Hellenic Tours

Jonathan Barnes

  • 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, ISBN 0 521 21042 9
  • A History of Greek Literature by Peter Levi
    Viking, 511 pp, £14.95, February 1985, ISBN 0 670 80100 3

Greek, Sir, said he, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.’ So Johnson in 1780. An early editor punctiliously observed that ‘this was said twenty-five or thirty years ago, when lace was very generally worn.’ Two centuries later lace is quite out of fashion.

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