I dedicate this book to my students, past, present and future, and to all those like them throughout the world, who, often in face of the ignorant obloquy of their peers (and sometimes of the ignorant obstruction of schools, education authorities and governments) have chosen to study the world of antiquity.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Dedication
Alan H. Sommerstein, Aeschylean Tragedy, 2nd ed. (2010; rpt. London: Bloomsbury, 2013), p. ix: