Month: June 2008

Statius’ Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War

Charles McNelis  / Cambridge University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Christopher Chinn, 

Penelope o della tessitura. Trame femminili da Omero a Ovidio. Discese, 16

Saverio Gualerzi  / Palomar, 2007

Reviewed by Ginette Vagenheim, 

Martianus Capella. Les noces de Philologie et de Mercure. Tome IV. Livre IV. La dialectique. Collection des Universités de France

Martianus Capella, Michel Ferré, Barbara Ferré, Jean-Yves Guillaumin, Jean-Frédéric Chevalier  / Les Belles Lettres, 2007

Reviewed by Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, 

Alkinoos, Didaskalikos. Lehrbuch der Grudsätze Platons. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Anmerkungen, Sammlung wissentschaftlicher Kommentäre

active 2nd century Alcinous, Orrin F. Summerell, Thomas Zimmer  / Walter de Gruyter, 2007

Reviewed by Joanna Komorowska, 

Holford-Strevens on Fincham on R. F. Rhodes, The Acquisition and Exhibition of Classical Antiquities

Response by Leofranc Holford-Strevens | Original Review by Derek Fincham, 

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Luke 12:19)–Food and Wine in Byzantium. Papers of the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, In Honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer

Anthony Bryer, Leslie Brubaker, Kallirroe Linardou, Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)  / Ashgate, 2007

Reviewed by Philippe Charlier, 

Plato’s Symposium. Issues in Interpretation and Reception. Hellenic Studies 22

James Lesher, Debra Nails, Frisbee Sheffield  / Harvard University Press (on behalf of the Center for Hellenic Studies), 2006

Reviewed by Patricia Curd, 

Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogue

Helma Dik  / Oxford University Press, 2007

Reviewed by D.M. Goldstein, 

The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics

Robert K. Faulkner  / Yale University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Thomas W. Smith, 

Lucio Anneo Seneca. Tragedie. I. Ercole, Le Troiane, Le Fenicie, Medea, Fedra. Testi e commenti, 22

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Giancarlo Giardina  / F. Serra, 2007-2012

Reviewed by Christopher Trinacty, 

The Trojan War

Carol G. Thomas, Craig Conant  / University of Oklahoma Press, 2007

Reviewed by Silvio Bär,, 

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Deutschland 83. Göttingen, Archäologischies Institut der Universität 3, Attische Schwartzzfigure Keramik

Martin Bentz, Frank Rumscheid, Christiane Dehl-von Kaenel, Norbert Eschbach, Universität Göttingen. Archäologisches Institut., Union académique internationale.  / C.H. Beck, 1989-2012

Reviewed by Michael M. Eisman, 

Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction

Mark (Mark Edward) Payne  / Cambridge University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Owen Hodkinson, 

Textual Permanence. Roman Elegists and the Epigraphic Tradition

Teresa R. Ramsby  / Duckworth, 2007

Reviewed by Garrett Jacobsen, 

Il Battesimo Gnostico: Dottrine, simboli e riti iniziatici nello gnosticismo. Hierá: Collana di studi storico-religiosi 9

Augusto Cosentino  / L. Giordano, 2007

Reviewed by Ellen Muehlberger, 

Kerameikos. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen, Bd. XVIII. Die submykenische Nekropole: Neufunde und Neubewertung

Wilhelm Kraiker, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.  / Hirmer Verlag, 2007

Reviewed by John K. Papadopoulos, 

Cosa: The Black-Glaze Pottery 2

Ann Reynolds Scott  / University of Michigan Press, 2008

Reviewed by Roman Roth, 

Euripides. Medea, with an introduction and notes by Robin Mitchell-Boyask

Euripides., Diane Arnson Svarlien, Robin Mitchell-Boyask  / Hackett, 2008

Reviewed by David M. Schaps, 

Brill’s Companion to Hellenistic Epigram

Peter Bing, Jon Steffen Bruss  / Brill, 2007

Reviewed by Michael A. Tueller, 

Classics and the Bible: Hospitality and Recognition

John Taylor  / Duckworth, 2007

Reviewed by Benjamin Stevens,