Month: February 1991

Pagan Priests: Religion and Power in the Ancient World

Mary Beard  / Duckworth, 1990

Reviewed by T.C. Brennan, 

Alexandre Severe et l’Histoire Auguste

Cécile Bertrand-Dagenbach  / Latomus, 1990

Reviewed by David Potter, 

Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Bernhard Bischoff  / Cambridge University Press, 1990

Reviewed by James Halporn, 

The Vanished Library

Luciano Canfora  / University of California Press, 1989

Reviewed by Julia Gaisser, 

The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece

Thomas Cole  / Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991

Reviewed by James O'Donnell, 

Homer: Poet of the Iliad; Poetry and its Public in Ancient Greece

Mark W. Edwards  / Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990 Mark W. Edwards, Bruno Gentili  / The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988

Reviewed by S. Douglas Olson, 

The Tragedy of Political Theory

J. Peter Euben  / Princeton University Press, 1990

Reviewed by James Halporn, 

Traditional Oral Epic

John Miles Foley  / University of California Press, 1990

Reviewed by William Scott, 

Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy

Donald Kagan  / The Free Press, 1991

Reviewed by David Potter, 

The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet

François Lissarrague, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak  / Princeton University Press, 1991

Reviewed by Richard Hamilton, 

Virgil; Oxford Readings in Vergil’s Aeneid

Ian McAuslan, Peter Walcot  / Oxford University Press on behalf of the Classical Association, 1990 Ian McAuslan, Peter Walcot, S. J. Harrison  / Oxford University Press, 1990

Reviewed by Joseph Farrell, 

Die attische mittlere Komoedie

Heinz-Günther Nesselrath  / Walter de Gruyter, 1990

Reviewed by Jeffrey Rusten, 

Euripides’ Dramen mit rettendem Deus ex machina

Walter Nicolai  / C. Winter, 1990

Reviewed by Michael Halleran, 

Reading Petronius

Niall W. Slater  / Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990

Reviewed by Catherine Connors, 

Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil

Virgil, David R. Slavitt  / Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990

Reviewed by James Clauss, 

The Lost Theory of Asclepiades of Bithynia

J. T. Vallance  / Clarendon Press, 1990

Reviewed by Lee Pearcy, 

A guide to western historical scripts: from antiquity to 1600

Michelle P. Brown  / British Library, 1990

Reviewed by James Halporn,