Month: February 2018

Books Received January 2018

Word Mastery through Derivatives Designed for Students of Latin

Elizabeth Heimbach  / Bolchazy-Carducci, 2017

Reviewed by Molly Myerowitz Levine, 

Prudentius, Spain, and Late Antique Christianity: Poetry, Visual Culture and the Cult of Martyrs

Paula Hershkowitz  / Cambridge University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Rosario Moreno Soldevila, 

Athenian Lettering of the Fifth Century B.C.: The Rise of the Professional Letter Cutter

Stephen V. Tracy  / De Gruyter, 2016

Reviewed by Patricia A. Butz, 

Karduniaš. Babylonia under the Kassites 1: The Proceedings of the Symposium held in Munich, 30 June to 2 July 2011. Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, 11

Alexa Bartelmus, Katja Sternitzke  / De Gruyter, 2017

Reviewed by Gary Beckman, 

On the Agora: The Evolution of a Public Space in Hellenistic and Roman Greece (c. 323 BC – 267 AD). Mnemosyne supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, 398

Christopher P. Dickenson  / Brill, 2017

Reviewed by Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe, 

The New Testament in Byzantium. Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia

Derek Krueger, Robert S. Nelson  / Dumbarton Oaks, 2016

Reviewed by Barbara Crostini, 

Menandrea: elementi di struttura della commedia di Menandro (3 vols.). Quaderni della ‘Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale,’ 13.1–3

Antonio Martina  / Fabrizio Serra editore, 2016

Reviewed by Ben Cartlidge, 

La musa e la furia: interpretazione del secondo proemio dell’Eneide. Testi e manuali per l’insegnamento universitario del latino, n.s., 135

Laura Bocciolini Palagi  / Pàtron editore, 2016

Reviewed by Stephen Harrison, 

Aeli Donati quod fertur commentum ad Andriam Terenti. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 2023

Carmela Cioffi  / De Gruyter, 2017

Reviewed by James E. G. Zetzel, 

From Face to Face: Recarving of Roman Portraits and the Late-Antique Portrait Arts. Second, revised edition (first published 2011). Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 18

Marina Prusac  / Brill, 2016

Reviewed by Rune Frederiksen, 

Redeeming Thucydides’ Book VIII: Narrative Artistry in the Account of the Ionian War. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 48

Vasileios Liotsakis  / De Gruyter, 2017

Reviewed by Nicholas D. Cross, 

Pollution and the Environment in Ancient Life and Thought. Geographica historica, 36

Orietta Dora Cordovana, Gian Franco Chiai  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017

Reviewed by Lukas Thommen, 

Från Laokoon till Troja. Antikvetenskapens teoretiska landskap

Johannes Siapkas  / Nordic Academic Press, 2017

Reviewed by Troels Myrup Kristensen, 

Roman Jerusalem: A New Old City. Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series, 105

Gideon Avni, Guy Stiebel  / Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2017

Reviewed by Jan Willem Drijvers, 

The Origin of Roman London. Cambridge classical studies

Lacey M. Wallace  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Dallas DeForest, 

Beginning and End. From Ammianus Marcellinus to Eusebius of Caesarea. Exemplaria Classica, Anejo VII (2016) 7

Álvaro​ Sánchez-Ostiz​  / Universidad de Huelva, 2016

Reviewed by Alessandro Maranesi, 

Orbis disciplinae. Hommages en l’honneur de Patrick Gautier Dalché

Nathalie Bouloux, Anca Dan, Georges Tolias  / Brepols, 2017

Reviewed by Béatrice Bakhouche, 

Un libro ravennate di spiritualità monastica dell’inizio del secolo VIII nell’Archivio Storico Diocesano di Ravenna-Cervia: studio codicologico, trascrizione, traduzione, commento linguistico

Gabriele Sarti  / Longo Editore, 2017

Reviewed by Roberto Alciati, 

The Dawn of Christianity. People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles

Robert Knapp  / Harvard University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Giovanni Alberto Cecconi,