Month: May 2016

Books Received April 2016

The Battle of Arginusae: Victory at Sea and its Tragic Aftermath in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War. Witness to Ancient History

Debra Hamel  / Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Jason Crowley, 

Tra marginalità e integrazione: aspetti dell’assistenza sociale nel mondo greco e romano. Atti delle Giornate di Studio, Università Europea di Roma – 7-8 Novembre 2012. Quaderni di Erga-Logoi.

Umberto Roberto, Paolo A. Tuci  / LED - Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2015

Reviewed by Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver, 

Metals in LBA Minoan and Mycenaean Societies on Crete: A Quantitative Approach

Lena Hakulin  / Unigrafia Oy Yliopistopaino, 2013

Reviewed by Christina Clarke, 

Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism: Oracles of the Gods. Ashgate studies in philosophy and theology in late antiquity

Crystal Addey  / Ashgate, 2014

Reviewed by Ilinca Tanaseanu-Doebler, 

Persia’s Imperial Power in Late Antiquity: the Great Wall of Gorgan and the Frontier Landscapes of Sasanian Iran. British Institute of Persian Studies. Archaeological monographs series, 2

Eberhard W. Sauer, Hamid Omrani Rekavandi, Tony J. Wilkinson, Jebrael Nokandeh  / Oxbow Books, 2013

Reviewed by Josef Wiesehöfer, 

Roma antica: storia e documenti. Manuali. Storia

Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Lorenzo Calvelli, Francesca Rohr Vio  / il Mulino, 2014

Reviewed by Robert Matijasic, 

State Correspondence in the Ancient World, From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire. Oxford studies in early empires

Karen Radner  / Oxford University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Silke Knippschild, 

Zwierlein on Zetzel on Riesenweber, ‘C. Marius Victorinus, Commenta in Ciceronis Rhetorica’

Response by Otto Zwierlein | Original Review by James Zetzel, 

Luxus: The Sumptuous Arts of Greece and Rome

Kenneth Lapatin  / Getty Publications, 2015

Reviewed by Julia C. Fischer, 

Un nome; mille volti: Giulio Cesare nel teatro inglese della prima età moderna. Lingue e letterature Carocci, 192; Serie AIA Book Prize, 2

Domenico Lovascio  / Carocci editore, 2015

Reviewed by Sergio Audano, 

La Satira 11 di Giovenale: Introduzione, Traduzione e Commento. Texte und Kommentare, Band 48

Francesco Bracci  / Walter de Gruyter, 2014

Reviewed by Brian S. Hook, 

La Grèce et la guerre. Actes du 25e colloque de la Villa Kérylos à Beaulieu-sur-Mer les 3 et 4 octobre 2014. Cahiers de la Villa « Kérylos », 26

Philippe Contamine, Jacques Jouanna, Michel Zink  / Diffusion de Boccard, 2015

Reviewed by Giuseppe Solaro, 

Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint. Women in antiquity

David Potter  / Oxford University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Kenneth G. Holum, 

Glass, Alcohol and Power in Roman Iron Age Scotland

Dominic Ingemark  / National Museums Scotland, 2014

Reviewed by Max Nelson, 

Properce, Élégies, livre IV. Collection Latomus, 348​

Éric​ Coutelle  / Éditions Latomus​, 2015

Reviewed by Nicoletta Bruno, 

“Artes Grammaticae” in frammenti: I testi grammaticali latini e bilingui greco-latini su papiro: Edizione commentata. Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker (SGLG), 17

Maria Chiara Scappaticcio  / De Gruyter, 2015

Reviewed by Eleanor Dickey, 

Zetzel on Zwierlein on Zetzel on Riesenweber, ‘C. Marius Victorinus, Commenta in Ciceronis Rhetorica’

Response by James E. G. Zetzel | Original Response by Otto Zwierlein, 

Lectiones memorabiles. Volume II: Selections from Horace, Lucretius, Seneca, Suetonius, and Tacitus

Yasuko Taoka  / Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc, 2015

Reviewed by Sergio Yona, 

Μ. Τύλλιου Κικέρωνα, Περί Πολιτείας Βιβλία Έξι

Ioannis Deligiannis  / Ινστιτούτο του Βιβλίου-Α. Καρδαμίτσα, 2015

Reviewed by Dionysios Chalkomatas,