Rosenberg's account of Arthur disappointingly abbreviated...

Arthur's Knights of the Round Table

It actually really depressed me to read the accounts of King Arthur as presented by Rosenberg because it had to be so abbreviated to fit the purpose of her entire book. As you could probably tell, A LOT of backstories, adventures, and concepts important to understanding, appreciating, and interpreting the adventures and reign of King Arthur were GREATLY cut down or bypassed altogether. If this brief version sparked interest an interest in the knights in shining armor, dragons, and a self-less but nonetheless doomed leader then I highly recommend reading The Once and Future King by T.H. White. I read this 700 page account of King Arthur's life and rule the summer of my sophomore year as a reading assignment for honors english and it is a superb text detailing King Arthur's childhood, love triangle among his wife, best friend and himself, and all of the awesome knightly adventures that fell in between.

Something I did learn from the Rosenberg account however was the famously royal lineage of King Arthur. I found it really interesting that he was a pretty recent descendant of the same Aeneas we just read that began the great Roman race, and that it actually came full circle with Brutus's creation of the British people and King Arthur's conquering of Rome. I always had a sense that the legend of a King Arthur was a myth to some extent, but I hadn't the slightest clue that it was so closely associated with the equally as well-known Greek/Roman mythologies.