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The book presumes in the reader a fairly ample knowledge of the period under review. It seeks to discuss, not to narrate. It is not meant to be what people call 'a good read', though matters more complicated or more peripheral have been consigned to Appendices. The list of works referred to in the notes is not, of course, a full bibliography, which would be vast. There has seemed no point in listing in print all the books and articles in my (old-fashioned) card index.
I am very grateful to various members of the Classics Office who uncomplainingly turned my manuscript into the legibility of the wordprocessor and, above all, to Rachel Chapman, to whom I owe especial thanks and for whom I, like all who deal with her, have the highest regard. I acknowledge too my debt to my wife, who has kept me from 'bestial oblivion'. |
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