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The drunken bully of Juvenal's third satire should be read as an alternative satirical voice within the poem, as is illustrated by means of a comparison with the corpus of Roman satire--in particular Horace 2.1 and Juvenal's first book of satires. The identification of the bully as a satirist does explain some of the bully's odd behavior and also accords with satire's propensity for self-mockery and much of the other metapoetic discussion of the genre's powers and limitations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome," by Joy Connolly.

The article reviews the book "Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life," by Kristina Milnor.

In my contribution I attempt a new analysis of the myth and ritual of Attis and its reception in Catullan Rome. I argue (1) that the attempts to identify Attis with the Herodotean Atys are unconvincing, as they are based on Hermesianax's poem, which intended to provide an aetiology for a taboo on the pig in Pessinous; (2) that Attis starts to appear in the Greek world in the middle to the third quarter of the fourth century BC; the mention in Demosthenes should be taken as referring to his own time, not to that of Aeschines' mother; (3) that a careful comparison of Timotheus' account with that of Pausanias enables us to reconstruct the Phrygian myth and ritual of Pessinous as well as its gradual development, whereby special attention is given to Kybele, Agdistis, Attis and his festival, and the eunuch Galli; (4) that the religious aspects of Catullus 63 show a close identification of the cult of Kybele with that of Dionysus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the books `Rome's Desert Frontier from the Air,' by D. Kennedy and D. Riley, `The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East,' by B. H. Isaac, `Masada 2. The Yigael Yadin Excavations 1963-1965: Final Reports. The Latin and Greek Documents,' by H.M. Cotton and C.S. Lightfoot, and `Roman Eastern Policy and Other Studies in Roman History,' edited by H. Solin and M. Kajava.

The article reviews the book "Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome," by W.A. Johnson and H. Parker.

The article reviews the book "Writing Politics in Imperial Rome," edited by W. Dominik, J. Garthwaite and P. Roche.

Reviews the book 'Visions of Rome. Thomas Ashby Archaeologist,' by R. Hodges.

The article reviews the book "Ancient Historiography and its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A.J. Woodman," edited by C.S. Kraus, J. Marincola and C. Pelling.

The article reviews the book "The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire," by Clifford Ando.

Reviews the book `Romische Geschichte Unde Zeitgeschichte In Der Deutschen Und Italienischen Altertumswissenschaft Wahrend Des 19. Und 20. Jahrhunderts. 1. Caesar Und Augustus; 2. L'Impero Romano Fra Storia Generale E Storia Locale,' edited by E. Gabba and K. Christ.