Finding People in Early Greece. By Carol G. Thomas. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 154. $34.95.)
Delivered in 2002 at the University of Missouri, these lectures take "the current understanding of our means to gain knowledge of the past" as their subject (x). Explicit in the title is the author's conviction that individual human beings can be reintegrated into the narrative of preclassical Greek history (before 700 BCE), despite the theoretical, ...