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Hello,

Who is in your opinion the best writer on Alexander? and why? it can be any type of writer.
I guess as far as writing a balanced account showing the good and the bad Peter Green is up there for me as my favorite- although I was well impressed with O Brien's biography too. Well look forward to hearing about your favorite!
I have to claim complete ignorance of Bosworth, Heckel, etc etc. although I am sure that they are extremely well written historical documents.

Best regards,
Dean

I prefer Arrian to all the other sources from whom modern day writers draw their conclusions, but I am convinced that especially Callisthenes would be considered an author of fiction as well as nonfiction if all his works were available. I always love the story of Alexander's threatening to throw some exaggeration overboard a ship when he had read it.

Of modern authors, I like Frank Holt for the moment, as I am reading In the Land of Bones. His insights prove to me that he is very knowledgeable and fair in his appraisal of Alexander, and I also liked Guhy McLean Rogers in his attempt to inspire interest in Alexander to his young readers. I like John O'Brien's book on alcoholism and the effects of wine on Alexander and appreciate his appearance in a recent dvd.

In my own mind, I like my own revelations which are the final sayso for my own opinion, and I consider myself lucky to have discovered them. Whether I will ever translate them into a book so that others can learn of them is yet to be determined. Until then, I am reading everything I can about Alexander and others. I like Frank Holt for taking us beyond Alexander and after Alexander in his book the Land of Bones. I have learned a lot from t him about the succession of men who followed Alexander. That smilie is supposed to be an indication that I enjoy Holt's book.