Month: July 2018

Books Received June 2018

South Africa, Greece, Rome: Classical Confrontations

Grant Parker  / Cambridge University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Suzanne Sharland, 

Cicero in Heaven: The Roman Rhetor and Luther’s Reformation. St Andrews studies in Reformation history

Carl P. E. Springer  / Brill, 2017

Reviewed by Johann Ramminger, 

Teachers, Students, and Schools of Greek in the Renaissance. Brill’s studies in intellectual history, 264

Federica Ciccolella, Luigi Silvano  / Brill, 2017

Reviewed by Gerald Sandy, 

Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth’s Northern Cemetery. Corinth: Results of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 21

Kathleen W. Slane  / American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2017

Reviewed by Andras Marton, 

Minoan Earthquakes: Breaking the Myth through Interdisciplinarity. Studies in Archaeological Sciences 5

Simon Jusseret, Manuel Sintubin  / Leuven University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Vassilis Petrakis, 

Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates, Volume 5: Report on Excavations 2000-2010. Mediterranean Archaeology supplement, 10

G. Clarke, H. Jackson, C. E. V. Nixon, J. Tidmarsh, K. Wesselingh and L. Cougle-Jose  / MEDITARCH Publications; Sydney University Press, 2016

Reviewed by Michael Blömer, 

Erodoto. Le storie, Volume 7, Libro VII: Serse e Leonida. Scrittori greci e latini

Pietro Vannicelli, Aldo Corcella, Giuseppe Nenci  / Mondadori, 2017

Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi, 

The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic

Daniel S. Richter, William A. Johnson  / Oxford University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Martin Korenjak, 

The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic

Daniel S. Richter, William A. Johnson  / Oxford University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Jean Alvares, 

Platon et la politique. Philosophie antique, 17

Thomas Bénatouïl, Jean-Baptiste Gourinat, Michel Narcy  / Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2017

Reviewed by Robert Lamberton, 

L’excellence menacée: sur la philosophie politique d’Aristote. Les anciens et les modernes, études de philosophie, 32

Pierre Pellegrin  / Classiques Garnier, 2017

Reviewed by J.J. Mulhern, 

Coffee on Rosenstein on Coffee, Gift and Gain: How Money Transformed Ancient Rome

Response by Neil Coffee | Original Review by Nathan Rosenstein, 

Moneta e identità territoriale: dalla ‘polis’ antica alla ‘civitas’ medievale. Atti del III Incontro internazionale di studio del ‘Lexicon Iconographicum Numismaticae’, Semata e Signa​

Anna Lina Morelli, Erica Filippini  / Falzea Editore, 2016

Reviewed by Marianna Spinelli, 

Megasthenes und seine Zeit / Megasthenes and his Time. Classica et Orientalia, 13

Josef Wiesehöfer, Horst Brinkhaus, Reinhold Bichler  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016

Reviewed by Pierre Schneider, 

Reperforming Greek Tragedy: Theater, Politics, and Cultural Mobility in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC. Trends in Classics, Supplementary Volume 52

Anna A. Lamari  / De Gruyter, 2017

Reviewed by Jennifer Starkey, 

The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture, Volume 3: The Ideal Sculpture

Elizabeth Bartman  / Liverpool University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Alice Landskron, 

The Myth of Hero and Leander: The History and Reception of an Enduring Greek Legend. Library of Classical Studies, 19

Silvia Montiglio  / I.B. Tauris, 2018

Reviewed by Richard F. Hardin, 

Touch and the Ancient Senses. The senses in antiquity

Alex C. Purves  / Routledge, 2017

Reviewed by Kenneth Silverman, 

Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age: God’s Word Questioned

Dirk van Miert, Henk Nellen, Piet Steenbakkers, Jetze Touber  / Oxford University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Annet den Haan,