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,
“... 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. Lovers of lace – and what civilised man is not a lace-lover? – sometimes despond, and sackcloth is generally worn when Classicists congress ... ”
