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Reviews Archive Just about every book published since 2001 that would interest a Friend of Classics has been reviewed on this site. Definitely worth reading before you buy.
Arranged in alphabetical order of the first author's surname... A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z B *THE ETYMOLOGIES* OF ISIDORE OF SEVILLE, SA Barney, WJ Lewis, JA Beach and O Berghof THE ROMAN TRIUMPH Mary Beard THE COMPLETE POMPEII Joanne Berry MINIMUS SECUNDUS Barbara Bell ROMAN SURREY David Bird ODYSSEUS UNBOUND Robert Bittlestone HERCULES: SCENES FROM AN HEROIC LIFE Alastair Blanchard THE WORLD OF ANCIENT ART John Boardman CLASSICAL ATHENS AND THE DELPHIC ORACLE Hugh Bowden LIFE AND LETTERS ON THE ROMAN FRONTIER: Vindolanda and Its People Alan K Bowman POMPEII: THE LIVING CITY Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence Back to Top C ALEXANDER THE GREAT Paul Cartledge THERMOPYLAE: THE BATTLE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD Paul Cartledge NERO Edward Champlin AUGUSTINE: THE CONFESSIONS Gillian Clark THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW AND ITS READERS Howard Clarke HOUSESTEADS: A fort and garrison on Hadrian's Wall James Crow THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE OF PYTHEAS THE GREEK: The Man who Discovered Britain Barry Cunliffe Back to Top D FLAVOURS OF BYZANTIUM Andrew Dalby THE GREEKS AND GREEK LOVE James Davidson Back to Top F AROUND THE ROMAN TABLE Patrick Faas, translated by Shaun Whiteside VIRGIL: THE AENEID Robert Fagles (tranlator) Back to Top G JULIUS CAESAR Robert Garland LOVE, SEX AND TRAGEDY Simon Goldhill THE PUNIC WARS Adrian Goldsworthy CAESAR Adrian Goldsworthy ROME AND JERUSALEM Martin Goodman THE ROMAN INVASIONS OF BRITAIN Gerald Grainge LONG LIVE LATIN John Gray BANDITS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE Thomas Grunewald Back to Top H TRYING NEAIRA: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece Debra Hamel A WAR LIKE NO OTHER How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War Victor Davis Hanson POMPEII Robert Harris GRUESOME DEATHS AND CELIBATE LIVES Aideen Hartney THE ROYAL TOMBS OF EGYPT Zahi Hawass THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Peter Heather AUGUSTUS: GODFATHER OF EUROPE Richard Holland RUBICON Tom Holland PERSIAN FIRE Tom Holland THE COLOSSEUM Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard Back to Top J THE DREAM OF ROME Boris Johnson Back to Top K THE LAST FRONTIER: The Roman Invasion of Scotland Antony Kamm RULING THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE Christopher Kelly THE ROMAN EMPIRE Christopher Kelly THE ELGIN MARBLES Dorothy King Back to Top L THE CLASSICAL WORLD: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian Robin Lane Fox TROY AND HOMER Joachim Latacz POMPEII: HISTORY, LIFE AND AFTERLIFE Roger Ling A LOEB CLASSICAL READER James Loeb THE NEIGHBOURHOODS OF AUGUSTAN ROME J Bert Lott Back to Top M ANCIENT ROME: A MILITARY AND POLITICAL HISTORY Christopher Mackay ATTILA: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome John Man AN IMPERIAL POSSESSION: BRITAIN IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE 54 BC – AD 409 David Mattingly THE SONS OF CAESAR: IMPERIAL ROME’S FIRST DYNASTY Philip Matyszak ANCIENT ROME ON FIVE DENARII A DAY Philip Matyszak GREEK FIRE, POISON ARROWS AND SCORPION BOMBS: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World Adrienne Mayor ANCIENT GREEK ATHLETICS Stephen Miller 69AD: THE YEAR OF THE FOUR EMPERORS Gwyn Morgan AMO, AMAS, AMAT Harry Mount Back to Top N ANCIENT MEDICINE Vivian Nutton Back to Top O ROMAN YORK Patrick Ottaway Back to Top P POLYTHEISM AND SOCIETY AT ATHENS Robert Parker Back to Top R SOME TALK OF ALEXANDER Frederic Raphael A HISTORY OF THE CLASSICAL GREEK WORLD 478-323 BC Peter Rhodes HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (reviewed in Latin) J K Rowling Back to Top S MALARIA AND ROME Robert Sallares OLYMPICS IN ATHENS, 1896 Michael Llewellyn Smith THE DEATH OF COMEDY Erich Segal ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Patricia Southern THE COMPLETE GREEK TEMPLES Tony Spawforth PANORAMA OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD Nigel Spivey and Michael Squire THE ANCIENT OLYMPICS Nigel Spivey JULIUS CAESAR Pat Southern ALEXANDER THE GREAT: A LIFE IN LEGEND Richard Stoneman THE TROJAN WAR: A NEW HISTORY Barry Strauss THE ANCIENT OLYMPIC GAMES. Judith Swaddling Back to Top T THE SMELL OF SWEAT: GREEK ATHLETICS, OLYMPICS AND CULTURE Wm. Blake Tyrrell Back to Top W THE FALL OF ROME AND THE END OF CIVILISATION Bryan Ward-Perkins ATHENS: A HISTORY Robin Waterfield XENOPHON'S RETREAT Robin Waterfield THE BATTLE THAT STOPPED ROME Peter S Wells THE MYTHS OF ROME Peter Wiseman THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD Greg Woolf ET TU, BRUTE? THE MURDER OF CAESAR AND POLITICAL ASSASSINATION Greg Woolf CAESAR: A LIFE IN WESTERN CULTURE Maria Wyke Y FAREWELL BRITANNIA** Simon Young Back to Top

Reviews Archive Just about every book published since 2001 that would interest a Friend of Classics has been reviewed on this site. Definitely worth reading before you buy.

Reviews Archive
Just about every book published since 2001 that would interest a Friend of Classics has been reviewed on this site. Definitely worth reading before you buy.