| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

Europe: Ancient and Medieval

Frank Santi Russell. Information Gathering in Classical Greece. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1999. Pp. viii, 267. $49.50.

The theme of information and communication in the ancient Greek world has received only limited attention from scholars. In 1974, Chester Starr published a useful essay, Political Intelligence in Classical Greece, in which he sketched out some of the issues and relevant evidence, but at less than fifty pages of text it did not pretend to provide a detailed treatment of the subject. More recently, Sian Lewis has produced a valuable study of News and Society in the Greek Polis (1996). This book casts its net more widely in a genuine (and largely successful) effort to illuminate Greek society from a novel perspective, but its broader social focus means that a detailed study of ancient Greek political and military intelligence remains a desideratum. . . .

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