Month: May 1998

98.5.01, Sophocles: Second Thoughts. Hypomnemata 100

H. Lloyd-Jones, N.G. Wilson  / Ruprecht, 1997

Reviewed by H.C. Guenther, 

Akten des 21. internationalen Papyrologenkongresses, Berlin, 13.-19.8.1995

Barbel Kramer, Wolfgang Luppe, Herwig Maehler, Gunter Poethke  / Teubner, 1997

Reviewed by Paul Schubert, 

On Simon Goldhill’s review (BMCR 98.2.5) of L. Edmunds and R. Wallace (eds.), Poet, Public and Performance in Ancient Greece.

Response by | Original Review by Simon Goldhill, 

98.5.04, The Athenian Agora, vol. xvi, Inscriptions. The Decrees

A. G. (Arthur Geoffrey) Woodhead  / American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1997

Reviewed by P.J. Rhodes, 

Books Received April 1998

98.5.07, Playing the Other. Essays on Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature

Froma I. Zeitlin  / University of Chicago Press, 1996

Reviewed by Victoria Pedrick, 

Ovid’s Literary Loves: Influence and Innovation in the Amores

Barbara Weiden Boyd  / University of Michigan Press, 1997

Reviewed by Sharon L. James, 

98.5.10, The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature

Susanna Morton Braund, Christopher Gill  / Cambridge University Press, 1997

Reviewed by David Armstrong, 

The Rotting Witch: The Origin of the Witch in Classical Antiquity

Jacob Rabinowitz  / Autonomedia, 1998

Reviewed by Jason Davies, 

98.5.12, Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom

Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath  / Free Press, 1998

Reviewed by Charles Beye, 

Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom

Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath  / Free Press, 1998

Reviewed by Joy Connolly, 

Hanson/Heath on Beye and Connolly on Hanson/Heath

Response by Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath | Original Review by Charles Beye, 

98.5.16, The Complete Fables

Aesop., Olivia Temple, Robert K. G. Temple  / Penguin Books, 1998

Reviewed by Laura Gibbs, 

98.5.17, Repetition in Latin Poetry: Figures of Allusion

Jeffrey Wills  / Clarendon Press, 1996

Reviewed by Damien Nelis, 

98.5.18, AINOI, LOGOI, MYTHOI. Fables in Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek Literature, with a study of the theory and terminology of the genre. Mnemosyne: Supplementum 166.

Gert-Jan van Dijk  / Brill, 1997

Reviewed by Laura Gibbs, 

98.5.19, Juvenal’s Mayor: the Professor who lived on 2d. a Day

R. L. (Richard L.) Hunter, Cambridge Philological Society.  / Cambridge Philological Society, 1998

Reviewed by P.G. Naiditch, 

A New Companion to Homer

Ian Morris, Barry B. Powell  / Brill, 1997

Reviewed by Richard Janko, 

98.5.21, Die Orestie des Aischylos auf der modernen Bühne

Anton Bierl  / M & P, 1997

Reviewed by Gregory Hays, 

98.5.22, Martial, Buch VI (Ein Kommentar)

Farouk Grewing  / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997

Reviewed by Martin Helzle, 

98.5.23, Food in Antiquity: A Survey of the Diet of Early Peoples

Don R. Brothwell, Patricia Brothwell  / Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

Reviewed by Veronika Grimm,