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Submissions from 2023

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The Many Faces of Dionysos in the Hexameters of the Sinai Palimpsest (Sin. ar. NF 66), Radcliffe Edmonds III

Submissions from 2022

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Contingent Catastrophe or Agonistic Advantage: The Rhetoric of Violence in Classical Athenian Curses, Radcliffe Edmonds III

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Who Does That?: Further Conversations on Drawing Down the Moon, Radcliffe Edmonds III

Submissions from 2021

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Augustine’s Marginalia Contra Julianum, Catherine Conybeare

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Review of Chrysanthou, Anthi. "Defining orphism: the beliefs, the teletae and the writings.", Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Submissions from 2020

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And You Will Be Amazed: The Rhetoric of Authority in the Greek Magical Papyri, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Submissions from 2019

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Contents: Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Magic, Greek, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Misleading and Unclear to the Many: Allegory in the Derveni Papyrus and the Orphic Theogony of Hieronymus, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review: Gunnel Ekroth, Ingela Nilsson (ed.), Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Traditio: Visits to the Underworld from Antiquity to Byzantium, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Submissions from 2018

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Deviant Origins: Hesiodic Theogony and the Orphica, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review: Pachoumi, Eleni. The concepts of the divine in the Greek magical papyri, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Underworld, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review: Irene Ceccherini, Sozomeno da Pistoia (1387–1458): Scrittura e libri di un umanista., Julia H. Gaisser

Submissions from 2017

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Alcibiades the Profane: Images of the Mysteries in Plato’s Symposium, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Introduction: The Power—and the Problems—of Plato’s Images, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Putting him on a pedestal: (Re)collection and the use of images in Plato’s Phaedrus, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Reviewed Work(s): The Anatomy of Myth: The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics to the Church Fathers by Michael W. Herren, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Events from 2016

Using Omeka in a Course on Food and Drink in the Ancient World, Annette M. Baertschi

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Euripides and the Politics of Form, Joel A. Schlosser

Submissions from 2015

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When I walked the dark road of Hades: Orphic katabasis and the katabasis of Orpheus, Radcliffe Edmonds III

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Imagining the Afterlife in Greek Religion, Radcliffe Emonds III

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Grecian Theater in Philadelphia, 1800-1870, Lee Pearcy

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Imitating Ovid, Lee T. Pearcy

Submissions from 2014

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A Lively Afterlife and Beyond: The Soul in Plato, Homer, and the Orphica, Radcliffe Edmonds III

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There and Back Again: Temporary Immortality in the Mithras Liturgy, Radcliffe Edmonds III

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Review: Julia Kindt, Rethinking Greek Religion, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review: Francesco Tateo (ed.), Giovanni Pontano, 'Aegidius, Dialogo'. RR inedita, Saggi 56., Julia H. Gaisser

Submissions from 2013

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Review of Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon, by Gerard O'Daly, Catherine Conybeare

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Dionysos in Egypt? Epaphian Dionysos in the Orphic Hymns, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review: Renate Schlesier (ed.), A Different God? Dionysos and Ancient Polytheism., Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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The Ephesia Grammata: Logos Orphaikos or Apolline Alexima pharmaka?, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review: Franco Bellandi (ed.), Lepos e pathos. Studi su Catullo. Testi e manuali per l'insegnamento universitario del latino 101., Julia H. Gaisser

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Talfourd’s Ion: Classical Reception and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, Lee Pearcy

Submissions from 2012

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Review of The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller, Catherine Conybeare

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Review of La magie dans l'Antiquité, by Michaël Martin, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review: Tzifopoulos, Yannis. ‘Paradise’ Earned: The Bacchic-Orphic Lamellae of Crete, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Whip Scars on the Naked Soul: Myth and Elenchos in Plato's Gorgias, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review of Pomponio Leto tra identità locale e cultura internazionale: atti del convegno internazionale (Teggiano, 3-5 ottobre 2008), edited by Anna Modigliani, Patricia Osmond, Marianne Pade and Johann Ramminger, Julia H. Gaisser

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Review: Anna Modigliani, Patricia Osmond, Marianne Pade, Johann Ramminger (ed.), Pomponio Leto tra identità locale e cultura internazionale: atti del convegno internazionale (Teggiano, 3-5 ottobre 2008). RR inedita, Saggi 48., Julia H. Gaisser

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Does Dying Hurt? Philodemus of Gadara, De Morte and Asclepiades of Bithynia, Lee Pearcy

Submissions from 2011

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Review of Paul, the Corinthians and the Birth of Christian Hermeneutics, by Margaret M. Mitchell, Catherine Conybeare

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Festivals in the Afterlife: A New Reading of the Petelia Tablet (OF 476.11), Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review of Naming the Witch: Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World, by Kimberly B. Stratton, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Submissions from 2010

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Blaming the Witch: Some Reflections upon Unexpected Death, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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The Bright Cypress of the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets: Direction and Illumination in Myths of the Underworld, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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The Children of Earth and Starry Heaven: The Meaning and Function of the Formula in the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review of Handbuch der illustrierten Vergil-Ausgaben 1502-1840: Geschichte, Typologie, Zyklen und kommentierter Katalog der Holzschnitte und Kupferstiche zur Aeneis in Alten Drucken, by W. Suerbaum, Julia H. Gaisser

Submissions from 2009

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Review of Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity, by Stephen Halliwell, Catherine Conybeare

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Review of The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome, by Joy Connolly, Catherine Conybeare

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A Curious Concoction: Tradition and Innovation in Olympiodorus' "Orphic" Creation of Mankind, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Who are you? Mythic Narrative and Identity in the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Submissions from 2008

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Review of Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture, by Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Catherine Conybeare

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Extra-Ordinary People: Mystai and Magoi, Magicians and Orphics in the Derveni Papyrus, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review of Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Tablets, by Alberto Bernabé Pajares and Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review of Lepos e pathos: Studi su Catullo, by Franco Bellandi, Julia H. Gaisser

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Review of The Reception of Plutarch's 'Lives' in Fifteenth-Century Italy, by Marianne Pade, Julia H. Gaisser

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Review: Marianne Pade. The Reception of Plutarch’s Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy., Julia H. Gaisser

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In the Shadow of Aristophanes: The 1903 Iphigeneia in Tauris in Philadelphia, Lee Pearcy

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Working for the Secret Evangelist: A Review and Memoir, Lee Pearcy

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Review of Epigrafia anfiteatrale dell'occidente romano, VI: Roma, Anfiteatri e strutture annesse con una nuova edizione e commento delle iscrizioni del Colosseo, by Silvia Orlandi, Russell Scott

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Vincent John Bruno, 1926-2008, Russell Scott

Submissions from 2007

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Review of The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship, by Megan Hale Williams, Catherine Conybeare

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Review of Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, by Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review of Rome's Vestal Virgins: A Study of Rome's Vestal Priestesses in the Late Republic and Early Empire, by Robin Lorsch Wildfang, Russell Scott

Submissions from 2006

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Review of Augustine: De Civitate Dei (The City of God), Books I & II, edited with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by P.G. Walsh, Catherine Conybeare

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To Sit in Solemn Silence? Thronosis in Ritual, Myth, and Iconography, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Submissions from 2005

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Review of Love, Sex, and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives, by Simon Goldhill, Catherine Conybeare

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Review of Stuttgarter elektronische Studienbibel (CD-Rom for Windows), by Christof Hardmeier et al., Catherine Conybeare

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Review of The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship, by William Sanders Scarborough, Catherine Conybeare

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Review of Women Writing Latin, from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe, edited by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jane E. Jeffrey, Catherine Conybeare

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Review of Printing the Classical Text, by Howard Jones, Julia H. Gaisser

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Review: Howard Jones, Printing the Classical Text, Julia H. Gaisser

Submissions from 2004

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Review of Orphicorum et Orphicis similium testimonia et fragmenta (Poetae Epici Graeci, pars II, fasc. 1), edited by Alberto Bernabé, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review of The Writing of Orpheus: Greek Myth in Cultural Context, by Marcel Detienne, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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The Faces of the Moon: Cosmology, Genesis, and the Mithras Liturgy, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

Submissions from 2003

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Review of Cicero, On Moral Ends, by Julia Annas and Raphael Woolf, Catherine Conybeare

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Review of Greek and Latin Letters: An Anthology with Translation, by Michael Trapp, Catherine Conybeare

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Review of The Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus, edited by Karl Heinrich Rengstorf, Catherine Conybeare

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At the Seizure of the Moon: The Absence of the Moon in the Mithras Liturgy, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review of Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook, by Daniel Ogden, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Who in Hell is Heracles? Dionysos' Disastrous Disguise in Aristophanes' Frogs, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review of PARRHASIANA II: Atti del II Seminario di studi su manoscritti medievali e umanistici della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, Napoli, 20-21 ottobre 2000, edited by Giancarlo Abbamonte, Lucia Gualdo Rosa, and Luigi Munzi, Julia H. Gaisser

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Aristophanes in Philadelphia: The "Acharnians" of 1886, Lee Pearcy

Submissions from 2001

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Review of Augustine and His Critics: Essays in Honour of Gerald Bonner, edited by R. Dodaro and G. Lawless, Catherine Conybeare

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Review of Creatio ex nihilo and the Theology of St. Augustine: The Anti-Manichaean Polemic and Beyond, by N. Joseph Torchia, Catherine Conybeare

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Review of Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature, by Kim Haines-Eitzen, Catherine Conybeare

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Did the Mithraists Inhale? - A Technique for Theurgic Ascent in the Mithras Liturgy, the Chaldaean Oracles, and some Mithraic Frescoes, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review of Ancient Pathways and Hidden Pursuits: Religion, Morals, and Magic in the Ancient World, by Georg Luck, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review of Myth and Philosophy from the pre-Socratics to Plato, by Kathryn A. Morgan, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review of Germania-Agricola: Zwei Kapitel zu Tacitus' zwei kleinen Schriften: Untersuchungen zu ihrer Intention u. Datierung sowie zur Entwicklung ihres Verfassers, by Jan-Wilhelm Beck, Russell Scott

Submissions from 2000

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Review of Prosodie und Metrik der Römer, by Sandro Boldrini, Annette M. Baertschi

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Review of Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia, edited by Allan D. Fitzgerald, Catherine Conybeare

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Review of Latin Commentaries on Ovid from the Renaissance, by A. Moss, Julia H. Gaisser

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Review of Ikonographische Studien zu Nike im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.: Untersuchungen zur Wirkungsweise und Wesenart, by Cornelia Thöne, Richard Hamilton

Submissions from 1999

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Review of The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine, by Sabine MacCormack, Catherine Conybeare

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Tearing Apart the Zagreus Myth: A Few Disparaging Remarks on Orphism and Original Sin, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III

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Review of A Commentary on Pindar Nemean Nine, by Bruce Karl Braswell, Richard Hamilton

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Review of Panathenäische Preisamphoren: Eine athenische Vasengattung und ihre Funktion vom 6.-4. Jahrhundert v. Chr., by Martin Bentz, Richard Hamilton

Submissions from 1998

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Review of Imperium sine fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic, edited by J. Linderski, Russell Scott