Your Life as Alexander the Great

At twelve, you tame a horse nobody else can ride. At twenty-one, you cross into Asia with debts you can't pay and food for thirty days. Before you're thirty, you rule most of the known world. At thirty-two, you're dead. Then one of your best friends steals your body, and today, nobody knows where you are. This is your life as Alexander the Great. This is a comedic dramatization of documented history, based on the sources below. Some scenes are condensed, and dialogue is imagined where the sources give none. Chapters 0:00 Born in Macedonia 0:55 Your mother's snakes 1:13 Taming Bucephalus 2:06 Aristotle and Achilles' choice 2:33 The fight at your father's wedding 3:28 Your father's murder 4:13 King at twenty 4:37 Crossing into Asia 5:31 Troy and the Battle of the Granicus 6:41 The doctor's cup 7:16 The Battle of Issus 8:15 Darius offers a deal 8:37 Egypt and the son of Zeus 9:45 The Battle of Gaugamela 10:29 The Great King's throne 10:52 The death of Darius 11:48 The horse thieves 12:01 Parmenion 12:44 Cleitus and the spear 13:45 Roxane, Porus and the elephants 14:38 Bucephalus 14:52 Your army says no 15:41 Alone on the wall 16:13 The helmet of water 16:48 "Go home, then" 17:13 Hephaestion 18:16 Omens in Babylon 18:51 "To the strongest" 19:40 Was it poison? 20:16 Who stole your body? 20:57 Where is your tomb? 21:35 A name that never dies Sources: Philip Freeman, Alexander the Great (Simon & Schuster, 2011); Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great (Allen Lane, 1973); Peter Green, Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography (University of California Press, 1991); A. B. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great (Cambridge University Press, 1988); Nicholas J. Saunders, Alexander's Tomb: The Two Thousand Year Obsession to Find the Lost Conqueror (Basic Books, 2006); Plutarch, Life of Alexander, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (Loeb, 1919); Arrian, The Anabasis of Alexander, trans. E. J. Chinnock; Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, book 17, trans. C. Bradford Welles (Loeb). Music "Achilles" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Sneaky Adventure" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Not As It Seems" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Aurea Carmina" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Serpentine Trek" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "The Curtain Rises" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Pensif" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Ready Aim Fire" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Sovereign" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Master of the Feast" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Impending Boom" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Rite of Passage" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Ominous" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Smoking Gun" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "For the Glory of the Alliance" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Final Battle of the Dark Wizards" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Quiet Panic" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Discovery Hit" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Impact Lento" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Action" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Myst" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Thinking of You" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Scheming Weasel (faster)" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "The Parting" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Impact Prelude" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Fluffing a Duck" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "End of the Era" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Carefree" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Hero Down" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Four Beers' Polka" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Lamentation" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Feather Waltz" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Constancy Part One" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Impact Moderato" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Crowd Hammer" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Death of Kings" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "For the Fallen" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Sound effects: Mixkit (Mixkit Sound Effects Free License), Kenney (CC0), Freesound (CC0), Pixabay (Pixabay Content License) and ElevenLabs sound generation. #alexanderthegreat #ancientgreece #history #animation