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December 11, 2014

Book Review: The Life of Roman Republicanism

December 11, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A new book looks at the writings of Cicero, Sallust, and Horace to understand the mind of their times.

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classics, December 2014
June 09, 2013

Classics Reissued: On Exile

June 09, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The signature work by one of the prickly fathers of the Italian Renaissance humanism gets its inaugural print edition in the latest offering from Harvard's magnificent I Tatti Renaissance Library

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classics, harvard university press, history, italian renaissance, June 2013
June 03, 2013

Book Review: Alexander the Great

June 03, 2013/ Open Letters Monthly

The translator of Oxford's superb new edition of Arrian's book on Alexander the Great maintains that it should be appreciated at least as much for its literary merit as for its historical value - which would have pleased Arrian immensely, and which may in fact be true.

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Alexander the Great, classics, June 2013, Oxford University Press
October 09, 2012

Book Review: Commentaries on Plato

October 09, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Marsilio Ficino's enormous commentary on the Parmenides of Plato receives a fantastic scholarly edition from - who else? - Harvard's I Tatti Renaissance Library

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Aristotle, classics, harvard university press, October 2012, philosophy, Plato
October 06, 2012

Book Review: The Iliad

October 06, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

Homer's Iliad gets a new and unconventional translation into sometimes very familiar language

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classics, homer, October 2012, Poetry
February 04, 2012

Book Review: Ghost on the Throne

February 04, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

When Alexander the Great died at age 32, his huge empire was split apart by his warring successors. James Romm's new book on the subject captures all the brutal drama.

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Alexander the Great, classics, February 2012
December 07, 2011

Book Review: The Iliad

December 07, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

A new translation raises old questions about the greatest epic of them all.

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classics, December 2011, homer, Oxford University Press
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