Reviews
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posted with permission: When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy. By Sarah Nooter. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 200. $95.00 ISBN 978-1-107-00161-9. Reviewed by Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania In this innovative and rewarding study, Sarah Nooter assesses the "poeticity" of the Sophoclean hero. In the…
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posted with permission: Introduction to Latin. Second Edition.By Susan C. Shelmerdine. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company, 2013. Pp. xvi + 376. Paper, $34.95. ISBN 978-1-58510-390-4. Reviewed by Betine Van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham The many users of Shelmerdine’s introductory Latin textbook will welcome this new edition. It retains the good qualities of the…
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Major catching up … 2013.10.45: Fritz Graf, Sarah Iles Johnston, Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets. Second edition (first published 2007). 2013.10.44: Chris Emlyn-Jones, William Preddy, Plato VI: Republic, Volume II. Books 6-10. Loeb classical library, 276. Chris Emlyn-Jones, William Preddy, Plato V: Republic, Volume I. Books 1-5. Loeb classical…
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Michael Pitassi. Roman Warships. Woodbridge Boydell & Brewer, 2011. 191 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84383-610-0. Reviewed by Alyssa Tavernia Published on H-War (September, 2013) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey Michael Pitassi’s _Roman Warships_ provides a detailed overview of the evolution and development of Roman warships spanning the life cycle of Rome’s empire. Through painstaking research of…
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2013.09.56: Malcolm Schofield, Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century BC: New Directions for Philosophy. 2013.09.55: Manfred Horstmanshoff, Helen King, Claus Zittel, Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Changing Concepts of Physiology from Antiquity into Early Modern Europe. Intersections, 25. 2013.09.54: Elizabeth Donnelly Carney, Arsinoë of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life. Women in antiquity.…
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