David Fearn is P. S. Allen Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
The book is interesting...for the questions it asks as well as the possible answers it offers. Barbara Graziosi, London Review of Books ...throughly researched, wide-ranging...an extremely stimulating and thorough reading of some of Bacchylides' poems...and should be consulted by everyone interested not only in archaic Greek poetry, nut also in Athenian performance culture Giambattista D'Alessio Bryn Mawr Classical Review ...the first English-language monograph on Bacchylides in more than twenty years. This book is interesting...for the questions it asks as well as the possible answers it offers. Barbara Graziosi, The London Review of Books