10-06-2010, 04:57 AM
That review is a brilliant example of how not to be negative, yet convey an accurate summary of the content etc....a model review in fact! 
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As well as "recondite debate with Mike Bishop", some other gems are "quirks" ( can't disagree with that! :wink: ), "diachronic" ( not a word in everyday use!), "generally not persuasive" ( nifty! one can take this phrase literally or treat it as a euphemism 8) 8) ), and a particularly nice turn of phrase to summarise the work as a whole:-
a"pseudo-revisionist return to the sculpture inspired antiquarian way of envisioning the Roman Army" - love that phraseology! D
Despite all that, and having got over my first impressions of the book, I would recommend it, but only to those with a thorough grasp of the subject - worth having if only because it contains a good pictorial survey of much of the sculptural etc evidence.......
D As well as "recondite debate with Mike Bishop", some other gems are "quirks" ( can't disagree with that! :wink: ), "diachronic" ( not a word in everyday use!), "generally not persuasive" ( nifty! one can take this phrase literally or treat it as a euphemism 8) 8) ), and a particularly nice turn of phrase to summarise the work as a whole:-
a"pseudo-revisionist return to the sculpture inspired antiquarian way of envisioning the Roman Army" - love that phraseology!
D Despite all that, and having got over my first impressions of the book, I would recommend it, but only to those with a thorough grasp of the subject - worth having if only because it contains a good pictorial survey of much of the sculptural etc evidence.......
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
