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posted with permission Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity. By Karol B. Wight. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011. Pp. 128; 92 color and 2 b/w illustrations, 36 line drawings, 1 map. Paper, $20.00/£13.99. ISBN 978-1-60606-053-7. Reviewed by Susan Walker, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford The well-chosen cover photograph of a multi-colored ribbon flask, a product of…
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posted with permission: Virgil. By R. Alden Smith. Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Chichester and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Pp. x + 210. Hardcover, £70.00/$99.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-5949-4. Reviewed by Christopher B. Polt, Carleton College To introduce an author like Vergil broadly but briefly to audiences of students and scholars alike requires deep and sweeping…
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Not sure how long this one will be up on Youtube, so it might be a good idea to watch it now … my review follows: We’ll begin by noting that when this one first appeared on the BBC a week or two ago, it seemed to be universally-panned by folks on twitter and facebook.…
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posted with permission: A Roman Verse Satire Reader: Selections from Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. By Catherine C. Keane. Mundelein, Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2010. Pp. xxvi + 142. Paper, $19.00. ISBN 978-0-86516-685-1. A Martial Reader: Selections from the Epigrams. By Craig Williams. Mundelein, Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2011. Pp. xxx + 185. Paper, $19.00. ISBN 978-0-86516-704-9.…
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posted with permission: Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius’ Astronomica. Edited by Steven J. Green and Katharina Volk. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xix + 342. Hardcover, £79.00/$150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-958646-2. Reviewed by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University (Table of contents available at http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/ acprof:oso/9780199586462.001.0001/acprof-9780199586462) The late-Augustan didactic poet Manilius has largely…
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