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Title: Worthless
Review: I bought this book when it first came out, chiefly because it was published by my favorite publisher, Oxford U.P. I was stunned by how worthless the book is. I could have written it 50 years ago as a high school sophomore. But even then I wouldn't have been silly enough as to interrupt an account of the political troubles of the late Republic with the explanation that Brute in "Et tu, Brute?" is in the vocative case. Is this history? Shakespearean criticism? Linguistics?The chief lesson I learned from this book is to beware of Oxford U.P. I have bought hundreds, maybe thousands, of books published by OUP. I have been saddened to see Oxford lower its standards on paper and binding. The Oxford Latin Dictionary is one of the few books I've bought lately from OUP that is actually stitched. And now this book (along with Following Hadrian, another mistake) raises the question of substantive standards at OUP. Caveat emptor.
