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posted with permission: Democracy Beyond Athens: Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age. By Eric W. Robinson. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2011. Pp. ix + 275. Hardcover, £63.00/$103.00. ISBN 978-0-521-84331-7. Reviewed by Sydnor Roy, Temple University This book provides an overview of democracies that have some attestation in the Classical period (480–323).…
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posted with permission: Italy’s Lost Greece: Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology. By Giovanna Ceserani. Greeks Overseas. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. x + 348. Hardcover, $74.00/£45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-974427-5. Reviewed by Alun D. Williams, Cardiff University. The study of Greek colonization has seen something of a resurgence in recent…
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posted with permission: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: A Commentary for Students. By David Raeburn and Oliver Thomas. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. lxxiv + 289. Paperback, £29.99/$55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-959561-7. Hardcover, £65.00/$135.00, ISBN 978-0-19-959560-0. Reviewed by Eric Dugdale, Gustavus Adolphus College David Raeburn and Oliver Thomas have made a difficult but rewarding…
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posted with permission: Athenian Myths and Festivals. By Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 377. Hardback, £83.00/$150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-959207-4. Reviewed by William Blake Tyrrell, Michigan State University Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood’s attention was turned to aristocratic religious associations (genê) in Athenian festivals through Stephen Lambert’s claim that the genos Bakchiadai…
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2012.11.08: Richard Stoneman, Kyle Erickson, Ian Netton, The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East. Ancient Narrative supplementum, 15. 2012.11.07: Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio, On Old Age: Approaching Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The History of Daily Life 2. 2012.11.06: Averil Cameron, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity 395-700 AD. Second edition. Routledge…
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