Month: June 2016

Books Received May 2016

Lucian’s Dialogues of the Gods. An Intermediate Greek Reader. Greek text with running vocabulary and commentary

Evan Hayes, Stephen Nimis  / Faenum Publishing, 2015

Reviewed by Floris Overduin, 

East and West in the World Empire of Alexander: Essays in Honour of Brian Bosworth

Pat Wheatley, Elizabeth Baynham  / Oxford University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Rolf Strootman, 

The Horologium of Augustus: Debate and Context. JRA supplementary series, 99

Lothar Haselberger  / Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2014

Reviewed by Vincent Jolivet, 

The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece

Judith M. Barringer  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Mark D. Fullerton, 

A Companion to Food in the Ancient World. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

John Wilkins, Robin Nadeau  / Wiley Blackwell, 2015

Reviewed by Ioannis M. Konstantakos, 

De Roma a las provincias: las elites como instrumento de proyección de Roma. Juan Francisco Rodríguez Neila in honorem. Historia y geografía, 287

Antonio Caballos Rufino, Enrique Melchor Gil  / Universidad de Sevilla; UCOPress, Editorial Universidad de Córdoba, 2014

Reviewed by Daniel Becerra Fernández, 

Fiktion im Historischen: die Bildsprache und die Konzeption der Charaktere in Lucans Bellum Civile. Litora Classica, 8

Karen Blaschka  / VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2015

Reviewed by Thomas Gärtner​, 

Tradition: Transmission of Culture in the Ancient World. Danish Studies in Classical Archaeology. Acta Hyperborea, 14

Jane Fejfer, Mette Moltesen, Annette Rathje  / Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2015

Reviewed by Valentina Di Napoli, 

Sidonio Apollinare, Epitalamio per Ruricio e Iberia. Edizione, traduzione e commento. Studi e testi tardoantichi, 12

Stefania Filosini  / Brepols Publishers, 2014

Reviewed by Amy Oh, 

Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia (paperback reprint; first published 2013)

Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre  / Cambridge University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Felipe Rojas, 

Virtues of Thought: Essays on Plato and Aristotle

Aryeh Kosman  / Harvard University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Lee David Perlman, 

Metaphorical Coherence: Studies in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales. Studia Graeca et Latina Ludensia, 20

Aron Sjöblad  / Lund University, 2015

Reviewed by Laura Zientek, 

Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity

Anna Marmodoro, Brian D. Prince  / Cambridge University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Claudio Moreschini, 

Qatna and the Networks of Bronze Age Globalism: Proceedings of an International Conference in Stuttgart and Tübingen in October 2009. Qaṭna-Studien. Supplementa, Bd. 2

Peter Pfälzner, Michel Maqdissi  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015

Reviewed by Gary Beckman, 

Ubi fera sunt: fabula et picturae ab Maurice Sendak

Richard A. LaFleur  / Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2016

Reviewed by Nadya Williams, 

Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume III

John H. Oakley  / Oxbow Books, 2014

Reviewed by Elizabeth Langridge-Noti, 

Attitudes towards the Past in Antiquity: Creating Identities

Brita Alroth, Charlotte Scheffer  / Stockholm University, 2014

Reviewed by Dimitri A. Bratkin, 

D.L. Dusenbury on Paolo Di Leo on David van Dusen, The Space of Time

Response by D.L. Dusenbury | Original Review by Paolo Di Leo, 

Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World

Tim Whitmarsh  / Alfred A. Knopf, 2015

Reviewed by Richard Janko,