Month: April 2021

Books Received March 2021

Greeks and Romans on the Latin American stage

Rosa Andújar, Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Reviewed by Gary F. Fisher, 

The Cross in the visual culture of late antique Egypt

Gillian Spalding-Stracey  / Brill, 2020

Reviewed by Joseph Sanzo, 

Aristotle. The Nicomachean Ethics

Adam Beresford  / Penguin, 2020

Reviewed by Christopher C. Raymond, 

Epigraphy through five millennia: texts and images in context

Svenja Dirksen, Lena Krastel  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020

Reviewed by Dominika Grzesik, 

The reception of Plato’s “Phaedrus” from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Sylvain Delcomminette, Pieter d'Hoine, Marc-Antoine Gavray  / De Gruyter, 2020

Reviewed by Marco Donato, 

Ovid on screen: a montage of attractions

Martin Winkler  / Cambridge University Press, 2020

Reviewed by James J. Clauss, 

Roman political culture: seven studies of the senate and city councils of Italy

Laurens Tacoma  / Oxford University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Virginia Campbell, 

The unknown Odysseus: alternate worlds in Homer’s Odyssey

Thomas Van Nortwick  / University of Michigan Press, 2020

Reviewed by Bill Beck, 

Prometheus bound: a separate authorial trace in the Aeschylean corpus

Nikos Manousakis  / De Gruyter, 2020

Reviewed by Peter Barrios-Lech, 

A classical archaeologist’s life: the story so far. An autobiography

John Boardman  / Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020

Reviewed by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, 

Memories of utopia: the revision of histories and landscapes in Late Antiquity

Bronwen Neil, Kosta Simic  / Routledge, 2019

Reviewed by Hope Williard, 

The Nero-Antichrist: founding and fashioning a paradigm

Shushma Malik  / Cambridge University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Harriet Fertik, 

Metamorphic readings: transformation, language, and gender in the interpretation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Alison Sharrock, Daniel Möller, Mats Malm  / Oxford University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Daniel Libatique, 

Camps, campaigns, colonies. Roman military presence in Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and the Near East

Edward Dabrowa  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020

Reviewed by Andrea De Giorgi, 

Butrint 5: life and death at a Mediterranean port: the non-ceramic finds from the Triconch Palace

William Bowden  / Oxbow Books, 2019

Reviewed by Andrew McLean, 

Fedra: iconografia del tormento amoroso al femminile

Marco Giuman  / Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2016

Reviewed by Valeria Riedemann L., 

Migration, mobility and language contact in and around the ancient Mediterranean

James Clackson, Patrick James, Katherine McDonald, Livia Tagliapietra, Nicholas Zair  / Cambridge University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Rory Nutter, 

Rome, China, and the barbarians: ethnographic traditions and the transformation of empires

Randolph Ford  / Cambridge University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Chenye Shi, 

Dangerous counsel: accountability and advice in ancient Greece

Matthew Landauer  / The University of Chicago Press, 2019

Reviewed by Roy Van Wijk,