Electronic Antiquity v8n2 - Table of Contents

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ELECTRONIC ANTIQUITY:
COMMUNICATING THE CLASSICS

Editors:

Terry Papillon Terry.Papillon@vt.edu
Andrew Becker abecker@vt.edu (Book Reviews)

May 2005

Volume 8, Number 2

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Notice:

Please note that Electronic Antiquity has moved to PDF format starting with Vol. 8, no. 1 (July 2004).

Announcement:

Mummies From The British Museum (PDF 228 kb; 1 p.)

Articles:

Latin Verse-Ictus and Multimodal Entrainment

Editorial note: This article includes sound files that make the PDF file quite large. As a result, we offer two different versions of the article: one with sound files (15.3 MB) and one with the text only (614 kb). We recommend using Acrobat Reader 6.0 or higher for reading the PDF with sound.

Robert P. Sonkowsky and Franz Halberg (PDF [text only] 614 kb; 17 pp.; PDF [with sound] 15.3 Mb; 17 pp.)
University of Minnesota
sonko001@unm.edu

Reviews:

Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad, by Donna F. Wilson. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 0-521-80660-7. Pp 248.

Reviewed by Pura Nieto (PDF 496 kb; 14 pp.)
Brown University
puranieto@netscape.net

Euripides: Medea. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, ed, Donald J. Mastronarde. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-64365-1 (hb); 0-521-64386-4 (pb). Pp 442.

Reviewed by Thalia Papadopoulou (PDF 288 kb; 4 pp.)
University of Ioannina
thaliap@cc.uoi.gr

Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Luc Brisson. Translated by J. Lloyd. University of California Press, 2002. ISBN 0-520-23148-1 (pb). Pp. xiv + 195.

Reviewed by Dr. Eleanor R. Okell (PDF 300 kb; 8 pp.)
University of Nottingham
Eleanor.Okell@nottingham.ac.uk

The Ancient Fable. An Introduction, by Niklas Holzberg. Indiana University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-253-21548-X. Pp. 128.

Reviewed by Mario Andreassi (PDF 536 kb; 10 pp.)
Univ. di Bari, Italy
andreassim@lettere.uniba.it

Rome at War. Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic, N. Rosenstein. University of North Carolina Press, 2004). ISBN 0-8078-2839-4. Pp 312.

Reviewed by Brian Campbell (PDF 192 kb; 6 pp.)
The Queen's University of Belfast
brian.campbell@qub.ac.uk

Selections from Ovid, Read in Classical Latin, Robert P. Sonkowsky. Stephen G. Daitz, Series Editor. Jeffrey Norton Publishers, 1999. ISBN 1-579770-047-0. Pp. xi + 64.

Reviewed by Alison Keith (PDF 128 kb; 3 pp.)
Victoria College, University of Toronto
akeith@chass.utoronto.ca

Death and the Emperor. Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius, Penelope J. E. Davies. University of Texas Press, 2004. ISBN 0-292-70275-2. Pp 265.

Reviewed by Thomas Watkins (PDF 120 kb; 3 pp.)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
twatkns@vt.edu

Old Age in the Roman World. A Cultural and Social History, Tim G. Parkin. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8018-7128-X. Pp 520.

Reviewed by Anastasios D. Nikolopoulos (PDF 152 kb; 5 pp.)
University of Patras and the University of the Peloponnese
adnikolo@uop.gr

Giovanni Boccaccio, Famous Women, translated by Virginia Brown (I Tatti Renaissance Library 1), Harvard University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-674-01130-9, xxiii + 282.

Reviewed by Federica Ciccolella (PDF 204 kb; 5 pp.)
Texas A&M University
ciccolella@neo.tamu.edu

Giannozzo Manetti, Biographical Writings, edited and translated by Stefano U. Baldassarri and Rolf Bagemihl (I Tatti Renaissance Library 9), Harvard University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-674-01134-1, xix + 330

Reviewed by Federica Ciccolella (PDF 104 kb; 5 pp.)
Texas A&M University
ciccolella@neo.tamu.edu