TABLE OF CONTENTS

Reviews

DIALOGUES ON THE RECEPTION OF HOMER'S ILIAD – (J.) Haywood, (N.) Mac Sweeney Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War. Dialogues on Tradition. Pp. x + 224, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Cased, £85. ISBN: 978-1-350-01268-4.
Tobias Myers
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 353 – 355
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000477 Published Online on 17 May 2019

A MODERN VERSION OF THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES – (K.) Vail Reconstructing the Shield of Achilles. Pp. 189, colour ills. Los Angeles: Story Merchant Books, 2018. Paper, US$29.99. ISBN: 978-0-9991621-8-7.
Andrew S. Becker
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 355 – 356
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001367 Published Online on 9 July 2019

TEXT, PERFORMANCE AND EARLY GREEK LYRIC – (F.) Budelmann, (T.) Phillips (edd.) Textual Events. Performance and the Lyric in Early Greece. Pp. xii + 315. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £65, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-880582-3.
Alexandre Johnston
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 357 – 360
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900088X Published Online on 17 May 2019

THE TEXT OF SOLON'S LAWS – (D.F.) Leão, (P.J.) Rhodes The Laws of Solon. A New Edition with Introduction, Translation and Commentary. Pp. xiv + 210. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015. Cased, £70, US$115. ISBN: 978-1-78076-853-3.
Kelcy Sagstetter
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 360 – 361
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001033 Published Online on 28 June 2019

THE ROLE OF PHILOSOPHERS IN ANTIQUITY – (J.) Bryan, (R.) Wardy, (J.) Warren (edd.) Authors and Authorities in Ancient Philosophy. Pp. xiv + 370. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £90, US$125. ISBN: 978-1-316-51004-9.
Lucas Angioni
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 362 – 364
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001380 Published Online on 1 July 2019

MELISSUS OF SAMOS – (B.) Harriman Melissus and Eleatic Monism. Pp. xii + 242. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-41633-7.
Sosseh Assaturian
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 365 – 366
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000921 Published Online on 17 May 2019

A SURVEY OF ORPHIC TRADITION – (D.A.) Meisner Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods. Pp. xii + 318. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £55, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-066352-0.
Anna Lucia Furlan
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 367 – 369
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001276 Published Online on 25 June 2019

CRITIAS AS WRITER AND POLITICIAN – (J.) Yvonneau (ed.) La Muse au long couteau. Critias, de la création littéraire au terrorisme d’État. Actes du colloque international de Bordeaux, les 23 et 24 octobre 2009. (Scripta Antiqua 107.) Pp. 216, ill. Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2018. Paper, €25. ISBN: 978-2-35613202-4.
Jean-François Pradeau
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 369 – 370
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000210 Published Online on 6 March 2019

THE AUDIENCE OF GREEK MEDICAL LITERATURE – (P.) Bouras-Vallianatos, (S.) Xenophontos (edd.) Greek Medical Literature and its Readers. From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium. Pp. xii + 239, ills. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Cased, £115, US$144.95. ISBN: 978-1-4724-8791-9.
George Kazantzidis
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 370 – 373
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001331 Published Online on 1 July 2019

FRAGMENTS OF GREEK TRAGEDY – (M.) Wright The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy. Volume 1: Neglected Authors. Pp. xxx + 277. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Paper, £21.99 (Cased, £85). ISBN: 978-1-4725-6775-8 (978-1-4725-6776-5 hbk). – (M.) Wright The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy. Volume 2: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Pp. xii + 308. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Paper, £19.99, US$26.95 (Cased, £65, US$88). ISBN: 978-1-4742-7647-4 (978-1-4742-7646-7 hbk).
Daniel Anderson
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 373 – 377
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001021 Published Online on 17 June 2019

THE MATERIAL ASPECT OF GREEK TRAGEDY – (M.) Telò, (M.) Mueller (edd.) The Materialities of Greek Tragedy. Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Pp. xii + 302, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Cased, £85, US$114. ISBN: 978-1-350-02879-1.
Aara Suksi
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 377 – 380
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000830 Published Online on 9 May 2019

ANTIGONE AND ITS CONTEXT – (D.) Stuttard (ed.) Looking at Antigone. Pp. x + 247. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Cased, £85, US$114. ISBN: 978-1-350-01711-5.
Theodore Koulouris
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 380 – 383
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001203 Published Online on 25 June 2019

AN INTERPRETATION OF A SATYR PLAY – (C.A.) Shaw Euripides: Cyclops. A Satyr Play. Pp. xiv + 158, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Cased, £85. ISBN: 978-1-4742-4579-1.
Andrea Giannotti
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 383 – 385
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000349 Published Online on 21 March 2019

COMEDY AND RELIGION IN ARISTOPHANES – (F.) Barrenechea Comedy and Religion in Classical Athens. Narratives of Religious Experiences in Aristophanes’ Wealth. Pp. xii + 201, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £75, US$105. ISBN: 978-1-107-19116-7.
Stephanie Nelson
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 385 – 387
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000519 Published Online on 22 July 2019

VIEWS ON HERODOTUS AND FORNARA – (T.) Harrison, (E.) Irwin (edd.) Interpreting Herodotus. Pp. xviii + 425, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £90, US$115. ISBN: 978-0-19-880361-4.
David Branscome
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 388 – 390
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001112 Published Online on 25 June 2019

ΠΟΙΕΙΝ ΤΕΧΝΑΣ ΤΟΙΣ ΝΟΜΟΙΣ – (C.) Carey, (I.) Giannadaki, (B.) Griffith-Williams (edd.) Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts. (Mnemosyne Supplements 419.) Pp. xvi + 385. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Cased, €110, US$132. ISBN: 978-90-04-37787-5.
Kyriaco Nikias
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 391 – 393
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900074X Published Online on 9 May 2019

PLATO'S REPUBLIC AND FUNCTIONAL TELEOLOGY – (A.) Payne The Teleology of Action in Plato's Republic. Pp. viii + 240. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £45. ISBN: 978-0-19-879902-3.
Catherine McKeen
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 393 – 395
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000428 Published Online on 9 May 2019

PLATO ON SOCRATES – (M.A.) Ralkowski Plato's Trial of Athens. Pp. x + 234. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Cased, £85, US$114. ISBN: 978-1-4742-2724-7.
Claudia Marsico
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 396 – 398
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001392 Published Online on 1 July 2019

EROTIC THEMES IN PLATO – (L.) Brisson, (O.) Renaut (edd.) Érotique et politique chez Platon. Erôs, genre et sexualité dans la cité platonicienne. Pp. 274. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2017. Paper, €29.50. ISBN: 978-3-89665-725-1.
Ken Moore
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 398 – 401
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000738 Published Online on 9 May 2019

THE TIMAEUS IN LATIN – (C.) Hoenig Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition. Pp. xviii + 331. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £75, US$105. ISBN: 978-1-108-41580-4.
George Karamanolis
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 401 – 403
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000635 Published Online on 15 April 2019

NECESSITY IN ARISTOTLE – (S.) Delcomminette Aristote et la nécessité. Pp. 645. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2018. Paper, €45. ISBN: 978-2-7116-2736-3.
Paolo Fait
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 403 – 405
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001100 Published Online on 3 July 2019

THE UTILITY OF CONTEMPLATION IN ARISTOTLE – (M.D.) Walker Aristotle on the Uses of Contemplation. Pp. x + 261. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-42110-2.
R. Kathleen Harbin
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 405 – 407
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900101X Published Online on 27 May 2019

THEOPHRASTUS’ DISCUSSION OF WINDS – (R.) Mayhew (ed., trans.) Theophrastus of Eresus: On Winds. (Philosophia Antiqua 147.) Pp. x + 374. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €165, US$190. ISBN: 978-90-04-35182-0.
Joanna Komorowska
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 408 – 409
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001197 Published Online on 1 July 2019

THE EPIGRAM AND ITS CONTEXTS – (F.) Cairns Hellenistic Epigram. Contexts of Exploration. Pp. xviii + 516. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £78.99, US$126. ISBN: 978-1-107-16850-3.
Maria Kanellou
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 410 – 412
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900026X Published Online on 11 April 2019

A NEW EDITION OF THE EPIGRAMS OF CRINAGORAS – (M.) Ypsilanti The Epigrams of Crinagoras of Mytilene. Introduction, Text, Commentary. Pp. xii + 578. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £100, US$130. ISBN: 978-0-19-956582-5.
Taylor S. Coughlan
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 412 – 414
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000313 Published Online on 29 March 2019

JOSEPHUS’ JEWISH WAR – (M.) Hammond (trans.) Josephus: The Jewish War. With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Goodman. Pp. xlvi + 562, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Paper, £10.99, US$15.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-964602-9. – (S.) Mason A History of the Jewish War, a.d. 66–74. Pp. xii + 689, figs, ills, maps. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £89.99, US$150. ISBN: 978-0-521-85329-3.
David A. Friedman
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 415 – 419
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001318 Published Online on 28 June 2019

PLUTARCH'S USE OF THE PERSICA AUTHORS – (E.) Almagor Plutarch and the Persica. Pp. xx + 332, figs. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. Cased, £85. ISBN: 978-0-7486-4555-8.
Eduard Rung, Aleksandr Sapogov
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 419 – 421
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000532 Published Online on 10 April 2019

NEW STUDIES ON THE GREEK NOVEL – (S.) Schwartz From Bedroom to Courtroom. Law and Justice in the Greek Novel. (Ancient Narrative Supplementum 21.) Pp. xiv + 270. Groningen: Barkhuis & Groningen University Library, 2016. Cased, €90. ISBN: 978-94-92444-08-0. – (T.) Whitmarsh Dirty Love. The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel. Pp. xviii + 201. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £32.99, US$44.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-974265-3.
Yvona Trnka-Amrhein
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 421 – 425
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000714 Published Online on 3 June 2019

AN OVERVIEW OF THE SECOND SOPHISTIC – (D.S.) Richter, (W.A.) Johnson (edd.) The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic. Pp. xii + 758, ills. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £97, US$150. ISBN: 978-0-19-983747-2.
Sonia Pertsinidis
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 425 – 428
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900009X Published Online on 18 February 2019

AN INTRODUCTION TO LUCIAN – (M.) Baumbach, (P.) Von Möllendorff Ein literarischer Prometheus. Lukian aus Samosata und die Zweite Sophistik. Pp. 269. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. Paper, €26. ISBN: 978-3-8253-6460-1.
Maria Pretzler
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 428 – 430
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000179 Published Online on 21 March 2019

GALEN AND BLACK BILE – (K.A.) Stewart Galen's Theory of Black Bile. Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation. (Studies in Ancient Medicine 51.) Pp. x + 178. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Cased, €94, US$113. ISBN: 978-90-04-38278-7.
P.N. Singer
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 430 – 432
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001148 Published Online on 25 June 2019

CASSIUS DIO REVISITED – (V.) Fromentin, (E.) Bertrand, (M.) Coltelloni-Trannoy, (M.) Molin, (G.) Urso (edd.) Cassius Dion: nouvelles lectures. In two volumes. (Scripta Antiqua 94.) Pp. 881. Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2016. Paper, €45. ISBN: 978-2-35613-175-1.
Christopher Burden-Strevens
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 432 – 436
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000088 Published Online on 18 February 2019

QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS’ POSTHOMERICA – (T.) Scheijnen Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica. A Study of Heroic Characterization and Heroism. (Mnemosyne Supplements 421.) Pp. xviii + 393, colour figs. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €138, US$166. ISBN: 978-90-04-37343-3.
Bellini Boyten
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 436 – 438
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001252 Published Online on 27 June 2019

LETTERS OF ADVICE THROUGH THE CENTURIES – (É.) Gavoille, (F.) Guillaumont (edd.) Conseiller, diriger par lettre. Pp. 584. Tours: Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais, 2017. Paper, €22. ISBN: 978-2-86906-424-9.
Antonia Sarri
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 439 – 441
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000015 Published Online on 25 January 2019

VIOLENCE IN ROMAN LITERATURE – (M.R.) Gale, (J.H.D.) Scourfield (edd.) Texts and Violence in the Roman World. Pp. xvi + 384. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £90, US$120. ISBN: 978-1-107-02714-5.
Kyle Gervais
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 441 – 444
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000490 Published Online on 29 March 2019

MAGIC IN HELLENISTIC AND IMPERIAL LITERATURE – (M.) Reif De arte magorum. Erklärung und Deutung ausgewählter Hexenszenen bei Theokrit, Vergil, Horaz, Ovid, Seneca und Lucan unter Berücksichtigung des Ritualaufbaus und der Relation zu den Zauberpapyri. (Hypomnemata 203.) Pp. 511. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016. Cased, €100. ISBN: 978-3-525-20873-1.
Leonardo Costantini
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 444 – 446
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000040 Published Online on 23 January 2019

ROMAN ORATORY REDISCOVERED – (C.) Gray, (A.) Balbo, (R.M.A.) Marshall, (C.E.W.) Steel (edd.) Reading Republican Oratory. Reconstructions, Contexts, Receptions. Pp. xiv + 366, figs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £80, US$105. ISBN: 978-0-19-878820-1.
Christopher S. van den Berg
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 446 – 449
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000702 Published Online on 14 May 2019

CICERO IN THE EARLY EMPIRE – (T.J.) Keeline The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire. The Rhetorical Schoolroom and the Creation of a Cultural Legend. Pp. xii + 375. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £90, US$120. ISBN: 978-1-108-42623-7.
John Dugan
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 449 – 451
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000222 Published Online on 6 March 2019

CICERO AND THE REFORMATION – (C.P.E.) Springer Cicero in Heaven. The Roman Rhetor and Luther's Reformation. Pp. xxii + 291. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €125, US$144. ISBN: 978-90-04-35515-6.
Kai Bremer
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 451 – 453
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000039 Published Online on 28 January 2019

THE FIRST EDITION OF LUCRETIUS REPRODUCED – (M.) Beretta (ed.) Lucrezio. De Rerum Natura, Editio Princeps (1472–73). Pp. 62 + 208. Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2016. Paper, €150. ISBN: 978-88-6923-066-0.
David Butterfield
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 453 – 454
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001161 Published Online on 9 July 2019

VIRGIL AND WORD ORDER – (P.) Dainotti Word Order and Expressiveness in the Aeneid. Translated by Ailsa Campbell. (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 121.) Pp. xii + 294, fig. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. Cased, £97.99, US$182, €129.95. ISBN: 978-3-11-038422-2.
Adam Gitner
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 455 – 457
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900012X Published Online on 6 March 2019

CHIASTIC PATTERNS IN THE AENEID – (D.) Quint Virgil's Double Cross. Design and Meaning in the Aeneid. Pp. xxiv + 218. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Paper, £27, US$35 (Cased, £58, US$75). ISBN: 978-0-691-17938-4 (978-0-691-17937-7 hbk).
Nandini B. Pandey
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 457 – 459
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000489 Published Online on 11 April 2019

GRATTIUS AS AN AUGUSTAN POET – (S.J.) Green (ed., trans.) Grattius. Hunting an Augustan Poet. Pp. x + 286. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £60, US$80. ISBN: 978-0-19-878901-7.
Patrick Glauthier
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 459 – 462
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001124 Published Online on 27 June 2019

CONTENT AND FORM IN CELSUS’ DE MEDICINA – (A.) Gautherie Rhétorique et thérapeutique dans le De medicina de Celse. (Recherches sur les Rhétoriques Religieuses 25.) Pp. iv + 492. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. Paper, €85. ISBN: 978-2-503-56919-2.
Helene Perdicoyianni-Paleologou
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 462 – 464
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001057 Published Online on 28 June 2019

CAMPANIA AND FLAVIAN LITERATURE – (A.) Augoustakis, (R.J.) Littlewood (edd.) Campania in the Flavian Poetic Imagination. Pp. xviii + 330, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £75, US$105. ISBN: 978-0-19-880774-2.
Tommaso Spinelli
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 464 – 467
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900129X Published Online on 28 June 2019

A COMMENTARY ON ‘HANNIBAL AD PORTAS’ – (J.R.) Telg Genannt Kortmann (ed., trans.) Hannibal ad portas. Silius Italicus, Punica 12,507–752. Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. Cased, €78. ISBN: 978-3-8253-6868-5.
Simone Finkmann
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 467 – 469
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000763 Published Online on 9 May 2019

THE ‘ANONYMOUS’ JUVENAL – (T.) Geue Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity. Pp. xiv + 352. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-41634-4.
David H.J. Larmour
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 470 – 471
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001343 Published Online on 28 June 2019

JUVENAL AND ANXIETY – (C.) Nappa Making Men Ridiculous. Juvenal and the Anxieties of the Individual. Pp. xii + 224. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. Cased, US$75. ISBN: 978-0-472-13066-5.
Biagio Santorelli
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 472 – 473
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000568 Published Online on 15 April 2019

AN UPDATED VIEW OF ANNALS 4 – (A.J.) Woodman (ed.) The Annals of Tacitus. Book 4. (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 58.) Pp. xxii + 349. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £84.99, US$110. ISBN: 978-1-108-41961-1.
Ellen O'Gorman
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 474 – 476
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000337 Published Online on 29 March 2019

ANOTHER COMMENTARY ON TACITUS – (R.) Ash (ed.) Tacitus: Annals Book XV. Pp. xvi + 368, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Paper, £24.99, US$31.99 (Cased, £75, US$99.99). ISBN: 978-0-521-26939-1 (978-1-107-00978-3 hbk).
Salvador Bartera
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 476 – 478
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900043X Published Online on 16 April 2019

THE CONCLUSION OF THE COMMENTARY ON AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS – (J.) Den Boeft, (J.W.) Drijvers, (D.) Den Hengst, (H.C.) Teitler Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXXI. Pp. xxvi + 362, maps. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €169, US$195. ISBN: 978-90-04-35381-7.
Michael Hanaghan
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 478 – 480
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000908 Published Online on 17 June 2019

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA – (E.) Savino Ricerche sull’Historia Augusta. Pp. xii + 341, b/w & colour ills. Naples: Naus Editoria, 2017. Paper, €50. ISBN: 978-88-7478-049-5. – (D.) Rohrbacher The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta. Pp. xiv + 246. Madison, WI and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. Paper, US$65. ISBN: 978-0-299-30600-7.
Martin Shedd
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 480 – 484
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000660 Published Online on 3 June 2019

LATIN AND GREEK IN CHRISTIAN WRITINGS – (T.A.) Bergren A Latin–Greek Index of the Vulgate New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 403.) Pp. xii + 262. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. Cased, €114. ISBN: 978-3-16-156024-8.
Anna Persig
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 484 – 485
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001264 Published Online on 25 June 2019

LATE-ANTIQUE PREACHING – (A.) Dupont, (S.) Boodts, (G.) Partoens, (J.) Leemans (edd.) Preaching in the Patristic Era. Sermons, Preachers, and Audiences in the Latin West. (A New History of the Sermon 6.) Pp. xii + 541. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €199, US$240. ISBN: 978-90-04-34698-7.
Ulriika Vihervalli
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 486 – 488
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000623 Published Online on 15 April 2019

VIEWS OF BARBARIANS – (E.) Jensen Barbarians in the Greek and Roman World. Pp. xiv + 296, ills, maps. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 2018. Paper, £13.99, US$16 (Cased, £41.99, US$48). ISBN: 978-1-62466-712-1 (978-1-62466-713-8 hbk).
Thomas Anderson
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 489 – 490
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000581 Published Online on 15 April 2019

A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW OF ANCIENT BATTLES – (M.) Whitby, (H.) Sidebottom (edd.) Encyclopedia of Ancient Battles. In three volumes. Pp. 1,496, b/w & colour figs, ills, maps. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. Cased, £350, €450. ISBN: 978-1-4051-8645-2 (hbk), 978-1-11909900-0 (online).
Jason Crowley
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 491 – 493
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000283 Published Online on 25 March 2019

ANCIENT COMMUNICATION – (F.S.) Naiden, (R.J.A.) Talbert (edd.) Mercury's Wings. Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World. Pp. xxxiv + 419, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £61, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-538684-4.
Michela Piccin
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 493 – 496
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900132X Published Online on 13 September 2019

LANDS AND POPULATIONS IN EARLY GREECE – (M.) Oller, (J.) Pàmias, (C.) Varias (edd.) Tierra, territorio y población en la Grecia Antigua: aspectos institucionales y míticos. In two volumes. Pp. xxii + 244 + viii + 265, b/w & colour ills. Mering: Utopica Verlag, 2017. Cased, €56. ISBN: 978-3-944735-00-9 (vol. 1), 978-3-944735-01-6 (vol. 2).
Jorge A. Wong Medina
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 496 – 499
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001070 Published Online on 28 June 2019

MARITIME ACTIVITY AND THE ODYSSEY – (J.P.) Emanuel Black Ships and Sea Raiders. The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Context of Odysseus’ Second Cretan Lie. Pp. viii + 219, ills. Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2017. Cased, £65, US$95. ISBN: 978-1-4985-7221-7.
Assaf Yasur-Landau
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 499 – 501
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001215 Published Online on 28 June 2019

THE ART OF WARFARE IN ANCIENT GREECE – (G.) Wrightson Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece. From Homer to Alexander the Great and his Successors. Pp. xiv + 248, ills, maps. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Cased, £115, US$140. ISBN: 978-1-138-57459-5.
Gwyn Davies
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 501 – 503
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001306 Published Online on 28 June 2019

TYPES OF SLAVE SOCIETIES – (D.M.) Lewis Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context, c.800–146 bc. Pp. xii + 372. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £75, US$98.99. ISBN: 978-0-19-876994-1.
Fábio Duarte Joly
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 503 – 505
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001288 Published Online on 27 June 2019

THE SYMPOSIUM-FEAST AND THE POLIS – (F.) Van den Eijnde, (J.H.) Blok, (R.) Strootman (edd.) Feasting and Polis Institutions. (Mnemosyne Supplements 414.) Pp. xiv + 384, b/w & colour figs, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour maps. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €121, US$146. ISBN: 978-90-04-35672-6.
Cameron G. Pearson
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 506 – 508
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000362 Published Online on 1 April 2019

SPARTA AS SEEN BY THE ATHENIANS – (P.) Cartledge, (A.) Powell (edd.) The Greek Superpower. Sparta in the Self-Definitions of Athenians. Pp. x + 239. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2018. Cased, £65. ISBN: 978-1-910589-63-2.
Paul Christesen
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 509 – 511
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000787 Published Online on 27 May 2019

WAR AND DEMOCRACY IN CLASSICAL ATHENS – (D.M.) Pritchard Athenian Democracy at War. Pp. xxiv + 287, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Cased, £75, US$105. ISBN: 978-1-108-42291-8.
Matteo Zaccarini
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 512 – 514
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000982 Published Online on 29 May 2019

NETWORKED DELOS – (C.) Constantakopoulou Aegean Interactions. Delos and its Networks in the Third Century. Pp. xviii + 331, figs, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £80, US$110. ISBN: 978-0-19-878727-3.
Kathleen Garland
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 514 – 516
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000441 Published Online on 29 May 2019

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM – (K.R.) Moore (ed.) Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great. (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 14.) Pp. xxiv + 855, ills, map. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €189, US$218. ISBN: 978-90-04-28507-1.
Richard Stoneman
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 516 – 519
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000520 Published Online on 22 April 2019

THE PELOPONNESE IN THE EARLY HELLENISTIC PERIOD – (D.G.J.) Shipley The Early Hellenistic Peloponnese. Politics, Economies, and Networks 338–197 bc. Pp. xxxii + 355, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £90, US$120. ISBN: 978-0-521-87369-7.
Paul Vădan
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 519 – 521
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000027 Published Online on 25 January 2019

SPACE, MOVEMENT AND GENDER IN ANCIENT GREECE – (A.) Konstantinou Female Mobility and Gendered Space in Ancient Greek Myth. Pp. xiv + 189, ills, map. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Cased, £75, US$102. ISBN: 978-1-4742-5676-6.
Diana Burton
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 522 – 523
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001239 Published Online on 25 June 2019

THE HISTORY OF PALMYRA – (M.) Sommer Palmyra. A History. Translated by Diana Sommer-Theohari. Pp. x + 274, figs, ills, maps. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Cased, £105, US$150. ISBN: 978-0-415-72002-1.
Cynthia Finlayson
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 524 – 526
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000374 Published Online on 2 April 2019

POLITICAL THOUGHT AND ROME – (J.W.) Atkins Roman Political Thought. Pp. xviii + 239. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Paper, £19.99, US$26.99 (Cased, £61.99, US$84.99). ISBN: 978-1-107-51455-3 (978-1-107-10700-7 hbk).
Julia Mebane
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 526 – 528
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000052 Published Online on 31 January 2019

MASS VIOLENCE IN REPUBLICAN ROME – (N.) Barrandon Les massacres de la République romaine. Pp. 441, ills, maps. Paris: Fayard, 2018. Paper, €23. ISBN: 978-2-213-67131-4.
Dominik Maschek
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 528 – 530
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000842 Published Online on 27 May 2019

A COMPANION TO THE AGE OF NERO – (S.) Bartsch, (K.) Freudenburg, (C.) Littlewood (edd.) The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero. Pp. xx + 402, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Paper, £24.99, US$32.99 (Cased, £74.99, US$94.99). ISBN: 978-1-107-66923-9 (978-1-107-05220-8 hbk).
Carlotta Montagna
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 530 – 533
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000325 Published Online on 29 March 2019

SABINA AUGUSTA – (T.C.) Brennan Sabina Augusta. An Imperial Journey. Pp. xxiv + 302, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £55, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-025099-7.
Belinda Washington
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 533 – 535
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000878 Published Online on 17 May 2019

A BIOGRAPHY OF ROME – (R.) Taylor, (K.W.) Rinne, †(S.) Kostof Rome. An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present. Pp. xviii + 432, ills, maps. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Paper, £24.99, US$39.99 (Cased, £69.99, US$120). ISBN: 978-1-107-60149-9 (978-1-107-01399-5 hbk).
Claire Holleran
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 536 – 537
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000155 Published Online on 6 March 2019

URBAN MANUFACTURING IN ROME – (C.) Hawkins Roman Artisans and the Urban Economy. Pp. xii + 307, figs, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Cased, £64.99, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-11544-6.
Willem M. Jongman
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 538 – 540
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000131 Published Online on 6 March 2019

TRADE AROUND THE INDIAN OCEAN – (M.A.) Cobb Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century ce. (Mnemosyne Supplements 418.) Pp. x + 355, colour ills, maps. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €116, US$140. ISBN: 978-90-04-37309-9.
Roberta Tomber
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 540 – 542
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001136 Published Online on 25 June 2019

POWER, STATUS AND THE ROMAN PROVINCES – (R.) Varga, (V.) Rusu-Bolindeţ (edd.) Official Power and Local Elites in the Roman Provinces. Pp. xx + 193, figs, ills, maps. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Cased, £95, US$145. ISBN: 978-1-4724-5731-8.
Lucia F. Carbone
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 542 – 544
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000143 Published Online on 21 March 2019

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SLAVES AND MASTERS – (M.) Dondin-Payre, (N.) Tran (edd.) Esclaves et maîtres dans le monde romain. Expressions épigraphiques de leurs relations. (Collection de l’École Française de Rome 527.) Pp. iv + 410, ills. Rome: École Française de Rome, 2017. Paper, €36. ISBN: 978-2-7283-1240-5.
Christer Bruun
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 545 – 547
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001227 Published Online on 1 July 2019

DISABILITY IN ROMAN ANTIQUITY – (C.) Laes Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World. A Social and Cultural History. Pp. xii + 238. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-16290-7.
Lisa Trentin
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 547 – 549
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000209 Published Online on 21 March 2019

JEWISH CHILDREN IN ANTIQUITY – (H.) Sivan Jewish Childhood in the Roman World. Pp. xxxiv + 443, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £105, US$135. ISBN: 978-1-107-09017-0.
Nikki K. Rollason
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 549 – 551
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900060X Published Online on 15 April 2019

SUNDIALS AND THEIR CULTURAL CONTEXT – (R.J.A.) Talbert Roman Portable Sundials. The Empire in your Hand. Pp. xxiv + 236, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £35.99, US$55. ISBN: 978-0-19-027348-4.
James Evans
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 551 – 553
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000271 Published Online on 22 March 2019

CARACALLA'S EDICT – (A.) Imrie The Antonine Constitution. An Edict for the Caracallan Empire. (Impact of Empire 29.) Pp. xvi + 175, figs, colour ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €94, US$113. ISBN: 978-90-04-36822-4.
Anna Dolganov
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 554 – 556
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000507 Published Online on 10 April 2019

ASPECTS OF ROMAN DAILY LIFE – (K.) Sessa Daily Life in Late Antiquity. Pp. x + 250, ills, map. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Paper, £21.99, US$29.99 (Cased, £71.99, US$99.99). ISBN: 978-0-521-14840-5 (978-0-521-76610-4 hbk).
Alison John
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 556 – 558
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000684 Published Online on 9 May 2019

CONCEPTS OF VIRGINITY – (S.) Undheim Borderline Virginities. Sacred and Secular Virgins in Late Antiquity. Pp. xiv + 224. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Cased, £105, US$140. ISBN: 978-1-4724-8017-0.
Jochen Schultheiss
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 558 – 560
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000465 Published Online on 22 April 2019

THE CLIMATE AND THE HISTORY OF ROME – (K.) Harper The Fate of Rome. Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire. Pp. xvi + 417, figs, ills, maps. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. Cased, £27.95, US$35. ISBN: 978-0-691-16683-4.
Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 560 – 562
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000192 Published Online on 6 March 2019

EMPERORS IN LATE ANTIQUITY – (D.W.P.) Burgersdijk, (A.J.) Ross (edd.) Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire. (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean 1.) Pp. xii + 353, colour ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €129, US$156. ISBN: 978-90-04-37089-0.
Christian Rollinger
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 563 – 565
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000891 Published Online on 17 May 2019

EMPERORS AND PANEGYRIC – (A.) Omissi Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire. Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy. Pp. xx + 348, ills, map. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £80, US$105. ISBN: 978-0-19-882482-4.
Nicola Ernst
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 565 – 567
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001240 Published Online on 25 June 2019

ROME AND JUSTINIAN – (P.) Heather Rome Resurgent. War and Empire in the Age of Justinian. Pp. xiv + 393, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-936274-5.
F.K. Haarer
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 568 – 570
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000106 Published Online on 24 January 2019

SPACE AND RELIGION IN NORTH AFRICA – (S.L.) Lander Ritual Sites and Religious Rivalries in Late Roman North Africa. Pp. xviii + 279, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-14694-5.
Erika T. Hermanowicz
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 570 – 572
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000076 Published Online on 24 January 2019

EXCAVATIONS AT PETRAS – (M.) Tsipopoulou (ed.) Petras, Siteia. The Pre- and Proto-palatial Cemetery in Context. Acts of a Two-day Conference Held at the Danish Institute at Athens, 14–15 February 2015. (Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 21.) Pp. 446, figs, b/w & colour ills, maps. Athens / Aarhus: The Danish Institute at Athens / Aarhus University Press, 2017. Cased, DKK499.95. ISBN: 978-87-7184-157-2.
Simona V. Todaro
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 572 – 575
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001045 Published Online on 1 July 2019

ARCHAEOLOGY AND RELIGION – (P.) Pakkanen, (S.) Bocher (eds.) Cult Material from Archaeological Deposits to Interpretation of Early Greek Religion. (Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens 21.) Pp. viii + 155, fig., ills, maps, colour pls. Helsinki: The Finnish Institute at Athens, 2015. Paper, €30. ISBN: 978-952-67211-9-4.
Martha K. Risser
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 575 – 576
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000258 Published Online on 1 April 2019

EGYPT AND THE ‘CLASSICAL WORLD’ – (J.) Spier, (T.) Potts, (S.E.) Cole (edd.) Beyond the Nile. Egypt and the Classical World. Pp. 360, b/w & colour ills. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018. Cased, US$65. ISBN: 978-1-60606-551-8.
Matthew Skuse
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 577 – 579
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000994 Published Online on 17 May 2019

THE SITE OF DURA-EUROPOS – (J.A.) Baird Dura-Europos. Pp. xviii + 221, ills, maps. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Paper, £19.99, US$26.95 (Cased, £65, US$88). ISBN: 978-1-4725-3087-5 (978-1-4725-2211-5 hbk).
Caroline Arnould-Béhar
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 580 – 581
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000386 Published Online on 29 March 2019

PILGRIMAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY – (T.M.) Kristensen, (W.) Friese (edd.) Excavating Pilgrimage. Archaeological Approaches to Sacred Travel and Movement in the Ancient World. Pp. xiv + 291, ills, maps. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Cased, £120, US$150. ISBN: 978-1-4724-5390-7.
Alexander Meyer
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 581 – 584
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000453 Published Online on 29 March 2019

THE CHANGING FACES OF CORINTH – (A.R.) Brown Corinth in Late Antiquity. A Greek, Roman and Christian City. Pp. xxiv + 341, ills, maps. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018. Cased, £69, US$120. ISBN: 978-1-78453-823-1.
William Bowden
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 584 – 586
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000593 Published Online on 9 May 2019

BLACK-FIGURE LEKYTHOI FROM BERLIN – (N.) Zimmermann-Elseify (ed.) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Deutschland. Berlin, Antikensammlung ehemals Antiquarium. Band 17. Attisch schwarzfigurige Lekythen. (Deutschland, Band 102.) Pp. 144, ills, b/w & colour pls. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2017. Cased, €98. ISBN: 978-3-406-71541-9.
Thomas Mannack
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 586 – 589
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001082 Published Online on 22 July 2019

PERSPECTIVES ON CLASSICAL ARTWORKS – (C.) Vout Classical Art. A Life History from Antiquity to the Present. Pp. xiv + 359, b/w & colour ills. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. Cased, £30, US$39.50. ISBN: 978-0-691-17703-8.
Jane Ainsworth
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 589 – 591
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001008 Published Online on 17 May 2019

MUSICIANS IN ANCIENT COROPLASTIC ART – (A.) Bellia, (C.) Marconi (edd.) Musicians in Ancient Coroplastic Art. Iconography, Ritual Contexts, and Functions. (Telestes 2.) Pp. 216, ills. Pisa and Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2016. Paper, €48. ISBN: 978-88-8147-458-5.
C.-G. Alexandrescu
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 592 – 594
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000167 Published Online on 6 March 2019

THE ROLE OF THE FRAME IN ANCIENT ART – (V.) Platt, (M.) Squire (edd.) The Frame in Classical Art. A Cultural History. Pp. xxxviii + 697, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £105, US$135. ISBN: 978-1-107-16236-5.
Hérica Valladares
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 595 – 597
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000970 Published Online on 17 May 2019

THE EARLY DEVELOPMENTS AND MEANINGS OF GREEK PORTRAITS – (C.M.) Keesling Early Greek Portraiture. Monuments and Histories. Pp. xviii + 309, ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-16223-5.
Craig Hardiman
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 597 – 599
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001185 Published Online on 9 July 2019

THE LIVES AND ROLES OF ANCIENT GREEK ARTISTS – (K.) Seaman, (P.) Schultz (edd.) Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece. Pp. xvi + 242, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £64.99, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-107-07446-0.
Vladimir Stissi
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 600 – 602
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000180 Published Online on 6 March 2019

COLOUR IN ANCIENT ART – (P.) Jockey (ed.) Les arts de la couleur en Grèce ancienne … et ailleurs. Approches interdisciplinaires. (BCH Supplément 56.) Pp. 508, b/w & colour figs, b/w & colour ills, maps. Athens: École Française d'Athènes, 2018. Paper, €80. ISBN: 978-2-86958-290-3.
Hariclia Brecoulaki
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 602 – 605
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000945 Published Online on 27 May 2019

ANCIENT ART AND GENDER ISSUES – †(R.J.) Barrow Gender, Identity and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture. Prepared for publication by Michael Silk with the assistance of Jaś Elsner, Sebastian Matzner and Michael Squire. Pp. xviii + 225, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £75, US$105. ISBN: 978-1-107-03954-4.
Seth Estrin
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 605 – 607
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000854 Published Online on 17 May 2019

ENGRAVED GEMS AND ANIMALS – (I.) Sagiv Representations of Animals on Greek and Roman Engraved Gems. Meanings and Interpretations. Pp. viii + 185, b/w & colour ills. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018. Paper, £35. ISBN: 978-1-78491-869-9.
Árpád M. Nagy
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 607 – 609
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000751 Published Online on 17 May 2019

EARLY CHRISTIAN ART – (R.M.) Jensen, (M.D.) Ellison (edd.) The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art. Pp. xxiv + 398, ills. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Cased, £175, US$220. ISBN: 978-1-138-85722-3.
Gabriela E. Ingle
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 609 – 612
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000933 Published Online on 20 May 2019

BABYLONIAN PHILOSOPHY – (M.) Van de Mieroop Philosophy before the Greeks. The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia. Pp. viii + 297. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Paper, £20, US$24.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17635-2.
Michela Piccin
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 612 – 614
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001410 Published Online on 27 June 2019

ASPECTS OF POPULAR CULTURE IN ANTIQUITY – (L.) Grig (ed.) Popular Culture in the Ancient World. Pp. x + 369, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £78.99, US$105. ISBN: 978-1-107-07489-7.
Rosie Jackson
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 615 – 617
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900115X Published Online on 28 June 2019

MYTHS AND LANDSCAPES – (G.) Hawes (ed.) Myths on the Map. The Storied Landscapes of Ancient Greece. Pp. xviii + 332, ills, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Cased, £75, US$105. ISBN: 978-0-19-874477-1.
Amelia R. Brown
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 618 – 621
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000295 Published Online on 25 March 2019

MUSIC IN ANTIQUITY – (A.) Garcia-Ventura, (C.) Tavolieri, (L.) Verderame (edd.) The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity. Archaeology and Written Sources. Pp. xii + 260, ills, maps. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. Cased, £61.99. ISBN: 978-1-5275-0658-9.
James Grier
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 621 – 623
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000350 Published Online on 5 April 2019

EXPERIENCES OF SEA TRAVEL IN THE ANCIENT WORLD – (M.) Baumann, (S.) Froehlich (edd.) Auf segelbeflügelten Schiffen das Meer befahren. Das Erlebnis der Schiffsreise im späten Hellenismus und in der Römischen Kaiserzeit. In Zusammenarbeit mit Jens Börstinghaus. (Philippika 119.) Pp. xii + 416, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour maps. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018. Cased, €98. ISBN: 978-3-447-10971-0.
Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 623 – 626
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000647 Published Online on 16 April 2019

COIN FINDS AND THE PELOPONNESE – (C.) Doyen (ed.) Coins in the Peloponnese. Proceedings of the Sixth Scientific Meeting of the Friends of the Numismatic Museum, Argos, May 26–29, 2011. Volume 1: Ancient Times. Volume 2: Byzantine and Modern Times. (BCH Supplément 57.) Pp. 527 + 285, figs, ills, maps. Athens: École Française d'Athènes, 2017. Paper, €90. ISBN: 978-2-86958-279-8.
N.K. Rutter
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 626 – 629
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000799 Published Online on 14 May 2019

TEXTS ON THE MEMNON COLOSSUS – (P.A.) Rosenmeyer The Language of Ruins. Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Memnon Colossus. Pp. xx + 265, maps, pls. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £55, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-062631-0.
Rodney Ast
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 629 – 631
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001094 Published Online on 25 June 2019

SHOES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD – (S.) Pickup, (S.) Waite (edd.) Shoes, Slippers, and Sandals. Feet and Footwear in Classical Antiquity. Pp. xviii + 337, figs, ills, map. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Cased, £115, US$140. ISBN: 978-1-4724-8876-3.
Lena Larsson Lovén
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 631 – 634
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000969 Published Online on 27 May 2019

TEXTILES IN LATE ANTIQUITY – (T.K.) Thomas (ed.) Designing Identity. The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity. Pp. 160, b/w & colour ills, colour map. New York / Princeton and Oxford: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University / Princeton University Press, 2016. Paper, £22.95, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-16942-2.
Frances Pritchard
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 634 – 636
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000416 Published Online on 9 May 2019

SHAKESPEARE AND REPUBLICAN ROME – (P.) Gray Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic. Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War. Pp. xii + 308. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Cased, £80. ISBN: 978-1-4744-2745-6.
Paul Innes
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 636 – 638
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900091X Published Online on 27 May 2019

SHAKESPEARE, NIETZSCHE AND THE DECLINE AND FALL OF ROME – (P.A.) Cantor Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy. The Twilight of the Ancient World. Pp. vi + 302. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. Paper, £22.50, US$30 (Cased, £70, $90). ISBN: 978-0-226-46251-6 (978-0-226-46248-6 hbk).
Patrick Gray
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 638 – 640
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001379 Published Online on 9 July 2019

CLASSICS AND NEW ENGLAND – (D.A.) Lupher Greeks, Romans, and Pilgrims. Classical Receptions in Early New England. (Early American History Series 7.) Pp. x + 427. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Cased, €167, US$192. ISBN: 978-90-04-35117-2.
Laurie Wilson
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 640 – 642
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000301 Published Online on 25 March 2019

REACTIONS TO ANCIENT GREECE – (K.) Harloe, (N.) Momigliano, (A.) Farnoux (edd.) Hellenomania. (British School at Athens, Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies 5.) Pp. xviii + 332, ills, colour pls. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Cased, £115, US$144.95. ISBN: 978-1-138-24324-8.
Rosa Andújar
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 642 – 645
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000556 Published Online on 17 April 2019

FROM ANTIQUITY TO FRANKENSTEIN – (J.) Weiner, (B.E.) Stevens, (B.M.) Rogers (edd.) Frankenstein and its Classics. The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction. Pp. xiv + 273, ills, maps. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Paper, £21.99, US$29.95 (Cased, £65, US$88). ISBN: 978-1-350-05487-5 (978-1-350-05488-2 hbk).
Camilla Jackson
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 645 – 647
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000659 Published Online on 9 May 2019

VICTORIAN BURLESQUES AND HOMER – (R.) Bryant Davies Victorian Epic Burlesques. A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Entertainments after Homer. Pp. xii + 284, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Cased, £85, US$114. ISBN: 978-1-350-02717-6.
Jim Davis
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 647 – 649
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001355 Published Online on 28 June 2019

READING TALES FROM ANTIQUITY IN CHILDHOOD – (S.) Murnaghan, (D.H.) Roberts Childhood and the Classics. Britain and America, 1850–1965. Pp. xvi + 336, ills, colour pls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Cased, £80, US$105. ISBN: 978-0-19-958347-8.
Elizabeth A. Galway
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 649 – 651
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000775 Published Online on 9 May 2019

CLASSICS AND SOUTH AFRICA – (G.) Parker (ed.) South Africa, Greece, Rome. Classical Confrontations. Pp. xxii + 544, ills, colour pls. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Cased, £110, US$140. ISBN: 978-1-107-10081-7.
J.H.D. Scourfield
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 652 – 655
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001069 Published Online on 25 June 2019

JORGE LUIS BORGES AND THE CLASSICS – (L.) Jansen Borges’ Classics. Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman Past. Pp. xxii + 174, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cased, £75. ISBN: 978-1-108-41840-9.
Roberto González Echevarría
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 655 – 657
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000064 Published Online on 24 January 2019

BEAT WRITERS AND THE CLASSICS – (S.) Murnaghan, (R.M.) Rosen (edd.) Hip Sublime. Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition. Pp. x + 292. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2018. Cased, US$79.95. ISBN: 978-0-8142-1355-1.
Florence Impens
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 657 – 659
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000957 Published Online on 27 May 2019

FELLINI AND ROME – (A.) Carrera Fellini's Eternal Rome. Paganism and Christianity in the Films of Federico Fellini. Pp. xii + 186. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Cased, £75, US$102. ISBN: 978-1-4742-9761-5.
Mark Le Fanu
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 659 – 661
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001409 Published Online on 27 June 2019

THE CLASSICS AND MODERN FANTASY – (B.M.) Rogers, (B.E.) Stevens (edd.) Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy. Pp. x + 367, ills. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Paper, £27.99, US$36.95 (Cased, £79, US$105). ISBN: 978-0-19-061006-7 (978-0-19-061005-0 hbk).
Dunstan Lowe
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 661 – 664
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001173 Published Online on 3 July 2019

RECOVERED INFORMATION ABOUT RHODES – (N.) Badoud Inscriptions et timbres céramiques de Rhodes. Documents recueillis par le médecin et explorateur suédois Johan Hedenborg (1786–1865). (Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen 4°, 57.) Pp. 98, b/w & colour ills, colour pls. Stockholm: Svenska Institutet i Athen, 2017. Cased, SEK530. ISBN: 978-91-7916-065-4.
Nicholas K. Rauh
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 664 – 666
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000696 Published Online on 9 May 2019

CLASSICS AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM – (V.) Losemann Klio und die Nationalsozialisten. Gesammelte Schriften zur Wissenschafts- und Rezeptionsgeschichte. Herausgegeben von Claudia Deglau, Patrick Reinard und Kai Ruffing. (Philippika 106.) Pp. xvii + 311, ills. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017. Paper, €68. ISBN: 978-3-447-10771-6.
Helen Roche
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 666 – 667
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000118 Published Online on 25 January 2019

TEACHING CLASSICS – (A.) Holmes-Henderson, (S.) Hunt, (M.) Musié (edd.) Forward with Classics. Classical Languages in Schools and Communities. Pp. xviii + 276, fig., ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Paper, £29.99, US$40.95 (Cased, £95, US$128). ISBN: 978-1-4742-9767-7 (978-1-4742-9595-6 hbk).
Jessica Coatesworth
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 668 – 669
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000398 Published Online on 22 March 2019

Notices

(A.) Verity (trans.) Homer: The Odyssey. With an Introduction and Notes by William Allan. Pp. xxx + 354, map. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Paper, £7.99, US$12.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-873647-9.
Alexander Beecroft
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 671 – 672
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000805 Published Online on 9 May 2019

(A.) Brown (ed., trans.) Aeschylus: Libation Bearers. Pp. vi + 480. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018. Paper, £24.95 (Cased, £85). ISBN: 978-1-78694-099-5 (978-1-78694-098-8 hbk).
Isabella Reinhardt
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 672 – 673
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000544 Published Online on 29 March 2019

(A.) Hinds (trans.) Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis. Two versions of Euripides’ masterpiece. With Martine Cuypers. Pp. 187. London: Oberon Books, 2017. Paper, £14.99. ISBN: 978-1-78682-135-5. – (A.) Hinds (trans.) Aeschylus’ The Oresteia. With Martine Cuypers. Pp. 238. London: Oberon Books, 2017. Paper, £14.99. ISBN: 978-1-78682-133-1.
Marchella Ward
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 673 – 675
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000817 Published Online on 27 June 2019

(R.) Hadas (trans.) Euripides: the Iphigenia Plays. New Verse Translations. Pp. xxii + 152. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018. Paper, US$18.95. ISBN: 978-0-8101-3723-3.
Virgilio Irmici
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 675 – 676
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000611 Published Online on 9 May 2019

(S.M.) Braund Understanding Latin Literature. Second edition. Pp. xviii + 220, ills. London and New York: Routledge, 2017 (first edition 2001). Paper, £32.99, US$39.95 (Cased, £120, US$150). ISBN: 978-1-138-64539-4 (978-1-138-64540-0 hbk).
Paul Michael Arena
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 676 – 677
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19000866 Published Online on 27 May 2019

(K.A.) Raaflaub (ed., trans.) The Landmark Julius Caesar. The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War. Pp. xcii + 804, ills, colour maps. New York: Pantheon Books, 2017. Cased, US$50. ISBN: 978-0-307-37786-9.
Luca Grillo
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 677 – 678
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X1900057X Published Online on 15 April 2019

Books received

Books Received
The Classical Review, Volume 69 / Issue 2, October 2019, pp 679 – 690
doi: 10.1017/S0009840X19001422 Published Online on 13 September 2019