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posted with permission: Horace’s Iambic Criticism: Casting Blame (Iambikê Poiêsis). By Timothy S. Johnson. Mnemosyne Supplement 334. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. Pp. xii + 314. Hardcover, €119.00/$163.00. ISBN 978-90-04-21523-8. Reviewed by Erika Zimmermann Damer, University of Richmond Although Horace’s Epodes were frequently dismissed by earlier generations as an uneven poetic collection of obscenity and…
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posted with permission: Cyrene to Chaeronea: Selected Essays on Ancient Greek History. By George Cawkwell. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 485. Hardcover, £80.00/$150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-959328-6. Reviewed by Jeremy Trevett, York University, Toronto George Cawkwell is by any reckoning a major historian of classical Greece. From the early 1960s to…
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2012.09.32: Thomas A. Schmitz, Nicolas Wiater, The Struggle for Identity: Greeks and their Past in the First Century BCE. 2012.09.31: Philippe Gauthier, Études d’histoire et d’institutions grecques: choix d’écrits (édité et indexé par Denis Rousset). École pratique des hautes études, sciences historiques et philologiques – III. Hautes études du monde gréco-romain, 47. 2012.09.30: Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp,…
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posted with permission: From Logos to Trinity: The Evolution of Religious Beliefs from Pythagoras to Tertullian. By Marian Hillar. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 320. $99.00/£60.00. ISBN 978-1-107-1330-8. Reviewed by Patricia Johnston, Brandeis University In this sweeping review, Marian Hillar attempts to trace the development of the Christian doctrine…
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posted with permission: Homer Between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature. By Lawrence Kim. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xi + 246. £58.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19449-5. Reviewed by Robert Lamberton, Washington University in St. Louis It is rather surprising that the project of a history…
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