May 3, 2012
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Seen on the Classicists list: FIXED-TERM STIPENDIARY LECTURER IN CLASSICS Corpus Christi College proposes to appoint a fixed-term Lecturer in Classics for the academic year 2012-13. The Lecturer will be required to teach for the undergraduate classics degrees for up to 8 hours weekly: the need is primarily for a specialist in Greek literature, but…
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Seen on the Classicists list: The Department of History and Classics at Swansea University, The South West Wales Classical Association and The Iris Project present the very first Latin in the Park in Wales! Beginner and Advanced Latin courses are being taught by Swansea University students in Singleton Park every Saturday in June and July.…
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Posted with permission: Daniel J. Kapust, Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought: Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 196. Hardcover, £55.00/$85.00. ISBN 978-1-107-00057-5. Reviewed by Thomas E. Strunk, Xavier University Over the last decade there has been a revival in the study of republicanism and rhetoric.[[1]]…
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posted with permission: Matthew Robinson, A Commentary on Ovid’s Fasti, Book 2. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 572. Hardcover, £100.00/$165.00. ISBN 978-0-19-958939-5. Reviewed by Peter E. Knox, University of Colorado Within the past twelve years, three books of the Fasti have been equipped with substantial commentaries…
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Posted with permission: E. J. Kenney, ed., Ovidio: Metamorfosi, Volume IV (Libri VII–IX). Translation by Gioachino Chiarini. Milan: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla/Arnaldo Mondadori, 2011. Pp. lxxii + 484. Hardcover, €30.00. ISBN 978-88-04-60424-2. Reviewed by Marie Louise von Glinski, New York University With the fourth volume of this ongoing commentary project, the torch passes from Italy to…
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