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Hi Fiona! I´ve got only a short time so I am just going to add some notes to your post. Regarding ¨The Legacy of Philip¨, certainly Macedon had gone a long way since the times of Alexander I, but it is true that it was not in its best shape when Philip took command. I don´t think Bosworth is trying ...

Hi Fiona! So you want to make something like a book club about Alexander? Well, sounds great to me so please count me in. I read “Conquest and Empire” a long while ago so it would be good to give it a second reading. Actually, I have a big pile of Alexander related books waiting on a corner to be re...

Hi Amyntoros, For what I see on the list you definitely made your homework for this Project! As for other references I just remember a few more at the moment. Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. (XII century, first part published in 1604 and second in 1615). It really has many quick ref...

It is hard to say where the idea of Alexander’s supposed epilepsy came from, though it is possible that it dates back before contemporary times. To begin with, epilepsy is a kind of chronic neurological condition, a nervous disorder, typically associated with the occurrence of involuntary and uncont...

Hi Kenny, There was a trailer of 300 posted a while ago at IMDB and yahoo; here’s a link http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/300.html The film, however, is based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel of the same name, a loosely historical but highly stylized retelling of the Spartan resistance against the Per...

Hi everyone¡ Kenny, I am really sorry for what happened to you, that kind of situations are always awful, and I hope you are recovered by now. It’s a shame that your bike could not get fixed but, thankfully, you could manage to get better, which it’s the important thing. About medicines used in anci...

Hello Dean! I also have memoirs of Hadrian though not reading it right now. The little text you mention is a poem supposedly written by Hadrian himself as he approached his own death. Searching the Internet, many translations have appeared but, not knowing Latin myself I can not tell you how good th...

Hello Everyone, Thanks Marcus and Yauna for the corrections. About Olympias whereabouts during Philip’s murder I wasn’t completely sure; so I checked Bosworth’s Conquest and Empire (unfortunately I don’t have the sources with me right now, just a few books) and it said: ¨(Olympias) Alexander’s mothe...

Hi everyone! Some more inaccuracies to add to the list: Olympias is shown to be in Macedon when Philip is killed, but she was in Epirus at the time. In that particular scene, many other characters that actually were elsewhere are shown present, like Attalus, who was in Asia. Alexander is at the back...

About the Pyrrhus/Neoptolemus name issue, searching through the English and Spanish Wikipedia I gather this info. Apparently, during Achilles time posing as a woman to escape from the Trojan War he assumed the name Pyrrha; so as his son was conceived during this time he adopted the male version of t...

They would need a better script, but these are some suggestions: Did Alexander have anything to do with his fatherGÇÖs death? 1.Sure: He had the means, he had the motive and who was the most beneficiated with PhilipGÇÖs death after all? 2.Only by relationship, his mother planned the murder and, once...

I am not particularly fond of love stories so when heard of a film about the love found and lost of Pocahontas and Smith I was kind of skeptic. I went to a preview of the film in a film festival when I was having time off from college, so I really didnGÇÖt have any review as reference, but I didnGÇÖ...

Sorry for misguiding you about the Gaugamela documentary; for the description you made I assumed it was the one of the Decisive Battles series, but if you say it is not the one you saw then I am clueless about the one you mean. I donGÇÖt have the Military history channel, which I think is quite new,...

Then there was a program from the Metropolis series about Alexandria at the Discovery channel and, on the same network, there was a program about the history of plastic surgery, if you ask what it has to do with Alexander I mention it because there was a reference about how he firstly implemented th...

Hi!I am afraid I canGÇÖt be of much help. Regarding Alexander the Great Myth & Reality documentary DVD and The Real Alexander the Great True Story DVD, IGÇÖm afraid I havenGÇÖt seen them, though the later wasnGÇÖt particularly well rated at Amazon, which is my only reference. In my country WoodG...