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That link is 4 years old, but Warner Bros appear to have released a trailer here It certainly looks sumptuous! Interesting that the trailer says "Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt". I wonder whether they specified the 'Ptolemaic' to try to head off the criticism (of which there has ...

It is a real film, although the trailer posted is a complete AI fake.

There have been issues, however, and I don't know if it is really going to come out in 2025.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55409187

Just to be contrarian ... is there any reason why it might not be a copy of Alexander from the hunting group dedicated by Craterus at Delphi (Plutarch, Alexander 40.1-4)?

Alex Rowson wrote "The Young Alexander", which I read a couple of months ago and found rather good (and better than I feared it might be).

Good article from him, too!

One of the arguments for Ptolemy of Alorus being an Argead is the fact that any regent tended to be a born Argead, rather than simply being married to one. I'd be happy to accept this, tentatively, as we don't really know enough to say that for sure: previous regents might have been born Argeads, bu...

That sounds very reasonable.

The only issue I have is that you have missed out the fact that Philotas (until 330) was in overall command of the Companion Cavalry, and after Philotas' death the command was divided between Hephaestion and Cleitus (before it all went to pot in 328).

Nick Secunda, The Army of Alexander the Great , Osprey, 1984 The regiment was divided into eight squadrons, the first being the Royal Squadron ( basilike ile ) which was the vangard ( agema ) squadron of the regiment and the held the position of honour in the battle line. This indicates that the ter...

I have a question: what is the difference between the ile basilike (Royal Squadron) and the agema (Royal Bodyguard)? I have yet to find anything that has fully answered this question! I have always worked on the basis that they *were* the same - there was also, I think, an agema of hypaspists . If ...

Then again, he might have chanced it using his marriage to Amyntas' daughter, Eurynoe, as legitimisation ... Very true, but he seems to have been important enough for his son (a Pausanias?) to be included in the 30 hostages sent to Thebes. There again, this would have been Philip's cousin and grand...

It seems as if Ptolemy of Alorus may have been the son of Amyntas II. Amyntas II (reigned c 394-3 BC) may have been the grandson of Alexander I - father Philip or Menelaus, sons of Amyntas II. Alexander I (the Philhellene) was the son of Amyntas I. This would make Ptolemy the great-great-grandson o...

It's a very good book. I like that it is so thorough!

The burn of Chugg in the introduction is so withering, it's worth the purchase price of the book in itself ...

... and, interestingly, so was Ptolemy of Alorus. I'm not sure that's a definite, though, is it? Re. Satyrus on Arsinoe: Theophilus of Antioch, 2.7 But Satyrus, also giving a history of the Alexandrine families, beginning from Philopator, who was also named Ptolemy, gives out that Bacchus was his p...

It looks hilarious. I've only dropped in to a couple of episodes, but ... well, yeah, OK.

I've found another candidate for the Amphipolis tomb - Aristonus son of Peisaeus, apparently brought up in Pella and Somatophylax/Bodyguard to Alexander, and possibly Philip. He may be identical with the Aristophanes who removed Alexander's sword during the quarrel with Cleitus. Aristonous was also...

I've always found it difficult to believe that the tomb could be that of Hephaestion - not least because he died in Ecbatana, before even considering the fact that he was cremated. Ditto. This monument can't have been completed before Alexander died, and then who would have bothered to complete it?...