Dan Carlin
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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Up till now, one could make a case that there was almost an equal amount or, you know, 60-40 relationship between Alexander and Parmenio, with Alexander at the 60 and Parmenio at the 40.
But this is going to change, and you can see it develop with a big victory like this, right?
The credibility goes way up when you've done this.
And he makes sure everybody back in Greece knows about it because he will send back a shipment to Athens.
This is told in Arian to a shipment that has 300 suits of Persian armor.
Battlefield spoils taken off the dead to be placed in the Acropolis as a sacrifice to Athena.
And on it, it says, according to Arian, and this would have been there for a long time.
Lots of people would have seen this.
Alexander, the son of Philip, and the Greeks, except for the Spartans, dedicated these spoils from the barbarians occupying Asia.
As we said in the last installment, everything Alexander seems to do here is operating like three-dimensional chess.
He's doing a lot with a little.
That one inscription, well, that plays right into all of the propaganda that he's fighting this war against the Persians as payback for what the Persians did in the Greek and Persian wars 150 years previously, plays right into that.
He sends the offering to one of the big two city-states that sort of made their name in that war, right?
It was Athens and Sparta.
The Athenians fought at the Battle of Marathon so famously, made a lot of hay with that ever since.
The Spartans, of course, had that, you know, made-for-TV moment at the Battle of Thermopylae where 300 of them are wiped out, but they hold off the Persians forever.
It was more than 300, of course, but we won't talk about that.
But that's a famous number associated with that.
And how many suits of armor did Alexander send back to Athens?
300.
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