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Book Reviews October 2003

October 2003 (107.4)

Print Book Reviews

Book Reviews October 2003

The following book reviews were published in the printed AJA only and are available for purchase on JSTOR. For more information, see access options.


Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Schriften und Nachlaß, 2.3: Briefe, Entwürfe und Rezensionen zu den Herkulanischen Schriften (pp. 659–660)
By Marianne Gross et al.
Reviewed by William M. Calder III

Schriften und Nachlaß, 3: Schriften zur antiken Baukunst: Anmerkungen über die Baukunst der alten Tempel zu Girgenti in Sicilien, Anmerkungen über die Baukunst der alten, Fragment einer neuen Bearbeitung der Anmerkungen über die Baukunst der alten, Sowie zeitgenössische Rezensionen (pp. 659–660)
By Marianne Gross et al. 
Reviewed by William M. Calder III

The Dawn of Human Culture (pp. 660–661)
By Richard G. Klein and Blake Edgar 
Reviewed by Milford H. Wolpoff

In Pursuit of Gender: Worldwide Archaeological Approaches (pp. 661–663)
By Sarah Milledge Nelson and Myriam Rosen-Ayalon 
Reviewed by Lauren E. Talalay 

Engendering Aphrodite: Women and Society in Ancient Cyprus (pp. 663–665)
By Diane Bolger and Nancy Serwint 
Reviewed by A. Bernard Knapp 

World Ecological Degradation: Accumulation, Urbanization and Deforestation 3000 BC–AD 2000 (pp. 665–667)
By Sing C. Chew 
Reviewed by Jennifer Moody 

The Mastery and Uses of Fire in Antiquity (pp. 667–668)
By J.E. Rehder 
Reviewed by Eleni Hasaki 

Volcanic Hazards and Disasters in Human Antiquity (pp. 668–670)
By Floyd W. McCoy and Grant Heiken 
Reviewed by Les Cole 

The Palaeolithic Archaeology of Greece and Adjacent Areas: Proceedings of the ICoPAG Conference, Ioannina, September 1994 (pp. 670–671)
By G.N. Bailey et al. 
Reviewed by Preston Miracle

Servia. Vol. 1, Anglo-Hellenic Rescue Excavations 1971–73 (pp. 671–672)
By C. Ridley, K.A. Wardle, and C.A. Mould 
Reviewed by Nikos Efstratiou

Neolithic Enclosures in Atlantic Northwest Europe (p. 673)
By Timothy Darvill and Julian Thomas 
Reviewed by Nyree Finlay

Boevye Kolesnicy I Kolesničie Drevnich Grekov (xvi–i vv. do N.E.) (Chariotry of the Anncient Greeks, 16th–1st Centuries B.C.; in Russian with English summary) (pp. 673–675)
By Alexander K. Nefedkin 
Reviewed by Piotr Taracha

Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt (pp. 675–676)
By Lynn Meskell 
Reviewed by Kathlyn M. Cooney

Die Keramik phrygischer Zeit von Boǧazköy (pp. 676–677)
By Eva-Maria Bossert 
Reviewed by G. Kenneth Sams 

Dionysos Nella Grecia Arcaicai: Il contributo delle immagini (pp. 677–679)
By Cornelia Isler-Kerényi 
Reviewed by Dimitris Paleothodoros

La Bottega del pittore di Meleagro (pp. 679–680)
By Francesca Curti 
Reviewed by Thomas Mannack

Hellenistic Sculpture. Vol. 3, The Styles of ca. 100–31 B.C. (pp. 680–681)
By Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway 
Reviewed by Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell 

Skeuomorphismus oder die Kunst, aus wenig viel zu machen (pp. 681–682)
By Michael Vickers 
Reviewed by Kenneth Lapatin 

Ancient Greek Love Magic (pp. 682–684)
By Christopher A. Faraone 
Reviewed by J.B. Rives

Ein Komplex von Formschüsseln für megarische Becher: Die "Mainzer Werkstatt" (p. 684)
By Susanna Künzl 
Reviewed by Susan I. Rotroff

Céramiques héllénistiques et romaines: Productions et diffusion en Mediterranée orientale (Chypre, Égypte et côte syropalestiniénne) (pp. 685–686)
By Francine Blondé, Pascale Ballet, and Jean-François Salles 
Reviewed by Philip M. Kenrick

Portraits of the Ptolemies: Greek Kings as Egyptian Pharaohs (pp. 686–687)
By Paul Edmund Stanwick 
Reviewed by J.J. Pollitt

Hellenistische Bürgerinnen aus Kleinasien: Weibliche Gewandstatuen in ihrem Antiken Kontext (pp. 687–689)
By J. Cordelia Eule 
Reviewed by Janet Burnett Grossman

Mythologische Prachtreliefs (p. 689)
By Stefan Lehmann 
Reviewed by Jocelyn Penny Small

Gardens of Pompeii (pp. 689–691)
By Annamaria Ciarallo and Lori-Ann Touchette
Reviewed by John J. Dobbins

Women and Beauty in Pompeii (pp. 689–691)
By Antonio d'Ambrosio and Graham Sells
Reviewed by John J. Dobbins

Gods and Heroes in Pompeii (pp. 689–691)
By Ernesto De Carolis and Lori-Ann Touchette
Reviewed by John J. Dobbins

Eroticism in Pompeii (pp. 689–691)
By Antonio Varone and Maureen Fant 
Reviewed by John J. Dobbins

Lixus: Colonia fenicia y ciudad púnicomauritana. Anotaciones sobre su ocupación medieval. Memoria de las excavaciones arqueológicas realizadas por el equipo hispano-marroquí en la ladera de Lixus (Larache) entre 1995 y 1999 (pp. 691–693)
By C. Aranegui Gascó 
Reviewed by Emanuele Papi

The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek (pp. 693–694)
By Barry Cunliffe 
Reviewed by Philip Freeman