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The Unexplored Mansion at Knossos

In his long and interesting section devoted to frontier studies, S. occasionally makes use of the terms 'inner' and 'outer' limes. Since these expressions have been re-interpreted several times in the last decade, it is perhaps understandable that there is occasionally confusion between the older uses of the terms as lines of defence lying within and at the edge of provincial territory and the more current tendency to view these limites in the Near East as zones. The most significant step forward in our understanding of the near eastern limes is the interpretation of interior limes (cf. Amm. Marc. 23.5.4-5) as a more remote frontier zone. Interior thus has the sense of up-country, as has been simultaneously demonstrated with good parallels by Mariano Malavolta (Ottava miscellanea greca e romana [1982], 587-610) and Ben Isaac (Harv. Stud. 88 [1984], 191). Their arguments had been anticipated in an excellent paper by W. Liebeschuetz in Studien zu den Militdrgrenzen Roms n (1977), 488. The issues raised in the foregoing paragraphs constitute a modest selection from the rich and invigorating fare that S. has provided in these two impressive volumes. The parallel that the author himself draws with Tarn's Alexander the Great is entirely just. Not only in format are the works similar. They share a comparable crusading zeal for the importance of their subjects, and they join deep reading with unflagging industry in a search for confirmation of a grand vision that controls every page.