Fan CastingAlexandros

by Alessandro Calabrese

Story added by alessandrocalabrese on March 18, 2020

The story of Alexander the great (at least in two movies) told step by step and on a 360° view. Alexander was only 20 when inherited the throne of Macedon. Two years later he started a campaign against the mighty Persian Empire, conquering it in less than 10 years, without a single defeat in battle. He died in mysterious circumstances at the age of 32 in Babylon. Probably the best option is to divide the film in three chapters: one about his childhood and the relationship with his parents, one about the events leading to Gaugamela, one about the campaigns in the eastern part of the empire until his death.read more

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Fan Casting Olympias

Role added by alessandrocalabrese on March 18, 2020

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Description of Olympias:

Olympias, wife of Philip and mother of Alexander, was part of the Molossian royal family of Epyrus, a kingdom in western Greece, south of the border with modern-day Albania. Her family claimed to be descendants of Achilles. Olympias was a religious woman, devoted to Dionysus and initiated to orphic mysteries (involving the cult of snakes). Those kind of cults were not approved by many Macedonian nobles, and she started to have a complex and harsh relationship also with his husband. She was convinced that Zeus himself impregnated her. She was probably behind the assassination of Philip. She died in 317 BC after struggling for power in Macedonia with Cassander.