Tristan Hughes

And you have the case where he's quite badly wounded.

He's shot by an arrow in the chest during one of the assaults on these things where he's, again, got impatient with his own men.

He felt they were hanging back when they were, just they were short of ladders.

So runs up the only ladder there is, followed by a couple of his sort of close bodyguards and companions who are thinking, oh dear, you know, we've really got to be there because it'll be...

we don't want to be blamed for the king getting killed.

But the ladder collapses because they're isolated for a while.

They jump down into the city and sort of lay about them with swords.

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.