by CJR | Dec 30, 2015 | Premium Podcasts
Alexander marches into India. He engages with several Indian tribes, including the Nyassans, who claimed to be the descendants of the people who traveled to Greece with Dionysus, and the Assaceni, who tried the old “we're hiding in a fort and you can't...
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...
by CJR | Nov 13, 2015 | Premium Podcasts
In this episode, Alexander marches his army through the Hindu Kush – an 800-kilometre-long (500 mi) mountain range that stretches between central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan – to sneak up on Bessus. Along the way we manage to talk about a guy getting...
by CJR | Nov 6, 2015 | Premium Podcasts
In this episode, Alexander has to deal with THE PHILOTAS AFFAIR. Philotas, the son of Philip's old general, Parmenion, and currently commander of Alexander's Companion Cavalry, is accused of conspiracy to assassinate his king. This story has everything...
by CJR | Oct 30, 2015 | Premium Podcasts
In this shortish episode, we talk about Alexander's increasing “orientalism” – the potential reasons for it and the ways it caused him trouble. HOW TO LISTEN If you're already a subscriber, you can listen to the show below or subscribe...
by CJR | Oct 25, 2015 | Premium Podcasts
Darius gives a long speech to his inner circle about how much he values their loyalty – and as a show of thanks, they clap him in chains, run him through with a spear and leave him to die on the side of the road. Okay – so Alexander has conquered the...
by CJR | Oct 17, 2015 | Premium Podcasts
Alexander enters Persepolis – and then has it destroyed. The greatest city in the world (probably) at the time and he not only allows it to be torn to shreds, he allows the inhabitants to be massacred, raped and finally he personally sets fire to the Royal...
by CJR | Oct 11, 2015 | Premium Podcasts
Believe it or not, Alexander nearly blows it in this episode! He falls for a trap and gets a bunch of his men killed. But, as usual, he manages to pull another victory out of his hairy white Macedonian ass. HOW TO LISTEN If you're already a subscriber, you can...
