Month: December 2013

Books Received November 2013

Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception. Brill’s companions in classical studies

Manuel Baumbach, Silvio Bär  / Brill, 2012

Reviewed by Calum Maciver, 

I Am the Last of the Travelers: Midas City Excavations and Surveys in the Highlands of Phrygia. (Edited by Dietrich Berndt with contributions by Halet Çambel; 2nd revised and enlarged edition)

C. H. Emilie Haspels  / Archaeology and Art Publications, 2012

Reviewed by Brendan Burke, 

Authority in Byzantium. Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London, 14

Pamela Armstrong  / Ashgate, 2013

Reviewed by Diana Gilliland Wright, 

Aphrodite’s Island: Australian Archaeologists in Cyprus. The Cypriot collection of the Nicholson Museum

Craig Barker  / Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, 2012

Reviewed by Derek B. Counts, 

The Bosporus: Gateway between the Ancient West and East (1st Millennium BC-5th Century AD)

Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Sümer Atasoy, Alexandru Avram, Şevket Dönmez, James Hargrave  / Archaeopress, 2013

Reviewed by Danijel Dzino, 

Alexandre des Lumières. Fragments d’histoire européenne. NRF Essais

Pierre Briant  / Editions Gallimard, 2012

Reviewed by Corinne Bonnet, 

Democracia e imperialismo maritimo: Atenas, siglos V-IV a. C. Fuentes y cuestiones, historiográficas. Colleción Materiales de Estudios​

Laura Sancho Rocher  / Liceus, 2012

Reviewed by Bernhard Smarczyk, 

Brill’s Companion to Horace. Brill’s companions in classical studies

Hans-Christian Günther  / Brill, 2013

Reviewed by Johannes Breuer, 

La céramique grecque aux époques géométrique et orientalisante (XIe-VIe siècle av. J.-C.). La céramique grecque, 1

Anne Coulié  / Éditions A. et J. Picard, 2013

Reviewed by Mary B. Moore, 

Class in Archaic Greece

Peter W. Rose  / Cambridge University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Richard Wenghofer, 

The Iconography of Aegean Seals. Aegaeum, 34

Janice L. Crowley  / Peeters, 2013

Reviewed by Judith Weingarten, 

The Continuum Companion to Plato. Continuum companions

Gerald A. Press, Associate editors: Harald Tarrant, Deborah Nails and Francesco Gonzalez.  / Continuum International Publishing Group, 2012

Reviewed by Albert Joosse, 

The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Texts and Images. Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies

Leslie Brubaker, Mary B. Cunningham  / Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011

Reviewed by Diliana Angelova, 

Velleius Paterculus. The Roman History: From Romulus and the Foundation of Rome to the Reign of the Emperor Tiberius

J. C. Yardley, Anthony A. Barrett  / Hackett Publishing Company, 2011

Reviewed by Eran Almagor, 

Ethne, identità e tradizioni, Vol. I: la “terza” Grecia e l’Occidente; Vol. II: Graikoi ed Hellenes: storia di due Etnonimi. Diabaseis, 3

Luisa Breglia, Alda Moleti, Maria Luisa Napolitano, Renata Calce  / Edizioni ETS, 2011

Reviewed by Maria Beatrice Bittarello, 

Mores veteresque novosque: rappresentazioni del passato e del presente di Roma negli Annales di Ennio. Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università di Pavia, 125

Virginia Fabrizi  / Edizioni ETS, 2012

Reviewed by Jackie Elliott, 

Tomba di Nerone: toponimo, comprensorio e zona urbanistica di Roma capitale. Scritti tematici in memoria di Gaetano Messineo. Fors Clavigera, 2

Fabrizio Vistoli  / Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2012

Reviewed by Vincent Jolivet, 

Chariots and Other Wheeled Vehicles in Italy before the Roman Empire

J. H. Crouwel  / Oxbow Books, 2012

Reviewed by Daniele F. Maras, 

Prodigien in der römischen Königszeit: eine motivgeschichtliche und narratologische Analyse im 1. Buch des Livius. Klassische Philologie, 5

Astrid Khariouzov  / Frank und Timme, 2013

Reviewed by Veit Rosenberger,