Well hello there Mod Hip.
From your review (on your site)…
I still wonder why Stone chose not to include such things as Alexander's private studies under Aristotle or his first battle under Philip (which he ran from), but I did ask about it when he offered to field some questions posed via MySpace and I'm now awaiting a response, considering he finds the question worthy of an answer.
I too would be much interested in any answer you might receive. I wonder who, though, might have run from which battle? The text as you’ve written would indicate Alexander ran from his first battle under Philip – the battle of Chaeronea in 338.
Would that be after “he was first to break the ranks of the Sacred Band” as Plutarch puts it? If indeed he did scarper from the field, I'd be forced to agree that he "ran" as I have taken the position, in this forum, that he was likely on foot at this battle.
There were, as I recall, scenes of Aristotle’s teaching the young Alexander and his companions in both cuts. They dealt with the nature of love between men, the Persian Empire and the Barbarians that inhabit it and the fact that if Alexander ever reached Ocean, he could sail back down the Nile I think.
I’m yet to see the latest re-cut of the director’s cut of the original cut. If it flops overseas, we here in the antipodes may not ever see it!
Paralus
Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους;
Wicked men, you sin against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander.
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