Institute for the Classical Tradition
International Journal of the Classical Tradition

IJCT Issue 9.1 (Summer 2002)

Wolfgang Haase and Irving L. Horowitz, “In Memoriam: Meyer Reinhold, 1909-2002,” pp. 3-7.

ARTICLES:

David Pingree, “The Sabians of Harran and the Classical Tradition,” pp. 8-35.

James Crooks, “Getting Over Nihilism: Nietzsche, Heidegger and the Appropriation of Tragedy,” pp. 36-50.

Gonda Van Steen, “Rolling out the Red Carpet: Power ‘Play’ in Modern Greek Versions of the Myth of Orestes from the 1960s and 1970s (I),” pp. 51-95

REVIEW ARTICLES:

“Hermeneutik als Bildungsprogramm,” review of Reimund Sdzuj, Historische Studien zur Interpretationsmethodologie der frühen Neuzeit (Würzburg, 1997) [Burckhard Dücker], pp. 96-114.

“Le Muse nella cultura dell’Italia contemporanea. A proposito di un libro americano ,” review of John T. Kirby, Secret of the Muses Retold. Classical Influences on Italian Authors of the Twentieth Century (Chicago & London, 2000) [Aldo Setaioli], pp. 115-120.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Haynes, Sybille, Etruscan Civilization. A Cultural History (Los Angeles & London, 2000) [Larissa Bonfante], pp. 121-125.

Miller, Dean A., The Epic Hero (Baltimore, 2000) [Norman Austin], pp. 125-127.

Shankman, Steven & Stephen Durrant, The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China (London & New York, 2000) [Lisa Raphals], pp. 127-129.

Tritle, Lawrence A., From Melos to My Lai: War and Survival (London & New York, 2000) [Simon Goldhill], pp. 130-133.

Chauveau, Michel, Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra: History and Society under the Ptolemies, Translated by David Lorton (Ithaca & London, 2000 [French orig. Paris 1997]) [Allen Kerkeslager], pp. 134-135.

Brandt, Axel, Moralische Werte in den Res gestae des Ammianus Marcellinus, Hypomnemata 122 (Göttingen, 1999) [Klaus Rosen], pp. 136-137.

Scaraffia, Lucetta, & Zarri, Gabriella (eds.), Women and Faith: Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge, MA, 1999) [Mary Walsh Meany], pp. 138-140.

Cogan, Marc, The Design in the Wax. The Structure of the Divine Comedy and its Meaning, The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies 3 (Notre Dame & London, 1999) [Gary Cestaro], pp. 140-142.

Kekewich, Lucille, ed., The Impact of Humanism, The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Inquiry 1 (New Haven, CT, 2000) [Albert Rabil], pp. 143-145.

Dorat, Jean, Mythologicum ou Interprétation allégorique de l’Odyssée X-XII et de L’Hymne à Aphrodite, edited, translated and annotated by Philip Ford, Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 337 (Geneva, 2000) [Kenneth Lloyd-Jones], pp. 145-148.

Shrimplin, Valerie, Sun Symbolism and Cosmology in Michelangelo’s “Last Judgement”, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies 46 (Kirksville, MO, 2000) [Robert Gaston], pp. 149-152.

Tasso, Torquato, Jerusalem Delivered, ed. and trans. Anthony Esolen (Baltimore, 2000) [Gordon Braden], pp. 152-156.

Summers, Claude, & Ted-Larry Pebworth, Ben Jonson Revised, ser. Twayne’s English Authors Series (New York, 1999) [Robert C. Evans], pp. 156-158.

Mitnick, Barbara J. (ed.), George Washington. American Symbol (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1999) [John E. Ziolkowski], pp. 158-162.

Vendler, Helen, Seamus Heaney (Cambridge, 1998; paperback 2000) [Lorna Hardwick], pp. 163-167.

Fauvelle-Aymar, François-Xavier, Jean-Pierre Chrétien, & Claude-Helene Perrot (eds.), Afrocentrismes: L’histoire des Africains entre Egypte et Amerique (Paris, 2000) [Stanley M. Burstein], pp. 167-170.

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pp. 171-174.


IJCT
Issue 9.2 (Fall 2002)

ARTICLES:

Wolfgang Kuhoff, “Die diokletianische Tetrarchie als Epoche einer historischen Wende in antiker und moderner Sicht,” pp. 177-194.

Gonda Van Steen, “Rolling out the Red Carpet: Power ‘Play’ in Modern Greek Versions of the Myth of Orestes from the 1960s and 1970s (II)," pp. 195-235.

Lorna P. Hardwick, “Classical Texts in Post-Colonial Literatures: Consolation, Redress and New Beginnings In the Work of Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney,” pp. 236-256.

REVIEW ARTICLES:

"The Christianization of the Late Roman Senatorial Order: Circumstances and Scholarship," review of Michele Renee Salzman, The Making of a Christian Aristocracy. Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire (Cambridge, MA, 2002) [Ralph W. Mathisen], pp. 257-278.

Review of Manuel Baumbach (ed.), Tradita et Inventa. Beiträge zur Rezeption der Antike, Bibliothek der Klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, Band 106 (Heidelberg, 2000) [Bernhard Kytzler], pp. 278-286.

“Hippocrates and the Hippocratic Ideal in Modern Medicine,” review of Jouanna Jacques, Hippocrates, trans. M. B. DeBevoise, ser. Medicine and Culture (Baltimore & London: 1999) [John Scarborough], pp. 287-297.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Gustafson, Lowell S., Ed., Thucydides’ Theory of International Relations, Political Traditions in Foreign Policy Series (Baton Rouge, 2000) [Claude Mossé], pp. 298-300.

Usher, Stephen, Greek Oratory. Tradition and Originality (Oxford & New York, 1999) [Michael Hillgruber], pp. 300-303.

McAvoy, Martin, The Profession of Ignorance. With Constant Reference to Socrates (Lanham, MD, 1999) [Thomas C. Brickhouse], pp. 303-306.

Holland, Glenn S., Divine Irony (Selinsgrove, 2000) [David Roochnik], pp. 306-307.

Cooper, John M., Reason and Emotion: Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory (Princeton, 1999) [Allen Speight], pp. 307-309.

Fraser, P.M., Cities of Alexander the Great (Oxford, 1996) [Wolfgang Orth], pp. 309-312.

Schwindt, Jurgen Paul, Prolegomena zu einer <Phänomenologie> der römischen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung. Von den Anfängen bis Quintilian (Gottingen, 2000) [Thomas Habinek], pp. 312-314.

Freyberger, Bert, Südgallien im 1. Jahrundert v. Chr. Phasen, Konsequenzen und Grenzen Römischer Eroberugn (125-27/22 v. Chr.), Geographica Historica 11 (Stuttgart, 1999) [Pierre Gros], pp. 314-316.

Weidmann, Frederick Walter, Polycarp and John. The Harris Fragments and Their Challenge to the Literary Tradition, Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Series, 12 (Notre Dame, IN, 1999) [Gerd Buschmann], pp. 317-318.

Fowden, Elizabeth. The Barbarian Plain. Saint Sergius Between Rome and Iran (Berkeley, 1999) [Frank L. Kidner], pp. 318-320.

Epp, Verena, Amicitia. Zur Geschichte personaler, sozialer, politischer und geistlicher Beziehungen im frühen Mittelalter, Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters Band 44 (Stuttgart, 1999) [Andreas Kraß], pp. 321-324.

Strohmaier, Gotthard, Avicenna, Beckische Reihe; 546: Denker (München, 1999) [Rüdiger Arnzen], pp. 324-327.

Smith, Ole L., (ed.), The Byzantine Achilleid. The Naples Version, Wiener Byzantinistische Studien XXI (Wien, 1999) [Foteini Kolovou], pp. 327-330.

Matuschek, Stefan, Literarische Spieltheorie: Von Petrarca bis zu den Brüdern Schlegel, Jenaer Germanistische Forschungen, N.F. 2 (Heidelberg, 1998) [Ullrich Langer], pp. 331-333.

Kallendorf, Craig, Virgil and the Myth of Venice. Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance (Oxford, 1999) [Marion Leathers Kuntz], pp. 333-335.

Tobin, Ronald W., Jean Racine Revisited, Twayne’s World Authors Series 878 (New York, 1999) [Mark Bannister], pp. 335-337.

Shannon, Richard, Gladstone, vol. II: 1865 to 1898 (Chapel Hill, 1999) [John Vaio], pp. 337-339.

Beard, Mary, The Invention of Jane Harrison (Cambridge, MA, 2000) [Hugh Lloyd-Jones], pp. 339-343.

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pp. 344-347.

 

IJCT Issue 9.3 (Winter 2003)

ARTICLES:

Roger Harmon, “Themistocles and Philomathes: Amousoi and amousia in Antiquity and the Early Modern Period,” pp. 351-390.

Robert J. Rabel, “Impersonation and Identity: Sommersby, The Return of Martin Guerre, and the Odyssey,” pp. 391-406.

REVIEW ARTICLES:

"Who Killed Humor?", review of Erich Segal, The Death of Comedy (Cambridge, MA, 2001) [David Konstan], pp. 407-412.

“Saving the Subject, Saving the Text: Lowell Edmunds and the State of the Art,” review of Lowell Edmunds, Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry (Baltimore, 2001) [Paul Allen Miller], pp. 412-423.

"Vergil - Dichter auch der christlichen Römer," review of Stefan Freund, Vergil im frühen Christentum. Untersuchungen zu den Vergilzitaten bei Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Novatian, Cyprian und Arnobius, Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums 16 (Paderborn, 2000) [Eberhard Heck], pp. 423-429.

“Are you not entertained?: Classicists and the Cinema,” review of Jon Solomon, The Ancient World in the Cinema, rev. ed. (New Haven & London, 2001) and Martin Winkler (ed.), Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema, rev. ed. (Oxford, 2001) [Maria Wyke], pp. 430-445.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Devine, A. M., and Stephens, Laurence D., Discontinuous Syntax. Hyperbaton in Greek (New York & Oxford, 2000) [Jean Irigoin], pp. 446-447.

Sullivan, Shirley Darcus, Euripides' Use of Psychological Terminology (Montreal & Kingston, 2000) [Justina Gregory], pp. 447-449.

Brickhouse, Th.C. & N.D. Smith, The Philosophy of Socrates (Boulder, CO, 2000) [Alejandro G. Vigo], pp. 449-451.

Press, Gerald (ed.), Who speaks for Plato? Studies in Platonic Anonymity (New York, 2000) [François Renaud], pp. 452-454.

Chauveau, Michel, Cleopatra. Beyond the Myth, trans. David Lorton (Ithaca & London, 2002) [French orig. Paris 1998] [Susan Walker], pp. 454-456.

Walker, Susan, & Peter Higgs (eds.), Cleopatra of Egypt. From history to myth (London, 2001) [Manfred Clauss], pp. 456-457.

Kunst, Christiane and Ulrike Riemer (eds.), Grenzen der Macht. Zur Rolle der römischen Kaiserfrauen (Stuttgart, 2000) [Diana E.E. Kleiner], pp. 457-460.

Petronius, Satyricon. Translated, with Notes and Topical Commentaries, by Sarah Ruden (Indianapolis & Cambridge, 2000) [Warren S. Smith], pp. 460-462.

Otte, Christoph (ed.), Galen, De plenitudine: Kritische Edition, Übersetzung und Erläuterungen, Serta Graeca. Beiträge zur Erforschung griechischer Texte 9 (Wiesbaden, 2000) [Mark D. Grant], pp. 462-465.

Haehling, Raban von (ed.), Rom und das himmlische Jerusalem. Die frühen Christen zwischen Anpassung und Ablehnung (Darmstadt 2000) [Gerd Buschmann], pp. 465-467.

Izbicki, Thomas M. and Christopher M. Bellitto, eds., Reform and Renewal in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Studies in Honor of Louis Pascoe S.J. (Leiden, 2000) [Helmut Feld], pp. 467-469.

Mateer, David (ed.), The Renaissance in Europe: Courts, Patrons and Poets (New Haven & London, 2000); Peter Elmer (ed.), The Renaissance in Europe: Challenges to Authority (New Haven & London, 2000); Peter Elmer, Nick Webb, and Roberta Wood (eds.), The Renaissance in Europe: An Anthology (New Haven & London: 2000); Keith Whitlock (ed.), The Renaissance in Europe: A Reader (New Haven & London: 2000) [Albert Rabil], pp. 469-474.

Weber, Dorothea, Augustinus conversus. Ein Drama von Jakob Gretser. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte 674 (Wien, 2000) [Reinhold F. Glei], pp. 474-477.

Hersey, George L., Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque (Chicago, 2000) [Paul Malo], pp. 478-479.

Sharpe, Kevin, Remapping Early Modern England. The Culture of Seventeenth-Century Politics (Cambridge, 2000) [Lamar Hill], pp. 479-480.

Gould, Eliga H., The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of American Revolution (Chapel Hill & London, 2000) [Victoria Tietze Larson], pp. 481-482.

Butler, Jon, Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 (Cambridge, MA: 2000) [Carl J. Richard], pp. 482-483.

Ziolkowski, Theodore, The Sin of Knowledge. Ancient Themes in Modern Variations (Princeton & Oxford, 2000) [Volker Riedel], pp. 483-487.

Standage, Tom, The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting (New York, 2000) [Owen Gingerich], pp. 487-488.

Baur, Detlev, Der Chor im Theater des 20. Jahrhunderts. Typologie des theatralen Mittels Chor, Theatron. Studien zur Geschichte und Theorie der dramatischen Künste 20 (Tübingen, 1999) [Volker Riedel], pp. 488-492.

Smith, Bonnie G., The Gender of History. Men, Women, and Historical Practice (Cambridge, MA & London, 2000) [Beate Wagner-Hasel], pp. 492-495.

Swinburne, Algernon, Poems and Ballads & Atalanta in Calydon, ed. Kenneth Haynes (New York etc., 2000) [Norman Vance], pp. 495-499.

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pp. 500-503.

 

IJCT Issue 9.4 (Spring 2003)

ARTICLES:

Eberhard Heck, “Nochmals: Lactantius und Lucretius. Antilucrezisches im Epilog des lactanzischen Phoenix-Gedichts?,” pp. 509-523.

Richard Frank, “Fracastoro - Poetry vs. Prose,” pp. 524-534.

Shelley Cordulack, “Victorian Caricature and Classicism: Picturing the London Water Crisis,” pp. 535-583.

REVIEW ARTICLES:

“Cracking the Code of Honor,” review of Carlin A. Barton, Roman Honor. The Fire in the Bones (Berkeley, CA, 2001) [Ellen O’Gorman], pp. 584-591.

Review of Frederick C. Beiser, German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism 1781-1801 (Cambridge, MA, 2002) [Theodore Ziolkowski], pp. 592-597.

“Black Athena: the Sequel (Part 1),” review of Bernal, Martin, Black Athena Writes Back, edited by David Chioni Moore (Durham, N.C., 2001) [Mary R. Lefkowitz], pp. 598-603.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Holst-Warhaft, Gail, The Cue for Passion: Grief and its Political Uses (Cambridge, MA, 2000) [David Konstan], pp. 604-606.

Cartledge, Paul, Spartan reflections (Berkeley & Los Angeles 2001) [Manfred Clauss], pp. 606-607.

Rollinger, Robert & Christoph Ulf (eds.), Geschlechterrollen und Frauenbild in der Perspektive antiker Autoren (Innsbruck, Wien, & München, 2000) [Zsuzsanna Várhelhi]., pp. 607-609.

Villa, Dana, Socratic Citizenship (Princeton, 2001) [David Roochnik], pp. 609-611.

Monoson, S. Sara, Plato’s Democratic Entanglements (Princeton, 2000) [Harrison J. Pemberton], pp. 611-612.

Posidippo di Pella: Epigrammi (P.Mil.Vogl.VIII 309), ed. Guido Bastianini e Claudio Gallazzi con la collaborazione di Colin Austin, ser. Papiri dell’Università degli Studi di Milano (Milano, 2001) [Hugh Lloyd-Jones], pp. 612-616.

Young, Gary K., Rome’s Eastern Trade. International Commerce and Commercial Policy, 31 BC - AD 305 (London & New York, 2001) [Ted Kaizer], pp. 616-619.

Hölbl, Günther, Altägypten im Römischen Reich: Der römische Pharao und seine Tempel. I: Römische Politik und altägyptische Ideologie von Augustus bis Diocletian, Tempelbau in Oberägypten, Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie; Sonderbände der Antiken Welt (Mainz am Rhein, 2000) [Olaf Kaper], pp. 619-621.

Guex, Sophie, Ps.-Claudien: Laus Herculis. Introduction, texte, traduction et commentaire (Bern, 2000) [Fritz Felgentreu], pp. 622-624.

Lerner, Robert E., The Feast of Saint Abraham. Medieval Millenarians and the Jews, ser. The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia, 2000) [Daniela Müller], pp. 625-626.

French, Roger, Ancients and Moderns in the Medical Sciences: From Hippocrates to Harvey, Variorum Collected Studies Series ( Aldershot, U.K., 2000) [Brian Nance], pp. 626-629.

Payne, Alina, Ann Kuttner, and Rebekah Smick (eds.), Antiquity and Its Interpreters (Cambridge, 2000) [Peter N. Miller], pp. 629-631.

Hirstein, James (ed.), Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1547). Lecteur et Editeur des Textes Anciens, Acta du Colloque International tenu à Strasbourg et à Sélestat du 13 au 15 novembre 1998 (Turnhout, 2000) [Walther Ludwig], pp. 631-635.

McDonald,Mariannne, Sing Sorrow: Classics, History, and Heroines in Opera (Wesport, CT & London, 2001) [Jon Solomon], pp. 635-639.

Schwarz, Kathryn, Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance (Durham, NC, 2000) [Bruce Boehrer], pp. 639-640.

Mortimer, Anthony, Variable Passions: A Reading of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (New York, 2000) [John Roe], pp. 641-644.

Skulsky, Harold, Milton and the Death of Man: Humanism on Trial in Paradise Lost (Newark, 2000) [John Leonard], pp. 644-646.

Armitage, David, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000) [Robert Sullivan], pp. 646-648.

Hall, Nicholas H.J. (ed.), Fearful Symmetry: George Stubbs, Painter of the English Enlightenment, With essays by Malcolm Cormack, Judy Egerton, and Richard Godfrey (New York: Hall and Knight Ltd, 2000) [Samuel Smiles], pp. 649-650.

Bell, Daniel O., A Pious Bacchanal: Affinities Between the Lives and Works of John Flaxman and Aubrey Beardsley, New Connections: Studies in Interdisciplinarity 10 (New York, 2000) [Susan Owens], pp. 651-653.

Hill, Roland, Lord Acton (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2000) [Norman Vance], pp. 653-655.

Florman, Lisa, Myth and Metamorphosis: Picasso’s Classical Prints of the 1930s (Cambridge, MA & London, 2001) [Seymour Howard], pp. 655-659.

Lofts, S. G., Ernst Cassirer. A “Repetition” of Modernity (Albany, 2000) [Daniel O. Dahlstrom], pp. 659-661.

Näf, Beat (ed.), Antike und Altertumswissenschaft in der Zeit von Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus (Mandelbachtal & Cambridge, 2001) [Jonathan Perry], pp. 661-664.

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pp. 665-668.

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