“And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you— it's born with us the day that we are born.” —Homer, The Iliad Part One: The Flames of Ephesus and the Unseen Destiny The night Alexander was born, fire devoured one of the greatest wonders of the ancient world. In Ephesus, the Temple of Artemis had stood for centuries, its marble pillars towering like the bones