Reviews
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Posted with permission: Saints and Symposiasts: the Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture. By Jason König. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 417. Hardcover, £70.00/$115.00. ISBN 978-0-521-88685-7. Reviewed by Simon Swain, University of Warwick This book explores how…
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Posted with permission: The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome: Friendship in Cicero’s Ad Familiares and Seneca’s Moral Epistles. By Amanda Wilcox. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 223. Hardcover, $34.95. ISBN 978-0-2992-8834-1. Reviewed by Yasuko Taoka, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Dear Amanda (if I may), Convention has long dictated how…
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Peter Heather. Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe. New York Oxford University Press, USA, 2012. 752 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-989226-6. Reviewed by Christopher Gennari (Camden County College) Published on H-Diplo (April, 2013) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach Peter Heather’s compendium _Empires and Barbarians_ is an impressive work in its…
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Posted with permission: Macrobii Ambrosii Theodosii Saturnalia. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Robert A. Kaster. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. lvi + 540. Hardcover, £50.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-957119-2. Reviewed by Andrea Balbo, Università di Torino This new critical edition of Saturnalia is the last milestone of a long…
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Posted with permission: Medusa’s Gaze: The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese. Emblems of Antiquity. By Marina Belozerskaya. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xvii + 292. $24.95/£14.99. ISBN 978-0-19-973931-8. Reviewed by Duane W. Roller, The Ohio State University The Tazza Farnese is a sardonyx cameo made from a geode, 21.7 cm.…
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