Roman History in Chains
Fergus Millar, 19 June 1980
Pompey: A Political Biography
by Robin Seager.
Blackwell, 209 pp., £12, August 1979,0 631 10841 6 Show More
by Robin Seager.
Blackwell, 209 pp., £12, August 1979,
Cicero: the Ascending Years
by Thomas Mitchell.
Yale, 257 pp., £11, September 1979,0 300 02277 8 Show More
by Thomas Mitchell.
Yale, 257 pp., £11, September 1979,
Clio’s Cosmetics: Three Studies in Greco-Roman Literature
by T.P. Wiseman.
Leicester University Press, 209 pp., £13, November 1979,0 7185 1165 4 Show More
by T.P. Wiseman.
Leicester University Press, 209 pp., £13, November 1979,
“... perspectives offered in Balsdon’s book might have done something to supply a justification for Seager’s biography of Pompey. A true biography was out of the question, and such a thing is not clearly feasible for any person before Augustine. But if our evidence comes to a bundle of external impressions, these are, after all, extensive and ... ”
