Reviews

  • posted with permission: Stephanie Lynn Budin, Images of Woman and Child From the Bronze Age: Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity, and Gender in the Ancient World. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. x + 384. Hardcover, $95.00/£60.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19304-7. Reviewed by Molly Jones-Lewis, College of Charleston In this ambitious re-assessment of adult-child pairings (kourotrophic…

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  • 2012.05.33:  Mark L. Lawall, John Lund, Pottery in the Archaeological Record: Greece and Beyond. Acts of the international colloquium held at the Danish and Canadian Institutes in Athens, June 20-22, 2008. Gösta Enbom monographs, 1. 2012.05.32:  David Pritchard, War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens. C 2012.05.31:  Melissa Lane, Eco-Republic: What the Ancients can Teach…

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  • Posted with permission Josiah Osgood, A Suetonius Reader: Selections from the Lives of the Caesars and the Life of Horace. Mundelein, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2011. Pp. xxxix + 159. ISBN 978-0-86516-716-2. $19.00. Reviewed by Rex Stem, University of California Davis As the coda to his depiction of Julius Caesar’s assassination, Suetonius notes that when the…

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  • 2012.05.25:  Michael Davis, The Soul of the Greeks: an Inquiry. 2012.05.24:  Hagith Sivan, Galla Placidia: the Last Roman Empress. Women in antiquity. 2012.05.23:  Daniele F. Maras, Corollari: scritti di antichità etrusche e italiche in omaggio all’opera di Giovanni Colonna. Studia erudita, 14. 2012.05.22:  Laura Ambrosini, Le gemme etrusche con iscrizioni. Mediterranea supplementi, 6. 2012.05.21:  J.B.…

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  • 2012.05.19:  Jörg Ulrich, Anders-Christian Jacobsen, David Brakke, Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity, 11. 2012.05.18:  Daniel Ogden, Alexander the Great: Myth, Genesis and Sexuality. 2012.05.17:  James H. Richardson, Federico Santangelo, Priests and State in the Roman World. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, Bd 33. 2012.05.16:  Michael…

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