Institute for the Classical Tradition
International Journal of the Classical Tradition

IJCT Issue 15.3 (September 2008)

ARTICLES:

 

 

Anthony Ossa-Richardson, “From Servius to Frazer: The Golden Bough through the Ages,” pp. 339-368.

Emily A. McDermott, “Playing for His Side: Kipling’s “Regulus,” Corporal Punishment, and Classical Education,” pp. 369-392.

Betine van Zyl Smit, “From Penelope to Winnie Mandela – Women Who Waited,” pp. 393-406.

Rebecca Nagel, "The Classical Tradition in Vita Sackville-West’s Solitude," pp. 407-427. 

 

REVIEW ARTICLES:

“Aristophanic Imaginings: Reflections on Martin Revermann’s
Comic Business,” review of Martin Revermann, Comic Business. Theatricality, Dramatic Technique, and Performance Contexts of Aristophanic Comedy (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) [Elizabeth Scharffenberger], pp. 428-439.

“La struttura dell’io in un libro recente,” review of Christopher Gill, The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) [Aldo Setaioli], pp. 440-456.

“Avicenna’s Approach to the Metaphysics: Reflections about a New Proposal,” review of Amos Bertolacci, The Reception of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in Avicenna’s Kitab al-Šufi. A Milestone of Western Metaphysical Thought, Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 63 (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2006) [Cristina D’Ancona], pp. 457-465.

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS:

Graham Shipley, John Vanderspoel, David Mattingly & Lin Foxhall (eds.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), XLIV + 966 pp. [William K. Freiert], pp. 466-469.

Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia, ed. and trans. Glenn W. Most, Loeb Classical Library 57 (Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 2006), LXXXII + 308 pp., and The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments, ed. and trans. Glenn W. Most, Loeb Classical Library 503 (Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 2007), X + 434 pp. [Patrick Finglass], pp. 470-473.

Sandra Blakely, Myth, Ritual and Metallurgy in Ancient Greece and Recent Africa (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), XIV + 328 pp. [Adrienne Mayor], pp. 474-477.

Sylvia Montiglio, Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 2005), XII + 290 pp. [Alex Purves], pp. 478-481.

Sara Forsdyke, Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 344 pp. [Jennifer T. Roberts], pp. 482-484.

Kristina Milnor, Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life, ser. Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), XII + 360 pp. [Emanuela Zanda], pp. 485-488.

P. J. Davis, Ovid and Augustus: A Political Reading of Ovid’s Erotic Poems (London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2006), VIII + 183 pp. [Elaine Fantham], pp. 489-494.

Aïcha Ben Abed (ed.), Stories in Stone: conserving mosaics of Roman Africa. Masterpieces from the National Museums of Tunisia (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum/Getty Conservation Institute, in collaboration with Institut National du Patrimoine de Tunisie, 2006), 188 pp., 160 colour illustrations; and Aïcha Ben
Abed, Tunisian Mosaics: treasures from Roman Africa, trans. Sharon Grevet (Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2006), 138 pp., extensive colour illustrations. [Katherine M. D. Dunbabin], pp. 495-497.

Barbara K. Altmann & R. Barton Palmer (eds. & trans.), An Anthology of Medieval Love Debate Poetry (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006), XII + 397 pp. [Constance B. Bouchard], pp. 498-500.

Gene Brucker, Living on the Edge in Leonardo’s Florence: Selected Essays (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University
of California Press, 2005), XXVI + 211 pp. [John Najemy], pp. 501-503.

Roy Eriksen & Victor Plahte Tschudi (eds.), Ashes to Ashes: Art in Rome Between Humanism and Maniera, Early Modern and Modern Studies 1 (Pisa & Rome: Edizioni Dell’Ateneo, 2006), 227 pp. [Robert Gaston], pp. 504-509.

Gideon Nisbet, Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture, ser. Greece and Rome Live (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2006), XVI + 170 pp. [Jon Solomon], pp. 510-514.

Robert Garland, Celebrity in Antiquity: From Media Tarts to Tabloid Queens, ser. Classical Inter/Faces (London: Duckworth, 2006), X + 177 pp. [Martin M. Winkler], pp. 515-517.

Harold James, The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006), VII + 166 pp. [Eric Adler], pp. 518-520.

 

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