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Twice-occurring terms in Herodotus: random distribution, habit of presentation and deliberate pairings
John Dillery
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25 October 2024, pp. 1-22
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Repetition is a critical issue in interpreting the work of Herodotus. Detlev Fehling, for one, has pointed to recurrence of motif and scene as evidence of the historian’s ‘free invention’. Words that occur twice in Herodotus are an efficient way to consider pressing issues at the centre of how and why Herodotus put together his narrative in the way he has. Pairs where the uses are close together in stories with a lot in common suggest that we may be seeing Herodotus’ ‘habit of presentation’, especially when phrasal repetition is also found. Where pairs are found further apart, the issue of deliberate linkage between discrete episodes may be indicated through the strategic redeployment of a key term. Finally, with Xerxes’ invasion, recurring terms help us to see how Herodotus could operate over large portions of text, deliberately linking one episode to another through the deployment of twice-occurring words, thereby also connecting the whole account of the campaign to the largest project of the History.

(N.) MOMIGLIANO In Search of the Labyrinth: The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete (New Directions in Classics). London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. xvi + 362, illus. £21.99. 9781350156708.
Yannis Galanakis
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09 October 2024, pp. 1-3
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(R.) SALLES (ed.) Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy: from Thales to Avicenna. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 312. £75. 9781108836579.
Malina Buturovic
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09 October 2024, pp. 1-2
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Callimachus, Conon and Ptolemy: an Alexandrian epigram between geography and astronomy
Filippomaria Pontani
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04 October 2024, pp. 1-11
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A neglected, anonymous and undated epigram on the world map of Ptolemy’s Geography, here critically edited for the first time on the basis of all existing manuscripts, proves a rare case of reception of Callimachus’ Lock of Berenice, with an emphasis on the bonds between geography and astronomy, and with so-called ‘geographical astrology’. It may stem from Late Antique Alexandria.

(G.A.) GAZIS and (A.) HOOPER (eds) Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2021. Pp. vi + 201. £95. 9781789621495.
Helen Van Noorden
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03 October 2024, pp. 1-2
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(M.) CAMBRON-GOULET Partager les savoirs: pratiques orales et écrites de la philosophie dans l’Antiquité (Kaïnon – anthropologie de la pensée ancienne 23). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Pp. 269. €79. 9782406144304.
Stefano Mecci
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03 October 2024, pp. 1-2
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(E.) BRIDGES Warrior Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. viii + 234. £25. 9780198843528.
Sonya Nevin
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24 September 2024, pp. 1-2
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(S.) DALSOGLIO The Amphorae of the Kerameikos Cemetery at Athens from the Submycenaean to the Protogeometric Period. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. Pp. 219, illus., tables. £64. 9781407315676.
Barbara Bohen
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23 September 2024, pp. 1-2
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(C.A.) THOMSEN The Politics of Association in Hellenistic Rhodes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 178, illus, maps. £85. 9781474452557.
Benedikt Eckhardt
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18 September 2024, pp. 1-2
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(D.) LaVALLE NORMAN The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature: Methodius of Olympus’ Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. [viii] + 287. 9781108657389.
Ryan C. Fowler, Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
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18 September 2024, pp. 1-2
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(S.) COUGHLIN, (D.) LEITH and (O.) LEWIS (eds) The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle. Berlin: Topoi, 2020. Pp. 432. €79.95. 9783982067049.
Elena Bellini
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18 September 2024, pp. 1-2
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(T.) GLOMB Connecting the Isiac Cults: Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean (Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation). London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 192, illus. £85. 9781350210691.
Simon Bralee
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18 September 2024, pp. 1-2
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(W.) HECKEL, (F.S.) NAIDEN, (E.E.) GARVIN and (J.) VANDERSPOEL (eds) A Companion to Greek Warfare. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2021. Pp. xx + 474. £175.95. 9781119438816.
Roel Konijnendijk
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16 September 2024, pp. 1-2
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(R.) HARMAN The Politics of Viewing in Xenophon’s Historical Narratives (Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs). London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 231. £85. 9781350159020.
Christopher Tuplin
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07 May 2024, pp. 1-2
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(S.) HORNBLOWER (tr.) Lykophron: Alexandra. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xlv + 138, map. £8.99/$11.95. 9780198863342.
Alexander Sens
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06 May 2024, pp. 1-2
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(C.) DEWALD and (R.V.) MUNSON Herodotus: Histories Book I (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xix + 536, maps, plan. £99.99. 9780521871730.
Susan O. Shapiro
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03 May 2024, pp. 1-2
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(P.A.) LOW (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xvii + 382. £90. 9781107107052.
Rachel Bruzzone
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(T.) SPAWFORTH What the Greeks Did for Us. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2023. Pp. x + 335, illus. 9780300258028.
Simon Goldhill
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03 May 2024, pp. 1-2
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(W.G.) THALMANN Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xxii + 232. £54. 9780197636558.
Ben Cartlidge
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06 March 2024, pp. 1-2
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(C.A.) FARAONE and (S.) TORALLAS TOVAR (eds) The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies: Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes (New Texts from Ancient Cultures). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. Pp. xxviii + 534, illus., facs. £89/$95. 9780472133277.
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Charlotte Spence
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(S.) DALSOGLIO The Amphorae of the Kerameikos Cemetery at Athens from the Submycenaean to the Protogeometric Period. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. Pp. 219, illus., tables. £64. 9781407315676.

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(C.A.) THOMSEN The Politics of Association in Hellenistic Rhodes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 178, illus, maps. £85. 9781474452557.

(D.) LaVALLE NORMAN The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature: Methodius of Olympus’ Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. [viii] + 287. 9781108657389.

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(T.) GLOMB Connecting the Isiac Cults: Formal Modeling in the Hellenistic Mediterranean (Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation). London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 192, illus. £85. 9781350210691.

(W.) HECKEL, (F.S.) NAIDEN, (E.E.) GARVIN and (J.) VANDERSPOEL (eds) A Companion to Greek Warfare. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2021. Pp. xx + 474. £175.95. 9781119438816.

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(R.) HARMAN The Politics of Viewing in Xenophon’s Historical Narratives (Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs). London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 231. £85. 9781350159020.

(S.) HORNBLOWER (tr.) Lykophron: Alexandra. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xlv + 138, map. £8.99/$11.95. 9780198863342.

(C.) DEWALD and (R.V.) MUNSON Herodotus: Histories Book I (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xix + 536, maps, plan. £99.99. 9780521871730.

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(T.) SPAWFORTH What the Greeks Did for Us. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2023. Pp. x + 335, illus. 9780300258028.

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(W.G.) THALMANN Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xxii + 232. £54. 9780197636558.

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