Status Updates From Into the Land of Bones: Ale...

“The long, harrowing trail from Bactria to Babylon and then to a Balkan grave hardly seems to have rewarded Roxane for sharing a loaf of nuptial bread with Alexander the Great. Our knowledge of important persons such as Roxane suffers from a double deficiency: she was a woman in a patriarchal era, and she was a Bactrian, from the losing side of the war.”

“Alexander now faced the disappointing prospect of fighting another year in Bactria, the most recalcitrant corner of his vast empire. He was learning a hard lesson about the elusiveness of victory in Afghanistan.”

In the "researching ancient history" part of my life- I think they call it a midlife crisis?