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Review title: Caveat emptor
Product review: Ferguson's research is impressive and the work certainly provides information on the period. That said, in truth what we have here is another Bible Dictionary, albeit one that casts a very wide net. However, the buyer should not order the book with the thought of reading it from cover to cover. A good read it is not; most dictionaries are not. As a study, the reader had been better served were the author to have developed the material suggested by the book's title. What we have tends more toward pastiche, a dictionary of sorts in which "Greek Entertainment" appears before "Greek Athletics." I pity the student who has to read this as a required text.
