June 25, 2025 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm e. G. Marshall to celebrate eight seasons of radio's
first theater.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Of the eighties, Your Mystery Theater.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
We have brought you a week of the strangest, most
perplexing story we could find, a legend that demanded to
be dramatized based on the harrowing and haunted life of
Europe's first world ruler, the young and powerful Alexander.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The Great Alexander.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I can go no further the wind, and I saw
it at my throat. You go on desert, you here
in the mountains, Lysander. I need you, You need me.
Unity is what I'm fighting for. I may need you more, Alexander.
Look at me. I'm no use to heal anymore. You've
led our troops through all these mountains. You can't stop now. Unhold, Man,
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worldless makes no difference.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Go on without me, our mystery drama, The Legend of Alexander,
Part five, The Legend Begins, was written especially for the
Mystery Theater by Gerald Keene and stars Russell Horton. It
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is sponsored in part by True.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Value Hardware Stores.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I'll be back shortly with that one.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
He was twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
He ascended the throne he found himself king of a
crumbling empire. The Greek city states fell apart, each going
its own way till they discovered the twenty year old
ruler they had to reckon with was Alexander, the Great
and unholy terror in battle, speed and surprise, his chief weapons,
starting with Greece, then as far north as modern Bucharest,
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crossing the Danube through Serbia, then south in a final
conquest of Persia. Now he knew he was the great,
invincible Alexander.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
He believed it.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
What he did not know was power corrupts, and absolute
power corrupts absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
What did I tell you, General Pomenio, There are none
so clever or so strong that can defeat me. It
will save Alexander that Darius and the Persian army are
no longer a threat to anyone a threat. Persia is
now our slave, Divide and conquer.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
My father taught me that.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It's been the secret of Alexander's strength. Here here I'll
show you. Are there any sticks about what kind of steak?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Plain?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Ordinary wooden sticks, kindling tree branches here in Darius's palace?
Golden silver sticks?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Probably, but not What kind of an answer is that
to your King. You over there, slave, Yes, King Alexander,
I want.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Some wooden sticks, three score at least bring them small
branches twigs, chop down a tree if you have to, Yes,
your majesty, Tell me slave, you've been in the employer
King Darius when he rule this land in.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
The royal court.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I have served here all my life. I observe that
since Darius has escaped our army, it has been your
duty to manage the palace. And you announce each meal
by the ringing of a bell.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It has always been the custom. I know all about that.
But we of Macedon do not eat as.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Your former masters did at such time as it pleases
the cook to prepare food. We eat free times a
day and on time. It is now two hours past sunset,
and I wish my meal.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I wish it.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Now, King Alexander, be assured in the future, I will
not lose track of the time.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Be assured.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
If you do, you will lose track of your head.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Be your majesty.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I go instantly to obey, and don't forget the twigs.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Alexander, Why do you attack that poor man? He cannot
defend himself or all Persians as stupid as he Why
are you so angry? You a monarch, You should not
raise your voice over such trivial matters.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
As meals and twigs.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It is beneath you I would have passed the word
along permenia.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Are you scolding me?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You may be all of twenty five years old now, Alexander,
but twas I Pamidio put you on your first horse
when you were five, there is something wrong with me.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
My temper is too short?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Why is that?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Why is the mind a mystery to me?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
But victory, as to victory has not brought out the best.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
In you, hasn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I'm building a new world that's not the best in me.
You have succumbed to the war that disfigures power, and
that is arrogance.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
You are not a god, Alexander, And to.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
What do you attribute this evil wart, this boil on
my face? You know your Odyssey, your Homer as well
as any man. Do you know what Achilles meant when
he said he whom the gods would destroy will be
granted his every wish?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
The gods are out to destroy me?
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Is that it?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You are not the Alexander you were. That is all
that I wish to say. Now just some food for thought, ah,
food for the stomach. And where are the sticks I
have for your mate?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
I hope these are long enough or short enough as
your Majesty desires.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Will your Royal.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Excellence be pleased to sit under the gold canopy so
that we can serve you your meal?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
There first, the sticks a pimonnial, come closer. My father's secrets.
Now watch I break one, I'd break another another another.
That is how my father, Philip of Macedon brought each
state to its knees, one.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
At a time.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You see how easily it's done. Now we put all
these twigs together. My purpose is to gather all the
city states of all land together like this, one solid
family of many branches, all speaking the language of homer Escilosophicles,
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forming one great world of nations of the same tongue
and cultures.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Tie them, find.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Them all together as I am doing, and no one,
no one can.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Ever break us apart.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Fly for Manuel, Yes, take this bundle of tweaks, try
to break it. I just have to, Alexander, I understand
your point. They may give, they may bend, but together
they are indivisible and unbeatable. This tree of states cannot
be broken.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Now to food.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Help me up to the throne.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
For man, you you may sit somewhere below me. I've
sat in many thrones.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But never Darius is comfortable. But it won't do. No.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Look at my feet, they don't touch the ground.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Am I so short? King Darius is extremely tall?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yes he is. I can't have this, you slave, yes,
shut it before I'm served?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I need uh.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Do you see that table?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Push it under my feet.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
A little closer.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
That's better.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Now my feet has something to rest on. Place each
dish on a small tray and bring it to me.
You don't you hear me, your majesty, I could not.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
My heart is giving out. What is the matter with you?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Give me a tray with each dish, I'll rest it
across the arms of this throne and eat. I think
it upsets this loyal persion to see you seated on
Darius's throne. It isn't that it's the taper this table
I placed here at which you put your feet in.
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It is the table on which I served my king
Darius his meals. Of course, you understand, don't you. Alexander?
The poor Persian can't bear to see your feet on
the table from which Darius took his meals.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The table has a meaning of the man. To him,
it is a sad omen.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It has a meaning for me as well. Darius's dinner
table is Alexander's foot rest.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
To me, that's a good omen.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
It means that soon Alexander will be trembling all over Darius.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Now the food and.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
No delay, No, no, no, I changed my mind.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I'll have some wine first.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Permennio, join me in drinking to the health of Alexander
the Great and our next victory. Tomorrow we take Persepolis Alida.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Are you in the.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Tenth Yes, I am Pamenio.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yes, I'm half frozen. Join us, Join us, hurry, I'll
close that tent flap. You'll have all our maps blown
to the ground.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Where have you been?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
We thought you'd never get here.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You went on foot. It's the fastest away.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Our horses travel very slowly in deep snow. Many lost
one hundred. Then I stopped counting, Alexander. How much longer
are we going on with this forced march over the mountains.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Until we reach Persepolis.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Here is his main city, his biggest palace. Is there?
Turning into a fierce blizzard, you want us to pitch
camp and road is why are the troops so slow?
Lysander and I have been here for three hours. They're
doing their best, and that use of freezing weather give
them credit, Alexander. Nobody's moving thousands of men across mountains
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by wishing, but it can be done by will. Look
at this, old man, here's the will that Lesander?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Wake up?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
How many oh is here? Help me?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Hell Alessandra, you did good work on the roads.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
I'm sorry engineers couldn't clear it better.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
But as soon as eight bushes snow from the road.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Did you a drift?
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I back?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Did you have any trouble with the mountain tribesmen?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Who? We lost? Many men, Alexander. The troops are exhausted.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Some of them are marching without shoes most most do
not have the right kind of clothing against the cold.
And even if we do get the perceptolists by morn,
what do you mean if there is no if? Pomennio,
you may leave my tent now. Try to understand. No ifs,
no rests, no stopping. I am not resting until Greek
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law and art and life are everywhere everywhere. Your kingdom
is to be everywhere Pomennio. When we are in Persepolis,
and when Darius is found and chained, you and I
will have a long talk about the Empire. I don't
think you understand. The Empire is made up of people,
not one man with one idea. Our civilization is superior
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to all civilizations. And I will march and I will
battle until it is every where, not as a dream,
but as a fact. Lysander, let me see that map again.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
The three of us can.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Decide the quickest route for the army. We'll send supplies
and the siege train this way across here, cavalry that way.
It's not quite as steep. What do you say, Parmenia,
And we'll have the main troops continue straight on as
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they're doing, Lysandra and I will catch up with them.
Get ahead and mark the trail, right, all, right, of majesty,
did you hear that, Momenia? Lysander has two score years
on you. He's older by twenty years. And when I
say shall we go ahead? Does he say I wish
to rest? I'm tired. Lysander's an extraordinary man, and we
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need him. He is the star who guides our ship.
But do not push him too far.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Alexander.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Oh, I'll stop. Stop a moment, ut Co. The newsmen
are still hiad of said, I'm holding you back. I
cannot go any further. Forgive my age, take my hand. No, no, no,
it's usty for me.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
We're closer to the top.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And we thought the wind in the esor is my throat?
You go on? There's the maps are tied to my waist,
and my fingers are turned them.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
To untie them.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Cut the string, take them, pertainly me here desert you
in the mountains. I'd sooner drink him lo. I was right.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Look we are at the top.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Campfires even down the other valley Persian tribesmen. Obviously they
haven't seen our men yet. I take heart, Lysander. I'll
surprise one them. Take a firebrand, bring it back up
here and set fire to the trees behind us. That
at to frighten them off. They'll take a fundable to
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stuck the mountain. Take my cape, Lysander, keep yourself warm
with it. When the trees are blazing, I'll come for you.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
What a strange fusion of temples and talents he was,
this Alexander, only twenty five years old, yet a visionary
who brooke no interference. And yet for all that, still
a humane man who deeply cared for his fellow man.
I shall return shortly with Act two. It stuck in
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Alexander's craw that he couldn't find Darius.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
The third King of Prussia.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Town after town fell to Alexander, but Darius eluded him. Persepolis,
the capital city, was vandalized and burned, Echatana scoured, Yet
no Darius. Taharan, two hundred miles distant, yielded nothing. Then
scouts arrived with hard believable information. Darius had been stopped
by his own cousin, the Prince of Bactria.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Are you sure, Pomenia stop where at the edge of
the Caspian Sea by his own cousin, Prince Bessus. You
must explain it, I cannot. I'd say Bessis had his
eye on Persia, so he arrests Darius to be friendly
to us. Betrayal by your own relatives. It isn't the
first time. How long will it take our men to
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get there?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Two days and the night's march through the desert.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
We'll make that two nights in one day. It'll be
cooler at night, and we can begin. Now, Why exhaust
the men unnecessarily let them rest. Parmenia, Old comrade, haven't
you learned yet? Alexander does not rest. We are not
all Alexander's.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Darius is safe. He is under God.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Doesn't matter which day he has brought before you. He
is our the sooner I see him, the sooner I
can prove to him we are not barbarians.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Why bother he is your enemy?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
What do you have to prove to him that our
cause is honorable, that he and I, the only remaining
monarchs of great kingdoms, have that in common, that we
might rule together. Whas Alexander, you're a young man of contradictions,
I don't deny it. To make this great show of benevolence,
you would hasten your men beyond enduran, Pomenio. You have
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never agreed with anything I've said. You thwart me at
every turn. I shall take the decision to the men.
Let them decide whether we begin our march now or tomorrow.
If we start now tonight, we should arrive tomorrow by nightfall.
Speaker 9 (16:55):
Quote that torch higher, Permenia, Ah, horror of horst there
lying at the bottom of that chariot.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Is that not, Darius? It is Alan Gurzy alive?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
How came he to this? Comn you you arrived here
before I did. I thought you said Prince Basis had
captured Darius, not tortured him.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
His body is a massive wool.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I have taken the Prince into custody. He told me
his men got out of hand when they came upon Darius.
They went persirque with ridge. I want every single murderous
soldier in the Prince's army. I'll show them what rage is.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Oh Darius, Darious, great circe, Look how he bleeds.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Get me some fresh cloths.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Hurry, Darius, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Who are you? I am Alexander of Macedon, Alexander, and
so we need to Will someone fetch me some claw?
Gods Alexander?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yes, great king?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Is it dark?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Or of my eyes? Failing mish? It is dark?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I have lain here since dawn. Is there water, Pimenia,
some water? Quickly, I hear pour it into my helmet. Shah, Darious,
Let me lift your head. Let me tip my helmet slowly.
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I tried rest your head on my arm. Oh now, Pimenie.
I wish a letter to be made so that King
Darius can be carried gently to where he may be
properly attended to. It is too late for that for me.
The combat is over. Great Darius speak not so. I
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have been dishonored by one of my own family.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
He will be punished.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Bassis is a coward. You will die a coward's death.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Take my right hand, Alexander, it is yours.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Ah, He's gone, Alexander. May the great King Darius enjoy
a peaceful passage to the land of Shades.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
As apollow is my witness.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
We shall bury him with all the honors of war. Lysander.
They told me it was you. I couldn't believe it.
How good to see you?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Do?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I look the same? Her face is more aligned, but
otherwise I see very little change.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
What brings you to Babylon?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I heard of the death of Darius? How long is
it since he died?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Or many months? Four?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Or five? The war is over? That you know? Then?
Why don't you return to Macedon. I can't not yet.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
There's too much to do here.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
If I'm to bring out two great nations together, it
would not happen in my absence. You still haven't told me,
dear old teacher, was there some specific reason you came
all this distant. I wanted to see you again, Alexander alive.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
The battles are over.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Why should I die? What could kill me? Treachery?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
What makes you say that?
Speaker 8 (20:37):
I can see by your eyes that thought has been
with you also?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yes, it has been for many months. There are too
many whispers in Babylon that I am too much influenced
by this country and the Persians.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And are you what is their complaint?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
The army is here, most of the men are enjoying
the spoils of victory. Most of them have married Persian women.
To me, they say nothing openly that there are whispers
behind my back. They would rather be home in Macedon than.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Let them go home.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
No one is forcing them to remain in Babylon. If
they don't see the advantage of the mingling of our
two great cultures, then let them go. There were rumors
in Macedon that you had married it in yes, twice
to two women last month.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
There was no rumors. You shall meet them both Lysander.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
And the Macedonians here. How did they take the news?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
How should they take it?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
We had a double feast. Everyone attended. I heard no complaints.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
The city was in a stupa for a week by sender.
If you could have been here, it would have made
it perfect for me.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I missed the old friend.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Why did you marry here?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Political?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
A very wise move, if I say so myself. Now,
General Parmenio he didn't think so, but he's been very
critical lately. I said, I know you'll understand you have
a political background. You marry two women from two ruling
Persian houses? Am I right? As the rain clouds over Parnasus?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
H Parnassus? How I miss it?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
The older of my wives is Statira, Darius's daughter. She's
twenty one. The younger is Perisstes. Her father was king
here before Darius. What do you say to that? Uh?
Speaker 8 (22:35):
In wonderful wedding you united two rival branches of an
old ruling Persian family.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
What a pleasure A man who sees the political implications
of what you're doing and doesn't disagree that that Pomonial
he disagreed.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I'm getting too old.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I gave his son, Philips the governorship of one of
the provinces. Do you think I've received any thanks? Just
the reverse? This this pipsqueak Phillips scene. I know he
speaks against me he does more than speak. Is. That's
the real reason I came to see you, For.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You have proof. I have brought it with me this letter.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
I have asked as many of you men as could
fit into this courtyard to join me. And I see
old friends, familiar faces who have marched with me from
the Black Sea to the Kaiber Pass, who shared the
fighting at Gordium and Tire.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Most of you were bachelors. Then does anyone remember the
advice I gave.
Speaker 11 (23:45):
In hand to hand, then take the person with me.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Hah, you remembered trike the enemy.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
In the face.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
A young bachelor does not like to return home with.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Scars on his face.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Well, we were not prayed when the Persian cherriots rolled
down upon us, sharp.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Side lash that we use.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
We stepped aside, let them crash into each other. We
didn't run from Darius's elephants. Whatever had to be faced,
we faced it together. There was an openness, and there
still must be.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
There is room for arguments, even.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Dissatisfaction, for criticism.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
But one fault I will.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Not forgive, and that is treatery. I have here a
letter in Philotis's own handwriting, Governor Philotus, there is a
plot to murder Alexander.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Look to yourselves.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
If any of you know of such a plot, or
know of any of the plotter, then do not come forward.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
You will be judged as guilty as the man who
plans to hold the sword to my heart.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You sent for me, Alexander. Yes, General Parmenio, When did
you ride in Babylon a few moments ago? I rode
through the night, Promenio. You and I have fought side
by side in many battles. We've shared the gold, we
have shared heaven. We susa isesus Persepolis.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You were my right arm I still am? Are you?
Why do you doubt it?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Have you spoken to your son lately? I have not
seen him, and he has always been a poor correspondent.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Of course, now he is a governor.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Let just is here in Babylon.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
He's in prison.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
What has he done?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
He has written this letter.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
It is to a fellow conspirator, Hapulus. Do you recognize
the handwriting? Yes, it is my son's last night. With
the slight encouragement of some red hot coals, he confessed
to a plot against me, which he says was hatched
by you, Pomeny or his father.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Philetus said that.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But why I do not understand the illness my own son.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
It's not true, then, is it, old warrior?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Me?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Plot against you?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I may differ with my king about many things, and
I have been not spoken in my opinions, but a
plot against your life? Never?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I hope that is true. But because if not, you should.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Prepare yourself to follow your son to that lamb from
which no voyager returns.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
There were many executions today we might call this form
of justice a chronicle of horrors. Suspicion, accusation, arrest, trial,
a confession enforced by torture, and finally death. One by one,
those whom Alexander had trusted were betraying him.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
He was thirty two years old.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Were his day's numbers?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Would he live to complete his mission to make one
world dominated by Greek culture?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Us shall return shortly?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
With Act three, he subdued all of Greece, Persia, Egypt,
and finally India. Then, convinced he had marked his men
through the outer limits of the world, Alexander ordered his
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army home. His new favorite general was Conos, who had
risen in the ranks and was genius enough to deal
with India's secret weapon elephants, but the road back overland
and by boat was treacherous. One city, Pilos rebelled and
refused to surrender, and in that battle Alexander was severely wounded.
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He was on the point of death when his new
general rescued him.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Alexander, is that you coyness? Shall I part the curtains
and let in some life?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
And as you're as transparent as these curtains around my.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
Bed, yes, yes, yes, open them.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
There are rumors that I'm dying.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
You've come to see if there's any truth in them?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
How did you get That's exactly why I'm here.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Do the men wish me dead? Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Far from it. They're hoping every day you'll get better.
You're the only one they'll trust to lead them home.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Tell them I have no intention of dying, but I
might remain here in Babylon over the winter. I'm not
as young as I was.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Oh, yes, Asparrow told me you were the ripe old
age of thirty two.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Add a hundred to that and you'll know how I feel.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I had to find out whether you were well enough
to deal with a nasty situation which might even become
a mutiny. If you decide to remain in Babylon all winter,
it just might come to that.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Because we remain in Persia, the army would revolt.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
They don't want to wait any longer. They want to
go home.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
What do I have against Persia?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
There's so much here.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
It's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
You aren't helping your cause. Why is it the moment
you cross its borders, you adopt person dress and manners,
you eat their food there? There are very few Macedonians
who don't resent that.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I wear what I like, and I act as I wish.
I am Alexander the Great and no common What soldier
whom I have elevated, educated and catapulted to power and
made wealthy? He is going to dictate how I should live.
You tell me that a revolt in the making good
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in form Lesander. I wish him to compose a suitable
poem for the biggest banquet Alexander has ever given his army.
I've yet to meet a man who didn't prefer a
feast to a fight.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
General does he think a feast for his soldiers will
change their minds?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
And that I shall write her verse for.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
This happy occasion? Or I might as well, write an
obitual helly, No one.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Would attack Alexander.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
They won't have to. He'll kill himself. No, he's weak.
He hasn't recovered from his wounds at Pylos. That javelin
almost went through him.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
For what else can Alexander do but get up and
face the men.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
He's simply not well enough. Has he any idea it
might be his farewell address.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
At thirty two years? Did death seem close to you?
I know it's dangerous, but it'd be worse if the
men thought they could have their own way. Consider it
is another battle the king does. He knows he must
stand alone at the head of his army.
Speaker 11 (31:27):
Gentlemen, gentlemen, I know the food and wine are satisfactory.
That's whole little of it left. But may I have
your attention? My name is Lyfeander. I have known your king,
our king, since he rode his first horse.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I have the other to pretend to you.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
Your king, your host, the undoubted leader of the century,
our leader, the son of Philip of Macedon. Philip there
was the giant king Alexander.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
The center the handclaff Malatier could begin you. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I can manage without any assistance. I can lean on
my sword. Hail Alexander, and never mind the formalities.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Friends, Persians, Macedonians, countrymen.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
That we have made brothers off our former enemy is true.
The Persians who fought us bitterly are now our friends,
and though we rule their land, we are still their guests.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
I wish she wouldn't emphasize that he means suspect he's
more Persian than the person.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Their leader forthoard and died bravely. We fought and died too.
I heard that. But those of you who survived have
had bounties. You've all profited.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I wish to announce to those veterans.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Who fought beside me throughout the Asian campaign, and there
are ten thousand of.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
You, that you were all free to leave Babylon and.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Return to Macedon. He's trying to get rid.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Of us, don't you see It's part of the plot,
get rid of the Macedonian make Babylon the center of
the world, hold it down.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
I am General Coyness. For those of you at the back,
come yourselves. This is not the way a soldier behaved. General.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Was that Craterus the soldier who spoke.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Us then Yes, bring that man forward, Creatoris front and
center on the double. Yes, I am coming.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Tell me, Creators, what is this about a plot? You
can speak freely. I'd like to know your soldiers from
what I mean is, go on. We see you drift
like a person. You have a private bodyguard made up
of Persians, and you say you want ten thousand of
us out of the way. I know I take my
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life in my hands.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Speaking to my king like this, But they all feel.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
As I do.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Here.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
We have marched in fourth for eleven years, some of us,
but not to be betrayed by our own anything else. Clayton,
I say, if any of us are going to be
sent home.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
We will all leave GUIDs.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
I know it is then for me, But I speak
as an honorable soldier. So if these are the last
words I ever speak on earth, I speak the truth.
That truth. What is the truth that you quite us?
You have all had far more than you deserved, more gold,
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more silver.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Tell me of any wealth I have not shared with you, hardships,
I'm not endured. Anyone who has wounds, go forward, I
show you mine.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I'll match you. Cut for cut.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
No part of my body there's without a scar. But
only in front, never in back.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Of majesty, hiding not Yes, You can't play off.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Every word?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Interesting, isn't it? You have a name that the great
poet Pindo would enjoy rhyming Traitress, which rhymes with traitors.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Gods, seize this traitor, take him to be extra card.
You wish to leave Babylon, So every one of you
tell them at home you deserted your king, who led
you from victory to victory across the world. Tell them
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you left your king in the care of the strange
as he conquered.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I send her? Are you there right for you?
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Or beat Alexander? Trying not to talk? What's happening outside
the palace?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
How many days?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Is again?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Only three days?
Speaker 6 (36:23):
Now?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
You made them feel ashamed.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
So quiet? Have none of them asked for me?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Oh, every one of your men? Have they fear that
what happened at the banquet is hasten joy illness too much, marching,
too many wars? Whereas general coyness we take turns. We
think it best if there's just one of us with
you at the time.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
I have so much to do?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
How can I remain here like a sick dog? How
much long until the physician says, you are healed.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Who polla Daimus? What does he know? Alexander, ha ha,
it is I coin as a. I had Pelademus speak
to the men, and he promised them your quick recovery.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
You see, the traitors are silent.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
The men love you. I wish to see them all
your soldiers. Now, oh, I don't think you should move.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
We will all drink from the same cup, one man
at a time.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Lessander, my cup, Alexander.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Do you know how many men you would be receiving.
Have the servants bring in wine, and then I want
each of my men to enter my chamber one by one,
and we shall each drink from the same cup.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Or your majesty, there are thousand.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I wish there were millions.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Do it now?
Speaker 7 (38:02):
I wait, it's been a long day, uh, but a
happy day for him.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
I've never seen him sleep so peacefully. I don't know
how many thousand men came in here and drank their
allegiance with him from that coup.
Speaker 8 (38:23):
After the first three hours, I stopped counting to put
away even a hundred chips of wine or text the
strongest of men, but he did it, or.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
In the fields he could not drink anyone an entire
phalanx of men. I've seen him, and I see him now,
and I fear his face is so white?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Sebes, Why did I destroy you? What does he mean?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
That was the first city he destroyed? And he has
never forgiven himself?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Are you there? Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Is it? Father?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Alexander? Is i Coinnes? Is your general?
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Bermenial?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
You betrayed me to.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
My own general Promennium?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
No, Alexander, General con is the faithful?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
So many of your standing around my bed?
Speaker 1 (39:31):
No, no, my king, only Lysander and myself. There's no
one else here.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Good Lysander, don't close it where you rate to me
from Homer as you.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Wish to.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
You and I Lysander, like times of old, I die, Lysander, be.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
So much unfinished? Who can continue your work? Who?
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Says? I am your general? Don't you know me?
Speaker 2 (40:06):
I know them all by their first names? Father?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
You taught me that.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Lessander is my boy? Remember these words. I would rather
be tied to the soil as another man's surf than
be king of alms, the dead and destroyed. Very good,
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you remember your Homer very well?
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Did you know General?
Speaker 2 (40:43):
My father was swaying in his bedchamber, and I die
in mine. Neither of us were killed in battle.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
We will come after you, Alexander. There is no one
worthy to stand in your shutters. H ah ah, Alexander,
can you hear me? To whom? Do you leave your empire.
Speaker 6 (41:12):
To the best, to the best, to the best?
Speaker 1 (41:26):
I leave my empire to the best.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Those were the last recorded words of young Alexander the Great?
Did he mean anyone who could take his empire away
would be better than he and therefore the best? But
no one man ever did. There was none who could
match him. That is the end of what we know
of Alexander. Now the legend begins. I shall return shortly.
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Incredible that one man, driven by one idea, could march
armies from Greece to the borders of modern Russia, could
take Persia, India, and Egypt in his stride, found a city.
Speaker 7 (42:16):
In his own name, Alexandria.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Alexander's dream was a world state, sharing the customs and merging.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
The races of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Now, twenty three centuries later, the world is as fragmented
as the remains of Humpty Dumpty. I wonder if all
the pieces of common understanding.
Speaker 6 (42:36):
Can ever be put together again.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
Our cast included Russell Horton, Mandel Kramer, Roy Owens and
Lloyd Batista. The entire production was under the direction of
Hyman Brown.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
He stared at me, and then he walked over to
my bench.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
I have your permission to be seated.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
It's a public park.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
The city owns the bench. You speak Taxima.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Whose what did you call me?
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Taxima? You must have me confused with someone else. Oh no,
that's not my name, for of course it is not.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
It is your title. You are the Taxima.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Well sure they excuse me.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
No, no, no, we have looked for you for so long.
You cannot leave us, and.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
I'm afraid I have to.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
No, no, you will stay.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
You will remain here for with four because you are
the Taxima. Missus E. G.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant
Speaker 7 (44:23):
Fie Fie
Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm e. G. Marshall to celebrate eight seasons of radio's
first theater.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Of the eighties, Your Mystery Theater.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
We have brought you a week of the strangest, most
perplexing story we could find, a legend that demanded to
be dramatized based on the harrowing and haunted life of
Europe's first world ruler, the young and powerful Alexander.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The Great Alexander.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I can go no further the wind, and I saw
it at my throat. You go on desert, you here
in the mountains, Lysander. I need you, You need me.
Unity is what I'm fighting for. I may need you more, Alexander.
Look at me. I'm no use to heal anymore. You've
led our troops through all these mountains. You can't stop now. Unhold, Man,
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worldless makes no difference.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Go on without me, our mystery drama, The Legend of Alexander,
Part five, The Legend Begins, was written especially for the
Mystery Theater by Gerald Keene and stars Russell Horton. It
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is sponsored in part by True.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Value Hardware Stores.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I'll be back shortly with that one.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
He was twenty.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
He ascended the throne he found himself king of a
crumbling empire. The Greek city states fell apart, each going
its own way till they discovered the twenty year old
ruler they had to reckon with was Alexander, the Great
and unholy terror in battle, speed and surprise, his chief weapons,
starting with Greece, then as far north as modern Bucharest,
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crossing the Danube through Serbia, then south in a final
conquest of Persia. Now he knew he was the great,
invincible Alexander.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
He believed it.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
What he did not know was power corrupts, and absolute
power corrupts absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
What did I tell you, General Pomenio, There are none
so clever or so strong that can defeat me. It
will save Alexander that Darius and the Persian army are
no longer a threat to anyone a threat. Persia is
now our slave, Divide and conquer.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
My father taught me that.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It's been the secret of Alexander's strength. Here here I'll
show you. Are there any sticks about what kind of steak?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Plain?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Ordinary wooden sticks, kindling tree branches here in Darius's palace?
Golden silver sticks?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Probably, but not What kind of an answer is that
to your King. You over there, slave, Yes, King Alexander,
I want.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Some wooden sticks, three score at least bring them small
branches twigs, chop down a tree if you have to, Yes,
your majesty, Tell me slave, you've been in the employer
King Darius when he rule this land in.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
The royal court.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I have served here all my life. I observe that
since Darius has escaped our army, it has been your
duty to manage the palace. And you announce each meal
by the ringing of a bell.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It has always been the custom. I know all about that.
But we of Macedon do not eat as.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Your former masters did at such time as it pleases
the cook to prepare food. We eat free times a
day and on time. It is now two hours past sunset,
and I wish my meal.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I wish it.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Now, King Alexander, be assured in the future, I will
not lose track of the time.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Be assured.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
If you do, you will lose track of your head.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Be your majesty.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I go instantly to obey, and don't forget the twigs.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Alexander, Why do you attack that poor man? He cannot
defend himself or all Persians as stupid as he Why
are you so angry? You a monarch, You should not
raise your voice over such trivial matters.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
As meals and twigs.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
It is beneath you I would have passed the word
along permenia.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Are you scolding me?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You may be all of twenty five years old now, Alexander,
but twas I Pamidio put you on your first horse
when you were five, there is something wrong with me.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
My temper is too short?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Why is that?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Why is the mind a mystery to me?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
But victory, as to victory has not brought out the best.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
In you, hasn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I'm building a new world that's not the best in me.
You have succumbed to the war that disfigures power, and
that is arrogance.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
You are not a god, Alexander, And to.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
What do you attribute this evil wart, this boil on
my face? You know your Odyssey, your Homer as well
as any man. Do you know what Achilles meant when
he said he whom the gods would destroy will be
granted his every wish?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
The gods are out to destroy me?
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Is that it?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You are not the Alexander you were. That is all
that I wish to say. Now just some food for thought, ah,
food for the stomach. And where are the sticks I
have for your mate?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
I hope these are long enough or short enough as
your Majesty desires.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Will your Royal.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Excellence be pleased to sit under the gold canopy so
that we can serve you your meal?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
There first, the sticks a pimonnial, come closer. My father's secrets.
Now watch I break one, I'd break another another another.
That is how my father, Philip of Macedon brought each
state to its knees, one.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
At a time.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You see how easily it's done. Now we put all
these twigs together. My purpose is to gather all the
city states of all land together like this, one solid
family of many branches, all speaking the language of homer Escilosophicles,
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forming one great world of nations of the same tongue
and cultures.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Tie them, find.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Them all together as I am doing, and no one,
no one can.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Ever break us apart.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Fly for Manuel, Yes, take this bundle of tweaks, try
to break it. I just have to, Alexander, I understand
your point. They may give, they may bend, but together
they are indivisible and unbeatable. This tree of states cannot
be broken.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Now to food.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Help me up to the throne.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
For man, you you may sit somewhere below me. I've
sat in many thrones.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But never Darius is comfortable. But it won't do. No.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Look at my feet, they don't touch the ground.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Am I so short? King Darius is extremely tall?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yes he is. I can't have this, you slave, yes,
shut it before I'm served?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I need uh.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Do you see that table?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Push it under my feet.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
A little closer.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
That's better.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Now my feet has something to rest on. Place each
dish on a small tray and bring it to me.
You don't you hear me, your majesty, I could not.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
My heart is giving out. What is the matter with you?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Give me a tray with each dish, I'll rest it
across the arms of this throne and eat. I think
it upsets this loyal persion to see you seated on
Darius's throne. It isn't that it's the taper this table
I placed here at which you put your feet in.
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It is the table on which I served my king
Darius his meals. Of course, you understand, don't you. Alexander?
The poor Persian can't bear to see your feet on
the table from which Darius took his meals.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The table has a meaning of the man. To him,
it is a sad omen.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It has a meaning for me as well. Darius's dinner
table is Alexander's foot rest.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
To me, that's a good omen.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
It means that soon Alexander will be trembling all over Darius.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Now the food and.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
No delay, No, no, no, I changed my mind.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I'll have some wine first.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Permennio, join me in drinking to the health of Alexander
the Great and our next victory. Tomorrow we take Persepolis Alida.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Are you in the.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Tenth Yes, I am Pamenio.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yes, I'm half frozen. Join us, Join us, hurry, I'll
close that tent flap. You'll have all our maps blown
to the ground.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Where have you been?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
We thought you'd never get here.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You went on foot. It's the fastest away.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Our horses travel very slowly in deep snow. Many lost
one hundred. Then I stopped counting, Alexander. How much longer
are we going on with this forced march over the mountains.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Until we reach Persepolis.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Here is his main city, his biggest palace. Is there?
Turning into a fierce blizzard, you want us to pitch
camp and road is why are the troops so slow?
Lysander and I have been here for three hours. They're
doing their best, and that use of freezing weather give
them credit, Alexander. Nobody's moving thousands of men across mountains
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by wishing, but it can be done by will. Look
at this, old man, here's the will that Lesander?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Wake up?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
How many oh is here? Help me?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Hell Alessandra, you did good work on the roads.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
I'm sorry engineers couldn't clear it better.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
But as soon as eight bushes snow from the road.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Did you a drift?
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I back?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Did you have any trouble with the mountain tribesmen?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Who? We lost? Many men, Alexander. The troops are exhausted.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Some of them are marching without shoes most most do
not have the right kind of clothing against the cold.
And even if we do get the perceptolists by morn,
what do you mean if there is no if? Pomennio,
you may leave my tent now. Try to understand. No ifs,
no rests, no stopping. I am not resting until Greek
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law and art and life are everywhere everywhere. Your kingdom
is to be everywhere Pomennio. When we are in Persepolis,
and when Darius is found and chained, you and I
will have a long talk about the Empire. I don't
think you understand. The Empire is made up of people,
not one man with one idea. Our civilization is superior
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to all civilizations. And I will march and I will
battle until it is every where, not as a dream,
but as a fact. Lysander, let me see that map again.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
The three of us can.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Decide the quickest route for the army. We'll send supplies
and the siege train this way across here, cavalry that way.
It's not quite as steep. What do you say, Parmenia,
And we'll have the main troops continue straight on as
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they're doing, Lysandra and I will catch up with them.
Get ahead and mark the trail, right, all, right, of majesty,
did you hear that, Momenia? Lysander has two score years
on you. He's older by twenty years. And when I
say shall we go ahead? Does he say I wish
to rest? I'm tired. Lysander's an extraordinary man, and we
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need him. He is the star who guides our ship.
But do not push him too far.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Alexander.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Oh, I'll stop. Stop a moment, ut Co. The newsmen
are still hiad of said, I'm holding you back. I
cannot go any further. Forgive my age, take my hand. No, no, no,
it's usty for me.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
We're closer to the top.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And we thought the wind in the esor is my throat?
You go on? There's the maps are tied to my waist,
and my fingers are turned them.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
To untie them.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Cut the string, take them, pertainly me here desert you
in the mountains. I'd sooner drink him lo. I was right.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Look we are at the top.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Campfires even down the other valley Persian tribesmen. Obviously they
haven't seen our men yet. I take heart, Lysander. I'll
surprise one them. Take a firebrand, bring it back up
here and set fire to the trees behind us. That
at to frighten them off. They'll take a fundable to
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stuck the mountain. Take my cape, Lysander, keep yourself warm
with it. When the trees are blazing, I'll come for you.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
What a strange fusion of temples and talents he was,
this Alexander, only twenty five years old, yet a visionary
who brooke no interference. And yet for all that, still
a humane man who deeply cared for his fellow man.
I shall return shortly with Act two. It stuck in
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Alexander's craw that he couldn't find Darius.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
The third King of Prussia.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Town after town fell to Alexander, but Darius eluded him. Persepolis,
the capital city, was vandalized and burned, Echatana scoured, Yet
no Darius. Taharan, two hundred miles distant, yielded nothing. Then
scouts arrived with hard believable information. Darius had been stopped
by his own cousin, the Prince of Bactria.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Are you sure, Pomenia stop where at the edge of
the Caspian Sea by his own cousin, Prince Bessus. You
must explain it, I cannot. I'd say Bessis had his
eye on Persia, so he arrests Darius to be friendly
to us. Betrayal by your own relatives. It isn't the
first time. How long will it take our men to
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get there?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Two days and the night's march through the desert.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
We'll make that two nights in one day. It'll be
cooler at night, and we can begin. Now, Why exhaust
the men unnecessarily let them rest. Parmenia, Old comrade, haven't
you learned yet? Alexander does not rest. We are not
all Alexander's.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Darius is safe. He is under God.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Doesn't matter which day he has brought before you. He
is our the sooner I see him, the sooner I
can prove to him we are not barbarians.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Why bother he is your enemy?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
What do you have to prove to him that our
cause is honorable, that he and I, the only remaining
monarchs of great kingdoms, have that in common, that we
might rule together. Whas Alexander, you're a young man of contradictions,
I don't deny it. To make this great show of benevolence,
you would hasten your men beyond enduran, Pomenio. You have
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never agreed with anything I've said. You thwart me at
every turn. I shall take the decision to the men.
Let them decide whether we begin our march now or tomorrow.
If we start now tonight, we should arrive tomorrow by nightfall.
Speaker 9 (16:55):
Quote that torch higher, Permenia, Ah, horror of horst there
lying at the bottom of that chariot.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Is that not, Darius? It is Alan Gurzy alive?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
How came he to this? Comn you you arrived here
before I did. I thought you said Prince Basis had
captured Darius, not tortured him.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
His body is a massive wool.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I have taken the Prince into custody. He told me
his men got out of hand when they came upon Darius.
They went persirque with ridge. I want every single murderous
soldier in the Prince's army. I'll show them what rage is.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Oh Darius, Darious, great circe, Look how he bleeds.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Get me some fresh cloths.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Hurry, Darius, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Who are you? I am Alexander of Macedon, Alexander, and
so we need to Will someone fetch me some claw?
Gods Alexander?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yes, great king?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Is it dark?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Or of my eyes? Failing mish? It is dark?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I have lain here since dawn. Is there water, Pimenia,
some water? Quickly, I hear pour it into my helmet. Shah, Darious,
Let me lift your head. Let me tip my helmet slowly.
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I tried rest your head on my arm. Oh now, Pimenie.
I wish a letter to be made so that King
Darius can be carried gently to where he may be
properly attended to. It is too late for that for me.
The combat is over. Great Darius speak not so. I
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have been dishonored by one of my own family.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
He will be punished.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Bassis is a coward. You will die a coward's death.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Take my right hand, Alexander, it is yours.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Ah, He's gone, Alexander. May the great King Darius enjoy
a peaceful passage to the land of Shades.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
As apollow is my witness.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
We shall bury him with all the honors of war. Lysander.
They told me it was you. I couldn't believe it.
How good to see you?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Do?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I look the same? Her face is more aligned, but
otherwise I see very little change.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
What brings you to Babylon?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I heard of the death of Darius? How long is
it since he died?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Or many months? Four?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Or five? The war is over? That you know? Then?
Why don't you return to Macedon. I can't not yet.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
There's too much to do here.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
If I'm to bring out two great nations together, it
would not happen in my absence. You still haven't told me,
dear old teacher, was there some specific reason you came
all this distant. I wanted to see you again, Alexander alive.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
The battles are over.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Why should I die? What could kill me? Treachery?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
What makes you say that?
Speaker 8 (20:37):
I can see by your eyes that thought has been
with you also?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yes, it has been for many months. There are too
many whispers in Babylon that I am too much influenced
by this country and the Persians.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And are you what is their complaint?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
The army is here, most of the men are enjoying
the spoils of victory. Most of them have married Persian women.
To me, they say nothing openly that there are whispers
behind my back. They would rather be home in Macedon than.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Let them go home.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
No one is forcing them to remain in Babylon. If
they don't see the advantage of the mingling of our
two great cultures, then let them go. There were rumors
in Macedon that you had married it in yes, twice
to two women last month.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
There was no rumors. You shall meet them both Lysander.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
And the Macedonians here. How did they take the news?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
How should they take it?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
We had a double feast. Everyone attended. I heard no complaints.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
The city was in a stupa for a week by sender.
If you could have been here, it would have made
it perfect for me.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I missed the old friend.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Why did you marry here?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Political?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
A very wise move, if I say so myself. Now,
General Parmenio he didn't think so, but he's been very
critical lately. I said, I know you'll understand you have
a political background. You marry two women from two ruling
Persian houses? Am I right? As the rain clouds over Parnasus?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
H Parnassus? How I miss it?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
The older of my wives is Statira, Darius's daughter. She's
twenty one. The younger is Perisstes. Her father was king
here before Darius. What do you say to that? Uh?
Speaker 8 (22:35):
In wonderful wedding you united two rival branches of an
old ruling Persian family.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
What a pleasure A man who sees the political implications
of what you're doing and doesn't disagree that that Pomonial
he disagreed.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I'm getting too old.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I gave his son, Philips the governorship of one of
the provinces. Do you think I've received any thanks? Just
the reverse? This this pipsqueak Phillips scene. I know he
speaks against me he does more than speak. Is. That's
the real reason I came to see you, For.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
You have proof. I have brought it with me this letter.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
I have asked as many of you men as could
fit into this courtyard to join me. And I see
old friends, familiar faces who have marched with me from
the Black Sea to the Kaiber Pass, who shared the
fighting at Gordium and Tire.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Most of you were bachelors. Then does anyone remember the
advice I gave.
Speaker 11 (23:45):
In hand to hand, then take the person with me.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Hah, you remembered trike the enemy.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
In the face.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
A young bachelor does not like to return home with.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Scars on his face.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Well, we were not prayed when the Persian cherriots rolled
down upon us, sharp.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Side lash that we use.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
We stepped aside, let them crash into each other. We
didn't run from Darius's elephants. Whatever had to be faced,
we faced it together. There was an openness, and there
still must be.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
There is room for arguments, even.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Dissatisfaction, for criticism.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
But one fault I will.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Not forgive, and that is treatery. I have here a
letter in Philotis's own handwriting, Governor Philotus, there is a
plot to murder Alexander.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Look to yourselves.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
If any of you know of such a plot, or
know of any of the plotter, then do not come forward.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
You will be judged as guilty as the man who
plans to hold the sword to my heart.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You sent for me, Alexander. Yes, General Parmenio, When did
you ride in Babylon a few moments ago? I rode
through the night, Promenio. You and I have fought side
by side in many battles. We've shared the gold, we
have shared heaven. We susa isesus Persepolis.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
You were my right arm I still am? Are you?
Why do you doubt it?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Have you spoken to your son lately? I have not
seen him, and he has always been a poor correspondent.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Of course, now he is a governor.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Let just is here in Babylon.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
He's in prison.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
What has he done?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
He has written this letter.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
It is to a fellow conspirator, Hapulus. Do you recognize
the handwriting? Yes, it is my son's last night. With
the slight encouragement of some red hot coals, he confessed
to a plot against me, which he says was hatched
by you, Pomeny or his father.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Philetus said that.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But why I do not understand the illness my own son.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
It's not true, then, is it, old warrior?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Me?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Plot against you?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I may differ with my king about many things, and
I have been not spoken in my opinions, but a
plot against your life? Never?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I hope that is true. But because if not, you should.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Prepare yourself to follow your son to that lamb from
which no voyager returns.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
There were many executions today we might call this form
of justice a chronicle of horrors. Suspicion, accusation, arrest, trial,
a confession enforced by torture, and finally death. One by one,
those whom Alexander had trusted were betraying him.
Speaker 7 (27:30):
He was thirty two years old.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Were his day's numbers?
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Would he live to complete his mission to make one
world dominated by Greek culture?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Us shall return shortly?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
With Act three, he subdued all of Greece, Persia, Egypt,
and finally India. Then, convinced he had marked his men
through the outer limits of the world, Alexander ordered his
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army home. His new favorite general was Conos, who had
risen in the ranks and was genius enough to deal
with India's secret weapon elephants, but the road back overland
and by boat was treacherous. One city, Pilos rebelled and
refused to surrender, and in that battle Alexander was severely wounded.
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He was on the point of death when his new
general rescued him.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Alexander, is that you coyness? Shall I part the curtains
and let in some life?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
And as you're as transparent as these curtains around my.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
Bed, yes, yes, yes, open them.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
There are rumors that I'm dying.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
You've come to see if there's any truth in them?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
How did you get That's exactly why I'm here.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Do the men wish me dead? Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Far from it. They're hoping every day you'll get better.
You're the only one they'll trust to lead them home.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Tell them I have no intention of dying, but I
might remain here in Babylon over the winter. I'm not
as young as I was.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Oh, yes, Asparrow told me you were the ripe old
age of thirty two.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Add a hundred to that and you'll know how I feel.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I had to find out whether you were well enough
to deal with a nasty situation which might even become
a mutiny. If you decide to remain in Babylon all winter,
it just might come to that.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Because we remain in Persia, the army would revolt.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
They don't want to wait any longer. They want to
go home.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
What do I have against Persia?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
There's so much here.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
It's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
You aren't helping your cause. Why is it the moment
you cross its borders, you adopt person dress and manners,
you eat their food there? There are very few Macedonians
who don't resent that.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I wear what I like, and I act as I wish.
I am Alexander the Great and no common What soldier
whom I have elevated, educated and catapulted to power and
made wealthy? He is going to dictate how I should live.
You tell me that a revolt in the making good
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in form Lesander. I wish him to compose a suitable
poem for the biggest banquet Alexander has ever given his army.
I've yet to meet a man who didn't prefer a
feast to a fight.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
General does he think a feast for his soldiers will
change their minds?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
And that I shall write her verse for.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
This happy occasion? Or I might as well, write an
obitual helly, No one.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Would attack Alexander.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
They won't have to. He'll kill himself. No, he's weak.
He hasn't recovered from his wounds at Pylos. That javelin
almost went through him.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
For what else can Alexander do but get up and
face the men.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
He's simply not well enough. Has he any idea it
might be his farewell address.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
At thirty two years? Did death seem close to you?
I know it's dangerous, but it'd be worse if the
men thought they could have their own way. Consider it
is another battle the king does. He knows he must
stand alone at the head of his army.
Speaker 11 (31:27):
Gentlemen, gentlemen, I know the food and wine are satisfactory.
That's whole little of it left. But may I have
your attention? My name is Lyfeander. I have known your king,
our king, since he rode his first horse.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I have the other to pretend to you.
Speaker 11 (31:51):
Your king, your host, the undoubted leader of the century,
our leader, the son of Philip of Macedon. Philip there
was the giant king Alexander.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
The center the handclaff Malatier could begin you. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I can manage without any assistance. I can lean on
my sword. Hail Alexander, and never mind the formalities.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Friends, Persians, Macedonians, countrymen.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
That we have made brothers off our former enemy is true.
The Persians who fought us bitterly are now our friends,
and though we rule their land, we are still their guests.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
I wish she wouldn't emphasize that he means suspect he's
more Persian than the person.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Their leader forthoard and died bravely. We fought and died too.
I heard that. But those of you who survived have
had bounties. You've all profited.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I wish to announce to those veterans.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Who fought beside me throughout the Asian campaign, and there
are ten thousand of.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
You, that you were all free to leave Babylon and.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Return to Macedon. He's trying to get rid.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Of us, don't you see It's part of the plot,
get rid of the Macedonian make Babylon the center of
the world, hold it down.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
I am General Coyness. For those of you at the back,
come yourselves. This is not the way a soldier behaved. General.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Was that Craterus the soldier who spoke.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Us then Yes, bring that man forward, Creatoris front and
center on the double. Yes, I am coming.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Tell me, Creators, what is this about a plot? You
can speak freely. I'd like to know your soldiers from
what I mean is, go on. We see you drift
like a person. You have a private bodyguard made up
of Persians, and you say you want ten thousand of
us out of the way. I know I take my
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life in my hands.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Speaking to my king like this, But they all feel.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
As I do.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Here.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
We have marched in fourth for eleven years, some of us,
but not to be betrayed by our own anything else. Clayton,
I say, if any of us are going to be
sent home.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
We will all leave GUIDs.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
I know it is then for me, But I speak
as an honorable soldier. So if these are the last
words I ever speak on earth, I speak the truth.
That truth. What is the truth that you quite us?
You have all had far more than you deserved, more gold,
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more silver.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Tell me of any wealth I have not shared with you, hardships,
I'm not endured. Anyone who has wounds, go forward, I
show you mine.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I'll match you. Cut for cut.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
No part of my body there's without a scar. But
only in front, never in back.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Of majesty, hiding not Yes, You can't play off.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Every word?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Interesting, isn't it? You have a name that the great
poet Pindo would enjoy rhyming Traitress, which rhymes with traitors.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Gods, seize this traitor, take him to be extra card.
You wish to leave Babylon, So every one of you
tell them at home you deserted your king, who led
you from victory to victory across the world. Tell them
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you left your king in the care of the strange
as he conquered.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I send her? Are you there right for you?
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Or beat Alexander? Trying not to talk? What's happening outside
the palace?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
How many days?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Is again?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Only three days?
Speaker 6 (36:23):
Now?
Speaker 2 (36:25):
You made them feel ashamed.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
So quiet? Have none of them asked for me?
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Oh, every one of your men? Have they fear that
what happened at the banquet is hasten joy illness too much, marching,
too many wars? Whereas general coyness we take turns. We
think it best if there's just one of us with
you at the time.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
I have so much to do?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
How can I remain here like a sick dog? How
much long until the physician says, you are healed.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Who polla Daimus? What does he know? Alexander, ha ha,
it is I coin as a. I had Pelademus speak
to the men, and he promised them your quick recovery.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
You see, the traitors are silent.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
The men love you. I wish to see them all
your soldiers. Now, oh, I don't think you should move.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
We will all drink from the same cup, one man
at a time.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Lessander, my cup, Alexander.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Do you know how many men you would be receiving.
Have the servants bring in wine, and then I want
each of my men to enter my chamber one by one,
and we shall each drink from the same cup.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Or your majesty, there are thousand.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I wish there were millions.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Do it now?
Speaker 7 (38:02):
I wait, it's been a long day, uh, but a
happy day for him.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
I've never seen him sleep so peacefully. I don't know
how many thousand men came in here and drank their
allegiance with him from that coup.
Speaker 8 (38:23):
After the first three hours, I stopped counting to put
away even a hundred chips of wine or text the
strongest of men, but he did it, or.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
In the fields he could not drink anyone an entire
phalanx of men. I've seen him, and I see him now,
and I fear his face is so white?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Sebes, Why did I destroy you? What does he mean?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
That was the first city he destroyed? And he has
never forgiven himself?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Are you there? Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Is it? Father?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Alexander? Is i Coinnes? Is your general?
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Bermenial?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
You betrayed me to.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
My own general Promennium?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
No, Alexander, General con is the faithful?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
So many of your standing around my bed?
Speaker 1 (39:31):
No, no, my king, only Lysander and myself. There's no
one else here.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Good Lysander, don't close it where you rate to me
from Homer as you.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Wish to.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
You and I Lysander, like times of old, I die, Lysander, be.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
So much unfinished? Who can continue your work? Who?
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Says? I am your general? Don't you know me?
Speaker 2 (40:06):
I know them all by their first names? Father?
Speaker 1 (40:11):
You taught me that.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Lessander is my boy? Remember these words. I would rather
be tied to the soil as another man's surf than
be king of alms, the dead and destroyed. Very good,
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you remember your Homer very well?
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Did you know General?
Speaker 2 (40:43):
My father was swaying in his bedchamber, and I die
in mine. Neither of us were killed in battle.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
We will come after you, Alexander. There is no one
worthy to stand in your shutters. H ah ah, Alexander,
can you hear me? To whom? Do you leave your empire.
Speaker 6 (41:12):
To the best, to the best, to the best?
Speaker 1 (41:26):
I leave my empire to the best.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Those were the last recorded words of young Alexander the Great?
Did he mean anyone who could take his empire away
would be better than he and therefore the best? But
no one man ever did. There was none who could
match him. That is the end of what we know
of Alexander. Now the legend begins. I shall return shortly.
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Incredible that one man, driven by one idea, could march
armies from Greece to the borders of modern Russia, could
take Persia, India, and Egypt in his stride, found a city.
Speaker 7 (42:16):
In his own name, Alexandria.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Alexander's dream was a world state, sharing the customs and merging.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
The races of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Now, twenty three centuries later, the world is as fragmented
as the remains of Humpty Dumpty. I wonder if all
the pieces of common understanding.
Speaker 6 (42:36):
Can ever be put together again.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
Our cast included Russell Horton, Mandel Kramer, Roy Owens and
Lloyd Batista. The entire production was under the direction of
Hyman Brown.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
He stared at me, and then he walked over to
my bench.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
I have your permission to be seated.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
It's a public park.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
The city owns the bench. You speak Taxima.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Whose what did you call me?
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Taxima? You must have me confused with someone else. Oh no,
that's not my name, for of course it is not.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
It is your title. You are the Taxima.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Well sure they excuse me.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
No, no, no, we have looked for you for so long.
You cannot leave us, and.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
I'm afraid I have to.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
No, no, you will stay.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
You will remain here for with four because you are
the Taxima. Missus E. G.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant
Speaker 7 (44:23):
Fie Fie
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