Month: July 2019

Books Received June 2019

The Early Christian Basilica of Arethousa in Macedonia. I: Production, Consumption and Trade. Papers and monographs of the Finish Institute at Athens XXIII

Arja Karivieri  / Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens, 2017

Reviewed by Carolyn S. Snively, 

Engaging Classical Texts in the Contemporary World: From Narratology to Reception

Louise H. Pratt, C. Michael Sampson  / University of Michigan Press, 2018

Reviewed by Samuel Agbamu, 

The Birth of the Athenian Community: From Solon to Cleisthenes

Sviatoslav Dmitriev  / Routledge, 2018

Reviewed by Cezary Kucewicz, 

Colloquial Expressions in Greek Tragedy: Revised and Enlarged Edition of P. T. Stevens’s Colloquial Expressions in Euripides. Hermes. Einzelschriften, 113

Christopher Collard  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018

Reviewed by Donald J. Mastronarde, 

The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity, A Political and Military History

Hugh Elton  / Cambridge University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Turhan Kaçar, 

Review of Socrates (Off-Broadway)

Eckert on Johnston on Eckert, Die Aphrodite der Seefahrer und ihre Heiligtümer am Mittelmeer

Response by Martin Eckert | Original Review by Alan Johnston, 

Byzantine Hagiography: Texts, Themes and Projects. Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization, 13

Antonio Rigo, Michele Trizio, Eleftherios Despotakis  / Brepols, 2018

Reviewed by Lucy Parker, 

Ptolemy’s Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life

Jacqueline Feke  / Princeton University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Marco Romani Mistretta, 

Menschen, Bilder, Sprache, Dinge: Wege der Kommunikation zwischen Byzanz und dem Westen. 2 vols. Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident, 1/2

Falko Daim, Dominik Heher, Claudia Rapp, Christian Gastgeber  / Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums​, 2018

Reviewed by Daniëlle​ Slootjes, 

Le orecchie lunghe di Alessandro Magno. Satira del potere nel mondo greco (IV-I secolo a.C.). Studi storici Carocci, 297

Federicomaria Muccioli  / Carocci editore, 2018

Reviewed by Guillermo Aprile, 

Didone. La tragedia dell’abbandono: variazioni sul mito. Grandi classici tascabili Marsilio

Antonio Ziosi  / Marsilio, 2017

Reviewed by Isabella Canetta, 

Il felice inganno. Poesia, finzione e verità nel mondo antico​

Roberta Ioli  / Mimesis Edizioni, 2018

Reviewed by Piera De Piano, 

Zenobia: Shooting Star of Palmyra. Women in Antiquity

Nathanael J. Andrade  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Gustavo A. Vivas García​, 

Ludovico Ariosto. Latin Poetry. I Tatti Renaissance Library, 84

Dennis Looney, D. Mark Possanza  / Harvard University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Paul Gwynne, 

Anton Francesco Gori, Gaetano Albizzini, Francesco Vettori e l’officina del Museum Etruscum. Symbolae antiquariae, 7 (2014)

Stefano Bruni  / Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2018

Reviewed by Theresa Huntsman, 

The Petra Papyri V

Antti Arjava, Jaakko Frösén, Jorma Kaimio  / American Center of Oriental Research Publications (ACOR), 2018

Reviewed by Stefanie Schmidt, 

Hellenistic Philosophy

John Sellars  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Peter Aronoff, 

Hannibal ad portas: Silius Italicus, ‘Punica’ 12,507-752. Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar

Jan Robinson Telg Genannt Kortmann  / Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018

Reviewed by Antony Augoustakis,