THE CLASSICAL REVIEW Volume 70 - Issue 01 - April 2020
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Reviews
ANCIENT GREEK DIALECTS – (G.K.) Giannakis, (E.) Crespo, (P.) Filos (edd.) Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects. From Central Greece to the Black Sea. (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume 49.) Pp. xviii + 599, ills, maps. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. Cased, £109, €119.95, US$137.99. ISBN: 978-3-11-053081-0. Patrick James The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 1 – 4 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002361 Published Online on 22 January 2020
NARRATOLOGY ANCIENT AND MODERN – (G.) Liveley Narratology. Pp. xii + 287. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £65, US$90. ISBN: 978-0-19-968770-1. Eva Von Contzen The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 4 – 6 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000190 Published Online on 11 February 2020
MUSIC AND MEANING IN GREEK CULTURE – (T.) Phillips, (A.) D'Angour (edd.) Music, Text, and Culture in Ancient Greece. Pp. xiv + 279, figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £65, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-879446-2. Caleb Simone The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 6 – 9 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900235X Published Online on 14 January 2020
EXAMPLES OF EKPHRASIS IN GREEK LITERATURE – (N.) Koopman Ancient Greek Ekphrasis: Between Description and Narration. Five Linguistic and Narratological Case Studies. (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 26.) Pp. x + 294, figs. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €110, US$132. ISBN: 978-90-04-37353-2. Nick Brown The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 9 – 11 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001653 Published Online on 9 October 2019
INSCRIPTIONS AND MATERIALITY – (A.) Petrovic, (I.) Petrovic, (E.) Thomas (edd.) The Materiality of Text – Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity. (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 11.) Pp. xviii + 416, b/w & colour ills, maps. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Cased, €118, US$142. ISBN: 978-90-04-37550-5. Eleri Cousins The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 11 – 14 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001720 Published Online on 11 October 2019
DIVINE SPECTATORS IN HOMER – (T.) Myers Homer's Divine Audience. The Iliad's Reception on Mount Olympus. Pp. xiv + 231, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £60, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-884235-4. Elizabeth Minchin The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 14 – 16 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000189 Published Online on 20 February 2020
THE ANCIENT READERS OF HOMER – (R.) Hunter The Measure of Homer. The Ancient Reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Pp. x + 254. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £34.99, US$44.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-42831-6. Antony Makrinos The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 16 – 18 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002373 Published Online on 24 January 2020
EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN HOMERIC AND TRAGIC TEXTS – (J.) Gregory Cheiron's Way. Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy. Pp. xxvi + 313, pls. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £55, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-085788-2. Helene P. Foley The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 18 – 20 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002038 Published Online on 3 December 2019
THE HOMERIC EPICS AS PRINCES’ MIRRORS – (J.) Klooster, (B.) van den Berg (edd.) Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond. (Mnemosyne Supplements 413.) Pp. x + 293. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €99, US$119. ISBN: 978-90-04-36581-0. G.A. Gazis The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 20 – 22 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900204X Published Online on 26 December 2019
ANCIENT GREEK EPIGRAMS IN CONTEXT – (M.) González González Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece. Reflections on Literature, Society and Religion. Pp. x + 213, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Cased, £85, US$115. ISBN: 978-1-350-06242-9. Sara Kaczko The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 23 – 24 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001975 Published Online on 21 November 2019
HEIDEGGER AND HERACLITUS – (M.) Heidegger Heraclitus. The Inception of Occidental Thinking and Logic: Heraclitus's Doctrine of the Logos. Translated by Julia Goesser Assaiante and S. Montgomery Ewegen. Pp. xviii + 309. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 (originally published as Heraklit. 1. Der Anfang des abendländischen Denkens. 2. Logik. Heraklits Lehre vom Logos, 1979). Paper, £19.99 (Cased, £65). ISBN: 978-0-8264-6241-1 (978-0-8264-6240-4 hbk). Hans Ruin The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 25 – 27 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001483 Published Online on 17 September 2019
THE CLASSIC IN CLASSICS – (T.A.) Hadjimichael The Emergence of the Lyric Canon. Pp. xx + 333, ills, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £70, US$100. ISBN: 978-0-19-881086-5. Marios Skempis The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 27 – 28 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000244 Published Online on 27 February 2020
A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF EURIPIDES – (L.K.) Mcclure (ed.) A Companion to Euripides. Pp. xvi + 614. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2017. Cased, £148, US$195. ISBN: 978-1-119-25750-9. Poppy Steel Swayne The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 29 – 31 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X2000013X Published Online on 2 March 2020
A COMMENTARY ON EURIPIDES’ TROADES – (D.) Kovacs Euripides: Troades. Pp. xiv + 370. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £90, US$124.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-929615-6. Robin Mitchell-Boyask The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 32 – 34 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001525 Published Online on 19 September 2019
THE HIPPOCRATIC CORPUS – (P.E.) Pormann (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates. Pp. xx + 441. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Paper, £26.99, US$37.99 (Cased, £75, US$105). ISBN: 978-1-107-69584-9 (978-1-107-06820-9 hbk). Jane Draycott The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 34 – 36 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000049 Published Online on 31 January 2020
MIND AND BODY IN ANCIENT GREEK THOUGHT – (E.N.) Ostenfeld Ancient Greek Psychology and the Modern Mind–Body Debate. Second edition. Pp. 179. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2018 (first edition 1987). Paper, €32.50. ISBN: 978-3-89665-759-6. David G. Welch The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 36 – 37 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001756 Published Online on 11 October 2019
AN ENGLISH COMMENTARY ON THE ANABASIS – (L.) Huitink, (T.) Rood (edd.) Xenophon: Anabasis Book III. Pp. xvi + 219, ill., maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Paper, £22.99, US$29.99 (Cased, £69.99, US$89.99). ISBN: 978-1-107-43743-2 (978-1-107-07923-6 hbk). Jan Haywood The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 38 – 39 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002063 Published Online on 21 November 2019
SOCRATES IN PLATO AND XENOPHON – (N.) Denyer (ed.) Plato: the Apology of Socrates and Xenophon: the Apology of Socrates. Pp. xii + 148. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Paper, £19.99, US$25.99 (Cased, £64.99, US$84.99). ISBN: 978-0-521-14582-4 (978-0-521-76537-4 hbk). Hayden W. Ausland The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 40 – 42 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002105 Published Online on 10 January 2020
ARISTOTLE AND PRESCRIPTION – (F.) Alesse Aristotle on Prescription. Deliberation and Rule-Making in Aristotle's Practical Philosophy. (Philosophia Antiqua 152.) Pp. xii + 273. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Cased, €151, US$182. ISBN: 978-90-04-38538-2. Tom Angier The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 42 – 44 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001732 Published Online on 9 October 2019
ARISTOTLE ON HOMER – (R.) Mayhew Aristotle's Lost Homeric Problems. Textual Studies. Pp. xxvi + 224, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £60, US$75. ISBN: 978-0-19-883456-4. Yoav Rinon The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 44 – 46 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002087 Published Online on 21 November 2019
ALEXANDRIA AND ITS POETS – (S.A.) Stephens The Poets of Alexandria. Pp. xiv + 194, maps. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018. Paper, £12.99, US$20. ISBN: 978-1-84885-880-0 (978-1-84885-879-4 hbk). Taylor S. Coughlan The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 46 – 48 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001707 Published Online on 29 October 2019
AN INTRODUCTION TO CALLIMACHUS – (R.) Rawles Callimachus. Pp. vi + 139. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Paper, £16.99, US$22.95 (Cased, £50, US$68). ISBN: 978-1-4742-5485-4 (978-1-4742-5486-1 hbk). S.A. Stephens The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 48 – 50 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900163X Published Online on 17 September 2019
THE WORLD OF GREEK EPIGRAM – (M.) Kanellou, (I.) Petrovic, (C.) Carey (edd.) Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era. Pp. xx + 439, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £85, US$120. ISBN: 978-0-19-883682-7. Christos Tsagalis The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 50 – 52 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000165 Published Online on 11 February 2020
DIONYSIUS BETWEEN GREECE AND ROME – (R.) Hunter, (C.C.) De Jonge (edd.) Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome. Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography. Pp. x + 300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £75, US$105. ISBN: 978-1-108-47490-0. Emma Nicholson The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 52 – 55 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002269 Published Online on 10 January 2020
PHILO AND JOSEPHUS IN THEIR EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT – (E.) Koskenniemi Greek Writers and Philosophers in Philo and Josephus. A Study of Their Secular Education and Educational Ideals. (Studies in Philo of Alexandria 9.) Pp. x + 352. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Cased, €138, US$166. ISBN: 978-90-04-39193-2. Jordan Cardenas The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 55 – 58 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001847 Published Online on 29 October 2019
PLUTARCH AND ETYMOLOGY – (F.) Padovani Sulle tracce del dio. Teonimi ed etimologia in Plutarco. Pp. 281. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2018. Paper, €28.80. ISBN: 978-3-89665-737-4. Analía Sapere The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 58 – 59 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002270 Published Online on 10 January 2020
NARRATIVE AND ETHICAL REFLECTION IN PLUTARCH – (C.S.) Chrysanthou Plutarch's Parallel Lives – Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement. (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume 57.) Pp. x + 228. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. Cased, £72.50, €79.95, US$91.99. ISBN: 978-3-11-057298-8. Alessio Ruta The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 60 – 62 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001550 Published Online on 18 September 2019
OLD COMEDY AND IMPERIAL LITERATURE – (A.) Peterson Laughter on the Fringes. The Reception of Old Comedy in the Imperial Greek World. Pp. x + 230. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £64, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-19-069709-9. M.B. Trapp The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 62 – 64 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000153 Published Online on 11 February 2020
STUDIES IN THE RECEPTION OF GALEN – (P.) Bouras-Vallianatos, (B.) Zipser (edd.) Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen. (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 17.) Pp. xxvi + 684, b/w & colour ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Cased, €180, US$217. ISBN: 978-90-04-30221-1. Aileen R. Das The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 64 – 67 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002117 Published Online on 13 January 2020
PYRRHONIAN SCEPTICISM – (R.) Bett How to Be a Pyrrhonist. The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Skepticism. Pp. xvi + 263. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-47107-7. Roger E. Eichorn The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 67 – 69 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001781 Published Online on 11 October 2019
THE ALEXANDER ROMANCE – (R.) Stoneman, (K.) Nawotka, (A.) Wojciechowska (edd.) The Alexander Romance: History and Literature. (Ancient Narrative Supplementum 25.) Pp. xvi + 322, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour maps. Groningen: Barkhuis & Groningen University Library, 2018. Cased, €95. ISBN: 978-949244471-4.1 Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 70 – 72 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002282 Published Online on 20 December 2019
A COMMENTRY ON QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS – (G.P.) Tsomis Quintus Smyrnaeus: Originalität und Rezeption im zehnten Buch der Posthomerica. Ein Kommentar. (Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium 103.) Pp. 352. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2018. Paper, €45. ISBN: 978-3-86821-752-0. C.A. Maciver The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 73 – 74 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002051 Published Online on 20 December 2019
GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS’ EPISTOLARY – (B.K.) Storin Self-Portrait in Three Colors. Gregory of Nazianzus's Epistolary Autobiography. Pp. x + 261. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. Cased, £74, US$95. ISBN: 978-0-520-30413-0. Óscar Prieto Domínguez The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 74 – 76 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000219 Published Online on 11 February 2020
ANONYMISATION IN LATIN LITERATURE – (T.) Geue Author Unknown. The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome. Pp. xii + 361. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2019. Cased, £36.95, €40.50, US$45. ISBN: 978-0-674-98820-0. William Fitzgerald The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 76 – 78 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000207 Published Online on 20 February 2020
THE ‘WEAKER VOICE’ – (S.) Matzner, (S.) Harrison (edd.) Complex Inferiorities. The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature. Pp. xiv + 320, ill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £70, US$94. ISBN: 978-0-19-881406-1. Celia Campbell The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 78 – 81 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000062 Published Online on 31 January 2020
ANOTHER COMPANION TO ROMAN COMEDY – (M.T.) Dinter (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy. Pp. xxx + 412, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Paper, £26.99, US$34.99 (Cased, £79.99, US$105). ISBN: 978-0-521-17388-9 (978-1-107-00210-4 hbk). Anne Feltovich The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 81 – 84 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002385 Published Online on 24 January 2020
AN INTRODUCTION TO PLAUTUS’ CASINA – (D.) Christenson Plautus: Casina. Pp. x + 162. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Paper, £17.99, US$24.95 (Cased, £55, US$74). ISBN: 978-1-350-02053-5 (978-1-350-02054-2 hbk). Domenico Giordani The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 84 – 86 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001628 Published Online on 11 October 2019
TERENCE'S ANDRIA IN CONTEXT – (S.M.) Goldberg Terence: Andria. Pp. xiv + 141, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Paper, £17.99, US$24.95 (Cased, £55, US$74). ISBN: 978-1-350-02062-7 (978-1-350-02063-4 hbk). Ortwin Knorr The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 86 – 88 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002294 Published Online on 18 December 2019
CICERO'S ROLE IN EDUCATION – (G.) La Bua Cicero and Roman Education. The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship. Pp. xiv + 394. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £90, US$125. ISBN: 978-1-107-06858-2. Alison John The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 88 – 90 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001835 Published Online on 11 November 2019
THE ANTIQUARIAN VARRO – (I.) Leonardis Varrone, unus scilicet antiquorum hominum. Senso del passato e pratica antiquaria. (Biblioteca di Athenaeum 62.) Pp. 273. Bari: Edipuglia, 2019. Paper, €35. ISBN: 978-88-7228-890-0. Wolfgang D.C. de Melo The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 90 – 92 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000232 Published Online on 13 February 2020
LUCRETIUS AND ORDER – (E.M.) Noller Die Ordnung der Welt. Darstellungsformen von Dynamik, Statik und Emergenz in Lukrez’ De Rerum Natura. (Bibliothek der Klassischen Altertumswissenschaften 158.) Pp. 257. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2019. Cased, €45. ISBN: 978-3-8253-6842-5. Jason S. Nethercut The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 92 – 94 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002324 Published Online on 31 January 2020
SALLUST'S HISTORIES AND HISTORIOGRAPHY – (J.) Gerrish Sallust's Histories and Triumviral Historiography. Confronting the End of History. Pp. x + 157. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Cased, £105, US$150. ISBN: 978-1-138-21856-7. Edwin Shaw The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 94 – 96 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002403 Published Online on 22 January 2020
A REVISED COMPANION TO VIRGIL – (F.) Mac Góráin, (C.) Martindale (edd.) The Cambridge Companion to Virgil. Second edition. Pp. xvi + 549, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019 (first edition, 1997). Paper, £29.99, US$39.99 (Cased, £89.99, US$120). ISBN: 978-1-316-62134-9 (978-1-107-17018-6 hbk). Elina Pyy The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 96 – 99 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002397 Published Online on 24 January 2020
TENSE AND NARRATOLOGY IN VIRGIL'S AENEID – (S.M.) Adema Tenses in Vergil's Aeneid. Narrative Style and Structure. (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 31.) Pp. x + 306. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Cased, €105, US$126. ISBN: 978-90-04-38324-1. Jessica McCutcheon The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 99 – 101 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000050 Published Online on 31 January 2020
BIOGRAPHIES OF VIRGIL – (A.) Powell, (P.) Hardie (edd.) The Ancient Lives of Virgil. Literary and Historical Studies. Pp. xiv + 210. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2017. Cased, £64. ISBN: 978-1-910589-61-8. Talitha Kearey The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 101 – 103 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002233 Published Online on 18 December 2019
THE CONCEPT OF THE CHORUS IN AUGUSTAN POETRY – L. Curtis Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry. Pp. xvi + 268. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £78.99, US$105. ISBN: 978-1-107-18878-5. Brittney Szempruch The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 104 – 106 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002130 Published Online on 20 December 2019
PROPERTIUS AND VIRGIL IN DIALOGUE – (P.J.) Heslin Propertius, Greek Myth, and Virgil. Rivalry, Allegory, and Polemic. Pp. xii + 304. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £65, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-954157-7. P. Lowell Bowditch The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 106 – 108 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002154 Published Online on 23 December 2019
POMPONIUS SECUNDUS: A FRAGMENTARY AUTHOR – (R.) Degl'innocenti Pierini Pomponio Secondo: profilo di un poeta tragico ‘minore’ (e altri studi su poesia latina in frammenti). (Testi e Manuali per l'Insegnamento Universitario del Latino 144.) Pp. 158. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2018. Paper, €18. ISBN: 978-88-555-3441-3. Giuseppe Eugenio Rallo The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 108 – 110 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001963 Published Online on 18 November 2019
COMMENTS ON OVID'S FASTI – (S.J.) Heyworth (ed.) Ovid: Fasti, Book III. Pp. x + 288. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Paper, £24.99, US$32.99 (Cased, £74.99, US$99.99). ISBN: 978-1-107-60246-5 (978-1-107-01647-7 hbk). Morgan E. Palmer The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 110 – 112 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001884 Published Online on 30 October 2019
THE TEXT OF LIVY'S AB URBE CONDITA – (J.) Briscoe Liviana. Studies on Livy. Pp. xiv + 256. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £60, US$78. ISBN: 978-0-19-882468-8. Virginia Fabrizi The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 113 – 114 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001604 Published Online on 17 September 2019
FEMALE DISCOURSE(-S) IN SENECA'S TRAGEDIES? – (M.) Vandersmissen Discours des personnages féminins chez Sénèque. Approches logométriques et contrastives d'un corpus théâtral. (Collection Latomus 359.) Pp. 399, figs. Brussels: Éditions Latomus, 2019. Paper, €68. ISBN: 978-90-429-3796-3. Simona Martorana The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 114 – 116 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001537 Published Online on 18 September 2019
IDENTITY IN SENECA'S TRAGEDIES – (E.) Calabrese Aspetti dell'identità relazionale nelle tragedie di Seneca. (Testi e Manuali per l'Insegnamento Universitario del Latino 137.) Pp. 190. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2017. Paper, €23. ISBN: 978-88-555-3386-7. Erica Bexley The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 117 – 118 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001938 Published Online on 21 November 2019
SENECA'S MEDEA IN CONTEXT – (H.) Slaney Seneca: Medea. Pp. vi + 198, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Cased, £70, US$95. ISBN: 978-1-4742-5861-6. Matthew Payne The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 119 – 121 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001501 Published Online on 17 September 2019
THE ROLE OF WATER IN SILIUS ITALICUS’ EPIC – (H.) Haselmann Gewässer als Schauplätze und Akteure in den Punica des Silius Italicus. (Orbis Antiquus 53.) Pp. 339. Münster: Aschendorff, 2018. Paper, €44. ISBN: 978-3-402-14461-9. Antony Augoustakis The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 121 – 122 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001471 Published Online on 17 September 2019
JUVENAL AND GLOBALISATION – (O.) Umurhan Juvenal's Global Awareness. Circulation, Connectivity, and Empire. Pp. x + 190, map. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Cased, £105, US$140. ISBN: 978-1-138-12530-8.1 Gergő Gellérfi The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 122 – 124 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001690 Published Online on 14 October 2019
PLINY AND IMITATIO – (C.) Whitton The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose. Pliny's Epistles/Quintilian in Brief. Pp. xviii + 557, ill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £110, US$140. ISBN: 978-1-108-47657-7. Victoria Rimell The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 124 – 126 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000141 Published Online on 20 February 2020
‘LAW AND LITERATURE’ IN TACITUS – (J.) Petersen Recht bei Tacitus. Pp. xx + 617. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. Cased, £72.50, €79.95, US$91.99. ISBN: 978-3-11-057988-8. Kimberley Czajkowski The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 126 – 128 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900218X Published Online on 23 December 2019
TACITUS AND RELIGION – (K.E.) Shannon-Henderson Religion and Memory in Tacitus' Annals. Pp. x + 414. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £90, US$119.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-883276-8. Matt Myers The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 128 – 130 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001641 Published Online on 19 September 2019
APULEIUS AND THE INVISIBLE – (G.C.) Benson Apuleius’ Invisible Ass. Encounters with the Unseen in the Metamorphoses. Pp. xii + 299. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-47555-6. Janja Soldo The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 131 – 132 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002208 Published Online on 18 December 2019
THE SCHOLARSHIP ON AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS – (F.W.) Jenkins Ammianus Marcellinus. An Annotated Bibliography, 1474 to the Present. Pp. xviii + 665. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Cased, €199, US$217. ISBN: 978-90-04-32029-1. Gavin Kelly The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 132 – 134 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900146X Published Online on 18 September 2019
VARIATIONS OF THE TROJAN MYTH – (G.) Brescia, (M.) Lentano, (G.) Scafoglio, (V.) Zanusso (edd.) Revival and Revision of the Trojan Myth. Studies on Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius. (Spudasmata 177.) Pp. 398. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2018. Paper, €74. ISBN: 978-3-487-15681-1. Alexandra Trachsel The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 134 – 136 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000025 Published Online on 31 January 2020
THE CHARACTER OF LATE ANTIQUE LATIN POETRY – (P.) Hardie Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry. (Sather Classical Lectures 74.) Pp. viii + 293. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. Cased, £40. US$49.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-29577-3. Aaron Pelttari The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 136 – 138 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000074 Published Online on 31 January 2020
PRISCIAN'S LEXICON OF ATTICISM – (E.) Spangenberg Yanes (ed.) Prisciani Caesariensis Ars, liber XVIII. Pars altera 2. Commento. (Collectanea Grammatica Latina 13.2.2.) Pp. lxxii + 527. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2017. Paper, €89. ISBN: 978-3-615-00432-8. Franck Cinato The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 138 – 141 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002026 Published Online on 13 January 2020
DEFINITIONS OF A SLAVE SOCIETY – (N.) Lenski, (C.M.) Cameron (edd.) What is a Slave Society? The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective. Pp. xviii + 508, figs, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £105, US$135. ISBN: 978-1-107-14489-7. Keith Bradley The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 142 – 144 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001859 Published Online on 4 December 2019
ANCIENT VIEWS ON NON-EROTIC LOVE – (D.) Konstan In the Orbit of Love. Affection in Ancient Greece and Rome. Pp. xiv + 212. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £19.99, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-088787-2. Matthew Johncock The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 145 – 146 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002142 Published Online on 22 January 2020
COUPLES AND POWER RELATIONS – (A.) Bielman Sánchez (ed.) Power Couples in Antiquity. Transversal Perspectives. Pp. xii + 214, ills. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Cased, £115, US$140. ISBN: 978-1-138-57526-4. Peta Greenfield The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 147 – 149 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001951 Published Online on 18 November 2019
THE ROLE OF SCRIPTS IN ANCIENT CYPRUS – (P.M.) Steele Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus. Pp. xviii + 272, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £75, US$105. ISBN: 978-1-107-16967-8. Kyriaco Nikias The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 149 – 151 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001586 Published Online on 8 October 2019
GREEK LOCAL HISTORIOGRAPHY – (R.) Thomas Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World. Pp. xii + 490. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £105, US$135. ISBN: 978-1-107-19358-1. Carol Atack The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 151 – 153 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002099 Published Online on 3 December 2019
THEMES IN GREEK HISTORY – (Z.) Archibald, (J.) Haywood (edd.) The Power of Individual and Community in Ancient Athens and Beyond. Essays in Honour of John K. Davies. Pp. xxviii + 336, ills. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2019. Cased, £65. ISBN: 978-1-910589-73-1. Ilias N. Arnaoutoglou The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 153 – 156 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000128 Published Online on 27 February 2020
ASPECTS OF CITIZENSHIP – (A.) Duplouy, (R.) Brock (edd.) Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece. Pp. xiv + 370. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £80, US$105. ISBN: 978-0-19-881719-2. Lucia Cecchet The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 156 – 159 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002166 Published Online on 19 December 2019
THE POPULATION OF CLASSICAL ATHENS – (B.) Akrigg Population and Economy in Classical Athens. Pp. xii + 272. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-02709-1. Josine Blok The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 159 – 161 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900194X Published Online on 18 November 2019
ALCIBIADES – LIFE OF AN ILLUSTRIOUS MAN – (D.) Stuttard Nemesis. Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens. Pp. xviii + 380, ills, maps. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2018. Cased, £21.95, €27, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-66044-1. Jakub Filonik The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 161 – 163 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002245 Published Online on 13 January 2020
ASPECTS OF ANCIENT GREEK SPORT – (Z.) Papakonstantinou Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece. Pp. xiv + 221, ills. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Cased, £115, US$140. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3822-5. Georgios E. Mouratidis The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 163 – 165 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001999 Published Online on 21 November 2019
THE BIOGRAPHY OF A QUEEN IN MACEDONIA – (E.D.) Carney Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power. Pp. xxii + 178, ills, map. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £41.99, US$65. ISBN: 978-0-19-028053-6. Sophia Kremydi The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 165 – 167 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000177 Published Online on 27 February 2020
ALEXANDER'S RECEPTION IN ROME – (J.) Peltonen Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire, 150 bc to ad 600. Pp. x + 260, fig., ills. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Cased, £115, US$140. ISBN: 978-1-138-31586-0. Pat Wheatley The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 168 – 170 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002221 Published Online on 18 December 2019
ZENOBIA AND PALMYRA – (N.J.) Andrade Zenobia. Shooting star of Palmyra. Pp. xx + 284, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £22.99, US$35. ISBN: 978-0-19-063881-8. Byron Waldron The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 170 – 172 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001744 Published Online on 11 October 2019
ALCHEMY IN ANTIQUITY – (O.) Dufault Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity. (California Classical Studies 7.) Pp. x + 168. Berkeley, CA: Department of Classics, University of California, 2019. Paper, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-1-939926-12-8. Shannon Grimes The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 172 – 174 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001987 Published Online on 19 November 2019
AN OVERVIEW OF ROMAN HISTORY – (C.E.) Schultz, (A.M.) Ward, (F.M.) Heichelheim, (C.A.) Yeo A History of the Roman People. Seventh edition. Pp. xxvi + 755, ills, maps. London and New York: Routledge, 2019 (first edition 1962). Paper, £88.99, US$115.95 (Cased, £145, US$195). ISBN: 978-1-138-72469-3 (978-1-138-70889-1 hbk). Henrique Modanez de Sant Anna The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 174 – 176 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001914 Published Online on 19 November 2019
THE CUI BONO APPROACH TO ROME'S CONQUEST OF ITALY – (N.) Terrenato The Early Roman Expansion into Italy. Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas. Pp. xx + 327, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-42267-3. James Tan The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 176 – 178 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001872 Published Online on 11 November 2019
ROME AND THE SELEUCID EMPIRE – (A.) Coşkun, (D.) Engels (edd.) Rome and the Seleukid East. Selected Papers from Seleukid Study Day V, Brussels, 21–23 August 2015. (Collection Latomus 360.) Pp. 512. ills. Brussels: Éditions Latomus, 2019. Paper, €84. ISBN: 978-90-429-3927-1. Stephen Harrison The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 178 – 181 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002191 Published Online on 14 January 2020
ROMAN DOMESTIC MEDICINE? – (J.) Draycott Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy. From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire. Pp. xiv + 185, ills. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Cased, £115, US$140. ISBN: 978-1-4724-3396-1. Vivian Nutton The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 181 – 183 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001860 Published Online on 11 November 2019
AUGUSTUS’ FAILURE – (E.A.) Judge The Failure of Augustus. Essays on the Interpretation of a Paradox. Pp. xii + 393, ills. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. Cased, £64.99. ISBN: 978-1-5275-2592-4. Mads Ortving Lindholmer The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 183 – 185 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001902 Published Online on 19 November 2019
APPROACHING THE ROMAN ‘IMPERIAL CULT’ – (G.) McIntyre Imperial Cult. Pp. vi + 88. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Paper, €70, US$84. ISBN: 978-90-04-39836-8. Ryan W. Strickler The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 185 – 187 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002300 Published Online on 13 January 2020
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF NERO – (J.F.) Drinkwater Nero. Emperor and Court. Pp. xviii + 449, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £32.99, US$44.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-47264-7. Shushma Malik The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 188 – 190 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001719 Published Online on 11 October 2019
SECURITY IN IMPERIAL ROME – (C.) Ricci Security in Roman Times. Rome, Italy and the Emperors. Pp. xiv + 300, ills, maps. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Cased, £115, US$144.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-6015-8. Sandra Bingham The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 190 – 191 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000013 Published Online on 11 February 2020
ASPECTS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE – (E.) Dench Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World. Pp. xvi + 207, ills, map. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Paper, £19.99, US$27.99 (Cased, £59.99, US$84.99). ISBN: 978-0-521-00901-0 (978-0-521-81072-2 hbk). Fábio Faversani The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 191 – 193 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000086 Published Online on 11 February 2020
THE RULE OF CONSTANTIUS II – (M.) Moser Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II. Maintaining Imperial Rule Between Rome and Constantinople in the Fourth Century ad. Pp. xviii + 420, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £90, US$125. ISBN: 978-1-108-48101-4. Christine L. Greenlee The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 193 – 195 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000220 Published Online on 20 February 2020
THE ROLE OF THE CAPITOL IN ROME – (J.) Moralee Rome's Holy Mountain. The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity. Pp. xxvi + 278, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £47.99, US$74. ISBN: 978-0-19-049227-4. Andrea U. De Giorgi The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 195 – 197 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001793 Published Online on 12 November 2019
TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY – (J.W.) Drijvers, (N.) Lenski (edd.) The Fifth Century: Age of Transformation. Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference. Pp. 322, figs, ills, maps. Bari: Edipuglia, 2019. Cased, €60. ISBN: 978-88-7228-886-3. Jemma Underdown The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 197 – 200 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002129 Published Online on 18 December 2019
THE SASANIAN EMPIRE – (E.W.) Sauer (ed.) Sasanian Persia. Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia. Pp. xxii + 314, figs, ills, maps. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. Cased, £85. ISBN: 978-1-4744-0101-2. Parsa Ghasemi The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 200 – 203 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002336 Published Online on 14 January 2020
PHENOMENOLOGY OF MINOAN ARCHITECTURE – (C.) Palyvou Daidalos at Work. A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Minoan Architecture. Pp. xxxii + 254, b/w & colour ills, maps. Philadelphia: Instap Academic Press, 2018. Paper, £34, US$45. ISBN: 978-1-931534-94-9. Tia Sager The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 203 – 205 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001574 Published Online on 9 October 2019
VASES FROM VIENNA – (C.) Lang-Auinger, (S.) Karl, (B.) Kratzmüller (edd.) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Österreich. Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Band 6. Bronzezeitliche und eisenzeitliche Gefässe aus Zypern. Attisch geometrische und protoattische Gefässe. (Österreich, Band 7.) Pp. 139, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour pls. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2019. Cased, €139. ISBN: 978-3-7001-8267-2. Giorgos Bourogiannis The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 205 – 208 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000116 Published Online on 11 February 2020
COINS FROM SARDIS – (J.D.) Evans Coins from the Excavations at Sardis: their Archaeological and Economic Contexts. Coins from the 1973 to 2013 Excavations. (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monograph 13.) Pp. xxii + 305, b/w & colour pls. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2018. Cased, £64.95, €81, US$90. ISBN: 978-0-674-98725-8. John H. Kroll The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 208 – 209 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900180X Published Online on 11 November 2019
THE ETRUSCAN CITY OF VEII – (J.) Tabolli, (O.) Cerasuolo (edd.) Veii. Pp. xlii + 238, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour maps. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. Cased, US$55. ISBN: 978-1-4773-1725-9. Charlotte R. Potts The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 210 – 212 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001513 Published Online on 20 September 2019
SOUTH-ITALIAN VASE-PAINTING AND CULTURAL INFLUENCES – (U.) Kästner, (S.) Schmidt (edd.) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Deutschland. Band VIII. Inszenierung von Identitäten. Unteritalische Vasenmalerei zwischen Griechen und Indigenen. Pp. 167, fig., ills, maps. Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommission bei C.H. Beck, 2018. Cased, €59.90. ISBN: 978-3-7696-3779-3. B. Peruzzi The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 212 – 215 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002257 Published Online on 13 January 2020
BUILDING ACTIVITY IN REPUBLICAN ROME – (S.) Bernard Building Mid-Republican Rome. Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy. Pp. xviii + 315, figs, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £55, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-087878-8. Niccolò Mugnai The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 215 – 217 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001598 Published Online on 17 September 2019
THE PURPOSE-BUILT BROTHEL OF POMPEII – (S.) Levin-Richardson The Brothel of Pompeii. Sex, Class, and Gender at the Margins of Roman Society. Pp. xx+243, fig., ills, maps, colour pls. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-49687-2. Damian Robinson The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 217 – 219 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002312 Published Online on 24 January 2020
URBANISATION IN ROMAN SICILY – (L.) Pfuntner Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily. Pp. x + 306, ills, maps. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. Cased, US$55. ISBN: 978-1-4773-1722-8. Kristian Göransson The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 219 – 221 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001562 Published Online on 19 September 2019
NEW INSIGHTS INTO PALAEOHISPANISTICS – (A.J.) Sinner, (J.) Velaza (edd.) Palaeohispanic Languages and Epigraphies. Pp. xx + 483, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £120. ISBN: 978-0-19-879082-2. Silvia Tantimonaco The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 221 – 224 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002075 Published Online on 3 December 2019
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS ON DEATH AND IMMORTALITY – (A.G.) Long Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy. Pp. viii + 232. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £74.99, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-08659-3. Stephen Hetherington The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 224 – 226 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001896 Published Online on 29 October 2019
THE PHILOSOPHER ANTIOCHUS – (G.) Tsouni Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics. Pp. xii + 233. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £75, US$105. ISBN: 978-1-108-42058-7. Gisela Striker The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 226 – 228 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001811 Published Online on 25 October 2019
TYPES OF FAMILY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD – (S.R.) Huebner, (G.) Nathan (edd.) Mediterranean Families in Antiquity. Households, Extended Families, and Domestic Space. Pp. xii + 352, figs, ills, maps. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2017. Cased, £110, US$144.95. ISBN: 978-1-119-14369-7. John P. Nielsen The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 228 – 231 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001616 Published Online on 8 October 2019
FAMILY LIFE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD – (K.B.) Johannsen, (J.H.) Petersen (edd.) Family Lives. Aspects of Life and Death in Ancient Families. (Acta Hyperborea 15.) Pp. 341, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour maps. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2019. Paper, DKK398, €54, US$61. ISBN: 978-87-635-4639-3.1 Christian Laes The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 231 – 233 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001495 Published Online on 18 September 2019
ANNA PERENNA – (G.) Mcintyre, (S.) Mccallum (edd.) Uncovering Anna Perenna. A Focused Study of Roman Myth and Culture. Pp. xiv + 242, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Cased, £85, US$114. ISBN: 978-1-350-04843-0. Tara S. Welch The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 234 – 236 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000098 Published Online on 2 March 2020
PERSPECTIVES ON HERMES – (J.F.) Miller, (J.) Strauss Clay (edd.) Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury. Pp. xxiv + 378, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £80, US$115. ISBN: 978-0-19-877734-2. K.F.B. Fletcher The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 236 – 239 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900177X Published Online on 11 October 2019
GODDESSES IN THE BOSPORUS – (D.) Braund Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region. Goddesses in the Bosporan Kingdom from the Archaic Period to the Byzantine Era. Pp. xvi + 314, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-18254-7. John Brendan Knight The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 239 – 241 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001926 Published Online on 21 November 2019
CONDITIONS FOR TRADE IN ANTIQUITY – (T.) Terpstra Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean. Private Order and Public Institutions. Pp. x + 274, figs, ills, maps. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Cased, £30, US$39.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17208-8. Raoul McLaughlin The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 241 – 243 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002014 Published Online on 3 December 2019
TRADE NETWORKS AROUND THE SAHARA – (D.J.) Mattingly, (V.) Leitch, (C.N.) Duckworth, (A.) Cuénod, (M.) Sterry, (F.) Cole (edd.) Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond. Pp. xviii + 449, b/w & colour figs, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £90, US$120. ISBN: 978-1-107-19699-5. J. Andrew Dufton The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 244 – 246 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002348 Published Online on 24 January 2020
TWO STUDIES ON ANCIENT MAGIC – (D.) Frankfurter (ed.) Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic. (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 189.) Pp. xx + 797, b/w & colour ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Cased, €249, US$299. ISBN: 978-90-04-17157-2. – (L.C.) Watson Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome. Pp. x + 248, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Paper, £19.99, US$26.95 (Cased, £65, US$88). ISBN: 978-1-78831-298-1 (9781-78831-297-4 hbk). Leonardo Costantini The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 247 – 249 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900221X Published Online on 18 December 2019
THE DICTIONARY OF LATE ANTIQUITY – (O.) Nicholson (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Volume 1: A–I. Volume 2: J–Z. Pp. lxxxiv + xii + 1637. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £195, US$255. ISBN: 978-0-19-881624-9 (vol. 1), 978-0-19-881625-6 (vol. 2), 978-0-19-866277-8 (set). Meaghan McEvoy The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 250 – 253 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002178 Published Online on 15 January 2020
MAXIMIANUS RENASCENS – (P.) White Gallus Reborn. A Study of the Diffusion and Reception of Works Ascribed to Gaius Cornelius Gallus. Pp. vi + 75. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Cased, £45, US$60. ISBN: 978-0-367-20059-6. Gary Vos The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 254 – 256 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002415 Published Online on 13 January 2020
CONTEMPORARY TEXTS AND THE UNDERWORLD – (J.) Fletcher Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture. The Backward Gaze. Pp. xii + 224, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £60, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-876709-1. Anthony Walker-Cook The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 256 – 257 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000104 Published Online on 20 February 2020
CLASSICAL RECEPTION IN EAST ASIA – (A.-B.) Renger, (X.) Fan (edd.) Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia. (Metaforms 13.) Pp. xxii + 472, ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Cased, €189, US$227. ISBN: 978-90-04-34012-1. Jingyi Jenny Zhao The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 258 – 260 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001823 Published Online on 25 October 2019
THE CLASSICS IN AUSTRALIA – (M.) Johnson (ed.) Antipodean Antiquities. Classical Reception Down Under. Pp. xii + 293, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Cased, £85. ISBN: 978-1-350-02123-5. Victoria Jennings The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 261 – 263 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19002002 Published Online on 18 November 2019
QUEER CLASSICS – (J.) Ingleheart Masculine Plural. Queer Classics, Sex, and Education. Pp. x + 344. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £75, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-19-881967-7. Jeffrey Murray The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 264 – 266 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001768 Published Online on 8 October 2019
ALFRED HITCHCOCK AND THE CLASSICS – (M.W.) Padilla Classical Myth in Alfred Hitchcock's Wrong Man and Grace Kelly Films. Pp. xl + 371, ills. Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2019. Cased, £80, US$120. ISBN: 978-1-4985-6350-5. Melenia Arouh The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 266 – 268 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001689 Published Online on 11 October 2019
CLASSICS AND COMICS 2 – (G.) Kovacs, (C.W.) Marshall (edd.) Son of Classics and Comics. Pp. xxx + 250, ills. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Paper, £24.99, US$32.95 (Cased, £79, US$105). ISBN: 978-0-19-026889-3 (978-0-19-026888-6 hbk). Oliver Gerlach The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 268 – 270 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001458 Published Online on 18 September 2019
‘DEAD WHITE MEN’ AND CLASSICS – (D.) Zuckerberg Not All Dead White Men. Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age. Pp. viii + 270. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2018. Cased, £20, €25, US$27.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-97555-2. Mathura Umachandran The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 271 – 273 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000037 Published Online on 31 January 2020
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(J.R.) Cross Hippocratic Oratory. The Poetics of Early Greek Medical Prose. Pp. x + 159. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Cased, £110. ISBN: 978-1-4724-7415-5. Elizabeth Craik The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 275 – 275 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001549 Published Online on 17 September 2019
(J.) Boardman Alexander the Great. From His Death to the Present Day. Pp. xii + 160, ills, colour pls. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Cased, £24, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-18175-2. Laura Conroy The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 276 – 276 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001677 Published Online on 8 October 2019
(J.) Neel Early Rome: Myth and Society. A Sourcebook. Pp. xviii + 318, ills, maps. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2017. Paper, £34.50, US$44.95 (Cased, £75.95, US$99.95). ISBN: 978-1-119-08380-1 (978-1-119-08379-5 hbk). James Crooks The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 277 – 277 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001665 Published Online on 17 September 2019
Books received
Books Received 70.1 The Classical Review, Volume 70 / Issue 1, April 2020, pp 279 – 291 doi: 10.1017/S0009840X20000256 Published Online on 2 March 2020