Month: September 2002

Books Received August 2002

Imagination of a Monarchy: Studies in Ptolemaic Propaganda (Phoenix Supplementary Volume, 37)

R. A. Hazzard  / University of Toronto Press, 2000

Reviewed by Peter Nadig, 

Ovid’s Metamorphoses

43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Arthur Golding, Madeleine Forey  / Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, 2001

Reviewed by Raphael Lyne, 

The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle

Jonathan S. Burgess  / Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

Reviewed by Margalit Finkelberg, 

Unzeitgemäßes Denken bei Sophokles. Hermes Einzelschriften 85

Markus Altmeyer  / Franz Steiner, 2002

Reviewed by Ruth Scodel, 

Die Opramoas-Inschrift von Rhodiapolis

Christina Kokkinia  / Habelt, 2000

Reviewed by Alexis D'Hautcourt, 

The Riddle of Resurrection: Dying and Rising Gods in the Ancient Near East. Coniectanea Biblica, Old Testament Series 50.

Tryggve N. D. Mettinger  / Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2001

Reviewed by David Frankfurter, 

Vivre en Égypte gréco-romaine. Une sélection de papyrus

Paul Schubert  / Éd. de l'Aire, impr. 2000

Reviewed by Pieter van der Horst, 

Res publica reperta. Zur Verfassung und Gesellschaft der römischen Republik und des frühen Prinzipats. Festschrift für Jochen Bleicken zum 75. Geburtstag

Jörg Spielvogel  / F. Steiner, 2002

Reviewed by Olivier Hekster, 

Ancient Rome: Art, Architecture, and History. English translation by Thomas M. Hartmann (Italian edition Milan 2000)

Ada Gabucci, Stefano Peccatori, Stefano Zuffi  / J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002

Reviewed by Barbara McCauley, 

Urbanism in Western Asia Minor, New Studies on Aphrodisias, Ephesos, Hierapolis, Pergamon, Perge and Xanthos. JRA Suppl. 45

David Parrish, Halûk Abbasoğlu  / Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2001

Reviewed by Frédérique Landuyt, 

Prime forme della storiografia greca: prospettiva locale e generale nella narrazione storica (Historia: Einzelschriften; H. 152)

Leone Porciani  / Steiner, 2001

Reviewed by Gabriella Vanotti, 

Statius’ Silvae and the Poetics of Empire

Carole Elizabeth Newlands  / Cambridge University Press, 2002

Reviewed by Llewelyn Morgan, 

Among Women: from the homosocial to the homoerotic in the ancient world

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Lisa Auanger  / University of Texas Press, 2002

Reviewed by Barbara Goff, 

Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Margaret Graver  / University of Chicago Press, 2002

Reviewed by Bob Kaster, 

Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World

John von Heyking  / University of Missouri Press, 2001

Reviewed by Michael Kochin, 

Plautus: Amphitruo

Titus Maccius Plautus, David M. (David Michael) Christenson  / Cambridge University Press, 2000

Reviewed by John Porter, 

Rothaus on Scotton on Rothaus

Response by Richard Rothaus | Original Review by Paul Scotton, 

Sklaverei in der Antike: Alltag und Schicksal der Unfreien

Leonhard Schumacher  / C.H. Beck, 2001

Reviewed by Noel Lenski, 

Aristophanes: Frogs, Assemblywomen, Wealth. Loeb Classical Library 180

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

Reviewed by Elizabeth Scharffenberger,