SEVENTY-SECOND ISSUE: SEPTEMBER 2016
CONTENTS
Shakespeare and the Classics
Judith Mossman
1
Greek sanctuaries and Russian dolls: walls and religious experience Michael Scott
4
Liking it long: Catullus’ Carmina maiora
Ingo Gildenhard
7
The ‘textile scene’ in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
Scott Scullion
10
Classical antiquity and the making of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Lucilla Burn
13
Plato on death and immortality
Anne Sheppard
17
The Forum of Augustus: a family affair
Hannah Price
20
Sister act: Ismene in Sophocles’ Antigone
Lyndsay Coo
23
Forerunners of Livy
Christopher Smith
26
The mirror of Odysseus
Roberto Chiappiniello Valente
29
Omnibus Sam Hood Translation Prize 2017
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Gladstone Memorial Essay Prize 2017
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