Month: May 2017

Books Received April 2017

Destroyer of the Gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World

Larry W. Hurtado  / Baylor University Press, 2016

Reviewed by John S. Kloppenborg, 

La rhétorique du pouvoir: une exploration de l’art oratoire délibératif Grec. Neuf exposés suivis de discussions. Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique, 62

Pascale Derron, Michael Edwards, Pierre Ducrey  / Fondation Hardt pour l'étude de l'Antiquité classique, 2016

Reviewed by Francesco Berardi, 

Silver, Money and Credit: A tribute to Robartus J. van der Spek on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. PIHANS, 128

Kristin Kleber, Reinhard Pirngruber  / Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2016

Reviewed by Francis Joannès​, 

Die Stimme in der antiken Rhetorik. Hypomnemata, 194

Verena Schulz  / Ruprecht, 2014

Reviewed by Guy Lachenaud, 

Die Entwicklung der römischen Villenwirtschaft im Trierer Land: agrarökonomische und infrastrukturelle Untersuchungen eines römischen Wirtschaftsgebiets. Philippika, 81

Stephan Seiler  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015

Reviewed by Tyler V. Franconi, 

The Republican Aventine and Rome’s Social Order

Lisa Marie Mignone  / University of Michigan Press, 2016

Reviewed by Owen Ewald, 

Ancient Aesthetics

Andrew S. Mason  / Routledge, 2016

Reviewed by Tim Flanagan, 

Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity. Studies in Moral Philosophy, 10

Cinzia Arruzza, Dmitri Nikulin  / Brill, 2016

Reviewed by Katarzyna Jazdzewska, 

A Family of Gods: The Worship of the Imperial Family in the Latin West. Societas: historical studies in classical culture

Gwynaeth McIntyre  / University of Michigan Press, 2016

Reviewed by Marin Mauger, 

Callimachus: Aetia

Susan Stephens  / Dickinson College Commentaries, 2016

Reviewed by María Natalia Bustos de Lezica, 

An Urban Geography of the Roman World, 100 BC to AD 300. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 18

J. W. Hanson  / Archaeopress, 2016

Reviewed by Laura Pfuntner, 

Biondo Flavio. Italy Illuminated, Volume 2: Books V-VIII. The I Tatti Renaissance library, 75

Jeffrey A. White  / Harvard University Press, 2016

Reviewed by Oren Margolis, 

Greek and Latin Expressions of Meaning: The Classical Origins of a Modern Metaphor. Zetemata, 151

Andreas T. Zanker  / Verlag C. H. Beck, 2016

Reviewed by Anna Novokhatko, 

The Antiquities Trade in Egypt 1880-1930. The H.O. Lange Papers. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 4, vol. 8

Fredrik Hagen, Kim Ryholt  / Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2016

Reviewed by Paul Edmund Stanwick, 

Myth, Text, and History at Sparta. Gorgias studies in classical and late antiquity, 18

Thomas Figueira  / Gorgias Press, 2016

Reviewed by Timothy Doran, 

La ‘Rudens’ di Plauto in teatro: tra filologia e messa in scena. Spudasmata, 165

Marianna Calabretta  / Georg Olms Verlag, 2015

Reviewed by Goran Vidović, 

At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Early Roman Empire

Heidi Wendt  / Oxford University Press, 2016

Reviewed by Joseph E. Sanzo, 

Trophies of Victory: Public Building in Periklean Athens

Jr.  / Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, in association with Princeton University Press, 2016

Reviewed by Wendy E. Closterman, 

The Materiality of Magic. Morphomata, 20

Dietrich Boschung, Jan N. Bremmer  / Verlag Wilhelm Fink, 2014

Reviewed by Celia Sánchez Natalías,