Reviews
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posted with permission: Joseph Farrell and Michael C. J. Putnam, eds., A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition. Malden, Mass. and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xiv + 559. Hardcover, £130.00/$209.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-7577-7. Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono, Ohio Wesleyan University The contemporary proliferation of companions to and readings in classical topics can be traced to…
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posted with permission: Alan Kaiser, Roman Urban Street Networks. Routledge Studies in Archaeology 2. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. Pp. xvii + 249. Hardcover, $125.00/£80.00. ISBN 978-0415-88657-4. Reviewed by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Brandeis University The bulk of Kaiser’s book focuses on four well-known ancient cities, Pompeii, Ostia, Silchester, and Empúries, in order to provide…
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posted with permission: Francesco Ademollo, The Cratylus of Plato: A Commentary. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xx + 538. Hardcover, £85.00/$140.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76347-9. Reviewed by R. M. Dancy, The Florida State University Plato’s Cratylus is about names, with Socrates as the lead speaker. There are two main theories under discussion, usually…
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Mary Beard reviews: Timothy M. O’Sullivan, WALKING IN ROMAN CULTURE Ray Laurence and David J. Newsome, editors, ROME, OSTIA, POMPEII Robert A. Kaster,THE APPIAN WAY … in the Times Literary Supplement: Walk like a Roman
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2012.05.10: Oliver Hoover, Andrew Meadows, Ute Wartenberg, Coin Hoards, Volume X: Greek Hoards. 2012.05.09: J. A. North, S. R. F. Price, The Religious History of the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews, and Christians. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. 2012.05.08: Rune Frederiksen, Greek City Walls of the Archaic Period, 900-480 BC. Oxford monographs on classical archaeology. 2012.05.07:…
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