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Title: less than zero
Review: I'm not unacquainted with 'the Roman sources,' and I can say only that (a) this book is absolutely shot through with wild assertions that, as far as I know, have no basis in Classical texts -- I can often recognize the textual KERNEL for a given baroque description, but, typically, little of the latter is actually stated in the former -- and (b) I'd be flabbergasted if much of the overplus came from anything more authoritative than somebody's overheated imagination.
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