Recent Book Reviews ~ 10/14/11

From BMCR:

• 2011.10.33: The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
• 2011.10.32: The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity
• 2011.10.31: La corruption à la fin de la république romaine (IIe-Ier s. av. J.-C.): aspects politiques et financiers. Historia Einzelschriften 200
• 2011.10.30: Epistemologia greca del VI e V secolo a.C. Eraclito e gli Eleati
• 2011.10.29: A Companion to Ancient Egypt (2 vols.). Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• 2011.10.28: A Cultural History of Sexuality, Volume 1: A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World
• 2011.10.27: Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren. British School at Athens Studies 18
• 2011.10.26: The Myth of Paganism: Nonnus, Dionysus and the World of Late Antiquity. Classical Literature and Society
• 2011.10.25: Plotinus in Dialogue with the Gnostics. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition 11
• 2011.10.24: A Free Will: Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought. Sather Classical Lectures 68
• 2011.10.23: Creating a Hellenistic World
• 2011.10.22: Ancient Greek Philosophy: from the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers
• 2011.10.21: Θρύλοι και Παραμύθια για τη Χώρα του Χρυσού. Αρχαιολογία ενός Παραμυθιακού Μοτίβου (Legends and Folktales about the Land of Gold. Archaeology of a Folktale Motif)
• 2011.10.20: Dizionario dei nomi geografici e topografici dell’Egitto greco-romano, supplemento 5 (2006-2009). Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia 8
• 2011.10.19: Aristophanes: Lysistrata; The Women’s Festival; and Frogs. Translated with theatrical commentaries. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture, 42
• 2011.10.18: Manilius and his Intellectual Background
• 2011.10.17: The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika (with a new translation by John Marincola)
• 2011.10.16: Cicero, De oratore Book III
• 2011.10.15: The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity: Religion and Politics in Byzantium, Europe and the early Islamic World. Library of Classical Studies 2
• 2011.10.14: Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek tragedy. Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

From RBL:

• 2011.10.18. Ware, Synopsis of the Pauline Letters in Greek and English October 13, 2011
• 2011.10.17. Porter, Reed, and O’Donnell, Fundamentals of New Testament Greek October 13, 2011
• 2011.10.16. Patte, The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity October 13, 2011
• 2011.10.13. Dubis, 1 Peter: A Handbook on the Greek Text October 13, 2011
• 2011.10.11. Bagnall, Early Christian Books in Egypt October 13, 2011

From the  popular press via our twitterfeed (in somewhat chronological order):

• #classicalbook ~ A dazzling new book by David Guterson [Ed King] October 16, 2011
• #classicalbook ~ “The Swerve,” by Stephen Greenblatt, Named a National Book Awards Finalist http://t.co/ZuzDsehn October 15, 2011
• #classicalbook ~ Adrienne Mayor on Enemies of Ancient Rome http://t.co/SZdD5yeV October 15, 2011
• #classicalbook ~ Ransom http://t.co/d1HtOkuQ October 15, 2011
• #classicalbook ~ Translator Mitchell reads from ‘Iliad’ version with contemporary slang  October 15, 2011
• #classicalbook ~ Winged words [four different Iliad translations}  October 15, 2011
• #classicalbook ~ The MoD is about people dying. Did Br’er Fox forget? [Memorial … Alice Oswald; Iliadish]  October 15, 2011
• #classicalbook ~ Back story: ‘Iliad’ translator Stephen Mitchell [interview] October 15, 2011
• #classicalbook ~ Imperialism, Power and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire  October 15, 2011
• #classicalbook ~ Children in the Roman Empire [TLS review of a couple of recent books on same]  October 15, 2011
• #classicalbook ~ A Poem That Sparked The Renaissance With Stephen Greenblatt October 13, 2011
• #classicalbook ~ REVIEW: Caligula: A Biography  October 12, 2011