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GREEK - S. Colvin A Brief History of Ancient Greek. Pp. xii + 219, ills, map. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. Cased, £60, €72, US$99.95. ISBN: 978-1-4051-4925-9.

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S. Colvin A Brief History of Ancient Greek. Pp. xii + 219, ills, map. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. Cased, £60, €72, US$99.95. ISBN: 978-1-4051-4925-9.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2015

Mark de Kreij
Mark de Kreij*
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The Classical Review , Volume 66 , Issue 1 , April 2016 , pp. 3 - 5
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1 I encountered the following: p. 21, in quote: ‘Lacaedemonians’; p. 29: ‘modern work on the sources on non-Greek elements’; p. 32: ‘3000-1200 or a little later’ in running text but ‘3000-1150’ in the diagram; p. 44, in line 7 of the example: ‘<OIL>’ in the Mycenean transcript and the translation, but ‘OIL’ in the Greek transcription; p. 137: ‘a greater number local dialect features’; p. 143: ‘the Hermes’; p. 154: ‘The earlier surviving comedies contains’.

2 L.R. Palmer, The Greek Language (1980); G.C. Horrocks, Greek: a History of the Language and its Speakers (2010, 2nd ed.); A.-Ph. Christidis, A History of Ancient Greek: from the Beginnings to Late Antiquity (2007); F.R. Adrados, A History of the Greek Language: from its Origins to the Present (2005).