Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2011
* The argument of this article was presented at the Classical Association Conference in Liverpool in 2008. I would like to thank Prof. C. Carey for his invaluable advice at all stages of my research on this article, and Dr. S. Colvin for generously looking over a draft. I am also greatly indebted to Prof. M. Heath for his comments and constructive suggestions, and to Dr. D. Rosenbloom for showing me his forthcoming chapter (below n. 18). Last but not least I would like to thank the editors and anonymous reader of the Classical Quarterly for their insightful suggestions, and the audience of the CA for their helpful comments.