Month: January 2012

Books Received (December 2011)

Reflections of Romanity: Discourses of Subjectivity in Imperial Rome. Classical Memories/Modern Identities

Richard Alston, Efrossini Spentzou  / Ohio State University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Eric Dodson-Robinson, 

Ad (L)usum lectoris: etimologia e giochi di parole in Apuleio. Testi e manuali per l’insegnamento universitario del latino, 117

Lara Nicolini  / Pàtron editore, 2011

Reviewed by Vincent Hunink, 

Emotion, Genre and Gender in Classical Antiquity

Dana LaCourse Munteanu  / Bristol Classical Press, 2011

Reviewed by Donald Lateiner, 

The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age

Cynthia W. Shelmerdine  / Cambridge University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, 

Between Grammar and Rhetoric: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Language, Linguistics and Literature. Mnemosyne, Supplements 301

Casper C. de Jonge  / Brill, 2008

Reviewed by Nancy Worman, 

The Ruin of the Eternal City: Antiquity and Preservation in Renaissance Rome

David Karmon  / Oxford University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Pablo Alvarez, 

Claudien: poète du monde à la cour d’Occident. Collections de l’Université de Strasbourg. Études d’archéologie et d’histoire ancienne

Marie-France Guipponi-Gineste  / De Boccard, 2010

Reviewed by Suzanne Abrams Rebillard, 

The Art of Building in the Classical World: Vision, Craftsmanship, and Linear Perspective in Greek and Roman Architecture

John R. Senseney  / Cambridge University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Felipe Rojas, 

The Classics and South African Identities. Classical Diaspora

Michael Lambert  / Bristol Classical Press, 2010

Reviewed by Lydia Matthews, 

The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and Experience

James I. Porter  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi, 

Aeneid I and II. Cambridge Intermediate Latin Readers

Peter Jones  / Cambridge University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Isabella Canetta, 

La Pro Cluentio di Cicerone: introduzione e commento dei §§ 1 – 81. Studia classica et mediaevalia, Bd 1

Valeria Maria Patimo  / Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2009

Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck, 

The Great Archimedes

Mario Geymonat, Translated and edited by R. Alden Smith.  / Baylor University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Anna Toscano, 

Festschrift für Max Kunze: “… die Augen ein wenig zu öffnen”. Der Blick auf die antike Kunst von der Renaissance bis heute

Stephanie-Gerrit Bruer, Detlef Rößler  / Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen, 2011

Reviewed by Claudio Franzoni, 

Persona: l’élaboration d’une notion rhétorique au Ier siècle av. J.- C. Volume I: antécédents grecs et première rhétorique latine. Textes et traditions, 18

Charles Guérin  / Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2009 Charles Guérin, Charles Guérin  / Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2011

Reviewed by Neil W. Bernstein, 

Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb (reprint of 1867 third edition). Cambridge Library Collection

William W. Goodwin  / Cambridge University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Richard Beck, 

G. Plinio Cecilio Segundo, Plinio “el Joven”: Panegírico de Trajano. Alma mater

Rosario Moreno Soldevila  / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2010

Reviewed by Vinko Hinz, 

Late Roman Towns in Britain : Rethinking Change and Decline

Adam Rogers  / Cambridge University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Christine Delaplace, 

Greenwood on DiCesare on Vandiver, Stand in the Trench

Response by Emily Greenwood | Original Review by Mario A. DiCesare,