Month: March 2012

Books Received (February 2012)

An Archaeological Guide to Bahrain

Rachel Maclean, Timothy Insoll  / Archaeopress, 2011

Reviewed by Peter Magee, 

Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and Its Times / Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son époque. Phoenix supplementary volumes, 49

Thomas Schmidt, Pascale Fleury  / University of Toronto Press, 2011

Reviewed by Alexander V. Makhlayuk, 

Hierocles the Stoic: Elements of Ethics, Fragments and Excerpts. Writings from the Greco-Roman World

Ilaria Ramelli, Translated by David Konstan.  / Society of Biblical Literature, 2009

Reviewed by Georgia Tsouni, 

Die Damnatio memoriae: über die Vernichtung von Erinnerung. Eine Fallstudie zu Publius Septimius Geta (198-211 n. Chr.)

Florian Krüpe  / COMPUTUS Druck Satz and Verlag, 2011

Reviewed by Jochen Lückoff, 

On Greek Religion. Cornell studies in classical philology, 60

Robert Parker  / Cornell University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, 

Socrates and Athens. Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts

David M. Johnson  / Cambridge University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Marguerite Johnson, 

Pliny’s Praise: the Panegyricus in the Roman World

Paul Roche  / Cambridge University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Andrew Gallia, 

Geschichte der römischen Literatur. Beck’sche Reihe 2446

Thomas Baier  / C. H. Beck, 2010

Reviewed by Jason S. Nethercut, 

Praise and Blame in Roman Republican Rhetoric

Christopher Smith, Ralph Covino  / Classical Press of Wales, 2010

Reviewed by François Prost, 

Ovid: Amores III. A selection: 2, 4, 5, 14

Jennifer Ingleheart, Katharine Radice  / Bristol Classical Press, 2011

Reviewed by Christine Kossaifi, 

Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s “Georgics”

Philip Thibodeau  / University of California Press, 2011

Reviewed by Grant A. Nelsestuen, 

Echoing Narratives: Studies of Intertextuality in Greek and Roman Prose Fiction. Ancient narrative Supplementum 13

Konstantin Doulamis  / Barkhuis Publishing, 2011

Reviewed by Regla Fernández-Garrido, 

The Early Black-figured Pottery of Attika in Context (c. 630-570 BCE). Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 17

Alexandra Alexandridou  / Brill, 2011

Reviewed by Vladimir Stissi, 

Les antiquaires du Midi: savoirs et mémoires, XVIe-XIXe siècle

Véronique Krings, Catherine Valenti  / Éditions Errance, 2011

Reviewed by Ginette Vagenheim, 

Author of Illusions: Thucydides’ Rewriting of the History of the Peloponnesian War

Robert D. Luginbill  / Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011

Reviewed by Edith Foster, 

The Pronomos Vase and its Context

Oliver Taplin, Rosie Wyles  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Kristen Seaman, 

Remembering Constantine at the Milvian Bridge

Raymond Van Dam  / Cambridge University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Horst Schneider, 

The School of Rome: Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education

W. Martin Bloomer  / University of California Press, 2011

Reviewed by Zara M. Torlone, 

A New Working Bibliography of Ancient Greek Law (7th-4th centuries BC). Yearbook of the Research Centre for the History of Greek Law, volume 42. Supplement, 11

Mark Sundahl, David Mirhady, Ilias Arnaoutoglou  / Academy of Athens, 2011

Reviewed by Judith Fletcher,