Year: 2016

Books Received December 2015

Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural

Shadi Bartsch  / University of Chicago Press, 2015

Reviewed by Dan Hooley, 

Littérature seconde ou la Bibliothèque de Circé. Détours littéraires

Marc Escola, Sophie Rabau  / Éditions Kimé, 2015

Reviewed by Frédéric Nau, 

Athenian Democracy: A Sourcebook. Bloomsbury sources in ancient history

Luca Asmonti  / Bloomsbury, 2014

Reviewed by Christopher Welser, 

Christianity in the Later Roman Empire: A Sourcebook. Bloomsbury sources in ancient history

David M. Gwynn  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst, 

La démocratie contre les experts: les esclaves publics en Grèce ancienne. L’Univers historique

Paulin Ismard  / Éditions du Seuil, 2015

Reviewed by Giovanni Marginesu, 

The Material Life of Roman Slaves

Sandra R. Joshel, Lauren Hackworth Petersen  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Andrea Binsfeld, 

Architekturstiftungen und Ehrenstatuen: Untersuchungen zur visuellen Repräsentation der Oberschicht im Späthellenistischen und kaiserzeitlichen Pergamon. Pergamenische Forschungen, Bd 16​

Marianne Mathys  / Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2014

Reviewed by Dimitris Damaskos, 

L’animal vertueux dans la philosophie antique à l’époque impériale. Kaïnon – Anthropologie de la pensée ancienne, 2

Jean-François Lhermitte  / Classiques Garnier, 2015

Reviewed by Lisa Whitlatch, 

The Frontiers of Ancient Science: Essays in Honor of Heinrich von Staden. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 338​

Brooke Holmes, Klaus-Dietrich Fischer  / De Gruyter, 2015

Reviewed by John Wilkins, 

Mura di legno, mura di terra, mura di pietra: fortificazioni nel Mediterraneo antico. Atti del convegno internazionale, Sapienza Università di Roma, 7-9 maggio 2012. Scienze dell’antichità, 19.2/3 – 2013

Gilda Bartoloni, Laura Maria Michetti  / Edizioni Quasar, 2013

Reviewed by Ingrid Edlund-Berry, 

Emotions between Greece and Rome. BICS supplement, 125

Douglas L. Cairns, Laurel Fulkerson  / Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2015

Reviewed by Donald Lateiner, 

Carl W. Blegen: Personal and Archaeological Narratives

Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, Jack L. Davis, Vasiliki Florou  / Lockwood Press, 2015

Reviewed by Susan Heuck Allen, 

Myth as Source of Knowledge in Early Western Thought: The Quest for Historiography, Science and Philosophy in Greek Antiquity

Harald Haarmann  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015

Reviewed by William Wians, 

Elite Minoan Architecture: Its Development at Knossos, Phaistos, and Malia. Prehistory monographs, 49

Joseph W. Shaw  / INSTAP Academic Press, 2015

Reviewed by Maud Devolder, 

Les baux ruraux en Grèce ancienne: corpus épigraphique et étude. Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, 66

Isabelle Pernin  / Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée – Jean Pouilloux, 2014

Reviewed by Julien Faguer, 

‘Models of interpreting visual culture’: Wilson Jones on Patay-Horváth on Wilson Jones’, ‘Origins of Classical Architecture’​

Response by Mark Wilson Jones | Original Review by

Globalisation and the Roman World. World History, Connectivity and Material Culture

Martin Pitts, Miguel John Versluys  / Cambridge University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Andrea U. De Giorgi, 

Mutations of Hellenism in Late Antiquity. Variorum collected studies series, CS 1052

Polymnia Athanassiadi  / Ashgate, 2015

Reviewed by Guy G. Stroumsa, 

The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy. Oxford Early Christian Studies

Stephen Blackwood  / Oxford University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Melinda Nielsen,