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I have to admit to watching the movie and being completely bemused by it. It did have its own interesting moments though, such as a secret romance between Hephaestion and Cleopatra and Alexander’s love interest mimicking Ursula Andress’ legendary emergence from the sea in Dr. No. There is also a fig...

Here’s the author at SUNY -

Classicist Rachel Kousser, author of Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great, at Southern Illinois University - https://news.siu.edu/2025/01/010925-siu ... -great.php

Here’s an article that examines the murder of Perdiccas within the context of the significance of crossing of rivers for ancient Macedonians - https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/karanos.6

Here’s an interesting article about the Battle of the Jaxartes River - https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/ ... dysentery/

A rather biased article about Hephaestion’s conflicts with others - https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php ... 7623/39009

Here’s a link to an interesting article that questions the true motive for Alexander’s mourning for Hephaestion - https://www.athensjournals.gr/reviews/2 ... IS-HIS.pdf

Yes, Sikander. I read the latest installment of Argent Woods’ fictional account of Alexander’s life. While I liked it well enough, there was something about it, a note of underlying poignancy perhaps, that made me uncomfortable. I found the main themes of the three books very interesting. If the fir...

https://studenttheses.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/20.500.12932/46921/Argyropoulos%20(1479601)%20-%20Final%20Thesis%20.pdf?sequence=1 The thesis above has an interesting take on Mary Renault’s famous works “Fire from Heaven and “The Persian Boy.” Alexander, Hephaestion, and Bagoas star prominently in the ...