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[The author of this review wishes to acknowledge that Malcolm Heath is currently serving as the volume editor for his translation of Libanius Progymnasmata, under contract with E.J. Brill and the Society of Biblical Literature.]

For the past twelve years, Malcolm Heath has been working to explain and interpret the complex story of imperial-era Greek rhetorical instruction and technography.

Those who have used his excellent translation and commentary on Hermogenes On Issues¹ or who have followed his numerous articles on rhetoric, rhetoricians, and literary criticism over the years will be aware that H.

is a scholar who painstakingly builds his case from all the available evidence (most of it from highly technical and/or fragmentary sources), explicitly signals his degree of certainty about his conclusions, and clearly explains the finer points of issue-theory and its evolution and transmission in a way that should make it possible even for novices to understand.

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