Tristan Hughes

So it doesn't prove to be happy family.

So he's unusual in that he keeps her.

But it's a grand gesture, but it's again, it's this whole, who are we now, that raises questions, raises difficulties.

Nobody quite knows what's going on.

And it builds towards, you're marrying some of your soldiers to Persians, and then you present this, the youngsters, some of them orphans, some of the mothers that you've raised, that are Persians, and you've raised and educated and trained as Macedonians and trained as a new phalanx.

And you present them to your old veterans who are really fed up by this time as your replacements.

And unsurprisingly, it doesn't go down terribly well.

The sense that, well, we beat these people really easy.

We've walked through this.

We've conquered everything.

And now he wants to get rid of us and just rely on the Asian soldiers we've beaten.

It's as tactless as you can get.

It's a slap in the face, isn't it?

Particularly as they've been complaining and saying they want to go home.

You've had the mutiny at office.

You've had all of this where they've just, you know, we're fed up.

And it's, oh, well, I don't need you.

By the way, meet your successors.

These are the next few.

Your successors.