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posted with permission: An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome. By Lukas Thommen. Translated by Philip Hill. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp xi + 186. Paper, $29.99. ISBN 978-0521-17465-7. Reviewed by Jeremy McInerney, University of Pennsylvania Thommen’s work illustrates both the strengths and shortcomings of a short handbook designed to…
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posted with permission: Under Divine Auspices: Divine Ideology and the Visualisation of Imperial Power in the Severan Period. By Clare Rowan. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi + 303. Hardcover, $110.00. ISBN 978-1-107-02012-2. Reviewed by Adam M. Kemezis, University of Alberta The last ten years of scholarship have greatly enriched our…
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posted with permission: Roman Disasters. By JERRY TONER. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 220. Hardcover, $25.00. ISBN: 978-0-7456-5102-6. Reviewed by Herbert J. Benario, Emory University When this book reached me around the middle of June, I recalled that, in the fall of 2000, I had arranged a panel for the…
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posted with permission: Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction. By Roy K. Gibson and Ruth Morello. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. iv + 350. Hardcover, $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-84292-1. Reviewed by Barbara Weinlich, Eckerd College Organized in eight chapters and supplemented by a map, four appendices, references, an index…
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Posted with permission: The Invention of Greek Ethnography: from Homer to Herodotus. By Joseph E. Skinner. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. vii + 343. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-19-979360-0. Reviewed by Sandra Blakely, Emory University The Invention of Greek Ethnography is a welcome addition to studies of identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Ambitious…
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