Month: October 2014

Books Received September 2014

The Correspondence of Joseph Justus Scaliger (8 vols.). Travaux d’humanisme et Renaissance, 507/1-8

Paul Botley, Dirk van Miert  / Librairie Droz, 2012

Reviewed by Scott Mandelbrote, 

Il lessico Ambrosiano inedito ΑΝΤΙΧΕΙΡ (C 222 inf., ff. 207r-208v)

Eva Villani  / EDUCatt, 2014

Reviewed by Eleanor Dickey, 

Griechische Grabbezirke klassischer Zeit: Normen und Regionalismen. Akten des internationalen Kolloquiums am Deutschen Archäologischen Institut, Abt. Athen, 20.-21. November 2009. Athenaia, Bd 6

Katja Sporn  / Hirmer Verlag, 2013

Reviewed by Jan-Marc Henke, 

Le sculture di età orientalizzante in Etruria padana. Cataloghi delle collezioni del Museo civicoarcheologico di Bologna

Marinella Marchesi  / Comune di Bologna, 2011

Reviewed by Christopher Smith, 

The Epic Cycle: A Commentary on the Lost Troy Epics

M. L. West  / Oxford University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Patrick O’Sullivan, 

Mit Zitaten kommunizieren: Untersuchungen zur Zitierweise in der Korrespondenz des Marcus Tullius Cicero. Litora classica, 6

Anja Behrendt  / VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2013

Reviewed by Bianca-Jeanette Schröder, 

Hesiodic Voices: Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod’s Works and Days. Cambridge classical studies

Richard Hunter  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Hugo Koning, 

Dominus tabernae: le statut de travail des artisans et des commerçants de l’Occident romain (Ier siècle av. J.-C. – IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.). Bibliothèque des écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome, 360

Nicolas Tran  / École française de Rome, 2013

Reviewed by Miko Flohr, 

Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Jason König, Greg Woolf  / Cambridge University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Jacques Elfassi, 

The Depiction of Character in the Chronographia of Michael Psellos. Studies in Byzantine history and civilization, 7

Frederick Lauritzen  / Brepols Publishers, 2013

Reviewed by Christian Høgel and Jonas J. H.​ Christensen, 

Jewish and Christian Cosmogony in Late Antiquity. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 155

Lance Jenott, Sarit Kattan Gribetz  / Mohr Siebeck, 2013

Reviewed by Todd Berzon, 

Seduction and Power: Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts

Silke Knippschild, Marta García Morcillo  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Reviewed by Genevieve S. Gessert, 

Rapports de subordination personnelle et pouvoir politique dans la Méditerranée antique et au-delà

Marcelo Campagno, Julián Gallego, Carlos García Mac Gaw  / Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2013

Reviewed by Francesca Rocca, 

Ovid’s Revisions: The Editor as Author

Francesca K. A. Martelli  / Cambridge University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Peter E. Knox, 

Symphosius: The Aenigmata. An Introduction, Text and Commentary. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs

T. J. Leary  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Reviewed by Christine Luz, 

Tacitus, Annals, 15.20­-23, 33­-45. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary​

Mathew Owen, Ingo Gildenhard  / Open Book Publishers, 2013

Reviewed by Virginia Closs, 

Water for the City, Fountains for the People: Monumental Fountains in the Roman East: An Archaeological Study of Water Management. Studies in eastern Mediterranean archaeology, 9

Julian Richard  / Brepols Publishers, 2012

Reviewed by

The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy. Routledge philosophy companions

James Warren, Frisbee Sheffield  / Routledge, 2013

Reviewed by Attila Németh, 

Hubertus Goltzius e la Magna Grecia: dalle Fiandre all’Italia del Cinquecento. Itala Tellus, 3

Maria Luisa Napolitano  / Luciano Editore, 2011

Reviewed by Christopher Smith,