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Greek Love in the Greek Novel
A Companion to the Ancient Novel (2014)
John F. Makowski
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Petronius’ Giton: Gender and Genre in the Satyrica
Narrating Desire Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel (2012)
John F Makowski
Encolpius, the narrator of the novel, exhibits an obsession with literature that impels him to interpret his world though the ...
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Literary Evidence for Roman Arithmetic with Fractions
Classical Philology (2001)
David W Maher and John F Makowski
Roman arithmetic is a perennially troubling subject for both classicists and mathematicians. Scholars universally comment on the difficulty posed by ...
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J. Henderson, Aristophanes Volumes I-III (Loeb Classical Library 2000)
The Classical Bulletin (2001)
John F Makowski
This is a book review of Jeffrey Henderson's work on Aristophanes Volumes I-III.
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Review: Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related ...
The Classical World (1997)
John F Makowski
Of the many recent books generated by the revived interest in the ancient novel, Konstan's is the most ambitious and ...
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Review: Lucan: Civil War
The Classical World (1994)
John F Makowski
This is the second major translation of Lucan to appear in the English-speaking world, following the publication in 1988 of ...
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Lucan: Civil War
Classical World (1994)
John F. Makowski, Lucan and S. H. Braund
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Lucan: De Bello Civili, II
Classical World (1994)
John F. Makowski and Elaine Fantham
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E. Fantham, Lucan. De Bello Civili (Cambridge 1992)
The Classical Bulletin (1993)
John F Makowski
This is a book review of Elaine Fantham's Lucan: De Bello Civili, II.
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Review: Senecan Drama and Stoic Cosmology
The Classical World (1991)
John F Makowski
This is a difficult book, at times distracting in style and organization and at others brimming with original insights. The ...
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Review: One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on ...
The Classical World (1991)
John F Makowski
This, the most significant study of Greek homosexuality since the pioneering work of K. J. Dover, does not aim for ...
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Iocosus Maecenas: Patron as Writer
Syllecta Classica (1991)
John F Makowski
Maecenas as discoverer and supporter of the literary luminaries of his day achieved a name virtually synonymous with patronage. Less ...
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Review: Lucan's Civil War
The Classical World (1991)
John F Makowski
On all counts this translation of the Pharsalia is a resounding success and will, one predicts, stand as the definitive ...
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Review: Momentary Monsters: Lucan and His Heroes
The Classical World (1989)
John F Makowski
Laughter in Lucan? Johnson takes the laughing matter of Lucan seriously, and with mordant wit and cynical humor presents an ...
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Review: Seneca: Moral Epistles
The Classical World (1988)
John F Makowski
Here is a handy selection of forty of Seneca's most important Epistulae Morales presented in an attractive format with running ...
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Review: Ancient Fiction: The Novel in the Graeco-Roman World
The Classical World (1986)
John F Makowski
In this book the author of Eros Sophistes hopes to afford laymen an introduction to the ancient novelist as serious ...
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Georgic 3.41: A Vergilian Wordplay at the Expense of ...
Vergilius (1985)
John F Makowski
Vergil mentions Maecenas by name in the opening lines of each book of the Georgics (1.2, 2.41, 3.41, and 4.2). ...
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Persephone, Psyche, and the Mother-Maiden Archetype
Classical Outlook (1985)
John F Makowski
While the figure of the Mother Goddess has always fascinated students of Greek myth and religion (Vernant, 1965, 102-31), the ...
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R. Mayer, Lucan Civil War VIII
The New England Classical Newsletter (1983)
John F Makowski
This is a book review of R. Mayer's "Lucan Civil War VIII Edited with a Commentary."
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F.M. Ahl, Lucan: An Introduction
The American Journal of Philology (1977)
John F Makowski
Frederick M. Ahl, well known to the scholar of Lucan through his recent articles on the Pharsalia, here undertakes to ...
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Oracula Mortis in the Pharsalia
Classical Philology (1977)
John F Makowski
Although it departs from epic convention in many ways, most notably in the rejection of the deorum ministeria, the Pharsalia ...
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A Note on Lucan 8.860-1
Classical Philology (1975)
John F Makowski
As it now stands in current editions of Lucan, the sentence contained in 8. 860-61 makes little or no sense. ...
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