Tristan Hughes

He's shot.

They stand over him.

It's very Homeric.

I mean, it's quickly straight from the Iliad till eventually the rest of the army breaks in.

But it's where he's getting angry and impatient.

There's a sign they've all done too much.

They're all exhausted.

They're all really touchy.

And Alexander in particular, because he

Again, it's perhaps that sense of even he doesn't quite know what he wants to do and what he should be doing and how to do it.

So it's even your return is by a new conquest, new exploration.

So it's in a sense, the same old thing is going on and they are just more and more brutal.

It is very grim in this last phase.

It's very hard to know the scale of losses, but it is clearly a traumatic experience for all of them going through the Gedrosian Desert as they run low on water.

But it gives a new half-wonder.

Is this Alexander punishing them?

Is it just his longing, this whole Pothos thing that you get?

There's this sense of doing something that nobody else has done.

I will succeed where everyone else has failed.

If that fortress is impossible to capture, I will capture it.