Reviews

We must be grateful to Rutherford for bringing these texts to the attention of a wider audience. The commentaries give a handy synthesis of the scattered secondary literature ... will need to be consulted by everyone working on the Paeans. Journal of Hellenic Studies Pindar's Paeans is the most concentrated investigation (of these papyri) yet undertaken ... Rutherford's book uses first-rate scholarship to deal with difficult fragments in a way that allows broader conclusions (not least about the roles of lyric poetry in Greek culture) to emerge from the patient sifting of details. It is a fine achievement Greece & Rome