Reviews for Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self

The average rating for Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-08-20 00:00:00 Nick Dipasquale For the specialist, strictly speaking (it's a kind of reference book of folktales), but educated general readers with an interest in the area might enjoy dipping into the entries and acquainting themselves with the range of international folktales which have counterparts in ancient literature. The publisher's blurb above well describes the content, and there's not much that I can add, except that as a classicist my eyes have been opened to the extent of the parallels between folktales recorded in the nineteenth/twentieth centuries and tales recorded in antiquity. It really prompts wonder over the durability and universality of these tales. Hansen presents an excellent overview of the study of folktales in his Introduction (origins, trends, important names, problems, current status), and then in the Body of this tome does an admirable job teasing out, tale by tale, the similarities and differences between ancient version and international version, briefly commenting on cultural context together with other points of interest, and providing reference/source data, all of which provide a good basis for further investigation.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-07-08 00:00:00 Craig Root Well researched information about the works of Aristophanes. Throughout reading it I was impressed by the balance of readable and scholarly that MacDowell created.