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[first lines] Old Ptolemy:
Our world is gone now. Smashed by the wars. Now I am the keeper of his body, embalmed here in the Egyptian ways. I followed him as Pharaoh, and have now ruled 40 years. I am the victor. But what does it all mean when there is not one left to remember - the great cavalry charge at Gaugamela, or the mountains of the Hindu Kush when we crossed a 100,000-man army into India? He was a god, Cadmos. Or as close as anything I've ever seen
Our world is gone now. Smashed by the wars. Now I am the keeper of his body, embalmed here in the Egyptian ways. I followed him as Pharaoh, and have now ruled 40 years. I am the victor. But what does it all mean when there is not one left to remember - the great cavalry charge at Gaugamela, or the mountains of the Hindu Kush when we crossed a 100,000-man army into India? He was a god, Cadmos. Or as close as anything I've ever seen
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I followed him as Pharaoh and have now ruled 40 years
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I have two sons each jealous of the other's power
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But they will grow to make fine fathers and husbands
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And I trust they'll be just in their affairs
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But they have never seen
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the great cavalry charge of Gaugamela
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or the mountains of the Hindu Kush
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when we crossed the 100 000 men army into India
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He was a god Cadmos
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or as close as anything I've ever known
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Movie Summary
Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest army leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.
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Old Ptolemy
Aristotle
