Month: June 2020

Books Received May 2020

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, 

Femmes grecques de l’Orient romain

Sophie Lalanne  / Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2019

Reviewed by Aleksandra Kubiak Schneider, 

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, 

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

Marc Brüssel  / Propylaeum Fachinformationsdienst Altertumswissenschaften, 2018

Reviewed by Antonia Ruppel, 

Screening divinity

Lisa Maurice  / Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Meredith Prince, 

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, 

The sculptor’s workshop

Julie van Voorhis  / Reichert Verlag, 2018

Reviewed by Helle Hochscheid, 

Marginality, canonicity, passion

Marco Formisano, Christina Shuttleworth Kraus  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Giovanna Laterza, 

Les sons du pouvoir des autres: actes du troisième colloque SoPHiA, 27-28 mars 2014.

Antonio Gonzales, Marie Teresa Schettino  / Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2017

Reviewed by Christophe Vendries, 

La transmission du savoir grec en Occident: Guillaume de Moerbeke, le Laur. Plut. 87.25 (Themistius, in de an.) et la bibliotheque de Boniface VIII

Fabio Acerbi, Gudrun Vuillemin Diem  / Leuven University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Riccardo Sacceti, 

Poeti in Agone: Competizioni poetiche e musicali nella Grecia antica

A. Gostoli, A. Fongoni, F. Biondi  / Brepols, 2017

Reviewed by Anna Novokhatko, 

Visiones sobre la lactancia en la Antigüedad: permanencias, cambio y rupturas

Susana Reboreda Morillo  / Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2020

Reviewed by Ana Iriarte,