Reviews
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Robert Knapp. Invisible Romans. Cambridge Harvard University Press, 2011. 400 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-06199-6. Reviewed by Alison Jeppesen (Red Deer College) Published on H-Albion (March, 2013) Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth Investigating the Mind-set of Ordinary Romans What was life like in ancient Rome? For a slave in Rome, were the conditions horrific or…
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2013.04.27: Lucreţiu Mihailescu-Bîrliba, Ex toto orbe Romano: Immigration into Roman Dacia; with Prosopographical Observations on the Population of Dacia. Colloquia antica, 5. 2013.04.26: Maurizio Bettini, Vertere: un’antropologia della traduzione nella cultura antica. Piccola biblioteca. 2013.04.25: Peter White, Cicero in Letters. Epistolary Relations of the Late Republic (paperback reprint; first published 2010). 2013.04.24: Nicholas Baker-Brian, Shaun…
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posted with permission: Homer’s Versicolored Fabric: The Evocative Power of Ancient Greek Epic Word-Making. By Anna Bonifazi. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2012. Distributed by Harvard University Press. Pp. x + 350. Paper, $24.95/ £18.95. ISBN 978-0-674-06062-3. Reviewed by Alexander C. Loney, Yale University The “versicolored fabric” of the title of Anna Bonifazi’s book…
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posted with permission: The Codrus Painter: Iconography and Reception of Athenian Vases in the Age of Pericles. By Amalia Avramidou. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 237. Hardcover, $65.00. ISBN 978-0-299-24780-5. Reviewed by Judith M. Barringer, University of Edinburgh The Codrus Painter (fl. c. 440–420 bc) takes his name from one of…
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2013.04.14: Mary Louise Gill, Philosophos: Plato’s Missing Dialogue. 2013.04.13: Mireille Hadas-Lebel, Philo of Alexandria: A Thinker in the Jewish Diaspora. Studies in Philo of Alexandria, 7. 2013.04.12: Stefania S. Skartsis, Chlemoutsi Castle (Clermont, Castel Tornese), NW Peloponnese: Its Pottery and Its Relations with the West (13th-early 19th Centuries). BAR international series, S2391, 2012. 2013.04.11: Alexander…
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