Tristan Hughes

This is the new family.

It's incredibly tactless.

In one sense, you could see it.

It's almost, it's still doing a Philip.

It's how, as he had conquered other areas and incorporated them into a greater Macedonia, but they were culturally much more similar.

So that, and longer connections, whereas this is something very, very different.

On the one hand, what else are you going to do with this empire?

And if he wants to go on and fight more wars, then he needs an army to do it.

He wants a big army to do it.

So where are you going to get recruits?

But it's tactless.

And it's not popular.

And it doesn't even, to a vast extent, win over the wider Asian community.

I know we've made you civilized men, the lords of the world.

As the ancient authors would say, it's what he meant to say.

It's the essence of what he said.

It's... You know, they...

they really chose their timing badly to upset him because he was just in an angry mood.

So they pay the price for that.

And it's that with Hephaestion, you have this spectacular funeral and celebration.