Adrian Murdoch continues the series with the guy who pretty much has the title ‘most boring emperor ever’:
Day: October 24, 2011
Recent Book Reviews ~ 10/24/11
From BMCR:
- 2011.10.50: Il calamo della memoria. Riuso di testi e mestiere letterario nella tarda antichità. IV (Raccolta delle relazioni discusse nel IV incontro internazionale di Trieste, Biblioteca Statale, 28-30 aprile 2010). Polymnia, 13
- 2011.10.49: The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Vol. II: Bone Tool Industries, Dietary Resources and the Paleoenvironment, and Archeometrical Studies. Prehistory monographs, 31
- 2011.10.48: I Sofisti. Pensatori, 18
- 2011.10.47: Geoponika: Farm Work. A Modern Translation of the Roman and Byzantine Farming Handbook
- 2011.10.46: Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within
- 2011.10.45: Wille und Handlung in der Philosophie der Kaiserzeit und Spätantike. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 287
- 2011.10.44: Filostrato Maggiore. La Pinacoteca. Aesthetica, 71
- 2011.10.43: Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria
- 2011.10.42: The Consul at Rome: the Civil Functions of the Consuls in the Roman Republic
- 2011.10.41: Soldiering for God: Christianity and the Roman Army. History of Warfare 61
- 2011.10.40: Body, Disease and Treatment in a Changing World: Latin Texts and Contexts in Ancient and Medieval Medicine
- 2011.10.39: Aristophanes’ Comedy of Names: a Study of Speaking Names in Aristophanes. Sozomena: Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts 8
- 2011.10.38: The Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Coins, 2nd Edition
- 2011.10.37: Die Perserkriege. Beck’sche Reihe 2705
- 2011.10.36: Technē in Aristotle’s Ethics: Crafting the Moral Life
- 2011.10.35: Gloses et commentaire du livre XI du Contra Proclum de Jean Philopon. Autour de la Matière première du monde. Philosophia antiqua 125
- 2011.10.34: Kolb on Kennell on Kolb, Tatort ‘Troia’: Geschichte, Mythen, Politik
- 2011.10.33: The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
- 2011.10.32: The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity
- 2011.10.31: La corruption à la fin de la république romaine (IIe-Ier s. av. J.-C.): aspects politiques et financiers. Historia Einzelschriften 200
From the popular press:
- The Complete Plays of Sophocles – A New Translation October 23, 2011
- The Women of Masada [The Dovekeepers … fiction]October 22, 2011
- A Scholar Takes a Literary Tour—and Wonders Why? [written by a classicist] October 22, 2011
- On Homer, fine-tuning ‘The Iliad’ and being the rock star of translators [interview with Mitchell] October 20, 2011
- Author interview: Madeline Miller October 20, 2011
- The Iliad by Homer translated by Stephen Mitchell: review October 20, 2011
- Mad — or Just Angry? [Caligula] October 20, 2011
- Victor Davis Hanson on The End of Sparta October 19, 2011
- ‘On the nature of Universe’ released in Persian October 19, 2011
Circumundique ~ 10/22-23/11
I might have missed a couple:
- Diogenes of Babylon: A Stoic on Music and Ethics October 23, 2011 History of the Ancient World
- Snow White’s Apple And Claudius’ Mushrooms: A Look at the Use of Poison in the Early Roman Empire October 23, 2011 History of the Ancient World
- Pirates, Warfare and Failing States in Ancient Greece October 23, 2011 History of the Ancient World
- Roma. Nerone in mostra ai Fori e al Colosseo October 23, 2011 Romano Maria Levante
- Whose Translation Is It, Anyway? October 24, 2011 J.L. Wall
- Math Homework October 23, 2011
- Has another Pompeii wall collapsed? October 22, 2011 Mary Beard
- Roman military camp at Olfen on the Lippe October 23, 2011 Adrian Murdoch
- Brutus Lost October 23, 2011 (N.S. Gill)
- Greek Heroes in Popular Culture Through Time – OpenLearn – Open University October 23, 2011
- Shipwrecks, amphora and DNA offer clues to ancient trade October 23, 2011 Past Horizons
- explorator 14.27 October 23, 2011 david meadows
- Advice for Students October 23, 2011 Michael Gilleland
- A Matter of Life and Death: Gladiatorial Games, Sacrificial Ritual and Literary Allusion October 23, 2011 History of the Ancient World
- Bredon Coin Hoard – Should Questions be Asked? October 23, 2011 Paul Barford
- Fragments of Sappho October 23, 2011 Myrmicat Forever
- Stephen Mitchell’s Iliad and the college classroom October 22, 2011 Korinna
- Round-Up: October 22 October 22, 2011 (Laura Gibbs)
- 10/21/11 PHD comic: ‘Occupy Academia’ October 22, 2011
- Gastrophobia – Unbearable. October 22, 2011
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem ix kalendas novembres
ante diem ix kalendas novembres
- 31 A.D. — execution of Strabo, son of the Praetorian Praefect L. Aelius Sejanus
- 51 A.D. — birth of the future emperor T. Flavius Domitianus, better known as Domitian