Month: October 2013

Books Received September 2013

Les Routes de la voix: l’Antiquité grecque et le mystère de la voix. Études anciennes. Série grecque, 147

Guy Lachenaud  / Editions Belles Lettres, 2013

Reviewed by Timothy Power, 

Bar-Kochva on Pelling on Bar-Kochva, The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature

Response by Bezalel Bar-Kochva | Original Response by

The Long Shadow of Antiquity: What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us?

Gregory S. Aldrete, Alicia Aldrete  / Continuum, 2012

Reviewed by Stephen M. Kershner, 

The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos: Cult, Polis, and Change in the Graeco-Roman World. Synkrisis

Guy MacLean Rogers  / Yale University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Heidi Wendt, 

Le terrecotte architettoniche di Selinunte: Tetti del VI e V secolo a.C. Museo civico di Castelvetrano e parco archeologico di Selinunte. Biblioteca di Sicilia antiqua, 5

Maria Clara Conti  / Fabrizio Serra editore, 2012

Reviewed by Clemente Marconi and Rosalia Pumo, 

Ostia Speaks. Inscriptions, Buildings and Spaces in Rome’s Main Port

L. Bouke van der Meer  / Peeters, 2012

Reviewed by Moss Pike, 

Expurgating the Classics: Editing Out in Greek and Latin

Stephen Harrison, Christopher Stray  / Bristol Classical Press, 2012

Reviewed by Ronnie Ancona, 

Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

David Nirenberg  / W. W. Norton and Company, 2013

Reviewed by Andrew S. Jacobs, 

Machiavelli and Epicureanism: An Investigation into the Origins of Early Modern Political Thought

Robert J. Roecklein  / Lexington Books, 2012

Reviewed by Andree Hahmann, 

A Commentary on Silius Italicus’ ‘Punica’ 7

R. Joy Littlewood  / Oxford University Press, 2011

Reviewed by John Jacobs, 

Re-imagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage. Sather Classical Lectures, 70

Helene P. Foley  / University of California Press, 2012

Reviewed by Mary-Kay Gamel, 

Tertullian, On Idolatry and Mishnah Avodah Zarah. Jewish and Christian perspectives series, 22

Stéphanie E.​ Binder  / Brill, 2012

Reviewed by Mira Balberg, 

Montanaro on Mastrocinque on Montanaro, Ambre figurate

Response by Andrea Celestino Montanaro | Original Review by Attilio Mastrocinque, 

Making Sense of Greek Art

Viccy Coltman  / University of Exeter Press, 2012

Reviewed by Susanna Sarti, 

Angels in Late Ancient Christianity

Ellen Muehlberger  / Oxford University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Rangar H. Cline, 

Christ Circumcised: A Study in Early Christian History and Difference. Divinations: rereading late ancient religion

Andrew S. Jacobs  / University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012

Reviewed by Young Richard Kim, 

Roman Disasters

Jerry Toner  / Polity Press, 2013

Reviewed by Jane Draycott, 

Roman Literature, Gender, and Reception: domina illustris. Essays in honor of Judith Peller Hallett. Routledge monographs in classical studies, 13

Donald Lateiner, Barbara K. Gold, Judith Perkins  / Routledge, 2013

Reviewed by James Jope, 

Lepos e mores: una giornata su Catullo. Atti del convegno internazionale, Cassino, 27 maggio 2010. Collana di studi umanistici, 2

Alfredo Mario Morelli  / Edizioni Università di Cassino, 2012

Reviewed by Dániel Kiss,