| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

Europe: Ancient and Medieval

A. B. Bosworth and E. J. Baynham, editors. Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. viii, 370. $60.00.

This impressive volume of essays collects the papers of a conference held in Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1997. For a variety of reasons, not all papers delivered at the conference are included in this volume, which features two essays by one of the editors, A. B. Bosworth, the leading scholar in the field. The first of these ("A Tale of Two Empires: Hernán Cortés and Alexander the Great") is perhaps the most refreshing study in the entire book. Furthermore, Bosworth contributes an introduction that could easily serve as a review of the book, at least as far as providing the reader with an overview of the published contributions is concerned. But the task of reviewing this volume, has fallen to me, and, despite the fact that the editor's second essay sets out to dismantle my arguments concerning the historical context and purpose of the Last Days and Testament of Alexander, it is one in which I take great pleasure. Simply put, this is an important and original book—not all collections of conference proceedings have fared so well—that must be owned and read by every serious Alexander scholar. Editors Bosworth and E. J. Baynham, the contributors, even the editorial assistants are either leading researchers in the field or rising stars; the topics range from the political through the philosophical (ideological) and historiographic. Bosworth's comparison of Cortés and Alexander (and, indeed, of their historiographical traditions) picks up where the author's Alexander and the East: The Tragedy of Triumph (1996) leaves off and points out fruitful new avenues of approach for subsequent scholarship. . . .

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