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Greek Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2021

Malcolm Heath
Malcolm Heath*
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University of Leeds, UK
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M.F.Heath@leeds.ac.uk
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When I reviewed Daniel Harris-McCoy's text, translation and commentary on Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica (G&R 60 [2013], 318–19), I never dreamed that eight years later I would be reviewing two more books on Artemidorus – or, rather, a co-ordinated pair of them. It would be an uncharitable joke to describe Harris-McCoy's translation as a nightmare: even so, I was not alone among reviewers in judging it unidiomatic and often defective. Martin Hammond's characteristically fluent, lucid, and (importantly) accurate translation is supplied with notes on the Greek text and an outstandingly useful sixty-two-page index; Peter Thonemann contributes an informative introduction and explanatory notes on the content.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , October 2021 , pp. 294 - 300
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association

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