Month: December 2010

Books Received (November, 2010)

New Heroes in Antiquity: From Achilles to Antinoos

Christopher P. Jones  / Harvard University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Pauline Hanesworth, 

Sagalassos VI: Geo- and Bio-archaeology at Sagalassos and in its Territory

P. Degryse, M. Waelkens  / Leuven University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Andrea U. De Giorgi, 

Hippota Nestor. Hellenic Studies 37

Douglas Frame  / Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2009

Reviewed by Andrew E. Porter, 

New Perspectives on Aristotle’s De Caelo

Alan C. Bowen, Christian Wildberg  / Brill, 2009

Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson, 

Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVII

J. den Boeft, J. W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst, H. C. Teitler  / Brill, 2009

Reviewed by Stéphane Ratti, 

Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions: IV. Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Period

John F. Healey  / Oxford University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Herbert Niehr, 

The Emperors’ Needles. Egyptian Obelisks and Rome

Susan Sorek  / Bristol Phoenix Press, 2010

Reviewed by Andrea Schütze, 

Law and Drama in Ancient Greece

Edward M. Harris, Delfim F. Leão, P. J. Rhodes  / Duckworth, 2010

Reviewed by Noémie Villacèque, 

Lucien de Samosate. Comment écrire l’histoire. La roue à livres

André Hurst  / Les belles lettres, 2010

Reviewed by Nadejda Popov-Reynolds, 

When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East

Carolina López-Ruiz  / Harvard University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Mehmet-Ali Ataç, 

Plato’s Apology of Socrates: A Commentary

Paul Allen Miller, Charles Platter  / University of Oklahoma Press, 2010

Reviewed by David Hernández de la Fuente, 

The Athenian Agora Site Guide. Fifth Edition

II  / The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2010

Reviewed by Derek T. Irwin, 

Diodoro Siculo: Biblioteca storica: libro XIII: commento storico. Storia. Ricerche

Dino Ambaglio  / Vita e Pensiero, 2008

Reviewed by Catherine Rubincam, 

Imperial Mines and Quarries in the Roman World: Organizational Aspects 27 BC-AD 235. Oxford Classical Monographs

Alfred Michael Hirt  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Kresimir Matijevic, 

Maxima debetur magistro reverentia: Essays on Rome and the Roman Tradition in Honor of Russell T. Scott. Biblioteca di Athenaeum 54

Jr., Catherine Conybeare (  / New Press edizioni, 2009

Reviewed by Marianne Sághy, 

A. H. M. Jones and the Later Roman Empire. Brill’s Series on the Early Middle Ages, v. 15

David M. Gwynn  / Brill, 2008

Reviewed by Gavin Kelly, 

Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy

Page duBois  / Oxford University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Antonio Gonzales, 

Militia Clericatus Monachici Ordines: Istituzioni Ecclesiastiche e Società in Gregorio Magno (second edition). Testi e studi di storia antica; 20

Pietrina Pellegrini  / Edizioni del Prisma, 2008

Reviewed by Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, 

Graeco-Roman Slave Markets: Fact or Fiction?

Monika Trümper  / Oxbow Books, 2009

Reviewed by Ulrike Roth,