Month: August 2012

Books Received July 2012

From Plato to Postmodernism: the Story of Western Culture through Philosophy, Literature and Art

Christopher Watkin  / Bristol Classical Press, 2011

Reviewed by M. Jason Reddoch, 

Fragmente und Spuren nichteuklidischer Geometrie bei Aristoteles. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd. 280

Imre Tóth  / Walter de Gruyter, 2010

Reviewed by Wilfried H. Lingenberg, 

Facing the Gods: Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion. Greek culture in the Roman world

Verity J. Platt  / Cambridge University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Jeremy Tanner, 

Le Bestiaire d’Aristophane. Collection d’études anciennes. Série grecque, 144

Cécile Corbel-Morana  / Les Belles Lettres, 2012

Reviewed by Anton Bierl, 

L’archéologie cognitive: techniques, modes de communication, mentalités. Cogniprisme

René Treuil  / Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2011

Reviewed by Philippe Boissinot, 

Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture. Greek culture in the Roman world

Jennifer Trimble  / Cambridge University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Ellen Perry, 

Nicolas de Damas. Histoires; Recueil de coutumes; Vie d’Auguste; Autobiographie. Fragments

Édith Parmentier, Francesca Prometea Barone  / Les Belles Lettres, 2011

Reviewed by Kenneth G. Holum, 

The Making of the Iliad: Disquisition and Analytical Commentary

M. L. West  / Oxford University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Andrew Ford, 

Inner Life and Soul: Psyche in Plato. Lecturae Platonis, 7

M. Migliori, L. M. Napolitanio Valditara, A. Fermani  / Academia Verlag, 2011

Reviewed by Aaron Landry, 

Dicere laudes: elogio, comunicazione, creazione del consenso. Atti del convegno internazionale, Cividale del Friuli, 23-25 settembre 2010. I convegni della Fondazione Niccolò Canussio, 10

Gianpaolo Urso  / Edizioni ETS, 2011

Reviewed by Lisa Sannicandro, 

Quintus Tullius Cicero. How To Win an Election: an Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians

Philip Freeman  / Princeton University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Luigi Spina, 

Euphorion. Oeuvre poétique et autres fragments. Fragments, 14

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Christophe Cusset  / Les Belles Lettres, 2012

Reviewed by Gerson Schade, 

Città e territorio: la Liguria e il mondo antico. Atti del IV Incontro internazionale di storia antica (Genova, 19-20 febbraio 2009). Serta antiqua et mediaevalia, 12

Angeli Bertinelli, Maria Gabriella, Angela Donati  / Giorgio Bretschneider editore, 2010

Reviewed by Giulia Masci, 

Eve of the Festival: Making Myth in Odyssey 19. Hellenic Studies, 46

Olga Levaniouk  / Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2010

Reviewed by John Henderson, 

Archeologia della morte. Bussole, 429

Nicola Laneri  / Carocci editore, 2011

Reviewed by Jane Hjarl Petersen, 

Persistenze ed evoluzione del popolamento in area centro-italica in età antica: il caso del vicus di Nersae. Mediterranea. Supplemento, 7. Civiltà arcaica dei Sabini nella valle del Tevere, 3

Flaminia Verga  / Fabrizio Serra editore, 2011

Reviewed by Ingrid Edlund-Berry, 

Dion Cassius: Histoire romaine. Livres 38, 39 and 40. Collection des universités de France

Guy Lachenaud, Marianne Coudry  / Les Belles Lettres, 2011

Reviewed by Catherine Steel, 

‘Antigone’ on the Contemporary World Stage. Classical presences

Erin B. Mee, Helene P. Foley  / Oxford University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Mary-Kay Gamel, 

Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy. Continuum studies in ancient philosophy

Patrick Lee Miller  / Continuum, 2011

Reviewed by Mark Richard Wheeler,