Watched Lord of Asia, the second of the four-part BBC documentary In The Footsteps of Alexander The Great. In attempting to separate facts from myth, the documentary takes us on a 20,000-mile journey but shows us only contemporary scenes. There are no "flashbacks", dramatizations, special artworks, and other speculations.

Interesting to watch Middle Eastern storytellers; they have a craft of their won. In Iran, there is an equivalent of the Odyssey in which Alexander is one of the characters.

This episode marks the final fall of the Persian King Darius, who is mentioned in the books of the Old Testament as the great one, the great leader, and the savior--but whom ignorant Christians mistakenly think is a reference to a Messiah. An exotic tomb of the prophet Daniel is shown here. It is said that Daniel foresaw the coming of Alexander, writing about him as "a demon with disheveled hair".

Darius was killed because he was deemed no longer "fit to wear the crown", i.e., a person who was no longer an effective warrior. Thank God that standard no longer applies. Or does it?