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Department, Emeritus

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Ohio Wesleyan
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dglatein@owu.edu
Book Reviews
   
 
See my CV for a complete list of reviews.
2014: 
Sanders, E., Ch. Thumiger, C. Carey, & N.J. Lowe, Eros in Ancient Greece. Mnemosyne. 67 (2014): 676-81.
2015-031: 
William Wharton, Shrapnel: A Memoir. MWStR.
2015-057: 
S. Frater, Hell Above Earth: The Incredible True Story of an American WWII Bomber Commander and the Copilot Ordered to Kill Him. MWStR.
April 2015: 
Peter Ahrensdorf, Homer on the Gods and Human Virtue. Classics for All Reviews, WWW.
2015.11.05: 
Philip Stadter, Plutarch and his Roman Readers. Classical Journal, WWW.
2015-083: 
Peter Walther, The First World War in Colour. MWStR.
2015-110: 
J. Hurt and S. Sidebotham, Odyssey of a Bombardier. The POW Log of Richard Mason. MWStR.
2016-014: 
David Colley, Seeing the War: The Stories Behind the Famous Photographs of World War II. MWStR.
2016.01.12: 
Douglas Cairns and Laurel Fulkerson, edd., Emotions Between Greece and Rome. BMCR.
5 January 2016: 
Kriter-Spiro, M., Commentary: Iliad III ("Basel Commentaries on the Iliad")Classics for All Reviews, WWW.
2016.04.20: 
Panayotakis, S., G. Schmeling, and M. Paschalis, Holy Men and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel, ANS 19. BMCR. Go to http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu for the entire archive.

 

Older selected reviews.
  • Gr. Anderson, Fairytale in the Ancient World. Scholia 13 (2004) 140-44 and http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/o4-33

  • H. van Tress, Poetic Memory. Allusion in the Poetry of Callimachus and the Metamorphoses of Ovid. CHOICE 42.10 (6/2005) 5711.

  • H.D. Cameron, A Students' Commentary on Thucydides Book I. New England Classical Journal 32.3 (2005) 250-2.

  • D. Hawhee, Bodily Arts. Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece. CW 99.4 (2006) 468-9.

  • P. Cartledge, Thermopylae. The Battle that Changed the World. Michigan War Studies Review 2007.01.01. www.michiganwarstudiesreview.com/2007/20070101.asp

  • A. Dalby, Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origins of the Epic The Historian. 69.4 (2007) 819-20

  • D. Asheri, et al. A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV. >CHOICE. March 2008 45-3621.

  • Review of Robin Waterfield, Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 248. ISBN 978-0-674-02356-7. 2008.10.03 www.michiganwarstudiesreview.com/2008/20081003.asp

 
Selected BMCR reviews
Lateiner, Donald:
2008.07.34: 
A. M. Bowie, Herodotus: Histories. Book VIII. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics.

2007.06.44: 
G.A.A. Kortekaas, Commentary on the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri.

2007.01.01: 
Paul Cartledge, Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World. Review of Paul Cartledge, Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World. Woodstock & New York, NY: Overlook Press, 2006. Pp. xxxvii, 313. ISBN 978-1-58567-566-1.

2006.01.53: 
Mary Beagon, The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal. Natural History Book 7. Translation with introduction and historical commentary. Clarendon Ancient History Series.

2005.08.24: 
M. Zimmerman, et al., Apuleius Madaurensis. Metamorphoses, Book IV 28-35, V and VI 1-24. The Tale of Cupid and Psyche. Text, Introduction and Commentary. Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius.

2005.05.38: 
Nigel Spivey, Michael Squire, Panorama of the Classical World.

2004.11.24: 
James H. Dee, Homer. Repertorium Homericae Poiesis Hexametricum. "Alpha-Omega" vol. 238. 2 Volumes.

2004.09.28: 
Julien-David Le Roy, The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece. Introduction by Robin Middleton, Translation by David Britt.

04.06.10: 
H.S. Versnel, Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual. Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman Religion II.

2004.01.06: 
Victor Bers (trans.), Demosthenes, Speeches 50-59.

2003.10.12: 
Shaun Tougher (ed.), Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond.

2003.03.31: 
Rosanna Omitowoju, Rape and the Politics of Consent in Classical Athens.

2002.07.17: 
Marie-Laurence Desclos (ed.), Le rire des Grecs. Anthropologie du rire en Gr'ce ancienne.

2001.01.14: 
James H. Dee, Epitheta Hominum apud Homerum.

2000.11.28: 
N.J. Lowe, The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative.

2000.10.24: 
Bengt Ankarloo, Stuart Clark, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe. Ancient Greece and Rome.

02.06.22: 
David Whitehead, Aineias the Tactician. How to Survive Under Siege.

02.05.08: 
J.A.S. Evans, Herodotus. Explorer of the Past. Three Essays.

02.01.17: 
Starr, Chester G., The Birth of Athenian Democracy. The Assembly in the Fifth Century B.C.

94.10.06: 
Graham Anderson, The Second Sophistic. A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire.

HISTOS Review:
Herakles and Kerkopes

Herakles and Kerkopes

street in Ephesus

Street in Ephesus

Lindos Temple, Rhodes

Lindos Temple, Rhodes