Greek History

Connections in Archaic Latin Prose, The Language and Style of the Fragmentary Republican Historians, The Bellum Africum, Hair, Hegemony, and Historiography: Caesars Style and its Earliest Critics, Ciceros Adaptation of Legal Latin in the De legibus, The Language of Epicureanism in Cicero: The case of Atomism, Popes Spider and Ciceros Writing, The Impracticability of Latin Kunstprosa, Poetic Influence on Prose: The Case of the Younger Seneca, The Language of Pliny the Younger, Omisso speciosiore stili genere, The Poetics of Fiction: Poetic Influence on the Language of Apuleius Metamorphoses, Langues rduites au lexique? A long introduction then presents the authors original thesis in the context of her intellectual development, and the formation of her unique (?) application to historical narrative of Bakhtinian dialogism (the narrative is the vehicle through which a complex, three-pronged act of dialogic connection unfolds, linking the historian, the people whose decisions and actions originally came together to create events, and the Historys past, present, and future audiences). [...]in her demonstration, for example, of the structural similarities between the account of the Sicilian expedition and Book 8, or her presentation of the years of the Peace of Nicias (in which political developments are presented as a long gunpowder trail that Thucydides shows being laid down, with military engagements played down), there is ample justification for this volumes eventual publication. Even for those of us who do not thrill at discussion of legal procedure, there are rich offerings here: a thoughtful discussion of the point at which a societal norm becomes a law (Arnaoutoglou); staunch defences of the ideas that Athenian laws were meant to be read (Gagarin with interesting concluding remarks on the subjective, rhetorical element to all legal systems) or that fourth-century readers might have picked up Lysias for pleasure (Usher); convincing reconstructions of the role of Antiphon in the 411 coup (Edwards) or of the early career in forensic oratory of Isocrates (Whitehead); and another contribution to the debate on comic freedom of speech (Sommerstein, arguing that neither in theory nor in practice was comedy above the law).