In this episode, we’ll go beyond the virtuous Spartans and the preeminent Alexander to a figure more like our own conflicted selves–my recurring fictional character, Telamon of Arcadia.
Telamon is the embodiment of the Warrior Archetype … unkillable, supreme in combat … but self-aware, self-questioning, self-tormented.
His ordeal is that he must answer, for himself and by himself, the questions the Spartans and Alexander could not.
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