Alexander Page #4

Alexander, my father's lost.

They've overrun the flank.

They're into the baggage train.

Parmenion's crumbling.

Alexander, if you chase him,

you risk losing your army here.

And if we capture him,

we gain an empire.

You can run to the ends of the earth,

you coward...

...but you'll never run far enough!

To Parmenion!

You bleed free, my lord.

-May I tend to your wound?

-No, Hermolaus, not now.

There's far worse than me. Go to them.

Help them.

How was this done, soldier?

Spear.

But I got two of the buggers.

Your Majesty.

You're very brave.

What shall I call you?

-Glaukos, my king.

-Glaukos.

-And where's your home?

-Illyria.

Let your body go loose.

Think of home now.

Be brave again, Glaukos...

...and you will live on in glory.

Alexander.

The Persian Empire,

the greatest the world had yet known...

...was destroyed.

And Alexander, at 25,

was now king of all.

If you hesitate, she will strike.

Yes.

They are like people.

You can love them for years.

Feed them, nurture them...

...but still, they can turn on you.

Don't hurt her.

Good.

Now...

He calls me a barbarian.

He makes a mockery

of Dionysus every night.

Some called his mother,

Queen Olympias, a sorceress...

...and said that Alexander

was the child of Zeus.

Others, Dionysus.

Women are the only ones

who know Dionysus.

But truly, there was not a man

in Macedonia who didn't look...

...at father and son, side by side,

and wonder.

My little Achilles.

Stay, Alexander, down. Down.

What is it you want?

Six months. Did you miss me?

-No. Not here!

-Proud b*tch. I'm still your king.

King of what? Sheepherders?

-I am of Achilles' royal blood.

-The blood of Herakles runs in my veins.

-You are nothing but a drunken whore.

-Shut your mouth.

You 10-titted b*tch from Hades!

Which god could I curse to

have ever laid eyes on you!

Do you think people respect you?

You think they don't know your bastards?

Damn your sorceress soul! You keep him

here like one of your snakes!

I told you not! I told you not.

-You'll obey me.

-I will not.

You'll obey me, or I'll kill you

with my own hands.

Let her go! No! Stop! Papa!

-Obey me!

-Your Majesty! No!

In the name of the gods.

He will never be yours! Never!

In my womb, I carried my avenger!

in the world he grew up to...

...Ive come to believe it was in

friendship that Alexander found his sanity.

You don't need much to fight.

When you're in the front ranks of a battle,

facing some Northern barbarian tribe...

...courage won't be in

the soles of your feet, Perdiccas.

Or in the thickness

of your tunic, Philotas.

Or in the lining

of your stomach, Nearchus.

It's in the heart of a man.

You don't need to eat every day

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