CONINGTON PRIZE, 1999 - AWARDED BY THE FACULTY OF LITERAE HUMANIORES OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY (AUGUST 1999)
Jane Lightfoot is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
A scholar would have to be preternaturally learned to gain little from this book. In subjects as diverse as Greek literary history, Roman elegy, Greek vocabulary and syntax, motifs in story telling, textual criticism and local antiquities - and in other topics too, attentive readers will be amply rewarded. Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review Lightfoot's thorough work of scholarship deserves a warm welcome. Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review The good idea in Lightfoot's huge book is to reunite textual evidence that is usually treated separately, that is, the tantalizing scraps of (predominately) elegiac poetry and the extant prose work, Erotika Pathemata. Classical World A splendid and most welcome tome ... We have a valuable edition of a neglected author, worth attention. Religious Studies Review
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