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posted with permission: A Companion to Ancient Macedonia. Edited by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Chichester and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xxvi + 668; 16 pp. of plates. Hardcover, £120.00/$199.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-7936-2. Reviewed by Lee L. Brice, Western Illinois University That we have a Companion devoted to Ancient…
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posted with permission: English Translation and Classical Reception: Towards a New Literary History. By Stuart Gillespie. Classical Receptions. Chichester and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Pp. x + 208. Hardcover, £70.00/$110.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-9901-8. Reviewed by Angeline C. Chiu, University of Vermont In October of 1816, after an evening spent reading the Iliad with a friend, John…
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posted with permission: Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose. By Leslie Kurke. Martin Classical Lectures. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xxiv + 495. Hardcover, $78.50/£55.00. ISBN 978-0-691-14457-3. Paper, $29.95/£24.95. ISBN 978-0-691-14458-0. Reviewed by Page duBois, University of California at San Diego This book is a monumental…
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posted with permission: The Age of Titans: The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies. By William M. Murray. Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xxv + 356. Hardcover, $45.00/£30.00. ISBN 978-0-19-538864-0 . Reviewed by Anthony J. Papalas, East Carolina University The trireme, a “three,” was…
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posted with permission: Manuel Baumbach, Andrej Petrovic and Ivana Petrovic, eds. Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Hardcover, £63.00/$104.00. ISBN 978-0-521-11805-7. Reviewed by Deborah Boedeker, Brown University In his renowned handbook of Greek literature, first published in 1957, Albin Lesky devoted a scant page to pre-Hellenistic Greek epigrams…
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