Reviews
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2012.07.35: A. P. M. H. Lardinois, J. H. Blok, M. G. M. van der Poel, Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy, and Religion. Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, vol. 8. Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin Language and Literature, 332. 2012.07.34: C. D. C. Reeve, Action, Contemplation, and Happiness: an Essay on Aristotle. 2012.07.33:…
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posted with permission: Hazel Dodge, Spectacle in the Roman World. Classical World Series. London and New York: Bristol Classical Press/Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. Pp. 96. Paperback, £12.99/$19.95. ISBN 978-1-8539-9696-2. Reviewed by Linda Maria Gigante, University of Louisville Hazel Dodge, the Louis Claude Purser Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at Trinity College, Dublin, has published extensively on…
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posted with permission: Rune Frederiksen, Greek City Walls of the Archaic Period, 900–480 BC. Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xxx + 238. Hardcover, £100.00/$170.00. ISBN 978-0-19-957812-2. Reviewed by Benjamin Sullivan, Cornell University The archaeology of Early Iron Age (EIA, 900–700 BCE) and archaic (700–480 BCE) fortification…
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posted with permission: Jonathan L. Ready, Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. x + 323. Hardcover, $93.00/£55.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19064-0 Reviewed by Rebecca M. Muich, Xavier University In this thoroughly-researched, stimulating work, Jonathan Ready argues that similes can function as mechanisms of competition within the Iliadic…
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posted with permission: Alexander Sens, Asclepiades of Samos: Epigrams and Fragments. Edited with Translation and Commentary. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Hardcover, £100.00/$150.00. Pp. cxvi + 354. ISBN 978-0-19-925319-7. Reviewed by Valentina Garulli, University of Bologna This long-awaited work fully satisfies the reader’s expectations. Sens’ new edition with English translation of and…
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