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posted with permission: The Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries BC. Edited by Zosia H. Archibald, John K. Davies, and Vincent Gabrielson. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 460. Hardcover, £89.00/$165.00. ISBN 978-0-19-958792-6. Reviewed by Stanley M. Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles For much of the twentieth…
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posted with permission: A Companion to Horace. Edited by Gregson Davis. Oxford, Chichester, and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xiv + 464. Hardcover, £156.00/$209.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-5540-3. Reviewed by Timothy S. Johnson, College of Charleston Horace’s literary career spans thirty years from the final years of the republic to the middle years of the principate. He…
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posted with permission: Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage, edited by Peter Brown and Suzana Ograjenšek. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi + 460. Hardcover, £93.00/$160.00. ISBN 978-0-19-955855-1. Reviewed by Marianthe Colakis, Townsend Harris High School “Old dead legends! How can we go on forever writing about gods and…
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posted with permission: Philodemus: On Poems, Books 3–4. With the Fragments of Aristotle, On Poets. By Richard Janko. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 629. Hardcover, £105.00/$175.00. ISBN 978-0-521-11016-7. Reviewed by David Sider, New York University Is traveling summer after summer to Naples in order to read the world’s most…
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posted with permission: The Fate of Achilles: Text Inspired by Homer’s Iliad and Other Stories of Ancient Greece. By Bimba Landmann. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. Pp. 32. Hardcover, $19.95. ISBN 978-1-60606-085-8. Reviewed by Parthena N. Karatzoglou, Centre for the Greek Language in Thessaloniki Although this book’s target audience is young children,…
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