Tristan Hughes

And so I'm still, I think probably it is just disease and it is just chance that he dies then.

But it's impossible to say.

And there are plenty of people who are clearly fed up with him.

Whether they were that fed up and able to do it, I don't know.

And it's, as I say, we said right back to the start, that's why it's so hard to pin him down.

It's so hard to free ourselves when we're looking at these events from the knowledge that he is going to achieve all this.

He's going to do so much.

And that others haven't done it.

It is still spectacular by any standards when you look at it.

It's hard.

I mean, it's still hard to pin him down, to know who he really was.

You can see what he did.

and why, but why he did it is harder.

And it's the frustration, and you can understand why I don't think there'll ever be a great film about Alexander the Great.

The story is too big.

The canvas is so vast, and it's complicated.

He packed an awful lot into that short time.

I mean, there's no surprise that you have the stories about Julius Caesar weeping when he sees a bust of Alexander the Great, because at his age, Alexander had conquered the world.

Caesar's just a minor Roman magistrate at this point.

But on the other hand, there's also, in many respects, he's a hard man to like.