Category Archives: Reviews

Things Metrical

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Dennis

Two quick­ies for your con­sid­er­a­tion: Christo­pher Francese reads Horace’s pri­amel to Mae­ce­nas in the lat­est Latin Poetry Pod­cast, and Kiichiro Itsumi’s Pin­daric Metre: The Other Half finally gets a proper (and a pos­i­tive) review. Horace 1.1 is one of the … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Farewell, K.J. Dover

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Dennis

I’ve read on rogue­clas­si­cism of the death of Ken­neth Dover, and thought it might be worth shar­ing what may be the first assess­ment of his work as a Hel­lenist in print. When Ken­neth Dover was just 19 (in 1939) Oxford pub­lished … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Digital Find of the Day: Housman’s Opuscula

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Dennis

This one is a real treat, but very odd: a work on Google Books listed as Opus­cula by A.E. Hous­man. The truth is that no such work was pub­lished, and what we have is a poorly scanned PDF of a … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Learn to read Etruscan (as well as you possibly can)

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Dennis

Per­haps the most excit­ing and reward­ing class I took as an under­grad­u­ate (about 7–8 years ago), was Lan­guages of Ancient Italy with Rex Wal­lace. We stud­ied and read Old Latin, Falis­can, Oscan, Umbrian, Etr­uscan, and some other inscrip­tions. We had … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Laryngeal get ya every time!

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Dennis

This, from Wolf­gang David Cir­ilo de Melo’s review of Michiel Arnoud Cor de Vaan’s Ety­mo­log­i­cal Dic­tio­nary of Latin and the Other Italic Lan­guages, is the best and most insight­ful com­ment I’ve read in the BMCR in quite some time: Pater … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Now that’s what I call a podcast

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Dennis

Christo­pher Francese, whom I had the plea­sure of meet­ing at Dick­in­son yes­ter­day (“Active Latin in the Class­room: Strate­gies for Begin­ning, Inter­me­di­ate and Advanced Stu­dents” with Milena Minkova and Ter­ence Tun­berg), has an excel­lent series of pod­casts on Latin poetry, and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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plus uno maneat perenne saeclo

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Dennis

I see that a new intro­duc­tory Greek text­book has been reviewed in the BMCR, and the reviewer makes com­par­isons to Athenaze. But how does it com­pare with Luschnig? I only ask because I want to see my name in print … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Dover’s Theocritus: a review (reprint: Bolchazy-Carducci)

Posted on April 6, 2008 by Dennis

As I make my (not so) tri­umphant return to the field of Mawr’s I feel myself com­pelled to do some­thing I ought to have done a long time ago. The good folks at Bolchazy-Carducci once thought well-enough of this blog … Con­tinue read­ing →

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