Month: October 2021

Books Received September 2021

Spectres of antiquity: classical literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830

James Uden  / Oxford University Press, 2020

Reviewed by George Prekas, 

Early Greek ethics

David Conan Wolfsdorf  / Oxford University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Giannis Stamatellos, 

Athens 415: the city in crisis

Clara Shaw Hardy, Robert B. Hardy  / University of Michigan Press, 2020

Reviewed by Alex Gottesman, 

I Volsci: un popolo “liquido” nel Lazio antico

Massimiliano Di Fazio  / Edizioni Quasar, 2020

Reviewed by Enrico Benelli, 

Das Bankett. Ein Bildmotiv zwischen Diesseits und Jenseits im vorrömischen Italien

Tina Mitterlechner  / Holzhausen Verlag, 2021

Reviewed by Bouke van der Meer, 

Horace: Epodes, Odes, and Carmen saeculare

Stephanie McCarter  / University of Oklahoma Press, 2020

Reviewed by John Godwin, 

Politics of association in Hellenistic Rhodes

Christian Thomsen  / Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Noah Kaye, 

Gut beschaffbare Heilmittel (Euporista)

Kai Brodersen  / Anton Hiersemann Verlag, 2020

Reviewed by Christian Schulze, 

Parmenide: tra linguistica, letteratura e filosofia = Parménides: entre lingüística, literatura y filosofía

Alberto Bernabé, Bernardo Berruecos Frank, Stefania Giombini  / Academia Verlag, 2019

Reviewed by Enrico Volpe, 

Poetics of the first Punic War

Thomas Biggs  / University of Michigan Press, 2020

Reviewed by Jesse Hill, 

Marrucini, Paeligni, Vestini

Marco Buonocore  / De Gruyter, 2020

Reviewed by Gian Luca Gregori, 

Beyond Alexandria: literature and empire in the Seleucid world

Marijn S. Visscher  / Oxford University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Luca Lorenzon, 

Die Gesetze der späten römischen Republik Von den Gracchen bis Sulla (133 – 80 v.Chr.)

Marianne Elster  / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020

Reviewed by Andrea Raggi, 

La citoyenneté dégradée: une histoire de l’infamie à Rome (312 av. J.-C. – 96 apr. J.-C.)

Clément Bur  / École fran-caise de Rome, 2019

Reviewed by Lorena Atzeri, 

Emotions in Plato

Laura Candiotto, Olivier Renaut  / Brill, 2020

Reviewed by Margalit Finkelberg, 

Tenir le loup par les oreilles: Prendre le pouvoir et le conserver dans la Rome imperiale des premiers siecles

Jérôme Sella  / Champ Vallon, 2020

Reviewed by Fabio Guidetti, 

Ideology of democratic Athens: institutions, orators and the mythical past

Matteo Barbato  / Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Johanna Hanink, 

Μνήμη/ Mneme. Past and Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age

Elisabetta Borgna, Ilaria Caloi, Filippo Maria Carinci, Robert Laffineur  / Peeters, 2019

Reviewed by Vassilis Petrakis, 

Laughter for the gods: ritual in old comedy

Elena Chepel  / Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2020

Reviewed by David Konstan,