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AHL, tr., Two Faces of Oedipus: Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Seneca’s Oedipus
+Review by Thomas D. Kohn:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.06.01
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]
ASH, Tacitus, Histories Book II
+Review by Herbert W. Benario:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.11.01
ASHDOWNE and MORWOOD, Writing Latin: An Introduction to Writing in the
Language of Cicero and Caesar.
+Review by Jeanne Neumann:
CJ Online Forum Exclusive 2008.02.01
BAGNALL, Egypt in the Byzantine World: 300–700
+Review by John Bauschatz:
CJ Online Exclusive 2009.01.04
BARR-SHARRAR, The Derveni Krater: Masterpiece of Classical Greek Metalwork
+Review by Anne-Marie Knoblauch:
CJ Online 2009.08.08
BETANCOURT, The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and its Territory
+Review by Athena Hadji:
CJ Online Exclusive 2007.11.03
BLAKELY, Myth, Ritual, and Metallurgy in Ancient Greece and Africa.
+Review by Stephanie Larson:
CJ Online 2007.12.01 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 309–11]
BODEL–OLYAN, eds., Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
+Review by Paul Properzio:
CJ Online 2009.08.01
BOWERSOCK, From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition
+Review by Herbert W. Benario:
CJ Online 2009.09.01
BRAUND, A Lucan Reader: Selections from "Civil War"
+Review by Timothy Joseph:
CJ Online 2009.08.03
BUDELMANN, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric
+Review by Douglas E. Gerber:
CJ Online 2009.10.05
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]
BURNETT, Pindar
+Review by Michael Shaw:
CJ Forum Online 2010.03.02
CANFORA, Julius Caesar: The Life and Times of the People’s Dictator
+Review by Rex Stem:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.09.01
CANTARELLA–LEAR, Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods
and DAVIDSON,
The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece
+Review by Thomas K. Hubbard:
CJ Online 2009.11.03
CARNEY, Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great
+Review by Michael D. Dixon:
CJ Online Exclusive 2007.11.01
CAWKWELL, The Greek Wars: The Failure of Persia
+Review by John Marincola:
CJ Online 2007.09.01 [orig.
CJ 103.1 (2007): 99–101]
CHAMBERS, Latin Alive and Well.
+Review by Marianthe Colakis:
CJ Online Forum Exclusive 2008.01.01
CHESHIRE, Alexander the Great
+Review by Carol J. King:
CJ Online Forum 2009.10.02
CHRISTIDIS, A History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity
+Review by Alexander Sens:
CJ Online 2009.05.02
CLAUGHTON, Herodotus and the Persian Wars
+Review by Kelly A. MacFarlane:
CJ Online Exclusive 2009.01.01
COLEMAN, Martial: Liber Spectaculorum
+Review by Niklas Holzberg:
CJ Online 2008.08.01 [orig. CJ 103.3 (2008): 340–2]
COLLINS, Magic in the Ancient Greek World
+Review by Kelly MacFarlane:
CJ Online 2009.07.04
CURRIE, Pindar and the Cult of Heroes
+Review by Jennifer Larson:
CJ Online 2007.10.02 [orig.
CJ 103.2 (2007–08): 201–4]
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]
DAVIDSON, The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece
and LEAR–CANTARELLA, Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods
+Review by Thomas K. Hubbard:
CJ Online 2009.11.03
DIMITROVA, Theoroi and Initiates in Samothrace. The Epigraphical Evidence
+Review by D. Graninger:
CJ Online 2010.03.04
EDWARDS, Death in Ancient Rome
+Review by Mark Kleijwegt:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.07.03
FERRARI, Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta
+Review by Chris Eckerman:
CJ Online 2009.07.05
FITCH, ed., Seneca
+Review by Christopher Trinacty:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.08.04
FLOWERS, The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture
+Review by Andrew B. Gallia:
CJ Online 2008.10.03 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 342–4]
FULKERSON, The Ovidian Heroine as Author
+Review by Sarah H. Lindheim:
CJ Online 2007.06.01 [correction of orig.
CJ 102.4 (2007): 391–4]
GILLESPIE and HARDIE, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
+Review by Wilson H. Shearin:
CJ Online 2009.04.04
GINSBURG, Representing Agrippina
+Review by Kathryn Williams:
CJ Online 2007.09.02 [orig.
CJ 103.1 (2007): 116–19]
GOLDBERG, Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic: Poetry and its
Reception
+Review by Monica Gale:
CJ Online 2007.08.01 [orig.
CJ 103.1 (2007): 113–16]
GOLDHILL, How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today
+Review by Michael Shaw:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.05.01
GRAINGER, Alexander the Great Failure: The Collapse of the Macedonian Empire
+Review by Christopher Baron:
CJ Online 2008.07.02
GREGORY and RABINOWITZ, eds.,A Companion to Greek tragedy
+Review by Owen Goslin:
CJ 105.1 (2009) 71–6 [ orig.
CJ Online 2009.03.04]
GRIFFITH and MARKS, A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Agora. Ancient Greek and Roman Humour
+Review by Fred Franko:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.05.03
GUIA, ed., Ripensando Tacito (e Ronald Syme): Storia e storiografia
+Review by Herbert W. Benario:
CJ Online Exclusive 2009.01.03
GUNDERSON, Nox Philologiae: Aulus Gellius and the Fantasy of the Roman Library
+Review by Patrick Hogan:
CJ Online 2009.09.02
HARDIE and GILLESPIE, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
+Review by Wilson H. Shearin:
CJ Online 2009.04.04
HARRIS and PLATZNER, eds., Classical Mythology: Images and Insights: Fifth Edition.
+Review by Marianthe Colakis:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.08.03
HEATHER, A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
+Review by Peter S. Wells:
CJ Online 2007.05.01, [orig.
CJ 102.4 (2007): 396–9
HECKEL, Conquests of Alexander the Great
+Review by Jacek Rzepka:
CJ Online Exclusive 2009.03.01
HECKEL and TRITLE, Alexander the Great: A New History
+Review by Carol J. King:
CJ Online 2009.11.02
HEJDUK, Clodia: A Sourcebook
+Review by Jane Crawford:
CJ Online Forum Exclusive 2008.09.05
HENDERSON, Aristophanes: Fragments
+Review by Ian Storey:
CJ Online 2009.02.01
HOWE, Pastoral Politics: Animals, Agriculture and Society in Ancient Greece
+Review by Jens Krasilnikoff:
CJ Online 2009.12.03
HUTTON, Describing Greece: Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias
+Review by Joseph L. Rife:
CJ Online 2009.08.02
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]
JOHNSON and PARKER, eds. Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome
+Review by Scott Farrington:
CJ Online 2009.09.08
JONES, Juvenal and the Satiric Genre
+Review by Brian S. Hook:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.09.02
KALDELLIS, The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens
+Review by E.A. Fisher:
CJ Online 2010.04.01
KAMM, The Romans: An Introduction
+Review by Ann R. Raia:
CJ Online Exclusive 2009.04.03
KEITH, Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure
+Review by Randall Childree:
CJ Online 2009.09.05
KETTERER, Ancient Rome in Early Opera
+Review by Ronald Mellor:
CJ Online 2009.12.02
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]
KOUSSER, Hellenistic and Roman Ideal Sculpture: The Allure of the Classical
+Review by Ellen Perry:
CJ Online 2009.07.06
KUELEN, Apuleius Madaurensis Metamorphoses Book I: Text, Introduction, and Commentary
+Review by Edmund P. Cueva:
CJ Online 2009.08.06
KUGELMEIER, Die innere Vergegenwärtigung des Bühnenspiels in Senecas Tragödien
+Review by Wolfgang Polleichtner:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.05.02
KULIKOWSKI, Late Roman Spain and Its Cities
+Review by Sabine Panzram:
CJ Online Exclusive 2009.02.03
LANGDON, Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100–700 BCE
+Review by Phillip V. Stanley:
CJ Online 2009.09.06
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]
LARSON, Tales of Epic Ancestry: Boiotian Collective Identity in the Late Archaic and Early Classical Periods
+Review by D. Graninger:
CJ 105.1 (2009) 65–7 [orig.
CJ Online 2009.07.01]
LEAR–CANTARELLA, Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods
and DAVIDSON,
The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece
+Review by Thomas K. Hubbard:
CJ Online 2009.11.03
LEWIS, Solon the Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens
+Review by Phillip V. Stanley:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.10.01
LEWIS, Early Greek Lawgivers
+Review by Constantin Pop:
CJ Online Exclusive 2009.02.04
LEWIS, response to CJ Online 2009.02.04
+Response to Constantin Pop:
CJ Online 2009.09.06
LISTER, Meeting the Challenge: International Perspectives on the Teaching of Latin
+Review by Ronnie Ancona:
CJ Online Exclusive 2009.02.02
LLOYD-JONES, ed., Supplementum Supplementi Hellenistici
+Review by S. Douglas Olson:
CJ Online Exclusive 2007.06.01
LOUDEN, The Iliad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning
+Review by Emily B. West:
CJ Online 2008.01.03 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 312–15]
McKEOWN, The Invention of Ancient Slavery?
+Review by Seth L. Kendall:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.12.03
McNELIS, Statius’ Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War
+Review by Neil Coffee:
CJ 105.1 (2009) 78–81 [orig.
CJ Online 2009.03.03]
MAGUIRE, Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood
+Review by Kirsten Day:
CJ Online 2010.02.02
MARIN, Blood in the Forum: The Struggle for the Roman Republic
+Review by Jonathan P. Zarecki:
CJ Online 2009.08.07
MARTINDALE and THOMAS, Classics and the Uses of Reception
+Review by Daniel M. Hooley:
CJ 105.1 (2009) 81–4 [orig.
CJ Online 2009.09.04]
MARSHALL, The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy
+Review by Christopher Trinacty:
CJ Online 2008.02.04 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 322–4]
MATYSZAK, Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day: Where to eat, drink and meet a philosopher—your guide to the cradle of Western culture
+Review by Marianthe Colakis:
CJ Online Forum Exclusive 2009.07.03
MELTZER, Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia
+Review by Justina Gregory:
CJ Online 2008.02.03 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 319–21]
MITCHELL and RUBINSTEIN, eds., Greek History and Epigraphy: Essays in Honour of P.J. Rhodes
+Review by Catherine M. Keesling:
CJ Online 2010.04.02
MORRIS, SCHEIDEL, and SALLER, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
+Review by Josiah Osgood:
CJ Online 2009.12.01
MORRIS, SCHEIDEL, The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium
+Review by Clive Foss:
CJ Online 2010.03.03
MOSER, Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of
Vesuvius
+Review by Herbert W. Benario:
CJ Online Forum Exclusive 2008.03.01
MURGATROYD, Mythical Monsters in Classical Literature
+Review by R. Scott Smith:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.07.01
MURGATROYD, Apuleius Metamorphoses: An Intermediate Latin Reader
+Review by Akihiko Watanabe:
CJ Online 2010.01.03
MURRELL, Cicero and the Roman Republic
+Review by Jonathan P. Zarecki:
CJ Online Exclusive 2009.01.02
NAIDEN, Ancient Supplication
+Review by David Konstan:
CJ Online 2007.11.02 [orig.
CJ 103.2 (2007–08): 207–10]
NETZ, Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic
+Review by Georgia L. Irby-Massie:
CJ Online 2010.02.01
NEWBY, Greek Athletics in the Roman World: Victory and Virtue and KÖNIG,
Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire
+Review by Donald G. Kyle:
CJ Online 2007.10.01 [orig.
CJ 103.1 (2007): 107–13]
OBER, Athenian Legacies
+Review by Andrew Wolpert:
CJ Online 2007.07.01 [orig.
CJ 103.1 (2007): 101–3]
OLYAN–BODEL, eds., Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
+Review by Paul Properzio:
CJ Online 2009.08.01
PARKER, The Making of Roman India
+Review by Paul Properzio:
CJ Online 2010.01.01
PARKER and JOHNSON, eds. Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome
+Review by Scott Farrington:
CJ Online 2009.09.08
PARKIN and POMEROY Roman Social History: A Sourcebook
+Review by Carlos Sanchez-Moreno Ellart:
CJ Online 2009.11.01
PAVLOCK, The Image of the Poet in Ovid's Metamorphoses
+Review by Christopher Trinacty:
CJ Online 2009.08.04
PEDLEY, Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek World
+Review by B.W. Millis:
CJ Online 2008.12.01 [orig.
CJ 103.4 (2008): 457–9]
PLATZNER and HARRIS, eds., Classical Mythology: Images and Insights: Fifth Edition.
+Review by Marianthe Colakis:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.08.03
POMEROY and PARKIN Roman Social History: A Sourcebook
+Review by Carlos Sanchez-Moreno Ellart:
CJ Online 2009.11.01
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]
RABINOWITZ, Greek tragedy
+Review by Owen Goslin:
CJ 105.1 (2009) 71–6 [ orig.
CJ Online 2009.03.04]
RECKFORD, Recognizing Persius
+Review by John Henderson:
CJ Online 2009.09.03
REINHARDT and WINTERBOTTOM, eds., Quintilian Institutio Oratoria Book 2
+Review by Sander M. Goldberg:
CJ Online 2008.05.04 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 337–9]
RICHARD, Greeks & Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers
+Review by Rudolph Masciantonio:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.06.03
RICHARDSON, The Language of Empire: Rome and the Idea of Empire from the Third Century BC to the Second Century AD
+Review by Fred K. Drogula:
CJ Online 2010.01.04
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]
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]
RUBINSTEIN and MITCHELL, eds., Greek History and Epigraphy: Essays in Honour of P.J. Rhodes
+Review by Catherine M. Keesling:
CJ Online 2010.04.02
SALLER, SCHEIDEL, and MORRIS, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
+Review by Josiah Osgood:
CJ Online 2009.12.01
SEWELL-RUTTER, Guilt by Descent: Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Greek Tragedy
+Review by Richard Rader:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.11.02
SCHEIDEL, MORRIS, and SALLER, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
+Review by Josiah Osgood:
CJ Online 2009.12.01
SCHEIDEL, MORRIS, The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium
+Review by Clive Foss:
CJ Online 2010.03.03
SHELMERDINE, Introduction to Greek, Second Edition
+Review by Keely Lake:
CJ Online Exclusive 2009.03.02
SHRIEBMAN, et al., A Companion to Digital Humanities
+Review by Andrew Reinhard:
CJ Online Exclusive 2009.05.01
SHUMATE, Nation, Empire, Deline: Studies in Rhetorical Continuity from the Romans to the Modern Era
+Review by Eric Adler:
CJ Online 2008.10.04 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 345–7]
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]
SNODGRASS, Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece
+Review by Carol G. Thomas:
CJ Online 2007.12.01 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 307–09]
STONEMAN, Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend
+Review by Paul Properzio:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.08.02
STRAY, Oxford Classics: Teaching and Learning 1800–2000
+Review by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr.:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.12.02
STROH, Cicero: Redner, Staatsmann, Philosoph
+Review by Christopher S. van den Berg:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.09.04
STROH, Latein ist tot, es lebe Latein.
+Review by Herbert W. Benario:
CJ Online Forum Exclusive 2008.01.02
SUMI, Ceremony and Power: Performing Politics in Rome between Republic and Empire
+Review by Kelly Olson:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.06.02
SWAIN, et al., Severan Culture
+Review by Patrick Paul Hogan
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.10.02
THOMAS and MARTINDALE, Classics and the Uses of Reception
+Review by Daniel M. Hooley:
CJ 105.1 (2009) 81–4 [orig.
CJ Online 2009.09.04]
THOMPSON, The Visigoths in the Time of Ulfila
+Review by J.F. Drinkwater:
CJ Online 2010.03.05
TREGGIARI, Terentia, Tullia and Publilia: The Women in Cicero’s Family
+Review by Julia D. Hejduk:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.12.04
TRITLE and HECKEL, Alexander the Great: A New History
+Review by Carol J. King:
CJ Online 2009.11.02
TRZASKOMA and SMITH, 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]
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]
VALAVANIS, Great Moments in Greek Archaeology
+Review by Paul Properzio:
CJ Online Exclusive 2008.09.03
VLASSOPOULOS, Unthinking the Greek Polis: Ancient Greek History Beyond Eurocentrism
+Review by David Grant Smith:
CJ Online 2010.03.01
VOLK, Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Vergil's Georgics
+Review by John Henkel:
CJ Online 2009.11.04
VON REDEN, Money in Ptolemaic Egypt: From the Macedonian Conquest to the End of the Third Century BC
+Review by Andrew Monson:
CJ Online 2009.04.02
WATERFIELD, Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths
+Review by William M. Calder III:
CJ Online Forum 2009.10.01
WILLMOTT, The Moods of Homeric Greek
+Review by Coulter H. George:
CJ 105.1 (2009) 67–71 [orig.
CJ Online 2009.04.01]
WINTERBOTTOM and REINHARDT, eds., Quintilian Institutio Oratoria Book 2
+Review by Sander M. Goldberg:
CJ Online 2008.05.04 [orig.
CJ 103.3 (2008): 337–9]
WISEMAN, The Myths of Rome
+Review by Thomas Habinek:
CJ Online 2007.05.02 [orig.
CJ 102.4 (2007): 396–9
WISEMAN, Remembering the Roman People: Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature
+Review by Josiah Osgood:
CJ Online 2009.08.05
WISEMAN, Unwritten Rome
+Review by Michael Johnson:
CJ Online Forum 2009.10.03
WOODARD, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology
+Review by R. Scott Smith:
CJ Online 2009.10.04
WRIGHT, Euripides: Orestes
+Review by Robert Holschuh Simmons:
CJ Online 2010.01.02
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