Alexander's turning the Aegean Sea into a Greek lake!

6 seconds sound clip from the Alexander the Great (1956) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:27:42 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- This, Alexander, is the legend of the Gordian knot.

- In many years past, when we were sorely pressed, it was said that a king would arrive in a village cart who would help us and become our ruler.

- This came about. And the king was Gordius, who left his cart here, as it stands, with this message: That anyone who could unravel this knot would become ruler of Asia.

- Many have tried. All have failed.

- Ephesus, Sardis, Helicarnassus. He is cutting off the Persian fleet from every port along the coast of Asia Minor.

- Alexander's turning the Aegean Sea into a Greek lake!

- Alexander, your wound!

- These Greeks, to Macedonia, to till the soil and work in the mines to the end of their days.

- The entire population to be sold into slavery.

- And you, Athenians, you citizens of the capital of the world, you representatives of its culture, you dignitaries, emissaries, whom I find in Persia still conspiring with Darius as you did against my father...

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