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posted with permission The Passionate Statesman: Erōs and Politics in Plutarch’s Lives. By Jeffrey Beneker. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 258. Hardcover, £55.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-969590-4. Reviewed by Sophia Xenophontos, University of Oxford In twenty-first-century politics, erotic passion is typically connected with scandalous stories of the private lives of well-known…
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posted with permission: Plato’s Republic: A Critical Guide. Edited by Mark L. McPherran. Cambridge Critical Guides. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 273. Hardcover, £53.00/$90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-49190-7. Reviewed by David Schur, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York As McPherran observes in his introduction, this collection of twelve essays…
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2013.03.10: Michael C. J. Putnam, The Humanness of Heroes: Studies in the Conclusion of Virgil’s Aeneid. The Amsterdam Vergil lectures, 1. 2013.03.09: Peter Grossardt, Stesichoros zwischen kultischer Praxis, mythischer Tradition und eigenem Kunstanspruch: zur Behandlung des Helenamythos im Werk des Dichters aus Himera. Leipziger Studien zur klassischen Philologie 9. 2013.03.08: Heinz Heinen, Kindersklaven – Sklavenkinder:…
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[editor’s note: I purchased the Kindle edition, which explains the lack of page references in what follows] Brown, P. (2013). The murder of Cleopatra: History’s greatest cold case. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. This is not a scholarly book. The author — Pat Brown — is a noted criminal profiler who has authored several books germaine…
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posted with permission: Hippocrates: Volume X. Edited and translated by PAUL POTTER. Loeb Classical Library 520. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. xxii + 432. Hardcover, $24.00/£15.95. ISBN 978-0-674-99683-0. Reviewed by Lesley Dean-Jones, University of Texas at Austin In 1983, after a hiatus of fifty-two years, Potter produced the fifth volume in…
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