Tristan Hughes

And then he reaches a place, which I guess it's not too far from Ankara today, or is it that kind of area?

Gordium?

Home of the, once again, we've done Croesus already.

This is King Midas and Midas Touch.

Yeah.

And this is the story where we get the Gordian Knot.

But he is also visiting the prime cities all in that area, isn't he?

Avoiding the highlands we mentioned earlier.

So he's done Sardis, Ephesus, Halicarnassus, Kelinai, as mentioned, another important capital of the Persians in Anatolia, and now Gordium, home of Midas.

So he's kind of picking those places in his route to go, isn't it?

To make sure he gets the centre.

And Alexander, he doesn't stay there long.

I mean, I do love, I think it's happened just before this, the only time that he allows some of his Macedonian troops to go back to Macedonia.

And I think they're just the newlyweds, aren't they?

Yes.

They've just been married.

So they're allowed to go back to Macedonia over the winter or something like that to spend time with their new wives.

Yes.

And they do, isn't it?

They have that little time off and then they come back knowing many of them will never ever see Macedonia again.