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Evening Phoebus - or should I say 'morning. Are you in the habit of simply picking out lines from differing contributors’ posts to pick bones with? I had to have a read to see if you were actually addressing me or using lines I’d written simply to make a point to Karen. Nothing of the sort, I assur...

Well, that's good news. While the fire was going on, all the Media in Hellas were reporting the opposite--that it was personnel employed by the museum using emergency equipment permanently located there that were responsible for stifling the fire.

Whatever Alexander's desires were regarding his tomb, cremation, etc., they ended up being irrelevant. The Successors argued and fought over his body, and possession of it was almost certainly a mark of succession or rank of sorts--at least initially. Absolutely it should be found. Aside from the an...

I just left Hellas after visiting my family there. The sad fact of the matter is that the modern Hellas is still a very young nation with a lot of problems. Part of those problems include ineffective, polarized government, widespread corruption, and gross inefficiency. I don't believe this was organ...

I actually disagree with you in that I think Stone could have made a point of the recruiting/training of the epigonai ... some shots of young Persians in Makedonian-style armour, practicing the same sarissa techniques as we saw used earlier in the Gaugamela scene, while one of the old guard guys lo...

Indeed, Alexander's "prayer" for brotherhood, democracy for the oikoumene all over, et al is ahistorical. Then again, he did have his own aims and plans that do fulfill some of the above in a darker sense. "Brotherhood" via common military service, population transplanting and e...

The Greek contingents (let alone foreign) were so unreliable Alexander only ever used them in a supporting role, ... I'm not sure that this is necessarily fair... The (unreliable) elements you speak of are mostly confined to the hostage-like hoplites Alexander received from the various Hellenic pol...

Hello, Sometime viewer, first time poster here. :) Where this version of the movie is concerned, I liked it best simply because of my background as a former art major: my differences with Stone's style aside, I have always respected his eye for the visual, and I believe that the latest cut is superi...