You bleed free my lord, May i tend to your wound?
No, atlas not now,
it's far worse than me, go to them, help them.
Your majesty,
Your very brave, what should i call you?
Gloucus my king.
Gloucus and where is your home?
Elyria.
Let your body go lose,
think about (...) be brave again Gloucus
and you will live on in glory.
Alexander.
Persian empire, the greatest the world had yet known was destroyed.
And Alexander at 25 was now King of all.
Alexander once said to me, we are most alone when we are with the myths.
Babylon, Persia
And thus it came to pass in a dream as mythical to all greeks
as Achilles defeating the trojans,
That there is one glorious moment in time,
Alexander was loved by all.
But in the end i believed babylon was a far easier (...) to enter
than she was to leave.
Imagine the minds that can see this,
with architects and engineers like these,
We can build cities such as we only dreamed.
Aristotle may have called them barbarians but he never saw babylon.
We have enough gold here to support another 3 generations of macedonian armies.
Macedonia will soon corrupt cassander,
wealth in great quantities brings the crows.
Not for the men who fought i trust?
We will pay them well (name).
But not as mercenaries for future services.
You sound like Philip.
Philip never saw babylon.
Look, he didnt advise him.
Alexander, i know you think me a stiff old sog,
but whatever our differences, know this day,
Your father would be very proud of you.
Thank you (name),
And i ask you to forgive me, my own anger my pride,
They too blind me.
Yes, the grandsons of goat herders
we now rule 2 million square miles.
Not like we are giving it all away.
But, none of you fear that this straight fortune
may drive us all to destruction.
You over value us, for As long as Dorius breathes he is the legitamite king of asia,
And I but the king of air.
But he has no power alexander,
he is lost in the mountains wit no (...)
As long as he is lost (name) he can be believed in.
Only when he is found will be decided.
Seems you already made up your mind Alexander.
We must finish what we failed to do at (...) Parmenium
we must hunt dorius if it be to the ends of earth.
That was not your father's mission.
And I am not my father.
Come on, have you so quickly forgotten, fortune favors the bold.
By the gods what is this?
No wonder Dorius fled, he had this to come back to.
I venture one for every night of the year.
Help me aphroditi, how will i ever go back to (name) after this?
I advise you not to touch (...) here i'll take care of it for you.
Aristotle was perhaps present,
with these images foolish with their beauty and degrade our souls.
Great king Alexander.
The princess of 1000 troses. and ellis daughter of the formerly great king Dorius.
(name presented)
Noble Alexander.
I come to beg for the lives of my sisters,
my mother, my grandmother.
You are not wrong princess (name),
he too is alexander.
Please, I plead for my families lives,
sell me as a slave great king.
Look now, into my eyes,
princess,
and tell me how would you like to be treated?
As I am, a princess.
Then so be it, you and your family shall be treated as my family,
You shall live in this palace as long as you choose,
Have you any other request? for me my noble princess?
No, everything I wish,
I have...
Requested.
You truly are a queen.
Yes, she would be a perfect match for you but you do nothing.
3 months you have been in babylon, and leave me and (name)
At the mercy of your enemies, of which you have many,
And (name) accustom now to the part you have given him,
I must watch him grow stronger.
I am certain that he communicates secretly with Parmenian,
Who is dangerous, but beware most of all of those closest to you,
They are like snakes and can be turned.
General (name)
Cassander is and tibiders son,
even cleitis your fathers favorite,
Anton your friend yes,
but beware of men who think too much, they blind themselves.
Only Ephistian do i leave out,
but all of them you may preach while your mother and yourself,
You live in generous poverty,
why wont you ever believe me?
It is only a dark mind like mine that can know these secrets of the heart,
For they are dark Alexander,
so dark but in you,
the son of Zeus lies the light of the world,
Your companions will be shadows in the underworld,
And you are a name living forever in history,
As the most glorious shining light of youth,
Forever young, forever inspiring,
Never will there be an Alexander like you,
Alexander the Great.
Remember bring me to babylon as you promised,
I can only help you for they know if they harm you,
They will face my wrath, as queen of babylon.
That is a high ransom she charges for 9 months lodging in the womb.
Bring her Alexander, It will give her such joy.
And on the cracked mirror of her dreams.
Stay with me tonight Ephistian.
I will take my own bath, thank you (name).
The generals question your obsession with arias,
They say it was never meant for you to be king of Asia.
Naturally, they want only to return to their homes rich with gold.
But I've seen the future Ephistian, i've seen it 1000 times, 1000 faces,
These people want, need change.
Aristotle was wrong about them.
How so?
Look at those we have conquered, They leave their dead unburied,
They smash their enemies skulls and drink from it's dust, they mate in public,
What can they think, or sing or write, when none can read,
But as Alexander's army they can go, where they never thought possible,
They can soldier work in the cities,
the alexandrias egypt to the (...) ocean,
We can connect these lands of (...) and the people,
Some say these alexandrias are becoming extensions of alexander himself,
They draw people into the cities so as to make slaves.
But we freed them Ephistian from the persia where everyone lived as slaves,
To free the people of the world,
such would be beyond the glory of archilles,
Beyond hericules, feet will rival pernithius,
was always a friend to man.
Remember the fates of these hereos, they suffered greatly.
No we all suffer, your father, mine,
They all came to the end of their time,
And in the end when its over all that matters is what you have done.
You once said the fear of death drives all men,
Are there no other forces?
Is there not love in your life?
Alexander?
I wonder sometimes, if it is not your mother you run from,
So many years, so many miles between you,
What is it you fear?
Who knows these things,
When I was a child my mother taught me to find my father weak,
Which am I Ephistian?
Weak or Divine?
All I know is I trust only you in this world,
I missed you, I need you,
It is you I love Ephistian, no other.
You still hold your head cocked,
Like that,
I have stopped that.
No like a deer listening in the wind,
You strike me still Alexander,
You have eyes like no other,
Ugh I sounded stupid as school boy,
Your everything I care for,
And by the sweet breathe of aphroditi,
I am so jealous of losing you to this world. You want so badly.
You will never lose me Ephistian,
I will be with you always,
until the end.
Northeastern Persia
The campaign in the northeastern persia
turned into a hard gorilla war of almost 3 years.
We chased Dorius toward (place) but missed taking him by hours.
He was dying when we found him sire,
He asked for water, he drank and died.
The great king Dorius had been betrayed by his own commanders.
Fully honoring his corpse,
Alexander hunted down these commanders to unknown lands.
Crossing even beyond the river oxes, into (place).
We fought them as far as the unknown steps of (place),
For only legend we hereos who once taught,
The surveyors told us we were now in the borders of where Europe and asia meet,
In fact we were totally lost,
Here alexander founded his 10th alexandria,
and settled it with veterans then women and any who would dare the frontier life,
Unable to accept defeat in any form,
Alexander persissted in breaking every tribe that resisted,
Until the day he received the head of his last enemy in surrender.
For alexander there could be no pretender to the thrown of asia,
Which now (...)
It was here that alexander made one of his most mysterious decisions.
Her eyes tell me, she cares for you Alexander,
Perhaps too much.
In the ways of my country,
Those who love too much, lose everything,
Those who love with irony, last.
Your father must been turning in his grave Alexander,
After all this time, (...) a sheeps daughter.
But (...) justice, this girl has spirit.
And what's the point Alexander,
Just take her as your concubine.
Because I want a son,
Damn you (name).
But then half your nobles have sisters you made fine macedonian mothers.
To take an asian as my queen not a captive,
Is a sign of deep respect for our subjects,
It will more than anything real us together, unify us.
Which is not to say I won't take a macedonian one day.
As a second wife, and insult macedonia.
Alexander!, This is about the other of our kingdom.
Exactly, what can be won Alexander?
We came here to asia to punish them for the crimes we have achieved at.
Seven years from home,
Now we drift from one far region to another,
Chasing nomads and bandits, when macedonia bleeds its manpower,
For what? to build roads in asia? to give these people cities?
To found cities, and expand our reach is not to drift Parmenion.
What benefit to macedon?
It's far richer than before.
What would you given them?
With respect for your age Parmenion that you fought better,
dug a metal when your flank was crumbling we could have had Dorius..
How dare you Nearcus!
General Nearcus chief boy.
Alexander spread our flag too thin, there was nothing my father any of you could have done...
Sit down.
Alexander I have known you since you were born,
I supported you with your father's death,
At the very least fall use this city,
And in respect to the counselor chose you king,
Give us a mecedonian aire, macedonian aire.
You have been heard clearly.
(...)
And after the wedding you will take brigades back to babylon,
Where I look to you, and in tibider, greece, to maintain our empire and supply this expedition.
I will way to the north, my advance army at merican.
And I pray to apollo you soon realize (...) from your father's path.
Ah damn you Parmenion by the gods and your apollo.
What was in my fathers guts?
Was it over ripe in reason like yours?
He never lusted for war Alexander or enjoyed it so.
He consulted his peers in counsel, among equals, the macedonian way.
He didn't make decisions based on his personal desires.
I have taken us further than my father ever dreamed.
Old man, we are in new worlds.
Alexander, be reasonable!
Were they ever meant to be our equals?
Share our rewards? You remember what Aristotle said,
An Asian, What would a wedding vow ever mean to a race that has never kept their word to a greek?
Aristotle be damned!
By Zeus and all the gods,
What makes you so much better than them Cassander?
Better than you really are, in you and those like you is this.
Alexander.
what disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgement,
It is our content for a world far older than ours.
And so 10 years, after his mother's incistence He marry a macedonian,
Our union, greek and barbarian,
The most powerful man in the world,
took a girl of no political significance, why?
Some say it was for alliance with the tribes,
Others a desire for a successor,
And yet others said Alexander truly fell in love,
Who roxana rita really was,
i doubt that any of us, ever saw further than the pools of those black eyes.
Alexander, Special for you.
On this glorious occasion,
I toast this great army that has given so much,
And in honor of them those of you who sought out with us 7 long years ago,
I pronounce, all your debts paid fort with from the royal treasury.
And in honor of my bride,
My beautiful bride,
we recognize the many women who shared the long hard road with us,
I grant them darius be fitting a proper marriage.
But what about our boys?
And lastly, lastly the gods demand no less of us,
That your children with these women be given a proper greek education,
and military training,
Under our protection,
so is to be the new soldiers of our kingdom in Asia.
I found it in Egypt,
The man that sold it to me said,
It came from a time when man worshipped sun and stars,
I will always think of you
as the sun Alexander,
And I pray your dream will shine on all men.
I wish you a son, you're a great man,
You love him?
He is Epheistian.
There are many different ways to love Roxana, come.
You have no fear,
it's fitting,
a man searches for a woman at birth stop,
And finds her.
The myth becomes real.
Great man, scared now?
You I kill now.
Do it, end it, I would do the same.
I will die a fool
for this love.
My life is now yours.
You will have my son.
Who is this woman you call your queen Alexander?
A hill girl, You with your breeding,
Already she makes enemies, with her strong clumsey nature,
Do not confuse us, I was never a barbarian as philips said,
We are of achilles royal blood,
Zeus is your father.
oh I understand she brings you some happiness,
But hear me when i tell you act, and act soon,
And after 7 years people wonder who is this king Alexander,
I have given you ample proof,
And tibider daily undermines your authority,
Return to babylon and strengthen your center,
Or come home to macedonia and reorganize,
But do not chase your dream further east,
Your life and mine depend on it,
Remember
my only thoughts are of you,
As you too must face your glorious destiny,
Think I'll leave your mother, provide for me,
protect me from your enemies when you are gone,
And remember always,
it is I who loves you more than any.
If only you were not a pale reflection from my mothers heart.
Who did this?
Tell me.
(name)
Never will you find a man as devoted as I...
The conspiracy deeply upset Alexander,
Not only because it involved the young pages,who shared his dream,
But more intimately it implicated Filotus,
His companion from boyhood, who is captain of Alexander's royal guards.
Alexander, remember me for who I am.
I do remember you Filotus, but not as you remember yourself,
It appears to me and your peers here that true weather of your soul is ambition.
NO...
None of us defended Filotus,
But then again none of us ever liked him,
And of course his power was carved up by the rest of us.
Before he died, we tortured him,
To find out what his father Parmenion knew,
But this we never learned,
But what to do with Parmenion and his 20,000 troops guarding our supply line,
was a far more delicate matter,
Was he innnocent in this?
or had he decided to act before age furthered with his power.
We will be devied
The men will follow their king.
Alexander will not be there.
Necessity required Alexander to act,
They sealed the camp within the hour of the first accusation of Filotus.
Then go Antiginous and Litus,
and go quickly.
3 days hard riding Antiginous and litus to parmenion,
His soldiers accepted the finding of guilt against parmenion,
As they understood that the head of family was responsible for all.
Litus, Antiginous.
I remember a mark of the (...) once,
That love eluded Alexander as much if not more,
than finding the end of the world.
In the spring, Alexander marched an army of 150,000,
Across the passes of the hindu kush,
Into the unknown,
In his dream it was the promised (...) to the end of the wall,
We were now a mobile empire stretching back thousands of miles to greece,
Cooks and architects, doctors and somiers,
money lenders and wives, children, lovers,whores.
And forget not the slaves that (...) bent working spines
a new beast, ravaged or expanded,
For better or worst,
No occupied territory remained the same again.
Although devoted to Roxana,
Alexander's visits to her tent diminished as a year,
then two, went by with out a successor,
wounding Alexander's great pride.
The savarias are saying that Zeus chained permitheous up there,
In one of those caves,
They say there is a giant eagles nest just above it,
Suppose he drops down each night to peck out poor permitheous' liver.
You remember what Aristotle told us of these mountains?
Yes I do, that when we reach these heights,
We look back and see macedonia to the west, and the outer ocean to the east,
But I fear this world is far larger than anyone dreamed,
The world of titans.
The scouts have been up every known trail Alexander,
There is no way across,
Except to the south, into India.
Were we gods, we would breach these walls into the eastern ocean.
We will Alexander, in a few years time we will return.
But first the men must seek homes.
Have you found your home? Tell me.
The More and more I think it will be Alexandria.
Well at least it's hot,
(name) she loved it there.
Women bring men home, I have no such feeling.
You have babylon Alexander,
where your mother awaits your invitation.
Yes, I have babylon,
but each land, each boundary i cross,
I strip away another illusion,
I sense death will be the last,
Yet still I push harder,
and harder to reach this, home.
Where has our eagle gone?
We must go on tolomy,
Til we find an end.
India
India, the land where the sun was born,
Fabled to be even richer than persia,
Had never been explorered or conquered.
From the beginning Alexander struggled to unify a land without a (...)
Kings who conspired against one another,
A labrynth of tribes urged on by zelix and philosophers,
To die by the 1000's for their strange gods.
Craters advanced party fought against men with hairy skins,
who were tiny, and lived in the (...) of trees.
Until Ephistian convinced us these were animals who immitated man
but wore their own skin,
They called this tribe monkey.
Monkey.
And then there was the rain.
Never before had we seen water that fell from the gods,
For 60 days and nights.
You know better (name), what's your son going to say,
come on man, (...)
I will be with you at your side.
Claytis, bring the snake healers,
(name),...
What happened lad?
It is to the neck.
Oh no, hold on, hold on,
breathe, breathe.
Our quest for gold and glory evaporated as we realized
there was none to be had,
Tempest westled. ???
We massacred all indians who resisited,
And with the local water putred, we drank the strong wine.
As we moved southeast,
Alexander often returned the lands we conquered to their defeated kings,
so as to make of them allies,
But this did not set well with the army,
They began to wonder if Alexander was on some crazed quest,
To imitate the glory of heiriclies.
Tibigous.
And to my mother's god Dienisus,
Who were told by indian allies traveled here before heiriclies.
Some 6 thousand years ago, To a hero.
You lose face,
these indians they are low evil people.
You do not try to understand them.
I try, But this I know Alexander.
In Persia you are great king,
Here they hate you.
Let us go back to babylon, there you are strong.
We will talk about this later.
Yes, later, talk.
I shall come, tonight.
And I shall wait, to let my king.
Your majesty,
A toast to bigous,
On the 30,000 beautiful persian boys
we are training to fight in this great army.
To the memory of Philip, had he lived,
To see his macedonians transformed into such
a pretty army,
To philip, to a real hereo.
Declitus, it is your appointment as set trap (...).
A fancy way of putting it Tolomy.
But we all know what a pension and an exile is after 30 years service.
You call governing this major province, exile?
Has your majesty given any of his closest companions a province so far from home?
Then you will not make a very good set trap will ya cleitis?
So be it, let me rot in macedonian rags,
Rather than shine in eastern pomp, ???
I won't quake and bow down like the (...) you have around you,
Epheistian, Neiarcus, Perticus.
As governor of one of our most asian asatropies,
cleitis does it not accur to you that if my persian subjects
bow down before me it is important for them to do so.
Do I insist on greeks doing the same?
You accept greek offerings as a son of zeus do you not?
Only when offered.
Then why do you not refuse? these vain flatteries,
What freedom is there to bow before you?
You bow before heiriclies do you not, and he was mortal,
But a son of Zeus
How can you so young compare yourself to heiriclies?
Why not?
I have achieved more in my years, traveled as far, probably farther.
Heiriclies did it by himself.
Did you conquer asia by yourself Alexander?
I mean who planned the asian invasion?
Was it not your father?
Or is his blood no longer good enough, zeus (...)
You insult me cleitis,
You mock my family becareful,
Never
But your father take barbarians as his friends.
Ask us to fight with them as equals in war,
Are we not good enough any longer,
I remember a time when we could talk as men, straight to the eye,
None of this scraping, groveling,
Now your his then? ????
Take a barbarian, jealous wife, and dirt color queen.
Go quickly Cleitis before you ruin your life.
Does not your great pride fear the gold any longer?
This army, this army is your blomp boy.
Without it your nothing.
You no longer serve the purpose of this march,
Get him from my sight.
I dont serve your purpose, what was i serving...
Arrest him for treason.
Who's with me, who's with him,
I call for the Zeus to witness, I call you to travel for him,
I will see this conspiracy cut, take him!
(...) what about poor parmenion, (...)
Have you no shame?
A great deafspot falls king.
You barbarian mother living shame.
Let me pass,
I am the queen.
I want to see him, I have waited 3 days.
He says none, not even you.
He needs me.
No, he does not.
And he needs you?
Ephistian you make a mistake.
The army needs your re assurance.
Alexander,
Like an old lover they forgive but they will never forget.
You know more than any crazed deeds are done by men
who took and never regretted.
You're Alexander, pitty and grief will only destroy you.
Have I become so arrogant, that i'm going blind.
Sometimes,
to expect the best of everyone is arrogance.
Then Cleitis spoke true,
I have become a tryant.
Immortal and they know it,
And they forgive you because you make them proud of themselves.
I have failed, look at me.
Macedonia - 8 Years before
Philip King of macedonia, and leader of the Greeks.
All my life i have waited to see greeks travel with respect for macedonia,
today's our day.
They say already, philip was a great general,
but alexander is simply Great.
If you ever insult me again, I will kill you.
Missed you, in the spring persia,
command my horse from the right,
I'm honored father, I would not miss it for all the gold in the world.
Which one day you will have.
Making himself a 13th ghost,
He's run so much wild, my poor philip, he has lost his mind.
Your majesty.
Atilus.
I hope the prince is enjoying the spectacle as much as our regent.
He is very tired.
(name) Bring the rest of the guard.
Royal guard,to the arena march.
No guard your majesty with all this crowd?
Greeks all over the place.
Cleitis, this man you can always trust Alexander,
Treat him as you would me, he guard your back for you.
Yes father.
People are guarding today cleitis,
That these greeks say for themselves where i can walk through my people,
Then let them call me tyrant, in the main garden after my entry only,
Cleitis make sure the wine flows steady all day, i want them to like me.
What you told, I go in alone,
follow with the main guard,
go on,
Father it is best I go with you.
You want the world to say your my successor?
Is that what she wants?
Ah do not look so hurt all the time Alexander, be a man,
You cut yourself lucky you were here at all today after your public display,
By hericlies, by zeus and by all the gods obey me this once.
Have courage father, and go on your with with joice on each step,
And I may recall your vow.