BMCR 2009.02.36, Response: Yardley on Aveline on J.C. Yardley

Yardley on Aveline on J.C. Yardley and Anthony A. Barrett, Tacitus. The
Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero.   Response to BMCR
2009.02.15


Response by J.C. Yardley, University of Ottawa ([email protected])
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In his review of the Oxford World's Classics Tacitus Annals, John
Aveline makes a number of criticisms, especially of the notes compiled
by Anthony A. Barrett.  It is not my contention that the criticisms are
unfair or biased.  Readers should, however, always be made aware of any
relationship of reviewers to the authors under scrutiny, and generally
reviewers do very properly make a declaration of this relationship at
the beginning of their report.

Readers of this journal were not informed of the relationship between
John Aveline and Anthony Barrett, specifically of Aveline's failure to
obtain his PhD (on Tacitus) at the University of British Columbia where
Anthony Barrett was his supervisor.  This information should have been
provided.