Alexander: Deliberate distortions

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Folks,

I was going to rest my hands for a couple of days, but last night's precap was so exasperating that I had to break my own resolution. Kya karein, resolutions to todne ke liye hi hote hain!

I was wrong again, folks. Wrong this time in assuming, as I did in my last post, that the demonization of Alexander that I had been disturbed about, was not going to happen. It is happening, and with a vengeance.

Delphic distortion: Forget for the moment about the alleged cold-blooded mass massacre in Thebes. One could have glossed over that as a piece of prophylactic cruelty by Alexander, who was no Goody Two Shoes in any case, in order to bring the rest of the rebellious Greek city states to heel without any more battles and any more loss of blood, especially Macedonian blood. We will come to Thebes later, and on the authority of none other than the historian Plutarch (section 10.6-11 of his Life of Alexander). Let us now deal with the supposed murder of the High Priestess, or the Pythia, of the Delphic Oracle, by Alexander, which is going to be shown tonight.

It seemed pretty certain from the precap, with all that blood on her neck and his sword, that he had in effect cut her throat. I hope she is not resurrected somehow, thus ruining all my deductions!😆

NB: Incidentally, the script confuses the High Priestess, the Pythia, with the Oracle itself, which was supposed to be the voice of the god Apollo, speaking through her when she was in a trance, seated on a tripod atop a crack in the rock in the Temple of Delphi, through which fumes from the centre of the earth were supposed to emerge. I cringed every time Alexander and Olympia, who would surely have known better, referred to the High Priestess as the Oracle. Moreover, she would never leave the temple, and would definitely not traipse across to Macedonia as she is shown doing here Clearly the research department in the PH is terminally lazy.😡

To revert, this sequence is a distortion of an unbelievable degree. The Delphic Oracle, and thus its High Priestess, were so revered throughout the Hellenic world and even beyond that if Alexander had actually killed the Pythia, his soldiers, convinced that the wrath of the god Apollo would descend on them, would have refused point blank to follow him to Persia, or indeed anywhere else. He would, in effect, have been excommunicated.

Yes, Alexander did visit the Oracle at Delphi before he set out on his campaign against Persia. This was in the winter of 335 BC, in November, to be precise. The Oracle , for unknown reasons, was silent then and would not make prophecies again till February 334 BC. So Alexander, who needed a favourable prophecy to enthuse his 40000 plus troops, found that his demand, request, and even pleading would not work.

Predictably, his famous temper flared up, and he charged into the temple, grabbed the shocked Pythia by her hair, and dragged her to the sacred tripod, insisting on having his prophecy. Plutarch, the historian, narrates that thereupon, as if overcome by his ardour, she exclaimed : "Thou art invincible, my son!"

Phir to kya tha. Alexander ki to chaandi lag gayi. He promptly released her, saying that he desired no further prophecy as he had his answer, came out of the temple and told his anxious troops that the Pythia had said he would be invincible. They were all reassured and perked up, and he then led them on to the conquest of Persia.

Instead of this factual account, the script is now, by all appearances, going to show us Alexander murdering an old woman, that too a universally revered High Priestess of Apollo, because he did not like her prophecy about the need for him to stay out of Bharat!😡

Nor is there is any historical backing for this piece of natakiya rupantar, or "creative" scripting, about Alexander being warned by the Delphic Oracle to stay away from India.

Why then this total fabrication, or to use a current term, fake news? Why, it is just part of the campaign for the deification of Porus, the hallowed Muhafiz, or protector, of Bharat, which is also proceeding apace. And never mind that he ended up, after the battle of the Hydaspes, as a tributary of Alexander.

The Battle of Thebes: This too, as shown, flies in the face of the facts, which have been recorded faithfully by contemporary historians and then by the Roman ones that followed. I can do no better than provide a brief sequence of the events of that campaign. The distortion here is less categoric than in the case of the Delphic Oracle, and lies more in the suppression of the background to the battle and the preliminaries.

After Philip was assassinated in October 336 BC, the young Alexander, then only 20, faced uprisings in the north, from the so-called barbarian tribes there, and in the south from the Greek city states that Philip had conquered but not assimilated. Alexander's advisers, predictably, wanted him to abandon Greece, and to conciliate the barbarians in the north.

But Alexander, who already knew what he had to do, decided on the opposite course, realizing that if he was seen to waver in his resolve, all his enemies would descend on him at once. So he moved first against the northern rebels.

Speed was always his middle name , so to speak, and making a lightning campaign as far as the Danube, he defeated Syrmus, the king of the Triballians, in a great battle . The north was thus secured.

Our script, of course, says not a word about this, not even as a voice over.

Meanwhile, Darius III was sending money to the Greek city states, including Thebes, inciting them to rebel against Alexander. (So clearly he was not in India, trying to gobble up the Paurav Rashtra, and carrying on as if it was the whole of Bharat!😉)

Thebes, earlier defeated by Philip, had been forced to join the League of Corinth under Philip's suzerainty. It was now sullen and ready to rebel, though there was a Macedonian garrison in the fort in Thebes.

So when rumours of Alexander's death in the northern battle reached the Thebans, they declared their independe nce and attacked the Macedonian garrison. But they reckoned without Alexander. He and his army raced south via the pass of Thermopylae, covering 300 miles in 2 weeks, and appeared in front of Thebes, to the utter shock of the Thebans. Athens and Sparta backed off, and Thebes was left to its own devices.

Alexander did not want to destroy Thebes . He offered soft terms, promising to do no harm to anyone else if the two main rebel leaders were handed over to him. The cocky Thebans demanded instead that Alexander surrender two of his generals. Alexander then decided to attack.

Of course our script maintains a dead silence on this vital point. The reason for this omissio is too obvious to need elucidation!

It was not an easy victory, for the Thebans neither gave in nor begged for mercy as shown in the serial. They fought desperately and very large numbers, over 6000, were killed. Alexander punished Thebes severely for the rebellion. The following extract from Plutarch's Life of Alexander, which includes a fascinating anecdote that says much about Alexander, sums up the situation.

(http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Alexander*/3.html#11)

... their city was taken, plundered, and razed to the ground. This was done, in the main, because Alexander expected that the Greeks would be terrified by so great a disaster and cower down in quiet, but apart from this, he also plumed himself on gratifying the complaints of his allies; for the Phocians and Plataeans had denounced the Thebans. So after separating out the priests, all who were guest-friends of the Macedonians, the descendants of Pindar, and those who had voted against the revolt, he sold the rest into slavery, and they proved to be more than thirty thousand; those who had been slain were more than six thousand.

Among the many and grievous calamities which thus possessed the city, some Thracians broke into the house of Timocleia, a woman of high repute and chastity, and while the rest were plundering her property, their leader shamefully violated her, and then asked her if she had gold or silver concealed anywhere. She admitted that she had, and after leading him by himself into the garden and showing him a well, told him that when the city was taken she had with her own hands cast in there her most valuable possessions. Then, as the Thracian was bending over and inspecting the place, she came behind him and pushed him in, cast many stones upon him, and killed him. And when the Thracians led her, with hands bound, to Alexander, she showed by her mien and gait that she was a person of great dignity and lofty spirit, so calmly and fearlessly did she follow her conductors; and when the king asked her who she was, she replied that she was a sister of Theagenes, who drew up the forces which fought Philip in behalf of the liberty of the Greeks, and fell in command at Chaeroneia. Amazed, therefore, at her reply and at what she had done, Alexander bade her depart in freedom with her children...

In later times, moreover, as we are told, the calamity of the Thebans often gave him (Alexander) remorse, and made him milder towards many people...And there was not a Theban of those that survived who afterwards came to him with any request and did not get what he wanted from him.

So much for Alexander and Thebes, which, it turns out, was not a cold-blooded outrage perpetrated on a cowed population, but the outcome of a desperate battle, and intended as a salutary warning to the rest of Greece. It was a warning that worked, for, as Plutarch states, a general assembly of the Greeks was held at the Isthmus of Corinth, where a vote was passed to make an expedition against Persia with Alexander, and he was proclaimed their leader.

Which was when Alexander met the great philosopher Diogenes, but that is another story!

Porus: Samson unchained: I was so shell-shocked by the manner of Porus' escape from the gallows that I was, for once, bereft of words😉. NewtoIF came to my rescue, and I am reproducing below her delightful take on the situation. I hope she will not mind my using it!

All hail the bharatiya Robinhood Anusuya 😃 now she can officially have sedition charges levied at her, which poor shivdutt had to do on the sly upon her doublecrossing Bamni at Takshila😆

And ya, how dare Darius cheat Bamni by providing chains for Puru all the way from Faras but forgot to mention it was originally made in China😳 cheap imitation plastic that Puru shattered them like glass 🤣

This time I have only one question. Porus knows that the desh droh, or high treason for which he has been sentenced to death is the murder attempt on a royal prince, Kanishka, a crime that he has accepted that he committed. Why then is he delivering one bhashan after another criticizing Bamni for not perceiving the treachery of the Persians? The truth of that accusation does not alter the central issue as far as he is concerned.

No, I have one more question. How come the security arrangements are so lax that no one spots the masked archer who is in plain sight all the time? He is still an enigma, for he seems to be both shooting at Porus on one occasion, and killing those attacking Porus at other times.

The puzzle as to how Porus is to be rehabilitated as a non-desh drohi, and instead a true blue certified desh bhakt, is not a puzzle at all. It will be resolved thru some equally ridiculous goings on as his rescue from the scaffold. I for one am not holding my breath!

Please don't forget to hit the Like button if you get thru this one in good shape - my apologies for the length, but some of the historical material is really interesting - and have enjoyed it.

Shyamala Aunty

Aunty, I certainly enjoyed reading your post with all its history and jokey remarks too😆

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Folks,

I was going to rest my hands for a couple of days, but last night's precap was so exasperating that I had to break my own resolution. Kya karein, resolutions to todne ke liye hi hote hain!

Aunty, take care of your hands. why not install a speech software, you speak and it types in computer?

I was wrong again, folks. Wrong this time in assuming, as I did in my last post, that the demonization of Alexander that I had been disturbed about, was not going to happen. It is happening, and with a vengeance.

Delphic distortion: Forget for the moment about the alleged cold-blooded mass massacre in Thebes. One could have glossed over that as a piece of prophylactic cruelty by Alexander, who was no Goody Two Shoes in any case, in order to bring the rest of the rebellious Greek city states to heel without any more battles and any more loss of blood, especially Macedonian blood. We will come to Thebes later, and on the authority of none other than the historian Plutarch (section 10.6-11 of his Life of Alexander). Let us now deal with the supposed murder of the High Priestess, or the Pythia, of the Delphic Oracle, by Alexander, which is going to be shown tonight.

It seemed pretty certain from the precap, with all that blood on her neck and his sword, that he had in effect cut her throat. I hope she is not resurrected somehow, thus ruining all my deductions!😆

NB: Incidentally, the script confuses the High Priestess, the Pythia, with the Oracle itself, which was supposed to be the voice of the god Apollo, speaking through her when she was in a trance, seated on a tripod atop a crack in the rock in the Temple of Delphi, through which fumes from the centre of the earth were supposed to emerge. I cringed every time Alexander and Olympia, who would surely have known better, referred to the High Priestess as the Oracle. Moreover, she would never leave the temple, and would definitely not traipse across to Macedonia as she is shown doing here Clearly the research department in the PH is terminally lazy.😡

To revert, this sequence is a distortion of an unbelievable degree. The Delphic Oracle, and thus its High Priestess, were so revered throughout the Hellenic world and even beyond that if Alexander had actually killed the Pythia, his soldiers, convinced that the wrath of the god Apollo would descend on them, would have refused point blank to follow him to Persia, or indeed anywhere else. He would, in effect, have been excommunicated.

Yes, Alexander did visit t he Oracle at Delphi before he set out on his campaign against Persia. This was in the winter of 335 BC, in November, to be precise. The Oracle was, for unknown reasons, was silent and would not make prophecies again till February 334 BC So Alexander, who needed a favourable prophecy to enthuse his 40000 plus troops, found that his demand, request, and even pleading would not work.

Predictably, his famous temper flared up, and he charged into the temple, grabbed the shocked Pythia by her hair, and dragged her to the sacred tripod, insisting on having his prophecy. Plutarch, the historian, narrates that thereupon, as if overcome by his ardour, she exclaimed : "Thou art invincible, my son!"

Phir to kya tha. Alexander ki to chaandi lag gayi. He promptly released her, saying that he desired no further prophecy as he had his answer, came out of the temple and told his anxious troops that the Pythia had said he would be invincible. They were all reassured and perked up, and he then led them on to the conquest of Persia.

Instead of this factual account, the script is now, by all appearances, going to show us Alexander murdering an old woman, that too a universally revered High Priestess of Apollo, because he did not like her prophecy about the need for him to stay out of Bharat!😡

Nor is there is any historical backing for this piece of natakiya rupantar, or "creative scripting, about Alexander being warned by the Delphic Oracle to stay away from India. But then this is part of the campaign for the deification of Porus, the hallowed Muhafiz, or protector, of Bharat, which is also proceeding apace. And never mind that he ended up, after the battle of the Hydaspes, as a tributary of Alexander.

The Battle of Thebes: This too, as shown, flies in the face of the facts, which have been recorded faithfully by contemporary historians and then by the Roman ones that followed. I can do no better than provide a brief sequence of the events of that campaign. The distortion is less categoric than in the case of the Delphic Oracle, and lies more in the suppression of the background to the battle and the preliminaries.

After Philip was assassinated in October 336 BC, the young Alexander, then only 20, faced uprisings in the north, from the so-called barbarian tribes there, and from the Greek city states that Philip had conquered but not assimilated. Alexander's advisers, predictably, wanted him to abandon Greece, and to conciliate the barbarians in the north.

But Alexander, who already knew what he had to do, decided on the opposite course, realizing that if he was seen to waver in his resolve, all his enemies would descend on him at once. So he moved first against the norther rebels.

Speed was always his middle name , so to speak, and making a lightning campaign as far as the Danube, he defeated Syrmus, the king of the Triballians, in a great battle . The north was thus secured. Our script, of course, says not a word about this, not even as a voice over.

Meanwhile, Darius III was sending money to the Greek city states, including Thebes, inciting them to rebel against Alexander. (So clearly he was not in India, trying to gobble up the Paurav Rashtra, and carrying on as if it was the whole of Bharat!😉)

Thebes, earlier defeated by Philip, had been forced to join the League of Corinth under Philip's suzerainty, was sullen and ready to rebel, though ther was a Macedonian garrison in the fort in Thebes.

So when rumours of Alexander's death in the northern battle reached the Thebans, they declared their independe nce and attacked the Macedonian garrison. But they reckoned without Alexander. He and his army raced south via the pass of Thermopylae, covering 300 miles in 2 weeks, and appeared in front of Thebes, to the utter shock of the Thebans. Athens and Sparta backed off, and Thebes was left to its own devices.

Alexander did not want to destroy Thebes . He offered soft terms, promising to do no harm to anyone else if the two main rebel leaders were handed over to him. The cocky Thebans demanded instead that Alexander surrender two of his generals. Alexander then decided to attack. Of course our script maintains a dead silence on this vital point. The reason for this omission are too obvious to need elucidation!

It was not an easy victory, for the Thebans neither gave in nor begged for mercy as shown in the serial. They fought desperately and very large numbers, over 6000, were killed. Alexander punished Thebes severely for the rebellion. The following extract from Plutarch's Life of Alexander, which includes a fascinating anecdote that says much about Alexander, sums up the situation.

(http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Alexander*/3.html#11)

... their city was taken, plundered, and razed to the ground. This was done, in the main, because Alexander expected that the Greeks would be terrified by so great a disaster and cower down in quiet, but apart from this, he also plumed himself on gratifying the complaints of his allies; for the Phocians and Plataeans had denounced the Thebans. So after separating out the priests, all who were guest-friends of the Macedonians, the descendants of Pindar, and those who had voted against the revolt, he sold the rest into slavery, and they proved to be more than thirty thousand; those who had been slain were more than six thousand.

Among the many and grievous calamities which thus possessed the city, some Thracians broke into the house of Timocleia, a woman of high repute and chastity, and while the rest were plundering her property, their leader shamefully violated her, and then asked her if she had gold or silver concealed anywhere. She admitted that she had, and after leading him by himself into the garden and showing him a well, told him that when the city was taken she had with her own hands cast in there her most valuable possessions. Then, as the Thracian was bending over and inspecting the place, she came behind him and pushed him in, cast many stones upon him, and killed him. And when the Thracians led her, with hands bound, to Alexander, she showed by her mien and gait that she was a person of great dignity and lofty spirit, so calmly and fearlessly did she follow her conductors; and when the king asked her who she was, she replied that she was a sister of Theagenes, who drew up the forces which fought Philip in behalf of the liberty of the Greeks, and fell in command at Chaeroneia. Amazed, therefore, at her reply and at what she had done, Alexander bade her depart in freedom with her children...

In later times, moreover, as we are told, the calamity of the Thebans often gave him (Alexander) remorse, and made him milder towards many people...And there was not a Theban of those that survived who afterwards came to him with any request and did not get what he wanted from him.

So much for Alexander and Thebes, which, it turns out, was not a cold-blooded outrage perpetrated on a cowed population, but the outcome of a desperate battle, and intended as a salutary warning to the rest of Greece. It was a warning that worked, for, as Plutarch states, a general assembly of the Greeks was held at the Isthmus of Corinth, where a vote was passed to make an expedition against Persia with Alexander, and he was proclaimed their leader.

Which was when Alexander met the great philosopher Diogenes, but that is another story!

I have not read much of alexander so cannot comment on these facts. But now i think i will

Porus: Samson unchained: I was so shell-shocked by the manner of Porus' escape from the gallows that I was, for once, bereft of words😉. NewtoIF came to my rescue, and I am reproducing below her delightful take on the situation. I hope she will not mind my using it!

All hail the bharatiya Robinhood Anusuya 😃 now she can officially have sedition charges levied at her, which poor shivdutt had to do on the sly upon her doublecrossing Bamni at Takshila😆

And ya, how dare Darius cheat Bamni by providing chains for Puru all the way from Faras but forgot to mention it was originally made in China😳 cheap imitation plastic that Puru shattered them like glass 🤣

This time I have only one question. Porus knows that the desh droh, or high treason for which he has been sentenced to death is the murder attempt on a royal prince, Kanishka, a crime that he has accepted that he committed. Why then is he delivering one bhashan after another criticizing Bamni for not perceiving the treachery of the Persians? The truth of that accusation does not alter the central issue as far as he is concerned.

No, I have one more question. How come the security arrangements are so lax that no one spots the masked archer who is in plain sight all the time? He is still an enigma, for he seems to be both shooting at Porus on one occasion, and killing those attacking Porus at other times.

The puzzle as to how Porus is to be rehabilitated as a non-desh drohi, and instead a true blue certified desh bhakt, is not a puzzle at all. It will be resolved thru some equally ridiculous goings on as his rescue from the scaffold. I for one am not holding my breath!

Please don't forget to hit the Like button if you get thru this one in good shape - my apologies for the length, but some of the historical material is really interesting - and have enjoyed it.

Here there are varous aspects i would like to point out

1) Anusuya: Anusya was attacked by Hasti who then went to Kanishk room and Puru ran to save him. Cannot anusuya say so in court to bhamini. Porus is lying but whys anusuya so silent? Now by helping Porus run shes become desh droh as per Bhamini???

2) Masked man: I think masked man was sent to kill Porus but he had change of heart and killed soldier. I think hes related to Anusuya or Bhamini or Kanishk sent him to kill Porus. He shall play an impt role in future in Purus life i think to save him

3) Kanishk: I think Kanish is both stuipd and jealous of Puru, so he can do anything. I think Kanish will try to kill puru again in future. OK Puru knifed Kanish so death sentence and whips for Puru, but Kanishk also knife Puru before why no punishment for Kanishk? Mr right King Bhamini

4) Bhamini: I think Bhamini is a foolish king who thinks hes very clever and others dumb. So he never listens to well wisher like anusuya, porus and ripudhaman etc. Thank god Porus was there to save from Darius and later alexander. Imagine alexander invading when Bhamini is king? disaster!!!!

5) Darius: Is a shrewd cunning little chamelon guy fit to be an emperor that he became. But he is not a warrior and thinks others are stupid like Bhamini and kanishik

6) Barsine: Interesting character. I think Barsine loves Porus but cannot say as her dad hates him. When she marries alexander intersting to see what she does when alexander and porus fight. I think she will try to bring peace between them.

7) Hasti: Hasti is a cunning, crooked and good at lying and emotional blackmail guy. Hes dangerous not only for Puru but for Kanishk(because he loves barsine) and bhamini(as he hates him) and anusuya etc. In future he will become close to alexander to defeat Porus in war but when he sees barsine is alexanders wife he may try to kill alexander too may be with slow poision.Hes like a poisonous viper whoever comes in contact with him is in danger.

8) Porus: Porus is an emotional fool, one line sums him up. He loves he loves someone to death even if that person betrays him, hes loyal hes loyal till death like he is to Ripudhaman, hes obedient than obedient till death like he will be to anusuya, ripudaman wife, bhamini thats his character. But that is not a very good quality for a king or minister or army commander to have. When you are king many people die for you in war, to protect you etc you cannot be greatful to all and try to protect their reputation till death. Kings usually take that as granted that all citizens and soldiers must be loyal and give their live to protect king and country when time comes no emotionas involved period. At most they will pay the loayl persons family some compensation. This is what happened in 300 BC, 1500 AD or now in 21st century. Kings life is always more precious than any citizens. In 21st century a President(remember 9/11 attacks Bush was taken to safety not anyone else), a Prime Minister and Chief Minister Life is more precious than anyone else in any country. In army commanders life is more precious than gsoldiers etc. Till Porus accepts this fact he cannot be a good king. When you are king you must be ready to sentence your wife, son, mother anyone to punishment if crime occurs or for good of empire and yourself.

9: Alexander: Alexander is very unidimensionjal in emotions. Before he adored dad Philip and was loyal, then he hated dad Philip and wanted to kill him at any cost, now he wants to conquet at any cost. Hes obsessed with conquering. Such individuals definetly succed a lot in life but they are left unhappy at alast and leave the world unsatisfied in life no matter that they conquer the world. Like alexander he conquered half the world europe, africa, middle east etc whats the use he died at 32 could not enjoy his success. Many successful individual do that they work and work never enjoy life and postpone it for later till its too late. Thats alexander for you. Porus is other extreme end he will work and work only for others happiness and never for himself ever. Only others happiness matters to them at cost of theirs. Finally they also leave world not satisfied in life because they never enjoyed life. Alexander and Porus are two extreme of same coin but both wil leave not satisfied in world actually if they continue with current attitude. There should be a balance of both. That is why most satisfied person is either one who renounced world(saints) or one whose average in life usually. The others all keep chasing big dreams that even after fulfilling never make them happy or another set only lives for family, friends, work etc and never enjoy life for themselves and both live world unhappy.

Shyamala Aunty

Shyamala Aunty, you stole these words from my mouth 😉 I was incensed by both the Thebes portrayal and the Oracle murder preview 😡 This is the problem when you shortcut history,its not a distortion,but truth in itself exists to establish justice, and with half-truths there is only injustice to the cause here(Alexander's intentions and character).
Loved the liquid jade eyes expecting a victory lap from his mother, turning emerald green in suppressed fury Leonardo di Caprio was very passionate about playing the role of Alexander,where he compared himself to a bust of Alexander in a museum,highlighting the similiarities between himself and Alexander as also Alexander was reputed to have blue eyes in one account.

But Plutarch describes it as a melting gaze similar to Rohit's and the serendipity here is not to be missed ⭐️ . While a Persian version describes him with contrasting eye shades,one light and dark, because of which later Zorastrian texts describe the evil spirit against Ahura Mazda,physically as a creature with horns and ram legs(like zeus ammon who Alexander claimed descent of) and with one eye blue and the other brown leading later to the persian designation 'Alexander the accursed' Had to provide anecdote of the day, for you 😆

Again, Bravo on your today's post, I will not add to the account no more today except that Emperor Nero did burn the high priestess of Delphi alive when she screamed at him for being a devil.

More later on the Porus ki phati kahani , busy day at work, hate Friday mornings. 🥱

One correction directed to myviewprem - Alexander did not marry Barsin until 324 BC, about a year prior to his death. He fought Porus in 326-325 BC,which was much much earlier than marrying Barsin and her cousin Parypatis.So Barsin as wife, had no leverage in the battle against Porus.
The portrayal of Barsin in this show is totally hypothetical till now.

Its possible Darius did trade with India, because he rose much later in his own life to the Persian throne, about 2 years before Alexander became king. But showing the shehanshah this way is belittling the Persian empire too much I think 😕

Originally posted by: newtoIF

One correction directed to myviewprem - Alexander did not marry Barsin until 324 BC, about a year prior to his death. He fought Porus in 326-325 BC,which was much much earlier than marrying Barsin and her cousin Parypatis.So Barsin as wife, had no leverage in the battle against Porus.
The portrayal of Barsin in this show is totally hypothetical till now.

Its possible Darius did trade with India, because he rose much later in his own life to the Persian throne, about 2 years before Alexander became king. But showing the shehanshah this way is belittling the Persian empire too much I think 😕

I agree u words 4 actors specially dumboni & dumbporas. Alexander has flaws & distortion in his character but still his side of story & character r far better , Alexander is better written character than Puru of this serial who is actually a insult 2 legend poras. Puru's behaviour with his father was very wrong from d starting , as he was never obedient 2 him . 4 me Puru comes as person who will forgive Hasti when he knew he is traitor as hasti destroyed dasyulok , he will forgave ambhiraj another traitor coz of him his family got split . Bamini is defo a stupid king