• Echoing Hylas: A Study in Hellenistic and Roman Metapoetics. By Mark Heerink. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. Pp. xii + 243. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 978-0-299-30540-6. Reviewed by Goran Vidović, University of Belgrade The story of Heracles’ young companion Hylas is generally as follows: during a break on the Argonaut…

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  • In fact… with damnatio memoriae of Commodus. https://t.co/Y6LkCI9MGh — Ninoslav Šafarić (@NinoslavSafaric) March 28, 2017 http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/846754061110165510 Publio Elvio Pertinace, nato ad Alba il 1º agosto 126, imperatore romano dal #1gennaio al #28marzo 193. #Roma. https://t.co/V9ldca5aa7 pic.twitter.com/UmKCD0vbXp — Capitolivm (@Capitolivm) March 28, 2017 http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/846754214827233281 64 d.C. Roma arde un llamas … (esp)https://t.co/IDGp0th0Ec pic.twitter.com/lZDGbOdABJ — Rome and…

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  • http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/846649162955460608 A bronze horse harness piece from the #Villanovan culture of central #Italy. 9th-8th century BCE. https://t.co/SjMzxmhPc6 pic.twitter.com/E5BkN8Y4Hb — World History Encyclopedia (@whencyclopedia) March 28, 2017 Today I had Professor Connolly of @RUClassics Skype in to answer SS questions on the Pliny letters and Mt. Vesuvius! #LatinTeach pic.twitter.com/HiX7UfGROW — Magistra K (@MagistraKiernan) March 28, 2017…

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  • The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 1: 800-1558. Edited by Rita Copeland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp.xii +758. Hardcover, $235. ISBN 978-0-19-958723-0. Reviewed by Kathleen Burt, Middle Georgia State University This volume is chronologically first, but fourth to appear, in a series of five volumes intended “to offer a comprehensive…

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  • Ovid: A Poet on the Margins. By Laurel Fulkerson. Classical World Series. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Pp. xiv + 104. Paperback ISBN 978-1-47253-134-6, 978-1-4752-734-9 and 978-1-4752-317-4.   Reviewed by Jo-Marie Claassen, University of Stellenbosch   The concise format required for Bloomsbury’s Classical World Series offers a unique challenge to any author brave enough…

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