Month: July 2011

Books Received (June, 2011)

Chasing Aphrodite. The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum

Jason Felch, Ralph Frammolino  / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011

Reviewed by David Gill, 

Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route. California World History Library, 18

Steven E. Sidebotham  / University of California Press, 2011

Reviewed by Wim Broekaert, 

Debating Urbanism within and beyond the Walls A.D. 300-700. Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Leicester, 15th November 2008. Leicester Archaeology Monographs 17

Denis Sami, Gavin Speed  / University of Leicester School of Archaeology and Ancient History, 2010

Reviewed by Kenneth G. Holum, 

Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age. Papers from the Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 22-24 February 2007

Daniel J. Pullen  / Oxbow Books, 2010

Reviewed by John C. McEnroe, 

Athenaeus: The Learned Banqueters. Volume VII: Books 13.594b-14. Loeb Classical Library 345

S. Douglas Olson  / Harvard University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Athina Papachrysostomou, 

Plotin. Traités 51-54; Porphyre. Vie de Plotin. GF 1444

Luc Brisson, Jean-François Pradeau  / Éditions Flammarion, 2010

Reviewed by Carlos Steel, 

Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism

Paula Fredriksen  / Yale University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Robert McEachnie, 

Art in the Era of Alexander the Great: Paradigms of Manhood and their Cultural Traditions

Ada Cohen  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Olympia Bobou, 

Philodemus, On Poems, Books 3-4, with the Fragments of Aristotle, On Poets

Richard Janko  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Robert Mayhew, 

Pelling on Bar-Kochva on Wyrick on Bar-Kochva

Response by Christopher Pelling | Original Response by Bezalel Bar-Kochva, 

Tatort “Troia”: Geschichte, Mythen, Politik

Frank Kolb  / Ferdinand Schöningh, 2010

Reviewed by Stefanie A. H. Kennell, 

The Cambridge Companion to Socrates. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy

Donald R. Morrison  / Cambridge University Press, 2011

Reviewed by David M. Johnson, 

Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose. Martin Classical Lectures

Leslie Kurke  / Princeton University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Vivienne Gray, 

Greek Athletics. Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World

Jason König  / Edinburgh University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Stephen Brunet, 

Euripidis Erechthei quae exstant. Biblioteca nazionale. Testi con commento filologico, 19

Maurizio Sonnino  / Felice Le Monnier, 2010

Reviewed by Martin Cropp, 

Esiodo, Opere e giorni. Classici 7

Andrea Ercolani  / Carocci editore, 2010

Reviewed by Mattia De Poli, 

Esercizi plautini. Letteratura e antropologia 10

Renato Raffaelli  / Quattro venti, 2009

Reviewed by Marion Faure-Ribreau, 

Gewalt und Opfer: im Dialog mit Walter Burkert. MythosEikonPoiesis Bd 2

Anton Bierl, Wolfgang Braungart  / De Gruyter, 2010

Reviewed by Richard P. Martin, 

Der römische Kaiser und das Land am Nil: Kaiserverehrung und Kaiserkult in Alexandria und Ägypten von Augustus bis Caracalla (30 v. Chr. – 217 n. Chr.). Historia Einzelschriften, 212

Stefan Pfeiffer  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010

Reviewed by Jan Moje,