{"title":"The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire. The Rhetorical Schoolroom and the Creation of a Cultural Legend by Thomas J. Keeline (review)","authors":"A. Balbo","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"1 1","pages":"227 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79939850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arms and the Woman: Classical Tradition and Women Writers in the Venetian Renaissance by Francesca D’Alessandro Behr (review)","authors":"Seán Easton","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"261 1","pages":"238 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72713167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Xenophon on the Thirty: Political Philosophy in the Hellenica","authors":"Andrew T. Alwine","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Xenophon’s narrative of the Thirty occupies a place of special prominence in Xenophon’s Hellenica. It is a prologue to the failure of Spartan hegemony and the disordered state of the post-Peloponnesian War world, but it is also a paradigmatic account of a corrupt regime, serving to concentrate diverse trajectories of Xenophon’s political thought upon a single historical crux. This article consists of two parts. The first reviews the threads of Xenophon’s political thought independently of the Hellenica, focusing on Xenophon’s other works to demonstrate his general views. The second part explains how Xenophon puts all these ideas on stage through a retelling of the story of one of the most corrupt regimes in history.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"57 1","pages":"151 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76858756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introducing Renaissance Philosophy to the Undergraduate (Classics) Curriculum","authors":"C. O’Brien","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Renaissance thought, as well as its intertwined reception of classical texts, generally receives little interest in either Classics or Philosophy departments. In this article, I outline my experiences teaching Renaissance philosophy in the format of a survey course treating a broad range of thinkers (e.g., Ficino, Della Mirandola, Machiavelli) and themes (e.g., “mirror for princes”, myth of Venice), examine the available materials and consider the student learning outcomes underpinning such a course. By evaluating the skill set that students acquire from such a course which could enrich their study of classical antiquity, I argue for a more widespread adoption of Renaissance thought on the undergraduate Classics curriculum and suggest how such a course might be implemented.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"19 1","pages":"205 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87494286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Hellenistic Court. Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra ed. by Andrew Erskine, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Shane Wallace (review)","authors":"Carol J. King","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"17 1","pages":"235 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81678743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Homer’s Thebes: Epic Rivalries and the Appropriation of Mythical Pasts by Elton T. E. Barker and Joel P. Christensen (review)","authors":"T. J. Nelson","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"114 1","pages":"232 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77638982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selections from Horace Satires: An Edition for Intermediate Students by John Godwin (review)","authors":"A. Kallergi","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"67 1","pages":"244 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79537433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Solonian Amnesty Law (Plu. Sol. 19.3–4) and the Athenian Law on Homicide","authors":"Christopher J. Joyce","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Ever since Ruschenbusch published his seminal study of the laws of Solon, the near universal assumption in scholarship has been that the Solonian ‘amnesty law’, quoted by Plutarch, is a genuine document. Yet, scholars have found no convincing route around the problem identified by Plutarch, that the law as cited cannot combine with the silence of Draco about the Areopagus. This paper argues that the text which Plutarch quoted at Sol. 19.3, Solon’s ‘amnesty law’, was authentic, but for none of the reasons conventionally given. A fresh consideration of the law on homicide will lead to the conclusion that its original purpose was to limit the power of the magistrate to inflict punishment, and to protect the rights of the killer by taking account of extenuating circumstances such as involuntary or lawful killing. Draco did not need to refer to the Areopagus because, by unwritten tradition, this was the court before which all homicide cases had previously been tried, without possibility of appeal. The first written law on homicide transferred jurisdiction from the Areopagus to other courts in the event of extenuating circumstances, such as justifiable or involuntary killing, which explains Draco’s silence.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"51 1","pages":"125 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85749111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empire, Hegemony, or Anarchy? Rome and Italy, 201–31 BCE ed. by Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp, Sema Karatash and Roman Roth (review)","authors":"A. L. Beek","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"83 1","pages":"241 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91393297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}