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To: LindyBill who wrote (87604)11/21/2004 6:02:30 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 793790
 
Oliver Stone portrays Alexander the Great as gay (via Instapundit and Ann Althouse) and whether or not that was the case, it illustrates the potential dangers of learning history according to Hollywood

I don't quite get the fuss. It sounds like Stone has stuck to history this time around. There is not that much we know for sure about Alexander's personal life, but that he was gay is for sure - there is no other explanation for his relationship with Hephaistion, the way he treated him, the way he went crazy with grief with Hephaistion died. For a Greek of Alexander's time, the only abnormal thing about the relationship was that he and Hephaistion were the same age; the pattern of aristocratic homosexuality was a man and a youth some years younger.
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