Research Article

Alexandra Villing, Spicing Wine at the Symposion: Fact or Fiction? Some Critical Thoughts on Material Aspects of Commensality in the Early Iron Age and Archaic Mediterranean World, pp. 1–30

Guy Hedreen, On the Magnitude of the Gods in Materialist Theology and Greek Art, pp. 31–53

Yulia Ustinova, Imaginary Phrygians: Cognitive Consonance and the Assumed Phrygian Origin of Greek Ecstatic Cults and Music, pp. 54–73

Diana Rodríguez Pérez, Old Cups Die Hard: The Appropriation of Athenian Pottery in the Iberian Peninsula, pp. 74–109

Stefano Frullini, Politics and Landscape in the Argive Plain after the Battle of Sepeia, pp. 110–135

Masayuki Ito, A Reconsideration of the Chronology of a Decree of Abdera (Syll.3 656) and the Introduction of the concept of Roman Patronage to the Greeks in the Second Century BC, pp. 136–152

Alberto Esu, Adeia in Fifth-Century Athens, pp. 153–178

Christian Vassallo, Rolling Sisyphus’ Stone Uphill? Plato’s Philosophy of History and Progress Reappraised, pp. 179–196

Alexandre Johnston, ‘Horse Race, Rich in Woes’: Orestes’ Chariot Race and the Erinyes in Sophocles’ Electra, pp. 197–215

Andrew Faulkner, Eudocia’s Singing Deacon: Another Programmatic Passage In Late Antique Christian Verse, pp. 216–223

Matthew Ward, Γameσσetai/γe Maσσetai: Homer Iliad 9.394 and the Constitutive Role of Irregularity, pp. 224–240

Reviews of Books

Literature

R. FRIEDRICH Postoral Homer: Orality and Literacy in the Homeric Epic. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2019. Pp. 276. €54. 9783515120487.
Jonathan L. Ready, pp. 241–242

J.L. READY) and C.C. TSAGALIS) (eds) Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators, and Characters. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 430. $55. 781477316030.
Andrew Ford, pp. 242–243

R. GAGNÉ) and M. HERRERO DE JÁUREGUI (eds) Les dieux d’Homère 2: anthropo-morphismes (Kernos Supplement 33). Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2019. Pp. 330, illus. €30. 9782875622044.
Naoko Yamagata, pp. 243–244

A.T. ZANKER Metaphor in Homer: Time, Speech, and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. x + 263. £75. 9781108491884.
William Brockliss, pp. 244–245

L. SWIFT Archilochus: The Poems: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 492. £100. 9780198768074.
John Gibert, pp. 245–246

D. LOSCALZO Saffo, la hetaira (Syncrisis 4). Pisa: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2019. Pp. 167. €64. 9788833150130.
Thea S. Thorsen, pp. 246–247

I. RUTHERFORD (ed.) Oxford Readings in Greek Lyric Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 479. £100. 9780199216192.
G.A. Gazis, pp. 247–248

A. MILLER Pindar: The Odes. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 360, illus. $13. 9780520300002.
Joshua Andre Zacks, pp. 248–249

R. SEAFORD Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (edited with a foreword by R. Bostock). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 486. £100. 9781107171718.
Alexandre Johnston, pp. 249–250

P.J. FINGLASS Sophocles (Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics 44). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 126. £16.99. 9781108706094.
Doris Post, pp. 250–251

D. KOVACS Sophocles Oedipus the King: A New Verse Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 128. £12.99. 9780198854845.
Doris Post, pp. 251–252

D. KOVACS Euripides: Troades. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 370. £100. 9780199296156.
Almut Fries, pp. 252–253

V. LIAPIS and A.K. PETRIDES (eds) Greek Tragedy after the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca. 400 BC to ca. AD 400. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 415. £90. 9781107038554.
Edmund Stewart, pp. 253–254

C. BOUCHET Isocrate: Philippe (Commentario 12). Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2019. Pp. xlv + 215. €25. 9782251449524.
Massimiliano Carloni, pp. 254–255

M. BIRAUD and A. ZUCKER (eds) The Letters of Alciphron: A Unified Literary Work? Brill: Leiden, 2019. Pp. 275. €105. 9789004383357.
Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, pp. 255–256

S. HORNBLOWER and G. BIFFIS (eds) The Returning Hero: Nostoi and Traditions of Mediterranean Settlement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xviii + 354. £75. 9780198811428.
Margalit Finkelberg, pp. 256–257

N. GOLDSCHMIDT and B. GRAZIOSI (eds) Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Literary Reception and Material Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 364, illus. £80. 9780198826477.
Joseph W. Day, pp. 257–258

J.F. MILLER and J. STRAUSS CLAY (eds) Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xxiv + 378, illus. £80. 9780198777342.
Carmine Pisano, pp. 258–259

R. NETZ Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 890. £44.90. 9781108481472.
Richard Hunter, pp. 259–260

M. HAMMOND and P. THONEMANN (eds) Artemidorus: The Interpretation of Dreams (Oxford World’s Classics). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxx + 372. £10.99. 978019879795.

P. THONEMANN An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus’ The Interpretation of Dreams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 239. £20. 9780198843825.
K.R. Bradley, pp. 260–262

R.J. PENELLA Libanius: Ten Mythological and Historical Declamations: Introduction, Translation, and Notes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. x + 239. £85. 9781108481373.
Craig A. Gibson, pp. 262–263

N. HOPKINSON Quintus Smyrnaeus: Posthomerica (Loeb Classical Library 19). Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 745. $26. 9780674997165.
Georgios P. Tsomis, pp. 263–264

T. SCHEIJNEN Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica: A Study of Heroic Characterization and Heroism. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Pp. 393. €138. 9789004373433.
Emma Greensmith, pp. 264–265

D. ACCORINTI (ed.) Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis (Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies 32). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. Pp. 872. €231. 9789004310117.
Guy Walker, pp. 265–266

B. VERHELST Direct Speech in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca: Narrative and Rhetorical Functions of the Characters’ ‘Varied’ and ‘Many-Faceted’ Words (Mnenosyne Supplement Late Antique Literature 397). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Pp. xii + 330. €138. 9789004325890.
Domenico Accorinti, pp. 266–267

J. WORTLEY The Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers: A Select Edition and Complete English Translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. viii + 651, £39.99. 9781108439022.
Marilyn Dunn, pp. 267–268

T. DERDA, J. HILDER and J. KWAPISZ (eds) Fragments, Holes, and Wholes: Reconstructing the Ancient World in Theory and Practice. Warsaw: Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, 2017. Pp. xv + 409. £50. 9788394684808.
Margarita Sotiriou, pp. 268–269

G. NAGY Masterpieces of Metonymy: From Ancient Greek Times to Now (Hellenic Studies 72). Washington DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015. Pp. x + 284. £23.95. 9780674088320.
Fabian Horn, pp. 269–270

History

S.W. FLYNN (ed.) Children in the Bible and the Ancient World: Comparative and Historical Methods in Reading Ancient Children (Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East). Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. xiv + 226. £96. 9781138543768.
Aspasia Skouroumouni Stavrinou, pp. 270–271

R. LANE FOX The Invention of Medicine From Homer to Hippocrates. London: Allen Lane, 2020. Pp. 404 + xxviii. £25. 9780241277058.
Elizabeth M. Craik, p. 272

H. KLINKOTT and N. KRAMER (eds) Zwischen Assur und Athen: Altorientalisches in den Historien Herodots. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2017. Pp. 243. €49. 9783515117432.
Kai Ruffing, p. 273

D.M. LEWIS Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context, c.800–146 BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 372. £75. 9780198769941.
Thomas Figueira, pp. 274–275

S. NEVIN Military Leaders and Sacred Space in Classical Greek Warfare: Temples, Sanctuaries and Conflict in Antiquity. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017. Pp. 307. £95. 9781784532857.
Owen Rees, pp. 275–276

M. GAGARIN Democratic Law in Classical Athens. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 194. $45. 9781477320372.
Christine Plastow, pp. 276–277

N. SIRON Témoigner et convaincre: le dispositif de vérité dans les discours judiciaires de l’Athènes classique (Histoire ancienne et médiévale 166). Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2019. Pp. 382. €30. 979035103286.
Eleni Volonaki, pp. 277–278

C.A. POWELL and N. RICHER (eds) Xenophon and Sparta (Source + Sparta Series 1). Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2020. Pp. xv + 377. £65. 9781905125371.
Paul Cartledge, pp. 278–279

G. MARTIN The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 510. ￡110. 9780198713852.
Christine Plastow, pp. 279–280

J. HERRMAN (ed.) Demosthenes: Selected Political Speeches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xii. + 297. ￡74.99. 9781107021334.
Aggelos Kapellos, pp. 280–281

L. BRICAULT (tr. G.H. Renberg) Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. xvi. + 384. €149. 9789004413894.
Simon Bralee, pp. 281–282

R.S. BAGNALL (ed.) The Undertakers of the Great Oasis (P.Nekr.). (Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Graeco-Roman Memoirs Supplementary Volume 1). London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2017. Pp. xii. + 148. ￡85. 9780856982347.
Micaela Langellotti, pp. 282–283

Art and Archaeology

L. GODART and A. SACCONI Les archives du roi Nestor: corpus des inscriptions en linéaire B de Pylos 1: séries Aa–Fr; 2: séries Gn–Xn. Pasiphae.. Pisa and Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2020. Pp. 836. €945. 9788833151915.
Matilde Civitillo, pp. 283–284

M.M. MILES (ed.) A Companion to Greek Architecture. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. Pp. xxvi. + 583, illus. $195. 9781444335996.
Jesper Blid, pp. 284–285

G. GÜRTEKIN DEMIR, H. CEVIZOĞLU, Y. POLAT and G. POLAT (eds) with the collaboration of TSETSKHLADZE (G.R.) Archaic and Classical Western Anatolia: New Perspectives in Ceramic Studies. (Colloquia Antiqua 19). Leuven: Peeters, 2018. Pp. xxii. + 408. €96. 9789042934603.
Jana Mokrišová, pp. 285–286

J. GRETHLEIN Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity: The Significance of Form in Narratives and Pictures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xiv. + 301. ￡75. 9781107192652.
Anna Novokhatko, pp. 286–287

S. PICKUP and S. WAITE (eds) Shoes, Slippers and Sandals: Feet and Footwear in Classical Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 337, illus. ￡115. 9781472488763.
Mary Harlow, pp. 287–288

Philosophy

C. MOORE Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 411. ￡38. 9780691195056.
Giulia de Cesaris, pp. 288–289

G.E.R. LLOYD The Ambivalences of Rationality: Ancient and Modern Cross-Cultural Explorations. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 132. $48.99. 9781108420044.
Alexander Beecroft, pp. 289–290

C.A. HUFFMAN (ed.) A History of Pythagoreanism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 521. ￡23.99. 9781316648476.
Caterina Pellò, pp. 290–291

C. HUFFMAN Aristoxenus of Tarentum: The Pythagorean Precepts (How to Live a Pythagorean Life). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 636. ￡130. 9781108425315.
John Dillon, pp. 291–292

A. MARMODORO Everything in Everything: Anaxagoras’ Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. ￡62. 9780190611972.
Michael M. Shaw, pp. 293–294

H. FOSSHEIM, V. SONGE-MØLLER and K. ÅGOTNES (eds) Philosophy as Drama: Plato’s Thinking through Dialogue. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. ix + 247. ￡90. 9781350082496.
Giulia Bernardini, pp. 294–295

V. POLITIS The Structure of Enquiry in Plato’s Early Dialogues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 255. ￡73.99. 9781107689961.
Carlo Cacciatori, p. 295

C. ARRUZZA A Wolf in the City: Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato’s Republic. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 310. ￡47.99. 9780190678852.
G.S. Bowe, pp. 295–296

D. QUARANTOTTO (ed.) Aristotle’s Physics Book I: A Systematic Exploration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 298. ￡75. 9781107197787.
Rosa Matera, pp. 296–297

D. RIESBECK Aristotle on Political Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 322. ￡79.99. 9781107107021.
Thornton C. Lockwood, Jr, pp. 297–298

M. ERLER Epicurus: An Introduction to his Practical Ethics and Politics. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2020. Pp. 165, illus. 9783796540066.
Jan Maxmilian Robitzsch, pp. 298–299

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

S.V. LEATHERBURY Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity: Between Reading and Seeing. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. xvii + 366, illus. ￡96. 9781472459183.
Marina Bazzani, pp. 299–300

T. ARENTZEN The Virgin in Song: Mary and the Poetry of Romanos the Melodist. (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. xiii + 265. ￡48. 9780812249071.
Marina Bazzani, pp. 300–301

S.D. SMITH Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture: Gender, Desire, and Denial in the Age of Justinian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 288, illus. ￡75. 9781108480239.
Anna Gioffreda, pp. 301–302

M.L.D. RIEDEL Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Christian Identity: Writings of an Unexpected Emperor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xx + 219. ￡75. 9781107053076.
Shaun Tougher, pp. 302–303

D. ANGELOV The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xx +441. ￡34.99. 9781108480710.
Milan Vukašinović, pp. 303–304

P. BOURAS-VALLIANATOS Innovation in Byzantine Medicine: The Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275–c.1330). (Oxford Studies in Byzantium). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 368, illus. ￡90. 9780198850687.
Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann, pp. 304–305

T. SINCLAIR Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages: Pegolotti’s Ayas–Tabriz Itinerary and its Commercial Context (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies). London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. xi + 439. ￡130. 9780754665168.
Nicholas Morton, pp. 305–306

Reception and History of Scholarship

S. KIRITSI Menander’s Characters in Context: from the 4th century BC to the Modern Greek Stage. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. Pp. ix + 339. ￡64.99. 9781527540170.
Kyriaki A. Ioannidou, pp. 307–308

J. WEINER, B. ELDON STEVENS and B.M. ROGERS (eds) Frankenstein and its Classics: The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. Pp. 273. ￡22.99. 9781350054875.
Stephe Harrop, p. 308

E. RICHARDSON (ed.) Classics in Extremis: The Edges of Classical Reception. (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception). London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. xi + 256. ￡85. 9781350017252.
Katerina Stergiopoulou, pp. 308–310

I. MOYER, A. LECZNAR and H. MORSE (eds) Classicisms in the Black Atlantic. (Classical Presences). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 338, illus. ￡85. 9780198814122.
Shushma Malik, pp. 310–311

M.E. SAFRAN (ed) Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 329. ￡80. 9781474440844.
Chris Davies, pp. 311–312

L. MAURICE Screening Divinity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. Pp. 228, illus. ￡80. 9781474425735.
Meredith E. Safran, pp. 312–313

N. WORMAN Virginia Woolf’s Greek Tragedy. (Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing). London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. 168. ￡80. 9781474277822.
Holly Ranger, pp. 313–314

M. POWERS Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary American Stage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xv + 230, illus. ￡60. 9780198777359.
Erika Fischer-Lichte, p. 315

Linguistics

J.-L. FOURNET The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian Versus Greek in Late Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 206, illus. ￡45. 9780691198347.
Ewa D. Zakrzewska, p. 316

Index of Books Reviewed, pp. 317–319