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Discusses various aspects of the Hellenistic age. Several books about the subject are considered, including: `Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age,' by Peter Green; `The Hellenistic Aesthetic,' by Barbara Hughes Fowler; `Hellenistic Poetry: An Anthology,' selected and translated by Barbara Hughes Fowler; Others.

Reviews two books which explore the topic of sexuality in ancient Greece. `One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love,' by David M. Halperin; `The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece,' by John J. Winkler.

Review of 3 historical books. `Corruption and the Decline of Rome' by Ramsey MacMullen; `Greeks, Romans and Barbarians: Spheres of Interaction' by Barry Cunliffe; `The Jews in the Greek Age' by Elias J. Bickerman.

Reviews the books `Children and Childhood in Classical Athens,' by Mark Golden, and `Adults and Children in the Roman Empire,' by Thomas Wiedemann.

Review of the book, `Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985,' by Martin Bernal, which seeks to lessen European cultural arrogance.

A review of the book "Disciplining Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine's Letters," by Jennifer V. Ebbeler, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene: Journeys With Saints and Sinners" edited by Dermot Gilvary and Darren J. N. Middleton.

The article reviews the book "C. S. Lewis on the final frontier: science and the supernatural in the space trilogy," by Sanford Schwartz.

This article reviews the book "Geoffrey Chaucer and the poetics of disguise," by Esther Casier Quinn.

The article reviews the book "Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England," by Alison Shell.

The article reviews the book "The Way Into Narnia: A Reader's Guide," by Peter J. Schakel.

Reviews the book "Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England," by Arthur F. Marotti.

Reviews the book "The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961: Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, Waugh," by Ian Ker.

Reviews five new visions and revisions of Homer and Virgil. `The Odyssey,' by Homer, translated by E.V. Rieu and revised by D.C.H. Rieu, an amending of the wilder vagaries of E.V. Rieu's version. Also `The Odyssey: A new verse translation,' by Homer, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, highly competent, rather than exciting. The energetic `The Iliad,' by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles; `The Aeneid,' by Virgil, translated by David West, in contemporary English prose.

Reviews the book `Essays Ancient and Modern,' by Bernard Knox, an eminent professor of Greek.

Review of the books, `Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles' by Christopher Hitchens, and `The Elgins, 1766-1917: A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and their Wives' by Sydney Checkland, which deal with the moral and political questions raised by the celebrated and controversial Elgin Marbles.

The article reviews the book "Redemption in poetry and philosophy: Wordsworth, Kant, and the making of the post-Christian imagination," by Simon Haines.

A review of the book "Archibald Lampman: Memory, Nature, Progress," by Eric Ball, is presented.

The article reviews the book "The C. S. Lewis phenomenon: Christianity and the public sphere" by Samuel Joeckel.

The article reviews the book "Plain to the Inward Eye: Essays on C. S. Lewis" by Don W. King.

The article reviews the book "True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England" by Frances E. Dolan.

A review of the book "C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War, 1914-1918," by John Bremer is presented.

The article reviews the book "St. John and the Victorians" by Michael Wheeler.

A review of the book "Graham Greene: Fictions, Faith, and Authorship," by Michael G. Brennan is presented.

The article reviews the book "Out of my bone: the letters of Joy Davidman," by Joy Davidman and edited and introduced by Don W. King.

The article presents a review of the book "Narnia and the Friends of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis," by Matthew Dickerson.

The article reviews the book “Theology after reading: Christian imagination and the power of fiction," by Darren J. N. Middleton.

The article reviews the book "The Story of Joy: From the Bible to Late Romanticism," by Adam Potkay.

The article reviews the book "The return of Christian humanism: Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien, and the romance of history," by Lee Oser.