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Basing himself on various clues, Paolo Moreno assumes that the great Pompeian mosaic depicts Gaugamela and not Issus,and analyzes the scene as a faithful representation of the battle. The shadows indicate an angle of the rays of the sun with the ground of about 45-¦, which in early October and at th...

I'm quoting from Amazon.com:"Oliver Stone's director's cut of Alexander is unusual in that it's actually shorter than the theatrical version (167 minutes to 175). That's apparent early, as 15 minutes of footage--largely political manipulations and such--have been removed from the first hour of ...

Please, Karen, to which version did you refer when you wrote: "The director's cut is coherent, and that coherence seems to require the 45 minutes that were hacked out for the theatrical version. In the director's cut I actually saw what Stone was trying to do with the storyline -- not jump arou...

Hi, everybody! If I had to make a bet, IGÇÖd say the anecdote was a CiceroGÇÖs invention, which gave him the opportunity of moralizing with a bit of irony. His target, in my opinion, were the Alexander imitators who were upsetting the Roman republic, Caesar in the first place, who (in 52-51 b.C., wh...

Hmmm... I am not certain Caesar would have won agaist the Parthians... Maybe it is because I associate Alexander's most creative solutions with his youth, and Caesar was old (for those times, at least). Napoleon said that a commander has 10-12 years in his whole life in which he gives his finest per...

Greetings.ItGÇÖs correct to say that the weak point of the Persian army, both at Issus and at Gaugamela, was its dependance from the kingGÇÖs conduct and the lack of initiative on the satrapsGÇÖ part; however it took an Alexander to get within a few metres from the enemy king, who was defended by a ...

Dear Marcus, Since I cite Paolo MorenoGÇÖs books quite often, this time I rely on on Amyntoros authority. On June 15 Amyntoros wrote in this forum: "There's Apelles: The Alexander Mosaic by Paolo Moreno, published by Skira Editore, Milan, 2001. It's a 9-1/2 by 11-1/2 book with over twenty full-...

Eureka! It is Aulus Gellius, the Attic Nights, IX. I found this information in "Alexandre le Grand" by Roger Caratini (Hachette, Paris 1999). All the best Azara

Dear Marcus, I have a faint recollection of having read that quote in Droysen's "Alexander the Great", which I read when I was fifteen and was developing a big crush on Alexander. That book has gone who knows where; I could look for it in a library, hoping I remember right and (more import...

Alexander is famous because he contributed powerfully to build the world we live in, or, better, some of the worlds we live in and that are beginning to be more and more interconnected. With him history exploded and new worlds were born. Alexandria of Egypt had the first public library in the world,...

Well, Cassander may have played a part, and the Aristotelic philosophers did their best to discredit the king after his death, and probably Cleitarchos gathered accounts of epic drinking parties, that took place late at night in the royal pavilion, made by people who were not thereGǪAll that said, ...

In fact I knew that fresco as an allegory of Macedonia and Asia; I didn't know it had been interpreted as a portrait of Alexander IV with his mother, and frankly I am a bit surprised. I thought those two figures were obviously women. About the "ephebe d'Agde", Moreno thinks the statue was ...

Dear Amanda, unfortunately there is no image of Roxane, because a famous painting of her marriage with Alexander, made by Aetion, got lost and we have only the description of it made by Lucian of Samosata. Here you'll find more complete information about that: http://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexander/a...

Hi, Alexander. The title of the book is : Paolo Moreno: Alessandro Magno - Immagini come Storia -Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Roma 2004, pagg. 537, ill. 601 Here is the publisherGÇÖs website with an image of the book: http://www.librconcipzs.com/PagineD/Catalogo.asp?ID=30600 Would you like me t...

I don't think the boy looks much older than the age at which Alexander IV was killed: the musculature is still immature, and so are the bones and muscles of the face.I have some other, and larger, pictures that I'll send you by email; there is also a marble head pratically identical to the statue, a...