online archive
3:00PM
SEP 27 2007
Another Athens shall arise
A review of A Companion to Ancient Epic. A review of Homeric Voices: Discourse, Memory, Gender by Elizabeth Minchin. A review of The Beginnings of History: Herodotus and the Persian Wars by James Allan Evans. A review of The Bad Citizen in Classical Athens by Matthew R. Christ. The introduction to Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going On Together by Josiah Ober. From NYRB, a review of Rome from the Ground Up by James H.S. McGregor; The Seven Hills of Rome: A Geological Tour of the Eternal City by Grant Heiken, Renato Funiciello, and Donatella De Rita; The Secrets of Rome: Love and Death in the Eternal City by Corrado Augias; and The Colosseum by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard. A review of Religion in the Roman Empire. A review of Pompeii Awakened: A story of rediscovery by Judith Harris and Antiquity Rediscovered: The legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum. A review of History and Geography in Late Antiquity by A. H. Merrills.
