Reviews
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posted with permission: Verity Platt, Facing the Gods: Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 482. Hardcover, £75.00/$130.00. ISBN 978-0521-86171-7. Reviewed by Francesca Tronchin, Rhodes College In our age of IMAX movies, skyscrapers, and colossal billboards, it is hard to imagine seeing…
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posted with permission: Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone, eds. A Companion to Greek Mythology. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Pp. xxvii + 643. Hardcover, $199.95/£110.00. ISBN: 978-1-4051-1178-2. Reviewed by Hugh Bowden, King’s College London What is the difference between a guide and a companion? On an expedition, you…
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posted with permission: Björn C. Ewald and Carlos F. Noreña, eds. The Emperor and Rome: Space, Representation, and Ritual. Yale Classical Studies 35. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 365. Hardcover, £60.00/$99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-51953-3. Reviewed by Jennifer E. Thomas, Hamilton College (Note: The Table of Contents of this volume appears…
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posted with permission: Norbert H. O. Duckwitz, Reading the Gospel of St. Mark in Greek: A Beginning. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2011. Pp. xxi + 333. Paper, $19.00 ISBN 978-0-86516-776-6. Reviewed by Wilfrid E. Major, Louisiana State University This latest reader for intermediate students of Greek will serve a niche in the 21st century, although it…
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Catching up … 2012.09.05: Maria Serena Mirto, Death in the Greek World: from Homer to the Classical Age. (First published in Italian 2007; translated by A. M. Osborne). 2012.09.04: Steven Johnstone, A History of Trust in Ancient Greece. 2012.09.03: S. D. Lambert, Sociable Man: Essays on Ancient Greek Social Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher.…
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