Month: October 2022

Books received September 2022

Teaching through images: imagery in Greco-Roman didactic poetry

Jenny Strauss Clay, Athanassios Vergados  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by Jason Nethercut, 

Cave and worship in ancient Greece: new approaches to landscape and ritual

Stella Katsarou, Alexander Nagel  / Routledge, 2021

Reviewed by Carolyn Laferrière, 

Historicising ancient slavery

Kostas Vlassopoulos  / Edinburgh University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Nino Luraghi, 

Plotin. Traité 30, III, 8: sur la nature, la contemplation et l’Un

Bertrand Ham, Pierre Hadot  / Vrin, 2021

Reviewed by Camille Mouflier, 

The pocket Epicurean and The pocket Stoic

John Sellars  / The University of Chicago Press, 2021 John Sellars, John Sellars  / The University of Chicago Press, 2019

Reviewed by Christopher Trinacty, 

Law and philosophy in the late Roman Republic

René Brouwer  / Cambridge University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Matthijs Wibier, 

Megasthenes’ Indica: a new translation of the fragments with commentary

Richard Stoneman  / Routledge, 2021

Reviewed by Graeme Miles, 

One man show: poetics and presence in the Iliad and Odyssey

Katherine Kretler  / Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020

Reviewed by Stephen Sansom, 

Brill’s companion to the reception of Homer from the Hellenistic age to Late Antiquity

Christina-Panagiota Manolea  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by Ronald Blankenborg, 

Les aventures d’un pamphlet antidémocratique

Dominique Lenfant  / Éditions de Boccard, 2020

Reviewed by Michel Narcy, 

The Oxford handbook of Heracles

Daniel Ogden  / Oxford University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Ariadna Arriaza, 

Choreonarratives: dancing stories in Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond

Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar, Karin Schlapbach  / Brill, 2021

Reviewed by Marcus Bell, 

The province of Achaea in the 2nd century CE: the past present

Anna Kouremenos  / Routledge, 2022

Reviewed by Wolfgang Havener, 

Tragic rhetoric: the rhetorical dimensions of Greek tragedy

María del Carmen Encinas Reguero, Milagros Quijada Sagredo  / Aracne, 2021

Reviewed by Alexandra Hardwick, 

Une histoire universelle des ruines: des origines aux Lumières

Alain Schnapp  / Editions du Seuil, 2020

Reviewed by William Stenhouse, 

Self-cultivation philosophies in ancient India, Greece, and China

Christopher W. Gowans  / Oxford University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Brian Black,  Nathan Gilbert, 

La favola antica. Esopo e la sapienza degli schiavi

Antonio La Penna, Giovanni Niccoli, Stefano Grazzini  / Della Porta Editori, 2021

Reviewed by William M. Owens, 

Cicéron

Yves Roman  / Fayard, 2020

Reviewed by Ermanno Malaspina, 

The Hera of Zeus: intimate enemy, ultimate spouse

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Gabriella Pironti, Raymond Geuss  / Cambridge University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Patricia Johnston,