Month: June 2015

Books Received May 2015

Plotinus, Ennead VI.4 and VI.5: On the Presence of Being, One and the Same, Everywhere as a Whole. The Enneads of Plotinus with philosophical commentaries

Eyjólfur K.​ Emilsson, Steven K. Strange  / Parmenides Publishing, 2015

Reviewed by Sui Han, 

Apuleius’ Platonism: The Impersonation of Philosophy. Cambridge classical studies

Richard Fletcher  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Sasha-Mae Eccleston, 

Art in the Hellenistic World: An Introduction

Andrew Stewart  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by John Griffiths Pedley, 

A Commentary on Cicero, De divinatione I. Michigan classical commentaries

Celia E. Schultz  / University of Michigan Press, 2014

Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck, 

L’Anatolie des peuples, des cités et des cultures. (IIe millénaire av. J.-C. – Ve siècle ap. J.-C.). Colloque international de Besançon – 26-27 novembre 2010 (2 vols.)

Hadrien Bru, Guy Labarre  / Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2014

Reviewed by Charles Gates, 

Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome

Dorian Borbonus  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by H. Sigismund Nielsen, 

The High Command in the Roman Republic. The Principle of the ‘summum imperium auspiciumque’ from 509 to 19 BCE. Historia – Einzelschriften, Bd 232

Frederik J. Vervaet  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014

Reviewed by Thibaud Lanfranchi, 

Stoïcisme et lien social: enquête autour de Musonius Rufus. Les anciens et les modernes – études de philosophie, 14​

Valéry​ Laurand  / Classiques Garnier, 2014

Reviewed by Emidio Spinelli, 

The Neoplatonic Socrates

Danielle A. Layne, Harold Tarrant  / University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014

Reviewed by Giannis Stamatellos, 

Les intailles magiques du département des Monnaies Médailles et Antiques

Attilio Mastrocinque  / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2014

Reviewed by David Frankfurter, 

Le métier de gouverneur dans l’Empire romain: de César à Dioclétien. De l’archéologie à l’histoire, 62

Agnès Bérenger  / Éditions de Boccard, 2014

Reviewed by Daniëlle Slootjes, 

Approaches to Greek Myth. Second edition (first edition 1990)

Lowell Edmunds  / Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Anthony F. Mangieri, 

The Triumph of Dionysos: Convivial Processions, from Antiquity to the Present Day

John Boardman  / Archaeopress, 2014

Reviewed by Stéphanie Wyler, 

The Fragmentary History of Priscus: Attila, the Huns and the Roman Empire, AD 430-476. Christian Roman Empire series, 11

John Given  / Evolution Publishing, 2014

Reviewed by Philip Rance, 

The Afterlife of the Roman City: Architecture and Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Hendrik W. Dey  / Cambridge University Press, 2015

Reviewed by M. Shane Bjornlie, 

Hysterical Laughter: Four Ancient Comedies about Women: Lysistrata, Samia, Casina, Hecyra

David Christenson  / Oxford University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Natalia Tsoumpra, 

The Gold Leaves: (Being an Account and Translation from the Ancient Greek of the so-called ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets)

Edward Jenner  / Atuanui Press, 2014

Reviewed by Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, 

A Companion to the Ancient Novel. Blackwell companions to the ancient world

Edmund P. Cueva, Shannon N. Byrne  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Reviewed by Tim Whitmarsh, 

Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

Kate Gilhuly, Nancy Worman  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Christina A. Salowey,