Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, Roel Konijnendijk and I discuss the army and tactics of Alexander the Great.
My upcoming tour will follow Alexander's path across Turkey: truebluetour.wetravel.com/i/688f1c9224c0d63d24bdeb3d
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @scenicroutestothepast
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:31 Sources
5:51 The Macedonian Phalanx
12:58 Human and economic resources
15:55 Philip II's planned invasion
18:44 Alexander's army
23:20 The Persian military
28:07 The Homeric ethos
33:28 Siege warfare
36:11 Pitched battles
43:27 What Darius did wrong
49:03 Alexander in central Asia
53:25 Elephants
55:35 If Alexander had lived
In this episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, Roel Konijnendijk and I discuss the army and tactics of Alexander the Great.
My upcoming tour will follow Alexander's path across Turkey: truebluetour.wetravel.com/i/688f1c9224c0d63d24bdeb3d
Check out my other channels, @toldinstone and @scenicroutestothepast
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:31 Sources
5:51 The Macedonian Phalanx
12:58 Human and economic resources
15:55 Philip II's planned invasion
18:44 Alexander's army
23:20 The Persian military
28:07 The Homeric ethos
33:28 Siege warfare
36:11 Pitched battles
43:27 What Darius did wrong
49:03 Alexander in central Asia
53:25 Elephants
55:35 If Alexander had lived
![[ASMR] Separating two Roman coins stuck together for 1,700 years](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VpAeHy9Xou0/mqdefault.jpg "[ASMR] Separating two Roman coins stuck together for 1,700 years
In a lot of uncleaned coins, I received these two small bronzes (AE3) of Constantius II, which had apparently been stuck together since antiquity. In this video, I separate them with a scalpel blade and clean off some of the dirt encrusting their surfaces.
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