July 18, 2012
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posted with permission: Alexander Sens, Asclepiades of Samos: Epigrams and Fragments. Edited with Translation and Commentary. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Hardcover, £100.00/$150.00. Pp. cxvi + 354. ISBN 978-0-19-925319-7. Reviewed by Valentina Garulli, University of Bologna This long-awaited work fully satisfies the reader’s expectations. Sens’ new edition with English translation of and…
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An edited version of a note from Debbie Felton (Associate Professor of Classics, University of Massachusetts Amherst): I am writing as a member of the Advisory Board for the Penn State University Press journal “Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies in the Preternatural” (http://preternature.org), and am wondering whether you might be willing to post a CFP…
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Last week we mentioned a find of some Roman burials which were found when a truck broke through the pavement near Debelt (ancient Dueltum): Roman Tombs from Debelt. Today we get a followup, with a slightly different version of the circumstances of discovery … from the Sofia Globe: Golden medallions featuring inscriptions and images found…
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… after 30 years!! Tip o’ the pileus to Diana Wright for passing on the Kathimerini coverage: For the first time in 30 years, the first floor of the Stoa of Attalos in the Ancient Agora next to the Acropolis in Athens, has opened to the public The Stoa of Attalos is among Athens’s finest…
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posted with permission: Edith Hall, Richard Alston, and Justine McConnell, eds., Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood. Classical Presences. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 509. Hardcover, £90.00/$150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-957467-4. Reviewed by Fábio Duarte Joly, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto The reception of ancient slavery in modern culture…
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