Month: August 2019

Books Received July 2019

Isocrate: per una nuova edizione critica. La Colombaria. Studi, 251

Maddalena Vallozza  / Leo S. Olschki, 2017

Reviewed by Francesca Berlinzani, 

Greek Myth and the Bible. Routledge monographs in classical studies

Bruce Louden  / Routledge, 2018

Reviewed by James J. Clauss, 

Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition: Visits to the Underworld from Antiquity to Byzantium. Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean, 2

Gunnel Ekroth, Ingela Nilsson  / Brill, 2018

Reviewed by Radcliffe G. Edmonds, 

Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean

Giorgos Vavouranakis, Konstantinos Kopanias, Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos  / Archaeopress, 2018

Reviewed by Catharine Judson, 

A Short Companion to Tibullus and the Corpus Tibullianum. Studia Classica et Mediaevalia 22

Hans-Christian Günther  / Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2018

Reviewed by Rachel Philbrick, 

Antrum: riti e simbologie delle grotte nel Mediterraneo antico. Quaderni di studi e materiali di storia delle religioni, 16

Arduino Maiuri  / Morcelliana, 2017

Reviewed by John Van Sickle, 

Caesar’s ‘Civil War’: Historical Reality and Fabrication. Mnemosyne, Supplements, 410

Richard W. Westall  / Brill, 2017

Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi, 

Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology

Adrienne Mayor  / Princeton University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Clara Bosak-Schroeder, 

The Alexander Romance: History and Literature. Ancient narrative. Supplementum, 25

Richard Stoneman, Krzysztof Nawotka, Agnieszka Wojciechowska  / Groningen University Library, 2018

Reviewed by Chiara Di Serio, 

Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage. Classical presences

Melinda Powers  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Erika L. Weiberg, 

The Greek of the Pentateuch: Grinfield Lectures on the Septuagint 2011-2012

John A. L. Lee  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Dries De Crom, 

Servire due padroni: Una genealogia dell’uomo politico cristiano (50-313 e.v.)

Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli  / Editrice Morcelliana; Scholé, 2018

Reviewed by Luigi Walt, 

Homer and the Poetics of Hades

George Alexander Gazis  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Pura Nieto Hernández, 

Rome after Sulla

J. Alison Rosenblitt  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Reviewed by Fred K. Drogula, 

Das Symposion in der griechischen Komödie = Il simposio nella commedia greca. Rombach Wissenschaften. Reihe Paradeigmata, Band 48

Matteo Taufer  / Rombach Verlag, 2018

Reviewed by Michael Fontaine, 

Hippocrates. Volume XI: Diseases of Women 1-2

Paul Potter  / Harvard University Press, 2018

Reviewed by M. J. Geller, 

Two Works on Trebizond. Michael Panaretos. Bessarion. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 52

Scott Kennedy  / Harvard University Press, 2019

Reviewed by John Monfasani, 

Evil Lords: Theories and Representations of Tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Nikos Panou, Hestor Schadee  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Samuel Ellis, 

Die frühen Christen: Von den Anfängen bis Konstantin. Historische Bibliothek der Gerda Henkel Stiftung

Hartmut Leppin  / C.H. Beck, 2018

Reviewed by Ulrike Roth,