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posted with permission: From the Ptolemies to the Romans: Political and Economic Change in Egypt. By Andrew Monson. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 364; 4 tables, 14 figures, 1 map. Hardcover, £60.00/$99.00. ISBN: 978-1-107-01441-1. Reviewed by Jane Rowlandson, King’s College London Recent generations of scholars concur that Roman rule brought a…
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2013.01.19: George Cawkwell, Cyrene to Chaeronea: Selected Essays on Ancient Greek History. 2013.01.18: Arne Thomsen, Die Wirkung der Götter: Bilder mit Flügelfiguren auf griechischen Vasen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Image and context 9. 2013.01.17: Eric W. Robinson, Democracy beyond Athens: Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age. 2013.01.16: Marian Hillar, From Logos…
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posted with permission: Trouble in the West: Egypt and the Persian Empire 525–332 BCE. By Stephen Ruzicka. Oxford Studies in Early Empires. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xxv + 311. Hardcover, $74.00/£45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-976662-8. Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk, Universiteit van Amsterdam Though ancient Greek historians frequently make it appear that…
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posted with permission: Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture. By Jennifer Trimble. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 486. Hardcover, £79.00/$125.00. ISBN 978-0-521-82515-3. Reviewed by Antony Augoustakis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jennifer Trimble has produced a compelling study of…
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posted with permission: Reviewed work(s): Gerard Passannante. The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. 250 pp. $45. ISBN: 978–0–226–64849–1. Jonathan Goldberg Emory University The Lucretian Renaissance is a somewhat elusive book, and this is the source of much of its strength. Eschewing Poggio Bracciolini’s rediscovery of…
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