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posted with permission: Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama. By Judith Fletcher. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 277. Hardcover, £60.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76273-1. Reviewed by Edwin Carawan, Missouri State University (ECarawan). “Speech acts” are familiar in many areas of classical studies, but there has been no systematic work in the…
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posted with permission: The Empire of the Self: Self-Command and Political Speech in Seneca and Petronius. By Christopher Star. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 302. Hardcover, $65.00/£34.00. ISBN 978-1-4214-0674-9. Reviewed by Gareth Williams, Columbia University This book constitutes an important addition to the burgeoning body of scholarship on…
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posted with permission: A Written Republic: Cicero’s Philosophical Politics. By Yelena Baraz. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. x + 252. Hardcover. $45.00/£30.00. ISBN 978-0-691-15332-2. Reviewed by Jonathan P. Zarecki, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro In this well-written and thought-provoking book, Yelena Baraz engages with the prefaces of Cicero’s philosophical works…
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posted with permission: Learn to Read Greek. By Andrew Keller and Stephanie Russell. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. Part I: Textbook. Pp. xxiv + 384. Paper, $45.00. ISBN 978-0-300-11589-5. Workbook. Pp. xi + 632. Paper, $32.00. ISBN 978-0-300-11591-8. Part II. Textbook. Pp. xvii + 512. Paper, $45.00. ISBN 978-0-300-11590-1. Workbook. Pp. ix…
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posted with permission: Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice: Ancient Victims, Modern Observers. Edited by Christopher A. Faraone and F. S. Naiden. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp.xiv + 209. Hardcover, £55.00/$95.00. ISBN 978-1-107-01112-0. Reviewed by Sarah Hitch, University of Oxford Is animal sacrifice the central act in Greek and Roman religion, or…
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