Month: December 2019

Books Received November 2019

The Dynamics of Rhetorical Performances in Late Antiquity

Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas  / Routledge, 2019

Reviewed by Laura S. Lieber, 

The Fragility of Power: Statius, Domitian and the Politics of the Thebaid

Stefano Rebeggiani  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, 

Religion and Memory in Tacitus’ Annals. Oxford classical monographs

Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson  / Oxford University Press, 2019

Reviewed by James Uden, 

The Early Roman Expansion into Italy: Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas

Nicola Terrenato  / Cambridge University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Fred K. Drogula, 

The School of Doubt: Skepticism, History and Politics in Cicero’s ‘Academia’. Brill studies in skepticism, volume 1.

Orazio Cappello  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Peter Osorio, 

The Rise and Fall of Nikephoros II Phokas: Five Contemporary Texts in Annotated Translations. Byzantina Australiensia, 23

Denis Sullivan  / Brill, 2018

Reviewed by Brian McLaughlin, 

The Greeks: Lost Civilizations

Philip Matyszak  / Reaktion Books, 2018

Reviewed by Benjamin Pedersen, 

Turba Philosophorum. Congrès pythagoricien sur l’art d’Hermès. Philosophia antiqua, 150

Grégoire Lacaze  / Brill, 2018

Reviewed by Philip Thibodeau, 

Le duc de Luynes et la découverte de la Grande Grèce. Mémoires et documents sur Rome et l’Italie méridionale. Nouvelle série, 9

Francesca Silvestrelli, Jean Pietri  / Centre Jean Bérard, 2017

Reviewed by Sandra Péré-Noguès, 

Rural Granaries in Northern Gaul (6th century BCE-4th century CE): From Archaeology to Economic History. Radboud Studies in Humanities, Volume 8

Stéphane Martin  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by John F. Drinkwater, 

Angelo Poliziano. Greek and Latin Poetry. I Tatti Renaissance library, 86

Peter E. Knox  / Harvard University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Frances Muecke, 

Blut auf Pharsalischen Feldern Lucans Bellum Ciuile und Vergils Georgica. Hypomnemata, Band 206

Markus Kersten  / Ruprecht Verlag, 2018

Reviewed by Wolfgang Polleichtner, 

Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome: Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography. Greek culture in the Roman world

Richard L. Hunter, Casper C. de Jonge  / Cambridge University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Beatrice Poletti, 

The Brothel of Pompeii. Sex, Class, and Gender at the Margin of Roman Society

Sarah Levin-Richardson  / Cambridge University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Pier Giovanni Guzzo, 

Response: Defouw on Beck on Defouw, The Subtlety of Homer

Response by Defouw Richard J. | Original Review by

Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity

Candida R. Moss  / Yale University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Harry O. Maier, 

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities, Volume 3, The Metal Objects and the Gems. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, volume 22

Beaudoin Caron, John M. Fossey, Tzveta Manolova, Paul Denis, Mylène Choquette  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Chiara Cecalupo, 

Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume IV: Iudaea/Idumaea, 2649-3978

Walter Ameling, Hannah M. Cotton, Werner Eck, Avner Ecker, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Haggai Misgav, Jonathan Price, Peter Weiß and Ada Yardeni​  / De Gruyter, 2018

Reviewed by Benedikt Eckhardt, 

Corpus des inscriptions d’Atrax en Pélasgiotide (Thessalie). Études épigraphiques, 7

Athanásios Tziafálias, Richard A. Bouchon, Laurence Darmezin, Jean-Claude Decourt, Bruno Helly, Gérard Lucas, and Isabelle Pernin  / Ecole française d’Athènes; De Boccard, 2016

Reviewed by Denver Graninger,