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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies"
"Volk’s argument – that the story of the Roman republic of letters is messier and more variable than it has generally been presented – is a compelling one."
---Nora Goldschmidt, London Review of Books"Fascinating. . . . An engrossing guide to an epoch-making decade of western history.
The Roman Republic of Letters is an important intervention, and it deserves to be debated widely."
---Michael Fontaine, New Criterion"
An excellent history of late Republican intellectual life that surveys a wide range of Latin prose literature. . . . Volk deeply scrutinizes her subjects in a way that is sensitive to prior studies yet free from their strictures. Her own scholarship tells lively stories, which are not digressive but structured around clear arguments. The result is a book that may be enjoyed by specialists and general readers alike.—Peter Osorio, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Volk’s lucid prose handles much-debated issues with admirable clarity and balance. . . . [Her] unapologetic passion for Latin language and literature is refreshing, and so is her ability to portray the protagonists of the intellectual revival of the end of the republic as human beings embedded and invested in a specific cultural and historical milieu.—Luca Grillo, Classical Association of Canada
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