it was 3 hours long
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it was 3 hours long

It was 3 hours long, the movie Alexander I watched last night.

Jay Spears has a nice writing on Alexander the Great.

2,300 years ago men in Greece had wives, mistresses, and lovers of either gender. Alexander's father, Philip of Macedon, had male lovers and also many wives, a problem when half-brothers would fight to the death over the throne. Alexander refused to marry and beget an heir when he left Macedon to conquer the world.

Alexander loved his boyhood friend, Hephaestion. Both brilliant boys, they were tutored by Aristotle, with whom Hephaestion kept up a lifelong correspondence. Alexander and Hephaestion felt like the two heroes Achilles and Patroclus, from The Iliad, which was Alexander's favorite book.

> Alexander official movie website.

> related blog entry, Alexander the Great, Greeks not happy (25 November, 2004).