Reviews
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TLS has a review of Anne Carson’s translation of the Antigone, but I can’t get past the first two lines: As Magritte might say: “This is not a book”. Rather, perhaps, an objet trouvé, a postmodern or Dada artefact, a happening somewhere to the far north (Manitoba?) of Sophocles’ resplendent, morally complex original. Maybe y’all…
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posted with permission: Llewelyn Morgan, Musa Pedestris: Metre and Meaning in Roman Verse. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. x + 412. £78.00/$130.00. ISBN 978-0-19-955418-8. Reviewed by John Henkel, Georgetown College This ambitious book aims to convince Latinists that meter is not just a category for formal analysis, but an important constituent…
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posted with permission: James I. Porter, The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. x + 607. £85.00/$149.00. ISBN 978-0-521-84180-1 Reviewed by Christos Tsagalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki This is the first installment of an ambitious tripartite project on the origins and…
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2012.07.50: Paul Curtis, Stesichoros’s Geryoneis. Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 333. 2012.07.49: Claire Holleran, April Pudsey, Demography and the Graeco-Roman World: New Insights and Approaches. 2012.07.48: Dorigen Caldwell, Lesley Caldwell, Rome: Continuing Encounters between Past and Present. 2012.07.47: Daryn Lehoux, What Did the Romans Know?: an Inquiry into Science and…
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posted with permission: Melissa Lane, Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us About Ethics, Virtues, and Sustainable Living. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. Pp. ix + 245. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-691-15124-3. Reviewed by Susan A. Curry, University of New Hampshire Melissa Lane’s Eco-Republic is a very good example of what I hope is a…
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