Month: June 2012

Books Received May 2012

Strabons Geographika, Band 10: Register

Stefan Radt  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2011

Reviewed by Pierre-Olivier Leroy, 

Rome and Religion: a Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on the Imperial Cult. Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series, 5

Jeffrey Brodd, Jonathan L. Reed  / Society of Biblical Literature, 2011

Reviewed by Gwynaeth McIntyre, 

More than Men, Less than Gods: Studies on Royal Cult and Imperial Worship. Proceedings of the international colloquium organized by the Belgian school at Athens (November 1-2, 2007). Studia Hellenistica, 51

Panagiotis P. Iossif, Andrzej S. Chankowski, Catharine C. Lorber  / Peeters, 2011

Reviewed by Seb Nichols, 

The Birds in the Iliad, Identities, Interactions, and Functions. Gothenburg Studies in History 2

Karin Johansson  / Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2012

Reviewed by Robert Lamberton, 

The Philosopher’s Banquet: Plutarch’s Table Talk in the Intellectual Culture of the Roman Empire

Frieda Klotz, Katerina Oikonomopoulou  / Oxford University Press, 2011

Reviewed by John Paulas, 

The Homeric Hymns: Interpretative Essays

Andrew Faulkner  / Oxford University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Alberto Bernabé, 

Writing Homer: a Study Based on Results from Modern Fieldwork. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica 8, 4

Minna Skafte Jensen  / Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2011

Reviewed by Joel Christensen, 

Pergamo e la filosofia. Archaeologica, 159. Archaeologia perusina, 18

Françoise-Hélène Massa-Pairault  / Giorgio Bretschneider editore, 2010

Reviewed by Danielle Gourevitch, 

Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition. Empire and After

Clifford Ando  / University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011

Reviewed by Christina Kokkinia, 

Philologos Dionysios: mélanges offerts au professeur Denis Knoepfler. Recueil de travaux publiés par la Faculté des Lettres et sciences humaines de l’Université de Neuchâtel, 56

Nathan Badoud  / Librairie Droz, 2011

Reviewed by Jean-Christophe Vincent, 

Histoire et archéologie méditerranéennes sous Napoléon III: actes du 21e colloque de la Villa Kérylos à Beaulieu-sur-Mer, les 8 and 9 octobre 2010. Cahiers de la Villa “Kérylos”, 22

André Laronde, Pierre Toubert, Jean Leclant  / De Boccard, 2011

Reviewed by Bonnie Effros, 

Lateinische Modalpartikeln: Nempe, Quippe, Scilicet, Videlicet und Nimirum. Amsterdam studies in classical philology, 19

Josine Schrickx  / Brill, 2011

Reviewed by Olga Spevak, 

Roman Historiography: an Introduction to its Basic Aspects and Development (translated by Hans-Friedrich Mueller; first published 2001). Blackwell introductions to the classical world

Andreas Mehl  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Reviewed by Jakub Pigoń, 

Sabellian Demonstratives: Forms and Functions. Brill’s studies in Indo-European languages and linguistics, 6

Emmanuel Dupraz  / Brill, 2011

Reviewed by Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo, 

The Invention of Law in the West. (Translated by Jeremy Carden and Antony Shugaar; first published in Italian, 2005)

Aldo Schiavone  / Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Ari Z. Bryen, 

Liebe und Lyrik: zur Funktion des erotischen Diskurses in Horazens erster Odensammlung. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 291

Mathias Eicks  / De Gruyter, 2011

Reviewed by Johanne Lévy, 

Odysseus at Troy: Sophocles’ Ajax and Euripides’ Hecuba and Trojan Women. Translations with introductions, notes, and essays. Focus classical library

Stephen Esposito  / Focus Publishing, 2010

Reviewed by Barry Spence, 

The Making of Pompeii: Studies in the History and Urban Development of an Ancient Town. JRA Supplementary series, 85

Steven J. R. Ellis  / Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2011

Reviewed by Anna Anguissola, 

Demosthenes, Speeches 1-17. The oratory of classical Greece, 14

Jeremy Trevett  / University of Texas Press, 2011

Reviewed by Dina Guth,