Month: June 2020

Books Received May 2020

La naissance des cités-royaumes cypriotes

Thierry Petit  / Archaeopress, 2019

Reviewed by Christian Körner, 

Killing for the Republic: citizen-soldiers and the Roman way of war

Steele Brand  / Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Fabrizio Biglino, 

Philosophy, poetry, and power in Aristophanes’s ‘Birds’

Daniel Holmes  / Lexington Books, 2019

Reviewed by Elena Colla, 

Spott im Drama

Stylianos Chronopoulos  / Verlag Antike, 2017

Reviewed by Elena Iakovou, 

Athena Itonia: geography and meaning of an ancient Greek war goddess

Gerald V. Lalonde  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Salvatore Tufano, 

Intratextuality and Latin literature

Stephen Harrison, Stavros A. Frangoulidis, Theodore D. Papanghelis  / De Gruyter, 2018

Reviewed by Nicoletta Bruno, 

Plague of war: Athens, Sparta, and the struggle for ancient Greece

Jennifer T. Roberts  / Oxford University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Benjamin Pedersen, 

Femmes grecques de l’Orient romain

Sophie Lalanne  / Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2019

Reviewed by Aleksandra Kubiak Schneider, 

Censorinus, Le jour anniversaire de la naissance

Gérard Freyburger, Anne-Marie Chevallier  / Les Belles Lettres, 2019

Reviewed by Michel Fauquier, 

The battle between the frogs and the mice: a tiny homeric epic

A. E. Stallings  / Paul Dry Books, 2019

Reviewed by Jose Leonardo Sousa Buzelli, 

Drawing down the moon: magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III  / Princeton University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Thomas Galoppin, 

Drawing down the moon: magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III  / Princeton University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Jack Lennon, 

Altsprachliche Erwachsenendidaktik in Deutschland: von den Anfängen bis zum Jahr 1945

Marc Brüssel  / Propylaeum Fachinformationsdienst Altertumswissenschaften, 2018

Reviewed by Antonia Ruppel, 

The beginnings of the cult of relics

Robert Wisniewski  / Oxford University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Andreas Merkt, 

Screening divinity

Lisa Maurice  / Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Meredith Prince, 

The Great Oasis of Egypt: the Kharga and Dakhla oases in antiquity

Roger S. Bagnall, Gaëlle Tallet  / Cambridge University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Jean A. Straus, 

L’empereur et le moine: les relations du pouvoir impérial avec les monastères à Byzance

Rosa Benoit-Meggenis  / Publications de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 2017

Reviewed by Adrian Pirtea, 

Themistius’ paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12: a critical Hebrew-Arabic edition of the surviving textual evidence

Meyrav Yoav  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Y. Tzvi Langermann, 

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Deutschland. München, Antikensammlungen ehemals Museum Antiker Kleinkunst, Band 20: Etruskisch rotfigurige Keramik

Yasmin Olivier-Trottenberg  / Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2019

Reviewed by Vincent Jolivet,