Film Inaccuracies of Ancient History

There seem to be many issues with Alexander, most of which do not even pertain to the historical aspects of the film but just the general development of it. However, we are focussing more specifically on the historical aspects of the film that did not exactly meet the true history of Alexander the Great. Some examples include Roxane's portrayal in the film  as a sexually frustrated woman when in fact she was said to be quite passive likely to have been a very good wife and mother who often played the role of the woman without complaint. Another slight detail overlooked by Stone in the making of this film was the incorporation of the famous Lighthouse in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy. However, this is not the case. It seems the lighthouse was created by Ptolemy's successor Philadelphos. There are other smaller issues such as the landscape of the battle between Alexander and Porus being a jungle as oppose to the historically accurate flat banks of the Hydaspes river, but it seems that little of the known facts about alexander were portrayed with true historical accuracy.

Ruins of the Macedonian Royal Palace at Pella

Potential design of the palace based on the ruins

There are some positive aspects. Many of the buildings in the film were surprisingly accurate and in some ways paying very close attention to detail, more so than needed. It seems that the sets of Babylon are very precise to those of historical accounts and they reflect clearly that the designers had done their research well. Though little is known of the interior of the Macedonian Royal Palace, through the aid of the ruins of the structure, the designers were able to build a well guessed version of the palace.

Another movie wrought with historical inaccuracies is the movie 300. Much of the movie was just ridiculously inaccurate including Leonidas' belief that he could defeat an army of 100,000 with his 300 men. However, more importantly, we look at the warriors' battle gear. It seems the filmmakers wished for the Spartans to battle quite lightly as they had no chest-plate and only had on a helmet, cape, shield, greaves and weapons. Clearly, no true warrior would be that senseless to take on a battle with no armour.

Finally, Tomb Raider's The Cradle of Life is another highly fictional archeological / historical movie based in Santorini, Greece (at least for the part we are looking at). The scene is the opening scene of the movie where an earthquake strikes. This is highly inaccurate in that Santorini did not have earthquakes at that time and surely none that could cause a whole temple to emerge from underwater. More importantly, it would be impossible to dive in Greek waters and most definitely illegal to take anything from them if diving were even the case. However, it seems that that would not make a very interesting story so the show must go on.
The temple is another factor to be looked at. A temple of that shape could not be built by Alexander the Great as it was unlikely that he would use anything but the classic Doric column shape. This makes the idea of Alexander the Great having built such a temple impossible. This is something more like to be the case: