February 2013
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He has a wife, you know: Carthage and its navy.
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Enter the Dionysiac: Translation studies and essentialism.
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He has a wife, you know: Know your ancient warships!.
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posted with permission: Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama. By Judith Fletcher. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 277. Hardcover, £60.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76273-1. Reviewed by Edwin Carawan, Missouri State University (ECarawan). “Speech acts” are familiar in many areas of classical studies, but there has been no systematic work in the…
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posted with permission: The Empire of the Self: Self-Command and Political Speech in Seneca and Petronius. By Christopher Star. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 302. Hardcover, $65.00/£34.00. ISBN 978-1-4214-0674-9. Reviewed by Gareth Williams, Columbia University This book constitutes an important addition to the burgeoning body of scholarship on…