Month: October 2012

Books Received September 2012

Mundus vult decipi: estudios interdisciplinares sobre falsificación textual y literaria

Javier Martínez  / Ediciones Clásicas, 2012

Reviewed by John Henderson, 

Plutarch’s Dialogue on Love: An Intermediate Greek Reader

Evan Hayes, Stephen Nimis  / Faenum Publishing, 2011

Reviewed by Thomas R. Keith, 

The Iliad of Homer (new introduction and notes by Richard Martin; first published 1951)

Richmond Lattimore, Richard Martin  / University of Chicago Press, 2011

Reviewed by Kristina Chew, 

Feste e rituali a Roma: il principe incontra il popolo nel Circo Massimo. Documenti e studi, 45

Patrizia Arena  / Edipuglia, 2010

Reviewed by Francesca Prescendi, 

Archeologia greca: cultura, società, politica e produzione. Sintesi

Enzo Lippolis, Giorgio Rocco  / Bruno, Mondadori, 2011

Reviewed by Kostas Vlassopoulos, 

Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander: the Evidence (translations by J. C. Yardley). Blackwell sourcebooks in ancient history

Joseph Roisman  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Reviewed by Panagiotis Paraskevas, 

Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East. Oxford studies in Byzantium

Michael Decker  / Oxford University Press, 2009

Reviewed by David K. Pettegrew, 

Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates, volume 3: the pottery. Mediterranean archaeology supplement, 7

Heather Jackson, John Tidmarsh  / Meditarch, 2011

Reviewed by Andrea M. Berlin, 

The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine: Time, History, and the Fasti. (Translated by David M. B. Richardson; originally published 1995)

Jörg Rüpke  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Reviewed by Michael Klaassen, 

Tra panellenismo e tradizioni locali: nuovi contributi. Orione, 4

Antonio Aloni, Massimiliano Ornaghi  / Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità, 2011

Reviewed by Cecilia Nobili, 

L’ora die Antigone dal nazismo agli ‘anni di piombo’. Drama: Studien zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption, NS, Bd 9

Sotera Fornaro  / Gunter Narr Verlag, 2012

Reviewed by Rosanna Lauriola, 

The Fabii and the Gauls. Studies in Historical Thought and Historiography in Republican Rome. Historia Einzelschriften, 222

James H. Richardson  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012

Reviewed by Andreas Hofeneder, 

The Complete Poems of Tibullus: an En Face Bilingual Edition / Albius Tibullus, Lygdamus, and Sulpicia

Rodney G. Dennis, Michael C. J. Putnam  / University of California Press, 2012

Reviewed by Paul Allen Miller, 

Roman Lyric: Collected Papers on Catullus and Horace. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 301

Francis Cairns  / De Gruyter, 2012

Reviewed by Bénédicte Delignon, 

Nardelli on Dasen on Budin, Images of Woman and Child

Response by Jean-Fabrice Nardelli | Original Review by Véronique Dasen, 

Butrint 3: Excavations at the Triconch Palace. Butrint archaeological monographs, 3

William Bowden, Richard Hodges  / Oxbow Books, 2011

Reviewed by Isabella Baldini, 

Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond. Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Richard Holway  / Lexington Books, 2012

Reviewed by Sonya Nevin, 

Versnel on Bonnet on Versnel, Coping with the Gods

Response by H. S. Versnel | Original Review by Corinne Bonnet, 

Simile and Identity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Marie Louise von Glinski  / Cambridge University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Bob Cowan,