The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Volume 131, 2011

Research Articles

Timothy G. Barnes, Homeric androteta kai eben, pp 1–13

Alexander Dale, Alcaeus on the career of Myrsilos: Greeks, Lydians and Luwians at the east Aegean-west Anatolian interface, pp 15–24

Christopher A. Faraone, Curses, crime detection and conflict resolution at the festival of Demeter Thesmophoros, pp 25–44

Robert L. Fowler, Mythos and logos, pp 45–66

Kelli Rudolph, Democritus' perspectival theory of vision, pp 67–83

Alan H. Sommerstein, Once more the end of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, pp 85–93

Hans Van Wees, Demetrius and Draco: Athens' property classes and population in and before 317 BC, pp 95–114

Kostas Vlassopoulos, Greek slavery: from domination to property and back again, pp 115–130

David Wolfsdorf, Prodicus on the correctness of names: the case of terpsis, chara and euphrosyne, pp 131–145

Alexei V. Zadorojnyi, The ethico-politics of writing in Plutarch's Life of Dion, pp 147–163

Reviews of Books

(E.) Fantham and (M.) Gagarin Eds. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 7 vols, illus. £625. 9780195170726.
Robin Osborne, pp 165–166

Reviews of Books: Literature

(R.) Lane Fox Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer. London and New York: Allen Lane, 2008. Pp. 517. £25. 9780713999808.
Gregory Nagy, pp 166–169

(R.G.A.) Buxton Forms of Astonishment: Greek Myths of Metamorphosis. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 281, illus. £50. 9780199245499.
Susan Deacy, pp 169–169

(U.) Dill and (C.) Walde Eds. Antike Mythen. Medien, Transformationen und Konstruktionen. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. Pp. xii + 760. €169.95. 9783110209099.
Etienne Dunant, pp 170–171

(D.) Steiner Homer Odyssey Books XVII and XVIII. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 242. £55/$95. 9780521859837 (hbk). £19.99/$34.99. 9780521677110 (pbk).
A.F. Garvie, pp 171–172

(W.C.) Scott The Artistry of the Homeric Simile. Hanover NH: Dartmouth College Library and Dartmouth College Press, 2009. Pp. viii + 267. 9781584657972.
Ruth Scodel, pp 172–173

(A.) Trachsel La Troade: un Paysage et son Héritage Littéraire. Les Commentaires Antiques sur la Troade, leur Genèse et leur Influence. Basel: Schwabe, 2007. Pp. xx + 501. €40.50. 9783796522543.
Johannes Haubold, pp 173–174

(F.) Montanari, (A.) Rengakos and (C.) Tsagalis Eds. Brill's Companion to Hesiod. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Pp. ix + 430. €160. 9789004178403.
Lilah-Grace Fraser, pp 174–175

(K.) Itsumi Pindaric Metre: the ‘Other Half’. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xx + 464. £88. 9780199229611.
W.B. Henry, pp 175–176

(A.) Neumann-Hartmann Epinikien und ihr Aufführungsrahmen (Nikephoros Beihefte 17). Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2009. Pp. xi + 347. €58. 9783615003697.
Peter Agocs, pp 176–177

(L.) Athanassaki Aeideto Pan Temenos: hoi Chorikes Parastaseis kai to Koino tous stēn Archaïkē kai Prōimē Klasikē Periodo. Herakleio: Crete University Press, 2009. Pp. 385, illus. €22. 9789605242923.
Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi, pp 178–178

(K.H.) Bohrer Das Tragische: Erscheinung, Pathos, Klage. Munich: Hanser Verlag, 2009. Pp. 412. €24.90. 9783446230798.
(C.) Menke Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett. Tr. J. Phillips. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 232. $55. 9780231145565.
Joshua Billings, pp 179–180

(L.A.) Swift The Hidden Chorus: Echoes of Genre in Tragic Lyric (Oxford Classical Monographs). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 451. £75. 9780199577842.
Luigi Battezzato, pp 180–181

(E.M.) Harris, (D.F.) Leão and (P.J.) Rhodes Eds. Law and Drama in Ancient Greece. London: Duckworth, 2010. Pp. 208. £45. 9780715638927.
David Carter, pp 181–182

(J.) Jouanna, (F.) Montanari and (A.-C.) Hernández Eds. Eschyle à l'aube du théâtre occidental: neuf exposés suivis de discussions (Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique 55). Vandœuvres-Geneva: Fondation Hardt, 2009. Pp. xi + 510. Sw.Fr.85. 9782600007559.
Michael Lloyd, pp 183–184

(D.J.) Mastronarde The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii + 361. £60. 9780521768399.
R.B. Rutherford, pp 184–185

(N.G.) Wilson Aristophanis Fabulae 1: Acharnenses, Equites, Nubes, Vespae, Pax, Aves. 2: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, Ranae, Ecclesiazusae, Plutus. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. Pp. ix + 427 + 326. Vol. 1: £19.50. 9780198721802. Vol. 2: £19.50. 9780198721819.
(N.G.) Wilson Aristophanea: Studies on the Text of Aristophanes. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. x + 218. £50. 9780199282999.
Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, pp 185–186

(C.) Orth Ed. Strattis. Die Fragmente. Ein Kommentar (Studia Comica 2). Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2009. Pp. 328. 9783938032329.
Mario Telò, pp 186–187

(E.) Bakola Cratinus and the Art of Comedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 380, illus. £65. 9780199569359.
Sarah Miles, pp 187–188

(W.D.) Furley Menander Epitrepontes. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2009. Pp. xi + 290, illus. £45. 9781905670253.
S. Ireland, pp 188–189

(B.) Acosta-Hughes Arion's Lyre. Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii + 252. £27.95. 9780691095257.
Richard Rawles, pp 189–190

(E.) Gunderson Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 355. £50/$90. 9780521860543 (hbk). £18.99/$34.99. 9780521677868 (pbk).
Gunther Martin, pp 190–191

(A.C.) Purves Space and Time in Ancient Greek Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xi + 273. £50. 9780521190985.
Elton Barker, pp 192–193

(D.W.) Roller Eratosthenes' Geography. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 304. $49.50/£34.95. 9780691142678.
Richard Hunter, pp 193–194

(B.) McGing Polybius' Histories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 270. £34. 9780195310320.
Craige B. Champion, pp 194–195

(A.) Bartley Ed. A Lucian for Our Times. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 208. £39.99. 9781443814331.
Tim Whitmarsh, pp 195–196

(C.) Gill, (T.) Whitmarsh and (J.) Wilkins Eds. Galen and the World of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvii + 327. £60. 9780521767514.
Eric Gowling, pp 196–197

(E.) Bowie and (J.) Elsner Eds. Philostratus. (Greek Culture in the Roman World). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 401. £70. 9780521827201.
G.W. Bowersock, pp 197–199

(C.) Meliadò ‘E cantando danzerò’ PLitGoodspeed 2. Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento (Orione: testi e studi di letteratura greca 1). Messina: Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità di Messina, 2008. Pp. 157, illus. €40. 9788882680206.
Lucia Prauscello, pp 199–200

(K.) Brodersen and (J.) Elsner Eds. Images and Texts on the ‘Artemidorus Papyrus’: Working Papers on P.Artemid. (St John's College Oxford, 2008) (Historia Einzelschriften 214). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. Pp. 171, illus. €50. 9783515094269.
Giuseppe Ucciardello, pp 200–201

(G.A.) Xenis Scholia vetera in Sophoclis Electram (Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker 12). Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. Pp. x + 280. €109.95. 9783110227000.
(G.A.) Xenis Scholia vetera in Sophoclis Trachinias (Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker 13). Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. Pp. x + 270. €109.95. 9783110227024.
Pat Easterling, pp 201–203

(R.L.) Hunter Critical Moments in Classical Literature: Studies in the Ancient View of Literature and its Uses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. vii + 217. £50. 9780521519854.
N.J. Richardson, pp 203–204

Reviews of Books: History

(E.M.A.) Bissa Governmental Intervention in Foreign Trade in Archaic and Classical Greece (Mnemosyne Supplements: History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 312). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. Pp. xiv + 266. €93/$138. 9789004175044.
Janet Powell, pp 204–205

(J.) Game Actes de vente dans le monde grec: témoignages épigraphiques des ventes immobilières (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée 50). Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 2008. Pp. 210. illus. €26. 9782356680044.
Robert Pitt, pp 205–205

(A.) Schwartz Reinstating the Hoplite: Arms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic and Classical Greece (Historia Einzelschriften 207). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. Pp. 337. €64. 9783515093309.
Fernando Echeverría Rey, pp 206–206

(J.-M.) Renaud and (P.) Wathelet Les relations familiales dans l'épopée grecque archaïque. Lille: Cahiers de la Maison de la Recherche Université Charles-de-Gaulle, 2008. Pp. 299. €18. 9782844671080.
Emma Griffiths, pp 207–207

(M.C.) Taylor Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 311. £50. 9780521765930.
Giselle Glasman, pp 207–208

(J.) Zumbrunnen Silence and Democracy: Athenian Politics in Thucydides' History. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. Pp. 200. $45. 9780271033570(hbk). $28.95. 9780271033587(pbk).
Loren J. Samons, pp 208–210

(S.) Lape Race and Citizen Identity in the Classical Athenian Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 341. £55/$90. 9780521191043.
Claire Taylor, pp 210–211

(L.M.V.) Totelin Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth- Century Greece (Studies in Ancient Medicine 34). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. Pp. xviii + 366. €121/$179. 9789004171541.
Helen King, pp 211–212

(P.) Hunt War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii + 308. £60/$99. 9780521835510.
Arthur Eckstein, pp 212–215

(D.M.) Macdowell Demosthenes the Orator. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 457. £75. 9780199287192.
(G.) Martin Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes (Oxford Classical Monographs). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 345. £60. 9780199560226.
Susan Lape, pp 215–217

(J.) Herrman Hyperides: Funeral Oration. Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (American Classical Studies 53). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 148. £40. 9780195388657.
(L.) Petruzziello Epitafio per i caduti del primo anno della guerra lamiaca: (PLit.Lond. 133V) Iperide. Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento (Testi e commenti. Università di Urbino. Istituto di filologia classica 23). Pisa and Rome: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2009. Pp. 246, illus. €170. 9788862270212 (hbk). €85. 9788862270205 (pbk).
Johannes Engels, pp 217–220

(D.) Lenfant Les histoires perses de Dinon et d'Héraclide (Persika 13). Paris: De Boccard, 2009. Pp. 370. €52. 9782701802558.
(L.) Llewellyn-Jones and (J.) Robson Ctesias' History of Persia: Tales of the Orient (Routledge Classical Translations). London and New York: Routledge, 2010. Pp. x + 253, £65/$120. 9780415364119.
Eran Almagor, pp 220–222

(P.) Paschidis Between City and King: Prosopographical Studies on the Intermediaries between the Cities of the Greek Mainland and the Aegean and the Royal Courts in the Hellenistic Period (322–190 BC) (Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation. ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 59). Athens: De Boccard, 2008. Pp. 611. €64. 9789607905444.
Sheila L. Ager, pp 222–223

(J.M.) Madsen Eager to be Roman: Greek Response to Roman Rule in Pontus and Bithynia London: Duckworth, 2009. Pp. ix + 166. illus. £50. 9780715637531.
Anna Lucilla Boozer, pp 223–224

(A.J.L.) Blanshard Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. 219. illus. £70. 9781405122917.
Daniel Orrells, pp 224–225

(E.) Csapo Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xiv + 233. illus. £70. 9781405135368.
Rosie Wyles, pp 225–226

(A.) Manieri Agoni poetico-musicali nella Grecia antica. 1. Beozia (Testi e commenti 25. Certamina musica graeca 1). Pisa and Rome: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2009. Pp. 476. €160. 9788862272216.
Brigitte Le Guen, pp 226–228

(S.) Hagel Ancient Greek Music: a New Technical History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xix + 484. £65/$115. 9780521517645.
John C. Franklin, pp 228–229

(M.) Flower The Seer in Ancient Greece Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. 328. illus. $39.95/£23.95. 9780520252295.
Ralph Anderson, pp 230–230

(C. P.) Jones New Heroes in Antiquity: from Achilles to Antinoos. Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 123. £22.95. 9780674035867.
Richard Buxton, pp 231–232

(T.) Rajak Translation and Survival. The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. £70. 9780199558674.
A.G. Salvesen, pp 232–233

(R.S.) Bagnall Early Christian Books in Egypt. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. 110. £20.95. 9780691140261.
Roberta Mazza, pp 233–235

(C.) Kreuzsaler (B.) Palme and (A.) Zdiarsky Eds. Stimmen aus dem Wüstensand: Briefkultur im griechisch-römischen Ägypten (Nilus 17). Vienna: Phoibos, 2010. Pp. x + 184. €29. 9783851610321.
P.J. Parsons, pp 235–236

(A.) Chaniotis, (T.) Corsten, (R.S.) Stroud and (R.A) Tybout Eds. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (SEG) Online. Brill online, 2009– . €1,150/$1,700 (per annum, unlimited licence).
Polly Low, pp 236–237

Reviews of Books: Art and Archaeology
(E.) Weiberg Thinking the Bronze Age. Life and Death in Early Helladic Greece (Boreas: Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations 29). Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Uppsaliensis, 2007. Pp. 404, illus. Sw.Kr.314 (also available for no charge from http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=1&pid=diva2:1695789578). 9789155467821.
Michael J. Boyd, pp 237–239

(C.) Vonhoff Darstellungen von Kampf und Krieg in der minoischen und mykenischen Kultur (Internationale Archäologie 109). Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2008. Pp. xviii + 328, illus. €71.80. 9783896464545.
Adam Schwartz, pp 239–240

(T.) Hodos Local Responses to Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean. London: Routledge, 2006. Pp. x + 264, illus. £23.50. 9780415490986.
Irad Malkin, pp 240–242

(M.) Dietler and (C.) López-Ruiz Eds. Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 323. $55. 9780226148472.
Peter Maskell, pp 242–244

(N.D.) Cahill Ed. Love for Lydia: a Sardis Anniversary Volume Presented to Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis 4). Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 249, illus. $50. 9780674031951.
R.R.R. Smith, pp 244–244

(A.) Sokolicek Diateichismata: zu dem Phänomen innerer Befestigungsmauern im griechischen Städtebau (Ergänzungshefte zu den Jahresheften des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien 11). Vienna: Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, 2009. Pp. 248, illus. €49. 9783900305543.
Silva K. Bruder, pp 245–246

(L.C.) Nevett Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity (Key Themes in Ancient History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii + 178, illus. £45. 9780521783361 (hbk). £19.99. 9780521789455 (pbk).
Janett Morgan, pp 246–247

(M.) Xagorari-Gleissner Meter Theon: die Göttermutter bei den Griechen (Peleus: Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Griechenlands und Zyperns 40). Mainz: Verlag Franz Phlipp Rutzen, 2008. Pp. 175, €32. 9783938646267.
Lynn E. Roller, pp 247–248

(M.) Scott Delphi and Olympia. The Spatial Politics of Panhellenism in the Archaic and Classical Period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xix + 356, illus. £55. 9780521191265.
Milena Melfi, pp 248–250

(G.) Rocco La ceramografia protoattica. Pittori e botteghe (710–630 a.C.) (Internationale Archäologie 111). Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2008. Pp. 266, illus. €69.80. 9783896464569.
Sarah P. Morris, pp 250–251

(A.G.) Mitchell Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxiv + 371, illus. £55. 9780521513708.
Tyler Jo Smith, pp 251–252

(T.J.) Smith Komast Dancers in Archaic Greek Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 357, illus. £80. 9780199578658.
C.L. Cooper, pp 252–253

(M.) Denoyelle and (M.) Iozzo La céramique grecque d'Italie méridionale et de Sicilie: Productions colonials et apparentées du viiie au iiie siècle av. J.-C.. Paris: Éditions A. et J. Picard, 2009. Pp. 255, illus. €68. 9782708408395.
Edward Herring, pp 253–254

(S.) Schmidt and (J.H.) Oakley Eds. Hermeneutik der Bilder: Beiträge zu Ikonographie und Interpretation griechischer Vasenmalerei (Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Deutschland, 4). Munich: C.H. Beck, 2009. Pp. 192, illus. €59. 9783406593215.
Michael Squire, pp 254–256

(J.) Mylonopoulos Ed. Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 170). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. Pp. xvi + 437, illus. €135/$200. 9789004179301.
Verity Platt, pp 256–257

(P.) Schultz and (R.) Von Den Hoff Eds. Structure, Image, Ornament: Architectural Sculpture in the Greek World. Oxford: Oxbow books and Oakville CT: David Brown Book Co., 2009. Pp. vii + 238, illus. £40/$80. 9781842173442.
Pamela A. Webb, pp 258–259

(C.C.) Davison (with the collaboration of B. Lundgreen; G.B. Waywell Ed.) Pheidias: the Sculptures and Ancient Sources (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 105). London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2009. Pp. xxv + 1,594, illus. £160 (3-vol. set). 9781905670215 (vol. 1). 9781905670222 (vol. 2). 9781905670239 (vol. 3).
Nigel Spivey, pp 259–260

(N.) Sekunda Ed. Ergasteria: Works Presented to John Ellis Jones on his 80th Birthday. (Ankanthina 4) Gdańsk: Institute of Archaeology, Gdańsk University, 2010. Pp. 188, illus. £25. 9788392979807.
Peter Haarer, pp 261–262

Reviews of Books: Philosophy

(D.) Frede and (B.) Reis Eds. Body and Soul in Ancient Philosophy. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. Pp. vi + 562. £58. 9783110202366.
Phillip Sidney Horky, pp 263–264

(W.) Leszl I primi atomisti: raccolta di testi che riguardano Leucippo e Democrito. Florence: L.S. Olschki, 2009. Pp. 449, CDROM. €55. 9788822258519.
Kelli Rudolph, pp 264–265

(A.S.) Mason Plato (Ancient Philosophies). Durham: Acumen, 2010. Pp. viii + 224. £50. 9781844651733 (hbk). £14.99. 9781844651740 (pbk).
(J.D.G.) Evans A Plato Primer Durham: Acumen, 2010. Pp. ix + 163. £45. 9781844652273 (hbk). £12.99. 9781844652280 (pbk).
Frisbee Sheffield, pp 265–267

(A.) Rijksbaron Plato, Ion. Or: On the Iliad. Edited with Introduction and Commentary (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 14). Leiden and Boston, Brill, Pp. 285. €105/$144. 9789004163218.
Ivana Petrovic, pp 267–267

(S.) Berryman The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greed Natural Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 286, illus. £50. 9780521763769.
Liba Taub, pp 268–268

(J.) Warren Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 342. £45. 9780521873475 (hbk). £19.99. 9780521695305 (pbk).
(T.) O'Keefe Epicureanism (Ancient Philosophies 7). Stockfield: Acumen, 2010. Pp. xvii + 206. £45. 9781844651696 (hbk). £14.99. 9781844651702 (pbk).
Eleni Kechagia-Ovseiko, pp 269–271

(I.) Ramelli (translated by D. Konstan) Hierocles the Stoic: Elements of Ethics. Fragments and Excerpts (Writings from the Greco-Roman World 28). Pp. lxxxix + 179. Leiden: Brill, 2009. £103. 9789004169241 (hbk). Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009. $32.95. 9781589834187 (pbk).
Gretchen Reydams-Schils, pp 271–272

(R.) Salles Ed. God and Cosmos in Stoicism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. viii + 274. £40. 9780199556144.
Katja Vogt, pp 272–273

(H.-G.) Nesselrath Ed. Dion von Prusa. Der Philosoph und sein Bild (Sapere 13). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. Pp. xi + 317, illus. €49. 9783161494413 (hbk). €29. 9783161494406 (pbk).
Michael Trapp, pp 273–274

(H.-G.) Nesselrath Ed. Plutarch. On the Daimonion of Socrates: Human Liberation, Divine Guidance and Philosophy: Introduction, Text, Translation and Interpretative Essays (SAPERE 16). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. Pp. x + 225. €49. 9783161501388 (hbk). €29. 9783161501371 (pbk).
Frederick E. Brenk, pp 274–275

(T.) Dorandi Laertiana. Capitoli sulla tradizione manoscritta e sulla storia del testo delle Vite dei filosofi di Diogene Laerzio (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 264). Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. Pp. xiii + 276. €99.95. 9783110209143.
Emidio Spinelli, pp 275–276

(P.) Marzillo Der Kommentar des Proklos zu Hesiods „Werken und Tagen“: Edition, Übersetzung und Erläuterung der Fragmente (Classica Monacensia: Münchener Studien zur Klassischen Philologie 33). Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2010. Pp. lxxxviii + 458. €88. 9783823363538.
Marta Cardin, pp 276–277

(N.) Kavvadas Die Natur des Schlechten bei Proklos. Eine Platoninterpretation und ihre Rezeption durch Dionysios Areopagites. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. Pp. xiv + 207. €69.95. 9783110212303.
Michael Sylwanowicz, pp 277–278

Reviews of Books: Linguistics

(S.) Reece Homer's Winged Words: the Evolution of Early Greek Epic Diction in the Light of Oral Theory (Mnemosyne Supplements 313). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. Pp. xi + 413, illus. €163/$241. 9789004174412.
S. Douglas Olson, pp 279–279

(M.) Biraud Les interjections du théâtre grec antique: Étude sémantique et pragmatique (Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain 123). Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters, 2010. Pp. 251. €25. 9789042922310.
Evert van Emde Boas, pp 280–280

(T.) Markopoulos The Future in Greek: from Ancient to Medieval. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 291. £69. 9780199539857.
Jo Willmott, pp 281–281

(A.) Georgakopoulou and (M.S.) Silk Eds. Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present (Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London 12). Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. Pp: xxviii + 367. £70. 9780754664376.
Michael Jeffreys, pp 282–282

(D.) Langslow Ed. Jacob Wackernagel. Lectures on Syntax: with Special Reference to Greek, Latin, and Germanic. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xxii + 982. £158. 9780198153023.
Matthew McCullagh, pp 283–284

Reviews of Books: Byzantine and modern Greek studies

(A.) Kaldellis The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 252, illus. £59. 9780521882286.
Alicia J. Simpson, pp 284–285

(G.) Page Being Byzantine: Greek Identity before the Ottomans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii + 330, illus. $99. 9780511451522.
Dimitris Krallis, pp 286–287

(A.) Rhoby Ed. Byzantinische Epigramme auf Fresken und Mosaiken (Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung 15. Byzantinische Epigramme in inschriftlicher Überlieferung 1). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009. Pp. 504, illus. €82. 9783700161066.
Elizabeth Jeffreys, pp 287–288

(G.) Van Steen Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire. Comte de Marcellus and the Last of the Classics. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010. Pp. xii + 251. £57. 9780230100237.
Anastasia Bakogianni, pp 288–289

(D.) Panagiotis Greece and the English: British Diplomacy and the Kings of Greece (International Library of Historical Studies 39). London: I.B. Tauris, 2009. Pp. 212. £54.50. 9781845118211.
Michael Llewellyn Smith, pp 289–290

Reviews of Books: Reception and history of scholarship

(P.) Dubois Out of Athens: the New Ancient Greeks. Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. x + 236. £22.95. 9780674035584.
Justine McConnell, pp 291–292

(E.) Greenwood Afro-Greeks: Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century (Classical Presences). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 298. £55. 9780199575244.
Barbara Goff, pp 292–293

(F.) Macintosh Sophocles. Oedipus Tyrannus (Plays in Production). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 203, illus. £45. 9780521497114.
Pierre Judet de la Combe, pp 293–295

(L.) Maguire Helen of Troy: from Homer to Hollywood. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. 258. £55. 9781405126342 (hbk). £18.99. 9781405126359 (pbk).
Fiona Macintosh, pp 295–296

(E.) Hall and (S.) Harrop Eds Theorising Performance: Greek Drama, Cultural History and Critical Practice. London: Duckworth, 2010. Pp. xiii + 305. 9780715638262.
Barbara Goff, pp 296–297

(M.M.) Winkler Cinema and Classical Texts. Apollo's New Light. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 347, illus. £59. 978052151860.
Marta García Morcillo, pp 297–299

(J.M.) Kelly The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 366, illus. $75. 9780300152197.
(I.) Bignamini and (C.) Hornsby Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth Century Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. xxiv + 408, ii + 214, illus. $85 (2-vol. set). 9780300160437.
Stephen Dyson, pp 299–300

(L.) Gallo Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture: the Elgin Drawings at the British Museum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvii + 344, illus. £80. 9780521881630.
Jenifer Neils, pp 300–301

(C.W.) Clairmont (V. von Gonzenbach Ed.) Fauvel. The First Archaeologist in Athens and his Philhellenic Correspondents. Zürich: Akanthus, Verlag für Archäologie, 2007. Pp. 295, illus. €45. 9783905083256.
Effie Athanassopoulos, pp 301–302

(P.) Spencer Ed. The Egypt Exploration Society: the Early Years (EES Occasional Publications 16). London: The Egypt Exploration Society, 2007. Pp. ix + 262, illus. £20. 9780856981852 (pbk).
David Fearn, pp 302–303

(K.) Vlassopoulos Politics: Antiquity and its Legacy. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2009. Pp. xxii + 168. £39.50. 9781845118440 (hbk). £9.99. 9781845118457 (pbk).
Brendan Boyle, pp 303–304

Index of Books Reviewed, pp 305–308