Andrew Schulz

We're going to go to war against them.

And so you're right there with this dude the whole time.

And you watch this guy take over the biggest empire that the world has ever seen.

And you're right there with your buddy the entire time.

You go see him become crowned pharaoh out in the western deserts of Egypt.

Yeah.

And Ptolemy, his main fascination along with Alexander, something they bonded over, was their fascination of ancient Egypt.

Because Egypt was, by 300 BC, Egypt has fallen off.

Like the pyramids are more than 2,000 years old.

I mean, it's just...

And it's this deep, deep, deep, deep primordial time that nobody remembers or really understands anymore.

So you're fascinated by it.

And then you march out here and you conquer Babylon and you move into Turkey, blah, blah, blah.

But then he dies.

All of a sudden, you've gone from this minor noble in this obscure little kingdom up here to now Alexander has left you in charge of Egypt.

And all of a sudden, you have to be the pharaoh of Egypt itself.

Kind of crazy.

So Ptolemy, but Ptolemy...

The officials that live in Egypt and the civilians there, they know that Ptolemy isn't the great chosen warlord that Alexander was, right?

You need the body.