Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland -- Part 1. Stone's Alexander -- Oliver Stone's Alexander and the Cinematic Epic Tradition / Joanna Paul -- The Popular Reception of Alexander / Jon Solomon -- Part 2. Precursors of Alexander -- Alexander on Stage: A Critical Appraisal of Rattigan's Adventure Story / Robin Lane Fox -- The Appearance of History: Robert Rossen's Alexander the Great / Kim Shahabudin -- Part 3. Alexander's Intimates: Sexuality and Gender -- Alexander and Ancient Greek Sexuality: Some Theoretical Considerations / Marilyn B. Skinner -- Olympias and Oliver: Sex, Sexual Stereotyping, and Women in Oliver Stone's Alexander / Elizabeth D. Carney -- Fortune Favors the Blond: Colin Farrell in Alexander / Monica Silveira Cyrino -- The Cult of Hephaestion / Jeanne Reames -- Part 4. Alexander's Dream: Macedonians and Foreigners -- Oliver Stone, Alexander, and the Unity of Mankind / Thomas Harrison -- "Help me, Aphrodite!" Depicting the Royal Women of Persia in Alexander / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- Part 5. Ways of Viewing Alexander -- Viewing the Past: Cinematic Exegesis in the Caverns of Macedon / Verity Platt -- Blockbuster! Museum Responses to Alexander the Great / John F. Cherry -- Afterword / Oliver Stone -- Contributors -- Index.