Reviews
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posted with permission: The Greeks and the New: Novelty in Ancient Greek Imagination and Experience. By Armand D’Angour. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. x + 264. Hardcover, £58.00/$90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-85097-1. Paper, £20.99/$33.99. ISBN 978-0-521-61648-5. Reviewed by Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan This book initially seeks to refute a belief that I…
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posted with permission: Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s Georgics. By Philip Thibodeau. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 326. Hardcover, $60.00. ISBN 978-0-520-26832-6. Reviewed by John Henkel, Georgetown College Its author describes this book as a “large-scale exercise in compare-and-contrast” between the Georgics and the…
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2012.11.48: Karl Galinsky, Augustus: Introduction to the Life of an Emperor. 2012.11.47: Nicola Terrenato, Donald C. Haggis, State Formation in Italy and Greece: Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm. 2012.11.46: Sharon L. James, Sheila Dillon, A Companion to Women in the Ancient World. Blackwell Companions to the ancient world. Ancient history. 2012.11.45: Thomas Brisart, Un art citoyen:…
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posted with permission: Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s Georgics. By Philip Thibodeau. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 326. Hardcover, $60.00. ISBN 978-0-520-26832-6. Reviewed by John Henkel, Georgetown College Its author describes this book as a “large-scale exercise in compare-and-contrast” between the Georgics and the…
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posted with permission: Prodicus the Sophist: Texts, Translations, and Commentary. By Robert Mayhew. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xxix + 272. £50.00/$75.00. ISBN 978-0-19-960787-7. Reviewed by Michael Gagarin, University of Texas at Austin Although Prodicus was an important fifth-century thinker, he remains relatively little known today. Socrates several times alludes to…
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