Month: September 1997

Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry

R. L. (Richard L.) Hunter  / Cambridge University Press, 1996

Reviewed by James Zetzel, 

Classics and Feminism: Gendering the Classics. The Impact of Feminism on the Arts and Sciences

Barbara McManus  / Twayne, 1997

Reviewed by Michael Kochin, 

Art and Text in Roman Culture

Jaś Elsner  / Cambridge University Press, 1996

Reviewed by Christina Kraus, 

The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Greco-Roman World

Robert Garland  / Cornell University Press, 1995

Reviewed by Robert Brophy, 

Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed.

Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth  / Oxford University Press, 1996

Reviewed by Markus Sehlmeyer, 

Martial: The Epigrams Book V

Peter Howell  / Aris & Phillips, 1995

Reviewed by Matthew Leigh, 

Greek-English Lexicon; Lexicographica Graeca

Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott  / Clarendon Press, 1996 Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, John Chadwick  / Clarendon Press, 1996

Reviewed by Stephen Colvin, 

Lexicographica Graeca

John Chadwick  / Clarendon Press, 1996

Reviewed by William Wyatt, 

Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy: A Reading of Homer’s Iliad

Michael Naas  / 1995

Reviewed by Michael Lynn-George, 

Ovid’s Metamorphoses Books 1-5

43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, William S. (William Scovil) Anderson  / University of Oklahoma Press, 1997

Reviewed by Andrew Zissos, 

Athens. The Ancient Heritage and the Historic Cityscape in a Modern Metropolis

Alexander Papageorgiou-Venetas  / Archaeological Society at Athens, 1994

Reviewed by Judith Binder, 

The Homeric Hymns

Susan C. Shelmerdine  / Focus Classical Library, 1995

Reviewed by Ingrid Holmberg, 

Seneca, The Tragedies, Vol. II

David R. Slavitt  / Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

Reviewed by Robert Brophy, 

Pericles on Stage: political comedy in Aristophanes’ early plays

Michael J. Vickers  / University of Texas Press, 1997

Reviewed by Ian Story, 

L’Eros dans la Grèce antique

Claude Calame, Impr. Sagim)  / Belin, 1996

Reviewed by Robert Sutton, 

The Roman Goddess Ceres

Barbette Stanley Spaeth  / University of Texas Press, 1996

Reviewed by Celia Schultz, 

Nero

D. C. A. (David Colin Arthur) Shotter  / Routledge, 1997

Reviewed by Christopher Ehrhardt, 

Velleius Paterculus, Ad M. Vinicium consulem libri duo

Maria Elefante  / Olms, 1997

Reviewed by David Potter, 

P. Michigan XVII, The Michigan Medical Codex (P. Mich. 758 = P. Mich. Inv. 21). American Studies in Papyrology, volume 35

Louise C. (Louise Canberg) Youtie  / Scholars Press, 1996

Reviewed by Dominic Montserrat, 

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared M. Diamond  / W.W. Norton & Co, 1997

Reviewed by John Van Sickle,