'a long overdue and most welcome addition to the stock of critical writing on late antique literature ... Gruzelier offers readers a no-nonsense introduction, a well-chosen and independent-minded text, a remarkably user-friendly apparatus, a straightforward translation, and, above all, well over two hundred pages of accurate and helpful notes ... the book is splendidly produced (and meticulously proof-read).'Michael Dewar, University of Calgary, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 4.4 (1993)

'a long overdue and most welcome addition to the stock of critical writing on late antique literature ... Gruzelier offers readers a no-nonsense introduction, a well-chosen and independent-minded text, a remarkably user-friendly apparatus, a straightforward translation, and, above all, well over two hundred pages of accurate and helpful notes ... the book is splendidly produced (and meticulously proof-read).'Michael Dewar, University of Calgary, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 4.4 (1993)

'a long overdue and most welcome addition to the stock of critical writing on late antique literature ... Gruzelier offers readers a no-nonsense introduction, a well-chosen and independent-minded text, a remarkably user-friendly apparatus, a straightforward translation, and, above all, well over two hundred pages of accurate and helpful notes ... the book is splendidly produced (and meticulously proof-read).'Michael Dewar, University of Calgary, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 4.4 (1993)