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Alexander the Actual; Oliver Stone, Letting a Good Story Get in the Way of the Facts? Ancient History! [Correction 11/30/04]
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Settle down, class. Let's open our textbooks, shall we? "History
of the Ancient World," Chapter 6, and review the simply fabulous epic
of Alexander the Great -- conqueror, king, proclaimed a son of Zeus,
and a bit of a boozer, actually. Al loved to partay. But by the horns
of Amon, the man could fight! So let's recall how the trendsetting
teen prince from the backwater of Macedonia rose to conquer the Known
World three centuries before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
Oh, Alexander carved up the vast army of the yellow-bellied Darius
III of Persia, didn't he? Just hacked them into nibbles -- ...
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