Porphyrio on Horace - (A.) Kalinina Der Horazkommentar des Pomponius Porphyrio. Untersuchungen zu seiner Terminologie und Textgeschichte. (Palingenesia 91.) Pp. 154. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2007. Cased, €38. ISBN: 978-3-515-09102-2.

Abstract

is an interesting assessment of F. Fontaine's Douze autres Césars (1985), but perhaps belongs more aptly in the earlier section 'Dans l'Antiquité' alongside the discussion of F. Paschoud, 'Les Enfants de Suétone', since it in fact deals mostly with Suetonius' immediate continuators, Marius Maximus and the Historia Augusta. When one considers the varied nature of these papers and the numerous passages discussed, the volume's lack of any indexes is a pity. Moreover, several of the papers either rely too heavily on French scholarship or are devoid of notes altogether. Nevertheless, we can be grateful for a book-length contribution on an author who is an important source of evidence for ancient history and literature, yet who remains poorly understood by many. This book will no doubt be consulted in libraries by scholars of Tacitus and Dio, and by historians of the early Empire, for its individual chapters, but anyone who works on Suetonius will want to add the full book to the shelf. With two new volumes of papers on the biographer available or in preparation, Suetonius' stock has never been higher.