Frederic Raphael

Some Talk of Alexander: A Journey Through Space and Time in the Greek World is a book by Frederic Raphael.

The title notwithstanding, the essays gathered in this collection are not all on Jewish themes; the title piece alludes to Shelley's pamphlet "The Necessity of Atheism." The author, a Jew of Anglo-American parents and of European experience, is a classicist, a novelist, and a screenwriter whose essays address a wide …