{"id":25,"date":"2005-06-14T19:18:05","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T00:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=25"},"modified":"2013-09-01T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T23:04:33","slug":"scholastic-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Scholastic Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found on Amazon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Martial, Buch VI: Ein Kommentar (Hypomnemata)<\/strong>
\nby Farouk Grewing<\/p>\n

Availability:<\/strong> Currently unavailable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

It is in fact still in print in Germany, for only 89 Euros — around $107 — in paperback, and worth every penny. For more information, go here<\/a> and search on the author’s (I mean the editor’s, not Martial’s) name. German Amazon<\/a> also lists it, though with very little information except that they can ship it within 1-2 days. I would have thought that the various Amazon sites could share information and avoid misstatements, but apparently not.<\/p>\n

What I found humorous is the single review on the U.S. Amazon site:<\/p>\n

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\"Amazon Just great!<\/strong>, April 25, 2002
\nReviewer: Dr. Farouk F. Grewing<\/strong> (Cambridge, MA United States)
\nI really did an excellent job on this one!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He did, actually, and I use the book often, still grateful that a book dealer in the U.S. was foolish enough to price a used copy in excellent condition at $20 when I would have gladly paid quite a bit more. (Some of my Martial texts, with marginal apparatus criticus, are nearly ready to unveil, though not Book VI.)<\/p>\n

Dr. Grewing\u2019s curriculum vitae<\/em> (on line here<\/a>) confirms that his middle initial is F. and that he was a visiting lecturer in the Boston area in 2002, so I suspect the review is genuine. One small detail of the c.v. is also slyly humorous. The bullets for list items are all dark green, except for the one marking a review of Hans Peter Obermayer, Martial und der Diskurs \u00fcber m\u00e4nnliche ‘Homosexualit\u00e4t’ in der Literatur der fr\u00fchen Kaiserzeit<\/em>, which is pink. I like the portrait, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Found on Amazon: Martial, Buch VI: Ein Kommentar (Hypomnemata) by Farouk Grewing Availability: Currently unavailable. It is in fact still in print in Germany, for only 89 Euros — around $107 — in paperback, and worth every penny. For more … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,44],"tags":[316],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes","category-latin-literature","tag-martial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}