Alexander Book Report

Book Review # 2 Response to Oliver rocknrolls horse parsley edited by Paul Cartledge In the deem, Response to Oliver Stones Alexander, a group made up of historians, archaeologist, and film scholars cooperate to try an explain where the movie failed at historical verity and where it hit the mark. In some chapters of the bulk they also approach to explain why the movie failed in the box office. When early(a) movies like Gladiator (2000) and Troy (2004) seemed to have so much(prenominal) success. The list of contributors are Elizabeth D. Carney, John F. Cherry, Monica S. Cyrino, Thomas Harrison, Robin alley Fox, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Joana Paul, Verity Platt, Jeanne Reames, Kim Shahabudin, Marilyn B. Skinner, Jon Solomon, with Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland as editors. The book is tough down into five parts, with parts trio and five having quadruplet essays to them both, and the other three parts totally having two essays each. This layout tin make the book seem a lot womb-to-tomb than it really is, with the end of both essay having nearly three rascals if not more of index notes and another two pages if not more of references. If you are the kind of person who likes reading every index note and reference given to you in a book then this book will be some 427 pages for you.

However, for those readers that are like me and really only care about the meat and potatoes of a book and only glance at a index note or reference page when it is really needed then the book is really only about 330 pages. The first area you come to in the book after you pass the table of contents and acknowledgment page is the introduction. The introduction to the book is given by the two editors of the book Dr. Paul Cartledge and Dr. Fiona Rose Greenland. Dr. Cartledge is a Greek polish prof at Cambridge University, and has writing meaning books on Greek culture and few on Alexander the Great. As for Dr. Greenland she was a historical consultant for Oliver Stone on the movie... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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