Month: January 2019

Books Received December 2018

Aeschylus, ‘The Oresteia’: The Texts of the Plays, Ancient Backgrounds and Responses, Criticism. A Norton critical edition

Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings  / Company, 2018

Reviewed by Andrew Brown, 

The Shrine of Dodona in the Archaic and Classical Ages: A History

Jessica Piccinini  / EUM-Edizioni Università di Macerata, 2017

Reviewed by Anna Kouremenos, 

Sabina Augusta: An Imperial Journey. Women in antiquity

T. Corey Brennan  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Caillan Davenport, 

Homerus. Odyssea. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 2026

Martin L. West  / De Gruyter, 2017

Reviewed by Barbara Graziosi and Johannes Haubold, 

Pompey, Cato, and the Governance of the Roman Empire

Kit Morrell  / Oxford University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Alejandro Díaz Fernández, 

Cicero, Agrarian Speeches: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

Gesine Manuwald  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck, 

Die Geschöpfe des Daidalos: Vom sozialen Leben der griechischen Bildwerke

Tonio Hölscher  / Verlag Antike, 2018

Reviewed by Helle Hochscheid, 

Seneca: Oedipus. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules on Oeta. Octavia. Loeb classical library, 78

John G. Fitch  / Harvard University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Christopher V. Trinacty, 

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus. Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception 11

Rebecca Futo Kennedy  / Brill, 2017

Reviewed by Dennis R. Alley, 

Elias and David: ‘Introductions to Philosophy’ with Olympiodorus: ‘Introduction to Logic’. Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

Sebastian Gertz  / Bloomsbury, 2018

Reviewed by Dirk Baltzly, 

Le relazioni diplomatiche di Roma. Volume VII. Problemi e contraccolpi della grande espansione egemonica (188 – 183 a.C.). Prassi diplomatiche dello imperialismo romano, 3

Filippo Canali de Rossi  / Scienze e lettere, 2017

Reviewed by Paul Burton, 

The Epigrams of Crinagoras of Mytilene: Introduction, Text, Commentary

Maria Ypsilanti  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono, 

Space, Time and Language in Plutarch. Millennium-Studien, 67

Aristoula Georgiadou, Katerina Oikonomopoulou  / De Gruyter, 2017

Reviewed by Phoebe Garrett, 

A Guide to Reading Herodotus’ ‘Histories’

Sean Sheehan  / Bloomsbury, 2018

Reviewed by Carlos Hernández Garcés, 

La supplication sur les vases grecs. Mythes et images. Biblioteca di “Eidola” 2

Marta Pedrina  / Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2017

Reviewed by Mariachiara Franceschini, 

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Lettere. Studi pichiani, 19

Francesco Borghesi  / Leo S. Olschki, 2018

Reviewed by Fabrizio Lelli, 

The Prologues on Easter of Theophilus of Alexandria and [Cyril]. Oxford Early Christian texts

Alden A. Mosshammer  / Oxford University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Andrew Louth, 

Presi per incantamento: teoria della persuasione socratica. Philosophica, 19

Gabriele Flamigni  / Edizioni ETS, 2017

Reviewed by David J. Murphy, 

Julien l’Empereur. Contre les Galiléens. Bibliothèque des textes philosophiques

Angelo Giavatto, Robert Muller  / Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2018

Reviewed by Raphael Brendel,