Reviews
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posted with permission: Sparta in Modern Thought: Politics, History and Culture. Edited by Stephen Hodkinson and Ian Macgregor Morris. Swansea and London: The Classical Press of Wales, 2012. Distributed in the United States by David Brown Book Company. Pp. xxvi + 462. £60.00/$120.00. ISBN 978-1-905125-47-0. Reviewed by Tim Rood, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford This fine…
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Some theatre reviews of note: 48th Season of Classical Plays at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse: Aeschylus’s Prometheus, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aristophanes’ The Birds Euripides’ Bacchae at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse
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posted with permission: A Seneca Reader: Selections from Prose and Tragedy. By James Ker. Mundelein, Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2011. Pp. lvi + 166. Paper, $19.00. ISBN 978-0-86516-758-2. Reviewed by Christopher Trinacty, Oberlin College (ctrinact AT oberlin.edu). This articulate and helpful book offers four Senecan “scenarios” for students to get a taste of Seneca’s Latin…
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posted with permission: Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile after Ovid. Edited by Jennifer Ingleheart. Classical Presences Series. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp xvi + 353. Hardcover, £70.00/$125.00. ISBN 978-0-19-960384-8 Reviewed by Jo-Marie Claassen, University of Stellenbosch My initial assumption that the title of this book derives from the title of…
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posted with permission: State Formation in Italy and Greece: Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm. Edited by Nicola Terrenato and Donald C. Haggis. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2011. Distributed in the United States by David Brown Book Company. Pp. x + 280. Paper, £35.00/$70.00. ISBN 978-1-84217-967-3. Reviewed by Panagiota A. Pantou, State University of New York at Buffalo…
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