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“... prominently Oliver Stone’s 2004 biopic, have focused on his perceived homosexuality, though as Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones reminds us in the catalogue, ‘the queering of Alexander is anachronistic … The ancient Greeks and Macedonians had no word for [gay orientation], and no conception of it.’ The part of the BL’s show that deals with Alexander’s ...”

“... is domestic and cultural and has been the focus of most subsequent scholarship – of which Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones’s King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE is an admirable example. By one of those incomprehensible quirks of academic fashion, some thirty years ago, Llewellyn-Jones reminds us, ‘courts ...”

“... attention in three new accounts: Guy de la Bédoyère’s The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones’s The Cleopatras and Toby Wilkinson’s The Last Dynasty. Bédoyère, the most conventional and conservative of the three (he is surprisingly chary of contemporaneous evidence), likens the story of the Ptolemies to Game of Thrones. By ...”