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Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son ... - Historia Antigua

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304 NOTES TO PAGES 225–228<br />

15. The effectiveness of this technique for a contemporary American<br />

audience is astutely analyzed, with specifi c reference to <strong>the</strong> New Age<br />

spirituality of Gladiator, by Cyrino 2005: 252–54.<br />

16. Nisbet 2008: 130–33 mischievously deconstructs <strong>the</strong> Alex<strong>and</strong>ercrush<br />

of Lane Fox 2004.<br />

17. Spencer 2002.<br />

18. On subtext in Ben-Hur see <strong>the</strong> very entertaining account by Vidal<br />

1993, perhaps self-mythologizing just a little.<br />

19. On how heterosexual panic conditions popular reception of <strong>the</strong><br />

peplum, see Nisbet 2008: 35–38, 60–64; on 300 playing to subtext,<br />

140–41.<br />

20. Alex<strong>and</strong>er is claimed as a gay role model at, e.g., http://www.<br />

gayheroes.com. On <strong>the</strong> gay-friendly posturing of rival fi lm projects <strong>and</strong><br />

consequent interventions of Greek-ethnic interest groups in <strong>the</strong> modern<br />

Alex<strong>and</strong>er debate, see Nisbet 2008: 117–25 <strong>and</strong> 137–8. Alex<strong>and</strong>er as a<br />

Christian paradigm in medieval reception: Stoneman 2008: 199–216.<br />

21. Lane Fox 2004: 5.

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