Tristan Hughes

or you join one, there is that, you know, the Greeks had been great travelers.

On a smaller scale, it's not quite the same as this.

It had tended to be seaborne.

You'd gone around the Mediterranean, but you'd also gone around the Black Sea.

You know, you had Greek cities in the Crimea, in southern Ukraine, that area from centuries before, as well as in Spain, in southern France, you know, Massilia, Marseille, today.

So in one sense, taking a load of Greeks and say, well, settle down here, make your own city, make your own laws, be Greek,

probably take local women as wives and all this other thing, but it remains a Greek community, isn't so unusual.

But it is more, as you say, it seems to be a problem.

These people have fought on the losing side.

So their experience of warfare is being beaten by the Macedonians.

They then come all this vast way to try and tack them on to your victorious army.

probably is more effort than it's worth.

Whereas what can they do that will cause you trouble if you dump them in this place?

You know, they might not be happy about it, but what are they going to do about it?

And you are, in a sense, doing something honourable for them.

You are saying, here's a city, become citizens here, act here.

So I think it is, yeah, they're not worth the effort.

He probably doesn't trust them.

Perhaps not simply in terms of their loyalty, but just how good they are.

Yeah.