Tristan Hughes

As I say, whether there are organized battle lines is a different thing.

And Porus is captured, brought before him at the end.

And again, you get the famous stories because this will be celebrated.

There's an awful lot of art that emphasizes elephants and men on elephants and fighting against them and

So it does capture the imagination.

People can't imagine this vast army of elephants.

Taurus is brought before Alexander.

He's described as very handsome, very, very tall, exceptionally so, almost superhumanly so.

And when asked by Alexander, how would you be treated?

The answer is supposed to be, like a king.

And Alexander reconfirms him not only in his own kingdom, but gives him extra lands.

And it's another one of those Alexander myth moments where you see the man who is generous to the defeated, generous to someone he respects, willing to trust them, willing to expand their power on the basis that they will then be loyal to him.

So it's a great moment.

And it's one of the last great military moments of Alexander and great diplomatic moments as well, I suppose.

He's not fighting Chandragupta or anyone like this with a big united army.

Yes, yes.

Because it's, again, his main power will occur later.

It's post-Alexander and so on.

But it's, again, it's a reflection of India is quite fragmented politically just at that moment.

Yeah.