Month: July 2012

Books Received June 2012

Simplicius, On Aristotle On the Heavens 1. 3-4. Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

Ian Mueller  / Bristol Classical Press, 2011

Reviewed by John Dillon, 

Invisible Romans

Robert Knapp  / Harvard University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Tristan Taylor, 

La magie dans l’Antiquité. Hors collection

Michaël Martin  / Ellipses, 2012

Reviewed by

Deadly Powers: Animal Predators and the Mythic Imagination

Paul A. Trout  / Prometheus Books, 2011

Reviewed by Reyes Bertolín Cebrián, 

L’Éphébie hellénistique: Étude d’une institution civique dans les cités grecques des îles de la Mer Égée et de l’Asie Mineure. Culture et cité, 4

Andrzej S. Chankowski  / De Boccard, 2010

Reviewed by Nigel M. Kennell, 

Classics on Screen: Ancient Greece and Rome on Film

Alastair J. L. Blanshard, Kim Shahabudin  / Bristol Classical Press, 2011

Reviewed by Clayton Miles Lehmann, 

Domizio Calderini: Commentary on Silius Italicus. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 477

Frances Muecke, John Dunston  / Librairie Droz, 2011

Reviewed by John Jacobs, 

From Villain to Hero: Odysseus in Ancient Thought

Sylvia Montiglio  / University of Michigan Press, 2011

Reviewed by Antony Makrinos, 

Trevor Bryce on Anthony Spalinger on Bryce

Response by Trevor Bryce | Original Review by Anthony Spalinger, 

Roman Readings: Roman Response to Greek literature from Plautus to Statius and Quintilian. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 277

Elaine Fantham  / De Gruyter, 2011

Reviewed by Adam Marshall, 

Plato the Teacher: the Crisis of the Republic

William H. F. Altman  / Lexington Books, 2012

Reviewed by Richard Foley, 

Brill’s Companion to Aphrodite

Amy C. Smith, Sadie Pickup  / Brill, 2010

Reviewed by Mireille M. Lee, 

Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator

Marguerite Johnson, Harold Tarrant  / Bristol Classical Press, 2011

Reviewed by Owen Goldin, 

Ancient Empires; Tributary Empires in Global History

Eric H. Cline, Mark W. Graham  / Cambridge University Press, 2011 Eric H. Cline, Mark W. Graham, Peter Fibiger Bang, C.A. Bayly  / Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Reviewed by Rolf Strootman, 

Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens. Oxford classical monographs

Nikolaos Papazarkadas  / Oxford University Press, 2011

Reviewed by William S. Bubelis, 

Complicating the History of Western Translation: The Ancient Mediterranean in Perspective

Siobhán McElduff, Enrica Sciarrino  / St. Jerome Publishing, 2011

Reviewed by Christopher B. Polt, 

Virgil’s Homeric Lens. Routledge monographs in classical studies

Edan Dekel  / Routledge, 2012

Reviewed by Sergio Casali, 

Le Monodie di Euripide: note di critica testuale e analisi metrica

Mattia De Poli  / S.A.R.G.O.N. Editrice e Libreria, 2011

Reviewed by Valentina Caruso, 

Fakes and Forgers of Classical Literature / Falsificaciones y falsarios de la Literatura Clásica

Javier Martínez  / Ediciones Clásicas, 2011

Reviewed by Edmund P. Cueva,