Month: June 2002

Books Received in May 2002

Early Greek Mythography Volume 1: Text and Introduction

R. L. (Robert Louis) Fowler  / Oxford University Press, 2000

Reviewed by D. Felton, 

Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity

Rebecca Krawiec  / Oxford University Press, 2002

Reviewed by Kirsti Copeland, 

The Making of a Christian Aristocracy

Michele Renee Salzman  / Harvard University Press, 2002

Reviewed by James O'Donnell, 

Memories of Odysseus: Frontier Tales from Ancient Greece,.Translated by Janet Lloyd. Foreword by Paul Cartledge

François Hartog  / University of Chicago Press, 2001

Reviewed by Phiroze Vasunia, 

Menander: the Plays and Fragments

of Athens Menander, M. G. Balme  / Oxford University Press, 2002

Reviewed by Wilfred Major, 

Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul. Revisiting the Sources

Ralph W. Mathisen, Danuta Shanzer  / Ashgate, 2001

Reviewed by Raymond Van Dam, 

Terence I. The Woman of Andros. The Self-Tormentor. The Eunuch. Loeb Classical Library

Terence, John Barsby  / Harvard University Press, 2001

Reviewed by Benjamin Victor, 

Terence II. Phormio, The Mother-In-Law, The Brothers. Loeb Classical Library

Terence, John Barsby  / Harvard University Press, 2001

Reviewed by William Anderson, 

Xenophon’s Prince. Republic and Empire in the Cyropaedia

Christopher Nadon  / University of California Press, 2001

Reviewed by John Dillery, 

Die Juden im christlichen Imperium Romanum (4.-6. Jahrhundert)

Karl-Leo Noethlichs  / Akademie Verlag, 2001

Reviewed by Pieter van der Horst, 

A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey

Irene J F de Jong  / Cambridge University Press, 2001

Reviewed by Ruth Scodel, 

Fabulae praetextae: Spuren einer literarischen Gattung der Römer. Zetemata, Heft 108

Gesine Manuwald  / Beck, 2001

Reviewed by T.P. Wiseman, 

The Parthenon Frieze

Jenifer Neils  / Cambridge University Press, 2001

Reviewed by Mary Eaverly, 

After Paul Left Corinth: The Influence of Secular Ethics and Social Change

Bruce W. Winter  / W.B. Eerdmans, 2001

Reviewed by Debra Bucher, 

Philodemus, On Poems, Book 1, edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

approximately 110 B.C.-approximately 40 B.C. Philodemus, Richard Janko  / Oxford University Press, 2000-

Reviewed by David Sider, 

Miletos. The Ornament of Ionia: A History of the City to 400 B.C.E

Vanessa B. Gorman  / University of Michigan Press, 2001

Reviewed by P.J. Smith, 

Griechische Papyrusurkunden spätrömischer und byzantinischer Zeit aus Hermupolis Magna. Ägyptische Urkunden aus den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Griechische Urkunden, XVII. Band. Archiv, Beih. 7

Günter Poethke, Germany) Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung (Berlin  / K.G. Saur, 2001

Reviewed by Roger Bagnall, 

Greek and Roman Necromancy

Daniel Ogden  / Princeton University Press, 2001

Reviewed by Sarah Johnston, 

Ancient Epistolary Fictions: the Letter in Greek Literature

Patricia A. Rosenmeyer  / Cambridge University Press, 2001

Reviewed by Tim Whitmarsh,