Reviews

2013.01.54:  Elizabeth S. Belfiore, Socrates’ Daimonic Art: Loving for Wisdom in Four Platonic Dialogues. 2013.01.53:  Giannis Z. Tzifopoulos, Μεθώνη Πιερίας I: Επιγραφές, χαράγματα και εμπορικά σύμβολα στη γεωμετρική και αρχαϊκή κεραμική από το “Υπόγειο”. 2013.01.52:  Gijs Willem Tol, A Fragmented History: a Methodological and Artefactual Approach to the Study of Ancient Settlement in the Territories…

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posted with permission: Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, and Peace. Translated, and with theatrical commentary, by Michael Ewans. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 289. Paper, $34.95. ISBN 978-0-8061-4231-9. Reviewed by Al Duncan, University of Utah Athenian “Old Comedy,” despite its traditional title, has become accustomed to frequent renewal.…

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posted with permission: Homer: Iliad Book XXII. Edited by Irene J. F. de Jong. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. x + 210. Hardcover, £47.50/$90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-88332-0. Paper, £19.99/$36.99. ISBN 978-0-521-70977-4. Reviewed by Jonathan L. Ready, Indiana University De Jong’s commentary will enable advanced undergraduates and graduate students to work confidently through…

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2013.01.40:  Luuk De Ligt, Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers: Studies in the Demographic History of Roman Italy 225 BC – AD 100. 2013.01.39:  Hans-Friedrich Mueller, Caesar: Selections from his Commentarii De Bello Gallico. Text, notes, vocabulary. 2013.01.38:  Naoise Mac Sweeney, Community Identity and Archaeology: Dynamic Communities at Aphrodisias and Beycesultan. 2013.01.37:  Richard F. Thomas, Horace: Odes…

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posted with permission: Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and its Legacy. By Esther Eidinow. Ancients and Moderns. London: I. B. Tauris; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 213. Paper, £12.99/$24.95. ISBN 978-1-84511-843-3 (Tauris); 978-0-19-538079-8 (Oxford). Reviewed by Vasiliki Giannopoulou, University of Oxford This is an insightful study examining μοῖρα (fate), τύχη (luck,…

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