From Scholia:

John T. Hamilton, Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition. Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature 47

From Review of Biblical Literature:

Richard A. Burridge, What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison with Greco-Roman Biography

Richard A. Burridge, What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison with Greco-Roman Biography

[they're two different reviews]

Elsewhere:

Expecting another review of the Penelopiad, my spiders caught this review of a collection of stories by MA called The Tent ... the brief passing comment of interest:

[...]

You open The Tent and enjoy the story, Plots For Exotics, where an unidentifiable character is told that “as an exotic” there are only limited roles he or she could play in a plot; exotics can only be comical servants, the best friend who never gets the girl or the next-door neighbour.

You are able to understand that the story, Chicken Little Goes Too Far, reflects the current day ambivalence to the state of the environment and that Tree Baby was written as a reaction piece to the heartbreak of tsunami survivors.

You appreciate Atwood’s recreation of the myth of Helen of Troy as a story about a girl named Helen who, as a child, used to sell Kool-Aid in It’s Not Easy Being Half Divine.

[...]



John Prevas, Envy of the Gods: Alexander the Great's Ill-fated Journey Across Asia (Palm Beach Daily News)