Reviews

2012.10.09:  Heather Jackson, John Tidmarsh, Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates, volume 3: the pottery. Mediterranean archaeology supplement, 7. 2012.10.08:  Michael Decker, Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East. Oxford studies in Byzantium. 2012.10.07:  Joseph Roisman, Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander: the Evidence (translations by J. C. Yardley). Blackwell…

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2012.09.59:  Marcello Spanu, The Theatre of Diokaisareia. Diokaisareia in Kilikien: ergebnisse des Surveys 2001-2006, Bd 2. 2012.09.58:  B. Richard Page, Aaron D. Rubin, Studies in Classical Linguistics in Honor of Philip Baldi. Amsterdam studies in classical philology, 17. 2012.09.57:  Andrew Robinson, Cracking the Egyptian Code: the Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion. 2012.09.56:  Tomasz Mojsik, Between…

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posted with permission: Homer and the Politics of Authority in Renaissance France. By Marc Bizer. Classical Presences. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xii + 245. Hardcover, $85.00/£55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-973156-5. Reviewed by Timothy Wutrich, Case Western Reserve University Marc Bizer presents a compelling argument regarding the reception of Homer in sixteenth-century France…

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2012.09.46:  Thomas Bénatouïl, Mauro Bonazzi, Theoria, Praxis, and the Contemplative Life after Plato and Aristotle. Philosophia Antiqua, 131. 2012.09.45:  J.S. Richardson, Augustan Rome 44 BC to AD 14: the Restoration of the Republic and The Establishment of the Empire. The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome. 2012.09.44:  Néstor-Luis Cordero, Parmenides, Venerable and Awesome (Plato, Theaetetus 183e).…

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posted with permission: Plutarch Against Colotes: A Lesson in History of Philosophy. By Eleni Kechagia. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 359. £70.00/$135.00. ISBN 978-0-19-959723-9. Reviewed by Jan Opsomer, University of Leuven Plutarch’s polemical text against the Epicurean Colotes is a precious source for fragments and testimonies…

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