Bonkers about Boys
James Davidson: Alexander the Great, 1 November 2001
Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction
edited by A.B. Bosworth and E.J. Baynham.
Oxford, 370 pp., £35, September 2000,0 19 815287 6 Show More
edited by A.B. Bosworth and E.J. Baynham.
Oxford, 370 pp., £35, September 2000,
“... again, what happened to Alexander, what happened at Court. Unfortunately, the facts come, in A.B. Bosworth’s words, from ‘derivative writings from the Roman period which draw upon the lost histories of Alexander’. These derivative writings are carefully ranked. In first position is Arrian, clear, sober and self-assured, who wrote in the reign of ... ”
