Month: June 2024

Books received May 2024

Latin loanwords in ancient Greek: a lexicon and analysis

Eleanor Dickey  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Bruno Rochette, 

How Plato writes: perspectives and problems

Malcolm Schofield  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by J. J. Mulhern, 

De la connaissance de soi au devenir soi: Platon, Pindare et Nietzsche

Nicolas Quérini  / Classiques Garnier, 2023

Reviewed by Michel Briand, 

The life worth living in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

David Machek  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by A. A. Long, 

A culture of civil war? Bellum civile and political communication in late republican Rome

Henning Börm, Ulrich Gotter, Wolfgang Havener  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023

Reviewed by Pedro López Barja, 

Soleil et connaissance. Empédocle avant Platon

Rossella Saetta Cottone  / Les Belles Lettres, 2023

Reviewed by Simon Trépanier, 

Knowledge construction in late antiquity

Monika Amsler  / De Gruyter, 2023

Reviewed by Sabrina Inowlocki, 

Jesus, Paul, Luke-Acts, and 1 Clement: studies in class, ethnicity, gender, and orientation

David L. Balch  / Cascade Books, 2023

Reviewed by Harry O. Maier, 

The virtue of agency: sôphrosunê and self-constitution in classical Greece

Christopher Moore  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Joshua Allbright, 

Ancient women philosophers: recovered ideas and new perspectives

Katharine R. O'Reilly, Caterina Pellò  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Vicky Roupa, 

Sic notus Achilles? Episches Narrativ und Intertextualität in Statius’ Achilleis

Björn Victor Sigurjónsson  / Narr Francke Attempto, 2023

Reviewed by Renée Uccellini, 

Historia Animalium book X: Aristotle’s endoxon, topos and dialectic on On Failure to Reproduce

Lesley Dean-Jones  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by David D. Leitao, 

God, religion and society in ancient thought: from early Greek philosophy to Augustine

Giovanni Giorgini, Elena Irrera  / Nomos, 2023

Reviewed by Federico Casella, 

The spear, the scroll, and the pebble: how the Greek city-state developed as a male warrior-citizen collective

Richard A. Billows  / Bloomsbury, 2023

Reviewed by Adam Schwartz, 

Kommentar zur Vita Alexandri Severi der Historia Augusta

André Heller  / Rudolf Habelt, 2022

Reviewed by Diederik Burgersdijk, 

Die Iliasglossare auf Papyrus: Unterschungen zu einer Textkategorie

Valeria Fontanella  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Ronald Blankenborg, 

“Je näher ihm, desto vortrefflicher”: eine Studie zur Übersetzungssprache und -konzeption von Johann Heinrich Voß anhand seiner frühen Werke

Enrica Fantino  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Sotera Fornaro, 

Acting gods, playing heroes, and the interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek drama in the early common era

Courtney J. P. Friesen  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Edward Creedy, 

Justinian: emperor, soldier, saint

Peter Sarris  / Basic Books, 2023

Reviewed by Mischa Meier,