Month: May 1999

Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches

Ellen Greene  / University of California Press, 1996

Reviewed by Gregory Hays, 

Liebesbeziehungen in Ovids Metamorphosen und ihr Einfluß auf den Roman des Apuleius. Göttinger Schriftenzur Klassischen Philologie, Band 1

Hendrik Müller  / Hainholz Verlag, 1998

Reviewed by Vincent Hunink, 

The Theater of Plautus

Timothy J. Moore  / University of Texas Press, 1998

Reviewed by Fred Franko, 

Plutarch: Lives. Themistocles

Plutarch., J. L. Marr  / Aris & Phillips, 1998

Reviewed by Tim Rood, 

New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity 8: A Review of the Greek Inscriptions and Papyri Published 1984-85

S. R. Llewelyn, Macquarie University. Ancient History Documentary Research Centre.  / Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, 1998

Reviewed by David Potter, 

Ansichten griechischer Rituale. Geburtstags-Symposium für Walter Burkert

Walter Burkert, Fritz Graf  / B.G. Teubner, 1998

Reviewed by Robert Fowler, 

Signs of Orality. The Oral Tradition and its Influence in the Greek and Roman World

E Anne Mackay  / Brill, 1999

Reviewed by Bruce Louden, 

Books Received

Electra and the Empty Urn. Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles

Mark Ringer  / University of North Carolina Press, 1998

Reviewed by Eveline Krummen, 

Dionigi d’Alicarnasso, Sull’Imitazione. Edizione critica, traduzione e commento

Dionysius Alicarnessensis., Daniela G. Battisti  / Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, 1997

Reviewed by Dirk Schenkeveld, 

Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature

William F. Hansen  / Indiana University Press, 1998

Reviewed by Laura Gibbs, 

Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Vol. I, Books 11-12: Alexander the Great

Marcus Junianus Justinus, John Yardley, Waldemar Heckel  / Clarendon Press, 1997-2011

Reviewed by Stanley Burstein, 

Ancient Marbles to American Shores. Classical Archaeology in the United States

Stephen L. Dyson  / University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998

Reviewed by Stephen Dyson,  Robert Rowland,  Robert J. Rowland, 

L’immagine poetica nella teoria degli antichi. Phantasia ed enargeia. Filologia e critica 82, Bruno Gentili ed.Università degli Studi di Urbino. Centro Internazionale di Studi sulla Cultura Greca Antica

Alessandra Manieri  / Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, 1998

Reviewed by John Van Sickle, 

Books Received

Augustus

Pat Southern  / Routledge, 1998

Reviewed by Pat Southern,  Carlos Noreña, 

Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights. Loeb Classical Library

Aristophanes., Jeffrey Henderson  / Harvard University Press, 1998-2007

Reviewed by Martin Revermann, 

Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture: Differential Equations

Sandra R. (Sandra Rae) Joshel, Sheila Murnaghan  / Routledge, 1998

Reviewed by Janet Grossman, 

Eurykleia and Her Successors: Female Figures of Authority in Greek Poetics

Helen Pournara Karydas  / Rowman & Littlefield, 1998

Reviewed by Judith Fletcher, 

Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule

Josiah Ober  / Princeton University Press, 1998

Reviewed by Stephen Salkever,