Month: May 2015

Books Received April 2015

By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire. Ancient warfare and civilization

Ian Worthington  / Oxford University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Giuseppe Squillace, 

Lucillio, Epigrammi: introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento. Texte und Kommentare Bd 47

Lucia Floridi  / De Gruyter, 2014

Reviewed by Niek Janssen, 

Roman Girlhood and the Fashioning of Femininity

Lauren Caldwell  / Cambridge University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Eve D’Ambra, 

Mécène: ombres et flamboyances

Philippe Le Doze  / Les Belles Lettres, 2014

Reviewed by Angela Ganter, 

Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance. I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history

Ada Palmer  / Harvard University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Quinn Radziszewski, 

The Early Byzantine Christian Church

Bernard Mulholland  / Peter Lang, 2014

Reviewed by Achim Arbeiter, 

Le guerre di Sicilia. Quality paperbacks 404

Stefania De Vido  / Carocci editore, 2013

Reviewed by Francesca Reduzzi, 

The Stoic Sage. The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates. Cambridge Classical Studies

René​ Brouwer  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Maximilian Forschner, 

A Companion to Terence. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

Antony Augoustakis, Ariana Traill  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Reviewed by Ruth R. Caston, 

The Age of the Successors and the Creation of the Hellenistic Kingdoms (323-276 B.C.). Studia Hellenistica, 53

Hans Hauben, Alexander Meeus  / Peeters, 2014

Reviewed by Federicomaria Muccioli, 

Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic

Antony Augoustakis  / Oxford University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Robert Simms, 

Alexander the Great: The Dissolution of the Persian Naval Supremacy 334-331 B.C

Andreas P. Parpas  / Andreas P. Parpas, 2013

Reviewed by Christian Rollinger, 

Die Urfassungen der Martyria Polycarpi et Pionii und das Corpus Polycarpianum

Otto Zwierlein  / Walter de Gruyter, 2014

Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus, 

The Geography of Strabo: An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes

Duane W. Roller  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Johannes Engels, 

The Italic People of Ancient Apulia: New Evidence from Pottery for Workshops, Markets, and Customs

T.H. Carpenter, K.M. Lynch, E.G.D. Robinson  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by John W. Wonder, 

reprints, 566

F. J. Sypher  / Reprints, 2015

Reviewed by Christopher Stray, 

Laonikos Chalkokondyles; A New Herodotos

Anthony Kaldellis  / Harvard University Press, 2014 Anthony Kaldellis, Anthony Kaldellis  / Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2014

Reviewed by Diana Gilliland Wright, 

Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations and Commentary. II. North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, Bd 204

Philip A. Harland  / De Gruyter, 2014

Reviewed by Cédric Brélaz, 

Lucian’s ‘A True Story’: An Intermediate Greek Reader (revised Aug. 2014; first edition 2011)

Evan Hayes, Stephen Nimis  / Faenum Publishing, 2014

Reviewed by Adam Bartley,