Month: May 2012

Books Received April 2012

Virgil’s Presence in Contemporary Women’s Writing. Classical presences

Fiona Cox  / Oxford University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono, 

The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays. Hellenic studies 16

Laura M. Slatkin  / Center for Hellenic Studies, trustees for Harvard University, 2011

Reviewed by Yukiko Saito, 

Euripides and the Language of Craft. Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature, 327

Mary C. Stieber  / Brill, 2011

Reviewed by Markus Dubischar, 

Priority in Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Oxford Aristotle studies

Michail Peramatzis  / Oxford University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Luca Gili, 

Work in Progress: Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome. American Philological Association. American classical studies, 57

Sean Alexander Gurd  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Aaron Pelttari, 

Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain (2 vols.)

Donald. F. Mackreth  / Oxbow Books, 2011

Reviewed by Maurizio Buora, 

Greek City Walls of the Archaic Period, 900-480 BC. Oxford monographs on classical archaeology

Rune Frederiksen  / Oxford University Press, 2011

Reviewed by John K. Papadopoulos, 

The Religious History of the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews, and Christians. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies

J. A. North, S. R. F. Price  / Oxford University Press, 2011

Reviewed by E. J. Hutchinson, 

Coin Hoards, Volume X: Greek Hoards

Oliver Hoover, Andrew Meadows, Ute Wartenberg  / American Numismatic Society, 2010

Reviewed by Lee L. Brice, 

The Western Time of Ancient History: Historiographical Encounters with the Greek and Roman Pasts

Alexandra Lianeri  / Cambridge University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Karin W. Tikkanen, 

Eneas Silvio Piccolomini (papa Pío II): Descripción de Asia. Nueva Roma, 34

Domingo F. Sanz  / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2010

Reviewed by Christine Gadrat-Ouerfelli, 

Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz  / Brill, 2011

Reviewed by Sarah Klitenic Wear, 

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

Robert C. Bartlett, Susan D. Collins (trans.)  / University of Chicago Press, 2011

Reviewed by Mostafa Younesie, 

Homer between History and Fiction in Imperial Greek Literature. Greek culture in the Roman world

Lawrence Kim  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Dimitri Kasprzyk, 

Manuscripts and Methods: Essays on Editing and Transmission. Storia e letteratura, 270

Michael D. Reeve  / Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2011

Reviewed by Antonio Ramírez de Verger, 

Priests and State in the Roman World

James H. Richardson, Federico Santangelo  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011

Reviewed by Linda Zollschan, 

Alexander the Great: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality

Daniel Ogden  / University of Exeter Press, 2011

Reviewed by Thomas M. Banchich, 

Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity, 11

Jörg Ulrich, Anders-Christian Jacobsen, David Brakke  / Peter Lang, 2011

Reviewed by Robin Whelan, 

Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly. Brill studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy

Denver Graninger  / Brill, 2011

Reviewed by Eric W. Driscoll,