Macedonian Army Documentary

[DecimusCaesar]

There is a free documentary on the Macedonian army of Alexander the Great being hosted on google videos. It's part of an old documentary shown on the Discovery channel a few years back called 'Ancient Warriors'.

 

Here is the link:

 

Ancient Warriors :The Macedonians

 

The show is rather basic and many Alexanderphiles will be familiar with the material. The program is shown from the perspective of Coenus, one of Alexander's generals as they skim rather quickly over Alexander's wars of conquest. A lot of attention is payed to the Battle of Chaeronea, where Philip's forces defeated the Greeks, but much of Alexander's career is covered quickly - it runs for Approx 25 Minutes.

[Krackalackin]

I just watched it. It ain't worth much. I guess it's worth watching once. It's like every documentary, it's awful unless there's something new in it. The only part worth mentioning is the seige of Tyre. They go over that in a little detail but everything else is vague. And the battle of Chaeronea is innacurate.

[DecimusCaesar]

True, it is extremly vague on Alexander's conquests. It also seems that Alexander's phalanx consisted of 5 men dressed in later Hellenistic arms and armour (Alexander's men would worn Phrygian type helmets and linothorax cuirasses instead of the conical helmets and chainmail armour depicted in the program...although some of the men are dressed accurately).

 

You obviously won't learn anything new from this documentary if you have read up on Alexander. I am sure I saw the'Ancient Warriors' Roman Legionnaire show when it aired years ago. I am convined although I have no evidence to back it up, that the story in this show was told from the point of view of Lucius Vorenus or Titus Pullo (the soldiers in HBO's Rome).