Reviews

  • Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book III. Edited with commentary by Gesine Manuwald. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp.x+286. Paperback, $39.99. ISBN 978-1-107-69726-3 Reviewed by Jessica R. Blum, Wabash College Long on the outskirts of the Classical canon, Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica has, in the last three decades, benefited from renewed interest…

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  • Back in June, I was one of a group of blogging types whom the Royal Ontario Museum graciously allowed to attend the media opening of their Pompeii: In the Shadow of the Volcano exhibition (which, it should be noted, is NOT the same one that was at the British Museum a while back, although it…

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  • Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.02.49 Gaël​ Grobéty​, Guerre de Troie, guerres des cultures et guerres du Golfe: les usages de l’Iliade dans la culture écrite américaine contemporaine. Echo, 11​. Bern; Frankfurt am Main; New York; Wien: Peter Lang, 2014. Pp. xviii, 349. ISBN 9783034315111. $106.95 (pb). Reviewed by Matthieu Soler, Université Toulouse II​ Les historiens…

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  •   2014.08.35:  Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Taxing Freedom in Thessalian Manumission Inscriptions. Mnemosyne supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, 361. 2014.08.34:  Thomas F. Tartaron, Maritime Networks in the Mycenaean World. 2014.08.33:  Rosaria Vignolo Munson, Herodotus: Volume 2, Herodotus and the World. Oxford readings in classical studies. 2014.08.32:  Ilenia Achilli, Le ali di Clio. Massimo di Tiro…

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  • The latest: 2014.08.29:  Sten Ebbesen, John Marenbon, Paul Thom, Aristotle’s Categories in the Byzantine, Arabic and Latin Traditions. Scientia Danica: Series H, Humanistica 8, vol. 5. 2014.08.28:  Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf, Ancient Libraries. 2014.08.27:  Mika Kajava, Studies in Ancient Oracles and Divination. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 40. 2014.08.26:  Angelos Chaniotis, Pierre Ducrey, Unveiling…

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