I was delighted to find I actually already own a digital copy of Naiden, Ancient Supplication (OUP 2006). For a second I thought I might have to walk over to the library and risk fresh air and exercise.
I love this highlighted sentence (p.50). As a historiographer, I’m always concerned with how we can actually measure and document the degree of authorial intervention or cultural influence. Here we have a nice tidy example by a scholar more interested in the details than the presentation, that indeed Diodorus and Dionysius both recreate Roman rituals along the lines of cultural practices from their own backgrounds!
Liv Mariah Yarrow 