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posted with permission: Plato’s Phaedrus: A Commentary for Greek Readers. Edited by Paul Ryan. Introduction by Mary Louise Gill. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Pp. xxviii + 384. Paper, $29.95. ISBN 978-0-8061-4259-3. Reviewed by Christopher Moore, Penn State University This student edition of the Phaedrus includes a twelve-page introduction…
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2013.02.29: Sarah Nooter, When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy. 2013.02.28: Maurizio Bettini, The Ears of Hermes: Communication, Images, and Identity in the Classical World. 2013.02.27: Tyler Jo Smith, Dimitris Plantzos, A Companion to Greek Art (2 vols.). Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture. 2013.02.26: Francesco de Angelis,…
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posted with permission: Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile. Edited by Marjorie Fisher, Peter Lacovara, Sue D’Auria, and Salma Ikram, with photographs by Chester Higgins, Jr. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2012. Distributed by Oxford University Press. Pp. xx + 452. Hardcover, $59.95. ISBN 978-977-416-478-1. Reviewed by Giovanni Ruffini,…
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2013.02.20: Jesús Hernández Lobato, Vel Apolline muto: estética y poética de la Antigüedad tardía. 2013.02.19: Pietro Bortone, Greek Prepositions From Antiquity to the Present. 2013.02.18: Kristina Sessa, The Formation of Papal Authority in Late Antique Italy: Roman Bishops and the Domestic Sphere. 2013.02.17: Drew Arlen Mannetter, I Came, I Saw, I Translated: an Accelerated Method…
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posted with permission: Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the Transformation of the Roman Republic. By Kathryn Welch. Swansea and London : Classical Press of Wales, 2012. Pp. 350. Hardcover, £50.00/$100.00. ISBN 978-1-905-12544-9. Reviewed by Andrew Lintott, Worcester College Oxford The triumviral period necessarily figures in grand narratives, but is less popular as a subject for…
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