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Volume 62

Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Appraisals

to Current Evaluations

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Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Vol. 62
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COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CMLC, VOLUME 62, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Beaumont, Daniel. From Slave of Desire: Sex, Love, and Death in The 1001 Nights. Associated University Presses, 2002. Copyright 2002 by Associated University Presses. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Benediktson, D. Thomas. From Power, Literature, and Visual Arts in Ancient Greece and Rome. University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Copyright 2000 by University of Oklahoma Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Bowersock, G. W. From Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, 1969. Copyright 1969 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.—Conybeare, F. C. From The Life of Apollonius of Tyana: The Epistles of Appollonius and the Treatise of Eusebius. Harvard University Press, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission Harvard University Press.—Flinterman, Jaap-Jan. From Power, Paideia, & Pythagoreanism: Greek Identity, Conceptions of the Relationship between Philosophers and Monarchs and Political Ideas in Philostratus’s Life of Apollonius. J. C. Gieben, 1995. Copyright 1995 by J. J. Flinterman. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Francis, James A. From Subversive Virtue: Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Pagan World. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Copyright 1995 by The Pennsylvania State University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Ghazoul, Ferial J. From Nocturnal Poetics: The Arabian Nights in Comparative Context. The American University in Cairo Press, 1996. Copyright 1996 by The American University in Cairo Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Jones, C. P. From “The Reliability of Philostratus,” in Approaches to the Second Sophistic: Papers Presented at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association. Edited by G. W. Bowerstock. The American Philological Association, 1974. Copyright 1974 by The American Philological Association. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Marrone, Steven P. From William of Auvergne and Robert Grosseteste. Princeton University Press, 1983. Copyright 1983 by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Naddaff, Sandra. From Arabesque: Narrative Structure and the Aesthetics of Repetition in The 1001 Nights. Northwestern University Press, 1991. Copyright 1991 by Northwestern University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Pinault, David. From Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights. E. J. Brill, 1992. Copyright 1992 by E. J. Brill. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Sherwin-White, A. N. From The Lives of the Sophists. Oxford University Press, 1966. Copyright 1966 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.—Southern, Richard William. From Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1986, 1992. Copyright 1986, 1992 by Oxford at the Clarendon Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CMLC, VOLUME 62, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Journal of Philology, v. 113, 1992; v. 116, 1995; v. 119, 1998. Copyright 1992, 1995, 1998 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. All reproduced by permission.—Arethusa, v. 31, winter, 1998. Copyright 1998 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Aufstieg und Niedergang der Romische Welt, vol. II/16.2, 1978. Copyright 1978 by Walter De Gruyter, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Classical Antiquity, v. 10, 1991 for “The Reliability of Philostratus’s The Lives of the Sophists” by Simon Swain. Copyright 1991 by the Regents of the University of California. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—The Classical Bulletin, v. 58, April, 1982; v. 66, 1990. Copyright 1982, 1990 by The Classical Bulletin. Both reproduced by permission.—Edebiyat, v. 2, 1988. Copyright 1988 by Taylor & Francis Ltd. Reproduced by permission.—The Emperor and the Giant in Classical Philology, v. 95, October, 2000. Copyright 2000 by The University of Chicago. Reproduced by permission.—Greece & Rome, v. 16, April,

1969 for “Pliny, the Man and His Letters” by A. N. Sherwin-White. Copyright 1969 by Oxford University Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher./ v. 42, 1995 for “Pliny the Poet” by Debra Hershkowitz. Copyright 1995 by Oxford University Press. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press and the author.—Journal of Arabic Literature, v. 5, 1974; v. 16, 1985. Copyright 1974, 1985 by Brill Academic Publishers. Both reproduced by permission.— Journal of Hellenic Studies, v. 21, 2001. Copyright 2001 by Journal of Hellenic Studies. Reproduced by permission.— Journal of the American Oriental Society, v. 98, July-Sept, 1978. Copyright 1978 by Journal of the American Oriental Society. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Theological Studies, v. 27, October, 1976 for “The Deffınicio Eucariste of Robert Grosseteste” by Kevin M. Purday; v. 42, April, 1991 for “Robert Grosseteste and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs” by M. de Jonge. Copyright 1976, 1991 by Oxford University Press. Both reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press and the respective authors.—Mundus Arabicus, v. 3, 1983. Copyright 1983 by Dar Mahjar, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Recherches de Theologie Ancienne et Medievale, v. 58, January-December, 1991. Copyright 1991 by Peeters Press. Reproduced by permission.—Studi Medievali, v. 24, 1983. Copyright 1983 by Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo. Reproduced by permission.—Traditio, no. 28, 1972. Copyright 1972 by Fordham University Press. Reproduced by permission.

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Five arches, examples of early English architecture of the 1189 to 1272 period, Durham Cathedral (top left), Winchester Cathedral (bottom left), Westminster Abbey in London (center and top right), and Rumsey Church (bottom right), illustration. Getty Images. Reproduced by permission.—Mural depicting ebony horse from the book Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights on the wall in the Aladdin Resort, Las Vegas. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Pliny the Younger, engraving. The Library of Congress.—Severus, Lucius Septimus, marble bust, photograph. The Picture Desk, Inc. Reproduced by permission.

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