Alexander wanted to and succeeded in conquering the Persian Empire, the greatest empire that the West had known to date.

Hannibal wanted to defeat Rome, which he saw as a threat to his own country of Carthage, he failed, but in doing so he had some very glorious moments.

And finally there was Julius Caesar, who first conquered Gaul and became the leading man in the Roman Empire.

No one had ever had as much power as he did

for one brief moment before it all can crash it down.

One of the things that occurs to me is these greatest stories of...

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Barris-Trouse, such a pleasure to have you on the show.

We sat down at a table next to each other here at Arc.

I said, what do you do?

You said, I'm a historian of ancient civilizations and military historian and I was like we have to get you on the show right now

Come on over we dragged you in here. That's why we're here. We cannot wait one of your books particularly really peaked our interest which is about the great leaders of antiquity

Yeah, Alexander the great Caesar Hannibal etc. Let's get into it sure what What were the themes that sort of bound those people together?

Was the common threads that run through their histories, their lives,

and you know, why are they such significant people in the history of the world?

Yeah, I mean they were all three of them were immensely ambitious and wanted nothing

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