He was twenty. He ascended the throne. He found himself King of a crumbling empire. The Greek city states fell apart, each going its own way, until they discovered the twenty year old ruler they had to reckon with was Alexander the Great, an unholy terror in battle. Speed and surprise were his chief weapons, starting with Greece, and then as far north as modern Bucharest, crossing the Danube, through Serbia, then south in a final conquest of Persia. Now he knew he was the great, invincible, Alexander, and he believed it. What he didn't know know, was that power corrupts...