Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome. By MICHÈLE LOWRIE.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xv + 426. Cloth. $135.00. ISBN:
978-019-954567-4.

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CJ Online 2010.06.07

Declaration of interest: my inclusion in the Acknowledgements refers to
early drafting towards portions of Part 3. I have been interested, to say
the least, in getting to see the finished product. Now, wow. 

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In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic. By
N.W. BERNSTEIN. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. 281. Cloth,
$65.00. ISBN 978–0–8020–9879–5.

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CJ Online 2010.06.06

Neil Bernstein’s (hereafter B.) book on the representation of kinship in
the epic poems of the Flavian period is a welcome addition to the growing
number of studies devoted to the Silver Latin epicists, who are starting to
emerge from the label of being 

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Forms of Astonishment: Greek Myths of Metamorphosis. By RICHARD BUXTON.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 281. Cloth,
$100.00. ISBN 978–0–19–924549–9.

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CJ Online 2010.06.05

Although numerous scholars have written on metamorphosis, it seems fair to
say that no previous author has come to the subject with such expertise in
Greek myth, religion and thought as Richard Buxton. This is a learned book,
but Buxton covers difficult subjects easily; he 

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Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition. By SIMON GOLDHILL and EDITH HALL,
eds. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi +
336. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–88785–4.

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Critical Moments in Classical Literature: Studies in the Ancient View of
Literature and its Uses. By RICHARD HUNTER. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2009. Pp. 217. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN: 978–0–521–51985–4.

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The Social History of Roman Art. By PETER STEWART. Cambridge and New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi + 200. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN
978–0-521–81632–8. Paper, $34.99. ISBN 978–0–521–01659–9.

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Reading Roman Comedy: Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence. By
ALISON SHARROCK. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 321.
Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–76181–9.

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CJ Online 2010.06.01

After an autobiographical preface Sharrock (S.) offers five chapters that
intermittently discuss the 26 extant comedies of Plautus and Terence “as
literary devices, with programmatic beginnings, middles, ends and
intertexts” (p. i): “Art and artifice” (pp. 1–21), “Beginnings”
(pp. 22–95), “Plotting and playwrights” 

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