A Companion to Greek Rhetoric

“An editor's job is not an easy one given the quickness of reviewers to criticize Companions if their chapters are uneven in content and style or if the book lacks coherency [sic] because contributors did not discuss their work with each other. The editor usually bears the brunt of criticism, and in many cases rightly so”. I have now reviewed a number of the volumes in the Blackwell Companions series and my general comment is that as a series they maintain a level of consistency, both in approach and in their outcome, that is a credit to the careful planning...