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Greek Culture Minister deems Netflix’s Alexander the Great as ‘low quality fiction’

A Netflix series about Alexander the Great is “fiction of extremely poor quality, lowly content and full of historical inaccuracies,” Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said on Wednesday.

A Netflix series about Alexander the Great is “fiction of extremely poor quality, lowly content and full of historical inaccuracies,” Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said on Wednesday. The series “The Making of a God” stirred controversy in Greece as it touched upon a sensitive topic, as it featured a homosexual relationship between Alexander the Great and Hephaestion. “None of the elements of Alexander the Great’s personality are showcased in the show, which does not serve historical truth,” Mendoni said, while speaking to parliament, responding to a question by the leader of the religious nationalist party Niki, Dimitris Natsios, who asked whether the government plans to take measures against the production.

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