JRS 102 (2012) Available

Not for free, alas, but here’s what’s in this very interesting-looking issue:

  • Simon Price, Religious Mobility in the Roman Empire
  • Mary Beard, Cicero’s ‘Response of the haruspices’ and the Voice of the Gods
  • Katherine McDonald,The Testament of Vibius Adiranus
  • Roy Gibson, On the Nature of Ancient Letter Collections
  • Michael Kulikowski,Coded Polemic in Ammianus Book 31 and the Date and Place of its Composition
  • Robert Chenault, Statues of Senators in the Forum of Trajan and the Roman Forum in Late Antiquity
  • Alan Cameron, Anician Myths
  • Alison E. Cooley, Benet Salway, Roman Inscriptions 2006–2010
  • Richard Flower, Visions of Constantine

… Previews at the Cambridge Journals site: Journal of Roman Studies

Also Seen: New Voices in Classical Reception Studies 7

Issue 7 (2012) is avalable:

… and what you will find there:

  • Heather Ellis, Reconciling Classical and Christian Culture: Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations in Victorian Scholarship
  • Penelope Goodman, ‘I am Master of Nothing’: Imperium: Augustus and the Story of Augustus on Screen
  • Helen Roche, ‘Go, Tell the Prussians …’ The Spartan Paradigm in Prussian Military Thought during the Long Nineteenth Century
  • Yasuko Taoka, A Liar’s Yarn: Storytelling in the Lost Books of the Odyssey
  • Rocki Wentzel,The Myth of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades in Marion Mainwaring’s Completed Edition of Edith Wharton’s Buccaneers

Practitioners’ Voices in Classical Reception Studies Available

Issue 3 of Practitioners’ Voices in Classical Reception Studies is now online and I admit I haven’t seen this journal before. It comprises a series of interviews with assorted folks working in Classical Reception areas  (obviously) and this issue has quite the range of artists and architects. The current issue is here:

… previous issues here

Latest Issue of Vates Available

The winter 2012 editionVates — the online journal of new Latin poetry — is on the eshelves (and noteworthy (to me) that there is a contribution by someone from my undergrad (Barry Baldwin), my never-completed-phd (Paul Murgatroyd), and a fellow blogger (Laura Gibbs) , among others). Download it as a pdf here (where you can also peruse the back issues):

Met Museum Publications

The incipit of a Met Museum press release:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art today launched MetPublications, a major online resource that offers unparalleled in-depth access to the Museum’s renowned print and online publications, covering art, art history, archaeology, conservation, and collecting. Beginning with nearly 650 titles published from 1964 to the present, this new addition to the Met’s website, www.metmuseum.org/metpublications, will continue to expand and could eventually offer access to nearly all books, Bulletins, and Journals published by the Metropolitan Museum since its founding in 1870, as well as online publications.

Readers may also locate works of art from the Met’s collections that are included within MetPublications and access the most recent information about these works in the Collections section of the Museum’s website. […]

As might be hoped for/expected, there is a pile of stuff there, sorted into various categories, but not all of it is full text online. The search facility on the page seems to be having some growing pains as well. Fortunately, Charles Jones has culled most (if not all) of the full-text-online publications relating to antiquity (not just Greece and Rome):

… and here are the highlights which are in the purview of rogueclassicism; most of these can be read online if not downloaded as a pdf: