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Publication Publication Publication Publication Review of Statius, Thebaid IX(1993) Farrell, JosephPublication Publication Review of Peter A.J. Attema and Günter Schörner, Comparative Issues in the Archaeology of the Roman Rural Landscape: Site Classification Between Survey, Excavation and Historical Categories(2014-01-01) Bowes, KimberlyThis fine volume is a natural successor to the two fundamental Mediterranean field survey collections: Extracting Meaning from Ploughsoil Assemblages (R. Francovich, H. Patterson, and G. Barker, eds. [Oxford 2000]) and Side by Side Survey (S. Alcock and J. Cherry, eds. [Oxford 2004]). Its best essays illustrate the advances in both methodology and theory that have characterized landscape archaeology over the decade since those fundamental volumes were published. The volume takes up the problem of classification, that is, the interpretative and evidentiary basis by which surface survey material is functionally classified. Both intentionally and tacitly, the volume also illustrates the assumptions underlying all classificatory systems and thus the challenges surface survey faces as a stand-alone tool for historical interpretation.Publication Review of: Charles Martindale, Richard F. Thomas, Classics and the Uses of Reception. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.(2007-01-01) Murnaghan, SheilaPublication Cleopatra and Berenice: The Perception and Presentation of Two Queens(2015-01-01) Heering, ShlomitThis paper focuses on two queens who lived and ruled on the periphery of the Roman world: Cleopatra and Berenice. Cleopatra, the last Ptolemaic queen, lived in the mid-first century BCE, while Berenice, the last Herodian queen, lived in the mid-first century CE. My project analyzes the ancient and modern texts about them in order to determine how they are perceived and presented in texts in terms of their power and agency. While there are similarities between the two queens, there are also important and telling differences in the ways ancient authors discuss them that continue to have implications for how they are perceived.Publication Andrew Ford, Homer: The Poetry of the Past. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.(1993) Murnaghan, SheilaPublication Precincts of Venus: Towards a Prehistory of Ovidian Genre(2005-01-01) Farrell, Joseph