Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece

Like all the best reference works, this is a very diverting book: I have had to tear myself away from browsing and following cross‐references through, otherwise this review would have been seriously delayed. The book's one serious lack is a full introduction; a rather brief preface fails to tell us who the publishers see as the target audience, but it does reveal its origins in Graham Speake's (2000) (RR 2001/190) earlier encyclopedia covering Greece from earliest times to the present day. “This new version results from the realisation that there is also a place for a shorter work covering the...