It's the ancients on History Hit.

I'm Tristan Hughes, your host, and in today's podcast, well it's a rough anniversary

podcast because in late May 3-3-4 BC, Alexander the Great fought his first battle of his Persian

campaign.

This was the Battle of the River Granicus, fought in Northwestern Anatolia not too far away

from the Hellesbond, what we now know as the Dardanelles.

Now joining me to talk through the battle narrative, we have got our Alexander the Great

Specialist.

We've got the one, the only Dr Adrian Golds, where the back on the show, he's been on the

podcast once before to talk about Philip and Alexander.

So without further ado, here's Adrian.

Adrian, it's brilliant, have you back on the podcast?

Well, thank you for having me again.

Now no problem whatsoever, we're talking about Alexander the Great once again and

we're focusing on the Battle of the River Granicus because yes, okay, although it doesn't

have the Titanic scale, we sometimes associate with Alexander and his big clashes against

like King DeRyose, but this was a crucial clash right at the start of his campaign.

Yes, it's a battle that mattered because everything could go wrong.

He could lose it all in this one first throw of the dice and he can't win the war if he

wins the battle, but he doesn't lose it and allows him to go to the next stage.

It's in a sense almost Napoleon at Lenin and then Waterloo.

He had to win each one.

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