Month: August 2014

Books Received July 2014

Attisch rotfigurige und schwarzgefirnisste Peliken, Loutrophoren und Lebetes Gamikoi. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland, Bd. 95. Berlin, Antikensammlung ehemals Antiquarium, Bd 15

Angelika Schöne-Denkinger  / Verlag C. H. Beck, 2014

Reviewed by Mary B. Moore, 

Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook. Second edition (first published 2004). Routledge sourcebooks for the ancient world

Alison E. Cooley, M. G. L. Cooley  / Routledge, 2014

Reviewed by Jacqueline Frost DiBiasie, 

Lehrreiche Trugbilder: Senecas Tragödien und die Rhetorik des Sehens. Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften; 142

Alexander Kirichenko  / Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013

Reviewed by Christoph Kugelmeier, 

Change Me: Stories of Sexual Transformation from Ovid

Jane Alison  / $19.95 (pb), 2014

Reviewed by Benjamin Eldon Stevens, 

Ovid: Metamorphoses III, An Extract: 511-733. Bloomsbury Latin texts

John Godwin  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Reviewed by Elena Giusti, 

Ambelikou Aletri. Metallurgy and Pottery Production in Middle Bronze Age Cyprus. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology, 138

Jennifer M. Webb, David Frankel, Myrto Georgakopoulou, Thilo Rehren, George Constantinou and Ioannis Panayides.  / Åströms Förlag​, 2013

Reviewed by Thomas Kiely, 

Memory in Vergil’s Aeneid: Creating the Past

Aaron M. Seider  / Cambridge University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Matthew P. Loar, 

Medusa: In the Mirror of Time

David Leeming  / Reaktion Books, 2013

Reviewed by Kathryn Topper, 

Universal Empire: A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History

Peter Fibiger Bang, Dariusz Kołodziejczyk  / Cambridge University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Rolf Strootman, 

The Age of Attila: Fifth-Century Byzantium and the Barbarians. Revised edition, with a new introduction and notes by David S. Potter

C. D. Gordon  / University of Michigan Press, 2013

Reviewed by Conor Whately, 

La costruzione del mito augusteo. Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Band 141

Mario Labate, Gianpiero Rosati  / Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013

Reviewed by Nandini B. Pandey, 

Textual History and the Reception of Scripture in Early Christianity / Textgeschichte und Schriftrezeption im frühen Christentum. Society of Biblical Literature. Septuagint and cognate studies, 60​

Johannes de Vries, Martin Karrer  / Society of Biblical Literature, 2013

Reviewed by Geert Lernout, 

When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible

Timothy Michael Law  / Oxford University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Christian Schäfer​, 

Ancient Greek Women in Film. Classical Presences

Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos  / Oxford University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Martin Lindner, 

Monopodia: figürliche Tischfüße aus Kleinasien. Ein Beitrag zum Ausstattungsluxus der römischen Kaiserzeit. Byzas, 17​

Stefan Feuser  / Ege Yayinlari, 2013

Reviewed by Dimitra Andrianou, 

Galen: Three Treatises: ‘On My Own Books’, ‘On the Order of My Own Books’, and ‘That the Best Physician is Also a Philosopher’. An Intermediate Greek Reader

Evan Hayes, Stephen Nimis  / Faenum Publishing, 2014

Reviewed by Aileen R. Das, 

Un Dios entre los hombres: la adoración a los emperadores romanos en Grecia. Col·lecció Instrumenta, 37

Fernando Lozano Gómez  / Universitat de Barcelona, 2010

Reviewed by J.-S. Balzat, 

Qumran Revisited: A Reassessment of the Archaeology of the Site and its Texts. BAR international series, 2520

David Stacey, Gregory Doudna  / Archaeopress, 2013

Reviewed by Hagith Sivan, 

Un édifice inachevé du quartier royal à Alexandrie. Etudes Alexandrines, 31

Hélène Fragaki  / Centre d'Etudes Alexandrines, 2013

Reviewed by Paul Edmund Stanwick,