Classical Review, 2005, 574-5.
"Aristomenes, the legendary hero of the Second
Messenian War, and the subject of much of Book 4 of Pausanias' Periegesis,
is an intriguing and much-neglected figure. Daniel Ogden's reconstruction
of the ways in which Aristomenes may have been represented across
many centuries of shifting narrative tradition goes a long way towards
compensating for that neglect." Jason König,
Mnemosyne 2008, 696-8.
"
... this work is not only highly interesting, but also provides an
informative and indeed authoritative discussion of one of Greek his
tory's lesser known heroes, whose existence alone sheds much light
on the overall development of myth and legend, with the likelihood
that many such tales devel oped not in the Dark Age or earlier, but
rather in the Classical period" Richard J. Evans, |