Books Received
Every month, CJ posts books received which are available for review. Past reviews are available below.
Classical Journal Online Book Reviews
GOLDHILL, How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today
Review by Michael Shaw:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.05.01
DAVIS, Ovid and Augustus: A Political Reading of Ovid’s Erotic Poems
Review by Samuel J. Huskey:
CJ Online 2008.04.03 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 335–7]
RIMELL, Ovid’s Lovers: Desire, Difference and the Poetic Imagination
Review by Hunter H. Gardner:
CJ Online 2008.04.02 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 332–4]
LANNI, Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athens
Review by Edwin Carawan:
CJ Online 2008.04.01 [orig.
CJ 103.4 (2008): 459–61]
ARMSTRONG, Cretan Women: Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin Poetry
Review by Erika J. Nesholm:
CJ Online 2008.03.04 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008) 329–31]
POWELL, ed. M. Tulli Ciceronis De re publica, De legibus, Cato Maior de
senectute, Laelius de amicitia
Review by James E.G. Zetzel:
CJ Online 2008.03.02 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008) 325–9]
MOSER, Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of
Vesuvius
Review by Herbert W. Benario:
CJ Forum Online Exclusive 2008.03.01
MARSHALL, The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy
Review by Christopher Trinacty:
CJ Online 2008.02.04 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 322–4]
MELTZER, Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia
Review by Justina Gregory:
CJ Online 2008.02.03 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 319–21]
IRWIN, Solon and Early Greek Poetry: The Politics of Exhortation
Review by Timothy Powers:
CJ Online 2008.02.02 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 316–19]
ASHDOWNE and MORWOOD, Writing Latin: An Introduction to Writing in the
Language of Cicero and Caesar.
Review by Jeanne Neumann:
CJ Forum Online Exclusive 2008.02.01
LOUDEN, The Iliad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning
Review by Emily B. West:
CJ Online 2008.01.03 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 3012–15]
STROH, Latein ist tot, es lebe Latein.
Review by Herbert W. Benario:
CJ Forum Online Exclusive 2008.01.02
CHAMBERS, Latin Alive and Well.
Review by Marianthe Colakis:
CJ Forum Online Exclusive 2008.01.01
BLAKELY, Myth, Ritual, and Metallurgy in Ancient Greece and Africa.
Review by Stephanie Larson: [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 309–11]
SNODGRASS, Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece
Review by Carol G. Thomas:
CJ Online 2007.12.01 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 307–09]
UZZI, Children in the Visual Arts of Imperial Rome
Review by Beth Severy-Hoven:
CJ Online 2007.11.04 [orig.
CJ 103.2 (2007-08): 210–13]
BETANCOURT, The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and its Territory
Review by Athena Hadji:
CJ Online Exclusive 2007.11.03
NAIDEN, Ancient Supplication
Review by David Konstan:
CJ Online 2007.11.02 [orig.
CJ 103.2 (2007-08): 207–10]
CARNEY, Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great
Review by Michael D. Dixon:
CJ Online Exclusive 2007.11.01
SMITH and TRZASKOMA, trs. Apollodorus’ Library and
Hyginus’ Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology.
Review by Paul Properzio:
CJ Online Exclusive 2007.10.04 [incorrectly posted as 2007.10.94]
BURNETT, Pindar's Songs for Young Athletes of Aigina
Review by Thomas K. Hubbard:
CJ Online 2007.10.03 [orig.
CJ 103.2 (2007-08): 205–7]
CURRIE, Pindar and the Cult of Heroes
Review by Jennifer Larson:
CJ Online 2007.10.02 [orig.
CJ 103.2 (2007-08): 201–4]
KÖNIG, Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire; and NEWBY, Greek
Athletics in the Roman World: Victory and Virtue
Review by Donald G. Kyle:
CJ Online 2007.10.01 [orig.
CJ 103.1 (2007): 107–13]
ROLLER, Dining Posture in Ancient Rome: Bodies, Values, and Status.
Review by John F. Donahue:
CJ Online 2007.09.03 [orig.
CJ 103.1 (2007): 112–14]
GINSBURG, Representing Agrippina
Review by Kathryn Williams:
CJ Online 2007.09.02 [orig.
CJ 103.1 (2007): 116–19]
CAWKWELL, The Greek Wars: The Failure of Persia
Review by John Marincola:
CJ Online 2007.09.01 [orig.
CJ 103.1 (2007): 99–101]
GOLDBERG, Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic: Poetry and its
ReceptionReview by Monica Gale:
CJ Online 2007.08.01 [orig.
CJ 103.1 (2007): 113–16]
OBER, Athenian LegaciesReview by Andrew Wolpert:
CJ Online 2007.07.01 [orig.
CJ 103.1 (2007): 101–3]
FULKERSON, The Ovidian Heroine as AuthorReview by Sarah H. Lindheim:
CJ Online 2007.06.01 [correction of orig.
CJ 102.4 (2007): 391–4]
LLOYD-JONES, ed., Supplementum Supplementi HellenisticiReview by S. Douglas Olson:
CJ Online Exclusive 2007.06.01
WISEMAN, The Myths of RomeReview by Thomas Habinek:
CJ Online 2007.05.02 [orig.
CJ 102.4 (2007): 396–9]
HEATHER, A New History of Rome and the BarbariansReview by Peter S. Wells:
CJ Online 2007.05.01 [orig.
CJ 102.4 (2007): 396–9]
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