Dissertation abstracts 2018–2019

All content of Opuscula 12 (2019) is available with open access. Printed edition distributed by Eddy.se AB. Also available at Amazon.com, Adlibris, and Bokus. View volume at ERIH PLUS. Dissertation abstracts 2018–2019 Tao Thykier Makeeff | Do satyrs wear sneakers? Hellenic polytheism and the reception of Antiquity in contemporary Greece—a study in serious play, Lund University 2019. ISBN 978-91-88899-36-1. http://lup.lub.lu.se/record/edcbc1ea-f586-4cf9-8e36-4ac41726e888 Lewis Webb | Gloria muliebris. Elite female status competition in Mid-Republican Rome, Gothenburg University 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/60216 Irene Selsvold | Pagan pasts, Christian futures. Memory manipulation and christianisation in the cities of Western Asia Minor, Gothenburg University 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/60340 Otto H. Linderborg | Herodotus and the origins of political philosophy. The beginnings of Western thought from the viewpoint of its impending end, Uppsala University 2018. ISBN 978-91-506-2703-9. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-350646 Antonios Pontoropoulos | Erotic language and representations of desire in the philostratean Erotic Letters, Uppsala University 2019. ISBN 978-91-506-2781-7. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-389980 [Addendum only available in pdf version] Robin Rönnlund | A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Function and symbolism of ancient Greek akropoleis, Gothenburg University 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/57966 Bibliographical information ‘Dissertation abstracts 2018–2019’, Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome (OpAthRom) 12, Stockholm 2019, 399–402. ISSN: 2000-0898. ISBN: 978-91-977799-1-3. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-12-15

Book reviews
Book review , Content / 2015-12-02

Opuscula 8 (2015) is now available for purchase and free download at Bokorder.se. Also available at Amazon.com, Bokus.com and Adlibris.com. Books reviewed in Opuscula 8 (2015) Anton Bonnier | E. Mackil, Creating a common polity. Religion, economy, and politics in the making of the Greek koinon (Hellenistic Culture and Society, 55), Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, University of California Press 2013, xvii + 593 pp. ISBN 9780520272507. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-08-09 Maria Mili | I. Polinskaya, A local history of Greek polytheism: Gods, people and the land of Aigina 800–400 BC (Religions in the Ancient Greek World, 178), Leiden, Brill 2013, xxviii + 690 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-23404-8. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-08-10 David Westberg | P. Ceccarelli, Ancient Greek letter writing: A cultural history (600 BC–150 BC), Oxford, Oxford University Press 2013, xviii + 435 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-967559-3. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-08-11 Otto Linderborg | E. Carawan, The Athenian amnesty and reconstructing the law. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2013, 310 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-967276-9. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-08-12 Adam J. Goldwyn | Daughters of Hecate: Women and magic in the ancient world, ed. K. B. Stratton with D.S. Kalleres, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014. 552 pp. ISBN 0-19-534271-2. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-08-13 Bibliographical information ‘Book reviews’, Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome (OpAthRom)…