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Poetry as equipment for living
Andrew Becker

Plagues in Classical Literature
Rachel Finnegan

On the dietary habits of the Roman Empire
Veronika Grimm

Ireland's Greatest Virgilian
J. A. Richmond

E. R. Dodds: The Dublin Years
Robert B. Todd, with 'The Recovery of the Classics' E. R. Dodds and 'The Renaissance of Occultism' E. R. Dodds

Book Reviews

• Oedipus Ubiquitous, by A. W. Johnson and D. Price-Williams
  Douglas Cairns
• Exploratio: Military and Political Intelligence in the Roman World, by N. J. E. Austin and N. B. Rankov
  Brian Campbell
• The Cambridge Companion to Virgil, edited by C. Martindale
  Peter Heslin 
• Aratus: Phaenomena edition, translation and commentary, by D. Kidd
  J. H. Hordern
• The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, edited by P. Easterling
  Michael Lloyd
• The Development of the Polis, edited by L. G. Mitchell and P. J. Rhodes and Trials from Classical Athens, by C. Carey
  Kieran McGroarty
• Julian's Gods, by Rowland Smith
  Gregory White

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Editorial Note
 

At the end of the millenium, our concerns would seem to be disease, food and Virgil. It is a great pleasure to include articles on two Irish classical scholars, James Henry and E. R. Dodds. I was going to write 'It is a common conception that classicists are mindless conservatives and it is certainly difficult to argue with this when one reads Dodds' criticism of the way classics is taught' but then I realised that mindless conservatives would hardly be reading Classics Ireland so I will keep that jibe to myself. We are very grateful to the Literary Executors of Dodds' estate for allowing us to reprint two of his articles.

As this is my penultimate year as editor, please send contributions to Classics Ireland, and applications to be the next editor, to Professor Smith at the address below. Articles should not be more than 5,000 words and book reviews not more than 800 words unless agreed otherwise. All contributions are sent out to readers before a decision to publish. Please do keep writing!
 

Theresa Urbainczyk

Dept of Classics
University College
Belfield
Dublin 4
Republic of Ireland 

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Classics Ireland 1999
Volume 6
Editor: Theresa Urbainczyk

ISSN 0791-9417

Classics Ireland is the journal of the Classical Association of Ireland.

COPYRIGHT: all material published in Classics Ireland is copyright. Responsibility for, and ownership of,
copyright remains with the author of each article.

Typing: Carine O'Grady

Cover design: David Erskine

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The Classical Association of Ireland

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President for 1999 Nuala O'Faolain

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Dublin 4
Republic of Ireland
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