by Maged Atia | Sep 14, 2026 | S01. Alexander The Great
What did Gaugamela feel like from inside Alexander’s charge? Through the eyes of Amyntas, a Companion cavalryman, return to the same battlefield seen through Persian dust and confusion, but this time from beside the man creating it. After refusing a night attack,...
by Maged Atia | Sep 10, 2026 | S01. Alexander The Great
What does a battle look like when you cannot see the battle? Through the eyes of Arbupales, a veteran Persian cavalryman serving among the Great King’s elite, experience Gaugamela from inside the dust, noise, contradictory orders, and confusion of the Persian line....
by Maged Atia | Sep 7, 2026 | S01. Alexander The Great
What was it like to stand between a king and the gods? Through the eyes of a young Persian Magus apprentice, spend a single anxious day in Darius III’s royal camp as his father is unexpectedly summoned before the Great King on the eve of Gaugamela while Alexander is...
by Maged Atia | Sep 3, 2026 | S01. Alexander The Great
What did the lunar eclipse before the Battle of Gaugamela mean to the people who watched it? Through the eyes of a Babylonian temple scholar, witness the night the moon darkened as Darius III gathered the Persian Empire for its decisive confrontation with Alexander...
by Maged Atia | Aug 31, 2026 | S01. Alexander The Great
How did Darius III rebuild the Persian war effort after Issus? Through the eyes of a royal inspector traveling across the Achaemenid Empire, witness the extraordinary mobilization that brought Medes, Armenians, Babylonians, Bactrians, Saka horsemen, eastern troops,...
