Month: November 2013

Books Received October 2013

The Dramaturgy of Senecan Tragedy

Thomas D. Kohn  / University of Michigan Press, 2013

Reviewed by Eric Dodson-Robinson, 

L’arrivo di Achille a Sciro: Saggio di commento a Stazio Achilleide 1,1-396

Renée Uccellini  / Edizioni della Normale, 2012

Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono, 

Il contrasto menippeo: prosimetro, citazioni e commutazione di codice nell’Apocolocyntosis di Seneca. Con un commento alle parte poetiche. Labirinti, 130

Alice Bonandini  / Università degli Studi di Trento. Dipartimento di Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Filologici​, 2010

Reviewed by Marion Faure-Ribreau, 

Per la storia del processo provinciale romano: i papiri del medio Eufrate

Giovanna Daniela Merola  / Satura editrice, 2012

Reviewed by Johannes Platschek, 

Von der Manipulierbarkeit des Mythos. Der Paris/Helena-Mythos bei Ovid (her. 16/17) und Baudri von Bourgueil (carm. 7/8). Collection Latomus 334

Christine Ratkowitsch  / Éditions Latomus, 2012

Reviewed by Wilfried H. Lingenberg, 

Via Latina: studi su Virgilio e sulla sua fortuna. Polymnia: studi di filologia classica, 15

Marco Fernandelli  / Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2012

Reviewed by John Van Sickle, 

Peoples of the Roman World. Cambridge introduction to Roman civilization

Mary T. Boatwright  / Cambridge University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Jennifer Gates-Foster, 

Francesco Filelfo. On Exile. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 55

Jeroen De Keyser, W. Scott Blanchard  / Harvard University Press, 2013

Reviewed by David M. Reis, 

The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature

David Leitao  / Cambridge University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Yurie Hong, 

Les Reliquaires du Proche-Orient et de Chypre à la période protobyzantine (IVe-VIIIe siècles): formes, emplacements, fonctions et cultes. Bibliothèque de l’antiquité tardive 20​

Marie Christine Comte  / Brepols, 2012

Reviewed by Wendy Mayer, 

Visions of Community in the Post-Roman World: The West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, 300-1100

Walter Pohl, Clemens Gantner, Richard E. Payne  / Ashgate, 2012

Reviewed by Alexander Angelov, 

Sulla rotta per la Sicilia: l’Epiro, Corcira e l’Occidente. Diabaseis, 2

Giovanna De Sensi Sestito, Maria Intrieri  / Edizioni ETS, 2011

Reviewed by Paolo Daniele Scirpo, 

Ovid and Hesiod: The Metamorphosis of the Catalogue of Women

Ioannis Ziogas  / Cambridge University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Martina Hirschberger, 

Comparer en histoire des religions antiques: controverses et propositions. Collection religions: comparatisme, histoire, anthropologie, 1

Claude Calame, Bruce Lincoln  / Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2012

Reviewed by Deborah Lyons, 

Hiérarchie des pouvoirs, délégation de pouvoir et responsabilité des administrateurs dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge

Agnès Bérenger, Frédérique Lachaud  / Centre de Recherche Universitaire Lorrain d'Histoire, 2012

Reviewed by Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner, 

Crisis Management during the Roman Republic: The Role of Political Institutions in Emergencies

Gregory K. Golden  / Cambridge University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Colin Bailey, 

Gandhi and the Stoics: Modern Experiments on Ancient Values

Richard Sorabji  / University of Chicago Press, 2012

Reviewed by William O. Stephens, 

Die Suasorien des älteren Seneca: Einleitung, Text und Kommentar. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft, N F, Bd 4

Stefan Feddern  / De Gruyter, 2013

Reviewed by Heiko Westphal, 

Frontiers of Pleasure: Models of Aesthetic Response in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought

Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Pauline A. LeVen,