Greece's Culture Minister criticized Netflix's dramatic documentary about Alexander the Great, which “Very poor quality fiction“, any “It is full of historical inaccuracies“It can be read guardian On its columns.
Lina Mendoni's comments came in relation to the movie God's Creation, because
In the series, the producers depicted a romantic relationship between Sandor Nagy and his best friend Hephaestion.
In Greece, an opinion article was published in the newspaper Eleftheros Teposz.From distorting the truth“The series is named after Oliver Stone's 2004 film Alexander in”A publicity campaign was launched about Sandor's homosexuality“.
Dimitris Natziou, head of the Nikkei Orthodox Christian Party “Unfortunate, unacceptable and unhistorical“He called the series and said it was “It aims to convey the idea that homosexuality was acceptable in ancient times, which is unfounded.”.
Regarding the depiction of Alexander and Hephaestion's relationship, Mendoni said:
It is not mentioned in the sources that this friendship exceeds the limits of friendship defined by Aristotle.
When Nazio asked if the government would take action against Netflix, Mendoni said such a move would be unconstitutional. The Greek Constitution has protected freedom of art since the beginning of the nineteenth century.
The Ministry of Culture does not exercise censorship, does not take criminal proceedings or measures leading to prohibition, and does not manipulate, limit or control the dissemination of information and ideas in a preventive or repressive manner.
Mendoni said.
Opening image: Dilara Erem Sancar
