Tristan Hughes

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.

Even the tactful things he's done before, he wants all the flames, all the fire temples of the local, all the cults are supposed to stop and mourn.

And it's suddenly, I am the center of the world.

I am feeling bad.

Everybody else needs to feel bad.

And I've got a big army, so you've got to do this.

You haven't got any choice.

But it is not very good.

But again, sometimes people forget, although Alexander has kept some sort of level of control over the empire, he's mostly been too busy throughout his reign to run the area he's conquered.