May 10, 2012
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Interesting item by Robert Garland at History Today: Celebrity in the Ancient World
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Seen on the Classicists list: For more than 260 years, the academic publisher De Gruyter has been publishing high quality works of scholarship in all areas of the humanities and natural sciences. Today, De Gruyter publishes some 500 academic journals, offers a wide range of digital media, and releases more than 800 new titles each…
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Seen on the Classicists list: Further details below of the two-day interdisciplinary conference Sport and competition in Greece and Rome at the British Museum to celebrate the return of the Olympics to Britain. All welcome. Date 14-15 June 2012 Speakers Laura Ambrosini, ISCIMA: Sports in ancient Etruria Filippo Canali De Rossi: Sport in Rome Chris…
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posted with permission: Joseph Farrell and Michael C. J. Putnam, eds., A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition. Malden, Mass. and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xiv + 559. Hardcover, £130.00/$209.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-7577-7. Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono, Ohio Wesleyan University The contemporary proliferation of companions to and readings in classical topics can be traced to…
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posted with permission: Alan Kaiser, Roman Urban Street Networks. Routledge Studies in Archaeology 2. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. Pp. xvii + 249. Hardcover, $125.00/£80.00. ISBN 978-0415-88657-4. Reviewed by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Brandeis University The bulk of Kaiser’s book focuses on four well-known ancient cities, Pompeii, Ostia, Silchester, and Empúries, in order to provide…
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