Month: February 2015

Books Received January 2015

Homer: Odyssey, Books XIII and XIV. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics

A. M. Bowie  / Cambridge University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Robert Bostock, 

Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal: The Long-Suppressed Story of One Woman’s Discoveries and the Man Who Stole Credit for Them

Alan Kaiser  / Rowman & Littlefield, 2014

Reviewed by Kathy L. Gaca, 

Sepulkrale Hofarchitekturen im Hellenismus: Alexandria – Nea Paphos – Kyrene. Contextualizing the sacred, 3

Anika Greve  / Brepols Publishers, 2014

Reviewed by Burkhard Emme, 

Herodots Quellen – Die Quellen Herodots. Classica et Orientalia, Bd 6

Boris Dunsch, Kai Ruffing  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013

Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk, 

Les potiers d’Étrurie et leur monde: contacts, échanges, transferts. Hommages à Mario A. Del Chiaro. Armand Colin – recherches

Laura Ambrosini, Vincent Jolivet  / Armand Colin, 2014

Reviewed by Christopher Smith, 

Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest. A Selection of Papyrological Sources in Translation, with Introductions and Commentary

James G. Keenan, J.G. Manning, Uri Yiftach-Firanko  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Clifford Ando, 

Ephemeris: scritti efimeri

Salvatore Nicosia  / Rubbettino Editore, 2013

Reviewed by Mauro Giuffrè, 

Papers on Italian Urbanism in the First Millennium B.C. JRA supplementary series, 97

Elizabeth C. Robinson  / Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2014

Reviewed by Saskia T. Roselaar, 

Le regole del beneficio: commento tematico a Seneca, ‘De beneficiis’, libro I. Letteratura classica, 38

Giusto Picone  / Palumbo, 2013

Reviewed by Miriam Griffin, 

Hofer on Beeley on Hofer, ‘Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus’

Response by Andrew Hofer | Original Review by Christopher A. Beeley, 

Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall. American Studies in Papyrology, 53

Rodney Ast, Hélène Cuvigny, Todd M. Hickey, Julia Lougovaya  / American Society of Papyrologists, 2013

Reviewed by Jennifer Cromwell, 

Ethics after Aristotle

Brad Inwood  / Harvard University Press, 2014

Reviewed by John Dillon, 

Villajoyosa antique (Alicante, Espagne): territoire et topographie, le sanctuaire de La Malladeta. Collection de la Casa de Velázquez, 141

Pierre Rouillard, Antonio Espinosa, Jesús Moratalla  / Casa de Velázquez, 2014

Reviewed by Benedict Lowe, 

[Quintilien] Le tombeau ensorcelé (Grandes déclamations, 10). Collana di studi umanistici, 3

Catherine Schneider  / Edizioni Università di Cassino, 2013

Reviewed by Bé Breij, 

Willms on Reisdoerfer on Willms, ‘Klassische Philologie’

Response by Lothar Willms | Original Review by Joseph Reisdoerfer, 

Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: ‘Futures Past’ from Herodotus to Augustine

Jonas Grethlein  / Cambridge University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Jonathan Master, 

Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

James Turner  / Princeton University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Whitney Cox, 

Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women

Amy Richlin  / University of Michigan Press, 2014

Reviewed by Catherine Conybeare, 

Studies in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, 87

Pieter W. van der Horst  / Brill, 2014

Reviewed by Matthew V. Novenson,