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Creating a Hellenistic World
edited by Andrew Erskine and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones |
"The volume is another of the beautifully
produced ones from The Classical Press of Wales, with several nicely
chosen images."
Gillian Ramsey, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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the full BMCR review |
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Virgil
the Partisan Now in Paperback
by
Anton Powell ` |
Awarded the prize of
The Vergilian Society of America for best book on Virgil (2011).
From the Society's citation: “...the
contribution of this book lies above all in the compelling argument
that the political and military history of the 30s BC is more important
for an understanding of all three of Virgil's major works than
it is often taken to be...Powell's Virgil is unashamedly pro-Octavian,
pro-Augustus, a poet one of whose main goals was to address and
palliate the weakness and unpopularity of Octavian. This is not
a fashionable approach to Virgil, and doubtless many will resist
Powell's political reading. But it will be impossible in future
to ignore Powell's careful and detailed arguments for the centrality
of the historical context...”
Philip Hardie and Julia Dyson
Hejduk |
“[Powell] writes in a lucid and attractive style, displaying his
admiration for Virgil on every page...”
Donald Hill, Greece and
Rome 56 (2009) |
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Words and Ideas: The Roots
of Plato's Philosophy
by Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
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“In many
ways the work of F.-G.Herrmann is a rarity in Platonic studies. Firstly,
it combines with brio philological
rigour and a concentration on philosophy, with each constantly enriching
the other. Secondly, it upholds an original thesis which, however modestly
presented, is bound to alter radically the reader's view, whether or
not (s)he agrees with it. And thirdly, when proceeding
from a few pages of Plato it offers an analysis worthy of application
to the whole of Plato's oeuvre – and to earlier thought.”
Marc-Antoine Gavray, Revue
Philosophique de Louvain 2008
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Plutarch's Lives: Parallelism
and Purpose
edited by Noreen Humble
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“...the
editor has done a wonderful job of organising papers for the collection,
and the authors must be collectively congratulated for the diversity
and success of their efforts in addressing Plutarchan parallelism.
The essays are all highly relevant and provocative, while offering
fresh insights into fundamental issues in Plutarchan studies.”
Michael
Nerdahl, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Roman Perspectives
by John Matthews |
“The
author is to be commended for successfully uniting these essays around
a common theme and for presenting his arguments in clear and compelling
prose. Indeed, this volume reveals a truly impressive level of learning,
and it serves as a masterful reminder that, if we are truly to understand
history and those who have recorded it for us, we must always do so
with a critical eye upon the larger cultural forces that inevitably
contribute to shaping that history...”
-Michael Whitby, Bryn
Mawr Classical Review
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the full BMCR review |
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Sparta: Comparative Approaches
edited by Stephen Hodkinson
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“In
sum, Hodkinson is to be congratulated on producing and editing a
thought-provoking work of first-rate scholarship on some of the central
questions in
modern scholarship on Sparta.
...this handsomely produced compilation of papers...is essential
reading for any scholar concerned with archaic and classical Sparta.”
William S. Morison,
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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the full BMCR review |
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Catullus: A Textual Reappraisal
by J M Trappes-Lomax |
| "It will be of enormous
use to those preparing an edition of the poems, who will
find his arguments for and against the textual readings proposed
in it of great value in preparing their own text" |
| John Godwin, Journal
of Classics Teaching 15 (2008) |
| "John Trappes-Lomax ....
proposes a truly radical approach to the text of Catullus
.... he argues strongly that the text has suffered interpolation
both in ancient times and later" .... "what makes
this work truly novel is that all the suggestions are assembled
and defended according to a coherent understanding of how
the text has been treated by its enthusiastic but incompetent
admirers." |
| Donald Hill, Greece & Rome
55 (2008) |
| "This is a learned, acute
and thought-provoking book of an unusual kind" .... "A
particular strength is the large number of excellent but
forgotten conjectures that are revived" .... "There
are a striking number of compelling new conjectures ....
Almost everything advocated here will need thought from future
editors before they could decide not to include it in an
apparatus" .... "All in all this is a fundamental
contribution to the textual criticism of Catullus .... asking
fundamental questions and regularly producing persuasive
answers" |
| S.J.Heyworth, Bryn Mawr
Classical Review, 2008. |
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Spartan
Education
by Jean Ducat |
This is a quite extraordinary piece of work, one of the
most impressive and important in all ancient history to have appeared
in recent years. It is a simply monumental study of a fundamental
aspect of not just ancient Spartan but all ancient Greek history...Suffice
it to say here that what is very modestly ventured on the dust-jacket
seems to me to be spot-on;
Jean Ducat's Spartan Education is "likely to be
seen as his magnum opus" and no less "likely to become the definitive reference
on its subject."...The professional standard of the
production is exemplary throughout.
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Classical Journal |
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Thucydides.
Man's place in history,
by Hans-Peter Stahl |
| Choice 'Outstanding Academic Title', 2004
'Stahl's book ... is an enormously useful detailed
reading of some key incidents in Thucydides' work, while at the same
time being a profound meditation on history and the role of human
beings in the historical process.'
'In producing this handsome volume, Dr. Anton Powell and his Classical Press
of Wales have put us yet further in their debt.'
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| John Marincola, Bryn
Mawr Classical
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| The Classical
Press of Wales, an independent venture, was founded in 1993 -
initially to support the work of classicists and ancient historians in
Wales, and their collaborators from further afield. It now publishes
work initiated by scholars internationally, and welcomes contributions
from all parts of the world. Since 2003 CPW has included Egyptology in
its list of specialisms. CPW has a commitment to clear writing and to
traditional forms of argument. All our books are read and sub-edited by
the General Editor and founder of the Press, Anton Powell. All CPW
books to date are hardback editions. They are produced to be elegant
and to last. Most are printed on fine-blade cartridge paper, and sewing
is used in the binding. Our books are also noted for their layout and
typography, which is the responsibility of Ernest Buckley, M.A, B.Litt.
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