Instructors
Trying Neaira would make a valuable addition to courses on Greek history, Greek law, women's studies, and European social history. For desk copies or examination copies contact Yale University Press.
Daniel P. Tompkins (Director, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University) recommends the book:
"I've meant to report that I used this book in my Age of Pericles class this spring. It went over magnificently and I recommend it. Unfortunately there's no paperback version yet [there now is a paperback], but students found it to be engagingly written and well-produced. It is horrible to think how a bad scholar might have handled the stories of Neaira's various relationships: Trying Neaira treats them elegantly and informatively, keeping our interest. Hamel is particularly good at using argumentation and inference to unpack events that don't get fully explained in the sources or that Neaira's foe Apollolodorus has misrepresented. Highly recommended." (In a note to the Classical Latin and Greek Discussion Group.)
Trying Neaira would make a valuable addition to courses on Greek history, Greek law, women's studies, and European social history. For desk copies or examination copies contact Yale University Press.
Daniel P. Tompkins (Director, Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University) recommends the book:
"I've meant to report that I used this book in my Age of Pericles class this spring. It went over magnificently and I recommend it. Unfortunately there's no paperback version yet [there now is a paperback], but students found it to be engagingly written and well-produced. It is horrible to think how a bad scholar might have handled the stories of Neaira's various relationships: Trying Neaira treats them elegantly and informatively, keeping our interest. Hamel is particularly good at using argumentation and inference to unpack events that don't get fully explained in the sources or that Neaira's foe Apollolodorus has misrepresented. Highly recommended." (In a note to the Classical Latin and Greek Discussion Group.)
