Reviews
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posted with permission: Commentary on Demosthenes Against Leptines. With Introduction, Text, and Translation. By Christos Kremmydas. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 489. Hardcover, £99.00/$170.00. ISBN 978-0-199-57813-9. Reviewed by Phillip Harding, University of British Columbia Demosthenes’ speech Against Leptines (number 20 in the corpus) was his first recognized foray into…
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2013.03.31: Elizabeth Minchin, Orality, Literacy and Performance in the Ancient World. Orality and literacy in the ancient world, vol. 9; Mnemosyne Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman Language and Literature, 335. 2013.03.30: John Mouratidis, On the Jump of the Ancient Pentathlon. Nikephoros-Beihefte, Bd 20. 2013.03.29: Lin Foxhall, Gabriele Neher, Gender and the City before Modernity.…
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posted with permission: Compiling the Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum in Late Antiquity. By Robert M. Frakes. Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv + 368. Hardcover, £80.00/$150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-958940-1. Reviewed by Shaun Tougher, Cardiff University This book turns a spotlight on a mysterious late…
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posted with permission: Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum. By Anastassios Antonaras. Princeton University Art Museum Series. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. 408 + 556 color + 40 b/w illustrations. Hardcover, $65.00/£45.00. ISBN 978-0-300-17981-1. Reviewed by Chloë N. Duckworth, University of Nottingham Antonaras is an archaeologist…
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Not sure if this is one we need to keep our eye on or not … a review in the Oxonian Review (by a Classicist) of Toby Miller’s Blow Up the Humanities … A single paragraph from the review is enough for me not to bother: Perhaps BUH was intended as a challenge for elite…
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