Month: October 2016

Books Received September 2016

Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

Edith Hall  / Company, 2014

Reviewed by Christopher Gribbin, 

Fragmente einer Geschichte der griechischen Komödie / Fragmentary History of Greek Comedy. Studia Comica, 5​

Stylianos Chronopoulos, Christian Orth  / Verlag Antike, 2015

Reviewed by Richard P. Martin, 

Le sel dans l’Antiquité, ou les cristaux d’Aphrodite. Realia

Bernard Moinier, Olivier Weller  / Les Belles Lettres, 2015

Reviewed by Giuseppe Squillace, 

Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica: Book IV. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Richard Hunter  / Cambridge University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Kathryn Wilson, 

Sex, Knowledge and Receptions of the Past. Classical Presences

Kate Fisher, Rebecca Langlands  / Oxford University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Geert Lernout, 

The Latin New Testament: A Guide to its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts

H. A. G. Houghton  / Oxford University Press, 2016

Reviewed by Andrew Dunning, 

The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West: Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire. Greeks overseas

Nigel Nicholson  / Oxford University Press, 2016

Reviewed by Nicholas Boterf, 

Classical Literature: An Epic Journey from Homer to Virgil and Beyond

Richard Jenkyns  / Basic Books, 2016

Reviewed by Giampiero Scafoglio, 

Storia della filologia classica. Studi Superiori, 1041

Diego Lanza, Gherardo Ugolini  / Carocci editore, 2016

Reviewed by Giuseppe Solaro, 

Mykenische Siegelpraxis: Funktion, Kontext und administrative Verwendung mykenischer Tonplomben auf dem griechischen Festland und Kreta. Athenaia, Bd 5

Diamantis Panagiotopoulos  / Hirmer Verlag, 2014

Reviewed by Eberhard Thomas, 

Kinyras: The Divine Lyre. Hellenic studies, 70

John C. Franklin  / Center for Hellenic Studies, trustees for Harvard University, 2015

Reviewed by Mattia De Poli, 

Écrire la magie dans l’antiquité. Actes du colloque international (Liège, 13-15 octobre 2011). Papyrologica Leodiensia, 5​

Magali De Haro Sanchez  / Presses Universitaires de Liège​, 2015

Reviewed by David Frankfurter, 

Polis Expansion and Elite Power in Hellenistic Karia. Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World

Jeremy Labuff  / Lexington Books, 2016

Reviewed by Emeline Priol, 

Ημερολόγιο Αρχαιολογικό: τα χρόνια του Καποδίστρια 1828-1832

Basil Ch. Petrakos  / Archaeological Society at Athens, 2015

Reviewed by Nassos Papalexandrou, 

Οβίδιος, Ηρωίδες 20-21

Andreas N. Michalopulos  / Εκδόσεις Δημ. Ν. Παπαδήμα, 2014

Reviewed by Ioannis Ziogas, 

Ovid on Cosmetics: ‘Medicamina Faciei Femineae’ and Related Texts

Marguerite Johnson  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Reviewed by Rachel Philbrick, 

Urbane Strukturen und bürgerliche Identität im Hellenismus. Die hellenistische polis als Lebensform, 5​

Albrecht Matthaei, Martin Zimmermann  / Verlag Antike, 2015

Reviewed by Jeremy LaBuff, 

Quintilian: The Son Suspected of Incest with his Mother (Major Declamations, 18-19). Collana di Studi Umanistici, 7

Bé Breij  / Edizioni Università di Cassino, 2015

Reviewed by George L. Greaney, 

Essays on Plato’s Epistemology. Ancient and medieval philosophy – Series 1, 53

Franco Trabattoni  / Leuven University Press, 2016

Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson,