Month: March 2019

Books Received February 2019

Greek Lyric: A Selection. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Felix Budelmann  / Cambridge University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Anna Uhlig, 

Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman World. Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 94

Yair Furstenberg  / Brill, 2016

Reviewed by Bradley J. Bitner, 

Roman Frontier Studies 2009: Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (Limes Congress) Held at Newcastle upon Tyne in August 2009. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 25

Nick Hodgson, Paul T. Bidwell, Judith Schachtmann  / Archaeopress Publishing, 2017

Reviewed by Tyler V. Franconi, 

The Mithraeum at Caesarea Maritima, vol. II. American Schools of Oriental Research archeological reports, 25

Robert J. Bull  / American Schools of Oriental Research, 2017

Reviewed by Kevin Stoba, 

Villa Magna: An Imperial Estate and its Legacies: Excavations 2006-10. Archaeological monographs of the British School at Rome, 23

Elizabeth Fentress, Caroline Jane Goodson, Marco Maiuro, Margaret Andrews, J. Andrew Dufton  / Oxbow Books, 2017

Reviewed by Carla Sfameni, 

Servilia and Her Family

Susan Treggiari  / Oxford University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Ramsay MacMullen, 

Brill’s Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic. Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception, 15

Robert Simms  / Brill, 2018

Reviewed by Ronald Blankenborg, 

Osmond and Ulery on Malloch on Osmond and Ulery, Bolton, Edmund: Averrunci or the Skowrers

Response by Patricia J. Osmond , Robert W. Ulery | Original Review by S. J. V. Malloch, 

Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots

Simon Elliott  / Greenhill Books, 2018

Reviewed by Kathryn McBride, 

Femmes influentes dans le monde hellénistique et à Rome (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – Ier siècle apr. J.-C.). Des Princes​

Anne Bielman Sánchez​, Isabelle Cogitore, Anne Kolb  / ELLUG Université Grenoble Alpes​, 2016

Reviewed by Rosario López Gregoris​, 

Rebillard on Bremmer on Rebillard, Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs

Response by Éric Rebillard | Original Review by Jan N. Bremmer, 

Greek Historical Inscriptions, 478-404 BC

Robin Osborne, P. J. Rhodes  / Oxford University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Patrice Brun, 

Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece

Alain Duplouy, Roger Brock  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by J.J. Mulhern, 

The Routledge Companion to Strabo

Daniela Dueck  / Routledge, 2017

Reviewed by Mélanie Lozat, 

Rome’s Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity. Oxford studies in late Antiquity

Jason Moralee  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Caroline Goodson, 

Arms and the Woman: Classical Tradition and Women Writers in the Venetian Renaissance. Classical memories/modern identities

Francesca D'Alessandro Behr  / The Ohio State University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Quinn Griffin, 

Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic, Volume 2. Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic, 2

Jonathan Ready, Christos Tsagalis  / Brill, 2018

Reviewed by Fabian Horn, 

Parody, Politics and the Populace in Greek Old Comedy

Donald Sells  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Reviewed by Dimitrios Kanellakis, 

The Construction of Time in Antiquity: Ritual, Art, and Identity

Jonathan Ben-Dov, Lutz Doering  / Cambridge University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Kassandra Miller,