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forward slash trips. It's the ancients on history hit. I'm Tristan Hughes, your host, and in today's

episode, well we are talking about a very familiar figure on the ancients.

King Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great.

He is in the spotlight once again because there is a brand new Netflix docudrama all about him and his extraordinary life.

Now in the past we've certainly explored various parts of Alexander's story in detail from his sex life to his murders

to several of his battles, but we've never actually done an episode talking through his epic story, an overview of how he rose to the

kingship, conquered the Persian Empire, and became one of the most well-known names

in history. We've never done that until now.

Because a few months back I was invited onto a fellow history hit podcast,

Dan Snow's history hit, you might have heard of it,

for the titanic task of summarizing Alexander's whole life story in 60 minutes.

Today we're re-releasing that episode here on The Ancients for you.

I really do hope you enjoy and here's the story of

Alexander the Great. Tristan Hughes. Good to have you on the podcast buddy.

Thanks Dan. It's a pleasure to be here.

Well, you know, the Tristan engine is firing all cylinders

award-nominated massive million listener podcast it's awesome buddy and I'm going

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