Month: April 2016

Books Received March 2016

Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity

Geoffrey Greatrex, Hugh Elton  / Ashgate, 2015

Reviewed by Chris L. de Wet, 

Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions

Catherine Keane  / Oxford University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Biagio Santorelli, 

Studien zur Originalität der römischen Tragödie. Kleine Schriften. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 324

Eckard Lefèvre  / De Gruyter, 2015

Reviewed by Giampiero Scafoglio, 

Playful Philosophy and Serious Sophistry. A Reading of Plato’s ‘Euthydemus’. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Bd 115

Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi  / Walter de Gruyter, 2014

Reviewed by Laura Viidebaum, 

A Test of Time and A Test of Time Revisited: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the mid-second Millennium BC. 2nd Edition (first edition 1999)

Sturt W. Manning  / Oxbow, 2014

Reviewed by Manfred Bietak, 

L’imperatore Giuliano: realtà storica e rappresentazione. STUSMA – Studi sul mondo antico, 3

Arnaldo Marcone  / Mondadori; Le Monnier università, 2015

Reviewed by Raphael Brendel, 

The Space of Time: A Sensualist Interpretation of Time in Augustine, Confessions X to XII. Supplements to the study of time, 6

David van Dusen  / Brill, 2014

Reviewed by Paolo Di Leo, 

Gregory of Tours: Lives and Miracles. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 39

Giselle de Nie  / Harvard University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Shami Ghosh, 

The Ancient Martyrdom Accounts of Peter and Paul. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 39

David L. Eastman  / SBL Press, 2015

Reviewed by Adam Carter McCollum, 

The End of Athletics in Late Antiquity. Greek Culture in the Roman World

Sofie Remijsen  / Cambridge University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Nigel M. Kennell, 

Augustinus, Sermones selecti. Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Bd 101

Clemens Weidmann  / De Gruyter, 2015

Reviewed by James J. O’Donnell, 

Rome, Season Two: Trial and Triumph. Screening Antiquity

Monica S. Cyrino  / Edinburgh University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Martin Lindner, 

Bodies in Transition: Dissolving the Boundaries of Embodied Knowledge

Dietrich Boschung, Alan Shapiro, Frank Waschek  / Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2015

Reviewed by Angele Rosenberg-Dimitracopoulou, 

Fremd und rechtlos?: Zugehörigkeitsrechte Fremder von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Ein Handbuch​

Altay Coşkun, Lutz Raphael  / Böhlau Verlag​, 2014

Reviewed by Patrick Sänger​, 

Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXX. Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus, 11

J. den Boeft, Jan Willem Drijvers, Daniël den Hengst, H. C. Teitler  / Brill, 2015

Reviewed by Joachim Szidat, 

Homer in Stone: The ‘Tabulae Iliacae’ in their Roman Context. Greek culture in the Roman world

David Petrain  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Thomas R. Keith, 

Finestre sul futuro. Fato, profezia e mondi possibili nel ‘plot’ dell’Edipo Re’ di Sofocle. Filologia e critica, 101

Marco Dorati  / Fabrizio Serra editore, 2015

Reviewed by P. J. Finglass, 

The Obelisk and the Englishman: The Pioneering Discoveries of Egyptologist William Bankes

Dorothy U. Seyler  / Prometheus Books, 2015

Reviewed by Daniele Salvoldi, 

Holy Men and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel. Ancient Narrative. Supplementum, 19

Stelios Panayotakis, Gareth Schmeling, Michael Paschalis  / Barkhuis; Groningen University Library, 2015

Reviewed by Donald Lateiner,