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Eleni Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus. Trends in classics: Supplementary volumes, 18. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2013. Pp. x, 379. ISBN 9783110297676. $154.00.

Reviewed by Nick West, University of Reading (n.j.west@reading.ac.uk)

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Three of the most significant historical events to mould the Romans' literary imaginings of Egypt and the Nile were the battle of Actium, Pompey's assassination and Cleopatra's affair with Antony. Manolaraki argues (p. 4) that works influenced by Augustan propaganda are comparatively well-known, in contrast to those composed in the following centuries, which either go unnoticed or are assumed to follow in the same "'Actian' vein". Manolaraki's work demonstrates that many valuable comparative insights available from these later sources are denied expression and that the commonly held assumption that these texts follow in the same vein as their Augustan forebears is too simplistic.

The prevailing undercurrent of Manolaraki's work is a demonstration of "the creative potential of the Nile for poetic and prose narratives" (p. 5) expressed in a diverse array of interrelated themes. These themes are: "the allure and threat of the unfamiliar; the collaborative dynamic between conquest and knowledge; the tension between political pedagogy and imperial authority; the ability and validity of human desire to master the unknowable; the humanocentric personification of the natural world; the immanent presence of the divine; the transience of humans within space and time; the process by which human meaning is mapped onto plain geology; and the relationship between nature and artifice, or reality and perception"(p. 6). The texts selected range from Lucan's Civil War to Philostratus' Life of Apollonius and form a diachronic survey of Egyptian imaginings from the Julio- Claudian, Flavian, Antonine and Severan dynasties.

The first chapter outlines the historical and social factors that shaped the various literary approaches to the Nile (including Tibullus, Ovid, Vitruvius among others) composed during the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Similarly chapters 5 (with reference to Pliny the Elder's Natural History) and 9 (introducing Pliny the Younger's Panegyric and the letters of Fronto) cover the Flavian and Antonine-Severan dynasties respectively. The remaining chapters analyse individual literary works.

Chapters 2 to 4 are devoted to Lucan's Civil War; the purpose of this subset is to "integrate Lucan's disparate Nilotic instances into a coherent system of signification and knit them into the tapestry of the epic as a whole"(p. 45). The Nile as the scene of Pompey's murder is one of the river's most frequent depictions but Manolaraki demonstrates that this is neither the sole, nor even the most relevant, representation. Rather, "Lucan juxtaposes contesting identities of the Nile as historical-political battleground and as natural phenomenon" (p. 46) and "to view the Nile solely as the culprit of Pompey's assassination, to consider Pompey's 'Nile' the only Nile of the epic, is to gloss over alternative modulations of the river that look both back and forward from the dramatic apex of Pompey's death" (p. 49).

Chapters 3 and 4 present further instances in which the Nile's portrayal contrasts with its characterization as the scene of Pompey's murder. Lucan's boating digression, the comparison of the Nile with other rivers and his portrayal of crane migrations from the Nile all establish the river's polyvalent character in the epic as a whole. Manolaraki argues that "the Nile signals historical persons and events and transcends them by virtue of its identity as natural environment unrelated to the Roman drama of the Late Republic. As a micro-text, it summarizes the death of Pompey, the climactic event of Lucan's epic, and predicts the fait accompli of Actium. On the other hand, the Nile of boats, floods and migrations posits a macro-text of expanded space and time, a wishful escape from the historical present of the civil war into a timeless utopia" (p. 78).

Caesar's encounter with the Egyptian priest Acoreus is the largest Nilotic encounter of the Civil War. Previous scholarship tends to speak of this portion of Lucan's work as an anomaly which resists integration into the work as a whole (pp. 81-82). Manolaraki examines this section in three stages. First, "the Nile digression is compared to other references to the Nile to show that Acoreus' cosmological view of the river contrasts to, and resists, Roman perspectives voiced in previous books" (p. 82). Second, the contrasting perspectives of the Nile are profitably compared with Stoic ideas, as expressed in Seneca's Natural Questions, concerning the necessity of knowing about the natural environment in which one resides. Manolaraki suggests that Lucan thematizes the principle "that living in ignorance of the natural environment constitutes an intellectual and moral inadequacy" (pp. 82-83). Third, Manolaraki revises previous interpretations of the Nile digression; it "is more than a barely disguised invective against imperial rule as embodied by Caesar and his descendants, and more than an opportunity for the poet to regale his audience with ethnographic and fluvial erudition. Through the Nile Lucan instead explores human and cosmic perspectives on the natural world, asserts his authority as poet, and responds to his contemporary Neronian aesthetics of Rome" (p. 83).

Chapter 6 examines the highly significant role the Nile performs throughout Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica. The overall content of the chapter is succinctly expressed by Manolaraki: "Valerius' Nile thus emerges as a structuring device attuning the reader to the semantic plurality of the poem. In its cumulative metaphoric capital through the epic, the Nile simultaneously embodies origins and destinations, outbound and inbound itineraries that render the epic geographically, politically and morally polycentric. Locations featured as a string of landmarks in the story (Cyzicus, the Bosphorus, Colchis, Egypt, Corinth, Danube) are drawn together in the map of the narrative by their common Nilotic attributes. Through its identity as geographically and historically 'in the middle', the Nile carves out a liberating space for the reader to experience cultural relativism and alternate ethnic identifications" (p. 162).

Many of these themes are found in the following chapters (7 and 8) devoted to the works of Statius. In the Thebaid "Statius' Nilescapes are escapist retreats; civil war battlefields; theaters of lamentation; and links between elegiac and tragic intertext and his genus grande" (p. 170); "the Statian Nile is an effective medium of generic experimentation between epic and tragedy and Greek myth and Roman history" (p. 183). Manolaraki outlines a very different presentation of Egypt in Statius' Siluae. "The intimidating Cleopatran Alexandria is normalized by Statius as a business hub and an eager provider of grain for the capital" (p. 187) and "By setting his Alexandrian sojourn within a rich network of cultural and literary referents, Statius assimilates Celer's voyage to his own poetic journey in re-visiting traditional views of Egypt" (p. 216). Manolaraki profitably compares the contrasting associations of Egypt and the Nile found in the Thebaid and the Siluae, demonstrating the pitfalls of conflating textual representations of Egypt with the supposed feelings of the author as a methodology of inquiry.

Chapters 10 and 11 examine Plutarch's On Isis and Osiris and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius respectively. The brevity of chapter 10 seems rather out of place in an otherwise detailed, penetrating and stimulating analysis. Manolaraki states that: "Plutarch leads his readers through three interpretive levels, moving from a 'lower' symbolism attributed to Egyptians to a higher exegesis that casts Isis and Osiris as supernatural beings (daemones), to their ultimate – and unabashedly Greek – exegesis through logos and philosophia" (p. 253). The multiple and cumulative levels of interpretation have long been recognised by scholars although the exact number of levels is debatable. The problem with Manolaraki's (and others') approaches result from assigning different levels of interpretation to particular ethnic categories such as Greek or Egyptian. This results in the assertion (not unique to Manolaraki) that in Plutarch's treatise " the correct guide to religious mysteries is 'reasoning from philosophy' . . . nothing less than the supreme intellectual expression of Greek thought" (p. 256).

This seems an oversimplification of the treatise's contents. First, at several junctures throughout the work (not just in the early interpretative levels) Plutarch emphasises the rational underpinnings of Egyptian practices (7-8: 353d-f; 68: 378a-b) and does not simply criticize them (70-71: 379c-d). At one of the most apparent breaks between interpretative levels (32: 363d-e), Plutarch explicitly states that Egyptians also number among those Greeks found to expound at the next (and 'higher') level of interpretation. The key argument that appearances do not reflect the true votary of Isis (11: 355d) makes no assertions about particular ethnic categories and seems to number among the universalizing features that Manolaraki correctly identifies in other portions of the treatise (p. 255). Second, the wisest Greek philosophers are explicitly said to have sat at the feet of Egyptian priests (10: 354d-e) and this statement very much seems to pose as an Egyptian 'endorsement' of the Middle-Platonic concepts which Plutarch, via Plato, presents in the treatise. Other statements are found in the work (56: 373f; 77-78: 382d-e) crediting Egyptians (or more usually Egyptian priests) with knowledge of concepts expounded by Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. Third, and most importantly, the term philosophia itself is not reserved exclusively for Greeks. Plutarch mentions (9: 354b-c) that Pharaohs were chosen from either the priestly or warrior caste; if one of the latter was chosen he would be made a participant in their philosophy (philosophias). For these reasons I feel this chapter would have benefited from a larger allocation of space in Manolaraki's overall work.

The eleventh and final chapter is a much clearer demonstration of how Philostratus privileges Greek philosophy by means of universalizing techniques in his Life of Apollonius. Manolaraki explores how "by destabilizing the geographic divisions and ethnic categorizations that separate various characters, the Nile shores up the universal reach of Apollonius' Hellenism" (p. 259). There are many profitable observations about the function of the Nile as a 'compositional device' (p. 259) such as the discussion of Apollonius' encounter with Vespasian. "The implicit contrast between (Vespasian's) Lower Nile in Alexandria and (Apollonius') Upper Nile sources embodies the narrow space and time of monarchy as opposed to philosophy. The Nile enters geography and history out of a timeless nowhere that remains beyond reach of even the most ambitious autocrat. Apollonius yields the well-trodden, material realm of the Delta to the emperor, but keeps for himself the geographically and philosophically higher part of the Nile, its prized sources. By claiming access to that unknown and timeless region, Apollonius establishes the mystic power of philosophy over the transience and limited scope of imperial power" (p. 269).

The book succeeds in reinforcing the point that the use of the categories 'self' and 'other', a generally fruitful approach, has its limitations. One cannot help thinking that the "self/other binary" has had the effect of somewhat distorting the lens through which modern scholars have perceived these sources. The entrenched characterization of Lucan's 'Nile digression' as an anomaly out of keeping with the overall tenor of the epic (i.e. the 'otherness' of the Nile passage itself), which Manolaraki successfully refutes, seems to me a prime example of this phenomenon. In addition, the work highlights the problems that arise when one attempts to determine an author's attitude to Egypt from his writings; the oeuvre of Statius is an excellent case in point.

Manolaraki's work is a valuable contribution alongside Phiroze Vasunia's Gift of the Nile, Danielle Bonneau's La crue de Nil, Le fisc et le Nil, Le regime administrative de l'eau du Nil, Brigitte Postl's Die Bedeutung des Nil in der römischen Literatur and Ian Moyer's The Limits of Hellenism. Throughout she demonstrates the intertextual connections and renegotiations in the sources; the book shows very comprehensively the advantages of reading Greek and Latin sources together rather than treating them as if they were part of separate literary traditions. Manolaraki proposes an analysis of the Nile in the ancient novel as well as other imperial historiographers (p. 310) and this would be a welcome sequel. Another potentially fruitful area of study is the Nile in other late antique sources such as the Greek and Demotic magical papyri. Manolaraki demonstrates that it would indeed be a grave mistake to treat post-Augustan Egyptian discourse as a river flowing from its Actian sources devoid of subsequent new tributaries.

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Roger D. Woodard, Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, 289. ISBN 9781107022409. $99.00.

Reviewed by Marco V. García Quintela​, University of Santiago de Compostela (marco.garcia.quintela@usc.es)

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Ritual and the Warrior brings together three ideas. Firstly, it studies the space, topographic position or the topology (the formula I prefer) of the warrior in historical Rome, or rather the Rome of the primordia ciuitatis . In so doing, Woodard expands upon a previous essay¹ regarding the construction of sacred space in Rome that explored the topology of sacrifice. Secondly, Woodard updates an old dossier of comparative Indo-European mythology put together by the historian of religions Georges Dumézil² with a number of novel proposals. These are essentially inspired, as the third idea of the book, by the specialized studies on the contemporary difficulties of American soldiers returning home from war, as the myths that are studied are re-labelled as the Indo-European myth of the "dysfunctional warrior" or its equivalent, "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder". However, the current situation with low intensity wars since the fall of the Berlin Wall has not been the reason for the appearance of soldiers who fall victim of crises on returning home. Similar situations were recorded in past wars, including in Antiquity and the remotest Indo-European past, as found in mythical traditions and rites amongst the historical communities who shared in this culture. This is Woodard's thesis.

Organised into two different parts, the first five chapters of the book deal with Roman times, with Woodard then offering a comparison with the Indo-European period, together with a general interpretive chapter.

The Roman chapters explore the rite of the poplifugium, the ritual held on the fifth of July to commemorate the flight of the people from the point where they had met at the moment of the disappearance of Romulus, who is presented as an example of the warrior in crisis, and also the topography where these acts took place according to tradition and ritual practices. Woodard indicates that it may have taken place in the Comitium, in the centre of the Forum in Rome, or in the Campus Martius. The explanation for this is diachronic: the first location is outside of Rome, when the pomerium of the city was limited to the Palatine Hill, and the second is derived from the extension of the pomerium which included the Forum, making it necessary to move the location where the ritual was held to the Campus Martius. Woodard refers to these spaces as the locations of the "Smaller and Larger Poplifugia". However, the matter is more complex, as the poplifugium has a parallel in the festival of the Nonae Caprotinae, held two days later to commemorate the victory of the Romans over their enemies installed at the gates of Rome (Gauls or Latins). The victory occurred with the decisive support of their women slaves, who had sex with the invaders, thereby assisting the Roman attack on their enemy's camp. Chapter Five marks the pivotal point of the argument, briefly introducing comparative elements that are then explored in greater detail, briefly sidetracking to explore two other Roman festivals, the Regifugium and the Mamuralia.

The second part explores the elements that define the myth of the dysfunctional warrior. The myths that are examined come from the cycle of the Nartic heroes of the Caucasus, some of which are variations of ancient Iranian traditions, Vedic traditions and subsequent episodes mainly narrated in the Mahabharata, and episodes from the life of the Irish hero, Cú Chulainn. Woodard also includes two Roman examples of dysfunctional warriors: Camilus, a variation on Romulus as the second founder of Rome, and Semo Sancus, amalgamated with Heracles as a mythical and "prehistoric" variation on the subject in the Italic context.

The starting point is an identification of the problem posed by the warrior returning home in an altered physical and mental state after combat. To solve this situation, the different traditions present an episode in which the warriors are removed from social life by fleeing to a remote space, an event that could possibly be classified amongst the rituals of separation that form a part of rites of passage. However, a weakened warrior who is far removed from the community cannot be of any use to it and must be reintegrated; for this reason, Chapter Eight, which occupies more than a quarter of the book, presents the relationships between the dysfunctional warrior and the erotic woman, focusing on examining the bodily hexis derived from an interplay of glances that are exchanged, or avoided, between lascivious women and irascible warriors (I would like to emphasise this analysis as one of the most attractive and original aspects of the book). The erotic woman joins together with the action of the clairvoyant woman with whom she is occasionally confused, and another decisive role is played by an episode of crossing through water, or washing in cold water, calming the warrior's ferocious nature. Finally, order is recovered thanks to some kind of ritual of social constitution or inauguration.

As a part of this argument, Woodard emphasises the confrontations and tensions between warriors and the people they defend, and to whom they may well also represent a serious threat. The myth of the dysfunctional warrior is therefore situated at the social and symbolic intersection between the warrior and his community. For this reason the fertility, sexuality and political solidarity of the people confronting the warrior are important in myths, rituals, and the subsequent analyses. The central element of this confrontation is the paradoxical defeat of the warrior at the hands of women and common people, which serves as an inevitable prerequisite for his reintegration as a member of a peaceful society. From a methodological perspective, here it is important to draw attention to three different aspects.

Firstly, we can see the inspiration of Dumézil, something that is quite rare amongst Anglo-Saxon classicists. As we have already seen, this inspiration can be seen in the prolongation of a Dumezilian theme, and especially in the validity of the analysis according to the ideology of the three functions, in order to understand the Roman aspects of the myths and rituals that are explored.

Secondly, there is the linguistic dissection of the key words that describe the ritual gestures and actions in two directions: defining their meaning as closely as possible, and then going on to reveal the Indo-European roots of the terminology. The reiteration of these analyses is presented as a kind of subtext that gradually constructs an argument in favour of the antiquity of the myths and rituals described by these words.

Thirdly, in the mythological analyses, Woodard takes a type of 'light structuralist' approach. This is important because he shows how useful it can be in explanatory terms, far removed from the debate on methodological modes and the all-too-frequently announced death of structuralism. Nevertheless, I wonder if a stricter structuralist interpretation might actually have enriched several of his arguments. Structuralism is used in two ways: firstly to highlight the basic themes of the narratives of the dysfunctional warrior, but secondly it is used in a number of more particular or detailed analyses in order explain the affinity between characters, actions and other aspects. A more detailed examination of the structural relationships between the themes used by each tradition to define different moments in the warrior's life might have been even more illuminating. An analysis of this kind could also, for example, help to examine the relationships between heat and cold, water and fire, and the changing way in which they are attributed to warriors or women in the different versions of the myths.

Woodard's argument focuses closely on the problem he aims to resolve, which is admirable, but this tight focus nevertheless means that a number of other questions are left unanswered.

For example, a wide range of interpretations are possible regarding Romulus, and we could ask whether the obscure episodes in which he took part according to tradition have anything to do with the idea of the dysfunctional warrior, as Woodard points out, or with the perception of royalty as tyranny in Republican Rome. Woodard defends his proposal based on the arguments of comparative mythology, although a more extensive discussion of alternative interpretations may have been necessary.

In turn, it would be possible to interweave the networks of relationships with other warrior figures, without straying away from the central argument of the book. The myth of the dysfunctional warrior could have been contrasted with the subject of the three sins of the warrior begun by Dumézil. Subsequently, F. Blaive ³ identified the myth of the "impious warrior" as being Indo-European, and, in his wake, M. Meulder and C. Sterckx have studied figures – mostly historical and many of them Roman – whose actions follow this scheme. Another variation is provided by Genucius Cipus, who after winning a campaign finds himself at the gates of Rome with an omen announcing that if he enters the city he will become king, but as a faithful citizen of the Republic prefers to retire as a peasant on a plot of land given to him by the state. ⁴ This myth defines the territory of the city in terms of the three functions: the urban centre for the first function, the surrounding space dedicated to agriculture (the third function), and the distant space where its enemies reside (the second function). It is possible that a variation of these themes is operating in the topologies studied by Woodward in highlighting the relevant role of the Campus Martius to the north of Rome, with connotations of the second function, and the Aventine Hill to the south with its agrarian cults, associated with the third, while the urban centre, ruled by Jupiter from the Capitoline hill, occupies the first.

Woodard's text explores a difference defined by the French anthropologist P. Clastres between warriors as such and individuals who go to war. ⁵ Their relationship with warfare is radically different: the first are beings for death, who in exchange for a brief life obtain fame and glory (the dilemma of Achilles), while the second group, who may still be brave in combat, still live peaceful lives in ordinary times. From this perspective, the protagonists of the book form a part of the first group. But in historical Rome, a Mediterranean city whose men are citizens and soldiers, there is no room for them. In this sense, Heracles/Semo Sancus, Romulus, Horatius or Camillus are, in comparison to ordinary Roman legionaries, extraordinary beings whose memory was kept alive in the city for reasons worthy of a specific study. ​

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Notes:

1.   Indo-European Sacred Space. Vedic and Roman Cult. Urbana-Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
2.   Horace et les Curiaces. Paris: Gallimard, 1942; Aspects de la fonction guerrière chez les Indo- Européens. Paris: P.U.F., 1956; Heur et malheur du guerrier. Aspects mythiques de la fonction guerrière chez les Indo-Européens. Paris: P.U.F., 1969, with a thoroughly revised second edition: Paris: Flammarion, 1985.
3.   F. Blaive Impius Bellator. Le mythe indo-européen du guerrier impie. Arras: ed. Kom, 1996.
4.   See G. Piccaluga, Terminus. I Segni di Confine nella Religioni Romana. Rome: Ateneo, 1974, pp. 212- 226. The consideration that follows is far removed from the proposals of Piccaluga.
5.   P. Clastres, "La desgracia del guerrero salvaje", in Investigaciones en antropología política Barcelona: Gedisa, 1988, p. 217-256 (specifically p. 221-222). ​

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Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Fasc. 1; United States of America, Fasc. 38. Attic red-figure amphorae, pelikai, stamnos, kraters, oinochoai, lekythoi, pyxides, askoi, plates, skyphoi, kylikes, and white-ground lekythoi. Darmstadt; Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2011. Pp. xii, 98; 63 pp. of plates. ISBN 9783805343480. € 98.00.

Reviewed by Seth D. Pevnick, Tampa Museum of Art (seth.pevnick@tampamuseum.org)

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It may come as a surprise to students of Attic painted pottery that the volume under review is the first CVA fascicule devoted to the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery. Home to numerous important vases, including the name-pieces of three Attic red-figure vase-painters—the Painters of the Yale Oinochoe, Yale Lekythos, and Yale Cup, respectively—this collection is frequently encountered in the academic literature. Susan Matheson, who has previously published many of these vases and also generously granted others access to them over the course of a long and productive career in New Haven, here gives 50 red-figure vases, three red-figure fragments, and three white-ground lekythoi the full academic treatment they have long deserved. Her work in this volume is meticulously done, with detailed descriptions, extensive bibliography, and many insightful comments.

Matheson begins with a History of the Collection, useful even for those already familiar with her earlier publications of selected Yale vases.¹ This history covers Attic red-figure and white-ground vases as well as black-figure, the main subject of a second, forthcoming CVA fascicule (also to include red-figure and white-ground pieces acquired from the collection of Martin Robertson in 2008). Thus, we learn that the Kleophrades Painter, an artist best known for red-figure work, is represented at Yale by a pair of black-figure Panathenaic prize amphorae. These were the first two Attic figured vases to join the collection, in 1909. Within a few years, in 1913, the Yale collection grew dramatically, with the acquisition of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases. Named for the donor of funds towards its purchase—who died, sadly, without seeing the vases—the Stoddard Collection ranges from prehistory into Roman times and still comprises the core of Yale's holdings in these areas. Not surprisingly, then, it accounts for the majority of the vases published here (39 of 56), many of which appear with the following provenance: "Ex collection Paul Arndt, Munich; purchased by Yale University with a gift from Rebecca Darlington Stoddard, 1913."

A German scholar, collector, and dealer, Arndt acquired some 500 of the Stoddard vases from a now unknown Paris private collection, apparently assembled many years earlier. Arndt filled multiple gaps with additional purchases prior to 1913, bringing the total number of Stoddard vases to 675. Sixteen of those published here also include an older provenance, mostly given by Yale Professor P.V.C Baur in his two catalogues of the collection. These were both prepared, as their title pages indicate, "with the assistance of Dr. Arndt's 'Inventory of the Collection by Dr. Georg Lippold.'"² The second, more comprehensive catalogue includes drawings by Karl Reichhold, another indication of the high esteem the collection quickly gained among scholars. It was primarily this collection, then, that J. D. Beazley saw during his American study trip in 1914, shortly before he first named the three abovementioned Yale Painters in print.³ Matheson notes that Beazley returned to Yale in 1949, when he would have seen one Attic red-figure vase new to the collection (viii), a column krater that he had already attributed to the Agrigento Painter (no. 8; 1933.175).⁴ Still, some 18 Stoddard red-figure vases do not appear in his major publications (ARV¹, ARV², or Para). While most of these vases remain unattributed even in the present volume, Matheson does put forth several new attributions—both her own and those of other scholars—for Stoddard vases as well as many of the later additions to the collection, including many unknown to Beazley. Two kylix fragments and a kylix, transfers from the Yale Classics Department "[p]robably from Greece," are published here for the first time (nos. 52-54; 1981.61.306-307, 1981.61.387).

The legacy of Beazley extends also to the order of entries, arranged according to CVA guidelines—first by shape, then by date, as in Beazley's tomes (and as in the subtitle, excepting white-ground lekythoi, which appear with their red-figure brethren). The resulting chronological leaps between some entries are therefore not unexpected, and certainly not problematic for the specialists in ancient pottery who comprise the intended audience. This arrangement also has the happy result of beginning the volume with a Nolan amphora by the Berlin Painter, among the most celebrated of all red-figure vase-painters (Athena on one side, Hermes on the other [no. 1; 1913.133]), and ending with one of the Yale name-vases (the Yale Cup [no. 56; 1913.165]). In between, the reader gains an appreciation for the quality and variety of the vases first assembled by Arndt, as well as for the careful additions made by Matheson and her colleagues and predecessors to strengthen the assemblage. This is not to say that the Yale collection illustrates every chapter of Attic red-figure vase-painting—or even every important shape, with no red-figure belly amphora, volute krater, hydria, or kantharos, for example. But it does include fine vases from nearly every decade between the late sixth and early fourth centuries BC, and one can well appreciate from this volume its value as a teaching collection.

I mention here just a selection of the catalogued vases, to whet the reader's appetite. To begin with early red-figure, New Haven houses two significant plates (Type B) by Paseas: one the earliest red-figure depiction of the Rape of Kassandra by Locrian Ajax (no. 37; 1913.169), the other showing Dionysos with a dancing satyr (no. 38; 1913.170). Paseas is related to the celebrated bilingual painter Psiax and known also for a small number of white-ground black-figure plaques. His black-figure background may help to explain his fondness for the plate, a shape far more common in the earlier technique.⁵ Also early are two kylikes—one of Type B (no. 48; 1913.163), alternatively attributed to one lesser-known painter or another (the Gales Painter or near him [Beazley]; a member of the Thorvaldsen Group [D. R. Williams]), and the other of Type C (no. 55; 2000.13.1), "[p]robably by the Delos Painter," who may be "the very earliest phase of the Euergides [Painter]" (Beazley). Matheson provides essential bibliography and comparanda for both cups, but stops short of supporting one particular attribution or identification. Similarly, with the important Aegisthus Painter calyx krater showing Poseidon and Nike (and a Nereid fleeing to Nereus? [no. 9; 1985.4.1]), Matheson lists the attribution (by E. Knauer) before discussing some comparable vases attributed to the Copenhagen and Syriskos Painters, two "brothers" connected to the Aegisthus Painter; as to whether these three painters might actually be just two or one, as some have suggested, Matheson reserves judgment.⁶

The 1985 acquisition of this mixing bowl, made about 470 BC, enhanced the chronological depth of the Yale collection. Like the late Brygos Painter cup with an aulete before an altar (no. 50; 1913.164), the krater was likely produced between the time of the Late Archaic Berlin Painter amphora (no. 1; 1913.133; ca. 480 BC) and the Early Classical Yale Oinochoe (no. 17; 1913.143; ca. 470-460 BC), where Poseidon greets his heroic son Theseus. Perhaps slightly later comes the Yale Lekythos (no. 23; 1913.146), with a finely dressed, unmarried woman standing beside a chair, holding clothes or a bundle above an open chest. Another solitary woman, more cursorily drawn, occupies a domestic setting within the tondo of the Yale Cup (no. 56; 1913.165), probably the least celebrated of the Yale name vases. Other vases from about this period include lekythoi by the Bowdoin Painter (a sphinx [no. 19; 1913.144]) and the Pan Painter (Hermes before an altar [no. 21; 1988.80.29]), a skyphos by the Orchard Painter (two youths on either side [no. 39; 1913.158]), and—as Matheson convincingly argues on the basis of shape and style —an unattributed chous with a runner or jumper whose formerly exposed genitals were "erased" prior to 1913 (no. 13; 1913.141). From later in the fifth century are a Nolan amphora by the Phiale Painter (erotic pursuit [no. 2; 1913.134]), a Polygnotan stamnos (Dionysian [no. 7; 1913.132]) and calyx krater (Eos pursuing Kephalos or Tithonos [no. 10; 1994.53.1]), and a fragmentary but quite interesting chous "very close to Aison, if not by the painter himself" (Lezzi-Hafter [no. 14; 1913.139]). Here Apollo appears before a man and woman of uncertain identity: either Ion or Xouthos with Kreousa; or Orestes with either Erigone or Hermione.

Each of these figures appears in an index of mythological subjects at the end of the book, following an index of attributions and two concordances (of Yale accession numbers to CVA entry and plate numbers, and of Beazley numbers to Yale accession and CVA entry numbers, respectively). Fifty-three excellent profile drawings—one for each vase (but no fragments), at 1:1 or 1:2—precede the concordances. The inclusion of an index of non-mythological subjects might have been useful, and the addition of Beazley Archive pottery database (BAPD) numbers even more so, in both individual entries and the second concordance. For although the plates are of high quality, often with multiple views and details, all photographs are black and white, a loss when color photography can so aid our appreciation and understanding. Numerous Yale vases now appear in color on the Yale Art Gallery website, and many in color and at higher resolution on Beazley Archive Pottery Database), where they might have been more quickly accessed had this volume included Beazley Archive numbers. Still, this is a minor complaint, and anyone seeking color images should be able to find those available.

Before closing, one minor correction: there is no good parallel in Tampa for the very interesting Type D pyxis with wreathed kantharos painted on its lid (no. 34; 1913.154a-b), although Matheson could hardly have known this. Her citation depends on that of Mary B. Moore, who knew through a photograph from Dietrich von Bothmer of a comparable pyxis once in the collection of Joseph Veach Noble. This vase was not included when the Tampa Museum of Art acquired the Noble Collection in 1986, for reasons unknown to me (or to Moore, who reasonably assumed it would have been). I do not know its present location.⁷

To conclude, this is an important volume that deserves a place in every major research library. It maintains the high standards that readers have come to expect from Susan Matheson and from the CVA series. We should all look forward to her second fascicule.

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Notes:

1.   S. B. Matheson, Greek Vases: A Guide to the Yale Collection (New Haven, 1988). S. B. Matheson and J. J. Pollitt, Greek Vases at Yale, exhibition catalogue, Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1975).
2.   P. V. C. Baur, Preliminary Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases: Memorial Hall, Yale University (New Haven, 1914). P. V. C. Baur, Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases in Yale University (New Haven, 1922).
3.   Beazley, VA, pp. 61-62, 72-74, 96 (for CVA nos. 17, 23, 56 [1913.143, 1913.146, 1913.165], respectively).
4.   ARV¹ 379.35 (published 1942).
5.   To Matheson's bibliography should soon be added M. Iozzo, "Plates by Paseas," in Athenian Potters and Painters III, Ed. J. H. Oakley (Oxford: Oxbow, forthcoming).
6.   Two of the calyx kraters referenced here no longer belong to the J. Paul Getty Museum (ex 88.AE.66, 92.AE.6), having been transferred to the Italian state (Objects to be Transferred list). On Beazley's Syriskos Group, see my Ph.D. dissertation, Foreign Creations of the Athenian Kerameikos: Images and Identities in the Work of Pistoxenos-Syriskos (UCLA, 2011), esp. ch. 4.
7.   Agora XXX, p. 279, no. 1057. I thank Mary B. Moore, Suzanne P. Murray, and John H. Oakley for helping me try to locate this pyxis.

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Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, Katerina Tzanavari (edd.), Δινήεσσα: τιμητικός τόμος για την Κατερίνα Ρωμιοπούλου. Έκδοση Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου Θεσσαλονίκης / Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki publications, 18. Thessaloniki: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, 2012. Pp. ix, 660. ISBN 9789609621090. €35.00 (pb).

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"Δινήεσσα" may be a bibliographer's nightmare but it is a felicitous title for a volume celebrating Katerina Romiopoulou's multiple and diverse contributions to the archaeology of Greece. In Homer the epithet qualifies the whirling movement of river waters.¹ But the editors of this volume draw their inspiration from a powerful image of the stormy winter sea in Oppian's Halieutica (628-635).² The metaphor is apt for encapsulating Romiopoulou's energy, her style of administration, and the passion she has always brought to her professional practice. The introductory contributions to the volume, crafted with love and humor by the two editors, as well as by Angelos Delivorrias and Konstantinos Tsakos, leave no doubt that like the open Mediterranean sea, Romiopoulou is a life force at once feared and loved like a goddess by her colleagues and friends.

Romiopoulou's work defies efforts at a brief sketch. Some highlights, however, are in order here. In the late seventies, she curated the first exhibition of the finds at Vergina/Aigai in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and organized a far-reaching traveling exhibit in numerous locations around the U.S. As curator of the sculpture collections in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Romiopoulou organized with sensibility and good taste no less than five galleries: the Epidaurus gallery is splendid, what is more important is her work on the four galleries dedicated to the sculptures of the Roman period (1990-1995), a seminal addition that concluded a project initiated after WWII by Christos and Semne Karouzou. Moreover, her numerous publications cover an admirably wide scope of expertise. To her we owe the publication of discoveries that have radically altered our knowledge of the archaeology and art history of northern Greece. The list is overwhelmingly rich. I emphasize here her monograph on the tumulus at Nicesiane (1991, in collaboration with G. Touratsoglou), her publication of the Late-Archaic through early Hellenistic cemetery at Mieza (2002), and last but not least, the monograph (along with B. Schmidt-Dounas) of the well-known Tomb of the Palmettes in Leukadia (2010, Beiheft in the AthMitt series). ³

This volume also is important as a document of the history of an important chapter—hitherto unexplored–in the development of the discipline of archaeology in modern Greece. Romiopoulou belongs to a generation of women-scholars/administrators to whom we owe the modernization of the practice of archaeology in the last few decades, either in the challenging horizons of fieldwork (rescue excavations) or within the labyrinthine networks of the state bureaucracy. ⁴ I mention, for example, Evi Touloupa, Angeliki Andreiomenou, Efi Sakellaraki, Fanouria Dakoronia, and Foteini Zapheiropoulou. In addition to fighting against the systemic gender biases in a predominantly male-dominated sector of the demosio (public sector), these scholars carved out respectable models for younger women working as public employees in the Archaeological Service of Greece. It is certainly no accident that a good number of the seventy contributors to this volume are young women archaeologists active in the Archaeological Service—many of whom were nurtured, nourished, and hardened under the tutelage, sometimes even tough love, of Romiopoulou's generation of women leaders in archaeology. I would not exaggerate, perhaps, if I propose that the current state of public archaeology in Greece is largely a female endeavor.

The contributions in this volume are organized in seven thematic units, all reflecting aspects of Romiopoulou's scholarly contributions. The prehistoric section of the book contains a mélange of publications of new finds or interpretations of well-known monuments. Chrysostomou, for example, publishes in detail the well-excavated evidence from an Early Iron Age cemetery of Edessa while Pappa analyses eating/cooking utensils from Neolithic Thermi in Central Macedonia and how these disclose the communal character of food preparation and consumption. In a different vein, Eliopoulos revisits the painted stele from Mycenae (NAM, Π 3256) convincingly proposing that the upper frieze was home to a sacrificial scene of Minoan type.

The historic section opens with a paper addressing new evidence about topography and urbanism in Thessaloniki, Maroneia, Abdera, and Stryme. The group of essays on pottery, vase painting, and painting constitutes the largest number of contributions. It is a treasure trove for specialists in this field and could easily stand on its own as a separate specialized volume. Several articles deal with the production and circulation of pottery in the North Aegean, especially in areas Romiopoulou spent a great deal of time excavating and researching. Others add to ongoing discussions and debates. Simantoni-Bournia, for example, draws from the rich evidence of her excavations at Iria, Naxos, in order to clarify the production of Naxian workshops in the Archaic period. Several articles deal with iconographic themes of Athenian black- and red-figure vase painting (Bosnakis, Vivliodetis, Chatzidimitriou).

Specialists will certainly appreciate Kavvadias' careful combination of archival and archaeological evidence for reconstructing the contents of a classical tomb at Athens-Gouva illicitly excavated during the thirties. Two white-ground lekythoi by the Sabouroff Painter are displayed in the Vlastos collection gallery of the National Museum, Athens.⁵ Kavvadias cogently shows that this group also included a third lekythos, now at the Metropolitan Museum in New York (inv. no. 51.11.4). Kavvadias persuasively argues that the iconographic themes of the three lekythoi read together constitute a visual biography exalting the kleos of a young male heroically fallen in battle.

Of equal interest is Avronidaki's focus on a Boiotian red-figure kantharos in the National Museum, Athens (no. 12264). The two sides of the vase depict a particularly Boiotian conception of Herakles as a "mythical model"(230: "μυθικό πρότυπο"): the young hero in front of an altar is juxtaposed with his mature self seated on his lion's skin. Both renditions add one more element, a Sotadean kantharos? in the background that Avronidaki reads as an attribute loaned from Athenian iconography. Avronidaki shows that this vase is part of a wider corpus that constitute the oeuvre of an individual she names "the Painter of Athens 12264"—a rather odd name for a Boiotian maker of vases.

Another important Boiotian find is the subject of an exemplary publication by V. Sabetai who adds to Andreiomenou's numerous publications of evidence from Akraiphia. This is an early fourth century BCE grave of a young female carefully excavated during the reconstruction of the main Athens-Thessaloniki highway. She was laid to rest with a Bulas amphoriskos bearing a painted garland of myrtle blooms, a black-glazed cup, a bronze mirror, and a cosmetic strigil. A humble wreath of clay beads around her head was in the shape of myrtle blooms and fruit, enabling Sabetai to argue that this young woman was conceptualized as a bride at the moment of her death. The thorough osteological analysis of the skeletal material (by A. Lagia) points to the age (18-25) of the deceased and the probable cause of death (infection of impacted wisdom tooth). Overall, Sabetai's publication offers valuable evidence for reconstructing the social lives of young women in ancient Boiotia.

Scholars of ancient Greek sculpture will find valuable studies in the next section. Four articles present important unpublished materials from N. Greece (Malama, Lilimpaki-Akamati, Schmidt-Dounas, Koukouvou), whereas the rest publish sculptures from Proerna near Lamia (Leventi on a statue of Demeter), Kassopi in Hepeiros (Katsikoudis on groups of honorary statues), Dioskouroi-reliefs from Sparta (Tsouli), Roman sarcophagi from Cretan Lissos (Katakis), and the grave stele of Fausta and Myrenes from Attica (Karapanagiotou). It is very hard to single out any of these articles here. Romiopoulou, who has been active researching Amphipolis, will be pleased that scholars will use this volume to access Malama's publication of the exquisite funerary stele of Gelon (discovered in 2000). Combining Ionic (e.g. the arched epistyle) and Attic elements, this stele is crowned by an impressively idiosyncratic sphinx (p. 366, fig. 9).

The amplitude and diversity of contributions in the remaining three sections of this volume can hardly be emphasized here. The section titled "Mikrotecnia" (453-562) includes a good number of original publications of various artifact types from Macedonia (Proskynetopoulou, Misailidou-Despotidou, Tsigarida, Stephani, Zographou, Pingiatoglou, Poulakakis). Delivorrias publishes a colorful terracotta statuette, which he views as a rare Boiotian riff on Pheidias' Athena Parthenos. Inspired by Romiopoulou's recent publication of the so-called Tomb of the Palmettes, Stefani publishes three fragmentary ivory revetments of a luxurious funerary couch from the antechamber of the so-called Tomb of Judgment at Leukadia (looted and collapsed already in antiquity, explored by Petsas in the '60s and re-excavated in 1998). One of them is depicts a sensuous maenad that Stefani convincingly compares with Ariadne on the Derveni krater (p. 512, figs 1-4, p. 513 fig. 5). The section concludes with two important publications, both dedicated to the late Roman period (Poulakakis, Katsioti). One is the product of rescue excavations in Veroia: a colorful mosaic studded like a carpet with geometric patterns dated to the 3d c CE. This find is an important testimony to the urban life of Veroia, and its publication stands as a wonderful example of the multifarious value of rescue excavations. Romiopoulou, a veteran of this type of work, will surely appreciate their continuation in the present and the future.

The penultimate thematic section focuses on cults and burial customs, mainly on Macedonia and in Northern Greece. Peristeri, for example, publishes a fragmentary relief depicting Pan (2nd c. CE), properly ithyphallic, playing the syrinx, his aulos in hand. It was found during the systematic excavation of a late Roman period rural sanctuary near Siderokastro in 2005.

The last section of this volume is the most variegated of the volume. Gatzolis and Psoma attribute to Sermylia (in Chalkidike) a silver coin with an equine protome on the obverse (mid 5th c. BCE). It was found in a grave at Thermi near Thessaloniki. Apostolakou and Tzifopoulos publish epigraphic documents from Crete. Sverkos revisits in detail a 1st century BCE Latin inscription from Melissochori near Thessaloniki, summarily published in the 1975 Chronicles of the Archaiologikon Deltion by Romiopoulou. This important document attests to the presence of freedmen of the gens Statiena (perhaps originally from Latium in Italy) in a strategic location near the Via Egnatia. Finally, Zoubaki draws from textual and material evidence in order to delineate the reciprocal relations between Italy and the western Peloponnese in the Hellenistic period.

This rich volume is a proper tribute to Romiopoulou and her generation. It is very carefully and elegantly produced and I have no doubt that it will appeal to many specialists of the archeology of Greece. It is a valuable research tool that offers an insightful gauge of the intensity, diversity, high quality, and seriousness of current archaeological research in Greece. I imagine it is comforting for Romiopoulou and others of her generation to see this work produced in the midst of the worst economic and social crisis in Greece since WWII. It was inevitable that the Archaeological Service would be a victim of this crisis, not least when a host of experienced archaeologists-cum-administrators were forced into early retirement—an insensible blow to the Greek Archaeological service, an impressively productive sector of government, which was least (if at all) touched by the political corruption and other scandals that have irreversibly wounded the fabric of Greek society.

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Notes:

1.   S. v. "δινηεις" in R. J. Cunliffe, A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect (London 1924).
2.   OCD, 3d edition, eds. S. Hornblower, A. Spawforth (Oxford 1999), 1069.
3.   Romiopoulou's vita lists the publication of the necropolis at Amphipolis in press.
4.   On the first generation of Greek female archaeologists see M. Nikolaidou and D. Kokkinidou "Greek Women in Archaeology: An Untold Story," Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology, eds. M. Díaz- Andreu and M. Sørensen (London 1998) 229-58.
5.   Kavvadias and Anastasia Gadolou curated the installation of the Vlastos collection at the National Museum, Athens (see museum review by Papalexandrou in AJA 114 (2010) 550-51). ​

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*Accattino, Paolo and Michele Curnis (edd., trans., comm.). Aristotele, La Politica, Libro III. Aristotele. La Politica, 3. Roma: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2013. 273 p. ISBN 9788882659219.

**Albers, Jon. Campus Martius: die urbane Entwicklung des Marsfeldes von der Republik bis zur mittleren Kaiserzeit. Studien zur Antiken Stadt, Bd 11. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2013. 292 p. € 98.00. ISBN 9783895009211.

**Alpass, Peter. The religious life of Nabataea. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 175. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2013. xi, 316 p. $174.00. ISBN 9789004190511.

*Altripp, Michael. Die Basilika in Byzanz: Gestalt, Ausstattung und Funktion sowie das Verhältnis zur Kreuzkuppelkirche. Millennium-Studien / Millennium studies, Bd 42. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2013. ix, 216 p., 125 p. of plates. $182.00. ISBN 9783110265026.

*Arnason, Johann P., Kurt A. Raaflaub and Peter Wagner (edd.). The Greek polis and the invention of democracy: a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations. The ancient world: comparative histories. Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. x, 400 p. $139.95. ISBN 9781444351064.

*Asper, Markus (ed.). Writing science medical and mathematical authorship in Ancient Greece. Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures, 1. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2013. viii, 502 p. $168.00. ISBN 9783110295054.

*Augoustakis, Antony (ed.). Ritual and religion in Flavian epic. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xvii, 406 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780199644094.

*Augoustakis, Antony and Ariana Traill (edd.). A companion to Terence. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. xiii, 541 p. $195.00. ISBN 9781405198752.

**Baldi, Davide (ed.). Etymologicum Symeonis Γ-Ε. Corpus Christianorum series Graeca (CCSG), 79. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2013. liv, 423 p. € 255.00. ISBN 9782503544113.

*Bang, Peter Fibiger and Dariusz Kołodziejczyk (edd.). Universal empire: a comparative approach to imperial culture and representation in Eurasian history. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xx, 378 p. $110.00. ISBN 9781107022676.

*Becker, Audrey. Les relations diplomatique romano-barbares en Occident au Ve siècle: acteurs, fonctions, modalités. Collections de l'Université de Strasbourg. Études d'archéologie et d'histoire ancienne. Paris: De Boccard, 2013. 317 p. € 46.00 (pb). ISBN 9782701803418.

*Bernabé, Alberto, Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal and Raquel Martín Hernández (edd.). Redefining Dionysos. MythosEikonPoiesis, Bd 5. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2013. ix, 649 p., xxxvii p. of plates. $182.00. ISBN 9783110300918.

**Bernays, Ludwig (trans.). Die 24 Bücher von Homers Ilias: Götter und Menschen im Trojanischen Krieg. Dozwil: Edition Signathur, 2013. 666 p. € 33.75. ISBN 9783908141907.

*Blanchard, Alain (ed., trans.). Ménandre, tome II: Le Héros; L'Arbitrage; La Tondue; La Fabula incerta du Caire. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 495. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2013. lxxi, 238 p. € 55.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005782.

*Bonnechere, Pierre and Renaud Gagné (edd.). Sacrifices humains: perspectives croisées et représentations / Human sacrifice: cross-cultural perspectives and representations. Collection Religions, 2. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2013. 266 p., xvii p. of plates. € 33.00 (pb). ISBN 9782875620217.

Bonnet, Corinne and Plorence Bouchet (edd.). Translatio: traduire et adapter les Anciens. Rencontres, 52. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. 331 p. € 32.00 (pb). ISBN 9782812408601.

Bradley, Mark (ed.). Rome, pollution, and propriety: dirt, disease, and hygiene in the eternal city from antiquity to modernity. British School at Rome studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xx, 320 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107014435.

*Braswell, Bruce Karl (ed., trans., comm.). Didymos of Alexandria, Commentary on Pindar: edited and translated with introduction, explanatory notes, and a critical catalogue of Didymos' works. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, Bd 41. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2013. 325 p. € 82.00. ISBN 9783796529016.

*Brill, Sara. Plato on the limits of human life. Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. x, 260 p. $30.00 (pb). ISBN 9780253008879.

*Carr, Annemarie Weyl and Andreas Nicolaïdès (edd.). Asinou across time: studies in the architecture and murals of the Panagia Phorbiotissa, Cyprus. Dumbarton Oaks studies, 43. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2012. xii, 431 p. $75.00. ISBN 9780884023494.

Caruso, Ada. Akademia: archeologia di una scuola filosofica ad Atene da Platone a Proclo (387 a.C. - 485 d.C). SATAA: Studi di Archeologia e di Topografia di Atene e dell'Attica, 6. Atene: Paestum: Edizioni Pandemos, 2013. 254 p. € 70.00. ISBN 9788887744491.

**Castiglione, Marianna and Alessandro Poggio (edd.). Arte-Potere: forme artistiche, istituzioni, paradigmi interpretativi. Atti del convegno di studio tenuto a Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 25-27 Novembre 2010. Archeologia e arte antica. Milano: LED Edizioni, 2012. 388 p. € 78.00. ISBN 9788879165037.

*Consoli, Maria Elvira (ed.). Sapientia et eloquentia: omaggio ad Antonio Garzya. Offerto dall'AST Sez. di Lecce. Universitàdegli del Salento. Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di studi storici dal Medioevo all'età contemporanea, 107. Galatina (Lecce): Congedo Editore, 2012. 226 p. € 28.00 (pb). ISBN 9788867660247.

Cooley, Alison E. The Cambridge manual of Latin epigraphy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxii, 531 p. $42.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521549547.

*Côté, Dominique and Pascale Fleury (edd.). Discours politique et Histoire dans l'Antiquité. Dialogues d'histoire ancienne - supplément, 8. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2013. 420 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9782848674469.

*Coulié, Anne. La céramique grecque aux époques géométrique et orientalisante (XIe-VIe siècle av. J.-C.). La céramique grecque, 1. Paris: Éditions A. et J. Picard, 2013. 304 p. € 88.00. ISBN 9782708409262.

*Demacopoulos, George E. The invention of Peter: apostolic discourse and papal authority in late antiquity. Divinations: rereading late ancient religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 262 p. $69.95. ISBN 9780812245172.

*Dönike, Martin. Altertumskundliches Wissen in Weimar. Transformationen der Antike, Bd 25. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2013. vi, 515 p. $112.00. ISBN 9783110313826.

*Esmonde Cleary, Simon. The Roman West, AD 200-500: an archaeological study. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xv, 533 p. $120.00. ISBN 9780521196499.

*Evans, Jane DeRose (ed.). A companion to the archaeology of the Roman Republic. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. xx, 722 p. $195.00. ISBN 9781405199667.

*Fantham, Elaine. Roman literary culture: from Plautus to Macrobius. Second edition (first published 1996). Ancient society and history. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xix, 338 p. $30.00 (pb). ISBN 9781421408361.

*Graham, Daniel W. Science before Socrates: Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and the new astronomy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii, 287 p. $49.95. ISBN 9780199959785.

*Groß, Daniel. Plenus litteris Lucanus: zur Rezeption der horazischen Oden und Epoden in Lucans Bellum Civile. Litora classica, 3. Rahden/Westf.: VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2013. 305 p. € 34.80 (pb). ISBN 9783867574730.

*Hackel, Christiane and Sabine Seifert (edd.). August Boeckh: Philologie, Hermeneutik und Wissenschaftspolitik. Berliner Intellektuelle um 1800, Bd 3. Berlin: BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2013. 294 p. € 36.45 (pb). ISBN 9783830531418.

*Halm-Tisserant, Monique. Réalités et imaginaires des supplices en Grèce ancienne. Études anciennes. Série grecque, 125. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2013. 213 p., 28 p. of plates. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251326863.

*Härmä, Juhani (ed.). Veikko Väänänen, latiniste et romaniste: un bilan. Publications romanes de l'Université de Helsinki, 5. Helsinki: Helsingin yliopiston, Nykykielten laitos, 2012. 153 p. € 10.00 (pb). ISBN 9789521084560.

*Harris, Jonathan, Catherine Holmes and Eugenia Russell (edd.). Byzantines, Latins, and Turks in the eastern Mediterranean world after 1150. Oxford studies in Byzantium. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi, 378 p., [8] p. of plates. $150.00. ISBN 9780199641888.

**Hawkins, Shane. Studies in the language of Hipponax. Munich studies in historical linguistics, Bd 14. Bremen: Hempen Verlag, 2013. xvi, 285 p. € 58.00. ISBN 9783934106024.

**Holzer, Angela Cornelia. Rehabilitationen Roms: die römische Antike in der deutschen Kultur zwischen Winckelmann und Niebuhr. Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, 135. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013. 560 p. € 56.00. ISBN 9783825360429.

*Horst, Claudia. Marc Aurel: Philosophie und politische Macht zur Zeit der Zweiten Sophistik. Historia - Einzelschriften, Bd 225. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. 232 p. € 56.00. ISBN 9783515102803.

*Ismard, Paulin. L'Évènement Socrate. Au fil de l'histoire. Paris: Flammarion, 2013. 303 p. € 21.00 (pb). ISBN 9782081285415.

*Jouanno, Corinne. Ulysse: odyssée d'un personnage d'Homère à Joyce. Paris: Ellipses, 2013. 570 p., viii p. of plates. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782729875916.

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