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 Taïs

Role added by alessandrocalabrese on March 18, 2020

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Taïs was an athenian courtesan that accompanied the armies of Alexander. She was not a common prostitute, but an high trained and well educated woman (this kind of courtesan were called "hetairai"), and was chaperone of Ptolemy. While Alexander was in Persepolis, a fire burned down the royal palace. Diodorus suggests that Tais persuaded the drunken generals to burn the palace to avenge the destruction of Athens by Xerxes in 480 BC.