.

222
00:32:10,345 --> 00:32:15,135
– Your Majesty.
– You're very brave.

223
00:32:16,685 --> 00:32:18,435
What shall I call you?

224
00:32:18,603 --> 00:32:21,403
– Glaukos, my king.
– Glaukos.

225
00:32:22,649 --> 00:32:25,319
– And where's your home?
– Illyria.

226
00:32:27,904 --> 00:32:30,624
Let your body go loose.

227
00:32:33,994 --> 00:32:36,164
Think of home now.

228
00:32:36,371 --> 00:32:38,871
Be brave again, Glaukos…

229
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,790
… and you will live on in glory.

230
00:32:45,797 --> 00:32:47,917
Alexander.

231
00:32:57,726 --> 00:33:02,016
<i>The Persian Empire,
the greatest the world had yet known…</i>

232
00:33:02,189 --> 00:33:04,399
<i>… was destroyed.</i>

233
00:33:08,862 --> 00:33:13,582
<i>And Alexander, at 25,
was now king of all.</i>

234
00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:30,929
If you hesitate, she will strike.

235
00:33:34,471 --> 00:33:36,601
Yes.

236
00:33:38,308 --> 00:33:40,098
They are like people.

237
00:33:41,186 --> 00:33:47,686
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 --> 00:33:58,158
Mm.

240
00:34:00,497 --> 00:34:02,997
Don't hurt her.

241
00:34:04,417 --> 00:34:06,207
Good.

242
00:34:08,672 --> 00:34:10,092
Come.

243
00:34:16,429 --> 00:34:18,389
He calls me a barbarian.

244
00:34:18,557 --> 00:34:21,017
He makes a mockery
of Dionysus every night.

245
00:34:36,491 --> 00:34:40,621
<i>Some called his mother,
Queen Olympias, a sorceress…</i>

246
00:34:40,829 --> 00:34:43,959
<i>… and said that Alexander
was the child of Zeus.</i>

247
00:34:54,134 --> 00:34:57,934
<i>But truly, there was not a man
in Macedonia who didn't look…</i>

248
00:34:58,096 --> 00:35:03,386
<i>… at father and son, side by side,
and wonder.</i>

249
00:35:07,606 --> 00:35:09,226
Mm.

250
00:35:16,323 --> 00:35:18,783
My little Achilles.

251
00:35:27,792 --> 00:35:29,502
Mm.

252
00:35:40,180 --> 00:35:43,310
Stay, Alexander, down. Down.

253
00:35:44,809 --> 00:35:46,769
What is it you-?

254
00:35:46,936 --> 00:35:48,806
Six months. Did you miss me?

255
00:35:48,980 --> 00:35:52,650
– No. Not here!
– Proud bitch. I'm still your king.

256
00:35:52,817 --> 00:35:55,857
King of what? Sheepherders?

257
00:36:00,784 --> 00:36:05,714
– I am of Achilles' royal blood.
– The blood of Herakles runs in my veins.

258
00:36:05,872 --> 00:36:07,672
You are nothing but a drunken whore.

259
00:36:07,791 --> 00:36:08,791
Shut your mouth.

260
00:36:08,958 --> 00:36:11,038
You 10-titted bitch from Hades!

261
00:36:11,211 --> 00:36:14,671
Which god could I curse to
have ever laid eyes on you!

262
00:36:14,839 --> 00:36:17,679
Do you think people respect you?

263
00:36:17,842 --> 00:36:20,722
You think they don't know
your bastards?

264
00:36:23,681 --> 00:36:24,721
What?

265
00:36:29,521 --> 00:36:32,481
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
00:36:35,902 --> 00:36:38,572
– You'll obey me.
– I will not.

268
00:36:38,738 --> 00:36:43,578
You'll obey me, or I'll kill you
with my own hands.

269
00:36:46,121 --> 00:36:47,161
Let her go!

270
00:36:47,539 --> 00:36:51,999
No! Stop! Papa! No!

271
00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:55,960
Obey me!
– Your Majesty! No!

272
00:36:57,715 --> 00:36:59,505
In the name of the gods.

273
00:36:59,676 --> 00:37:04,886
He will never be yours! Never!

274
00:37:05,056 --> 00:37:09,726
In my womb, I carried my avenger!

275
00:37:19,279 --> 00:37:22,409
<i>In the world he grew up to…</i>

276
00:37:22,574 --> 00:37:27,794
<i>… I've come to believe it was in friendship
that Alexander found his sanity.</i>

277
00:37:27,954 --> 00:37:31,374
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 --> 00:37:37,707
… facing some Northern
barbarian tribe…

280
00:37:37,881 --> 00:37:42,221
… courage won't be in the soles
of your feet, Perdiccas…

281
00:37:42,844 --> 00:37:45,644
… or in the thickness of your tunic,
Philotas…

282
00:37:45,805 --> 00:37:48,555
… or in the lining
of your stomach, Nearchus.

283
00:37:48,933 --> 00:37:52,903
It's in the heart of a man.

284
00:37:53,855 --> 00:37:58,855
You don't need to eat every day
or until you're full, Ptolemy.

285
00:37:59,027 --> 00:38:01,447
You don't need to lie in bed
in a morning…

286
00:38:01,613 --> 00:38:04,203
… when you can have some
good bean soup, Cassander…

287
00:38:04,365 --> 00:38:05,775
… after a forced night march.

288
00:38:06,743 --> 00:38:08,503
Come on, Alexander.

289
00:38:09,412 --> 00:38:13,292
Where's your hunger
to twist Hephaistion's head off?

290
00:38:13,792 --> 00:38:15,592
Is he stronger than you?

291
00:38:15,752 --> 00:38:17,502
Then beat him another way.

292
00:38:17,670 --> 00:38:19,340
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 --> 00:38:28,772
The first rule of war is to do what you
ask your men to do. No more, no less.

295
00:38:32,310 --> 00:38:33,940
Good. That's it.

296
00:38:34,270 --> 00:38:38,610
Well done. Good wrestling, Hephaistion.
That's what I want.

297
00:38:38,775 --> 00:38:40,145
Come, come, come.

298
00:38:40,860 --> 00:38:42,530
You did well, but you lost.

299
00:38:42,695 --> 00:38:47,775
Now, both of you, congratulate
the other. Go on.

300
00:38:48,618 --> 00:38:51,078
Would you want me to let you win,
Alexander?

301
00:38:53,248 --> 00:38:55,538
You're right.

302
00:38:55,708 --> 00:38:58,798
But I promise you, I will beat
you one day, Hephaistion.

303
00:39:05,885 --> 00:39:09,175
<i>It was said later that Alexander
was never defeated…</i>

304
00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:11,677
<i>… except by Hephaistion's thighs.</i>

305
00:39:12,308 --> 00:39:14,768
Although an inferior race…

306
00:39:14,936 --> 00:39:20,316
… the Persians control at least
four-fifths of the known world.

307
00:39:20,483 --> 00:39:23,113
From Ethiopia and Egypt in the south…

308
00:39:23,278 --> 00:39:26,358
… the Caucasus
and the two inland seas in the north…

309
00:39:26,531 --> 00:39:28,701
<i>Philip brought such
as Aristotle from Athens…</i>

310
00:39:28,867 --> 00:39:30,367
<i>… to educate our rough people.</i>

311
00:39:30,535 --> 00:39:35,035
They rule, and we sit around like frogs.

312
00:39:35,498 --> 00:39:36,538
- – Master?
- Yes?

313
00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:37,958
– Master!
– Out with it!

314
00:39:38,126 --> 00:39:41,336
- – Why are the Persians so cruel?
- Oh, come on, Nearchus.

315
00:39:41,504 --> 00:39:43,804
That is not the subject for today,
Nearchus.

316
00:39:43,965 --> 00:39:48,255
But it is true that the Oriental races
are known for their barbarity…

317
00:39:48,428 --> 00:39:50,928
… and their slavish devotion
to their senses…

318
00:39:51,097 --> 00:39:53,847
… which are so dull, they castrate…

319
00:39:54,017 --> 00:39:56,557
… young boys, such as yourselves…

320
00:39:56,728 --> 00:39:58,938
- – … for their sexual pleasure.
- Ha, ha.

321
00:39:59,105 --> 00:40:00,315
Yes.

322
00:40:00,481 --> 00:40:04,241
Excess in all things
is the undoing of men.

323
00:40:04,402 --> 00:40:06,452
That is why we Greeks are superior.

324
00:40:06,613 --> 00:40:09,703
We practice control of our senses.

325
00:40:09,866 --> 00:40:12,156
Moderation, heh, we hope.

326
00:40:12,327 --> 00:40:14,117
And what of Achilles at Troy, master?

327
00:40:15,788 --> 00:40:20,748
- – Was he not excessive?
- Achilles simply lacks restraint.

328
00:40:20,918 --> 00:40:24,918
He dominates others so completely that
even when he withdraws from battle…

329
00:40:25,089 --> 00:40:28,299
… crazed with grief over
his dead lover, Patroclus…

330
00:40:28,468 --> 00:40:33,388
… he seriously endangers his own army.
He is a deeply selfish man.

331
00:40:33,556 --> 00:40:37,476
Would you say the love between Achilles
and Patroclus is a corrupting one?

332
00:40:38,936 --> 00:40:42,146
When men lie together in lust,
it is a surrender to the passions…

333
00:40:42,315 --> 00:40:46,145
… and does nothing
for the excellence in us.

334
00:40:46,319 --> 00:40:50,739
Nor does any other excess, Cassander,
jealousy among them.

335
00:40:51,324 --> 00:40:52,704
But when men lie together…

336
00:40:52,867 --> 00:40:56,327
… and knowledge and virtue
are passed between them…

337
00:40:56,496 --> 00:41:00,076
… that is pure and excellent.

338
00:41:00,249 --> 00:41:04,419
When they compete to bring out
the good, the best in each other…

339
00:41:04,587 --> 00:41:08,507
… this is the love between men
that can build a city-state…

340
00:41:08,675 --> 00:41:11,635
… and lift us from our frog pond.

341
00:41:14,347 --> 00:41:16,307
But can a man
love a woman equally, master?

342
00:41:16,683 --> 00:41:18,353
A woman? Of course not.

343
00:41:18,518 --> 00:41:20,978
A woman is a slave
to her passion, Hephaistion.

344
00:41:21,145 --> 00:41:24,435
Oh, naturally there are exceptions,
and we must honor them.

345
00:41:24,607 --> 00:41:28,777
Such as Pallas Athena,
goddess of wisdom and war.

346
00:41:28,945 --> 00:41:31,855
But never forget, she is sprung
not from the loins of Zeus…

347
00:41:32,031 --> 00:41:33,661
… but from his mind.

348
00:41:33,825 --> 00:41:37,445
Now, you think on all this,
my young frogs…

349
00:41:37,620 --> 00:41:41,750
… for in you resides the future
of Greek civilization.

350
00:41:41,916 --> 00:41:44,286
To strive for honor…

351
00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:46,420
… is the highest purpose of all.

352
00:41:46,587 --> 00:41:49,127
To rule over our baser emotions.

353
00:41:49,298 --> 00:41:52,968
To follow reason,
the divine part in each of you.

354
00:41:53,136 --> 00:41:54,636
Yes…

355
00:41:54,804 --> 00:41:58,854
… to love excellence
is truly to love the gods.

356
00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:02,765
Now, will you stop distracting me?

357
00:42:03,229 --> 00:42:05,819
Back to geography
and things that we know.

358
00:42:05,982 --> 00:42:11,492
Is it possible that the source
of Egypt's mighty River Nile…

359
00:42:11,654 --> 00:42:15,324
… could rise in these distant
mountains of the outer earth?

360
00:42:15,658 --> 00:42:21,538
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 --> 00:42:31,473
… out into the eastern ocean
at end of the world…

363
00:42:31,632 --> 00:42:35,392
… and by this route up the Nile…

364
00:42:35,553 --> 00:42:41,523
… back to Egypt, into the Middle Sea
and home to Greece.

365
00:42:42,310 --> 00:42:45,610
Now, if only these frogs
could look outward…

366
00:42:45,772 --> 00:42:49,072
… and act on their favored position
at the center…

367
00:42:49,776 --> 00:42:51,686
… Greece could rule the world.

368
00:42:52,111 --> 00:42:57,871
Why is it, master, in myth,
these lands you speak of are known?

369
00:42:59,452 --> 00:43:03,752
India, where Herakles
and Dionysus traveled.

370
00:43:04,373 --> 00:43:09,883
All these men who went east, Theseus,
Jason, Achilles, were victorious.

371
00:43:10,046 --> 00:43:13,716
From generation to generation,
their stories have been passed on.

372
00:43:13,883 --> 00:43:16,473
Why? Unless there was truth to them?

373
00:43:16,636 --> 00:43:20,346
Tales of Amazons? Minotaurs,
Gorgons, Icarus flying into the sun?

374
00:43:20,723 --> 00:43:22,353
No, Alexander.

375
00:43:22,517 --> 00:43:26,227
Only common people believe these tales,
as they believe most anything.

376
00:43:26,687 --> 00:43:31,027
We are here precisely to educate
ourselves against such foolish passions.

377
00:43:31,567 --> 00:43:35,737
But if we are superior to the Persians,
as you say, why do we not rule them?

378
00:43:36,614 --> 00:43:41,414
It is… It has always been
our Greek dream to go east.

379
00:43:42,328 --> 00:43:44,458
My father long wants it.

380
00:43:45,122 --> 00:43:50,462
The East has a way of swallowing
men and their dreams.

381
00:43:50,628 --> 00:43:54,008
But still, to think it's these myths…

382
00:43:54,173 --> 00:43:56,473
… that lead us forward
to the greatest glory.

383
00:43:56,843 --> 00:43:59,053
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 --> 00:44:06,765
Beware of what you dream for.

386
00:44:08,020 --> 00:44:11,520
The gods have a way
of punishing such pride.

387
00:44:22,118 --> 00:44:26,158
<i>Growing more ambitious, Philip
now planned the invasion of Persia.</i>

388
00:44:32,795 --> 00:44:36,715
The best you can do, Cleitus? Back to
the phalanx with you, I'll ride him myself.

389
00:44:36,883 --> 00:44:39,433
No one will ride that beast,
Your Majesty.

390
00:44:39,594 --> 00:44:40,764
Not with your leg.

391
00:44:40,928 --> 00:44:43,098
He's been beaten far too often.

392
00:44:45,850 --> 00:44:48,440
My noble king, he's
a high-spirited animal, yes.

393
00:44:48,603 --> 00:44:52,403
High-spirited and worthy
of Philip of Macedon.

394
00:44:52,565 --> 00:44:54,725
For three and a half talents…

395
00:44:54,901 --> 00:44:57,571
… I couldn't make a profit
on him, but for you-

396
00:44:58,029 --> 00:45:00,659
Why would I want such a beast?
I already have a wife.

397
00:45:02,783 --> 00:45:04,083
Do I seem so old?

398
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,840
Stay down, stay down.

399
00:45:28,601 --> 00:45:32,101
A broken neck comes free. He's too
nervous for battle. Sell him for meat.

400
00:45:32,271 --> 00:45:35,821
Buy him for me, Father. I'll ride him.

401
00:45:40,571 --> 00:45:41,991
And if you don't?

402
00:45:42,156 --> 00:45:45,576
I'll pay for him myself.
– With what, your singing voice?

403
00:45:45,743 --> 00:45:47,503
I'll pay you!

404
00:45:47,703 --> 00:45:51,713
I tell you, the horse can't be ridden, lad.
His mind is broken.

405
00:45:54,043 --> 00:45:57,053
He can be ridden. By me.

406
00:45:57,380 --> 00:46:00,010
If you can rule that horse,
I'll make him yours…

407
00:46:00,174 --> 00:46:02,134
… at half the price.

408
00:46:02,301 --> 00:46:04,551
That horse will kill him, Philip.

409
00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:06,850
– He'll break the boy in two.
– Will he?

410
00:46:07,014 --> 00:46:09,854
Perhaps she'll make
a musician out of him yet.

411
00:46:25,324 --> 00:46:28,334
You don't like your shadow, do you?

412
00:46:28,494 --> 00:46:32,464
It's like a dark spirit
coming up to get you.

413
00:46:32,623 --> 00:46:35,713
Do you see? That's us.

414
00:46:37,461 --> 00:46:40,381
It's just a trick of Apollo's.

415
00:46:40,548 --> 00:46:45,048
He's the god of the sun.

416
00:46:46,387 --> 00:46:48,177
Shh.

417
00:46:48,347 --> 00:46:52,557
But I'll show you how to outwit him,
you and me together.

418
00:47:00,568 --> 00:47:01,568
Shh.

419
00:47:02,820 --> 00:47:06,160
The boy doesn't have the craft.
He could hurt himself.

420
00:47:06,324 --> 00:47:10,584
He'll have to figure that out
for himself. It's time.

421
00:47:10,786 --> 00:47:12,656
Good idea.

422
00:47:12,830 --> 00:47:16,040
Indeed there are times, Philip,
I wonder if he is your blood.

423
00:47:16,208 --> 00:47:18,838
– I only worry that—
– What was that, Attalus?

424
00:47:19,003 --> 00:47:20,133
Nothing.

425
00:47:20,296 --> 00:47:25,256
I was just noticing how the people
like seeing you and Eurydice together.

426
00:47:29,346 --> 00:47:30,426
You go, boy.

427
00:47:31,474 --> 00:47:34,144
You ride that horse,
and by Zeus I say…

428
00:47:34,310 --> 00:47:36,060
…you can rule the world.

429
00:47:43,694 --> 00:47:45,534
Shh.

430
00:47:46,363 --> 00:47:48,033
Shh.

431
00:47:48,532 --> 00:47:49,992
Shh.

432
00:47:54,372 --> 00:47:56,122
Shh.

433
00:48:00,336 --> 00:48:01,336
Bucephalus.

434
00:48:02,671 --> 00:48:06,341
That's what I'll call you.
Strong and stubborn.

435
00:48:09,095 --> 00:48:12,175
Bucephalus and Alexander.

436
00:48:13,766 --> 00:48:17,346
Come now, let's ride together.

437
00:48:50,136 --> 00:48:52,046
He's got some Titan in him yet.

438
00:48:52,221 --> 00:48:56,391
Attalus! Cleitus! For Zeus' sake,
he beat you, man!

439
00:48:56,559 --> 00:48:57,559
Ha, ha!

440
00:49:01,730 --> 00:49:05,070
Now, Bucephalus, show them.

441
00:49:37,975 --> 00:49:39,305
My son.

442
00:49:39,476 --> 00:49:41,186
My son!

443
00:49:55,367 --> 00:49:57,907
The world was nothing but blood feuds.

444
00:50:01,332 --> 00:50:03,502
You remember Prometheus, don't you?

445
00:50:03,667 --> 00:50:07,507
Stole the secret of fire
and gave it to man.

446
00:50:07,671 --> 00:50:10,261
It made Zeus so angry…

447
00:50:10,424 --> 00:50:13,514
…he chained Prometheus to a rock
in the Great Caucasus…

448
00:50:13,677 --> 00:50:17,467
…and each day, his eagle pecked out
the poor man's liver.

449
00:50:18,265 --> 00:50:22,805
Each night, it grew back again so that
it could be eaten the next day.

450
00:50:22,978 --> 00:50:24,228
Miserable fate.

451
00:50:26,857 --> 00:50:33,857
Oedipus tore out his eyes when
he found out he'd murdered his father…

452
00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:39,450
…and married his mother.
Knowledge that came too late.

453
00:50:39,620 --> 00:50:41,460
Jason…

454
00:50:42,665 --> 00:50:45,455
…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 --> 00:50:53,343
Later, when he left her for a younger wife…

457
00:50:53,509 --> 00:50:57,389
…Medea slaughtered
their two children in vengeance.

458
00:51:09,567 --> 00:51:12,647
My mother would never hurt me.

459
00:51:19,785 --> 00:51:22,655
It's never easy to escape our mothers,
Alexander.

460
00:51:23,205 --> 00:51:29,705
All your life, beware of women.
They're far more dangerous than men.

461
00:51:37,636 --> 00:51:40,596
I'm sure you remember Achilles
from <i>Tales of Troy.</i>

462
00:51:40,931 --> 00:51:43,731
– He's my favorite.
– Why?

463
00:51:43,934 --> 00:51:47,734
Because he loved Patroclus
and avenged his death.

464
00:51:48,605 --> 00:51:51,605
Because he lived without fear,
and slew Hector.

465
00:51:51,775 --> 00:51:55,645
Some say he was a hotheaded fool who fought
only for himself and not for the Greeks.

466
00:51:55,821 --> 00:51:57,451
But he was a hero.

467
00:51:57,615 --> 00:51:59,735
The greatest at Troy.

468
00:51:59,908 --> 00:52:00,948
And his fate?

469
00:52:01,118 --> 00:52:04,908
That he must die young, with great glory.

470
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:06,870
Did he have a choice?

471
00:52:07,541 --> 00:52:13,421
Oh, yes. He could have a long life,
but there would be no glory.

472
00:52:16,550 --> 00:52:20,930
You dream of glory, Alexander.
Your mother encourages you.

473
00:52:21,096 --> 00:52:24,766
There's no glory without suffering,
and this she will not allow.

474
00:52:24,933 --> 00:52:26,853
She makes you weak.

475
00:52:28,395 --> 00:52:30,725
The gods have never
made it easy for man.

476
00:52:30,898 --> 00:52:32,228
Look.

477
00:52:32,733 --> 00:52:39,703
Herakles. Even after he accomplished
his 12 labors…

478
00:52:41,408 --> 00:52:46,828
…he was punished with madness,
slaughtered his three children.

479
00:52:47,873 --> 00:52:49,583
Poor Herakles.

480
00:52:51,669 --> 00:52:53,749
Great Herakles.

481
00:52:53,921 --> 00:52:56,421
All greatness comes from loss.

482
00:52:56,590 --> 00:53:02,600
Even you, the gods will
one day judge harshly.

483
00:53:02,763 --> 00:53:04,643
When I'm king like you, Father?

484
00:53:04,807 --> 00:53:08,597
Don't rush the day, boy. You risk all.

485
00:53:09,728 --> 00:53:13,818
My father threw me into battle
before I knew how to fight.

486
00:53:13,982 --> 00:53:16,532
When I killed my first man, he said:

487
00:53:16,693 --> 00:53:18,953
"Now you know."

488
00:53:19,571 --> 00:53:23,831
I hated him then,
but I understand why now.

489
00:53:23,992 --> 00:53:26,412
A king isn't born, Alexander.

490
00:53:26,578 --> 00:53:30,328
He's made by steel and by suffering.

491
00:53:31,542 --> 00:53:35,552
A king must know
how to hurt those he loves.

492
00:53:39,341 --> 00:53:41,761
It's lonely. Ask Herakles.

493
00:53:43,011 --> 00:53:46,471
Ask any of them. Fate is cruel.

494
00:53:47,724 --> 00:53:53,404
No man or woman can be too powerful or too
beautiful without disaster befalling.

495
00:53:53,564 --> 00:53:56,864
They laugh when you rise too high…

496
00:53:57,025 --> 00:53:59,855
…and crush everything
you've built with a whim.

497
00:54:00,612 --> 00:54:04,492
What glory they give,
in the end, they take away.

498
00:54:05,909 --> 00:54:09,039
They make of us slaves.

499
00:54:25,095 --> 00:54:29,175
Truth is in our hearts, and none
will tell you this but your father.

500
00:54:29,892 --> 00:54:32,692
Men hate the gods.

501
00:54:33,812 --> 00:54:35,862
The only reason we worship any of them…

502
00:54:36,023 --> 00:54:38,233
…is because we fear worse.

503
00:54:39,151 --> 00:54:42,531
– What's worse?
– The Titans.

504
00:54:43,071 --> 00:54:45,821
If they were ever to be set free…

505
00:54:45,991 --> 00:54:49,121
…it'd be a darkness
such as we've never seen before.

506
00:54:49,286 --> 00:54:51,326
Could they ever come back?

507
00:54:52,623 --> 00:54:55,713
Couldn't Zeus imprison the Titans forever
under Mount Olympus?

508
00:54:55,876 --> 00:54:57,916
It's said that when Zeus…

509
00:54:58,712 --> 00:55:01,262
…burned them to dust
with his lightning bolt…

510
00:55:01,423 --> 00:55:04,263
…they took the Titans' ashes
and, in cold revenge…

511
00:55:04,426 --> 00:55:06,966
…mixed it with those of mortal men.

512
00:55:07,137 --> 00:55:08,507
Why?

513
00:55:12,893 --> 00:55:14,943
Who knows these things?

514
00:55:15,771 --> 00:55:18,611
One day, things will change.

515
00:55:19,858 --> 00:55:21,818
Men will change.

516
00:55:21,985 --> 00:55:25,655
But first, the gods must change.

517
00:55:31,119 --> 00:55:33,869
But all this you'll forget, Alexander.

518
00:55:34,998 --> 00:55:37,038
That's why we call them myths.

519
00:55:38,252 --> 00:55:40,712
We can't bear to remember them.

520
00:55:40,879 --> 00:55:42,259
I'll remember.

521
00:55:42,965 --> 00:55:45,835
One day, I'll be on walls like these.

522
00:55:54,101 --> 00:55:56,311
<i>Alexander once said to me:</i>

523
00:55:56,478 --> 00:56:00,728
<i>"We are most alone
when we are with the myths."</i>

524
00:56:02,109 --> 00:56:03,319
Phalanx!

525
00:56:05,279 --> 00:56:07,239
<i>And thus, it came to pass in a dream…</i>

526
00:56:07,406 --> 00:56:11,946
<i>…as mythical to all Greeks
as Achilles defeating the Trojans.</i>

527
00:56:12,119 --> 00:56:15,329
<i>At this one glorious moment in time…</i>

528
00:56:15,497 --> 00:56:19,707
<i>…Alexander was loved by all.</i>

529
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:26,260
<i>But in the end, I believe Babylon
was a far easier mistress to enter…</i>

530
00:56:26,675 --> 00:56:29,215
<i>…than she was to leave.</i>

531
00:57:18,685 --> 00:57:23,185
<i>Sikander! Sikander!</i>

532
00:57:48,048 --> 00:57:53,298
Aristotle may have called them
barbarians, but he never saw Babylon.

533
00:57:53,470 --> 00:57:56,180
We have enough gold here
to support three generations…

534
00:57:56,348 --> 00:57:58,058
…of Macedonian armies.

535
00:57:58,433 --> 00:58:01,063
And Macedonia would soon corrupt,
Cassander.

536
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:03,520
Wealth in great quantities
brings the crows.

537
00:58:03,689 --> 00:58:06,069
Not for the men who fought, I trust.

538
00:58:07,192 --> 00:58:11,282
We'll pay them well, Antigonus, but not
as mercenaries for future services.

539
00:58:11,446 --> 00:58:12,856
Now you sound like Philip.

540
00:58:14,199 --> 00:58:15,699
Philip never saw Babylon.

541
00:58:16,660 --> 00:58:18,370
No, he didn't, Hephaistion.

542
00:58:20,330 --> 00:58:22,210
- Hello!
- Hello!

543
00:58:22,708 --> 00:58:26,208
Alexander, I know you think me
a stiff old sod…

544
00:58:26,378 --> 00:58:28,918
…but whatever our differences,
know this day…

545
00:58:29,089 --> 00:58:32,469
…your father
would be very proud of you.

546
00:58:34,553 --> 00:58:36,723
Thank you, Parmenion.

547
00:58:36,930 --> 00:58:41,480
I ask you to forgive me
my own anger, my pride.

548
00:58:41,643 --> 00:58:43,523
They, too, blind me.

549
00:58:47,482 --> 00:58:50,782
Magnificent mainland work
from the last century.

550
00:58:51,319 --> 00:58:53,449
The golden age, Alexander.

551
00:58:53,613 --> 00:58:56,783
Worth much to Athens
and to our alliances.

552
00:58:56,992 --> 00:58:59,242
Take back what is ours…

553
00:58:59,411 --> 00:59:01,711
…but spare what belongs to the Persians.

554
00:59:05,292 --> 00:59:06,962
Yes.

555
00:59:07,711 --> 00:59:11,171
We're the richest men
to walk the earth, my friends.

556
00:59:11,339 --> 00:59:13,099
Not if we keep giving it all away.

557
00:59:13,258 --> 00:59:16,138
The grandsons of goat herders…

558
00:59:16,303 --> 00:59:20,473
…we now rule 2 million square miles.

559
00:59:21,349 --> 00:59:22,679
But…

560
00:59:23,685 --> 00:59:29,515
…none of you fear that this great fortune
may drive us all to destruction.

561
00:59:29,691 --> 00:59:31,361
You overvalue us.

562
00:59:31,526 --> 00:59:35,196
For as long as Darius breathes,
he is the legitimate king of Asia…

563
00:59:35,405 --> 00:59:37,985
…and I but the king of air.

564
00:59:38,158 --> 00:59:40,788
– But he has no power, Alexander.
– Whoo!

565
00:59:40,952 --> 00:59:43,162
He's lost in the mountains with no army.

566
00:59:43,330 --> 00:59:46,580
As long as he's lost, Philotas,
he can be believed in.

567
00:59:46,750 --> 00:59:49,750
Only when he's found
will it be decided.

568
00:59:51,713 --> 00:59:53,633
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 --> 00:59:58,965
We must hunt Darius down
to the ends of earth.

571
00:59:59,137 --> 01:00:01,767
– That was not your father's mission.
– And I am not my father.

572
01:00:05,310 --> 01:00:07,560
Come on. Have you so quickly forgotten?

573
01:00:07,729 --> 01:00:08,769
Fortune favors the bold.

574
01:00:14,027 --> 01:00:16,777
No wonder Darius fled
when he had this to come back to.

575
01:00:16,947 --> 01:00:19,737
One for every night of the year.

576
01:00:46,268 --> 01:00:48,768
How will I go back to Lysimache
after this?

577
01:00:48,937 --> 01:00:51,817
I advise you not to touch, Leonnatus.
Here, I'll take care of it for you.

578
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:13,920
Aristotle was perhaps prescient.

579
01:01:17,841 --> 01:01:22,101
Do these images fool us with
their beauty and degrade our souls?

580
01:01:52,125 --> 01:01:55,625
Bagoas, great king. Darius' boy.

581
01:01:55,795 --> 01:01:57,375
Bagoas.

582
01:01:57,672 --> 01:02:00,552
Nicely gelded, Your Majesty.

583
01:02:00,717 --> 01:02:02,297
Most successful.

584
01:02:02,469 --> 01:02:04,849
He was certainly
one of the great king's favorites.

585
01:02:08,224 --> 01:02:11,944
Oh, he's writ well with the years.

586
01:02:14,147 --> 01:02:17,897
What are you now, Bagoas?
Eighteen, 19?

587
01:02:18,193 --> 01:02:21,283
– Where does he come from?
– The north, sire.

588
01:02:23,156 --> 01:02:25,486
From the hills near Susa.

589
01:02:25,659 --> 01:02:27,579
You speak our language.

590
01:02:27,744 --> 01:02:31,254
– Good. I'd like to learn yours.
– It is learnable, my lord.

591
01:02:44,886 --> 01:02:47,056
So tell me, Bagoas…

592
01:02:47,430 --> 01:02:50,520
…do my eyes betray me,
or do you wish to be set free…

593
01:02:50,684 --> 01:02:52,354
…to go back to your homeland?

594
01:02:56,773 --> 01:02:59,283
All my family's long dead, great king.

595
01:02:59,776 --> 01:03:03,236
With your permission, I will stay on.

596
01:03:06,449 --> 01:03:07,909
Very well then, Bagoas.

597
01:03:09,119 --> 01:03:11,659
Ptolemy, administer this.

598
01:03:14,582 --> 01:03:16,842
And that's the same of every person
in the harem…

599
01:03:17,002 --> 01:03:18,632
…woman and eunuch.

600
01:03:18,795 --> 01:03:21,965
Whoever wishes to be sent home
to their families, let them.

601
01:03:22,424 --> 01:03:23,594
What?

602
01:03:23,758 --> 01:03:27,098
Hear that, boys? Set them free.

603
01:03:47,657 --> 01:03:49,027
Don't worry, Alexander.

604
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:52,250
- – I'm on your side.
- Get off.

605
01:04:00,754 --> 01:04:04,304
Great King Alexander.

606
01:04:07,302 --> 01:04:09,302
The Princess of the Thousand Roses…

607
01:04:09,471 --> 01:04:12,221
…and eldest daughter of the formerly
Great King Darius…

608
01:04:13,808 --> 01:04:15,888
…Stateira.

609
01:04:16,436 --> 01:04:17,846
Noble Alexander…

610
01:04:25,278 --> 01:04:28,618
…I come to beg for the lives…

611
01:04:28,782 --> 01:04:29,992
…of my sisters…

612
01:04:31,368 --> 01:04:33,908
…my mother, my grandmother.

613
01:04:38,750 --> 01:04:42,880
You are not wrong, Princess Stateira.

614
01:04:43,088 --> 01:04:44,958
He, too, is Alexander.

615
01:04:48,927 --> 01:04:50,427
Please.

616
01:04:51,304 --> 01:04:54,604
I plead for my family's lives.

617
01:04:56,184 --> 01:04:59,314
– Sell me as a slave, great king, but-
– Look now…

618
01:04:59,479 --> 01:05:01,359
…in my eyes…

619
01:05:02,774 --> 01:05:03,824
…princess…

620
01:05:05,819 --> 01:05:07,399
…and tell me…

621
01:05:07,946 --> 01:05:10,156
…how would you like to be treated?

622
01:05:12,826 --> 01:05:14,736
As I am…

623
01:05:14,911 --> 01:05:16,961
…a princess.

624
01:05:20,333 --> 01:05:21,963
Then so be it.

625
01:05:23,711 --> 01:05:26,801
You and your family shall
be treated as my family.

626
01:05:29,467 --> 01:05:32,637
You shall live in this palace
as long as you choose.

627
01:05:33,304 --> 01:05:36,644
Have you any other requests for me,
my noble princess?

628
01:05:39,394 --> 01:05:40,774
No.

629
01:05:42,021 --> 01:05:44,861
Everything I wish…

630
01:05:45,024 --> 01:05:47,944
…I have requested.

631
01:05:49,154 --> 01:05:50,994
You truly are…

632
01:05:51,156 --> 01:05:52,906
…a queen.

633
01:05:59,414 --> 01:06:01,924
<i>Yes, she would be a perfect match for you…</i>

634
01:06:02,834 --> 01:06:04,714
<i>…but you do nothing.</i>

635
01:06:04,878 --> 01:06:08,468
Three months you've been in Babylon
and leave me in Pella…

636
01:06:08,673 --> 01:06:12,843
…at the mercy of your enemies,
of which you have many.

637
01:06:13,011 --> 01:06:16,141
<i>Antipater, accustomed now to the power
that you have given him.</i>

638
01:06:16,472 --> 01:06:18,852
<i>I must watch him grow stronger.</i>

639
01:06:26,232 --> 01:06:29,362
<i>I'm certain that
he communicates secretly with Parmenion…</i>

640
01:06:29,527 --> 01:06:31,027
<i>…who is dangerous.</i>

641
01:06:31,196 --> 01:06:34,276
But beware, most of all,
of those closest to you.

642
01:06:34,866 --> 01:06:35,906
<i>They are like snakes…</i>

643
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:38,370
<i>…and can be turned.</i>

644
01:06:38,745 --> 01:06:40,205
General Crateros.

645
01:06:43,124 --> 01:06:47,634
<i>Cassander is Antipater's son.</i>

646
01:06:47,837 --> 01:06:51,547
<i>Even Cleitus, your father's favorite…</i>

647
01:06:51,716 --> 01:06:54,176
<i>…and Ptolemy, your friend, yes.</i>

648
01:06:54,385 --> 01:06:56,595
But beware of men
who think too much.

649
01:06:57,222 --> 01:06:59,472
<i>They blind themselves.</i>

650
01:07:02,810 --> 01:07:05,360
<i>Only Hephaistion do I leave out.</i>

651
01:07:06,272 --> 01:07:08,902
<i>But all of them you make rich…</i>

652
01:07:09,108 --> 01:07:14,908
<i>…while your mother and yourself,
you leave in generous poverty.</i>

653
01:07:15,698 --> 01:07:18,078
<i>Why won't you ever believe me?</i>

654
01:07:18,868 --> 01:07:24,668
<i>It is only a dark mind like mine that
can know these secrets of the heart.</i>

655
01:07:24,832 --> 01:07:27,462
<i>For they are dark, Alexander.</i>

656
01:07:27,752 --> 01:07:30,302
So dark.

657
01:07:30,463 --> 01:07:31,553
But in you…

658
01:07:32,131 --> 01:07:36,971
<i>…the son of Zeus,
lies the light of the world.</i>

659
01:07:37,136 --> 01:07:41,176
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
01:07:45,895 --> 01:07:50,275
…shining light of youth,
forever young, forever inspiring.

662
01:07:50,441 --> 01:07:53,991
Never will there be
an Alexander like you.

663
01:07:54,153 --> 01:07:56,703
Alexander the Great.

664
01:07:57,949 --> 01:08:01,449
<i>Remember, bring me to Babylon
as you promised.</i>

665
01:08:01,661 --> 01:08:04,831
<i>I can only help you, for they know
if they harm you…</i>

666
01:08:04,998 --> 01:08:08,878
…they will face my wrath,
as Queen of Babylon.

667
01:08:10,795 --> 01:08:14,415
It's a high ransom she charges
for nine months' lodging in the womb.

668
01:08:14,591 --> 01:08:16,591
Bring her, Alexander.

669
01:08:16,759 --> 01:08:19,469
– It'll give her such joy.
– Joy?

670
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:23,930
When I'm the cracked mirror
of her dreams?

671
01:08:26,436 --> 01:08:28,856
Stay with me tonight, Hephaistion.

672
01:08:35,611 --> 01:08:37,201
I'll take my own bath.

673
01:08:38,573 --> 01:08:39,783
Thank you, Bagoas.

674
01:08:48,374 --> 01:08:49,464
What bothers you?

675
01:08:51,711 --> 01:08:54,841
I see in her everything I fear.

676
01:08:56,049 --> 01:08:58,429
Yet I have no idea what it is…

677
01:08:59,177 --> 01:09:01,177
…this fear.

678
01:09:05,808 --> 01:09:09,268
She was always so sure I was born of Zeus.

679
01:09:09,937 --> 01:09:11,857
Why, Hephaistion?

680
01:09:13,691 --> 01:09:18,281
I think there are things
beyond our imagining…

681
01:09:19,447 --> 01:09:20,947
…like the lightning…

682
01:09:21,115 --> 01:09:24,155
…tales of strange conceptions.

683
01:09:25,912 --> 01:09:28,042
I don't doubt it.

684
01:09:28,206 --> 01:09:30,786
What is being told me?

685
01:09:30,958 --> 01:09:34,798
What destiny do-? Do I have?

686
01:09:36,506 --> 01:09:39,336
Well, if I'm Patroclus…

687
01:09:39,509 --> 01:09:41,799
…I die first.

688
01:09:42,011 --> 01:09:44,761
Then you, Achilles.

689
01:09:50,687 --> 01:09:53,477
The generals are upset.

690
01:09:54,857 --> 01:09:57,487
They question your obsession with Darius.

691
01:09:58,152 --> 01:10:01,322
They say it was never meant
for you to be king of Asia.

692
01:10:01,489 --> 01:10:03,029
Naturally.

693
01:10:03,199 --> 01:10:07,539
They want only to return to their homes,
rich with gold. But I've seen the future.

694
01:10:07,704 --> 01:10:11,004
I've seen it now 1000 times,
on 1000 faces.

695
01:10:11,165 --> 01:10:13,325
These people want…

696
01:10:14,085 --> 01:10:16,165
Need change.

697
01:10:17,213 --> 01:10:19,883
Aristotle was wrong about them.

698
01:10:20,049 --> 01:10:21,719
How so?

699
01:10:21,884 --> 01:10:24,014
Look at those we've conquered.

700
01:10:24,178 --> 01:10:26,218
They leave their dead unburied.

701
01:10:26,389 --> 01:10:29,349
They smash their enemies' skulls
and drink them as dust.

702
01:10:29,517 --> 01:10:31,517
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
01:10:36,732 --> 01:10:41,362
But as Alexander's army, they can go
where they never thought possible.

705
01:10:41,529 --> 01:10:44,619
They can soldier or work in the cities.

706
01:10:44,782 --> 01:10:49,002
The Alexandras,
from Egypt to the outer ocean.

707
01:10:49,495 --> 01:10:52,415
We could connect these lands,
Hephaistion…

708
01:10:52,582 --> 01:10:53,832
…and the people.

709
01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:59,630
Some say these Alexandras have become
extensions of Alexander himself.

710
01:11:00,381 --> 01:11:03,471
They draw people into the cities
to make slaves of them.

711
01:11:03,634 --> 01:11:07,934
But we freed them, Hephaistion, from
the Persia where everyone lived as slaves.

712
01:11:09,932 --> 01:11:12,482
To free the people of the world…

713
01:11:13,394 --> 01:11:17,944
…such would be beyond the glory
of Achilles, beyond Herakles…

714
01:11:18,107 --> 01:11:20,737
…a feat to rival Prometheus…

715
01:11:21,527 --> 01:11:24,197
…who was always a friend to man.

716
01:11:24,405 --> 01:11:26,735
Remember the fates of these heroes.

717
01:11:26,908 --> 01:11:31,118
– They suffered greatly.
– Oh, we all suffer.

718
01:11:31,537 --> 01:11:35,117
Your father, mine.

719
01:11:35,917 --> 01:11:37,997
They all came to the end of their time.

720
01:11:38,169 --> 01:11:42,219
And in the end, when it's over,
all that matters is what you've done.

721
01:11:43,549 --> 01:11:48,349
You once said,
"The fear of death drives all men."

722
01:11:48,679 --> 01:11:50,469
Are there no other forces?

723
01:11:51,724 --> 01:11:54,484
Is there not love in your life…

724
01:11:56,062 --> 01:11:58,062
…Alexander?

725
01:12:01,901 --> 01:12:06,531
What would you do if you ever reached
the end of the world?

726
01:12:08,407 --> 01:12:11,237
I'd turn back and conquer its opposite.

727
01:12:16,457 --> 01:12:21,457
I wonder sometimes if it's not
your mother you run from.

728
01:12:22,880 --> 01:12:26,840
So many years,
so many miles between you.

729
01:12:28,469 --> 01:12:30,469
What is it you fear?

730
01:12:31,973 --> 01:12:34,233
Who knows these things?

731
01:12:35,810 --> 01:12:40,980
When I was a child, my mother thought
me divine. My father, weak.

732
01:12:43,484 --> 01:12:46,154
Which am I, Hephaistion?

733
01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:48,240
Weak or divine?

734
01:12:51,826 --> 01:12:53,736
All I know is…

735
01:12:53,911 --> 01:12:57,001
…I trust only you in this world.

736
01:12:57,164 --> 01:12:59,254
I've missed you.

737
01:12:59,917 --> 01:13:01,037
I need you.

738
01:13:03,254 --> 01:13:04,804
It is you I love, Hephaistion.

739
01:13:07,216 --> 01:13:09,386
No other.

740
01:13:13,306 --> 01:13:16,176
You're everything I care for…

741
01:13:16,350 --> 01:13:20,020
…and by the sweet breath
of Aphrodite…

742
01:13:20,521 --> 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 --> 01:13:30,413
I'll be with you always.

745
01:13:31,032 --> 01:13:32,952
Till the end.

746
01:13:46,464 --> 01:13:49,134
<i>The campaign in the northeast of Persia…</i>

747
01:13:49,300 --> 01:13:54,140
<i>…turned into a hard guerrilla war
of almost three years.</i>

748
01:13:57,016 --> 01:14:03,056
<i>We chased Darius towards Bactria
but missed taking him by hours.</i>

749
01:14:05,900 --> 01:14:08,280
He was dying when we found him, sire.

750
01:14:08,444 --> 01:14:10,244
He asked for water.

751
01:14:10,404 --> 01:14:12,914
He drank and died.

752
01:14:19,538 --> 01:14:24,248
<i>The Great King Darius
had been betrayed by his own commanders.</i>

753
01:14:52,321 --> 01:14:54,321
<i>Fully honoring his corpse…</i>

754
01:14:54,490 --> 01:14:59,410
<i>…Alexander hunted down
these commanders into unknown lands…</i>

755
01:15:00,371 --> 01:15:05,211
<i>…crossing even beyond
the River Oxus into Sogdia.</i>

756
01:15:09,463 --> 01:15:13,763
<i>We fought them as far as
the unknown steppes ofScythia…</i>

757
01:15:14,468 --> 01:15:17,758
<i>…where only legendary heroes
had once trod.</i>

758
01:15:17,972 --> 01:15:20,432
<i>The surveyors told us
we were now on the borders…</i>

759
01:15:20,599 --> 01:15:23,349
<i>…of where Europe and Asia meet.</i>

760
01:15:23,519 --> 01:15:27,399
<i>In fact, we were totally lost.</i>

761
01:15:28,232 --> 01:15:31,152
<i>Here, Alexander founded
his 10th Alexandria…</i>

762
01:15:31,318 --> 01:15:33,698
<i>…and settled it with veterans,
their women…</i>

763
01:15:33,863 --> 01:15:36,413
<i>…and any who would dare
the frontier life.</i>

764
01:15:37,616 --> 01:15:40,446
<i>Unable to accept defeat in any form…</i>

765
01:15:40,661 --> 01:15:45,371
<i>…Alexander persisted in breaking
every tribe that resisted…</i>

766
01:15:45,541 --> 01:15:49,131
<i>…until the day he received the head
of his last enemy in surrender.</i>

767
01:15:54,216 --> 01:15:58,846
<i>For Alexander, there could be
no pretender to the throne of Asia…</i>

768
01:16:00,014 --> 01:16:04,444
<i>…which now included all
of Sogdia and Bactria.</i>

769
01:16:06,437 --> 01:16:11,067
<i>It was here that he made
one of his most mysterious decisions.</i>

770
01:16:14,612 --> 01:16:18,912
<i>Ten years after his mother's insistence
he marry a Macedonian…</i>

771
01:16:19,075 --> 01:16:21,115
Through our union…

772
01:16:21,285 --> 01:16:24,205
…Greek and barbarian…

773
01:16:24,371 --> 01:16:26,121
…may be reconciled in peace.

774
01:16:26,540 --> 01:16:31,000
<i>…The most powerful man in the world
took a girl of no political significance.</i>

775
01:16:37,176 --> 01:16:38,216
<i>Why?</i>

776
01:16:39,845 --> 01:16:43,135
<i>Some say it was for alliance
with the tribes.</i>

777
01:16:45,142 --> 01:16:47,192
<i>Others, the desire for a successor.</i>

778
01:16:49,939 --> 01:16:54,899
<i>And yet others said Alexander
truly fell in love.</i>

779
01:16:56,153 --> 01:16:58,073
<i>Who Roxane really was…</i>

780
01:16:58,239 --> 01:17:04,369
<i>…I doubt any of us ever saw further
than the pools of those black eyes.</i>

781
01:17:05,621 --> 01:17:08,121
On this glorious occasion…

782
01:17:09,917 --> 01:17:12,627
…I toast this great army
that has given so much.

783
01:17:12,837 --> 01:17:17,087
And in honor of them, those of you who
set out with us seven long years ago…

784
01:17:17,258 --> 01:17:21,678
…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 --> 01:17:31,108
And in honor of my bride…

787
01:17:34,900 --> 01:17:37,400
…my beautiful bride…

788
01:17:37,570 --> 01:17:41,910
…we recognize the many women
who've shared the long road with us…

789
01:17:42,074 --> 01:17:45,624
…and grant them dowries
befitting a proper marriage.

790
01:17:54,378 --> 01:17:57,008
And what about our boys?

791
01:17:57,423 --> 01:17:58,673
And lastly…

792
01:17:59,008 --> 01:18:02,138
…lastly, the gods demand
no less of us…

793
01:18:02,428 --> 01:18:05,758
…that your children be given
a proper Greek education…

794
01:18:05,931 --> 01:18:10,391
…and military training
under our protection…

795
01:18:10,895 --> 01:18:14,815
…so as to be the new soldiers
of our kingdom…

796
01:18:15,149 --> 01:18:17,479
…in Asia.

797
01:18:33,584 --> 01:18:35,714
Your father must be turning in his grave.

798
01:18:35,878 --> 01:18:37,708
After all this, a hill chiefs daughter.

799
01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:39,065
Not tonight, Parmenion.

800
01:18:39,089 --> 01:18:41,089
You call this tribal wedding legitimate?

801
01:18:41,258 --> 01:18:44,138
Do you forget, Parmenion, my father
took a barbarian as his queen?

802
01:18:44,303 --> 01:18:47,013
Yes, but few would call it
a profoundly happy marriage.

803
01:18:48,349 --> 01:18:51,189
But what's the point, Alexander?
She's your captive.

804
01:18:51,352 --> 01:18:53,272
Just take her as your concubine.

805
01:18:53,437 --> 01:18:56,437
Because I want a son.
Damn you, Philotas.

806
01:18:56,857 --> 01:19:02,397
Then half your nobles have sisters
who'd make fine Macedonian mothers.

807
01:19:02,571 --> 01:19:07,161
To take an Asian as my queen,
not a captive, is a sign of deep respect.

808
01:19:07,493 --> 01:19:10,293
It will bring us together, unify us.

809
01:19:10,454 --> 01:19:12,544
Which is not to say I won't take
a Macedonian.

810
01:19:12,748 --> 01:19:15,748
As a second wife? You insult Macedonia.

811
01:19:16,794 --> 01:19:20,514
Never will our people
accept this girl's son as king.

812
01:19:21,048 --> 01:19:22,548
They'll be angry when they find out…

813
01:19:22,716 --> 01:19:25,296
…their husbands
all have second wives in Barbaria.

814
01:19:25,469 --> 01:19:26,509
Then they'll learn.

815
01:19:26,679 --> 01:19:30,179
By Athena's justice, this girl has spirit.

816
01:19:30,391 --> 01:19:32,641
She'll breed a brave son.

817
01:19:32,810 --> 01:19:34,350
Alexander!

818
01:19:35,062 --> 01:19:37,732
This is about the honor
of our kingdom.

819
01:19:37,898 --> 01:19:40,398
Exactly. What can be won, Alexander?

820
01:19:40,567 --> 01:19:43,857
We're in Asia to punish them
for their crimes. We've achieved that.

821
01:19:44,029 --> 01:19:47,529
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
01:19:54,623 --> 01:19:56,673
To give these people cities?

825
01:19:56,834 --> 01:19:58,134
And now make an army of them?

826
01:19:58,293 --> 01:20:01,883
To found cities and expand
our reach is not to drift.

827
01:20:02,047 --> 01:20:04,257
- – What benefit to Macedon?
- It's far richer!

828
01:20:04,425 --> 01:20:06,835
– Look what you give them.
– With respect…

829
01:20:07,011 --> 01:20:10,221
…had you fought better at Gaugamela
when your flank was crumbling-

830
01:20:10,431 --> 01:20:13,731
– How dare you, Nearchus?
– General Nearchus to you, boy.

831
01:20:13,892 --> 01:20:17,522
Alexander spread our flank too thin!
There was nothing my father…

832
01:20:17,688 --> 01:20:19,898
– …or any of you could've done!
– Philotas!

833
01:20:26,113 --> 01:20:28,493
Alexander, I've known you
since you were born.

834
01:20:29,450 --> 01:20:32,410
I supported you at your father's death.

835
01:20:32,578 --> 01:20:35,208
At the very least, for Zeus' sake…

836
01:20:35,497 --> 01:20:38,627
…and in respect to the council
that chose you king…

837
01:20:38,792 --> 01:20:40,632
…give us a Macedonian heir.

838
01:20:41,086 --> 01:20:42,496
A Macedonian heir.

839
01:20:49,136 --> 01:20:50,886
- – You've been heard clearly.
- But-

840
01:20:51,055 --> 01:20:52,925
Parmenion!

841
01:20:53,098 --> 01:20:56,638
After the wedding, take two brigades
to Babylon, where I look to you…

842
01:20:57,102 --> 01:21:01,942
…and Antipater in Greece, to maintain
our empire and supply this expedition.

843
01:21:02,691 --> 01:21:04,781
I'll winter with my army at Marakand.

844
01:21:04,985 --> 01:21:08,905
I pray to Apollo you realize how far
you've turned from your father's path.

845
01:21:09,073 --> 01:21:11,623
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 --> 01:21:19,331
He never lusted for war, Alexander,
or enjoyed it so.

848
01:21:19,500 --> 01:21:24,760
He consulted his peers in council,
among equals, hmm, the Macedonian way.

849
01:21:24,922 --> 01:21:27,342
He didn't decide based
on his personal desires.

850
01:21:27,508 --> 01:21:30,968
I've taken us further
than my father ever dreamed.

851
01:21:31,136 --> 01:21:32,466
Old man…

852
01:21:32,638 --> 01:21:35,018
…we're in new worlds.

853
01:21:36,016 --> 01:21:39,686
Alexander, be reasonable!

854
01:21:39,853 --> 01:21:42,023
Were they ever meant to be our equals?

855
01:21:42,523 --> 01:21:44,443
Share our rewards?

856
01:21:44,608 --> 01:21:46,648
You remember what Aristotle said.

857
01:21:46,819 --> 01:21:48,149
An Asian?

858
01:21:48,320 --> 01:21:52,070
What would a vow mean to a race
that's never kept their word to a Greek?

859
01:21:52,241 --> 01:21:54,331
- – Aristotle be damned!
- Alexander!

860
01:21:54,535 --> 01:21:56,075
By Zeus and all the gods…

861
01:21:56,245 --> 01:22:00,325
…what makes you so much better
than them, Cassander?

862
01:22:00,541 --> 01:22:04,671
Better than you really are.
In you and those like you is this.

863
01:22:06,338 --> 01:22:07,878
Alexander.

864
01:22:10,843 --> 01:22:15,263
What disturbs me most is not your lack
of respect for my judgment.

865
01:22:18,600 --> 01:22:22,060
It's your contempt for a world
far older than ours.

866
01:22:54,928 --> 01:22:57,218
If I ever kneel down like that to any man…

867
01:22:57,389 --> 01:23:00,139
kill me.
– Have another drink, Cleitus.

868
01:23:00,809 --> 01:23:03,849
- – Shouldn't you be bound to a king?
- Cleitus.

869
01:23:04,563 --> 01:23:08,783
Alexander, you look weak
when you not accept these honors.

870
01:23:08,942 --> 01:23:12,492
I understand, my dear father,
but it's against Greek ways.

871
01:23:12,654 --> 01:23:14,954
Then Greek ways are weak.

872
01:23:15,115 --> 01:23:17,865
I still think she got the better of him
in this bargain.

873
01:23:18,035 --> 01:23:21,115
My daughter, Roxane…

874
01:23:21,288 --> 01:23:23,248
…she shall make you a good wife.

875
01:23:23,415 --> 01:23:25,825
She shall kill for you.

876
01:23:30,130 --> 01:23:31,590
Lord Sikander…

877
01:23:31,757 --> 01:23:35,177
…ruler of heaven…

878
01:23:37,221 --> 01:23:39,011
…and earth.

879
01:23:44,728 --> 01:23:48,018
In honor of this great alliance…

880
01:23:48,190 --> 01:23:51,240
…I, Oxyartes…

881
01:23:51,401 --> 01:23:54,661
- – …offer you these great gifts.
- Alexander…

882
01:23:54,821 --> 01:23:57,871
…I would like to honor a toast to you
from my people.

883
01:24:02,496 --> 01:24:04,286
Good morning, sire.

884
01:24:05,499 --> 01:24:08,209
Come now, Alexander. Give us a kiss.

885
01:24:24,559 --> 01:24:27,729
We shall fight for you, Alexander.

886
01:24:27,896 --> 01:24:29,766
It shall be bloody.

887
01:24:31,858 --> 01:24:33,738
Who's the bear?

888
01:24:35,404 --> 01:24:37,164
Parmenion.

889
01:24:37,656 --> 01:24:40,446
You've been in complete control
of your supply lines.

890
01:24:40,617 --> 01:24:42,737
His pessimism is infectious.

891
01:24:43,370 --> 01:24:45,370
But he'll stay loyal…

892
01:24:46,915 --> 01:24:49,125
…as long as his son remains with us.

893
01:27:06,513 --> 01:27:07,563
Hey!

894
01:27:15,355 --> 01:27:20,275
Her eyes tell me
she cares for you, Alexander.

895
01:27:21,862 --> 01:27:23,032
Perhaps too much.

896
01:27:27,451 --> 01:27:30,041
In the ways of my country…

897
01:27:30,203 --> 01:27:34,623
…those who love too much
lose everything…

898
01:27:35,125 --> 01:27:37,915
…and those who love with irony…

899
01:27:39,588 --> 01:27:41,008
…last.

900
01:28:19,252 --> 01:28:21,132
Shh.

901
01:28:31,890 --> 01:28:33,100
I found it in Egypt.

902
01:28:36,019 --> 01:28:38,399
The man who sold it said it came
from a time…

903
01:28:38,563 --> 01:28:42,693
…when man worshipped
sun and stars.

904
01:28:48,323 --> 01:28:50,583
I'll always think of you…

905
01:28:51,243 --> 01:28:53,543
…as the sun, Alexander.

906
01:28:53,745 --> 01:28:57,665
And I pray your dream
will shine on all men.

907
01:29:06,716 --> 01:29:08,836
I wish you a son.

908
01:29:10,512 --> 01:29:12,892
You're a great man.

909
01:29:17,269 --> 01:29:20,309
Many will love you, Alexander,
but none so pure and deep…

910
01:29:37,330 --> 01:29:38,790
You…

911
01:29:38,957 --> 01:29:40,287
…love him?

912
01:29:49,551 --> 01:29:52,971
He is Hephaistion.

913
01:30:12,115 --> 01:30:14,075
Thank you, Bagoas.

914
01:30:19,915 --> 01:30:21,535
Your boy?

915
01:30:21,708 --> 01:30:25,208
There are many different ways
to love, Roxane.

916
01:30:25,754 --> 01:30:27,594
Come.

917
01:30:42,312 --> 01:30:43,562
No.

918
01:30:43,730 --> 01:30:44,770
No, no.

919
01:31:35,490 --> 01:31:37,410
You have no fear.

920
01:31:39,077 --> 01:31:40,867
It's fitting.

921
01:31:42,288 --> 01:31:45,628
A man searches for a woman
at Earth's top…

922
01:31:45,792 --> 01:31:47,792
…and finds her.

923
01:32:05,145 --> 01:32:06,725
The myth becomes real.

924
01:32:18,032 --> 01:32:19,492
Great man?

925
01:32:19,909 --> 01:32:22,079
Sikander.

926
01:32:22,245 --> 01:32:23,705
You, I kill now.

927
01:32:29,544 --> 01:32:31,134
Do it.

928
01:32:31,546 --> 01:32:34,006
End it. I would do-

929
01:32:34,674 --> 01:32:36,844
I would do the same.

930
01:32:37,802 --> 01:32:40,432
I'll die a fool for this…

931
01:32:40,889 --> 01:32:42,599
…love.

932
01:33:29,729 --> 01:33:31,559
My life is now yours.

933
01:33:56,464 --> 01:34:00,264
You will have my son.

934
01:34:54,731 --> 01:34:59,321
<i>Who is this woman you call
your queen, Alexander?</i>

935
01:34:59,485 --> 01:35:01,945
A hill girl?

936
01:35:02,155 --> 01:35:04,655
You, with your breeding.

937
01:35:04,824 --> 01:35:09,294
Already she makes enemies
with her strong, clumsy nature.

938
01:35:13,124 --> 01:35:15,544
Do not confuse us.

939
01:35:15,710 --> 01:35:19,590
I was never a barbarian as Philip said.

940
01:35:19,756 --> 01:35:22,216
We are of Achilles' royal blood.

941
01:35:23,218 --> 01:35:26,258
<i>Zeus is your father.</i>

942
01:35:27,805 --> 01:35:31,765
Oh, I understand she brings
you some happiness.

943
01:35:33,061 --> 01:35:34,901
But how can she help you?

944
01:35:35,563 --> 01:35:38,523
You must know that
she does not speak in your name…

945
01:35:38,691 --> 01:35:42,741
…which is yours and yours alone.

946
01:35:42,904 --> 01:35:45,954
Preserve it, secret it…

947
01:35:46,157 --> 01:35:51,287
…and hear me when I tell you,
act and act soon.

948
01:35:51,454 --> 01:35:53,464
After seven years, people wonder:

949
01:35:53,665 --> 01:35:55,915
"Who is this King Alexander?"

950
01:35:56,084 --> 01:36:02,014
I have given you ample proof. Antipater
daily undermines your authority.

951
01:36:02,173 --> 01:36:05,013
Return to Babylon
and strengthen your center.

952
01:36:05,969 --> 01:36:08,099
<i>Or come home to Macedonia
and reorganize.</i>

953
01:36:08,262 --> 01:36:10,812
<i>But do not chase your dream…</i>

954
01:36:10,974 --> 01:36:13,144
<i>…further east.</i>

955
01:36:13,309 --> 01:36:16,149
<i>Your life and mine depend on it.</i>

956
01:36:18,022 --> 01:36:19,692
Remember…

957
01:36:19,857 --> 01:36:23,437
…my only thoughts are of you.

958
01:36:23,611 --> 01:36:27,911
As you, too, must face
your glorious destiny.

959
01:36:28,074 --> 01:36:30,284
<i>Think kindly of your mother.</i>

960
01:36:30,451 --> 01:36:31,911
<i>Provide for me.</i>

961
01:36:32,078 --> 01:36:35,708
<i>Protect me from your enemies
when you are gone.</i>

962
01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:39,880
And remember always…

963
01:36:40,044 --> 01:36:43,634
…it is I who love you more than any.

964
01:36:49,887 --> 01:36:53,137
If only you were not a pale reflection…

965
01:36:53,349 --> 01:36:54,559
…of my mother's heart.

966
01:37:14,746 --> 01:37:18,246
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 --> 01:37:25,472
…and when her first son is born…

969
01:37:25,631 --> 01:37:30,851
…her sweet uncle Attalus will convince
Philip to name the boy his successor…

970
01:37:31,137 --> 01:37:33,387
…with himself as regent.

971
01:37:33,848 --> 01:37:35,808
And you…

972
01:37:35,975 --> 01:37:39,975
…you will be sent on
some impossible mission…

973
01:37:40,146 --> 01:37:42,726
…against some monstrous
Northern tribe…

974
01:37:42,899 --> 01:37:48,279
…to be mutilated in one more
meaningless battle over cattle.

975
01:37:48,446 --> 01:37:52,406
And I, no longer queen,
will be put to death…

976
01:37:52,575 --> 01:37:56,695
…with your sister and the remaining
members of our family.

977
01:37:56,871 --> 01:38:01,581
I wish sometimes you could see
the light, Mother.

978
01:38:01,751 --> 01:38:06,261
The truth is, he's taken nothing from you
that you've not been long without.

979
01:38:08,007 --> 01:38:10,297
The only way is to strike.

980
01:38:10,510 --> 01:38:13,220
Announce your marriage
to a Macedonian now.

981
01:38:13,846 --> 01:38:18,226
Beget a child of pure blood. He would
be one of them, not mine…

982
01:38:18,392 --> 01:38:21,692
…and he would have no choice
but to make you king.

983
01:38:21,896 --> 01:38:24,066
There is still Kynnane.

984
01:38:25,900 --> 01:38:29,860
Eurydice was perfect. If your father,
that pig, had not ravaged her first!

985
01:38:30,029 --> 01:38:32,659
Say nothing more of my father.

986
01:38:32,824 --> 01:38:35,664
Do you hear me? Say nothing.

987
01:38:36,661 --> 01:38:38,371
You're right.

988
01:38:39,414 --> 01:38:41,424
Forgive me.

989
01:38:41,582 --> 01:38:44,422
A mother loves too much.

990
01:38:50,633 --> 01:38:53,263
Who shall I sing to sleep
at night anymore?

991
01:38:58,391 --> 01:39:03,351
I wish… I wish we could spend
more time together.

992
01:39:04,105 --> 01:39:08,565
Like we used to, when you were
the sweetest boy.

993
01:39:13,906 --> 01:39:15,986
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
01:39:22,748 --> 01:39:27,208
My poor child, you're like Achilles…

996
01:39:27,378 --> 01:39:29,838
…cursed by your greatness.

997
01:39:34,969 --> 01:39:36,469
Take my strength.

998
01:39:42,185 --> 01:39:49,185
You must never confuse your feelings
with your duties, Alexander.

999
01:39:50,151 --> 01:39:54,701
A king must make public gestures
for the common people.

1000
01:39:54,864 --> 01:39:58,334
I know, but you will be 19
this summer…

1001
01:39:58,493 --> 01:40:03,213
…and the girls already say you don't
like them. You like Hephaistion more.

1002
01:40:03,372 --> 01:40:06,792
I understand.
It's natural for a young man.

1003
01:40:06,959 --> 01:40:11,169
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
01:40:17,845 --> 01:40:19,055
…not who.

1006
01:40:20,556 --> 01:40:24,056
Loves? Loves?

1007
01:40:26,062 --> 01:40:28,612
In the name of Dionysus…

1008
01:40:29,941 --> 01:40:36,611
…understand how Philip thinks,
for your own sake.

1009
01:40:36,781 --> 01:40:40,951
Your life hangs in the balance.

1010
01:40:41,118 --> 01:40:43,658
I know these things, Alexander.

1011
01:40:43,829 --> 01:40:46,829
You are nothing to him.

1012
01:40:47,416 --> 01:40:51,586
His spies are inside your closest circle…

1013
01:40:52,171 --> 01:40:55,381
…to ensure that you don't plot against him.

1014
01:40:55,550 --> 01:40:58,470
And still you sleep.

1015
01:41:00,304 --> 01:41:02,774
You will not live out this year…

1016
01:41:02,932 --> 01:41:05,352
– …unless you act.
– Stop!

1017
01:41:07,687 --> 01:41:10,567
I'm his only worthy son.

1018
01:41:10,731 --> 01:41:12,651
You crazed woman.

1019
01:41:13,734 --> 01:41:15,784
He'd never hurt me.

1020
01:41:16,904 --> 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 --> 01:41:25,196
Yes, and you would be 40.

1022
01:41:25,371 --> 01:41:31,791
Old and wise like Parmenion.
And Philip's young son would be 20.

1023
01:41:31,961 --> 01:41:38,381
Like you now,
but raised by him, his blood.

1024
01:41:38,884 --> 01:41:42,314
He will never give you
the throne now, Alexander.

1025
01:41:42,471 --> 01:41:44,061
Never.

1026
01:41:46,142 --> 01:41:48,272
What would you have me do?

1027
01:41:49,270 --> 01:41:51,610
Whatever is necessary.

1028
01:41:55,234 --> 01:41:58,244
Where have you lost your mind?

1029
01:41:58,404 --> 01:42:00,744
There'd be civil war,
clan against clan, chaos.

1030
01:42:00,906 --> 01:42:04,036
Yes. And you would win…

1031
01:42:04,201 --> 01:42:07,501
…because the young ones
love you like a god.

1032
01:42:07,663 --> 01:42:09,713
I forbid you to ever talk to me like that!

1033
01:42:09,874 --> 01:42:13,214
Such a man would be forever chased
by the Furies!

1034
01:42:13,377 --> 01:42:16,457
What have you to fear from the Furies…

1035
01:42:16,631 --> 01:42:20,091
…for killing an impostor to the throne…

1036
01:42:20,259 --> 01:42:23,389
…before he murders you
and your mother?

1037
01:42:23,596 --> 01:42:25,966
Why won't you ever believe me?

1038
01:42:26,557 --> 01:42:29,687
Philip did not want you.

1039
01:42:30,811 --> 01:42:32,651
You had a condition of the breathing…

1040
01:42:32,813 --> 01:42:35,363
…and he wanted to leave you
in the mountains…

1041
01:42:35,524 --> 01:42:38,574
…for the birds to peck at your eyes.

1042
01:42:39,862 --> 01:42:42,202
What you don't know, my poor child.

1043
01:42:42,365 --> 01:42:45,155
Lanice knows nothing of this.

1044
01:42:45,326 --> 01:42:46,366
Lanice.

1045
01:42:47,244 --> 01:42:49,794
I was there.

1046
01:42:49,955 --> 01:42:52,245
Lanice was not.

1047
01:42:52,958 --> 01:42:55,168
No, Alexander…

1048
01:42:55,336 --> 01:42:58,796
…Zeus is your father.

1049
01:42:59,632 --> 01:43:01,382
<i>I lay with him that night…</i>

1050
01:43:01,550 --> 01:43:04,350
…in the wind,
as sure as any mortal man.

1051
01:43:04,512 --> 01:43:06,432
Never have I been made love to…

1052
01:43:06,597 --> 01:43:08,267
…as I was then.

1053
01:43:08,432 --> 01:43:09,642
Enough.

1054
01:43:10,643 --> 01:43:14,023
Half the mothers in Greece
share such a fantasy.

1055
01:43:15,064 --> 01:43:17,074
I warn you, Mother.

1056
01:43:17,233 --> 01:43:18,863
Make no mistake.

1057
01:43:20,319 --> 01:43:24,619
You will treat this girl as nothing
more important than his other wives.

1058
01:43:24,990 --> 01:43:28,240
You will behave as we always have.

1059
01:43:28,411 --> 01:43:30,331
As the first.

1060
01:43:40,631 --> 01:43:42,591
I wonder…

1061
01:43:44,009 --> 01:43:45,299
…did you ever love him?

1062
01:43:49,140 --> 01:43:50,810
What?

1063
01:43:53,144 --> 01:43:55,234
I never stopped.

1064
01:44:29,513 --> 01:44:31,523
What is it, Orestes?

1065
01:44:36,270 --> 01:44:38,150
I beg your forgiveness, my king.

1066
01:44:39,190 --> 01:44:41,320
I cannot be part of this.

1067
01:44:42,943 --> 01:44:44,863
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
01:45:03,380 --> 01:45:05,970
Death to all tyrants.

1071
01:45:07,510 --> 01:45:10,350
All of youse, I didn't do this.

1072
01:45:11,055 --> 01:45:15,135
I've known you and loved you
as long as I know.

1073
01:45:16,477 --> 01:45:19,187
Never will you find a man
as devoted as I.

1074
01:45:19,355 --> 01:45:24,485
<i>The conspiracy, such as it was,
deeply upset Alexander…</i>

1075
01:45:24,652 --> 01:45:27,032
<i>…not only because it involved
the young people…</i>

1076
01:45:27,196 --> 01:45:28,696
<i>…who'd shared his dream…</i>

1077
01:45:28,864 --> 01:45:32,454
<i>…but, more intimately,
it implicated Philotas…</i>

1078
01:45:32,618 --> 01:45:34,788
<i>…his companion from boyhood…</i>

1079
01:45:34,954 --> 01:45:36,254
<i>…when a page confessed…</i>

1080
01:45:36,413 --> 01:45:39,463
<i>…that a few days before,
he'd informed Philotas…</i>

1081
01:45:39,625 --> 01:45:40,665
Alexander.

1082
01:45:40,834 --> 01:45:42,504
<i>…Of the plot.</i>

1083
01:45:43,629 --> 01:45:45,049
Remember me for who I am.

1084
01:45:46,549 --> 01:45:52,259
I do remember you, Philotas,
but not as you remember yourself.

1085
01:45:52,471 --> 01:45:54,721
And it appears to me and others here…

1086
01:45:54,890 --> 01:45:57,350
…from the testimony given
by your mistress…

1087
01:45:58,102 --> 01:46:01,942
…that the true weather of your soul
is ambition.

1088
01:46:02,731 --> 01:46:04,651
- – No.
<i>- We all felt…</i>

1089
01:46:04,817 --> 01:46:07,567
<i>…there was more here
than sexual bickering.</i>

1090
01:46:07,736 --> 01:46:09,946
<i>Alexander wanted the truth…</i>

1091
01:46:10,114 --> 01:46:12,244
<i>…and Phi lotas' answers
were lacking merit.</i>

1092
01:46:12,866 --> 01:46:13,866
Please take him away.

1093
01:46:14,034 --> 01:46:16,044
<i>Alexander put him, silently and quickly…</i>

1094
01:46:16,203 --> 01:46:18,123
<i>– …to trial by his peers…</i>
MAN: Remove him.

1095
01:46:18,289 --> 01:46:20,289
<i>…And whether plotter or opportunist…</i>

1096
01:46:20,457 --> 01:46:22,377
<i>…Philotas was found guilty of treason.</i>

1097
01:46:22,543 --> 01:46:24,303
- No, Alexander, no!
- Remove him.

1098
01:46:24,461 --> 01:46:27,171
<i>The suspects were all executed.</i>

1099
01:46:27,590 --> 01:46:30,130
<i>None of us defended Philotas.</i>

1100
01:46:30,301 --> 01:46:32,681
<i>Then again, none of us ever liked him.</i>

1101
01:46:39,101 --> 01:46:43,311
<i>And, of course, his power
was carved up by the rest of us.</i>

1102
01:46:45,149 --> 01:46:47,609
<i>Before he died, we tortured him…</i>

1103
01:46:47,776 --> 01:46:50,816
<i>…to find out what
his father, Parmenion, knew.</i>

1104
01:46:51,030 --> 01:46:53,160
<i>But this we never learned.</i>

1105
01:46:53,324 --> 01:46:57,414
<i>What to do with Parmenion and his
20,000 troops guarding our supply lines…</i>

1106
01:46:57,578 --> 01:46:59,658
<i>…was a far more delicate matter.</i>

1107
01:46:59,830 --> 01:47:03,580
<i>Was he innocent in this,
or had he decided to act…</i>

1108
01:47:03,751 --> 01:47:06,551
<i>…before age further
withered his power?</i>

1109
01:47:06,712 --> 01:47:10,052
– The men will follow their king.
– Alexander won't be there.

1110
01:47:11,383 --> 01:47:13,303
<i>Necessity required Alexander to act.</i>

1111
01:47:13,469 --> 01:47:14,946
The infantry will follow me.

1112
01:47:14,970 --> 01:47:16,930
<i>And he sealed the camp within the hour…</i>

1113
01:47:17,097 --> 01:47:20,057
<i>…of the first accusations against Philotas.</i>

1114
01:47:21,268 --> 01:47:25,188
Then go, Antigonus, and Cleitus.

1115
01:47:25,356 --> 01:47:27,226
And go quickly.

1116
01:47:30,110 --> 01:47:36,030
<i>Three days'hard riding
sent Antigonus and Cleitus to Parmenion…</i>

1117
01:47:36,200 --> 01:47:39,790
<i>…the general most loyal to Philip.</i>

1118
01:47:46,126 --> 01:47:49,626
<i>His soldiers accepted the finding
of guilt against Parmenion…</i>

1119
01:47:49,797 --> 01:47:52,167
<i>…as they understood well
the code of vengeance…</i>

1120
01:47:52,341 --> 01:47:54,591
<i>…that made the head of family
responsible…</i>

1121
01:47:54,760 --> 01:47:57,350
<i>…for the behavior of all.</i>

1122
01:47:59,598 --> 01:48:03,808
<i>Many of us felt we were better off
without that pompous thorn, Parmenion…</i>

1123
01:48:03,978 --> 01:48:09,318
<i>…as Alexander promoted all of us
generously.</i>

1124
01:48:23,831 --> 01:48:28,381
If we issue the gold bullion in the name
of Alexander, there'd be little resistance.

1125
01:48:28,585 --> 01:48:30,835
Cleitus. Antigonus.

1126
01:48:31,004 --> 01:48:32,764
Parmenion.

1127
01:50:46,140 --> 01:50:49,520
Come, Alexander,
drink this sadness away.

1128
01:50:49,685 --> 01:50:51,975
If only thirst could quench sorrow,
Ptolemy.

1129
01:50:55,357 --> 01:50:59,647
There's only one thing better
than winning a battle, son…

1130
01:51:00,445 --> 01:51:03,275
…and that's the taste
of a new woman.

1131
01:51:03,448 --> 01:51:08,328
You'll find it far sweeter than self-pity.

1132
01:51:08,495 --> 01:51:11,785
Pausanias, you bore me.
Be gone with you.

1133
01:51:11,957 --> 01:51:13,957
Alexander, I found you the right girl.

1134
01:51:14,126 --> 01:51:16,246
- – What's your name, darling?
- Antigone.

1135
01:51:16,420 --> 01:51:18,380
– What's your name?
– Antigone. Whoo!

1136
01:51:20,340 --> 01:51:21,380
I love you.

1137
01:51:21,550 --> 01:51:23,010
And I love you, Cleitus.

1138
01:51:24,386 --> 01:51:26,756
Please, no!
– There you go.

1139
01:51:30,642 --> 01:51:32,942
I'll sleep in my grave, Hephaistion.

1140
01:51:33,103 --> 01:51:35,943
While alive, I prefer dancing.

1141
01:51:36,106 --> 01:51:37,856
Pausanias.

1142
01:51:38,859 --> 01:51:40,189
Who's your new friend?

1143
01:51:40,736 --> 01:51:42,776
- – There's your new friend.
- Please don't!

1144
01:51:42,946 --> 01:51:44,866
No! Please, no!

1145
01:51:45,032 --> 01:51:46,532
No! Please!

1146
01:51:55,667 --> 01:51:56,707
A toast.

1147
01:51:57,336 --> 01:51:58,796
A toast!

1148
01:51:59,379 --> 01:52:04,679
I drink to our Greek friends
and to our new union…

1149
01:52:04,843 --> 01:52:10,813
…Macedonia and Greece,
equals in greatness!

1150
01:52:12,893 --> 01:52:19,903
And to Philip, our king, without whom
this union could not be possible.

1151
01:52:20,067 --> 01:52:22,897
Come, Attalus, leave some
damn air in the hall!

1152
01:52:24,571 --> 01:52:30,411
And last, I drink to the king's marriage
to my niece, Eurydice…

1153
01:52:30,577 --> 01:52:33,617
…a Macedonian queen
we can be proud of!

1154
01:52:36,750 --> 01:52:39,840
To Philip and Eurydice…

1155
01:52:40,003 --> 01:52:43,473
…and to their legitimate sons!

1156
01:52:45,550 --> 01:52:46,720
Alexander, don't!

1157
01:52:46,885 --> 01:52:49,635
What am I, you son of a dog?
Come, then.

1158
01:53:01,733 --> 01:53:05,073
- Shut up.
- Shut up.

1159
01:53:05,237 --> 01:53:06,947
Shut up, all of you!

1160
01:53:07,364 --> 01:53:09,954
This is my wedding,
not some public brawl.

1161
01:53:10,117 --> 01:53:12,117
Insolent pup.

1162
01:53:12,285 --> 01:53:15,705
Apologize, by Zeus,
before you dishonor me.

1163
01:53:15,914 --> 01:53:19,084
You defend the man who called
my mother a whore and me a bastard.

1164
01:53:19,251 --> 01:53:22,631
– And I dishonor you?
– Ha! You listen like your mother.

1165
01:53:22,796 --> 01:53:24,796
Attalus is my family now,
the same as you.

1166
01:53:24,965 --> 01:53:27,835
Then choose your relatives
more carefully.

1167
01:53:28,010 --> 01:53:31,100
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
01:53:34,599 --> 01:53:37,439
A man not fit to lick the ground
my mother walks on.

1170
01:53:37,602 --> 01:53:40,692
– You dog, questioning your queen.
– Shame?

1171
01:53:40,856 --> 01:53:44,646
I've nothing to be ashamed of,
you arrogant brat.

1172
01:53:44,818 --> 01:53:48,608
I'll marry the girl if I want,
and I'll have as many sons as I want.

1173
01:53:48,780 --> 01:53:51,530
There's nothing you
or your harpy mother can do.

1174
01:53:51,700 --> 01:53:53,330
Why, drunken man, must you think…

1175
01:53:53,493 --> 01:53:56,003
…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
01:53:59,249 --> 01:54:01,459
…and I see her in your eyes.

1178
01:54:01,626 --> 01:54:04,046
You covet this throne too much.

1179
01:54:05,464 --> 01:54:10,804
We all know that she-wolf
of a mother of yours wants me dead.

1180
01:54:10,969 --> 01:54:13,259
Well, you can both dream, boy.

1181
01:54:13,430 --> 01:54:16,560
Philip, this is the wine talking.
Leave the boy. It'll wait.

1182
01:54:16,725 --> 01:54:18,305
Now!

1183
01:54:19,478 --> 01:54:21,348
I command you.

1184
01:54:22,606 --> 01:54:24,816
Apologize to your kinsman.

1185
01:54:33,533 --> 01:54:35,243
Apologize.

1186
01:54:35,410 --> 01:54:37,790
No kinsman to me.

1187
01:54:41,416 --> 01:54:43,286
Good night, old man.

1188
01:54:45,003 --> 01:54:49,223
And when my mother remarries,
I'll invite you to her wedding.

1189
01:54:49,966 --> 01:54:51,716
You bastard!

1190
01:54:57,557 --> 01:54:59,227
You'll obey me. Come here.

1191
01:55:18,203 --> 01:55:22,043
And this is the man who is going
to take you from Greece to Persia?

1192
01:55:22,207 --> 01:55:24,457
He can't even make it
from one couch to the next.

1193
01:55:24,918 --> 01:55:28,668
Get out of my palace!
You're exiled, you bastard!

1194
01:55:29,548 --> 01:55:33,008
Banished from the land.
You're not welcome here.

1195
01:55:33,718 --> 01:55:35,928
You're no son of mine!

1196
01:56:15,510 --> 01:56:19,640
<i>In the spring, Alexander marched
an army of 150,000…</i>

1197
01:56:19,806 --> 01:56:22,846
<i>…across the passes
of the Hindu Kush…</i>

1198
01:56:23,393 --> 01:56:25,403
<i>…into the unknown.</i>

1199
01:56:26,646 --> 01:56:31,476
<i>In his dream, it was the promised route
to the end of the world.</i>

1200
01:56:31,651 --> 01:56:33,531
<i>We were now a mobile empire…</i>

1201
01:56:33,695 --> 01:56:37,565
<i>…stretching back thousands of miles
to Greece.</i>

1202
01:56:37,741 --> 01:56:40,661
<i>Cooks and architects,
doctors, surveyors…</i>

1203
01:56:40,827 --> 01:56:42,287
<i>…moneylenders and wives…</i>

1204
01:56:42,454 --> 01:56:45,334
<i>…children, lovers, whores.</i>

1205
01:56:45,540 --> 01:56:47,380
<i>And slaves…</i>

1206
01:56:47,584 --> 01:56:52,094
<i>…that anonymous, bent, working spine
of this new beast.</i>

1207
01:56:52,297 --> 01:56:56,127
<i>Ravaged or expanded,
for better or worse…</i>

1208
01:56:57,010 --> 01:57:01,600
<i>…no occupied territory
remained the same again.</i>

1209
01:57:04,976 --> 01:57:06,976
<i>Although devoted to Roxane…</i>

1210
01:57:07,145 --> 01:57:10,265
<i>…Alexander's visits
to her tent diminished…</i>

1211
01:57:10,440 --> 01:57:15,450
<i>…as a year, then two, went by
without a successor…</i>

1212
01:57:16,363 --> 01:57:19,453
<i>…wounding Alexander's great pride.</i>

1213
01:57:19,991 --> 01:57:22,871
The surveyors are saying that Zeus
chained Prometheus up there.

1214
01:57:23,745 --> 01:57:26,075
In one of those caves.

1215
01:57:26,831 --> 01:57:29,631
They say there's a giant eagle's nest
just above it.

1216
01:57:29,876 --> 01:57:34,666
I suppose he drops down each night
to peck out poor Prometheus' liver.

1217
01:57:37,300 --> 01:57:40,760
You remember
what Aristotle told us of these mountains?

1218
01:57:41,638 --> 01:57:43,308
Yes, I do.

1219
01:57:44,140 --> 01:57:46,230
That when we reach these heights…

1220
01:57:46,393 --> 01:57:49,603
…we'd look back and see Macedonia
to the west…

1221
01:57:49,771 --> 01:57:52,401
…and the outer ocean to the east.

1222
01:57:56,486 --> 01:58:01,696
But I fear this world is far larger
than anyone dreamed.

1223
01:58:01,866 --> 01:58:03,986
A world of Titans.

1224
01:58:04,160 --> 01:58:08,160
The scouts have been up
every known trail, Alexander.

1225
01:58:08,331 --> 01:58:10,381
There is no way across.

1226
01:58:10,959 --> 01:58:15,169
Except to the south, into India.

1227
01:58:15,505 --> 01:58:18,585
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 --> 01:58:23,973
In a few years' time, we will return.

1230
01:58:24,180 --> 01:58:27,930
But first, the men
must see their homes.

1231
01:58:29,394 --> 01:58:31,564
Have you found your home…

1232
01:58:31,771 --> 01:58:33,361
…Ptolemy?

1233
01:58:38,069 --> 01:58:41,199
More and more, I think
it will be Alexandria.

1234
01:58:43,408 --> 01:58:45,448
Well, at least it's hot.

1235
01:58:46,453 --> 01:58:48,203
And Thais…

1236
01:58:49,247 --> 01:58:51,117
…she loved it there.

1237
01:58:53,084 --> 01:58:55,214
Women bring men home.

1238
01:58:56,463 --> 01:59:01,303
– I have no such feeling.
– You have Babylon, Alexander.

1239
01:59:01,468 --> 01:59:03,508
Where your mother
awaits your invitation.

1240
01:59:03,928 --> 01:59:06,718
Yes, I have Babylon.

1241
01:59:06,890 --> 01:59:11,190
But each land, each boundary I cross…

1242
01:59:11,353 --> 01:59:13,483
…I strip away another illusion.

1243
01:59:14,939 --> 01:59:17,229
I sense death will be the last.

1244
01:59:19,903 --> 01:59:23,373
Yet still I push harder and harder…

1245
01:59:23,531 --> 01:59:27,121
…to reach this home.

1246
01:59:32,749 --> 01:59:34,079
Where has our eagle gone?

1247
01:59:38,880 --> 01:59:40,840
We must go on, Ptolemy.

1248
01:59:42,258 --> 01:59:43,798
Until we find an end.

1249
02:01:30,241 --> 02:01:33,911
<i>India, the land where the sun was born…</i>

1250
02:01:34,078 --> 02:01:36,578
<i>…fabled to be even richer
than Persia…</i>

1251
02:01:36,748 --> 02:01:40,918
<i>…had never been explored
or conquered.</i>

1252
02:01:41,085 --> 02:01:46,415
<i>From the beginning, Alexander struggled
to unify a land without a center.</i>

1253
02:01:46,591 --> 02:01:49,341
<i>Kings who conspired
against one another.</i>

1254
02:01:49,511 --> 02:01:53,561
<i>A labyrinth of tribes urged on
by zealots and philosophers…</i>

1255
02:01:53,765 --> 02:01:58,135
<i>…to die by the thousands
for their strange gods.</i>

1256
02:02:03,858 --> 02:02:07,818
<i>Crateros, in the advance party,
fought against men with hairy skins…</i>

1257
02:02:08,029 --> 02:02:10,989
<i>… who were tiny and lived
in the tops of trees.</i>

1258
02:02:17,997 --> 02:02:19,247
They're animals.

1259
02:02:19,415 --> 02:02:21,875
<i>Until Hephaistion convinced us
these were animals…</i>

1260
02:02:22,043 --> 02:02:24,173
<i>… who imitated men
but wore their own skin.</i>

1261
02:02:24,337 --> 02:02:25,707
Keep that away from me.

1262
02:02:25,880 --> 02:02:27,840
It's a monkey. Very intelligent.

1263
02:02:28,007 --> 02:02:29,177
Hello, little man.

1264
02:02:30,176 --> 02:02:33,596
- – Do they speak?
- No, but they do sing…

1265
02:02:33,763 --> 02:02:34,973
…and make noises.

1266
02:02:41,229 --> 02:02:43,149
<i>We saw men who walked naked in public…</i>

1267
02:02:43,314 --> 02:02:47,904
<i>…and spent hours at a time
staring and doing nothing.</i>

1268
02:02:49,737 --> 02:02:52,527
<i>And then, there was the rain.</i>

1269
02:02:58,288 --> 02:03:02,038
<i>Never before had we seen water
that fell from the gods…</i>

1270
02:03:02,208 --> 02:03:04,918
<i>…for 60 days and nights.</i>

1271
02:03:08,756 --> 02:03:10,756
You know better, Machatas.

1272
02:03:14,429 --> 02:03:15,759
What's your son going to say?

1273
02:03:16,180 --> 02:03:18,470
Come on, man.
The older you get, the stronger.

1274
02:03:18,641 --> 02:03:20,561
Right, my king.

1275
02:03:20,727 --> 02:03:22,187
Give me my horse, Alexander.

1276
02:03:22,353 --> 02:03:25,363
I'll be with you at your side. Aah!

1277
02:03:25,523 --> 02:03:27,033
Watch out for the serpent.

1278
02:03:27,191 --> 02:03:28,941
<i>Everything rotted in this rain.</i>

1279
02:03:29,110 --> 02:03:33,360
<i>Scores of men died miserably
from the tiny serpents…</i>

1280
02:03:33,531 --> 02:03:36,093
<i>– …that were everywhere in this evil land.</i>
– Cleitus, bring the snake healers!

1281
02:03:36,117 --> 02:03:37,737
Pauvanus. Someone bring Pauvanus.

1282
02:03:37,910 --> 02:03:39,040
Where's the bite?

1283
02:03:39,203 --> 02:03:40,931
- – What happened?
- It's to the neck.

1284
02:03:40,955 --> 02:03:43,455
Oh, no. Zeus, no.

1285
02:03:43,625 --> 02:03:45,075
Hold on. Hold on.

1286
02:03:47,128 --> 02:03:49,258
- – Aah!
- Be brave.

1287
02:03:49,464 --> 02:03:51,134
Be brave.

1288
02:03:51,299 --> 02:03:53,259
Oh, Zeus.

1289
02:03:55,094 --> 02:03:58,474
<i>Our quest for gold and glory
evaporated as we realized…</i>

1290
02:03:58,931 --> 02:04:01,061
<i>…there was none to be had.</i>

1291
02:04:01,768 --> 02:04:03,598
<i>Tempers worsened.</i>

1292
02:04:03,770 --> 02:04:06,730
<i>We massacred all Indians
who resisted.</i>

1293
02:04:06,898 --> 02:04:09,028
<i>And with the local water putrid…</i>

1294
02:04:09,192 --> 02:04:11,902
…we <i>drank the strong wine.</i>

1295
02:05:05,873 --> 02:05:08,583
<i>And as we moved south and east…</i>

1296
02:05:08,751 --> 02:05:13,591
<i>…Alexander often returned the lands
we conquered to their defeated kings…</i>

1297
02:05:13,756 --> 02:05:16,376
<i>…so as to make them allies.</i>

1298
02:05:16,551 --> 02:05:18,761
<i>But this did not sit well
with the army…</i>

1299
02:05:18,928 --> 02:05:20,258
<i>…who began to wonder:</i>

1300
02:05:21,014 --> 02:05:23,104
<i>"Were we here for riches?"</i>

1301
02:05:23,266 --> 02:05:27,226
<i>Or had Alexander,
in some remorseless and crazed quest…</i>

1302
02:05:27,395 --> 02:05:30,395
<i>…to imitate the glory of Herakles,
forgotten them?</i>

1303
02:05:31,315 --> 02:05:34,565
<i>One thing an army
knows quickly in their bones…</i>

1304
02:05:34,736 --> 02:05:37,696
<i>…is which way the gods are blowing.</i>

1305
02:05:56,382 --> 02:05:57,882
Come on.

1306
02:06:04,682 --> 02:06:06,312
Kiss him!

1307
02:06:29,290 --> 02:06:31,880
- – To Bagoas.
- To Bagoas!

1308
02:06:37,381 --> 02:06:41,511
– And to my mother's god, Dionysus…
MAN 1: Dionysus!

1309
02:06:41,677 --> 02:06:45,927
…Who, we're told by our Indian allies,
traveled here before Herakles…

1310
02:06:46,098 --> 02:06:48,848
…some 6000 years ago.

1311
02:06:49,018 --> 02:06:50,388
To a hero.

1312
02:06:50,561 --> 02:06:52,691
To a hero!

1313
02:07:12,458 --> 02:07:13,788
Roxane.

1314
02:07:20,758 --> 02:07:23,218
You lose face.

1315
02:07:23,386 --> 02:07:24,926
These Indians…

1316
02:07:25,138 --> 02:07:26,888
…they are a low, evil people.

1317
02:07:27,056 --> 02:07:29,266
You don't try to understand them.

1318
02:07:29,684 --> 02:07:31,944
I try.

1319
02:07:32,144 --> 02:07:35,154
But this I know, Alexander.

1320
02:07:35,314 --> 02:07:38,444
In Persia, you are a great king.

1321
02:07:38,651 --> 02:07:40,151
Here…

1322
02:07:40,319 --> 02:07:42,279
…they hate you.

1323
02:07:45,074 --> 02:07:48,204
Let us go back to Babylon.

1324
02:07:49,370 --> 02:07:50,870
There, you are strong.

1325
02:07:53,249 --> 02:07:55,379
We'll talk about this later.

1326
02:07:55,585 --> 02:07:57,165
Yes.

1327
02:07:57,336 --> 02:07:58,876
Later.

1328
02:07:59,046 --> 02:08:00,586
Talk.

1329
02:08:03,384 --> 02:08:05,344
I shall come.

1330
02:08:05,511 --> 02:08:06,641
Tonight.

1331
02:08:07,805 --> 02:08:09,675
And I shall wait.

1332
02:08:11,475 --> 02:08:13,595
Good night, my king.

1333
02:08:15,146 --> 02:08:17,476
Your Majesty.

1334
02:08:18,983 --> 02:08:21,943
Come, Alexander, drink with us.

1335
02:08:24,447 --> 02:08:27,577
- Alexander.
- Alexander.

1336
02:08:29,493 --> 02:08:32,373
I remember a time you hated…

1337
02:08:32,538 --> 02:08:36,208
– …how your father drank.
– Now I know why.

1338
02:08:38,002 --> 02:08:41,842
Dionysus is hero…

1339
02:08:43,174 --> 02:08:46,804
…but he is also mind-breaker.

1340
02:08:47,011 --> 02:08:50,101
He destroys our self-control.

1341
02:08:50,932 --> 02:08:54,392
Self-control is a lover
I've known too long, Ptolemy.

1342
02:08:57,897 --> 02:08:59,897
The struggle wearies me to the bone.

1343
02:09:01,984 --> 02:09:04,954
And success I find to be
as corrupt as failure.

1344
02:09:06,322 --> 02:09:07,822
But Dionysus…

1345
02:09:07,990 --> 02:09:10,490
…bless his ancient soul…

1346
02:09:10,660 --> 02:09:12,950
…frees me from myself.

1347
02:09:13,871 --> 02:09:17,251
And then, I'm with them.

1348
02:09:20,336 --> 02:09:23,046
I am simply Alexander.

1349
02:09:27,176 --> 02:09:28,966
A toast to Bagoas.

1350
02:09:30,680 --> 02:09:35,350
And the 30,000 beautiful
Persian boys…

1351
02:09:35,518 --> 02:09:37,938
…we're training to fight
in this great army.

1352
02:09:40,940 --> 02:09:42,980
And to the memory of Philip.

1353
02:09:43,192 --> 02:09:46,072
Had he lived to see
his Macedonians…

1354
02:09:46,237 --> 02:09:49,157
…transformed into such…

1355
02:09:49,323 --> 02:09:50,993
…a pretty army.

1356
02:09:53,369 --> 02:09:54,659
To Philip.

1357
02:09:54,829 --> 02:09:56,829
To a real hero.

1358
02:09:57,039 --> 02:09:59,379
Philip!

1359
02:10:02,169 --> 02:10:06,879
And to Cleitus and his new appointment
as satrap of Bactria.

1360
02:10:07,091 --> 02:10:08,761
Cleitus.

1361
02:10:10,302 --> 02:10:12,932
That's a fancy way
of putting it, Ptolemy.

1362
02:10:13,097 --> 02:10:16,097
But we all know what a pension
and an exile is…

1363
02:10:16,267 --> 02:10:18,637
…after 30 years' service.

1364
02:10:18,811 --> 02:10:20,231
Exile?

1365
02:10:20,604 --> 02:10:22,364
From what, Cleitus?

1366
02:10:22,523 --> 02:10:25,613
From my home, Alexander, Macedonia.

1367
02:10:25,776 --> 02:10:29,066
You could've asked me where
I wanted to spend the rest of my life.

1368
02:10:29,280 --> 02:10:33,200
You call governing
this major province exile?

1369
02:10:33,451 --> 02:10:36,541
Has Your Majesty given any
of his closest companions…

1370
02:10:37,413 --> 02:10:39,503
…a province so far from home?

1371
02:10:39,665 --> 02:10:41,955
Then you won't make a very
good satrap, will you, Cleitus?

1372
02:10:46,338 --> 02:10:47,878
So be it.

1373
02:10:48,090 --> 02:10:51,760
Let me rot in Macedonian rags…

1374
02:10:51,927 --> 02:10:54,057
…rather than shine…

1375
02:10:54,221 --> 02:10:55,391
…in Eastern pomp.

1376
02:10:56,849 --> 02:11:00,599
I won't quake and bow down like
the sycophants you have around you.

1377
02:11:00,978 --> 02:11:04,818
- – Hephaistion, Nearchus, Perdiccas.
- Hey.

1378
02:11:05,524 --> 02:11:09,994
As governor of one
of our most Asian of satrapies…

1379
02:11:10,154 --> 02:11:14,994
…Cleitus, does it not occur to you
that if my Persian subjects…

1380
02:11:15,159 --> 02:11:18,119
…bow down before me,
it's important for them to do so?

1381
02:11:18,287 --> 02:11:21,037
Do I insist on Greeks doing the same?

1382
02:11:21,457 --> 02:11:26,167
You accept Greek offerings
as a son of Zeus, do you not?

1383
02:11:28,339 --> 02:11:29,669
Only when offered.

1384
02:11:29,840 --> 02:11:32,260
Why don't you refuse
these vain flatteries?

1385
02:11:32,927 --> 02:11:35,387
What freedom is this,
to bow before you?

1386
02:11:35,763 --> 02:11:38,353
You bow before Herakles,
and he was mortal…

1387
02:11:38,557 --> 02:11:40,177
…but a son of Zeus.

1388
02:11:40,351 --> 02:11:43,851
How can you, so young,
compare yourself to Herakles?

1389
02:11:45,272 --> 02:11:47,022
Why not?

1390
02:11:49,735 --> 02:11:52,105
I've achieved more in my years.

1391
02:11:52,279 --> 02:11:53,909
Traveled as far.

1392
02:11:54,073 --> 02:11:55,123
Probably farther.

1393
02:11:55,282 --> 02:11:57,492
Herakles did it by himself.

1394
02:11:57,660 --> 02:12:00,870
Did you conquer Asia
by yourself, Alexander?

1395
02:12:01,038 --> 02:12:02,668
Who planned the Asian invasion…

1396
02:12:02,832 --> 02:12:06,672
…when you were still being spanked
on your bottom by my sister Lanice?

1397
02:12:07,002 --> 02:12:08,922
Was it not your father?

1398
02:12:09,088 --> 02:12:10,968
Or is his blood
no longer good enough?

1399
02:12:11,590 --> 02:12:15,090
– Zeus-Amon, is it?
– You insult me, Cleitus.

1400
02:12:15,261 --> 02:12:17,811
You mock my family. Be careful.

1401
02:12:18,305 --> 02:12:21,765
Never would your father have taken
barbarians as his friends…

1402
02:12:21,934 --> 02:12:24,604
…asked us to fight with them
as equals in war.

1403
02:12:24,770 --> 02:12:26,650
Are we not good enough any longer?

1404
02:12:26,939 --> 02:12:29,189
I remember a time…

1405
02:12:29,358 --> 02:12:31,898
…when we could talk as men,
straight to the eye.

1406
02:12:32,069 --> 02:12:34,739
None of this scraping, groveling.

1407
02:12:35,406 --> 02:12:37,696
I remember a time when we hunted…

1408
02:12:37,867 --> 02:12:40,487
…when we wrestled
on the gymnasium floor.

1409
02:12:41,078 --> 02:12:43,078
Now you kiss them?

1410
02:12:44,498 --> 02:12:49,498
Take a barbarian, childless wife
and dare call her queen?

1411
02:12:52,214 --> 02:12:55,724
Go quickly, Cleitus,
before you ruin your life.

1412
02:12:59,680 --> 02:13:03,310
Doesn't your great pride
fear the gods any longer?

1413
02:13:04,518 --> 02:13:07,808
This army…
This army is your blood, boy!

1414
02:13:08,022 --> 02:13:10,022
Without it, you're nothing!

1415
02:13:15,321 --> 02:13:18,871
You no longer serve the purpose
of this march!

1416
02:13:19,033 --> 02:13:21,833
– Get him from my sight!
– I don't serve your purpose?

1417
02:13:21,994 --> 02:13:25,834
What was I serving when I saved
your puppy life at Gaugamela?

1418
02:13:25,998 --> 02:13:27,078
Were you Zeus' boy?

1419
02:13:27,249 --> 02:13:29,339
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
02:13:34,673 --> 02:13:36,973
Turn out the guards!
Arrest him for treason!

1423
02:13:44,517 --> 02:13:46,187
– Who's with him?
– No.

1424
02:13:46,560 --> 02:13:47,900
Who's with him?

1425
02:13:48,687 --> 02:13:50,687
I call Father Zeus to witness.

1426
02:13:51,065 --> 02:13:53,145
I call you to trial before him!

1427
02:13:53,317 --> 02:13:55,817
And we'll see how deep
this conspiracy cuts!

1428
02:13:55,986 --> 02:13:58,236
– Take him!
– In the name of the gods, get him out!

1429
02:13:58,697 --> 02:14:00,197
Now look at you!

1430
02:14:00,366 --> 02:14:02,826
Great white arse, Alexander.

1431
02:14:02,993 --> 02:14:04,703
Hiding behind his fairy god!

1432
02:14:04,870 --> 02:14:08,750
Or are you too great to remember…

1433
02:14:08,916 --> 02:14:11,376
…whose life was saved by me?

1434
02:14:11,543 --> 02:14:14,053
I am more man than you'll ever be!

1435
02:14:14,213 --> 02:14:16,843
– Aah!
– Ever!

1436
02:14:17,800 --> 02:14:20,260
- He's gone. He's gone.
- Get him out!

1437
02:14:20,427 --> 02:14:23,097
- – Alexander! Alexander!
- Come on!

1438
02:14:23,514 --> 02:14:25,644
What a tyrant you are!

1439
02:14:25,808 --> 02:14:28,138
Evil tyrant you've become, Alexander.

1440
02:14:28,310 --> 02:14:31,360
You speak about plots against you?
What about poor Parmenion?

1441
02:14:31,522 --> 02:14:33,192
- Parmenion?
- Yeah.

1442
02:14:33,357 --> 02:14:34,647
He served you well.

1443
02:14:34,817 --> 02:14:37,897
Look how you repaid him.
You made me do your foul deed.

1444
02:14:38,070 --> 02:14:40,110
– Have you no shame?
– You ungrateful wretch!

1445
02:14:40,281 --> 02:14:42,951
No one, not my vilest enemy,
has spoken like you to me.

1446
02:14:43,117 --> 02:14:44,157
Hear what I say!

1447
02:14:44,326 --> 02:14:45,536
Despot. False king.

1448
02:14:47,788 --> 02:14:50,498
You and your barbarian mother
live in shame.

1449
02:15:15,316 --> 02:15:16,896
Cleitus.

1450
02:15:17,192 --> 02:15:19,032
Oh, my Cleitus.

1451
02:15:26,660 --> 02:15:28,200
- – Let me pass.
- None can enter.

1452
02:15:28,370 --> 02:15:30,290
I am the queen.

1453
02:15:38,339 --> 02:15:40,589
I want to see him.
I've waited three days.

1454
02:15:40,758 --> 02:15:43,258
He says none, not even you.

1455
02:15:44,595 --> 02:15:48,515
– He needs me.
– No, he doesn't.

1456
02:15:48,682 --> 02:15:50,232
And he needs you?

1457
02:15:52,019 --> 02:15:53,649
Hephaistion, you make a mistake.

1458
02:15:57,441 --> 02:15:59,691
The army grows restless…

1459
02:15:59,860 --> 02:16:01,740
…questioning.

1460
02:16:02,738 --> 02:16:04,528
Alexander.

1461
02:16:07,201 --> 02:16:08,741
They need your reassurance.

1462
02:16:10,037 --> 02:16:11,617
Yes.

1463
02:16:11,789 --> 02:16:15,919
Like an old lover they forgive,
but they will never forget.

1464
02:16:16,085 --> 02:16:18,625
He was an aging drunk.

1465
02:16:18,796 --> 02:16:20,756
He was my friend.

1466
02:16:22,883 --> 02:16:25,433
His sister Lanice nursed me.

1467
02:16:26,512 --> 02:16:28,892
And how did I repay her?

1468
02:16:30,140 --> 02:16:33,600
Two brothers dead, fighting,
and by my own hands…

1469
02:16:33,769 --> 02:16:36,189
…her last remaining blood.

1470
02:16:39,608 --> 02:16:44,068
What will she do but weep
on the day of my birth?

1471
02:16:45,406 --> 02:16:46,446
Come.

1472
02:16:46,615 --> 02:16:47,945
You know more than any…

1473
02:16:48,117 --> 02:16:52,577
…great deeds are done by men
who took and never regretted.

1474
02:16:52,746 --> 02:16:54,576
You're Alexander.

1475
02:16:54,748 --> 02:16:57,578
Pity and grief will only destroy you.

1476
02:16:57,751 --> 02:17:01,881
Have I become so arrogant
that I am blind?

1477
02:17:03,924 --> 02:17:04,974
Sometimes…

1478
02:17:05,134 --> 02:17:07,764
…to expect the best of everyone…

1479
02:17:07,928 --> 02:17:10,888
…is arrogance.

1480
02:17:12,850 --> 02:17:15,480
Then Cleitus spoke true.

1481
02:17:15,644 --> 02:17:18,064
I am become a tyrant.

1482
02:17:18,939 --> 02:17:20,649
No.

1483
02:17:22,943 --> 02:17:25,033
But perhaps a stranger.

1484
02:17:27,072 --> 02:17:29,322
You've gone too far.

1485
02:17:30,409 --> 02:17:32,869
They don't understand you anymore.

1486
02:17:34,830 --> 02:17:38,790
They speak of Philip now…

1487
02:17:38,959 --> 02:17:42,209
…as if I were a passing cloud…

1488
02:17:42,880 --> 02:17:45,170
…soon to be forgotten.

1489
02:17:47,301 --> 02:17:49,141
I've failed…

1490
02:17:49,303 --> 02:17:50,933
…utterly.

1491
02:17:53,140 --> 02:17:55,140
You're mortal.

1492
02:17:55,309 --> 02:17:57,229
And they know it.

1493
02:17:57,394 --> 02:18:01,734
And they forgive you because
you make them proud of themselves.

1494
02:18:02,566 --> 02:18:05,146
Philip once said…

1495
02:18:07,404 --> 02:18:09,994
…that there's a Titan in all of us.

1496
02:18:11,116 --> 02:18:13,906
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 --> 02:18:24,836
It was because I wanted to.

1499
02:18:52,991 --> 02:18:56,201
Philip, King of Macedonia…

1500
02:18:56,411 --> 02:18:58,121
…and leader of the Greeks.

1501
02:18:58,997 --> 02:19:03,957
All my life, I've waited to see Greeks
grovel with respect for Macedonia.

1502
02:19:05,212 --> 02:19:07,262
Today is that day.

1503
02:19:11,927 --> 02:19:14,637
They say already,
"Philip was a great general…

1504
02:19:14,805 --> 02:19:18,675
…but Alexander is simply great."

1505
02:19:20,185 --> 02:19:22,765
But if you ever insult me again…

1506
02:19:22,938 --> 02:19:24,858
…I'll kill you.

1507
02:19:30,779 --> 02:19:32,239
I've missed you.

1508
02:19:32,406 --> 02:19:34,946
In the spring, Persia…

1509
02:19:35,117 --> 02:19:37,447
…you'll command my horse
from the right.

1510
02:19:37,619 --> 02:19:39,249
I'm honored, Father.

1511
02:19:39,413 --> 02:19:41,713
I wouldn't miss it
for all the gold in the world.

1512
02:19:41,873 --> 02:19:43,333
Which, one day, you'll have.

1513
02:20:00,976 --> 02:20:03,436
Making himself a 13th god.

1514
02:20:03,604 --> 02:20:05,734
He's drunk so much wine,
my poor Philip.

1515
02:20:05,897 --> 02:20:07,937
He's lost his mind.

1516
02:20:10,986 --> 02:20:13,656
– Your Majesty.
– Attalus.

1517
02:20:18,285 --> 02:20:21,075
I hope the prince
is enjoying the spectacle…

1518
02:20:21,246 --> 02:20:24,166
…as much as our regent.

1519
02:20:24,333 --> 02:20:25,883
He's very tired.

1520
02:20:30,088 --> 02:20:31,508
Hey.

1521
02:20:34,843 --> 02:20:37,893
– Pausanias, bring the rest of the guard.
– Royal guard!

1522
02:20:38,263 --> 02:20:40,973
To the arena! March!

1523
02:20:41,141 --> 02:20:44,021
No guard, Your Majesty?
In all this crowd?

1524
02:20:44,186 --> 02:20:47,976
– Greeks all over the place.
– Cleitus, Cleitus.

1525
02:20:48,148 --> 02:20:49,818
My Cleitus.

1526
02:20:50,275 --> 02:20:52,775
This man you can
always trust, Alexander.

1527
02:20:53,362 --> 02:20:54,952
Treat him as you would me.

1528
02:20:55,113 --> 02:20:57,163
He'll guard your back for you.

1529
02:20:57,824 --> 02:20:59,414
Yes, Father.

1530
02:20:59,743 --> 02:21:02,623
My people are guard enough today.

1531
02:21:02,788 --> 02:21:06,288
Let these Greeks see for themselves
how I can walk through my people.

1532
02:21:06,458 --> 02:21:07,918
Then let them call me tyrant.

1533
02:21:08,627 --> 02:21:11,837
Bring the main guard in
after my entry only.

1534
02:21:12,005 --> 02:21:15,675
Cleitus, make sure the wine
flows steady all day.

1535
02:21:15,842 --> 02:21:17,892
I want them to like me.

1536
02:21:25,018 --> 02:21:27,648
Weren't you told? I go in alone.

1537
02:21:27,813 --> 02:21:29,903
Follow with the main guard.

1538
02:21:30,107 --> 02:21:31,527
Go on.

1539
02:21:34,611 --> 02:21:37,741
– Go on.
– Father, it's best I go with you.

1540
02:21:40,033 --> 02:21:43,123
You want the world to see
you're my successor.

1541
02:21:43,328 --> 02:21:45,208
Is that what she wants?

1542
02:21:45,831 --> 02:21:48,541
Don't look so hurt all the time,
Alexander. Be a man.

1543
02:21:48,709 --> 02:21:52,879
You count yourself lucky you were here
at all today, after your public display.

1544
02:21:56,717 --> 02:21:58,887
By Herakles, by Zeus,
by all the gods…

1545
02:21:59,052 --> 02:22:01,512
…obey me this once!

1546
02:22:02,889 --> 02:22:05,479
Have courage, Father.

1547
02:22:05,642 --> 02:22:08,152
And go on your way
rejoicing that at each step…

1548
02:22:08,353 --> 02:22:10,563
…you may recall your valor.

1549
02:22:46,224 --> 02:22:50,274
And now, our beloved King Philip…

1550
02:22:50,437 --> 02:22:53,517
…in whose honor
these wedding games begin.

1551
02:23:11,666 --> 02:23:14,166
Pausanias, I told you… Ugh.

1552
02:23:23,095 --> 02:23:26,005
Who's your new friend?
There's your new friend.

1553
02:23:27,099 --> 02:23:29,179
No! Please, no!

1554
02:23:32,729 --> 02:23:34,609
Please, no!

1555
02:25:09,075 --> 02:25:11,575
The king lives!

1556
02:25:11,745 --> 02:25:15,075
Alexander, son of Philip!

1557
02:25:15,248 --> 02:25:17,878
May the gods bless the king!

1558
02:25:18,668 --> 02:25:20,208
Long live Alexander!

1559
02:25:21,630 --> 02:25:24,010
Alexander is king!

1560
02:25:26,885 --> 02:25:29,885
You're king now. You're king.

1561
02:25:30,430 --> 02:25:32,930
Long live Alexander!

1562
02:25:34,893 --> 02:25:36,193
Alexander!

1563
02:25:36,353 --> 02:25:39,153
- – King Alexander!
- Alexander is king!

1564
02:25:39,314 --> 02:25:42,034
- – Alexander!
- Alexander!

1565
02:25:43,818 --> 02:25:46,238
Alexander is king!

1566
02:25:46,404 --> 02:25:48,494
Alexander is king!

1567
02:25:50,200 --> 02:25:53,540
May the gods bless Alexander!

1568
02:25:55,330 --> 02:25:58,460
May the gods bless the king!

1569
02:25:58,667 --> 02:26:01,877
- – Alexander!
- Alexander!

1570
02:26:10,053 --> 02:26:11,473
Get out.

1571
02:26:12,889 --> 02:26:14,389
Go.

1572
02:26:19,145 --> 02:26:21,725
How can you behave
so shamelessly in public?

1573
02:26:21,898 --> 02:26:24,478
Because it was meant to be.

1574
02:26:24,651 --> 02:26:26,491
This isn't how I wanted to become king.

1575
02:26:26,653 --> 02:26:29,493
– No one blames you.
– They blame me already behind my back!

1576
02:26:29,739 --> 02:26:31,739
– In secret.
– Slander is not power.

1577
02:26:32,075 --> 02:26:37,245
Shame is?
Who killed my father?

1578
02:26:37,998 --> 02:26:39,578
Tell me.

1579
02:26:39,749 --> 02:26:42,459
Tell me, or shall I put you on trial
for his murder?

1580
02:26:42,627 --> 02:26:45,257
– Pausanias.
– He had help!

1581
02:26:45,422 --> 02:26:47,342
Did you help him?

1582
02:26:54,639 --> 02:26:56,729
No, never.

1583
02:26:57,434 --> 02:27:00,404
Why? Why would I?

1584
02:27:01,396 --> 02:27:03,146
So many wanted it.

1585
02:27:03,315 --> 02:27:05,935
Greeks, Persians, men, women…

1586
02:27:06,109 --> 02:27:08,899
I would be shocked if there were not
a god or two he had not profaned.

1587
02:27:09,070 --> 02:27:10,610
How ironic though, in the end…

1588
02:27:10,780 --> 02:27:14,120
…a boy he rodded with once too often,
returned the favor.

1589
02:27:14,284 --> 02:27:16,414
– You're mad. You're cursed.
– Ah.

1590
02:27:16,578 --> 02:27:19,368
You've unleashed Furies,
you don't know their power.

1591
02:27:19,539 --> 02:27:22,419
Now who is exaggerating?

1592
02:27:23,376 --> 02:27:25,876
Even if it was the wish of your heart-

1593
02:27:26,087 --> 02:27:28,167
That's a lie! He was my father!
I loved him!

1594
02:27:28,381 --> 02:27:30,381
He was not your father!

1595
02:27:30,550 --> 02:27:32,720
You owe no blood debt to that man.

1596
02:27:32,886 --> 02:27:35,716
You lie and lie and lie.

1597
02:27:35,889 --> 02:27:38,929
So many lies you've spun
like a sorceress, confusing me.

1598
02:27:39,100 --> 02:27:42,520
Look at you. Look at you.

1599
02:27:42,687 --> 02:27:46,187
You are everything that he was not.

1600
02:27:46,357 --> 02:27:49,607
He was coarse, you are refined.

1601
02:27:49,778 --> 02:27:53,698
He was a general, and you are a king.

1602
02:27:53,865 --> 02:27:55,695
He could not rule himself…

1603
02:27:56,201 --> 02:27:59,291
…and you shall rule the world.

1604
02:27:59,496 --> 02:28:03,206
You're so cursed by all the gods
when you speak like this.

1605
02:28:03,374 --> 02:28:05,424
Such thick pride…

1606
02:28:05,585 --> 02:28:07,295
…and no mourning for your husband.

1607
02:28:07,504 --> 02:28:08,884
Mourn…

1608
02:28:09,047 --> 02:28:10,627
…him?

1609
02:28:11,591 --> 02:28:14,141
What do you know of Philip?

1610
02:28:15,637 --> 02:28:19,927
No, Alexander. Zeus is your father.

1611
02:28:20,642 --> 02:28:24,402
– Act like it.
– My first act would be to kill you!

1612
02:28:25,647 --> 02:28:27,977
You murdered me in my cradle.

1613
02:28:28,149 --> 02:28:30,399
You birthed me in a sack of hate.

1614
02:28:30,568 --> 02:28:32,738
Hate you have for those
stronger than you.

1615
02:28:32,904 --> 02:28:36,784
– 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
02:28:40,036 --> 02:28:42,286
Damn your sorceress soul.

1618
02:28:42,455 --> 02:28:44,955
Your soul is mine, Alexander.

1619
02:28:46,501 --> 02:28:48,001
No! No!

1620
02:28:48,670 --> 02:28:52,550
You've taken from me everything
I've ever loved and made me you!

1621
02:28:53,174 --> 02:28:55,224
Stop it. Stop acting like a boy.

1622
02:28:55,385 --> 02:28:58,045
You're a king. Act like one.

1623
02:28:58,221 --> 02:28:59,761
Parmenion is with us, for once.

1624
02:28:59,973 --> 02:29:02,103
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 --> 02:29:06,523
Eurydice? Never.

1627
02:29:06,688 --> 02:29:08,108
Laugh, you monster.

1628
02:29:08,273 --> 02:29:09,693
You heartbreaker.

1629
02:29:09,858 --> 02:29:12,898
How will you
live out the year like this?

1630
02:29:13,069 --> 02:29:17,619
– Have you learned nothing from Philip?
– No. From you, Mother.

1631
02:29:20,785 --> 02:29:22,535
The best.

1632
02:29:32,547 --> 02:29:37,137
What have I done
to make you hate me so?

1633
02:29:39,721 --> 02:29:44,391
One day, you will understand this.

1634
02:29:44,559 --> 02:29:47,939
But I have only you in my heart.

1635
02:29:50,732 --> 02:29:53,992
I know what you need.

1636
02:29:54,903 --> 02:29:57,033
Now is the time.

1637
02:29:57,363 --> 02:29:59,453
The gods favor you.

1638
02:29:59,949 --> 02:30:03,159
Great wealth, power, conquest.

1639
02:30:03,411 --> 02:30:05,161
All you desire.

1640
02:30:05,371 --> 02:30:08,001
The world is yours!

1641
02:30:08,166 --> 02:30:10,076
Take it.

1642
02:30:14,547 --> 02:30:16,417
Take it.

1643
02:30:38,530 --> 02:30:41,990
<i>He never saw his mother again.</i>

1644
02:30:45,620 --> 02:30:48,960
<i>And while he was away,
fighting the Northern tribes…</i>

1645
02:30:49,123 --> 02:30:54,803
<i>…Olympias had Philip's new wife,
Eurydice, and her infant son murdered.</i>

1646
02:30:55,338 --> 02:30:56,378
<i>By necessity…</i>

1647
02:30:56,547 --> 02:31:00,837
<i>…Alexander had her uncle Attalus executed.</i>

1648
02:31:15,984 --> 02:31:18,324
You break my heart, you men.

1649
02:31:18,486 --> 02:31:20,196
Afraid.

1650
02:31:21,698 --> 02:31:23,278
Of course you have fears.

1651
02:31:23,449 --> 02:31:24,869
We all have fears…

1652
02:31:25,034 --> 02:31:28,504
…because no one has ever
gone this far before.

1653
02:31:28,788 --> 02:31:33,078
And now we are weeks from
the encircling ocean, our route home.

1654
02:31:33,543 --> 02:31:35,043
We'll build a fleet of ships…

1655
02:31:35,211 --> 02:31:38,171
…and sail all the way
back down the Nile to Egypt.

1656
02:31:38,339 --> 02:31:41,509
And from Alexandria,
we shall be home within weeks.

1657
02:31:42,010 --> 02:31:44,220
There to be reunited
with our loved ones.

1658
02:31:44,387 --> 02:31:47,967
To share our great treasures
and tales of Asia.

1659
02:31:48,141 --> 02:31:52,851
And to enjoy our imperishable glory
to the ends of time.

1660
02:31:54,272 --> 02:31:57,572
- Follow Alexander.
- I'll follow you.

1661
02:32:02,196 --> 02:32:03,866
What?

1662
02:32:04,032 --> 02:32:07,622
- – Silence?
- We're with you, Alexander!

1663
02:32:07,952 --> 02:32:09,452
Crateros.

1664
02:32:11,581 --> 02:32:12,831
Crateros.

1665
02:32:12,999 --> 02:32:14,169
And another one.

1666
02:32:26,179 --> 02:32:27,469
My king.

1667
02:32:27,639 --> 02:32:29,469
I'm a fighting man.

1668
02:32:29,682 --> 02:32:33,652
I don't like no bellyaching.
I won't tolerate it in any of my units.

1669
02:32:35,104 --> 02:32:37,324
I lost many a man.

1670
02:32:38,399 --> 02:32:41,069
Young ones,
never been with a woman.

1671
02:32:42,195 --> 02:32:44,355
Some died of disease.

1672
02:32:44,947 --> 02:32:49,157
Some were butchered in Scythia
by the banks of the Oxus.

1673
02:32:49,327 --> 02:32:51,077
Some died good.

1674
02:32:51,245 --> 02:32:54,285
Some just didn't get no luck.

1675
02:32:55,166 --> 02:32:56,916
But they died.

1676
02:32:59,253 --> 02:33:02,173
Forty thousand I come over with
eight years ago.

1677
02:33:02,340 --> 02:33:06,430
And we march after you
more than 10,000 miles.

1678
02:33:07,470 --> 02:33:11,140
In the rain and the sun,
we fought for you.

1679
02:33:11,307 --> 02:33:14,387
Some of us, 50 battles we've been in.

1680
02:33:15,269 --> 02:33:17,649
We killed many a barbarian.

1681
02:33:19,315 --> 02:33:24,025
And now when I look around,
how many of them faces do I see?

1682
02:33:24,529 --> 02:33:28,119
Now you want us to fight more of these
crazy monkey tribes east of here.

1683
02:33:28,282 --> 02:33:31,832
We hear talk of thousands
of these elephant monsters…

1684
02:33:31,994 --> 02:33:33,204
…cross a hundred more rivers.

1685
02:33:35,790 --> 02:33:39,790
- – Crateros. Good Crateros.
- Quiet!

1686
02:33:40,711 --> 02:33:45,881
Who better than you to speak,
most noble of men.

1687
02:33:46,968 --> 02:33:50,808
But you know there's no part of me
without a scar or a bone broken.

1688
02:33:50,972 --> 02:33:54,312
By sword, knife, stone,
catapult and club.

1689
02:33:54,475 --> 02:33:56,725
I've shared every hardship
with all of you.

1690
02:33:56,894 --> 02:34:00,274
You have, my king,
and we love you for it.

1691
02:34:01,607 --> 02:34:04,897
But, by Zeus, too many have died.

1692
02:34:05,653 --> 02:34:08,953
You have no children, Alexander,
and we're just…

1693
02:34:09,115 --> 02:34:13,905
…humble men, we seek no disturbance
with the gods. All we wish for…

1694
02:34:14,120 --> 02:34:20,920
…is to see our children and our wives
and our grandchildren one last time…

1695
02:34:21,127 --> 02:34:24,757
…before we join our brothers
in that dark house they call Hades.

1696
02:34:28,843 --> 02:34:32,513
Yes. You're right, Crateros.

1697
02:34:32,680 --> 02:34:33,850
I have been negligent.

1698
02:34:36,058 --> 02:34:38,938
I should've sent you
veterans home sooner, and I will.

1699
02:34:39,145 --> 02:34:41,855
The first of you
shall be the Silver Shields.

1700
02:34:42,023 --> 02:34:44,823
Then every man
who's served seven years.

1701
02:34:44,984 --> 02:34:47,034
With full pensions from our treasury.

1702
02:34:48,446 --> 02:34:52,066
And respected, rich, loved.

1703
02:34:52,241 --> 02:34:54,701
You'll be treated
by your wives and children…

1704
02:34:54,869 --> 02:34:56,999
…as heroes for the rest of your lives…

1705
02:34:57,163 --> 02:35:01,383
…and enjoy a peaceful death.

1706
02:35:03,002 --> 02:35:04,802
But you dream, Crateros.

1707
02:35:05,671 --> 02:35:09,971
Your simplicity long ended when you
took Persian mistresses and children…

1708
02:35:10,176 --> 02:35:14,386
…and you thickened your holdings
with plunder and jewels.

1709
02:35:15,223 --> 02:35:20,563
Because you've fallen in love with all
the things in life that destroy men.

1710
02:35:21,562 --> 02:35:23,772
Do you not see?

1711
02:35:25,066 --> 02:35:28,316
And you, as well as I, know…

1712
02:35:28,486 --> 02:35:32,736
…that as the years decline
and the memories stale…

1713
02:35:32,907 --> 02:35:35,737
…and all your great victories fade…

1714
02:35:35,910 --> 02:35:41,580
…it will always be remembered,
you left your king in Asia!

1715
02:35:41,749 --> 02:35:44,289
For I will go on, with my Asians.

1716
02:35:47,922 --> 02:35:49,972
To the jackals with you, then, Alexander.

1717
02:35:50,132 --> 02:35:52,182
We come for you, and you discard us.

1718
02:35:52,343 --> 02:35:54,763
- Shame!
- We want to go home, Alexander.

1719
02:35:54,929 --> 02:35:56,559
We're tired of glory.

1720
02:35:56,722 --> 02:35:59,642
We want to see our wives
and children before we die.

1721
02:36:01,769 --> 02:36:03,729
I've got children I haven't even seen.

1722
02:36:07,608 --> 02:36:10,528
I want to see my children.

1723
02:36:10,695 --> 02:36:14,615
I paid for your bastard children.
I've taken nothing for myself.

1724
02:36:14,782 --> 02:36:16,782
And all I've asked of you
is one more month.

1725
02:36:16,951 --> 02:36:18,831
– Shame.
– That's your king.

1726
02:36:20,288 --> 02:36:21,368
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
02:36:24,875 --> 02:36:28,835
So go home. I look to the
barbarians for their courage.

1729
02:36:30,298 --> 02:36:31,718
I go east.

1730
02:36:31,882 --> 02:36:33,842
He wants us dead
so we can't speak of his crimes.

1731
02:36:34,010 --> 02:36:36,260
- – Who said that?
- We won't make it to Macedonia.

1732
02:36:36,429 --> 02:36:38,219
You despicable coward. Come forth.

1733
02:36:38,389 --> 02:36:41,309
- – Make your accusations public.
- So you can have us killed?

1734
02:36:41,475 --> 02:36:42,555
Son of Zeus.

1735
02:36:42,727 --> 02:36:44,607
You desecrate your real father's memory.

1736
02:36:44,645 --> 02:36:46,765
Or did you murder him like you did Cleitus?

1737
02:36:46,939 --> 02:36:50,939
Hide. Hide in this mob
because I will take your-

1738
02:37:00,870 --> 02:37:05,670
You men insult my honor,
my paternity. Arrest him.

1739
02:37:05,833 --> 02:37:09,713
And him. Yes.
And you, this loudmouth Demetrius.

1740
02:37:09,879 --> 02:37:13,549
You call me murderer?
I have no such blood on my hands.

1741
02:37:13,716 --> 02:37:16,836
And him.
Yes, you'll know the pain of treason.

1742
02:37:18,095 --> 02:37:22,015
You mock my shame for Cleitus and say
I'd harm a hair of my father's head.

1743
02:37:22,725 --> 02:37:26,515
Arrest him.
After all I've done for you, you swine.

1744
02:37:26,687 --> 02:37:28,607
You cowards. Traitors.

1745
02:37:31,150 --> 02:37:33,530
Come on, then.
Where are your daggers?

1746
02:37:35,946 --> 02:37:40,116
<i>In smashing the mutiny
and executing the ringleaders…</i>

1747
02:37:40,326 --> 02:37:45,456
<i>…he did nothing, to my mind, that any
general in wartime would not have done.</i>

1748
02:37:45,706 --> 02:37:49,086
<i>But clearly, the army was divided.</i>

1749
02:37:50,044 --> 02:37:54,094
<i>And Alexander was no longer
loved by all.</i>

1750
02:37:57,093 --> 02:38:01,683
<i>He drove on, south to the outer ocean.</i>

1751
02:38:03,224 --> 02:38:05,734
<i>I confess a disappointment.</i>

1752
02:38:05,893 --> 02:38:10,063
<i>Especially on these reports
of your taking on Eastern ways.</i>

1753
02:38:10,231 --> 02:38:12,611
<i>Beware how these manners…</i>

1754
02:38:12,775 --> 02:38:16,235
<i>…inflame the senses with pride.</i>

1755
02:38:16,445 --> 02:38:20,065
However, I have lived long enough now…

1756
02:38:20,700 --> 02:38:22,240
…to question…

1757
02:38:22,410 --> 02:38:25,660
…when so many others
invest such emotion…

1758
02:38:25,830 --> 02:38:28,120
…in their disrespect for you.

1759
02:38:28,958 --> 02:38:32,378
<i>I can only hope that you continue
what you began…</i>

1760
02:38:32,545 --> 02:38:35,335
<i>…as the boy I knew at 12.</i>

1761
02:38:35,506 --> 02:38:38,176
Be that man always, Alexander…

1762
02:38:38,342 --> 02:38:40,342
…and you will not slip.

1763
02:38:40,511 --> 02:38:45,601
And perhaps you will prove
this old materialist…

1764
02:38:45,766 --> 02:38:48,516
…as you always thought me…

1765
02:38:48,686 --> 02:38:51,556
…a dreamer after all.

1766
02:38:53,274 --> 02:38:55,324
<i>Aristotle.</i>

1767
02:39:10,666 --> 02:39:11,706
Stay calm.

1768
02:39:13,294 --> 02:39:15,554
Together we are strong as gods.

1769
02:39:16,505 --> 02:39:21,135
Cover with your left,
strike hard with your right.

1770
02:39:24,847 --> 02:39:27,177
Fear is rot. A waste of time.

1771
02:39:33,397 --> 02:39:35,647
Lock shields.

1772
02:39:38,069 --> 02:39:40,239
Battle positions.

1773
02:39:44,742 --> 02:39:46,332
Move.

1774
02:39:52,541 --> 02:39:55,751
Choppers, prepare your knives.

1775
02:39:56,128 --> 02:39:57,668
Follow me.

1776
02:40:10,142 --> 02:40:13,602
Strike hard, boys. Strike hard.

1777
02:40:31,747 --> 02:40:36,287
Come, Macedonians.
Why do you hang back? Hurry.

1778
02:40:36,460 --> 02:40:38,670
Cavalry!

1779
02:40:47,263 --> 02:40:50,523
Split to thirds. Regroup and encircle.

1780
02:41:09,785 --> 02:41:11,785
Hold the line!

1781
02:41:55,915 --> 02:42:01,335
- – Oh, no. Cavalry on me.
- Follow Alexander.

1782
02:42:04,715 --> 02:42:08,465
Charge. Charge. Charge.

1783
02:42:11,931 --> 02:42:13,521
The phalanx is in jeopardy.

1784
02:42:13,682 --> 02:42:17,022
Meleager, ride to Pharnakes
and tell him return to the center.

1785
02:42:17,186 --> 02:42:21,016
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
02:42:47,841 --> 02:42:50,761
Hephaistion. To the center.

1788
02:42:53,847 --> 02:42:56,177
Come, Macedonians. Ride.

1789
02:42:56,350 --> 02:42:58,770
Ride.

1790
02:43:55,242 --> 02:43:57,832
Coenus! Get out of there.

1791
02:43:59,747 --> 02:44:01,247
No.

1792
02:44:30,986 --> 02:44:33,736
- – The horses won't go.
- On foot, then.

1793
02:44:40,245 --> 02:44:44,365
Fall back, men! Fall back!

1794
02:44:45,626 --> 02:44:47,246
Come, Bucephalus.

1795
02:44:52,132 --> 02:44:53,972
Fear not, my friend.

1796
02:44:56,720 --> 02:44:58,600
Bucephalus.

1797
02:44:58,764 --> 02:45:00,434
Tis only sun and shadow.

1798
02:45:03,560 --> 02:45:05,150
Bucephalus and Alexander.

1799
02:45:05,312 --> 02:45:06,812
One last time. It's you and I.

1800
02:45:09,274 --> 02:45:12,364
Isn't it a lovely thing
to live with great courage…

1801
02:45:12,861 --> 02:45:15,321
…and to die leaving
an everlasting fame?

1802
02:45:16,031 --> 02:45:19,331
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 --> 02:45:43,637
Attack.

1805
02:45:44,726 --> 02:45:47,146
– Alexander!
– Aah!

1806
02:45:58,031 --> 02:46:00,031
Alexander.

1807
02:47:32,793 --> 02:47:34,503
– The king is down!
– To the king!

1808
02:48:59,004 --> 02:49:01,014
<i>It was the bloodiest of his battles.</i>

1809
02:49:06,345 --> 02:49:08,135
<i>Pure butchery.</i>

1810
02:49:13,769 --> 02:49:15,649
<i>We'd never be men again.</i>

1811
02:51:03,879 --> 02:51:06,379
He lives! Alexander!

1812
02:51:10,051 --> 02:51:12,971
Alexander!

1813
02:51:29,613 --> 02:51:31,703
Men of Macedon…

1814
02:51:32,574 --> 02:51:34,744
…we're going home.

1815
02:51:35,660 --> 02:51:38,250
- What?
- What?

1816
02:51:38,413 --> 02:51:40,083
- We're going home.
- Home?

1817
02:51:40,290 --> 02:51:42,420
We're going.

1818
02:51:47,005 --> 02:51:49,005
We're going home.

1819
02:52:16,159 --> 02:52:18,079
Yes!

1820
02:52:56,116 --> 02:52:59,196
<i>His life should have ended in India…</i>

1821
02:52:59,870 --> 02:53:01,080
<i>…but that's myth.</i>

1822
02:53:02,873 --> 02:53:08,133
<i>In life, Herakles died of a poisoned shirt,
given him in error by his jealous wife.</i>

1823
02:53:08,336 --> 02:53:12,006
Great Zeus, we have worshiped you in blood.

1824
02:53:13,300 --> 02:53:15,840
Look kindly on our homeward steps…

1825
02:53:16,011 --> 02:53:20,141
…and smile upon our backs.

1826
02:53:23,476 --> 02:53:25,806
May all those who come here after us…

1827
02:53:26,021 --> 02:53:28,271
…know, when they see this altar…

1828
02:53:28,898 --> 02:53:32,648
…that Titans were once here.

1829
02:53:47,125 --> 02:53:50,915
<i>Making his devotions to the gods
at the end of the great journey…</i>

1830
02:53:51,129 --> 02:53:55,839
<i>…Alexander bade the East farewell
and marched his army directly west…</i>

1831
02:53:56,009 --> 02:53:58,349
<i>…across the great Gedrosian desert…</i>

1832
02:53:58,511 --> 02:54:01,931
<i>…seeking the shortest route home
to Babylon.</i>

1833
02:54:04,476 --> 02:54:09,306
<i>Here, he watched helplessly
the cruel breaking of his army.</i>

1834
02:54:09,481 --> 02:54:12,231
<i>Not by any human form…</i>

1835
02:54:12,442 --> 02:54:14,652
<i>…but by nature.</i>

1836
02:54:15,945 --> 02:54:20,485
<i>To this day, there is no accounting
of how many died.</i>

1837
02:54:20,659 --> 02:54:24,499
<i>It was the worst blunder of his life.</i>

1838
02:54:25,246 --> 02:54:29,916
<i>And when he finally reentered Babylon,
after six years in the Far East…</i>

1839
02:54:30,085 --> 02:54:35,965
<i>…Alexander again seized the imagination
of the world by taking two more wives.</i>

1840
02:54:37,008 --> 02:54:39,468
<i>Now Alexander had three wives…</i>

1841
02:54:39,636 --> 02:54:40,676
<i>…two lovers…</i>

1842
02:54:40,845 --> 02:54:43,595
<i>…a contentious mother
and a turbulent Greece…</i>

1843
02:54:43,765 --> 02:54:47,225
<i>…satraps of dubious loyalty
in several provinces…</i>

1844
02:54:47,394 --> 02:54:50,524
<i>…generals questioning his every decision.</i>

1845
02:54:50,689 --> 02:54:53,819
<i>And beneath it all,
a restive new army…</i>

1846
02:54:53,983 --> 02:54:56,903
<i>…made up of 10 Asians
for every Greek…</i>

1847
02:54:57,070 --> 02:55:00,200
<i>…all held together by one slender thread.</i>

1848
02:55:00,365 --> 02:55:03,575
They took another reading.
The harbor can only be dredged to 20 feet.

1849
02:55:03,743 --> 02:55:05,953
Get me a second
opinion from the Phoenicians.

1850
02:55:06,121 --> 02:55:08,791
– I tell you, it goes deeper.
– Alexander.

1851
02:55:08,998 --> 02:55:11,708
We're well over 12,000 talents
on wood alone for the fleet.

1852
02:55:11,876 --> 02:55:14,626
And their armor costs are staggering.

1853
02:55:16,047 --> 02:55:18,837
– Cast another dye, we shall back them.
– How?

1854
02:55:19,009 --> 02:55:22,009
– Aren't our treasuries-?
– With our future, Cassander.

1855
02:55:22,178 --> 02:55:23,348
The best capital we have.

1856
02:55:23,513 --> 02:55:26,103
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 --> 02:55:30,233
Perhaps we could sail with fewer ships…

1859
02:55:30,395 --> 02:55:34,015
– …or delay until the spring-
– There'll be no delays, Nearchus.

1860
02:55:34,190 --> 02:55:36,320
Ptolemy, how goes our library?

1861
02:55:36,484 --> 02:55:38,954
– Trees are falling as we
speak, Your Majesty. – Good.

1862
02:55:39,154 --> 02:55:40,494
We must not forget our libraries.

1863
02:55:40,655 --> 02:55:43,195
All the Alexandras we have,
I want libraries.

1864
02:55:52,959 --> 02:55:55,589
– Just last night he was-
– It's the water, Your Majesty.

1865
02:55:55,795 --> 02:55:58,045
He mixed it with the wine.

1866
02:55:59,090 --> 02:56:00,720
But how can this be?

1867
02:56:01,176 --> 02:56:04,926
– Typhus of India?
– I wouldn't tax yourself, Your Majesty.

1868
02:56:05,096 --> 02:56:10,346
A few good nights' rest will do it.
But no wine or cold chicken.

1869
02:56:10,518 --> 02:56:12,808
With the regimen of care
that I've put in place-

1870
02:56:14,105 --> 02:56:15,355
Come, doctor.

1871
02:56:28,495 --> 02:56:30,825
I feel better.

1872
02:56:31,456 --> 02:56:35,036
Soon, I'll be up.

1873
02:56:36,211 --> 02:56:40,171
We leave for Arabia in the spring,
and I couldn't leave without you.

1874
02:56:40,799 --> 02:56:42,839
Arabia.

1875
02:56:46,304 --> 02:56:50,934
You used to dress me up like a sheik…

1876
02:56:51,976 --> 02:56:53,846
…wave your wooden scimitar.

1877
02:56:54,020 --> 02:56:57,150
You were the only one
who'd never let me win.

1878
02:56:58,900 --> 02:57:01,990
The only one who's ever been
honest with me.

1879
02:57:02,403 --> 02:57:05,373
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 --> 02:57:26,514
I remember the young man who wanted
to be Achilles and then outdid him.

1882
02:57:27,345 --> 02:57:29,255
And then what happened?

1883
02:57:29,514 --> 02:57:32,684
Ours is a myth only young men believe.

1884
02:57:33,476 --> 02:57:39,646
– But how beautiful a myth it was.
– We reach, we fall.

1885
02:57:40,900 --> 02:57:43,860
Oh, Hephaistion.

1886
02:57:49,492 --> 02:57:55,082
– I worry for you without me.
– I am nothing without you.

1887
02:57:56,040 --> 02:57:59,790
Come, fight, Hephaistion.

1888
02:58:00,044 --> 02:58:02,554
We will die together.

1889
02:58:05,592 --> 02:58:07,682
We'll have children with our wives…

1890
02:58:07,844 --> 02:58:10,974
…and our sons will play together
as we once did.

1891
02:58:12,056 --> 02:58:15,636
A thousand ships
we'll launch from here, Hephaistion.

1892
02:58:16,394 --> 02:58:21,114
We'll round Arabia
and sail up the gulf to Egypt.

1893
02:58:21,941 --> 02:58:26,401
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 --> 02:58:32,488
And that great island, Sicily,
they'll pay large tribute.

1896
02:58:32,660 --> 02:58:36,370
After that, the Roman tribe,
good fighters. We'll beat them.

1897
02:58:37,665 --> 02:58:40,165
And then explore
the northern forests…

1898
02:58:40,335 --> 02:58:43,295
…and out the Pillars of Herakles
to the western ocean.

1899
02:58:44,130 --> 02:58:48,180
And then one day,
populations will mix and travel freely.

1900
02:58:48,593 --> 02:58:50,933
Asia and Europe will come together.

1901
02:58:53,097 --> 02:58:56,727
And we'll grow old, Hephaistion…

1902
02:58:57,727 --> 02:59:03,067
…looking out our balcony
at this new world.

1903
02:59:09,906 --> 02:59:11,946
Hephaistion?

1904
02:59:13,701 --> 02:59:15,701
Hephaistion?

1905
02:59:16,829 --> 02:59:18,829
No!

1906
02:59:23,044 --> 02:59:27,344
- Where is this doctor?
- I can't explain this, Your Majesty.

1907
02:59:27,548 --> 02:59:31,888
– It's not possible. I swear by Apollo.
– Execute him!

1908
02:59:32,971 --> 02:59:36,271
Take him out now and execute him.

1909
02:59:36,432 --> 02:59:40,652
– Come away, come away.
– Liars. You all hated him. All of you.

1910
02:59:41,604 --> 02:59:45,324
Get out. Get out now!

1911
02:59:55,910 --> 03:00:00,750
Be gone with you!
Harpies! Get out! Get out!

1912
03:00:00,915 --> 03:00:02,875
Are you drunk again?

1913
03:00:03,042 --> 03:00:04,382
– Get out.
– He's dead.

1914
03:00:04,544 --> 03:00:07,424
– Who?
– Many hated him…

1915
03:00:07,588 --> 03:00:10,298
…but I don't think any other
would have dared.

1916
03:00:12,010 --> 03:00:14,100
Hephaistion is dead?

1917
03:00:18,099 --> 03:00:19,979
Are you mad?

1918
03:00:22,103 --> 03:00:23,483
You monster.

1919
03:00:23,646 --> 03:00:27,776
– Aah! Are you mad?
– You've taken from me all I've ever loved.

1920
03:00:27,942 --> 03:00:31,952
May all the Furies through time
damn your miserable heart. Obey me.

1921
03:00:33,031 --> 03:00:37,741
Alexander.
I have your child. Alexander.

1922
03:00:39,370 --> 03:00:42,040
- Alexander, we have a son.
- No.

1923
03:00:43,666 --> 03:00:46,166
- The child.
- Oh, Your Majesty, no.

1924
03:00:46,461 --> 03:00:52,761
Alexander, I have your child.
Alexander, my husband, my king.

1925
03:00:52,967 --> 03:00:55,347
We have a son.

1926
03:00:56,054 --> 03:00:59,224
My poor, poor, ill-fated son.

1927
03:01:01,059 --> 03:01:02,599
Never touch me again.

1928
03:01:06,147 --> 03:01:09,437
No!

1929
03:01:13,821 --> 03:01:16,571
One last toast!

1930
03:01:19,911 --> 03:01:21,831
Before the dawn.

1931
03:01:28,711 --> 03:01:32,011
To my old friends.

1932
03:01:48,940 --> 03:01:52,610
- – And to the myths.
- To the myths.

1933
03:02:02,787 --> 03:02:05,117
Drink it down, Alexander.

1934
03:02:05,289 --> 03:02:07,249
Drink it down.

1935
03:02:21,806 --> 03:02:25,176
Yes, come on. Finish it.

1936
03:02:46,080 --> 03:02:48,120
To the next dawn.

1937
03:02:54,547 --> 03:02:57,297
<i>Men hate the gods.</i>

1938
03:02:59,552 --> 03:03:02,222
<i>This because we fear worse.</i>

1939
03:03:02,930 --> 03:03:04,520
<i>The Titans.</i>

1940
03:03:15,902 --> 03:03:17,452
Mm.

1941
03:03:24,577 --> 03:03:26,617
My little Achilles.

1942
03:03:36,005 --> 03:03:37,835
Mm.

1943
03:03:49,435 --> 03:03:51,435
Lord, we love you.

1944
03:03:52,647 --> 03:03:53,897
Bless you, Alexander.

1945
03:04:02,615 --> 03:04:05,405
My lord, these herbs are from Delphi.

1946
03:04:05,576 --> 03:04:08,156
They saved my brother at Ghilam.

1947
03:04:08,829 --> 03:04:11,419
- – Bless your soul.
- Thank you.

1948
03:04:11,707 --> 03:04:14,747
- We love you, Alexander.
- Section of the <i>Iliad…</i>

1949
03:04:19,257 --> 03:04:20,877
Alexander.

1950
03:04:23,052 --> 03:04:24,802
Alexander.

1951
03:04:28,933 --> 03:04:31,143
We love you, Alexander.

1952
03:04:32,395 --> 03:04:34,355
And your seed.

1953
03:04:36,857 --> 03:04:39,107
Keep moving, men.

1954
03:04:44,532 --> 03:04:46,872
<i>Yes, come.</i>

1955
03:04:47,034 --> 03:04:53,544
<i>Come to Babylon. I await you.
Your only loving son.</i>

1956
03:04:59,630 --> 03:05:01,300
For the men.

1957
03:05:01,465 --> 03:05:03,255
Bagoas.

1958
03:05:09,515 --> 03:05:13,185
Can you prop me up a little?
It catches me here.

1959
03:05:22,486 --> 03:05:24,566
I've never been so idle.

1960
03:05:24,739 --> 03:05:27,869
The fleet will never get out by spring.
I must go.

1961
03:05:45,635 --> 03:05:48,175
You have given me all…

1962
03:05:49,221 --> 03:05:50,351
…Bagoas.

1963
03:05:50,514 --> 03:05:52,644
And you have given me…

1964
03:05:52,808 --> 03:05:56,598
…the happiest times in my life,
Alexander.

1965
03:05:57,647 --> 03:05:59,937
Happy?

1966
03:06:00,149 --> 03:06:01,979
What is happy?

1967
03:06:04,320 --> 03:06:08,030
When your mind and body
are stretched to breaking…

1968
03:06:08,240 --> 03:06:11,120
…and you have no thought beyond the next.

1969
03:06:12,787 --> 03:06:15,407
And you look back then…

1970
03:06:15,623 --> 03:06:18,333
…and there it was, happiness.

1971
03:06:19,335 --> 03:06:22,085
In the doing, never the thinking.

1972
03:06:24,215 --> 03:06:29,215
Still, you have made me so happy.

1973
03:06:37,520 --> 03:06:39,900
It is done, Bagoas.

1974
03:06:42,358 --> 03:06:44,148
It is done.

1975
03:07:07,550 --> 03:07:09,840
Wait. We have a son.

1976
03:07:10,010 --> 03:07:11,970
Alexander.

1977
03:07:12,179 --> 03:07:15,429
Wait. Wait.

1978
03:07:16,976 --> 03:07:18,936
Vultures. Wait.

1979
03:07:19,103 --> 03:07:20,773
We have a son.

1980
03:07:21,105 --> 03:07:23,895
Just three more months.

1981
03:07:24,066 --> 03:07:25,986
Please live.

1982
03:07:28,863 --> 03:07:31,573
Alexander, the army will divide.

1983
03:07:31,741 --> 03:07:34,741
Satrapies will revolt.
Without your orders, there'll be war.

1984
03:07:35,202 --> 03:07:37,412
We beg you. Tell us who.

1985
03:07:40,291 --> 03:07:42,572
Who will rule this
great empire if you leave us?

1986
03:07:42,710 --> 03:07:44,040
Who do you want, Alexander?

1987
03:07:44,211 --> 03:07:46,671
- We beg you. Tell us who.
<i>- Fear not.</i>

1988
03:07:47,798 --> 03:07:49,928
<i>The myth becomes real.</i>

1989
03:07:55,264 --> 03:07:57,604
<i>Beyond Herakles.</i>

1990
03:08:06,317 --> 03:08:09,277
<i>Zeus is your father.</i>

1991
03:08:14,575 --> 03:08:15,865
Who will it be?

1992
03:08:17,328 --> 03:08:19,618
Pray tell us, who.

1993
03:08:22,208 --> 03:08:24,668
<i>- – What did he say?
- "To the best."</i>

1994
03:08:26,921 --> 03:08:29,301
- – He said, "To the best."
- What?

1995
03:08:29,465 --> 03:08:31,545
- – No, he said, "To Crateros."
- To Crateros?

1996
03:08:31,717 --> 03:08:33,677
Why would he say Crateros?

1997
03:09:36,115 --> 03:09:40,365
<i>On the 10th of June,
a month short of his 33rd year…</i>

1998
03:09:40,536 --> 03:09:44,956
<i>…Alexander's great heart
finally gave out.</i>

1999
03:09:45,124 --> 03:09:49,344
<i>And as he vowed,
he joined Hephaistion.</i>

2000
03:09:52,423 --> 03:09:55,133
<i>But in his short life,
he achieved, without doubt…</i>

2001
03:09:55,301 --> 03:10:00,641
<i>…the mythic glory
of his ancestor Achilles and more.</i>

2002
03:10:05,644 --> 03:10:08,524
<i>Olympias' transgression
in the murder of his father…</i>

2003
03:10:08,731 --> 03:10:11,481
<i>…is, to my mind, a probability.</i>

2004
03:10:11,650 --> 03:10:14,280
<i>His, a burden.</i>

2005
03:10:15,988 --> 03:10:19,658
<i>Alexander was too in love with glory
for him to steal it.</i>

2006
03:10:24,705 --> 03:10:28,825
<i>But by blood, and blood alone,
he was guilty.</i>

2007
03:10:29,001 --> 03:10:31,171
No!

2008
03:10:41,555 --> 03:10:42,715
Bolt the doors.

2009
03:10:42,890 --> 03:10:46,020
– The body stays in Babylon.
– The body belongs to Macedon.

2010
03:10:46,185 --> 03:10:48,475
– This must be decided…
PTOLEMY: <i>Within hours…</i>

2011
03:10:48,646 --> 03:10:52,266
<i>…we were fighting like jackals
for his corpse.</i>

2012
03:10:52,441 --> 03:10:54,651
<i>The wars of the world had begun.</i>

2013
03:10:54,818 --> 03:10:57,148
<i>Forty years, off and on, they endured.</i>

2014
03:10:57,321 --> 03:11:01,581
<i>Cassander in Greece.
Crateros and Antigonus in western Asia.</i>

2015
03:11:01,742 --> 03:11:06,042
<i>Solucas and Perdiccas in the East.
Myself in Egypt.</i>

2016
03:11:06,246 --> 03:11:11,666
<i>– Until we divided his empire in four
parts.</i> – Gentlemen, we are not savages.

2017
03:11:11,835 --> 03:11:13,795
We are the future-!

2018
03:11:14,004 --> 03:11:17,384
I <i>think Alexander
would have been disappointed in us.</i>

2019
03:11:20,219 --> 03:11:22,639
<i>Naturally, rumors grew he'd been poisoned…</i>

2020
03:11:22,805 --> 03:11:25,465
<i>…by one faction of his generals
or another.</i>

2021
03:11:25,849 --> 03:11:27,809
<i>But the truth in these matters…</i>

2022
03:11:27,976 --> 03:11:30,646
<i>…has long since been driven from currency.</i>

2023
03:11:33,524 --> 03:11:37,444
<i>Cassander saw to that
with his fake diaries…</i>

2024
03:11:37,945 --> 03:11:42,365
<i>…painting Alexander
as a sick and bloated drunk.</i>

2025
03:11:43,033 --> 03:11:47,453
Many believed,
to remove suspicion from himself.

2026
03:11:50,582 --> 03:11:55,712
He certainly proved he had the temperament
for politics and murder.

2027
03:11:55,921 --> 03:12:00,471
…When seven years later,
he executed Olympias…

2028
03:12:01,844 --> 03:12:05,224
…who met her death with great courage.

2029
03:12:06,640 --> 03:12:11,230
Five years-
No, it was six years after that…

2030
03:12:11,562 --> 03:12:13,942
…Cassander finally achieved…

2031
03:12:14,148 --> 03:12:17,648
…the complete destruction
of Alexander's bloodline…

2032
03:12:17,818 --> 03:12:20,608
…when he poisoned Roxane…

2033
03:12:20,821 --> 03:12:24,781
…and Alexander's 13-year-old son…

2034
03:12:25,868 --> 03:12:29,248
…the true heir to the empire.

2035
03:12:33,250 --> 03:12:36,750
But Roxane, too, like Olympias…

2036
03:12:36,920 --> 03:12:39,800
…played by stern rules.

2037
03:12:40,591 --> 03:12:42,631
Supported by several generals…

2038
03:12:42,801 --> 03:12:45,761
…days after Alexander's death…

2039
03:12:45,929 --> 03:12:48,469
…she had Stateira poisoned.

2040
03:12:49,600 --> 03:12:52,940
It was reason enough for some
to believe she was the one behind…

2041
03:12:53,145 --> 03:12:55,355
…Hephaistion's sudden demise.

2042
03:12:55,522 --> 03:12:58,232
But this is unproven in my mind.

2043
03:12:58,400 --> 03:13:01,650
Bagoas disappeared
from the histories entirely.

2044
03:13:01,862 --> 03:13:04,032
A wise move perhaps.

2045
03:13:05,365 --> 03:13:08,485
But I will say his love and devotion
for Alexander…

2046
03:13:08,660 --> 03:13:13,540
…were unquestionable and extraordinary.

2047
03:13:21,215 --> 03:13:25,335
Now I am the keeper of his body…

2048
03:13:25,511 --> 03:13:29,431
…embalmed here, in the Egyptian ways.

2049
03:13:29,598 --> 03:13:34,938
I followed him as Pharaoh
and have now ruled 40 years.

2050
03:13:37,689 --> 03:13:39,649
I have two sons…

2051
03:13:39,817 --> 03:13:42,947
…each jealous of the other's power.

2052
03:13:45,364 --> 03:13:49,544
But they will grow to make fine fathers
and husbands…

2053
03:13:49,701 --> 03:13:51,791
…and I trust…

2054
03:13:51,954 --> 03:13:53,754
…will be just in their affairs.

2055
03:13:55,457 --> 03:13:58,247
But they have never seen…

2056
03:13:58,418 --> 03:14:01,048
…the great cavalry charge
at Gaugamela…

2057
03:14:01,380 --> 03:14:04,470
…or the mountains
of the Hindu Kush…

2058
03:14:05,175 --> 03:14:10,555
…when we crossed
a 100,000-man army into India.

2059
03:14:17,771 --> 03:14:21,151
He was a god, Cadmos…

2060
03:14:21,316 --> 03:14:24,276
…or as close as anything
I've ever known.

2061
03:14:24,444 --> 03:14:28,244
"Tyrant!" they yell so easily. I laugh.

2062
03:14:28,407 --> 03:14:31,027
No tyrant ever gave back so much.

2063
03:14:31,201 --> 03:14:33,751
What do they know of the world,
these schoolboys?

2064
03:14:34,621 --> 03:14:37,001
It takes strong men to rule.

2065
03:14:37,166 --> 03:14:40,956
Alexander was more,
he was a Prometheus, a friend to man.

2066
03:14:41,128 --> 03:14:43,668
He changed the world.

2067
03:14:44,131 --> 03:14:47,261
Before him, there were tribes…

2068
03:14:47,426 --> 03:14:51,756
…and after him, all was possible.

2069
03:14:51,930 --> 03:14:56,770
There was suddenly a sense the world
could be ruled by one king…

2070
03:14:56,935 --> 03:14:59,435
…and be better for all.

2071
03:15:01,315 --> 03:15:04,895
Eighteen great Alexandrias he built
across this world.

2072
03:15:05,110 --> 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
03:15:15,412 --> 03:15:19,502
…open to all.

2075
03:15:23,253 --> 03:15:26,923
But the truth is never simple…

2076
03:15:27,674 --> 03:15:29,844
…and yet it is.

2077
03:15:30,302 --> 03:15:33,182
The truth is, we did kill him.

2078
03:15:37,100 --> 03:15:40,350
By silence, we consented.

2079
03:15:40,812 --> 03:15:42,732
Because-

2080
03:15:42,940 --> 03:15:45,480
Because we couldn't go on.

2081
03:15:45,651 --> 03:15:47,901
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
03:15:51,156 --> 03:15:53,826
After all this time,
to give away our wealth…

2084
03:15:53,992 --> 03:15:56,372
…to Asian sycophants we despised?

2085
03:15:56,536 --> 03:15:59,156
Mixing the races, harmony?

2086
03:15:59,331 --> 03:16:00,581
Ha!

2087
03:16:00,749 --> 03:16:03,499
Oh, he talked of these things…

2088
03:16:03,669 --> 03:16:06,169
…but wasn't it really about Alexander…

2089
03:16:06,338 --> 03:16:09,468
…and another population
ready to obey him?

2090
03:16:10,509 --> 03:16:13,429
I never believed in his dream.

2091
03:16:13,595 --> 03:16:15,555
None of us did.

2092
03:16:17,474 --> 03:16:19,734
That's the truth of his life.

2093
03:16:19,893 --> 03:16:22,523
The dreamers exhaust us.

2094
03:16:23,230 --> 03:16:27,400
They must die before they kill us
with their blasted dreams.

2095
03:16:28,777 --> 03:16:31,607
Oh, just throw all that away, Cadmos.

2096
03:16:31,780 --> 03:16:34,240
It's an old fool's rubbish.

2097
03:16:36,076 --> 03:16:41,326
You shall write, "He died of fever
and a weakened condition."

2098
03:16:42,291 --> 03:16:44,131
Yes, great Pharaoh.

2099
03:16:44,292 --> 03:16:48,052
Oh, he could've stayed home
in Macedonia, married, raised a family.

2100
03:16:49,423 --> 03:16:52,513
He'd have died a celebrated man.

2101
03:16:54,886 --> 03:16:57,636
But this was not Alexander.

2102
03:16:58,015 --> 03:17:03,895
All his life,
he fought to free himself from fear.

2103
03:17:04,062 --> 03:17:10,242
And by this, and this alone,
he was made free.

2104
03:17:11,611 --> 03:17:15,571
The freest man I've ever known.

2105
03:17:17,242 --> 03:17:22,252
His tragedy was one
of increasing loneliness…

2106
03:17:22,414 --> 03:17:26,174
…and impatience with those
who could not understand.

2107
03:17:26,543 --> 03:17:29,303
And if his desire…

2108
03:17:29,463 --> 03:17:34,263
…to reconcile Greek and barbarian
ended in failure… Heh.

2109
03:17:36,803 --> 03:17:39,933
What failure! Heh.

2110
03:17:40,182 --> 03:17:46,692
His failure towered
over other men's successes.

2111
03:17:51,068 --> 03:17:52,778
I've lived-

2112
03:17:52,986 --> 03:17:55,356
I've lived long life, Cadmos…

2113
03:17:55,572 --> 03:17:57,872
…but the glory
and the memory of man…

2114
03:17:58,075 --> 03:18:02,995
…will always belong to the ones
who follow their great visions.

2115
03:18:03,455 --> 03:18:08,705
And the greatest of these
is the one they now call…

2116
03:18:10,045 --> 03:18:13,795
…Megas Alexandras.

2117
03:18:15,384 --> 03:18:18,474
The greatest Alexander of them all.