I always think of the Oliver Stone “Alexander” scene where he finally hits the Hindu Kush mountains and cries because he knows if he won’t find the “end of the

I always think of the Oliver Stone “Alexander” scene where he finally hits the Hindu Kush mountains and cries because he knows if he won’t find the “end of the world”. He quotes Aristotle “you’ll look west and see Macedonia, you’ll look east and see the eastern sea”, and, seeing the Himalayas, instead he realizes the world is much much bigger than Aristotle assumed. If you look at a historical map where it’s thought Alexander stopped, he would have known there -were- more worlds to conquer, but it was nature, not foreign kingdoms, that stopped him.