The Indices for other years can be found here:
2016: 2017: 2018: 2020: 2021
Contact Dr Peter Jones on [email protected] with any queries.
All the books reviewed in the Reading Room during 2019 are listed here.
Alphabetical Listing:
Abbamonte, G. and Harrison, S. (eds.) Making and Rethinking the Renaissance: Between Greek and Latin in 15th-16th Century Europe
Akrigg, B. Population and Economy in Classical Athens
Aldrete, G.S and Aldrete, A. The Long Shadow Of Antiquity: What Have the Greeks and Romans Done for Us?
Anderson, G. The Realness of Things Past: Ancient Greece and Ontological History
Andrade, N. Zenobia: Shooting Star of Palmyra
de Angelis, F. Archaic & Classical Greek Sicily: A Social and Economic History
Baker, A. Troy on Display: Scepticism and Wonder at Schliemann’s first Exhibition
Barrow, R.J. Gender, Identity and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture
Beeson, A. Roman Gardens
Bidwell, P. Hadrian’s Wall at Wallsend
Boardman, J. Alexander the Great: From his Death to the Present Day
Boas, E. van E., Rijksbaron, A., Huitink, L. and de Bakker, M. The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek
Bowman, A. and Wilson, A. (eds.) The Roman Agricultural Economy: Organization, Investment and Production
Boyle, A.J (ed., trans. and comm.) Seneca, Agamemnon
Braund, S. and Torlone, Z.M. (eds.) Virgil and His Translators
Brown, P. (ed. with intro., trans. and comm.) Terence: The Girl From Andros
Buxton, R. Myths & Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts
Caldwell, L. Roman Girlhood and the Fashioning of Femininity
Campbell, D.B. The Fate of the Ninth: The Curious Disappearance of Legio VIIII Hispana
Canevaro, L.G. Women of Substance in Homeric Epic: Objects, Gender, Agency
Carrera, A. Fellini’s Eternal Rome: Paganism and Christianity in the films of Federico Fellini
Cartledge, P. and Powell, A. (eds.) Greek Superpower: Sparta in the Self-Definitions of Athenians
Castillo, A.M., Valverde, J.F. and Soldevila, R.M. A Prosopography to Martial’s Epigrams
Ceccarelli, P., Doering, L., Fögen, T., and Gildenhard, I. (eds.) Letters and Communities: Studies in the socio-political dimensions of ancient epistolography
Coray, M. (ed.) Homer, Iliad Book 18: The Basel Commentary (English version ed. by S.D. Olson, and tr. by B.W. Millis and S. Strack)
Cropp, M.J. (ed.) Minor Greek Tragedians Volume I: The Fifth Century
D’Angour, A. Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher
Davenport, C. A History of the Roman Equestrian Order
Denyer, N. (ed.) Plato and Xenophon: Apologies of Socrates
Deufert, M. (ed.) Titus Lucretius Carus: de rerum natura VI
Dintner, M. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy
Dougherty, C. Travel and Home in Homer’s Odyssey and Contemporary Literature: Critical Encounters and Nostalgic Returns
Drinkwater, J.F. Nero: Emperor and Court
Dudley, J. Gods And Heroes: On the trail of the Iliad & the Odyssey
Eastlake, L. Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity
Fezzi, L. Crossing the Rubicon: Caesar’s Decision and the Fate of Rome
Finglass, P.J. Sophocles (Greece and Rome: New Surveys in the Classics no. 44)
Fletcher, J. Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze
Fontaine, M. and Scafuro, A.C. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy
Forder, S. The Romans in Scotland and the Battle of Mons Graupius
Frampton, S.A. Empire of Letters: Writing in Roman Literature and Thought from Lucretius to Ovid
Frazer, R.M. (translator), edited by Arner, T.D. (new edition) The Trojan War: The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian
Fries, A. (ed. with commentary) Pseudo-Euripides Rhesus
Gaudet, J. The Pharaoh’s Treasure: The Origins of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization
Geue, T. Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome
Goldberg, S.M. (ed.) Terence Andria
Goldschmidt, N. and Graziosi, B. (eds.) Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Literary Reception and Material Culture
Graziosi, B. Homer: A Very Short Introduction
Hall, E. (ed.) New Light on Tony Harrison
Hanink, J. How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy: Thucydides
Harrison, T. and Irwin, E. (eds.) Interpreting Herodotus
Hawes, G. Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity
Heslin, P. Propertius, Greek Myth and Virgil: Rivalry, Allegory, and Polemic
Heyworth, S.J. Ovid, Fasti Book III
Hingley, R. Londinium, a Biography: Roman London from its Origins to the Fifth Century
Hornblower, S. and Biffis, G. (eds.) The Returning Hero: Nostoi and Traditions of Mediterranean Settlement
Houghton, L.B.T. Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance
Huebner, S.R. and Laes, C. (eds.) The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World
Huebner, S. Papyri and the Social World of the New Testament
Huitink, L. and Rood, T. (eds.) Xenophon Anabasis Book III
Humphreys, S.C. Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (two volumes)
Jansen, L. Borges’ Classics: Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman Past
Kaldellis, A. Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantine, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
Kazantzidis, G.and Spatharas, D. (eds.) Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art: Ancient Emotions I
Keith, A. Virgil
Keyser, P. and Scarborough, J. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World
King, H. Hippocrates Now: The ‘Father of Medicine’ in the Internet Age
Kolb, A. (ed.) Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life
Konstan, D. In the Orbit of Love: Affection in Ancient Greece and Rome
Kovacs, D. (ed., with Introduction and Commentary) Euripides Troades
Kozak, L. Experiencing Hektor: Character in the Iliad
Kozak, L. and Hickman, M. (eds.) The Classics in Modernist Translation
Laycock, S., ill. by Travis, J. and foreword by Russell, M. The Roman Empire in 100 Haikus
Leontis, A. Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins
Levin-Richardson, S. The Brothel of Pompeii: Sex, Class and Gender at the Margins of Roman Society
Lewis, D.M. Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context, c. 800-146 BC
Liapis, V. and Petrides, A.K. (eds.) Greek Tragedy after the Fifth Century: A Survey from c. 400 BC to c. AD 400
Liotsakis, V. Alexander the Great in Arrian’s Anabasis
Loney, A. and Scully, S. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod
Madsen, J. M. Cassius Dio
Magness, J. Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth
Markantonatos, A. and Volonaki, E. (eds.) Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens
Marzano, A. and Métraux, G.P.R. (eds.) The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin: Late Republic to Late Antiquity
Matzner, S. and Harrison, S. (eds.) Complex Inferiorities: The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature
Mayor, A. Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
McIntosh, F., McConnell, J., Harrison, S. and Kenward, C. (eds.) Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century
Most, G. W. (ed.) Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia
Most, G. W. (ed.) Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments
Naiden, F.S. Soldier, Priest and God: A Life of Alexander the Great
Natoli, B. and Hunt, S. (eds.) Teaching Classics with Technology
O’Donnell, J. J. The War for Gaul: A New Translation. Julius Caesar
Pandey, N.B. The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome: Latin Poetic Responses to Early Imperial Iconography
Pfeiffer, C. Aristotle’s Theory of Bodies
Pillinger, E. Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature
Potter, P. (ed. and trans.) Hippocrates XI (Diseases of Women, 1 and 2)
Powers, M. Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage
Race, W.H. (ed. and trans.) Menander Rhetor. Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Ars Rhetorica
Rawles, R. Callimachus
Richardson, E. (ed.) Classics in Extremis; The Edges of Classical Reception
Roche, P. (ed.) Lucan de bello civili Book 7
Rogers, B.M. and Stevens, B.E. (eds.) Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Rollinger, C. Classical Antiquity in Video Games Playing with the Ancient World
Roselaar, S.T. Italy’s Economic Revolution: Integration and Economy in Republican Italy
Romm, J. How to Keep your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management- Seneca
Santangelo, F. (ed.) Late Repubican Rome, 88-31 BC (LACTOR 7)
Scheidel, W.(ed.) The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past
Southern, P. Hadrian’s Wall: Everyday Life on a Roman Frontier
Stephens, S.A. The Poets of Alexandria
Stray, C. Classics in Britain: Scholarship, Education, and Publishing 1800-2000
Stray, C., Clarke, M., and Katz, J.T. (ed.) Liddell and Scott: The History, Methodology, and Languages of the World’s Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek
Stoneman, R. The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks
Storey, I.C. Aristophanes’ Peace
Swift, L. (ed.) Archilochus: The Poems: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary
Telò, M. and Mueller, M. (eds). The Materialities of Greek Tragedy: Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Terpstra, T. Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean: Private Order and Public Institutions
Thorsen, T.S. and Harrison, S. Roman Receptions of Sappho
Wahlgren, S. (ed.) The Chronicle of the Logothete
Weiner, J., Stevens, B.E. and Rogers, B.M (eds.) Frankenstein and Its Classics: The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction
White, P. (ed.) Augustine Confessions Books V-IX
Whitehead, D. Xenophon’s Poroi (Revenue-Sources)
Wiseman, T.P. The House of Augustus: A Historical Detective Story
Wisniewski, R. The Beginnings of the Cult of Relics
Woodruff, P. (ed.) The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Philosophical Perspectives
Woods, M.C. Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom
Worman, N. Virginia Woolf’s Greek Tragedy
Yates, D.C. States of Memory: The Polis, Panhellenism, and the Persian War
Yuretich, L. (tr.) The Chronicle of Constantine Manasses
Zetzel, J.E.G. Critics, Compilers and Commentators: An Introduction to Roman Philology, 200 BCE-800 CE