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Alexander, the army will divide.

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Satrapies will revolt.
Without your orders, there'll be war.

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We beg you. Tell us who.

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Our world is gone now.

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I'm the last left alive.

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Whether that's a blessing or a curse...

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who by Hades would know.

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But I've paid my price...

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in blood.

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And in broken dreams.

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They say we were the greatest
fighting force ever known to man.

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Greater even than the expedition to Troy.

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But how can I say it?

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How can I tell you what it is like
to be young...

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and to dream big dreams?

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To believe when Alexander looked you
in the eye, you could do anything.

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Anything.

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In his presence, by the light of Apollo,
we were better than ourselves.

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Truly, I've known many great men
in my life...

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but only one colossus.

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And only now, when old...

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do I understand
who this force of nature really was.

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Or do I?

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Did such a man as Alexander exist?
Of course not.

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We idolize him,
make him better than he was.

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Men, all men, reach and fall...

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reach and fall.

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In the East, the vast Persian Empire
ruled almost all the known world.

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In the West,
the once great Greek city-states...

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Thebes, Athens, Sparta,
had fallen from pride.

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For 100 years now, the Persian kings
had bribed the Greeks...

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with their gold
to fight as mercenaries.

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It was Philip, the one-eyed,
who changed all this...

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uniting tribes of illiterate sheepherders
from the high and lowlands.

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With his blood and guts,
he built a professional army...

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that brought the devious Greeks
to their knees.

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He then turned his eye on Persia...

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where it was said the
Great King Darius himself...

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on his throne in Babylon,
feared Philip.

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Philip was murdered...

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much to Persia's delight and
perhaps sponsored by their gold.

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And Alexander, at 20
became the new ruler of Macedonia.

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Announcing revenge
for the death of Philip...

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Alexander liberated
all of the cities of western Asia...

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south to Egypt...

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where he was declared
Pharaoh of Egypt...

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and worshipped as a god.

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And finally, he provoked
the rise to battle...

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in the heart of the Persian Empire,
near Babylon.

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<i>It was mad.</i>

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<i>Forty thousand of us against
hundreds of thousands...</i>

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<i>of barbarian races unknown to us...</i>

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<i>gathered under Darius himself.</i>

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<i>East and west had now come together...</i>

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<i>to decide the fate of the known world.</i>

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<i>It was the day Alexander
had waited for all his life.</i>

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<i>Son of a god.</i>

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<i>It was a myth, of course.</i>

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<i>At least it started as a myth.</i>

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<i>I know.</i>

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<i>I was there.</i>

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In the crack of the Persian line,
we'll go for the head.

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Kill Darius?

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The gods have brought him
to us at last.

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If I die, it's one Macedonian.

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But the Persians, they cannot move
without Darius' command.

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<i>Here. Right here, we cut the throat
of the Persian army.</i>

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<i>This is madness. You'll never get
within 100 paces of him.</i>

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Have you seen the sheer size
of his force?

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<i>Not if you hold them on the left,
my brave Parmenion...</i>

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<i>with your son Philotas
for just one, two hours tomorrow.</i>

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And you, unbreakable Antigonus,
the center phalanx.

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<i>Perdiccas, Leonnatus...</i>

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<i>Nearchus, Polyperchon.</i>

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If you pin them on the walls
of your sarissas, here in the center...

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their cavalry will follow me
out to the right.

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<i>And when bold Cassander breaks,
stretching their left...</i>

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a hole will open.
Then I and my cavalry...

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<i>Our revered Cleitus...</i>

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Ptolemy and Hephaistion.

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Will strike through that gap...

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and deal the deathblow
to Darius' head.

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Since when, by the light of Apollo, has
cavalry been used to break an infantry line?

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<i>What was it we did to
Chaeronea, Parmenion?</i>

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Alexander, even with luck, timing, the gods,
they're at least five to our one...

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which means in truth we must rout them
tomorrow, destroy their army completely.

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<i>Or we'll be picked apart by bandit tribes
on the long journey home.</i>

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<i>Right.</i>

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<i>You speak of home and retreat...</i>

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but do you understand, Parmenion?

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Babylon's my new home.

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Alexander...

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if we must fight...

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do so with stealth.

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<i>Use your numbers well. We should attack
tonight when they least expect us.</i>

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<i>I didn't cross Asia
to steal this victory, Cassander.</i>

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<i>No, you are too honorable for that.</i>

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<i>No doubt influenced from sleeping
with Tales of Troy under your pillow.</i>

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But your father
was no lover of Homer's.

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The lands west of the Euphrates, Alexander,
the hand of his daughter in marriage.

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Since when has a Greek
been given such honors?

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There are not honors, Parmenion,
they're bribes...

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which the Greeks
have accepted too long.

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Do you forget that
the man who murdered my father...

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<i>- Lies across the valley floor?
- Come, Alexander...</i>

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we're still not really sure if it was
Persian gold behind the assassination.

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But that is no matter!

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<i>Your father taught you never to surrender
your reason to your passion.</i>

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<i>Now I urge you...</i>

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with all my experience, regroup.

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Fall back to the coast,
raise a larger force.

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I would, if I were Parmenion.

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But I am Alexander.

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And no more than Earth has two suns
will Asia bear two kings.

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These are my terms.

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And if Darius isn't a coward
who hides behind his men...

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then he'll come to me tomorrow.

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And when he bows down to Greece...

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Alexander will be merciful.

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By Ares' chains, he has got balls, men.

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I mean, give the man his due,
Parmenion.

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And, lads, feast tonight,
for tomorrow we will dine in Hades.

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I've seen one before.
It was still alive.

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To whom do you pray?

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Phobos.

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Fear?

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A bad omen.

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More so for Darius.

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I've come to believe the fear of death
drives all men, Hephaistion.

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And this we didn't learn as schoolboys.

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It is the cause of all of our misfortunes.

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<i>- So, mighty Crateros.
- Your Majesty.</i>

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- Are you ready for tomorrow?
- It's been too long coming if you ask me.

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The men are skittish as colts and
the damn bulls won't shut their snouts.

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Good. Fear makes men fight better.

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Post your sentries alertly
but rest them well.

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Don't you worry, general. I'm known to
sleep with my eyes open as a baby's arse.

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Only because someone
might steal his loot, sire.

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<i>Well, someone owes Crateros
for his cheapness.</i>

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He buys neither gloves nor blankets
to warm himself.

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Who needs gloves
when you come from grace?

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Who needs clothes
when you can fight naked?

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He's right.

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After tomorrow, even the thrifty
among you shall be kings.

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<i>- The gods are with us, Your Majesty.
- We'll stain the ground...</i>

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in Persian blood, my king.

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<i>You're on the first row tomorrow, boy.</i>

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I've always believed, Alexander...

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but this seems so much bigger than us.

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Did Patroclus doubt Achilles when they
stood side by side at the seat of Troy?

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Patroclus died first.

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If you do...

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If you were to fall, Hephaistion,
even if Macedonia were to lose a king...

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I will avenge you.

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And follow you down
to the house of death.

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I would do the same.

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On the eve of battle,
it's hardest to be alone.

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Then perhaps...

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Perhaps this is farewell then...

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my Alexander.

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Fear not, Hephaistion.
We are at the beginning.

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Blood makes the world rise.

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Blood makes the rain fall.

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Blood makes the earth grow.

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And in blood, all men are born and die.

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Blood is the food of the gods below.

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<i>Come, Bucephalus.
Today we ride to our destiny.</i>

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<i>Company, group! Regroup!</i>

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Phalanx, turn right!

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Phalanx, attention!

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<i>Neoptolemus.</i>

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I remember you the day
you took the siege tower at Tyre.

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<i>You were a giant.
And today, how will you fight?</i>

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Dexippos, by Athena.

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How far was it you threw your man
wrestling at the last Olympic Games?

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Will you match it with your spear?

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And Timander, son of Menander,
a great soldier to my father.

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I still mourn your brother, Addaios,
who died so bravely at Halicarnassus.

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What an honored family
you descend from, Timander.

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<i>You fight for them today.</i>

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<i>You've all honored
your country and your ancestors.</i>

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And now we come to this
most distant place in Asia...

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where across from us, Darius
has at last gathered a vast army...

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<i>But ask yourselves...</i>

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who is this great king
who pays assassins in gold coins...

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to murder my father, our king...

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in a most despicable
and cowardly manner?

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Who is this great king, Darius,
who enslaves his own men to fight?

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Who is this king but a king of air?

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These men do not fight for their homes.

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They fight because
this king tells them they must.

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And when they fight,
they will melt away like the air...

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because they know no loyalty
to a king of slaves.

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But we are not here today as slaves.

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We are here today...

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as Macedonian freemen!

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And though outnumbered...

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I say to you who know
the price of tyranny...

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who've carried the Persian yoke
too long...

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you have a strength
born of your hearts...

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and all their arms, their numbers...

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their chariots and all their fine horses...

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will mean nothing
in the hands of slaves.

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Some of you...

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perhaps myself...

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will not live to see the sun set
over these mountains today.

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For I will be
in the very thick of battle with you.

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<i>But remember this:</i>

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The greatest honor
a man can ever achieve...

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is to live with great courage
and to die with his countrymen...

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in battle for his home.

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I say to you...

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what every warrior has known
since the beginning of time.

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<i>Conquer your fear...</i>

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<i>and I promise you,
you will conquer death.</i>

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And someday I vow to you...

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your sons and your grandsons
will look into your eyes.

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And when they ask why you
fought so bravely at Gaugamela...

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you will answer...

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<i>with all the strength
of your great, great hearts:</i>

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"I was here this day at Gaugamela..."

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for the freedom...

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and glory...

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"...of Greece!"

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Zeus be with us!

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<i>Cassander! Four columns, go!</i>

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Where does he go?

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<i>I don't know, Majesty.</i>

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Envelop him, Bessus.

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Hephaistion, go!

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Phalanx!

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He makes a mistake, Pharnakes.

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<i>Yes, great king.</i>

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Be brave, men.

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Steady on the left, lads!

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Bend if you must, but never break.

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And keep watching the cavalry on the left.

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Pick up the pace!

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Prepare to repel chariots!

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Forward!

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<i>Cassander!</i>

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- Forward, men!
- Forward!

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<i>- Left turn!
- Infantry, clear! Out now!</i>

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Hold your positions!

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Father! We must
fall back to the gully, Father.

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<i>No, hold.</i>

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Where is he? We're far too thin!
Get word to Alexander!

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<i>- Move!
- Yes, sir.</i>

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<i>Come, Macedonians! Ride! Ride!</i>

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Drive for the hole!

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- Drive for the hole!
- Drive for the hole!

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Prince Merdicus, bring these men up.

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Back and to the left!
Back and to the left!

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- General!
- Get to your home! And go home fast.

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I cannot see!

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- Philotas! Philotas!
- Father.

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Go. Tell Alexander yourself.

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And if he won't listen, then survive me
and avenge this betrayal!

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<i>Pay attention, lad!
Your father still watches over you!</i>

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Darius!

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Find your horses.

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Darius!

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Go! Go!

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We can reach those mountains by sunset,
go all night and catch Darius at dawn.

00:35:04.740 --> 00:35:07.620
Provision the horses.

00:35:08.260 --> 00:35:12.020
Alexander!
Alexander, my father's lost.

00:35:12.180 --> 00:35:14.940
They've overrun the flank.
They're into the baggage train.

00:35:15.100 --> 00:35:17.260
Parmenion's crumbling.

00:35:17.580 --> 00:35:22.060
Alexander, if you chase him,
you risk losing your army here.

00:35:22.220 --> 00:35:24.460
And if we capture him,
we gain an empire.

00:35:34.620 --> 00:35:37.300
<i>You can run to the ends of the earth,
you coward...</i>

00:35:37.460 --> 00:35:40.420
but you'll never run far enough!

00:35:40.580 --> 00:35:43.260
To Parmenion!

00:36:13.900 --> 00:36:15.300
<i>You bleed free, my lord.</i>

00:36:15.460 --> 00:36:18.740
<i>- May I tend to your wound?
- No, Hermolaus, not now.</i>

00:36:18.900 --> 00:36:21.340
There's far worse than me. Go to them.

00:36:21.500 --> 00:36:23.380
Help them.

00:36:46.820 --> 00:36:49.060
How was this done, soldier?

00:36:50.140 --> 00:36:52.260
Spear.

00:36:53.420 --> 00:36:55.660
But I got two of the buggers.

00:36:58.900 --> 00:37:00.540
<i>Your Majesty.</i>

00:37:01.820 --> 00:37:03.780
<i>You're very brave.</i>

00:37:05.140 --> 00:37:06.940
What shall I call you?

00:37:07.140 --> 00:37:09.980
- Glaukos, my king.
- Glaukos.

00:37:11.060 --> 00:37:13.900
- And where's your home?
- Illyria.

00:37:16.380 --> 00:37:18.980
<i>Let your body go loose.</i>

00:37:22.460 --> 00:37:24.460
Think of home now.

00:37:24.660 --> 00:37:27.100
Be brave again, Glaukos...

00:37:28.660 --> 00:37:31.180
and you will live on in glory.

00:37:34.340 --> 00:37:36.420
Alexander.

00:37:46.260 --> 00:37:50.540
<i>The Persian Empire,
the greatest the world had yet known...</i>

00:37:50.700 --> 00:37:52.900
<i>was destroyed.</i>

00:37:57.380 --> 00:38:02.220
<i>And Alexander, at 25,
was now king of all.</i>

00:38:16.340 --> 00:38:20.420
If you hesitate, she will strike.

00:38:23.020 --> 00:38:25.140
<i>Yes.</i>

00:38:26.820 --> 00:38:28.700
They are like people.

00:38:29.660 --> 00:38:35.900
<i>You can love them for years.
Feed them, nurture them...</i>

00:38:36.900 --> 00:38:41.460
but still, they can turn on you.

00:38:49.060 --> 00:38:51.460
Don't hurt her.

00:38:52.980 --> 00:38:54.780
Good.

00:38:57.220 --> 00:38:58.660
<i>Now...</i>

00:39:04.940 --> 00:39:06.860
He calls me a barbarian.

00:39:07.060 --> 00:39:09.620
He makes a mockery
of Dionysus every night.

00:39:24.980 --> 00:39:29.260
<i>Some called his mother,
Queen Olympias, a sorceress...</i>

00:39:29.420 --> 00:39:32.860
<i>and said that Alexander
was the child of Zeus.</i>

00:39:33.180 --> 00:39:36.500
<i>Others, Dionysus.</i>

00:39:36.980 --> 00:39:43.260
Women are the only ones
who know Dionysus.

00:39:53.740 --> 00:39:57.420
<i>But truly, there was not a man
in Macedonia who didn't look...</i>

00:39:57.580 --> 00:40:02.900
<i>at father and son, side by side,
and wonder.</i>

00:40:15.860 --> 00:40:18.340
My little Achilles.

00:40:39.740 --> 00:40:42.860
Stay, Alexander, down. Down.

00:40:44.380 --> 00:40:46.340
What is it you want?

00:40:46.500 --> 00:40:48.380
Six months. Did you miss me?

00:40:48.540 --> 00:40:52.060
<i>- No. Not here!
- Proud bitch. I'm still your king.</i>

00:40:52.260 --> 00:40:55.420
King of what? Sheepherders?

00:41:00.340 --> 00:41:04.940
- I am of Achilles' royal blood.
- The blood of Herakles runs in my veins.

00:41:05.140 --> 00:41:07.780
<i>- You are nothing but a drunken whore.
- Shut your mouth.</i>

00:41:07.980 --> 00:41:09.580
<i>You 10-titted bitch from Hades!</i>

00:41:09.780 --> 00:41:12.740
Which god could I curse to
have ever laid eyes on you!

00:41:14.540 --> 00:41:17.180
Do you think people respect you?

00:41:17.340 --> 00:41:20.060
<i>You think they don't know your bastards?</i>

00:41:28.660 --> 00:41:31.860
<i>Damn your sorceress soul! You keep him
here like one of your snakes!</i>

00:41:32.020 --> 00:41:35.260
I told you not! I told you not.

00:41:35.420 --> 00:41:38.180
<i>- You'll obey me.
- I will not.</i>

00:41:38.380 --> 00:41:42.700
<i>You'll obey me, or I'll kill you
with my own hands.</i>

00:41:45.780 --> 00:41:50.340
<i>Let her go! No! Stop! Papa!</i>

00:41:52.060 --> 00:41:55.540
<i>- Obey me!
- Your Majesty! No!</i>

00:41:57.300 --> 00:41:59.100
In the name of the gods.

00:41:59.300 --> 00:42:04.500
<i>He will never be yours! Never!</i>

00:42:04.660 --> 00:42:09.300
In my womb, I carried my avenger!

00:42:18.700 --> 00:42:22.020
<i>In the world he grew up to...</i>

00:42:22.220 --> 00:42:27.140
<i>I've come to believe it was in
friendship that Alexander found his sanity.</i>

00:42:27.300 --> 00:42:30.740
<i>You don't need much to fight.</i>

00:42:31.260 --> 00:42:37.180
<i>When you're in the front ranks of a battle,
facing some Northern barbarian tribe...</i>

00:42:37.340 --> 00:42:42.220
courage won't be in
the soles of your feet, Perdiccas.

00:42:42.380 --> 00:42:45.260
Or in the thickness
of your tunic, Philotas.

00:42:45.420 --> 00:42:48.180
<i>Or in the lining
of your stomach, Nearchus.</i>

00:42:48.380 --> 00:42:52.740
It's in the heart of a man.

00:42:53.300 --> 00:42:57.980
<i>You don't need to eat every day
or until you're full, Ptolemy.</i>

00:42:58.140 --> 00:43:01.060
<i>You don't need to lie in bed
in a morning...</i>

00:43:01.260 --> 00:43:05.460
<i>when you can have some good bean soup,
Cassander, after a forced night march.</i>

00:43:06.260 --> 00:43:08.100
<i>Come on, Alexander.</i>

00:43:08.980 --> 00:43:12.940
Where's your hunger
to twist Hephaistion's head off?

00:43:13.380 --> 00:43:16.380
Is he stronger than you?
Then beat him another way.

00:43:19.140 --> 00:43:22.100
<i>Who will respect you as a king?
You think because of your father?</i>

00:43:22.260 --> 00:43:28.380
<i>The first rule of war is to do what you
ask your men to do. No more, no less.</i>

00:43:31.900 --> 00:43:33.540
Good, Hephaistion. That's it.

00:43:33.820 --> 00:43:38.260
Well done. Good wrestling, Hephaistion.
That's what I want.

00:43:38.420 --> 00:43:39.780
<i>Come, come, come.</i>

00:43:40.260 --> 00:43:41.860
<i>You did well, but you lost.</i>

00:43:42.060 --> 00:43:47.420
<i>Now, both of you, congratulate
the other. Go on.</i>

00:43:48.020 --> 00:43:50.700
Would you want me to let you win,
Alexander?

00:43:52.780 --> 00:43:54.980
<i>You're right.</i>

00:43:55.180 --> 00:43:58.220
But I promise you, I will beat
you one day, Hephaistion.

00:44:05.420 --> 00:44:09.460
<i>It was said later that Alexander
was never defeated...</i>

00:44:09.660 --> 00:44:11.580
<i>except by Hephaistion's thighs.</i>

00:44:11.740 --> 00:44:14.260
Although an inferior race...

00:44:14.460 --> 00:44:19.900
the Persians control at least
four-fifths of the known world.

00:44:20.060 --> 00:44:22.540
From Ethiopia and Egypt in the south...

00:44:22.740 --> 00:44:25.260
<i>to Caucasus and the two inland seas
in the north...</i>

00:44:25.420 --> 00:44:29.940
<i>Philip brought such as Aristotle from
Athens to educate our rough people.</i>

00:44:30.140 --> 00:44:34.660
They rule, and we sit around like frogs.

00:44:34.820 --> 00:44:36.060
<i>- Master?
- Yes?</i>

00:44:36.260 --> 00:44:37.540
- Master!
- Out with it!

00:44:37.700 --> 00:44:40.540
<i>- Why are the Persians so cruel?
- Oh, come on, Nearchus.</i>

00:44:40.700 --> 00:44:42.700
<i>That is not the subject for today,
Nearchus.</i>

00:44:42.900 --> 00:44:47.860
But it is true that the Oriental races
are known for their barbarity...

00:44:48.060 --> 00:44:50.300
and their slavish devotion
to their senses.

00:44:50.500 --> 00:44:54.580
Which are so dull,
they castrate young boys...

00:44:54.740 --> 00:44:57.540
such as yourselves,
for their sexual pleasure.

00:44:58.700 --> 00:45:03.740
<i>Yes. Excess in all things
is the undoing of men.</i>

00:45:03.900 --> 00:45:05.820
That is why we Greeks are superior.

00:45:06.020 --> 00:45:09.220
We practice control of our senses.

00:45:09.420 --> 00:45:11.620
Moderation, we hope.

00:45:11.820 --> 00:45:13.740
Then what of Achilles at Troy, master?

00:45:15.420 --> 00:45:20.340
- Was he not excessive?
- Achilles simply lacks restraint.

00:45:20.500 --> 00:45:24.300
He dominates others so completely that
even when he withdraws from battle...

00:45:24.460 --> 00:45:27.740
crazed with grief over
his dead lover, Patroclus...

00:45:27.940 --> 00:45:32.980
he seriously endangers his own army.
He is a deeply selfish man.

00:45:33.180 --> 00:45:37.060
Would you say the love between Achilles
and Patroclus is a corrupting one?

00:45:38.220 --> 00:45:41.740
When men lie together in lust,
it is a surrender to the passions...

00:45:41.900 --> 00:45:45.660
and does nothing
for the excellence in us.

00:45:45.860 --> 00:45:50.340
<i>Nor does any other excess, Cassander,
jealousy among them.</i>

00:45:50.900 --> 00:45:55.860
But when men lie together, and knowledge
and virtue are passed between them...

00:45:56.060 --> 00:45:59.660
that is pure and excellent.

00:45:59.820 --> 00:46:04.020
When they compete to bring out the good,
the best in each other...

00:46:04.180 --> 00:46:08.100
this is the love between men that
can build a city-state...

00:46:08.260 --> 00:46:10.740
and lift us from our frog pond.

00:46:13.820 --> 00:46:15.940
<i>But can a man
love a woman equally, master?</i>

00:46:16.180 --> 00:46:17.780
A woman? Of course not.

00:46:17.940 --> 00:46:20.580
A woman is a slave
to her passion, Hephaistion.

00:46:20.740 --> 00:46:23.900
Oh, naturally there are exceptions,
and we must honor them.

00:46:24.100 --> 00:46:28.100
Such as Pallas Athena,
goddess of wisdom and war.

00:46:28.300 --> 00:46:32.620
But never forget, she is sprung not from
the loins of Zeus, but from his mind.

00:46:33.340 --> 00:46:36.420
<i>Now, you think on all this,
my young frogs...</i>

00:46:36.580 --> 00:46:41.340
for in you resides
the future of Greek civilization.

00:46:41.500 --> 00:46:45.780
To strive for honor
is the highest purpose of all.

00:46:45.980 --> 00:46:48.500
To rule over our baser emotions.

00:46:48.660 --> 00:46:52.500
To follow reason,
the divine part in each of you.

00:46:52.660 --> 00:46:54.020
<i>Yes...</i>

00:46:54.220 --> 00:46:58.460
to love excellence
is truly to love the gods.

00:47:00.660 --> 00:47:02.260
<i>Now, will you stop distracting me?</i>

00:47:02.700 --> 00:47:05.300
Back to geography
and things that we know.

00:47:05.500 --> 00:47:11.100
<i>Is it possible that the source
of Egypt's mighty River Nile...</i>

00:47:11.260 --> 00:47:14.940
could rise in these distant
mountains of the outer earth?

00:47:15.100 --> 00:47:21.100
If so, an experienced navigator
could find his way here...

00:47:21.260 --> 00:47:26.020
by this river east, down
into the great plains of India...

00:47:26.180 --> 00:47:30.780
out into the eastern ocean
at end of the world...

00:47:30.940 --> 00:47:34.860
<i>and by this route up the Nile...</i>

00:47:35.020 --> 00:47:41.100
back to Egypt, into the Middle Sea
and home to Greece.

00:47:41.740 --> 00:47:44.900
<i>Now, if only these frogs
could look outward...</i>

00:47:45.060 --> 00:47:49.020
and act on their favored position
at the center...

00:47:49.180 --> 00:47:51.300
Greece could rule the world.

00:47:51.580 --> 00:47:57.020
Why is it, master, in myth,
these lands you speak of are known?

00:47:58.820 --> 00:48:03.540
India, where Herakles
and Dionysus traveled.

00:48:03.700 --> 00:48:09.220
<i>All these men who went east,
Theseus, Jason, Achilles, were victorious.</i>

00:48:09.380 --> 00:48:13.340
From generation to generation,
their stories have been passed on.

00:48:13.500 --> 00:48:16.020
<i>Why? Unless there was truth to them?</i>

00:48:16.180 --> 00:48:21.820
<i>Tales of Amazons? Minotaurs, Gorgons,
Icarus flying into the sun? No, Alexander.</i>

00:48:21.980 --> 00:48:25.820
Only common people believe these tales,
as they believe most anything.

00:48:26.020 --> 00:48:30.580
We are here precisely to educate
ourselves against such foolish passions.

00:48:31.060 --> 00:48:35.860
But if we are superior to the Persians,
as you say, why do we not rule them?

00:48:36.060 --> 00:48:41.020
It is-It has always been
our Greek dream to go east.

00:48:41.780 --> 00:48:43.860
My father long wants it.

00:48:44.660 --> 00:48:49.860
The East has a way of swallowing
men and their dreams.

00:48:50.020 --> 00:48:56.060
But still, to think it's these myths
that lead us forward to the greatest glory...

00:48:56.300 --> 00:48:58.620
why is it wrong to act on them?

00:48:59.620 --> 00:49:02.420
I can only warn you, not teach you.

00:49:03.380 --> 00:49:06.660
Beware of what you dream for.

00:49:07.420 --> 00:49:11.100
The gods have a way
of punishing such pride.

00:49:21.340 --> 00:49:25.780
<i>And growing more ambitious, he now
planned the invasion of Persia.</i>

00:49:32.100 --> 00:49:36.380
<i>The best you can do, Cleitus? Back
to the phalanx with you, I'll ride him myself.</i>

00:49:36.540 --> 00:49:38.900
<i>No one will ride that beast, Your Majesty.</i>

00:49:39.500 --> 00:49:41.060
<i>Not with your leg.</i>

00:49:42.420 --> 00:49:44.140
He's been beaten far too often.

00:49:45.460 --> 00:49:48.020
My noble king,
he's a high-spirited animal, yes.

00:49:48.180 --> 00:49:51.980
High-spirited and worthy
of Philip of Macedon.

00:49:52.140 --> 00:49:54.300
For three and a half talents...

00:49:54.500 --> 00:49:57.140
I couldn't make a profit
on him, but for you...

00:49:57.340 --> 00:50:00.100
Why would I want such a beast?
I already have a wife.

00:50:02.220 --> 00:50:03.660
Do I seem so old?

00:50:10.020 --> 00:50:13.260
- Stay down, stay down.
- Hold him!

00:50:27.540 --> 00:50:31.820
A broken neck comes free. He's
too nervous for battle. Sell him for meat.

00:50:31.980 --> 00:50:35.380
Buy him for me, Father. I'll ride him.

00:50:40.020 --> 00:50:41.420
And if you don't?

00:50:41.580 --> 00:50:45.180
- I'll pay for him myself.
- With what, your singing voice?

00:50:45.340 --> 00:50:47.140
I'll pay you!

00:50:47.300 --> 00:50:50.740
I tell you, that horse can't be ridden,
lad. His mind is broken.

00:50:53.660 --> 00:50:56.660
He can be ridden. By me.

00:50:56.820 --> 00:50:59.580
If you can rule that horse,
I'll make him yours...

00:50:59.740 --> 00:51:01.740
at half the price.

00:51:01.900 --> 00:51:03.940
That horse will kill him, Philip.

00:51:04.140 --> 00:51:06.420
- He'll break the boy in two.
- Will he?

00:51:06.580 --> 00:51:09.380
Perhaps she'll make
a musician out of him yet.

00:51:24.780 --> 00:51:27.860
<i>You don't like your shadow, do you?</i>

00:51:28.020 --> 00:51:32.060
It's like a dark spirit coming up to get you.

00:51:32.220 --> 00:51:36.140
Do you see? That's us.

00:51:37.060 --> 00:51:39.980
<i>It's just a trick of Apollo's.</i>

00:51:40.180 --> 00:51:44.620
He's the god of the sun.

00:51:47.940 --> 00:51:52.220
But I'll show you how to outwit him,
you and me together.

00:52:02.420 --> 00:52:05.500
The boy doesn't have the craft, Philip.
He could hurt himself.

00:52:05.700 --> 00:52:10.100
He'll have to figure that out
for himself. It's time.

00:52:10.260 --> 00:52:12.100
Good idea.

00:52:12.380 --> 00:52:15.540
Indeed there are times, Philip,
when I wonder if he is your blood.

00:52:15.700 --> 00:52:18.300
- I only worry that-
- What was that, Attalus?

00:52:18.460 --> 00:52:19.780
<i>Nothing.</i>

00:52:19.940 --> 00:52:24.900
<i>I was just noticing how the people
like seeing you and Eurydice together.</i>

00:52:28.860 --> 00:52:30.020
<i>You go, boy!</i>

00:52:30.980 --> 00:52:35.420
<i>You ride that horse and by Zeus I say,
you can rule the world.</i>

00:52:59.860 --> 00:53:01.740
Bucephalus.

00:53:01.900 --> 00:53:05.860
That's what I'll call you.
Strong and stubborn.

00:53:08.700 --> 00:53:11.780
Bucephalus and Alexander.

00:53:13.180 --> 00:53:16.900
<i>Come now, let's ride together.</i>

00:53:49.740 --> 00:53:51.500
He's got some Titan in him yet.

00:53:51.660 --> 00:53:56.300
<i>Attalus! Cleitus! For Zeus' sake,
he beat you, man!</i>

00:54:01.340 --> 00:54:04.660
<i>Now, Bucephalus, show them.</i>

00:54:37.580 --> 00:54:38.900
My son.

00:54:39.060 --> 00:54:40.780
My son!

00:54:52.220 --> 00:54:54.260
<i>You remember Prometheus...</i>

00:54:54.420 --> 00:54:58.340
who stole the secret of fire
and gave it to man.

00:54:58.500 --> 00:55:01.140
It made Zeus so angry...

00:55:01.500 --> 00:55:04.540
<i>he chained Prometheus
to a rock in the great Caucasus...</i>

00:55:04.700 --> 00:55:08.580
and each day, his eagle pecked out
the poor man's liver.

00:55:09.140 --> 00:55:13.860
Each night, it grew back again so that
it could be eaten the next day.

00:55:14.060 --> 00:55:15.260
Miserable fate.

00:55:17.820 --> 00:55:22.740
Oedipus tore out his eyes
when he found out...

00:55:22.900 --> 00:55:25.140
he'd murdered his father...

00:55:25.340 --> 00:55:29.860
and married his mother.
Knowledge that came too late.

00:55:30.700 --> 00:55:32.100
<i>Jason...</i>

00:55:33.580 --> 00:55:36.300
he went east and brought back
the Golden Fleece...

00:55:36.460 --> 00:55:39.660
and married a barbarian wife, Medea.

00:55:39.820 --> 00:55:44.300
<i>Later, when he left her
for a younger wife...</i>

00:55:44.460 --> 00:55:48.420
Medea slaughtered
their two children in vengeance.

00:56:00.660 --> 00:56:03.420
My mother would never hurt me.

00:56:10.780 --> 00:56:13.740
It's never easy to escape our mothers,
Alexander.

00:56:14.340 --> 00:56:20.820
All your life, beware of women.
They're far more dangerous than men.

00:56:28.420 --> 00:56:31.700
<i>I'm sure you remember Achilles
from Tales of Troy.</i>

00:56:31.860 --> 00:56:34.340
- He's my favorite.
- Why?

00:56:34.980 --> 00:56:38.780
Because he loved Patroclus
and avenged his death.

00:56:39.180 --> 00:56:42.580
Because he lived without fear,
and slew Hector.

00:56:42.740 --> 00:56:44.420
Some say he was a hotheaded fool...

00:56:44.620 --> 00:56:46.660
who fought for himself
and not the Greeks.

00:56:46.820 --> 00:56:50.420
But he was a hero, the greatest at Troy.

00:56:50.620 --> 00:56:51.820
And his fate?

00:56:51.980 --> 00:56:55.860
That he must die young
but with great glory.

00:56:56.020 --> 00:56:58.020
Did he have a choice?

00:56:58.500 --> 00:57:04.460
Oh, yes. He could have a long life,
but there would be no glory.

00:57:07.460 --> 00:57:11.780
<i>You dream of glory, Alexander.
Your mother encourages you.</i>

00:57:11.980 --> 00:57:15.540
There's no glory without suffering,
and this she will not allow.

00:57:15.740 --> 00:57:17.900
She makes you weak.

00:57:19.220 --> 00:57:21.580
The gods have never
made it easy for man.

00:57:21.740 --> 00:57:25.380
<i>Look, Herakles.</i>

00:57:27.060 --> 00:57:30.780
Even after he accomplished
his 12 labors...

00:57:32.340 --> 00:57:37.860
he was punished with madness,
slaughtered his three children.

00:57:38.740 --> 00:57:40.660
Poor Herakles.

00:57:42.740 --> 00:57:44.460
Great Herakles.

00:57:44.620 --> 00:57:46.940
All greatness comes from loss.

00:57:47.420 --> 00:57:53.580
<i>Even you, the gods will
one day judge harshly.</i>

00:57:53.740 --> 00:57:55.740
When I'm king like you, Father?

00:57:55.900 --> 00:57:59.700
<i>Don't rush the day, boy. You risk all.</i>

00:58:00.740 --> 00:58:04.820
My father threw me into battle
before I knew how to fight.

00:58:04.980 --> 00:58:07.540
<i>When I killed my first man, he said:</i>

00:58:07.700 --> 00:58:09.940
<i>"Now you know. "</i>

00:58:10.580 --> 00:58:14.660
I hated him then,
but I understand why now.

00:58:14.820 --> 00:58:17.140
A king isn't born, Alexander.

00:58:17.300 --> 00:58:21.340
He's made by steel and by suffering.

00:58:22.340 --> 00:58:26.580
A king must know
how to hurt those he loves.

00:58:30.380 --> 00:58:32.860
It's lonely. Ask Herakles.

00:58:33.860 --> 00:58:37.540
Ask any of them. Fate is cruel.

00:58:38.540 --> 00:58:44.260
<i>No man or woman can be too powerful
or too beautiful without disaster befalling.</i>

00:58:44.420 --> 00:58:50.860
They laugh when you rise too high and
crush everything you've built with a whim.

00:58:51.500 --> 00:58:55.540
What glory they give,
in the end, they take away.

00:58:56.580 --> 00:59:00.140
They make of us slaves.

00:59:15.900 --> 00:59:20.100
Truth is in our hearts,
and none will tell you this but your father.

00:59:20.740 --> 00:59:23.740
Men hate the gods.

00:59:24.700 --> 00:59:29.300
The only reason we worship any of them
is because we fear worse.

00:59:30.140 --> 00:59:31.820
What's worse?

00:59:32.020 --> 00:59:33.860
The Titans.

00:59:34.020 --> 00:59:36.780
If they were ever to be set free...

00:59:36.940 --> 00:59:39.940
it would be a darkness
such as we have never seen before.

00:59:40.100 --> 00:59:42.300
<i>Could they ever come back?</i>

00:59:43.500 --> 00:59:46.620
<i>Can Zeus imprison the Titans forever
under Mount Olympus?</i>

00:59:46.780 --> 00:59:52.180
It's said that when Zeus burned them
to dust with his lightning bolt...

00:59:52.340 --> 00:59:55.100
they took the Titans' ashes
and, in a cold revenge...

00:59:55.300 --> 00:59:57.820
mixed it with those of mortal men.

00:59:57.980 --> 00:59:59.500
Why?

01:00:03.780 --> 01:00:05.900
Who knows these things?

01:00:06.660 --> 01:00:09.420
One day, things will change.

01:00:10.780 --> 01:00:12.740
Men will change.

01:00:12.900 --> 01:00:16.140
But first, the gods must change.

01:00:21.900 --> 01:00:24.860
But all this you'll forget, Alexander.

01:00:25.820 --> 01:00:28.060
That's why we call them myths.

01:00:29.300 --> 01:00:31.500
We can't bear to remember them.

01:00:31.860 --> 01:00:33.340
I'll remember.

01:00:33.780 --> 01:00:36.940
And one day, I'll be on walls like these.

01:00:45.020 --> 01:00:47.220
<i>Alexander once said to me:</i>

01:00:47.380 --> 01:00:51.820
<i>"We are most alone
when we are with the myths. "</i>

01:00:52.860 --> 01:00:54.020
Phalanx!

01:00:55.740 --> 01:00:58.100
<i>And thus, it came to pass in a dream...</i>

01:00:58.300 --> 01:01:02.340
<i>as mythical to all Greeks
as Achilles defeating the Trojans.</i>

01:01:03.100 --> 01:01:06.260
<i>At this one glorious moment in time...</i>

01:01:06.420 --> 01:01:10.660
<i>Alexander was loved by all.</i>

01:01:12.740 --> 01:01:17.300
<i>But in the end, I believe Babylon
was a far easier mistress to enter...</i>

01:01:17.460 --> 01:01:20.260
<i>than she was to leave.</i>

01:02:11.260 --> 01:02:14.900
<i>Sikander! Sikander!</i>

01:02:38.940 --> 01:02:44.340
Aristotle may have called them barbarians,
but he never saw Babylon.

01:02:44.540 --> 01:02:49.180
We have enough gold here to support
three generations of Macedonian armies.

01:02:49.380 --> 01:02:52.340
<i>And Macedonia would soon corrupt,
Cassander.</i>

01:02:52.500 --> 01:02:57.180
<i>- Wealth in great quantities brings the crows.
- Not for the men who fought, I trust.</i>

01:02:58.060 --> 01:03:02.180
We'll pay them well, Antigonus,
but not as mercenaries for future services.

01:03:02.340 --> 01:03:04.300
<i>Now you sound like Philip.</i>

01:03:05.180 --> 01:03:06.780
Philip never saw Babylon.

01:03:07.580 --> 01:03:09.460
<i>No, he didn't, Hephaistion.</i>

01:03:11.300 --> 01:03:13.300
- Hello!
- Hello!

01:03:13.740 --> 01:03:17.140
Alexander, I know you think me
a stiff old sod...

01:03:17.300 --> 01:03:19.820
but whatever our differences,
know this day...

01:03:19.980 --> 01:03:23.540
your father would be very proud of you.

01:03:25.420 --> 01:03:27.020
Thank you, Parmenion.

01:03:27.780 --> 01:03:32.300
I ask you to forgive me
my own anger, my pride.

01:03:32.460 --> 01:03:34.620
They, too, blind me.

01:03:38.340 --> 01:03:41.660
A magnificent mainland work
from the last century.

01:03:42.100 --> 01:03:47.700
The golden age, Alexander. Worth much
to Athens and to our alliances.

01:03:47.860 --> 01:03:49.980
Take back what is ours...

01:03:50.220 --> 01:03:52.700
but spare what belongs to the Persians.

01:03:56.220 --> 01:04:02.100
<i>Yes. We're the richest men
to walk the earth, my friends.</i>

01:04:02.260 --> 01:04:06.980
<i>- Not if you keep giving it all away.
- The grandsons of goat herders...</i>

01:04:07.140 --> 01:04:10.740
<i>we now rule 2 million square miles.</i>

01:04:12.220 --> 01:04:13.740
But...

01:04:14.580 --> 01:04:19.980
<i>None of you fear that this great fortune
may drive us all to destruction.</i>

01:04:20.420 --> 01:04:22.220
<i>You overvalue us.</i>

01:04:22.380 --> 01:04:26.060
For as long as Darius breathes,
he is the legitimate king of Asia...

01:04:26.220 --> 01:04:28.580
and I but the king of air.

01:04:28.740 --> 01:04:33.780
But he has no power, Alexander.
He's lost in the mountains with no army.

01:04:33.980 --> 01:04:37.380
As long as he's lost, Philotas,
he can be believed in.

01:04:37.540 --> 01:04:40.820
Only when he's found will it be decided.

01:04:42.540 --> 01:04:44.620
It seems you've already
made up your mind.

01:04:44.820 --> 01:04:47.740
We must finish what we failed
to do at Gaugamela.

01:04:47.900 --> 01:04:49.780
We must hunt Darius down.

01:04:49.940 --> 01:04:53.420
- That was not your father's mission.
- And I am not my father.

01:04:56.140 --> 01:04:58.540
<i>Come on. Have you so quickly forgotten?</i>

01:04:58.740 --> 01:04:59.780
Fortune favors the bold.

01:05:04.580 --> 01:05:07.540
<i>No wonder Darius fled
when he had this to come back to.</i>

01:05:07.740 --> 01:05:11.340
One for every night of the year.

01:05:37.100 --> 01:05:39.620
<i>How will I go back to Lysimache
after this?</i>

01:05:39.820 --> 01:05:43.700
<i>I advise you not to touch, Leonnatus.
Here, I'll take care of it for you.</i>

01:06:02.860 --> 01:06:04.940
Aristotle was perhaps prescient.

01:06:08.700 --> 01:06:12.500
Do these images fool us with their beauty
and degrade our souls?

01:06:42.940 --> 01:06:46.420
Bagoas, great king. Darius' boy.

01:06:46.620 --> 01:06:51.620
<i>- Bagoas.
- Nicely gilded, Your Majesty.</i>

01:06:51.820 --> 01:06:57.180
Most successful. He was certainly
one of the great king's favorites.

01:06:59.140 --> 01:07:02.980
How old? Is great well with the years.

01:07:05.020 --> 01:07:08.980
What are you now, Bagoas?
Eighteen, 19?

01:07:09.140 --> 01:07:12.340
- Where does he come from?
- The north, sire.

01:07:14.100 --> 01:07:16.300
From the hills near Susa.

01:07:16.460 --> 01:07:18.500
<i>You speak our language.</i>

01:07:18.660 --> 01:07:22.300
- Good. I'd like to learn yours.
- Is learnable, my lord.

01:07:35.740 --> 01:07:37.100
So tell me, Bagoas...

01:07:38.300 --> 01:07:41.580
do my eyes betray me
or do you wish to be set free...

01:07:41.740 --> 01:07:43.460
to go back to your homeland?

01:07:47.580 --> 01:07:50.340
All my family's long dead, great king.

01:07:50.660 --> 01:07:54.220
With your permission, I will stay on.

01:07:57.260 --> 01:07:59.020
Very well then, Bagoas.

01:08:00.180 --> 01:08:02.900
Ptolemy, administer this.

01:08:05.580 --> 01:08:09.460
And that's the same of every person
in the harem, woman and eunuch.

01:08:09.620 --> 01:08:12.980
Whoever wishes to be sent home
to their families, let them.

01:08:13.260 --> 01:08:14.380
What?

01:08:14.540 --> 01:08:18.020
- Hear that, boys?
- He set us free.

01:08:51.620 --> 01:08:55.300
Great King Alexander.

01:08:57.820 --> 01:09:00.380
The princess of the thousand roses...

01:09:00.580 --> 01:09:03.300
and eldest daughter of the formerly
Great King Darius...

01:09:04.660 --> 01:09:06.700
Stateira.

01:09:07.380 --> 01:09:08.900
<i>Noble Alexander...</i>

01:09:16.060 --> 01:09:19.020
I come to beg for the lives...

01:09:19.580 --> 01:09:21.060
of my sisters...

01:09:22.140 --> 01:09:25.020
my mother, my grandmother.

01:09:29.620 --> 01:09:33.740
<i>You are not wrong, Princess Stateira.</i>

01:09:33.900 --> 01:09:36.020
He, too, is Alexander.

01:09:39.860 --> 01:09:41.060
Please.

01:09:42.180 --> 01:09:45.780
I plead for my family's lives.

01:09:47.100 --> 01:09:50.220
<i>- Sell me as a slave, great king, but-
- Look now...</i>

01:09:50.380 --> 01:09:52.500
in my eyes...

01:09:53.660 --> 01:09:54.860
princess...

01:09:56.900 --> 01:09:58.580
and tell me...

01:09:58.780 --> 01:10:01.220
how would you like to be treated?

01:10:03.740 --> 01:10:05.820
As I am...

01:10:06.020 --> 01:10:08.060
a princess.

01:10:11.300 --> 01:10:13.060
Then so be it.

01:10:14.820 --> 01:10:17.820
<i>You and your family shall
be treated as my family.</i>

01:10:20.500 --> 01:10:23.660
<i>You shall live in this palace
as long as you choose.</i>

01:10:24.100 --> 01:10:27.740
<i>Have you any other requests for me,
my noble princess?</i>

01:10:30.300 --> 01:10:31.900
<i>No.</i>

01:10:32.820 --> 01:10:35.940
Everything I wish...

01:10:36.100 --> 01:10:38.980
<i>I have requested.</i>

01:10:39.900 --> 01:10:41.780
<i>You truly are...</i>

01:10:41.940 --> 01:10:43.220
<i>a queen.</i>

01:10:50.180 --> 01:10:52.940
<i>Yes, she would be
a perfect match for you...</i>

01:10:53.660 --> 01:10:55.540
<i>but you do nothing.</i>

01:10:55.940 --> 01:10:59.300
Three months you've been in Babylon
and leave me in Pella...

01:10:59.460 --> 01:11:03.300
at the mercy of your enemies,
of which you have many.

01:11:03.460 --> 01:11:07.180
Antipater, accustomed now to the power
that you have given him.

01:11:07.420 --> 01:11:09.940
<i>I must watch him grow stronger.</i>

01:11:17.180 --> 01:11:22.140
<i>I'm certain that he communicates secretly
with Parmenion, who is dangerous.</i>

01:11:22.340 --> 01:11:25.340
But beware, most of all,
of those closest to you.

01:11:25.780 --> 01:11:27.020
<i>They are like snakes...</i>

01:11:28.100 --> 01:11:29.500
<i>and can be turned.</i>

01:11:29.660 --> 01:11:31.300
<i>General Crateros.</i>

01:11:34.260 --> 01:11:37.900
<i>Cassander is Antipater's son.</i>

01:11:38.900 --> 01:11:42.660
<i>Even Cleitus, your father's favorite...</i>

01:11:42.860 --> 01:11:45.300
<i>and Ptolemy, your friend, yes.</i>

01:11:45.460 --> 01:11:47.700
But beware of men who think too much.

01:11:48.060 --> 01:11:50.220
<i>They blind themselves.</i>

01:11:53.900 --> 01:11:56.180
<i>Only Hephaistion do I leave out.</i>

01:11:57.300 --> 01:11:59.860
<i>But all of them you make rich...</i>

01:12:00.020 --> 01:12:05.900
<i>while your mother and yourself,
you leave in generous poverty.</i>

01:12:06.700 --> 01:12:09.740
<i>Why won't you ever believe me?</i>

01:12:09.900 --> 01:12:15.580
<i>It is only a dark mind like mine
that can know these secrets of the heart.</i>

01:12:15.740 --> 01:12:18.540
<i>For they are dark, Alexander.</i>

01:12:18.780 --> 01:12:21.140
So dark.

01:12:21.300 --> 01:12:24.860
But in you, the son of Zeus...

01:12:25.020 --> 01:12:27.900
lies the light of the world.

01:12:28.060 --> 01:12:32.100
<i>Your companions will be shadows
in the underworld...</i>

01:12:32.260 --> 01:12:36.580
when you are a name living forever
in history as the most glorious...

01:12:36.780 --> 01:12:41.180
shining light of youth, forever young,
forever inspiring.

01:12:41.380 --> 01:12:44.900
<i>Never will there be an Alexander like you.</i>

01:12:45.060 --> 01:12:47.820
Alexander the Great.

01:12:48.860 --> 01:12:52.380
<i>Remember, bring me to Babylon
as you promised.</i>

01:12:52.540 --> 01:12:55.780
<i>I can only help you, for they know
if they harm you...</i>

01:12:55.940 --> 01:12:59.060
they will face my wrath,
as Queen of Babylon.

01:13:01.660 --> 01:13:05.300
It's a high ransom she charges
for nine months' lodging in the womb.

01:13:05.500 --> 01:13:07.500
Bring her, Alexander.

01:13:07.660 --> 01:13:10.620
<i>- It'll give her such joy.
- Joy?</i>

01:13:11.540 --> 01:13:14.780
When I'm the cracked mirror
of her dreams?

01:13:17.260 --> 01:13:19.980
Stay with me tonight, Hephaistion.

01:13:26.500 --> 01:13:28.300
I'll take my own bath.

01:13:29.420 --> 01:13:30.900
Thank you, Bagoas.

01:13:39.260 --> 01:13:40.580
What bothers you?

01:13:42.580 --> 01:13:45.340
I see in her everything I fear.

01:13:46.980 --> 01:13:52.020
<i>Yet I have no idea what it is, this fear.</i>

01:13:56.740 --> 01:14:00.340
She was always so sure
I was born of Zeus.

01:14:00.860 --> 01:14:02.980
Why, Hephaistion?

01:14:04.660 --> 01:14:09.660
I think there are things
beyond our imagining...

01:14:10.420 --> 01:14:15.460
like the lightning,
tales of strange conceptions.

01:14:16.780 --> 01:14:18.860
I don't doubt it.

01:14:19.140 --> 01:14:21.340
What is being told me?

01:14:21.820 --> 01:14:25.420
What destiny do we-? Do I have?

01:14:27.460 --> 01:14:32.580
Well, if I'm Patroclus, I die first.

01:14:32.860 --> 01:14:34.780
Then you, Achilles.

01:14:41.540 --> 01:14:44.380
The generals are upset.

01:14:45.620 --> 01:14:48.940
<i>They question your obsession
with Darius.</i>

01:14:49.140 --> 01:14:52.300
They say it was never meant
for you to be king of Asia.

01:14:52.460 --> 01:14:53.980
<i>Naturally.</i>

01:14:54.180 --> 01:14:58.500
They want only to return to their homes,
rich with gold. But I've seen the future.

01:14:58.660 --> 01:15:01.980
I've seen it now 1000 times,
on 1000 faces.

01:15:02.140 --> 01:15:04.260
These people want...

01:15:05.060 --> 01:15:07.300
<i>Need change.</i>

01:15:08.180 --> 01:15:12.660
- Aristotle was wrong about them.
- How so?

01:15:12.980 --> 01:15:14.980
<i>Look at those we've conquered.</i>

01:15:15.140 --> 01:15:17.260
They leave their dead unburied.

01:15:17.420 --> 01:15:20.100
They smash their enemies' skulls
and drink them as dust.

01:15:20.300 --> 01:15:22.540
They mate in public.

01:15:22.740 --> 01:15:27.580
What can they think or sing or write
when none can read?

01:15:27.780 --> 01:15:32.380
But as Alexander's army, they can go
where they never thought possible.

01:15:32.580 --> 01:15:35.620
They can soldier or work in the cities.

01:15:35.820 --> 01:15:40.020
The Alexandrias,
from Egypt to the outer ocean.

01:15:40.500 --> 01:15:43.460
We could connect these lands,
Hephaistion...

01:15:43.620 --> 01:15:44.820
and the people.

01:15:44.980 --> 01:15:50.460
Some say these Alexandrias have become
extensions of Alexander himself.

01:15:51.340 --> 01:15:54.500
They draw people into the cities
to make slaves of them.

01:15:54.660 --> 01:15:59.020
But we freed them, Hephaistion, from
the Persia where everyone lived as slaves.

01:16:00.980 --> 01:16:04.180
To free the people of the world...

01:16:04.380 --> 01:16:08.980
such would be beyond the glory
of Achilles, beyond Herakles...

01:16:09.140 --> 01:16:11.780
a feat to rival Prometheus...

01:16:12.580 --> 01:16:15.220
who was always a friend to man.

01:16:15.420 --> 01:16:17.780
<i>Remember the fates of these heroes.</i>

01:16:17.940 --> 01:16:22.140
- They suffered greatly.
- We all suffer.

01:16:22.580 --> 01:16:26.140
<i>Your father, mine.</i>

01:16:26.940 --> 01:16:29.020
They all came to the end of their time.

01:16:29.180 --> 01:16:33.260
And in the end, when it's over,
all that matters is what you've done.

01:16:34.580 --> 01:16:39.380
<i>You once said,
"The fear of death drives all men. "</i>

01:16:39.700 --> 01:16:41.620
Are there no other forces?

01:16:42.780 --> 01:16:45.660
Is there not love in your life...

01:16:47.060 --> 01:16:49.060
Alexander?

01:16:52.820 --> 01:16:57.260
What would you do if you
ever reached the end of the world?

01:16:59.180 --> 01:17:02.340
<i>I'd turn back and conquer its opposite.</i>

01:17:07.380 --> 01:17:12.580
I wonder sometimes if it's not
your mother you run from.

01:17:13.860 --> 01:17:17.300
So many years,
so many miles between you.

01:17:19.460 --> 01:17:21.420
What is it you fear?

01:17:22.900 --> 01:17:25.220
Who knows these things?

01:17:26.820 --> 01:17:31.900
When I was a child, my mother thought
me divine. My father, weak.

01:17:34.500 --> 01:17:37.100
Which am I, Hephaistion?

01:17:37.260 --> 01:17:39.380
Weak or divine?

01:17:42.900 --> 01:17:44.820
All I know is...

01:17:44.980 --> 01:17:47.940
I trust only you in this world.

01:17:48.100 --> 01:17:50.060
I've missed you.

01:17:50.860 --> 01:17:52.180
I need you.

01:17:54.260 --> 01:17:55.900
It is you I love, Hephaistion.

01:17:58.300 --> 01:18:00.460
<i>No other.</i>

01:18:04.220 --> 01:18:07.140
<i>You're everything I care for...</i>

01:18:07.300 --> 01:18:10.940
and by the sweet breath of Aphrodite...

01:18:11.460 --> 01:18:14.540
<i>I'm so jealous of losing you
to this world you want.</i>

01:18:15.060 --> 01:18:17.700
<i>You'll never lose me, Hephaistion.</i>

01:18:18.100 --> 01:18:21.380
I'll be with you always.

01:18:22.020 --> 01:18:24.100
Till the end.

01:18:37.340 --> 01:18:39.980
<i>The campaign in the northeast of Persia...</i>

01:18:40.140 --> 01:18:45.260
<i>turned into a hard guerrilla war
of almost three years.</i>

01:18:47.860 --> 01:18:50.540
<i>We chased Darius towards Bactria...</i>

01:18:50.700 --> 01:18:53.500
<i>but missed taking him by hours.</i>

01:18:56.740 --> 01:18:59.100
He was dying when we found him, sire.

01:18:59.260 --> 01:19:01.180
He asked for water.

01:19:01.340 --> 01:19:03.700
He drank and died.

01:19:10.380 --> 01:19:15.100
<i>The Great King Darius had been betrayed
by his own commanders.</i>

01:19:43.220 --> 01:19:45.180
<i>Fully honoring his corpse...</i>

01:19:45.340 --> 01:19:50.260
<i>Alexander hunted down
these commanders into unknown lands...</i>

01:19:51.220 --> 01:19:56.060
<i>crossing even beyond
the River Oxus into Sogdia.</i>

01:20:00.220 --> 01:20:04.340
<i>We fought them as far as
the unknown steppes of Scythia...</i>

01:20:05.340 --> 01:20:08.660
<i>where only legendary heroes
had once trod.</i>

01:20:08.820 --> 01:20:14.140
<i>The surveyors told us we were now on
the borders of where Europe and Asia meet.</i>

01:20:14.300 --> 01:20:17.580
<i>In fact, we were totally lost.</i>

01:20:19.100 --> 01:20:22.100
<i>Here, Alexander founded
his 10th Alexandria...</i>

01:20:22.260 --> 01:20:27.540
<i>and settled it with veterans, their women
and any who would dare the frontier life.</i>

01:20:28.580 --> 01:20:31.540
<i>Unable to accept defeat in any form...</i>

01:20:31.740 --> 01:20:36.060
<i>Alexander persisted in breaking
every tribe that resisted...</i>

01:20:36.420 --> 01:20:40.220
<i>until the day he received the head
of his last enemy who'd surrendered.</i>

01:20:45.100 --> 01:20:49.740
<i>For Alexander, there could be
no pretender to the throne of Asia...</i>

01:20:50.860 --> 01:20:55.260
<i>which now included all
of Sogdia and Bactria.</i>

01:20:58.340 --> 01:21:02.580
<i>It was here that he made
one of his most mysterious decisions.</i>

01:21:05.540 --> 01:21:09.900
<i>Ten years after his mother's insistence
he marry a Macedonian...</i>

01:21:10.060 --> 01:21:12.060
Through our union...

01:21:12.260 --> 01:21:15.100
Greek and barbarian...

01:21:15.260 --> 01:21:17.220
may be reconciled in peace.

01:21:17.460 --> 01:21:23.060
<i>The most powerful man in the world
took a girl of no political significance.</i>

01:21:28.140 --> 01:21:29.700
<i>Why?</i>

01:21:30.820 --> 01:21:34.220
<i>Some say it was for
alliance with the tribes.</i>

01:21:36.020 --> 01:21:38.300
<i>Others, the desire for a successor.</i>

01:21:40.780 --> 01:21:45.820
<i>And yet others said
Alexander truly fell in love.</i>

01:21:47.060 --> 01:21:48.940
<i>Who Roxane really was...</i>

01:21:49.100 --> 01:21:54.900
<i>I doubt that any of us ever saw further
than the pools of those black eyes.</i>

01:21:56.540 --> 01:21:59.260
On this glorious occasion...

01:22:00.900 --> 01:22:03.740
I toast this great army
that has given so much.

01:22:03.940 --> 01:22:08.020
And in honor of them, those of you
who set out with us seven long years ago...

01:22:08.180 --> 01:22:14.420
I pronounce all your debts paid forthwith
from the royal treasury.

01:22:14.820 --> 01:22:16.060
Praise Alexander!

01:22:20.140 --> 01:22:22.220
And in honor of my bride...

01:22:25.820 --> 01:22:28.300
my beautiful bride...

01:22:28.500 --> 01:22:33.020
we recognize the many women
who've shared the long road with us...

01:22:33.180 --> 01:22:36.700
and grant them dowries
befitting a proper marriage.

01:22:45.340 --> 01:22:48.140
And what about our boys?

01:22:48.300 --> 01:22:49.780
And lastly...

01:22:49.980 --> 01:22:53.220
lastly, the gods demand no less of us...

01:22:53.420 --> 01:22:56.740
that your children be given
a proper Greek education...

01:22:56.900 --> 01:23:01.500
and military training
under our protection...

01:23:01.700 --> 01:23:05.900
so as to be the new soldiers
of our kingdom...

01:23:06.100 --> 01:23:08.540
in Asia.

01:23:24.420 --> 01:23:29.860
<i>Your father must be turning in his grave.
After all this time, a hill chief's daughter.</i>

01:23:30.140 --> 01:23:31.940
<i>You call this
tribal wedding legitimate?</i>

01:23:32.100 --> 01:23:34.860
<i>Do you forget my father
took a barbarian as his queen?</i>

01:23:35.060 --> 01:23:37.900
<i>Yes, but few would call it
a profoundly happy marriage.</i>

01:23:39.140 --> 01:23:42.340
But what's the point, Alexander?
She's your captive.

01:23:42.500 --> 01:23:44.340
<i>Just take her as your concubine.</i>

01:23:44.540 --> 01:23:47.380
Because I want a son.
Damn you, Philotas.

01:23:47.900 --> 01:23:53.340
Then half your nobles have sisters
who'd make fine Macedonian mothers.

01:23:53.500 --> 01:23:56.220
<i>To take an Asian as my queen,
not a captive...</i>

01:23:56.420 --> 01:23:58.260
<i>is a sign of respect
for our subjects.</i>

01:23:58.460 --> 01:24:00.780
It will bring us together, unify us.

01:24:01.300 --> 01:24:03.420
Which is not to say I won't take
a Macedonian.

01:24:03.580 --> 01:24:06.860
<i>As a second wife? You insult Macedonia.</i>

01:24:07.660 --> 01:24:11.620
<i>Never will our people
accept this girl's son as king.</i>

01:24:11.940 --> 01:24:16.100
They'll be angry enough to find out their
husbands all have second wives in Barbaria.

01:24:16.300 --> 01:24:17.580
Then they'll learn!

01:24:17.780 --> 01:24:21.020
<i>By Athena's justice, this girl has spirit.</i>

01:24:21.180 --> 01:24:23.460
She'll breed a brave son.

01:24:23.620 --> 01:24:25.380
Alexander!

01:24:25.980 --> 01:24:28.620
This is about the honor of our kingdom.

01:24:28.820 --> 01:24:30.940
Exactly. What can be won, Alexander?

01:24:31.100 --> 01:24:34.620
We're in Asia to punish them
for their crimes. We've achieved that.

01:24:34.820 --> 01:24:38.420
Seven years from home, now we drift
from one far region to another...

01:24:38.580 --> 01:24:42.220
chasing nomads and bandits
when Macedonia bleeds its manpower.

01:24:42.380 --> 01:24:45.340
For what? To build roads in Asia?

01:24:45.500 --> 01:24:48.940
- To give these people cities?
- And now make an army of them?

01:24:49.140 --> 01:24:52.500
To found cities and expand
our reach is not to drift.

01:24:52.660 --> 01:24:55.060
- What benefit to Macedon?
- It's far richer!

01:24:55.220 --> 01:24:57.460
<i>- Look what you give them.
- With respect...</i>

01:24:57.620 --> 01:25:01.340
had you fought better at Gaugamela
when your flank was crumbling...

01:25:01.500 --> 01:25:04.820
<i>- How dare you, Nearchus?!
- General Nearchus to you, boy.</i>

01:25:05.020 --> 01:25:08.500
Alexander spread our flank too thin!
There was nothing my father...

01:25:08.660 --> 01:25:11.020
- Or any of you could've done!
- Philotas!

01:25:16.980 --> 01:25:19.620
Alexander, I've known you
since you were born.

01:25:20.300 --> 01:25:23.300
I supported you at your father's death.

01:25:23.460 --> 01:25:26.340
At the very least, for Zeus' sake...

01:25:26.500 --> 01:25:29.460
and in respect to the council
that chose you king...

01:25:29.620 --> 01:25:31.780
give us a Macedonian heir.

01:25:31.940 --> 01:25:33.620
A Macedonian heir.

01:25:39.980 --> 01:25:42.020
<i>- You've been heard clearly.
- But...</i>

01:25:42.180 --> 01:25:47.740
Parmenion! After the wedding, take two
brigades to Babylon, where I look to you...

01:25:47.900 --> 01:25:52.740
and Antipater in Greece, to maintain
our empire and supply this expedition.

01:25:53.540 --> 01:25:55.620
I'll winter with my army at Marakand.

01:25:55.780 --> 01:25:59.860
I pray to Apollo you realize how far
you've turned from your father's path.

01:26:00.020 --> 01:26:02.740
Damn you, Parmenion,
by the gods and your Apollo.

01:26:02.900 --> 01:26:06.020
What was in my father's guts
wasn't overripe in reason like yours!

01:26:06.220 --> 01:26:10.180
<i>He never lusted for war, Alexander,
or enjoyed it so.</i>

01:26:10.340 --> 01:26:15.620
<i>He consulted his peers in council,
among equals, the Macedonian way.</i>

01:26:15.780 --> 01:26:18.300
He didn't decide based
on his personal desires.

01:26:18.500 --> 01:26:21.900
I've taken us further
than my father ever dreamed.

01:26:22.060 --> 01:26:23.340
Old man...

01:26:23.540 --> 01:26:25.940
we're in new worlds.

01:26:26.900 --> 01:26:30.580
Alexander, be reasonable!

01:26:30.780 --> 01:26:33.180
<i>Were they ever meant to be our equals?</i>

01:26:33.460 --> 01:26:35.180
Share our rewards?

01:26:35.380 --> 01:26:37.500
<i>You remember what Aristotle said.</i>

01:26:37.660 --> 01:26:38.980
An Asian?

01:26:39.180 --> 01:26:42.980
What would a vow mean to a race
that's never kept their word to a Greek?

01:26:43.140 --> 01:26:45.180
- Aristotle be damned!
- Alexander!

01:26:45.380 --> 01:26:46.860
By Zeus and all the gods...

01:26:47.060 --> 01:26:51.180
<i>what makes you so much better
than them, Cassander?</i>

01:26:51.340 --> 01:26:55.860
Better than you really are.
In you and those like you is this.

01:26:57.180 --> 01:26:59.020
Alexander.

01:27:01.700 --> 01:27:06.380
<i>What disturbs me most is not your lack
of respect for my judgment.</i>

01:27:09.460 --> 01:27:13.180
It's your contempt for a world
far older than ours.

01:27:45.820 --> 01:27:48.460
Five to any man
who bothers to kill me.

01:27:48.620 --> 01:27:51.020
<i>Have another drink, Cleitus.</i>

01:27:51.660 --> 01:27:54.820
<i>- Shouldn't you be bound to a king?
- Cleitus.</i>

01:27:55.460 --> 01:27:59.740
Alexander, you look weak
when you not accept these honors.

01:27:59.900 --> 01:28:02.020
I understand, my dear father...

01:28:02.180 --> 01:28:05.900
- But it's against Greek ways.
- Then Greek ways are weak.

01:28:06.060 --> 01:28:08.700
I still think she got the better of him
in this bargain.

01:28:08.900 --> 01:28:12.100
<i>My daughter, Roxane...</i>

01:28:12.260 --> 01:28:14.340
she shall make you good wife.

01:28:14.540 --> 01:28:16.900
She shall kill for you.

01:28:21.060 --> 01:28:26.460
<i>Raw skunk, ruler of heaven...</i>

01:28:28.060 --> 01:28:29.660
and earth.

01:28:35.620 --> 01:28:38.980
In honor of this great alliance...

01:28:39.140 --> 01:28:44.420
I, Oxyartes, offer you these great gifts.

01:28:44.580 --> 01:28:47.500
I would like to honor a toast
to you from my people.

01:28:53.540 --> 01:28:55.100
Good morning, sire.

01:29:15.660 --> 01:29:17.900
We shall fight for you, Alexander.

01:29:18.780 --> 01:29:20.900
It shall be bloody.

01:29:22.780 --> 01:29:24.660
Who's the bear?

01:29:26.340 --> 01:29:28.020
Parmenion.

01:29:28.540 --> 01:29:31.420
<i>You've been in complete control
of your supply lines.</i>

01:29:31.580 --> 01:29:33.860
His pessimism is infectious.

01:29:34.300 --> 01:29:36.260
But he'll stay loyal...

01:29:38.020 --> 01:29:40.260
as long as his son remains with us.

01:31:57.020 --> 01:31:58.300
Hey!

01:32:06.180 --> 01:32:10.500
Her eyes tell me
she cares for you, Alexander.

01:32:12.740 --> 01:32:14.100
Perhaps too much.

01:32:18.420 --> 01:32:20.780
In the ways of my country...

01:32:21.140 --> 01:32:24.900
those who love too much
lose everything...

01:32:25.980 --> 01:32:28.780
and those who love with irony...

01:32:30.340 --> 01:32:31.460
last.

01:33:22.780 --> 01:33:24.260
I found it in Egypt.

01:33:26.900 --> 01:33:29.340
The man who sold it said it came
from a time...

01:33:29.500 --> 01:33:33.380
when man worshipped sun and stars.

01:33:39.220 --> 01:33:41.500
I'll always think of you...

01:33:42.260 --> 01:33:44.580
as the sun, Alexander.

01:33:44.780 --> 01:33:48.780
And I pray your dream
will shine on all men.

01:33:57.740 --> 01:33:59.860
I wish you a son.

01:34:01.660 --> 01:34:04.060
<i>You're a great man.</i>

01:34:08.180 --> 01:34:11.460
Many will love you, Alexander,
but none so pure and deep...

01:34:28.340 --> 01:34:29.780
<i>You...</i>

01:34:29.940 --> 01:34:31.420
love him?

01:34:40.500 --> 01:34:43.540
He is Hephaistion.

01:35:03.180 --> 01:35:05.060
Thank you, Bagoas.

01:35:10.900 --> 01:35:12.620
<i>Your boy?</i>

01:35:12.780 --> 01:35:16.260
<i>There are many different ways
to love, Roxane.</i>

01:35:16.820 --> 01:35:18.300
<i>Come.</i>

01:35:33.420 --> 01:35:34.660
<i>No.</i>

01:35:34.820 --> 01:35:36.220
<i>No, no.</i>

01:35:52.140 --> 01:35:53.980
<i>No. No.</i>

01:36:26.540 --> 01:36:28.540
<i>You have no fear.</i>

01:36:30.180 --> 01:36:31.940
It's fitting.

01:36:33.220 --> 01:36:36.660
A man searches for a woman
at Earth's top...

01:36:36.820 --> 01:36:38.860
and finds her.

01:36:56.220 --> 01:36:57.860
The myth becomes real.

01:37:09.100 --> 01:37:13.020
Great man, Sikander...

01:37:13.340 --> 01:37:14.820
you I kill now.

01:37:20.540 --> 01:37:22.020
Do it.

01:37:22.620 --> 01:37:25.140
End it. I would do the...

01:37:25.740 --> 01:37:29.780
I would do the same.
I'll die a fool...

01:37:29.940 --> 01:37:33.380
for this love.

01:38:20.820 --> 01:38:22.700
My life is now yours.

01:38:47.540 --> 01:38:50.780
<i>You will have my son.</i>

01:39:45.820 --> 01:39:52.340
<i>Who is this woman you call your queen,
Alexander? A hill girl?</i>

01:39:53.220 --> 01:39:55.660
<i>You with your breeding.</i>

01:39:55.820 --> 01:40:00.860
Already she makes enemies
with her strong, clumsy nature.

01:40:04.220 --> 01:40:06.580
Do not confuse us.

01:40:06.740 --> 01:40:10.500
I was never a barbarian as Philip said.

01:40:10.660 --> 01:40:13.340
We are of Achilles' royal blood.

01:40:14.300 --> 01:40:17.300
<i>Zeus is your father.</i>

01:40:18.940 --> 01:40:23.340
Oh, I understand she brings
you some happiness...

01:40:24.060 --> 01:40:26.420
but how can she help you?

01:40:26.580 --> 01:40:29.580
<i>You must know that
she does not speak in your name...</i>

01:40:29.740 --> 01:40:33.780
which is yours and yours alone.

01:40:33.940 --> 01:40:36.980
Preserve it, secret it...

01:40:37.140 --> 01:40:40.260
and hear me when I tell you,
act...

01:40:40.460 --> 01:40:42.340
and act soon.

01:40:42.500 --> 01:40:44.500
<i>After seven years, people wonder:</i>

01:40:44.700 --> 01:40:46.980
"Who is this King Alexander?"

01:40:47.140 --> 01:40:52.940
I have given you ample proof.
Antipater daily undermines your authority.

01:40:53.140 --> 01:40:56.100
<i>Return to Babylon
and strengthen your center.</i>

01:40:57.020 --> 01:40:59.100
<i>Or come home to Macedonia
and reorganize.</i>

01:40:59.260 --> 01:41:01.860
<i>But do not chase your dream...</i>

01:41:02.020 --> 01:41:04.100
<i>further east.</i>

01:41:04.260 --> 01:41:08.060
<i>Your life and mine depend on it.</i>

01:41:08.940 --> 01:41:10.620
<i>Remember...</i>

01:41:10.820 --> 01:41:14.500
my only thoughts are of you.

01:41:14.660 --> 01:41:18.980
As you, too, must face
your glorious destiny.

01:41:19.140 --> 01:41:21.260
<i>Think kindly of your mother.</i>

01:41:21.420 --> 01:41:22.980
<i>Provide for me.</i>

01:41:23.140 --> 01:41:26.740
<i>Protect me from your enemies
when you are gone.</i>

01:41:28.100 --> 01:41:30.860
And remember always...

01:41:31.020 --> 01:41:34.460
it is I who love you more than any.

01:41:40.740 --> 01:41:44.060
If only you were not a pale reflection...

01:41:44.260 --> 01:41:45.660
of my mother's heart.

01:42:05.700 --> 01:42:09.180
Pregnant so soon. The little whore.

01:42:09.380 --> 01:42:13.500
He will marry her in the spring,
during Dionysus' Festival...

01:42:13.660 --> 01:42:16.300
and when her first son is born...

01:42:16.460 --> 01:42:21.980
her sweet uncle Attalus will convince
Philip to name the boy his successor...

01:42:22.140 --> 01:42:24.580
with himself as regent.

01:42:24.740 --> 01:42:26.700
And you...

01:42:26.900 --> 01:42:30.940
you will be sent on
some impossible mission...

01:42:31.140 --> 01:42:33.700
<i>against some monstrous Northern tribe...</i>

01:42:33.900 --> 01:42:39.340
to be mutilated in one more
meaningless battle over cattle.

01:42:39.540 --> 01:42:43.380
<i>And I, no longer queen,
will be put to death...</i>

01:42:43.580 --> 01:42:47.620
with your sister and the remaining
members of our family.

01:42:47.820 --> 01:42:52.580
I wish sometimes you could see
the light, Mother.

01:42:52.740 --> 01:42:57.460
The truth is, he's taken nothing from you
that you've not been long without.

01:42:59.020 --> 01:43:01.420
The only way is to strike.

01:43:01.580 --> 01:43:04.340
Announce your marriage
to a Macedonian now.

01:43:04.900 --> 01:43:09.180
Beget a child of pure blood. He would
be one of them, not mine...

01:43:09.340 --> 01:43:12.700
and he would have no choice
but to make you king.

01:43:12.860 --> 01:43:15.060
There is still Kynnane.

01:43:16.820 --> 01:43:20.700
Eurydice was perfect. If your father,
that pig, had not ravaged her first!

01:43:20.860 --> 01:43:23.660
Say nothing more of my father.

01:43:23.860 --> 01:43:26.820
Do you hear me? Say nothing.

01:43:27.740 --> 01:43:29.420
<i>You're right.</i>

01:43:30.420 --> 01:43:32.500
Forgive me.

01:43:32.700 --> 01:43:35.500
A mother loves too much.

01:43:41.740 --> 01:43:44.340
Who shall I sing to sleep
at night anymore?

01:43:49.500 --> 01:43:54.460
I wish-I wish we could spend
more time together.

01:43:55.220 --> 01:43:59.660
<i>Like we used to, when you were
the sweetest boy.</i>

01:44:04.940 --> 01:44:07.060
There's never been time, Mother.

01:44:07.900 --> 01:44:12.820
Since I was a child, I've been groomed
to be ever the best.

01:44:13.860 --> 01:44:18.300
My poor child, you're like Achilles...

01:44:18.500 --> 01:44:20.980
cursed by your greatness.

01:44:25.420 --> 01:44:27.580
<i>Yes. Take my strength.</i>

01:44:33.260 --> 01:44:37.580
<i>You must never confuse your feelings...</i>

01:44:37.740 --> 01:44:40.860
with your duties, Alexander.

01:44:41.260 --> 01:44:45.740
A king must make public gestures
for the common people.

01:44:45.940 --> 01:44:49.340
I know, but you will be 19 this summer...

01:44:49.500 --> 01:44:54.260
<i>and the girls already say you don't
like them. You like Hephaistion more.</i>

01:44:54.420 --> 01:44:57.900
I understand.
It's natural for a young man.

01:44:58.060 --> 01:45:02.260
But if you go to Asia without leaving
your successor, you risk all.

01:45:02.420 --> 01:45:07.900
Hephaistion loves me,
as I am...

01:45:08.860 --> 01:45:10.180
not who.

01:45:11.660 --> 01:45:15.140
<i>Loves? Loves?</i>

01:45:17.140 --> 01:45:19.700
In the name of Dionysus...

01:45:21.060 --> 01:45:27.500
understand how Philip thinks,
for your own sake.

01:45:27.700 --> 01:45:31.620
<i>Your life hangs in the balance.</i>

01:45:32.060 --> 01:45:37.900
<i>I know these things, Alexander.
You are nothing to him.</i>

01:45:38.460 --> 01:45:42.700
His spies are inside your closest circle...

01:45:43.100 --> 01:45:46.460
to ensure that
you don't plot against him.

01:45:46.620 --> 01:45:49.660
And still you sleep.

01:45:51.220 --> 01:45:54.780
<i>You will not live out this year
unless you act!</i>

01:45:54.940 --> 01:45:56.420
Stop!

01:45:58.740 --> 01:46:01.500
I'm his only worthy son.

01:46:01.660 --> 01:46:03.660
<i>You crazed woman.</i>

01:46:04.780 --> 01:46:06.780
He'd never hurt me.

01:46:07.900 --> 01:46:12.660
Even if Eurydice had a boy,
he'd be 20 before he'd let him rule.

01:46:12.860 --> 01:46:16.260
<i>Yes, and you would be 40.</i>

01:46:16.420 --> 01:46:22.820
Old and wise like Parmenion.
And Philip's young son would be 20.

01:46:22.980 --> 01:46:29.340
<i>Like you now,
but raised by him, his blood.</i>

01:46:29.940 --> 01:46:33.340
He will never give you
the throne now, Alexander.

01:46:33.500 --> 01:46:35.020
<i>Never.</i>

01:46:37.260 --> 01:46:39.380
What would you have me do?

01:46:40.220 --> 01:46:42.980
Whatever is necessary.

01:46:46.340 --> 01:46:49.020
Where have you lost your mind?

01:46:49.460 --> 01:46:51.860
It would be civil war,
clan against clan, chaos.

01:46:52.060 --> 01:46:54.940
<i>Yes. And you would win.</i>

01:46:55.100 --> 01:46:57.740
Because the young ones
love you like a god.

01:46:57.940 --> 01:47:00.220
I forbid you to ever talk to me like that!

01:47:00.740 --> 01:47:03.620
Such a man would be forever chased
by the Furies!

01:47:03.780 --> 01:47:07.420
What have you to fear from the Furies...

01:47:07.580 --> 01:47:10.740
for killing an impostor to the throne...

01:47:10.940 --> 01:47:14.500
before he murders you
and your mother?

01:47:14.660 --> 01:47:17.380
Why won't you ever believe me?

01:47:17.540 --> 01:47:21.180
Philip did not want you.

01:47:21.740 --> 01:47:23.660
<i>You had a condition of the breathing...</i>

01:47:23.820 --> 01:47:26.260
and he wanted to leave you
in the mountains...

01:47:26.420 --> 01:47:29.540
for the birds to peck at your eyes.

01:47:30.820 --> 01:47:33.100
What you don't know, my poor child.

01:47:33.300 --> 01:47:36.060
<i>Lanice knows nothing of this.</i>

01:47:36.260 --> 01:47:37.500
<i>Lanice.</i>

01:47:38.300 --> 01:47:40.820
I was there.

01:47:40.980 --> 01:47:43.620
<i>Lanice was not.</i>

01:47:44.020 --> 01:47:46.260
<i>No, Alexander...</i>

01:47:46.420 --> 01:47:49.940
Zeus is your father.

01:47:50.620 --> 01:47:55.460
I laid with him that night in the wind,
as sure as any mortal man.

01:47:55.660 --> 01:47:59.220
<i>Never have I been made love to
as I was then.</i>

01:47:59.380 --> 01:48:00.780
Enough.

01:48:01.620 --> 01:48:05.420
Half the mothers in Greece
share such a fantasy.

01:48:05.980 --> 01:48:07.940
I warn you, Mother.

01:48:08.140 --> 01:48:10.260
Make no mistake.

01:48:11.220 --> 01:48:15.700
<i>You will treat this girl as nothing
more important than his other wives.</i>

01:48:15.900 --> 01:48:19.340
<i>You will behave as we always have.</i>

01:48:19.540 --> 01:48:21.260
As the first.

01:48:31.740 --> 01:48:33.580
I wonder...

01:48:34.900 --> 01:48:36.420
did you ever love him?

01:48:40.140 --> 01:48:41.740
What?

01:48:44.140 --> 01:48:46.180
I never stopped.

01:49:20.500 --> 01:49:22.380
What is it, Orestes?

01:49:27.220 --> 01:49:29.260
I beg your forgiveness, my king.

01:49:30.220 --> 01:49:32.420
I cannot be part of this.

01:49:33.860 --> 01:49:35.820
Who did this?

01:49:38.740 --> 01:49:40.340
Tell me.

01:49:40.700 --> 01:49:42.740
- Say it!
- Hermolaus!

01:49:54.420 --> 01:49:57.940
Death to all tyrants.

01:50:00.500 --> 01:50:02.380
I didn't do this!

01:50:02.980 --> 01:50:07.220
I've known you and loved you
as long as I know.

01:50:08.340 --> 01:50:11.060
<i>Never will you find a man
as devoted as I.</i>

01:50:11.220 --> 01:50:13.820
<i>The conspiracy, such as it was...</i>

01:50:13.980 --> 01:50:16.420
<i>deeply upset Alexander.</i>

01:50:16.580 --> 01:50:20.500
<i>Not only because it involved
the young people who shared his dream...</i>

01:50:20.660 --> 01:50:26.340
<i>but more intimately, it implicated
Philotas, his companion from boyhood...</i>

01:50:26.540 --> 01:50:31.500
<i>when a page confessed that a few days
before, he'd informed Philotas...</i>

01:50:31.660 --> 01:50:33.620
<i>- Alexander.
- Of the plot.</i>

01:50:35.420 --> 01:50:37.020
<i>Remember me for who I am.</i>

01:50:38.460 --> 01:50:43.820
I do remember you, Philotas,
but not as you remember yourself.

01:50:44.460 --> 01:50:49.460
And it appears to me and others here
from the testimony given by your mistress...

01:50:49.980 --> 01:50:53.460
that the true weather of your soul
is ambition.

01:50:54.540 --> 01:50:55.500
<i>No.</i>

01:50:55.700 --> 01:50:59.420
<i>We all felt there was more here
than sexual bickering.</i>

01:50:59.580 --> 01:51:04.220
<i>Alexander wanted the truth and
Philotas' answers were lacking merit.</i>

01:51:04.580 --> 01:51:05.540
Please take him away.

01:51:05.740 --> 01:51:09.980
<i>Alexander put him silently and quickly
to trial by his peers...</i>

01:51:10.140 --> 01:51:14.140
<i>and whether plotter or opportunist,
Philotas was found guilty of treason.</i>

01:51:14.300 --> 01:51:16.140
<i>- No, Alexander, no!
- Remove him.</i>

01:51:16.300 --> 01:51:19.180
<i>The suspects were all executed.</i>

01:51:19.340 --> 01:51:22.060
<i>None of us defended Philotas...</i>

01:51:22.220 --> 01:51:25.620
<i>but then again,
none of us ever liked him.</i>

01:51:30.860 --> 01:51:35.300
<i>And of course his power
was carved up by the rest of us.</i>

01:51:37.020 --> 01:51:39.340
<i>Before he died, we tortured him...</i>

01:51:39.500 --> 01:51:42.700
<i>to find out what
his father Parmenion knew.</i>

01:51:42.860 --> 01:51:45.060
<i>But this we never learned.</i>

01:51:45.260 --> 01:51:49.220
<i>What to do with Parmenion and his
20,000 troops guarding our supply lines...</i>

01:51:49.380 --> 01:51:53.060
<i>was a far more delicate matter.
Was he innocent in this?</i>

01:51:53.260 --> 01:51:58.380
<i>Or had he decided to act before
age further withered his power?</i>

01:51:58.540 --> 01:52:02.060
- The men will follow their king.
- Alexander won't be there.

01:52:03.220 --> 01:52:06.660
<i>Necessity required Alexander to act...</i>

01:52:06.820 --> 01:52:11.740
<i>and he sealed the camp within the hour
of the first accusations against Philotas.</i>

01:52:13.060 --> 01:52:17.020
<i>Then go, Antigonus, and Cleitus.</i>

01:52:17.220 --> 01:52:19.020
<i>And go quickly.</i>

01:52:22.020 --> 01:52:26.460
<i>Three days' hard riding
sent Antigonus and Cleitus...</i>

01:52:26.620 --> 01:52:31.660
<i>to Parmenion, the general
most loyal to Philip.</i>

01:52:37.940 --> 01:52:41.460
<i>His soldiers accepted the finding of guilt
against Parmenion...</i>

01:52:41.620 --> 01:52:44.140
<i>as they understood well
the code of vengeance...</i>

01:52:44.300 --> 01:52:49.180
<i>that made the head of family
responsible for the behavior of all.</i>

01:52:51.460 --> 01:52:55.660
<i>Many of us felt we were better off
without that pompous thorn, Parmenion...</i>

01:52:55.860 --> 01:53:00.980
<i>as Alexander promoted all of us
generously.</i>

01:53:15.780 --> 01:53:20.300
If we issue the gold bullion in the name
of Alexander then we meet a resistance.

01:53:20.460 --> 01:53:22.740
<i>Cleitus. Antigonus.</i>

01:53:22.900 --> 01:53:24.540
Parmenion.

01:55:38.100 --> 01:55:41.380
<i>Come, Alexander,
drink this sadness away.</i>

01:55:41.540 --> 01:55:43.940
<i>If only thirst could quench sorrow,
Ptolemy.</i>

01:55:47.340 --> 01:55:51.620
There's only one thing better
than winning a battle, son...

01:55:52.380 --> 01:55:55.260
and that's the taste of a new woman.

01:55:55.420 --> 01:56:00.260
<i>You'll find it far sweeter than self-pity.</i>

01:56:00.420 --> 01:56:02.580
- Pausanias, you bore me.
- Alexander!

01:56:02.780 --> 01:56:05.780
- Be gone with you.
- Alexander, I found you the right girl.

01:56:05.980 --> 01:56:08.220
- What's your name, darling?
- Antigone.

01:56:08.420 --> 01:56:10.380
- What's your name?
- Antigone.

01:56:12.300 --> 01:56:15.500
<i>- I love you.
- And I love you, Cleitus.</i>

01:56:16.300 --> 01:56:18.940
- Please, no!
- There you go.

01:56:22.580 --> 01:56:24.900
I'll sleep in my grave, Hephaistion.

01:56:25.100 --> 01:56:27.940
While alive, I prefer dancing.

01:56:28.100 --> 01:56:29.620
Pausanias.

01:56:30.700 --> 01:56:32.140
Who's your new friend?

01:56:32.420 --> 01:56:34.500
- There's your new friend.
- Please don't!

01:56:34.700 --> 01:56:38.220
<i>Don't! Please, no! No.</i>

01:56:47.460 --> 01:56:48.660
A toast.

01:56:49.380 --> 01:56:50.780
A toast!

01:56:51.300 --> 01:56:56.660
I drink to our Greek friends
and to our new union...

01:56:56.820 --> 01:57:02.740
<i>Macedonia and Greece,
equals in greatness!</i>

01:57:05.380 --> 01:57:11.660
And to Philip, our king, without whom
this union could not be possible.

01:57:11.820 --> 01:57:14.820
<i>Come, Attalus, leave some
damn air in the hall!</i>

01:57:16.500 --> 01:57:22.260
And last, I drink to the king's marriage
to my niece, Eurydice...

01:57:22.460 --> 01:57:25.540
<i>a Macedonian queen
we can be proud of!</i>

01:57:28.740 --> 01:57:31.820
To Philip and Eurydice...

01:57:31.980 --> 01:57:35.260
and to their legitimate sons!

01:57:37.460 --> 01:57:38.460
Don't!

01:57:38.620 --> 01:57:41.580
<i>What am I, you son of a dog?
Come, then.</i>

01:57:52.580 --> 01:57:55.060
What a disgrace.

01:57:55.220 --> 01:57:56.220
Shut up!

01:57:57.060 --> 01:57:58.900
- Shut up, all of you!
- Please.

01:57:59.420 --> 01:58:02.020
This is my wedding,
not some public brawl.

01:58:02.180 --> 01:58:04.140
Insolent pup.

01:58:04.300 --> 01:58:07.660
Apologize, by Zeus,
before you dishonor me.

01:58:07.820 --> 01:58:10.980
<i>You defend the man who called
my mother a whore and me a bastard.</i>

01:58:11.140 --> 01:58:14.540
<i>- And I dishonor you?
- You listen like your mother.</i>

01:58:14.700 --> 01:58:16.740
Attalus is my family now,
the same as you.

01:58:16.900 --> 01:58:19.620
Then choose your relatives
more carefully.

01:58:19.820 --> 01:58:23.020
Don't expect me to sit here
and watch you shame yourself.

01:58:23.220 --> 01:58:26.220
<i>- You insult me!
- I insult you!</i>

01:58:26.420 --> 01:58:29.380
A man not fit to lick the ground
my mother walks on.

01:58:29.540 --> 01:58:32.580
<i>- You dog, questioning your queen.
- Shame?</i>

01:58:36.340 --> 01:58:40.220
I'll marry the girl if I want,
and I'll have as many sons as I want.

01:58:40.380 --> 01:58:42.980
There's nothing you
or your harpy mother can do.

01:58:43.140 --> 01:58:44.940
Why, drunken man, must you think...

01:58:45.140 --> 01:58:47.580
everything I do and say
comes from my mother?

01:58:47.740 --> 01:58:50.700
Because I know her heart, by Hera...

01:58:50.860 --> 01:58:53.060
and I see her in your eyes.

01:58:53.220 --> 01:58:55.780
<i>You covet this throne too much.</i>

01:58:57.060 --> 01:59:02.460
We all know that she-wolf
of a mother of yours wants me dead.

01:59:02.620 --> 01:59:04.860
Well, you can both dream, boy.

01:59:05.020 --> 01:59:08.100
<i>Philip, this is the wine talking.
Leave the boy. It'll wait.</i>

01:59:08.300 --> 01:59:09.860
<i>Now!</i>

01:59:11.060 --> 01:59:12.940
I command you.

01:59:13.940 --> 01:59:17.260
Apologize to your kinsman.

01:59:24.900 --> 01:59:26.620
Apologize.

01:59:26.820 --> 01:59:29.340
<i>No kinsman to me.</i>

01:59:32.900 --> 01:59:34.860
Good night, old man.

01:59:36.420 --> 01:59:40.820
And when my mother remarries,
I'll invite you to her wedding.

01:59:41.380 --> 01:59:43.300
<i>You bastard!</i>

01:59:49.140 --> 01:59:50.820
<i>You'll obey me. Come here.</i>

02:00:09.740 --> 02:00:13.380
This is the man who is going to
take you from Greece to Persia?

02:00:13.540 --> 02:00:16.020
He can't even make it
from one couch to the next.

02:00:16.340 --> 02:00:20.300
<i>Get out of my palace!
You're exiled, you bastard!</i>

02:00:21.060 --> 02:00:24.380
<i>Banished from the land.
You're not welcome here.</i>

02:00:25.300 --> 02:00:27.540
<i>You're no son of mine!</i>

02:01:11.300 --> 02:01:15.420
<i>In the spring, Alexander marched
an army of 150,000...</i>

02:01:15.580 --> 02:01:18.620
<i>across the passes of the Hindu Kush...</i>

02:01:19.180 --> 02:01:21.180
<i>into the unknown.</i>

02:01:22.460 --> 02:01:27.260
<i>In his dream, it was the promised route
to the end of the world.</i>

02:01:27.420 --> 02:01:29.340
<i>We were now a mobile empire...</i>

02:01:29.500 --> 02:01:33.380
<i>stretching back thousands of miles
to Greece.</i>

02:01:33.540 --> 02:01:36.260
<i>Cooks and architects,
doctors, surveyors...</i>

02:01:36.420 --> 02:01:38.060
<i>moneylenders and wives...</i>

02:01:38.220 --> 02:01:41.100
<i>children, lovers, whores.</i>

02:01:41.260 --> 02:01:43.020
<i>And slaves...</i>

02:01:43.220 --> 02:01:47.860
<i>that anonymous, bent, working spine
of this new beast.</i>

02:01:48.060 --> 02:01:51.860
<i>Ravaged or expanded, for better or worse...</i>

02:01:52.740 --> 02:01:57.340
<i>no occupied territory
remained the same again.</i>

02:02:00.700 --> 02:02:02.700
<i>Although devoted to Roxane...</i>

02:02:02.900 --> 02:02:05.980
<i>Alexander's visits
to her tent diminished...</i>

02:02:06.180 --> 02:02:11.260
<i>as a year, then two, went by
without a successor...</i>

02:02:12.060 --> 02:02:15.300
<i>wounding Alexander's great pride.</i>

02:02:15.620 --> 02:02:19.220
The surveyors are saying that Zeus
chained Prometheus up there.

02:02:19.420 --> 02:02:20.620
In one of those caves.

02:02:22.620 --> 02:02:25.340
<i>They say there's a giant eagle's nest
just above it.</i>

02:02:25.660 --> 02:02:30.460
I suppose he drops down each night
to peck out poor Prometheus' liver.

02:02:33.100 --> 02:02:36.540
<i>You remember what Aristotle told us
of these mountains?</i>

02:02:37.420 --> 02:02:39.100
<i>Yes, I do.</i>

02:02:39.900 --> 02:02:41.980
That when we reach these heights...

02:02:42.180 --> 02:02:45.380
we'd look back and see Macedonia
to the west...

02:02:45.580 --> 02:02:48.180
and the outer ocean to the east.

02:02:52.260 --> 02:02:57.260
But I fear this world is far larger
than anyone dreamed.

02:02:57.460 --> 02:02:59.580
A world of Titans.

02:02:59.740 --> 02:03:03.740
The scouts have been up
every known trail, Alexander.

02:03:03.940 --> 02:03:06.140
There is no way across.

02:03:06.740 --> 02:03:10.900
Except to the south, into India.

02:03:11.300 --> 02:03:14.340
Were we gods, we'd breach
these walls to the eastern ocean.

02:03:15.180 --> 02:03:16.900
We will, Alexander.

02:03:17.060 --> 02:03:19.740
In a few years' time, we will return.

02:03:19.900 --> 02:03:23.700
But first, the men must see their homes.

02:03:25.180 --> 02:03:27.180
Have you found your home...

02:03:27.380 --> 02:03:29.060
Ptolemy?

02:03:33.700 --> 02:03:36.940
More and more, I think
it will be Alexandria.

02:03:39.100 --> 02:03:41.220
Well, at least it's hot.

02:03:42.220 --> 02:03:43.940
And Thais...

02:03:44.820 --> 02:03:46.900
she loved it there.

02:03:48.660 --> 02:03:50.940
Women bring men home.

02:03:52.020 --> 02:03:56.980
<i>- I have no such feeling.
- You have Babylon, Alexander.</i>

02:03:57.140 --> 02:03:59.260
Where your mother awaits your invitation.

02:03:59.700 --> 02:04:02.180
<i>Yes, I have Babylon.</i>

02:04:02.380 --> 02:04:06.740
But each land, each boundary I cross...

02:04:06.900 --> 02:04:09.260
I strip away another illusion.

02:04:10.620 --> 02:04:12.940
I sense death will be the last.

02:04:15.700 --> 02:04:19.140
<i>Yet still I push harder and harder...</i>

02:04:19.340 --> 02:04:22.900
to reach this home.

02:04:28.460 --> 02:04:29.900
Where has our eagle gone?

02:04:34.500 --> 02:04:36.620
We must go on, Ptolemy.

02:04:37.900 --> 02:04:39.580
<i>Until we find an end.</i>

02:06:30.060 --> 02:06:33.660
<i>India, the land where the sun was born...</i>

02:06:33.860 --> 02:06:36.460
<i>fabled to be even richer than Persia...</i>

02:06:36.620 --> 02:06:40.660
<i>had never been explored or conquered.</i>

02:06:40.820 --> 02:06:46.140
<i>From the beginning, we struggled
to unify a land without a center.</i>

02:06:46.340 --> 02:06:49.060
<i>Kings who conspired against one another.</i>

02:06:49.220 --> 02:06:53.300
<i>A labyrinth of tribes urged on
by zealots and philosophers...</i>

02:06:53.460 --> 02:06:57.660
<i>to die by the thousands
for their strange gods.</i>

02:07:02.260 --> 02:07:06.060
<i>We saw things we'd never dreamed
and could hardly describe.</i>

02:07:06.460 --> 02:07:09.420
<i>We saw birds that could talk
and men that couldn't.</i>

02:07:11.300 --> 02:07:15.300
<i>Craterus, in the advance party,
fought against men with hairy skins...</i>

02:07:15.500 --> 02:07:17.940
<i>who were tiny and
lived in the tops of trees.</i>

02:07:23.660 --> 02:07:26.420
- Over there!
- They're animals.

02:07:26.620 --> 02:07:30.140
<i>Until Hephaistion convinced us
these were animals who imitated men...</i>

02:07:30.300 --> 02:07:32.380
<i>but wore their own skin.</i>

02:07:33.660 --> 02:07:36.620
<i>They called this tribe "monkey. "</i>

02:07:37.260 --> 02:07:40.260
Monkey. Monkey.

02:07:41.300 --> 02:07:45.060
<i>But we saw little difference with
the tribes who lived among them.</i>

02:07:46.820 --> 02:07:50.180
<i>- Look at his hand.
- It's so much like ours.</i>

02:07:53.860 --> 02:07:55.100
Hello, little man.

02:07:55.980 --> 02:08:00.900
<i>- Do they speak?
- No, but they do sing and make noises...</i>

02:08:01.060 --> 02:08:03.180
from the roofs of the forest.

02:08:07.140 --> 02:08:09.020
<i>We saw men
who walked naked in public...</i>

02:08:09.180 --> 02:08:13.380
<i>and spent hours at a time
staring and doing nothing.</i>

02:08:13.660 --> 02:08:16.820
<i>Some who lived 200 years.</i>

02:08:18.380 --> 02:08:21.100
<i>And then, there was the rain.</i>

02:08:26.940 --> 02:08:30.700
<i>Never before had we seen water
that fell from the gods...</i>

02:08:30.860 --> 02:08:32.340
<i>for 60 days and nights.</i>

02:08:33.580 --> 02:08:35.620
Well done today.

02:08:37.780 --> 02:08:40.060
Make sure the women and children
are fed.

02:08:45.860 --> 02:08:47.940
<i>You know better, Machatas.</i>

02:08:51.500 --> 02:08:52.900
What's your son going to say?

02:08:53.260 --> 02:08:55.700
<i>Come on, man.
The older you get, the stronger.</i>

02:08:55.860 --> 02:08:59.380
<i>Right, my king.
You're my horse, Alexander.</i>

02:08:59.540 --> 02:09:01.860
I'll be with you at your side.

02:09:04.340 --> 02:09:06.140
<i>Everything rotted in this rain...</i>

02:09:06.300 --> 02:09:10.540
<i>and scores of men died miserably
from the tiny serpents...</i>

02:09:10.700 --> 02:09:14.420
<i>that were everywhere in this evil land.</i>

02:09:16.260 --> 02:09:17.900
- What happened?
- It's to the neck.

02:09:18.060 --> 02:09:20.500
Oh, no. Zeus, no.

02:09:20.700 --> 02:09:22.220
Hold on. Hold on.

02:09:25.100 --> 02:09:28.260
Be brave.

02:09:28.420 --> 02:09:30.460
Oh, Zeus.

02:09:32.180 --> 02:09:35.620
<i>Our quest for gold and glory evaporated
as we realized...</i>

02:09:36.060 --> 02:09:38.220
<i>there was none to be had.</i>

02:09:38.900 --> 02:09:40.700
<i>Tempers worsened.</i>

02:09:40.860 --> 02:09:43.820
<i>We massacred all Indians who resisted.</i>

02:09:44.020 --> 02:09:46.100
<i>And with the local water putrid...</i>

02:09:46.260 --> 02:09:49.020
<i>we drank the strong wine.</i>

02:10:43.060 --> 02:10:45.700
<i>And as we moved south and east...</i>

02:10:45.860 --> 02:10:50.780
<i>Alexander often returned the lands
we'd conquered to their defeated kings...</i>

02:10:50.940 --> 02:10:52.820
<i>so as to make them allies.</i>

02:10:52.980 --> 02:10:55.980
<i>But this did not sit well with the army...</i>

02:10:56.180 --> 02:10:57.420
<i>who began to wonder:</i>

02:10:58.260 --> 02:11:01.340
<i>Were we here for riches?
Or had Alexander...</i>

02:11:01.500 --> 02:11:05.900
<i>in some remorseless and crazed quest
to imitate the glory of Herakles...</i>

02:11:06.060 --> 02:11:07.580
<i>forgotten them?</i>

02:11:08.340 --> 02:11:11.740
<i>One thing an army
knows quickly in their bones...</i>

02:11:11.940 --> 02:11:14.340
<i>is which way the gods are blowing.</i>

02:12:42.460 --> 02:12:44.260
Kiss him!

02:13:08.860 --> 02:13:11.420
- To Bagoas.
- To Bagoas!

02:13:16.900 --> 02:13:21.060
- And to my mother's god, Dionysus...
- Dionysus!

02:13:21.220 --> 02:13:25.540
Who, we're told by our Indian allies,
traveled here before Herakles...

02:13:25.740 --> 02:13:28.500
some 6000 years ago.

02:13:28.660 --> 02:13:30.100
To a hero.

02:13:30.260 --> 02:13:32.260
To a hero!

02:13:52.100 --> 02:13:53.460
<i>Roxane.</i>

02:14:00.340 --> 02:14:02.780
<i>You lose face.</i>

02:14:02.940 --> 02:14:04.460
These Indians...

02:14:04.620 --> 02:14:06.380
they are a low, evil people.

02:14:06.580 --> 02:14:08.980
<i>You don't try to understand them.</i>

02:14:09.260 --> 02:14:11.460
I try.

02:14:11.620 --> 02:14:14.620
But this I know, Alexander.

02:14:14.860 --> 02:14:17.860
In Persia, you are a great king.

02:14:18.220 --> 02:14:19.780
Here...

02:14:19.940 --> 02:14:21.900
they hate you.

02:14:24.700 --> 02:14:27.900
<i>Let us go back to Babylon.</i>

02:14:28.940 --> 02:14:30.580
There, you are strong.

02:14:32.820 --> 02:14:35.100
We'll talk about this later.

02:14:35.260 --> 02:14:36.740
<i>Yes.</i>

02:14:36.900 --> 02:14:38.460
<i>Later.</i>

02:14:38.620 --> 02:14:40.140
Talk.

02:14:42.900 --> 02:14:44.940
I shall come.

02:14:45.100 --> 02:14:46.340
Tonight.

02:14:47.380 --> 02:14:49.220
And I shall wait.

02:14:51.060 --> 02:14:53.180
Good night, my king.

02:14:54.700 --> 02:14:56.860
<i>Your Majesty.</i>

02:14:58.620 --> 02:15:01.660
<i>Come, Alexander, drink with us.</i>

02:15:04.020 --> 02:15:07.140
- Alexander.
- Alexander!

02:15:09.140 --> 02:15:13.860
I remember a time
you hated how your father drank.

02:15:14.020 --> 02:15:16.020
<i>Now I know why.</i>

02:15:17.620 --> 02:15:21.620
Dionysus is hero.

02:15:22.780 --> 02:15:26.460
But he is also mind breaker.

02:15:26.660 --> 02:15:29.980
He destroys our self-control.

02:15:30.500 --> 02:15:34.060
Self-control is a lover
I've known too long, Ptolemy.

02:15:37.540 --> 02:15:40.380
The struggle worries me to the bone.

02:15:41.620 --> 02:15:44.660
And success I find to be
as corrupt as failure.

02:15:45.860 --> 02:15:50.060
But Dionysus,
bless his ancient soul...

02:15:50.220 --> 02:15:52.980
frees me from myself.

02:15:53.340 --> 02:15:56.940
And then, I move up.

02:15:59.940 --> 02:16:02.580
I'm simply, Alexander.

02:16:06.820 --> 02:16:08.620
A toast to Bagoas.

02:16:10.260 --> 02:16:14.900
And the 30,000 beautiful Persian boys...

02:16:15.060 --> 02:16:17.580
we're training to fight
in this great army.

02:16:20.540 --> 02:16:22.580
And to the memory of Philip.

02:16:22.780 --> 02:16:25.700
Had he lived to see his Macedonians...

02:16:25.860 --> 02:16:28.900
transformed into such...

02:16:29.060 --> 02:16:30.660
a pretty army.

02:16:32.980 --> 02:16:34.260
To Philip.

02:16:34.460 --> 02:16:36.540
To a real hero.

02:16:36.700 --> 02:16:38.980
Philip!

02:16:41.820 --> 02:16:46.580
<i>To Cleitus and his new appointment
as satrap of Bactria.</i>

02:16:46.780 --> 02:16:48.380
<i>Cleitus.</i>

02:16:49.780 --> 02:16:52.500
That's a fancy way of putting it, Ptolemy.

02:16:52.660 --> 02:16:55.700
But we all know what a pension
and an exile is...

02:16:55.860 --> 02:16:58.020
after 30 years' service.

02:16:58.220 --> 02:16:59.900
Exile?

02:17:00.180 --> 02:17:01.940
<i>From where, Cleitus?</i>

02:17:02.100 --> 02:17:04.820
From my home, Alexander, Macedonia.

02:17:05.020 --> 02:17:08.660
<i>You could've asked me where I
wanted to spend the rest of my life.</i>

02:17:08.900 --> 02:17:12.900
<i>You call governing
this major province exile?</i>

02:17:13.100 --> 02:17:16.180
<i>Has Your Majesty given any
of his closest companions...</i>

02:17:16.940 --> 02:17:19.100
a province so far from home?

02:17:19.300 --> 02:17:22.700
<i>Then you won't make a very
good satrap, will you, Cleitus?</i>

02:17:25.980 --> 02:17:27.580
So be it.

02:17:27.780 --> 02:17:31.380
<i>Let me rot in Macedonian rags...</i>

02:17:31.540 --> 02:17:33.660
rather than shine...

02:17:33.820 --> 02:17:35.980
in Eastern pomp.

02:17:36.460 --> 02:17:40.260
<i>I won't quake and bow down
like the sycophants you have around you.</i>

02:17:40.460 --> 02:17:44.500
<i>Hephaistion, Nearchus, Perdiccas.</i>

02:17:45.140 --> 02:17:49.540
As governor of one
of our most Asian of satrapies...

02:17:49.740 --> 02:17:54.580
<i>Cleitus, does it not occur to you
that if my Persian subjects...</i>

02:17:54.780 --> 02:17:57.780
bow down before me,
it's important for them to do so?

02:17:57.980 --> 02:18:00.700
Do I insist on Greeks doing the same?

02:18:00.860 --> 02:18:05.940
<i>You accept Greek offerings
as a son of Zeus, do you not?</i>

02:18:07.940 --> 02:18:09.300
Only when offered.

02:18:09.460 --> 02:18:12.300
Why don't you refuse
these vain flatteries?

02:18:12.460 --> 02:18:15.020
What freedom is this, to bow before you?

02:18:15.220 --> 02:18:17.980
<i>You bow before Herakles,
and he was mortal...</i>

02:18:18.140 --> 02:18:19.740
but a son of Zeus.

02:18:19.900 --> 02:18:23.500
How can you, so young,
compare yourself to Herakles?

02:18:24.740 --> 02:18:26.740
Why not?

02:18:29.340 --> 02:18:31.780
I've achieved more in my years.

02:18:31.980 --> 02:18:33.500
Traveled as far.

02:18:33.660 --> 02:18:34.740
Probably farther.

02:18:34.940 --> 02:18:37.180
Herakles did it by himself.

02:18:37.340 --> 02:18:40.460
<i>Did you conquer Asia
by yourself, Alexander?</i>

02:18:40.620 --> 02:18:42.380
Who planned the Asian invasion...

02:18:42.540 --> 02:18:46.380
<i>when you were still being spanked
on your bottom by my sister Lanice?</i>

02:18:46.540 --> 02:18:48.460
Was it not your father?

02:18:48.660 --> 02:18:50.620
Or is his blood no longer good enough?

02:18:51.100 --> 02:18:54.660
<i>- Zeus-Amon, is it?
- You insult me, Cleitus.</i>

02:18:54.860 --> 02:18:57.460
<i>You mock my family. Be careful.</i>

02:18:57.980 --> 02:19:01.420
<i>Never would your father have taken
barbarians as his friends...</i>

02:19:01.580 --> 02:19:04.220
<i>asked us to fight with them
as equals in war.</i>

02:19:04.380 --> 02:19:06.340
Are we not good enough any longer?

02:19:06.500 --> 02:19:08.580
I remember a time...

02:19:08.780 --> 02:19:11.500
when we could talk as men,
straight to the eye.

02:19:11.660 --> 02:19:14.420
<i>None of this scraping, groveling.</i>

02:19:15.060 --> 02:19:17.220
I remember a time when we hunted...

02:19:17.420 --> 02:19:20.420
when we wrestled
on the gymnasium floor.

02:19:20.660 --> 02:19:22.460
<i>Now you kiss them?</i>

02:19:24.100 --> 02:19:29.140
<i>Take a barbarian, childless wife
and dare call her queen?</i>

02:19:31.460 --> 02:19:35.420
<i>Go quickly, Cleitus,
before you ruin your life.</i>

02:19:39.260 --> 02:19:42.740
Doesn't your great pride
fear the gods any longer?

02:19:44.100 --> 02:19:47.500
This army...
This army is your blood, boy!

02:19:47.660 --> 02:19:49.740
Without it, you're nothing!

02:19:54.900 --> 02:19:58.220
<i>You no longer serve the purpose
of this march!</i>

02:19:58.700 --> 02:20:01.420
- Get him from my sight!
- I don't serve your purpose?!

02:20:01.580 --> 02:20:05.300
What was I serving when I saved
your puppy life at Gaugamela?

02:20:05.500 --> 02:20:08.980
Were you Zeus' boy?
What if I left you to die in the dust there?

02:20:09.180 --> 02:20:12.740
Do you think we'd be forced now
to mate with brown apes?

02:20:12.900 --> 02:20:14.140
Alexander!

02:20:14.300 --> 02:20:17.860
Turn out the guards!
Arrest him for treason!

02:20:22.380 --> 02:20:24.020
- I'll go with him.
- Alexander.

02:20:24.220 --> 02:20:25.820
<i>- Who's with him?
- No.</i>

02:20:26.020 --> 02:20:27.540
Who's with him?

02:20:28.180 --> 02:20:30.340
I call Father Zeus to witness.

02:20:30.500 --> 02:20:32.820
I call you to trial before him!

02:20:32.980 --> 02:20:35.460
And we'll see how deep
this conspiracy cuts!

02:20:35.660 --> 02:20:38.180
- Take him!
- In the name of the gods, get him out!

02:20:38.340 --> 02:20:42.460
<i>Now look at you!
Great white ass, Alexander.</i>

02:20:42.620 --> 02:20:44.420
Hiding behind his fairy god!

02:20:44.580 --> 02:20:50.340
Or are you too great to remember
whose life was saved by me?!

02:20:51.060 --> 02:20:56.380
- I am more a man than you'll ever be! Ever!
- Get him out!

02:20:57.220 --> 02:21:01.220
- He's gone. He's gone.
- Alexander.

02:21:01.380 --> 02:21:02.580
<i>Come on!</i>

02:21:03.100 --> 02:21:07.860
What a tyrant you are!
An evil tyrant you've become, Alexander.

02:21:08.020 --> 02:21:11.060
<i>You speak of plots against you?
What about poor Parmenion?</i>

02:21:11.660 --> 02:21:12.660
Get out!

02:21:12.820 --> 02:21:15.580
<i>He served you well.
Look how you repaid him.</i>

02:21:15.780 --> 02:21:18.540
<i>You made me do your foul deed.
Have you no shame?</i>

02:21:18.700 --> 02:21:22.620
<i>You ungrateful wretch! No one, not my
vilest enemy, has spoken like you to me.</i>

02:21:22.780 --> 02:21:26.020
Getting what I say?!
Despot. False king.

02:21:27.460 --> 02:21:30.180
<i>You and your barbarian mother
live in shame.</i>

02:21:55.020 --> 02:21:56.540
<i>Cleitus.</i>

02:21:56.900 --> 02:21:59.380
<i>Oh, my Cleitus. Cleitus.</i>

02:22:06.220 --> 02:22:07.740
<i>- Let me pass.
- None can enter.</i>

02:22:07.900 --> 02:22:09.820
<i>I am the queen.</i>

02:22:17.900 --> 02:22:20.060
I want to see him.
I've waited three days.

02:22:20.220 --> 02:22:22.940
He says none, not even you.

02:22:24.060 --> 02:22:27.980
<i>- He needs me.
- No, he doesn't.</i>

02:22:28.140 --> 02:22:29.900
And he needs you?

02:22:31.620 --> 02:22:33.340
Hephaistion, you make a mistake.

02:22:37.060 --> 02:22:41.100
<i>The army grows restless, questioning.</i>

02:22:42.340 --> 02:22:44.060
Alexander.

02:22:46.740 --> 02:22:48.500
They need your reassurance.

02:22:49.620 --> 02:22:51.340
Heinous.

02:22:51.540 --> 02:22:55.340
<i>Like an old lover they forgive,
but they will never forget.</i>

02:22:55.740 --> 02:23:00.420
- He was an aging drunk.
- He was my friend.

02:23:02.340 --> 02:23:05.140
<i>His sister Lanice nursed me.</i>

02:23:06.020 --> 02:23:08.220
And how did I repay her?

02:23:09.700 --> 02:23:13.100
Two brothers dead,
fighting him by my own hands.

02:23:13.260 --> 02:23:15.740
Her last remaining blood.

02:23:19.220 --> 02:23:23.380
What will she do but weep
on the day of my birth?

02:23:25.020 --> 02:23:27.140
<i>Come. You know more than any...</i>

02:23:27.340 --> 02:23:32.100
great deeds are done by men
who took and never regretted.

02:23:32.260 --> 02:23:34.180
<i>You're Alexander.</i>

02:23:34.340 --> 02:23:37.100
Pity and grief will only destroy you.

02:23:37.260 --> 02:23:40.900
Have I become so arrogant
that I am blind?

02:23:43.660 --> 02:23:49.180
Sometimes, to expect
the best of everyone is...

02:23:49.340 --> 02:23:50.820
<i>arrogance.</i>

02:23:52.340 --> 02:23:57.740
<i>Then Cleitus spoke true.
I have become a tyrant.</i>

02:23:58.540 --> 02:24:00.100
<i>No.</i>

02:24:02.580 --> 02:24:04.700
But perhaps a stranger.

02:24:06.500 --> 02:24:07.740
<i>You've gone too far.</i>

02:24:09.860 --> 02:24:12.580
They don't understand you anymore.

02:24:14.380 --> 02:24:18.380
They speak of Philip now...

02:24:18.540 --> 02:24:22.460
as if I were a passing cloud...

02:24:22.660 --> 02:24:24.740
soon to be forgotten.

02:24:26.900 --> 02:24:28.700
I've failed...

02:24:28.900 --> 02:24:30.580
utterly.

02:24:32.700 --> 02:24:34.540
<i>You're mortal.</i>

02:24:34.980 --> 02:24:36.940
And they know it.

02:24:37.100 --> 02:24:41.420
And they forgive you because
you make them proud of themselves.

02:24:42.100 --> 02:24:45.020
Philip once said...

02:24:47.020 --> 02:24:49.620
that there's a Titan in all of us.

02:24:50.620 --> 02:24:53.620
That they wait, mixed in our ashes.

02:24:59.060 --> 02:25:01.460
It wasn't because of the wine, I killed.

02:25:02.020 --> 02:25:04.380
It was because I wanted to.

02:25:32.580 --> 02:25:35.740
Philip, King of Macedonia...

02:25:35.940 --> 02:25:37.820
and leader of the Greeks.

02:25:38.580 --> 02:25:43.540
All my life, I've waited to see Greeks
grovel with respect for Macedonia.

02:25:44.820 --> 02:25:46.940
Today is that day.

02:25:51.420 --> 02:25:54.180
They say already,
"Philip was a great general...

02:25:54.340 --> 02:25:58.220
but Alexander is simply great."

02:25:59.780 --> 02:26:02.460
But if you ever insult me again...

02:26:02.620 --> 02:26:04.260
I'll kill you.

02:26:10.420 --> 02:26:11.820
I've missed you.

02:26:11.980 --> 02:26:14.540
In the spring, Persia.

02:26:14.740 --> 02:26:16.980
<i>You'll command my horse from the right.</i>

02:26:17.180 --> 02:26:19.380
I'm honored, Father. I wouldn't miss it...

02:26:19.580 --> 02:26:21.300
for all the gold in the world.

02:26:21.460 --> 02:26:23.580
Which, one day, you'll have.

02:26:40.580 --> 02:26:43.020
Making himself a 13th god.

02:26:43.180 --> 02:26:47.420
He's drunk so much wine,
my poor Philip, he's lost his mind.

02:26:50.700 --> 02:26:53.380
<i>- Your Majesty.
- Attalus.</i>

02:26:57.900 --> 02:27:00.780
<i>I hope the prince
is enjoying the spectacle...</i>

02:27:00.940 --> 02:27:03.860
as much as our regent.

02:27:04.020 --> 02:27:05.540
He's very tired.

02:27:09.860 --> 02:27:12.060
Hey.

02:27:14.460 --> 02:27:17.540
<i>- Pausanias, bring the rest of the guard.
- Royal guard!</i>

02:27:17.820 --> 02:27:20.500
To the arena! March!

02:27:20.700 --> 02:27:23.580
<i>No guard, Your Majesty?
In all this crowd?</i>

02:27:23.780 --> 02:27:27.140
<i>- Greeks all over the place.
- Cleitus, Cleitus.</i>

02:27:27.820 --> 02:27:29.340
<i>My Cleitus.</i>

02:27:29.860 --> 02:27:32.460
This man you can
always trust, Alexander.

02:27:32.900 --> 02:27:34.500
Treat him as you would me.

02:27:34.660 --> 02:27:36.860
He'll guard your back for you.

02:27:37.380 --> 02:27:39.220
<i>Yes, Father.</i>

02:27:39.380 --> 02:27:42.260
My people are guard enough today.

02:27:42.460 --> 02:27:45.900
<i>Let these Greeks see for themselves
how I can walk through my people.</i>

02:27:46.100 --> 02:27:47.620
Then let them call me tyrant.

02:27:48.140 --> 02:27:51.460
Bring the main guard in
after my entry only.

02:27:51.620 --> 02:27:55.300
<i>Cleitus, make sure the wine
flows steady all day.</i>

02:27:55.460 --> 02:27:57.460
I want them to like me.

02:28:04.620 --> 02:28:07.300
Weren't you told? I go in alone.

02:28:07.460 --> 02:28:09.460
Follow with the main guard.

02:28:09.660 --> 02:28:11.060
Go on.

02:28:14.100 --> 02:28:17.460
- Go on.
- Father, it's best I go with you.

02:28:19.660 --> 02:28:22.820
<i>You want the world to see
you're my successor.</i>

02:28:22.980 --> 02:28:24.940
Is that what she wants?

02:28:25.380 --> 02:28:28.140
Don't look so hurt all the time,
Alexander. Be a man.

02:28:28.340 --> 02:28:32.540
<i>You count yourself lucky you were here
at all today, after your public display.</i>

02:28:36.340 --> 02:28:38.460
By Herakles, by Zeus, by all the gods...

02:28:38.620 --> 02:28:41.180
obey me this once!

02:28:42.500 --> 02:28:45.140
Have courage, Father.

02:28:45.300 --> 02:28:47.780
<i>And go on your way
rejoicing that at each step...</i>

02:28:47.940 --> 02:28:50.140
you may recall your valor.

02:29:25.900 --> 02:29:29.820
And now, our beloved King Philip...

02:29:29.980 --> 02:29:33.180
in whose honor
these wedding games begin.

02:29:51.060 --> 02:29:53.460
Pausanias, I told you...

02:30:02.620 --> 02:30:03.660
Who's your new friend?

02:30:03.860 --> 02:30:05.580
There's your new friend.

02:30:06.740 --> 02:30:09.300
<i>No! Please, don't! No!</i>

02:31:48.700 --> 02:31:51.340
The king lives!

02:31:51.500 --> 02:31:54.780
Alexander, son of Philip!

02:31:54.980 --> 02:31:57.580
May the gods bless the king!

02:32:01.220 --> 02:32:03.980
Alexander is king!

02:32:06.540 --> 02:32:09.260
<i>You're king now. You're king.</i>

02:32:10.100 --> 02:32:12.780
<i>Long live Alexander!</i>

02:32:14.460 --> 02:32:18.620
- Alexander!
- King Alexander!

02:32:18.780 --> 02:32:22.260
Alexander!

02:32:23.260 --> 02:32:26.260
Alexander is king!

02:32:29.860 --> 02:32:33.220
May the gods bless Alexander!

02:32:34.980 --> 02:32:38.140
May the gods bless the king!

02:32:38.300 --> 02:32:40.100
Alexander!

02:32:57.420 --> 02:33:00.140
<i>You break my heart, you men.</i>

02:33:00.340 --> 02:33:02.140
Afraid.

02:33:03.540 --> 02:33:05.180
Of course you have fears.

02:33:05.340 --> 02:33:06.780
We all have fears...

02:33:06.940 --> 02:33:10.100
because no one has ever
gone this far before.

02:33:10.660 --> 02:33:15.060
And now we are weeks from
the encircling ocean, our route home.

02:33:15.340 --> 02:33:16.980
We'll build a fleet of ships...

02:33:17.140 --> 02:33:20.100
<i>and sail all the way
back down the Nile to Egypt.</i>

02:33:20.300 --> 02:33:23.420
And from Alexandria,
we shall be home within weeks.

02:33:23.780 --> 02:33:26.020
There to be reunited with our loved ones.

02:33:26.180 --> 02:33:29.820
To share our great treasures
and tales of Asia.

02:33:29.980 --> 02:33:34.780
<i>And to enjoy our imperishable glory
to the ends of time.</i>

02:33:36.020 --> 02:33:39.500
- Follow Alexander.
- I'll follow you.

02:33:44.100 --> 02:33:45.860
What?

02:33:46.060 --> 02:33:49.340
- Silence?
- We're with you, Alexander!

02:33:49.700 --> 02:33:51.220
<i>Crateros.</i>

02:33:53.500 --> 02:33:54.740
<i>Crateros.</i>

02:33:54.940 --> 02:33:56.620
And another one.

02:34:08.100 --> 02:34:09.380
My king.

02:34:09.540 --> 02:34:11.500
I'm a fighting man.

02:34:11.660 --> 02:34:15.620
I don't like no bellyaching.
I won't tolerate it in any of my units.

02:34:17.020 --> 02:34:19.220
I lost many a man.

02:34:20.300 --> 02:34:22.940
<i>Young ones, never been with a woman.</i>

02:34:24.100 --> 02:34:26.260
Some died of disease.

02:34:26.860 --> 02:34:31.100
Some were butchered in Scythia
by the banks of the Oxus.

02:34:31.260 --> 02:34:32.980
Some died good.

02:34:33.140 --> 02:34:36.220
<i>Some just didn't get no luck.</i>

02:34:37.020 --> 02:34:38.740
But they died.

02:34:41.000 --> 02:34:43.920
Forty thousand I come over with
eight years ago.

02:34:44.080 --> 02:34:48.160
And we march after you
more than 10,000 miles.

02:34:49.240 --> 02:34:53.000
In the rain and the sun,
we fought for you.

02:34:53.160 --> 02:34:56.240
Some of us, 50 battles we've been in.

02:34:57.000 --> 02:34:59.400
We killed many a barbarian.

02:35:01.080 --> 02:35:05.920
And now when I look around,
how many of them faces do I see?

02:35:06.080 --> 02:35:09.840
<i>Now you want us to fight more
of these crazy monkey tribes east of here.</i>

02:35:10.000 --> 02:35:13.560
We hear talk of thousands
of these elephant monsters...

02:35:13.760 --> 02:35:16.680
cross a hundred more rivers.

02:35:17.560 --> 02:35:21.640
<i>Crateros. Good Crateros.</i>

02:35:22.480 --> 02:35:27.640
Who better than you to speak,
most noble of men.

02:35:28.680 --> 02:35:32.560
But you know there's no part of me
without a scar or a bone broken.

02:35:32.720 --> 02:35:38.520
By sword, knife, stone, catapult and club.
I've shared every hardship with all of you.

02:35:38.720 --> 02:35:42.120
Aye, you have, my king,
and we love you for it.

02:35:43.080 --> 02:35:46.680
But, by Zeus, too many have died.

02:35:47.280 --> 02:35:50.800
<i>You have no children, Alexander,
and we're just...</i>

02:35:51.000 --> 02:35:55.680
humble men, we seek no disturbance
with the gods. All we wish for...

02:35:55.840 --> 02:36:02.360
is to see our children and our wives
and our grandchildren one last time...

02:36:02.840 --> 02:36:06.640
before we join our brothers
in that dark house they call Hades.

02:36:10.560 --> 02:36:14.240
<i>Yes. You're right, Crateros.</i>

02:36:14.400 --> 02:36:15.720
I have been negligent.

02:36:17.880 --> 02:36:20.720
I should've sent you
veterans home sooner, and I will.

02:36:20.880 --> 02:36:23.600
The first of you
shall be the Silver Shields.

02:36:23.800 --> 02:36:28.840
Then every man who's served seven years.
With full pensions from our treasury.

02:36:30.200 --> 02:36:33.800
And respected, rich, loved.

02:36:34.000 --> 02:36:38.880
<i>You'll be treated by your wives and children
as heroes for the rest of your lives...</i>

02:36:39.040 --> 02:36:43.240
and enjoy a peaceful death.

02:36:44.520 --> 02:36:46.680
But you dream, Crateros.

02:36:47.400 --> 02:36:51.720
<i>Your simplicity long ended when
you took Persian mistresses and children...</i>

02:36:51.880 --> 02:36:56.200
and you thickened your holdings
with plunder and jewels.

02:36:56.960 --> 02:37:02.280
Because you've fallen in love
with all the things in life that destroy men.

02:37:03.280 --> 02:37:05.640
Do you not see?

02:37:06.800 --> 02:37:10.040
And you, as well as I, know...

02:37:10.240 --> 02:37:14.480
that as the years decline
and the memories stale...

02:37:14.680 --> 02:37:17.480
and all your great victories fade...

02:37:17.640 --> 02:37:23.320
it will always be remembered,
you left your king in Asia!

02:37:23.480 --> 02:37:26.120
For I will go on, with my Asians.

02:37:29.640 --> 02:37:33.920
- To the jackals with you, then, Alexander.
- We come for you, and you discard us.

02:37:34.080 --> 02:37:36.480
- Shame!
- We want to go home, Alexander.

02:37:36.640 --> 02:37:38.400
We're tired of glory.

02:37:38.560 --> 02:37:41.480
We want to see our wives
and children before we die.

02:37:43.480 --> 02:37:45.560
I've got children I haven't even seen.

02:37:49.360 --> 02:37:52.400
I want to see my children.

02:37:52.560 --> 02:37:56.320
I paid for your bastard children.
I've taken nothing for myself.

02:37:56.520 --> 02:37:58.600
And all I've asked of you
is one more month.

02:37:58.760 --> 02:38:00.640
- Shame.
- That's your king.

02:38:01.880 --> 02:38:03.240
What would your father say?

02:38:03.400 --> 02:38:06.600
I've taken you further
than my father ever dreamed.

02:38:06.760 --> 02:38:10.720
So go home. I look to the
barbarians for their courage.

02:38:12.000 --> 02:38:13.600
I go east.

02:38:13.760 --> 02:38:15.800
He wants us dead
so we can't speak of his crimes.

02:38:15.960 --> 02:38:18.160
- Who said that?
- We won't make it to Macedonia.

02:38:18.320 --> 02:38:20.080
<i>You despicable coward. Come forth.</i>

02:38:20.280 --> 02:38:23.160
- Make your accusations public.
- So you can have us killed?

02:38:23.320 --> 02:38:26.320
- Son of Zeus.
- You desecrate your real father's memory.

02:38:26.520 --> 02:38:32.640
- Or did you murder him like you did Cleitus?
- Hide in this mob because I'll take your life.

02:38:42.640 --> 02:38:47.520
<i>You men insult my honor, my paternity.
Arrest him.</i>

02:38:47.680 --> 02:38:51.600
And him. Yes.
And you, this loudmouth Demetrius.

02:38:51.760 --> 02:38:55.400
<i>You call me murderer?
I have no such blood on my hands.</i>

02:38:55.640 --> 02:38:58.680
<i>And him.
Yes, you'll know the pain of treason.</i>

02:38:59.920 --> 02:39:03.880
<i>You mock my shame for Cleitus and say
I'd harm a hair of my father's head.</i>

02:39:04.600 --> 02:39:08.360
Arrest him.
After all I've done for you, you swine.

02:39:08.560 --> 02:39:10.440
<i>You cowards. Traitors.</i>

02:39:13.000 --> 02:39:15.360
<i>Come on, then.
Where are your daggers?</i>

02:39:17.640 --> 02:39:21.840
<i>In smashing the mutiny
and executing the ringleaders...</i>

02:39:22.040 --> 02:39:27.280
<i>he did nothing, to my mind, that any
general in wartime would not have done.</i>

02:39:27.520 --> 02:39:30.920
<i>But clearly, the army was divided.</i>

02:39:31.880 --> 02:39:35.920
<i>And Alexander was no longer
loved by all.</i>

02:39:38.760 --> 02:39:43.280
<i>He drove on, south to the outer ocean.</i>

02:39:44.960 --> 02:39:47.560
<i>I confess a disappointment.</i>

02:39:47.760 --> 02:39:51.960
<i>Especially on these reports of your
taking on Eastern ways.</i>

02:39:52.120 --> 02:39:57.640
<i>Beware how these manners inflame
the senses with pride.</i>

02:39:58.240 --> 02:40:02.240
However, I have lived long enough now...

02:40:02.440 --> 02:40:04.080
to question...

02:40:04.240 --> 02:40:09.960
when so many others invest
such emotion in their disrespect for you.

02:40:10.760 --> 02:40:17.160
<i>I can only hope that you continue
what you began as the boy I knew at 12.</i>

02:40:17.320 --> 02:40:22.200
Be that man always, Alexander,
and you will not slip.

02:40:22.360 --> 02:40:27.400
And perhaps you will prove
this old materialist...

02:40:27.560 --> 02:40:30.280
<i>as you always thought me:</i>

02:40:30.480 --> 02:40:33.440
A dreamer after all.

02:40:52.920 --> 02:40:54.360
Stay calm.

02:40:54.680 --> 02:40:56.520
Together we are strong as gods.

02:40:58.280 --> 02:41:02.760
<i>Cover with your left,
strike hard with your right.</i>

02:41:06.560 --> 02:41:09.000
Fear is rot. A waste of time.

02:41:15.080 --> 02:41:17.280
<i>Lock shields.</i>

02:41:19.840 --> 02:41:22.000
Battle positions.

02:41:24.120 --> 02:41:26.000
Move.

02:41:34.360 --> 02:41:37.560
<i>Choppers, prepare your knives.</i>

02:41:37.880 --> 02:41:39.480
Follow me.

02:41:51.920 --> 02:41:55.400
Strike hard, boys. Strike hard.

02:42:13.640 --> 02:42:18.120
<i>Come, Macedonians.
Why do you hang back? Hurry.</i>

02:42:18.320 --> 02:42:20.600
<i>Cavalry!</i>

02:42:29.000 --> 02:42:32.360
Split to thirds. Regroup and encircle.

02:42:51.560 --> 02:42:53.080
Hold the line.

02:42:55.880 --> 02:42:57.040
We must hide!

02:43:36.800 --> 02:43:42.240
- Oh, no. Cavalry on me.
- Follow Alexander.

02:43:45.840 --> 02:43:49.440
<i>Charge. Charge. Charge.</i>

02:43:52.880 --> 02:43:54.440
The phalanx is in jeopardy.

02:43:54.640 --> 02:43:57.960
Meleager, ride to Pharnakes
and tell him return to the center.

02:43:58.200 --> 02:44:01.960
Find Hephaistion at the riverbank
and bring all cavalry to the center.

02:44:02.160 --> 02:44:05.320
We must reach Crateros
before it's too late.

02:44:28.880 --> 02:44:30.880
Hephaistion. To the center.

02:44:34.800 --> 02:44:37.160
<i>Come, Macedonians. Ride.</i>

02:44:37.440 --> 02:44:39.760
<i>Ride!</i>

02:45:36.200 --> 02:45:38.800
<i>Coenus! Get out of there.</i>

02:45:40.720 --> 02:45:42.200
<i>No.</i>

02:46:12.120 --> 02:46:14.680
- The horses won't go.
- On foot, then.

02:46:21.400 --> 02:46:25.320
Fall back, men! Fall back!

02:46:26.720 --> 02:46:28.200
<i>Come, Bucephalus.</i>

02:46:33.160 --> 02:46:35.040
Fear not, my friend.

02:46:37.560 --> 02:46:39.240
Bucephalus.

02:46:39.400 --> 02:46:41.440
'Tis only sun and shadow.

02:46:44.440 --> 02:46:46.120
Bucephalus and Alexander.

02:46:46.320 --> 02:46:47.800
One last time, it's you and me.

02:46:50.200 --> 02:46:53.680
Isn't it a lovely thing
to live with great courage...

02:46:53.840 --> 02:46:56.320
and to die leaving an everlasting fame?

02:46:57.000 --> 02:47:00.320
<i>Come, Macedonians.
Why do you retreat?</i>

02:47:00.480 --> 02:47:06.320
Do you want to live forever?
In the name of Zeus, attack.

02:47:22.560 --> 02:47:24.600
Attack.

02:47:25.560 --> 02:47:28.080
Alexander!

02:47:39.000 --> 02:47:41.000
Alexander.

02:49:13.760 --> 02:49:15.440
- The king is down!
- To the king!

02:50:39.800 --> 02:50:43.400
<i>It was the bloodiest of his battles.</i>

02:50:47.320 --> 02:50:49.120
<i>Pure butchery.</i>

02:50:54.640 --> 02:50:56.640
<i>We'd never be men again.</i>

02:52:15.600 --> 02:52:16.960
Get out.

02:52:18.440 --> 02:52:19.920
Go.

02:52:24.640 --> 02:52:27.240
How can you behave
so shamelessly in public?

02:52:27.400 --> 02:52:29.920
Because it was meant to be.

02:52:30.120 --> 02:52:31.960
This isn't how I wanted to become king.

02:52:32.120 --> 02:52:36.120
<i>- No one blames you.
- They blame me behind my back! In secret.</i>

02:52:36.280 --> 02:52:38.360
- Slander is not power.
- Shame is?

02:52:40.880 --> 02:52:42.880
Who killed my father?

02:52:43.400 --> 02:52:45.000
Tell me.

02:52:45.160 --> 02:52:47.920
Tell me, or shall I put you on trial
for his murder?

02:52:48.120 --> 02:52:50.640
- Pausanias.
- He had help!

02:52:50.920 --> 02:52:52.960
Did you help him?

02:53:00.040 --> 02:53:02.360
<i>No, never.</i>

02:53:02.920 --> 02:53:05.760
Why? Why would I?

02:53:06.880 --> 02:53:08.560
So many wanted it.

02:53:08.720 --> 02:53:11.400
Greeks, Persians, men, women.

02:53:11.560 --> 02:53:14.320
I'd be shocked if there were not
a god he had not profaned.

02:53:14.480 --> 02:53:16.000
How ironic though, in the end...

02:53:16.200 --> 02:53:19.640
a boy he rutted with once too often
returned the favor.

02:53:19.880 --> 02:53:21.840
<i>You're mad. You're cursed.</i>

02:53:22.000 --> 02:53:24.680
<i>You've unleashed Furies,
you don't know their power.</i>

02:53:24.840 --> 02:53:27.720
<i>Now who is exaggerating?</i>

02:53:28.640 --> 02:53:31.480
Even if it was the wish of your heart...

02:53:31.640 --> 02:53:33.800
That's a lie! He was my father!
I loved him!

02:53:33.960 --> 02:53:35.880
He was not your father!

02:53:36.040 --> 02:53:38.160
<i>You owe no blood debt to that man.</i>

02:53:38.320 --> 02:53:41.120
<i>You lie and lie and lie.</i>

02:53:41.280 --> 02:53:44.400
So many lies you've spun
like a sorceress, confusing me.

02:53:44.600 --> 02:53:48.040
<i>Look at you. Look at you.</i>

02:53:48.200 --> 02:53:51.600
<i>You are everything that he was not.</i>

02:53:51.840 --> 02:53:55.120
He was coarse, you are refined.

02:53:55.320 --> 02:53:59.240
He was a general, and you are a king.

02:53:59.400 --> 02:54:01.320
He could not rule himself...

02:54:01.680 --> 02:54:04.800
and you shall rule the world.

02:54:04.960 --> 02:54:08.680
<i>You're so cursed by all the gods
when you speak like this.</i>

02:54:08.840 --> 02:54:10.920
Such thick pride...

02:54:11.080 --> 02:54:12.800
and no mourning for your husband.

02:54:13.000 --> 02:54:14.400
Mourn...

02:54:14.560 --> 02:54:16.120
him?

02:54:17.080 --> 02:54:19.600
What do you know of Philip?

02:54:21.120 --> 02:54:25.440
<i>No, Alexander. Zeus is your father.</i>

02:54:26.160 --> 02:54:29.880
- Act like it.
- My first act would be to kill you!

02:54:31.160 --> 02:54:33.520
<i>You murdered me in my cradle.</i>

02:54:33.720 --> 02:54:35.920
<i>You birthed me in a sack of hate.</i>

02:54:36.080 --> 02:54:38.240
Hate you have for those
stronger than you.

02:54:38.400 --> 02:54:42.320
- Hate you have for men.
- I taught you my heart, Alexander!

02:54:42.480 --> 02:54:45.400
And by Zeus and Dionysus,
you grew beautiful.

02:54:45.600 --> 02:54:47.760
Damn your sorceress soul.

02:54:47.920 --> 02:54:50.600
<i>Your soul is mine, Alexander.</i>

02:54:52.080 --> 02:54:53.600
<i>No! No!</i>

02:54:54.280 --> 02:54:58.160
<i>You've taken from me everything
I've ever loved and made me you!</i>

02:54:58.840 --> 02:55:00.800
Stop it. Stop acting like a boy.

02:55:00.960 --> 02:55:03.480
<i>You're a king. Act like one.</i>

02:55:03.680 --> 02:55:05.360
Parmenion is with us, for once.

02:55:05.520 --> 02:55:07.400
Execute Attalus without delay.

02:55:07.560 --> 02:55:10.360
<i>Confiscate their lands and root out
that family forever.</i>

02:55:10.560 --> 02:55:12.120
Eurydice? Never.

02:55:12.280 --> 02:55:13.680
<i>Laugh, you monster.</i>

02:55:13.840 --> 02:55:15.200
<i>You heartbreaker.</i>

02:55:15.400 --> 02:55:18.280
How will you live out the year like this?

02:55:18.440 --> 02:55:23.200
- Have you learned nothing from Philip?
- No. From you, Mother.

02:55:26.280 --> 02:55:28.000
The best.

02:55:38.160 --> 02:55:42.600
What have I done
to make you hate me so?

02:55:45.320 --> 02:55:49.920
One day, you will understand this.

02:55:50.080 --> 02:55:53.560
But I have only you in my heart.

02:55:56.320 --> 02:55:59.560
I know what you need.

02:56:00.440 --> 02:56:02.640
<i>Now is the time.</i>

02:56:02.880 --> 02:56:05.040
The gods favor you.

02:56:05.480 --> 02:56:08.720
Great wealth, power, conquest.

02:56:08.920 --> 02:56:10.720
All you desire.

02:56:10.920 --> 02:56:13.520
The world is yours!

02:56:13.720 --> 02:56:15.640
Take it.

02:56:20.160 --> 02:56:21.960
Take it.

02:56:44.120 --> 02:56:47.520
<i>He never saw his mother again.</i>

02:56:51.160 --> 02:56:54.440
<i>And while he was away,
fighting the Northern tribes...</i>

02:56:54.600 --> 02:57:00.200
<i>Olympias had Philip's new wife,
Eurydice, and her infant son murdered.</i>

02:57:00.880 --> 02:57:06.400
<i>By necessity, Alexander
had her uncle Attalus executed.</i>

02:57:46.880 --> 02:57:50.480
He lives! Alexander!

02:58:12.600 --> 02:58:14.800
Men of Macedon...

02:58:15.560 --> 02:58:17.680
we're going home.

02:58:18.680 --> 02:58:21.080
- What?
- What?

02:58:22.160 --> 02:58:25.280
- Home?
- We're going.

02:58:29.920 --> 02:58:31.880
We're going home.

02:59:39.000 --> 02:59:42.080
<i>His life should have ended in India...</i>

02:59:42.720 --> 02:59:44.200
<i>but that's myth.</i>

02:59:45.720 --> 02:59:51.160
<i>In life, Herakles died of a poisoned shirt,
given him in error by his jealous wife.</i>

02:59:51.320 --> 02:59:52.600
Great Zeus...

02:59:52.800 --> 02:59:55.040
we have worshipped you in blood.

02:59:56.200 --> 02:59:58.760
<i>Look kindly on our homeward steps...</i>

02:59:58.920 --> 03:00:03.360
and smile upon our backs.

03:00:06.400 --> 03:00:11.720
May all those who come here after us
know, when they see this altar...

03:00:11.880 --> 03:00:15.560
that Titans were once here.

03:00:30.080 --> 03:00:33.840
<i>Making his devotions to the gods
at the end of the great journey...</i>

03:00:34.000 --> 03:00:38.680
<i>Alexander bade the East farewell
and marched his army directly west...</i>

03:00:38.880 --> 03:00:41.240
<i>across the great Gedrosian desert...</i>

03:00:41.400 --> 03:00:44.600
<i>seeking the shortest route home
to Babylon.</i>

03:00:47.440 --> 03:00:52.320
<i>Here, he watched helplessly
the cruel breaking of his army.</i>

03:00:52.480 --> 03:00:54.960
<i>Not by any human foe...</i>

03:00:55.440 --> 03:00:57.720
<i>but by nature.</i>

03:00:58.960 --> 03:01:03.440
<i>To this day, there is no accounting
of how many died.</i>

03:01:03.640 --> 03:01:06.560
<i>It was the worst blunder of his life.</i>

03:01:08.160 --> 03:01:12.960
<i>And when he finally reentered Babylon,
after six years in the Far East...</i>

03:01:13.120 --> 03:01:19.040
<i>Alexander again seized the imagination
of the world by taking two more wives.</i>

03:01:19.960 --> 03:01:23.600
<i>Now Alexander had three wives,
two lovers...</i>

03:01:23.800 --> 03:01:26.640
<i>a contentious mother
and a turbulent Greece...</i>

03:01:26.800 --> 03:01:30.160
<i>satraps of dubious loyalty
in several provinces...</i>

03:01:30.320 --> 03:01:33.400
<i>generals questioning his every decision.</i>

03:01:33.560 --> 03:01:39.840
<i>And beneath it all, a restive new army
made up of 10 Asians for every Greek...</i>

03:01:40.000 --> 03:01:42.960
<i>all held together by one slender thread.</i>

03:01:43.120 --> 03:01:46.480
They took another reading.
The harbor can only be dredged to 20 feet.

03:01:46.640 --> 03:01:49.680
Then get a second opinion from
the Phoenicians. It goes deeper.

03:01:49.880 --> 03:01:54.760
Alexander. We'll well over 12,000 talents
on wood alone for the fleet.

03:01:55.440 --> 03:01:57.960
And their armor costs are staggering.

03:01:59.080 --> 03:02:01.800
- Cast another dye, we shall back them.
- How?

03:02:01.960 --> 03:02:03.160
Our armor... Our Treasury...

03:02:03.320 --> 03:02:06.200
With our future, Cassander,
the best capital we have.

03:02:06.360 --> 03:02:10.920
Even so, I seriously doubt the Phoenicians
can make a timber quote in time.

03:02:11.080 --> 03:02:14.480
Perhaps we could sail with fewer ships
or delay until the spring...

03:02:14.680 --> 03:02:16.920
There'll be no delays, Nearchus.

03:02:17.120 --> 03:02:21.160
- Ptolemy, how goes our library?
- The trees are falling as we speak.

03:02:21.320 --> 03:02:23.200
Good. We must not forget our libraries.

03:02:24.240 --> 03:02:26.480
All the Alexandrias we have,
I want libraries.

03:02:35.840 --> 03:02:38.640
- Just last night he was...
- It's the water, Your Majesty.

03:02:38.840 --> 03:02:41.200
He mixed it with the wine.

03:02:42.120 --> 03:02:43.760
But how can this be?

03:02:44.120 --> 03:02:47.920
- Typhus of India?
- I wouldn't tax yourself, Your Majesty.

03:02:48.120 --> 03:02:53.440
A few good nights' rest will do it.
But no wine or cold chicken.

03:02:53.600 --> 03:02:55.880
With the regimen of cares
that I've put in place...

03:02:57.080 --> 03:02:58.400
<i>Come, doctor.</i>

03:03:11.440 --> 03:03:13.760
I feel better.

03:03:14.400 --> 03:03:18.080
Soon, I'll be up.

03:03:19.160 --> 03:03:22.600
We leave for Arabia in the spring,
and I couldn't leave without you.

03:03:23.600 --> 03:03:25.920
Arabia.

03:03:28.960 --> 03:03:34.000
<i>You used to dress me up like a sheik...</i>

03:03:34.880 --> 03:03:36.760
wave your wooden scimitar.

03:03:36.960 --> 03:03:40.040
<i>You were the only one
who'd never let me win.</i>

03:03:41.840 --> 03:03:44.880
The only one who's ever been
honest with me.

03:03:45.360 --> 03:03:48.280
<i>You saved me from myself.</i>

03:03:50.720 --> 03:03:53.880
Please don't leave me, Hephaistion.

03:04:02.560 --> 03:04:07.000
I remember the young man who wanted
to be Achilles...

03:04:07.160 --> 03:04:10.160
and then outdid him.

03:04:10.320 --> 03:04:12.200
And then what happened?

03:04:12.400 --> 03:04:15.760
Ours is a myth only young men believe.

03:04:16.360 --> 03:04:22.520
- But how beautiful a myth it was.
- We reach, we fall.

03:04:23.880 --> 03:04:26.720
Oh, Hephaistion.

03:04:32.520 --> 03:04:37.920
- I worry for you without me.
- I am nothing without you.

03:04:39.080 --> 03:04:42.160
<i>Come, fight, Hephaistion.</i>

03:04:43.080 --> 03:04:45.560
We will die together.

03:04:48.520 --> 03:04:54.120
We'll have children with our wives, and
our sons will play together as we once did.

03:04:55.080 --> 03:04:58.680
A thousand ships
we'll launch from here, Hephaistion.

03:04:59.400 --> 03:05:04.120
We'll round Arabia
and sail up the gulf to Egypt.

03:05:04.960 --> 03:05:09.480
From there, we'll build a channel through
the desert and out to the Middle Sea.

03:05:09.640 --> 03:05:14.560
And then we'll move on Carthage. And that
great island, Sicily, they'll pay large tribute.

03:05:15.560 --> 03:05:19.440
After that, the Roman tribe,
good fighters. We'll beat them.

03:05:20.520 --> 03:05:23.040
And then explore the northern forests...

03:05:23.240 --> 03:05:26.400
and out the Pillars of Herakles
to the western ocean.

03:05:27.040 --> 03:05:31.240
And then one day,
populations will mix and travel freely.

03:05:31.440 --> 03:05:34.120
Asia and Europe will come together.

03:05:36.040 --> 03:05:39.920
And we'll grow old, Hephaistion...

03:05:40.640 --> 03:05:46.280
looking out our balcony
at this new world.

03:05:52.960 --> 03:05:54.680
Hephaistion?

03:05:56.440 --> 03:05:58.200
Hephaistion?

03:05:59.800 --> 03:06:01.920
<i>No!</i>

03:06:05.880 --> 03:06:10.440
- Where is this doctor?
- I can't explain this, Your Majesty.

03:06:10.600 --> 03:06:15.000
- It's not possible. I swear by Apollo.
- Execute him!

03:06:15.960 --> 03:06:19.040
Take him out now and execute him.

03:06:19.480 --> 03:06:23.680
- Come away, come away.
- Liars. Liars. You all hated him. All of you.

03:06:24.400 --> 03:06:28.000
Get out. Get out now!

03:06:38.680 --> 03:06:43.760
Be gone with you!
Harpies! Get out! Get out!

03:06:43.920 --> 03:06:45.640
Are you drunk again?

03:06:45.800 --> 03:06:47.360
- Get out.
- He's dead.

03:06:47.520 --> 03:06:50.400
- Who?
- Many hated him...

03:06:50.560 --> 03:06:53.360
but I don't think any other
would have dared.

03:06:54.920 --> 03:06:56.960
Hephaistion is dead?

03:07:01.120 --> 03:07:03.080
Are you mad?

03:07:05.000 --> 03:07:06.520
<i>You monster.</i>

03:07:07.840 --> 03:07:10.920
- Are you mad?
- You've taken from me all I've ever loved.

03:07:11.080 --> 03:07:15.040
May all the Furies through time
damn your miserable heart. Obey me.

03:07:16.120 --> 03:07:20.760
Alexander.
I have your child. Alexander.

03:07:22.280 --> 03:07:25.080
- Alexander, we have a son.
- No.

03:07:26.720 --> 03:07:29.240
- The child.
- Oh, Your Majesty, no.

03:07:29.400 --> 03:07:35.800
Alexander, I have your child.
Alexander, my husband, my king.

03:07:36.000 --> 03:07:38.440
We have a son.

03:07:38.920 --> 03:07:42.280
My poor, poor, ill-fated son.

03:07:43.960 --> 03:07:45.640
<i>Never touch me again.</i>

03:07:49.040 --> 03:07:51.040
<i>No!</i>

03:07:56.680 --> 03:07:59.480
One last toast!

03:08:02.800 --> 03:08:04.680
Before the dawn.

03:08:11.720 --> 03:08:14.880
To my old friends.

03:08:31.920 --> 03:08:35.520
- And to the myths.
- To the myths.

03:09:04.680 --> 03:09:08.040
<i>Yes, come on. Finish it.</i>

03:09:29.080 --> 03:09:31.200
To the next dawn.

03:10:07.560 --> 03:10:09.720
My little Achilles.

03:10:31.400 --> 03:10:34.440
- Bless you, Alexander.
- Lord, we love you.

03:10:35.680 --> 03:10:37.960
Bless you, Alexander.

03:10:45.560 --> 03:10:48.480
My lord, these herbs are from Delphi.

03:10:48.640 --> 03:10:51.240
They saved my brother.

03:10:51.760 --> 03:10:53.440
- Rest yourself.
- Thank you.

03:10:54.640 --> 03:10:56.720
We love you, Alexander.

03:11:02.240 --> 03:11:04.000
Alexander.

03:11:06.080 --> 03:11:07.560
Alexander.

03:11:11.800 --> 03:11:14.240
We love you, Alexander...

03:11:15.480 --> 03:11:17.720
and your seed.

03:11:19.960 --> 03:11:22.160
Keep moving, men, please.

03:11:27.600 --> 03:11:29.920
<i>Yes, come.</i>

03:11:30.080 --> 03:11:36.640
<i>Come to Babylon. I await you.
Your only loving son.</i>

03:11:42.680 --> 03:11:44.240
For the men.

03:11:44.600 --> 03:11:46.160
Bagoas.

03:11:52.560 --> 03:11:55.840
<i>Can you prop me up a little?
It catches me.</i>

03:12:05.560 --> 03:12:07.680
I've never been so idle.

03:12:07.840 --> 03:12:10.880
The fleet will never get out by spring.
I must go.

03:12:28.600 --> 03:12:31.000
<i>You have given me all.</i>

03:12:32.200 --> 03:12:35.520
- Bagoas.
- And you have given me...

03:12:35.680 --> 03:12:39.240
the happiest times of my life,
Alexander.

03:12:40.640 --> 03:12:45.200
Happy? What is happy?

03:12:47.360 --> 03:12:50.720
While in your mind and body
are stretched to breaking...

03:12:51.320 --> 03:12:54.320
you have no thought beyond the next.

03:12:55.560 --> 03:12:58.120
And you look back then...

03:12:58.680 --> 03:13:01.280
and there it was, happiness.

03:13:02.280 --> 03:13:05.000
In the doing, never the thinking.

03:13:07.240 --> 03:13:12.240
Still, you have made me so happy.

03:13:20.480 --> 03:13:22.920
It is done, Bagoas.

03:13:25.400 --> 03:13:27.280
It is done.

03:13:50.520 --> 03:13:52.760
Wait. We have his son.

03:13:52.920 --> 03:13:56.160
Alexander. Wait.

03:13:57.360 --> 03:13:58.840
Wait.

03:13:59.920 --> 03:14:01.960
Vultures. Wait.

03:14:02.120 --> 03:14:03.840
We have his son.

03:14:04.120 --> 03:14:06.960
<i>Just three more months.</i>

03:14:07.120 --> 03:14:09.080
Please live.

03:14:11.800 --> 03:14:14.520
Alexander, the army will divide.

03:14:14.680 --> 03:14:17.800
Satrapies will revolt.
Without orders, there'll be war.

03:14:18.040 --> 03:14:20.480
We beg you. Tell us who.

03:14:23.360 --> 03:14:25.240
Who will rule this great empire?

03:14:25.400 --> 03:14:29.600
- Who do you want to, Alexander?
- We beg you, tell us.

03:14:30.800 --> 03:14:32.440
<i>The myth becomes real.</i>

03:14:49.400 --> 03:14:52.320
<i>Zeus is your father.</i>

03:14:57.640 --> 03:14:58.920
Who will it be?

03:15:00.240 --> 03:15:02.760
Pray tell us, who?

03:15:05.040 --> 03:15:07.680
<i>- What did he say?
- "To the best. "</i>

03:15:09.840 --> 03:15:12.280
- He said, "To the best."
- What?

03:15:12.440 --> 03:15:14.640
- No, he said, "To Crateros."
- To Crateros?

03:15:14.800 --> 03:15:16.480
Why would he say Crateros?

03:16:19.040 --> 03:16:23.320
<i>On the 10th of June,
a month short of his 33rd year...</i>

03:16:23.480 --> 03:16:27.920
<i>Alexander's great heart
finally gave out.</i>

03:16:28.120 --> 03:16:32.320
<i>And as he vowed,
he joined Hephaistion.</i>

03:16:35.480 --> 03:16:38.200
<i>But in his short life,
he achieved, without doubt...</i>

03:16:38.360 --> 03:16:43.680
<i>the mythic glory
of his ancestor Achilles and more.</i>

03:16:48.680 --> 03:16:51.440
<i>Olympias' transgression
in the murder of his father...</i>

03:16:51.600 --> 03:16:54.440
<i>is, to my mind, a probability.</i>

03:16:54.600 --> 03:16:57.160
<i>His, a burden.</i>

03:16:58.960 --> 03:17:03.760
<i>Alexander was too in love with glory
for him to steal it.</i>

03:17:07.720 --> 03:17:12.000
<i>But by blood, and blood alone,
he was guilty.</i>

03:17:12.160 --> 03:17:16.520
<i>No!</i>

03:17:24.560 --> 03:17:27.400
- Bolt the doors.
- The body stays in Babylon.

03:17:27.560 --> 03:17:31.440
<i>- The body belongs to Macedon.
- Within hours...</i>

03:17:31.600 --> 03:17:35.200
<i>we were fighting like jackals
for his corpse.</i>

03:17:35.400 --> 03:17:40.080
<i>The wars of the world had begun.
Forty years, off and on, they endured.</i>

03:17:40.240 --> 03:17:44.480
<i>Cassander in Greece.
Crateros and Antigonus in western Asia.</i>

03:17:44.680 --> 03:17:49.120
<i>Solucas and Perdiccas in the East.
Myself in Egypt.</i>

03:17:49.320 --> 03:17:52.680
<i>Until we divided his empire in four parts.</i>

03:17:52.840 --> 03:17:54.720
Gentlemen, we are not savages.

03:17:54.880 --> 03:17:56.480
- We are the future...
- Get out!

03:17:57.040 --> 03:18:00.400
<i>I think Alexander would have been
disappointed in us.</i>

03:18:03.200 --> 03:18:08.560
<i>Naturally, rumors grew he'd been poisoned
by one faction of his generals or another...</i>

03:18:08.720 --> 03:18:14.160
<i>but the truth in these matters
has long since been driven from currency.</i>

03:18:16.440 --> 03:18:20.760
<i>Cassander saw to that
with his fake diaries...</i>

03:18:20.920 --> 03:18:25.760
<i>painting Alexander
as a sick and bloated drunk.</i>

03:18:26.080 --> 03:18:30.680
<i>Many believed,
to remove suspicion from himself.</i>

03:18:33.600 --> 03:18:38.640
He certainly proved he had the temperament
for politics and murder...

03:18:38.800 --> 03:18:43.960
when seven years later,
he executed Olympias.

03:18:44.920 --> 03:18:48.560
Met her death with great courage.

03:18:49.600 --> 03:18:54.360
<i>Five years...
No, it was six years after that...</i>

03:18:54.520 --> 03:19:00.640
Cassander finally achieved the complete
destruction of Alexander's bloodline...

03:19:00.800 --> 03:19:03.480
when he poisoned Roxane...

03:19:03.840 --> 03:19:07.400
and Alexander's 13-year-old son...

03:19:08.960 --> 03:19:11.760
the true heir to the empire.

03:19:16.120 --> 03:19:19.600
But Roxane too, like Olympias...

03:19:19.800 --> 03:19:25.560
played by stern rules,
supported by several generals.

03:19:25.720 --> 03:19:31.600
Days after Alexander's death,
she had Stateira poisoned.

03:19:32.280 --> 03:19:34.240
It was reason enough
for some to believe...

03:19:34.400 --> 03:19:38.200
she was the one behind
Hephaistion's sudden demise.

03:19:38.360 --> 03:19:41.160
But this is unproven in my mind.

03:19:41.320 --> 03:19:44.560
Bagoas disappeared
from the histories entirely...

03:19:44.760 --> 03:19:47.400
a wise move, perhaps.

03:19:48.240 --> 03:19:51.560
But I will say his love and devotion
for Alexander...

03:19:53.600 --> 03:19:56.880
were unquestionable and extraordinary.

03:20:04.160 --> 03:20:08.280
<i>Now I am the keeper of his body...</i>

03:20:08.480 --> 03:20:11.640
embalmed here in the Egyptian ways.

03:20:12.480 --> 03:20:17.960
<i>I followed him as Pharaoh,
and have now ruled 40 years.</i>

03:20:20.600 --> 03:20:25.720
I have two sons,
each jealous of the other's power.

03:20:28.320 --> 03:20:32.480
But they will grow to make
fine fathers and husbands.

03:20:32.680 --> 03:20:36.840
And I trust they'll be just in their affairs.

03:20:38.400 --> 03:20:41.200
But they have never seen...

03:20:41.360 --> 03:20:44.120
the great cavalry charge of Gaugamela...

03:20:44.320 --> 03:20:47.560
or the mountains of the Hindu Kush...

03:20:48.040 --> 03:20:53.560
when we crossed the 100,000 men army
into India.

03:21:00.720 --> 03:21:03.320
He was a god, Cadmos...

03:21:04.200 --> 03:21:07.120
or as close as anything
I've ever known.

03:21:07.280 --> 03:21:11.160
"Tyrant!" they yell so easily. I laugh.

03:21:11.320 --> 03:21:14.040
<i>No tyrant ever gave back so much.</i>

03:21:14.200 --> 03:21:16.840
What do they know of the world,
these schoolboys?

03:21:17.480 --> 03:21:19.840
It takes strong men to rule.

03:21:20.000 --> 03:21:26.280
Alexander was more, he was a Prometheus,
a friend to man. He changed the world.

03:21:27.120 --> 03:21:30.000
Before him, there were tribes...

03:21:30.440 --> 03:21:34.720
and after him, all was possible.

03:21:34.880 --> 03:21:39.640
There was suddenly a sense the world
could be ruled by one king...

03:21:39.800 --> 03:21:41.960
and be better for all.

03:21:44.320 --> 03:21:47.880
Eighteen great Alexandrias he built
across this world.

03:21:48.040 --> 03:21:53.800
It was an empire, not of land
and gold, but of the mind.

03:21:55.040 --> 03:21:58.200
It was a Hellenic civilization...

03:21:58.400 --> 03:22:02.200
open to all.

03:22:06.240 --> 03:22:09.880
But the truth is never simple...

03:22:10.760 --> 03:22:12.840
and yet it is.

03:22:13.280 --> 03:22:16.200
The truth is, we did kill him.

03:22:19.920 --> 03:22:23.320
By silence, we consented.

03:22:23.760 --> 03:22:25.760
Because...

03:22:25.920 --> 03:22:28.440
Because we couldn't go on.

03:22:28.600 --> 03:22:33.880
What, by Ares, did we look forward to
but to be discarded in the end, like Cleitus?

03:22:34.040 --> 03:22:39.360
After all this time, to give away our wealth
to Asian sycophants we despised?

03:22:39.520 --> 03:22:42.720
Mixing the races, harmony?

03:22:43.720 --> 03:22:46.480
Oh, he talked of these things...

03:22:46.680 --> 03:22:52.440
but wasn't it really about Alexander
and another population ready to obey him?

03:22:53.480 --> 03:22:56.400
I never believed in his dream.

03:22:56.560 --> 03:22:58.640
<i>None of us did.</i>

03:23:00.440 --> 03:23:02.720
That's the truth of his life.

03:23:02.880 --> 03:23:05.480
The dreamers exhaust us.

03:23:06.200 --> 03:23:10.400
They must die before they kill us
with their blasted dreams.

03:23:11.760 --> 03:23:14.640
Oh, just throw all that away, Cadmos.

03:23:14.800 --> 03:23:17.240
It's an old fool's rubbish.

03:23:19.080 --> 03:23:24.400
<i>You shall write, "He died of fever
and a weakened condition. "</i>

03:23:25.280 --> 03:23:27.040
<i>Yes, great Pharaoh.</i>

03:23:27.200 --> 03:23:31.160
Oh, he could have stayed home in
Macedonia, married, raised a family.

03:23:32.360 --> 03:23:35.440
He'd have died a celebrated man.

03:23:37.800 --> 03:23:40.560
But this was not Alexander.

03:23:41.000 --> 03:23:46.720
All his life,
he fought to free himself from fear.

03:23:46.880 --> 03:23:53.240
And by this, and this alone,
he was made free.

03:23:54.640 --> 03:23:58.600
The freest man I've ever known.

03:24:00.280 --> 03:24:05.280
His tragedy was one
of increasing loneliness...

03:24:05.440 --> 03:24:09.160
and impatience with those
who could not understand.

03:24:09.520 --> 03:24:12.200
And if his desire...

03:24:12.400 --> 03:24:17.280
to reconcile Greek and barbarian
ended in failure...

03:24:19.840 --> 03:24:23.040
What failure!

03:24:23.200 --> 03:24:29.400
His failure towered
over other men's successes.

03:24:34.040 --> 03:24:35.800
I've lived...

03:24:36.000 --> 03:24:38.320
I've lived long life, Cadmos...

03:24:38.480 --> 03:24:40.920
but the glory
and the memory of man...

03:24:41.080 --> 03:24:46.000
will always belong to the ones
who follow their great visions.

03:24:46.480 --> 03:24:51.720
And the greatest of these
is the one they now call...

03:24:52.920 --> 03:24:56.840
Megas Alexandros.

03:24:58.280 --> 03:25:01.440
The greatest of them all.

03:25:01.464 --> 03:25:21.464
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