At both Issus and Gaugamela, Alexander reportedly attempted in person to kill or to capture Darius; on both occasions, as narrated by pro-Alexander sources, Darius recognized that intention, and chose ...

Dye's grueling regimen bore fruit in "Alexander's" re-enactment of the Battle of Gaugamela. The epic contest took place in Iraq near what is now Fallujah, where 47,000 Macedonian soldiers defeated ...

Was much of Alexander's success a function of his father's smarts? Newsletters Games Share a News Tip. ... but only well after the final decisive pitched land battle of Gaugamela in 331). ...

The Alexander Mosaic, often hailed as “the most important mosaic of the Roman age,” depicts the Macedonian army’s victory at ...

Like a rich, fruity wine, Oliver Stone's "Alexander" just keeps on getting better with age. Two years after his director's cut, Stone has been given an unprecedented third pass at the movie that's ...

Filmmaker Oliver Stone's personal passion for 'Alexander' never translates onto the screen in a frustratingly conventional epic. Great expectation - Los Angeles Times ...

From the Mediterranean, Alexander advanced east into Mesopotamia and engaged Darius’s replenished troops on the plain of Gaugamela in 331 B.C. Once again, Alexander demonstrated that a small ...

Her story begins in 330 B.C. just before the assassination of the Persian king Darius III, whom Alexander defeated at the Battle of Gaugamela the previous year, and concludes with Alexander’s ...

A Nov. 22 Style article about the movie "Alexander" incorrectly suggested that the time frame of the film was circa 312 B.C. A more accurate period would have been a date in Alexander's lifetime ...