Kaldellis' introduction and explanations are gracefully written. In his translation, he has taken difficult Greek and made it readable, regularizing punctuation for the sake of coherence, giving helpful names where Chalkokondyles had left more than one ruler or king, specifying 'sultan' instead of using the all-purpose 'ruler.'

Anthony Kaldellis. Laonikos Chalkokondyles, The Histories (2 vols.). Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 33-34. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2014.

From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Review by Diana Gilliland Wright, Seattle