Heraclitus: Homeric Problems

Reviews / Votes

'How I wish that this book had been available twenty years ago when I began investigating Homeric influence on early Christian narratives! We who have labored with previous editions of Heraclitus's Homeric Problems can attest that his Greek is difficult, his commentary often elliptical and technical, and the sheer bulk of scholarly attention to Homer and Stoicism daunting. It has taken the collaboration of two internationally recognized authorities to offer this slim but important vade mecum edition, with a useful introduction, the Greek text with philological notes, an en face English translation with notes for citations and brief commentary, a select bibliography, and two indexes: "Nominum et Rerum" and "Locorum."'
Dennis Macdonald, Review of Biblical Literature, 2006.
'Donald Russell and David Konstan, world-renowned experts in ancient rhetoric, literary theory, philosophy, and later Greek prose, have put us all in their debt by providing what is, on balance, the best Greek text of the treatise that is currently available, a lively and sensitive translation into clear but elegant English, a basic apparatus of textual and explanatory notes, a wide-ranging and up-to-date introduction, and a helpful introductory bibliography. The volume will be of enormous help to students (and their teachers) of classics, comparative literature, biblical studies, and many other fields.'
Glenn W. Most, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and The University of Chicago.
'Russell and Konstan have produced a wonderful translation of a work that contains something of interest for every classicist and makes an excellent introduction to the important themes it takes in: Homeric criticism, allegorical exegesis, the ongoing "battle" between rhetoric and philosophy, to name only the most obvious and important. Konstan's introduction sets the reader up with an admirably clear discussion of the intellectual background of the work and gives a convincing account of its author, who emerges as an important witness to the confluence of literary, rhetorical, and philosophical thought in the intellectual ambience of the early Roman Empire.'
George Boys-Stones, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Durham.