Antigenes, burned alive in a pit in 316 BCE

For several years, including the first seven years of the Successor period, Antigenes commanded the world's most elite infantry unit. He was not the biggest name among the Successors, but his unit made him a player not to be taken lightly. This is his story.

[lolwutyoumad]

Last time I was this early, Ptolemy hasn't stolen Alexander's body yet

[pauldirac]

Amazing history about the silver shields! One can just wonder what is the toll of 40+ years of close combat experience.

[imohammed]

They look like a bunch of badass smurfs

[raulpetrascu]

Funny that Phillip, Antigonus and Antigenes, who served together in the Macedonian army, had 3 eyes between them (all injuries incurred in sieges against the Athenians)

[johnnysmall]

weird how antigenes and antigonos both had one eye

[weilandiv]

Silver Shields forgot Phillips rule for baggage trains

[akhon]

Great video as always, altho hasn't Nicanor died from illness earlier in 330, before Philotas has started to be a suspect? It sounds to me like you would imply in the video that Nicanor's post was opened to Antigenes because of execution of suspected conspirators (like if Nicanor was one of the executed).

[crackshack]

Burned alive in a pit? Like christians saying you’ll burn in hell?

[charalamposiliadis]

Maybe he was burned alive because of the war crimes he committed of which we know nothing about?