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Alexander The Great

Bataan Christian School
Panilao, Pilar, Bataan

A FILM REVIEW
ON
ALEXANDER

Presented by:
Jedd John A. Castillo
III-Lavoisier

Presented to:
Mrs. Vanessa H. Acuzar

Social Studies III

Date Presented
October 4, 2008

Setting ..  

• Library of Alexandria– Shepperton Studios, London, England
• Pella/Babylon/Indian palaces and myths cave– Pinewood Studios, London, England
• Alexandria (effect back plate)– Malta
• Temple of Pallas Athena, Mieza and Macedonian horse market– Essaouira, Morocco
• Gaugamela– desert near Marrakech, Morocco
• Babylon gates– Marrakech, Morocco
• Bactrian fortress– Lower Atlas Mountains, Morocco
• Hindu Kush (effect back plate)– Himalayas, India
• Macedonian amphitheater– Morocco
• Hyphasis– Mekong, northeastern Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand.

Characters ..

*Alexander - He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle.
*Olympias   - was an Epirote princess, the fourth wife of the king Philip II of Macedon, the mother of Alexander the Great and queen consort of Macedon
*Philip II of Macedon - king   of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336. He was the father of Alexander the Great, Philip III and possibly Ptolemy I, the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt.
*Hephaestion - son of Amyntor, was a Macedonian nobleman and a general in the army of Alexander the Great. He was "... by far the dearest of all the king's friends.
*Darius III - was the last king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia from 336 BC to 330 BC. He was deposed during Alexander the Great's conquest.
*Roxana - was a Bactrian noble and a wife of Alexander the Great.
*Ptolemy I Soter - was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great who became ruler of Egypt
*Aristotle - was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
*Craterus - was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great and one of the Diadochi.
*Parmenion - was a...