CLASSICVM Joint Journal of the Classical Association of New South Wales and of the Classical Languages Teachers Association of New South Wales C/o Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, N.S.W. Australia 2109. Editor: I. M. Plant ISSN 0155 0659 TABLES OF CONTENTS: Vol. XXXI.1 2005- Vol. XXVI.2, October 2000 Vol. XXXI.1, April 2005 ARTICLES Classical Allusions in Modern Poetry—David Malouf .............................................................. 2 More Metamorphoses: Scenes from Ovid’s Mythological Poetry and its Reception —James Uden ................................................................................................ 4 War and Democracy in Ancient Athens: A Preliminary Report—David Pritchard ................. 16 The Macquarie Colloquium in Memory of George Shipp—T.V. Evans and J.S. Sheldon, with contributions from J.A.L. Lee and †W. Ritchie................................................................ 26 REVIEW P. Ruth Taylor-Briggs, Via Plana: Graduated Readings in Advanced Latin—Dexter Hoyos .......................................................................................... 35 Vol. XXX.2, October 2004 ARTICLES The Wives’ Tales of the Iliad: Andromache and Helen—Elizabeth Minchin..................................... 1 ‘Don’t Judge by Tribes’: History and Context of the Athenian Tribal Heroes—Guy Olding ................................................................................................................ 9 Food in Everyday Classical Greece—Stuart Dawson ....................................................................... 15 THE CAROL MANNERS’ MEMORIAL ESSAY COMPETITION 2003 Virgil’s Depiction of Dido as a Tragic Figure—Sonali Gnanenthiran .............................................. 23 The Significance of Dido as a Tragic Figure—Sarah McKeith ......................................................... 24 Characterisation in the Odyssey —Michael Caristo .......................................................................... 25 THE CAROL MANNERS’ MEMORIAL ESSAY COMPETITION 2004 Cicero’s Pro Caelio: Features of Cicero’s Rhetorical Style—Julia Tseris....................................... 26 Virgil’s Presentation of the Gods—Sarah Clark ................................................................................ 28 The motifs pietas and furor: Dido, Aeneas, Iarbas and their Behaviour in Aeneid IV—Zoë Fitzherbert-Smith ............................................................... 30 REVIEW Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola and Richard J. A. Talbert, The Romans: From Village to Empire: A History of Ancient Rome from Earliest Times to Constantine—Tom Stevenson ...................................................................... 32 Vol. XXX.1, April 2004 ARTICLES Poets on the Via Appia—Frances Muecke .......................................................................................... 2 Constantine and Stanley Fish: Re-reading Christian Interpretations of Eclogue 4—James Uden ................................................................................................................ 10 Campgate Bronzes and Roman Fire Signalling—Murray Dahm ...................................................... 17 REVIEWS D. Petts, Christianity in Roman Britain—Dorothy Watts .................................................................. 26 F. Camoux, Hellenistic Civilisation—Hugh Lindsay ........................................................................ 26 Sherif El-Sabban, Temple Festival Calendars of Ancient Egypt—Boyo Ockinga ............................ 27 Vol. XXIX.2, October 2003 ARTICLES Perge in Pamphylia: the archaeology of a Hellenistic city in southern Turkey—Hugh Lindsay .................................................................................................. 2 Participation in the ‘Old Education’ of Classical Athens —David Pritchard ...................................... 9 The tall poppy syndrome: On the re-emergence in contemporary Australia of an ancient Greek and Latin motive—Bert Peeters ........................................................................ 22 Cicero’s Oratio pro Caelio—Bruce Marshall ................................................................................... 27 REVIEWS Roger Rees, Layers of Loyalty in Latin Panegyric, AD 289-307—Andrew Gillett .......................... 36 Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (eds.), The Oxford Classical Dictionary—Hugh Lindsay ............................................................................................................... 37 J. Wacher, A Portrait of Roman Britain—Dorothy Watts ................................................................. 38 Vol. XXIX.I, April 2003 ARTICLES Drama and Suspense in Agrippina’s Last Days—James Uden ........................................................... 2 Roman Beekeepers at work—Ian MacLeod ........................................................................................ 8 Domus and Via: place-hunting in Hor. Satires 1.9 and Juvenal 3—Frances Muecke ....................... 18 REVIEWS Maurizio Bettini, Classical Indiscretions: A millennial enquiry into the state of the Classics —C. E. V. Nixon................................................................................. 23 Beth Cohen (ed.), Not the Classical Ideal: Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art—Tom Stevenson ........................................................... 24 Vol. XXVIII.2, October 2002 ARTICLES Isola Sacra: The People of Portus and their Cemetery—Hugh Lindsay.............................................. 2 The Politics of the Curia and the Comitium: Sulla, Caesar, and Augustus as Builders —Przemek Kucharski .............................................................................. 10 Trial by Inference: Tiberius and Tacitus’ Use of Vituperative Language in Annals I—Nikola Casule .............................................................................................. 21 REVIEW Cornelia Hadziaslani, Parthenon Promenades—Tom Stevenson .................................................... 27 Vol. XXVIII.1, April 2002 ARTICLES On Personifications and Male Attitudes in Ancient Greece—Tom Stevenson ...............................2 Seneca on Exercise and Fitness—Anna Lydia Motto...................................................................11 Toward an Effective Development of On-Line Reading Skills in Classical Languages—Dieter Paul Heinsch ..............................................................................17 Staging Euripides’ Medea—Michael J. Street ...............................................................................25 REVIEWS Stephen C. Todd, Athens and Sparta—C.W.S. Nelson ................................................................ 29 Suzanne Dixon, Reading Roman Women. Sources, Genres and Real Life—J. Lea Beness........................................................................................................ 30 Vol. XXVII.2, October 2001 ARTICLES Pro Roscio Amerino—Roger Pitcher ...............................................................................................2 Dancing for Dionysos—David Pritchard ........................................................................................6 Lysias, Aeschines and Homeoerotic Behaviour—Marianne Rhydderch ......................................14 THE CAROL MANNERS’ MEMORIAL ESSAY COMPETITION Aeneas’ Personal Response to the Events of Aeneid II—Mandy Higgins ................................... 22 Aeneas’ Personal Response to the Events of Aeneid II —Emma Leung ...................................... 23 The Significance of Pietas in Virgil’s Aeneid —Hugh Miller ..................................................... 24 REVIEWS G. J. Oliver (ed.), The Epigraphy of Death: Studies in the History and Society of Greece and Rome—Hugh Lindsay ................................................................................26 C. Rowe and M. Schofield (eds.), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought—Tom Stevenson...................................................................................28 Deborah Tarn Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought—Tom Stevenson ..........................................................................29 Vol. XXVII.1, April 2001 ARTICLES Getting the Sack: the Survival of the Poena Cullei —Tom Hillard ................................................2 Eheu Fugaces, Postume Postume: On Apprehending a Horatian Ode—Lindsay Watson .....................................................................................................................5 Varus’ Battle: Clades Variana and Roman Military Tradition—Garriock Duncan ........................9 Hippocratic Writings: Works of Philosophy or Medical Treatises?—Peter Wilkins ....................13 Commentary on Aeschines, Against Timarchus 182-183—Mark Stephens .................................17 FILM REVIEW Maximus Decimus Meridus: Ridley Scott (director), Gladiator—Garriock Duncan ...................22 BOOK REVIEWS Digging in Odysseus’ Backyard: C. Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, The Ionian Islands in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age—Kenneth Sheedy.................................................26 Sue Blundell & Margaret Williamson (eds.), The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece—Tom Stevenson ..............................................................................................26 Michael Elliot Rutenberg (trans.), Oedipus of Lucius Annaeus Seneca—Kathleen Riley ............29 Stephen Mitchell and Geoffrey Greatrex (eds.), Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity—Hugh Lindsay ......................................................................................................30 Robert Thompson, James Howard-Johnston and Tim Greenwood, Translated Texts for Historians 31: The Armenian History Attributed to Sebeos—Hugh Lindsay ...............................31 Vol. XXVI.2, October 2000 ARTICLES An Ideal Leader: Xenophon’s Hipparchikos —T. S. Stevenson .........................................2 Tacitus and the Julio-Claudians—Roger Pitcher .................................................................5 Trouble Comes in Threes? Hunting, Fishing and Fowling in Greek Epigram and Greco-Roman Epic—Adam Bartley................................................9 Ancient Languages in the Modern Global Village—Andrew Miles .................................16 THE CAROL MANNERS’ MEMORIAL ESSAY COMPETITION Cicero’s Methods of Defence in the Pro Roscio—Christine Quigley ...............................22 Creation of Mood and Atmosphere in Aeneid VI—Jennifer Cho......................................24 Horace and his Epicurean Beliefs—Tharshan Wijeyamohan ............................................25 REVIEWS Mary Hourihan, Deconstructing the Hero—Andrew Galan..............................................29 W. J. Dominik & W. T. Wehrle, Roman Verse Satire—Frances Mueke ...........................31