Reviews
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In the hecticity of the last couple of weeks of school, I fear I’ve fallen far behind with these, so here’s a random grab of the most recent in the hopes I get most of what I’ve missed: 2012.06.54: Dominique Charpin, Reading and Writing in Babylon. (Translated by Jane Marie Todd). 2012.06.53: Jean-Christophe Couvenhes, Sandrine…
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One of my summer projects is to get as many of these documentaries lurking in Youtube on rogueclassicism (and possibly in some form of revived AWOTV newsletter) … I’m not sure how long they’ll be available, so I’ll provide a bit of added value in the form of a semi-review. So here goes: When Rome…
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Posted with permission: Simon Goldhill, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity. Martin Classical Lectures. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 352. $45.00/£30.95. ISBN 978-0-691-14984-4. Reviewed by Robert J. Rabel, University of Kentucky The relationship between the Victorian Age and the discipline of Classical Studies…
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Posted with permission: Alan Cameron, The Last Pagans of Rome. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xi + 878. 18 Illustrations. Hardcover, $85.00/£55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-974727-9. Reviewed by Dennis Trout, University of Missouri Encyclopedic in its learning and relentless in its argument, Alan Cameron’s Last Pagans of Rome is a landmark in late…
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posted with permission: Alex C. Purves, Space and Time in Ancient Greek Narrative. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xi + 273. $89.00/£53.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19098-5. Reviewed by James Romm, Bard College One of the most memorable phrases used by Herodotus is hodos logôn, “the path of words,” describing the thread his storytelling…
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