One of the topics encompassed by that Travel and Religion Seminar I mentioned earlier is how the ancients engaged in and imagined travel, and how they used the notion of movement as a metaphor. A recent book, now reviewed by Isabelle Torrance at BMCR deals precisely with the theme of “wandering”, both real and imagined, in ancient Greek literature: S. Montiglio, Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. The topics covered in the book range from the wanderings of mythical figures such as Odysseus and the use of movement and travel as a metaphor for notions of dislocation or even madness to the historian Herodotus’ actual journeys and the travel of philosophical figures such as Apollonius of Tyana.