THE CLASSICAL REVIEW Volume 68 - Issue 01 - April 2018
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Reviews
ON GREEK PERIPHRASTIC CONSTRUCTIONS – (K.) Bentein Verbal Periphrasis in Ancient Greek. Have- and Be- Constructions. Pp. xvi + 392. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £75, US$125. ISBN: 978-0-19-874709-3. Philomen Probert The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 1 – 3 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001524 Published Online on 2 November 2017
THE MEANING OF KAIROS – M. Trédé-Boulmer Kairos. L’à-propos et l'occasion. Le mot et la notion, d'Homère à la fin du IVe siècle avant J.-C. (Collection d’Études Anciennes, Série Grecque, 150.) Pp. 361. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2015. Paper, €45. ISBN: 978-2-251-32685-6. Lisa Raphals The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 3 – 5 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002402 Published Online on 16 January 2018
VOICES IN ANCIENT ORALITY AND LITERACY – N.W. Slater (ed.) Voice and Voices in Antiquity. Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, vol. 11. (Mnemosyne Supplements 396.) Pp. xii + 444, b/w & colour ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Cased, €165, US$180. ISBN: 978-90-04-32730-6. Andromache Karanika The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 5 – 7 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002219 Published Online on 16 January 2018
VERSIONS OF HISTORY IN ANCIENT GREECE – (I.) Ruffell, (L.I.) Hau (edd.) Truth and History in the Ancient World. Pluralising the Past. Pp. x + 288. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Cased, £105, US$149.95. ISBN: 978-1-138-83940-3. Manuela Dal Borgo The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 8 – 11 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000124 Published Online on 7 February 2018
‘CREATIVE’ BIOGRAPHIES – (R.) Fletcher, (J.) Hanink (ed.) Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity. Poets, Artists and Biography. Pp. x + 373, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-15908-2. Thomas G. Hendrickson The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 11 – 13 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001962 Published Online on 9 November 2017
THE HOMERIC EPICS AND OTHER TEXTS – B. Currie Homer's Allusive Art. Pp. xiv + 343. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £70, US$110. ISBN: 978-0-19-876882-1. Bruce Louden The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 14 – 16 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002323 Published Online on 16 January 2018
THE STRUCTURE OF THE ILIAD – (L.) Kozak Experiencing Hektor. Character in the Iliad . Pp. xvi + 307. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Cased, £95. ISBN: 978-1-4742-4544-9. Robert J. Rabel The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 16 – 18 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002190 Published Online on 13 December 2017
THE POETRY OF PINDAR – (A.C.) Sigelman Pindar's Poetics of Immortality. Pp. x + 200, figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £64.99, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-13501-7. Tom Phillips The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 18 – 20 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001330 Published Online on 7 September 2017
GREEK FUNERARY EPIGRAMS ON STONE – (M.) Tentori Montalto Essere primi per il valore. Gli epigrammi funerari greci su pietra per i caduti in guerra (VII–V sec. a.C.). (Quaderni della Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale 16.) Pp. 238, ills. Pisa and Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2017. Paper, €68. ISBN: 978-88-6227-906-2. Joseph W. Day The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 20 – 22 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002529 Published Online on 22 January 2018
INTRODUCTIONS TO GREEK DRAMA – (L.) Swift Greek Tragedy. Themes and Contexts. Pp. xii + 125, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Paper, £14.99. ISBN: 978-1-4742-3683-6. – (A.F.) Garvie The Plays of Aeschylus. Second edition. Pp. x + 99. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 (first edition 2010). Paper, £14.99. ISBN: 978-1-4742-3327-9. – (A.F.) Garvie The Plays of Sophocles . Second edition. Pp. x + 96. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 (first edition 2005). Paper, £14.99. ISBN: 978-1-4742-3335-4. – †(J.) Morwood The Plays of Euripides. Second edition. Pp. x + 144, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 (first edition 2002). Paper, £14.99. ISBN: 978-1-4742-3359-0. Edmund Stewart The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 23 – 25 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002384 Published Online on 11 January 2018
THE RECEPTION OF AESCHYLUS – (S.E.) Constantinidis (ed.) The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers. (Metaforms 7.) Pp. xvi + 409, colour ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Cased, €152, US$168. ISBN: 978-90-04-33115-0. Isabelle Torrance The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 25 – 28 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001445 Published Online on 30 January 2018
POLITICAL ASPECTS OF EURIPIDEAN TRAGEDY – (V.) Wohl Euripides and the Politics of Form. Pp. xviii + 200. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. Cased, £27.95, US$39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16650-6. Rocco Marseglia The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 28 – 30 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001718 Published Online on 9 November 2017
THE ROLE OF COSTUME IN ARISTOPHANES’ COMEDIES – (G.) Compton-Engle Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes. Pp. xiv + 198, ills. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Cased, £67, US$102. ISBN: 978-1-107-08379-0. Elena Chepel The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 30 – 32 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001998 Published Online on 10 December 2017
THE ROLE OF SIGHT IN GREEK ORATORY – (P.A.) O'Connell The Rhetoric of Seeing in Attic Forensic Oratory. Pp. xx + 282. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. Cased, US$55. ISBN: 978-1-4773-1168-4. Konstantinos Kapparis The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 32 – 34 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001500 Published Online on 2 November 2017
THE THEATRE OF ORATORY – S. Papaioannou, A. Serafim), B. da Vela (edd.) The Theatre of Justice. Aspects of Performance in Greco-Roman Oratory and Rhetoric. (Mnemosyne Supplements 403.) Pp. xii + 355. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Cased, €126, US$146. ISBN: 978-90-04-33464-9. Peter A. O'Connell The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 34 – 37 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002505 Published Online on 16 January 2018
THE ATLANTIS STORY IN PLATO – C. Gill (ed., trans.) Plato's Atlantis Story. Text, Translation and Commentary. Pp. x + 222, ills. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017. Paper, £19.95 (Cased, £85). ISBN: 978-1-78694-015-5 (978-1-78694-016-2 hbk). Lloyd P. Gerson The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 37 – 38 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002372 Published Online on 17 January 2018
A NEW INTERPRETATION OF ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS – (D.J.) Riesbeck Aristotle on Political Community. Pp. xii + 322. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £74.99, US$120. ISBN: 978-1-107-10702-1. Benjamin Miller The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 39 – 40 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002189 Published Online on 11 January 2018
EPICUREAN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY – F.A. Bakker Epicurean Meteorology. Sources, Method, Scope and Organization. (Philosophia Antiqua 142.) Pp. xii + 301, figs. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Cased, €125, US$138. ISBN: 978-90-04-32156-4. Liba Taub The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 41 – 42 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001858 Published Online on 16 January 2018
SHINING A LIGHT ON LYCOPHRON – C. McNelis, A. Sens The Alexandra of Lycophron. A Literary Study. Pp. xii + 255. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £60. ISBN: 978-0-19-960189-9. T.R.P. Coward The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 43 – 45 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1700244X Published Online on 25 January 2018
DIODORUS SICULUS THE HISTORIAN – (J.P.) Stronk Semiramis’ Legacy. The History of Persia According to Diodorus of Sicily. Pp. xviii + 606, ills, maps. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. Cased, £120. ISBN: 978-1-4744-1425-8. – (C.E.) Muntz Diodorus Siculus and the World of the Late Roman Republic. Pp. xiv + 284. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £55, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-049872-6. Peter Morton The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 45 – 49 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001950 Published Online on 9 November 2017
THE MARTYRDOM OF PETER AND PAUL – (O.) Zwierlein Petrus in Rom. Die literarischen Zeugnisse. Mit einer kritischen Edition der Martyrien des Petrus und Paulus auf neuer handschriftlicher Grundlage. Second edition. (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 96.) Pp. xiv + 486, pls. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2016. Paper, £14.99, €19.95, US$19.95. ISBN: 978-3-11-048849-4. Jonathon Lookadoo The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 49 – 51 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001470 Published Online on 30 January 2018
PLUTARCH'S VERSATILITY – (J.) Opsomer, (G.) Roskam, (F.B.) Titchener (edd.) A Versatile Gentleman. Consistency in Plutarch's Writing. Pp. vi + 304. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2016. Cased, €69.50. ISBN: 978-94-6270-076-5. Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 51 – 54 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000100 Published Online on 25 January 2018
NEW VIEWS ON DIOGENES OF OINOANDA – (J.) Hammerstaedt, (P.-M.) Morel, (R.) Güremen (edd.) Diogenes of Oinoanda. Epicureanism and Philosophical Debates. (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy 55.) Pp. xxvi + 321, ills, b/w & colour maps. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2017. Cased, €90. ISBN: 978-94-6270-101-4. Inbal Cohen The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 54 – 57 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000069 Published Online on 1 February 2018
A GALENIC TREATISE – (R.) Leigh (ed., trans.) On Theriac to Piso, Attributed to Galen. (Studies in Ancient Medicine 47.) Pp. x + 326. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Cased, €126, US$163. ISBN: 978-90-04-30289-1. Piero Tassinari The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 57 – 59 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001408 Published Online on 14 February 2018
THE GREEK NOVELS AND LITERARY GENRE – (M.) Biraud, (M.) Briand (edd.) Roman grec et poésie. Dialogue des genres et nouveaux enjeux du poétique. Actes du colloque international, Nice, 21–22 mars 2013. (Collection de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée 56.) Pp. 388. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée – Jean Pouilloux, 2017. Paper, €39. ISBN: 978-2-35668-060-0. Laura Miguélez-Cavero The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 59 – 62 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000148 Published Online on 8 February 2018
A RE-CONSIDERATION OF CASSIUS DIO – (C.H.) Lange, (J.M.) Madsen (edd.) Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician. (Historiography of Rome and its Empire 1.) Pp. xii + 364. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Cased, €148, US$162. ISBN: 978-90-04-32416-9. Alex Imrie The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 62 – 65 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002086 Published Online on 4 December 2017
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE THIRD CENTURY CE – (H.) Marx-Wolf Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority. Platonists, Priests, and Gnostics in the Third Century c.e. Pp. x + 200. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Cased, £36, US$55. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4789-3. Kevin Corrigan The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 65 – 67 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001275 Published Online on 7 September 2017
TEXTS OF GREEK MAGICAL HYMNS – (L.M.) Bortolani Magical Hymns from Roman Egypt. A Study of Greek and Egyptian Traditions of Divinity. Pp. xxii + 467. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £104, US$130. ISBN: 978-1-107-10838-7. Lucia Maddalena Tissi The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 67 – 69 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001901 Published Online on 10 November 2017
ON MONKS IN EGYPT – (A.) Cain The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto. Monastic Hagiography in the Late Fourth Century. Pp. xii + 329. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £85, US$135. ISBN: 978-0-19-875825-9. James Corke-Webster The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 69 – 71 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1700141X Published Online on 30 January 2018
A SURVEY OF PROCLUS’ PHILOSOPHY – (P.) d'Hoine, (M.) Martijn (edd.) All from One. A Guide to Proclus. Pp. xvi + 418, colour pls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £70, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-19-964033-1. Tuomo Lankila The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 72 – 74 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001536 Published Online on 30 January 2018
EARLY AND LATE LATIN IN COMPARISON – (J.N.) Adams, (N.) Vincent (edd.) Early and Late Latin. Continuity or Change? Pp. xx + 470, figs, ill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £74.99, US$120. ISBN: 978-1-107-13225-2. Alice Bonandini The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 74 – 76 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001949 Published Online on 20 November 2017
ASPECTS OF ‘INFORMAL’ LATIN – (J.N.) Adams An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 bc – ad 900. Fifty Texts with Translations and Linguistic Commentary. Pp. xii + 719. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £120, US$200. ISBN: 978-1-107-03977-3. Richard Ashdowne The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 76 – 78 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001512 Published Online on 30 January 2018
MASTERPLOT US, MASTER PLAUTUS – (E.) Gunderson Laughing Awry. Plautus and Tragicomedy. Pp. x + 283. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Cased, £69, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-19-872930-3. David Wray The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 79 – 80 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001986 Published Online on 11 January 2018
IMITATION OF ART AND TERENCE – (R.) †Germany Mimetic Contagion. Art and Artifice in Terence's Eunuch . Pp. xii + 198, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £55, US$90. ISBN: 978-0-19-873873-2. T.H.M. Gellar-Goad The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 81 – 83 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001354 Published Online on 7 September 2017
LATIN PHILOSOPHY – (G.D.) Williams, (K.) Volk (edd.) Roman Reflections. Studies in Latin Philosophy. Pp. xii + 306. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £47.99, US$74. ISBN: 978-0-19-999976-7. Timothy A. Brookins The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 83 – 86 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002001 Published Online on 10 December 2017
THE WANDERINGS OF FAMA – S. Kyriakidis (ed.) Libera Fama. An Endless Journey. (Pierides 6.) Pp. xii + 257, ills. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. Cased, £52.99. ISBN: 978-1-4438-1099-9. Calypso Nash The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 86 – 89 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002256 Published Online on 16 January 2018
‘RECOVERING’ THE MEANING OF THE AENEID – (H.-P.) Stahl Poetry Underpinning Power. Vergil's Aeneid: the Epic for Emperor Augustus. A Recovery Study. Pp. xii + 488, ill. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2016. Cased, £45. ISBN: 978-1-910589-04-5. Elena Giusti The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 89 – 91 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002335 Published Online on 13 December 2017
ASCANIUS IN THE AENEID – (A.) Rogerson Virgil's Ascanius. Imagining the Future in the Aeneid . Pp. viii + 237. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-11539-2. J. Mira Seo The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 91 – 93 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001925 Published Online on 10 December 2017
‘A NEW SENECA’ – (C.) Star Seneca. Pp. x + 195. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2017. Paper, £12.99, US$20 (Cased, £39.50, US$65). ISBN: 978-1-84885-890-9 (978-1-84885-889-3 hbk). George W.M. Harrison The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 93 – 94 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1700227X Published Online on 13 December 2017
AN INTRODUCTION TO SENECA'S HERCULES FURENS – (N.W.) Bernstein Seneca: Hercules Furens. Pp. xvi + 151, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Cased, £65, US$88. ISBN: 978-1-4742-5492-2. Emily Wilson The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 95 – 97 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000136 Published Online on 13 February 2018
VIEWS OF THE FAMILY IN SENECA THE YOUNGER – (L.) Gloyn The Ethics of the Family in Seneca. Pp. xii + 249, fig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-14547-4. Christopher Star The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 97 – 99 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000045 Published Online on 25 January 2018
A NEW READING OF ANNALS 5 AND 6 – (A.J.) Woodman (ed.) The Annals of Tacitus. Books 5 and 6. (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 55.) Pp. xxii + 325, ill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £89.99, US$140. ISBN: 978-1-107-15270-0. Lydia Spielberg The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 99 – 101 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001688 Published Online on 30 January 2018
TACITUS ON LIBERTY AND POLITICS – (T.E.) Strunk History after Liberty. Tacitus on Tyrants, Sycophants, and Republicans. Pp. x + 221. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. Cased, US$65. ISBN: 978-0-472-13020-7. Daniel J. Kapust The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 101 – 103 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002062 Published Online on 4 December 2017
PLINY'S LETTERS – (R.) Gibson, (C.) Whitton (edd.) The Epistles of Pliny. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Pp. xii + 532, ills, map. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £90, US$140. ISBN: 978-0-19-954594-0. Andrew Worley The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 103 – 105 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001573 Published Online on 2 November 2017
A NEW TEXT OF SUETONIUS’ CAESARES – (R.A.) Kaster (ed.) C. Suetoni Tranquilli De uita Caesarum, libros VIII et De grammaticis et rhetoribus librum . Pp. lxxx + 487. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £40, US$55. ISBN: 978-0-19-871379-1. – (R.A.) Kaster Studies on the Text of Suetonius’ De uita Caesarum . Pp. xii + 332. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £75, US$55. ISBN: 978-0-19-875847-1. D. Wardle The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 105 – 107 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1700169X Published Online on 30 January 2018
THE LOEB APOLOGIA, FLORIDA AND DE DEO SOCRATIS – (C.P.) Jones (ed., trans.) Apuleius. Apologia. Florida. De Deo Socratis. (Loeb Classical Library 534.) Pp. xxxii + 414. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2017. Cased, £16.95, €21, US$26. ISBN: 978-0-674-99711-0. Leonardo Costantini The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 107 – 109 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001937 Published Online on 20 November 2017
AMMIANUS’ DEPICTION OF JULIAN – (A.J.) Ross Ammianus’ Julian. Narrative and Genre in the Res Gestae . Pp. xviii + 253. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £65, US$105. ISBN: 978-0-19-878495-1. Shaun Tougher The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 109 – 111 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1700230X Published Online on 13 December 2017
NEW ASPECTS OF OPTATIAN'S POETRY – (M.) Squire, (J.) Wienand (edd.) Morphogrammata / The Lettered Art of Optatian. Figuring Cultural Transformations in the Age of Constantine. (Morphomata 33.) Pp. 530, ills, colour pls. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2017. Paper, €78. ISBN: 978-3-7705-6127-8. Helen Kaufmann The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 111 – 114 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001329 Published Online on 11 October 2017
SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS’ POETRY – (M.) Onorato Il castone e la gemma. Sulla tecnica poetica di Sidonio Apollinare. (Studi Latini 89.) Pp. 530. Naples: Paolo Loffredo Iniziative Editoriali, 2016. Paper, €36.80. ISBN: 978-88-99306-43-4. Paolo Mastandrea The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 114 – 117 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002475 Published Online on 24 January 2018
MAXIMIANUS AND HIS POETRY – (A.) Franzoi Le Elegie di Massimiano. Testo, traduzione e commento. Note biografiche e storico-testuali. Appendix Maximiani a cura di P. Mastandrea e L. Spinazzè. (Supplementi di Lexis 68.) Pp. iv + 270. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 2014. Paper, €60. ISBN: 978-90-256-1294-8. Cillian O'Hogan The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 117 – 119 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001263 Published Online on 11 September 2017
A NEW VERSION OF THE CODEX OF JUSTINIAN – (B.W.) Frier (ed.) The Codex of Justinian. A New Annotated Translation, with Parallel Latin and Greek Text. Based on a Translation by Justice Fred H. Blume. Volume 1: Introductory Matter and Books I–III. Volume 2: Books IV–VII. Volume 3: Books VIII–XII. Pp. clxxxvi + viii + viii + 3,176, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £450, US$750. ISBN: 978-1-107-11975-8 (vol. 1); 978-1-107-11981-9 (vol. 2); 978-1-107-11982-6 (vol. 3); 978-0-521-19682-6 (set). Sarah Bond The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 119 – 122 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002359 Published Online on 11 January 2018
AN OVERVIEW OF NEO-LATIN LITERATURE – V. Moul (ed.) A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature. Pp. xxviii + 488, ill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £84.99, US$140. ISBN: 978-1-107-02929-3. Andrew W. Taylor The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 123 – 125 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002487 Published Online on 16 January 2018
SLAVERY, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND PHILOSOPHY – (I.L.E.) Ramelli Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery. The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity. Pp. xvi + 293. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £70, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-19-877727-4. Monica Tobon The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 126 – 128 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002207 Published Online on 11 January 2018
‘REAL WOMEN’ IN THE ANCIENT WORLD – (S.L.) Budin, (J.M.) Turfa (edd.) Women in Antiquity. Real Women across the Ancient World. Pp. xxxvi + 1074, ills, maps. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. Cased, £175, US$240. ISBN: 978-1-138-80836-2. Guy D. Middleton The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 128 – 130 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002311 Published Online on 13 December 2017
ASPECTS OF ANCIENT WARFARE – (J.) Armstrong (ed.) Circum Mare: Themes in Ancient Warfare. (Mnemosyne Supplements 388.) Pp. x + 320, colour ills, map. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Cased, €148, US$175. ISBN: 978-90-04-28484-5. Gabriel Baker The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 130 – 133 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002074 Published Online on 10 December 2017
POLITICS IN SPARTA – (P.A.) Rahe The Spartan Regime. Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy. Pp. xviii + 212, ills, maps. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. Cased, US$38. ISBN: 978-0-300-21901-2. Paul Christesen The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 134 – 136 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001433 Published Online on 30 January 2018
THE LIFE OF PERICLES – (T.R.) Martin Pericles. A Biography in Context. Pp. xx + 253, ills, maps. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £59.99, US$89.99 (Paper, £19.99, US$29.99). ISBN: 978-0-521-11645-9 (978-0-521-13335-7 pbk). Matthew Trundle The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 136 – 138 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002244 Published Online on 13 December 2017
CITIZENS IN ANCIENT ATHENS – (J.) Blok Citizenship in Classical Athens. Pp. xx + 328. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-19145-6. Sara Forsdyke The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 138 – 140 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1800001X Published Online on 5 February 2018
PROSTITUTION IN ATHENS – (E.E.) Cohen Athenian Prostitution. The Business of Sex. Pp. xx + 243. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Cased, £47.99, US$74. ISBN: 978-0-19-027592-1. Alastair J.L. Blanshard The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 141 – 142 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002414 Published Online on 1 February 2018
A SURVEY OF ANCIENT MACEDONIA – (E.D.) Carney King and Court in Ancient Macedonia. Rivalry, Treason and Conspiracy. Pp. xxvi + 326. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2015. Cased, £68, US$95. ISBN: 978-1-905125-98-2. Manuela Mari The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 143 – 145 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001391 Published Online on 30 January 2018
THE ORGANISATION OF POLEIS IN KARIA – (J.) LaBuff Polis Expansion and Elite Power in Hellenistic Karia. Pp. xviii + 257, ills, maps. Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2016. Cased, £65, US$99. ISBN: 978-1-4985-1399-9. Oliver Hülden The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 145 – 147 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001597 Published Online on 31 January 2018
ASPECTS OF HELLENISTIC ATHLETICS – (C.) Mann, (S.) Remijsen, (S.) Scharff (edd.) Athletics in the Hellenistic World. Pp. 366, ills. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2016. Cased, €62. ISBN: 978-3-515-11571-1. Dorothea Stavrou The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 147 – 150 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001482 Published Online on 26 October 2017
A PORTRAIT OF A FEMALE PHILOSOPHER – (E.J.) Watts Hypatia. The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher. Pp. xii + 205, ills, map. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £19.99, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-021003-8. Stefan Hodges-Kluck The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 150 – 152 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1700213X Published Online on 4 December 2017
ASPECTS OF ROMAN ITALY – (A.E.) Cooley (ed.) A Companion to Roman Italy. Pp. xvi + 560, ills, maps. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. Cased, £120, €144, US$195. ISBN: 978-1-4443-3926-0. Daniele Miano The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 152 – 155 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001913 Published Online on 10 December 2017
GOVERNING THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE FIRST CENTURY BC – (K.) Morrell Pompey, Cato, and the Governance of the Roman Empire. Pp. x + 309. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £65, US$95. ISBN: 978-0-19-875514-2. Federico Santangelo The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 155 – 157 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000070 Published Online on 24 January 2018
PUBLIC OPINION IN ANCIENT ROME? – (C.) Rosillo-López Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic. Pp. xii + 270, map. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-14507-8. Sofia Piacentin The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 157 – 159 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000112 Published Online on 25 January 2018
REPUBLICAN ORATORS AND THEIR CAREERS – (H.) Van Der Blom Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic. Pp. xiv + 377, ill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £74.99, US$120. ISBN: 978-1-107-05193-5. Katherine Liong The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 160 – 161 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002232 Published Online on 13 December 2017
TRIUMPHS AND CIVIL WAR – (C.H.) Lange Triumphs in the Age of Civil War. The Late Republic and the Adaptability of Triumphal Tradition. Pp. xiv + 333, ills, map. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Cased, £95. ISBN: 978-1-4742-6784-7. Dylan Bloy The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 162 – 164 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002049 Published Online on 4 December 2017
THE TRIUMPH IN ROME – (M.L.) Popkin The Architecture of the Roman Triumph. Monuments, Memory, and Identity. Pp. xvi + 271, ills, maps, colour pls. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £64.99, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-10357-3. Amy Russell The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 164 – 166 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001469 Published Online on 26 October 2017
THE ROLE OF PROCESSIONS IN ANCIENT ROME – (J.A.) Latham Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome. Pp. xxii + 345, ills, maps. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £74.99, US$120. ISBN: 978-1-107-13071-5. Hazel Dodge The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 166 – 167 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002360 Published Online on 1 February 2018
EXAMPLES OF ROMAN SELF-PRESENTATION – (A.) Gavrielatos (ed.) Self-Presentation and Identity in the Roman World. Pp. xvi + 273, ills. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. Cased, £52.99. ISBN: 978-1-4438-9983-3. Eliza Gettel The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 167 – 169 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002141 Published Online on 4 December 2017
SACRED TREES AND THE ROMANS – (A.) Hunt Reviving Roman Religion. Sacred Trees in the Roman World. Pp. xii + 333, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £80, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-15354-7. Jack Lennon The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 170 – 171 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001457 Published Online on 2 November 2017
A GENEROUS READING OF UNGENEROUS ROMANS? – (N.) Coffee Gift and Gain. How Money Transformed Ancient Rome. Pp. xvi + 296, figs, ill. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £47.99, US$74. ISBN: 978-0-19-049643-2. James Tan The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 172 – 173 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002128 Published Online on 4 December 2017
STUDIES ON THE ECONOMY OF POMPEII – (M.) Flohr, (A.) Wilson (edd.) The Economy of Pompeii. Pp. xviii + 433, figs, ills, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £95, US$150. ISBN: 978-0-19-878657-3. Dennis Kehoe The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 174 – 176 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002104 Published Online on 4 December 2017
VINICULTURE IN ANCIENT ROME – (D.L.) Thurmond From Vines to Wines in Classical Rome. A Handbook of Viticulture and Oenology in Rome and the Roman West. Pp. xii + 274, b/w & colour ills, maps. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Cased, €120, US$132. ISBN: 978-90-04-33458-8. Dimitri van Limbergen The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 177 – 179 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001676 Published Online on 26 October 2017
THE CREDIT MARKET IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE – (F.) Lerouxel Le marché du crédit dans le monde romain (Égypte et Campanie). (Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome 374.) Pp. viii + 397. Rome: École Française de Rome, 2016. Paper, €30. ISBN: 978-2-7283-1183-5. Christian Rollinger The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 179 – 181 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001603 Published Online on 30 January 2018
OBSERVATIONS ON ROMAN ‘MIGRATION’ – L.E. Tacoma) Moving Romans. Migration to Rome in the Principate. Pp. xii + 304. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £70. ISBN: 978-0-19-876805-0. Elena Isayev The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 181 – 183 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001664 Published Online on 30 January 2018
EMPEROR WORSHIP IN THE PROVINCES – G. McIntyre A Family of Gods. The Worship of the Imperial Family in the Latin West. Pp. xii + 179. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Cased, US$60. ISBN: 978-0-472-13005-4. Eleri Cousins The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 184 – 185 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002451 Published Online on 26 January 2018
THE VARIOUS SHAPES OF MITHRAISM – (P.) Adrych, (R.) Bracey, (D.) Dalglish, (S.) Lenk, (R.) Wood Images of Mithra. Pp. xx + 211, b/w & colour ills, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £30, US$50. ISBN: 978-0-19-879253-6. Luther H. Martin The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 186 – 188 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001883 Published Online on 10 December 2017
PALMYRA THEN AND NOW – (A.M.) Smith II Roman Palmyra. Identity, Community, and State Formation. Pp. xx + 293, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Cased, £72, US$100. ISBN: 978-0-19-986110-1. – (P.) Veyne Palmyra. Requiem für eine Stadt. Aus dem Französischen von Anna Leube und Wolf Heinrich Leube. Pp. 127, colour pls. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2016 (originally published as Palmyre. L'irremplaçable trésor, 2015). Cased, €17.95. ISBN: 978-3-406-69237-6. Donald A. MacLennan The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 189 – 191 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001706 Published Online on 20 November 2017
RELIGION IN THE AGE OF CONSTANTINE – (M.) Edwards Religions of the Constantinian Empire. Pp. xiv + 365. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Cased, £30, US$49.50. ISBN: 978-0-19-968772-5. Nicholas J. Baker-Brian The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 191 – 192 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002293 Published Online on 7 February 2018
PETER BROWN'S LATE ANTIQUITY – (J.) Kreiner, (H.) Reimitz (edd.) Motions of Late Antiquity. Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honour of Peter Brown. (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 20.) Pp. x + 353, ills. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. Cased, €90. ISBN: 978-2-503-54911-8. Zubin Mistry The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 193 – 195 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002025 Published Online on 18 January 2018
LAY CHRISTIANITY IN GAUL – (L.K.) Bailey The Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul. Pp. viii + 247. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Cased, £70. ISBN: 978-1-4725-1903-0. W.E. Klingshirn The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 195 – 197 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001317 Published Online on 11 October 2017
STUDIES IN ANCIENT ARCHAEOLOGY – J. Bintliff, K. Rutter (edd.) The Archaeology of Greece and Rome. Studies in Honour of Anthony Snodgrass. Pp. xii + 460, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour maps. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. Cased, £95. ISBN: 978-1-4744-1709-9. Conor P. Trainor The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 197 – 200 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002347 Published Online on 16 January 2018
A SURVEY OF APPROACHES TO GREEK AND ROMAN ART – (C.) Marconi (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture. Pp. xviii + 710, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Cased, £120, US$160. ISBN: 978-0-19-978330-4. Ruth Westgate The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 200 – 202 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001615 Published Online on 30 January 2018
GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY AND THEORY – (L.C.) Nevett (ed.) Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece. Manipulating Material Culture. Pp. xii + 325, figs, ills, maps. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. Cased, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-472-13023-8. Staša Babić The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 202 – 204 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000082 Published Online on 25 January 2018
STUDIES ON ATHENS – (K.F.) Daly, (L.A.) Riccardi (edd.) Cities Called Athens. Studies Honoring John McK. Camp II. Pp. xxxvi + 457, figs, ills. Lewisburg / Lanham: Bucknell University Press / Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Cased, £65, US$105. ISBN: 978-1-61148-617-9. Amy Sowder Koch The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 204 – 206 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002396 Published Online on 11 January 2018
HOUSE BUILDING ON THE EUPHRATES – (H.) Jackson Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates. Volume 4: the Housing Insula. (Mediterranean Archaeology Supplement 9.) Pp. xxx + 646, cd, figs, b/w & colour ills, maps. Sydney: Mediterranean Archaeology, 2014. Cased. ISBN: 978-0-9580265-5-0. Mantha Zarmakoupi The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 206 – 208 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1700138X Published Online on 25 October 2017
THE POST-CLASSICAL GREEK AGORA – (C.P.) Dickenson On the Agora. The Evolution of a Public Space in Hellenistic and Roman Greece (c. 323 bc – 267 ad). (Mnemosyne Supplements 398.) Pp. xviii + 480, b/w & colour ills, maps. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Cased, €175, US$194. ISBN: 978-90-04-32671-2. Elizabeth P. Baltes The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 208 – 210 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002268 Published Online on 13 December 2017
THE SPACE OF ANTIOCH – (A.U.) De Giorgi Ancient Antioch. From the Seleucid Era to the Islamic Conquest. Pp. xviii + 226, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £64.99, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-13073-9. Kristina Neumann The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 211 – 212 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1700155X Published Online on 30 January 2018
GREEK AND PHOENICIAN ART IN CONVERSATION – S.R. Martin) The Art of Contact. Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art. Pp. x + 282, ills, maps, colour pls. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Cased, £52, US$59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8122-4908-8. Robin Osborne The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 213 – 215 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001627 Published Online on 26 October 2017
ARTISTIC IMPRESSION AND GREEK VASES – (G.) Hedreen The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece. Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity. Pp. xvi + 362, ills, colour pls. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £74.99, US$120. ISBN: 978-1-107-11825-6. Stephen Scully The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 215 – 217 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001287 Published Online on 11 October 2017
THE DISEGNI OF THE ARTEMIDORUS PAPYRUS – (G.) Adornato (ed.) Intorno al Papiro di Artemidoro. III. I disegni. Atti del Convegno internazionale del 4 febbraio 2011 presso il Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Firenze. Pp. 170, b/w & colour ills, pls. Milan: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2016. Paper, €34. ISBN: 978-88-7916-757-4. Michael Squire The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 217 – 220 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001494 Published Online on 26 October 2017
FORTIFICATIONS IN EARLY ITALY – (P.) Fontaine, (S.) Helas (edd.) Le fortificazioni arcaiche del Latium vetus e dell'Etruria meridionale (IX–VI sec. a.C.) Stratigrafia, cronologia e urbanizzazione. (Institut Historique Belge de Rome, Artes 7.) Pp. 294, b/w & colour figs, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour maps. Brussels and Rome: Institut Historique Belge de Rome, 2016. Paper, €75. ISBN: 978-90-74461-85-6. Francesca Fulminante The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 220 – 223 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002463 Published Online on 25 January 2018
RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS IN EARLY ITALY – (C.R.) Potts Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900–500 bc . Pp. xxx + 178, ills, maps, pls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Cased, £75, US$125. ISBN: 978-0-19-872207-6. Mantha Zarmakoupi The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 223 – 225 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001871 Published Online on 10 December 2017
THE DYNAMICS OF ANCIENT ANATOMICAL VOTIVES – (J.) Draycott, (E.-J.) Graham (edd.) Bodies of Evidence. Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future. Pp. xvi + 271, ills, maps. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Cased, £110, US$149.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-5080-7. Stuart McKie The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 225 – 228 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001895 Published Online on 10 November 2017
AN EXCAVATION REPORT ONLINE – (R.) Opitz, (M.) Mogetta, (N.) Terrenato (edd.) A Mid-Republican House from Gabii. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Online resource, DOI: 10.3998/mpub.9231782, US$150. ISBN: 978-0-472-99900-2. Christopher Smith The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 228 – 231 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002517 Published Online on 11 January 2018
BUILDINGS ON THE PALATINE HILL – (P.) Pensabene Scavi del Palatino 2. Culti, architettura e decorazioni. In due volumi. (Studi Miscellanei 39.) Pp. 1470, ills, pls. Rome: ‘L'Erma’ di Bretschneider, 2017. Paper, €850. ISBN: 978-88-913-0971-6. Christopher Smith The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 231 – 233 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002530 Published Online on 11 January 2018
VIEWS ON ROMAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE PROVINCES – (S.E.) Alcock, (M.) Egri, (J.F.D.) Frakes (edd.) Beyond Boundaries. Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome. Pp. xxii + 386, b/w & colour ills, colour maps. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2016. Cased, US$69.95. ISBN: 978-1-60606-471-9. Jane Hjarl Petersen The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 234 – 236 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002116 Published Online on 4 December 2017
FORM AND FUNCTION OF ROMAN ARTEFACTS – (E.) Swift Roman Artefacts and Society. Design, Behaviour, and Experience. Pp. xiv + 305, figs, ills, colour pls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £85, US$135. ISBN: 978-0-19-878526-2. Daan van Helden The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 237 – 239 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001974 Published Online on 23 November 2017
ART, SPACE AND COGNITION IN ROME – F. Jones The Boundaries of Art and Social Space in Rome. The Caged Bird and Other Art Forms. Pp. xii + 196, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Cased, £85. ISBN: 978-1-4725-2612-0. Katharine T. von Stackelberg The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 239 – 240 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002050 Published Online on 25 January 2018
RETHINKING GREEK MYTH IN ROMAN CONTEXTS – (Z.) Newby Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture. Imagery, Values and Identity in Italy, 50 bc–ad 250. Pp. xx + 387, ills, maps, colour pls. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £74.99, US$120. ISBN: 978-1-107-07224-4. Helen I. Ackers The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 241 – 243 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001652 Published Online on 2 November 2017
SCULPTURES FROM THE BLUNDELL COLLECTION – (E.) Bartman The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture. Volume III – the Ideal Sculpture. Pp. xii + 385, ills, pls. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017. Cased, £75. ISBN: 978-1-78138-310-0. Victoria Donnellan The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 243 – 245 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002098 Published Online on 4 December 2017
BUILDING WITH RE-USED MATERIAL – (J.M.) Frey Spolia in Fortifications and the Common Builder in Late Antiquity. (Mnemosyne Supplements 389.) Pp. xii + 222, ills, maps. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Cased, €93, US$120. ISBN: 978-90-04-28800-3. Simon J. Barker The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 245 – 247 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001561 Published Online on 10 November 2017
GREEK AND ROMAN PROSE – (J.-P.) Guez, (D.) Kasprzyk (edd.) Penser la prose dans le monde gréco-romain. (La Licorne 119.) Pp. 190. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016. Paper, €18. ISBN: 978-2-7535-4783-4. Calum Maciver The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 247 – 249 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001585 Published Online on 2 November 2017
ASPECTS OF VARIETY – W. Fitzgerald Variety. The Life of a Roman Concept. Pp. x + 243. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Cased, £38.50, US$55. ISBN: 978-0-226-29949-5. Ian Goh The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 249 – 251 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002438 Published Online on 25 January 2018
RIVAL PHILOSOPHIES AROUND THE BIRTH OF CHRIST – (T.) Engberg-Pedersen (ed.) From Stoicism to Platonism. The Development of Philosophy, 100 bce–100 ce . Pp. x + 399. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £90, US$120. ISBN: 978-1-107-16619-6. David Glidden The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 251 – 254 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000033 Published Online on 24 January 2018
CYNICISM – (M.-O.) Goulet-Cazé Le cynisme, une philosophie antique. (Textes et Traditions 29.) Pp. 702. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2017. Paper, €55. ISBN: 978-2-7116-2763-9. Isabelle Chouinard The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 254 – 256 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000057 Published Online on 24 January 2018
ANCIENT SOUND STUDIES – (S.A.) Gurd Dissonance. Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece. Pp. x + 239. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. Cased, US$55. ISBN: 978-0-8232-6965-5. Shane Butler The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 256 – 258 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002037 Published Online on 4 December 2017
THE ROLE OF ANCIENT SOUND – (S.) Butler The Ancient Phonograph. Pp. 278, ills. New York: Zone Books, 2015. Cased, £20.95, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-1-935408-72-7. Helen Slaney The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 258 – 261 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000021 Published Online on 25 January 2018
SENSES AND SOCIETY IN ANTIQUITY – (J.) Toner (ed.) A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity. Pp. xiv + 266, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Cased, £60. ISBN: 978-0-85785-339-4. K.C. Rudolph The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 261 – 263 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001421 Published Online on 30 January 2018
ERASMUS’ APOPHTHEGMATA – B.I. Knott, E. †Fantham (trans.) Collected Works of Erasmus: Apophthegmata . (Collected Works of Erasmus 37–8.) Pp. xxxii + 1011. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Cased, US$304. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4166-2 (2 vol. set). Erik De Bom The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 263 – 265 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002177 Published Online on 16 January 2018
THE CLASSICS AND EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE – R. Copeland (ed.) The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature. Volume I: 800–1558. Pp. xii + 758, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £170, US$235. ISBN: 978-0-19-958723-0. Helen Moore The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 265 – 267 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002426 Published Online on 25 January 2018
CLASSICAL RECEPTION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY – (N.) Vance, (J.) Wallace (edd.) The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature. Volume 4: 1790–1880. Pp. xiv + 746, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Cased, £140, US$225. ISBN: 978-0-19-959460-3. Gail Marshall The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 268 – 269 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002281 Published Online on 13 December 2017
CLASSICS IN IRELAND – (L.) O'Higgins The Irish Classical Self. Poets and Poor Scholars in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Pp. viii + 321, map. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £65, US$95. ISBN: 978-0-19-876710-7. Estelle Haan The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 269 – 271 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000094 Published Online on 25 January 2018
WALTER PATER AND THE STUDY OF CLASSICS – (C.) Martindale, (S.) Evangelista, (E.) Prettejohn (edd.) Pater the Classicist. Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism. Pp. xiv + 353. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £65, US$105. ISBN: 978-0-19-872341-7. Lesley Higgins The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 271 – 274 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001639 Published Online on 30 January 2018
GREEK TRAGEDY IN GERMANY – (E.) Fischer-Lichte Tragedy's Endurance. Performances of Greek Tragedies and Cultural Identity in Germany since 1800. Pp. xx + 398, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £80, US$115. ISBN: 978-0-19-965163-4. Helen Roche The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 274 – 276 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001305 Published Online on 11 October 2017
CLASSICS AND MODERNISM – (A.J.) Goldwyn, (J.) Nikopoulos (edd.) Brill's Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde. (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 9.) Pp. xii + 320, ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Cased, €126, US$138. ISBN: 978-90-04-27650-5. Julia Jordan The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 276 – 279 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002220 Published Online on 17 December 2017
THE CLASSICAL INFLUENCE ON CUMMINGS – (J.A.) Rosenblitt E.E. Cummings’ Modernism and the Classics. Each Imperishable Stanza. Pp. xxii + 370, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016. Cased, £60, US$100. ISBN: 978-0-19-876715-2. David Farley The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 279 – 281 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001299 Published Online on 11 October 2017
LEO STRAUSS AND THE CLASSICS – (T.W.) Burns (ed.) Brill's Companion to Leo Strauss’ Writings on Classical Political Thought. (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 4.) Pp. xiv + 480. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. Cased, €168, US$218. ISBN: 978-90-04-24335-4. Rodrigo Chacon The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 281 – 283 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001342 Published Online on 7 September 2017
BEN-HUR: LEW WALLACE'S NOVEL AND ITS EXTENSIVE AFTERLIFE – (J.) Solomon Ben-Hur. The Original Blockbuster. Pp. xviii + 910, colour ills. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. Paper, £29.99, US$44.95 (Cased, £105, US$162). ISBN: 978-1-4744-0795-3 (978-1-4744-0794-6 hbk). Amanda Potter The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 283 – 285 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002013 Published Online on 4 December 2017
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(D.) Sider (ed.) Hellenistic Poetry. A Selection. Pp. xx + 579, ills. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. Paper, US$49.50 (Cased, US$90). ISBN: 978-0-472-05313-1 (978-0-472-07313-9 hbk). Thomas J. Nelson The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 287 – 287 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1700186X Published Online on 9 November 2017
(H.-G.) Nesselrath (ed.) Iulianus Augustus: Opera. (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana.) Pp. xxxvi + 223. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. Cased, £59.99, €79.95, US$112. ISBN: 978-3-11-022122-0. David Neal Greenwood The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 288 – 288 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001640 Published Online on 2 November 2017
(W.) Hübner Athena am Sternhimmel bei Proklos. Astrologie im Dienste neuplatonischer Philosophie. (Sitzungsbericht der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2017.1) Pp. 56, ills. Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2017. Paper, €12. ISBN: 978-3-7696-1674-3. Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 289 – 290 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002499 Published Online on 11 January 2018
(J.) Davie (trans.) Cicero. On Life and Death. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Miriam T. Griffin. Pp. xxviii + 251. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Paper, £9.99, US$16.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-964414-8. David Glidden The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 290 – 290 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17001548 Published Online on 30 January 2018
(I.) Worthington Ptolemy I. King and Pharaoh of Egypt. Pp. xx + 253, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £22.99, US$35. ISBN: 978-0-19-020233-0. Catharine C. Lorber The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 291 – 291 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002165 Published Online on 13 December 2017
(F.) Santangelo Marius. Pp. xii + 124, map. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Paper, £16.99. ISBN: 978-1-4742-1471-1. E. Cowan The Classical Review, Volume 68 / Issue 1, April 2018, pp 292 – 292 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X17002153 Published Online on 1 February 2018
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