Reviews

  • At the Review of Biblical Literature site: Edmonds III, Radcliffe G., editor, The “Orphic” Gold Tablets and Greek Religion: Further Along the Path

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  • Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews

    I seem to have missed a week … 2012.12.26:  B. H. McLean, New Testament Greek: an Introduction. 2012.12.27:  Alexander Hollmann, The Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus’ Histories. Hellenic studies, 48. 2012.12.28:  Alexis Oepen, Villa und christlicher Kult auf der Iberischen Halbinsel in Spätantike und Westgotenzeit. Spätantike – frühes Christentum…

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  • posted with permission: Roman Elections in the Age of Cicero: Society, Government, and Voting. By Rachel Feig Vishnia. New York and London: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xi + 184. Hardcover, $148.00/£80.00. ISBN 978-0-415-87969-9. Reviewed by Jeff Tatum, Victoria University of Wellington Feig Vishnia’s most recent book is a serious scholarly work, aimed at explaining to undergraduates…

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  • posted with permission Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians. Edited by John Marincola, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Distributed in the US by Columbia University Press. Pp. xiv + 378. Hardcover, £75.00/$120.00. ISBN 978-0-7486-4396-7. Reviewed by Tim Rood, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford…

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  • posted with permission: The Slave in Greece and Rome. By Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat. Translated by Marion Leopold. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. Pp. vi + 198. Paper, $26.95. ISBN 978-0-299-28374-2. Reviewed by John G. Nordling, Concordia Theological Seminary Originally published in France as Esclave en Grèce et…

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