Month: February 2024

Books received January 2024

Seneca. How to do the right thing: an ancient guide to treating people fairly

Robert A. Kaster  / Princeton University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Jula Wildberger, 

Tuscanicae dispositiones sive opera dorica: architetture doricizzanti in Italia centro-meridionale

Lorenzo Kosmopoulos  / "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2022

Reviewed by Leonardo Fuduli, 

Technical automation in classical antiquity

Maria Gerolemou  / Bloomsbury, 2023

Reviewed by Katharine Mawford, 

Plato of Athens: a life in philosophy

Robin Waterfield  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Stephen Halliwell, 

Aurores et crépuscules dans la Thébaïde de Stace

Melissande Tomcik  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Marie-Pierre Bussières, 

Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris

Emily Kearns  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Jonah Radding, 

The Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre: text, translation, and commentary

Alison E. Cooley  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Pablo Rojas, 

Pythagorica medica: scienza e sapienza nella tradizione preippocratica

Marco Cilione  / "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2023

Reviewed by Rosa Caiazzo, 

‘To see a world in a grain of sand’: glass from Nubia and the ancient Mediterranean

Juliet V. Spedding  / Archaeopress, 2023

Reviewed by Robert J. Stark, 

I Miscellanea di Angelo Poliziano: edizione e commento della Prima Centuria

Angelo Perosa, Paolo Viti  / Olschki Editore, 2022

Reviewed by Daniela Marrone, 

Derek Walcott and the creation of a classical Caribbean

Justine McConnell  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Reviewed by Quentin Broughall, 

The meteorology of Posidonius

J.J. Hall  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Christopher Trinacty, 

Transformations of Pelops: myths, monuments and cult reconsidered

András Patay-Horváth  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Graeme Bourke, 

Zeitmontagen in Vergils Aeneis: Anachronismen als literarische Technik

Dennis Pausch  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2023

Reviewed by Lee T. Pearcy, 

Making cities: economies of production and urbanization in Mediterranean Europe, 1000-500 BC

Margarita Gleba, Beatriz Marín-Aguilera, Bela Dimova  / McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2022

Reviewed by Sarah C. Murray, 

The archaeological survey of the desert roads between Berenike and the Nile Valley

Steven E. Sidebotham, Jennifer Gates-Foster, Jean-Louis Rivard  / American Schools of Oriental Research, 2018

Reviewed by Louise Blanke, 

Homer from Z to A: metrics, linguistics, and Zenodotus

Claire Le Feuvre  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by Gregory Nagy, 

Prima di Erodoto: aspetti della memoria delle Guerre persiane

Giorgia Proietti  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021

Reviewed by Leone Porciani, 

Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the good of poetry

Rachel Falconer  / Edinburgh University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Sarah Spence,