Andrew Schulz

But Alexandria lives on without him.

Ptolemy, his best friend, they divide up Alexander's massive empire.

Like, think about this, dude.

Ptolemy went and stole it.

So I think that his body was going to go back to Macedonia.

So they were going to take his body from...

uh wherever babylon is if it's in iraq or iran iraq uh so they're gonna take his body back they gotta go up through you know anatolia modern day turkey and so uh tolami sends out an expedition and they go and capture his body and then they bring his body and what is the significance of that people would pay homage to the body like yeah yeah exactly exactly yeah yeah you're able to so think about think about this from tolami standpoint all of a sudden

This dude who's best friends with this king.

Think about this for a second.

Kind of, yeah.

And just from a life perspective, imagine this guy's life, okay?

You grow up.

You're lucky enough to be best friends with the son of this minor Greek kingdom.

But you're kind of an outsider in ancient Greece.

The Macedonians are in northern Greece, and they're kind of discriminated against by the Athenians and the Spartans.

They're getting bullied their whole lives.

Yeah, they're getting bullied by them.

Nothing's changed.

so you're this shout out to macedonia so not only not only do you live in this like sort of greek kingdom uh and you're kind of discriminated against by the rest of the greek world but you're you're not like a peasant but i mean you're you're just friends with this like minor prince right and then so the prince's father is killed and then he's elevated to he's elevated the king and the prince's father conquered a lot of greece like got them on the side of the macedonians like changed a lot politically feel

But then you see your 20-something-year-old friend be like, I'm going to go to war against the Persians.