Month: August 2017

Books Received July 2017

Ovid’s ‘Heroides’ and the Ethopoeia. Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia 22

Martina Björk  / Lund University, 2016

Reviewed by Teresa Ramsby, 

Il dio elegante: Vertumno e la religione romana. Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi. Nuova serie, 645

Maurizio Bettini  / Giulio Einaudi editore, 2015

Reviewed by Tyler T. Travillian, 

Provincia et Imperium : El mando provincial en la República Romana (227-44 a.C.) Serie Historia y geografía, 301​

Alejandro Díaz Fernández​  / Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2015

Reviewed by John Richardson, 

Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard

Guy de la Bédoyère  / Yale University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Mark Hebblewhite, 

Späthellenistische und frühkaiserzeitliche Keramik aus Priene: Untersuchungen zu Herkunft und Produktion. Priene 4. Archäologische Forschungen 35

Nina Fenn  / Reichert Verlag, 2016

Reviewed by Susan I. Rotroff, 

Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Key themes in ancient history

Liba Taub  / Cambridge University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Katharina Volk, 

Erfolgreich recherchieren – Altertumswissenschaften und Archäologie. Erfolgreich recherchieren

Marcus Schröter  / De Gruyter Saur, 2017

Reviewed by Denise Reitzenstein, 

Scribonius Largus. Compositions médicales. Collection des universités de France. Série latine, 412

Joëlle Jouanna-Bouchet  / Les Belles Lettres, 2016

Reviewed by Jean-Christophe Courtil, 

Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology (with illustrations by Glynnis Fawkes)

Eric H. Cline  / Princeton University Press, 2017

Reviewed by David Gill, 

Aristotele, Costituzione degli Ateniesi (Athenaion Politeia). Traduzione di A. Zambrini, T. Gargiulo e P.J. Rhodes

P. J. Rhodes  / Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, Mondadori, 2016

Reviewed by Rainer Guggenberger, 

La rivoluzione culturale di Lucrezio: filosofia e scienza nell’antica Roma. Biblioteca di testi e studi, 1042

Marco Beretta  / Carocci editore, 2015

Reviewed by Walter Lapini, 

AKAN – Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption. AKAN, 26

Jochen Althoff, Sabine Föllinger, Georg Wöhrle  / WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2016

Reviewed by John Nicols, 

Tragedy on the Comic Stage

Matthew C. Farmer  / Oxford University Press, 2017

Reviewed by

Fors-Fortuna in Marco Pacuvio e nel mondo romano

Maria Elvira Consoli  / Edizioni Grifo, 2016

Reviewed by Giampiero Scafoglio, 

The Old English History of the World: An Anglo-Saxon Rewriting of Orosius. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 44

Malcolm R. Godden  / Harvard University Press, 2016

Reviewed by Andrew Scheil, 

Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity: Poets, Artists and Biography. Cambridge Classical Studies

Richard Fletcher, Johanna Hanink  / Cambridge University Press, 2016

Reviewed by Eleanor Winsor Leach, 

Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly. Oxford classical monographs

Maria Mili  / Oxford University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Laura Surtees, 

Pseudoantike Skulptur II: Klassizistische Statuen aus antiker und nachantiker Zeit. Transformationen der Antike, 47

Sascha Kansteiner  / De Gruyter, 2017

Reviewed by Eric M. Moormann, 

Honor Among Thieves: Craftsmen, Merchants, and Associations in Roman and Late Roman Egypt. New texts from ancient cultures

Philip F. Venticinque  / University of Michigan Press, 2016

Reviewed by Andrew Connor,