1:22:03
You have been heard clearly.
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PARMENION!
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And after the wedding you will take brigades back to Babylon,
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Where I look to you, and Antipater in Greece,
to maintain our empire and supply this expedition.
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I will away to the north with my advance army at Marakand.
1:22:17
And I pray to Apollo you soon realize how far
you've turned from your father's path!
1:22:21
Ah damn you Parmenion by the gods and your Apollo!
1:22:24
What was in my father's guts?
1:22:26
Was it over ripened reason like yours?
1:22:27
He never lusted for war Alexander!.. or enjoyed it so!
1:22:31
He consulted his peers in counsel, among
equals, hmmn? The Macedonian way.
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He didn't make decisions based on his personal desires.
1:22:39
I have taken us further than my father ever dreamed.
1:22:42
Old man, we are in new worlds.
1:22:47
Alexander, be reasonable!
1:22:51
Were they ever meant to be our equals?
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Share our rewards? You remember what Aristotle said,
1:22:58
An Asian? What would a wedding vow ever mean
to a race that has never kept their word to a Greek?
1:23:03
Aristotle be damned!
1:23:05
By Zeus and all the gods,
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What makes you so much better than them, Cassander?
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Better than you really are, in you and those like you is this.
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Alexander.
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What disturbs me most is not your lack
of respect for my judgement,
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..It's your contempt for a world far older than ours.
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And so ten years after his mother's
insistence he marry a Macedonian,
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Our union, Greek and barbarian,
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The most powerful man in the world,
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..took a girl of no political significance. Why?