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Interesting. Now I come to think of it, Heath Ledger might not be too bad as Alexander. He's a decent enough actor, I reckon (he was good in The Patriot and managed a diverse enough role in A Knight's Tale) and I would certainly rather see him than Di Caprio as Alexander.
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Marcus

I'm afraid to say I've never heard of Fazene - have I missed a trick somewhere? (so my answer, I suppose, has to be 'no, he didn't'). Alexander's recorded wives were Roxane, Stateira/Barsine and Parysatis. He also kept another Barsine as a mistress. Is Fazene another name for one of these that I hav...

Just to shove a spoke into the wheel, I personally don't think that this 'brotherhood of man' idea was one of his goals, but one that has been assigned to him by later writers. His goals were, first of all, conquest, and secondly (inspired at a later stage) to extend the boundaries of his empire (wh...

Hi Celeste - Your best resource for this is Waldemar Heckel's 'Marshals of Alexander's Empire'. In that he gives potted biographies of all the main players and where possible gives their dates of birth - if I recall correctly, Ptolemy was born around 367, as was Craterus, making them 8-10 years olde...

Sikander, You are right - I sort of meant that, but I obviously didn't communicate it very well. I think your point is best demonstrated by the support Alexander gave his mother when she was 'ousted' by Eurydice - the fact that Olympias was a large enough threat that Philip married Cleopatra to Alex...

Ah, you have got that wrong, I'm afraid. Cleitus the Black was the brother of Alexander's wetnurse. Cleitus saved Alexander's life at the Granicus, by lopping off the arm of a Persian who was about to make the king shorter by a head (literally). Cleitus was later (in 328) to be made satrap of Bactri...

Welcome to the forum. I was delighted when I first found this site as, like you, my family (and friends) tended to fall asleep when I started talking about Alexander. I'm sure you'll find that pretty much everyone here is passionate about Alexander, in one way or another, and you are bound to find s...

I would say yes and no - it is quite likely that Olympias would not have suckled him as a baby (his 'nurse', Lanike, would have been a wet nurse); but it is also pretty clear that Olympias took a deal of interest in his early upbringing at least - hardly surprising, considering that she was one of a...

Good points about Caesar, Nicator - sounds as if you have good train-journey discussions. I just start the crossword then fall asleep! <g> This sort of links with a more recent thread on genes or environment - would geniuses like Caesar have managed what they did had Alexander not been there before?...

Nice to know there wasn't a problem with *mine* - nyah nyah nyah <BG>
Marcus

It's a little dangerous to compare Rome's encounter with Attila with a hypothetical encounter with Alexander, with nearly 800 intervening years. By the time the Huns began their merciless sweep across Western Europe Rome was suffering all sorts of internal turmoil, not least because those Christian ...

There is no evidence for this. It is most likely that Ptolemy started this story when he took over Egypt after Alexander's death - 'proving' such a link to Alexander was designed to give Ptolemy legitimacy in his rule.
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Marcus