Month: May 2019

Books Received April 2019

Virgil’s Double Cross: Design and Meaning in the ‘Aeneid’

David Quint  / Princeton University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Vassiliki Panoussi, 

Hippocrate, Vol.1 : 2e partie : Le serment, Les serments chrétiens, La loi. Collection des universités de France – Série grecque 542

Jacques Jouanna  / Editions Belles Lettres, 2018

Reviewed by Giulia Ecca, 

The Roman Mithras Cult: A Cognitive Approach. Scientific studies of religion: inquiry and explanation

Olympia Panagiotidou, Roger Beck  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Reviewed by Kilian Mallon, 

Présence de Théocrite. Collection Caesarodunum, L-LI

Christophe Cusset, Christine Kossaifi, Rémy Poignault  / Centre de Recherches André Piganiol, 2017

Reviewed by María Natalia Bustos de Lezica, 

Cosmology and Politics in Plato’s Later Works

Dominic J. O’Meara  / Cambridge University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Carol Atack, 

Heliodorus redivivus. Vernetzung und interkultureller Kontext in der europäischen “Aithiopika”-Rezeption der Frühen Neuzeit

Christian Rivoletti, Stefan Seeber  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018

Reviewed by Isabella Walser-Bürgler, 

Aristobulos in Alexandria. Jüdische Bibelexegese zwischen Griechen und Ägyptern unter Ptolemaios VI. Philometor. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Band 126

Markus Mülke  / de Gruyter, 2018

Reviewed by John J. Collins, 

Sacred Thresholds: The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 185

Emilie Marlène van Opstall  / Brill, 2018

Reviewed by Michael Wuk, 

‘Voluntas auditorum’ Forensische Rollenbilder und emotionale Performanzen in den spätrepublikanischen ‘quaestiones’. Kalliope – Studien zur griechischen und lateinischen Poesie, 15

Cristian Criste  / Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018

Reviewed by Sema Karataş, 

The Ancient Greek Farmstead

Maeve McHugh  / Oxbow Books, 2017

Reviewed by Christophe Chandezon, 

Antigüedad clásica y nociones modernas en el Viejo y el Nuevo Mundo

Antonio Duplá Ansuategui, Eleonara Dell’ Elicine, Jonatan Pérez Mostazo  / Ediciones Polifemo, 2018

Reviewed by Carlos Heredia Chimeno, 

Ancient Greece and American Conservatism: Classical Influence on the Modern Right

John Bloxham  / I.B. Tauris, 2018

Reviewed by Donna Zuckerberg, 

Los elementos rituales en las tragedias de Sófocles. Tipología y función a partir de los prólogos. Classical and Byzantine monographs, XCIII

Fernando Pérez Lambás  / Adolf M. Hakkert, 2018

Reviewed by Matteo Pellegrino, 

The ‘Consolation of Philosophy’ as Cosmic Image. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 474

Myra L. Uhlfelder  / Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016

Reviewed by James J. O’Donnell, 

La Cappadocia ellenistica sotto gli Ariaratidi ca. 250-100 a.C. Biblioteca di geographia antiqua, 5

Silvia Panichi  / Leo S. Olschki, 2018

Reviewed by Paavo Roos, 

Prolegomena zur editio teubneriana des Lukrez. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 124

Marcus Deufert  / De Gruyter, 2017

Reviewed by Nicoletta Bruno, 

Author and Audience in Vitruvius’ ‘De architectura’. Greek culture in the Roman world

Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols  / Cambridge University Press, 2017

Reviewed by John Matthew Oksanish, 

Zurbach on Mackil and Nakassis on Zurbach, Les hommes, la terre et la dette en Grèce, c. 1400-c. 500 a.C

Response by Julien Zurbach | Original Review by Emily Mackil and Dimitri Nakassis, 

Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age

Donna Zuckerberg  / Harvard University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Ellen Muehlberger,