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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History · Show 74 - Mania for Subjugation IV · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

If you have four or five adjectives, you're allowed to give each of the great leaders on the

napoleon alexander type chart speed and energy this guy it's just already watching him move as he moves and sends forces like parmenio and other detachments all around at least the western part right now of anatolia to take surrenders and submissions by cities

the capital of the entire region sardis who's got massive walls and could hold out for a long time and also has the treasury for the region just surrenders to alexander so there's some good fortune right there

Alexander quickly turns toward the coast and begins to go down the coastline there where all those Ionian Greek cities are.

The ones that were, well, let's be honest, they're one of the main seeds in the entire story of how the Greeks and Persians first started fighting each other all those centuries ago.

Those are the, you know, they're the ones who kind of been asking for help and they have rebellions.

And I mean, there's Greek plays written about the suffering that cities like Miletus, one of these Ionian Greek cities have gone through under Persian rule.

That'll make you want to get a little payback, right?

Liberate those people, save them.

But as Alexander goes down the coast and his money problems are disappearing as more and more places hand over the treasuries and start paying their tribute that they used to give the great king, giving it to him instead.

As he goes down the coast and he liberates these cities, it becomes apparent and the ancient sources spent a little time on it.

So it's clear that all these cities are are factionalized in terms of their politics.

And can't we relate to that?

But they have factions that will favor a democracy, factions that will favor an oligarchy, factions that want to, you know, stay loyal to the great king, factions that want to come over to Alexander.

And it gets murderous sometimes.

I mean, he shows up at Ephesus, one of the first cities that he goes into down the coast, and they're starting to kill each other in anticipation of Alexander coming, the faction that favors Alexander is killing the people.

I mean—

And in a move that Arian says is one of the high watermarks of Alexander's morality, he comes in and he sort of settles things and he stops them from killing one another.

Very gracious, you know, by later Alexandrian standards.

And it's seen as almost humanitarian.

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