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All the books reviewed in the Reading Room during 2017 are listed here.

Alphabetical Listing (2017):

Adams, J.N. An Anthology in Informal Latin 200 BC – AD 900: Fifty Texts with Translations and Linguistic Commentary

Adler, E. Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond

Adrych, P., Bracey, R., Dalglish, D., Lenk, S. and Wood, R. Images Of Mithra

Allen, M., Lodwick., L., Brindle, T., Fulford, M. and Smith, A. The Rural Economy of Roman Britain

Anderson, M.L. Antiquities: What Everyone Needs to Know

Annas, J. Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond

Bessone, F. and Fucecchi, M. (eds.) The Literary Genres in the Flavian Age: Canons, transformations, receptions

Bernstein, N.  Seneca: Hercules Furens

Blocksidge, M. A.E. Housman: A Single Life

Bodard, G. and Romanello, M. (eds.) Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement (Ubiquity 2016)

Borm, H., Mattheis, M. and Wienand, J. (eds.) Civil War in Ancient Greece and Rome: Contexts of Disintegration and Reintegration

Bowen, A.J. (ed.) Aeschylus: The Suppliant Women

Boyle, A.J. (ed.) Seneca Thyestes

Brown, J. Homeric Sites Around Troy

Brügger, C. Homer’s Iliad: the Basel Commentary Book xxiv

Burns, K.S. and Duffy, W.S.S. (eds.) Ancient Women in Modern Media

Carandini, A. and Carafa, P. (eds.) (tr. by Calavais, A.C.) The Atlas of Ancient Rome: Biography And Portraits of The City

Caston, V. and Weineck, S-M. (eds.) Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War through the Classics

Chadwick, A. CyberCaesar.com 

Chrystal, P. How to be a Roman: A Day in the Life of a Roman Family

Chrystal, P. Women at War in the Classical World

Cline, E. Three Stones Make A Wall: The Story of Archaeology 

Coffee, N. Gift and Gain: How Money Transformed Ancient Rome

Collard, C. and Morwood, J. (eds.) Euripides: Iphigeneia in Aulis (two vols., Introduction, Text and Translation; Commentary and Indices)

Cotton, A.K. Platonic Dialogue and the Education of the Reader

Currie, B. Homer’s Allusive Art

Davie, J. (tr.) with Introduction and Notes by Miriam Griffin Cicero: On Life and Death

Dakouri-Hild, A. and Boyd, M.J. (eds.) Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean

DiLuzio, M.J. A Place at the Altar: Priestesses in Republican Rome

Eidinow, E., Kindt, J. and Osborne, R. Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion

Emde Boas, E. van Language and character in Euripides Electra

Everitt, A. The Rise of Athens 

Ferry, D. (translator) The Aeneid: Virgil

Flohr, M. and Wilson, A. (eds.) The Economy of Pompeii

Flower, H.J. The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner

Flower, M.A. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon

Fögen, T. and Warren, R. (eds.) Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century

Gourlay, N.W. Hillard and Botting’s Latin Compendium

Graziosi, B. Homer

Grethlein, J. Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity: The Significance of Form in Narratives and Pictures

Grigg, L. (ed.) Popular Culture in the Ancient World

Guastella, G. Word of Mouth: Fama and Its Personifications in Art and Literature from Ancient Rome to the Middle Ages

Halliwell, S. (tr.) Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays

Harper, K. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire

Harrison, S. (ed.) Horace: Odes Book II

Harrison, S.J. Victorian Horace: Classics and Class

Hawes, G. (ed.) Myths on the Map: The Storied Landscapes of Ancient Greece

Haynes, N. The Childen of Jocasta

Herren, M. The Anatomy of Myth: The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics to the Church Fathers

Heyworth, S.J. and Morwood, J.H.W A Commentary on Vergil: Aeneid Book 3

Hodgson, L. Res Publica and the Roman Republic: ‘Without Body and Form’

Horsfall, N. (ed.) Virgil: Aeneid 6: A Commentary (p/b edition)

Houghton. H.A.G (ed.) Fortunatianus: Commentary on the Gospels

Hunt, A. Reviving Roman Religion: Sacred Trees in the Roman World

Kaczko, S. Archaic and Classical Attic Dedicatory Epigrams: An Epigraphic, Literary, and Linguistic Commentary

Kenny, A. (2nd edition) The Aristotelian Ethics: A Study of the Relationship between the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Kindt, J. Revisting Delphi: Religion and Story-telling in Ancient Greece

Korhonen, T. and Ruonakoski, E. Human and Animal in Ancient Greece: Empathy and Encounter in Classical Literature

Hughes, B. Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities

Jew, D. Osborne, R, and Scott, M. (eds.) M. I. Finley: An Ancient Historian and his Impact

Jones, P. and Sidwell, K. Reading Latin: Grammar and Exercises

Jones, P. and Sidwell, K. Reading Latin: Text and Vocabulary

König, J., Oikonomopoulou, K. and Woolf, H. (eds.) Ancient Libraries (paperback edn.)

Latham, J.A. Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome: The Pompa Circensis from the Late Republic to Late Antiquity

Licona, M.R. Why are there Differences in the Gospels? What we can Learn from Ancient Biography

Liotsakis, V. and Farrington, S. (eds.) The Art of History: Literary Perspectives on Greek and Roman Historiography

Maclennan, K. Virgil: Aeneid Book 8 – A Selection

Malamud, M. African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism

McKeown, J.C. (ed.) A Cabinet Of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome

Minney, P. Crab’s Odyssey: Malta to Istanbul in an Open Boat

Mitsis, P. and Ziogas, I. (eds.) Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry

Moodie, E.K. (ed.) Plautus’ Poenulus: A Student Commentary

Nevin, S. Military Leaders and Sacred Space in Classical Greek Warfare: Temples, Sanctuaries and Conflict in Antiquity

Omrani, B. Caesar’s Footprints: Journeys to Roman Gaul

Paule, M.T.  Canidia, Rome’s First Witch

Pomeroy, A. (ed.) A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen

Potter, D. Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint

Prins, Y. Ladies’ Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy

Raeburn, D. Greek Tragedies as Plays for Performance

Raffa, M. (ed.) Porphyrius, Commentarius in Claudii Ptolemaei Harmonica

Riess, W. and Fagan, G.G. (eds.) The Topography Of Violence In The Greco-Roman World

Roberts, J. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World

Rogerson, AVirgil’s Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid

Rosenblitt, J.A. E. E. Cummings’ Modernism and the Classics

Russell, T. Byzantium and the Bosporus: A Historical Study from the Seventh Century BC until the Foundation of Constantinople

Sanders, E. and Johncock, M. (eds.) Emotion and Persuasion in Classical Antiquity

Santangelo, F. (ed.) Approaching the Roman Revolution: Papers on Republican History (by Sir Ronald Syme)

Sanvito, P. (ed.) Vitruvianism: Origins and Transformations

Seaford, R. Wilkins, J. and Wright, M. (eds.) Selfhood and the Soul: Essays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill

Shear, T. L. Trophies of Victory: Public Builings in Periklean Athens

Sider, D. (ed.) Hellenistic Poetry: A Selection

Sistakou, E. and Rengakos, A. (eds) Dialect, Diction, and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram

Star,C. Seneca

Strootman, F. and Versluys, M.J. (eds.) Persianism in Antiquity

Swift, E. Roman Artefacts and Society: Design, Behaviour and Experience

Swift, L. and Carey, C. (eds.) Elegy and Iambus: New Approaches

Swift, L. Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts

Talbert, R.J.A. Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in Your Hand

Taylor, J. Latin Beyond GCSE (2nd Edition)

Teitler, H.C. The Last Pagan Emperor

Toíbín, C. House of Names

Tomlin, R.S.O. Roman London’s First Voices: Writing Tablets From The Bloomberg Excavations 2010-2014

Tuori, K. The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication

Van de Blom, H. Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic

Vann, D. Bright Air Black

Waters, M. Ctesias’ Persica and Its Near Eastern Context

Watts, E.J. Hypatia: The life and legend of an Ancient Philosopher

West, M.L. Homerus Odyssea: recensuit et testimonia concessit

Wilkinson, PPompeii: An Archaeological Guide

Wilson, N.G. From Byzantium to Italy

Woodman, A.J. (ed.) The Annals of TacitusBooks 5 and 6

Woolmer, M. The Phoenicians

Wright, M. The Lost Plays Of Greek Tragedy: Volume 1: Neglected Authors

Wyles, R. and Hall, E. (eds.) Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline De Romilly