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posted with permission: Caesar’s De Analogia: Edition, Translation, and Commentary. By Alessandro Garcea. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv + 304. Hardcover, £70.00/$150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-960397-8. Reviewed by James E. G. Zetzel, Columbia University When one thinks of Julius Caesar, what comes to mind immediately is the politician/dictator/god, or perhaps the author…
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posted with permission: The Romans and Germany: Selections from Tacitus, Caesar, Suetonius, Livy, Velleius Paterculus, Pomponius Mela, Frontinus. Edited with introduction, notes, and vocabulary by Herbert W. Benario. Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2012. Pp. x + 71. Paper, $13.95. ISBN 978-1-4772-4066-3 (paper); 978-1-4772-4065-6 (e-book). Reviewed by Roger T. Macfarlane, Brigham Young University Scholarship on Tacitus and on…
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Kenneth Atkinson. Queen Salome: Jerusalem’s Warrior Monarch of the First Century B.C.E. Jefferson McFarland and Company, 2012. 296 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-7002-0. Reviewed by Karl C. Randall Published on H-War (February, 2013) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey Queen Salome is an interesting but long-overlooked figure in ancient history. Kenneth Atkinson has finally redressed this oversight…
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posted with permission: Slaves Tell Tales. And Other Episodes in the Politics of Popular Culture in Ancient Greece. By Sara Forsdyke. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 265. Hardcover, $39.95/£27.95. ISBN 978-0-14005–6. Reviewed by Carl A. Anderson, Michigan State University In this original and imaginative study, Sara Forsdyke seeks to understand…
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posted with permission: Demography and the Graeco-Roman World: New Insights and Approaches. Edited by Claire Holleran and April Pudsey. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. ix + 215. Hardcover, £58.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-1-107-01082-6. Reviewed by Marco Maiuro, Columbia University The eight essays contained in this volume are explicitly intended to explore the frontier…
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