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NERO'S EXPERIMENTS WITH THE WATER-ORGAN
Harry Morgan
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The Classical Quarterly / Volume 72 / Issue 1 / May 2022

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24 November 2022, pp. 285-302

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This article examines a pair of anecdotes in the works of Suetonius and Cassius Dio, describing Nero's passionate late-career interest in the instrument known as the hydraulis or water-organ. The first half of the article contextualizes the water-organ episode in light of both the history of the instrument's reputation and the wider characterization of Nero in the literary sources. The rest of the article uses the episode to shed light on Nero's self-representation as princeps, focussing on the significance of the water-organ as both a musical instrument and a technological marvel. On the one hand, the organ's popularity with Roman audiences of the Early Imperial period made it a politically strategic choice for a music-loving emperor with strong populist leanings. On the other hand, the association of the organ with the intellectual world of Hellenistic Alexandria appealed to a certain group of Roman elites (including Nero himself), who shared a keen interest in technological innovation and technical knowledge more broadly. In the end, however, Nero's experiments with the water-organ were cleverly trivialized by hostile writers and redeployed as an illustration of the emperor's most appalling vices.

ATHENS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY - (W.) Riess (ed.) Colloquia Attica II. Neuere Forschungen zu Athen im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne 12.) Pp. 223, ills. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2021. Paper, €46. ISBN: 978-3-515-12894-0.
James Kierstead
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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29 April 2022, pp. 587-590

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A STUDY OF AESCHYLUS’ LIBATION BEARERS - (Ε.) Γκαστη Αισχύλου Χοηφόροι: Πρόταση ανάγνωσης. Pp. 286. Athens: Ινστιτούτο του Βιβλίου – Καρδαμίτσα, 2021. Paper, €26.50. ISBN: 978-960-354-529-3.
Andreas Markantonatos
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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28 April 2022, pp. 426-428

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THE CURIOUS LIFE OF AN ANCIENT LITERARY FORGERY - (F.) Clark The First Pagan Historian. The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. Pp. x + 355, ills. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Cased, £47.99, US$74. ISBN: 978-0-19-049230-4.
Ryan W. Strickler
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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28 April 2022, pp. 714-716

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ROMAN CYPRUS, VALUED - (E.) Hussein Revaluing Roman Cyprus. Local Identity on an Island in Antiquity. Pp. xxviii + 155, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Cased, £65, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-877778-6.
Young Richard Kim
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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28 April 2022, pp. 639-641

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PLINY THE ELDER AND ART - (A.) Anguissola Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory. An Encyclopaedic Workshop. Pp. xvi + 137, ills. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. Cased, £44.99, US$59.95. ISBN: 978-0-367-34988-2.
Courtney Roby
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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28 April 2022, pp. 542-543

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THE VIRTUES OF A NEOPLATONIC COMMENTATOR - (A.) Joosse (ed.) Olympiodorus of Alexandria. Exegete, Teacher, Platonic Philosopher. (Philosophia Antiqua 159.) Pp. xii + 270. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. Cased, €132, US$158. ISBN: 978-90-04-46669-2.
Chiara Militello
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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28 April 2022, pp. 498-501

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VIRGIL AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM - (G.B.) Conte Virgilian Parerga. Textual Criticism and Stylistic Analysis. Pp. viii + 119. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Cased, £72.50, €79.95, US$91.99. ISBN: 978-3-11-070395-5.
R.A. Smith
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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28 April 2022, pp. 518-520

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PROCOPIUS OF CAESAREA - (M.) Meier, (F.) Montinaro (edd.) A Companion to Procopius of Caesarea. (Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World 11.) Pp. viii + 474. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022. Cased, €224, US$269. ISBN: 978-90-04-49876-1.
Michael Wuk
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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28 April 2022, pp. 501-504

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A SELECTION OF GREEK ELEGY AND IAMBUS - (W.) Allan (ed.) Greek Elegy and Iambus. A Selection. Pp. xvi + 254, map. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Paper, £23.99, US$31.99 (Cased, £74.99, US$99.99). ISBN: 978-1-107-55997-4 (978-1-107-12299-4 hbk).
Francesca D'Alfonso
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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25 April 2022, pp. 419-421

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DEVELOPMENTS IN EARLY GREECE - (A.R.) Knodell Societies in Transition in Early Greece. An Archaeological History. Pp. xvi + 363, colour fig., b/w & colour ills, colour maps. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. Paper, US$34.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-38053-0.
Guy D. Middleton
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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25 April 2022, pp. 656-659

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DOMITIANIC LITERATURE AND ITS INTERTEXTS - (R.) Marks, (M.) Mogetta (edd.) Domitian's Rome and the Augustan Legacy. Pp. x + 320, b/w & colour ills. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. Cased, US$80. ISBN: 978-0-472-13267-6.
William J. Dominik
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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25 April 2022, pp. 545-548

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SOCRATES’ STRATEGIES - (M.) Marshall Reading Plato's Dialogues to Enhance Learning and Inquiry. Exploring Socrates’ Use of Protreptic for Student Engagement. Pp. x + 223, figs. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. Cased, £120, US$160. ISBN: 978-0-36763632-6.
James H. Collins II
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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22 April 2022, pp. 459-461

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THE EXPERIENCE OF READING HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN POETRY - (A.) Gramps The Fiction of Occasion in Hellenistic and Roman Poetry. (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume 118.) Pp. xviii + 209. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Cased, £100, €109.95, US$126.99. ISBN: 978-3-11-073699-1.
Nicoletta Bruno
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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22 April 2022, pp. 399-401

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THE DESTRUCTION OF CITIES THEN AND NOW - (S.) Fachard, (E.) Harris (edd.) The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World. Integrating the Archaeological and Literary Evidence. Pp. xiv + 361, figs, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-49554-7.
Lucia Nováková
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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22 April 2022, pp. 654-656

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PALMYRA AND RELIGION - (R.) Raja (ed.) Revisiting the Religious Life of Palmyra. (Contextualising the Sacred 9.) Pp. xiv + 212, figs, ills. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. Paper, €90. ISBN: 978-2-503-57635-0.
Michał Gawlikowski
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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22 April 2022, pp. 607-609

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PLUTARCH AND ANIMALS - (S.T.) Newmyer (trans.) Plutarch's Three Treatises on Animals. A Translation with Introductions and Commentary. Pp. xvi + 188. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. Cased, £120, US$160. ISBN: 978-1-138-57084-9.
Alexei V. Zadorojnyi
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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22 April 2022, pp. 485-487

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VERSIONS OF ESCHATOLOGY - (H.) Marlow, (K.) Pollmann, (H.) Van Noorden (edd.) Eschatology in Antiquity. Forms and Functions. Pp. xxiv + 629, b/w & colour ills. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. Cased, £190, US$250. ISBN: 978-1-138-20831-5.
Charles W. King
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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22 April 2022, pp. 694-697

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THE ANCIENT WORLD AND VIDEOGAMES - (R.) Clare Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames. Representation, Play, Transmedia. Pp. x + 227, colour ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Cased, £85, US$115. ISBN: 978-1-350-15719-4.
Anthony Walker-Cook
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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22 April 2022, pp. 733-735

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‘ILLUSTRIOUS ARGOS’ - (O.) Curty (ed.) Klyton Argos. Histoire, société et institutions d'Argos. Choix d'articles de Marcel Piérart. Avec la collaboration d'Anaïs Berther, Fabien Derivaz, Vincent Lettry, Tiffany Premand et Gwendoline Rickli. (Scripta Antiqua 128.) Pp. 356, ills, maps. Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2020. Paper, €25. ISBN: 978-2-35613-251-2.
Hélène Aurigny
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The Classical Review / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / October 2022

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22 April 2022, pp. 659-661

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NERO'S EXPERIMENTS WITH THE WATER-ORGAN

ATHENS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY - (W.) Riess (ed.) Colloquia Attica II. Neuere Forschungen zu Athen im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne 12.) Pp. 223, ills. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2021. Paper, €46. ISBN: 978-3-515-12894-0.

A STUDY OF AESCHYLUS’ LIBATION BEARERS - (Ε.) Γκαστη Αισχύλου Χοηφόροι: Πρόταση ανάγνωσης. Pp. 286. Athens: Ινστιτούτο του Βιβλίου – Καρδαμίτσα, 2021. Paper, €26.50. ISBN: 978-960-354-529-3.

THE CURIOUS LIFE OF AN ANCIENT LITERARY FORGERY - (F.) Clark The First Pagan Historian. The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. Pp. x + 355, ills. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Cased, £47.99, US$74. ISBN: 978-0-19-049230-4.

ROMAN CYPRUS, VALUED - (E.) Hussein Revaluing Roman Cyprus. Local Identity on an Island in Antiquity. Pp. xxviii + 155, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Cased, £65, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-877778-6.

PLINY THE ELDER AND ART - (A.) Anguissola Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory. An Encyclopaedic Workshop. Pp. xvi + 137, ills. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. Cased, £44.99, US$59.95. ISBN: 978-0-367-34988-2.

THE VIRTUES OF A NEOPLATONIC COMMENTATOR - (A.) Joosse (ed.) Olympiodorus of Alexandria. Exegete, Teacher, Platonic Philosopher. (Philosophia Antiqua 159.) Pp. xii + 270. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021. Cased, €132, US$158. ISBN: 978-90-04-46669-2.

VIRGIL AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM - (G.B.) Conte Virgilian Parerga. Textual Criticism and Stylistic Analysis. Pp. viii + 119. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Cased, £72.50, €79.95, US$91.99. ISBN: 978-3-11-070395-5.

PROCOPIUS OF CAESAREA - (M.) Meier, (F.) Montinaro (edd.) A Companion to Procopius of Caesarea. (Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World 11.) Pp. viii + 474. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022. Cased, €224, US$269. ISBN: 978-90-04-49876-1.

A SELECTION OF GREEK ELEGY AND IAMBUS - (W.) Allan (ed.) Greek Elegy and Iambus. A Selection. Pp. xvi + 254, map. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Paper, £23.99, US$31.99 (Cased, £74.99, US$99.99). ISBN: 978-1-107-55997-4 (978-1-107-12299-4 hbk).

DEVELOPMENTS IN EARLY GREECE - (A.R.) Knodell Societies in Transition in Early Greece. An Archaeological History. Pp. xvi + 363, colour fig., b/w & colour ills, colour maps. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. Paper, US$34.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-38053-0.

DOMITIANIC LITERATURE AND ITS INTERTEXTS - (R.) Marks, (M.) Mogetta (edd.) Domitian's Rome and the Augustan Legacy. Pp. x + 320, b/w & colour ills. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. Cased, US$80. ISBN: 978-0-472-13267-6.

SOCRATES’ STRATEGIES - (M.) Marshall Reading Plato's Dialogues to Enhance Learning and Inquiry. Exploring Socrates’ Use of Protreptic for Student Engagement. Pp. x + 223, figs. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. Cased, £120, US$160. ISBN: 978-0-36763632-6.

THE EXPERIENCE OF READING HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN POETRY - (A.) Gramps The Fiction of Occasion in Hellenistic and Roman Poetry. (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume 118.) Pp. xviii + 209. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Cased, £100, €109.95, US$126.99. ISBN: 978-3-11-073699-1.

PALMYRA AND RELIGION - (R.) Raja (ed.) Revisiting the Religious Life of Palmyra. (Contextualising the Sacred 9.) Pp. xiv + 212, figs, ills. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. Paper, €90. ISBN: 978-2-503-57635-0.

PLUTARCH AND ANIMALS - (S.T.) Newmyer (trans.) Plutarch's Three Treatises on Animals. A Translation with Introductions and Commentary. Pp. xvi + 188. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. Cased, £120, US$160. ISBN: 978-1-138-57084-9.

VERSIONS OF ESCHATOLOGY - (H.) Marlow, (K.) Pollmann, (H.) Van Noorden (edd.) Eschatology in Antiquity. Forms and Functions. Pp. xxiv + 629, b/w & colour ills. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. Cased, £190, US$250. ISBN: 978-1-138-20831-5.

THE ANCIENT WORLD AND VIDEOGAMES - (R.) Clare Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames. Representation, Play, Transmedia. Pp. x + 227, colour ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Cased, £85, US$115. ISBN: 978-1-350-15719-4.

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