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Books

All links to Franklin, unless otherwise noted.

Baron, Christopher. Timaios of Tauromenion and Hellenistic Historiography. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Bishop, J. D. Seneca’s Daggered Stylus: Political Code in the Tragedies. Königstein, 1985.

Budin, Stephanie Lynn. The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Burns, M. A. T, C. J Medicus, and R. Sherburne. Lingua Latina. Liber Primus. Milwaukee: Bruce, 1964. (Amazon link).

Connolly, Joy. The State of Speech: Rhetoric and political Thought in Ancient Rome. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Duncan, Anne Elizabeth. Performance and Identity in the Classical World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Fredericks, S. C. Roman Satirists and Their Satire. The Fine Art of Criticism in Ancient Rome. Noyes, 1974.

Gorman, Robert Joseph. The Socratic Method in the Dialogues of Cicero. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2005.

Gorman, Vanessa. Miletos, the Ornament of Ionia : a History of the City to 400 B.C.E. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Harris-McCoy, Daniel. Artemidorus' Oneirocritica: Text, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford University Press, 2012. (Amazon link).

Heesen, P. The J. L. Theodor Collection of Attic Black-figure Vases. Amsterdam: Allard Pierson Museum, 1996.

Keane, Catherine. Figuring Genre in Roman Satire. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Lee, Benjamin. Apuleius' Florida: A Commentary. De Gruyter, 2005.

Marsilio, Maria S. Farming and Poetry in Hesiod’s Works and Days. Lanham: University Press of America, 2000.

Maurer, Karl. Interpolation in Thucydides. Mnemosyne, 1995.

McMahon, John. Paralysin Cave: Impotence, Perception, and Text in the Satyrica of Petronius. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava, 1998.

Minyard, J. D. Lucretius and the Late Republic: An Essay in Roman Intellectual History. Brill, 1985.

Minyard, J. D. Mode and Value in the De Rerum Natura: a Study in Lucretius’ Metrical Language. Steiner, 1978.

Munson, Rosaria Vignolo. Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians. Harvard University Press, 2005.

Munson, Rosaria Vignolo. Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Nicholson, Nigel. Aristocracy and Athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Orentzel, A. E, and W. C McDermott. Roman Portraits: the Flavian-Trajanic Period. University of Missouri Press, 1979.

Purves, Alex. Space and Time in Ancient Greek Narrative. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Smith, Riggs Alden. The Primacy of Vision in Virgil’s Aeneid. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

Thury, E. M, and Margaret Devinney. Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths. Oxford University Press, 2005.

Wilcox, Amanda. The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome: Friendship in Cicero's Ad Familiares and Seneca's Moral Epistles. University of Wisonsin Press, 2011.

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