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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:02:41,245 --> 00:02:44,748 [WOMAN SOBBING] 2 00:02:50,171 --> 00:02:53,174 [THUNDER BOOMING] 3 00:03:03,976 --> 00:03:06,520 Alexander, the army will divide. 4 00:03:06,687 --> 00:03:09,815 Satrapies will revolt. Without orders, there'll be war. 5 00:03:10,024 --> 00:03:12,526 We beg you. Tell us who. 6 00:03:13,694 --> 00:03:15,404 [ALEXANDER WHEEZING] 7 00:03:29,668 --> 00:03:31,879 [WIND WHISTLING] 8 00:03:36,008 --> 00:03:37,968 [WAILING] 9 00:03:56,695 --> 00:03:59,156 [ALEXANDER GRUNTING] 10 00:04:01,575 --> 00:04:03,410 [ALEXANDER SIGHS] 11 00:04:12,127 --> 00:04:14,338 PTOLEMY: Our world is gone now. 12 00:04:16,131 --> 00:04:18,884 I'm the last left alive. 13 00:04:21,262 --> 00:04:24,098 Whether that's a blessing or a curse... 14 00:04:24,265 --> 00:04:27,142 ...who by Hades would know. Ha, ha. 15 00:04:29,603 --> 00:04:31,689 But I've paid my price... 16 00:04:32,314 --> 00:04:34,233 ...in blood... 17 00:04:36,860 --> 00:04:39,697 ...and in broken dreams. 18 00:04:40,990 --> 00:04:44,034 I say we were the greatest fighting force... 19 00:04:44,201 --> 00:04:46,328 ...ever known to man. 20 00:04:48,664 --> 00:04:53,210 Greater even than the expedition to Troy. 21 00:04:54,586 --> 00:04:58,382 But how can I say it? How can I tell you what it was like... 22 00:04:58,549 --> 00:05:03,053 ...to be young, to dream big dreams? 23 00:05:03,220 --> 00:05:08,100 To believe when Alexander looked you in the eye, you could do anything. 24 00:05:08,267 --> 00:05:10,144 Anything- 25 00:05:10,853 --> 00:05:11,895 [CHUCKLES] 26 00:05:12,062 --> 00:05:18,569 In his presence, by the light of Apollo, we were better than ourselves. 27 00:05:20,654 --> 00:05:22,072 Truly... 28 00:05:22,698 --> 00:05:29,204 ...I've known many great men in my life, but only one colossus. 29 00:05:29,371 --> 00:05:32,249 And only now, when old, do I understand... 30 00:05:32,416 --> 00:05:36,920 ...who this force of nature really was. 31 00:05:41,133 --> 00:05:43,010 Or do I? 32 00:05:43,886 --> 00:05:48,390 Did such a man as Alexander exist? Of course not. 33 00:05:48,557 --> 00:05:51,894 We idolize him, make him better than he was. 34 00:05:52,061 --> 00:05:56,857 Men, all men, reach and fall... 35 00:05:57,691 --> 00:06:00,277 ...reach and fall. 36 00:06:05,449 --> 00:06:11,955 In the East, the vast Persian Empire ruled almost all the known world. 37 00:06:13,123 --> 00:06:17,669 In the West, the once great Greek city-states... 38 00:06:17,836 --> 00:06:22,841 ...Thebes, Athens, Sparta, had fallen from pride. 39 00:06:23,425 --> 00:06:27,554 For 100 years now, the Persian kings had bribed the Greeks... 40 00:06:27,721 --> 00:06:31,016 ...with their gold to fight as mercenaries. 41 00:06:31,517 --> 00:06:36,522 It was Philip, the one-eyed, who changed all this... 42 00:06:36,688 --> 00:06:41,527 ...uniting tribes of illiterate sheepherders from the high and lowlands. 43 00:06:41,693 --> 00:06:45,864 With his blood and guts, he built a professional army... 44 00:06:46,031 --> 00:06:49,993 ...that brought the devious Greeks to their knees. Heh. 45 00:06:51,036 --> 00:06:53,580 He then turned his eye on Persia... 46 00:06:53,747 --> 00:06:57,543 ...where it was said the Great King Darius himself... 47 00:06:57,709 --> 00:07:01,755 ...on his throne in Babylon, feared Philip. 48 00:07:06,260 --> 00:07:08,303 Philip was murdered... 49 00:07:08,470 --> 00:07:12,599 ...much to Persia's delight and perhaps sponsored by their gold. 50 00:07:12,766 --> 00:07:14,143 And Alexander, at 20... 51 00:07:14,309 --> 00:07:17,855 ...became the new ruler of Macedonia. 52 00:07:18,021 --> 00:07:20,774 Announcing revenge for the death of Philip... 53 00:07:21,233 --> 00:07:24,945 ...Alexander liberated all of the cities of Western Asia... 54 00:07:25,112 --> 00:07:27,489 ...south to Egypt-- 55 00:07:28,115 --> 00:07:34,079 ...where he was declared Pharaoh of Egypt, worshipped as a god. 56 00:07:34,246 --> 00:07:35,998 [LAUGHS] 57 00:07:37,749 --> 00:07:41,420 Finally, he provoked the rise to battle... 58 00:07:42,963 --> 00:07:47,217 ...in the heart of the Persian Empire, near Babylon. 59 00:07:57,811 --> 00:07:58,854 PTOLEMY: It was mad. 60 00:07:59,021 --> 00:08:01,482 Forty thousand of us against hundreds of thousands... 61 00:08:01,648 --> 00:08:04,318 ...of barbarian races unknown to us... 62 00:08:04,485 --> 00:08:07,696 ...gathered under Darius himself. 63 00:08:09,615 --> 00:08:12,284 East and west had now come together... 64 00:08:12,451 --> 00:08:15,871 ...to decide the fate of the known world. 65 00:08:17,289 --> 00:08:23,003 It was the day Alexander had waited for all his life. 66 00:08:23,795 --> 00:08:25,756 Son of a god. 67 00:08:27,216 --> 00:08:29,510 It was a myth, of course. 68 00:08:29,676 --> 00:08:31,678 At least it started as a myth. 69 00:08:32,471 --> 00:08:34,640 I know. 70 00:08:34,806 --> 00:08:37,017 I was there. 71 00:08:37,351 --> 00:08:40,521 [WOLVES HOWLING] 72 00:08:46,151 --> 00:08:49,154 MAN: Seen one before. Still alive. 73 00:09:04,211 --> 00:09:05,921 HEPHAISTION: To whom do you pray? 74 00:09:06,838 --> 00:09:08,882 Phobos. 75 00:09:09,967 --> 00:09:11,176 HEPHAISTION: Fear? 76 00:09:14,638 --> 00:09:16,473 A bad omen. 77 00:09:18,475 --> 00:09:20,686 More so for Darius. 78 00:09:20,852 --> 00:09:22,104 [SCOFFS] 79 00:09:26,692 --> 00:09:32,364 I've come to believe that fear of death drives all men, Hephaistion. 80 00:09:32,531 --> 00:09:35,284 This we didn't learn as schoolboys. 81 00:09:36,910 --> 00:09:39,037 - So, mighty Crateros. - Your Majesty. 82 00:09:39,871 --> 00:09:41,623 ALEXANDER: Are you ready for tomorrow's dawn? 83 00:09:41,790 --> 00:09:43,166 Ah. It's been too long coming. 84 00:09:43,625 --> 00:09:45,669 The men are skittish as colts... 85 00:09:45,836 --> 00:09:48,922 ...and the damn bulls won't shut their snouts. ALEXANDER: Good. 86 00:09:49,089 --> 00:09:51,425 Fear makes men fight better. 87 00:09:52,551 --> 00:09:54,595 Post your sentries alertly but rest them well. 88 00:09:54,761 --> 00:09:59,016 Don't worry, general. I'm known to sleep with my eyes open as a baby's arse. 89 00:09:59,182 --> 00:10:02,436 Only because someone might steal his loot, sire. 90 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,731 Well, someone owes Crateros for his cheapness. 91 00:10:05,897 --> 00:10:09,026 He buys neither gloves nor blankets to warm himself. 92 00:10:09,192 --> 00:10:11,862 Who needs gloves when you come from Thrace? 93 00:10:12,529 --> 00:10:15,282 Who needs clothes when you can fight naked? 94 00:10:15,449 --> 00:10:16,700 [MEN LAUGHING] 95 00:10:16,867 --> 00:10:19,953 After tomorrow, even the thrifty among you shall be kings. 96 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:21,747 MAN 1: The gods are with us, Your Majesty. 97 00:10:21,913 --> 00:10:25,250 MAN 2: You'll stain the ground with Persian blood. 98 00:10:26,501 --> 00:10:28,879 You're on the first row tomorrow, boy. 99 00:10:30,839 --> 00:10:34,468 HEPHAISTION: I've always believed, Alexander. 100 00:10:34,635 --> 00:10:37,471 But this seems so much bigger than us. 101 00:10:37,638 --> 00:10:39,139 Did Patroclus doubt Achilles... 102 00:10:39,306 --> 00:10:42,392 ...when they stood side by side at the siege of Troy? 103 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,437 Patroclus died first. 104 00:10:45,604 --> 00:10:47,356 If you do... 105 00:10:48,148 --> 00:10:52,694 If you were to fall, Hephaistion, even if Macedonia were to lose a king... 106 00:10:52,861 --> 00:10:55,447 ...I will avenge you... 107 00:10:55,614 --> 00:10:58,492 ...and follow you down to the house of death. 108 00:10:58,659 --> 00:11:00,952 I would do the same. 109 00:11:10,629 --> 00:11:15,175 On the eve of battle, it's hardest to be alone. 110 00:11:16,009 --> 00:11:17,469 Yeah. 111 00:11:19,346 --> 00:11:21,598 Then perhaps... 112 00:11:23,308 --> 00:11:26,561 Perhaps this is farewell... 113 00:11:27,145 --> 00:11:29,314 ...my Alexander. 114 00:11:29,856 --> 00:11:32,401 Fear not, Hephaistion. 115 00:11:33,527 --> 00:11:36,029 We are at the beginning. 116 00:12:10,021 --> 00:12:12,399 ARISTANDER: Blood makes the world rise. 117 00:12:12,566 --> 00:12:14,776 [MOOING] 118 00:12:14,943 --> 00:12:18,447 Blood makes the rain fall. 119 00:12:21,283 --> 00:12:25,162 Blood makes the earth grow. 120 00:12:26,288 --> 00:12:32,627 And in blood, all men are born and die. 121 00:12:34,337 --> 00:12:40,093 Blood is the food of the gods below. 122 00:12:40,927 --> 00:12:42,179 [MOOING] 123 00:12:43,930 --> 00:12:45,891 [COW BELLOWING] 124 00:13:01,656 --> 00:13:05,327 Come, Bucephalus. Today we ride to our destiny. 125 00:13:08,121 --> 00:13:12,125 ANTIGONUS: Company, group! Regroup! 126 00:13:23,470 --> 00:13:26,515 Phalanx, turn! 127 00:13:32,395 --> 00:13:37,067 Phalanx, attention! 128 00:13:58,713 --> 00:14:01,383 ALEXANDER: Neoptolemus. 129 00:14:01,550 --> 00:14:04,636 I remember you the day you took the siege tower at Tyre. 130 00:14:04,803 --> 00:14:07,806 You were a giant. And today, how will you fight? 131 00:14:08,223 --> 00:14:10,350 [ALL SHOUTING] 132 00:14:13,478 --> 00:14:16,022 Dexippos, by Athena. 133 00:14:16,189 --> 00:14:20,318 How far was it you threw your man wrestling at the last Olympic Games? 134 00:14:20,485 --> 00:14:21,820 Will you match it with your spear? 135 00:14:21,987 --> 00:14:25,323 [ALL SHOUTING AND LAUGHING] 136 00:14:27,659 --> 00:14:32,998 And Timander, son of Menander, a great soldier to my father. 137 00:14:33,164 --> 00:14:37,919 I still mourn your brother, Addaios, who died so bravely at Halicarnassus. 138 00:14:38,086 --> 00:14:41,673 What an honored family you descend from, Timander. 139 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,801 You fight for them today. 140 00:14:46,219 --> 00:14:52,309 You've all honored your country and your ancestors. 141 00:14:52,475 --> 00:14:57,314 And now we come to this most distant place in Asia... 142 00:14:57,522 --> 00:15:03,904 ...where across from us, Darius has at last gathered a vast army... 143 00:15:04,070 --> 00:15:05,280 ...to stand with him and fight. 144 00:15:05,447 --> 00:15:07,157 [SCREECHES] 145 00:15:16,541 --> 00:15:22,255 [MEN YELLING] 146 00:15:22,422 --> 00:15:23,965 ALEXANDER: Yes... 147 00:15:24,716 --> 00:15:28,261 ...these Persians do seem to be so many. 148 00:15:28,428 --> 00:15:31,056 But look again at this horde... 149 00:15:31,222 --> 00:15:32,849 ...and ask yourselves... 150 00:15:33,224 --> 00:15:38,605 ...who is this great king who pays assassins in gold coins... 151 00:15:38,772 --> 00:15:40,941 ...to murder my father, our king... 152 00:15:41,316 --> 00:15:46,196 ...in a most despicable and cowardly manner? 153 00:15:46,363 --> 00:15:51,743 Who is this great king, Darius, who enslaves his own men to fight? 154 00:15:51,910 --> 00:15:56,081 Who is this king but a king of air? 155 00:15:56,539 --> 00:15:59,501 These men do not fight for their homes. 156 00:15:59,668 --> 00:16:03,129 They fight because this king tells them they must. 157 00:16:03,922 --> 00:16:07,801 And when they fight, they will melt away like the air... 158 00:16:07,968 --> 00:16:10,512 ...because they know no loyalty to a king of slaves. 159 00:16:11,596 --> 00:16:14,891 But we are not here today as slaves. 160 00:16:15,266 --> 00:16:17,394 We are here today... 161 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,147 ...as Macedonian freemen! 162 00:16:21,314 --> 00:16:24,025 [ALL SHOUTING AND CLANGING SPEARS] 163 00:16:35,704 --> 00:16:37,539 Some of you... 164 00:16:39,207 --> 00:16:41,584 ...perhaps myself... 165 00:16:41,751 --> 00:16:44,546 ...will not live to see the sun set over these mountains today. 166 00:16:44,713 --> 00:16:46,172 [MAN URINATING] 167 00:16:47,465 --> 00:16:50,218 For I will be in the very thick... 168 00:16:50,385 --> 00:16:53,054 ...of battle with you. 169 00:16:54,347 --> 00:16:56,933 But remember this... 170 00:16:57,142 --> 00:16:59,144 ...the greatest honor... 171 00:16:59,310 --> 00:17:01,312 ...a man can ever achieve... 172 00:17:01,479 --> 00:17:04,274 ...is to live with great courage... 173 00:17:04,441 --> 00:17:06,568 ...and to die with his countrymen... 174 00:17:07,444 --> 00:17:09,863 ...in battle for his home. 175 00:17:10,030 --> 00:17:12,240 [ALL SHOUTING] 176 00:17:12,407 --> 00:17:14,284 I say to you... 177 00:17:14,993 --> 00:17:19,039 ...what every warrior has known since the beginning of time. 178 00:17:19,205 --> 00:17:21,666 Conquer your fear... 179 00:17:21,833 --> 00:17:25,128 ...and I promise you, you will conquer death. 180 00:17:25,295 --> 00:17:28,006 [ALL CHEERING] 181 00:17:29,049 --> 00:17:30,925 [SPEARS CLANGING] 182 00:17:44,939 --> 00:17:47,025 [INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE] 183 00:17:47,358 --> 00:17:49,819 [CHEERING] 184 00:17:51,654 --> 00:17:55,366 When they ask you why you fought so bravely at Gaugamela... 185 00:17:56,576 --> 00:17:58,369 ...you will answer... 186 00:17:58,536 --> 00:18:03,333 ...with all the strength of your great, great hearts: 187 00:18:03,541 --> 00:18:06,461 "I was here this day at Gaugamela... 188 00:18:08,379 --> 00:18:10,799 ...for the freedom... 189 00:18:11,925 --> 00:18:15,011 ...and glory... 190 00:18:17,013 --> 00:18:19,265 ...of Greece!" 191 00:18:19,432 --> 00:18:21,643 [ALL SHOUTING] 192 00:18:25,772 --> 00:18:28,441 Zeus be with us! 193 00:18:29,234 --> 00:18:32,403 [ALL CONTINUE SHOUTING] 194 00:18:55,468 --> 00:18:59,055 Cassander! Four columns, go! 195 00:19:04,686 --> 00:19:06,604 Where does he go? 196 00:19:06,771 --> 00:19:08,982 I don't know, Majesty. 197 00:19:09,149 --> 00:19:11,985 Envelop him, Bessus. 198 00:19:15,905 --> 00:19:18,783 Hephaistion, go! 199 00:19:20,702 --> 00:19:22,579 [ALL SHOUTING] 200 00:19:27,375 --> 00:19:30,086 Phalanx! 201 00:19:36,050 --> 00:19:37,760 [ALL SHOUTING] 202 00:19:38,219 --> 00:19:40,305 [BLOWING HORN] 203 00:19:40,471 --> 00:19:41,931 [INDISTINCTLY CHANTING] 204 00:19:48,521 --> 00:19:51,858 He makes a mistake, Pharnakes. 205 00:19:54,944 --> 00:19:56,529 Yes, great king. 206 00:20:06,956 --> 00:20:08,416 [ALL GRUNTING AND SHOUTING] 207 00:20:37,445 --> 00:20:39,906 [CAMELS GRUNTING] 208 00:20:50,750 --> 00:20:53,461 [ALL SHOUTING] 209 00:20:59,008 --> 00:21:01,219 PARMENION: Be brave, men. 210 00:21:02,595 --> 00:21:04,180 Steady on the left, lads! 211 00:21:04,681 --> 00:21:07,433 Bend if you must, but never break. 212 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,519 And keep watching the cavalry on the left. 213 00:21:30,748 --> 00:21:32,667 [SHOUTING] 214 00:21:43,177 --> 00:21:45,346 Pick up the pace! 215 00:21:45,513 --> 00:21:49,434 [ALL SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 216 00:21:55,273 --> 00:21:57,608 Prepare to repel chariots! 217 00:22:01,237 --> 00:22:02,280 [MEN SCREAMING] 218 00:22:10,621 --> 00:22:11,706 [NEIGHING] 219 00:22:11,873 --> 00:22:13,333 [SCREAMING] 220 00:22:14,375 --> 00:22:16,586 [HORSES NEIGHING] 221 00:22:29,891 --> 00:22:34,228 [ALL SHOUTING] 222 00:22:38,232 --> 00:22:41,194 [CHANTING INDISTINCTLY] 223 00:22:58,795 --> 00:22:59,837 [HORSE NEIGHS] 224 00:23:27,657 --> 00:23:29,575 Cassander! 225 00:23:29,951 --> 00:23:32,078 CASSANDER: Forward, men! 226 00:23:36,374 --> 00:23:37,375 [GRUNTS] 227 00:23:37,667 --> 00:23:40,711 [SHOUTING] 228 00:23:43,047 --> 00:23:47,176 - Left turn! MAN: Infantry, clear! Out now! 229 00:23:47,343 --> 00:23:50,596 [ALL SHOUTING] 230 00:24:34,599 --> 00:24:36,851 [ALL SHOUTING] 231 00:24:51,574 --> 00:24:52,575 [SCREAMS] 232 00:24:56,454 --> 00:24:58,164 Hold your positions! 233 00:24:58,331 --> 00:25:00,583 Hold your positions! 234 00:25:00,750 --> 00:25:02,793 [BLOWING HORN] 235 00:25:06,464 --> 00:25:07,590 [SHOUTING] 236 00:25:29,654 --> 00:25:32,281 Father. We must fall back to the gully, Father. 237 00:25:32,448 --> 00:25:33,783 No, hold. 238 00:25:33,950 --> 00:25:37,870 Where is he? We're far too thin! Get word to Alexander! 239 00:25:38,079 --> 00:25:40,414 - Move! - Yes, sir. 240 00:25:58,975 --> 00:26:02,520 Come, Macedonians! Ride! Ride! 241 00:26:02,937 --> 00:26:05,898 [INDISTINCT YELLING] 242 00:26:07,650 --> 00:26:09,360 [SHOUTING] 243 00:26:09,527 --> 00:26:11,862 MAN 1: Drive for the hole! 244 00:26:12,446 --> 00:26:15,533 MAN 2: Drive for the hole! MAN 3: Drive for the hole! 245 00:26:21,205 --> 00:26:24,875 [SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY] 246 00:26:32,091 --> 00:26:34,302 [BLOWING HORN] 247 00:26:39,807 --> 00:26:44,270 [ALL CHANTING] 248 00:26:49,066 --> 00:26:52,236 Pharnakes, bring these men up. 249 00:26:54,363 --> 00:26:56,073 [SHOUTS IN PERSIAN] 250 00:27:03,331 --> 00:27:05,291 [ALL GRUNTING AND SCREAMING] 251 00:27:17,887 --> 00:27:21,724 Back and to the left! Back and to the left! 252 00:27:22,433 --> 00:27:24,185 Get to home at all costs. 253 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,063 I cannot see! 254 00:27:27,229 --> 00:27:30,232 - Philotas! Philotas! PHILOTAS: Father. 255 00:27:30,399 --> 00:27:32,443 Go. Tell Alexander yourself. 256 00:27:32,610 --> 00:27:37,198 And if he won't listen, then survive me and avenge this betrayal! 257 00:27:38,491 --> 00:27:40,076 [PHILOTAS GRUNTS] 258 00:27:41,077 --> 00:27:42,244 Hiya! 259 00:27:42,995 --> 00:27:44,664 [SHOUTING] 260 00:27:47,625 --> 00:27:48,959 [SHOUTING] 261 00:27:52,004 --> 00:27:53,297 [HORSES NEIGHING] 262 00:28:15,778 --> 00:28:17,613 [SCREAMING] 263 00:28:18,406 --> 00:28:21,701 Pay attention, lad! Your father still watches over you! 264 00:28:23,869 --> 00:28:26,247 [SHOUTING] 265 00:28:33,796 --> 00:28:35,506 [GRUNTING] 266 00:29:07,997 --> 00:29:10,624 Darius! 267 00:29:11,125 --> 00:29:12,877 Find your horses. 268 00:29:18,424 --> 00:29:19,550 [SHOUTING] 269 00:29:28,684 --> 00:29:31,103 Darius! 270 00:29:35,733 --> 00:29:36,734 [SHOUTING] 271 00:29:41,238 --> 00:29:42,364 [GRUNTS] 272 00:29:52,166 --> 00:29:53,918 Go! GO! 273 00:29:55,878 --> 00:29:56,962 [SCREAMING] 274 00:29:58,380 --> 00:30:00,257 [HORSE NEIGHING] 275 00:30:11,602 --> 00:30:16,106 We can reach those mountains by sunset, go all night and catch Darius at dawn. 276 00:30:16,273 --> 00:30:17,858 Provision the horses. 277 00:30:18,025 --> 00:30:19,109 [BLOWING HORN] 278 00:30:19,693 --> 00:30:23,447 Alexander! Alexander, my father's lost. 279 00:30:23,614 --> 00:30:26,408 They've overrun the flank. They're into the baggage train. 280 00:30:26,575 --> 00:30:27,827 Parmenion's crumbling. 281 00:30:27,993 --> 00:30:28,994 [SCREAMS] 282 00:30:29,161 --> 00:30:33,332 Alexander, if you chase him, you risk losing your army here. 283 00:30:33,707 --> 00:30:35,876 And if we capture him, we gain an empire. 284 00:30:40,047 --> 00:30:41,674 [GRUNTS] 285 00:30:46,178 --> 00:30:48,806 You can run to the ends of the earth, you coward... 286 00:30:48,973 --> 00:30:51,767 ...but you'll never run far enough! 287 00:30:52,101 --> 00:30:54,603 To Parmenion! 288 00:31:08,659 --> 00:31:10,035 [INSECT BUZZING] 289 00:31:10,202 --> 00:31:12,079 [MEN GROANING AND WHIMPERING] 290 00:31:25,175 --> 00:31:26,760 You bleed free, my lord. 291 00:31:26,927 --> 00:31:30,264 - May I tend to your wound? ALEXANDER: No, Hermolaus, not now. 292 00:31:30,431 --> 00:31:32,683 There's far worse than me. Go to them. 293 00:31:32,850 --> 00:31:34,643 Help them. 294 00:31:48,407 --> 00:31:51,911 [MAN SOBBING] 295 00:31:58,709 --> 00:32:00,878 ALEXANDER: How was this done, soldier? 296 00:32:01,503 --> 00:32:03,505 A spear. 297 00:32:04,882 --> 00:32:07,051 But I got two of the buggers. 298 00:32:10,346 --> 00:32:15,142 - Your Majesty. - You're very brave. 299 00:32:16,685 --> 00:32:18,437 What shall I call you? 300 00:32:18,604 --> 00:32:21,398 - Glaukos, my king. - Glaukos. 301 00:32:22,650 --> 00:32:25,319 - And where's your home? -Illyria. 302 00:32:25,861 --> 00:32:27,404 [SOBBING] 303 00:32:27,905 --> 00:32:30,616 Let your body go loose. 304 00:32:33,994 --> 00:32:36,163 Think of home now. 305 00:32:36,372 --> 00:32:38,874 Be brave again, Glaukos... 306 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,795 ...and you will live on in glory. 307 00:32:45,798 --> 00:32:47,925 GLAUKOS: Alexander. 308 00:32:57,726 --> 00:33:02,022 PTOLEMY: The Persian Empire, the greatest the world had yet known... 309 00:33:02,189 --> 00:33:04,400 ...was destroyed. 310 00:33:04,566 --> 00:33:05,734 [VULTURES CAWING] 311 00:33:08,862 --> 00:33:13,575 And Alexander, at 25, was now king of all. 312 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,926 OLYMPIAS: If you hesitate, she will strike. 313 00:33:34,471 --> 00:33:36,598 Yes. 314 00:33:38,308 --> 00:33:40,102 They are like people. 315 00:33:41,186 --> 00:33:47,693 You can love them for years. Feed them, nurture them... 316 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:52,990 ...but still, they can turn on you. 317 00:33:56,368 --> 00:33:58,162 Mm. 318 00:34:00,497 --> 00:34:03,000 Don't hurt her. 319 00:34:04,418 --> 00:34:06,211 Good. 320 00:34:08,672 --> 00:34:10,090 Come. 321 00:34:10,257 --> 00:34:15,721 [CLANGING AND MEN SHOUTING] 322 00:34:16,430 --> 00:34:18,390 He calls me a barbarian. 323 00:34:18,557 --> 00:34:21,018 He makes a mockery of Dionysus every night. 324 00:34:26,356 --> 00:34:28,275 [HISSING] 325 00:34:36,492 --> 00:34:40,621 PTOLEMY: Some called his mother, Queen Olympias, a Sorceress... 326 00:34:40,829 --> 00:34:43,957 ...and said that Alexander was the child of Zeus. 327 00:34:54,134 --> 00:34:57,930 But truly, there was not a man in Macedonia who didn't look... 328 00:34:58,097 --> 00:35:03,393 ...at father and son, side by side, and wonder. 329 00:35:07,606 --> 00:35:09,233 OLYMPIAS: Mm. 330 00:35:16,323 --> 00:35:18,784 My little Achilles. 331 00:35:27,793 --> 00:35:29,503 Mm. 332 00:35:38,428 --> 00:35:40,013 [DOOR OPENS] 333 00:35:40,180 --> 00:35:43,308 Stay, Alexander, down. Down. 334 00:35:44,810 --> 00:35:46,770 What is it you--? 335 00:35:46,937 --> 00:35:48,814 Six months. Did you miss me? 336 00:35:48,981 --> 00:35:52,651 - No. Not here! - Proud bitch. I'm still your king. 337 00:35:52,818 --> 00:35:55,863 OLYMPIAS: King of what? Sheepherders? 338 00:35:56,029 --> 00:35:58,073 [BOTH GRUNTING] 339 00:35:58,532 --> 00:36:00,617 [PHILIP LAUGHING] 340 00:36:00,784 --> 00:36:05,706 - I am of Achilles' royal blood. - The blood of Herakles runs in my veins. 341 00:36:05,873 --> 00:36:07,624 OLYMPIAS: You are nothing but a drunken whore. 342 00:36:07,791 --> 00:36:08,792 Shut your mouth. 343 00:36:08,959 --> 00:36:11,044 You 10-titted bitch from Hades! 344 00:36:11,211 --> 00:36:14,673 Which god could I curse to have ever laid eyes on you! 345 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,676 Do you think people respect you? 346 00:36:17,843 --> 00:36:20,721 You think they don't know your bastards? 347 00:36:20,888 --> 00:36:22,681 [OLYMPIAS GRUNTS THEN ALEXANDER GASPS] 348 00:36:23,682 --> 00:36:24,725 What? 349 00:36:29,521 --> 00:36:32,482 Damn your sorceress soul! You keep him here like one of your snakes! 350 00:36:32,649 --> 00:36:34,109 I told you not! I told you not. 351 00:36:34,276 --> 00:36:35,736 [OLYMPIAS LAUGHING] 352 00:36:35,903 --> 00:36:38,572 - You'll obey me. - I will not. 353 00:36:38,739 --> 00:36:43,577 You'll obey me, or I'll kill you with my own hands. 354 00:36:43,744 --> 00:36:45,245 [PHILIP PANTING] 355 00:36:46,121 --> 00:36:47,164 Let her go! 356 00:36:47,539 --> 00:36:52,002 No! Stop! Papa! No! 357 00:36:52,461 --> 00:36:55,964 PHILIP: Obey me! - Your Majesty! No! 358 00:36:56,131 --> 00:36:57,549 [OLYMPIAS & PHILIP GRUNT] 359 00:36:57,716 --> 00:36:59,509 In the name of the gods. 360 00:36:59,676 --> 00:37:04,890 OLYMPIAS: He will never be yours! Never! 361 00:37:05,057 --> 00:37:09,728 In my womb, I carried my avenger! 362 00:37:11,021 --> 00:37:12,940 [SHOUTING] 363 00:37:19,279 --> 00:37:22,407 PTOLEMY: In the world he grew up to... 364 00:37:22,574 --> 00:37:27,788 ...I've come to believe it was in friendship that Alexander found his sanity. 365 00:37:27,955 --> 00:37:31,375 LEONIDAS: You don't need much to fight. 366 00:37:31,541 --> 00:37:33,961 When you're in the front ranks of a battle... 367 00:37:34,127 --> 00:37:37,714 ...facing some Northern barbarian tribe... 368 00:37:37,881 --> 00:37:42,219 ...courage won't be in the soles of your feet, Perdiccas... 369 00:37:42,844 --> 00:37:45,639 ...or in the thickness of your tunic, Philotas... 370 00:37:45,806 --> 00:37:48,558 ...or in the lining of your stomach, Nearchus. 371 00:37:48,934 --> 00:37:52,896 It's in the heart of a man. 372 00:37:53,855 --> 00:37:58,860 You don't need to eat every day or until you're full, Ptolemy. 373 00:37:59,027 --> 00:38:01,446 You don't need to lie in bed in a morning... 374 00:38:01,613 --> 00:38:04,199 ...when you can have some good bean soup, Cassander... 375 00:38:04,366 --> 00:38:05,784 ...after a forced night march. 376 00:38:06,743 --> 00:38:08,495 Come on, Alexander. 377 00:38:09,413 --> 00:38:13,292 Where's your hunger to twist Hephaistion's head off? 378 00:38:13,792 --> 00:38:15,585 Is he stronger than you? 379 00:38:15,752 --> 00:38:17,504 Then beat him another way. 380 00:38:17,671 --> 00:38:19,339 Come on! 381 00:38:19,506 --> 00:38:22,426 Who will respect you as a king? You think because of your father? 382 00:38:22,592 --> 00:38:28,765 The first rule of war is to do what you ask your men to do. No more, no less. 383 00:38:30,934 --> 00:38:32,144 [ALEXANDER GRUNTS] 384 00:38:32,311 --> 00:38:33,937 Good. That's it. 385 00:38:34,271 --> 00:38:38,608 Well done. Good wrestling, Hephaistion. That's what I want. 386 00:38:38,775 --> 00:38:40,152 Come, come, come. 387 00:38:40,861 --> 00:38:42,529 You did well, but you lost. 388 00:38:42,696 --> 00:38:47,784 Now, both of you, congratulate the other. Go on. 389 00:38:48,618 --> 00:38:51,079 Would you want me to let you win, Alexander? 390 00:38:53,248 --> 00:38:55,542 You're right. 391 00:38:55,709 --> 00:38:58,795 But I promise you, I will beat you one day, Hephaistion. 392 00:39:05,886 --> 00:39:09,181 PTOLEMY". It was said later that Alexander was never defeated... 393 00:39:09,348 --> 00:39:11,683 ...except by Hephaistion's thighs. 394 00:39:12,309 --> 00:39:14,770 Although an inferior race... 395 00:39:14,936 --> 00:39:20,317 ...the Persians control at least four-fifths of the known world. 396 00:39:20,484 --> 00:39:23,111 From Ethiopia and Egypt in the south... 397 00:39:23,278 --> 00:39:26,365 ...the Caucasus and the two inland seas in the north... 398 00:39:26,531 --> 00:39:28,700 PTOLEMY". Philip brought such as Aristotle from Athens... 399 00:39:28,867 --> 00:39:30,369 ...to educate our rough people. 400 00:39:30,535 --> 00:39:35,040 They rule, and we sit around like frogs. 401 00:39:35,499 --> 00:39:36,541 - Master? ARISTOTLE: Yes? 402 00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:37,959 - Master! - Out with it! 403 00:39:38,126 --> 00:39:41,338 - Why are the Persians so cruel? ALEXANDER: Oh, come on, Nearchus. 404 00:39:41,505 --> 00:39:43,799 That is not the subject for today, Nearchus. 405 00:39:43,965 --> 00:39:48,261 But it is true that the Oriental races are known for their barbarity... 406 00:39:48,428 --> 00:39:50,931 ...and their slavish devotion to their senses... 407 00:39:51,098 --> 00:39:53,850 ...which are so dull, they castrate... 408 00:39:54,017 --> 00:39:56,561 ...young boys, such as yourselves... 409 00:39:56,728 --> 00:39:58,939 ...for their sexual pleasure. ALL: Ha, ha. 410 00:39:59,106 --> 00:40:00,315 Yes. 411 00:40:00,482 --> 00:40:04,236 Excess in all things is the undoing of men. 412 00:40:04,403 --> 00:40:06,446 That is why we Greeks are superior. 413 00:40:06,613 --> 00:40:09,699 We practice control of our senses. 414 00:40:09,866 --> 00:40:12,160 Moderation, heh, we hope. 415 00:40:12,327 --> 00:40:14,121 And what of Achilles at Troy, master? 416 00:40:15,789 --> 00:40:20,752 - Was he not excessive? ARISTOTLE: Achilles simply lacks restraint. 417 00:40:20,919 --> 00:40:24,923 He dominates others so completely that even when he withdraws from battle... 418 00:40:25,090 --> 00:40:28,301 ...crazed with grief over his dead lover, Patroclus... 419 00:40:28,468 --> 00:40:33,390 ...he seriously endangers his own army. He is a deeply selfish man. 420 00:40:33,557 --> 00:40:37,477 Would you say the love between Achilles and Patroclus is a corrupting one? 421 00:40:38,937 --> 00:40:42,149 ARISTOTLE: When men lie together in lust, it is a surrender to the passions... 422 00:40:42,315 --> 00:40:46,153 ...and does nothing for the excellence in us. 423 00:40:46,319 --> 00:40:50,740 Nor does any other excess, Cassander, jealousy among them. 424 00:40:51,324 --> 00:40:52,701 But when men lie together... 425 00:40:52,868 --> 00:40:56,329 ...and knowledge and virtue are passed between them... 426 00:40:56,496 --> 00:41:00,083 ...that is pure and excellent. 427 00:41:00,250 --> 00:41:04,421 When they compete to bring out the good, the best in each other... 428 00:41:04,588 --> 00:41:08,508 ...this is the love between men that can build a city-state... 429 00:41:08,675 --> 00:41:11,636 ...and lift us from our frog pond. 430 00:41:14,347 --> 00:41:16,308 But can a man love a woman equally, master? 431 00:41:16,683 --> 00:41:18,351 A woman? Of course not. 432 00:41:18,518 --> 00:41:20,979 A woman is a slave to her passion, Hephaistion. 433 00:41:21,146 --> 00:41:24,441 Oh, naturally there are exceptions, and we must honor them. 434 00:41:24,608 --> 00:41:28,778 Such as Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom and war. 435 00:41:28,945 --> 00:41:31,865 But never forget, she is sprung not from the loins of Zeus... 436 00:41:32,032 --> 00:41:33,658 ...but from his mind. 437 00:41:33,825 --> 00:41:37,454 Now, you think on all this, my young frogs... 438 00:41:37,621 --> 00:41:41,750 ...for in you resides the future of Greek civilization. 439 00:41:41,917 --> 00:41:44,294 To strive for honor... 440 00:41:44,461 --> 00:41:46,421 ...is the highest purpose of all. 441 00:41:46,588 --> 00:41:49,132 To rule over our baser emotions. 442 00:41:49,299 --> 00:41:52,969 To follow reason, the divine part in each of you. 443 00:41:53,136 --> 00:41:54,638 Yes... 444 00:41:54,804 --> 00:41:58,850 ...to love excellence is truly to love the gods. 445 00:42:01,186 --> 00:42:02,771 Now, will you stop distracting me? 446 00:42:03,230 --> 00:42:05,815 Back to geography and things that we know. 447 00:42:05,982 --> 00:42:11,488 Is it possible that the source of Egypt's mighty River Nile... 448 00:42:11,655 --> 00:42:15,325 ...could rise in these distant mountains of the outer earth? 449 00:42:15,659 --> 00:42:21,540 If so, an experienced navigator could find his way here... 450 00:42:21,706 --> 00:42:26,586 ...by this river east, down into the great plains of India... 451 00:42:26,753 --> 00:42:31,466 ...out into the eastern ocean at end of the world... 452 00:42:31,633 --> 00:42:35,387 ...and by this route up the Nile... 453 00:42:35,554 --> 00:42:41,518 ...back to Egypt, into the Middle Sea and home to Greece. 454 00:42:42,310 --> 00:42:45,605 Now, if only these frogs could look outward... 455 00:42:45,772 --> 00:42:49,067 ...and act on their favored position at the center... 456 00:42:49,776 --> 00:42:51,695 ...Greece could rule the world. 457 00:42:52,112 --> 00:42:57,867 Why is it, master, in myth, these lands you speak of are known? 458 00:42:59,452 --> 00:43:03,748 India, where Herakles and Dionysus traveled. 459 00:43:04,374 --> 00:43:09,879 All these men who went east, Theseus, Jason, Achilles, were victorious. 460 00:43:10,046 --> 00:43:13,717 From generation to generation, their stories have been passed on. 461 00:43:13,883 --> 00:43:16,469 Why? Unless there was truth to them? 462 00:43:16,636 --> 00:43:20,348 ARISTOTLE: Tales of Amazons? Minotaurs, Gorgons, Icarus flying into the sun? 463 00:43:20,724 --> 00:43:22,350 No, Alexander. 464 00:43:22,517 --> 00:43:26,229 Only common people believe these tales, as they believe most anything. 465 00:43:26,688 --> 00:43:31,026 We are here precisely to educate ourselves against such foolish passions. 466 00:43:31,568 --> 00:43:35,739 But if we are superior to the Persians, as you say, why do we not rule them? 467 00:43:36,615 --> 00:43:41,411 It is-- It has always been our Greek dream to go east. 468 00:43:42,329 --> 00:43:44,456 My father long wants it. 469 00:43:45,123 --> 00:43:50,462 The East has a way of swallowing men and their dreams. 470 00:43:50,629 --> 00:43:54,007 ALEXANDER: But still, to think it's these myths... 471 00:43:54,174 --> 00:43:56,468 ...that lead us forward to the greatest glory. 472 00:43:56,843 --> 00:43:59,054 Why is it wrong to act on them? 473 00:44:00,221 --> 00:44:02,891 ARISTOTLE: I can only warn you, not teach you. 474 00:44:03,975 --> 00:44:06,770 Beware of what you dream for. 475 00:44:08,021 --> 00:44:11,524 The gods have a way of punishing such pride. 476 00:44:14,944 --> 00:44:17,197 [GOATS BLEETING] 477 00:44:19,491 --> 00:44:21,951 [CHILDREN LAUGHING] 478 00:44:22,118 --> 00:44:26,164 PTOLEMY: Growing more ambitious, Philip now planned the invasion of Persia. 479 00:44:26,331 --> 00:44:27,582 [NEIGHING] 480 00:44:31,628 --> 00:44:32,629 [MEN LAUGHING] 481 00:44:32,796 --> 00:44:36,716 The best you can do, Cleitus? Back to the phalanx with you, I'll ride him myself. 482 00:44:36,883 --> 00:44:39,427 No one will ride that beast, Your Majesty. 483 00:44:39,594 --> 00:44:40,762 Not with your leg. 484 00:44:40,929 --> 00:44:43,098 He's been beaten far too often. 485 00:44:45,850 --> 00:44:48,436 ARISTIPPUS: My noble king, he's a high-spirited animal, yes. 486 00:44:48,603 --> 00:44:52,399 High-spirited and worthy of Philip of Macedon. 487 00:44:52,565 --> 00:44:54,734 For three and a half talents... 488 00:44:54,901 --> 00:44:57,570 ...I couldn't make a profit on him, but for you-- 489 00:44:58,029 --> 00:45:00,657 Why would I want such a beast? I already have a wife. 490 00:45:00,824 --> 00:45:02,617 [MEN LAUGHING] 491 00:45:02,784 --> 00:45:04,077 Do I seem so old? 492 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,837 MAN: Stay down, stay down. 493 00:45:17,173 --> 00:45:18,883 [HORSE NEIGHS] 494 00:45:26,683 --> 00:45:28,435 [NEIGHING] 495 00:45:28,601 --> 00:45:32,105 A broken neck comes free. He's too nervous for battle. Sell him for meat. 496 00:45:32,272 --> 00:45:35,817 Buy him for me, Father. I'll ride him. 497 00:45:35,984 --> 00:45:38,570 [NEIGHING AND WHINNYING] 498 00:45:40,572 --> 00:45:41,990 And if you don't? 499 00:45:42,157 --> 00:45:45,577 ALEXANDER: I'll pay for him myself. - With what, your singing voice? 500 00:45:45,744 --> 00:45:47,495 I'll pay you! 501 00:45:47,704 --> 00:45:51,708 I tell you, the horse can't be ridden, lad. His mind is broken. 502 00:45:51,875 --> 00:45:53,877 [HORSE WHINNIES] 503 00:45:54,043 --> 00:45:57,046 He can be ridden. By me. 504 00:45:57,380 --> 00:46:00,008 If you can rule that horse, I'll make him yours... 505 00:46:00,175 --> 00:46:02,135 ...at half the price. 506 00:46:02,302 --> 00:46:04,554 CLEITUS: That horse will kill him, Philip. 507 00:46:04,721 --> 00:46:06,848 - He'll break the boy in two. - Will he? 508 00:46:07,015 --> 00:46:09,851 Perhaps she'll make a musician out of him yet. 509 00:46:14,022 --> 00:46:16,065 [HORSE NEIGHS] 510 00:46:25,325 --> 00:46:28,328 ALEXANDER: You don't like your shadow, do you? 511 00:46:28,495 --> 00:46:32,457 It's like a dark spirit coming up to get you. 512 00:46:32,624 --> 00:46:35,710 Do you see? That's us. 513 00:46:37,462 --> 00:46:40,381 It's just a trick of Apollo's. 514 00:46:40,548 --> 00:46:45,053 He's the god of the sun. 515 00:46:45,220 --> 00:46:46,221 [HORSE NEIGHS] 516 00:46:46,387 --> 00:46:48,181 Shh. 517 00:46:48,348 --> 00:46:52,560 But I'll show you how to outwit him, you and me together. 518 00:47:00,568 --> 00:47:01,569 Shh. 519 00:47:02,821 --> 00:47:06,157 The boy doesn't have the craft. He could hurt himself. 520 00:47:06,324 --> 00:47:10,578 He'll have to figure that out for himself. It's time. 521 00:47:10,787 --> 00:47:12,664 ATTALUS: Good idea. 522 00:47:12,831 --> 00:47:16,042 Indeed there are times, Philip, I wonder if he is your blood. 523 00:47:16,209 --> 00:47:18,837 - I only worry that-- - What was that, Attalus? 524 00:47:19,003 --> 00:47:20,129 ATTALUS: Nothing. 525 00:47:20,296 --> 00:47:25,260 I was just noticing how the people like seeing you and Eurydice together. 526 00:47:29,347 --> 00:47:30,431 You go, boy. 527 00:47:31,474 --> 00:47:34,143 You ride that horse, and by Zeus I say... 528 00:47:34,310 --> 00:47:36,062 ...you can rule the world. 529 00:47:43,695 --> 00:47:45,530 ALEXANDER: Shh. 530 00:47:46,364 --> 00:47:48,032 Shh. 531 00:47:48,533 --> 00:47:49,993 Shh. 532 00:47:54,372 --> 00:47:56,124 Shh. 533 00:47:56,291 --> 00:47:58,084 [ALL SHOUT] 534 00:48:00,336 --> 00:48:01,337 Bucephalus. 535 00:48:01,504 --> 00:48:02,505 [HORSE WHINNIES] 536 00:48:02,672 --> 00:48:06,342 That's what I'll call you. Strong and stubborn. 537 00:48:09,095 --> 00:48:12,181 Bucephalus and Alexander. 538 00:48:13,766 --> 00:48:17,353 Come now, let's ride together. 539 00:48:18,730 --> 00:48:22,108 [ALL CHEERING] 540 00:48:31,993 --> 00:48:33,870 [EAGLE SCREECHING] 541 00:48:48,968 --> 00:48:49,969 [ALL CHEERING] 542 00:48:50,136 --> 00:48:52,055 He's got some Titan in him yet. 543 00:48:52,221 --> 00:48:56,392 Attalus! Cleitus! For Zeus' sake, he beat you, man! 544 00:48:56,559 --> 00:48:57,560 Ha, ha! 545 00:49:01,731 --> 00:49:05,068 Now, Bucephalus, show them. 546 00:49:22,502 --> 00:49:25,088 [ALL CHEERING] 547 00:49:35,223 --> 00:49:36,808 [CHUCKLES] 548 00:49:37,976 --> 00:49:39,310 My son. 549 00:49:39,477 --> 00:49:41,187 My Son! 550 00:49:41,354 --> 00:49:43,272 [ALL CONTINUE CHEERING] 551 00:49:55,368 --> 00:49:57,912 PHILIP: The world was nothing but blood feuds. 552 00:50:01,332 --> 00:50:03,501 You remember Prometheus, don't you? 553 00:50:03,668 --> 00:50:07,505 Stole the secret of fire and gave it to man. 554 00:50:07,672 --> 00:50:10,258 It made Zeus so angry... 555 00:50:10,425 --> 00:50:13,511 ...he chained Prometheus to a rock in the Great Caucasus... 556 00:50:13,678 --> 00:50:17,473 ...and each day, his eagle pecked out the poor man's liver. 557 00:50:18,266 --> 00:50:22,812 Each night, it grew back again so that it could be eaten the next day. 558 00:50:22,979 --> 00:50:24,230 Miserable fate. 559 00:50:26,858 --> 00:50:33,865 Oedipus tore out his eyes when he found out he'd murdered his father... 560 00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:39,454 ...and married his mother. Knowledge that came too late. 561 00:50:39,620 --> 00:50:41,456 Jason... 562 00:50:42,665 --> 00:50:45,460 ...he went east and brought back the Golden Fleece... 563 00:50:45,626 --> 00:50:48,796 ...and married a barbarian wife, Medea. 564 00:50:48,963 --> 00:50:53,342 Later, when he left her for a younger wife... 565 00:50:53,509 --> 00:50:57,388 ...Medea slaughtered their two children in vengeance. 566 00:51:09,567 --> 00:51:12,653 My mother would never hurt me. 567 00:51:19,786 --> 00:51:22,663 It's never easy to escape our mothers, Alexander. 568 00:51:23,206 --> 00:51:29,712 All your life, beware of women. They're far more dangerous than men. 569 00:51:37,637 --> 00:51:40,598 I'm sure you remember Achilles from Tales of Troy. 570 00:51:40,932 --> 00:51:43,726 - He's my favorite. - Why? 571 00:51:43,935 --> 00:51:47,730 ALEXANDER: Because he loved Patroclus and avenged his death. 572 00:51:48,606 --> 00:51:51,609 Because he lived without fear, and slew Hector. 573 00:51:51,776 --> 00:51:55,655 Some say he was a hotheaded fool who fought only for himself and not for the Greeks. 574 00:51:55,822 --> 00:51:57,448 But he was a hero. 575 00:51:57,615 --> 00:51:59,742 The greatest at Troy. 576 00:51:59,909 --> 00:52:00,952 PHILIP: And his fate? 577 00:52:01,119 --> 00:52:04,914 That he must die young, with great glory. 578 00:52:05,081 --> 00:52:06,874 Did he have a choice? 579 00:52:07,542 --> 00:52:13,422 Oh, yes. He could have a long life, but there would be no glory. 580 00:52:16,551 --> 00:52:20,930 You dream of glory, Alexander. Your mother encourages you. 581 00:52:21,097 --> 00:52:24,767 There's no glory without suffering, and this she will not allow. 582 00:52:24,934 --> 00:52:26,853 She makes you weak. 583 00:52:28,396 --> 00:52:30,731 The gods have never made it easy for man. 584 00:52:30,898 --> 00:52:32,233 Look. 585 00:52:32,733 --> 00:52:39,699 Herakles. Even after he accomplished his 12 labors... 586 00:52:41,409 --> 00:52:46,831 ...he was punished with madness, slaughtered his three children. 587 00:52:47,874 --> 00:52:49,584 Poor Herakles. 588 00:52:51,669 --> 00:52:53,754 Great Herakles. 589 00:52:53,921 --> 00:52:56,424 All greatness comes from loss. 590 00:52:56,591 --> 00:53:02,597 Even you, the gods will one day judge harshly. 591 00:53:02,763 --> 00:53:04,640 When I'm king like you, Father? 592 00:53:04,807 --> 00:53:08,603 Don't rush the day, boy. You risk all. 593 00:53:09,729 --> 00:53:13,816 My father threw me into battle before I knew how to fight. 594 00:53:13,983 --> 00:53:16,527 When I killed my first man, he said: 595 00:53:16,694 --> 00:53:18,946 "Now you know." 596 00:53:19,572 --> 00:53:23,826 I hated him then, but I understand why now. 597 00:53:23,993 --> 00:53:26,412 A king isn't born, Alexander. 598 00:53:26,579 --> 00:53:30,333 He's made by steel and by suffering. 599 00:53:31,542 --> 00:53:35,546 A king must know how to hurt those he loves. 600 00:53:39,342 --> 00:53:41,761 It's lonely. Ask Herakles. 601 00:53:43,012 --> 00:53:46,474 Ask any of them. Fate is cruel. 602 00:53:47,725 --> 00:53:53,397 No man or woman can be too powerful or too beautiful without disaster befalling. 603 00:53:53,564 --> 00:53:56,859 They laugh when you rise too high... 604 00:53:57,026 --> 00:53:59,862 ...and crush everything you've built with a whim. 605 00:54:00,613 --> 00:54:04,492 What glory they give, in the end, they take away. 606 00:54:05,910 --> 00:54:09,038 They make of us slaves. 607 00:54:25,096 --> 00:54:29,183 Truth is in our hearts, and none will tell you this but your father. 608 00:54:29,892 --> 00:54:32,687 Men hate the gods. 609 00:54:33,813 --> 00:54:35,856 The only reason we worship any of them... 610 00:54:36,023 --> 00:54:38,234 ...is because we fear worse. 611 00:54:39,151 --> 00:54:42,530 - What's worse? - The Titans. 612 00:54:43,072 --> 00:54:45,825 If they were ever to be set free... 613 00:54:45,992 --> 00:54:49,120 ...it'd be a darkness such as we've never seen before. 614 00:54:49,287 --> 00:54:51,330 ALEXANDER: Could they ever come back? 615 00:54:52,623 --> 00:54:55,710 Couldn't Zeus imprison the Titans forever under Mount Olympus? 616 00:54:55,876 --> 00:54:57,920 It's said that when Zeus... 617 00:54:58,713 --> 00:55:01,257 ...burned them to dust with his lightning bolt... 618 00:55:01,424 --> 00:55:04,260 ...they took the Titans' ashes and, in cold revenge... 619 00:55:04,427 --> 00:55:06,971 ...mixed it with those of mortal men. 620 00:55:07,138 --> 00:55:08,514 Why? 621 00:55:12,893 --> 00:55:14,937 Who knows these things? 622 00:55:15,771 --> 00:55:18,607 One day, things will change. 623 00:55:19,859 --> 00:55:21,819 Men will change. 624 00:55:21,986 --> 00:55:25,656 But first, the gods must change. 625 00:55:28,534 --> 00:55:30,119 [PHILIP GRUNTS] 626 00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:33,873 But all this you'll forget, Alexander. 627 00:55:34,999 --> 00:55:37,043 That's why we call them myths. 628 00:55:38,252 --> 00:55:40,713 We can't bear to remember them. 629 00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:42,256 I'll remember. 630 00:55:42,965 --> 00:55:45,843 One day, I'll be on walls like these. 631 00:55:50,097 --> 00:55:51,849 [DOOR CREAKING THEN PHILIP GRUNTS] 632 00:55:54,101 --> 00:55:56,312 PTOLEMY: Alexander once said to me: 633 00:55:56,479 --> 00:56:00,733 "We are most alone when we are with the myths." 634 00:56:02,109 --> 00:56:03,319 MAN: Phalanx! 635 00:56:05,279 --> 00:56:07,239 PTOLEMY: And thus, it came to pass in a dream... 636 00:56:07,406 --> 00:56:11,952 ...as mythical to all Greeks as Achilles defeating the Trojans. 637 00:56:12,119 --> 00:56:15,331 At this one glorious moment in time... 638 00:56:15,498 --> 00:56:19,710 ...Alexander was loved by all. 639 00:56:21,921 --> 00:56:26,258 But in the end, I believe Babylon was a far easier mistress to enter... 640 00:56:26,675 --> 00:56:29,220 ...than she was to leave. 641 00:56:29,387 --> 00:56:31,222 [CROWD CHEERING] 642 00:57:03,379 --> 00:57:04,797 [LION GROWLS] 643 00:57:18,686 --> 00:57:23,190 ALL [CHANTING]: Sikander! Sikander! 644 00:57:48,048 --> 00:57:53,304 PTOLEMY: Aristotle may have called them barbarians, but he never saw Babylon. 645 00:57:53,471 --> 00:57:56,182 CASSANDER: We have enough gold here to support three generations... 646 00:57:56,348 --> 00:57:58,058 ...of Macedonian armies. 647 00:57:58,434 --> 00:58:01,061 And Macedonia would soon corrupt, Cassander. 648 00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:03,522 Wealth in great quantities brings the crows. 649 00:58:03,689 --> 00:58:06,066 ANTIGONUS: Not for the men who fought, I trust. 650 00:58:07,193 --> 00:58:11,280 We'll pay them well, Antigonus, but not as mercenaries for future services. 651 00:58:11,447 --> 00:58:12,865 Now you sound like Philip. 652 00:58:13,032 --> 00:58:14,033 [MEN LAUGHING] 653 00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:15,701 HEPHAISTION: Philip never saw Babylon. 654 00:58:16,660 --> 00:58:18,370 NEARCHUS: No, he didn't, Hephaistion. 655 00:58:20,331 --> 00:58:22,208 PERDICCAS: Hello! MAN 1: Hello! 656 00:58:22,708 --> 00:58:26,212 Alexander, I know you think me a stiff old sod... 657 00:58:26,378 --> 00:58:28,923 ...but whatever our differences, know this day... 658 00:58:29,089 --> 00:58:32,468 ...your father would be very proud of you. 659 00:58:34,553 --> 00:58:36,722 Thank you, Parmenion. 660 00:58:36,931 --> 00:58:41,477 I ask you to forgive me my own anger, my pride. 661 00:58:41,644 --> 00:58:43,521 They, too, blind me. 662 00:58:47,483 --> 00:58:50,778 CASSANDER: Magnificent mainland work from the last century. 663 00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:53,447 The golden age, Alexander. 664 00:58:53,614 --> 00:58:56,784 Worth much to Athens and to our alliances. 665 00:58:56,992 --> 00:58:59,245 ALEXANDER: Take back what is ours... 666 00:58:59,411 --> 00:59:01,705 ...but spare what belongs to the Persians. 667 00:59:01,872 --> 00:59:03,541 [MAN LAUGHS] 668 00:59:05,292 --> 00:59:06,961 PTOLEMY: Yes. 669 00:59:07,711 --> 00:59:11,173 We're the richest men to walk the earth, my friends. 670 00:59:11,340 --> 00:59:13,092 PERDICCAS: Not if we keep giving it all away. 671 00:59:13,259 --> 00:59:16,136 The grandsons of goat herders... 672 00:59:16,303 --> 00:59:20,474 ...we now rule 2 million square miles. 673 00:59:21,350 --> 00:59:22,685 But... 674 00:59:23,686 --> 00:59:29,525 ...none of you fear that this great fortune may drive us all to destruction. 675 00:59:29,692 --> 00:59:31,360 You overvalue us. 676 00:59:31,527 --> 00:59:35,197 For as long as Darius breathes, he is the legitimate king of Asia... 677 00:59:35,406 --> 00:59:37,992 ...and I but the king of air. 678 00:59:38,158 --> 00:59:40,786 - But he has no power, Alexander. - Whoo! 679 00:59:40,953 --> 00:59:43,163 He's lost in the mountains with no army. 680 00:59:43,330 --> 00:59:46,584 As long as he's lost, Philotas, he can be believed in. 681 00:59:46,750 --> 00:59:49,753 Only when he's found will it be decided. 682 00:59:51,714 --> 00:59:53,632 It seems you've already made up your mind. 683 00:59:53,799 --> 00:59:56,719 We must finish what we failed to do at Gaugamela. 684 00:59:56,885 --> 00:59:58,971 We must hunt Darius down to the ends of earth. 685 00:59:59,138 --> 01:00:01,765 - That was not your father's mission. - And I am not my father. 686 01:00:01,932 --> 01:00:04,727 [ALL LAUGH] 687 01:00:05,311 --> 01:00:07,563 ALEXANDER: Come on. Have you so quickly forgotten? 688 01:00:07,730 --> 01:00:08,772 Fortune favors the bold. 689 01:00:14,028 --> 01:00:16,780 NEARCHUS: No wonder Darius fled when he had this to come back to. 690 01:00:16,947 --> 01:00:19,742 One for every night of the year. 691 01:00:38,719 --> 01:00:41,680 [CHATTERING] 692 01:00:46,268 --> 01:00:48,771 How will I go back to Lysimache after this? 693 01:00:48,937 --> 01:00:51,774 I advise you not to touch, Leonnatus. Here, I'll take care of it for you. 694 01:00:51,940 --> 01:00:54,151 [CHUCKLING] 695 01:01:05,204 --> 01:01:08,415 [DRUMS BANGING AND CYMBALS CLANGING] 696 01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:13,921 Aristotle was perhaps prescient. 697 01:01:17,841 --> 01:01:22,096 Do these images fool us with their beauty and degrade our souls? 698 01:01:47,371 --> 01:01:49,540 [HISSING] 699 01:01:52,126 --> 01:01:55,629 Bagoas, great king. Darius' boy. 700 01:01:55,796 --> 01:01:57,381 Bagoas. 701 01:01:57,673 --> 01:02:00,551 Nicely gelded, Your Majesty. 702 01:02:00,718 --> 01:02:02,302 Most successful. 703 01:02:02,469 --> 01:02:04,847 He was certainly one of the great king's favorites. 704 01:02:05,013 --> 01:02:07,307 [MAN LAUGHING] 705 01:02:08,225 --> 01:02:11,937 Oh, he's writ well with the years. 706 01:02:14,148 --> 01:02:17,901 What are you now, Bagoas? Eighteen, 19? 707 01:02:18,193 --> 01:02:21,280 - Where does he come from? - The north, sire. 708 01:02:23,157 --> 01:02:25,492 From the hills near Susa. 709 01:02:25,659 --> 01:02:27,578 You speak our language. 710 01:02:27,745 --> 01:02:31,248 - Good. I'd like to learn yours. - It is learnable, my lord. 711 01:02:44,887 --> 01:02:47,055 ALEXANDER: So tell me, Bagoas... 712 01:02:47,431 --> 01:02:50,517 ...do my eyes betray me, or do you wish to be set free... 713 01:02:50,684 --> 01:02:52,352 ...to go back to your homeland? 714 01:02:56,774 --> 01:02:59,276 All my family's long dead, great king. 715 01:02:59,777 --> 01:03:03,238 With your permission, I will stay on. 716 01:03:06,450 --> 01:03:07,910 Very well then, Bagoas. 717 01:03:09,119 --> 01:03:11,663 Ptolemy, administer this. 718 01:03:14,583 --> 01:03:16,835 And that's the same of every person in the harem... 719 01:03:17,002 --> 01:03:18,629 ...woman and eunuch. 720 01:03:18,796 --> 01:03:21,965 Whoever wishes to be sent home to their families, let them. 721 01:03:22,424 --> 01:03:23,592 MAN: What? 722 01:03:23,759 --> 01:03:27,095 PTOLEMY: Hear that, boys? Set them free. 723 01:03:27,262 --> 01:03:29,473 [SHOUTING] 724 01:03:36,647 --> 01:03:38,857 [MEN LAUGHING AND YELLING] 725 01:03:47,658 --> 01:03:49,034 MAN: Don't worry, Alexander. 726 01:03:49,201 --> 01:03:52,246 - I'm on your side. ALEXANDER: Get off. 727 01:04:00,754 --> 01:04:04,299 Great King Alexander. 728 01:04:07,302 --> 01:04:09,304 PHARNAKES: The Princess of the Thousand Roses... 729 01:04:09,471 --> 01:04:12,224 ...and eldest daughter of the formerly Great King Darius... 730 01:04:13,809 --> 01:04:15,894 ...Stateira. 731 01:04:16,436 --> 01:04:17,855 Noble Alexander... 732 01:04:18,981 --> 01:04:21,692 [MEN LAUGHING] 733 01:04:25,279 --> 01:04:28,615 ...I come to beg for the lives... 734 01:04:28,782 --> 01:04:29,992 ...of my sisters... 735 01:04:31,368 --> 01:04:33,912 ...my mother, my grandmother. 736 01:04:38,750 --> 01:04:42,880 You are not wrong, Princess Stateira. 737 01:04:43,088 --> 01:04:44,965 He, too, is Alexander. 738 01:04:45,132 --> 01:04:48,010 [MEN LAUGHING] 739 01:04:48,927 --> 01:04:50,429 Please. 740 01:04:51,305 --> 01:04:54,600 I plead for my family's lives. 741 01:04:56,184 --> 01:04:59,313 - Sell me as a slave, great king, but-- - Look now... 742 01:04:59,479 --> 01:05:01,356 ...in my eyes... 743 01:05:02,774 --> 01:05:03,817 ...princess... 744 01:05:05,819 --> 01:05:07,404 ...and tell me... 745 01:05:07,946 --> 01:05:10,157 ...how would you like to be treated? 746 01:05:12,826 --> 01:05:14,745 As I am... 747 01:05:14,912 --> 01:05:16,955 ...a princess. 748 01:05:20,334 --> 01:05:21,960 Then so be it. 749 01:05:23,712 --> 01:05:26,798 You and your family shall be treated as my family. 750 01:05:26,965 --> 01:05:29,301 [CHATTERING] 751 01:05:29,468 --> 01:05:32,638 You shall live in this palace as long as you choose. 752 01:05:33,305 --> 01:05:36,642 Have you any other requests for me, my noble princess? 753 01:05:39,394 --> 01:05:40,771 No. 754 01:05:42,022 --> 01:05:44,858 Everything I wish... 755 01:05:45,025 --> 01:05:47,945 ...I have requested. 756 01:05:49,154 --> 01:05:50,989 You truly are... 757 01:05:51,156 --> 01:05:52,908 ...a queen. 758 01:05:59,414 --> 01:06:01,917 OLYMPIAS: Yes, she would be a perfect match for you... 759 01:06:02,834 --> 01:06:04,711 ...but you do nothing. 760 01:06:04,878 --> 01:06:08,465 Three months you've been in Babylon and leave me in Pella... 761 01:06:08,674 --> 01:06:12,844 ...at the mercy of your enemies, of which you have many. 762 01:06:13,011 --> 01:06:16,139 Antipater, accustomed now to the power that you have given him. 763 01:06:16,473 --> 01:06:18,850 I must watch him grow stronger. 764 01:06:19,017 --> 01:06:24,064 [CHATTERING AND SHOUTING] 765 01:06:26,233 --> 01:06:29,361 OLYMPIAS: I'm certain that he communicates secretly with Parmenion... 766 01:06:29,528 --> 01:06:31,029 ...who is dangerous. 767 01:06:31,196 --> 01:06:34,282 But beware, most of all, of those closest to you. 768 01:06:34,866 --> 01:06:35,909 They are like snakes... 769 01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:38,370 ...and can be turned. 770 01:06:38,745 --> 01:06:40,205 General Crateros. 771 01:06:40,372 --> 01:06:42,958 [ALL CHEERING AND LAUGHING] 772 01:06:43,125 --> 01:06:47,629 OLYMPIAS: Cassander is Antipater's son. 773 01:06:47,838 --> 01:06:51,550 Even Cleitus, your father's favorite... 774 01:06:51,717 --> 01:06:54,177 ...and Ptolemy, your friend, yes. 775 01:06:54,386 --> 01:06:56,596 But beware of men who think too much. 776 01:06:57,222 --> 01:06:59,474 They blind themselves. 777 01:06:59,641 --> 01:07:01,351 [CHEERING] 778 01:07:02,811 --> 01:07:05,355 OLYMPIAS: Only Hephaistion do I leave out. 779 01:07:06,273 --> 01:07:08,900 But all of them you make rich... 780 01:07:09,109 --> 01:07:14,906 ...while your mother and yourself, you leave in generous poverty. 781 01:07:15,699 --> 01:07:18,076 Why won't you ever believe me? 782 01:07:18,869 --> 01:07:24,666 It is only a dark mind like mine that can know these secrets of the heart. 783 01:07:24,833 --> 01:07:27,461 For they are dark, Alexander. 784 01:07:27,753 --> 01:07:30,297 So dark. 785 01:07:30,464 --> 01:07:31,548 But in you... 786 01:07:32,132 --> 01:07:36,970 ...the son of Zeus, lies the light of the world. 787 01:07:37,137 --> 01:07:41,183 Your companions will be shadows in the underworld... 788 01:07:41,349 --> 01:07:45,729 ...when you are a name living forever in history as the most glorious... 789 01:07:45,896 --> 01:07:50,275 ...shining light of youth, forever young, forever inspiring. 790 01:07:50,442 --> 01:07:53,987 Never will there be an Alexander like you. 791 01:07:54,154 --> 01:07:56,698 Alexander the Great. 792 01:07:57,949 --> 01:08:01,453 Remember, bring me to Babylon as you promised. 793 01:08:01,661 --> 01:08:04,831 I can only help you, for they know if they harm you... 794 01:08:04,998 --> 01:08:08,877 ...they will face my wrath, as Queen of Babylon. 795 01:08:10,796 --> 01:08:14,424 It's a high ransom she charges for nine months' lodging in the womb. 796 01:08:14,591 --> 01:08:16,593 Bring her, Alexander. 797 01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:19,471 - It'll give her such joy. - Joy? 798 01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:23,934 When I'm the cracked mirror of her dreams? 799 01:08:26,436 --> 01:08:28,855 Stay with me tonight, Hephaistion. 800 01:08:30,440 --> 01:08:32,859 [THUNDER BOOMING] 801 01:08:35,612 --> 01:08:37,197 ALEXANDER: I'll take my own bath. 802 01:08:38,573 --> 01:08:39,783 Thank you, Bagoas. 803 01:08:48,375 --> 01:08:49,459 What bothers you? 804 01:08:51,711 --> 01:08:54,840 ALEXANDER: I see in her everything I fear. 805 01:08:56,049 --> 01:08:58,426 Yet I have no idea what it is... 806 01:08:59,177 --> 01:09:01,179 ...this fear. 807 01:09:05,809 --> 01:09:09,271 She was always so sure I was born of Zeus. 808 01:09:09,938 --> 01:09:11,857 Why, Hephaistion? 809 01:09:13,692 --> 01:09:18,280 I think there are things beyond our imagining... 810 01:09:19,447 --> 01:09:20,949 ...like the lightning... 811 01:09:21,116 --> 01:09:24,161 ...tales of strange conceptions. 812 01:09:25,912 --> 01:09:28,039 I don't doubt it. 813 01:09:28,206 --> 01:09:30,792 What is being told me? 814 01:09:30,959 --> 01:09:34,796 What destiny do--? Do I have'? 815 01:09:36,506 --> 01:09:39,342 Well, if I'm Patroclus... 816 01:09:39,509 --> 01:09:41,803 ...I die first. 817 01:09:42,012 --> 01:09:44,764 Then you, Achilles. 818 01:09:50,687 --> 01:09:53,481 The generals are upset. 819 01:09:54,858 --> 01:09:57,485 They question your obsession with Darius. 820 01:09:58,153 --> 01:10:01,323 They say it was never meant for you to be king of Asia. 821 01:10:01,489 --> 01:10:03,033 Naturally. 822 01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:07,537 They want only to return to their homes, rich with gold. But I've seen the future. 823 01:10:07,704 --> 01:10:10,999 I've seen it now 1000 times, on 1000 faces. 824 01:10:11,166 --> 01:10:13,335 These people want... 825 01:10:14,085 --> 01:10:16,171 Need change. 826 01:10:17,214 --> 01:10:19,883 Aristotle was wrong about them. 827 01:10:20,050 --> 01:10:21,718 HEPHAISTION: How so? 828 01:10:21,885 --> 01:10:24,012 Look at those we've conquered. 829 01:10:24,179 --> 01:10:26,223 They leave their dead unburied. 830 01:10:26,389 --> 01:10:29,351 They smash their enemies' skulls and drink them as dust. 831 01:10:29,517 --> 01:10:31,519 They mate in public. 832 01:10:31,686 --> 01:10:36,566 What can they think or sing or write when none can read? 833 01:10:36,733 --> 01:10:41,363 But as Alexander's army, they can go where they never thought possible. 834 01:10:41,529 --> 01:10:44,616 They can soldier or work in the cities. 835 01:10:44,783 --> 01:10:48,995 The Alexandrias, from Egypt to the outer ocean. 836 01:10:49,496 --> 01:10:52,415 We could connect these lands, Hephaistion... 837 01:10:52,582 --> 01:10:53,833 ...and the people. 838 01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:59,631 Some say these Alexandrias have become extensions of Alexander himself. 839 01:11:00,382 --> 01:11:03,468 They draw people into the cities to make slaves of them. 840 01:11:03,635 --> 01:11:07,931 But we freed them, Hephaistion, from the Persia where everyone lived as slaves. 841 01:11:09,933 --> 01:11:12,477 To free the people of the world... 842 01:11:13,395 --> 01:11:17,941 ...such would be beyond the glory of Achilles, beyond Herakles... 843 01:11:18,108 --> 01:11:20,735 ...a feat to rival Prometheus... 844 01:11:21,528 --> 01:11:24,197 ...who was always a friend to man. 845 01:11:24,406 --> 01:11:26,741 Remember the fates of these heroes. 846 01:11:26,908 --> 01:11:31,121 - They suffered greatly. - Oh, we all suffer. 847 01:11:31,538 --> 01:11:35,125 Your father, mine. 848 01:11:35,917 --> 01:11:38,003 They all came to the end of their time. 849 01:11:38,169 --> 01:11:42,215 And in the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done. 850 01:11:43,550 --> 01:11:48,346 HEPHAISTION: You once said, "The fear of death drives all men." 851 01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:50,473 Are there no other forces? 852 01:11:51,725 --> 01:11:54,477 Is there not love in your life... 853 01:11:56,062 --> 01:11:58,064 ...Alexander? 854 01:12:01,901 --> 01:12:06,531 What would you do if you ever reached the end of the world? 855 01:12:08,408 --> 01:12:11,244 I'd turn back and conquer its opposite. 856 01:12:16,458 --> 01:12:21,463 I wonder sometimes if it's not your mother you run from. 857 01:12:22,881 --> 01:12:26,843 So many years, so many miles between you. 858 01:12:28,470 --> 01:12:30,472 What is it you fear? 859 01:12:31,973 --> 01:12:34,225 Who knows these things? 860 01:12:35,810 --> 01:12:40,982 When I was a child, my mother thought me divine. My father, weak. 861 01:12:43,485 --> 01:12:46,154 Which am I, Hephaistion? 862 01:12:46,321 --> 01:12:48,239 Weak or divine? 863 01:12:51,826 --> 01:12:53,745 All I know is... 864 01:12:53,912 --> 01:12:56,998 ...I trust only you in this world. 865 01:12:57,165 --> 01:12:59,250 I've missed you. 866 01:12:59,918 --> 01:13:01,044 I need you. 867 01:13:03,254 --> 01:13:04,798 It is you I love, Hephaistion. 868 01:13:07,217 --> 01:13:09,386 No other. 869 01:13:13,306 --> 01:13:16,184 You're everything I care for... 870 01:13:16,351 --> 01:13:20,021 ...and by the sweet breath of Aphrodite... 871 01:13:20,522 --> 01:13:23,441 ...I'm so jealous of losing you to this world you want. 872 01:13:23,858 --> 01:13:26,528 You'll never lose me, Hephaistion. 873 01:13:27,153 --> 01:13:30,407 I'll be with you always. 874 01:13:31,032 --> 01:13:32,951 Till the end. 875 01:13:46,464 --> 01:13:49,134 PTOLEMY". The campaign in the northeast of Persia... 876 01:13:49,300 --> 01:13:54,139 ...turned into a hard guerrilla war of almost three years. 877 01:13:57,016 --> 01:14:03,064 We chased Darius towards Bactria but missed taking him by hours. 878 01:14:05,900 --> 01:14:08,278 He was dying when we found him, sire. 879 01:14:08,445 --> 01:14:10,238 He asked for water. 880 01:14:10,405 --> 01:14:12,907 He drank and died. 881 01:14:19,539 --> 01:14:24,252 PTOLEMY: The Great King Darius had been betrayed by his own commanders. 882 01:14:52,322 --> 01:14:54,324 Fully honoring his corpse... 883 01:14:54,491 --> 01:14:59,412 ...Alexander hunted down these commanders into unknown lands... 884 01:15:00,371 --> 01:15:05,210 ...crossing even beyond the River Oxus into Sogdia. 885 01:15:09,464 --> 01:15:13,760 We fought them as far as the unknown steppes of Scythia... 886 01:15:14,469 --> 01:15:17,764 ...where only legendary heroes had once trod. 887 01:15:17,972 --> 01:15:20,433 The surveyors told us we were now on the borders... 888 01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:23,353 ...of where Europe and Asia meet. 889 01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:27,398 In fact, we were totally lost. 890 01:15:28,233 --> 01:15:31,152 Here, Alexander founded his 10th Alexandria... 891 01:15:31,319 --> 01:15:33,696 ...and settled it with veterans, their women... 892 01:15:33,863 --> 01:15:36,407 ...and any who would dare the frontier life. 893 01:15:37,617 --> 01:15:40,453 Unable to accept defeat in any form... 894 01:15:40,662 --> 01:15:45,375 ...Alexander persisted in breaking every tribe that resisted... 895 01:15:45,542 --> 01:15:49,128 ...until the day he received the head of his last enemy in surrender. 896 01:15:54,217 --> 01:15:58,846 For Alexander, there could be no pretender to the throne of Asia... 897 01:16:00,014 --> 01:16:04,435 ...which now included all of Sogdia and Bactria. 898 01:16:06,437 --> 01:16:11,067 It was here that he made one of his most mysterious decisions. 899 01:16:14,612 --> 01:16:18,908 Ten years after his mother's insistence he marry a Macedonian... 900 01:16:19,075 --> 01:16:21,119 Through our union... 901 01:16:21,286 --> 01:16:24,205 ...Greek and barbarian... 902 01:16:24,372 --> 01:16:26,124 ...may be reconciled in peace. 903 01:16:26,541 --> 01:16:31,004 PTOLEMY: ...the most powerful man in the world took a girl of no political significance. 904 01:16:31,170 --> 01:16:33,756 [ALL CHEERING] 905 01:16:37,176 --> 01:16:38,219 Why? 906 01:16:39,846 --> 01:16:43,141 Some say it was for alliance with the tribes. 907 01:16:45,143 --> 01:16:47,186 Others, the desire for a successor. 908 01:16:49,939 --> 01:16:54,902 And yet others said Alexander truly fell in love. 909 01:16:56,154 --> 01:16:58,072 Who Roxane really was... 910 01:16:58,239 --> 01:17:04,370 ...I doubt any of us ever saw further than the pools of those black eyes. 911 01:17:05,622 --> 01:17:08,124 On this glorious occasion... 912 01:17:09,917 --> 01:17:12,629 ...I toast this great army that has given so much. 913 01:17:12,837 --> 01:17:17,091 And in honor of them, those of you who set outwith us seven long years ago... 914 01:17:17,258 --> 01:17:21,679 ...I pronounce all your debts paid forthwith from the royal treasury. 915 01:17:21,846 --> 01:17:23,348 [ALL CHEERING] 916 01:17:23,514 --> 01:17:24,974 MAN 1: Praise Alexander! 917 01:17:25,141 --> 01:17:26,976 [CHEERING CONTINUES] 918 01:17:29,228 --> 01:17:31,105 And in honor of my bride... 919 01:17:34,901 --> 01:17:37,403 ...my beautiful bride... 920 01:17:37,570 --> 01:17:41,908 ...we recognize the many women who've shared the long road with us... 921 01:17:42,075 --> 01:17:45,620 ...and grant them dowries befitting a proper marriage. 922 01:17:46,454 --> 01:17:48,665 [ALL CHEERING] 923 01:17:54,379 --> 01:17:57,006 And what about our boys? 924 01:17:57,423 --> 01:17:58,675 And lastly... 925 01:17:59,008 --> 01:18:02,136 ...lastly, the gods demand no less of us... 926 01:18:02,428 --> 01:18:05,765 ...that your children be given a proper Greek education... 927 01:18:05,932 --> 01:18:10,395 ...and military training under our protection... 928 01:18:10,895 --> 01:18:14,816 ...so as to be the new soldiers of our kingdom... 929 01:18:15,149 --> 01:18:17,485 ...in Asia. 930 01:18:17,652 --> 01:18:19,946 [CROWD CHEERING] 931 01:18:33,584 --> 01:18:35,712 PARMENION: Your father must be turning in his grave. 932 01:18:35,878 --> 01:18:37,714 After all this, a hill chief's daughter. 933 01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:38,923 POLYPERCHON: Not tonight, Parmenion. 934 01:18:39,090 --> 01:18:41,092 PARMENION: You call this tribal wedding legitimate? 935 01:18:41,259 --> 01:18:44,137 Do you forget, Parmenion, my father took a barbarian as his queen? 936 01:18:44,303 --> 01:18:47,014 Yes, but few would call it a profoundly happy marriage. 937 01:18:47,181 --> 01:18:48,182 [ALL LAUGHING] 938 01:18:48,349 --> 01:18:51,185 But what's the point, Alexander? She's your captive. 939 01:18:51,352 --> 01:18:53,271 Just take her as your concubine. 940 01:18:53,438 --> 01:18:56,441 Because I want a son. Damn you, Philotas. 941 01:18:56,858 --> 01:19:02,405 Then half your nobles have sisters who'd make fine Macedonian mothers. 942 01:19:02,572 --> 01:19:07,160 To take an Asian as my queen, not a captive, is a sign of deep respect. 943 01:19:07,493 --> 01:19:10,288 It will bring us together, unify us. 944 01:19:10,455 --> 01:19:12,540 Which is not to say I won't take a Macedonian. 945 01:19:12,749 --> 01:19:15,752 As a second wife? You insult Macedonia. 946 01:19:16,794 --> 01:19:20,506 Never will our people accept this girl's son as king. 947 01:19:21,048 --> 01:19:22,550 They'll be angry when they find out... 948 01:19:22,717 --> 01:19:25,303 ...their husbands all have second wives in Barbaria. 949 01:19:25,470 --> 01:19:26,512 Then they'll learn. 950 01:19:26,679 --> 01:19:30,183 By Athena's justice, this girl has spirit. 951 01:19:30,391 --> 01:19:32,643 She'll breed a brave son. 952 01:19:32,810 --> 01:19:34,353 Alexander! 953 01:19:35,062 --> 01:19:37,732 This is about the honor of our kingdom. 954 01:19:37,899 --> 01:19:40,401 Exactly. What can be won, Alexander? 955 01:19:40,568 --> 01:19:43,863 We're in Asia to punish them for their crimes. We've achieved that. 956 01:19:44,030 --> 01:19:47,533 Seven years from home, now we drift from one far region to another... 957 01:19:47,700 --> 01:19:51,370 ...chasing nomads and bandits when Macedonia bleeds its manpower. 958 01:19:51,537 --> 01:19:54,457 For what? To build roads in Asia? 959 01:19:54,624 --> 01:19:56,667 To give these people cities? 960 01:19:56,834 --> 01:19:58,127 And now make an army of them? 961 01:19:58,294 --> 01:20:01,881 To found cities and expand our reach is not to drift. 962 01:20:02,048 --> 01:20:04,258 - What benefit to Macedon? ALEXANDER: It's far richer! 963 01:20:04,425 --> 01:20:06,844 - Look what you give them. - With respect... 964 01:20:07,011 --> 01:20:10,223 ...had you fought better at Gaugamela when your flank was crumbling-- 965 01:20:10,431 --> 01:20:13,726 - How dare you, Nearchus? - General Nearchus to you, boy. 966 01:20:13,893 --> 01:20:17,522 Alexander spread our flank too thin! There was nothing my father... 967 01:20:17,688 --> 01:20:19,899 -...or any of you could've done! - Philotas! 968 01:20:26,113 --> 01:20:28,491 Alexander, I've known you since you were born. 969 01:20:29,450 --> 01:20:32,411 I supported you at your father's death. 970 01:20:32,578 --> 01:20:35,206 At the very least, for Zeus' sake... 971 01:20:35,498 --> 01:20:38,626 ...and in respect to the council that chose you king... 972 01:20:38,793 --> 01:20:40,628 ...give us a Macedonian heir. 973 01:20:41,087 --> 01:20:42,505 A Macedonian heir. 974 01:20:49,136 --> 01:20:50,888 - You've been heard clearly. PARMENION: But-- 975 01:20:51,055 --> 01:20:52,932 Parmenion! 976 01:20:53,099 --> 01:20:56,644 After the wedding, take two brigades to Babylon, where I look to you... 977 01:20:57,103 --> 01:21:01,941 ...and Antipater in Greece, to maintain our empire and supply this expedition. 978 01:21:02,692 --> 01:21:04,777 I'll winter with my army at Marakand. 979 01:21:04,986 --> 01:21:08,906 I pray to Apollo you realize how far you've turned from your father's path. 980 01:21:09,073 --> 01:21:11,617 Damn you, Parmenion, by the gods and your Apollo. 981 01:21:11,784 --> 01:21:15,204 What was in my father's guts wasn't overripe in reason like yours! 982 01:21:15,371 --> 01:21:19,333 He never lusted for war, Alexander, or enjoyed it so. 983 01:21:19,500 --> 01:21:24,755 He consulted his peers in council, among equals, hmm, the Macedonian way. 984 01:21:24,922 --> 01:21:27,341 He didn't decide based on his personal desires. 985 01:21:27,508 --> 01:21:30,970 I've taken us further than my father ever dreamed. 986 01:21:31,137 --> 01:21:32,471 Old man... 987 01:21:32,638 --> 01:21:35,016 ...we're in new worlds. 988 01:21:36,017 --> 01:21:39,687 CASSANDER: Alexander, be reasonable! 989 01:21:39,854 --> 01:21:42,023 Were they ever meant to be our equals? 990 01:21:42,523 --> 01:21:44,442 Share our rewards? 991 01:21:44,609 --> 01:21:46,652 You remember what Aristotle said. 992 01:21:46,819 --> 01:21:48,154 An Asian? 993 01:21:48,321 --> 01:21:52,074 What would a vow mean to a race that's never kept their word to a Greek? 994 01:21:52,241 --> 01:21:54,327 - Aristotle be damned! PARMENION: Alexander! 995 01:21:54,535 --> 01:21:56,078 ALEXANDER: By Zeus and all the gods... 996 01:21:56,245 --> 01:22:00,333 ...what makes you so much better than them, Cassander? 997 01:22:00,541 --> 01:22:04,670 Better than you really are. In you and those like you is this. 998 01:22:06,339 --> 01:22:07,882 HEPHAISTION: Alexander. 999 01:22:10,843 --> 01:22:15,264 What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgment. 1000 01:22:18,601 --> 01:22:22,063 It's your contempt for a world far older than ours. 1001 01:22:34,033 --> 01:22:35,868 [DRUM AND FLUTE PLAYING UPBEAT MUSIC] 1002 01:22:44,794 --> 01:22:47,588 [SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE] 1003 01:22:54,929 --> 01:22:57,223 CLEITUS: If I ever kneel down like that to any man... 1004 01:22:57,390 --> 01:23:00,142 -...kill me. - Have another drink, Cleitus. 1005 01:23:00,810 --> 01:23:03,854 - Shouldn't you be bound to a king? NEARCHUS: Cleitus. 1006 01:23:04,563 --> 01:23:08,776 Alexander, you look weak when you not accept these honors. 1007 01:23:08,943 --> 01:23:12,488 I understand, my dear father, but it's against Greek ways. 1008 01:23:12,655 --> 01:23:14,949 Then Greek ways are weak. 1009 01:23:15,116 --> 01:23:17,868 I still think she got the better of him in this bargain. 1010 01:23:18,035 --> 01:23:21,122 My daughter, Roxane... 1011 01:23:21,288 --> 01:23:23,249 ...she shall make you a good wife. 1012 01:23:23,416 --> 01:23:25,835 She shall kill for you. 1013 01:23:27,294 --> 01:23:28,754 [GRUNTS] 1014 01:23:30,131 --> 01:23:31,590 Lord Sikander... 1015 01:23:31,757 --> 01:23:35,177 ...ruler of heaven... 1016 01:23:37,221 --> 01:23:39,015 ...and earth. 1017 01:23:44,729 --> 01:23:48,024 In honor of this great alliance... 1018 01:23:48,190 --> 01:23:51,235 ...l, Oxyartes... 1019 01:23:51,402 --> 01:23:54,655 ...offer you these great gifts. MAN 1: Alexander... 1020 01:23:54,822 --> 01:23:57,867 ...I would like to honor a toast to you from my people. 1021 01:23:58,034 --> 01:24:00,286 [ALL YELLING] 1022 01:24:02,496 --> 01:24:04,290 MAN 2: Good morning, sire. 1023 01:24:05,499 --> 01:24:08,210 MAN 3: Come now, Alexander. Give us a kiss. 1024 01:24:08,377 --> 01:24:09,962 [LAUGHS] 1025 01:24:12,548 --> 01:24:14,633 [SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE] 1026 01:24:17,219 --> 01:24:19,430 [BEAR GROWLING] 1027 01:24:19,597 --> 01:24:21,390 [SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE] 1028 01:24:22,349 --> 01:24:24,393 [SNARLING] 1029 01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:27,730 OXYARTES: We shall fight for you, Alexander. 1030 01:24:27,897 --> 01:24:29,774 It shall be bloody. 1031 01:24:31,859 --> 01:24:33,736 Who's the bear? 1032 01:24:35,404 --> 01:24:37,156 Parmenion. 1033 01:24:37,656 --> 01:24:40,451 You've been in complete control of your supply lines. 1034 01:24:40,618 --> 01:24:42,745 ALEXANDER: His pessimism is infectious. 1035 01:24:43,370 --> 01:24:45,372 But he'll stay loyal... 1036 01:24:46,916 --> 01:24:49,126 ...as long as his son remains with us. 1037 01:24:49,335 --> 01:24:51,337 [SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE THEN BEAR ROARS] 1038 01:24:52,338 --> 01:24:54,131 [SNARLS] 1039 01:25:01,972 --> 01:25:04,975 [DRUM BANGING AND CYMBALS CLANGING] 1040 01:26:02,825 --> 01:26:04,743 [MEN YELLING] 1041 01:27:06,513 --> 01:27:07,556 MAN 1 : Hey! 1042 01:27:10,351 --> 01:27:12,269 [SNARLS] 1043 01:27:15,356 --> 01:27:20,277 Her eyes tell me she cares for you, Alexander. 1044 01:27:21,862 --> 01:27:23,030 Perhaps too much. 1045 01:27:27,451 --> 01:27:30,037 In the ways of my country... 1046 01:27:30,204 --> 01:27:34,625 ...those who love too much lose everything... 1047 01:27:35,125 --> 01:27:37,920 ...and those who love with irony... 1048 01:27:39,588 --> 01:27:41,006 ...last. 1049 01:27:45,552 --> 01:27:47,846 [ALL CHEERING] 1050 01:27:51,809 --> 01:27:52,893 [CROWD APPLAUDING] 1051 01:28:05,239 --> 01:28:06,949 [KNOCKING ON DOOR] 1052 01:28:08,033 --> 01:28:10,369 [KNOCKING ON DOOR CONTINUES] 1053 01:28:19,253 --> 01:28:21,130 Shh. 1054 01:28:31,890 --> 01:28:33,100 I found it in Egypt. 1055 01:28:36,020 --> 01:28:38,397 The man who sold it said it came from a time... 1056 01:28:38,564 --> 01:28:42,693 ...when man worshipped sun and stars. 1057 01:28:48,324 --> 01:28:50,576 I'll always think of you... 1058 01:28:51,243 --> 01:28:53,537 ...as the sun, Alexander. 1059 01:28:53,746 --> 01:28:57,666 And I pray your dream will shine on all men. 1060 01:29:06,717 --> 01:29:08,844 I wish you a son. 1061 01:29:10,512 --> 01:29:12,890 You're a great man. 1062 01:29:14,975 --> 01:29:16,935 [DOOR OPENS] 1063 01:29:17,269 --> 01:29:20,314 Many will love you, Alexander, but none so pure and deep... 1064 01:29:37,331 --> 01:29:38,791 You... 1065 01:29:38,957 --> 01:29:40,292 ...love him? 1066 01:29:49,551 --> 01:29:52,971 He is Hephaistion. 1067 01:30:12,116 --> 01:30:14,076 Thank you, Bagoas. 1068 01:30:19,915 --> 01:30:21,542 Your boy? 1069 01:30:21,708 --> 01:30:25,212 There are many different ways to love, Roxane. 1070 01:30:25,754 --> 01:30:27,589 Come. 1071 01:30:42,312 --> 01:30:43,564 No. 1072 01:30:43,730 --> 01:30:44,773 No, no. 1073 01:30:45,315 --> 01:30:47,568 [ROXANE GRUNTING] 1074 01:30:50,237 --> 01:30:51,905 [ROXANE CONTINUES GRUNTING] 1075 01:31:30,819 --> 01:31:32,279 [GRUNTS] 1076 01:31:35,491 --> 01:31:37,409 You have no fear. 1077 01:31:39,077 --> 01:31:40,871 It's fitting. 1078 01:31:42,289 --> 01:31:45,626 A man searches for a woman at Earth's top... 1079 01:31:45,792 --> 01:31:47,794 ...and finds her. 1080 01:32:05,145 --> 01:32:06,730 The myth becomes real. 1081 01:32:10,526 --> 01:32:11,985 [ROXANE GRUNTS] 1082 01:32:12,653 --> 01:32:14,404 [GROANS] 1083 01:32:14,571 --> 01:32:15,948 [GRUNTS] 1084 01:32:18,033 --> 01:32:19,493 Great man? 1085 01:32:19,910 --> 01:32:22,079 Sikander. 1086 01:32:22,246 --> 01:32:23,705 You, I kill now. 1087 01:32:29,545 --> 01:32:31,129 Do it. 1088 01:32:31,547 --> 01:32:34,007 End it. I would do-- 1089 01:32:34,675 --> 01:32:36,843 I would do the same. 1090 01:32:37,803 --> 01:32:40,430 I'll die a fool for this... 1091 01:32:40,889 --> 01:32:42,599 ...love. 1092 01:33:06,540 --> 01:33:08,834 [PANTING] 1093 01:33:29,730 --> 01:33:31,565 My life is now yours. 1094 01:33:56,465 --> 01:34:00,260 You will have my son. 1095 01:34:26,078 --> 01:34:27,829 [ROXANE MOANING] 1096 01:34:51,228 --> 01:34:53,397 [ALEXANDER & ROXANE PANTING] 1097 01:34:54,731 --> 01:34:59,319 OLYMPIAS: Who is this woman you call your queen, Alexander? 1098 01:34:59,486 --> 01:35:01,947 A hill girl? 1099 01:35:02,155 --> 01:35:04,658 You, with your breeding. 1100 01:35:04,825 --> 01:35:09,287 Already she makes enemies with her strong, clumsy nature. 1101 01:35:13,125 --> 01:35:15,544 Do not confuse us. 1102 01:35:15,711 --> 01:35:19,589 I was never a barbarian as Philip said. 1103 01:35:19,756 --> 01:35:22,217 We are of Achilles' royal blood. 1104 01:35:23,218 --> 01:35:26,263 Zeus is your father. 1105 01:35:27,806 --> 01:35:31,768 Oh, I understand she brings you some happiness. 1106 01:35:33,061 --> 01:35:34,896 But how can she help you? 1107 01:35:35,564 --> 01:35:38,525 You must know that she does not speak in your name... 1108 01:35:38,692 --> 01:35:42,738 ...which is yours and yours alone. 1109 01:35:42,904 --> 01:35:45,949 Preserve it, secret it... 1110 01:35:46,158 --> 01:35:51,288 ...and hear me when I tell you, act and act soon. 1111 01:35:51,455 --> 01:35:53,457 After seven years, people wonder: 1112 01:35:53,665 --> 01:35:55,917 "Who is this King Alexander?" 1113 01:35:56,084 --> 01:36:02,007 I have given you ample proof. Antipater daily undermines your authority. 1114 01:36:02,174 --> 01:36:05,010 Return to Babylon and strengthen your center. 1115 01:36:05,969 --> 01:36:08,096 Or come home to Macedonia and reorganize. 1116 01:36:08,263 --> 01:36:10,807 But do not chase your dream... 1117 01:36:10,974 --> 01:36:13,143 ...further east. 1118 01:36:13,310 --> 01:36:16,146 Your life and mine depend on it. 1119 01:36:18,023 --> 01:36:19,691 Remember... 1120 01:36:19,858 --> 01:36:23,445 ...my only thoughts are of you. 1121 01:36:23,612 --> 01:36:27,908 As you, too, must face your glorious destiny. 1122 01:36:28,074 --> 01:36:30,285 Think kindly of your mother. 1123 01:36:30,452 --> 01:36:31,912 Provide for me. 1124 01:36:32,078 --> 01:36:35,707 Protect me from your enemies when you are gone. 1125 01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:39,878 And remember always... 1126 01:36:40,045 --> 01:36:43,632 ...it is I who love you more than any. 1127 01:36:49,888 --> 01:36:53,141 If only you were not a pale reflection... 1128 01:36:53,350 --> 01:36:54,559 ...of my mother's heart. 1129 01:37:14,746 --> 01:37:18,250 OLYMPIAS: Pregnant so soon. The little whore. 1130 01:37:18,416 --> 01:37:22,546 He will marry her in the spring, during Dionysus' Festival... 1131 01:37:22,712 --> 01:37:25,465 ...and when her first son is born... 1132 01:37:25,632 --> 01:37:30,846 ...her sweet uncle Attalus will convince Philip to name the boy his successor... 1133 01:37:31,137 --> 01:37:33,390 ...with himself as regent. 1134 01:37:33,849 --> 01:37:35,809 And you... 1135 01:37:35,976 --> 01:37:39,980 ...you will be sent on some impossible mission... 1136 01:37:40,146 --> 01:37:42,732 ...against some monstrous Northern tribe... 1137 01:37:42,899 --> 01:37:48,280 ...to be mutilated in one more meaningless battle over cattle. 1138 01:37:48,446 --> 01:37:52,409 And I, no longer queen, will be put to death... 1139 01:37:52,576 --> 01:37:56,705 ...with your sister and the remaining members of our family. 1140 01:37:56,872 --> 01:38:01,585 I wish sometimes you could see the light, Mother. 1141 01:38:01,751 --> 01:38:06,256 The truth is, he's taken nothing from you that you've not been long without. 1142 01:38:08,008 --> 01:38:10,302 The only way is to strike. 1143 01:38:10,510 --> 01:38:13,221 Announce your marriage to a Macedonian now. 1144 01:38:13,847 --> 01:38:18,226 Beget a child of pure blood. He would be one of them, not mine... 1145 01:38:18,393 --> 01:38:21,688 ...and he would have no choice but to make you king. 1146 01:38:21,897 --> 01:38:24,065 There is still Kynnane. 1147 01:38:25,901 --> 01:38:29,863 Eurydice was perfect. If your father, that pig, had not ravaged her first! 1148 01:38:30,030 --> 01:38:32,657 Say nothing more of my father. 1149 01:38:32,824 --> 01:38:35,660 Do you hear me? Say nothing. 1150 01:38:36,661 --> 01:38:38,371 You're right. 1151 01:38:39,414 --> 01:38:41,416 Forgive me. 1152 01:38:41,583 --> 01:38:44,419 A mother loves too much. 1153 01:38:50,634 --> 01:38:53,261 Who shall I sing to sleep at night anymore? 1154 01:38:58,391 --> 01:39:03,355 I wish-- I wish we could spend more time together. 1155 01:39:04,105 --> 01:39:08,568 Like we used to, when you were the sweetest boy. 1156 01:39:13,907 --> 01:39:15,992 There's never been time, Mother. 1157 01:39:16,826 --> 01:39:21,706 Since I was a child, I've been groomed to be ever the best. 1158 01:39:22,749 --> 01:39:27,212 My poor child, you're like Achilles... 1159 01:39:27,379 --> 01:39:29,839 ...cursed by your greatness. 1160 01:39:34,970 --> 01:39:36,471 Take my strength. 1161 01:39:42,185 --> 01:39:49,192 You must never confuse your feelings with your duties, Alexander. 1162 01:39:50,151 --> 01:39:54,698 A king must make public gestures for the common people. 1163 01:39:54,864 --> 01:39:58,326 I know, but you will be 19 this summer... 1164 01:39:58,493 --> 01:40:03,206 ...and the girls already say you don't like them. You like Hephaistion more. 1165 01:40:03,373 --> 01:40:06,793 I understand. It's natural for a young man. 1166 01:40:06,960 --> 01:40:11,172 But if you go to Asia without leaving your successor, you risk all. 1167 01:40:11,339 --> 01:40:17,679 Hephaistion loves me, as I am... 1168 01:40:17,846 --> 01:40:19,055 ...not who. 1169 01:40:20,557 --> 01:40:24,060 Loves? Loves? 1170 01:40:26,062 --> 01:40:28,606 In the name of Dionysus... 1171 01:40:29,941 --> 01:40:36,614 ...understand how Philip thinks, for your own sake. 1172 01:40:36,781 --> 01:40:40,952 Your life hangs in the balance. 1173 01:40:41,119 --> 01:40:43,663 I know these things, Alexander. 1174 01:40:43,830 --> 01:40:46,833 You are nothing to him. 1175 01:40:47,417 --> 01:40:51,588 His spies are inside your closest circle... 1176 01:40:52,172 --> 01:40:55,383 ...to ensure that you don't plot against him. 1177 01:40:55,550 --> 01:40:58,470 And still you sleep. 1178 01:41:00,305 --> 01:41:02,766 You will not live out this year... 1179 01:41:02,932 --> 01:41:05,351 -...unless you act. - Stop! 1180 01:41:07,687 --> 01:41:10,565 I'm his only worthy son. 1181 01:41:10,732 --> 01:41:12,650 You crazed woman. 1182 01:41:13,735 --> 01:41:15,779 He'd never hurt me. 1183 01:41:16,905 --> 01:41:21,534 Even if Eurydice had a boy, he'd be 20 before he'd let him rule. 1184 01:41:21,826 --> 01:41:25,205 Yes, and you would be 40. 1185 01:41:25,371 --> 01:41:31,795 Old and wise like Parmenion. And Philip's young son would be 20. 1186 01:41:31,961 --> 01:41:38,384 Like you now, but raised by him, his blood. 1187 01:41:38,885 --> 01:41:42,305 He will never give you the throne now, Alexander. 1188 01:41:42,472 --> 01:41:44,057 Never. 1189 01:41:46,142 --> 01:41:48,269 What would you have me do? 1190 01:41:49,270 --> 01:41:51,606 Whatever is necessary. 1191 01:41:55,235 --> 01:41:58,238 Where have you lost your mind? 1192 01:41:58,404 --> 01:42:00,740 There'd be civil war, clan against clan, chaos. 1193 01:42:00,907 --> 01:42:04,035 Yes. And you would win... 1194 01:42:04,202 --> 01:42:07,497 ...because the young ones love you like a god. 1195 01:42:07,664 --> 01:42:09,707 I forbid you to ever talk to me like that! 1196 01:42:09,874 --> 01:42:13,211 Such a man would be forever chased by the Furies! 1197 01:42:13,378 --> 01:42:16,464 What have you to fear from the Furies... 1198 01:42:16,631 --> 01:42:20,093 ...for killing an impostor to the throne... 1199 01:42:20,260 --> 01:42:23,388 ...before he murders you and your mother? 1200 01:42:23,596 --> 01:42:25,974 Why won't you ever believe me? 1201 01:42:26,558 --> 01:42:29,686 Philip did not want you. 1202 01:42:30,812 --> 01:42:32,647 You had a condition of the breathing... 1203 01:42:32,814 --> 01:42:35,358 ...and he wanted to leave you in the mountains... 1204 01:42:35,525 --> 01:42:38,570 ...for the birds to peck at your eyes. 1205 01:42:39,863 --> 01:42:42,198 What you don't know, my poor child. 1206 01:42:42,365 --> 01:42:45,160 Lanice knows nothing of this. 1207 01:42:45,326 --> 01:42:46,369 Lanice. 1208 01:42:47,245 --> 01:42:49,789 I was there. 1209 01:42:49,956 --> 01:42:52,250 Lanice was not. 1210 01:42:52,959 --> 01:42:55,170 No, Alexander... 1211 01:42:55,336 --> 01:42:58,798 ...Zeus is your father. 1212 01:42:59,632 --> 01:43:01,384 I lay with him that night... 1213 01:43:01,551 --> 01:43:04,345 ...in the wind, as sure as any mortal man. 1214 01:43:04,512 --> 01:43:06,431 Never have I been made love to... 1215 01:43:06,598 --> 01:43:08,266 ...as I was then. 1216 01:43:08,433 --> 01:43:09,642 Enough. 1217 01:43:10,643 --> 01:43:14,022 Half the mothers in Greece share such a fantasy. 1218 01:43:15,064 --> 01:43:17,066 I warn you, Mother. 1219 01:43:17,233 --> 01:43:18,860 Make no mistake. 1220 01:43:20,320 --> 01:43:24,616 You will treat this girl as nothing more important than his other wives. 1221 01:43:24,991 --> 01:43:28,244 You will behave as we always have. 1222 01:43:28,411 --> 01:43:30,330 As the first. 1223 01:43:40,632 --> 01:43:42,592 I wonder... 1224 01:43:44,010 --> 01:43:45,303 ...did you ever love him? 1225 01:43:49,140 --> 01:43:50,808 What? 1226 01:43:53,144 --> 01:43:55,230 I never stopped. 1227 01:44:29,514 --> 01:44:31,516 What is it, Orestes? 1228 01:44:36,271 --> 01:44:38,147 ORESTES: I beg your forgiveness, my king. 1229 01:44:39,190 --> 01:44:41,317 I cannot be part of this. 1230 01:44:42,944 --> 01:44:44,862 Who did this? 1231 01:44:47,740 --> 01:44:49,450 Tell me. 1232 01:44:49,617 --> 01:44:51,577 - Say it! - Hermolaus. 1233 01:45:01,963 --> 01:45:03,214 [GRUNTS] 1234 01:45:03,381 --> 01:45:05,967 Death to all tyrants. 1235 01:45:07,510 --> 01:45:10,346 PHILOTAS: All of youse, I didn't do this. 1236 01:45:11,055 --> 01:45:15,143 I've known you and loved you as long as I know. 1237 01:45:16,477 --> 01:45:19,188 Never will you find a man as devoted as I. 1238 01:45:19,355 --> 01:45:24,485 PTOLEMY: The conspiracy, such as it was, deeply upset Alexander... 1239 01:45:24,652 --> 01:45:27,030 ...not only because it involved the young people... 1240 01:45:27,196 --> 01:45:28,698 ...who'd shared his dream... 1241 01:45:28,865 --> 01:45:32,452 ...but, more intimately, it implicated Philotas... 1242 01:45:32,618 --> 01:45:34,787 ...his companion from boyhood... 1243 01:45:34,954 --> 01:45:36,247 ...when a page confessed... 1244 01:45:36,414 --> 01:45:39,459 ...that a few days before, he'd informed Philotas. .. 1245 01:45:39,625 --> 01:45:40,668 Alexander. 1246 01:45:40,835 --> 01:45:42,503 PTOLEMY". ...of the plot. 1247 01:45:43,629 --> 01:45:45,048 Remember me for who I am. 1248 01:45:46,549 --> 01:45:52,263 ALEXANDER: I do remember you, Philotas, but not as you remember yourself. 1249 01:45:52,472 --> 01:45:54,724 And it appears to me and others here... 1250 01:45:54,891 --> 01:45:57,352 ...from the testimony given by your mistress... 1251 01:45:58,102 --> 01:46:01,939 ...that the true weather of your soul is ambition. 1252 01:46:02,732 --> 01:46:04,650 - No. PTOLEMY: We all felt... 1253 01:46:04,817 --> 01:46:07,570 ...there was more here than sexual bickering. 1254 01:46:07,737 --> 01:46:09,947 Alexander wanted the truth... 1255 01:46:10,114 --> 01:46:12,241 ...and Philotas' answers were lacking merit. 1256 01:46:12,867 --> 01:46:13,868 Please take him away. 1257 01:46:14,035 --> 01:46:16,037 PTOLEMY". Alexander put him, silently and quickly... 1258 01:46:16,204 --> 01:46:18,122 -...to trial by his peers... MAN: Remove him. 1259 01:46:18,289 --> 01:46:20,291 PTOLEMY". ...and whether plotter or opportunist... 1260 01:46:20,458 --> 01:46:22,377 ...Philotas was found guilty of treason. 1261 01:46:22,543 --> 01:46:24,295 PHILOTAS: No, Alexander, no! MAN: Remove him. 1262 01:46:24,462 --> 01:46:27,173 PTOLEMY: The suspects were all executed. 1263 01:46:27,590 --> 01:46:30,134 None of us defended Philotas. 1264 01:46:30,301 --> 01:46:32,678 Then again, none of us ever liked him. 1265 01:46:33,596 --> 01:46:35,139 [SHOUTS] 1266 01:46:39,102 --> 01:46:43,314 PTOLEMY: And, of course, his power was carved up by the rest of us. 1267 01:46:45,149 --> 01:46:47,610 Before he died, we tortured him... 1268 01:46:47,777 --> 01:46:50,822 ...to find out what his father, Parmenion, knew. 1269 01:46:51,030 --> 01:46:53,157 But this we never learned. 1270 01:46:53,324 --> 01:46:57,412 What to do with Parmenion and his 20,000 troops guarding our supply lines... 1271 01:46:57,578 --> 01:46:59,664 ...was a far more delicate matter. 1272 01:46:59,831 --> 01:47:03,584 Was he innocent in this, or had he decided to act... 1273 01:47:03,751 --> 01:47:06,546 ...before age further withered his power? 1274 01:47:06,712 --> 01:47:10,049 - The men will follow their king. - Alexander won't be there. 1275 01:47:11,384 --> 01:47:13,302 PTOLEMY: Necessity required Alexander to act. 1276 01:47:13,469 --> 01:47:14,804 ANTIGONUS: The infantry will follow me. 1277 01:47:14,971 --> 01:47:16,931 PTOLEMY: And he sealed the camp within the hour... 1278 01:47:17,098 --> 01:47:20,059 ...of the first accusations against Philotas. 1279 01:47:21,269 --> 01:47:25,189 Then go, Antigonus, and Cleitus. 1280 01:47:25,356 --> 01:47:27,233 And go quickly. 1281 01:47:30,111 --> 01:47:36,033 PTOLEMY: Three days' hard riding sent Antigonus and Cleitus to Parmenion... 1282 01:47:36,200 --> 01:47:39,787 ...the general most loyal to Philip. 1283 01:47:46,127 --> 01:47:49,630 His soldiers accepted the finding of guilt against Parmenion... 1284 01:47:49,797 --> 01:47:52,175 ...as they understood well the code of vengeance... 1285 01:47:52,341 --> 01:47:54,594 ...that made the head of family responsible... 1286 01:47:54,760 --> 01:47:57,346 ...for the behavior of all. 1287 01:47:59,599 --> 01:48:03,811 Many of us felt we were better off without that pompous thorn, Parmenion... 1288 01:48:03,978 --> 01:48:09,317 ...as Alexander promoted all of us generously. 1289 01:48:23,831 --> 01:48:28,377 If we issue the gold bullion in the name of Alexander, there'd be little resistance. 1290 01:48:28,586 --> 01:48:30,838 Cleitus. Antigonus. 1291 01:48:31,005 --> 01:48:32,757 Parmenion. 1292 01:48:48,105 --> 01:48:49,774 [GRUNTS] 1293 01:48:50,566 --> 01:48:51,567 [GROANS] 1294 01:48:56,364 --> 01:48:57,532 [PARMENION GRUNTING] 1295 01:50:15,276 --> 01:50:19,905 [FLUTE AND DRUM PLAYING UPBEAT MUSIC] 1296 01:50:25,953 --> 01:50:28,372 [LAUGHING AND CHATTERING] 1297 01:50:46,140 --> 01:50:49,518 Come, Alexander, drink this sadness away. 1298 01:50:49,685 --> 01:50:51,979 If only thirst could quench sorrow, Ptolemy. 1299 01:50:52,146 --> 01:50:53,522 [SHOUTING] 1300 01:50:55,358 --> 01:50:59,654 There's only one thing better than winning a battle, son... 1301 01:51:00,446 --> 01:51:03,282 ...and that's the taste of a new woman. 1302 01:51:03,449 --> 01:51:08,329 You'll find it far sweeter than self-pity. 1303 01:51:08,496 --> 01:51:11,791 Pausanias, you bore me. Be gone with you. 1304 01:51:11,957 --> 01:51:13,959 CLEITUS: Alexander, I found you the right girl. 1305 01:51:14,126 --> 01:51:16,253 - What's your name, darling? ANTIGONE: Antigone. 1306 01:51:16,420 --> 01:51:18,381 - What's your name? - Antigone. Whoo! 1307 01:51:20,341 --> 01:51:21,384 I love you. 1308 01:51:21,550 --> 01:51:23,010 And I love you, Cleitus. 1309 01:51:23,177 --> 01:51:24,220 [LAUGHING] 1310 01:51:24,387 --> 01:51:26,764 PAUSANIAS: Please, no! - There you go. 1311 01:51:27,973 --> 01:51:30,476 [PAUSANIAS GRUNTING] 1312 01:51:30,643 --> 01:51:32,937 CLEITUS: I'll sleep in my grave, Hephaistion. 1313 01:51:33,104 --> 01:51:35,940 While alive, I prefer dancing. 1314 01:51:36,107 --> 01:51:37,858 ATTALUS: Pausanias. 1315 01:51:38,859 --> 01:51:40,194 Who's your new friend? 1316 01:51:40,736 --> 01:51:42,780 - There's your new friend. PAUSANIAS: Please don't! 1317 01:51:42,947 --> 01:51:44,865 No! Please, no! 1318 01:51:45,032 --> 01:51:46,534 No! Please! 1319 01:51:46,701 --> 01:51:53,290 [CYMBALS CLANGING AND FLUTE PLAYING] 1320 01:51:55,668 --> 01:51:56,711 ATTALUS: A toast. 1321 01:51:57,336 --> 01:51:58,796 A toast! 1322 01:51:59,380 --> 01:52:04,677 I drink to our Greek friends and to our new union... 1323 01:52:04,844 --> 01:52:10,808 ...Macedonia and Greece, equals in greatness! 1324 01:52:10,975 --> 01:52:12,101 [ALL CHEERING] 1325 01:52:12,893 --> 01:52:19,900 And to Philip, our king, without whom this union could not be possible. 1326 01:52:20,067 --> 01:52:22,903 Come, Attalus, leave some damn air in the hall! 1327 01:52:23,070 --> 01:52:24,405 [ALL LAUGHING] 1328 01:52:24,572 --> 01:52:30,411 And last, I drink to the king's marriage to my niece, Eurydice... 1329 01:52:30,578 --> 01:52:33,622 ...a Macedonian queen we can be proud of! 1330 01:52:33,789 --> 01:52:35,791 [ALL CHEERING] 1331 01:52:36,751 --> 01:52:39,837 ATTALUS: To Philip and Eurydice... 1332 01:52:40,004 --> 01:52:43,466 ...and to their legitimate sons! 1333 01:52:43,632 --> 01:52:45,384 [ALL CHEERING] 1334 01:52:45,551 --> 01:52:46,719 CLEITUS: Alexander, don't! 1335 01:52:46,886 --> 01:52:49,638 What am I, you son of a dog? Come, then. 1336 01:52:53,476 --> 01:52:55,019 [ALL SHOUTING] 1337 01:53:01,734 --> 01:53:05,070 MAN 1: Shut up. PHILIP: Shut up. 1338 01:53:05,237 --> 01:53:06,947 Shut up, all of you! 1339 01:53:07,364 --> 01:53:09,950 This is my wedding, not some public brawl. 1340 01:53:10,117 --> 01:53:12,119 ATTALUS: insolent pup. 1341 01:53:12,286 --> 01:53:15,706 Apologize, by Zeus, before you dishonor me. 1342 01:53:15,915 --> 01:53:19,084 You defend the man who called my mother a whore and me a bastard. 1343 01:53:19,251 --> 01:53:22,630 - And I dishonor you? - Ha! You listen like your mother. 1344 01:53:22,797 --> 01:53:24,799 Attalus is my family now, the same as you. 1345 01:53:24,965 --> 01:53:27,843 Then choose your relatives more carefully. 1346 01:53:28,010 --> 01:53:31,096 Don't expect me to sit here and watch you shame yourself. 1347 01:53:31,263 --> 01:53:34,433 - You insult me! - I insult you! 1348 01:53:34,600 --> 01:53:37,436 A man not fit to lick the ground my mother walks on. 1349 01:53:37,603 --> 01:53:40,689 - You dog, questioning your queen. - Shame? 1350 01:53:40,856 --> 01:53:44,652 I've nothing to be ashamed of, you arrogant brat. 1351 01:53:44,819 --> 01:53:48,614 I'll marry the girl if I want, and I'll have as many sons as I want. 1352 01:53:48,781 --> 01:53:51,534 There's nothing you or your harpy mother can do. 1353 01:53:51,700 --> 01:53:53,327 Why, drunken man, must you think... 1354 01:53:53,494 --> 01:53:55,996 ...everything I do and say comes from my mother? 1355 01:53:56,163 --> 01:53:59,083 Because I know her heart, by Hera... 1356 01:53:59,250 --> 01:54:01,460 ...and I see her in your eyes. 1357 01:54:01,627 --> 01:54:04,046 You covet this throne too much. 1358 01:54:05,464 --> 01:54:10,803 We all know that she-wolf of a mother of yours wants me dead. 1359 01:54:10,970 --> 01:54:13,264 Well, you can both dream, boy. 1360 01:54:13,430 --> 01:54:16,559 Philip, this is the wine talking. Leave the boy. It'll wait. 1361 01:54:16,725 --> 01:54:18,310 NOW! 1362 01:54:19,478 --> 01:54:21,355 I command you. 1363 01:54:22,606 --> 01:54:24,817 Apologize to your kinsman. 1364 01:54:33,534 --> 01:54:35,244 Apologize. 1365 01:54:35,411 --> 01:54:37,788 No kinsman to me. 1366 01:54:41,417 --> 01:54:43,294 Good night, old man. 1367 01:54:45,004 --> 01:54:49,216 And when my mother remarries, I'll invite you to her wedding. 1368 01:54:49,967 --> 01:54:51,719 You bastard! 1369 01:54:57,558 --> 01:54:59,226 You'll obey me. Come here. 1370 01:55:13,824 --> 01:55:14,909 [GRUNTING] 1371 01:55:16,785 --> 01:55:18,037 [PHILIP GRUNTING] 1372 01:55:18,203 --> 01:55:22,041 And this is the man who is going to take you from Greece to Persia? 1373 01:55:22,207 --> 01:55:24,460 He can't even make it from one couch to the next. 1374 01:55:24,919 --> 01:55:28,672 Get out of my palace! You're exiled, you bastard! 1375 01:55:29,548 --> 01:55:33,010 Banished from the land. You're not welcome here. 1376 01:55:33,719 --> 01:55:35,930 You're no son of mine! 1377 01:56:15,511 --> 01:56:19,640 PTOLEMY: In the spring, Alexander marched an army of 150, 000... 1378 01:56:19,807 --> 01:56:22,851 ...across the passes of the Hindu Kush... 1379 01:56:23,394 --> 01:56:25,396 ...into the unknown. 1380 01:56:26,647 --> 01:56:31,485 In his dream, it was the promised route to the end of the world. 1381 01:56:31,652 --> 01:56:33,529 We were now a mobile empire... 1382 01:56:33,696 --> 01:56:37,574 ...stretching back thousands of miles to Greece. 1383 01:56:37,741 --> 01:56:40,661 Cooks and architects, doctors, surveyors... 1384 01:56:40,828 --> 01:56:42,287 ...moneylenders and wives... 1385 01:56:42,454 --> 01:56:45,332 . . . children, lovers, whores. 1386 01:56:45,541 --> 01:56:47,376 And slaves... 1387 01:56:47,584 --> 01:56:52,089 ...that anonymous, bent, working spine of this new beast. 1388 01:56:52,297 --> 01:56:56,135 Ravaged or expanded, for better or worse. .. 1389 01:56:57,011 --> 01:57:01,598 ...no occupied territory remained the same again. 1390 01:57:04,977 --> 01:57:06,979 Although devoted to Roxane... 1391 01:57:07,146 --> 01:57:10,274 ...Alexander's visits to her tent diminished... 1392 01:57:10,441 --> 01:57:15,446 ...as a year, then two, went by without a successor... 1393 01:57:16,363 --> 01:57:19,450 ...wounding Alexander's great pride. 1394 01:57:19,992 --> 01:57:22,870 The surveyors are saying that Zeus chained Prometheus up there. 1395 01:57:23,746 --> 01:57:26,081 In one of those caves. 1396 01:57:26,832 --> 01:57:29,626 They say there's a giant eagle's nest just above it. 1397 01:57:29,877 --> 01:57:34,673 I suppose he drops down each night to peck out poor Prometheus' liver. 1398 01:57:37,301 --> 01:57:40,763 ALEXANDER: You remember what Aristotle told us of these mountains? 1399 01:57:41,638 --> 01:57:43,307 Yes, I do. 1400 01:57:44,141 --> 01:57:46,226 That when we reach these heights... 1401 01:57:46,393 --> 01:57:49,605 ...we'd look back and see Macedonia to the west... 1402 01:57:49,772 --> 01:57:52,399 ...and the outer ocean to the east. 1403 01:57:56,487 --> 01:58:01,700 But I fear this world is far larger than anyone dreamed. 1404 01:58:01,867 --> 01:58:03,994 A world of Titans. 1405 01:58:04,161 --> 01:58:08,165 The scouts have been up every known trail, Alexander. 1406 01:58:08,332 --> 01:58:10,375 There is no way across. 1407 01:58:10,959 --> 01:58:15,172 Except to the south, into India. 1408 01:58:15,506 --> 01:58:18,592 Were we gods, we'd breach these walls to the eastern ocean. 1409 01:58:19,426 --> 01:58:21,136 PTOLEMY: We will, Alexander. 1410 01:58:21,303 --> 01:58:23,972 In a few years' time, we will return. 1411 01:58:24,181 --> 01:58:27,935 But first, the men must see their homes. 1412 01:58:29,394 --> 01:58:31,563 Have you found your home... 1413 01:58:31,772 --> 01:58:33,357 ...Ptolemy? 1414 01:58:38,070 --> 01:58:41,198 More and more, I think it will be Alexandria. 1415 01:58:43,408 --> 01:58:45,452 Well, at least it's hot. 1416 01:58:46,453 --> 01:58:48,205 And Thais... 1417 01:58:49,248 --> 01:58:51,125 ...she loved it there. 1418 01:58:53,085 --> 01:58:55,212 Women bring men home. 1419 01:58:56,463 --> 01:59:01,301 - I have no such feeling. - You have Babylon, Alexander. 1420 01:59:01,468 --> 01:59:03,512 Where your mother awaits your invitation. 1421 01:59:03,929 --> 01:59:06,723 Yes, I have Babylon. 1422 01:59:06,890 --> 01:59:11,186 But each land, each boundary I cross... 1423 01:59:11,353 --> 01:59:13,480 ...I strip away another illusion. 1424 01:59:14,940 --> 01:59:17,234 I sense death will be the last. 1425 01:59:19,903 --> 01:59:23,365 Yet still I push harder and harder... 1426 01:59:23,532 --> 01:59:27,119 ...to reach this home. 1427 01:59:32,749 --> 01:59:34,084 Where has our eagle gone? 1428 01:59:38,881 --> 01:59:40,841 We must go on, Ptolemy. 1429 01:59:42,259 --> 01:59:43,802 Until we find an end. 1430 02:01:26,280 --> 02:01:27,990 [THUNDER BOOMING] 1431 02:01:30,242 --> 02:01:33,912 PTOLEMY: India, the land where the sun was born... 1432 02:01:34,079 --> 02:01:36,581 ...fabled to be even richer than Persia... 1433 02:01:36,748 --> 02:01:40,919 ...had never been explored or conquered. 1434 02:01:41,086 --> 02:01:46,425 From the beginning, Alexander struggled to unify a land without a center. 1435 02:01:46,591 --> 02:01:49,344 Kings who conspired against one another. 1436 02:01:49,511 --> 02:01:53,557 A labyrinth of tribes urged on by zealots and philosophers... 1437 02:01:53,765 --> 02:01:58,145 ...to die by the thousands for their strange gods. 1438 02:02:03,859 --> 02:02:07,821 Crateros, in the advance party, fought against men with hairy skins... 1439 02:02:08,030 --> 02:02:10,991 ...who were tiny and lived in the tops of trees. 1440 02:02:11,199 --> 02:02:13,201 [ALL SHOUTING AND MONKEYS SCREECHING] 1441 02:02:17,998 --> 02:02:19,249 HEPHAISTION: They're animals. 1442 02:02:19,416 --> 02:02:21,877 PTOLEMY: Until Hephaistion convinced us these were animals... 1443 02:02:22,044 --> 02:02:24,171 ...who imitated men but wore their own skin. 1444 02:02:24,338 --> 02:02:25,714 MAN 1: Keep that away from me. 1445 02:02:25,881 --> 02:02:27,841 HEPHAISTION: It's a monkey. Very intelligent. 1446 02:02:28,008 --> 02:02:29,176 Hello, little man. 1447 02:02:30,177 --> 02:02:33,597 - Do they speak? HEPHAISTION: No, but they do sing... 1448 02:02:33,764 --> 02:02:34,973 ...and make noises. 1449 02:02:41,229 --> 02:02:43,148 PTOLEMY". We saw men who walked naked in public... 1450 02:02:43,315 --> 02:02:47,903 ...and spent hours at a time staring and doing nothing. 1451 02:02:49,738 --> 02:02:52,532 And then, there was the rain. 1452 02:02:53,784 --> 02:02:56,286 [THUNDER BOOMING THEN MEN SCREAMING] 1453 02:02:58,288 --> 02:03:02,042 PTOLEMY: Never before had we seen water that fell from the gods... 1454 02:03:02,209 --> 02:03:04,920 ...for 60 days and nights. 1455 02:03:08,757 --> 02:03:10,759 You know better, Machatas. 1456 02:03:14,429 --> 02:03:15,764 What's your son going to say? 1457 02:03:16,181 --> 02:03:18,475 Come on, man. The older you get, the stronger. 1458 02:03:18,642 --> 02:03:20,560 MACHATAS: Right, my king. 1459 02:03:20,727 --> 02:03:22,187 Give me my horse, Alexander. 1460 02:03:22,354 --> 02:03:25,357 I'll be with you at your side. Aah! 1461 02:03:25,524 --> 02:03:27,025 MAN 1: Watch out for the serpent. 1462 02:03:27,192 --> 02:03:28,944 PTOLEMY". Everything rotted in this rain. 1463 02:03:29,111 --> 02:03:33,365 Scores of men died miserably from the tiny serpents... 1464 02:03:33,532 --> 02:03:35,951 -...that were everywhere in this evil land. - Cleitus, bring the snake healers! 1465 02:03:36,118 --> 02:03:37,744 MAN 2: Pauvanus. Someone bring Pauvanus. 1466 02:03:37,911 --> 02:03:39,037 MAN 3: Where's the bite? 1467 02:03:39,204 --> 02:03:40,789 - What happened? ALEXANDER: It's to the neck. 1468 02:03:40,956 --> 02:03:43,458 Oh, no. Zeus, no. 1469 02:03:43,625 --> 02:03:45,085 Hold on. Hold on. 1470 02:03:47,129 --> 02:03:49,256 - Aah! CRATEROS: Be brave. 1471 02:03:49,464 --> 02:03:51,133 Be brave. 1472 02:03:51,299 --> 02:03:53,260 Oh, Zeus. 1473 02:03:55,095 --> 02:03:58,473 PTOLEMY: Our quest for gold and glory evaporated as we realized... 1474 02:03:58,932 --> 02:04:01,059 ...there was none to be had. 1475 02:04:01,768 --> 02:04:03,603 Tempers worsened. 1476 02:04:03,770 --> 02:04:06,731 We massacred all Indians who resisted. 1477 02:04:06,898 --> 02:04:09,025 And with the local water putrid... 1478 02:04:09,192 --> 02:04:11,903 ...we drank the strong wine. 1479 02:04:13,738 --> 02:04:15,615 [DRUMS BANGING] 1480 02:04:25,917 --> 02:04:26,918 [ALL CHEERING] 1481 02:04:53,111 --> 02:04:55,405 [CHEERING AND LAUGHING] 1482 02:04:55,739 --> 02:04:57,199 [SHOUTING] 1483 02:05:05,874 --> 02:05:08,585 PTOLEMY: And as we moved south and east... 1484 02:05:08,752 --> 02:05:13,590 ...Alexander often returned the lands we conquered to their defeated kings... 1485 02:05:13,757 --> 02:05:16,384 ...so as to make them allies. 1486 02:05:16,551 --> 02:05:18,762 But this did not sit well with the army... 1487 02:05:18,929 --> 02:05:20,263 ...who began to wonder: 1488 02:05:21,014 --> 02:05:23,099 "Were we here for riches?" 1489 02:05:23,266 --> 02:05:27,229 Or had Alexander, in some remorseless and crazed quest... 1490 02:05:27,395 --> 02:05:30,398 ...to imitate the glory of Herakles, forgotten them? 1491 02:05:31,316 --> 02:05:34,569 One thing an army knows quickly in their bones... 1492 02:05:34,736 --> 02:05:37,697 ...is which way the gods are blowing. 1493 02:05:56,383 --> 02:05:57,884 MAN 1: Come on. 1494 02:06:03,306 --> 02:06:04,516 [CHEERING] 1495 02:06:04,683 --> 02:06:06,309 MAN 2: Kiss him! 1496 02:06:06,726 --> 02:06:09,354 [ALL SHOUTING] 1497 02:06:14,693 --> 02:06:16,903 [ALL CHEERING] 1498 02:06:29,291 --> 02:06:31,876 - To Bagoas. ALL: To Bagoas! 1499 02:06:37,382 --> 02:06:41,511 - And to my mother's god, Dionysus... MAN 1: Dionysus! 1500 02:06:41,678 --> 02:06:45,932 ...who, we're told by our Indian allies, traveled here before Herakles... 1501 02:06:46,099 --> 02:06:48,852 ...some 6000 years ago. 1502 02:06:49,019 --> 02:06:50,395 To a hero. 1503 02:06:50,562 --> 02:06:52,689 ALL: To a hero! 1504 02:06:58,862 --> 02:07:01,740 [ALL CHEERING AND SHOUTING] 1505 02:07:12,459 --> 02:07:13,793 ALEXANDER: Roxane. 1506 02:07:20,759 --> 02:07:23,219 You lose face. 1507 02:07:23,386 --> 02:07:24,929 These Indians... 1508 02:07:25,138 --> 02:07:26,890 ...they are a low, evil people. 1509 02:07:27,057 --> 02:07:29,267 You don't try to understand them. 1510 02:07:29,684 --> 02:07:31,936 I try. 1511 02:07:32,145 --> 02:07:35,148 But this I know, Alexander. 1512 02:07:35,315 --> 02:07:38,443 In Persia, you are a great king. 1513 02:07:38,652 --> 02:07:40,153 Here... 1514 02:07:40,320 --> 02:07:42,280 ...they hate you. 1515 02:07:45,075 --> 02:07:48,203 Let us go back to Babylon. 1516 02:07:49,371 --> 02:07:50,872 There, you are strong. 1517 02:07:53,249 --> 02:07:55,377 We'll talk about this later. 1518 02:07:55,585 --> 02:07:57,170 Yes. 1519 02:07:57,337 --> 02:07:58,880 Later. 1520 02:07:59,047 --> 02:08:00,590 Talk. 1521 02:08:03,385 --> 02:08:05,345 I shall come. 1522 02:08:05,512 --> 02:08:06,638 Tonight. 1523 02:08:07,806 --> 02:08:09,683 And I shall wait. 1524 02:08:11,476 --> 02:08:13,603 Good night, my king. 1525 02:08:15,146 --> 02:08:17,482 Your Majesty. 1526 02:08:18,983 --> 02:08:21,945 Come, Alexander, drink with us. 1527 02:08:24,447 --> 02:08:27,575 MAN 1: Alexander. MAN 2: Alexander. 1528 02:08:29,494 --> 02:08:32,372 I remember a time you hated... 1529 02:08:32,539 --> 02:08:36,209 -...how your father drank. - Now I know why. 1530 02:08:36,376 --> 02:08:37,836 [PTOLEMY LAUGHS] 1531 02:08:38,002 --> 02:08:41,840 Dionysus is hero... 1532 02:08:43,174 --> 02:08:46,803 ...but he is also mind-breaker. 1533 02:08:47,011 --> 02:08:50,098 He destroys our self-control. 1534 02:08:50,932 --> 02:08:54,394 Self-control is a lover I've known too long, Ptolemy. 1535 02:08:57,897 --> 02:08:59,899 The struggle wearies me to the bone. 1536 02:09:00,066 --> 02:09:01,818 [SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 1537 02:09:01,985 --> 02:09:04,946 And success I find to be as corrupt as failure. 1538 02:09:06,322 --> 02:09:07,824 But Dionysus... 1539 02:09:07,991 --> 02:09:10,493 ...bless his ancient soul... 1540 02:09:10,660 --> 02:09:12,954 ...frees me from myself. 1541 02:09:13,872 --> 02:09:17,250 And then, I'm with them. 1542 02:09:20,336 --> 02:09:23,047 I am simply Alexander. 1543 02:09:27,177 --> 02:09:28,970 A toast to Bagoas. 1544 02:09:30,680 --> 02:09:35,351 And the 30,000 beautiful Persian boys... 1545 02:09:35,518 --> 02:09:37,937 ...we're training to fight in this great army. 1546 02:09:38,104 --> 02:09:40,523 [ALL CHEERING] 1547 02:09:40,940 --> 02:09:42,984 CLEITUS: And to the memory of Philip. 1548 02:09:43,193 --> 02:09:46,070 Had he lived to see his Macedonians... 1549 02:09:46,237 --> 02:09:49,157 ...transformed into such... 1550 02:09:49,324 --> 02:09:50,992 ...a pretty am“!- 1551 02:09:53,369 --> 02:09:54,662 To Philip. 1552 02:09:54,829 --> 02:09:56,831 To a real hero. 1553 02:09:57,040 --> 02:09:59,375 ALL: Philip! 1554 02:10:02,170 --> 02:10:06,883 And to Cleitus and his new appointment as satrap of Bactria. 1555 02:10:07,091 --> 02:10:08,760 ALL: Cleitus. 1556 02:10:10,303 --> 02:10:12,931 That's a fancy way of putting it, Ptolemy. 1557 02:10:13,097 --> 02:10:16,100 But we all know what a pension and an exile is... 1558 02:10:16,267 --> 02:10:18,645 ...after 30 years' service. 1559 02:10:18,812 --> 02:10:20,230 ALEXANDER: Exile? 1560 02:10:20,605 --> 02:10:22,357 From what, Cleitus? 1561 02:10:22,524 --> 02:10:25,610 CLEITUS: From my home, Alexander, Macedonia. 1562 02:10:25,777 --> 02:10:29,072 You could've asked me where I wanted to spend the rest of my life. 1563 02:10:29,280 --> 02:10:33,201 You call governing this major province exile? 1564 02:10:33,451 --> 02:10:36,538 Has Your Majesty given any of his closest companions... 1565 02:10:37,413 --> 02:10:39,499 ...a province so far from home? 1566 02:10:39,666 --> 02:10:41,960 Then you won't make a very good satrap, will you, Cleitus? 1567 02:10:42,126 --> 02:10:44,170 [ALL LAUGHING] 1568 02:10:46,339 --> 02:10:47,882 So be it. 1569 02:10:48,091 --> 02:10:51,761 Let me rot in Macedonian rags... 1570 02:10:51,928 --> 02:10:54,055 ...rather than shine... 1571 02:10:54,222 --> 02:10:55,390 ...in Eastern pomp. 1572 02:10:56,850 --> 02:11:00,603 I won't quake and bow down like the sycophants you have around you. 1573 02:11:00,979 --> 02:11:04,816 - Hephaistion, Nearchus, Perdiccas. CRATEROS: Hey. 1574 02:11:05,525 --> 02:11:09,988 As governor of one of our most Asian of satrapies... 1575 02:11:10,154 --> 02:11:14,993 ...Cleitus, does it not occur to you that if my Persian subjects... 1576 02:11:15,159 --> 02:11:18,121 ...bow down before me, it's important for them to do so? 1577 02:11:18,288 --> 02:11:21,040 Do I insist on Greeks doing the same? 1578 02:11:21,457 --> 02:11:26,170 You accept Greek offerings as a son of Zeus, do you not? 1579 02:11:28,339 --> 02:11:29,674 Only when offered. 1580 02:11:29,841 --> 02:11:32,260 Why don't you refuse these vain flatteries? 1581 02:11:32,927 --> 02:11:35,388 What freedom is this, to bow before you? 1582 02:11:35,763 --> 02:11:38,349 You bow before Herakles, and he was mortal... 1583 02:11:38,558 --> 02:11:40,184 ...but a son of Zeus. 1584 02:11:40,351 --> 02:11:43,855 How can you, so young, compare yourself to Herakles? 1585 02:11:45,273 --> 02:11:47,025 Why not? 1586 02:11:49,736 --> 02:11:52,113 I've achieved more in my years. 1587 02:11:52,280 --> 02:11:53,907 Traveled as far. 1588 02:11:54,073 --> 02:11:55,116 Probably farther. 1589 02:11:55,283 --> 02:11:57,493 CLEITUS: Herakles did it by himself. 1590 02:11:57,660 --> 02:12:00,872 Did you conquer Asia by yourself, Alexander? 1591 02:12:01,039 --> 02:12:02,665 Who planned the Asian invasion... 1592 02:12:02,832 --> 02:12:06,669 ...when you were still being spanked on your bottom by my sister Lanice? 1593 02:12:07,003 --> 02:12:08,922 Was it not your father? 1594 02:12:09,088 --> 02:12:10,965 Or is his blood no longer good enough? 1595 02:12:11,591 --> 02:12:15,094 - Zeus-Amon, is it? - You insult me, Cleitus. 1596 02:12:15,261 --> 02:12:17,805 You mock my family. Be careful. 1597 02:12:18,306 --> 02:12:21,768 CLEITUS: Never would your father have taken barbarians as his friends... 1598 02:12:21,935 --> 02:12:24,604 ...asked us to fight with them as equals in war. 1599 02:12:24,771 --> 02:12:26,648 Are we not good enough any longer? 1600 02:12:26,940 --> 02:12:29,192 I remember a time... 1601 02:12:29,359 --> 02:12:31,903 ...when we could talk as men, straight to the eye. 1602 02:12:32,070 --> 02:12:34,739 None of this scraping, groveling. 1603 02:12:35,406 --> 02:12:37,700 I remember a time when we hunted... 1604 02:12:37,867 --> 02:12:40,495 ...when we wrestled on the gymnasium floor. 1605 02:12:41,079 --> 02:12:43,081 Now you kiss them? 1606 02:12:44,499 --> 02:12:49,504 Take a barbarian, childless wife and dare call her queen? 1607 02:12:52,215 --> 02:12:55,718 Go quickly, Cleitus, before you ruin your life. 1608 02:12:59,681 --> 02:13:03,309 Doesn't your great pride fear the gods any longer? 1609 02:13:04,519 --> 02:13:07,814 This army... This army is your blood, boy! 1610 02:13:08,022 --> 02:13:10,024 Without it, you're nothing! 1611 02:13:15,321 --> 02:13:18,866 You no longer serve the purpose of this march! 1612 02:13:19,033 --> 02:13:21,828 - Get him from my sight! - I don't serve your purpose? 1613 02:13:21,995 --> 02:13:25,832 What was I serving when I saved your puppy life at Gaugamela? 1614 02:13:25,999 --> 02:13:27,083 Were you Zeus' boy? 1615 02:13:27,250 --> 02:13:29,335 What if I left you to die in the dust there? 1616 02:13:29,502 --> 02:13:32,922 Do you think we'd be forced now to mate with brown apes? 1617 02:13:33,297 --> 02:13:34,507 Alexander! 1618 02:13:34,674 --> 02:13:36,968 Turn out the guards! Arrest him for treason! 1619 02:13:43,182 --> 02:13:44,350 [GRUNTS] 1620 02:13:44,517 --> 02:13:46,185 - Who's with him? - No. 1621 02:13:46,561 --> 02:13:47,895 Who's with him? 1622 02:13:48,688 --> 02:13:50,690 I call Father Zeus to witness. 1623 02:13:51,065 --> 02:13:53,151 I call you to trial before him! 1624 02:13:53,317 --> 02:13:55,820 And we'll see how deep this conspiracy cuts! 1625 02:13:55,987 --> 02:13:58,239 - Take him! - In the name of the gods, get him out! 1626 02:13:58,698 --> 02:14:00,199 Now look at you! 1627 02:14:00,366 --> 02:14:02,827 Great white arse, Alexander. 1628 02:14:02,994 --> 02:14:04,704 Hiding behind his fairy god! 1629 02:14:04,871 --> 02:14:08,750 Or are you too great to remember... 1630 02:14:08,916 --> 02:14:11,377 ...whose life was saved by me? 1631 02:14:11,544 --> 02:14:14,047 I am more man than you'll ever be! 1632 02:14:14,213 --> 02:14:16,841 - Aah! - Eve r! 1633 02:14:17,800 --> 02:14:20,261 MAN 1: He's gone. He's gone. MAN 2: Get him out! 1634 02:14:20,428 --> 02:14:23,097 - Alexander! Alexander! ANTIGONUS: Come on! 1635 02:14:23,514 --> 02:14:25,641 What a tyrant you are! 1636 02:14:25,808 --> 02:14:28,144 Evil tyrant you've become, Alexander. 1637 02:14:28,311 --> 02:14:31,355 You speak about plots against you? What about poor Parmenion? 1638 02:14:31,522 --> 02:14:33,191 MAN 3: Parmenion? CLEITUS: Yeah. 1639 02:14:33,357 --> 02:14:34,650 He served you well. 1640 02:14:34,817 --> 02:14:37,904 Look how you repaid him. You made me do your foul deed. 1641 02:14:38,071 --> 02:14:40,114 - Have you no shame? - You ungrateful wretch! 1642 02:14:40,281 --> 02:14:42,950 No one, not my vilest enemy, has spoken like you to me. 1643 02:14:43,117 --> 02:14:44,160 Hear what I say! 1644 02:14:44,327 --> 02:14:45,536 Despot. False king. 1645 02:14:45,703 --> 02:14:47,121 [SCREAMS] 1646 02:14:47,789 --> 02:14:50,500 You and your barbarian mother live in shame. 1647 02:14:50,666 --> 02:14:52,126 [SCREAMING] 1648 02:15:03,012 --> 02:15:04,222 [GRUNTS] 1649 02:15:15,316 --> 02:15:16,901 Cleitus. 1650 02:15:17,193 --> 02:15:19,028 Oh, my Cleitus. 1651 02:15:23,491 --> 02:15:25,618 [SOBBING] 1652 02:15:26,661 --> 02:15:28,204 - Let me pass. MAN 1: None can enter. 1653 02:15:28,371 --> 02:15:30,289 I am the queen. 1654 02:15:32,333 --> 02:15:34,127 [THUNDER BOOMING] 1655 02:15:38,339 --> 02:15:40,591 I want to see him. I've waited three days. 1656 02:15:40,758 --> 02:15:43,261 He says none, not even you. 1657 02:15:44,595 --> 02:15:48,516 - He needs me. - No, he doesn't. 1658 02:15:48,683 --> 02:15:50,226 And he needs you? 1659 02:15:52,019 --> 02:15:53,646 Hephaistion, you make a mistake. 1660 02:15:57,441 --> 02:15:59,694 HEPHAISTION: The army grows restless... 1661 02:15:59,861 --> 02:16:01,737 ...questioning. 1662 02:16:02,738 --> 02:16:04,532 Alexander. 1663 02:16:07,201 --> 02:16:08,744 They need your reassurance. 1664 02:16:10,037 --> 02:16:11,622 Yes. 1665 02:16:11,789 --> 02:16:15,918 Like an old lover they forgive, but they will never forget. 1666 02:16:16,085 --> 02:16:18,629 HEPHAISTION: He was an aging drunk. 1667 02:16:18,796 --> 02:16:20,756 He was my friend. 1668 02:16:21,090 --> 02:16:22,717 [ALEXANDER SNIFFLES] 1669 02:16:22,884 --> 02:16:25,428 His sister Lanice nursed me. 1670 02:16:26,512 --> 02:16:28,890 And how did I repay her? 1671 02:16:30,141 --> 02:16:33,603 Two brothers dead, fighting, and by my own hands... 1672 02:16:33,769 --> 02:16:36,189 ...her last remaining blood. 1673 02:16:39,609 --> 02:16:44,071 What will she do but weep on the day of my birth? 1674 02:16:45,406 --> 02:16:46,449 HEPHAISTION: Come. 1675 02:16:46,616 --> 02:16:47,950 You know more than any... 1676 02:16:48,117 --> 02:16:52,580 ...great deeds are done by men who took and never regretted. 1677 02:16:52,747 --> 02:16:54,582 You're Alexander. 1678 02:16:54,749 --> 02:16:57,585 Pity and grief will only destroy you. 1679 02:16:57,752 --> 02:17:01,881 Have I become so arrogant that I am blind? 1680 02:17:03,925 --> 02:17:04,967 Sometimes... 1681 02:17:05,134 --> 02:17:07,762 ...to expect the best of everyone... 1682 02:17:07,929 --> 02:17:10,890 ...is arrogance. 1683 02:17:12,850 --> 02:17:15,478 Then Cleitus spoke true. 1684 02:17:15,645 --> 02:17:18,064 I am become a tyrant. 1685 02:17:18,940 --> 02:17:20,650 No. 1686 02:17:22,944 --> 02:17:25,029 But perhaps a stranger. 1687 02:17:27,073 --> 02:17:29,325 You've gone too far. 1688 02:17:30,409 --> 02:17:32,870 They don't understand you anymore. 1689 02:17:34,830 --> 02:17:38,793 They speak of Philip now... 1690 02:17:38,960 --> 02:17:42,213 ...as if I were a passing cloud... 1691 02:17:42,880 --> 02:17:45,174 ...soon to be forgotten. 1692 02:17:47,301 --> 02:17:49,136 I've failed... 1693 02:17:49,303 --> 02:17:50,930 ...utterly. 1694 02:17:53,140 --> 02:17:55,142 You're mortal. 1695 02:17:55,309 --> 02:17:57,228 And they know it. 1696 02:17:57,395 --> 02:18:01,732 And they forgive you because you make them proud of themselves. 1697 02:18:02,566 --> 02:18:05,152 Philip once said... 1698 02:18:07,405 --> 02:18:09,991 ...that there's a Titan in all of us. 1699 02:18:11,117 --> 02:18:13,911 That they wait, mixed in our ashes. 1700 02:18:19,458 --> 02:18:22,378 It wasn't because of the wine I killed him. 1701 02:18:22,586 --> 02:18:24,839 It was because I wanted to. 1702 02:18:38,060 --> 02:18:40,771 [DRUMS BANGING AND CYMBALS CLANGING] 1703 02:18:44,150 --> 02:18:46,569 [ALL CHEERING] 1704 02:18:46,944 --> 02:18:48,154 [COW BELLOWING] 1705 02:18:52,992 --> 02:18:56,203 Philip, King of Macedonia... 1706 02:18:56,412 --> 02:18:58,122 ...and leader of the Greeks. 1707 02:18:58,998 --> 02:19:03,961 All my life, I've waited to see Greeks grovel with respect for Macedonia. 1708 02:19:05,212 --> 02:19:07,256 Today is that day. 1709 02:19:11,927 --> 02:19:14,638 They say already, "Philip was a great general... 1710 02:19:14,805 --> 02:19:18,684 ...but Alexander is simply great." 1711 02:19:20,186 --> 02:19:22,772 But if you ever insult me again... 1712 02:19:22,938 --> 02:19:24,857 ...I'll kill you. 1713 02:19:30,780 --> 02:19:32,239 I've missed you. 1714 02:19:32,406 --> 02:19:34,950 In the spring, Persia... 1715 02:19:35,117 --> 02:19:37,453 ...you'll command my horse from the right. 1716 02:19:37,620 --> 02:19:39,246 I'm honored, Father. 1717 02:19:39,413 --> 02:19:41,707 I wouldn't miss it for all the gold in the world. 1718 02:19:41,874 --> 02:19:43,334 Which, one day, you'll have. 1719 02:19:43,501 --> 02:19:45,544 [BOTH CHUCKLING] 1720 02:19:51,050 --> 02:19:54,845 [ALL APPLAUDING AND LAUGHING] 1721 02:20:00,976 --> 02:20:03,437 Making himself a 13th god. 1722 02:20:03,604 --> 02:20:05,731 He's drunk so much wine, my poor Philip. 1723 02:20:05,898 --> 02:20:07,942 He's lost his mind. 1724 02:20:10,986 --> 02:20:13,656 - Your Majesty. - Attalus. 1725 02:20:14,657 --> 02:20:17,326 [BABY CRYING] 1726 02:20:18,285 --> 02:20:21,080 I hope the prince is enjoying the spectacle... 1727 02:20:21,247 --> 02:20:24,166 ...as much as our regent. 1728 02:20:24,333 --> 02:20:25,876 He's very tired. 1729 02:20:30,089 --> 02:20:31,507 Hey- 1730 02:20:34,844 --> 02:20:37,888 - Pausanias, bring the rest of the guard. - Royal guard! 1731 02:20:38,264 --> 02:20:40,975 To the arena! March! 1732 02:20:41,142 --> 02:20:44,019 No guard, Your Majesty? In all this crowd? 1733 02:20:44,186 --> 02:20:47,982 - Greeks all over the place. - Cleitus, Cleitus. 1734 02:20:48,149 --> 02:20:49,817 My Cleitus. 1735 02:20:50,276 --> 02:20:52,778 This man you can always trust, Alexander. 1736 02:20:53,362 --> 02:20:54,947 Treat him as you would me. 1737 02:20:55,114 --> 02:20:57,158 He'll guard your back for you. 1738 02:20:57,825 --> 02:20:59,410 Yes, Father. 1739 02:20:59,743 --> 02:21:02,621 My people are guard enough today. 1740 02:21:02,788 --> 02:21:06,292 Let these Greeks see for themselves how I can walk through my people. 1741 02:21:06,459 --> 02:21:07,918 Then let them call me tyrant. 1742 02:21:08,627 --> 02:21:11,839 Bring the main guard in after my entry only. 1743 02:21:12,006 --> 02:21:15,676 Cleitus, make sure the wine flows steady all day. 1744 02:21:15,843 --> 02:21:17,887 I want them to like me. 1745 02:21:21,432 --> 02:21:24,852 [CROWD CHEERING] 1746 02:21:25,019 --> 02:21:27,646 Weren't you told? I go in alone. 1747 02:21:27,813 --> 02:21:29,899 Follow with the main guard. 1748 02:21:30,107 --> 02:21:31,525 Go on. 1749 02:21:34,612 --> 02:21:37,740 - Go on. - Father, it's best I go with you. 1750 02:21:40,034 --> 02:21:43,120 You want the world to see you're my successor. 1751 02:21:43,329 --> 02:21:45,206 Is that what she wants? 1752 02:21:45,831 --> 02:21:48,542 Don't look so hurt all the time, Alexander. Be a man. 1753 02:21:48,709 --> 02:21:52,880 You count yourself lucky you were here at all today, after your public display. 1754 02:21:56,717 --> 02:21:58,886 By Herakles, by Zeus, by all the gods... 1755 02:21:59,053 --> 02:22:01,514 ...obey me this once! 1756 02:22:02,890 --> 02:22:05,476 Have courage, Father. 1757 02:22:05,643 --> 02:22:08,145 And go on your way rejoicing that at each step... 1758 02:22:08,354 --> 02:22:10,564 ...you may recall your valor. 1759 02:22:33,128 --> 02:22:37,132 [MAJESTIC MUSIC PLAYING OVER HORN AND DRUMS] 1760 02:22:42,930 --> 02:22:46,058 [CROWD APPLAUDING] 1761 02:22:46,225 --> 02:22:50,271 HERALD: And now, our beloved King Philip... 1762 02:22:50,437 --> 02:22:53,524 ...in whose honor these wedding games begin. 1763 02:22:53,691 --> 02:22:56,235 [CROWD CHEERING] 1764 02:23:04,076 --> 02:23:05,995 [EAGLE SCREECHES] 1765 02:23:11,667 --> 02:23:14,169 Pausanias, I told you-- Ugh. 1766 02:23:20,843 --> 02:23:22,052 [PAUSANIAS GRUNTS] 1767 02:23:23,095 --> 02:23:26,015 Who's your new friend? There's your new friend. 1768 02:23:27,099 --> 02:23:29,184 PAUSANIAS: No! Please, no! 1769 02:23:29,351 --> 02:23:30,811 [LAUGHS] 1770 02:23:32,730 --> 02:23:34,607 Please, no! 1771 02:23:38,736 --> 02:23:39,737 [PHILIP GRUNTING] 1772 02:23:45,451 --> 02:23:47,161 [PHILIP GRUNTS] 1773 02:23:50,372 --> 02:23:51,915 [CROWD SCREAMING] 1774 02:23:59,214 --> 02:24:01,592 [PHILIP WHEEZING] 1775 02:24:05,971 --> 02:24:08,140 [GRUNTS] 1776 02:24:08,641 --> 02:24:10,225 [PHILIP GRUNTING] 1777 02:24:14,021 --> 02:24:17,107 [SOBBING] 1778 02:24:33,624 --> 02:24:35,542 [BABY CRYING] 1779 02:25:02,986 --> 02:25:04,780 [GRUNTING] 1780 02:25:09,076 --> 02:25:11,578 The king lives! 1781 02:25:11,745 --> 02:25:15,082 Alexander, son of Philip! 1782 02:25:15,249 --> 02:25:17,876 May the gods bless the king! 1783 02:25:18,669 --> 02:25:20,212 Long live Alexander! 1784 02:25:21,630 --> 02:25:24,007 MAN 1: Alexander is king! 1785 02:25:26,885 --> 02:25:29,888 HEPHAISTION: You're king now. You're king. 1786 02:25:30,431 --> 02:25:32,933 MAN 2: Long live Alexander! 1787 02:25:34,893 --> 02:25:36,186 Alexander! 1788 02:25:36,353 --> 02:25:39,148 - King Alexander! MAN 3: Alexander is king! 1789 02:25:39,314 --> 02:25:42,025 - Alexander! MAN 4: Alexander! 1790 02:25:43,819 --> 02:25:46,238 MAN 5: Alexander is king! 1791 02:25:46,405 --> 02:25:48,490 Alexander is king! 1792 02:25:50,200 --> 02:25:53,537 HEPHAISTION: May the gods bless Alexander! 1793 02:25:55,330 --> 02:25:58,459 May the gods bless the king! 1794 02:25:58,667 --> 02:26:01,879 - Alexander! ALL: Alexander! 1795 02:26:02,087 --> 02:26:04,506 [ALL CHEERING] 1796 02:26:10,053 --> 02:26:11,472 Get out. 1797 02:26:12,890 --> 02:26:14,391 Go. 1798 02:26:19,146 --> 02:26:21,732 How can you behave so shamelessly in public? 1799 02:26:21,899 --> 02:26:24,485 Because it was meant to be. 1800 02:26:24,651 --> 02:26:26,487 This isn't how I wanted to become king. 1801 02:26:26,653 --> 02:26:29,490 - No one blames you. - They blame me already behind my back! 1802 02:26:29,740 --> 02:26:31,742 - In secret. - Slander is not power. 1803 02:26:32,075 --> 02:26:37,247 Shame is? Who killed my father? 1804 02:26:37,998 --> 02:26:39,583 Tell me. 1805 02:26:39,750 --> 02:26:42,461 Tell me, or shall I put you on trial for his murder? 1806 02:26:42,628 --> 02:26:45,255 - Pausanias. - He had help! 1807 02:26:45,422 --> 02:26:47,341 Did you help him? 1808 02:26:54,640 --> 02:26:56,725 No, never. 1809 02:26:57,434 --> 02:27:00,395 Why? Why would I? 1810 02:27:01,396 --> 02:27:03,148 So many wanted it. 1811 02:27:03,315 --> 02:27:05,943 Greeks, Persians, men, women... 1812 02:27:06,109 --> 02:27:08,904 I would be shocked if there were not a god or two he had not profaned. 1813 02:27:09,071 --> 02:27:10,614 How ironic though, in the end... 1814 02:27:10,781 --> 02:27:14,117 ...a boy he rodded with once too often, returned the favor. 1815 02:27:14,284 --> 02:27:16,411 - You're mad. You're cursed. - Ah. 1816 02:27:16,578 --> 02:27:19,373 You've unleashed Furies, you don't know their power. 1817 02:27:19,540 --> 02:27:22,417 Now who is exaggerating? 1818 02:27:23,377 --> 02:27:25,879 Even if it was the wish of your heart-- 1819 02:27:26,088 --> 02:27:28,173 That's a lie! He was my father! I loved him! 1820 02:27:28,382 --> 02:27:30,384 He was not your father! 1821 02:27:30,551 --> 02:27:32,719 You owe no blood debt to that man. 1822 02:27:32,886 --> 02:27:35,722 You lie and lie and lie. 1823 02:27:35,889 --> 02:27:38,934 So many lies you've spun like a sorceress, confusing me. 1824 02:27:39,101 --> 02:27:42,521 Look at you. Look at you. 1825 02:27:42,688 --> 02:27:46,191 You are everything that he was not. 1826 02:27:46,358 --> 02:27:49,611 He was coarse, you are refined. 1827 02:27:49,778 --> 02:27:53,699 He was a general, and you are a king. 1828 02:27:53,866 --> 02:27:55,701 He could not rule himself... 1829 02:27:56,201 --> 02:27:59,288 ...and you shall rule the world. 1830 02:27:59,496 --> 02:28:03,208 You're so cursed by all the gods when you speak like this. 1831 02:28:03,375 --> 02:28:05,419 Such thick pride... 1832 02:28:05,586 --> 02:28:07,296 ...and no mourning for your husband. 1833 02:28:07,504 --> 02:28:08,881 Mourn... 1834 02:28:09,047 --> 02:28:10,632 ...him? 1835 02:28:11,592 --> 02:28:14,136 What do you know of Philip? 1836 02:28:15,637 --> 02:28:19,933 No, Alexander. Zeus is your father. 1837 02:28:20,642 --> 02:28:24,396 - Act like it. - My first act would be to kill you! 1838 02:28:25,647 --> 02:28:27,983 You murdered me in my cradle. 1839 02:28:28,150 --> 02:28:30,402 You birthed me in a sack of hate. 1840 02:28:30,569 --> 02:28:32,738 Hate you have for those stronger than you. 1841 02:28:32,905 --> 02:28:36,783 - Hate you have for men. - I taught you my heart, Alexander! 1842 02:28:36,950 --> 02:28:39,870 And by Zeus and Dionysus, you grew beautiful. 1843 02:28:40,037 --> 02:28:42,289 Damn your sorceress soul. 1844 02:28:42,456 --> 02:28:44,958 Your soul is mine, Alexander. 1845 02:28:46,501 --> 02:28:48,003 No! No! 1846 02:28:48,670 --> 02:28:52,549 You've taken from me everything I've ever loved and made me you! 1847 02:28:53,175 --> 02:28:55,218 Stop it. Stop acting like a boy. 1848 02:28:55,385 --> 02:28:58,055 You're a king. Act like one. 1849 02:28:58,221 --> 02:28:59,765 Parmenion is with us, for once. 1850 02:28:59,973 --> 02:29:02,100 Execute Attalus without delay. 1851 02:29:02,267 --> 02:29:04,937 Confiscate their lands and root out that family forever. 1852 02:29:05,103 --> 02:29:06,521 Eurydice? Never. 1853 02:29:06,688 --> 02:29:08,106 Laugh, you monster. 1854 02:29:08,273 --> 02:29:09,691 You heartbreaker. 1855 02:29:09,858 --> 02:29:12,903 How will you live out the year like this? 1856 02:29:13,070 --> 02:29:17,616 - Have you learned nothing from Philip? - No. From you, Mother. 1857 02:29:20,786 --> 02:29:22,537 The best. 1858 02:29:30,462 --> 02:29:32,381 [THUNDER BOOMING] 1859 02:29:32,547 --> 02:29:37,135 What have I done to make you hate me so? 1860 02:29:39,721 --> 02:29:44,393 One day, you will understand this. 1861 02:29:44,559 --> 02:29:47,938 But I have only you in my heart. 1862 02:29:50,732 --> 02:29:53,986 I know what you need. 1863 02:29:54,903 --> 02:29:57,030 Now is the time. 1864 02:29:57,364 --> 02:29:59,449 The gods favor you. 1865 02:29:59,950 --> 02:30:03,161 Great wealth, power, conquest. 1866 02:30:03,412 --> 02:30:05,163 All you desire. 1867 02:30:05,372 --> 02:30:08,000 The world is yours! 1868 02:30:08,166 --> 02:30:10,085 Take it. 1869 02:30:14,548 --> 02:30:16,425 Take it. 1870 02:30:23,807 --> 02:30:25,809 [OLYMPIAS SOBBING] 1871 02:30:38,530 --> 02:30:41,992 PTOLEMY". He never saw his mother again. 1872 02:30:45,620 --> 02:30:48,957 And while he was away, fighting the Northern tribes... 1873 02:30:49,124 --> 02:30:54,796 ...Olympias had Philip's new wife, Eurydice, and her infant son murdered. 1874 02:30:55,338 --> 02:30:56,381 By necessity... 1875 02:30:56,548 --> 02:31:00,844 ...Alexander had her uncle Attalus executed. 1876 02:31:15,984 --> 02:31:18,320 You break my heart, you men. 1877 02:31:18,487 --> 02:31:20,197 Afraid. 1878 02:31:21,698 --> 02:31:23,283 Of course you have fears. 1879 02:31:23,450 --> 02:31:24,868 We all have fears... 1880 02:31:25,035 --> 02:31:28,497 ...because no one has ever gone this far before. 1881 02:31:28,789 --> 02:31:33,085 And now we are weeks from the encircling ocean, our route home. 1882 02:31:33,543 --> 02:31:35,045 We'll build a fleet of ships... 1883 02:31:35,212 --> 02:31:38,173 ...and sail all the way back down the Nile to Egypt. 1884 02:31:38,340 --> 02:31:41,510 And from Alexandria, we shall be home within weeks. 1885 02:31:42,010 --> 02:31:44,221 There to be reunited with our loved ones. 1886 02:31:44,387 --> 02:31:47,974 To share our great treasures and tales of Asia. 1887 02:31:48,141 --> 02:31:52,854 And to enjoy our imperishable glory to the ends of time. 1888 02:31:54,272 --> 02:31:57,567 MAN 1: Follow Alexander. MAN 2: I'll follow you. 1889 02:31:58,235 --> 02:31:59,236 [CHATTERING] 1890 02:32:02,197 --> 02:32:03,865 What? 1891 02:32:04,032 --> 02:32:07,619 - Silence? MAN 3: We're with you, Alexander! 1892 02:32:07,953 --> 02:32:09,454 MAN 4: Crateros. 1893 02:32:09,621 --> 02:32:11,414 [CHATTERING] 1894 02:32:11,581 --> 02:32:12,833 MAN 4: Crateros. 1895 02:32:12,999 --> 02:32:14,167 MAN 5: And another one. 1896 02:32:14,334 --> 02:32:17,420 [CHATTERING] 1897 02:32:26,179 --> 02:32:27,472 My king. 1898 02:32:27,639 --> 02:32:29,474 I'm a fighting man. 1899 02:32:29,683 --> 02:32:33,645 I don't like no bellyaching. I won't tolerate it in any of my units. 1900 02:32:35,105 --> 02:32:37,315 I lost many a man. 1901 02:32:38,400 --> 02:32:41,069 Young ones, never been with a woman. 1902 02:32:42,195 --> 02:32:44,364 Some died of disease. 1903 02:32:44,948 --> 02:32:49,161 Some were butchered in Scythia by the banks of the Oxus. 1904 02:32:49,327 --> 02:32:51,079 Some died good. 1905 02:32:51,246 --> 02:32:54,291 Some just didn't get no luck. 1906 02:32:55,167 --> 02:32:56,918 But they died. 1907 02:32:59,254 --> 02:33:02,174 Forty thousand I come over with eight years ago. 1908 02:33:02,340 --> 02:33:06,428 And we march after you more than 10,000 miles. 1909 02:33:07,470 --> 02:33:11,141 In the rain and the sun, we fought for you. 1910 02:33:11,308 --> 02:33:14,394 Some of us, 50 battles we've been in. 1911 02:33:15,270 --> 02:33:17,647 We killed many a barbarian. 1912 02:33:19,316 --> 02:33:24,029 And now when I look around, how many of them faces do I see? 1913 02:33:24,529 --> 02:33:28,116 Now you want us to fight more of these crazy monkey tribes east of here. 1914 02:33:28,283 --> 02:33:31,828 We hear talk of thousands of these elephant monsters... 1915 02:33:31,995 --> 02:33:33,205 ...cross a hundred more rivers. 1916 02:33:33,371 --> 02:33:34,873 [CROWD SHOUTING] 1917 02:33:35,790 --> 02:33:39,794 - Crateros. Good Crateros. MAN 6: Quiet! 1918 02:33:40,712 --> 02:33:45,884 Who better than you to speak, most noble of men. 1919 02:33:46,968 --> 02:33:50,805 But you know there's no part of me without a scar or a bone broken. 1920 02:33:50,972 --> 02:33:54,309 By sword, knife, stone, catapult and club. 1921 02:33:54,476 --> 02:33:56,728 I've shared every hardship with all of you. 1922 02:33:56,895 --> 02:34:00,273 You have, my king, and we love you for it. 1923 02:34:00,440 --> 02:34:01,441 [CROWD SHOUTS] 1924 02:34:01,608 --> 02:34:04,903 But, by Zeus, too many have died. 1925 02:34:05,654 --> 02:34:08,949 You have no children, Alexander, and we're just... 1926 02:34:09,115 --> 02:34:13,912 ...humble men, we seek no disturbance with the gods. All we wish for... 1927 02:34:14,120 --> 02:34:20,919 ...is to see our children and our wives and our grandchildren one last time... 1928 02:34:21,127 --> 02:34:24,756 ...before we join our brothers in that dark house they call Hades. 1929 02:34:28,843 --> 02:34:32,514 Yes. You're right, Crateros. 1930 02:34:32,681 --> 02:34:33,848 I have been negligent. 1931 02:34:36,059 --> 02:34:38,937 I should've sent you veterans home sooner, and I will. 1932 02:34:39,145 --> 02:34:41,856 The first of you shall be the Silver Shields. 1933 02:34:42,023 --> 02:34:44,818 Then every man who's served seven years. 1934 02:34:44,985 --> 02:34:47,028 With full pensions from our treasury. 1935 02:34:47,195 --> 02:34:48,280 [ALL CHEERING] 1936 02:34:48,446 --> 02:34:52,075 And respected, rich, loved. 1937 02:34:52,242 --> 02:34:54,703 You'll be treated by your wives and children... 1938 02:34:54,869 --> 02:34:56,997 ...as heroes for the rest of your lives... 1939 02:34:57,163 --> 02:35:01,376 ...and enjoy a peaceful death. 1940 02:35:03,003 --> 02:35:04,796 But you dream, Crateros. 1941 02:35:05,672 --> 02:35:09,968 Your simplicity long ended when you took Persian mistresses and children... 1942 02:35:10,176 --> 02:35:14,389 ...and you thickened your holdings with plunder and jewels. 1943 02:35:15,223 --> 02:35:20,562 Because you've fallen in love with all the things in life that destroy men. 1944 02:35:21,563 --> 02:35:23,773 Do you not see? 1945 02:35:25,066 --> 02:35:28,320 And you, as well as I, know... 1946 02:35:28,486 --> 02:35:32,741 ...that as the years decline and the memories stale... 1947 02:35:32,907 --> 02:35:35,744 ...and all your great victories fade... 1948 02:35:35,910 --> 02:35:41,583 ...it will always be remembered, you left your king in Asia! 1949 02:35:41,750 --> 02:35:44,294 For I will go on, with my Asians. 1950 02:35:47,922 --> 02:35:49,966 MAN 7: To the jackals with you, then, Alexander. 1951 02:35:50,133 --> 02:35:52,177 We come for you, and you discard us. 1952 02:35:52,344 --> 02:35:54,763 MAN 8: Shame! MAN 9: We want to go home, Alexander. 1953 02:35:54,929 --> 02:35:56,556 MAN 10: We're tired of glory. 1954 02:35:56,723 --> 02:35:59,642 MAN 11: We want to see our wives and children before we die. 1955 02:35:59,809 --> 02:36:01,436 [CHATTERING] 1956 02:36:01,770 --> 02:36:03,730 MAN 12: I've got children I haven't even seen. 1957 02:36:03,897 --> 02:36:06,483 [CHATTERING] 1958 02:36:07,609 --> 02:36:10,528 MAN 13: I want to see my children. 1959 02:36:10,695 --> 02:36:14,616 I paid for your bastard children. I've taken nothing for myself. 1960 02:36:14,783 --> 02:36:16,785 And all I've asked of you is one more month. 1961 02:36:16,951 --> 02:36:18,828 - Shame. - That's your king. 1962 02:36:20,288 --> 02:36:21,373 What would your father say? 1963 02:36:21,539 --> 02:36:24,709 I've taken you further than my father ever dreamed. 1964 02:36:24,876 --> 02:36:28,838 So go home. I look to the barbarians for their courage. 1965 02:36:30,298 --> 02:36:31,716 I go east. 1966 02:36:31,883 --> 02:36:33,843 He wants us dead so we can't speak of his crimes. 1967 02:36:34,010 --> 02:36:36,262 - Who said that? MAN 14: We won't make it to Macedonia. 1968 02:36:36,429 --> 02:36:38,223 You despicable coward. Come forth. 1969 02:36:38,390 --> 02:36:41,309 - Make your accusations public. MAN 15: So you can have us killed? 1970 02:36:41,476 --> 02:36:42,560 Son of Zeus. 1971 02:36:42,727 --> 02:36:44,479 MAN 16: You desecrate your real father's memory. 1972 02:36:44,646 --> 02:36:46,773 MAN 17: Or did you murder him like you did Cleitus? 1973 02:36:46,940 --> 02:36:50,944 Hide. Hide in this mob because I will take your-- 1974 02:36:51,152 --> 02:36:53,696 [SHOUTING] 1975 02:37:00,870 --> 02:37:05,667 ALEXANDER: You men insult my honor, my paternity. Arrest him. 1976 02:37:05,834 --> 02:37:09,712 And him. Yes. And you, this loudmouth Demetrius. 1977 02:37:09,879 --> 02:37:13,550 You call me murderer? I have no such blood on my hands. 1978 02:37:13,716 --> 02:37:16,845 And him. Yes, you'll know the pain of treason. 1979 02:37:18,096 --> 02:37:22,016 You mock my shame for Cleitus and say I'd harm a hair of my father's head. 1980 02:37:22,725 --> 02:37:26,521 Arrest him. After all I've done for you, you swine. 1981 02:37:26,688 --> 02:37:28,606 You cowards. Traitors. 1982 02:37:31,151 --> 02:37:33,528 Come on, then. Where are your daggers? 1983 02:37:35,947 --> 02:37:40,118 PTOLEMY: In smashing the mutiny and executing the ringleaders... 1984 02:37:40,326 --> 02:37:45,457 ...he did nothing, to my mind, that any general in wartime would not have done. 1985 02:37:45,707 --> 02:37:49,085 But clearly, the army was divided. 1986 02:37:50,044 --> 02:37:54,090 And Alexander was no longer loved by all. 1987 02:37:57,093 --> 02:38:01,681 He drove on, south to the outer ocean. 1988 02:38:02,056 --> 02:38:03,057 [THUNDER BOOMING] 1989 02:38:03,224 --> 02:38:05,727 ARISTOTLE: I confess a disappointment. 1990 02:38:05,894 --> 02:38:10,064 Especially on these reports of your taking on Eastern ways. 1991 02:38:10,231 --> 02:38:12,609 Beware how these manners... 1992 02:38:12,775 --> 02:38:16,237 ...inflame the senses with pride. 1993 02:38:16,446 --> 02:38:20,074 However, I have lived long enough now... 1994 02:38:20,700 --> 02:38:22,243 ...to question... 1995 02:38:22,410 --> 02:38:25,663 ...when so many others invest such emotion... 1996 02:38:25,830 --> 02:38:28,124 ...in their disrespect for you. 1997 02:38:28,958 --> 02:38:32,378 I can only hope that you continue what you began... 1998 02:38:32,545 --> 02:38:35,340 ...as the boy I knew at 12. 1999 02:38:35,507 --> 02:38:38,176 Be that man always, Alexander... 2000 02:38:38,343 --> 02:38:40,345 ...and you will not slip. 2001 02:38:40,512 --> 02:38:45,600 And perhaps you will prove this old materialist... 2002 02:38:45,767 --> 02:38:48,520 ...as you always thought me... 2003 02:38:48,686 --> 02:38:51,564 ...a dreamer after all. 2004 02:38:53,274 --> 02:38:55,318 Aristotle. 2005 02:39:06,746 --> 02:39:08,873 [THUDDING] 2006 02:39:10,667 --> 02:39:11,709 CRATEROS: Stay calm. 2007 02:39:13,294 --> 02:39:15,547 Together we are strong as gods. 2008 02:39:16,506 --> 02:39:21,135 Cover with your left, strike hard with your right. 2009 02:39:23,304 --> 02:39:24,681 [THUDDING] 2010 02:39:24,847 --> 02:39:27,183 Fear is rot. A waste of time. 2011 02:39:27,350 --> 02:39:28,685 [BANGING] 2012 02:39:29,394 --> 02:39:31,771 [THUDDING] 2013 02:39:31,938 --> 02:39:33,231 [ROARING] 2014 02:39:33,398 --> 02:39:35,650 Lock shields. 2015 02:39:38,069 --> 02:39:40,238 Battle positions. 2016 02:39:40,405 --> 02:39:41,906 [ALL SHOUTING] 2017 02:39:44,742 --> 02:39:46,327 Move. 2018 02:39:50,373 --> 02:39:51,916 [THUDDING CONTINUES] 2019 02:39:52,542 --> 02:39:55,753 Choppers, prepare your knives. 2020 02:39:56,129 --> 02:39:57,672 Follow me. 2021 02:39:57,839 --> 02:40:00,466 [SHOUTING] 2022 02:40:05,680 --> 02:40:07,765 [ROARING AND THUDDING] 2023 02:40:10,143 --> 02:40:13,605 CRATEROS: Strike hard, boys. Strike hard. 2024 02:40:25,450 --> 02:40:26,618 [GRUNTS] 2025 02:40:31,748 --> 02:40:36,294 Come, Macedonians. Why do you hang back? Hurry. 2026 02:40:36,461 --> 02:40:38,671 MAN: Cavalry! 2027 02:40:39,172 --> 02:40:42,008 [ALL SHOUTING] 2028 02:40:47,263 --> 02:40:50,516 Split to thirds. Regroup and encircle. 2029 02:40:53,853 --> 02:40:55,521 [ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING] 2030 02:40:56,898 --> 02:40:59,525 [ALL SCREAMING] 2031 02:41:06,074 --> 02:41:08,826 [ELEPHANTS ROARING] 2032 02:41:09,786 --> 02:41:11,788 Hold the line! 2033 02:41:17,835 --> 02:41:19,629 [GRUNTING] 2034 02:41:23,800 --> 02:41:25,426 [HORSE NEIGHING] 2035 02:41:48,366 --> 02:41:49,659 [GRUNTING] 2036 02:41:55,915 --> 02:42:01,337 - Oh, no. Cavalry on me. MAN: Follow Alexander. 2037 02:42:01,504 --> 02:42:03,715 [ALL SHOUTING] 2038 02:42:04,716 --> 02:42:08,469 Charge. Charge. Charge. 2039 02:42:11,931 --> 02:42:13,516 The phalanx is in jeopardy. 2040 02:42:13,683 --> 02:42:17,019 Meleager, ride to Pharnakes and tell him return to the center. 2041 02:42:17,186 --> 02:42:21,023 Find Hephaistion at the riverbank and bring all cavalry to the center. 2042 02:42:21,190 --> 02:42:24,360 We must reach Crateros before it's too late. 2043 02:42:29,031 --> 02:42:30,158 [SHOUTING] 2044 02:42:43,546 --> 02:42:45,131 [SCREAMING] 2045 02:42:45,298 --> 02:42:47,258 [ELEPHANTS ROARING AND TRUMPETING] 2046 02:42:47,842 --> 02:42:50,762 ALEXANDER: Hephaistion. To the center. 2047 02:42:53,848 --> 02:42:56,184 Come, Macedonians. Ride. 2048 02:42:56,350 --> 02:42:58,770 Ride. 2049 02:43:03,274 --> 02:43:08,154 [ELEPHANTS ROARING AND TRUMPETING] 2050 02:43:14,076 --> 02:43:15,787 [ELEPHANTS CONTINUE ROARING AND TRUMPETING] 2051 02:43:25,296 --> 02:43:27,256 [SCREAMS] 2052 02:43:31,052 --> 02:43:32,887 [SHOUTING] 2053 02:43:50,112 --> 02:43:51,239 [ELEPHANT ROARS] 2054 02:43:55,243 --> 02:43:57,829 Coenus! Get out of there. 2055 02:43:59,747 --> 02:44:01,249 No. 2056 02:44:01,415 --> 02:44:03,292 [TRUMPETING] 2057 02:44:13,553 --> 02:44:15,429 [BUCEPHALUS NEIGHING] 2058 02:44:16,430 --> 02:44:17,932 [ELEPHANTS ROARING] 2059 02:44:19,600 --> 02:44:22,019 [HORSES NEIGHING] 2060 02:44:24,230 --> 02:44:25,439 [BUCEPHALUS NEIGHING] 2061 02:44:30,987 --> 02:44:33,739 - The horses won't go. HEPHAISTION: On foot, then. 2062 02:44:37,493 --> 02:44:38,536 [GRUNTING] 2063 02:44:40,246 --> 02:44:44,375 Fall back, men! Fall back! 2064 02:44:45,626 --> 02:44:47,253 Come, Bucephalus. 2065 02:44:52,133 --> 02:44:53,968 Fear not, my friend. 2066 02:44:56,721 --> 02:44:58,598 Bucephalus. 2067 02:44:58,764 --> 02:45:00,433 'Tis only sun and shadow. 2068 02:45:03,561 --> 02:45:05,146 Bucephalus and Alexander. 2069 02:45:05,313 --> 02:45:06,814 One last time. It's you and I. 2070 02:45:09,275 --> 02:45:12,361 Isn't it a lovely thing to live with great courage... 2071 02:45:12,862 --> 02:45:15,323 ...and to die leaving an everlasting fame? 2072 02:45:16,032 --> 02:45:19,327 Come, Macedonians. Why do you retreat? 2073 02:45:19,493 --> 02:45:25,333 Do you want to live forever? In the name of Zeus, attack. 2074 02:45:41,557 --> 02:45:43,643 Attack. 2075 02:45:44,727 --> 02:45:47,146 - Alexander! - Aah! 2076 02:45:56,697 --> 02:45:57,865 [SCREAMS] 2077 02:45:58,032 --> 02:46:00,034 Alexander. 2078 02:46:00,201 --> 02:46:01,702 [SCREAMS] 2079 02:47:01,554 --> 02:47:03,139 [GRUNTS] 2080 02:47:06,851 --> 02:47:09,854 [BUCEPHALUS NEIGHING] 2081 02:47:32,793 --> 02:47:34,503 - The king is down! - To the king! 2082 02:47:34,670 --> 02:47:35,963 [SCREAMS] 2083 02:47:39,967 --> 02:47:41,969 [HORN BLOWING] 2084 02:47:52,188 --> 02:47:54,565 [BUCEPHALUS NEIGHING] 2085 02:47:58,778 --> 02:48:00,029 [ALL YELLING] 2086 02:48:06,327 --> 02:48:07,411 [ELEPHANT ROARING] 2087 02:48:20,299 --> 02:48:23,344 [HEPHAISTION SCREAMING] 2088 02:48:26,514 --> 02:48:28,224 [NEIGHING] 2089 02:48:30,226 --> 02:48:32,269 [ELEPHANT ROARS] 2090 02:48:59,004 --> 02:49:01,006 PTOLEMY: It was the bloodiest of his battles. 2091 02:49:01,173 --> 02:49:02,716 [ELEPHANT TRUMPETING] 2092 02:49:06,345 --> 02:49:08,139 Pure butchery. 2093 02:49:13,769 --> 02:49:15,646 We'd never be men again. 2094 02:49:34,248 --> 02:49:36,834 [INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE] 2095 02:50:41,357 --> 02:50:43,442 [COUGHING] 2096 02:50:59,333 --> 02:51:02,294 [CHATTERING] 2097 02:51:03,879 --> 02:51:06,382 MAN 1: He lives! Alexander! 2098 02:51:06,548 --> 02:51:07,633 [ALL CHEERING] 2099 02:51:10,052 --> 02:51:12,972 Alexander! 2100 02:51:26,318 --> 02:51:27,319 [CHEERING STOPS] 2101 02:51:29,613 --> 02:51:31,699 ALEXANDER: Men of Macedon... 2102 02:51:32,574 --> 02:51:34,743 ...we're going home. 2103 02:51:35,661 --> 02:51:38,247 MAN 1: What? MAN 2: What? 2104 02:51:38,414 --> 02:51:40,082 MAN 3: We're going home. MAN 4: Home? 2105 02:51:40,291 --> 02:51:42,418 MAN 5: We're going. 2106 02:51:43,043 --> 02:51:45,546 [ALL CHEERING] 2107 02:51:47,006 --> 02:51:49,008 We're going home. 2108 02:51:50,592 --> 02:51:52,344 [CHEERING CONTINUES] 2109 02:52:16,160 --> 02:52:18,078 Yes! 2110 02:52:41,602 --> 02:52:43,354 [CHEERING CONTINUES] 2111 02:52:56,116 --> 02:52:59,203 PTOLEMY: His life should have ended in India... 2112 02:52:59,870 --> 02:53:01,080 ...but that's myth. 2113 02:53:02,873 --> 02:53:08,128 In life, Herakles died of a poisoned shirt, given him in error by his jealous wife. 2114 02:53:08,337 --> 02:53:12,007 MAN: Great Zeus, we have worshiped you in blood. 2115 02:53:13,300 --> 02:53:15,844 Look kindly on our homeward steps... 2116 02:53:16,011 --> 02:53:20,140 ...and smile upon our backs. 2117 02:53:23,477 --> 02:53:25,813 May all those who come here after us... 2118 02:53:26,021 --> 02:53:28,273 ...know, when they see this altar... 2119 02:53:28,899 --> 02:53:32,653 ...that Titans were once here. 2120 02:53:47,126 --> 02:53:50,921 PTOLEMY". Making his devotions to the gods at the end of the great journey... 2121 02:53:51,130 --> 02:53:55,843 ...Alexander bade the East farewell and marched his army directly west... 2122 02:53:56,009 --> 02:53:58,345 ...across the great Gedrosian desert... 2123 02:53:58,512 --> 02:54:01,932 ...seeking the shortest route home to Babylon. 2124 02:54:04,476 --> 02:54:09,314 Here, he watched helplessly the cruel breaking of his army. 2125 02:54:09,481 --> 02:54:12,234 Not by any human form... 2126 02:54:12,443 --> 02:54:14,653 ...but by nature. 2127 02:54:15,946 --> 02:54:20,492 To this day, there is no accounting of how many died. 2128 02:54:20,659 --> 02:54:24,496 It was the worst blunder of his life. 2129 02:54:25,247 --> 02:54:29,918 And when he finally reentered Babylon, after six years in the Far East... 2130 02:54:30,085 --> 02:54:35,966 ...Alexander again seized the imagination of the world by taking two more wives. 2131 02:54:37,009 --> 02:54:39,470 Now Alexander had three wives. .. 2132 02:54:39,636 --> 02:54:40,679 ...two lovers... 2133 02:54:40,846 --> 02:54:43,599 ...a contentious mother and a turbulent Greece... 2134 02:54:43,765 --> 02:54:47,227 ...satraps of dubious loyalty in several provinces... 2135 02:54:47,394 --> 02:54:50,522 ...generals questioning his every decision. 2136 02:54:50,689 --> 02:54:53,817 And beneath it all, a restive new army... 2137 02:54:53,984 --> 02:54:56,904 ...made up of 10 Asians for every Greek... 2138 02:54:57,070 --> 02:55:00,199 ...all held together by one slender thread. 2139 02:55:00,365 --> 02:55:03,577 CASSANDER: They took another reading. The harbor can only be dredged to 20 feet. 2140 02:55:03,744 --> 02:55:05,954 ALEXANDER: Get me a second opinion from the Phoenicians. 2141 02:55:06,121 --> 02:55:08,790 - I tell you, it goes deeper. - Alexander. 2142 02:55:08,999 --> 02:55:11,710 We're well over 12,000 talents on wood alone for the fleet. 2143 02:55:11,877 --> 02:55:14,630 MAN 1: And their armor costs are staggering. 2144 02:55:16,048 --> 02:55:18,842 - Cast another dye, we shall back them. - How? 2145 02:55:19,009 --> 02:55:22,012 - Aren't our treasuries--? - With our future, Cassander. 2146 02:55:22,179 --> 02:55:23,347 The best capital we have. 2147 02:55:23,514 --> 02:55:26,099 Even so, Majesty, I seriously doubt the Phoenicians... 2148 02:55:26,266 --> 02:55:27,976 ...can make a timber quote in time. 2149 02:55:28,143 --> 02:55:30,229 Perhaps we could sail with fewer ships... 2150 02:55:30,395 --> 02:55:34,024 -...or delay until the spring-- - There'll be no delays, Nearchus. 2151 02:55:34,191 --> 02:55:36,318 Ptolemy, how goes our library? 2152 02:55:36,485 --> 02:55:38,946 - Trees are falling as we speak, Your Majesty. - Good. 2153 02:55:39,154 --> 02:55:40,489 We must not forget our libraries. 2154 02:55:40,656 --> 02:55:43,200 All the Alexandrias we have, I want libraries. 2155 02:55:52,960 --> 02:55:55,587 - Just last night he was-- - It's the water, Your Majesty. 2156 02:55:55,796 --> 02:55:58,048 He mixed it with the wine. 2157 02:55:59,091 --> 02:56:00,717 But how can this be? 2158 02:56:01,176 --> 02:56:04,930 - Typhus of India? - I wouldn't tax yourself, Your Majesty. 2159 02:56:05,097 --> 02:56:10,352 A few good nights' rest will do it. But no wine or cold chicken. 2160 02:56:10,519 --> 02:56:12,813 With the regimen of care that I've put in place-- 2161 02:56:14,106 --> 02:56:15,357 MAN 1 : Come, doctor. 2162 02:56:28,495 --> 02:56:30,831 I feel better. 2163 02:56:31,456 --> 02:56:35,043 Soon, I'll be up. 2164 02:56:36,211 --> 02:56:40,173 We leave for Arabia in the spring, and I couldn't leave without you. 2165 02:56:40,799 --> 02:56:42,843 Arabia. 2166 02:56:46,305 --> 02:56:50,934 You used to dress me up like a sheik... 2167 02:56:51,977 --> 02:56:53,854 ...wave your wooden scimitar. 2168 02:56:54,021 --> 02:56:57,149 You were the only one who'd never let me win. 2169 02:56:58,900 --> 02:57:01,987 The only one who's ever been honest with me. 2170 02:57:02,404 --> 02:57:05,365 You saved me from myself. 2171 02:57:07,826 --> 02:57:10,996 Please don't leave me, Hephaistion. 2172 02:57:16,460 --> 02:57:18,962 [HEPHAISTION WHEEZING] 2173 02:57:19,504 --> 02:57:26,511 I remember the young man who wanted to be Achilles and then outdid him. 2174 02:57:27,346 --> 02:57:29,264 And then what happened? 2175 02:57:29,514 --> 02:57:32,684 Ours is a myth only young men believe. 2176 02:57:33,477 --> 02:57:39,650 - But how beautiful a myth it was. - We reach, we fall. 2177 02:57:40,901 --> 02:57:43,862 Oh, Hephaistion. 2178 02:57:49,493 --> 02:57:55,082 - I worry for you without me. - I am nothing without you. 2179 02:57:56,041 --> 02:57:59,795 Come, fight, Hephaistion. 2180 02:58:00,045 --> 02:58:02,547 We will die together. 2181 02:58:05,592 --> 02:58:07,678 We'll have children with our wives... 2182 02:58:07,844 --> 02:58:10,972 ...and our sons will play together as we once did. 2183 02:58:12,057 --> 02:58:15,644 A thousand ships we'll launch from here, Hephaistion. 2184 02:58:16,395 --> 02:58:21,108 We'll round Arabia and sail up the gulf to Egypt. 2185 02:58:21,942 --> 02:58:26,405 From there, we'll build a channel through the desert and out to the Middle Sea. 2186 02:58:26,571 --> 02:58:28,281 Then we'll move on Carthage. 2187 02:58:28,448 --> 02:58:32,494 And that great island, Sicily, they'll pay large tribute. 2188 02:58:32,661 --> 02:58:36,373 After that, the Roman tribe, good fighters. We'll beat them. 2189 02:58:37,666 --> 02:58:40,168 And then explore the northern forests... 2190 02:58:40,335 --> 02:58:43,296 ...and out the Pillars of Herakles to the western ocean. 2191 02:58:44,131 --> 02:58:48,176 And then one day, populations will mix and travel freely. 2192 02:58:48,593 --> 02:58:50,929 Asia and Europe will come together. 2193 02:58:53,098 --> 02:58:56,727 And we'll grow old, Hephaistion... 2194 02:58:57,728 --> 02:59:03,066 ...looking out our balcony at this new world. 2195 02:59:09,906 --> 02:59:11,950 Hephaistion? 2196 02:59:13,702 --> 02:59:15,704 Hephaistion? 2197 02:59:16,830 --> 02:59:18,832 No! 2198 02:59:23,044 --> 02:59:27,340 ALEXANDER: Where is this doctor? MAN: I can't explain this, Your Majesty. 2199 02:59:27,549 --> 02:59:31,887 -It's not possible. I swear by Apollo. - Execute him! 2200 02:59:32,971 --> 02:59:36,266 Take him out now and execute him. 2201 02:59:36,433 --> 02:59:40,645 - Come away, come away. - Liars. You all hated him. All of you. 2202 02:59:41,605 --> 02:59:45,317 Get out. Get out now! 2203 02:59:55,911 --> 03:00:00,749 Be gone with you! Harpies! Get out! Get out! 2204 03:00:00,916 --> 03:00:02,876 Are you drunk again? 2205 03:00:03,043 --> 03:00:04,377 - Get out. - He's dead. 2206 03:00:04,544 --> 03:00:07,422 - Who? - Many hated him... 2207 03:00:07,589 --> 03:00:10,300 ...but I don't think any other would have dared. 2208 03:00:12,010 --> 03:00:14,095 Hephaistion is dead? 2209 03:00:18,099 --> 03:00:19,976 Are you mad? 2210 03:00:22,103 --> 03:00:23,480 You monster. 2211 03:00:23,647 --> 03:00:27,776 - Aah! Are you mad? - You've taken from me all I've ever loved. 2212 03:00:27,943 --> 03:00:31,947 May all the Furies through time damn your miserable heart. Obey me. 2213 03:00:33,031 --> 03:00:37,744 Alexander. I have your child. Alexander. 2214 03:00:37,911 --> 03:00:39,079 [BOTH GRUNTING] 2215 03:00:39,371 --> 03:00:42,040 ROXANE: Alexander, we have a son. YOUNG ALEXANDER: No. 2216 03:00:42,207 --> 03:00:43,500 [PHILIP & OLYMPIAS LAUGHING] 2217 03:00:43,667 --> 03:00:46,169 WOMAN 1: The child. WOMAN 2: Oh, Your Majesty, no. 2218 03:00:46,461 --> 03:00:52,759 Alexander, I have your child. Alexander, my husband, my king. 2219 03:00:52,968 --> 03:00:55,345 We have a son. 2220 03:00:56,054 --> 03:00:59,224 My poor, poor, ill-fated son. 2221 03:01:01,059 --> 03:01:02,602 Never touch me again. 2222 03:01:06,147 --> 03:01:09,442 No! 2223 03:01:09,860 --> 03:01:13,113 [DRUMS BANGING AND CYMBALS CLANGING] 2224 03:01:13,822 --> 03:01:16,575 ALEXANDER: One last toast! 2225 03:01:16,741 --> 03:01:18,535 [MEN LAUGHING] 2226 03:01:19,911 --> 03:01:21,830 ALEXANDER: Before the dawn. 2227 03:01:28,712 --> 03:01:32,007 To my old friends. 2228 03:01:33,884 --> 03:01:35,135 [GRUNTS] 2229 03:01:48,940 --> 03:01:52,611 - And to the myths. ALL: To the myths. 2230 03:02:02,787 --> 03:02:05,123 MAN 1: Drink it down, Alexander. 2231 03:02:05,290 --> 03:02:07,250 Drink it down. 2232 03:02:16,301 --> 03:02:21,640 [INDISTINCT CHATTERING AND LAUGHING] 2233 03:02:21,806 --> 03:02:25,185 MAN 2: Yes, come on. Finish it. 2234 03:02:26,478 --> 03:02:29,064 [ALL CHEERING AND WHOOPING] 2235 03:02:44,079 --> 03:02:45,705 [INDISTINCT CHATTERING AND LAUGHING] 2236 03:02:46,081 --> 03:02:48,124 MAN 3: To the next dawn. 2237 03:02:49,084 --> 03:02:50,752 [GRUNTING] 2238 03:02:50,919 --> 03:02:52,379 [GOBLET SHATTERS] 2239 03:02:54,547 --> 03:02:57,300 PHILIP: Men hate the gods. 2240 03:02:59,552 --> 03:03:02,222 --Is because we fear worse. 2241 03:03:02,931 --> 03:03:04,516 The Titans. 2242 03:03:15,902 --> 03:03:17,445 OLYMPIAS: Mm. 2243 03:03:24,577 --> 03:03:26,621 My little Achilles. 2244 03:03:36,006 --> 03:03:37,841 OLYMPIAS: Mm. 2245 03:03:49,436 --> 03:03:51,438 MAN 1: Lord, we love you. 2246 03:03:52,647 --> 03:03:53,898 MAN 2: Bless you, Alexander. 2247 03:04:02,615 --> 03:04:05,410 My lord, these herbs are from Delphi. 2248 03:04:05,577 --> 03:04:08,163 They saved my brother at Ghilam. 2249 03:04:08,830 --> 03:04:11,416 - Bless your soul. MAN 3: Thank you. 2250 03:04:11,708 --> 03:04:14,753 MAN 4: We love you, Alexander. MAN 5: Section of the Iliad... 2251 03:04:19,257 --> 03:04:20,884 Alexander. 2252 03:04:23,053 --> 03:04:24,804 MAN 6: Alexander. 2253 03:04:28,933 --> 03:04:31,144 We love you, Alexander. 2254 03:04:32,395 --> 03:04:34,355 And your seed. 2255 03:04:36,858 --> 03:04:39,110 MAN 1: Keep moving, men. 2256 03:04:44,532 --> 03:04:46,868 ALEXANDER: Yes, come. 2257 03:04:47,035 --> 03:04:53,541 Come to Babylon. I await you. Your only loving son. 2258 03:04:58,129 --> 03:04:59,464 [ALEXANDER WHIMPERING] 2259 03:04:59,631 --> 03:05:01,299 For the men. 2260 03:05:01,466 --> 03:05:03,259 Bagoas. 2261 03:05:09,516 --> 03:05:13,186 Can you prop me up a little? It catches me here. 2262 03:05:13,728 --> 03:05:15,772 [THUNDER BOOMING] 2263 03:05:22,487 --> 03:05:24,572 I've never been so idle. 2264 03:05:24,739 --> 03:05:27,867 The fleet will never get out by spring. I must go. 2265 03:05:29,786 --> 03:05:31,830 [WHIMPERING] 2266 03:05:45,635 --> 03:05:48,179 You have given me all... 2267 03:05:49,222 --> 03:05:50,348 ...Bagoas. 2268 03:05:50,515 --> 03:05:52,642 And you have given me... 2269 03:05:52,809 --> 03:05:56,604 ...the happiest times in my life, Alexander. 2270 03:05:57,647 --> 03:05:59,941 Happy? 2271 03:06:00,150 --> 03:06:01,985 What is nappy'? 2272 03:06:04,320 --> 03:06:08,032 When your mind and body are stretched to breaking... 2273 03:06:08,241 --> 03:06:11,119 ...and you have no thought beyond the next. 2274 03:06:12,787 --> 03:06:15,415 And you look back then... 2275 03:06:15,623 --> 03:06:18,334 ...and there it was, happiness. 2276 03:06:19,335 --> 03:06:22,088 In the doing, never the thinking. 2277 03:06:24,215 --> 03:06:29,220 Still, you have made me so happy. 2278 03:06:37,520 --> 03:06:39,898 It is done, Bagoas. 2279 03:06:42,358 --> 03:06:44,152 It is done. 2280 03:06:56,289 --> 03:07:03,296 [ROXANE SOBBING AND CROWD CHATTERING] 2281 03:07:07,550 --> 03:07:09,844 ROXANE: Wait. We have a son. 2282 03:07:10,011 --> 03:07:11,971 Alexander. 2283 03:07:12,180 --> 03:07:15,433 Wait. Wait. 2284 03:07:16,976 --> 03:07:18,937 Vultures. Wait. 2285 03:07:19,103 --> 03:07:20,772 We have a son. 2286 03:07:21,105 --> 03:07:23,900 Just three more months. 2287 03:07:24,067 --> 03:07:25,985 Please live. 2288 03:07:28,863 --> 03:07:31,574 Alexander, the army will divide. 2289 03:07:31,741 --> 03:07:34,744 Satrapies will revolt. Without your orders, there'll be war. 2290 03:07:35,203 --> 03:07:37,413 We beg you. Tell us who. 2291 03:07:40,291 --> 03:07:42,543 PHILOTAS: Who will rule this great empire if you leave us? 2292 03:07:42,710 --> 03:07:44,045 Who do you want, Alexander? 2293 03:07:44,212 --> 03:07:46,673 MAN 1: We beg you. Tell us who. MAN 2: Fear not. 2294 03:07:47,799 --> 03:07:49,926 ALEXANDER: The myth becomes real. 2295 03:07:55,265 --> 03:07:57,600 Beyond Herakles. 2296 03:08:03,523 --> 03:08:05,191 [INDISTINCT WHISPERING] 2297 03:08:06,317 --> 03:08:09,279 OLYMPIAS: Zeus is your father. 2298 03:08:14,575 --> 03:08:15,868 PTOLEMY: Who Will it be? 2299 03:08:17,328 --> 03:08:19,622 Pray tell us, who. 2300 03:08:22,208 --> 03:08:24,669 - What did he say? PERDICCAS: "To the best." 2301 03:08:26,921 --> 03:08:29,299 - He said, "To the best." MAN 2: What? 2302 03:08:29,465 --> 03:08:31,551 - No, he said, "To Crateros." MAN 3: To Crateros? 2303 03:08:31,718 --> 03:08:33,678 MAN 4: Why would he say Crateros? 2304 03:08:41,561 --> 03:08:43,062 [HISSING] 2305 03:08:49,777 --> 03:08:51,571 [WHEEZING] 2306 03:08:55,950 --> 03:08:57,243 [CONTINUES WHEEZING] 2307 03:09:06,586 --> 03:09:09,672 [CONTINUES WHEEZING] 2308 03:09:22,643 --> 03:09:24,312 [ALEXANDER SIGHS] 2309 03:09:36,115 --> 03:09:40,370 PTOLEMY: On the 10th of June, a month short of his 33rd year... 2310 03:09:40,536 --> 03:09:44,957 ...Alexander's great heart finally gave out. 2311 03:09:45,124 --> 03:09:49,337 And as he vowed, he joined Hephaistion. 2312 03:09:52,423 --> 03:09:55,134 But in his short life, he achieved, without doubt... 2313 03:09:55,301 --> 03:10:00,640 ...the mythic glory of his ancestor Achilles and more. 2314 03:10:05,645 --> 03:10:08,523 Olympias' transgression in the murder of his father... 2315 03:10:08,731 --> 03:10:11,484 ...is, to my mind, a probability. 2316 03:10:11,651 --> 03:10:14,278 His, a burden. 2317 03:10:15,988 --> 03:10:19,659 Alexander was too in love with glory for him to steal it. 2318 03:10:19,826 --> 03:10:22,286 [EAGLE SCREECHES] 2319 03:10:24,705 --> 03:10:28,835 But by blood, and blood alone, he was guilty. 2320 03:10:29,001 --> 03:10:31,170 No! 2321 03:10:34,507 --> 03:10:37,009 [SCREAMING] 2322 03:10:41,556 --> 03:10:42,723 Bolt the doors. 2323 03:10:42,890 --> 03:10:46,018 - The body stays in Babylon. - The body belongs to Macedon. 2324 03:10:46,185 --> 03:10:48,479 - This must be decided... PTOLEMY: Within hours... 2325 03:10:48,646 --> 03:10:52,275 ...we were fighting like jackals for his corpse. 2326 03:10:52,442 --> 03:10:54,652 The wars of the world had begun. 2327 03:10:54,819 --> 03:10:57,155 Forty years, off and on, they endured. 2328 03:10:57,321 --> 03:11:01,576 Cassander in Greece. Crateros and Antigonus in western Asia. 2329 03:11:01,742 --> 03:11:06,038 Solucas and Perdiccas in the East. Myself in Egypt. 2330 03:11:06,247 --> 03:11:11,669 - Until we divided his empire in four parts. - Gentlemen, we are not savages. 2331 03:11:11,836 --> 03:11:13,796 We are the future--! 2332 03:11:14,005 --> 03:11:17,383 PTOLEMY: I think Alexander would have been disappointed in us. 2333 03:11:17,550 --> 03:11:20,052 [INDISTINCT YELLING] 2334 03:11:20,219 --> 03:11:22,638 PTOLEMY: Naturally, rumors grew he'd been poisoned... 2335 03:11:22,805 --> 03:11:25,475 ...by one faction of his generals or another. 2336 03:11:25,850 --> 03:11:27,810 But the truth in these matters... 2337 03:11:27,977 --> 03:11:30,646 ...has long since been driven from currency. 2338 03:11:33,524 --> 03:11:37,445 Cassander saw to that with his fake diaries... 2339 03:11:37,945 --> 03:11:42,366 ...painting Alexander as a sick and bloated drunk. 2340 03:11:43,034 --> 03:11:47,455 Many believed, to remove suspicion from himself. 2341 03:11:50,583 --> 03:11:55,713 He certainly proved he had the temperament for politics and murder. 2342 03:11:55,922 --> 03:12:00,468 ...when seven years later, he executed Olympias... 2343 03:12:01,844 --> 03:12:05,223 ...who met her death with great courage. 2344 03:12:06,641 --> 03:12:11,229 Five years-- No, it was six years after that... 2345 03:12:11,562 --> 03:12:13,940 ...Cassander finally achieved... 2346 03:12:14,148 --> 03:12:17,652 ...the complete destruction of Alexander's bloodline... 2347 03:12:17,818 --> 03:12:20,613 ...when he poisoned Roxane... 2348 03:12:20,821 --> 03:12:24,784 ...and Alexander's 13-year-old son... 2349 03:12:25,868 --> 03:12:29,247 ...the true heir to the empire. 2350 03:12:33,251 --> 03:12:36,754 But Roxane, too, like Olympias... 2351 03:12:36,921 --> 03:12:39,799 ...played by stern rules. 2352 03:12:40,591 --> 03:12:42,635 Supported by several generals... 2353 03:12:42,802 --> 03:12:45,763 ...days after Alexander's death... 2354 03:12:45,930 --> 03:12:48,474 ...she had Stateira poisoned. 2355 03:12:49,600 --> 03:12:52,937 It was reason enough for some to believe she was the one behind... 2356 03:12:53,145 --> 03:12:55,356 ...Hephaistion's sudden demise. 2357 03:12:55,523 --> 03:12:58,234 But this is unproven in my mind. 2358 03:12:58,401 --> 03:13:01,654 Bagoas disappeared from the histories entirely. 2359 03:13:01,862 --> 03:13:04,031 A wise move perhaps. 2360 03:13:05,366 --> 03:13:08,494 But I will say his love and devotion for Alexander... 2361 03:13:08,661 --> 03:13:13,541 ...were unquestionable and extraordinary. 2362 03:13:21,215 --> 03:13:25,344 Now I am the keeper of his body... 2363 03:13:25,511 --> 03:13:29,432 ...embalmed here, in the Egyptian ways. 2364 03:13:29,599 --> 03:13:34,937 I followed him as Pharaoh and have now ruled 40 years. 2365 03:13:35,104 --> 03:13:37,523 [INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE] 2366 03:13:37,690 --> 03:13:39,650 I have two sons... 2367 03:13:39,817 --> 03:13:42,945 ...each jealous of the other's power. 2368 03:13:45,364 --> 03:13:49,535 But they will grow to make fine fathers and husbands... 2369 03:13:49,702 --> 03:13:51,787 ...and I trust... 2370 03:13:51,954 --> 03:13:53,748 ...will be just in their affairs. 2371 03:13:55,458 --> 03:13:58,252 But they have never seen... 2372 03:13:58,419 --> 03:14:01,047 ...the great cavalry charge at Gaugamela... 2373 03:14:01,380 --> 03:14:04,467 ...or the mountains of the Hindu Kush... 2374 03:14:05,176 --> 03:14:10,556 ...when we crossed a 100,000-man army into India. 2375 03:14:17,772 --> 03:14:21,150 He was a god, Cadmos... 2376 03:14:21,317 --> 03:14:24,278 ...or as close as anything I've ever known. 2377 03:14:24,445 --> 03:14:28,240 "Tyrant!" they yell so easily. I laugh. 2378 03:14:28,407 --> 03:14:31,035 No tyrant ever gave back so much. 2379 03:14:31,202 --> 03:14:33,746 What do they know of the world, these schoolboys? 2380 03:14:34,622 --> 03:14:36,999 It takes strong men to rule. 2381 03:14:37,166 --> 03:14:40,961 Alexander was more, he was a Prometheus, a friend to man. 2382 03:14:41,128 --> 03:14:43,673 He changed the world. 2383 03:14:44,131 --> 03:14:47,259 Before him, there were tribes... 2384 03:14:47,426 --> 03:14:51,764 ...and after him, all was possible. 2385 03:14:51,931 --> 03:14:56,769 There was suddenly a sense the world could be ruled by one king... 2386 03:14:56,936 --> 03:14:59,438 ...and be better for all. 2387 03:15:01,315 --> 03:15:04,902 Eighteen great Alexandrias he built across this world. 2388 03:15:05,111 --> 03:15:10,700 It was an empire, not of land and gold, but of the mind. 2389 03:15:12,034 --> 03:15:15,204 A Hellenic civilization... 2390 03:15:15,413 --> 03:15:19,500 ...open to all. 2391 03:15:23,254 --> 03:15:26,924 But the truth is never simple... 2392 03:15:27,675 --> 03:15:29,844 ...and yet it is. 2393 03:15:30,302 --> 03:15:33,180 The truth is, We did kill him. 2394 03:15:37,101 --> 03:15:40,354 By silence, we consented. 2395 03:15:40,813 --> 03:15:42,732 Because-- 2396 03:15:42,940 --> 03:15:45,484 Because we couldn't go on. 2397 03:15:45,651 --> 03:15:47,903 What, by Ares, did we look forward to... 2398 03:15:48,070 --> 03:15:50,990 ...but to be discarded in the end, like Cleitus? 2399 03:15:51,157 --> 03:15:53,826 After all this time, to give away our wealth... 2400 03:15:53,993 --> 03:15:56,370 ...to Asian sycophants we despised? 2401 03:15:56,537 --> 03:15:59,165 Mixing the races, harmony? 2402 03:15:59,331 --> 03:16:00,583 Ha! 2403 03:16:00,750 --> 03:16:03,502 Oh, he talked of these things... 2404 03:16:03,669 --> 03:16:06,172 ...but wasn't it really about Alexander... 2405 03:16:06,338 --> 03:16:09,467 ...and another population ready to obey him? 2406 03:16:10,509 --> 03:16:13,429 I never believed in his dream. 2407 03:16:13,596 --> 03:16:15,556 None of us did. 2408 03:16:17,475 --> 03:16:19,727 That's the truth of his life. 2409 03:16:19,894 --> 03:16:22,521 The dreamers exhaust us. 2410 03:16:23,230 --> 03:16:27,401 They must die before they kill us with their blasted dreams. 2411 03:16:28,778 --> 03:16:31,614 Oh, just throw all that away, Cadmos. 2412 03:16:31,781 --> 03:16:34,241 It's an old fool's rubbish. 2413 03:16:36,076 --> 03:16:41,332 You shall write, "He died of fever and a weakened condition." 2414 03:16:42,291 --> 03:16:44,126 Yes, great Pharaoh. 2415 03:16:44,293 --> 03:16:48,047 Oh, he could've stayed home in Macedonia, married, raised a family. 2416 03:16:49,423 --> 03:16:52,510 He'd have died a celebrated man. 2417 03:16:54,887 --> 03:16:57,640 But this was not Alexander. 2418 03:16:58,015 --> 03:17:03,896 All his life, he fought to free himself from fear. 2419 03:17:04,063 --> 03:17:10,236 And by this, and this alone, he was made free. 2420 03:17:11,612 --> 03:17:15,574 The freest man I've ever known. 2421 03:17:17,243 --> 03:17:22,248 His tragedy was one of increasing loneliness... 2422 03:17:22,414 --> 03:17:26,168 ...and impatience with those who could not understand. 2423 03:17:26,544 --> 03:17:29,296 And if his desire... 2424 03:17:29,463 --> 03:17:34,260 ...to reconcile Greek and barbarian ended in failure... Heh. 2425 03:17:36,804 --> 03:17:39,932 What failure! Heh. 2426 03:17:40,182 --> 03:17:46,689 His failure towered over other men's successes. 2427 03:17:48,399 --> 03:17:50,109 [SNIFFLES] 2428 03:17:51,068 --> 03:17:52,778 I've lived-- 2429 03:17:52,987 --> 03:17:55,364 I've lived long life, Cadmos... 2430 03:17:55,573 --> 03:17:57,867 ...but the glory and the memory of man... 2431 03:17:58,075 --> 03:18:02,997 ...will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions. 2432 03:18:03,455 --> 03:18:08,711 And the greatest of these is the one they now call... 2433 03:18:10,045 --> 03:18:13,799 ...Megas Alexandros. 2434 03:18:15,384 --> 03:18:18,470 The greatest Alexander of them all. 2435 03:26:41,973 --> 03:26:43,975 184073

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