Tristan Hughes

There have been a few others, but they are very few.

And it's the part of Persia that is less familiar to you.

So everything is a new challenge, a great struggle to develop.

And it's unsurprising that it proves complicated that Alexander can't win so easily and so quickly as before.

It's quite... I mean, the tradition isn't a clear one and it's not in our most reliable sources.

It's this perception.

It's part of the weird and wonderful, you know, we mentioned Mars Diamond encounter that some people claimed with an Amazon, Queen of the Amazons, that famously one of Alexander's...

commanders then.

They just said, well, where was I when this happened?

Because I don't remember that.

I think I would have noticed that.

So you're never quite sure how much is embellishment.

On the other hand, the idea of transplanting

Most of the population or sometimes just the elite of a city from one end of the empire to another is something that the Persians and some of the other big powers that their predecessors have done and will continue to be the case.

The Persians in the third, fourth centuries AD are doing it with captured Roman population.

So the idea is that Alexander comes to consider these people as traitors to Greece and then massacres them for that reason.

It's a sort of last fight

flash, really, of this great war of revenge of the Greeks against the Persians.

Because by this time, it's very hard to maintain that that's what you're doing anymore, because the Persian Empire isn't there.

And you've also sent home your Greek troops, your Allied troops.