Christopher P. Jones is George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics and of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University.
Jones has produced a superlative edition. Loebs are hard to get
right. A good Loeb should (if we are honest) be easily usable as a
clandestine crib for the (lazy, hurried, or linguistically
challenged) reader who wants to translate the Greek with an eye on
the English; at the same time, it should meet exacting standards of
scholarship. Jones's is accessible and erudite. His discussion of
how he has established his text is fuller and clearer than most,
and allows the non-specialist to take some pleasure in the
detective work involved in the process; in tracing, for example,
Richard Bentley's marginalia preserved in his copy of a previous
edition. The text is judicious and the translation stylishly
capture's the sophist's rhetorical range. It is based on, but
betters, Christopher Jones's abridged translation for Penguin
Classics, published in 1970. It is a good read in its own right: no
mean feat. Excellent introductory material and maps help chart
Apollonius's imaginary journey. He may no longer be worshipped
(except in the wackier corners of cyberspace), but nonetheless we
can rightly say: Apollonius Lives!
*Times Literary Supplement*
This new Loeb edition of Apollonius...fulfills admirably the aims
of this series...The introduction, as one would expect from Jones,
touches upon all the important features of this rich text and
reflects great familiarity with the scholarship in all fields--from
history and literature to philosophy and theology--which have been
concerned with it.
*Classical Bulletin*
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