Hellenic Tours
Jonathan Barnes, 1 August 1985
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature. Vol. I: Greek Literature
edited by P.E. Easterling and B.M.W. Knox.
Cambridge, 936 pp., £47.50, May 1985,0 521 21042 9 Show More
edited by P.E. Easterling and B.M.W. Knox.
Cambridge, 936 pp., £47.50, May 1985,
A History of Greek Literature
by Peter Levi.
Viking, 511 pp., £14.95, February 1985,0 670 80100 3 Show More
by Peter Levi.
Viking, 511 pp., £14.95, February 1985,
“... delicious. Leaves, I agree, are relatively light – but are they ordinarily crisp? Can a poem really be light as a leaf? (I take it that Mr Levi does not intend to hint that Simonides wrote on papyrus.) If poems can be light and crisp, are these really musical (as well as botanical) terms? And what – to ignore the rhetorical embroidery – does it ... ”