Month: February 2016

Books Received January 2016

Arrian’s Anabasis: An Intellectual and Cultural Story. Akanthina, 6

Bogdan Burliga  / Foundation for the Development of University of Gdańsk, for the Department of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Gdańsk, 2013

Reviewed by Timothy Howe, 

The Restoration of the Roman Forum in Late Antiquity: Transforming Public Space. Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture

Gregor Kalas  / University of Texas Press, 2015

Reviewed by Hendrik Dey, 

Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns. Mnemosyne, supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 384

Andrew Faulkner, Owen Hodkinson  / Brill, 2015

Reviewed by Claude Calame, 

Magistracy and the Historiography of the Roman Republic. Politics in Prose

Ayelet Haimson Lushkov  / Cambridge University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Ana Rodriguez Mayorgas, 

Defining the Sacred: Approaches to the Archaeology of Religion in the Near East

Nicola Laneri  / Oxbow, 2015

Reviewed by Aren M. Maeir, 

The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists

James Warren  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Georgia Mouroutsou, 

Africa, quasi Roma (256 av. J.C .- 711 apr. J.-C). Études d’antiquités africaines

Jean-Marie Lassère  / CNRS Éditions, 2015

Reviewed by Stefan Ardeleanu, 

Greece, Macedon and Persia: Studies in Social, Political and Military History in Honour of Waldemar Heckel

Timothy Howe, E. Edward Garvin, Graham Wrightson, Waldemar Heckel  / Oxbow Books, 2015

Reviewed by Pierre Briant, 

Krieg und Bürgerkrieg bei Lucan und in der griechischen Literatur: Studien zur Rezeption der attischen Tragödie und der hellenistischen Dichtung im Bellum civile. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 225

Annemarie Ambühl  / De Gruyter, 2015

Reviewed by Thomas Gärtner, 

Performing Citizenship in Plato’s Laws. Cambridge Classical Studies

Lucia Prauscello  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Klaus Schöpsdau, 

Aristotle’s Categories in the Early Roman Empire. Oxford classical monographs

Michael J. Griffin  / Oxford University Press, 2015

Reviewed by John Dillon, 

L’écriture de soi à Rome. Autour de la correspondence de Cicéron. Collection Latomus 347

Jean Pierre De Giorgio  / Éditions Latomus, 2015

Reviewed by Christian Rollinger, 

Textile Trade and Distribution in Antiquity. Textilhandel und -distribution in der Antike. Philippika 73

Kerstin Droß-Krüpe  / Harassowitz Verlag, 2014

Reviewed by Beate Wagner-Hasel, 

The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Stone Sculpture

Antoine Hermary, Joan R. Mertens  / Metropolitan Museum of Art; Print-On-Demand Edition Distributed by Yale University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Pamela Gaber, 

The Roman Forum: a Reconstruction and Architectural Guide

Gilbert J. Gorski, James E. Packer  / Cambridge University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Fred S. Kleiner, 

Tragic Views of the Human Condition: Cross-Cultural Comparisons between Views of Human Nature in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy and the ‘Mahābhārata’ and ‘Bhagavadgītā’

Lourens Minnema  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Reviewed by Anne Mahoney, 

Virgo to Virago: Medea in the Silver Age

Kirsty Corrigan  / Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

Reviewed by Anke Walter, 

Τὰ ξένια: la cerimonia di ospitalità cittadina. Studi e Ricerche, 27. Studi umanistici – Antichistica

Angela Cinalli  / Sapienza Università Editrice, 2015

Reviewed by Francesca Gazzano, 

Per terram, per mare: Seaborne Trade and the Distribution of Roman Amphorae in the Mediterranean. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature, Pocket-book 180

Stella Demesticha  / Åströms förlag, 2015

Reviewed by Rebecca Diana Klug,