Month: August 2020

Books Received July 2020

Cicero on the philosophy of religion: on the nature of the gods and on divination

J. P. F. Wynne  / Cambridge University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Matthew Watton, 

Étrangère et ancestrale: la mère des dieux dans le monde romain

Françoise Van Haeperen  / Les Éditions de Cerf, 2019

Reviewed by Dobrinka Chiekova, 

Propertius, Greek myth, and Virgil: rivalry, allegory, and polemic

Peter Heslin  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Jeri Debrohun, 

Private associations and Jewish communities in the Hellenistic and Roman cities

Benedikt Eckhardt  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Ryan Boehm, 

L’épicurisme antique

Thomas Bénatouïl, Jean-Baptiste Gourinat, Michel Narcy  / Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2019

Reviewed by Jan Maximilian Robitzsch, 

Aristotle on matter, form, and moving causes: the hylomorphic theory of substantial generation

Devin Henry  / Cambridge University Pres, 2019

Reviewed by Emily Kress, 

The chronology of the early Greek natural philosophers

Philip Thibodeau  / Cosmographia.net, 2019

Reviewed by Christopher Moore, 

Gods and goddesses in ancient Italy

Edward Bispham, Daniele Miano  / Routledge, 2019

Reviewed by Claudia Moser, 

Mythological narratives: the bold and faithful heroines of the Greek novel

Anna Lefteratou  / De Gruyter, 2018

Reviewed by Claire Rachel Jackson, 

Play and aesthetics in ancient Greece

Stephen E. Kidd  / Cambridge University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Anne-Sophie Noel, 

Hipparque de Nicée et l’astronomie en Grèce ancienne

Germaine Aujac  / Leo S. Olschki, 2020

Reviewed by Wolfgang Hübner, 

The Jewish-Greek tradition in antiquity and the Byzantine Empire

James K. Aitken, James Carleton Paget  / Cambridge University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Robert A. Kraft, 

Gregory of Nazianzus’s letter collection: the complete translation

Bradley K. Storin  / University of California Press, 2019

Reviewed by Jonathan Warner, 

Una forma fenicia de ser romano: identidad e integración de las comunidades fenicias de la Península Ibérica bajo poder de Roma

Francisco Machuca Prieto  / Universidad de Sevilla, 2019

Reviewed by Linda R. Gosner, 

Die Ostraka vom Kerameikos

Stefan Brenne  / Reichert Verlag, 2018

Reviewed by James Sickinger, 

Brill’s companion to the reception of Plutarch

Sophia Xenophontos  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Brad L. Cook, 

Metaphor in Homer: time, speech, and thought

Andreas Thomas Zanker  / Cambridge University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Emily Austin, 

“Matronae equestres”: la parenté féminine des chevaliers romains originaires des provinces occidentales sous le Haut-Empire romain (I-IIIe siècles)

Anthony Álvarez Melero  / Belgisch Historisch Instiuut te Rome, 2018

Reviewed by Domitilla Campanile, 

Revisiter l’esclavage: d’hier à aujourd’hui

Antonio Gonzales, Ennio Biondi  / Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2019

Reviewed by Christoph Schmidhuber,