Month: September 2014

Books Received August 2014

Sfingi e Sirene. La presenza egizia nella Sicilia greca del V sec. a.C.: testimonianze nella commedia dorica e nel mimo. Sacra publica et privata, 4

Anna Sofia  / Scienze e lettere, 2013

Reviewed by Angela Bellia, 

Polybios und seine Historien. Alte Geschichte

Volker Grieb, Clemens Koehn  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013

Reviewed by Jeremy LaBuff, 

War-Peace and Panhellenic Games

Nikos Birgalias, Kostas Buraselis, Paul Cartledge, Ariadni Gartziou-Tatti, Maria Dimopoulou  / Institut du Livre; A. Kardamitsa, 2013

Reviewed by Christian Mann, 

Die Finanzierung öffentlicher Bauten in der hellenistischen Polis. Die hellenistische Polis als Lebensform, 3

Ludwig Meier  / Verlag Antike, 2011

Reviewed by Michael Kleu, 

A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Thomas K. Hubbard  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Reviewed by Alexandra Eppinger, 

The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire: Sophists, Philosophers, and Christians. Greek culture in the Roman world

Kendra Eshleman  / Cambridge University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Dimitris Karambelas, 

Culture, Identity and Politics in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Papers from a Conference in Honour of Erich Gruen. Antichthon, 47 (thematic issue)

Paul J. Burton  / The Australasian Society for Classical Studies, 2013

Reviewed by C. L. H. Barnes, 

Concordia: Un idéal de la classe dirigeante romaine à la fin de la République. Histoire ancienne et médiévale, 122

Philippe Akar  / Publications de la Sorbonne, 2013

Reviewed by Hannah Cornwell, 

Public Space in the Post-Classical City: Proceedings of a One Day Colloquium held at Fransum, 23rd July 2007. Caeculus, 7

Christopher P. Dickenson, Onno M. van Nijf  / Peeters, 2013

Reviewed by Janet Downie, 

A History of Greece: 1300 to 30 BC. Blackwell history of the ancient world

Victor Parker  / Wiley Blackwell, 2014

Reviewed by Robin Osborne, 

Antiche stelle a Bisanzio: il codice Vaticano greco 1087. Seminari e convegni, 32

Fabio Guidetti, Anna Santoni  / Edizioni della Normale, 2013

Reviewed by Renate Burri, 

The Struggle for Roman Citizenship: Romans, Allies, and the Wars of 91-77 BCE. Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity 2

Seth Kendall  / Gorgias Press, 2013

Reviewed by Andrea Raggi, 

The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the World’s Most Iconic Building and the People Who Made It

Joan Breton Connelly  / Alfred A. Knopf, 2014

Reviewed by François​ Queyrel, 

The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence. The History of Medicine in Context

Helen King  / Ashgate, 2013

Reviewed by Lydia Matthews, 

Blood of the Provinces: The Roman Auxilia and the Making of Provincial Society from Augustus to the Severans

Ian Haynes  / Oxford University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Tyler Franconi, 

Sievers’ Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European and Ancient Greek. Oxford classical monographs

P. J. Barber  / Oxford University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Götz Keydana, 

Res Caesaris: ricerche sulla proprietà imperiale nel Principato. Pragmateiai, 23

Marco Maiuro  / Edipuglia, 2012

Reviewed by Myles McCallum, 

The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe. European history of religions

Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen, Olav Hammer, David A. Warburton  / Acumen, 2013

Reviewed by Christoph Auffarth, 

Brill’s Companion to Seneca: Philosopher and Dramatist. Brill’s companions in classical studies

Gregor Damschen, Andreas Heil  / Brill, 2014

Reviewed by Gregory A. Staley,