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{"title":"Frank L. Holt, The Treasures of Alexander the Great: How One Man’s Wealth Shaped the World.","authors":"G. Rogers","doi":"10.52284/necj.46.1.review.rogers","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52284/necj.46.1.review.rogers","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298955,"journal":{"name":"New England Classical Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122245826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Peter Heather, Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian.","authors":"M. Kruse","doi":"10.52284/necj.46.1.review.kruse","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52284/necj.46.1.review.kruse","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298955,"journal":{"name":"New England Classical Journal","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121868093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Sacrifice in Vain","authors":"D. Berk","doi":"10.52284/necj.47.1.article.berk","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52284/necj.47.1.article.berk","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298955,"journal":{"name":"New England Classical Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133882168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jacqueline de Romilly, The Life of Alcibiades: Dangerous Ambition and the Betrayal of Athens, translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 228. Cloth (ISBN 978-1-5017-1975-2). $29.95.","authors":"J. Nudell","doi":"10.52284/necj.47.2.review.nudell","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52284/necj.47.2.review.nudell","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298955,"journal":{"name":"New England Classical Journal","volume":"263 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124296153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tonio Hölscher, Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality.","authors":"Nicole Brown","doi":"10.52284/necj.47.2.review.brown","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52284/necj.47.2.review.brown","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298955,"journal":{"name":"New England Classical Journal","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125270473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Most Amazing Conversation: The Social Contexts of Wonder-Telling and the Development of Paradoxography","authors":"Robin J. Greene","doi":"10.52284/necj.46.2.article.greene","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52284/necj.46.2.article.greene","url":null,"abstract":"Wonder-telling thrived as an abiding element in Greek and Roman convivial gatherings. The burgeoning book culture of the Hellenistic period witnessed the emergence of paradoxographical works—compilations of reports on “marvels”—that offered another medium through which to experience wonder. This study surveys evidence that situates wonder-telling in the social sphere and suggests that the new genre adapted one of the joys of sympotic discourse in order to delight the solitary reader. In his Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius describes his first encounter with compilations now commonly referred to by scholars as paradoxographies. At a port in Brundisium, he recalls, he happened across a bookseller peddling bundles of filthy texts in Greek which he discovered were “filled with marvelous tales, things unheard of, incredible” (miraculorum fabularumque pleni, res inauditae, incredulae), and whose authors were “ancient and of no mean authority” (scriptores veteres non parvae auctoritatis, 9.4.3).1 After purchasing the texts for a pittance, Gellius spent the next two nights perusing them and making notes of reports which drew his attention. Despite his initial interest, he claims that he was ultimately “seized by disgust for such pointless writings, which contribute nothing to the enrichment or profit of life” (tenuit nos non idoneae scripturae taedium nihil ad ornandum iuvandumque usum vitae pertinentis, 9.4.12). Gellius’s description of the intellectual indigestion he suffered has been often repeated by nineteenth and twentieth century scholars to support negative judgments of the value of paradoxographies both in terms of their form and content. A quintessentially bookish genre developed during the Hellenistic period, paradoxography is a compilatory form, connected to both the natural sciences 1 Text and all translations of Gellius are provided by Rolfe (1927). All other translations are my own unless otherwise noted. Only two of the six authors Gellius goes on to name (Isigonus and Philostephanus, the likely reading for the manuscripts’ Polystephanos) wrote works that fall under the formal definition of paradoxography. The rest (e.g., Ctesias), as Delcroix (1996, p. 415) observed, nonetheless have interests or styles that can be understood under a broader definition of paradoxography. Scholars have noted that Gellius’s list of authorities replicates Pliny’s source acknowledgements in HN 7.9-26, though more names are included by the latter, on which see Delcroix (1996, pp. 419-424).","PeriodicalId":298955,"journal":{"name":"New England Classical Journal","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126530055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Catalina Balmaceda, Virtus Romana: Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 312. Cloth (ISBN 978-1-4696-3512-5) $45.00.","authors":"Kathyrn Steed","doi":"10.52284/necj.45.2.review.steed","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52284/necj.45.2.review.steed","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298955,"journal":{"name":"New England Classical Journal","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121486910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shipwrecked Spouses: Leukothea’s Veil and Marital Reunion in The Odyssey","authors":"David West","doi":"10.52284/necj.47.2.article.west","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52284/necj.47.2.article.west","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes a new view of the mysterious incident in which Odysseus wears Leukothea’s veil to make it safely ashore in Odyssey 5, arguing that it bears directly on one of the epic’s fundamental themes, the reunion of the hero with Penelope. Through an analysis of the traditional referentiality of the veil in the Homeric epics and of Odyssean similes associating shipwreck with family reunion, it is shown that Leukothea’s veil identifies Odysseus with Penelope while both signifying and magically effecting the recovery of chastity, and ultimately of his marriage.","PeriodicalId":298955,"journal":{"name":"New England Classical Journal","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133500518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Catalina Balmaceda, Virtus Romana: Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. xiii + 297. Paper (ISBN 978-1-46963-212-5) $45.00.","authors":"Mark Wright","doi":"10.52284/necj.45.2.review.wright","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52284/necj.45.2.review.wright","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298955,"journal":{"name":"New England Classical Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133080424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sarah Hitch and Ian Rutherford, eds., Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 348. Cloth (ISBN 978-0-521-19103-6) $99.99.","authors":"Nancy A. Evans","doi":"10.52284/necj.45.2.review.evans","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52284/necj.45.2.review.evans","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298955,"journal":{"name":"New England Classical Journal","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122026672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}