Reviews for 2000

  • 2000.01.01:  Maximilian Braun, Die Eumeniden des Aischylos und der Areopag. Classica Monacensia Bd. 19. Tübingen: 1998. Pp. 261. DM 78 . ISBN 3-8233-4878-7.
    Reviewed by Z. Philip Ambrose.

  • 2000.01.02:  Mary B. Moore, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. J. Paul Getty Museum Fascicule 8 (U.S.A. Fascicule 33). Malibu, CA: 1998. Pp. 98. $95.00 . ISBN 0-89236-134-4.
    Reviewed by Richard Neer.

  • 2000.01.03:  Wilt Aden Schröder, Der Altertumswissenschaftler Eduard Norden (1868-1941). Das Schicksal eines deutschen Gelehrten jüdischer Abkunft. Mit den Briefen Eduard Nordens an seinen Lehrer Hermann Usener aus den Jahren 1891 bis 1902. Spudasmata 73. Hildesheim: 1999. Pp. 213. DM 74 . ISBN 3-487-11013-X.
    Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck.

  • 2000.01.04:  Friedhelm L. Müller, Die beiden Satiren des Kaisers Julianus Apostata (Symposion oder Caesares und Antiochikos oder Misopogon). Griechisch und deutsch mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen und Index. Palingenesia 66. Stuttgart: 1998. Pp. 248. DM 88 . ISBN 3-515-07394-9.
    Reviewed by G. Chr. Hansen.

  • 2000.01.05:  Steve Johnstone, Disputes and Democracy: The Consequences of Litigation in Ancient Athens. Austin: 1999. Pp. 207. $17.95 . ISBN 0-292-74053-0.
    Reviewed by Danielle S. Allen.

  • 2000.01.06:  Nigel Strudwick, Helen Strudwick, Themes in Egypt. A Guide to the Tombs and Temples of Ancient Luxor. London/New York: 1999. Pp. 232, 1 map. $49.95 . ISBN 0-8014-3693-1 (hb).
    Reviewed by K.A. Daoud.

  • 2000.01.07:  Gerard Friell, Stephen Williams, The Rome that Did Not Fall: The Survival of the East in the Fifth Century. London and New York: 1999. Pp. 282. $75.00 . ISBN 0-415-15403-0.
    Reviewed by Patrick Rogers.

  • 2000.01.08:  George Rudebusch, Socrates, Pleasure, and Value. New York: 1999. Pp. xvii, 169. $35.00 . ISBN 0-19-512855-9.
    Reviewed by Robin Waterfield.

  • 2000.01.09:  P. Bonnechère, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Indexes of Parts I, II, and III. Indexes of Ancient Authors. Leiden: 1999. ISBN 90-04-11392-4.
    Reviewed by John Marincola.

  • 2000.01.10:  Matthew R. Christ, The Litigious Athenian. Baltimore: 1998. Pp. 317. $39.95 . ISBN 0-9018-5863-1.
    Reviewed by Brad L. Cook.

  • 2000.01.11:  Deena Berg, Douglass Parker, Plautus & Terence: Five Comedies. Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra, Adelphoe. Indianapolis: 1999. Pp. xiv, 411. $12.95 . ISBN 0-87220-362-X.
    Reviewed by David W. Frauenfelder.

  • 2000.01.12:  Roland Baumgarten, Heiliges Wort und Heilige Schrift bei den Griechen: Hieroi Logoi und verwandte Erscheinungen. Tübingen: 1998. Pp. 250. ISBN 3-8233-5420-5.
    Reviewed by Robert Parker.

  • 2000.01.13:  J. Chadwick, L. Godart, J.P. Olivier, J.T. Killen, A. Sacconi, Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos. Volume IV (8000-9947) and Index to Volumes I-IV. Cambridge: 1998. Pp. 295. $250.00 . ISBN 0-521-32025-9.
    Reviewed by Philip Freeman.

  • 2000.01.14:  Gary Forsythe, Livy and Early Rome. A Study in Historical Method and Judgment. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. 147. DM 88 . ISBN 3-515-07495-3.
    Reviewed by Siri Walt.

  • 2000.01.15:  Susan E. Wood, Imperial Women: A Study in Public Images, 40 B.C.-A.D. 68. Mnemosyne Supplementum 194. Leiden: 1999. Pp. 370, 146 pl. $147.25 . ISBN 90-04-11281-2.
    Reviewed by Anthony A. Barrett.

  • 2000.01.16:  P.G. Walsh, Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy. Oxford: 1999. Pp. lvii, 171. $80.00 . ISBN 0-19-815228-0.
    Reviewed by Joel C. Relihan.

  • 2000.01.17:  Lynn E. Rose, Sun, Moon, and Sothis. Deerfield Beach, FL: 1999. Pp. 339. $35.00 . ISBN 0-917994-15-9.
    Reviewed by Anthony J. Spalinger..

  • 2000.01.18:  Aby Warburg, The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity. Introduction by Kurt W. Forster. Translation by David Britt. Los Angeles: 1999. Pp. 868. ISBN 0-89236-537-4.
    Reviewed by Anna Guillemin.

  • 2000.01.19:  Michael Hillgruber, Die pseudoplutarchische Schrift De Homero. Teil I: Einleitung und Kommentar zu den Kapiteln 1-73; Teil II: Kommentar zu den Kapiteln 74-218. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 57-58. Stuttgart und Leipzig: 1994-1999. Pp. ix and x, 523 (continuous numbering). DM 64,- and 118, - . ISBN 3-519-07607-1.
    Reviewed by Dirk M. Schenkeveld.

  • 2000.01.20:  Lothar Wierschowski, Die regionale Mobilität in Gallien nach den Inschriften des 1. bis 3. Jahrhunderts n. Chr.: Quantitative Studien zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte der westlichen Provinzen des römischen Reiches. Historia Einzelschriften 91. Stuttgart: 1995. Pp. 400. DM 144 . ISBN 3-515-06720-5.
    Reviewed by Hans-Friedrich Mueller.

  • 2000.01.21:  Markus Sehlmeyer, Stadtrömische Ehrenstatuen der republikanischen Zeit. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. 319. $95.00 . ISBN 3-515-07479-1.
    Reviewed by Lisa A. Hughes.

  • 2000.01.22:  Claude Calame, Mondher Kilani , La fabrication de l'humain dans les cultures et en anthropologie. Lausanne: 1999. Pp. 164. 120 Swiss Francs . ISBN 2-601-03249-9, ISSN 0014-2026.
    Reviewed by Phiroze Vasunia.

  • 2000.01.23:  Polymnia Athanassiadi, Damascius. The Philosophical History. Athens: 1999. Pp. 403. $45.00 . ISBN 960-85325-2-3.
    Reviewed by Robert Lamberton.

  • 2000.01.24:  Stephan Schröder, Geschichte und Theorie der Gattung Paian. Stuttgart und Leipzig: 1999. Pp. xv, 172. ISBN 3-519-07670-5.
    Reviewed by Giovan Battista D'Alessio.

  • 2000.01.25:  Minne Skafte Jensen, 'Dividing Homer: When and How were the Iliad and the Odyssey divided into songs?', Symbolae Osloenses 74 (1999) 5-91. : .
    Reviewed by Richard Janko.

  • 2000.01.26:  Garth Tissol, The Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Princeton: 1997. Pp. 238. $39.50 . ISBN 0-691-01102-8.
    Reviewed by Joseph B. Solodow.

  • 2000.01.27:  Paula Saffire, Catherine Freis, Ancient Greek Alive. Third edition. Chapel Hill: 1999. $19.95 . ISBN 0-8078-4800-X (pb).
    Reviewed by Sarah K. Torrence.

  • 2000.01.28:  A. J. Woodman, R. H. Martin, The Annals of Tacitus, book 3. Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 32. Cambridge: 1996. ISBN 0-521-55217-6.
    Reviewed by S. P. Oakley.

  • 2000.01.29:  Ian Rutherford, Canons of Style in the Antonine Age: Idea-Theory in its Literary Context. Oxford: 1998. Pp. vii + 168. $55.00 . ISBN 0-19-814729-5.
    Reviewed by Charles Weiss.

  • 2000.01.30:  Sandro Boldrini, Prosodie und Metrik der Römer. Trans. from Italian by Bruno W. Häuptli. Teubner-Studienbücher. Stuttgart and Leipzig: 1999. Pp. xii, 183. DM 46 / SFr 41 . ISBN 3-519-07443-5.
    Reviewed by Annette M. Bärtschi.

  • 2000.01.31:  Alexander Nehamas, Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates. Princeton: 1999. Pp. xxxvi, 372. $21.95 . ISBN 0-691-00178-2.
    Reviewed by Lee Perlman.

  • 2000.02.01:  Elaine Fantham, Ovid: Fasti Book IV. Cambridge: 1998. Pp. x + 291. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-44538-8 (hb).
    Reviewed by Geraldine Herbert-Brown.

  • 2000.02.02:  David S. Potter, Literary Texts and the Roman Historian. London and New York: 1999. Pp. 218. $60.00 . ISBN 0-415-08895-X (hb).
    Reviewed by Thomas M. Banchich.

  • 2000.02.03:  Margarethe Billerbeck, Seneca. Hercules Furens. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Mnemosyne Supplement 187. Leiden: 1999. Pp. xxix, 727. ISBN 90-04-11245-6.
    Reviewed by John G. Fitch.

  • 2000.02.04:  Elizabeth Baynham, Alexander the Great. The Unique History of Quintus Curtius. Ann Arbor: 1998. Pp. 237. $39.50 . ISBN 0-472-10858-1.
    Reviewed by Lynette Mitchell.

  • 2000.02.05:  Books Received (December 1999, January 2000).


  • 2000.02.06:  Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, The Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea Area: Historical Interpretation of Archaeology. Historia Einzelschriften 121. Stuttgart: 1998. Pp. 336. DM 148 . ISBN 3-515-07302-7.
    Reviewed by Sara Owen .

  • 2000.02.07:  Alexander Yakobson, Elections and Electioneering in Rome: A Study in the Political System of the Late Republic. Historia Einzelschriften 128. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. 251. ISBN 3-515-07481-3.
    Reviewed by Darryl A. Phillips.

  • 2000.02.08:  Ecole française de Rome, La Rome impériale: Démographie et logistique. Actes de la table ronde (Rome, 25 mars 1994). Rome: 1997. Pp. 232. FRF260 . ISBN 2728303703.
    Reviewed by Rabun Taylor.

  • 2000.02.09:  Robert Leighton, Sicily before History. An Archaeological Survey from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age. London: 1999. Pp. viii, 312. £14.95 . ISBN 0-7156-2770-8 (pb).
    Reviewed by Carla M. Antonaccio.

  • 2000.02.10:  Heikki Solin, Analecta Epigraphica 1970-1997. Edited by Michael Kajava, with Karolo Korhonen, Martino Leiwo, Olavo Salomies. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae 21. Rome: 1998. Pp. xii, 530. ISBN 951-96902-8-X.
    Reviewed by Dennis Trout.

  • 2000.02.11:  Johannes Engels, Augusteische Oikumenegeographie und Universalhistorie im Werk Strabons von Amaseia. Geographica Historica 12. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. 464. DM 188 . ISBN 3-515-07459-7.
    Reviewed by Ralf Behrwald.

  • 2000.02.12:  Thomas Grünewald, Räuber, Rebellen, Rivalen, Rächer: Studien zu Latrones im römischen Reich. Forschungen zur Antiken Sklaverei, Bd. 31. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. x, 269. ISBN 3-515-07489-9.
    Reviewed by Brent D. Shaw.

  • 2000.02.13:  Timothy N. Teeter, Columbia Papyri XI. Atlanta: 1998. Pp. 128. $34.95 . ISBN 0-7885-0433-9.
    Reviewed by Matthew Kraus.

  • 2000.02.14:  Mary Carruthers, The Craft of Thought. Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200. Cambridge: 1998. Pp. 399. $59.95 . ISBN 0-521-58232-6.
    Reviewed by Eugene Vance.

  • 2000.02.15:  Robert Knapp, Pamela Vaughn, Finis Rei Publicae: Eyewitnesses to the End of the Roman Republic: an Intermediate Latin Text. Newburyport, MA: 1999. Pp. 180. $26.95 . ISBN 0-941051-75-7 (pb).
    Reviewed by Prudence J. Jones.

  • 2000.02.16:  Calder III, William M., Bernhard Huss, "The Wilamowitz in Me": 100 Letters between Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Paul Friedländer (1904-1931). Los Angeles: 1999. Pp. xxv, 227. $40.00. ISSN 1041-1143 .
    Reviewed by James P. Holoka.

  • 2000.02.17:  Reviel Netz, The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics. "Ideas in Context", 51. Cambridge: 1999. Pp. 327. $64.95 . ISBN 0-521-62279-4.
    Reviewed by Daryn Lehoux.

  • 2000.02.18:  Peter Nichols, Aristophanes' Novel Forms. The Political Role of Drama. London: 1998. Pp. 258. $7.99 (pb) . ISBN 1-86106-288-5.
    Reviewed by Wilfred Major.

  • 2000.02.19:  Christopher A. Faraone, Ancient Greek Love Magic. Cambridge, MA: 1999. Pp. 223. $35.00 . ISBN 0-674-03320-5.
    Reviewed by Edward Kadletz.

  • 2000.02.20:  Robert D. Luginbill, Thucydides on War and National Character. Boulder, CO: 1999. Pp. 232. $55.00 . ISBN 0-8133-3644-9.
    Reviewed by Tim Rood.

  • 2000.02.21:  Oliver Dany, Akarnanien im Hellenismus. Geschichte und Völkerrecht in Nordwestgriechenland. Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und antiken Rechtsgeschichte, Heft 89. Munich: 1999. Pp. xi + 363.
    Reviewed by Jim Roy.

  • 2000.02.22:  Sarah B. Pomeroy, Plutarch's Advice to the Bride and Groom and A Consolation to his Wife. Oxford: 1999. Pp. xv, 224. $35.00 . ISBN 0-19-512023-X.
    Reviewed by Tim Whitmarsh.

  • 2000.02.23:  Richard W. Hooper, The Priapus Poems. Urbana and Chicago, IL: 1999. ISBN 0-252-06752-5.
    Reviewed by James L. Butrica.

  • 2000.02.24:  Elizabeth M. Craik, Hippocrates: Places in Man. Oxford: 1998. Pp. 259. $85.00 . ISBN 0-19-815227-2.
    Reviewed by Jennifer Clarke Kosak.

  • 2000.02.25:  Kirk Ormand, Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy. Austin: 1999. Pp. xi, 219. $40.00 (hb) . ISBN 0-292-76051-5 (hb).
    Reviewed by Deborah Lyons.

  • 2000.02.26:  R.H. Jordan, Virgil: Aeneid II. London: 1999. Pp. xvi, 105. Sterling 8.95 . ISBN 1-85399-542-8.
    Reviewed by Braden Mechley.

  • 2000.02.27:  Clifford Ashby, Classical Greek Theatre: New Views of an Old Subject. Iowa City: 1999. Pp. xix, 191. ISBN 0-87745-641-0.
    Reviewed by Thomas H. J. U. Talboy.

  • 2000.02.28:  Anne Carson, Economy of the Unlost (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan). Princeton: 1999. Pp. 147. $29.95 . ISBN 0-691-03677-2.
    Reviewed by Steven J. Willett.

  • 2000.02.29:  Frank Behne, Heinrich Siber und das Römische Staatsrecht von Theodor Mommsen: Ein Beitrag zur Rezeptionsgeschichte Mommsens im 20. Jahrhundert. Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: 1999. Pp. 278. ISBN 3-487-10910-7.
    Reviewed by Ehrhardt, Christopher T.H.R..

  • 2000.02.30:  Peter S. Wells, The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe. Princeton: 1999. ISBN 0-691-05871-7.
    Reviewed by Michael Kulikowski.

  • 2000.02.31:  W.T. Loomis, Wages, Welfare Costs and Inflation in Classical Athens. Ann Arbor: 1998. Pp. xx, 403. ISBN 0-472-10803-4.
    Reviewed by Edward Cohen.

  • 2000.02.32:  James I. Porter, Constructions of the Classical Body. Ann Arbor: 1999. Pp. 397. $54.50 . ISBN 0-472-10908-1.
    Reviewed by A.A. Donohue.

  • 2000.02.33:  Knapp on Jones on Knapp/Vaughn.
    Response by Robert Knapp.

  • 2000.02.34:  Carol G. Thomas, Ancient History: Recent Work and New Directions. Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians, 5. Claremont, CA: 1997. Pp. xii + 107. $21.95 (hb) . ISBN 0-941690-79-2 .
    Reviewed by Graham Shipley.

  • 2000.02.35:  John D. Niles, Homo Narrans. Philadelphia: 1999. Pp. 272. $45.00 . ISBN 0-8122-3504-5.
    Reviewed by William F. Wyatt.

  • 2000.02.36:  Jacob Howland, The Paradox of Political Philosophy: Socrates' Philosophic Trial. Lanham, MD: 1998. Pp. x, 342. $68.00 (hb) . ISBN 0-8476-8975-1.
    Reviewed by Michael Pakaluk.

  • 2000.02.37:  Arthur J. Pomeroy (ed.), Arius Didymus. Epitome of Stoic Ethics. Texts and Translations 44; Graeco-Roman 14. Atlanta, GA: 1999. Pp. ix, 160. $35.00 . ISBN 0-88414-001-6.
    Reviewed by Marcelo D. Boeri.

  • 2000.02.38:  Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Prayers in Stone: Greek Architectural Sculpture (ca. 600-100 B.C.E.). Berkeley: 1999. Pp. xvi + 255. $50.00 . ISBN 0-520-21556-7.
    Reviewed by Janet Burnett Grossman.

  • 2000.02.39:  Phyllis Pray Bober, Art, Culture and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy. Chicago: 1999. Pp. xix + 442. ISBN 0-226-06253-8.
    Reviewed by Veronika Grimm.

  • 2000.02.40:  Peter M. Fraser and Elaine Matthews (edd.), A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names. Vol. III.A. The Peloponnese, Western Greece, Sicily, and Magna Graecia. Oxford: 1997. Pp. xxxii, 519. $150 . ISBN 0-19-815229-9.
    Reviewed by R.W.B. Salway.

  • 2000.02.41:  Hamilton on Kadletz on Faraone.
    Response by Richard Hamilton.

  • 2000.03.01:  Jean-Marc Moret, Les pierres gravées antiques représentant le rapt du Palladion. Mainz am Rhein: 1997. Pp. x, 366; plates xii, 120. ISBN 3-8053-2302-6.
    Reviewed by Lisa R. Brody.

  • 2000.03.02:  Kurt A. Raaflaub, Nathan Rosenstein, War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica. Cambridge, MA: 1999. Pp. 484. $50.00 . ISBN 0-674-94660-X.
    Reviewed by Dr. Brad Eden.

  • 2000.03.03:  Yopie Prins, Victorian Sappho. Princeton: 1999. Pp. 267. $55.00 (hb) . ISBN 0691059195.
    Reviewed by Lisa Rengo George.

  • 2000.03.04:  Books Received (February).


  • 2000.03.05:  P.J. Rhodes, Thucydides: History IV.1-V.24. Warminster: 1999. Pp. xv + 343. $59.95 . ISBN 0-85668-710-4 (hb).
    Reviewed by Kevin K. Carroll.

  • 2000.03.06:  Mirko D. Grmek, Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Cambridge, MA: 1999. Pp. viii, 478. $49.95 . ISBN 0-674-40355-X.
    Reviewed by Lee T. Pearcy.

  • 2000.03.07:  Charles Leslie Murison, Rebellion and Reconstruction, Galba to Domitian: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History Books 64-67 (A.D. 68-96). Atlanta: 1999. Pp. xxi, 291. ISBN 0-7885-0547-5.
    Reviewed by Cynthia Damon.

  • 2000.03.08:  Gregory S. Aldrete, Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome. Baltimore and London: 1999. Pp. xxv, 227. $38.00 . ISBN 0-8018-6132-2.
    Reviewed by Anthony Corbeill.

  • 2000.03.09:  Josef Wieshöfer, Das frühe Persien: Geschichte eines antiken Weltreichs. München: 1999. Pp. 128. DM 14.80 (pb) . ISBN 3-406-43307-3.
    Reviewed by Christopher T.H.R. Ehrhardt.

  • 2000.03.10:  R.J. Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought. Oxford: 1999. Pp. xiii, 499. $75.00 . ISBN 0-19-823745-6.
    Reviewed by Lloyd Gerson.

  • 2000.03.11:  Päivi Setälä, Liisa Savunen, Female Networks and the Public Sphere in Roman Society. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 22. Rome: 1999. Pp. xiv, 139. ISBN 951-96902-9-8.
    Reviewed by Emily A. Hemelrijk.

  • 2000.03.12:  A.A. Long, The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy. Cambridge: 1999. Pp. xxxi + 427. $54.95 (hb) . ISBN 0-521-44122-6.
    Reviewed by Monte Ransome Johnson.

  • 2000.03.13:  Richard Parkinson, Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment. Berkeley: 1999. Pp. 208 + 31 color plates. $50.00 (hb) . ISBN 0-520-22306-3.
    Reviewed by Joshua T. Katz.

  • 2000.03.14:  G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, Oleg Grabar, Late Antiquity. A Guide to the Postclassical World. Cambridge, MA: 1999. Pp. xiii + 780, 2 maps, 30 ill..
    Reviewed by Ralph Mathisen.

  • 2000.03.15:  David R. Slavitt, Palmer Bovie, Sophocles, 1. Philadelphia: 1998. Pp. xiv, 284. $40.00 (hb) . ISBN 0-8122-3445-6.
    Reviewed by Dale Grote.

  • 2000.03.16:  Richard Neudecker, Die Pracht der Latrine. Zum Wandel öffentlicher Bedürfnisanstalten in der kaiserzeitlichen Stadt. Studien zur antiken Stadt, 1. Munich: 1994. Pp. 176, figs. 72. ISBN 3-923871-86-4.
    Reviewed by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow.

  • 2000.03.17:  Paola Ceccarelli, La pirrica nell' antichità greco romana: Studi sulla danza armata. Pisa and Rome: 1998. Pp. 274; 24 b/w pls. ISBN 88-8147-140-X.
    Reviewed by Eva Stehle.

  • 2000.03.18:  W. Jeffrey Tatum, The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher. Chapel Hill and London: 1999. Pp. xii, 365. ISBN 0-8078-2480-1.
    Reviewed by J. W. Rich.

  • 2000.03.19:  Dionigi Vottero, Lucio Anneo Seneca: I Frammenti. Bologna: 1998. Pp. 534. L. 60,000 . ISBN 88-555-2469-0.
    Reviewed by R. Scott Smith.

  • 2000.03.20:  Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Ancient Greeks West and East. Leiden: 1999. Pp. xxii + 623. $160 . ISBN 90-04-11190-5.
    Reviewed by Tamar Hodos.

  • 2000.03.21:  Jens Holzhausen, PSYCHE - Seele - anima.Festschrift für Karin Alt zum 7. Mai 1998. Stuttgart and Leipzig: 1998. Pp. ix, 518. DM 168 . ISBN 3-519-07658-6.
    Reviewed by Peter Lautner.

  • 2000.03.22:  Irad Malkin, The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity. Berkeley: 1998. Pp. xiii + 331. $45.00 . ISBN 0-520-21185-5.
    Reviewed by Erwin Cook.

  • 2000.03.23:  Eileen Gregory, H.D. and Hellenism. Classic Lines. Cambridge: 1997. Pp. 321. $64.95 . ISBN 0-521-43025-9.
    Reviewed by Robert G. Babcock.

  • 2000.03.24:  Douglas Gerber, Greek Elegiac Poetry. Cambridge, MA: 1999. Pp. 493. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-99582-1.
    Reviewed by Emily Katz Anhalt.

  • 2000.03.25:  Martin Zimmermann, Geschichtsschreibung und politischer Wandel im 3. Jh. n.Chr. Historia Einzelschriften, 127. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. 244. DM 98 . ISBN 3-515-07457-0.
    Reviewed by Michael Meckler.

  • 2000.03.26:  Jennifer A. Sheridan, Columbia Papyri IX: The Vestis Militaris Codex. American Studies in Papyrology 39. Atlanta: 1998. Pp. 174, 12 pl. ISBN 0-7885-0446-0.
    Reviewed by Jonathan P. Roth.

  • 2000.03.27:  David R. Jordan, Hugo Montgomery, Einar Thomassen, The World of Ancient Magic. Papers from the first International Samson Eitrem Seminar at the Norwegian Institute at Athens 4-8 May 1997. Bergen: 1999. Pp. 335. ISBN 82-91626-15-4.
    Reviewed by James Rives.

  • 2000.03.28:  Frederick E. Brenk, Relighting the Souls: Studies in Plutarch, in Greek Literature, Religion, and Philosophy, and in the New Testament Background. Stuttgart: 1998. Pp. 420. DM 148 . ISBN 3-515-07158.
    Reviewed by Alan C. Mitchell.

  • 2000.03.29:  Ingrid D. Rowland, Thomas Noble Howe, Vitruvius. Ten Books on Architecture. Cambridge: 1999. Pp. xvi, 333. $80.00 . ISBN 0-521-55364-4.
    Reviewed by Daniel M. Millette.

  • 2000.03.30:  Sarah Annes Brown, The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes. London: 1999. Pp. 246. £40.00 . ISBN 0-7156-2887-9.
    Reviewed by Teresa Ramsby.

  • 2000.04.01:  Andrew Lintott, The Constitution of the Roman Republic. Oxford: 1999. Pp. 297. $80.00 . ISBN 0-19-815068-7.
    Reviewed by Erich S. Gruen.

  • 2000.04.02:  Edzard Visser, Homers Katalog der Schiffe. Stuttgart: 1997. Pp. 792. DM 228 . ISBN 3-519-07442-7.
    Reviewed by Hendrik Müller.

  • 2000.04.03:  David Johnston, Roman Law in Context. Cambridge: 1999. Pp. ix, 153. $54.95 (hb) . ISBN 0-521-63046-0 (hb).
    Reviewed by James T. Chlup.

  • 2000.04.04:  Books Received (March).


  • 2000.04.05:  Stephen Colvin, Dialect in Aristophanes and the Politics of Language in Ancient Greek Literature. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: 1999. Pp. xii, 347. $75.00 . ISBN 0-19-815249-3.
    Reviewed by Joshua T. Katz.

  • 2000.04.06:  Louis Callebat, Langages du roman latin. Spudasmata, 71. Hildesheim: 1998. Pp. 300. DM 98 . ISBN 3-487-10772-4.
    Reviewed by Brent Vine.

  • 2000.04.07:  John Miles Foley, Homer's Traditional Art. University Park: 1999. Pp. xviii, 363. $48.50 . ISBN 0-271-01870-4.
    Reviewed by William F. Wyatt.

  • 2000.04.08:  Raif Georges Khoury, Urkunden und Urkundenformulare im klassischen Altertum und in den orientalischen Kulturen. Bibliothek der Klassischen Altertumswissenschaften N. F., 2. Reihe, Band 104. Heidelberg: 1999. Pp. 228. DM 78 . ISBN 3-8253-0895-2.
    Reviewed by Robert Rollinger.

  • 2000.04.09:  J.C. Carter, The Chora of Metaponto: The Necropoleis (2 volumes). Austin, TX: 1998. Pp. xiv, 481; vi, 408. $125.00 . ISBN 0-292-71211-1.
    Reviewed by David Ridgway.

  • 2000.04.10:  Bernhard Huss, Xenophons Symposion. Ein Kommentar. BzA 125. Stuttgart and Leipzig: 1999. Pp. 493. ISBN 3-519-07674-8.
    Reviewed by Hartmut Leppin.

  • 2000.04.11:  Mark Reasoner, The Strong and the Weak: Romans 14.1-15.13 in Context. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 103. Cambridge: 1999. Pp. xxi, 272. $59.95 . ISBN 0-521-63334-6.
    Reviewed by Lynn Allan Kauppi.

  • 2000.04.12:  William E. Mierse, Temples and Towns in Roman Iberia. The Social and Architectural Dynamics of Sanctuary Designs from the Third Century B.C. to the Third Century A.D. Berkeley: 1999. Pp. xxiii, 346. $65.00 . ISBN 0-520-20377-1.
    Reviewed by Bertrand Goffaux.

  • 2000.04.13:  Manfred Hoffmann, Statius, Thebais 12, 312-463. Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Göttingen: 1999. Pp. 100. DM 29 . ISBN 3-89744-104-7.
    Reviewed by Karla Pollmann.

  • 2000.04.14:  J.L. Lightfoot, Parthenius of Nicaea: The poetical fragments and the Erotica Pathemata. Oxford: 1999. Pp. 607. $135.00 . ISBN 0-19-815253-1.
    Reviewed by Christopher Francese.

  • 2000.04.15:  Stephan Busch, Versus balnearum: die antike Dichtung über Bäder und Baden im römischen Reich. Stuttgart and Leipzig: 1999. Pp. xiv, 616. ISBN 3-519-07256-4.
    Reviewed by Stefanie A. H. Kennell.

  • 2000.04.16:  Michael Grant, The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire. London and New York: 1999. Pp. xii + 123. $30.00/£20.00 . ISBN 0-415-17323-X.
    Reviewed by David Kennedy.

  • 2000.04.17:  David Keyt, Aristotle "Politics" Books V and VI. Oxford: 1999. $72.00 (hb) . ISBN 0-19-823535-6.
    Reviewed by David C. Mirhady.

  • 2000.04.18:  Nicholas F. Jones, The Associations of Classical Athens: The Response to Democracy. Oxford: 1999. Pp. 345. $55.00 . ISBN 0-19-512175-9.
    Reviewed by Susan Lape.

  • 2000.04.19:  Rainer Thiel, Simplikios und das Ende der neuplatonischen Schule in Athen. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. 59. DM 32,-. ISSN 0002-2977 .
    Reviewed by Gerald Bechtle.

  • 2000.04.20:  James E.G. Zetzel, Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws. Cambridge: 1999. Pp. xlviii, 207. $54.95 (hb) . ISBN 0-521-45344-5.
    Reviewed by Brad Inwood.

  • 2000.04.21:  Sarah Iles Johnston, Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece. Berkeley: 1999. Pp. 329. $40.00 . ISBN 0-520-21707-1.
    Reviewed by Diana Burton.

  • 2000.04.22:  P. Kobiliri, A Stylistic Commentary on Hermesianax. Classical and Byzantine Monographs 43. Amsterdam: 1998. Pp. 262. ISBN 90-256-0638-5.
    Reviewed by Martijn Cuypers.

  • 2000.04.23:  William J. Dominik, William T. Wehrle, Roman Verse Satire: Lucilius to Juvenal. A Selection with an Introduction, Text, Translation, and Notes. Wauconda, IL: 1999. Pp. xvii + 221. $24.00 . ISBN 0-86516-442-8.
    Reviewed by Catherine Keane.

  • 2000.04.24:  Nino Marinone, Berenice da Callimaco a Catullo. Testo critico, traduzione e commento (2nd edition). Bologna: 1997. Pp. 329. 37,000 lire .
    Reviewed by Richard Hunter.

  • 2000.04.25:  Erik Hornung, The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife. Translated from the German by David Lorton. Ithaca and London: 1999. Pp. xxii + 188. $16.95 . ISBN 0-8014-8515-0.
    Reviewed by Terry G. Wilfong.

  • 2000.05.01:  Simon Price, Religions of the Ancient Greeks. Cambridge: 1999. Pp. xii, 217. $50.95 (hb) . ISBN 0-521-38201-7.
    Reviewed by F.S. Naiden.

  • 2000.05.02:  Edwin Carawan, Rhetoric and the Law of Draco. Oxford: 1998. Pp. xx, 408. $90.00 . ISBN 0-19-815086-5.
    Reviewed by Robert W. Wallace.

  • 2000.05.03:  Books Received (April).


  • 2000.05.04:  Christopher Stray, Classics in 19th and 20th Century Cambridge: Curriculum, Culture and Community. Cambridge Philological Society, Suppl. 24. Cambridge: 1998. Pp. xii, 176. ISBN 0-906014-23-9.
    Reviewed by David A. Traill.

  • 2000.05.05:  Jacques Berlinerblau, Heresy in the University: The 'Black Athena' Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals. New Brunswick: 1999.
    Reviewed by Geralyn S. Lederman.

  • 2000.05.06:  Jan Assmann, Das verschleierte Bild zu Sais: Schillers Ballade und ihre griechischen und ägyptischen Hintergründe. Lectio Teubneriana VIII. Stuttgart and Leipzig: 1999. Pp. 62. DM 39 . ISBN 3-519-07557-1.
    Reviewed by John Hamilton.

  • 2000.05.07:  Jasper Griffin, Sophocles Revisited. Essays presented to Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones. Oxford: 1999. Pp. ix, 343. £45 . ISBN 0-19-813006-6.
    Reviewed by David Bain.

  • 2000.05.08:  M. L. West, The East Face of Helicon. West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry. Oxford: 1997. Pp. 662. $55.00 . ISBN 0-19-815221-3 (pb).
    Reviewed by Barry Powell.

  • 2000.05.09:  Foley on Wyatt on Foley.
    Response by John Miles Foley.

  • 2000.05.10:  Heinz Hofmann, Latin Fiction: The Latin Novel in Context. London and New York: 1999. Pp. 277. $90.00 . ISBN 0-415-14721-2.
    Reviewed by Joy Connolly.

  • 2000.05.11:  Peter Funke, Athen in klassischer Zeit. Munich: 1999. Pp. 128. DM 14,80 . ISBN 3-406-44574-8 (pb).
    Reviewed by Ehrhardt, Christopher T.H.R..

  • 2000.05.12:  Eric Osborn, Tertullian, First Theologian of the West. Cambridge: 1997. Pp. xxii, 285. ISBN 0-521-59035-3.
    Reviewed by Tim Hegedus.

  • 2000.05.13:  Anderson Jr., R. Dean, Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Paul. Revised Edition. Leuven: 1999. Pp. 340. 1180 BEF/30 Euro . ISBN 90-429-0705-3.
    Reviewed by John T. Kirby.

  • 2000.05.14:  J. Godwin, Catullus: the shorter poems. Warminster: 1999. Pp. xii + 223. ISBN 0-85668-714-6 (hb).
    Reviewed by A.J. Woodman.

  • 2000.05.15:  Michael Pakaluk, Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics Books VIII and IX. Oxford: 1998. Pp. xiii + 239. ISBN 0-19-875103-6 (hb).
    Reviewed by Scott Carson.

  • 2000.05.16:  Reinhold Merkelbach, Josef Stauber, Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten, bd. 1: Die Westküste Kleinasiens von Knidos bis Ilion. Stuttgart und Leipzig: 1998. Pp. xv, 647. DM 248 . ISBN 3-519-07446-X.
    Reviewed by Julia Lougovaya.

  • 2000.05.17:  W.G. Cavanagh, M. Curtis, J.N. Coldstream, A.W. Johnston, Post-Minoan Crete. Proceedings of the First Colloquium on Post-Minoan Crete held by the British School at Athens and the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 10-11 November 1995. London: 1998. Pp. 134. £19. ISBN 0-904887-29-4.
    Reviewed by Angelos Chaniotis.

  • 2000.05.18:  Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlof, The Sculptures of the Parthenon: Aesthetics and Interpretation. New Haven: 2000. Pp. viii, 204. ISBN 0-300-07391-7.
    Reviewed by Jenifer Neils.

  • 2000.05.19:  Glenn W. Most, Commentaries - Kommentare. Aporemata: Kritische Studien zur Philologiegeschichte, Band 4. Göttingen: 1999. Pp. xvi, 468. DM 142 . ISBN 3-525-25903-4.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2000.05.20:  Jose Maria Blazquez, Mosaicos romanos de España. Madrid: 1993. Pp. 720. ISBN 84-376-1125-3.
    Reviewed by John R. Clarke.

  • 2000.05.21:  Rhiannon Ash, Ordering Anarchy: Armies and Leaders in Tacitus' Histories. London: 1999. Pp. x, 246. £40.00. ISBN 0-7156-2800-3.
    Reviewed by Jason Davies.

  • 2000.05.22:  David Gilman Romano, Irene Bald Romano, Catalogue of the Classical Collections of the Glencairn Museum. Bryn Athyn: 1999. Pp. xv + 254; 27 color photographs; 677 black & white photographs; 21 line drawings. ISBN 0-9669494-1-2.
    Reviewed by Sean Hemingway.

  • 2000.05.23:  S. Byrne, E.P. Cueva, Veritatis Amicitiaeque Causa: Essays in Honor of Anna Lydia Motto and John R. Clark. : 1999. Pp. xvi, 345. $45.00 . ISBN 0-86516-454-1.
    Reviewed by James M. Pfundstein.

  • 2000.06.01:  S. L. Solovyov, Ancient Berezan. The Architecture, History and Culture of the First Greek Colony in the Northern Black Sea. Colloquia Pontica 4. Leiden: 1999. Pp. 148. $57.00 . ISBN 90-04-11569-2.
    Reviewed by Balbina Baebler.

  • 2000.06.02:  Gian Pietro Brogiolo, Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Idea and Ideal of the Town between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Leiden: 1999. Pp. xvi, 265. $92.00 . ISBN 90-04-0901-3.
    Reviewed by Marietta Horster.

  • 2000.06.03:  Susan P. Mattern, Rome and the Enemy. Imperial Strategy in the Principate. Berkeley: 1999. Pp. xxii + 259. $35.00 . ISBN 0-520-21166-9.
    Reviewed by Michael Peachin.

  • 2000.06.04:  Jürgen Leonhardt, Ciceros Kritik der Philosophenschulen. Munich: 1999. Pp. 229. DM 98.00 . ISBN 3-406-44729-5.
    Reviewed by Margaret Graver.

  • 2000.06.05:  James Morwood, Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus (with introduction by Edith Hall). Oxford: 1999. Pp. liii + 227. $79.00 . ISBN 0-19-815094-6.
    Reviewed by Otto Steinmayer.

  • 2000.06.06:  Rebekka Junge, Nicholas Trevet und die Octavia praetexta. Editio princeps des mittelalterlichen Kommentars und Untersuchungen zum pseudo-senecanischen Drama. Paderborn: 1999. DM 88.00. ISBN 3-506-79064-1.
    Reviewed by Rolando Ferri.

  • 2000.06.07:  Florence Dupont, The Invention of Literature: From Greek Intoxication to the Latin Book (Trans. Janet Lloyd). Baltimore and London: 1999. Pp. xi, 287. ISBN 0-8018-5864-X.
    Reviewed by Donka D. Markus.

  • 2000.06.08:  Books Received (May).


  • 2000.06.09:  Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Three Aeginetan Odes of Pindar. A Commentary on Nemean V, Nemean III, and Pythian VIII. Leiden: 1999. Pp. xii + 721. DM 64 . ISBN 90-04-11381-9.
    Reviewed by Stephen Instone.

  • 2000.06.10:  Busch on Kennell on Busch.
    Response by Stephan Busch.

  • 2000.06.11:  C. Pietsch, Die Argonautika des Apollonios von Rhodos: Untersuchungen zum Problem der einheitlichen Konzeption des Inhalt. Hermes Einzelschriften 80. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. 307. ISBN 3-515-07464-3.
    Reviewed by Alexander Sens.

  • 2000.06.12:  Mary R. DeMaine, Rabun M. Taylor, Life of the Average Roman. A Symposium. White Bear Lake, MN: 1999. Pp. xviii + 137. $30.00 . ISBN 0967347106.
    Reviewed by David Noy.

  • 2000.06.13:  Xavier Riu, Dionysism and Comedy. Lanham: 1999. Pp. x + 294. $23.95 (pb) . ISBN 0-8476-9442-9.
    Reviewed by Derek Collins.

  • 2000.06.14:  Ronald Syme, The Provincial at Rome and Rome and the Balkans 80BC-AD14. Exeter: 1999. Pp. xxvi + 238. ISBN 0-85989-632-3.
    Reviewed by J. F. Drinkwater.

  • 2000.06.15:  Dimitris Plantzos, Hellenistic Engraved Gems. Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology. Oxford: 1999. Pp. 144, pls. 96. $145.00 . ISBN 0-19-815037-7.
    Reviewed by Amy C. Smith.

  • 2000.06.16:  Marian Demos, Lyric Quotation in Plato. Lanham, MD: 1999. Pp. 99. $53.00 (hb) . ISBN 0-8476-8908-5.
    Reviewed by Velvet Yates.

  • 2000.06.17:  Felix Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement. Cambridge: 1999. Pp. 297. $64.95 . ISBN 0-521-66040-8.
    Reviewed by Ruth Scodel.

  • 2000.06.18:  Pascal Arnaud, Patrick Counillon, Geographica Historica. Ausonius Études 2. Bordeaux and Nice: 1998. Pp. 278. FF 298 . ISBN 2-910023-12-5.
    Reviewed by Jeremy McInerney.

  • 2000.06.19:  B.H. Warmington, Suetonius: Nero. London: 1999. Pp. 88. ISBN 1-85399-541-X.
    Reviewed by Daniel den Hengst.

  • 2000.06.20:  Miriam Carlisle, Olga Levaniouk, Nine Essays on Homer. Lanham, MD: 1999. Pp. 241. ISBN 0-8476-9424-0.
    Reviewed by Michael N. Nagler.

  • 2000.06.21:  John Sallis, Chorology: On Beginning in Plato's Timaeus. Indianapolis: 1999. Pp. 172. $16.95 . ISBN 0-253-21308-8 (pb).
    Reviewed by Colin A. Anderson.

  • 2000.06.22:  David R. Slavitt, The Voyage of the Argo. The Argonautica of Gaius Valerius Flaccus. Baltimore, MD: 1999. Pp. 165. $45.00 (hb) . ISBN 0-8018-6177-2.
    Reviewed by A.J. Kleywegt.

  • 2000.06.23:  A.M. Keith, Engendering Rome: Women in Latin epic. New York: 2000. Pp. 149. $49.95 (hb) . ISBN 0-521-55419-5.
    Reviewed by Shilpa Raval.

  • 2000.06.24:  Judith Swaddling, The Ancient Olympic Games (2nd ed.). London: 1999. Pp. 112. £8.99. ISBN 0-7141-2161-4.
    Reviewed by Zinon Papakonstantinou.

  • 2000.06.25:  Roslyn Weiss, Socrates Dissatisfied. New York: 1998. Pp. xii, 187. $39.95 . ISBN 0-195-11684-4.
    Reviewed by Michael Pakaluk.

  • 2000.06.26:  Traina on McInerney on Arnaud/Counillon.
    Response by Giusto Traina .

  • 2000.06.27:  Jean Andreau, Banking and Business in the Roman World. Key Themes in Ancient History. Cambridge: 1999. Pp. xix + 176. $59.95 (hb) . ISBN 0-521-38031-6.
    Reviewed by Allen Kerkeslager.

  • 2000.06.28:  Keith Hopkins, A World Full of Gods: Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Roman World. London: 1999. Pp. 402. £25. ISBN 0-297-81982-8.
    Reviewed by Thomas M. Banchich.

  • 2000.06.29:  Jeffrey Henderson, Aristophanes' The Birds. Newburyport, MA: 1999. Pp. 96. ISBN 0-941051-87-0.
    Reviewed by Ian C. Storey.

  • 2000.06.30:  John Porter, Eric Csapo, C.W. Marshall, Robert C. Ketterer, Crossing the Stages: The Production, Performance and Reception of Ancient Theater. Syllecta Classica, Volume 10, 1999. : . Pp. xii + 282.
    Reviewed by Peter Burian.

  • 2000.06.31:  Books Received (June).


  • 2000.06.32:  U.M. Liertz, Kult und Kaiser. Studien zu Kaiserkult und Kaiserverehrung in den germanischen Provinzen und in Gallia Belgica zur römischen Kaiserzeit. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae XX. Rome: 1998. Pp. 250. ISBN M.
    Reviewed by David Potter.

  • 2000.06.33:  Kennell on Busch on Kennell on Busch.
    Response by Stefanie A. H. Kennell.

  • 2000.06.34:  Mark W. Padilla, Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece. Lewisburg: 1999. Pp. 312. ISBN 0-8387-5418-X.
    Reviewed by Mischa Meier.

  • 2000.07.01:  Elizabeth S. Belfiore, Murder Among Friends: Violation of Philia in Greek Tragedy. Oxford: 2000. Pp. xix + 282. ISBN 0-19-513149-5.
    Reviewed by C.W. Marshall.

  • 2000.07.02:  Laura McClure, Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama. Princeton: 1999. Pp. 293. ISBN 0-691-01730-1.
    Reviewed by Judith Fletcher.

  • 2000.07.03:  Maury Hanson, Hippocrates: On Head Wounds. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum I.4.1. Berlin: 1999. Pp. 130. ISBN 3-05-003339-8.
    Reviewed by Carlos R. Galvão-Sobrinho.

  • 2000.07.04:  Ilya Leonard Pfeijffer, First Person Futures in Pindar. Hermes Einzelschriften 81. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. 105. DM 64 . ISBN 3-515-07564-X.
    Reviewed by Douglas E. Gerber.

  • 2000.07.05:  Richard Klein, Roma versa per aevum: Ausgewählte Schriften zur heidnischen und christlichen Spätantike. Edd. Raban von Haehling and Klaus Scherberich. Hildescheim: 1999. Pp. 687. ISBN 3-487-11032-6.
    Reviewed by David M. Reis.

  • 2000.07.06:  Stanley Lombardo, Homer, Odyssey. Introduction by Sheila Murnaghan. Indianapolis, IN: 2000. Pp. lxiii, 414. $34.95 (hb) . ISBN 0-87220-485-5.
    Reviewed by Christina Zwarg.

  • 2000.07.07:  Mark Edwards, Martin Goodman, Simon Price, Apologetics in the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews and Christians. Oxford: 1999. Pp. xi + 315. $82.00 . ISBN 0-19-826986-2.
    Reviewed by Jason Davies.

  • 2000.07.08:  Richard Buxton, From Myth to Reason? Studies in the Development of Greek Thought. Oxford: 1999. Pp. xv + 368. $75.00 . ISBN 0-19-815234-5.
    Reviewed by Malcolm Wilson.

  • 2000.07.09:  M. Marcovich, Diogenes Laertius: Vitae Philosophorum, 2 vols., Vol. I: Libri I-X; Vol. II: Excerpta Byzantina. Stuttgart and Leipzig: 1999. Pp. l, 826; 346. $125.00. ISBN 3-519-01316-9; 3-519-01317-7.
    Reviewed by Robert Todd.

  • 2000.07.10:  Daniel Graham, Aristotle's Physics. Book VIII. Oxford: 1999. Pp. xvii + 209. $70.00 (hb) . ISBN 0-19-824091-0.
    Reviewed by Lloyd Gerson.

  • 2000.07.11:  Charles W. Hedrick Jr., History and Silence: The Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity. Austin: 2000. Pp. xxvi + 338. ISBN 0-292-73121-3.
    Reviewed by Dennis Trout.

  • 2000.07.12:  Bruno Gentili, Franca Perusino, La colometria antica dei testi poetici greci. Pisa-Roma: 1999. Pp. 197. ISBN 88-8147-190-6.
    Reviewed by Hélène Perdicoyianni-Paléologou.

  • 2000.07.13:  Giacomo Manganaro, Sikelika. Studi di antichità e di epigrafia della Sicilia greca. Biblioteca di Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, no. 8. Pisa and Rome: 1999. Pp. 142, 181 figures. L. 45.000 . ISBN 88-8147-165-5.
    Reviewed by Franco De Angelis.

  • 2000.07.14:  Stephanos Matthaios, Untersuchungen zur Grammatik Aristarchs: Texte und Interpretatione zur Wortartenlehre. Hypomnemata 126. Göttingen: 1999. Pp. 707. DM 198 . ISBN 3-525-25223-4.
    Reviewed by Dirk M. Schenkeveld.

  • 2000.07.15:  Frank S. Russell, Information Gathering in Classical Greece. Ann Arbor: 1999. Pp. 267. $49.50 . ISBN 0-472-11064-0.
    Reviewed by Sian Lewis.

  • 2000.07.16:  Arnaldo Marcone, Rostovtzeff e l'Italia. Proceedings of: Incontri perugini di storia della storiografia antica e sul mondo antico, IX, Gubbio, 25-27 May 1995 . Napoli: 1999. Pp. 468. L. 52.000 . ISBN 88-8114-873-0.
    Reviewed by Christina Huemer.

  • 2000.07.17:  Stephanie Quinn, Why Vergil? A Collection of Interpretations. Wauconda, IL: 2000. Pp. xxiii + 451. $40.00 . ISBN 0-86516-418-5 (pb).
    Reviewed by John Higgins.

  • 2000.07.18:  Bert Freyberger, Südgallien im 1. Jahrhundert vor Chr. Phasen, Konsequenzen und Grenzen römischer Eroberung. (125-27/22 v. Chr). Geographica Historica 11. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. 317. DM 124 . ISBN 3-515-07330-2.
    Reviewed by Birgitta Hoffmann.

  • 2000.07.19:  Maurizio Bettini, The Portrait of the Lover. Transl. by Laura Gibbs. Berkeley: 1999. Pp. xiv + 339. ISBN 0-520-20850-1.
    Reviewed by Thomas E. Jenkins.

  • 2000.07.20:  Helen King, Hippocrates' Woman. Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece. London and New York: 1998. Pp. 322. $85.00 (hb) . ISBN 0-415-13894-9.
    Reviewed by Montserrat Cabré.

  • 2000.07.21:  L.D. Reynolds, M. Tulli Ciceronis de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum Libri Quinque. Oxford: 1998. Pp. 300. $35.00 . ISBN 0-198-14670-1.
    Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck.

  • 2000.07.22:  David G. Martinez, P. Michigan XIX. Baptized for Our Sakes: A Leather Trisagion from Egypt (P. Mich. 799). Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, bd. 120 . Stuttgart and Leipzig: 1999. Pp. xi + 115. ISBN 3-519-07669-1.
    Reviewed by David Frankfurter.

  • 2000.07.23:  Philip Hardie, Alessandro Barchiesi, Stephen Hinds, Ovidian Transformations: Essays on the Metamorphoses and its Reception. Cambridge Philological Society Suppl. 23 . Cambridge: 1999. ISBN 0-90614-22-0.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Hara.

  • 2000.07.24:  Llewelyn Morgan, Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics. Cambridge: 1999. Pp. x + 255. $59.95 . ISBN 0-521-65166-2.
    Reviewed by Robert Cramer.

  • 2000.07.25:  Andrew Laird, Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power: Speech Presentation and Latin Literature. Oxford: 1999. Pp. xviii + 358. £45.00. ISBN 0-19-815276-0.
    Reviewed by James T. Chlup.

  • 2000.07.26:  van den Hout, Michel P.J. , A Commentary on the Letters of M. Cornelius Fronto. Mnemosyne Supplement 190. Leiden: 1999. Pp. xi + 725. ISBN 90-04-10957-9.
    Reviewed by James Zetzel.

  • 2000.07.27:  Rose on Spalinger on Rose.
    Response by Lynn E. Rose.

  • 2000.07.28:  Jan Bollansée, Hermippos of Smyrna and his Biographical Writings, a Reappraisal. Studia Hellenistica 35. Louvain: 1999. Pp. xxxvi + 271. 2400 BEF . ISBN 90-429-0779-7 (pb).
    Reviewed by Daniel E. Gershenson.

  • 2000.07.29:  Bruce Lincoln, Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship. Chicago and London: 1999. Pp. xvi + 298. $59.00 (hb) . ISBN 0-226-48201-4.
    Reviewed by David W. Frauenfelder.

  • 2000.07.30:  Nichols on Major on Nichols.
    Response by Peter Nichols.

  • 2000.07.31:  Christian Witschel, Krise-Rezession-Stagnation? Der Westen des römischen Reiches im 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Frankfurt am Main: 1999. Pp. 421. ISBN 3-934040-01-2.
    Reviewed by Michael Kulikowski.

  • 2000.07.32:  Belfiore on Marshall on Belfiore.
    Response by Elizabeth Belfiore.

  • 2000.08.01:  Cornelia Thöne, Ikonographische Studien zu Nike im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.: Untersuchungen zur Wirkungsweise und Wesenart. Archäologie und Geschichte Band 8. Heidelberg: 1999. Pp. 162; 12 plates. ISBN 3-9804648-2-2.
    Reviewed by Richard Hamilton.

  • 2000.08.02:  David Taylor, The Greek and Roman Stage. London: 1999. Pp. viii, 88. $16.95 . ISBN 1-85399-591-6.
    Reviewed by Ariana Traill.

  • 2000.08.03:  Peter Meineck, Aristophanes' Clouds (with an introduction by Ian C. Storey). Indianapolis: 2000. Pp. 125. $5.95 . ISBN 0-87220-516-9 (pb).
    Reviewed by Max Nelson.

  • 2000.08.04:  Books Received (July).


  • 2000.08.05:  Georgia L. Irby-Massie, Military Religion in Roman Britain. Mnemosyne Supplementum 199. Leiden: 1999. Pp. xv, 387, 4 pl. $92.00 . ISBN 90-04-10848-3.
    Reviewed by Anthony A. Barrett.

  • 2000.08.06:  Nancy Sultan, Exile and the poetics of loss in Greek tradition. Lanham, MD: 1999. Pp. xiii + 136. ISBN 0-84768-751-X (hb).
    Reviewed by Tim Whitmarsh.

  • 2000.08.07:  Thomas M. Falkner, Nancy Felson, David Konstan, Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue: Essays in Honor of John J. Peradotto. Lanham, MD: 1999. Pp. x + 359. $27.95 . ISBN 0-847-69733-9.
    Reviewed by Matthew B. Roller.

  • 2000.08.08:  Averil Cameron, Stuart G. Hall, Eusebius' Life of Constantine. Introduction, translation and commentary. Oxford: 1999. Pp. xvii + 395. ISBN 0-19-814924-7.
    Reviewed by DiMaio Jr, Michael.

  • 2000.08.09:  David R. Slavitt, Palmer Bovie, Euripides, 4. Ion, Children of Heracles, The Madness of Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Orestes. Philadelphia: 1999. Pp. 408. $19.95 . ISBN 0-8122-1697-0.
    Reviewed by Sarah K. Torrence.

  • 2000.08.10:  Ismene Lada-Richards, Initiating Dionysus: Ritual and Theatre in Aristophanes' Frogs. Oxford: 1999. Pp. xxiv + 387. $145.00 . ISBN 0-19-814981-6.
    Reviewed by Mark W. Padilla.

  • 2000.08.11:  Wolfgang-Rainer Mann, The Discovery of Things: Aristotle's Categories and Their Context. Princeton: 2000. Pp. xii + 231. $39.50 . ISBN 0-691-01020-X.
    Reviewed by Malcolm Wilson.

  • 2000.08.12:  Gareth B. Matthews, Socratic Perplexity and the Nature of Philosophy. Oxford: 1999. Pp. 137. $29.95 . ISBN 0-19-823828-2.
    Reviewed by Iakovos Vasiliou.

  • 2000.08.13:  Robert Von Rudloff, Hekate in Ancient Greek Religion. Victoria, BC: 1999. Pp. ix + 176. ISBN 0-9696066-8-0.
    Reviewed by Sarah Iles Johnston.

  • 2000.08.14:  Antonio Loprieno, Ancient Egyptian, A linguistic introduction. Cambridge: 1995. Pp. xv + 322. $59.95 (hb) . ISBN 0-521-44384-9.
    Reviewed by J.G. Manning.

  • 2000.08.15:  Ellen O'Gorman, Irony and Misreading in the "Annals" of Tacitus. Cambridge: 2000. Pp. vii + 200. $59.95 . ISBN 0-521-66056-4.
    Reviewed by Ronald Mellor.

  • 2000.08.16:  Robin Hägg, Ancient Greek Cult Practice from the Archaeological Evidence. Proceedings of the Fourth International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, organized by the Swedish Institute at Athens, 22-24 October 1993. Stockholm: 1998. Pp. 249. £23.30. ISBN 91-7916-036-0.
    Reviewed by Sara Owen.

  • 2000.08.17:  Christine F. Salazar, The Treatment of War Wounds in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Leiden: 2000. Pp. 299. $78.00 . ISBN 90-04-11479-3.
    Reviewed by Rachel Hall Sternberg.

  • 2000.08.18:  Michael Rice, Who's Who in Ancient Egypt. London and New York: 1999. Pp. lix, 257. $29.99 . ISBN 0-415-15448-0.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig.

  • 2000.08.19:  Johannes Haubold, Homer's People. Epic Poetry and Social Formation. Cambridge: 2000. Pp. xv, 240. $59.95 . ISBN 0-521-77009-2.
    Reviewed by Jonathan S. Burgess.

  • 2000.08.20:  John F. Healy, Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology. Oxford: 1999. Pp. 467. $110.00 . ISBN 0-19-814687-6.
    Reviewed by Sorcha Carey.

  • 2000.08.21:  A. G. McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt: Laundry Lists and Love Songs. Oxford: 1999. Pp. xii-xiv + 279. $70.00 . ISBN 0-19-814998-0.
    Reviewed by M. Bontty.

  • 2000.08.22:  Holger Thesleff, Studies in Plato's Two-Level Model. Helsinki: 1999. Pp. vii + 143. ISBN 951-653-298-5 (pb).
    Reviewed by Gerald A. Press.

  • 2000.08.23:  Aldo Schiavone, The End of the Past: Ancient Rome and the Modern West. Translated by Margery J. Schneider. Revealing Antiquity, 13. Cambridge, MA: 2000. Pp. viii + 278. $45.00 . ISBN 0-674-00062-5.
    Reviewed by Phiroze Vasunia.

  • 2000.08.24:  Vivian Nutton, Galen. On My Own Opinions. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum 5.3.2. Galeni De Propriis Placitis. Berlin: 1999. Pp. 247. DM 168 . ISBN 3-05-003340-1.
    Reviewed by Ralph M. Rosen.

  • 2000.08.25:  Lisa C. Nevett, House and Society in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge: 1999. Pp. xi + 220. $64.95 . ISBN 0-521-64349-X.
    Reviewed by Gill, David W.J..

  • 2000.08.26:  Stuart J. Fleming, Roman Glass. Reflections on Cultural Change. Philadelphia: 1999. Pp. xii + 208, 71 fig.. $50.00 (hb) . ISBN 0-924171-72-3.
    Reviewed by Birgitta Hoffmann.

  • 2000.08.27:  Karl Reichl, The Oral Epic: Performance and Music. Berlin: 2000. Pp. 246. DM 68 . ISBN 3-86135-643-0.
    Reviewed by Minna Skafte Jensen.

  • 2000.08.28:  Victoria Wohl, The Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy. Austin: 1998. Pp. xxxvii + 294. ISBN 0-292-79113-5.
    Reviewed by Nancy Rabinowitz.

  • 2000.08.29:  E.R. Dodds, Missing Persons: An Autobiography. Oxford: 1977; reprinted 2000. Pp. x, 202. £35.00 .
    Reviewed by Robert Todd.

  • 2000.08.30:  Richard F. Thomas, Reading Virgil and His Texts: Studies in Intertextuality. Ann Arbor: 1999. Pp. 351. $52.50 . ISBN 0-472-10897-2.
    Reviewed by David Meban.

  • 2000.08.31:  Mary Beard, The Invention of Jane Harrison. Cambridge, MA: 2000. Pp. xiii + 229. $35.00 . ISBN 0-674-00212-1.
    Reviewed by Sheila Murnaghan.

  • 2000.08.32:  Major on Nichols on Major on Nichols.
    Response by Wilfred E. Major.

  • 2000.09.01:  Richard Miles, Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity. London and New York: 1999. Pp. ix, 262. $75.00 . ISBN 0-415-19406-7.
    Reviewed by Marietta Horster.

  • 2000.09.02:  Books Received (August).


  • 2000.09.03:  Alan L. Boegehold, When A Gesture Was Expected. A Selection of Examples From Archaic and Classical Greek Literature. Princeton: 1999. Pp. xiv, 154. $32.50 . ISBN 0-691-00263-0.
    Reviewed by James Clauss.

  • 2000.09.04:  J.M. Rainer, Prolegomena. Corpus der Römischen Rechtsquellen zur Antiken Sklaverei (CRRS) edited by J. Michael Rainer. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. ix, 74. ISBN 3-515-07487-2.
    H. Wieling, Teil I (CRRS): Die Begründung des Sklavenstatus nach Ius Gentium und Ius Civile. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. xii, 167. ISBN 3-515-07488-0.
    Reviewed by Bruce W. Frier.

  • 2000.09.05:  Walther Ludwig, Hellas in Deutschland: Darstellungen der Gräzistik im deutschprachigen Raum aus dem 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. Berichte aus den Sitzungen der Joachim Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften e. V., Hamburg; Jahrg. 16, Heft 1. Hamburg: 1998. Pp. 104. ISBN 3-525-86295-4.
    Reviewed by James I. Porter.

  • 2000.09.06:  Katherine Clarke, Between Geography and History: Hellenistic Constructions of the Roman World. Oxford: 1999. Pp. xi + 407. $85.00 . ISBN 0-19-924003-5.
    Reviewed by Sarah Pothecary.

  • 2000.09.07:  Anderson Jr., R. Dean, Glossary of Greek Rhetorical Terms connected to Methods of Argumentation, Figures and Tropes from Anaximenes to Quintilian. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 24. Leuven: 2000. Pp. 131. 600 BEF, 15 Euro. ISBN 90-429-0846-7.
    Reviewed by Dirk M. Schenkeveld.

  • 2000.09.08:  Reinhard Markner, Giuseppe Veltri, Friedrich August Wolf: Studien, Dokumente, Bibliographie. Palingenesia 67. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. 144. DM 48 . ISBN 3-515-07637-9 (pb).
    Reviewed by Lee T. Pearcy.

  • 2000.09.09:  L. Richardson Jr., A Catalog of Identifiable Figure Painters of Ancient Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. Baltimore: 2000. Pp. 143. $49.95 . ISBN 0-8018-6235-3.
    Reviewed by Diane A. Conlin.

  • 2000.09.10:  Ian Worthington, Greek Orators II: Dinarchus, Hyperides. Warminster: 1999. Pp. xii + 228. ISBN 0-85668-306-X (hb).
    Reviewed by Michael Gagarin.

  • 2000.09.11:  Keimpe Algra, Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld, Malcolm Schofield, The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge: 1999. Pp. xix + 916. $135.00 . ISBN 0-521-25028-5.
    Reviewed by Tad Brennan.

  • 2000.09.12:  Martin L. West, Homeri Ilias. Recensuit / testimonia congessit. Volumen prius, rhapsodias I-XII continens. Stuttgart and Leipzig: 1998. Pp. lxii + 372. ISBN 3-519-01431-9.
    Reviewed by Gregory Nagy.

  • 2000.09.13:  Gerd van Riel, Pleasure and the Good Life: Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists. Philosophia Antiqua 85. Leiden: 2000. Pp. x, 207. ISBN 90-04-11797-0.
    Reviewed by Robin Waterfield.

  • 2000.09.14:  Frederick E. Brenk, Clothed in Purple Light: Studies in Vergil and in Latin Literature, Including Aspects of Philosophy, Religion, Magic, Judaism, and the New Testament Background. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. 256. $55.00 . ISBN 3-515-07422-8 (pb).
    Reviewed by Harvey Jr., Paul B..

  • 2000.09.15:  Patrizio Pensabene, Terracotte del Museo Nazionale Romano I: Gocciolatoi e protomi da sime. Rome: 1999. Pp. 320 + pl. Lire 145 . ISBN 88-8265-031-6.
    Reviewed by Nancy A. Winter.

  • 2000.09.16:  Dennis R. MacDonald, The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark. New Haven: 2000. Pp. 262. $30.00 . ISBN 0-300-08012-3.
    Reviewed by Robert J. Rabel.

  • 2000.09.17:  Luigi Spina, La fine dell'inizio. Una riflessione e quattro studi su incipit ed explicit nella letteratura latina. Napoli: 1999. Pp. 105.
    Reviewed by James W. Halporn.

  • 2000.09.18:  R.E. Emmerick, W. Sundermann, P. Zieme, Studia Manichaica. IV. Internationaler Kongress zum Manichäismus. Berlin: 2000. Pp. xiv + 666. DM 198 . ISBN 3-05-003330-4.
    Reviewed by Kevin Kaatz.

  • 2000.09.19:  Laurin R. Johnson, Shining in the Ancient Sea: The Astronomical Ancestry of Homer's Odyssey. Portland, OR: 1999. Pp. 156; 1 map. $20.00 . ISBN 0-9669828-0-0.
    Reviewed by John M. McMahon.

  • 2000.09.20:  Howard A. Slaatté, Plato's Dialogues and Ethics. Lanham, MD: 2000. Pp. 146. $39.50 . ISBN 0-7618-1500-7.
    Reviewed by David Murphy.

  • 2000.09.21:  Reinhold Bichler, Robert Rollinger, Herodot. Studienbücher Antike, Band 3. Hildesheim: 2000. Pp. 209. DM 29.80 . ISBN 3-487-10931-X (pb).
    Reviewed by Ehrhardt, Christopher T.H.R..

  • 2000.09.22:  Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Ancestor of the West : writing, reasoning, and religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece. Chicago: 2000. Pp. xiii + 192. $25.00/£17.50. ISBN 0-226-06715-7.
    Reviewed by M.L. West.

  • 2000.10.01:  Thomas K. Hubbard, The Pipes of Pan: Intertextuality and Literary Filiation from Theocritus to Milton. Ann Arbor : 1998. Pp. x, 390. ISBN 0-472-108-557.
    Reviewed by Christopher M. Kupiers.

  • 2000.10.02:  Peter Wilson, The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia: The Chorus, The City and the Stage . Cambridge: 2000. Pp. 435. $85.00 . ISBN 0-521-55070-X.
    Reviewed by Josiah Ober.

  • 2000.10.03:  Fritz Felgentreu, Claudians Praefationes. Bedingungen, Beschreibungen und Wirkungen einer poetischen Kleinform. BzA 130. Stuttgart und Leipzig: 1999. Pp. 263. ISBN 3-519-07679-9.
    Reviewed by Ludwig Fladerer .

  • 2000.10.04:  Books Received (September).


  • 2000.10.05:  Manuel Baumbach, Tradita et Inventa. Beiträge zur Rezeption der Antike (Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft). Heidelberg: 1999. Pp. xi, 676. DM 128 . ISBN 3-8253-0938-X.
    Reviewed by Held, Dirk T.D..

  • 2000.10.06:  David R. Slavitt, Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia. Philadelphia: 1998. Pp. xv, 159.
    Reviewed by Victor Bers.

  • 2000.10.07:  Elizabeth Key Fowden, The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran. Berkeley and Los Angeles: 1999. Pp. xix + 227; 17 b/w ills. $55.00. ISBN 0-520-21685-7.
    Reviewed by Jas' Elsner.

  • 2000.10.08:  Tim Duff, Plutarch's Lives: Exploring Virtue and Vice. Oxford: 2000. Pp. 444. £55.00. ISBN 0-19-815058-X.
    Reviewed by Simon Goldhill.

  • 2000.10.09:  Simon P. Ellis, Roman Housing. London: 2000. Pp. viii, 224, 12 b/w plates, 30 figures. £40.00. ISBN 0-7156-2877-1.
    Reviewed by Timothy O'Sullivan.

  • 2000.10.10:  H.A. Drake, Constantine and the Bishops. The Politics of Intolerance. Baltimore: 2000. Pp. xx, 609. $68.00. ISBN 0-8018-6218-3.
    Reviewed by Raymond Van Dam.

  • 2000.10.11:  L. V. Rutgers, Subterranean Rome: In Search of the Roots of Christianity in the Catacombs of the Eternal City. Leuven: 2000. Pp. 164. 595 BEF; 15 EURO. ISBN 90-429-0857-2 (pb).
    Reviewed by Allen Kerkeslager.

  • 2000.10.12:  Mark Munn, The School of History. Athens in the Age of Socrates. Berkeley: 2000. Pp. 525. ISBN 0-520-21557-5.
    Reviewed by Marti Duran.

  • 2000.10.13:  Herbert Golder, Richard Pevear, Sophocles: Aias. The Greek Tragedy in New Translations. Oxford: 1999. Pp. 100. ISBN 0-19-512819-2.
    Reviewed by Emily Katz Anhalt.

  • 2000.10.14:  Richard Marback, Plato's Dream of Sophistry. Columbia: 1999. Pp. ix + 163. $24.95. ISBN 1-57003-240-8.
    Reviewed by Mark Joyal.

  • 2000.10.15:  Marta Anna Wlodarczyk, Pyrrhonian Inquiry. Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary volume no. 25. : . Pp. x, 72. £15. ISBN 0-906014-24-7.
    Reviewed by James Warren.

  • 2000.10.16:  Maria S. Marsilio, Farming and Poetry in Hesiod's Works and Days. Lanham: 2000. Pp. 112 + xxi. $34.50. ISBN 0-7618-1684-4.
    Reviewed by John Lewis.

  • 2000.10.17:  Arthur Madigan, Aristotle, Metaphysics: Books B and K 1-2. Oxford: 2000. Pp. xl + 185. $60.00 (hb). ISBN 0-19-875105-2.
    Reviewed by Ian Bell.

  • 2000.10.18:  James R. Stewart, Corpus of Cypriot Artefacts of the Early Bronze Age, Part III:1 (edited by Eve Stewart). Jonsered: 1999. Pp. xvi, 124. 400 SEK. ISBN 91-7081-159-8.
    Reviewed by David W. Rupp.

  • 2000.10.19:  Van Sickle on Meban on Thomas and Kuipers on Hubbard.
    Response by John Van Sickle.

  • 2000.10.20:  Thomas on Van Sickle on Meban on Thomas and Kuipers on Hubbard.
    Response by Richard F. Thomas.

  • 2000.10.21:  Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th edition, revised by Richard A. LaFleur. New York: 2000. Pp. xliv + 508. $20.00. ISBN 0-06-095641-0.
    Reviewed by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma.

  • 2000.10.22:  Iphiyenia Tournavitou, The 'Ivory Houses' at Mycenae. London: 1995. Pp. xx, 341, 815 microfiche. $104.00. ISBN 0-904887-12-X.
    Reviewed by Bryan E. Burns.

  • 2000.10.23:  Andrew M. Riggsby, Crime and Community in Ciceronian Rome. Austin: 1999. Pp. xvi, 249. $40.00 (hb). ISBN 0-292-77098-7.
    Reviewed by Gregory S. Bucher.

  • 2000.10.24:  Bengt Ankarloo, Stuart Clark, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe. Ancient Greece and Rome. Philadelphia: 1999. Pp. xvi + 378. $55.00 (hb). ISBN 0-8122-3517-7.
    Reviewed by Donald Lateiner.

  • 2000.10.25:  Joseph B. Scholten, The Politics of Plunder: The Aitolians and Their Koinon in the Early Hellenistic Era, 279-217 BC. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: 2000. Pp. 339. $65.00. ISBN 0-520-20187-6.
    Reviewed by Craige Champion.

  • 2000.10.26:  Milena Minkova, The Personal Names of the Latin Inscriptions of Bulgaria. Frankfurt: 2000. Pp. 345. DM 98.00. ISBN 3-631-35141-0.
    Reviewed by Philip Freeman.

  • 2000.10.27:  David Soren, Noelle Soren, A Roman Villa and a Late-Roman Infant Cemetery: Excavation at Poggio Gramignano, Lugnano in Teverina (Bibliotheca Archaeologica 23). Rome: 1999. Pp. 687 + 310 figs., 269 pls.. ISBN 88-7062-989-9.
    Reviewed by W.V. Harris.

  • 2000.10.28:  Barton Hall, Tantalus, an adaptation from the original ten-play cycle by John Barton (with additional text by Colin Teevan), directed by Peter Hall and Edward Hall. : .
    Reviewed by M. D. Usher.

  • 2000.10.29:  Jennifer Tunberg, Terence Tunberg, Cattus Petasatus (Latin translation of Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat). Wauconda, IL: 2000. Pp. 75. $22.50. ISBN 0-86516-471-1.
    Reviewed by Eleanor Dickey.

  • 2000.10.30:  Philip de Souza, Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World. Cambridge: 2000. Pp. x, 276; 5 maps. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-48137-6.
    Reviewed by Kathryn Simonsen.

  • 2000.11.01:  Michel Chauveau, Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra. History and Society under the Ptolemies (= L'Egypte au temps de Cléopâtre, transl. by D. Lorton). Ithaca: 2000. Pp. 226. $42.50 (hb). ISBN 0-8014-3597-8.
    Reviewed by Marjorie S. Venit.

  • 2000.11.02:  Rainer and Bellen on Frier on Rainer.
    Response by J. Michael Rainer and Heinz Bellen.

  • 2000.11.03:  Johnson on McMahon on Johnson.
    Response by Laurin R. Johnson.

  • 2000.11.04:  H. Sonnabend, Mensch und Landschaft in der Antike: Lexikon der historischen Geographie. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. 660. DM 98.00. ISBN 3-476-01285-9.
    Reviewed by René S. Bloch.

  • 2000.11.05:  Ralf Krumeich, Nikolaus Pechstein, Bernd Seidensticker, Das griechische Satyrspiel. Darmstadt: 1999. Pp. xii, 676; 30 pls. DM 148. ISBN 3-534-14593-3.
    Reviewed by Peter Burian.

  • 2000.11.06:  Kenneth Rexroth, Poems from the Greek Anthology. Expanded edition. Ann Arbor: 1999. Pp. xxv (xxviii), 114. $16.95. ISBN 0-472-08608-1.
    Reviewed by Otto Steinmayer.

  • 2000.11.07:  Books Received (October).


  • 2000.11.08:  Jürgen Untermann, Wörterbuch des Oskisch-Umbrischen. Heidelberg: 2000. Pp. 902. DM 168. ISBN 3-8253-0963-0.
    Reviewed by George E. Dunkel.

  • 2000.11.09:  Anne Jacquemin, Offrandes monumentales à Delphes. Athens: 1999. Pp. 434. 650 F. ISBN 2-86958-170-X.
    Reviewed by Dylan Bloy.

  • 2000.11.10:  Gerald A. Press, Who Speaks for Plato? Studies in Platonic Anonymity. Lanham, MD: 2000. Pp. 245. ISBN 0-8476-9218-3 (hb).
    Reviewed by G.R.F. Ferrari.

  • 2000.11.11:  Géza Alföldy, Provincia Hispania Superior. Philosophisch-historische Klasse der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Heidelberg: 2000. Pp. 79. ISBN 3-8253-1009-4.
    Reviewed by Michael Kulikowski.

  • 2000.11.12:  S. Sara Monoson, Plato's Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy. Princeton: 2000. Pp. ix, 252. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-04366-3.
    Reviewed by John R. Wallach.

  • 2000.11.13:  Stray on Traill on Stray.
    Response by Christopher Stray.

  • 2000.11.14:  Enrico Magnelli, Alexandri Aetoli Testimonia et Fragmenta. Studi e Testi 15. Florence: 1999. Pp. 304. L.70,000.
    Reviewed by S. Douglas Olson.

  • 2000.11.15:  William Horbury, W. D. Davies, John Sturdy, The Cambridge History of Judaism III. The early Roman period. Cambridge: 1999. $140.00. ISBN 0-521-24377-7.
    Reviewed by Hagith Sivan.

  • 2000.11.16:  Stephen Hodkinson, Anton Powell, Sparta: New Perspectives. London: 1999. Pp. xxvi, 427. £48.00. ISBN 0-7156-2908-5.
    Reviewed by Graham Shipley.

  • 2000.11.17:  A.H. Sommerstein, Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae. Warminster: 1998. Pp. xl, 242. ISBN 0-85668-707-3 (hb).
    Reviewed by Armand D'Angour.

  • 2000.11.18:  Aveline on Smith and Trzaskoma on Wheelock's Latin, 6th edition.
    Response by John Aveline.

  • 2000.11.19:  A.A. Phillips, M.M. Willcock, Xenophon and Arrian, On Hunting. Warminster: 1999. Pp. xii, 196. £16.50/$28.00. ISBN 0-85-568706-5 (pb).
    Reviewed by Jon Hesk.

  • 2000.11.20:  David R. Langslow, Medical Latin in the Roman Empire. Oxford: 2000. Pp. 517, xv. $110.00. ISBN 0-19-815279-5.
    Reviewed by Eleanor Dickey.

  • 2000.11.21:  Claudia Schindler, Untersuchungen zu den Gleichnissen im römischen Lehrgedicht (Lucrez, Vergil, Manilius). Hypomnemata 129. Göttingen: 2000. Pp. 315. DM 98.00. ISBN 3-525-25226-9.
    Reviewed by Katharina Volk.

  • 2000.11.22:  Thomas Kellner, Die Göttergestalten in Claudians De raptu Proserpinae. Polarität und Koinzidenz als anthropozentrische Dialektik mythologisch formulierter Weltvergewisserung. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Band 106. Stuttgart and Leipzig: 1997. Pp. 341. ISBN 3-519-07655-1.
    Reviewed by Stephen Wheeler.

  • 2000.11.23:  Josef Locher, Topographie und Geschichte der Region am ersten Nilkatarakt in griechisch-römischer Zeit. Archiv für Papyrusforschung, Beischrift 5. Stuttgart/Leipzig: 1999. Pp. viii, 365. ISBN 3-598-77538-5.
    Reviewed by M. Bontty.

  • 2000.11.24:  Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Pichvnari and Its Environs, 6th c BC-4th c AD. Annales Littéraires de l'Université de Franche-Comté, 659, Editeurs: M. Clavel-Lévêque, E. Geny, P. Lévêque. Paris: 1999. Pp. 230. 210FF. ISBN 2-913322-42-5.
    Reviewed by Balbina Baebler.

  • 2000.11.25:  Justina Gregory, Euripides: Hecuba. American Philological Association Textbook Series no. 14. Atlanta: 1999. Pp. 218. $29.95 (hb). ISBN 0-7885-0612-9.
    Reviewed by Lisa Rengo George.

  • 2000.11.26:  Don Fowler, Roman Constructions. Readings in Postmodern Latin. Oxford: 2000. Pp. xvi, 350. ISBN 0-19-815309-0.
    Reviewed by William S. Anderson.

  • 2000.11.27:  Jennifer M. Webb, Ritual Architecture, Iconography and Practice in the Late Cypriot Bronze Age. Jonsered, Sweden: 1999. Pp. xii + 369. 400.00 SEK. ISBN 91-7081-148-2.
    Reviewed by D.J.I. Begg.

  • 2000.11.29:  Jeremy McInerney, The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis. Austin: 1999. Pp. xvi + 391. $50.00 (hb). ISBN 0-292-75229-6.
    Reviewed by John Buckler.

  • 2000.12.01:  Stephen Usher, Greek Oratory: Tradition and Originality. Oxford: 1999. Pp. xi + 388. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-815074-1.
    Reviewed by Judson Herrman.

  • 2000.12.02:  Kulikowski on Alföldy on Kulikowski on Alföldy .
    Response by Michael Kulikowski.

  • 2000.12.03:  Fritz Fajen, Oppianus Halieutica. Sammlung Wissenschaftlicher Commentare. Stuttgart and Leipzig: 1999. Pp. xvii, 409. DM 158. ISBN 3-598-74290-8.
    Reviewed by C.L.H. Barnes.

  • 2000.12.04:  Alexander Avenarius, Die byzantinische Kultur und die Slawen. Zum Problem der Rezeption und Transformation (6. bis 12. Jahrhundert). Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für österreichische Geschichtsforschung, 34. Vienna: 2000. Pp. 264. DM 79.00. ISBN 3-7029-0448-4.
    Reviewed by Florin Curta.

  • 2000.12.05:  Books Received (November).


  • 2000.12.06:  Pernille Flensted-Jensen, Further Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. Historia Einzelschriften 138, CPCPapers 5. Stuttgart: 2000. Pp. 262. DM 84. ISBN 3-515-07607-7.
    Reviewed by Vanessa B. Gorman.

  • 2000.12.07:  Peder Borgen, Käre Fuglseth, Roald Skarsten, The Philo Index: A Complete Greek Word Index to the Writings of Philo of Alexandria. Grand Rapids, The Netherlands: 2000. Pp. 371. $62.00. ISBN 0-8028-3883-9.
    Reviewed by Margaret Graver.

  • 2000.12.08:  Penelope J.E. Davies, Death and the Emperor. Cambridge: 2000. Pp. xiv, 265; 117 ills. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-63236-6.
    Reviewed by Susan Wood.

  • 2000.12.09:  Therese Fuhrer, Michael Erler, Zur Rezeption der hellenistischen Philosophie im Spätantike. Philosophie der Antike, 9. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. 316. DM 134. ISBN 3-515-07442-2.
    Reviewed by Peter Lautner.

  • 2000.12.10:  Patrizio Domenicucci, Astra Caesarum: Astronomia, astrologia e catasterismo da Cesare a Domiziano. Pisa: 1996. Pp. 191. L.20,000. ISBN 88-7741-932-6.
    Reviewed by John T. Ramsey.

  • 2000.12.11:  Frier on Reiner on Frier on Reiner.
    Response by Bruce W. Frier.

  • 2000.12.12:  Sallares on Harris on Soren.
    Response by Robert Sallares.

  • 2000.12.13:  Georg Wöhrle, Telemachs Reise: Väter und Söhne in Ilias und Odysee oder ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der Männlichkeitsideologie in der homerischen Welt. Göttingen: 1999. Pp. 170. DM 58. ISBN 3-525-25221-8.
    Reviewed by Leah Himmelhoch.

  • 2000.12.14:  Gibert on Usher.
    Response by John Gibert.

  • 2000.12.15:  Raija Vainio, Latinitas and Barbarisms according to the Roman Grammarians: Attitudes towards Language in the Light of Grammatical Examples. Turku: 1999. Pp. 180.
    Reviewed by Farouk Grewing.

  • 2000.12.16:  S.R. Slings, Symposium: Speech and Ideology. Two hermeneutical issues in early Greek lyric, with special reference to Mimnermus. Mededelingen van de Afdeling Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, Deel 63 no. 1. Amsterdam: 2000. Pp. 33. NLG 25. ISBN 90-6984-277-7.
    Reviewed by Douglas E. Gerber.

  • 2000.12.17:  Robin Hägg, Ancient Greek Hero Cult. Proceedings of the Fifth International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, 21-23 April 1995. Stockholm: 1999. Pp. 207. SEK 275. ISBN 91-7916-037-9 (pb).
    Reviewed by Corinne Ondine Pache.

  • 2000.12.18:  Claude Calame, Poétique des mythes dans la Grèce antique. Collection 'Langues et civilisations anciennes'. Paris: 2000. Pp. 288. ISBN 2-01-021147-2.
    Reviewed by Michael Clarke.

 
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