Month: May 2013

Books Received April 2013

Variation and Change in Greek and Latin. Papers and monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, 17

Martti Leiwo, Hilla Halla-aho, Marja Vierros  / Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens, 2012

Reviewed by Jerker Blomqvist, 

Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity. Divinations: rereading late ancient religion

Andrew Crislip  / University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013

Reviewed by Wendy Mayer, 

Tiberius to Nero. Lactor, 19

M. G. L. Cooley  / London Association of Classical Teachers, 2011

Reviewed by Caillan Davenport, 

The Invention of Greek Ethnography: From Homer to Herodotus. Greeks overseas

Joseph E. Skinner  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by S.C. Caneva, 

Britain and Its Empire in the Shadow of Rome: The Reception of Rome in Socio-Political Debate from the 1850s to the 1920s

Sarah J. Butler  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2012

Reviewed by Simon Goldhill, 

The Use of Anonymous Characters in Greek Tragedy: The Shaping of Heroes. Mnemosyne Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin Language and Literature, 344

Florence Yoon  / Brill, 2012

Reviewed by Jonathan L. Ready, 

LM IB Pottery: Relative Chronology and Regional Differences

Thomas M. Brogan, Erik Hallager  / Danish Institute at Athens, 2011

Reviewed by Luca Girella, 

Publio Virgilio Marone. Le Bucoliche

Andrea Cucchiarelli, Alfonso Traina  / Carocci editore, 2012

Reviewed by Richard F. Thomas, 

Panskoye I, Volume 2: The Necropolis. Archaeological investigations in Western Crimea

Vladimir F. Stolba, Eugeny Rogov  / Aarhus University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Adam Rabinowitz, 

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage

William E. Metcalf  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Andrew Meadows, 

“Dis Manibus, pili, epitaffi et altre cose antiche” di Giovannantonio Dosio: il codice N.A. 618 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze

Giovanna Tedeschi Grisanti, Heikki Solin  / Edizioni ETS, 2011

Reviewed by William Stenhouse, 

Lucans Bellum Civile. Studien zum Spektrum seiner Rezeption von der Antike bis ins 19. Jahrhundert. Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, 78

Christine Walde  / Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009

Reviewed by Martin T. Dinter, 

Childhood in Ancient Athens: Iconography and Social History. Routledge monographs in classical studies

Lesley A. Beaumont  / Routledge, 2012

Reviewed by Katherine V. Huntley, 

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature. Oxford Handbooks

Ralph J. Hexter, David Townsend  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Corey J. Zwikstra, 

Sophokles. König Ödipus. Griechische Dramen

Bernd Manuwald  / De Gruyter, 2012

Reviewed by P. J. Finglass, 

Tacitus the Epic Successor: Virgil, Lucan, and the Narrative of Civil War in the Histories. Mnemosyne Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin Language and Literature, 345

Timothy A. Joseph  / Brill, 2012

Reviewed by Salvador Bartera, 

Tacitus. Oxford readings in classical studies

Rhiannon Ash  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Rubén Olmo López, 

Forms and Concepts: Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina, Bd 5

Christoph Helmig  / De Gruyter, 2012

Reviewed by Lloyd Gerson, 

A History of Pergamum: Beyond Hellenistic Kingship

Richard Evans  / Continuum, 2012

Reviewed by Jens Jakobsson,