LAST VOTING CHANCE BOOK TOP 10

[nickw]

Hi Comapanions ---Thanks for the feedback on the Forum and especially by email. Great. For all of you who didn't yet: here is your chance to contribute to Alexander's Christmas Book Top-10.The rules. Your favorite book get 3 points. Your runner up gets 2. Any other book you mention gets 1 point. And all books already in the Top 10 get 1 point for starters (not that that makes a difference anyway).Please contribute your votes. What are you favorite Alexander books? The new Alexander Top 10 will be decided on next Saturday the 24th of December.Regards ---Nick

[jan]

Hi Nick, I like John O'Brien's The Invisible Enemy with all its allusions to the Iliad. I like Arthur Weigall but he is preWWII, and is not a contemporary. I respect and like NGL Hammond's The Genius of Alexander. I also like Robin Lane Fox's latest version, the one with Colin Farrell as the marker on the book shelf. I disagree with Robin on much but I like it that he has so much information about the Persians. Most overlook that. And I like Guy MacLean Roger's book as it is very intelligently and thoughtfully written to explain why it is that we should care about Alexander at all.

[jan]

Hi Nick, I like John O'Brien's The Invisible Enemy with all its allusions to the Iliad. I like Arthur Weigall but he is preWWII, and is not a contemporary. I respect and like NGL Hammond's The Genius of Alexander. I also like Robin Lane Fox's latest version, the one with Colin Farrell as the marker on the book shelf. I disagree with Robin on much but I like it that he has so much information about the Persians. Most overlook that. And I like Guy MacLean Roger's book as it is very intelligently and thoughtfully written to explain why it is that we should care about Alexander at all.

[Paralus]

G'day Nick."Alexander of Macedon" Peter Green (no surprises there I guess). Still the best historical biography I've read."Alexander The Great" Paul Cartledge in a near photo finish.Robin Lane Fox for third for much the same reason as Janet as well as a bslance to the above. He does though travel a little too close to the "brotherhood of man" for my liking. Just on the Persians, a new book "Persian Fire" by Tom Holland does a mighty good job of backgrounding the Persians - even though at the time of the "Persian Wars".Paralus.

[Paralus]

G'day Nick."Alexander of Macedon" Peter Green (no surprises there I guess). Still the best historical biography I've read."Alexander The Great" Paul Cartledge in a near photo finish.Robin Lane Fox for third for much the same reason as Janet as well as a bslance to the above. He does though travel a little too close to the "brotherhood of man" for my liking. Just on the Persians, a new book "Persian Fire" by Tom Holland does a mighty good job of backgrounding the Persians - even though at the time of the "Persian Wars".Paralus.

[typhoeus]

I have only read one book by a lady named mary Renault, and I thought that was a fabulous book. Since then I have watched the latest movie on Alexander countless times and continuoulsly rewind the disc so I can clearly hear every word that is spoken. A facinating history, isn't it!Sorry I can't contribute much more.

[typhoeus]

I have only read one book by a lady named mary Renault, and I thought that was a fabulous book. Since then I have watched the latest movie on Alexander countless times and continuoulsly rewind the disc so I can clearly hear every word that is spoken. A facinating history, isn't it!Sorry I can't contribute much more.

[typhoeus]

Oh yeah! thanks to kennyx's post on Burtons movie on Alexander in a post below has inspired me to get a hiold of this movie also - may be a lot to learn from that movie also.

[typhoeus]

Oh yeah! thanks to kennyx's post on Burtons movie on Alexander in a post below has inspired me to get a hiold of this movie also - may be a lot to learn from that movie also.

[jan]

Thanks for reminding me about Peter Green's book, as I have not yet read it in full, but I do recall that I used it to read all about the battle of Issus early in my learning of Alexander. I will still try to read it when I get the time. Right now, I am reading xenophon's cyropaedia and love it! It is about Cyrus the Great, and is fascinating as Xenophon is a great writer. His having Cyrus cry Oh Zeus all the time amuses me, as I think that like most authors, he is applying Greek to Persians in his thinking. I am sure that Cyrus would have said something else, whether Zoraster or Ahuramazda is more than I know yet.

[jan]

Thanks for reminding me about Peter Green's book, as I have not yet read it in full, but I do recall that I used it to read all about the battle of Issus early in my learning of Alexander. I will still try to read it when I get the time. Right now, I am reading xenophon's cyropaedia and love it! It is about Cyrus the Great, and is fascinating as Xenophon is a great writer. His having Cyrus cry Oh Zeus all the time amuses me, as I think that like most authors, he is applying Greek to Persians in his thinking. I am sure that Cyrus would have said something else, whether Zoraster or Ahuramazda is more than I know yet.

[kenny]

1 Generalship of Alexander2/Alexander killer of men3 Lane Fox

[kenny]

1 Generalship of Alexander2/Alexander killer of men3 Lane Fox