Mosse: "Alexander: Destiny and Myth"

[rjones2818]

I just finished reading this last night. I'm pretty sure that this is the best overview of Alexander that I've read from a modern scholar. If I were to suggest a beginning text (other than the 5 'primary' sources), this would be the one.Has anyone else read this and what are your thoughts on it?Rex A. Jones
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[marcus]

Hi Rex,Yes, I read Mosse a year or so ago, and very much enjoyed it. I'm not sure I consider it the best recent overview, but it was certainly amongst the best. Her chapter on the Roman Alexander was excellent.ATBMarcus

[beausefaless]

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[Paralus]

G'day RexI'm three parts of the way through as I type. One of five underway at present (an inveterate reader).It's quite a good "drawing together" of the views of Alexander that we currently have. I think she strays a little to the idealised Alexander once or twice too often, but so far so good.Her purpose seems not analysis of the material and evidence, but the of the various "pictures" we have of Alexander.One thing though, if I see another "something we will come back to" or "a subject we will return to later" I do think I may put it on a shelf for some considerable time. There must have been half a dozen in the first chapter!Paralus

[rjones2818]

Michael,She does do that quite often, but she does go on to cover the points later. I noticed it while I was reading, but forgave it since the points were covered.Rex

[Paralus]

G'day RexIts on the shelf. She's done it three times in one small chapter. It's really becoming irritating - in the way that a buzz in the hi-fi from "dirty" power irritates. Almost like a pixilating LCD screen: I'm waiting for it, picking when next it will....Arghhhh!Paralus