{"title":"JASON S. NETHERCUT, ENNIUS NOSTER: LUCRETIUS AND THE ANNALES. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. x + 260. isbn 9780197517697. £64.00.","authors":"Pamela Zinn","doi":"10.1017/s007543582300031x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s007543582300031x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44610697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metaquotation: Homer and the Emperor","authors":"P. Heslin","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000321","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 For the emperor, quoting Homer was both a danger and an opportunity. Suetonius’ Lives shows that anecdotes of quotation circulated widely to characterise the emperor for good or for ill. Subsequently, these moments could themselves become the subject of allusion. If you quote a line of Homer that was famously quoted by the emperor, are you quoting the poet or Caesar? This phenomenon, whereby a poetic cliché could be reborn as charged reference to a prior use of that tag by a well-known figure, might be termed metaquotation. This ambiguity of reference was exploited throughout Seneca's Apocolocyntosis, and in turn by readers of that text in antiquity.","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47685549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PAULINA KOMAR, EASTERN WINES ON WESTERN TABLES: CONSUMPTION, TRADE AND ECONOMY IN ANCIENT ITALY (Mnemosyne supplements 435). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xiii + 376, illus. isbn 9789004433700. €115.00/US$139.00.","authors":"Dimitri Van Limbergen","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000424","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46397972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THOMAS BIGGS, POETICS OF THE FIRST PUNIC WAR. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 247, illus. isbn 9780472132133. £72.95/US$80.00.","authors":"Brian W. Breed","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000333","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49181561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BRITTA K. AGER, THE SCENT OF ANCIENT MAGIC. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. Pp. xii + 225. isbn 9780472133024. US$75.00.","authors":"Korshi Dosoo","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000345","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43708776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SOFIA PIACENTIN, FINANCIAL PENALTIES IN THE ROMAN REPUBLIC: A STUDY OF CONFISCATIONS OF INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY, PUBLIC SALES, AND FINES (509–58 BC). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xv + 234. isbn 9789004498662. €99.00.","authors":"N. Rosenstein","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000394","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48557241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HÉLÈNE CUVIGNY, ROME IN EGYPT'S EASTERN DESERT (ISAW monographs). Edited with an introduction by Roger S. Bagnall. New York: New York University Press, 2021. 2 vols. Pp. xxii + viii + 655, illus. isbn 9781479810611. £108.00.","authors":"M. Langellotti","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000382","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47944011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution of nucleic acid amplification testing across Canada as observed through the Canadian Laboratory Response Network's SARS-CoV-2 Proficiency Test Program, May 2020 to June 2021.","authors":"Charlene Ranadheera, Kym Antonation, Cindi Corbett","doi":"10.14745/ccdr.v49i05a02","DOIUrl":"10.14745/ccdr.v49i05a02","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To help accommodate the surge in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) clinical testing due to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the decentralization of testing from provincial public health laboratories to regional laboratories and private facilities was necessary. To further support the growing number of test sites in Canada, the National Microbiology Laboratory developed a proficiency test program for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 using nucleic acid amplification tests and administered it under an arm of the Canadian Laboratory Response Network (CLRN). Since its conception in May 2020, CLRN has conducted three proficiency test schemes, from May 2020 to June 2021, and has observed an increase in participation of more than 400%. This article will explore the evolution of CLRN's SARS-CoV-2 Proficiency Test Program and its support of the Canadian pandemic response.</p>","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":"109 1","pages":"175-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10890811/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85713202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DONATIEN GRAU, LA MÉMOIRE NUMISMATIQUE DE L'EMPIRE ROMAIN. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2022. Pp. 514, illus. isbn 9782251452395. €43.00.","authors":"F. Kemmers","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000369","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":"17 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41260507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MAGGIE L. POPKIN, SOUVENIRS AND THE EXPERIENCE OF EMPIRE IN ANCIENT ROME. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 325. isbn 9781316517567. £75.00.","authors":"T. Kristensen","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000370","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44735747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}