Month: October 2011

Books Received (September, 2011)

Scholies à Apollonios de Rhodes. Fragments 9

Guy Lachenaud  / Les Belles Lettres, 2010

Reviewed by Charles Delattre, 

Lag Troia in Kilikien? Der aktuelle Streit um Homers Ilias

Christoph Ulf, Robert Rollinger  / WBG (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft), 2011

Reviewed by Catalin Pavel, 

La défense de l’Occident romain pendant l’Antiquité tardive: recherches géostratégiques sur l’Italie de 284 à 410 ap. J.-C. Collection Latomus 326

Michaël Vannesse  / Éditions Latomus, 2010

Reviewed by Conor Whately, 

Hesiod: the Other Poet. Ancient Reception of a Cultural Icon. Mnemosyne Supplements 325

Hugo H. Koning  / Brill, 2010

Reviewed by Ruth Scodel, 

Money in Classical Antiquity. Key Themes in Ancient History

Sitta von Reden  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by William E. Metcalf, 

From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikê: Studies in Religion and Archaeology. Harvard Theological Studies 64

Laura Nasrallah, Charalambos Bakirtzis, Steven J. Friesen  / Harvard Divinity School, 2010

Reviewed by Christopher Dickenson, 

Apolline Politics and Poetics: International Symposium

Lucia Athanassaki, Richard P. Martin, John F. Miller  / European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 2009

Reviewed by Froma I. Zeitlin, 

Aspetti della Fortuna dell’Antico nella Cultura Europea: atti della settima giornata di studi, Sestri Levante, 19 marzo 2010. Echo, 1

Sergio Audano, Giovanni Cipriani  / Edizioni il Castello, 2011

Reviewed by Beatrice Larosa, 

Rose di Gaza: gli scritti retorico-sofistici e le Epistole di Procopio di Gaza. Hellenica 35

Eugenio Amato  / Edizioni dell'Orso, 2010

Reviewed by Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, 

Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece: Translating Ancient Scientific Texts. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 286

Annette Imhausen, Tanja Pommerening  / Walter de Gruyter, 2010

Reviewed by Xianhua Wang, 

The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science

Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Greco Josefowicz  / Princeton University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Patricia Johnston and Glenn Palmer, 

The Vatican Necropoles: Rome’s City of the Dead

Paolo Liverani, Giandomenico Spinola  / Brepols, 2010

Reviewed by Alexandra Dardenay, 

Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek tragedy. Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

U. S. Dhuga  / Lexington Books, 2010

Reviewed by Viviana Gastaldi, 

The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity: Religion and Politics in Byzantium, Europe and the early Islamic World. Library of Classical Studies 2

Robert M. Frakes, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, Justin Stephens  / Tauris Academic Studies, 2010

Reviewed by Richard Flower, 

Cicero, De oratore Book III

David Mankin  / Cambridge University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck, 

The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika (with a new translation by John Marincola)

Robert B Strassler  / Pantheon Books, 2009

Reviewed by Dustin A. Gish, 

Manilius and his Intellectual Background

Katharina Volk  / Oxford University Press, 2009

Reviewed by D. Mark Possanza, 

Aristophanes: Lysistrata; The Women’s Festival; and Frogs. Translated with theatrical commentaries. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture, 42

Michael Ewans  / University of Oklahoma Press, 2011

Reviewed by Emma Bridges, 

Dizionario dei nomi geografici e topografici dell’Egitto greco-romano, supplemento 5 (2006-2009). Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia 8

S. Daris  / Fabrizio Serra editore, 2010

Reviewed by Amin Benaissa,