September 3, 2012
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posted with permission: Verity Platt, Facing the Gods: Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 482. Hardcover, £75.00/$130.00. ISBN 978-0521-86171-7. Reviewed by Francesca Tronchin, Rhodes College In our age of IMAX movies, skyscrapers, and colossal billboards, it is hard to imagine seeing…
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The BBC’s coverage of that curse tablet that was recently looked at by Roger Tomlin hinted that more work might be done on it (A Roman Curse Tablet from Kent (and a Phylactery from West Deeping)), and now we hear that there will be … from Kent Online: Work to conserve a Roman scroll believed…
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posted with permission: Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone, eds. A Companion to Greek Mythology. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Pp. xxvii + 643. Hardcover, $199.95/£110.00. ISBN: 978-1-4051-1178-2. Reviewed by Hugh Bowden, King’s College London What is the difference between a guide and a companion? On an expedition, you…
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Speaking of Cicero and Catiline (see next post), my spiders brought back an article from something called Student Pulse, which is some sort of online student journal, which includes this piece (typo in the title): Lucius Sergius Catalina: Villain or Victim? The Famed Cicero as a Violent Aggressor … it’s not bad as far as…
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… in addition to our (and NT Blog’s) blogiversary, September 2 (I keep meaning to mention it) is the anniversary of Cicero’s launching of the Second Philippic … fortunately the OUP blog remembered (although they somewhat incongruently illustrate it with Maccari’s Cicero Denouncing Catiline): To let you appreciate what sort of consul he professes himself…
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