Reviews

  • Reviews from BMCR

     2013.01.03:  Paolo Crivelli, Plato’s Account of Falsehood: a Study of the Sophist 2013.01.02:  S. Kroll, C. Gruber, U. Hellwag, M. Roaf, P. Zimansky, Biainili-Urartu: the proceedings of the symposium held in Munich 12-14 October 2007 / Tagungsbericht des Münchner Symposiums 12.-14. Oktober 2007. Acta Iranica, 51 2012.12.67:  Andrew Pettinger, The Republic in Danger: Drusus Libo…

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  • posted with permission: The Red Flare: Cicero’s On Old Age. Translated by G. B. Cobbold. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2012. Pp. xxvi + 92. Paper, $15.00. ISBN: 978-0-86516-782-7. Reviewed by Patrick Hogan, Independent Scholar Cicero’s short dialogues On Old Age and On Friendship once occupied a prominent place in high school and collegiate Latin curricula…

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  • posted with permission: The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings. Third Edition. Edited by RONALD MELLOR. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xxx + 583. Paper, $42.95. ISBN 978-0-415-52716-3. Reviewed by Herbert W. Benario, Emory University When a volume intended for use in a college or university class reaches a…

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  • posted with permission: Cicero’s Practical Philosophy. Edited by Walter Nicgorski. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 313. Hardcover, $42.00. ISBN 978-0-268-03665-2. Reviewed by Sean McConnell, University of East Anglia This collection of papers is a useful starting point for those seeking to get an insight into current trends at…

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