James P. Holoka

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“Homer and Modern Literary Critical Discourse.” Diss. Michigan 1974. Abstract in DAI 35 (1974) 2963A. View Dissertation · View Abstract

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Gaius Valerius Catullus: A Systematic Bibliography. New York/London: Garland Publishing, 1985.

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[Co-author, with Richard D. Goff et al.] A Survey of Western Civilization. 1987. 2nd ed.: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997. Also Instructor’s Manual for A Survey of Western Civilization. St. Paul: West Publishing, 1987; and Student’s Guide and Workbook for A Survey of Western Civilization. St. Paul: West Publishing, 1987. View at Amazon

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[Co-author, with Jiu-Hwa Upshur et al.] World History. 5th ed.: Boston: Wadsworth, 2012. [1st 1991, 2nd 1995, 3rd 1999, 4th 2002, 5th 2005.] Also Instructor’s Manual for World History and Student’s Guide for World History. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds. View at Amazon

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[Co-author, with Jiu-Hwa Upshur] Lives and Times: A World History Reader. 2 vols. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 1995. View at Amazon

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[Translator] Joachim Latacz. Homer: His Art and His World. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1996. [Orig.: Homer: der erste Dichter des Abendlands. 2nd ed. Munich/Zurich: Artemis Verlag, 1989.] View at Amazon · Reviews 1 2

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[Editor & Translator] Simone Weil’s The Iliad or the Poem of Force: A Critical Edition. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2003. View Introduction · View at Amazon · Reviews 1 2 3 4 5

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“Oral Poetry and the Question of Critical Procedure.” Rackham Literary Studies 3 (1972) 1–⁠8. Rpt. in The Communications of the International Homeric Symposium. Athens, 1973. View Article

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“Homeric Originality: A Survey.” Classical World 66 (1973) 257–⁠93. Rpt. in The Classical World Bibliography of Greek Drama and Poetry. Ed. W. Donlan. New York/London: Garland Publishing, 1978. Pp. 37–⁠75. View Article

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“Self–Delusion in Catullus 83 and 92.” Classical World 69 (1975) 119–⁠20. View Article

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“Horace Carm. 3.4: The Place of the Poet.” Classical Bulletin 52 (1976) 41–⁠46. View Article

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“The Oral Formula and Anglo-⁠Saxon Elegy: Some Misgivings.” Neophilologus 60 (1976) 570–⁠76. View Article

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“‘Thick as Autumnal Leaves’—The Structure and Generic Potentials of an Epic Simile.” Milton Quarterly 10 (1976) 78–⁠83. View Article

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“Purgatorio 9.⁠19–⁠39: Syncretism in the Dream Sequence.” Classical Folia 30 (1976) 203–⁠8. View Article

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“A Neoplatonic Simile in Vida’s Christiad (4.⁠10–⁠15).” Romance Notes 18 (1977) 243–⁠46. View Article

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“Lover and Beloved in La Vita Nuova 3 and Purgatorio 9.” Classical Folia 32 (1978) 93–⁠98. View Article

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“Homer Studies 1971–⁠1977.” Classical World 73 (1979) 65–⁠150. View Article

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“A Chariot Scene from Mycenae.” Kadmos 19 (1980) 38–⁠40. View Article

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“Iliad 13.⁠202–⁠5: ΑΙΑΣ ΣΦΑΙΡΙΣΤΗΣ.” American Journal of Philology 102 (1981) 351–⁠52. View Article

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“Rome and America: A Course Description.” Classical Journal 77 (1982) 343–⁠48. View Article

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“Aldous Huxley and the Lotus Experience.” Classical World 76 (1982) 39–⁠41. View Article

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“On an Allusion to Pindar in Walter Pater’s Plato and Platonism.” Notes & Queries 228 (1983) 311–⁠12. View Article

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“‘Looking Darkly’ (ΥΠΟΔΡΑ ΙΔΩΝ): Reflections on Status and Decorum in Homer.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 113 (1983) 1–⁠16. View Article

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“The Point of the Simile in Aeschylus Agamemnon 241.” Classical Philology 80 (1985) 228–⁠29. View Article

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“Lying to Laertes, a Gorgeous Triumph—Homer and Twain.” Classical and Modern Literature 5 (1985) 301–⁠4. View Article

26.

“Sallust.” In Great Lives from History: Ancient and Medieval Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1988. Pp. 1845–⁠50.

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“The Iliad or the Poem of Force” [Simone Weil]. In Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press. 1989. Pp. 684–⁠88.

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“Homer Studies 1978–⁠1983.” Part I. Classical World 83 (1990) 393–⁠461. View Article

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“Homer Studies 1978–⁠1983.” Part II. Classical World 84 (1990) 89–⁠156.  View Article

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“Homer, Oral Poetry Theory, and Comparative Literature: Major Trends and Controversies in Twentieth-⁠Century Criticism.” In Zweihundert Jahre Homer-Forschung: Rückblick und Ausblick. Ed. Joachim Latacz. Stuttgart/Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1991. Pp. 456–⁠81. Rpt. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. View Article · Reviews: 1 2 3

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“Nonverbal Communication in the Classics: Research Opportunities.” In Advances in Nonverbal Communication: Sociocultural, Clinical, Esthetic and Literary Perspectives. Ed. F. Poyatos. Philadelphia/⁠Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1992. Pp. 237–⁠54. View Article

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[Co–author, with D. Briggs.] “The Staged Interview as a Successful Teaching Tool.” Issues & Inquiry 16.⁠1 (1992) 16–⁠31.

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[Translator.] Joachim Latacz. “The New Ameis-Hentze: A Project Outline and Report on the Current Stage of Development.” [Orig.: “Der Neue Ameis-Hentze. Projektskizze und erreichter Arbeitsstand.”] Bryn Mawr Classical Review 9 (1998) 82–⁠97. View Article

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“Heroes Cunctantes / Hesitant Heroes: Aeneas and Some Others.” In Euphrosyne: Studies in Ancient Epic and Its Legacy in Honor of Dimitris N. Maronitis. Ed. J.N. Kazazis and A. Rengakos. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 143–⁠53.  View Article

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“Marathon and the Myth of the Same-⁠Day March.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 38 (1997[2000]) 329–⁠53. View Article

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“Aelius Aristides,” “Aristagoras,” “Aristarchus,” “Aristophanes of Byzantium,” “Herodes Atticus,” “Miltiades,” “Pliny the Younger,” “Sallust,” “Xenophanes of Colophon,” “Zenodotus.”  In From Polis to Empire—The Ancient World, c. 800 B.C.–A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. A.G. Traver. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. Pp. 45–⁠47, 51, 188, 255–⁠56, 307, 339–⁠40, 400–⁠401, 405–⁠6. View Articles

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“Maecenas,” “Symmachus.” In The Encyclopedia of the Ancient World. Ed. T.J. Sienkewicz. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2002. Pp. 750, 1052.

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“Homer and Simone Weil: The Iliad sub specie violentiae.” In Epea pteroenta, Beiträge zur Homerforschung: Festschrift für Wolfgang Kullmann zum 75. Geburtstag. Ed. M. Reichel and A. Rengakos. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag, 2002. Pp. 63–⁠75. View Article

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“Battle of Marathon.” In Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory–⁠476 c.e. Ed. Mark W. Chavalas. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2004. Pp. 428–⁠30.

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“Troy and the Trojan War: A Select, Annotated Bibliography.” Michigan War Studies Review 2005.⁠04.⁠02. View Article

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Translation of Marc Bloch, “Reflections of a Historian on the False News of the War.” Michigan War Studies Review 2013–⁠51. View Article

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Review of A Bibliography of Studies Relating to Parry’s and Lord’s Oral Theory, by Edward R. Haymes. Classical World 68 (1975) 385–⁠86. View Review

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Review of Die Dolonie, by Friedrich Eichhorn. Classical World 69 (1975) 72–⁠73. View Review

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Review of Spontaneity and Tradition: A Study in the Oral Art of Homer, by Michael N. Nagler. Classical Folia 30 (1976) 209–⁠11.

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Review of Göttliche Komödie und Exegese, by Manfred Bambeck. Romanic Review 70 (1979) 409–⁠10. View Review

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Review of Tension in Boccaccio: Boccaccio and the Fine Arts, by Patricia M. Gathercole. Romanic Review 71 (1980) 100–⁠101. View Review

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Review of Gründungsmythen und Sagenchronologie, by Friedrich Prinz. American Historical Review 85 (1980) 1174–⁠75. View Review

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Review of The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry, by Gregory Nagy. Classical Bulletin 58 (1982) 70–⁠71. View Review

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Review of Improvisation, Typology, Culture, and the “New Orthodoxy”: How “Oral” is Homer? by D. Gary Miller. Classical World 77 (1983) 56–⁠57. View Review

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Review of Pope’s Iliad: Homer in the Age of Passion, by Steven Shankman. Classical World 77 (1984) 315. View Review

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Review of Childlike Achilles: Ontogeny and Phylogeny in the Iliad, by W. Thomas MacCary. Classical World 78 (1984) 49–⁠50. View Review

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Review of Telling Classical Tales: Chaucer and the Legend of Good Women, by Lisa J. Kiser. Classical and Modern Literature 5 (1984) 47–⁠50. View Review

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Review of The Iliad: A Commentary, I: Books 1–⁠4, by G.S. Kirk. Classical World 80 (1987) 221–⁠22. View Review

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Review of Le Soleil et le Tartare: L’image mythique du monde en Grèce archaïque, by Alain Ballabriga. American Historical Review 93 (1988) 124–⁠25. View Review

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Review of Narrative Semiotics in the Epic Tradition: The Simile, by Stephen A. Nimis. Journal of Narrative Technique 19 (1989) 252–⁠53. View Review

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Review of The Miniature Epic in Vandal Africa, by David F. Bright. Classical World 83 (1989) 119. View Review

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Review of J.⁠G. Frazer: His Life and Work, by Robert Ackerman. Classical World 83 (1990) 527–⁠28. View Review

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Review of Epos: Word, Narrative and the Iliad, by Michael Lynn-⁠George. Classical Journal 86 (1990) 81–⁠82. View Review

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Review of Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil’s Aeneid, by James J. O’⁠Hara. Classical World 85 (1991) 128. View Review

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Review of Herodoti Vita Homeri, by Effie N. Coughanowr (ed., tr.). Classical World 85 (1992) 244. View Review

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Review of The Oral Style, by Marcel Jousse. Classical World 86 (1992) 58–⁠59. View Review

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Review of The Iliad: A Commentary, V: Books 17–⁠20, by M.⁠W. Edwards. Classical World 86 (1992) 177–⁠78. View Review

63.

Review of The Iliad: A Commentary, IV: Books 13–⁠16, by Richard Janko. Classical World 87 (1994) 501–⁠2. View Review

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Review of Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the Odyssey, by Charles Segal. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6 (1995) 332–⁠36. View Review

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Review of Roman Literature and Ideology: Ramus Essays for J.⁠P. Sullivan, ed. A.⁠J. Boyle. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6 (1995) 670–⁠75. View Review

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Review of Law, Politics and Power: Sallust and the Execution of the Catilinarian Conspirators, by Andrew Drummond. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 7 (1996) 187–⁠89. View Review

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Review of The Iliad: A Commentary, III: Books 9–⁠12, by Bryan Hainsworth. Classical World 89 (1996) 411. View Review

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Review of The Iliad: A Commentary, VI: Books 21–⁠24, by Nicholas Richardson. Classical World 89 (1996) 411–⁠12. View Review

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Review of Altertumswissenschaft in den 20er Jahren: Neue Fragen und Impulse, ed. Hellmut Flashar. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 7 (1996) 504–⁠11. View Review

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Review of Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics, by Nancy Felson-⁠Rubin. Classical World 90 (1996) 62–⁠63. View Review

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Review of [Plutarch]: Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer, ed. J.⁠J. Keaney and Robert Lamberton. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8 (1997) 38–⁠39. View Review

72.

Response: “Holoka on Cook on Latacz.” Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8 (1997) 286–⁠88. View Review

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Review of The Triumph of Odysseus: Joint Association of Classical Teachers’ Greek Course, by J.⁠A.⁠C.⁠T. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8 (1997) 634–⁠35. View Review

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Review of Hesiod’s Works and Days: A Translation and Commentary for the Social Sciences, by David W. Tandy and Walter C. Neale. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8 (1997) 683–⁠87. View Review

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Review of The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer’s Odyssey, ed. Beth Cohen. Classical World 90 (1997) 448–⁠49. View Review

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Review of Heroes’ Names, Homeric Identities, by Carolyn Higbie. Classical World 90 (1997) 449–⁠50. View Review

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Review of Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic, by Donald Lateiner. Classical World 90 (1997) 450–⁠51. View Review

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Review of Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod, by Charles Penglase. Classical World 90 (1997) 451–⁠52. View Review

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Review of The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad, by Graham Zanker. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 9 (1998) 494–⁠98. View Review

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Review of Theatrum Arbitri: Theatrical Elements in The Satyrica of Petronius, by Costas Panayotakis. Classical World 92 (1998) 64. View Review

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Review of Out of Rome: Augusta Raurica/Aquincum: Das Leben in zwei römischen Provinzstädten, ed. Alex R. Furger and Paula Zsidi. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 9 (1998) 728–⁠30. View Review

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Review of The Poetics of Supplication: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, by Kevin Crotty. Classical World 92 (1999) 299. View Review

83.

Review of The Hidden Author: An Interpretation of Petronius’ Satyricon, by Gian Biagio Conte. Classical Outlook 76 (1999) 80–⁠81.

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Review of Einleitung in die griechische Philologie, ed. Heinz-⁠Günther Nesselrath. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.⁠04.⁠01. View Review

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Review of Homeric Stitchings: The Homeric Centos of the Empress Eudocia, by M.D. Usher. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.⁠09.⁠08. View Review

86.

Review of De Imperatoribus Romanis, ed. Richard D. Weigel et al. Bryn Mawr Electronic Resources Review (21 Jan 2000).

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Review of “The Wilamowitz in Me”: 100 Letters between Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Paul Friedländer (1904–⁠1931), ed. William M. Calder and Bernhard Huss. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.⁠02.⁠16. View Review

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Review of The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius, by Debra Hershkowitz. Classical Outlook 77 (2000) 123.

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Review of Res Gestae Divi Augusti, ed. Rex E. Wallace. Scholia Reviews 9 (2000) 54. View Review

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Review of Paralysin Cave: Impotence, Perception, and Text in the Satyrica of Petronius, by John M. McMahon. Classical World 94 (2001) 204–⁠5. View Review

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Review of A Commentary on Herodotus Book VI, by E.⁠I. McQueen. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.⁠08.⁠06. View Review

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Review of Ad Arma! Römisches Militär des 1. Jahrhunderts n.⁠Chr. in Augusta Raurica, by Eckhard Deschler-⁠Erb. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.⁠01.⁠15. View Review

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Review of Einführung in das Studium der Gräzistik, by Peter Riemer et al. Scholia Reviews 11 (2002) 15. View Review

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Review of Secret of the Muses Retold: Classical Influences on Italian Authors of the Twentieth Century, by John T. Kirby. Scholia Reviews 11 (2002) 25. View Review

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Review of Gesammelte Schriften I: Zum frühgriechischen Epos, by Ernst Heitsch. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.⁠10.⁠25. View Review

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Review of Epea and Grammata: Oral and Written Communication in Ancient Greece, ed. Ian Worthington and John Miles Foley. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.⁠03.⁠09. View Review

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Review of The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison, by Annabel Robinson. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.⁠06.⁠14. View Review

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Review of Die athenische Demokratie, by Angela Pabst. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.⁠06.⁠25. View Review

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Review of Homer und seine Zeit, by Barbara Patzek. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.⁠06.⁠50. View Review

100.

Review of Listening to Homer: Tradition, Narrative, and Audience, by Ruth Scodel. Choice (Oct 2003). View Review

101.

Review of A Companion to Homer’s Odyssey, by James Morrison. Choice (Dec 2003). View Review

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Review of A Commentary on Horace’s Epodes, by Lindsay C. Watson. Choice (Sep 2004). View Review

103.

Review of Homer: The Odyssey, trans. Edward McCrorie. Choice (Nov 2004). View Review

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Review of A Commentary on Horace: Odes, Book III, by R.⁠G.⁠M. Nisbet and Niall Rudd. Choice (Feb 2005). View Review

105.

Review of Homeric Megathemes: War—Homilia—Homecoming, by D.⁠N. Maronitis. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.⁠02.⁠10. View Review

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Review of The Cambridge Companion to Homer, ed. Robert Fowler. Choice (May 2005). View Review

107.

Review of Greek Grammar on the Web, by Mark Huys. Choice (Suppl. 2005 & Suppl. 2006). View Review

108.

Review of The Peloponnesian War, by Donald Kagan. Michigan War Studies Review 2005.⁠06.⁠01. View Review

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Review of Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians, by Peter Hunt. Michigan War Studies Review 2005.⁠09.⁠01. View Review

110.

Review of Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery, by Joachim Latacz. New England Classical Journal 32.⁠4 (Nov 2005) 349–⁠51. View Review

111.

Review of Taking Her Seriously: Penelope and the Plot of Homer’s Odyssey, by Richard Heitman. Choice (Dec 2005). View Review

112.

Review of Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader, by Perez Zagorin. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.⁠02.⁠53. View Review

113.

Review of A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, by Victor D. Hanson. Michigan War Studies Review 2006.⁠05.⁠01. View Review

114.

Review of Satire and the Threat of Speech: Horace’s Satires, Book 1, by Catherine M. Schlegel. Choice (Sep 2006). View Review

115.

Review of The Iliad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning, by Bruce Louden. Choice (Nov 2006). View Review

116.

Review of Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer’s Ithaca, by Robert Bittlestone. New England Classical Journal 33.⁠4 (Nov 2006). View Review

117.

Review of The Tomb of Agamemnon, by Cathy Gere. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.⁠12.⁠22. View Review

118.

Review of Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction, by Harry Sidebottom. Michigan War Studies Review 2007.⁠03.⁠01. View Review

119.

Review of A Companion to Catullus, ed. Marilyn B. Skinner. Choice (Jan 2008). View Review

120.

Review of Homer: The Iliad, tr. Rodney Merrill. Choice (Jul 2008). View Review

121.

Review of The Satires of Horace, trans. A.⁠M. Juster. Choice (Jun 2009). View Review

122.

Review of The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer’s Odyssey, by Edith Hall. Choice (Jul 2009). View Review

123.

Review of Marathon and Salamis: The Battles That Defined the Western World, by Compton Mackenzie. Michigan War Studies Review 2010.⁠08.⁠07. View Review