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kerrycat's review against another edition
4.0
easy to read/understand entries with helpful drawings - very intriguing
grauspitz's review
3.0
While I can certainly appreciate what this book does, and how useful it would be as a reference, it also makes for a very dry read when reading the entries back to back.
laura_trap's review against another edition
4.0
decent read, certain entries give the bare minimum and can be very dry. Other entries give a more generalized history. It seems the main focus of the population density of the classical towns falls flat, seems more like guess work. Not bad if you're planning a trip to the area of the Aegean and Mediterranean and want to find classical cities to visit. Some cities included don't seem to make sense as to why their included and they all vary on how much excess info besides the population is included. There are incongruities on how the history is explained - how dates are explained, geography, how far back in the history.
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