Month: February 2022

Books received January 2022

Juvenal. Satiren

Sven Lorenz  / De Gruyter, 2017

Reviewed by Daniel Wendt, 

Epicurus and the singularity of death: defending radical Epicureanism

David B. Suits  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Reviewed by Robert Hedrick, 

La splendeur des dieux: quatre études iconographiques sur l’hellénisme égyptien

Gaëlle Tallet  / Brill, 2021

Reviewed by Ronaldo Gurgel Pereira, 

Latin and music in the early modern era: education, theory, composition, performance and reception

Robert Forgács  / Brill, 2021

Reviewed by Andreas Kramarz, 

Xenophon’s Socratic works

David M. Johnson  / Routledge, 2021

Reviewed by Timothy Rood, 

Foodways in Roman Republican Italy

Laura M. Banducci  / University of Michigan Press, 2021

Reviewed by Ulrike Roth, 

Der Kult der Meter/Kybele in Westanatolien und in der Ägäis

Michael Kerschner  / Holzhausen Verlag, 2020

Reviewed by Lynn Roller, 

Disability studies and the classical body: the forgotten other

Ellen Adams  / Routledge, 2021

Reviewed by Debby Sneed, 

Religion in Ephesos reconsidered: archaeology of spaces, structures, and objects

Daniel N. Schowalter, Sabine Ladstätter, Steven J. Friesen, Christine Thomas  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Frederick Naerebout, 

Plato’s sun-like good: dialectic in the Republic

Sarah Broadie  / Cambridge University Press, 2021

Reviewed by William Altman, 

La science des hommes libres: la digression du “Théétète” de Platon

Thomas Bénatouïl  / Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2020

Reviewed by Federico Casella, 

Greek genres and Jewish authors: negotiating literary culture in the Greco-Roman era

Sean A. Adams  / Baylor University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Robert Kugler, 

Benefaction and rewards in the ancient Greek city: the origins of euergetism

Marc Domingo Gygax  / Cambridge University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Onno Van Nijf, 

Ennius noster: Lucretius and the Annales

Jason S. Nethercut  / Oxford University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Nicoletta Bruno, 

When money talks: a history of coins and numismatics

Frank L. Holt  / Oxford University Press, 2021

Reviewed by David Hendin, 

Emperors and political culture in Cassius Dio’s Roman History

Caillan Davenport, Christopher Mallan  / Cambridge University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Gustavo Vivas García, 

Athènes 403: une histoire chorale

Vincent Azoulay, Paulin Ismard  / Flammarion, 2020

Reviewed by Jeremy McInerney, 

The origins of the Roman economy: from the Iron Age to the early Republic in a Mediterranean perspective

Gabriele Cifani  / Cambridge University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Tymon de Haas, 

Hellenistische Wanddekorationen Syntax, Semantik und Chronologie des Ersten Stils im westlichen Mittelmeerraum

Thomas Lappi  / Reichert Verlag, 2021

Reviewed by Irene Bragantini,