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WOLFGANG D. C.DE MELO, VARRO: DE LINGUA LATINA. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 2 vols. Pp. xvi + 1,322. isbn9780199659739. £250.00.
DIANASPENCER, LANGUAGE AND AUTHORITY IN DE LINGUA LATINA: VARRO'S GUIDE TO BEING ROMAN. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. Pp. xxix + 387. isbn9780299323202. $118.49.
VALENTINAARENA and FIACHRAMAC GÓRÁIN (EDS), VARRONIAN MOMENTS (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 60.2) London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2017. Pp. ix + 147. issn00760730. £35.00.

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2020

Katharina Volk
Katharina Volk*
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Is this the Varronian moment? After decades of comparative neglect, especially in Anglophone scholarship, the late republican polymath is suddenly everywhere. There are conferences and conference panels dedicated to his work, some subsequently published as edited volumes. Varro is the subject of dissertations and monographs, either on his own or as a prime exhibit in discussions of such diverse subjects as ancient agricultural writing and late republican religious scholarship. Much needed new editions of his work have appeared or are in preparation. Thus we can look forward to Robert Rodgers' OCT of De re rustica, Giorgio Piras’ Teubner of De lingua Latina and a Loeb edition of Varronian fragments by Joseph McAlhany.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 110 , November 2020 , pp. 221 - 232
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020 Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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My thanks for comments, suggestions and discussion, especially on textual matters, go to Jim Zetzel; I am also grateful to Joshua Katz for linguistic assistance.

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