Professor Edmund Richardson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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He's only a couple of years on the throne.
He knows there's a lot of people in the army who would be very happy to reign in his stand.
He knows he's got to keep winning.
He's got to keep his army on side in order to maintain his hold on power.
So to have the Tyrians show their contempt for him in front of his entire army, and for those bodies of his envoys just to lie there on the shore for days until the waves wash them away,
with thousands of his men just looking at them, seeing how helpless their king wants to do anything about it.
That is worrying, right?
You don't want to be a king who can't keep your men safe.
You don't want to be a king who visibly is humiliated like that.
Because Macedonian kings tended to have extremely... They didn't tend to die peacefully in their beds, let's put it like that.
So Alexander goes to Diades and he says, fix this.
Yeah.
So he's got a problem because a lot of the normal ways you might go about taking the city are not available to him.
He can't take it by sea.
There's no easy way in.
And besides, the Tyrians have full control of the sea.
He can't attack the city with his artillery.
He can't sort of try to attack walls or gates or fortifications or anything like that because absolutely nothing he's got will come close to reaching the island, let alone even scratching the walls.
So what does he do?
If the geography keeps Tyre invulnerable, Diades decides to change the geography.
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