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These are reviews of more academic books that will be of special interest to Reconstructionists and other Pagans interested in historical information on Pagans religions and cultures. Most come from BMCR. There are tabs on each page that will take you to more information on the book from Amazon. Remember that ordering books from Amazon via our links helps support The Cauldron! You can also find discussions and reviews of specific academic books in the Academic Book Discussions board of The Cauldron's forum (Academic Book Discussion Index). You are more likely to find reviews and discussions of recent books via these discussion and review links.

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• The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles [Hurwit]
• Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century BC [Buckler]
• Affairs and Scandals in Ancient Egypt [Vernus]
• The Age of Augustus [Eck]
• Alexander the Great [Heckel]
• Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions [Brosius]
• Ancient Democracy and Modern Ideology [Rhodes]
• Ancient Greece: Art, Architecture, and History [Belozerskaya]
• Ancient Greek Athletics [Miller]
• Ancient Greek Religion [Mikalson]
• Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption [Shoemaker]
• Ancient Voices, Modern Echoes: Theatre in the Greek World [Green]
• Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture [Lloyd]
• Aphrodite's Tortoise [Llewellyn-Jones]
• Archaeologies of the Greek Past [Alcock]
• The Archaeology of Syria [Akkermans]
• Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt [Rossi]
• Aristotle on Life and Death [King]
• Arkadia and its Poleis in the Archaic and Classical Periods [Nielsen]
• Army and Power in the Ancient World [Chaniotis]
• The Ascension of Authorship: Attribution and Canon Formation in Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian Traditions [Wyrick]
• Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis [Dusinberre]
• Athens: Its Rise and Fall [Lytton]
• Athenian Democracy [Rhodes]
• The Athenian Experiment: Building an Imagined Political Community in Ancient Attica, 508-490 BC [Anderson]
• Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire [Severy]
• Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement [Holford-Strevens]


• The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic [George]
• Bilingualism in Ancient Society [Adams]
• Boats of the World [McGrail]
• Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World [Powell]
• Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus [Johnson]
• Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac [Kessler]
• A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society and Culture [Pomeroy]
• Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt [Grajetzki]
• By Being, It Is: The Thesis of Parmenides [Cordero]
• Byzantium [Loverance]
• Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs [El Cheikh]


• The Cambridge Companion to Homer [Fowler]
• The Cambridge Companion to Ovid [Hardie]
• A Casebook on Roman Family Law [Frier]
• The Castellani Fragments in the Villa Giulia [Hastrup]
• The Centaur's Smile [Padgett]
• Children and Childhood in Roman Italy [Rawson]
• Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World [Lieu]
• Citizen Bacchae: Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece [Goff]
• Classical Literature: A Concise History [Rutherford]
• Comedy and the Rise of Rome [Leigh]
• Coming of Age in Ancient Greece [Neils]
• A Companion to the Ancient Near East [Snell]
• A Companion to Archaeology [Bintliff]
• A Companion to Homer's Odyssey [Morrison]
• A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures [Hansen]
• The Complete World of Greek Mythology [Buxton]
• The Creation of Heaven and Earth: Re-interpretations of Genesis 1 in the Context of Judaism, Ancient Philosophy, Christianity, and Modern Physics [van Kooten]
• Crossroads of History: The Age of Alexander [Heckel]
• Crossroads to Islam [Nevo]
• Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories [Champion]
• The Curse of Ham [Goldenberg]


• Daily Life in Ancient Rome [Carcopino]
• Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity [Gunderson]
• The Derveni Papyrus: Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation [Betegh]
• The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece [Raaflaub]
• Discs of Splendor: The Relief Mirrors of the Etruscans [Carpino]
• Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? [MacDonald]
• Documenting the Roman Army [Wilkes]
• The Dominion of the Dead [Harrison]


• Early Greek States Beyond the Polis [Morgan]
• Earthly Paradises [Carroll]
• The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman World [McGinn]
• An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity [Nasrallah]
• Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West [Gillett]
• Eros on the Nile [Mysliwiec]
• Eroticism in Ancient and Medieval Greek Poetry [Petropoulos]
• The Etruscans. Art, Architecture and History [Borrelli]
• Eudaimonia and Well-Being [Jost]
• Even More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis [Nielsen]
• Exiling the Poets [Naddaff]


• The Female in Aristotle's Biology [Mayhew]
• Flavours of Byzantium [Dalby]
• "For Salvation's Sake": Provincial Loyalty, Personal Religion, and Epigraphic Production in the Roman and Late Antique Near East [Moralee]
• From Ikaria to the Stars: Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern [Green]


• Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece [Valavanis]
• A Genealogical Chart of Greek Mythology [Newman]
• Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities: Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud [Hayes]
• The Graven Image Representation in Babylonia and Assyria [Bahrani]
• Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity [Marasco]
• The Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily [Cerchiae]
• Greek Epic Fragments [West]
• Greek Historical Inscriptions 404-323 BC [Rhodes]
• Greek Gods, Human Lives [Lefkowitz]
• Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents [Lupu]
• Greek Mysteries [Cosmopoulos]


• Hacksilber to Coinage [Balmuth]
• Handbook of Classical Mythology [Hansen]
• Happy Lives and the Highest Good [Lear]
• Hellenicity [Hall]
• The Hellenistic Period [Bagnall]
• Heraclius: Emperor of Byzantium [Kaegi]
• Herodotus and His World [Derow]
• Herodotus: The Histories [Macaulay]
• Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars [Mikalson]
• Hesiod's Cosmos [Clay]
• The Historians of Ancient Rome [Mellor]
• The Homeric Hymns [Cashford]
• The Homeric Hymns [Rayor]
• Homer's Iliad [Jones]
• Homeric Megathemes: War - Homilia - Homecoming [Maronitis]
• Homer's Sun Still Shines: Ancient Greece in Essays, Poems and Translations [Miller]
• Homosexuality and Civilization [Crompton]
• The Horse and Jockey from Artemision: A Bronze Equestrian Monument of the Hellenistic Period [Hemingway]
• Hortus: The Roman Book of Gardening [Henderson]
• Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World [Constable]


• Icons of Power [Janowitz]
• The Idea of European Community in History [Chrysos]
• In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination [Lloyd]
• In Praise of Christian Origins: Stephen and the Hellenists in Lukan Apologetic History [Penner]
• An Introduction to Roman Religion [Scheid]
• Inventing Superstition from the Hippocratics to the Christians [Martin]
• The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity [Isaac]
• An Inventory of Archaic and Greek Poleis [Hansen]
• Isocrates and Civic Education [Depew]


• Japheth in the Tents of Shem [van der Horst]
• Jews and Gentiles in the Holy Land in the Days of the Second Temple [Mor]
• The Jews in Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae and in the Cities of Campania Felix [Giordano]
• A Journey into Platonic Politics: Plato's Laws [Whitaker]


• Knossos: The South House [Mountjoy]


• Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space [Cole]
• The Law and the Courts in Ancient Greece [Harris]
• The Law Most Beautiful and Best [Clark]
• The Legacy of Alexander [Bosworth]
• Life, Myth and Art in Ancient Greece [Stafford]
• The Lindian Chronicle and the Greek Creation of Their Past [Higbie]
• The Lost World of Pompeii [Amery]
• Love, Sex, and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives [Goldhill]


• Magic and Divination in the Ancient World [Ciraolo]
• Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine [Horstmanshoff]
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Topica [Reinhardt]
• Martial Epigrams Book Two [Williams]
• Megara Hyblaia and Selinous: The Development of Two Greek City-States in Archaic Sicily [De Angelis]
• The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period [Bremmer]
• The Mind of Egypt [Assmann]
• Mother of the Gods: From Cybele to the Virgin Mary [Borgeaud]
• Myth and History in Ancient Greece: The Symbolic Creation of a Colony [Calame]
• Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography [Liverani]
• Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets [Edmonds]


• The Odyssey [McCrorie]
• Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Euripides [Mossman]
• Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume XXIV [Sedley]


• Panorama of the Classical World [Spivey]
• The Path of the Argo: Language, Imagery and Narrative in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius [Clare]
• Peloponnesian Sanctuaries and Cults [Hagg]
• A Penelopean Poetics [Sedley]
• Philosophy in Late Antiquity [Smith]
• Plato [Rowe]
• Plato on Knowledge and Forms [Fine]
• Plato's Cratylus [Jones]
• Platonopolis [O'Meara]
• Plato's Art of Caring for Souls [Planinc]
• Plato's Euthyphro and Clitophon [Bailly]
• Pleiades Setting [Sidwell]
• Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia [Murphy]
• Poetry, Theory, Praxis [Csapo]
• Pompeii [Cooley]
• Popular Tyranny [Morgan]
• Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World [Noegel]
• The Protogeometric Aegean [Lemos]


• Return to the One: Plotinus' Guide to God-Realization [Hines]
• Revelation [Witherington]
• The Revival of the Olympian Gods in Renaissance Art [Freedman]
• Roman Art [Stewart]
• The Roman Banquet: Images of Conviviality [Dunbabin]
• Roman Dacia. The Making of a Provincial Society [Hanson]
• The Roman Gaze [Fredrick]
• Roman Sex 100 BC - AD 250 [Clarke]
• Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy [DeBrohun]
• Roman Religion [Ando]
• Ruling the Later Roman Empire [Kelly]
• Rural Athens Under the Democracy [Jones]


• Sage and Emperor [Stadter]
• Salt and Olives: Morality and Custom in Ancient Greece [Dillon]
• Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture [Tuplin]
• Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa: The Story of an Etruscan Noblewoman [Swaddling]
• Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean [Alcock]
• The Significance of Votive Offerings in Selected Hera Sanctuaries in the Peloponnese, Ionia and Western Greece [Baumbach]
• Simone Weil's The Iliad or The Poem of Force [Holoka]
• Spartacus [Urbainczyk]
• Spartan Society [Figueira]


• Theocritus Idylls [Verity]
• The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World: From Problems to Equations [Netz]
• The Trojan War [Thompson]


• The Vindolanda Writing Tablets [Bowman]
• Vergil, The Aeneid [Caldwell]
• Virgil: The Aeneid [Gransden]
• Virgil Aeneid 11 A Commentary [Horsfall


• What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography [Burridge]
• Women and Humor in Classical Greece [O'Higgins]
• Women of Ancient Greece [Brule]
• Women of Byzantium [Connor]
• Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook [Kraemer]
• World of Myths [Warner]
• World of Myths: Volume Two [Fern??ndez-Armesto]
• The Writing of Orpheus [Detienne]


• Zooarchaeology in Greece [Kotjabopoulou]