The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Volume 132, November 2012
Research Articles
George Boys-Stones, Harpocration of Argos: Etymology and Metaphysics in the Platonist Revival, pp 1 – 6
Michael B. Charles, The Persian κάρδακες, pp 7 – 21
Jonas Grethlein, Xenophon's Anabasis from Character to Narrator, pp 23 – 40
Owen Hodkinson, Attic Idylls: Hierarchies of Herdsmen and Social Status in Alciphron and Longus, pp 41 – 53
Aaron P. Johnson, Philosophy, Hellenicity, Law: Porphyry on Origen, Again, pp 55 – 69
Anthony Kaldellis, The Byzantine Role in the Making of the Corpus of Classical Greek Historiography: A Preliminary Investigation, pp 71 – 85
Margaretha Kramer-Hajos, The Land and the Heroes of Lokris in the Iliad, pp 87 – 105
Julia L. Shear, The Tyrannicides, their Cult and the Panathenaia: A Note, pp 107 – 119
D. Graham J. Shipley, Pseudo-Skylax and the Natural Philosophers, pp 121 – 138
L.A. Swift, Archilochus the ‘Anti-Hero’? Heroism, Flight and Values in Homer and the New Archilochus Fragment (P.Oxy LXIX 4708), pp 139 – 155
Review Articles
I.A. Ruffell, Review Article: Comedy, pp 157 – 171
Reviews of Books: Literature
(B.) Graziosi and (J.) Haubold Eds. Homer Iliad Book VI (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. x + 278. £19.99. 9780521-703727. Jonathan L. Ready, pp 173 – 173
(M.) Kivilo, Early Greek Poets' Lives: the Shaping of the Tradition (Mnemosyne supplements: monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature 322). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. Pp. xii + 270. €105/$146. 9789004186156. Paola Bassino, pp 174 – 175
(J.W.) Day Archaic Greek Epigram and Dedication: Representation and Reperformance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xxii + 321. £60. 9780521896306. David Fearn, pp 175 – 176
(M.) Baumann Bilder schreiben: Virtuose Ekphrasis in Philostrats Eikones (Millennium-Studien = Millennium Studies). Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011. Pp. x + 218, illus. €79.95. 9783110254051. Vasiliki Kostopoulou, pp 176 – 177
(D.) Fearn Ed. Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry. Myth, History, and Identity in the Fifth Century BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 511, illus. £85. 9780199546510. Irene Polinskaya, pp 177 – 179
(A.P.) Burnett Pindar: Odes for Victorious Athletes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2010. Pp. viii + 192. £23.50 (hbk); £10.50 (pbk). 9780801895746 (hbk); 9780801895753 (pbk). Richard Stoneman, pp 179 – 180
(J.) Lallot, (A.) Rijksbaron, (B.) Jacquinod and (M.) Buijs Eds. The Historical Present in Thucydides: Semantics and Narrative Function = Le Présent historique chez Thucydide: sémantique et fonction narrative (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 18). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. Pp. viii + 327. €108. 9789004201187. Tim Rood, pp 180 – 181
(D.K.) Roselli Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens. Austin: University of Texas Press. Pp. xii + 288. $55. 9780292723948. Alan H. Sommerstein, pp 181 – 182
(A.) Antoni, (G.) Arrighetti, (M.) Bertagna and (D) Delattre. Eds. Miscellanea Papyrologica Herculanensia I (Biblioteca di Studi Antichi 93). Pisa and Rome: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2010. Pp. 335. €145. 97888-62271851. Richard Janko, pp 182 – 183
(A.K.) Petrides and (S.) Papaioannou Eds. New Perspectives on Postclassical Comedy (Studies in Greek and Latin Literature 2). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2010. Pp. xii + 216. £39.99. 9781443824118. Valeria Cinaglia, pp 184 – 184
(B.) Deforge Une vie avec Eschyle. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2010. Pp. 304. €35. 97822-51324586. Anne-Sophie Noel, pp 184 – 185
(H.M.) Roisman and (C.A.E.) Luschnig Eds. Euripides' Electra: A Commentary (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture 38). Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. Pp. xvii + 366. $32.95. 9780806141190. David Kovacs, pp 186 – 187
(A.A.) Lamari Narrative, Intertext, and Space in Euripides' Phoenissae. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010. Pp. ix + 250. €79.95/$112. 9783110245929. Isabelle Torrance, pp 187 – 188
(N.) Holzberg Aristophanes: Sex und Spott und Politik. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2010. Pp. 240. €24.95. 9783406605925. Jeremy B. Lefkowitz, pp 188 – 189
(L.) Kurke Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xxi + 495. $75/£52 (hbk); $29.95/£19.95 (pbk). 9780691144573 (hbk); 9780691144580 (pbk). James M. Redfield, pp 189 – 190
(C.) Luz Technopaignia, Formspiele in der griechischen Dichtung (Mnemosyne Supplements 324). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. Pp. xxi + 443. $2116. 9789004189782. Calum Maciver, pp 190 – 191
(J.I.) Porter The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii + 607. £85. 9780521841801. Carmel McCallum-Barry, pp 191 – 192
(G.W.) Dobrov Ed. Brill's Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. xv + 579, illus. €189. 9789004109636. Sarah Miles, pp 193 – 194
(R.) Shorrock The Myth of Paganism: Nonnus, Dionysus and the World of late Antiquity. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2011. Pp. ix + 181. £19.99. 9780715636688. Camille Geisz, pp 194 – 195
(M) Egetmeyer Le dialecte grec ancien de Chypre. 1. Grammaire. 2. Repertoire des inscriptions en syllabaire chypro-grec. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010. Pp. xx + 1037, illus. €249. 9783110217513. Alcorac Alonso Déniz, pp 195 – 196
(M.) Horster and (C.) Reitz Eds. Condensing Texts – Condensed Texts (Palingenesia 98). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. Pp. vii + 764. €99. 978351-5093958. John Wilkins, pp 197 – 198
(J.) Klooster Poetry as Window and Mirror: Positioning the Poet in Hellenistic Poetry. Leiden: Brill, 2011. Pp. xiv + 282. €108/$148. 9789004202290. Sophia Bender Koning, pp 198 – 199
(A.) Imhausen and (T.) Pommerening Eds. Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece: Translating Ancient Scientific Texts (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 286). Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2010. Pp. xiii + 436. €109.95/$154. 9783110229929. Denis M. Searby, pp 199 – 200
Reviews of Books: History
(L.) Bonfante Ed. The Barbarians of Ancient Europe: Realities and Interactions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xxiii + 395, illus. £60. 9780521194044. Matthew A. Sears, pp 200 – 201
(E.S.) Gruen Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2011. Pp vii + 535. £29.75. 9780892369690. Naoíse Mac Sweeney, pp 201 – 202
(M.) Sundahl, (D.) Mirhady and (I.) Arnaoutoglou Eds. A New Working Bibliography of Ancient Greek Law (7th–4th Centuries BC) (Epetēris tou Kentrou Ereunēs tēs Historias tou Hellēnikou Dikaiou; tomos 42, parartēma 11). Athens: Academy of Athens, 2011. Pp. 657. €47.93. 9789604041985. Andreas Serafim, pp 202 – 203
(A.-M.) Wittke, (E.) Olshausen, (R.) Szydlak and (C.F.) Salazar Eds. Brill's New Pauly Historical Atlas of the Ancient World (Brill's New Pauly. Supplements 3). Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. xix + 307. €280/$398. 9789004171565. Brian Turner, pp 203 – 205
(J.) Shear Polis and Revolution: Responding to Oligarchy in Classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 368, illus. £60. 9780521760447. Carol Atack, pp 205 – 206
(T.) Power The Culture of Kitharôidia. Washington DC: Centre for Hellenic Studies/Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 638. £14.95. 9780674021389. Tom Phillips, pp 206 – 207
(R.S.) Bagnall Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East (Sather Classical Lectures 69). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. xiv + 179, illus. £34.95. 9780520267022. J.A. Baird, pp 207 – 208
(R.D.) Luginbill Author of Illusions: Thucydides' Rewriting of the History of the Peloponnesian War. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2011. Pp. x + 277. £39.99. 978144-3826495. Matthew A. Sears, pp 208 – 209
(C.) Mann, (M.) Haake and (R.) Von Den Hoff Rollenbilder in der athenischen Demokratie: Medien, Gruppen, Räume im politischen und sozialen System: Beiträge zu einem interdisziplinären Kolloquium in Freiburg i. Br., 24.–25. November 2006. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2009. Pp. 220. €59. 9783895007125. Christopher A. Farrell, pp 209 – 210
(G.) Reger, (F.X.) Ryan and (T.F.) Winters Eds. Studies in Greek Epigraphy and History in Honor of Stephen V. Tracy (Études Ausonius Institute 26). Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2010. Pp. 398. €35. 9782356130181. Aneurin Ellis-Evans, pp 211 – 212
(G.G.) Fagan and (M.) Trundle Eds. New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. 372, illus. €140. 978900-4185982. James Thorne, pp 212 – 213
(A.) Moreno Feeding the Democracy: The Athenian Grain Supply in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC (Oxford Classical Monographs). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xix + 420, illus. £65. 9780199228409.
(G.J.) Oliver War, Food and Politics in Early Hellenistic Athens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xxiii + 360, illus. £60. 9780199283507. David Braund, pp 213 – 215
(D.M.) Pritchard Ed. War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xviii + 460, illus. £65. 9780521190336. P.J. Rhodes, pp 215 – 216
(A.) Cassayre La justice dans les cités grecques: de la formation des royaumes hellénistiques au legs d'Attale. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010. Pp. 557. €24. 9782753509832. Christopher A. Farrell, pp 216 – 217
(F.) Gazzano and (L.) Santi Amantini Eds. Incontri e conflitti. Ripensando la colonizzazione greca (Rapporti interstatali nell'antichità 5). Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2010. Pp. xi + 122. €95. 97888-82655730. Luca Asmonti, pp 217 – 218
(R.) Alston, (E.) Hall and (L.) Profitt Eds. Reading Ancient Slavery. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2011. Pp. x + 235, illus. £25. 9780715638682. Theresa Urbainczyk, pp 218 – 219
(M.) Horstmanshoff Ed. Hippocrates and Medical Education: Selected Papers Presented at the XIIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, Universiteit Leiden, 24–26 August 2005. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. Pp xxviii + 564. €140/$200. 9789004172487. Laura Robson, pp 219 – 220
(S.) Hornblower Thucydidean Themes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii + 415. £75. 9780199562336. Neville Morley, pp 220 – 221
(L.E.) Patterson Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 255. $60. 9780292722750. Emily Varto, pp 221 – 222
(J.) Grethlein The Greeks and their Past. Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 350, illus. £55. 9780521110778. Lisa Irene Hau, pp 222 – 223
(E.) Foster Thucydides, Pericles, and Periclean Imperialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 243. £50. 9780521192668. Christine M. Lee, pp 223 – 224
(R.W.V.) Catling and (F.) Marchand with the assistance of (M.) Sasanow Eds. Onomatologos: Studies in Greek Personal Names Presented to Elaine Matthews. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010. Pp. xxxii + 681, illus. £90. 9781842179826. Patrick James, pp 224 – 226
(T.) Whitmarsh Ed. Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World (Greek Culture in the Roman World). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii + 228, illus. £55/$95. 9780521761468. Zahra Newby, pp 226 – 228
(K.) Scherberich Koinè symmachía. Untersuchungen zum Hellenenbund Antigonos' III. Doson und Philipps V. (224–197 v. Chr.) (Historia Einzelschriften 184). Stuttgart: Steiner, 2009. Pp. 254. €58. 9783515094061. Kostas Buraselis, pp 228 – 229
(P.M.) Fraser Greek Ethnic Terminology (Lexicon of Greek Personal Names. Supplementary Volume. Revised for publication after the author's death by S. Hornblower). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2009. Pp. xxi + 424. £50. 9780197264287. Maria Fragoulaki, pp 229 – 230
(R.) Stoneman The Ancient Oracles: Making the Gods Speak. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011. Pp. xiv + 270. £25. 9780300140422. Hugh Bowden, pp 230 – 231
(R.) Parker On Greek Religion (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology 60). Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 309. £49.50 (hbk); £19.95 (pbk). 9780801449482 (hbk); 9780801477355 (pbk). Hugh Bowden, pp 231 – 232
(A.C.) Smith and (S.) Pickup Eds. Brill's Companion to Aphrodite. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. Pp. xvii + 452, illus. €146.00/$216. 978900418003. Susan Deacy, pp 232 – 233
(N.) Marinatos Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess, A Near Eastern Koine. Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Pp. 263 + illus. £37. 9780252033926. Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw, pp 233 – 234
(C.) López-Ruiz When the Gods Were Born – Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East. Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 302. £28.45. 9780674049468. G.A. Gazis, pp 234 – 235
(A.) Petsalis-Diomidis ‘Truly Beyond Wonders’: Aelius Aristides and the Cult of Asklepios (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Representation). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xxiv + 315, illus. £80. 9780199561902 Jennifer Clarke Kosak, pp 235 – 236
(Y.) Tzifopoulos ‘Paradise’ Earned: The Bacchic-Orphic Gold Lamellae of Crete (Hellenic Studies 23). Washington DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2010. Pp. ix + 373. £13.95. 9780674023796. Pauline Hanesworth, pp 236 – 237
Reviews of Books: Art and Archaeology
(B.) Burke From Minos to Midas: Ancient Cloth Production in the Aegean and in Anatolia (Ancient Textiles Series 7). Oxford and Oakville CT: Oxbow Books, 2010. Pp. xv + 206. £30. 9781842174067. Margarita Gleba, pp 238 – 239
(D.) Boschung and (H.) Von Hesberg with contributions from (W.) Eck, (A.) Linfert and (G.) Petzl Die antiken Skulpturen in Newby Hall sowie in anderen Sammlungen in Yorkshire (Monumenta Artis Romanae 35). Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2007. Pp. 173, illus. €110. 9783895004315. Michael Squire, pp 239 – 240
(L.) Preston Day, (N.L.) Klein and (L.) Ann Turner Eds. Kavousi IIA. The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda. The Buildings on the Summit (Prehistory Monographs 26). Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2009. Pp. xl + 366, illus. £50. 9781931534512. Giovanni Marginesu, pp 240 – 241
(R.) Frederiksen Greek City Walls of the Archaic Period, 900–480 BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 238, illus. £95. 9780199578122. William Aylward, pp 242 – 243
(A.) Alexandridou The Early Black- Figured Pottery of Attika in Context (c.630–570 BCE) (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 17). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. Pp. 252, illus. €149/$212. 9789004186040. Georgina Muskett, pp 243 – 244
(V.) Van Driessche Études de Métrologie Grecque. V. 2, Des Étalons Prémonétaires au Monnayage en Bronze (Études Numismatiques 2). Louvain-la-Neuve: Association de Numismatique Professeur Marcel Hoc, 2009. Pp. 170. €30. 97829-30449135. Stanley Ireland, pp 244 – 245
(C.J.) Ratté Lydian Architecture: Ashlar Masonry Structures at Sardis (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, Report 5). Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii + 292, illus. £62.95. 97806-74060609. Fikret K. Yegül, pp 245 – 246
(C.) Gialanella and (P.G.) Guzzo Eds. Dopo Giorgio Buchner. Studi e ricerche su Pithekoussai: Atti della Giornata di Studi, Ischia, 20 giugno 2009. Pozzuoli: Naus Editoria for Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei, 2011. Pp. 102, illus. €30. 9788874780198. David Ridgway, pp 247 – 248
(M.) Stansbury-O'Donnell Looking at Greek Art. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 253, illus. £18.99. 9780521125574. Katharina Lorenz, pp 248 – 249
(M.L.) Hart Ed. The Art of Ancient Greek Theater. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: J.Paul Getty Museum, 2010. Pp. viii + 168, illus. $50. 9781606060377. Rosie Wyles, pp 249 – 250
(W.) Friese Den Göttern so nah. Architektur und Topographie griechischer Orakelheiligtümer. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. Pp. 488, illus. €74. 978351-5093767. Julia Kindt, pp 250 – 251
(F.R.) Serra Ridgway and (L.C.) Pieraccini Ed. Pithoi stampigliati ceretani, una classe originale di ceramica etrusca (Studia archaeologica 178) Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2010. Pp. 306, illus. €200. 9788882655723. Nancy de Grummond, pp 251 – 252
(A.) Avramidou The Codrus Painter: Iconography and Reception of Athenian Vases in the Age of Pericles (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 236, illus. £56.50/$65. 9780299247805 (hbk); 97802-99247836 (e-book). Kathryn Topper, pp 253 – 254
(A.A.) Sampson The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Volume 1, Intrasite Analysis, Local Industries, and Regional Site Distribution (Prehistory Monographs 21). Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2008. Pp. xxii + 255. £55. 9781931534208. Kim Shelton, pp 254 – 255
(E.) Greco Ed. Topografia di Atene: Sviluppo urbano e monumenti dalle origini al III secolo d. C., Tomo 1: Acropoli–Areopago–Tra Acropoli e Pnice (Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene 1). Athens and Paestum: Pandemos, 2010. Pp. 303, illus. €90. 97888-87744347. Catherine M. Keesling, pp 255 – 256
(J.) Morgan The Classical Greek House. Bristol: Phoenix Press, 2010. Pp. 194, illus. £42.50/$78 (hbk); £13.50/$25 (pbk). 9781904675747 (hbk); 9781904675754 (pbk). Monika Trümper, pp 256 – 257
Reviews of Books: Philosophy
(A.) Benjamin Place, Commonality and Judgment: Continental Philosophy and the Ancient Greeks (Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy). London: Continuum, 2010. Pp. 186. £65. 9781441176806. Miriam Leonard, pp 257 – 258
(G.) Danzig Apologizing for Socrates: How Plato and Xenophon Created our Socrates. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2010. Pp. 280. $75. 9780739132449. Kurt Lampe, pp 258 – 259
(L.) Apfel The Advent of Pluralism: Diversity and Conflict in the Age of Sophocles (Oxford Classical Monographs). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi + 380. £70. 9780199600625. Richard Rader, pp 259 – 261
(M.) Davis The Soul of the Greeks. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2011. Pp. 248. $35. 9780226137964. M. Jason Reddoch, pp 261 – 262
(C.) Bobonich Ed. Plato's Laws: A Critical Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. viii + 245. $80. 97805-21884631. Gerard Naddaf, pp 262 – 264
(D.S.) Allen Why Plato Wrote. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. xii + 232, illus. £50. 9781444334487. Marcus Folch, pp 264 – 265
(R.M.) Rosen and (I.) Sluiter Eds. Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity (Mnemosyne Supplement 323). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. Pp. xii + 254. €158. 9789004189218. Douglas Cairns, pp 265 – 267
(M.) Blitz, Plato's Political Philosophy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Pp. vii + 336. $60. 9780801897658. George Klosko, pp 267 – 268
(D.R.) Morrison Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Socrates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 413. £60 (hbk); £19.99 (pbk). 9780521833424 (hbk); 9780521541039 (pbk). Chris Emlyn-Jones, pp 268 – 269
(E.) Eidinow Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and its Legacy. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. Pp. viii + 213. £35 (hbk); £12.99 (pbk). 9781845118426 (hbk); 9781845118433 (pbk). Matthew Wright, pp 269 – 270
(R.A.H.) King Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory (Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie 94). Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. Pp. xiv + 266. €99.95. 9783110214628. Riccardo Chiaradonna, pp 270 – 271
(R.) Copeland and (P.T.) Struck Eds. The Cambridge Companion to Allegory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xxiii + 295, illus. £55/$95.00 (hbk); £18.99/$29.99 (pbk). 9780521862295 (hbk); 9780521680820 (pbk). Ian Fielding, pp 271 – 273
(M.) Streijger, (P.J.J.M.) Bakker and (J.M.M.H.) Thijssen Eds. John Buridan: Quaestiones Super Libros De Generatione et Corruptione Aristotelis. A Critical Edition with an Introduction (History of Science and Medicine Library 17). Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. 270. €99. 9789004185043. Robert Leigh, pp 273 – 274
(D.) Charles Ed. Definition in Greek Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. x + 556. £60. 9780199564453. Zenon Culverhouse, pp 274 – 275
(D.) Gutas Theophrastus On First Principles (known as his Metaphysics): Greek Text and Medieval Arabic Translation, Edited and Translated with Introduction, Commentaries and Glossaries, as well as the Medieval Latin Translation, and with an Excursus on Graeco-Arabic Editorial Technique (Philosophia Antiqua 119). Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. xxiii + 506. €114. 9789004179035. David Leith, pp 275 – 276
(T.) Eisele Bitter Knowledge: Learning Socratic Lessons of Disillusion and Renewal. Notre Dame IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. Pp. xviii + 346. £48.95/$55. 9780268027742. Jenny Bryan, pp 276 – 277
(L.) Van Hoof Plutarch's Practical Ethics: The Social Dynamics of Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xi + 328. £60. 9780199583263. Jason König, pp 277 – 278
(V.) Boudon-Millot and (J.) Jouanna Eds, in collaboration with Pietrobelli (A.) Galien. Tome IV. Ne pas se chagriner. Paris: Les Belles Lettres (Collection des Universités de France), 2010. Pp. lxxx + 210. €59. 97822-51005560. Laurent Pernot, pp 278 – 279
(C.) Shields Aristotle (Routledge Philosophers). London: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xvi + 456. £60 (hbk); £16.99 (pbk). 9780415283311 (hbk); 9780415283328(pbk). Michael Pakaluk, pp 280 – 281
(J.D.) Mikalson Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 302. £60. 9780199577835. Shaul Tor, pp 281 – 282
(S.) Ahbel-Rappe Damascius’ Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles (Religion in Translation Series). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xxx + 529. £65. 9780195150292. Sebastian Gertz, pp 282 – 284
(D.) Konstan Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 206. £58. 9780521199407. Jozef Müller, pp 284 – 285
(M.) Martijn Proclus on Nature. Philosophy of Nature and its Methods in Proclus’ Commentary on Plato's Timaeus. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. x + 360. £105. 978900-4181915. D. Gregory MacIsaac, pp 285 – 286
(M.) Hatzimichali Potamo of Alexandria and the Emergence of Eclecticism in Late Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. ix + 198. £55/$95. 9780521197281. Carl O'Brien, pp 286 – 287
Reviews of Books: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
(P.) Wood ‘We have no king but Christ’: Christian Political Thought in Greater Syria on the Eve of the Arab Conquest (c.400–585) (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 295, illus. £60. 9780199588497. Theresa Urbainczyk, pp 288 – 288
(J.) Harris The End of Byzantium. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. Pp. xxii + 298, illus. £25. 97803-00117868. Peter Hatlie, pp 288 – 289
(J.R.) Ryder The Career and Writings of Demetrius Kydones. A Study of Fourteenth-Century Byzantine Politics, Religion and Society. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. xv + 295. €108. 9789004185654. Divna Manolova, pp 290 – 290
Reviews of Books: Reception and History of Scholarship
(A.) Grafton, (G.W.) Most and (S.) Settis Eds. The Classical Tradition (Harvard University Press Reference Library). Cambridge MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii + 1067, illus. £36.95/€45/ $49.95. 97806-74035720. Joanna Paul, pp 291 – 292
(A.) Balansard (G.) Dorival and (M.) Loubet Eds. Prolongements et renouvellements de la tradition classique. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2011. Pp. 430. €32. 9782853997676. Adam J. Goldwyn, pp 292 – 293
(M.) Moog-Grünewald Ed. The Reception of Myth and Mythology (Brill's New Pauly Supplements 4). Leiden: Brill, 2010. Pp. viii + 683, illus. €213/$302. 9789004183308. Adam J. Goldwyn, pp 293 – 294
(G.) Van Steen Theatre of the Condemned. Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii + 354. £65. 9780199572885. Anastasia Bakogianni, pp 294 – 296
(F.) Macintosh Ed. The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World. Responses to Greek and Roman Dance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp xxii + 511. £90. 97801-99548101. Lucy Jackson, pp 296 – 297
(D.H.) Foster Wagner's Ring Cycle and the Greeks (Cambridge Studies in Opera). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xx + 377. £58. 9780521517393. Anastasia Bakogianni, pp 297 – 298
(P.G.) Naiditch The Library of Richard Porson. Bloomington: Xlibris Corporation, 2011. Pp. cxlvii + 441. £23 (hbk); £14 (pbk). 9781456805289 (hbk); 9781456805272 (pbk). T.C.A. Ford, pp 298 – 299
(E.B.) Mee and (H.) Foley Eds. Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage (Classical Presences). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xxi + 469. £85. 9780199586195. Sarah Sharp, pp 299 – 300
(P.) Hardie and (H.) Moore Eds. Classical Literary Careers and their Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 330. £63. 9780521762977. L.B.T. Houghton, pp 300 – 301
(T.) Koulouris Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Pp. x + 242. £60. 9781409404453. Rachel Lesser, pp 301 – 302
(D.) Moore Dawn of Discovery: The Early British Travellers to Crete. Richard Pococke, Robert Pashley and Thomas Spratt, and their Contribution to the Island's Bronze Age Archaeological Heritage (British Archaeological Reports International Series 2053). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010. Pp. iv + 174, illus. £46. 9781407305424.
(D.W.J.) Gill Sifting the Soil of Greece: The Early Years of the British School at Athens (1886–1919) (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 111). London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2011. Pp. xiv + 474. £38. 9791905670321. Graham Oliver, pp 303 – 305
Index of Books Reviewed, pp 307 – 310