Variety

"This elegant book is many things at once: a surprising chapter in the history of ideas, a collection of snappy new interpretations of key Greek and Latin texts from Horace's Odes to Gellius' Attic Nights, and a deviant experiment in Reception Studies. . . . [Fitzgerald's] shifting attention is performative and heuristic: herein lies the real provocation and stimulus of this timely, impressive book."-- "Journal of Roman Studies"
"A welcome and significant contribution to contemporary discussion of aspects of variety and miscellaneity in antiquity. . . . Fitzgerald's exploration of varietas is important both for its excavation of Roman material and for identifying so many significant texts and aspects of variety beyond the miscellany alone. He makes a strong case that varietas marks reflection on a concept whose contours allow some definition, and that this is worth studying in both ancient and modern contexts, and in the relationship between them."-- "Bryn Mawr Classical Review"
"Fitzgerald has written a thoroughly captivating book--one that achieves that rare combination of erudition and pleasant reading."
-- "PopMatters"