July 3, 2012
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In the hecticity of the last couple of weeks of school, I fear I’ve fallen far behind with these, so here’s a random grab of the most recent in the hopes I get most of what I’ve missed: 2012.06.54: Dominique Charpin, Reading and Writing in Babylon. (Translated by Jane Marie Todd). 2012.06.53: Jean-Christophe Couvenhes, Sandrine…
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One of my summer projects is to get as many of these documentaries lurking in Youtube on rogueclassicism (and possibly in some form of revived AWOTV newsletter) … I’m not sure how long they’ll be available, so I’ll provide a bit of added value in the form of a semi-review. So here goes: When Rome…
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Not sure if we’ve mentioned the Alpheios project before, but they’ve sent me this little missive, which should be of interest: The Alpheios Project should like to announce the availability of sentence diagrams for selections from book one of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the entire Iliad and Odyssey, five of the plays of Aeschylus, the Theogony and…
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Posted with permission: Simon Goldhill, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity. Martin Classical Lectures. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 352. $45.00/£30.95. ISBN 978-0-691-14984-4. Reviewed by Robert J. Rabel, University of Kentucky The relationship between the Victorian Age and the discipline of Classical Studies…
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Posted with permission: Alan Cameron, The Last Pagans of Rome. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 878. 18 Illustrations. Hardcover, $85.00/£55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-974727-9. Reviewed by Dennis Trout, University of Missouri Encyclopedic in its learning and relentless in its argument, Alan Cameron’s Last Pagans of Rome is a landmark in late…
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