In the context of the current discussion on teaching the Aeneid in translation, it may be worth noting that Tom Holland's 'Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic' published last summer seems to be gaining very wide currency and has had some excellent reviews as an exciting history for the general, non-Classical reader today.
It also seems to have been selling quite well and is 316 in the UK Amazon sales list, high I think for a book on Roman history. I haven't read it but am conscious of it because it is being serialised in abridged form on BBC Radio 4 and I seem to hear each installment twice a day. If you want to listen it is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/book_of_the_week.shtml One hopes that books like this, by providing a highly readable account of part of Roman history that was very familiar to Virgil, might be particularly useful alongside the real material, or its translations. Patrick Roper ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
