In a revision of his 2008 doctoral dissertation at the University of Edinburgh, Maciver (Greek, U. of Leeds) looks at the Imperial Greek hexameter poem by fourth-century writer Quintus of Smyrna as a
PROFESSOR E. KERR BORTHWICK (1925–2008) studied Classics at Aberdeen University and at Christ’s College Cambridge before being appointed Lecturer, first at the University of Leeds and then, in 1955, a
Although Greek historians were fundamental in the enterprise of preserving the memory of great deeds in antiquity, they were not alone in their interest in the past. The Greeks themselves, quite apart
