The Indices for previous years can be found here:

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All the books reviewed in the Reading Room during 2018 are listed here.

Alphabetical Listing (2018):

Allen, D., Christesen, P. and Millet, P. (eds.) How to Do Things with History: New Approaches to Ancient Greece

Artley, A. (ed.) Ovid Amores II: A Selection

Ash, R. (ed.) Tacitus Annals XV

Ashdowne, R. & White, C. (eds) Latin in Medieval Britain

Azoulay, V. Tyrant Slayers of Ancient Athens: A Tale of Two Statues

Barchiesi, A. (tr. by Marchesi, I. and Fox, M.) Homeric Effects in Vergil’s Narrative

Barton, W.M. The Pervigilium Veneris: A New Critical Text, Translation and Commentary

Battezzato, L. (ed.) Euripides Hecuba

Berrey, M. Hellenistic Science at Court

Berti, I., Bolle, K., Opdenhoff, F. and Stroth, F. (eds.) Writing Matters: Presenting and Perceiving Monumental Inscriptions in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Bland, R. Coin Hoards and Hoarding in Roman Britain AD 43-C.498

Boin, D. A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity

Boyd, B. Ovid’s Homer: Authority, Repetition, Reception

Brown, A. Aeschylus Libation Bearers: Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary

Brügger, C. (ed.) Homer’s Iliad: The Basel Commentary Book XVI

Brunn, C. and Edmonson, J. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy

Budelmann, F. (ed.) Greek Lyric: A Selection

Budelmann, F. and Phillips, T. Textual Events; Performance and Lyric in Early Greece

Christensen, J. and Robinson, E. The Homeric Battle of the Frogs and Mice

Cole, M. Legion versus Phalanx: The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World

Cormack, R. Byzantine Art (2nd edition)

Cox, F. Ovid’s Presence in Contemporary Women’s Writings: Strange Monsters

Davies, P.J.E. Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome

Dolansky, F. and Raucci, S. Rome: A Sourcebook on the Ancient City

Drake, H.A. A Century of Miracles; Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312-410

Duplouy, A. and Brock, R. (eds.) Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece

Edwards, M. Religions of the Constantinian Age

Elkins, N.Y. The Image of Political Power in the Reign of Nerva, AD 96-98

Elsner, J. The Art of the Roman Empire: AD 100-450  (2nd edn.)

Emerson, M. (2nd edn.)  Greek Sanctuaries and Temple Architecture; An Introduction

Erskine, A., Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Wallace, S. The Hellenistic Court: Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra

Ferris, I. The Mirror of Venus: Women in Roman Art

Ferris, I. Cave Canem: Animals and Roman Society

Fitzgerald, W. and Spentzou, E. (eds.) The Production of Space in Latin Literature

Fountoulakis, A. Markantonatos, A. and Vasilaros, G. Critical Perspectives on Greek Tragedy and Comedy

Fratantuono, L. Tacitus Annals XVI

Freeman, P. (tr.) How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gazis , G.A. Homer and the Poetics of Hades

Geue, T. Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity

Gildenhard, I. and Revermann, M., (eds.) Beyond the Fifth Century: Interactions with Greek Tragedy from the Fourth Century BCE to the Middle Ages

Gillespie, C.C. Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain

Gillespie, R. Newly Recovered English Classical Translations 1600-1800

Godwin, J. (ed.) Horace Odes: A Selection

Godwin, J. (ed.) Juvenal Satires Book IV

G
oldsworthy, A. Hadrian’s Wall: Rome and the Limits of the Empire

Griffin M.T., ed. by Balmaceda, C. Politics and Philosophy at Rome: Collected Papers

Harris, E.M., Lewis, D.M. and Woolmer, M.  The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States

Haywood, J. and Mac Sweeney, N. Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War: Dialogues on Tradition

Hoenig, C. Plato’s Timaeus and the Latin Tradition

Holmes-Henderson, A., Hunt, S., and Musié, M. (eds.) Forward with Classics: Classical Languages in Schools and Communities 

Hornblower, S. Lykophron, Alexandra, Rome and the Hellenistic World

Hornblower, S. and Pelling, C. (eds.) Herodotus Book VI

Hughes, J. Votive Body Parts in Greek and Roman Religion

Hunt, P. Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery

Hunter, R. The Measure of Homer: The Ancient Reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Jones, P. Memento Mori: What the Romans can tell Us about Old Age and Death

Jouanna, J. tr. by Steven Rendall Sophocles: A Study of his Theater in its Political and Social Context

Kapparis, K. Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World

Karamanou, I. Euripides Alexandros: Introduction, Text and Commentary

Keeline, T.J. The Reception of Cicero in the Early Roman Empire: The Rhetorical Schoolroom and the Creation of a Cultural Legend

Krieter-Spiro, Martha (ed.), tr. by Millis, B.W. and Strack, S. Homer’s Iliad : The Basel Commentary, Book XIV

Kristiansen, K., Lindkvist, T. and  Myrdal, J. (eds.) Trade and Civilisation: Economic Networks and Cultural Ties, from Prehistory to the Early Modern Era

Lamari, A. A. Reperforming Greek TragedyTheater, Politics, and Cultural Mobility in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC

Larsen, L.L. and Rubenson, S.(eds.) Monastic Education in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of Classical Paideia

Laurence, R. and Newsome, D.J. (eds.) Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movment and Space

Lenihan, P. and Sidwell, K. Poema de Hibernia: A Jacobite Latin Epic on the Williamite Wars

Long, A.A. (tr. and intro.) How to be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life – Epictetus

MacDonald, M. J. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies

Mac Sweeney, N. Troy: Myth, City and Icon

Manning, J.G. The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome

Marmodoro A. and Cartwright S. (eds.) A History of Mind and Body in Late Antiquity

Martin, G. Euripides Ion: Edition and Commentary

Matyszak, P. The Greeks

Mensch, P. (tr.) and Miller, J. (ed.) Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Diogenes Laertius

Mitford, T.B. East of Asia Minor – Rome’s Hidden Frontier

Montiglio, S. The Myth of Hero and Leander: The History and Reception of an Enduring Greek Legend

Morley, N. Classics: Why It Matters

Murgatroyd, P. Juvenal’s Tenth Satire

Murgia, C.E. and Kaster, R.A. (eds.) Serviani in Vergili Aeneidos libros IX-XII commentarii

Murnaghan, S. and Roberts, D.H. Childhood and the Classics: Britain and America, 1850-1965

Mynott, J. Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words

Naiden, F.S. and Talbert, R.J.A. (eds.) Mercury’s Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World

Osborne, R. The Transformation Of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece

Osborne, R. and Rhodes, P.J. Greek Historical Inscriptions 478-404 BC

Osgood, J. Rome and the Making of a World State

Powell, A. and Hardie, P. (eds.) The Ancient Lives of Virgil: Literary and Historical Studies

Pritchard, D.M. Athenian Democracy at War

Pulleyn, S. Homer Odyssey 1: Edited with Introduction, Translation, Commentary and Glossary

Quint, D. Virgil’s Double Cross: Design and Meaning in the Aeneid

Raphael, F. Antiquity Matters

Ready, J.L. The Homeric Simile in Comparative Perspectives: Oral Traditions from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia

Richlin, A. Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy

Rhodes, P. Periclean Athens

Riley, K., Blanshard, A.J.L., and Manny, I. (eds.) Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity

Roller, D.W. A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo

Romm, J.S. How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life by Seneca the Younger

Rüpke, Jörg (tr. by David M. B. Richardson) Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion

Sarri, A. Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World 500 BC – AD 300

Scheidel, W. (ed.) The Science of Roman HistoryBiology, Climate and the Future of the Past

Sessa, K. Daily Life in Late Antiquity

Shaw, C. A. Euripides Cyclops: A Satyr Play

Sheehan, S. A Guide to Reading Herodotus’ Histories

Shipley, L. The Etruscans: Lost Civilizations

Smith, A., Allen, M., Brindle, T., Fulford, M., Lodwick, L. and Rohnbogner, A. Life and Death in the Countryside of Roman Britain

Sorek S., Ancient Historians: A Student Handbook

Southern, P.  Julius Caesar: A Life

Spawforth, T. The Story of Greece and Rome

Spivey, N. The Sarpedon Krater: The Life and Afterlife of a Greek Vase

Stöckinger, M., Winter, K. and Zanker, A.T. (eds.) Horace and Seneca: Interactions, Intertexts, Interpretation

Sutton, D. Antoine Introducing A.E. Housman (1859-1936): Preliminary Studies

Stuttard, D. Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens

Stuttard, D.(ed.),  Looking at Antigone

Symonds, M. Protecting the Roman Empire: Fortlets, Frontiers, and the Quest for Post-Conquest Security

Tanfield, C. Cicero Philippic II: A Selection

Thumiger, C. A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought

Tomlin, R.S.O. Britannia Romana: Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain

Verity, A. with Intro. and Notes by William Allan The Odyssey – Homer: A new translation

Vout, C. Classical Art: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present

Wallace-Hadrill, A. Augustan Rome (2nd edn.)

Warren, R. Art Nouveau and the Classical Tradition

Waterfield, R. Creators, Conquerors and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece

Wilson, A. and Bowman, A. (eds.) Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World

Ypsilanti, M. The Epigrams of Crinagoras of Mytilene: Introduction, Text, Commentary

Yona, S. Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire

Zuckerberg, D. Not all Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age