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Article: Alexander's new look.(Alexander the Great movie spurs new research)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- November 22, 2004
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Young, beautiful, brave, brilliant, charismatic, chivalrous. What's not to like about Alexander the Great? In just 13 years in the fourth century B.C., he built a vast empire that stretched from the Balkans to the Indus River, encompassing, among other lands, what is now Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of India. And if that feat weren't enough, history also has credited him with bringing Greek learning to the "barbarians" in the East--thus transforming the world's cultural and intellectual landscape.
Next week, a new Oliver Stone film about Alexander debuts, starring Colin Farrell as the great man and ...