By Silvia Montiglio
‘This enchanting and punctiliously relaxing e-book is helping us to appreciate how various literary genres care for the doubtless unremarkable and inactive – yet truly deeply nuanced and fascinating – issues that take place whereas the ancients both sleep or combat with wakefulness. Silvia Montiglio has written a masterpiece of literary research which even as discloses a desirable bankruptcy within the background of Greek culture.’
Marco Fantuzzi, Professor of historical Greek Literature, college of Macerata and vacationing Professor of Greek, Columbia collage; writer of Achilles in Love: Intertextual Studies
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