The Journal of Hellenic Studies 140, 2020

Research Articles

Kiichiro Itsumi, Anceps in Tragedy (1): Lyric Iambics, pp. 1–33

Delphine Ackermann / Clément Sarrazanas, The abolition of the liturgical chorēgia and the creation of the agōnothesia in Athens: new considerations on a debated issue, pp. 34–68

Andrew M. Hill, Hamilcar of Barce? Discerning Barcid proto-history and Polybius’ mixellēnes, pp. 69–105

Charles Delattre / Greta Hawes, Mythographical topography, textual materiality and the (dis)ordering of myth: the case of Antoninus Liberalis, pp. 106–119

Christopher P. Jones, The historian Philip of Pergamon, pp. 120–127

Peter Thonemann, Lysimache and Lysistrata, pp. 128–142

Wei Cheng, Speusippus, teleology and the metaphysics of value: Theophrastus’ Metaphysics 11a18–26, pp. 143–175

Thomas J. Nelson, Attalid aesthetics: the Pergamene ‘baroque’ reconsidered, pp. 176–198

Graziano Ranocchia, Is ϝ-shaped digamma attested as a numerical sign in Greek papyri? Once more on P.Herc. 1669 and P.Oxy. 1176, pp. 199–205

Felix J. Meister, Plutarch and the Spartan wedding ceremony, pp. 206–212

Richard Janko, Eclipse and plague: Themistocles, Pericles, Anaxagoras and the Athenians’ war on science, pp. 213–237

Reviews of Books

Literature

G.A. GAZIS Homer and the Poetics of Hades. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 253. £60. 9780198787266.
Ruth Scodel, p. 239

F.-H. MUTSCHLER (ed.) The Homeric Epics and the Chinese Book of Songs. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. Pp. xii + 497. £70.99. 9781527504004.
Richard Martin, pp. 239–240

S. PULLEYN Homer, Odyssey I. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 298. £75. 9780198788805.
Joel P. Christensen, pp. 241–242

J. GREGORY Cheiron’s Way: Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 344, illus. £55. 9780190857882.
Anactoria Clarke, pp. 242–243

S. RIDD Communication, Love, and Death in Homer and Virgil: An Introduction. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 258. $29.95. 9780806157290.
Sergio Casali, pp. 243–244

Z. STAMATOPOULOU Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry: Reception and Transformation in the Fifth Century BCE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. x + 270. £75. 9781107162990.
Paola Bassino, pp. 244–245

P. BASSINO, L.G. CANEVARO and B. GRAZIOSI (eds) Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. x + 228. £78.99. 9781107175747.
Maureen Alden, pp. 245–246

S.I. JOHNSTON The Story of Myth. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. 384. £36.95. 9780674185074.
Lowell Edmunds, pp. 246–247

F. BUDELMANN Greek Lyric: A Selection (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xvii + 321, illus. £74.99. 9780521633093.
Vayos J. Liapis, pp. 247–248

F. BUDELMANN and T. PHILLIPS (eds) Textual Events: Performance and the Lyric in Early Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 315. £65. 9780198805823.
Deborah Boedeker, pp. 248–249

F. SPELMAN Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 356. £75. 9780198821274.
David Fearn, pp. 249–250

D. FEARN Pindar’s Eyes: Visual and Material Culture in Epinician Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 352. $99. 9780198746379.
Robert De Brose, pp. 250–251

N. WEISS The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theatre. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. xiii + 284. £79.95. 9780520295902.
Isabelle Torrance, pp. 251–252

E. STEWART Greek Tragedy on the Move: The Birth of a Panhellenic Art Form c.500–300 BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xviii + 261. £65. 9780198747260.
Rush Rehm, pp. 252–253

H. KONISHI Sophokles’ Objectives in the Oidipous Turannos. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 2018. Pp. 235. €40. 9789025613358.
Doris Post, pp. 253–254

I. TORRANCE Euripides. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2019. Pp. 182. £16.99. 9781848856684.
Carl Shaw, pp. 254–255

R. HADAS Euripides: The Iphigenia Plays. New Verse Translations (Northwestern World Classics). Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi + 152. $18.95. 9780810137233.
Claire Catenaccio, pp. 255–256

C. COLLARD and J. MORWOOD (eds) Iphigenia at Aulis (2 vols) (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016. Pp. 656. £95. 9781911226468.
Margaret Day Elsner, pp. 256–257

I. TORRANCE Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy). London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. viii + 165. £65. 9781474234412.
Michael Lloyd, pp. 257–258

I.C. STOREY Aristophanes: Peace. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. Pp. 177, illus. £16.99. 9781350020214.
Naomi Scott, pp. 258–259

S.A. STEPHENS The Poets of Alexandria. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018. Pp. xiii + 194. £39.50. 9781848858794.
Richard Hunter, pp. 259–260

T. WHITMARSH Dirty Love: The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 201. $47.95. 9780199742653.
Edmund P. Cueva, pp. 260–261

L. ATHANASSAKI, C. NAPPA and A. VERGADOS (eds) Gods and Mortals in Greek and Latin Poetry: Studies in Honor of Jenny Strauss Clay (Ariadne Supplement Series 2). Rethymnon: School of Philosophy, University of Crete, 2018. Pp. 367, illus. €24. 9786188222922.
Jennifer Larson, pp. 261–262

J. HARRISSON (ed.) Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. xvi + 196. £115. 9781138299795.
Krešimir Matijević, pp. 262–263

G. HAWES Myths on the Map: The Storied Landscapes of Ancient Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xv + 332. £75. 9780198744771.
Paola Ceccarelli, pp. 263–264

L. PRATT and C.M. SAMPSON (eds) Engaging Classical Texts in the Contemporary World: From Narratology to Reception. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. Pp. 291. £67.50. 9780472131082.
Jan Haywood, pp. 264–265

History

L. LODDO Solone Demotikotatos: il legislatore e il politico nella cultura democratic ateniese (Quaderni di Erga-Logoi 9). Milan: L.E.D., 2018. Pp. 196. €26. 9788879168793.
P.J. Rhodes, p. 266

R. HATZILAMBROU Isaeus’ On the Estate of Pyrrhus (Oration 3). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. Pp. xii + 283. £61.99. 9781527515888.
Kerry Phelan, pp. 266–267

L.I. HAU, A. MEEUS and B. SHERIDAN (eds) Diodoros of Sicily: Historiographical Theory and Practice in the Bibliotheke (Studia Hellenistica 58). Leuven: Peeters, 2018. Pp. x + 612. €115. 9789042934986.
Phillip Harding, pp. 267–268

P. CECCARELLI, L. DOERING, T. FOGEN and I. GILDENHARD (eds) Letters and Communities: Studies in the Socio-political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. viii + 373. £80. 9780198804208.
Owen Hodkinson, pp. 268–269

M. ANDERSON, D. CAIRNS and M. SPREVAK (eds) Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Pp. 304. £125. 9781474429740.
Jennifer Devereaux, pp. 270–271

G. EKROTH and I. NILSSON (eds) Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition: Visits to the Underworld from Antiquity to Byzantium. Leiden: Brill, 2018. Pp. xvii + 397. €137. 9789004372665.
Yulia Ustinova, pp. 271–272

S. HITCH and I. RUTHERFORD (eds) Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 340. £78.99. 9780521191036.
Christina Aamont, pp. 272–273

Z. PAPAKONSTANTINOU Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 221, illus. £115. 9781472438225.
Paul Christesen, pp. 273–274

Art and Archaeology

G. VAVOURANAKIS, K. KOPANIAS and C. KANELLOPOULOS (eds) Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018. Pp. x + 170, illus. £32. 9781789690543.
Nanno Marinatos, pp. 274–275

P. STEELE Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xvii + 272, illus. £75. 9781107169678.
John Papadopoulos, pp. 275–276

S. CELESTINO and C. LOPEZ-RUIZ Tartessos and the Phoenicians in Iberia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 368. £88. 9780199672745.
Francisco José García Fernández, pp. 276–277

J. BOUZEK Studies of Homeric Greece. Prague: Charles University and Karolinum Press, 2018. Pp. 296. $30. 9788024635613.
Robin Osborne, pp. 277–278

G. ZUCHTRIEGEL Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece: Experience of the Nonelite Population. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 272. £80. 9781108292849.
David Lewis, pp. 278–279

E.C. PARTIDA and B. SCHMIDT-DOUNAS (eds) Listening to the Stones: Essays on Architecture and Function in Ancient Greek Sanctuaries in Honour of Richard Alan Tomlinson. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2019. Pp. x + 264, illus. £45. 9781789690873.
Niccolò Mugnai, p. 280

Philosophy

V. PIANO Il Papiro di Derveni tra religione e filosofia. Firenze: Olschki, 2016. Pp. 406. €50. 9788822264770.
Marco Antonio Santamaría, p. 281

C.S. CHRYSANTHOU Plutarch’s Parallel Lives: Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. Pp. 228. £72.50. 9783110572988.
Panayiotis Christoforou, p. 282

M. MEEUSEN and L. VAN DER STOCKT (eds) Natural Spectaculars: Aspects of Plutarch’s Philosophy of Nature. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2015. Pp. 253. €52. 9789462700437.
Katerina Oikonomopoulou, pp. 283–284

O. DUFAULT Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: California Classical Studies, 2019. Pp. 168. $29.95. 9781939926128.
Marina Escolano-Poveda, pp. 284–285

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

É. REBILLARD (ed.) Greek and Latin Narratives About the Ancient Martyrs (Oxford Early Christian Texts). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. viii + 403. $180. 9780198739579.
David N. Greenwood, pp. 285–286

D. MILLER and P. SARRIS (eds) The Novels of Justinian: A Complete Annotated English Translation (2 vols). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xix + 1192. £185. 9781107000926.
Stanislaw Turlej, pp. 286–287

A. NÉMETH The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 338. £75. 9781108423632.
Dariya Rafiyenko, pp. 287–288

N. GAUL, V. MENZE and C. BALINT (eds) Center, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos: From De Ceremoniis to De Administrando Imperio (Mainzer Veroffentlichungen zur Byzantinistik 15). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018. Pp. xvi + 300, illus. €72. 9783447109291.
Nathan Leidholm, pp. 288–289

E. McGEER and J.W. NESBITT Byzantium in the Time of Troubles: The Continuation of the Chronicle of John Skylitzes (1057–1079) (The Medieval Mediterranean 120). Brill: Leiden, 2020. Pp. 216. €93. 9789004418943.
Nicholas Morton, pp. 289–290

T. SHAWCROSS and I. TOTH (eds) Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 720, illus. £120. 9781108418416.
Averil Cameron, pp. 290–291

C. YURETICH The Chronicle of Constantine Manasses (Translated Texts for Byzantinists 6). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018. Pp. xvii + 320. £95. 9781786941510.
Adam J. Goldwyn, pp. 291–292

R. FRANSES Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art: The Vicissitudes of Contact between Human and Divine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii + 247. £75. 9781108290517.
Georgi Parpulov, pp. 292–293

A. PSONI The Image of the Feminine in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. Pp. xxxxv + 435, illus. £67.99. 9781527505827.
Brian Arkins, pp. 293–294

Reception and History of Scholarship

F. MACINTOSH, J. McCONNELL, S. HARRISON and C. KENWARD (eds) Epic Performances: From the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi + 643. £110. 9780198804215.
Jonathan L. Ready, pp. 294–295

E. WÅGHÄLL NIVRE (ed.) Allusions and Reflections: Greek and Roman Mythology in Renaissance Europe. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. Pp. 498. £57.99. 9781443874540.
Charlotte Brown, pp. 295–296

A. LIFSCHITZ and M. SQUIRE (eds) Rethinking Lessing’s Laocoon: Antiquity, Enlightenment and the ‘Limits’ of Painting and Poetry (Classical Presences). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 446. £84. 9780198802228.
Mathura Umachandran, pp. 296–297

R.D. MORRITT The Quest: John Morritt, His Travels to Troy, 1794–1796. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. Pp. ix + 135. £34.99. 9781443817745.
Naoíse Mac Sweeney, pp. 297–298

C. STRAY Classics in Britain: Scholarship, Education, and Publishing 1800–2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxvi + 385. £90. 9780199569373.
Peter Swallow, pp. 298–299

R. BRYANT-DAVIES Victorian Epic Burlesques: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Entertainments after Homer. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. 284, illus. £85. 9781350027176.
Laura Monrós–Gaspar, pp. 299–300

K. RILEY, A. BLANSHARD and I. MANNY (eds) Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 382. £79. 9780198789260.
Efterpi Mitsi, pp. 300–302

L. FLACK Modernism and Homer: The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 228. $113. 9781107108035.
Barbara Witucki, p. 302

L. LLEWELLYN-JONES Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. Pp. xiii + 418, illus. £24.99. 9780748675647.
Jon Solomon, p. 303

M. JANKA and M. STIERSTORFER (eds) Verjüngte Antike: griechisch-römische Mythologie und Historie in zeitgenössischen Kinder- und Jugendmedien (SEKL: Studien zur europäischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur 5). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, 2017. Pp. 392, illus. €45. 9783825367152.
Sonja Schreiner, pp. 304–305

E. BRIDGES and D. AL-AYAD (eds) Making Monsters: A Speculative and Classical Anthology. Futurefire.net Publishing, 2018. Pp. vii + 220. £10. 9780995726505.
Lisa Maurice, pp. 305–306

J.M. HUNT, R.A. SMITH and F. STOK Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception (Ashley and Peter Larkin Series in Greek and Roman Culture). Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. Pp. xi + 344. $29.95. 9781477313022.
Glenn Most, pp. 306–307

G.S. ALDRETE and A. ALDRETE The Long Shadow of Antiquity: What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us? London: Continuum, 2012. Pp. xii + 365, illus. £25. 9781441162472.
Richard Jenkyns, pp. 307–308

N. MORLEY Classics: Why it Matters. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018. Pp. 143. £35. 9781509517923.
Christine Plastow, pp. 308–309

Linguistics

C. COLLARD Colloquial Expressions in Greek Tragedy: Revised and Enlarged Edition of P.T. Stevens’ Colloquial Expressions in Euripides (Hermes Einzelschrift 113). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018. Pp. 255. €49. 9783515120555.
Michael Ewans, pp. 309–310

G.O. HUTCHINSON Plutarch’s Rhythmic Prose. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 339. £75. 9780198821717.
Juan Coderch, p. 310

Index of Books Reviewed, pp. 311–313