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Margo, The only Hollywood film made so far was an incredibly bad one in 1958 (I think) with Richard Burton as Alexander. You can see in the forum archive that there are a couple of projects being talked about at the moment, but no other has yet been made. There was a Bollywood film made as well, onc...

Mieza has been identified as being some way south of Aegae, which was on the western side of the gulf (I can't remember what the gulf is called). Pella was on the north-east side of the gulf. I can't remember th distances involved, but Mieza would certainly have been a couple of days' journey from P...

Sorry, to add to this one - I never said that Alexander didn't like the Greeks and Persians, I just said that he was motivated by practical rather than romantic requirements. If he didn't use Greeks and Persians (and any others from the conquered territories - Oxyartes and Porus, for example) then t...

Ah, well, we'll have to agree to disagree <g>. But remember that not all the ancient writers ascribe to the Brotherhood of Man theory anyway and, as you say, one view has no sounder basis than the other.
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Marcus

It would be extremely interesting, Linda. The only reason why I suggest that it wouldn't have been written by Aristotle is that, as we have nothing else that was actually written by him (in his handwriting, that is!). I would expect the book to make more of a song and dance about it (and for the Bri...

That's interesting at the very least. I would suspect that the fragment is post-Alexander. Aristotle didn't actually become famous until later in his life. When he tutored Alexander he was only "the man who didn't get the directorship of the Academy" and he had not, at that time, written a...

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?...