Month: March 2014

Books Received February 2014

The Passionate Statesman: Eros and Politics in Plutarch’s Lives

Jeffrey Beneker  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Georgia Tsouvala, 

The Ancient Sailing Season. Mnemosyne supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, 351

James Beresford  / Brill, 2013

Reviewed by Emmanuel Nantet, 

Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic

Marko Malink  / Harvard University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Michael Pakaluk, 

The Envy of Daedalus: Essay on the Artist as Murderer. Morphomata lectures Cologne, 4

Marcello Barbanera  / Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013

Reviewed by Christine Kossaifi, 

Hérodote: formes de pensée, figures du récit. Histoire. Série Histoire ancienne

Jean Alaux  / Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013

Reviewed by Emily Baragwanath, 

The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections. Ancient narrative supplementum, 16

Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Judith Perkins, Richard Pervo  / Barkhuis Publishing; Groningen University Library, 2012

Reviewed by Gary Gilbert, 

Agriculture and Taxation in Early Ptolemaic Egypt: Demotic Land Surveys and Accounts (P. Agri). Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen, 46

Andrew Monson  / Dr. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 2012

Reviewed by Sally L.D. Katary, 

Maternal Megalomania: Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood

Julie Langford  / Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Adam Kemezis, 

A Companion to Ancient Greek Government. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

Hans Beck  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk, 

Nîmes et ses Antiquités: un passé présent XVIe-XIXe siècle. Scripta antiqua, 53

Véronique Krings, François Pugnière  / Ausonius Éditions, 2013

Reviewed by Céline Chulsky, 

Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt. Women in antiquity

Dee L. Clayman  / Oxford University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Elizabeth D. Carney, 

Philodemus, On Property Management. Writings from the Greco-Roman world, 33

Voula Tsouna  / Society of Biblical Literature, 2012

Reviewed by David Armstrong, 

Allegorische Mythenerklärung in der Spätantike: Wege zum Werk des Dracontius. Litora classica, Bd 2

Doreen Selent  / VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2011

Reviewed by Helen Kaufmann, 

Reflections on Aristotle’s ‘Politics’

Mogens Herman Hansen  / Museum Tusculanum Press, 2013

Reviewed by Lee Trepanier, 

Women and Weasels: Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome. Translated by Emlyn Eisenach; first published 1998

Maurizio Bettini  / University of Chicago Press, 2013

Reviewed by Nikoletta Manioti, 

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature. Volume 3: 1660-1790

David Hopkins, Charles Martindale  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Marguerite Johnson, 

The Role of the Bishop in Late Antiquity: Conflict and Compromise

Andrew Fear, José​ Fernández Urbiña​, Mar Marcos  / Bloomsbury, 2013

Reviewed by Eric Fournier, 

Slaves to Rome: Paradigms of Empire in Roman Culture. Cambridge classical studies

Myles Lavan  / Cambridge University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Jason Morris, 

Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455. Oxford classical monographs

Meaghan A. McEvoy  / Oxford University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Jan Willem Drijvers,