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Reviews for 1993

1993 was a transitional year in our numbering, hence this index page is a mix of alphabetical, analphabetical, and numerical ordering.

 

• Books Received: Long form with tables of contents: July 1993
• Books Received: Short Form, June 1993
• Commentary: NRC Survey
• Symposium: SYMPOSIUM on Sophocles' Electra (Dale Grote)
• Editor's Disk: Response concerning NRC Report
• From the Editor's Disk: Jobs 1993/94
• ALSO SEEN: Athanassiadi, Polymnia, Julian (James J. O'Donnell)
• ALSO SEEN: Okerson, Ann ed., Visions and Opportunities in Electronic Publishing and Cummings, ed., University Libraries and Scholarly Communication (James J. O'Donnell)
• Letter: Ellen Bauerle on Reece on Olson
• Letter: Hornblower on Potter on Hornblower
• Response: Ludlam on Sider on Ludlam
• Response: Belfiore on Scodel on Belfiore
• Response: Clayman, Crane, and Guthrie on Keyser on Frischer

• Aristotle. De Partibus Animalium I and De Generatione Animalium I (Lee Pearcy)
• Barnwell, P.S., Emperor, Prefects, & Kings. The Roman West, 395-565 (R. W. Burgess)
• Bauman, Richard Women and Politics in Ancient Rome (John Bendix)
• Beagon, Mary: Roman Nature: The Thought of Pliny the Elder (K. Sara Myers).
• Belfiore, Elizabeth S., Tragic Pleasures: Aristotle on Plot (Ruth Scodel)
• Bulman, Patricia, Phthonos in Pindar (M. W. Dickie)
• Cassiodorus: Variae (James J. O'Donnell)
• Clark, Elizabeth A.: The Origenist Controversy and de Vogue, Adalbert, Histoire litteraire du mouvement monastique dans l'antiquite (James J. O'Donnell)
• Claude Calame (ed.), Figures grecques de l'intermediaire (James Romm).
• Clinton, Kevin: Myth and Cult: The Iconography of the Eleusinian Mysteries (R. Hamilton)
• Conference on Feminism & Classics, Cincinnati, Nov. 4.07, 1992 (Clara Hardy).
• Dewar, Michael, Statius. Thebaid IX. (Joseph Farrell)
• Drinkwater, John and Elton, Hugh. Fifth-Century Gaul (John Vanderspoel)
• duBois, Page, Torture and Truth (Barbara K. Gold)
• Fantham, Elaine, Lucan: De Bello Civili Book II, (Catherine Connors)
• Fitzgerald, Robert: The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs and Selected Writings (John Kirby).
• Ford, Andrew . Homer: The Poetry of the Past (Sheila Murnaghan)
• Freudenburg, Kirk: The Walking Muse: Horace on the Theory of Satire (Michele Lowrie)
• Gager, John G. (editor), Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World (Brent Vine)
• George, Judith W., Venantius Fortunatus: A Latin Poet in Merovingian Gaul (William Klingshirn)
• Golden, Leon, Aristotle on Tragic and Comic Mimesis (Elizabeth Belfiore)
• Goldhill, Simon: Aeschylus: The Oresteia (Michael R. Halleran)
• Gowing, Alain M.: The Triumviral Narratives of Appian and Cassius Dio (J. L. Hilton)
• Grainger, John D. Hellenistic Phoenicia (Nigel Pollard)
• Green, Peter: The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel About Sappho of Lesbos (Joan DeJean)
• Gross, Kenneth, The Dream of the Moving Statue (A. A. Donohue)
• Hardie, Philip, The Epic Successors of Virgil; Kennedy, Duncan, The Arts of Love; Martindale, Charles, Redeeming the Text (Joseph Farrell)
• Kaeppel, Lutz. Paian: Studien zur Geschichte einer Gattung (M. W. Dickie)
• Kenny, Anthony, Aristotle on the Perfect Life (Stephen A. White)
• Response: Keyser Responds Concerning Frischer's Work
• Kotsidu, Haritini: Die musischen Agone der Panathenaean in archaischer und klassischer Zeit (Richard Hamilton)
• Lamberton, Robert and John J. Keaney (edd.). Homer's Ancient Readers (Mary Whitlock Blundell)
• Lesher, J.H. Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments (Patricia Kenig Curd)
• Mansfeld, Jaap, Heresiography in Context: Hippolytus' Elenchos as a Source for Greek Philosophy (Paul T. Keyser)
• Masters, Jamie: Poetry and civil war in Lucan's 'Bellum Civile.' (Martha Davis)
• Mellor, Ronald: Tacitus (Elizabeth Keitel)
• Melville, A.D. (trans.): Statius, Thebaid (W. J. Dominik)
• Miller, Stephen G., Arete, Greek Sports from Ancient Sources (David Gilman Romano)
• Moorhead, John: Theoderic in Italy (Patrick Amory)
• Morris, Ian , Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity (James C. Wright)
• Neils, Jenifer, ed.,: Goddess and Polis. The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Michael Walbank)
• O'Brien, John Maxwell . Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy (Waldemar Heckel)
• O'Regan, Daphne Elizabeth, Rhetoric, Comedy and the Violence of Language in Aristophanes' Clouds (Sheila Colwell)
• Reece, Steve: The Stranger's Welcome: Oral Theory and the Aesthetics of the Homeric Hospitality Scene (S. Douglas Olson)
• Reeve, C.D.C.: Practices of Reason: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (J. Bussanich)
• Robertson, Martin, The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Jenifer Neils)
• Robertson, Noel: Festivals and Legends: The Formation of Greek Cities in the Light of Public Ritual (Bob Develin)
• Roueche, Charlotte: Performers and Partisans at Aphrodisias in the Roman and Late Roman Periods (W. J. Slater)
• Samuel, Alan E. The Greeks in History (Mabel Lang)
• Scarborough, John. Medical Terminologies: Classical Origins (Lee T. Pearcy)
• Schlam, Carl C. . The Metamorphoses of Apuleius: On Making an Ass of Oneself (Joseph Farrell)
• Scourfield, J.H.D.: Consoling Heliodorus: A Commentary on Jerome, Letter 60 (J. J. O'Donnell)
• Stoneman, Richard: Palmyra and its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt against Rome (Kent Rigsby)
• Strangelove, Michael, Diane Kovacs, et al.,: Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists (J. J. O'Donnell)
• Sullivan, J. P. Martial: the Unexpected Classic (Julia Haig Gaisser)
• Swanson, Judith A. The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy (Sara Rappe)
• Symposium: Athens and Beyond (Dartmouth College: Oct. 23-24, 1992) (Margaret Miller)
• Taplin, Oliver . Homeric Soundings: The Shaping of the Iliad (S. Douglas Olson)
• Brady, James F., and John C. Olin, The Collected Works of Erasmus. Volume 61, Patristic Scholarship (Barbara Halporn)
• Figueira, Thomas J. Athens and Aigina in the Age of Imperial Colonization (Gregory Crane)
• Tomlinson, Richard: From Mycenae to Constantinople: the Evolution of the Ancient City (Symphorien van de Maele)
• Harrison, S. J., Vergil. Aeneid 10; Gransden, K. W., Vergil, Aeneid XI (Joseph Farrell)
• West, M.L. ed., Iambi et Elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati vol II. (Michael Haslam)
• Wiltshire, Susan Ford: Greece, Rome, and the Bill of Rights (Dirk t. D. Held)

 

• 4.4.1: Conference Announcement, The Ancient Book
• 4.4.2: Meynell, ed., Grace, Politics and Desire
• 4.4.3, Books Received (July)
• 4.4.4, Collected Works of Erasmus
• 4.4.5, LSJ (revised)
• 4.4.6, O'Meara, Plotinus: Introduction to the Enneads
• 4.4.8, Martindale, Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire
• 4.4.8, Riddle, Contraception and Abortion . . .
• 4.4.9, Gaisser, Catullus and His Renaissance Readers
• 4.4.10, Moorhead, Theoderic in Italy
• 4.4.11, Meijer and van Nijf, Trade, Transport and Society
• 4.4.12, O'Sullivan, Alcidamas, Aristophanes and the Beginnings
• 4.4.13, Potter and Johns, Roman Britain
• 4.4.14, ALSO SEEN: Babcock/Peritia/Brown
• 4.4.15, ALSO SEEN: Future Libraries
• 4.4.16, Books Received: August 1993
• 4.4.18, From the Editor's Disk
• 4.4.19, B. Williams, Shame and Necessity (rev. Halleran)
• 4.4.20, B. Williams, Shame and Necessity (rev. Salkever)
• 4.4.21, Rehm, Greek Tragic Theater
• 4.4.22, Neoplatonism and Christianity, ed. Finan/Twomey
• 4.4.23, L. Richardson, Topographical Dict. Anc. Rome
• 4.4.24, R. Sealey, Demosthenes and His Time
• 4.4.25, T.R.S. Broughton (1900-1993)
• 4.4.26, Horace since the 17th Century (Conference)
• 4.4.27, W.M. Bloomer, Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility
• 4.4.28, TOCS-IN on gopher with search function
• 4.4.29, Ovid Amores II ed. J. Booth
• 4.5.1, Books Received (September 1993)
• 4.5.2, Cameron and Long, Barbarians and Politics ... Arcadius
• 4.5.3, Dio 48-53 trans. Edmondson
• 4.5.4, a corrigendum and a conference
• 4.5.5, Electronic Antiquity (new issue)
• 4.5.6, Claudian de raptu Proserpinae ed. Gruzelier
• 4.5.7, RESPONSE: Slavitt on Levitan on Slavitt
• 4.5.8, Gundlach/Weber, Legitimation . . . Herrschers
• 4.5.9, W. Heckel, The Marshals of Alexander's Empire
• 4.5.10, Philoponus on Aristot. Phys. II
• 4.5.11, Kaufmann, The Mastery of Nature
• 4.5.12, O. Taplin, Comic Angels
• 4.5.13, R. Thomas, Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece
• 4.5.14, the APA on the NRC survey
• 4.5.15, From the Editor's Disk: the NRC Survey
• 4.5.16, P. Thrams, Christianisierung des Roemerreiches
• 4.5.17, ALSO SEEN: Slonczewski, Daughter of Elysium
• 4.5.18, Bromwich, Roman Remains of S. France
• 4.5.19, call for papers
• 4.5.20, Boyle (ed.), Roman Epic
• 4.5.21, Carpenter and Faraone, Masks of Dionysus
• 4.5.22, Crouch, Water Management in Greek Cities
• 4.5.23, Brunt, Studies in Greek History and Thought
• 4.5.24, Eyben, Restless Youth
• 4.5.25, Fine, On Ideas: A's Criticism of P.
• 4.5.26, Gowers, The Loaded Table
• 4.5.27, Hamer, Signs of Cleopatra
• 4.5.28, APA Program
• 4.5.29, Holst-Warhaft. Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments ...
• 4.5.30, Lind, ed., Letters of G. Garzoni
• 4.5.32, Mastronarde, Introduction to Attic Greek
• 4.5.33, BMCR Books Received (October)
• 4.5.34, Munn, The Defense of Attica
• 4.5.35, Mynors, ed., Coll. Works Erasmus 34
• 4.5.36, Lisa Raphals, Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning
• 4.5.37, Symposium: Art in the Age of Homer
• 4.5.38, Saxonhouse, Fear of Diversity
• 4.5.39, Richardson, The Iliad: A Commentary vol. VI
• 4.5.40, Gardner, Being a Roman Citizen
• 4.5.41, Russo et all, Comm. on Odyssey 17-24
• 4.5.42, BMCR Books Received (November)
• 4.5.43, Nan Michels
• 4.5.44, Schefold, Gods/Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art
• 4.6.1, Niermeyer on CD-ROM?
• 4.6.2, Stanley, The Shield of Homer
• 4.6.3, Kelly, Ideas and Forms of Tragedy
• 4.6.4, Winkler Prize Announcement
• 4.6.5, Trevett, Apollodoros Son of Pasion
• 4.6.6, Murison, Galba, Otho and Vitellius
• 4.6.7, Galinsky, ed., The Interpretation of Roman Poetry
• 4.6.8, Cameron, The Greek Anthology
• 4.6.9, Tuplin, The Failings of Empire
• 4.6.10, Versnel. Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual
• 4.6.11, Walsh, ed., Love Lyrics from the Carmina Burana
• 4.6.12, Tarrant, Thrasyllan Platonism
• 4.6.13, Zaidman and Pantel, Religion in the ancient Greek city
• 4.6.14, Alcock, Graecia Capta
• 4.6.15, Bird, trans., Eutropius' Breviarium
• 4.6.16, Colloquium on Graduate Education in Classics
• 4.6.17, Graduate Program Description (Johns Hopkins)
• 4.6.18, From the Editor's Disk: Horn or Ivory?
• 4.6.19, Dohrn-van Rossum. Die Geschichte der Stunde
• 4.6.20, Borzsak (ed.), Tacitus
• 4.6.21, From the Editor's Disk: Job Market 1993-94
• 4.6, Brockmann, Die Handschriftliche Uberlieferung von Platons Symposium (David Murphy)
• 4.6, Francis Celoria, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis (K. Sara Myers)
• 4.6, Justus Cobet and Barbara Patzek, Archaeologie und historische Erinnerung (Edmund F. Bloedow)
• 4.6, Christopher P. Craig, Form as Argument in Cicero's Speeches (James Zetzel)
• 4.6, Peter Davis, Shifting Song: The Chorus in Seneca's Tragedies (Laura Abrahamsen)
• 4.6, Robert Drews, The End of the Bronze Age (David W.J. Gill)
• 4.6, Deborah Levine Gera, Xenophon's Cyropaedia (Antony G. Keen)
• 4.6, Richard L. Hunter, The Argonautica of Apollonius (James J. Clauss)
• 4.6, Nicole Loraux, The Children of Athena (Simon Goldhill)
• 4.6, Nicole Loraux, The Children of Athena (Carol Dougherty)
• 4.6, Oswyn Murray, Early Greece (Edmund F. Bloedow)
• 4.6, David Quint, Epic and Empire (Joseph Farrell)
• 4.6, Alan Watson, International Law in Archaic Rome (William Seavey)
• 4.6, Charles Rowan Beye, Ancient Epic Poetry and Peter Toohey, Reading Epic (Joseph Farrell)