Steele Brand

Is it sad?

Right.

Sadly for the video gamers, right?

Because I mean, there are entire games of like civilization or video games that they create where you get to have these fictional battles between, you know, a German panzer unit and, you know, an elephant core, you know, or whatever it may be.

But yeah, it's, you know, I pose the question to you.

And of course, I got in way over my head because you know a lot about Alexander, a lot more than I do.

But it's the first alternate history in history.

Livy's question, what would have happened if Alexander had invaded Rome?

I can't think of one before that.

Well, what's interesting about Rome is there are a couple of really big parallels that match up with what's going on in the East, and particularly in Greece.

So Rome and Athens both supposedly become a republic around the same time in 510-509 B.C.,

And then, you know, Athens has this like marvelous first hundred years.

Rome is like the opposite.

They have a horrible first hundred years.

They're actually, they have kings when they expel them.

It's like a hundred years of just not doing well.

And then two big things happen.

They're churning out their Republican structure, trying to figure out how to manage that.

They're also trying to figure out how do we have a Republican army with like citizen soldiers that are

fight for a republic and not a king.