Month: December 2012

Books Received November 2012

Dazugehören: Kinder in Kulten und Festen von Oikos und Phratrie: Bildanalysen zu attischen Sozialisationsstufen des 6. bis 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr

Martina Seifert  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011

Reviewed by Giulia Pedrucci, 

Ludi e munera. 25 anni di ricerche sugli spettacoli d’età romana. Scritti vari rielaborati e aggiornati con la collaborazione di Giorgio Crimi e Maurizio Giovagnoli

Gian Luca Gregori  / Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2011

Reviewed by Guy Chamberland, 

Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution

A. J. S. Spawforth  / Cambridge University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Daniel R. Stewart, 

Plutarch Caesar: Translated with Introduction and Commentary. Clarendon Ancient History Series

Christopher Pelling  / Oxford University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Brad L. Cook, 

Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus. Philosophy and Religion in Neoplatonism. Variorum Collected Studies Series CS979

Andrew Smith  / Ashgate, 2011

Reviewed by Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, 

Vasenbilder im Kulturtransfer: Zirkulation und Rezeption griechischer Keramik im Mittelmeerraum. Beihefte zum Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Deutschland, Bd. 5

Stefan Schmidt, Adrian Stähli  / Verlag C. H. Beck, 2012

Reviewed by Hadwiga Schörner, 

Ritual Dynamics in the Ancient Mediterranean: Agency, Emotion, Gender, Representation. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (HABES), 49​

Angelos Chaniotis  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011

Reviewed by Lynn E. Roller, 

Hérodote à la Renaissance. Latinitates (LATIN), 7

Susanna Gambino Longo  / Brepols Publishers, 2012

Reviewed by Ioannis Deligiannis, 

Les monnaies du Fonds Louis Robert (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres). Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 45​

Fabrice Delrieux  / Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres​, 2011

Reviewed by William E. Metcalf, 

Courage: the Politics of Life and Limb

Richard Avramenko  / University of Notre Dame Press, 2011

Reviewed by A.S.P. Walden, 

La scultura ideale romana nella Regio Secunda (Apulia et Calabria). Archaeologica, 161

Vita M. Soleti  / Bretschneider editore, 2010

Reviewed by Valentina Di Napoli, 

The Last Days of Pompeii. Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection

Victoria C. Gardner Coates, Kenneth D. S. Lapatin, Jon L. Seydl, Mary Beard, Adrian Stähli, William St. Clair, and Annika Bautz​  / J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012

Reviewed by Eric M. Moormann, 

La necropoli di Crocifisso del Tufo a Orvieto: contesti tombali. Monumenti etruschi, 10

Paolo Bruschetti  / Fabrizio Serra editore, 2012

Reviewed by W. V. Harris, 

Demeter, Isis, Vesta, and Cybele: studies in Greek and Roman religion in honour of Giulia Sfameni Gasparro. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, Bd 36

Attilio Mastrocinque, Concetta Giuffré Scibona  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012

Reviewed by Andrzej Gillmeister, 

Perpetua’s Passions: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis. (With text and translation by Joseph Farrell and Craig Williams)

Jan N. Bremmer, Marco Formisano  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by L. Stephanie Cobb, 

Bühnenmord und Botenbericht: zur Darstellung des Schrecklichen in der griechischen Tragödie. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 295

Dorothea Zeppezauer  / De Gruyter, 2011

Reviewed by Francesca Spiegel, 

Metre and Rhythm in Greek Verse. Wiener Studien. Beiheft 35

Joan Silva Barris  / Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2011

Reviewed by Joel B. Lidov, 

Studi sul De indolentia di Galeno. Biblioteca di Galenos, 4

Daniela Manetti  / Fabrizio Serra editore, 2012

Reviewed by Danielle Gourevitch, 

Der pseudovergilische Culex: Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Hermes. Einzelschriften Bd 105

Sabine Seelentag  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012

Reviewed by Silvio Bär,