Month: September 2012

Books Received August 2012

The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. The ancient world: comparative histories

Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Reviewed by Anna Lucille Boozer, 

Sociable Man: Essays on Ancient Greek Social Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher

S. D. Lambert  / Classical Press of Wales, 2011

Reviewed by Jeremy Trevett, 

A History of Trust in Ancient Greece

Steven Johnstone  / University of Chicago Press, 2011

Reviewed by David M. Ratzan, 

Death in the Greek World: from Homer to the Classical Age. (First published in Italian 2007; translated by A. M. Osborne). Oklahoma series in classical culture, 44

Maria Serena Mirto  / University of Oklahoma Press, 2012

Reviewed by Ellie Mackin, 

Devotionis munus. La cultura e l’opera di Adamo di Brema. Testi e studi di cultura classica 47

Riccardo Scarcia, Fabio Stok  / Edizioni ETS, 2010

Reviewed by Mario Del Franco, 

Die Rezeption der antiken Literatur: kulturhistorisches Werklexikon. Der Neue Pauly – Supplemente, Bd 7

Christine Walde  / Verlag J. B. Metzler, 2010

Reviewed by Horst Schneider, 

Ἡ Σύνοψη Ἱστοριῶν τοῦ Ιωάννη Σκυλίτζη καὶ οἱ πηγές της (811-1057)

Eirini-Sophia Kiapidou  / Kanaki, 2010

Reviewed by Tomás Fernández, 

Reconstructing the Slave: the Image of the Slave in Ancient Greece

Kelly L. Wrenhaven  / Bristol Classical Press, 2012

Reviewed by Deborah Kamen, 

Theodori Metropolitae Cyzici Epistulae: accedunt epistulae mutuae Constantini Porphyrogeniti. Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae, 48

Maria Tziatzi-Papagianni  / De Gruyter, 2012

Reviewed by Pablo Cavallero, 

A Little Latin Reader

Mary C. English, Georgia L. Irby  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by David M. Pollio, 

La Tebaide di Stazio: epica e potere. Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici, 24

Federica Bessone  / Fabrizio Serra editore, 2011

Reviewed by Nils Jäger, 

Policing the Roman Empire: Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order

Christopher J. Fuhrmann  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Cédric Brélaz, 

Dying on Foreign Shores: Travel and Mobility in the Late-Antique West. JRA Supplementary Series 86

Mark Handley  / Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2011

Reviewed by Félix Racine, 

Prudentius. Origin of Sin: an English Translation of the Hamartigenia. Cornell studies in classical philology, 61

Martha A. Malamud  / Cornell University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Dennis E. Trout, 

La rhétorique des arts. Actes du colloque tenu au Collège de France sous la présidence de Marc Fumaroli, de l’Académie française

Laurent Pernot  / Presses Universitaires de France, 2011

Reviewed by John M. Oksanish, 

Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume II: Caesarea and the Middle Coast: 1121-2160

Walter Ameling, Hannah M. Cotton, Werner Eck, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Additional editors: Haggai Misgav, Jonathan Price, and Ada Yardeni  / De Gruyter, 2011

Reviewed by Yaron Z. Eliav, 

Space in Ancient Greek Literature. Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, vol. 3. Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 339

Irene J. F. de Jong  / Brill, 2012

Reviewed by Jonas Grethlein, 

A Commentary on the Sixth Satire of Juvenal. Collection Latomus, 329

Yvan Nadeau  / Éditions Latomus, 2011

Reviewed by Lindsay C. Watson, 

Calcidius: Commentaire au Timée de Platon. 2 vols. Histoire des doctrines de l’antiquité classique 42

Béatrice Bakhouche  / Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2011

Reviewed by Clifford Ando,