Reviews
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posted with permission: A Culture of Freedom: Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe. By Christian Meier. Translated by Jefferson Chase. With a Foreword by Kurt Raaflaub. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 315. Hardcover, £18.99/$29.95. ISBN 978-0-19-958803-9. Reviewed by Paul Cartledge, Clare College, Cambridge (pac1001 AT cam.ac.uk) There was,…
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posted with permission: Augustus: Introduction to the Life of an Emperor. By Karl Galinsky. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xxiv + 221. 22 black-and-white illustrations; 3 maps. Hardcover, $90.00/£55.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76797-2. Paper, $27.99/£17.99. ISBN 978-0-521-74442-3. Reviewed by Alden Smith, Baylor University Karl Galinsky’s handsomely produced new biographical study of Augustus lives…
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posted with permission: The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Fourth Edition. General Editors, Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth; Assistant Editor, Esther Eidinow. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. lv + 1592. Hardcover, £100.00/$175.00. ISBN 978-0-19-954556-8. Reviewed by Peter Green, University of Iowa First, some comparative figures. The fourth edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary…
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2012.12.04: A. J. S. Spawforth, Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution. Greek culture in the Roman world. 2012.12.03: Gian Luca Gregori, Ludi e munera. 25 anni di ricerche sugli spettacoli d’età romana. Scritti vari rielaborati e aggiornati con la collaborazione di Giorgio Crimi e Maurizio Giovagnoli. 2012.12.02: Martina Seifert, Dazugehören: Kinder in Kulten und Festen…
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Lendon, J. E., Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins. H-War, H-Net Reviews. November, 2012. Reviewed by Joseph Frechette (University of Maryland) Published on H-War (November, 2012) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=35487 J. E. Lendon’s engaging new history of the Ten Years or Archidamian War, that is, the first phase of what we have…
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