Month: September 2020

Books Received August 2020

Sparta’s first Attic War: the grand strategy of classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

Paul Rahe  / Yale University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Thomas Clements, 

Fregellae: il tempio del Foro e il tempio suburbano sulla via Latina

Giovanna Battaglini, Filippo Coarelli, Francesca Diosono  / Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2019

Reviewed by John Muccigrosso, 

Logoi and muthoi: further essays in Greek philosophy and literature

William Robert Wians  / SUNY Press, 2019

Reviewed by Mark F. McClay, 

A companion to Byzantine poetry

Wolfram Hörandner, Andreas Rhoby, Nikos Zagklas  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Eleni Kaltsogianni, 

Rewriting contemporary political philosophy with Plato and Aristotle. An essay on Eudaimonic politics

Paul Schollmeier  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Reviewed by David J. Riesbeck, 

Archaeology of empire in Achaemenid Egypt

Henry P. Colburn  / Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk, 

The tragic life story of Medea as mother, monster, and muse

Jana Rivers Norton  / Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020

Reviewed by James Clauss, 

Sex, symbolists and the Greek body

Richard Warren  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Reviewed by Hallie Franks, 

Regional approaches to society and complexity. studies in honor of John F. Cherry

Alex R. Knodell, Thomas P. Leppard  / Equinox, 2018

Reviewed by Maja Gori, 

Leggere la mente degli eroi Ettore, Achille e Zeus nell’Iliade

Luigi Battezzato  / Edizioni della Normale, 2019

Reviewed by Cristiana Lucidi, 

The toga and Roman identity

Ursula Rothe  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Reviewed by Ria Berg, 

Das Selbstverständnis der gallo-römischen Oberschicht. Übergang, Hybridität und Latenz im historischen Diskursraum von Sidonius Apollinaris bis Gregor von Tours

Hendrik Hess  / De Gruyter, 2019

Reviewed by John F. Drinkwater, 

Xenophon’s Peloponnesian War

Aggelos Kapellos  / De Gruyter, 2019

Reviewed by Nicholas D. Cross, 

Titus Lucretius Carus. De rerum natura

Marcus Deufert  / De Gruyter, 2019

Reviewed by D. Mark Possanza, 

Poeti in Agone: Competizioni poetiche e musicali nella Grecia antica

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

Reviewed by Anna Novokhatko, 

Lingua, testi, storia: atti della giornata di studi in ricordo di Aldo Luigi Prosdocimi (Firenze, 6 giugno 2017)

Luciano Agostiniani, Maria Pia Marchese  / Giorgo Bretschneider Editore, 2019

Reviewed by Dalia Pratali Maffei, 

Virtue politics: soulcraft and statecraft in Renaissance Italy

James Hankins  / Harvard University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Carl O'Brien, 

Der Aeneis-Kommentar von Juan Luis de la Cerda (1612)

Andreas Sirchich von Kis-Sira  / Georg Olms Verlag, 2020

Reviewed by Craig Kallendorf, 

Marcus Tullius Cicero. How to think about God: an ancient guide for believers and nonbelievers

Philip Freeman  / Princeton University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Jeffery Aubin,