Month: September 2015

Books Received August 2015

Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World

Jens M. Daehner, Kenneth Lapatin  / J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015

Reviewed by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, 

The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino: Understanding the Roman Games. Witness to ancient history

Jerry Toner  / Johns Hopkins University, 2014

Reviewed by Matthieu Soler, 

Scribonio Largo: Ricette mediche. Traduzione e commento

Loredana Mantovanelli  / S.A.R.G.O.N. Editrice e Libreria, 2012

Reviewed by Giulia Ecca, 

Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism, Volume XXVI

David T. Runia, Gregory E. Sterling  / Society of Biblical Literature, 2014

Reviewed by Matthew Kraus, 

Embracing the Immigrant: The Participation of Metics in Athenian Polis Religion (5th-4th century BC). Historia – Einzelschriften, Bd 233

Sara M. Wijma  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014

Reviewed by Ellie Mackin, 

Finding Italy: Travel, Nation and Colonization in Vergil’s ‘Aeneid’

K. F. B. Fletcher  / University of Michigan Press, 2014

Reviewed by Lee T. Pearcy, 

Κωμικός Στέφανος

Melina Tamiolaki  / Editions of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Crete, 2014

Reviewed by Stavros Tsitsiridis, 

The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire

Paul J. Kosmin  / Harvard University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Laurent Capdetrey, 

Performance and Culture in Plato’s Laws

Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi  / Cambridge University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Wolfram Brinker, 

Homeric Effects in Vergil’s Narrative. (Translated by Ilaria Marchesi and Matt Fox; first published 1984)

Alessandro Barchiesi  / Princeton University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Richard F. Thomas, 

Meals in Early Judaism: Social Formation at the Table

Susan Marks, Hal Taussig  / Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Reviewed by Raphael Magarik, 

Le jardin dans l’antiquité: introduction et huit exposés suivis de discussions. Entretiens sur l’antiquite classique, 60

Kathleen Coleman, Pascale Derron  / Fondation Hardt pour l'étude de l'Antiquité classique, 2014

Reviewed by Jane Draycott, 

Savoir et gouverner: essai sur la science politique platonicienne. Tradition de la pensée classique

Dimitri El Murr  / Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2014

Reviewed by Francisco L. Lisi, 

Man and Animal in Severan Rome: The Literary Imagination of Claudius Aelianus. Greek culture in the Roman world

Steven D. Smith  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by C. W. Marshall, 

Social Networks and Regional Identity in Bronze Age Italy

Emma Blake  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Gert Jan van Wijngaarden, 

Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing

Arthur M. Melzer  / University of Chicago Press, 2014

Reviewed by David Tkach, 

Hymnes orphiques. Collection des Universités de France. Série grecque, 509

Marie-Christine Fayant  / Les Belles Lettres, 2014

Reviewed by Alberto Bernabé, 

Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity

Greta Hawes  / Oxford University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Arnaud Zucker, 

Il verso docmiaco: fonti e interpretazioni. Bollettino dei Classici. Supplementa, 28

Luisa Andreatta  / Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2014

Reviewed by Martin Steinrueck,