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Weird New England by Joseph A. Citro6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I find the interpretative perspective somewhat old-fashioned, but all the essays are thoughtful and well informed, and anyone who wishes to begin a serious study of H. asks good questions and demonstrates good sense in tackling them, his analyses are thorough and often persuasive, and his grasping of the complexities of H.’s text is beyond any doubt. does not argue his positions anew, nor discuss new arguments, although sometimes he takes the opportunity to change his views and to respond to his critics. The essays have been only lightly edited, but all of them have been updated with a short reflection about the impact of the original publication, and provided with endnotes adding afterthoughts and selective (often too selective) references to more recent bibliography. E.’s contribution to Herodotean scholarship goes back a long way (the first study was published in 1955) and this collection is a testament to a lifelong commitment to understanding Herodotus. In this book Evans (hereafter E.) brings together 28 articles on Herodotus (hereafter H.), the last being the only new one. ![]()
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