Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome
Edited by Daisy Dunn
Apollo, 640pp, £25/$35
The word “anthology” originally meant a collection of flowers; thus a literary anthology is a sort of greatest hits compilation, and springs from the surely eternal desire to reduce a world to a single book. In this case, Daisy Dunn’s collection aims to put into the reader’s hand a hefty but portable volume that will give a panorama of the Classical world. That is in itself quite admirable. Anything that encourages us to expand our knowledge of the ancient Greeks and Romans is to be commended.
