Month: October 2010

Books Received (September, 2010)

Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity. A Translation of Choricius of Gaza’s Preliminary Talks and Declamations

Robert J. Penella  / Cambridge University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Heather Waddell Gruber, 

P. Vergilius Maro: Aeneis. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 2005

G. B. Conte  / Walter de Gruyter, 2009

Reviewed by S. J. Heyworth, 

Latein: Geschichte einer Weltsprache

Jürgen Leonhardt  / Verlag C. H. Beck, 2009

Reviewed by Ben Lee and Branden Kosch, 

Virgil’s Eclogues

Len Krisak  / University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010

Reviewed by Betty Rose Nagle, 

The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus

A. J. Woodman  / Cambridge University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Arthur J. Pomeroy, 

Brill’s Companion to Silius Italicus

Antony Augoustakis  / Brill, 2009

Reviewed by Michiel van der Keur, 

The Berkeley Plato: From Neglected Relic to Ancient Treasure. An Archaeological Detective Story

Stephen G. Miller  / University of California Press, 2009

Reviewed by John Henderson, 

The Iliad. Second Edition (first edition 1984). Bristol Classical Paperbacks

Martin Mueller  / Bristol Classical Press, 2009

Reviewed by Adrian Kelly, 

L’historiographie syriaque. Études syriaques

Muriel Debié  / Geuthner, 2009

Reviewed by

Le livre des vingt-quatre philosophes: résurgence d’un texte du IVe siècle. Histoire des doctrines de l’antiquité classique 39

Françoise Hudry, Marius Victorinus  / Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2009

Reviewed by Jeremy M. Schott, 

Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War

Martha C. Taylor  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Edith Foster, 

Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 46

Edward J. Watts  / University of California Press, 2010

Reviewed by Peter Van Nuffelen, 

Tears in the Graeco-Roman World

Thorsten Fögen  / Walter de Gruyter, 2009

Reviewed by Jorge Tárrega, 

Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities

Paul Cartledge  / Oxford University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Emily K. Varto, 

Hellenische Identität in der Spätantike: pagane Autoren und ihr Unbehagen an der eigenen Zeit. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Bd. 97

Jan Stenger  / Walter de Gruyter, 2009

Reviewed by Fabian Sieber, 

Conversion to Christianity from Late Antiquity to the Modern Age: Considering the Process in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Minnesota Studies in Early Modern History

Calvin B. Kendall, Oliver Nicholson, Jr., Marguerite Ragnow  / Center for Early Modern History, 2009

Reviewed by B. N. Wolfe, 

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought

Stephen Salkever  / Cambridge University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Brendan Boyle, 

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Ten Speeches

James E. G. Zetzel  / Hackett Publishing Company, 2009

Reviewed by Alison Jeppesen, 

Images and Texts on the “Artemidorus Papyrus”: Working Papers on P.Artemid. (St. John’s College Oxford, 2008). Historia. Einzelschriften 214

Kai Brodersen, Jas Elsner  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009

Reviewed by Stanley M. Burstein,