Month: March 2020

Books Received February 2020

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They Keep It All Hid: Augustan poetry, its antecedents and reception

Peter Knox, Hayden Pelliccia, Alexander Sens  / De Gruyter, 2018

Reviewed by John Henderson, 

Langage des dieux, langage des démons, langage des hommes dans l’Antiquité

Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete, Philippe Hoffmann  / Brepols, 2017

Reviewed by Thomas Galoppin, 

Ovid. Fasti: Book III

S. J. Heyworth  / Cambridge University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Richard Westall, 

Londinium: a biography. Roman London from its origin to the fifth century

Richard Hingley, Christina Unwin  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Reviewed by Lacey M. Wallace, 

John Tzetzes. Allegories of the Odyssey

Adam J. Goldwyn, Dimitra Kokkini  / 2019

Reviewed by Johannes Haubold, 

Homer im kulturellen Gedächtnis

Lars Hübner  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019

Reviewed by Robert Lamberton, 

Poet and orator: a symbiotic relationship in democratic Athens

Andreas Markantonatos, Eleni Volonaki  / De Gruyter, 2019

Reviewed by Victor Bers, 

Von Elephantine bis zu den Küsten des Meeres

Aiman Ashmawy, Dietrich Raue, Daniel von Recklinghausen  / Otto Harrassowitz, 2019

Reviewed by Stefan Bojowald, 

Tragedy, ritual, and money in ancient Greece: selected essays

Richard Seaford  / Cambridge University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Ben Brown, 

Roman Emperor Zeno: the perils of power politics in fifth-century Constantinople

Peter Crawford  / Pen and Sword, 2019

Reviewed by Hugh Elton, 

Lettori latini e italiani di Ovidio: atti del convegno, Università di Torino, 9-10 novembre 2017

Federica Bessone, Sabrina Stroppa  / Fabrizio Serra editore, 2019

Reviewed by Pere Fàbregas Salis, 

El culto de Mitra en Hispania

Jaime Alvar Ezquerra  / Dykinson, 2018

Reviewed by Israel Campos, 

Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond

Julia Annas  / Oxford University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Myrthe Bartels, 

Die Karische Chersones vom Chalkolithikum bis in die byzantinische Zeit: Beiträge zu den Surveys in Loryma und Bybassos

Winfried Held  / Eigenverlag des Archäologischen Seminars der Philipps-Universität, 2019

Reviewed by Friedrich Hild, 

Piazza Armerina. La villa romaine de Casale en Sicile

Brigitte Steger  / Picard, 2017

Reviewed by R.J.A. Wilson, 

Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus: from the margins to the mainstream

Stephen Mitchell, Phillipp Pilhofer  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Ulrich Huttner, 

Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians

Isabelle C. Torrance  / IB Tauris, 2019

Reviewed by Mattia De Poli, 

Obsidibus imperatis: Formen der Geiselstellung und ihre Anwendung in der Römischen Republik

Simon Thijs  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019

Reviewed by Simon Lentzsch,