Book review
What Graeco-Roman Grammar Was About. By P. H. Matthews.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xii, 243 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-883011-5 £ 60.00

Reviewed by Daniel J. Taylor
Lawrence University
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Just about any book written by P. H. Matthews (hereafter M) is well worth reading, and this one is no exception even though it poses some problems, at least for me, beginning with the title and extending through the lists of references and indices at the end.

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