Alexander the Great: The Man Who Would Be a God, Part 1 of 2

In June 323 BC Alexander lay dying of a fever in Babylon, thirty-two years old, king of most of the world his people knew. This first part goes back to the beginning: the small, rough kingdom of Macedon, his father Philip and his mother Olympias, the black horse Bucephalas, Aristotle at Mieza, the battle of Chaeronea, Philip's murder in the theatre at Aegae, the march to the Danube and the destruction of Thebes, the crossing to Asia and the visit to Troy, the Granicus, the Gordian knot, Issus and the family of Darius, the siege of Tyre, Gaza, Egypt, the founding of Alexandria and the oracle of Ammon at Siwa. This is part 1 of 2; part 2 follows on this channel. 0:00 A fever in Babylon 1:06 The man who never lost 1:47 The kingdom on the edge 3:20 Philip 5:25 Olympias 6:54 The black horse 7:48 Aristotle at Mieza 8:56 The boy regent 9:19 Chaeronea 11:02 The wedding quarrel 12:01 The murder at Aegae 13:48 King at twenty 14:51 To the Danube 15:54 Thebes 17:26 Crossing the Hellespont 18:22 Troy 19:01 The Great King's empire 19:57 The Granicus 22:53 Down the coast of Asia 24:37 The Gordian knot 25:51 The Cilician Gates 26:42 Issus 29:43 The family of Darius 30:59 The siege of Tyre 33:53 The second letter 34:49 Gaza and Egypt 35:46 Alexandria 36:30 The oracle at Siwa Photographs from Wikimedia Commons. Those under Creative Commons licences, by author and licence, with the time each first appears: Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0: 6:03, 14:10, 19:01, 24:59 Yair Haklai, CC BY-SA 4.0: 2:29, 21:52, 35:02 George E. Koronaios, CC BY-SA 4.0: 10:23, 10:39 Jamie Heath, CC BY-SA 2.0: 28:54, 29:04 22mil, CC BY-SA 4.0: 19:20 Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0: 33:03 Andres.bustillo, CC BY-SA 4.0: 13:12 ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0: 5:00 author unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0: 18:08 author unknown, Public domain (PD-Art / PD-old-100): 37:41 Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0: 23:30 Bilal Detailz, CC BY-SA 4.0: 37:21 CherryX, CC BY-SA 3.0: 18:21 E.asphyx, CC BY 3.0: 2:10 Hubert Robert, CC BY-SA 3.0: 18:54 Iolchos07, CC BY-SA 4.0: 12:42 Johny SYSEL, CC BY-SA 3.0: 37:57 Julianna Lees, CC BY-SA 2.0: 6:19 Maaly Saeed, CC BY-SA 4.0: 37:08 Mark Landon, CC BY 4.0: 3:13 Marsyas, CC BY-SA 2.5: 22:34 Mates II, CC BY-SA 3.0: 17:06 Michael Nicht, CC BY-SA 4.0: 8:24 Neithsabes, CC BY 3.0: 35:26 Raicem, CC BY 4.0: 17:26 Rjdeadly, CC BY-SA 4.0: 13:24 Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0: 23:14 S.L.Kozhin, CC BY-SA 3.0: 24:15 Stefan Schäfer, Lich, CC BY-SA 3.0: 7:28 Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0: 33:30 The rest of the photographs are in the public domain or under CC0, from Andre Castaigne (1861-1929), (Image courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center), After Lysippos (photo: Jastrow), Albrecht Altdorfer, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Berthold Werner, carolynperry, Charles Laplante, Charles Le Brun, Charles Le Brun (engraving: Abraham Genoels), Daderot, Donato Creti (1671-1749), Elisabetta Sirani, Henryk Siemiradzki, Jacques Gamelin (painter); photographed by Didier Descouens, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Jastrow, Jean-Simon Berthélemy, Panegyrics of Granovetter (Sarah Murray), Paolo Veronese, Pietro da Cortona, Placido Costanzi, Shaunnol, Tegyrios and photographers whose names are not known. Maps drawn for this film from Natural Earth (public domain) and Terrain Tiles elevation and sea depth (SRTM, GMTED, ETOPO1). Music, our own piano recordings from public-domain scores: Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata, No. 5, Scena ed aria (Act I), piano reduction; Johannes Brahms, Denn es gehet dem Menschen wie dem Vieh, Four Serious Songs, Op. 121 No. 1; Franz Schubert, Pause, Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795 No. 12; Erik Satie, Mort de Socrate, Socrate No. 3. Made with AI: the narration is a synthetic voice, and the paintings in the film and the channel's opening and closing pictures were made with AI. The photographs and maps were not. #AlexanderTheGreat #history #documentary