Month: October 2002

Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: An Archaeology of Ataraxia

James Warren  / Cambridge University Press, 2002

Reviewed by Jeffrey Purinton, 

Sophocles Antigone

Sophocles., Mark (Classicist) Griffith  / Cambridge University Press, 1999

Reviewed by Geoff Bakewell, 

Chase on Gerson on Hadot

Response by Michael Chase | Original Review by Lloyd Gerson, 

Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Buch VI. Zetemata: Monographien zur Klassischen Altertumswissenschaft 112

Thomas Baier  / C.H. Beck, 2001

Reviewed by Antonios Augoustakis, 

Cicero, Letters to Friends. 3 vols (Loeb Classical Library 205, 216, 230)

Shackleton Bailey  / Harvard University Press, 2001

Reviewed by Andrew Dyck, 

The Fragility of Goodness. Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. (Revised edition)

Martha Craven Nussbaum  / Cambridge University Press, 2001

Reviewed by Patrick O'Sullivan, 

Books Received September

Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire

C. E. W. Steel  / Oxford University Press, 2001

Reviewed by Christopher Mackay, 

Ancient Etymologies in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A Commented Lexicon (ARCA (Classical and Medieval Texts, Paper and Monographs) 40)

Andreas Michalopoulos  / Francis Cairns, 2001

Reviewed by Michael Paschalis, 

Ps.-Maximus Confessor: Erste kritische Edition einer Redaktion des sacro-profanen Florilegiums Loci communes (Palingenesia LXXIII)

Confessor Maximus, Sibylle Ihm  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001

Reviewed by Dimitrios Christidis, 

Marsilio Ficino. Platonic Theology. Volume 2: Books V-VIII. I Tatti Renaissance Library, 4

Marsilio Ficino, James Hankins, William Roy Bowen, Michael J. B. Allen, John Warden  / Harvard University Press, 2001-2006

Reviewed by Caroline Macé, 

Sallust. Studienbücher Antike, Band 8

Stephan Schmal  / Olms, 2001

Reviewed by Christopher Krebs, 

Scritti in onore di Italo Gallo

Italo Gallo, Luigi Torraca  / Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 2002

Reviewed by Eugenio Amato, 

The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome

Martha Craven Nussbaum, Juha Sihvola  / University of Chicago Press, 2002

Reviewed by Julia Annas, 

Le Terrecotte del Museo Nazionale Romano II. Materiali dai Depositi Votivi di Palestrina: Collezioni “Kircheriana” e Palestrina. Studia archeologica 112

Museo nazionale romano., Patrizio Pensabene, Maria Guarnaccia, Mario Valdarnini  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1999-2001

Reviewed by Celia Schultz, 

Telling Tales on Caesar. Roman Stories from Phaedrus

Phaedrus., John Henderson  / Oxford University Press, 2001

Reviewed by Christina Kraus, 

Shakespeare’s Ovid. The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems

A. B. (Anthony Brian) Taylor  / Cambridge University Press, 2000

Reviewed by Ingo Zissos, 

Tales of Heroes. The Origins of the Homeric Texts

Ione Mylonas Shear  / A.D. Caratzas, 2000

Reviewed by Jonathan Burgess, 

Proclus: On the Eternity of the World (de Aeternitate Mundi)

approximately 410-485 Proclus, Helen S. Lang, A. D. (Anthony David) Macro, Jon McGinnis  / University of California Press, 2001

Reviewed by Dirk Baltzly, 

Die Bekehrung des Synesios von Kyrene. Politik und Philosophie, Hof und Provinz als Handlungsräume eines Aristokraten bis zu seiner Wahl zum Metropoliten von Ptolemaïs. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd. 146

Tassilo Schmitt  / K.G. Saur, 2001

Reviewed by Stefanie Kennell,