by CJR | Dec 18, 2015 | Premium Podcasts
It was common practice for Macedonian nobles to send their eldest teenage sons to serve as royal pages to the king. They get a close-up experience of kingly life and the king gets hostages to keep his nobles loyal. Unfortunately, one of Alexander's pages gets...
by CJR | Dec 11, 2015 | Premium Podcasts
Alexander tries to get not only his Persian subjects, but also his Macedonians and Greeks, to bow down before him – proskynesis, as it was called, or genuflection. But did he do it just because he was deranged? Or were there good, practical reasons for it?...
by CJR | Dec 4, 2015 | Premium Podcasts
Alexander proves that his soldiers can actually fly when he takes the Sogdian Rock. Then he performs another incredible feat of engineering to terrify Sisimithres who lived in a rock fortress called the Rock of Chorienes and was literally a motherfucker. Then...
by CJR | Nov 26, 2015 | Premium Podcasts
First, let us apologise for the noise outside of Cameron's window! This episode is mostly about one of the worst events in Alexander's story – his drunken murder of his senior commander, Cleitus The Black, aka the man who saved his life, aka The Black...
by CJR | Nov 20, 2015 | Premium Podcasts
Well Alexander finally catches up with Bessus and removes parts of his face that he won't be needing any longer. But just when everything seems to be going well, Bactria and Sogdiana (modern-day Afghanistan and Tajikistan) revolt and that marks the beginning of a...
