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Posted with permission: Absolute Constructions in Early Indo-European. By Antonia Ruppel. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv + 255. Hardcover, $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76762-0. Reviewed by D. M. Goldstein, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Wien Absolute participles are a prominent feature of archaic Indo-European morphosyntax: the ablative absolute of…
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Posted with permission: The Poetics of Consent: Collective Decision Making and the Iliad. By David F. Elmer. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 313. Hardcover, $55.00. ISBN 978-1-4214-0826-2. Reviewed by Dean Hammer, Franklin and Marshall College David Elmer’s book addresses two interpretive strands of the Iliad: one that explores…
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Posted with permission: A Commentary on Silius Italicus’ Punica 7. By R. Joy Littlewood. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xcix + 276.Hardcover, $150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-957093-5. Reviewed by Alison Keith, University of Toronto (akeith AT chass.utoronto.ca) Silius Italicus is enjoying a sustained revival of interest in European and Anglo-American scholarship, after centuries of scholarly…
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Posted with permission: Status in Classical Athens. By Deborah Kamen. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013, Pp. xiv + 144. Hardcover, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-13813-8. Reviewed by Peter Liddel, University of Manchester It was Moses Finley who suggested that there existed a “spectrum” of status-groups in ancient Greece; this book sets out and assesses the…
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posted with permission: Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought. Edited by Douglas Cairns. Swansea and London: The Classical Press of Wales, 2013. Pp. liv + 262. Hardcover, $100.00. ISBN 978-1-905125-57-9. Reviewed by Justina Gregory, Smith College This volume of essays sets itself apart from much current Anglophone scholarship on Greek tragedy. In his introduction, Douglas Cairns…
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