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    Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy From Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam.Simon Swain (ed.) - 2007 - Oxford University Press.
    Polemon of Laodicea's Physiognomy explains how to detect someone's character from their appearance. The original 2nd-century text has been lost, but this collection of essays presents translations of the surviving Greek, Latin, and Arabic versions together with a series of masterly studies on the Physiognomy's origins, function, and legacy.
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    Hellenic culture and the Roman heroes of Plutarch.Simon Swain - 1990 - Journal of Hellenic Studies 110:126-145.
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    Plutarch's Lives of Cicero, Cato, and Brutus.Simon Swain - 1990 - Hermes 118 (2):192-203.
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    Arrian the epic poet.Simon Swain - 1991 - Journal of Hellenic Studies 111:211-214.
    We know of several Greek translators of works originally written in Latin. Of non-Christian, purely literary material, we know of six. First, there is Claudius' powerful freedman, Polybius, who turned Homer into Latin prose and Vergil into Greek prose. Then, under Hadrian we have Zenobius ‘the sophist’, who translates Sallust'sHistoriesand “so-called Wars’. The translation into Greek of Hyginus' Fabulae can be dated precisely, for its unknown author tells us that he copied it up on 11th September 207. Similarly, the extant (...)
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    Dio Chrysostom: politics, letters, and philosophy.Simon Swain (ed.) - 2000 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This volume presents eleven new assessments by an international team of experts who for the first time study Dio's politics alongside his philosophy and writing ...
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    Four Rhetorical Essays of Plutarch.Simon Swain - 1990 - The Classical Review 40 (02):248-.
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    Galen; On Problematical Movements by Vivian Nutton, Gerrit Bos (review).Simon Swain - 2013 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (3):481-482.
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    Novel and Pantomime in Plutarch's 'Antony'.Simon Swain - 1992 - Hermes 120 (1):76-82.
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    Plutarch's Apophthegmata.Simon Swain - 1990 - The Classical Review 40 (02):247-.
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    Plutarch's Moralia.Simon Swain - 1990 - The Classical Review 40 (02):245-.
  11. Reception and Interpretation.Simon Swain - 2000 - In Dio Chrysostom: politics, letters, and philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 13--50.
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    The Novel in the Ancient World. G Schmeling (ed.).Simon Swain - 1998 - The Classical Review 48 (2):339-340.
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    The Reliability of Philostratus's "Lives of the Sophists".Simon Swain - 1991 - Classical Antiquity 10 (1):148-163.
  14. P. Payen: Plutarque: Grecs et Romains en questions . Pp. 184, ills, maps. Toulouse: Haute-Garonne Conseil General, 1998. Cased, frs. 160. ISBN: 2-912729-00-9. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 2000 - The Classical Review 50 (1):288-288.
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    D. Gutas: Greek Thought, Arabic Culture. The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Abbasid Society . Pp. xvii + 230. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Paper, £14.99. ISBN: 0-415-06133-4. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 1999 - The Classical Review 49 (2):623-623.
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    I. Gallo: Studi sulla biografia greca Pp. 216. Naples: D’Auria, 1997. Paper. ISBN: 88-7092-129-8. - I. Gallo, L. Nicastri : Biografia e autobiografia degli antichi e dei moderni. Pp. 321. Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1995. Paper, L. 48,000. ISBN: 88-8114-093-4. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 2000 - The Classical Review 50 (1):307-308.
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    Apuleius Sophista S. J. Harrison: Apuleius. A Latin Sophist . Pp. vi + 281. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Cased, £45. ISBN: 0-19-814053-. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 2001 - The Classical Review 51 (02):269-.
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    B. Rochette: Le latin dans le monde grec. Recherches sur la diffusion de la langue et des lettres latines dans les provinces hellénophones de l’Empire romain. (Collection Latomus, 233.) Pp. 423. Brussels: Latomus, Revue d’Études Latines, 1997. ISBN: 2-87031-173-7. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 1999 - The Classical Review 49 (1):280-281.
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    Hadrian M. T. Boatwright: Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire . Pp. xviii + 243, figs. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Cased, £31. ISBN: 0-691-04889-. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 2001 - The Classical Review 51 (02):337-.
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    J. K. Berenson Maclean, E. Bradshaw Aitken: Flavius Philostratus: Heroikos . Pp. xcvii + 318. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001. Paper, $39.95. ISBN: 1-58983-008-3. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 2003 - The Classical Review 53 (1):252-252.
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    K. Hopkins: A World Full of Gods. Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire. Pp. xii + 402. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. Cased, £25. ISBN: 0-297-81982-8. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 2003 - The Classical Review 53 (1):260-261.
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    Kommentar zu ausgewählten Sophistenviten des Philostratos. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 1990 - The Classical Review 40 (2):480-481.
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    (1 other version)Pausanias historien. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 1998 - The Classical Review 48 (2):489-490.
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    Plutarco: il desiderio e l'afflizione sono affezioni del corpo o dell'anima? [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 1992 - The Classical Review 42 (2):437-438.
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    Plutarco, Le vite di Cimone e di Lucullo. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 1992 - The Classical Review 42 (1):182-183.
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    Plutarch's Theseus and Romulus. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 1990 - The Classical Review 40 (2):244-245.
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    Plutarch und die Sprachen. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 1998 - The Classical Review 48 (2):484-485.
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    Situating Rome K. Clarke: Between Geography and History. Hellenistic Constructions of the Roman World . Pp. xi + 407. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Cased, £50. ISBN: 0-19-924003-. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 2001 - The Classical Review 51 (02):325-.
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    Studi su Favorino: Le orazioni pseudo-crisostomiche. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 1998 - The Classical Review 48 (2):485-486.
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    Sven-Tage Teodorsson: A Commentary on Plutarch's Table Talks, Vol. II: Books 4–6. (Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia, 53.) Pp. 302. Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg, 1990. Paper, S. kr. 250. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 1992 - The Classical Review 42 (01):183-.
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    The city of God G. O'Daly: Augustine's city of God. A reader's guide . Pp. XII + 323. Oxford clarendon press, 1999. Cased, £48. Isbn: 0-19-826354-. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 2003 - The Classical Review 53 (01):114-.
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    The Medicvs (C.) Petit (ed., trans.) Galien. Tome III. Le Médecin. Introduction. Pp. cxl + 232. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2009. Paper, €69. ISBN: 978-2-251-00555-3. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 2011 - The Classical Review 61 (2):434-435.
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    The Second Sophistic T. Schmitz: Bildung und Macht. Zur sozialen und politischen Funktion der zweiten Sophistik in der griechischen Welt der Kaiserzeit . Pp. 270. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1997. Paper, DM 98. ISBN: 3-406-4285-. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 1999 - The Classical Review 49 (01):159-.
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    Table Talk. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 1997 - The Classical Review 47 (1):21-22.
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  35. Table Talk F. Frazier, J. Sirinelli (edd., trans.): Plutarque: Oeuvres morales: tome IX: troisième partie: Propos de Table: Livres VII—IX (Collection des Universités de France publiée sous le patronage de l'Association Guillaume Budé). Pp. x + 438. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1996. Frs. 360. ISBN: 2-251-00449-. [REVIEW]Simon Swain - 1998 - The Classical Review 48 (01):21-22.