Readers of this forum may be interested in the following review:
http://neonostalgia.com/weblog/?p=375
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I found the introduction (not the preface, which is separate) to be rather enlightening on its own. Simply titled “Introduction: Social Forces”, Frank is dead on with his analysis of stray critics, the historically inept, the failures of imagination, and for the most part the history of Rome. His history of Roman literary thought is perceptive, far more than most introductions go, as well as particularly provocative...
I do not have to repeat Norman DeWitt’s characterization of his chapters on “Prose of the Statesmen, Early Historians and Livy, and Cicero’s Contributions [as being] far and away the best treatments of the topics available anywhere.”
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