Book Reviews

On Greek and Roman Comedy

  1. 2020. Classical Outlook. David Christenson. Plautus: Casina.
  2. 2019. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.08.16. Taufer, Matteo (ed.). Das Symposion in der griechischen Komödie = Il simposio nella commedia greca.
  3. 2019. Renaissance Quarterly 72, 398-9. Richard Hardin, Plautus and the English Renaissance of Comedy.
  4. 2017. Latomus, 656-8. Erin Moodie, ed. Plautus’ Poenulus. A Student Commentary.
  5. 2017. Journal of Roman Studies 107: Erik Gunderson, Laughing Awry: Plautus and Tragicomedy.
  6. 2015. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.07.08: R. Raffaelli and A. Tontini (eds.), Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates XVII, Rudens and R. Raffaelli (ed.), TuttoPlauto: un profilo dell’autore e delle commedie.
  7. 2014. Electryone 2.  M. Beard, Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up. Arabic translation by Ghada Gad and Magda El-Nowiemy, in the Bulletin of Ain-Shams University Center of Papyrological Studies and Inscriptions (BACPSI), Cairo, 2014.
  8. 2011. Gnomon 83, 494-499: W. Stockert, ed., T. Maccius Plautus: Cistellaria.
  9. 2011. Classical Journal 106, 113-117: A. Sharrock, Reading Roman Comedy. Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence.
  10. 2010. Classical Review 60, 379-380: M. J. Pernerstorfer, ed., Menanders Kolax: Ein Beitrag zu Rekonstruktion und Interpretation der Komödie. Mit Edition und Übersetzung der Fragmente und Testimonien sowie einem dramaturgischen Kommentar.
  11. 2010. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.02.62: G. Clementi, La filologia plautina negli Adversaria di Adrien Turnèbe.
  12. 2005. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.11.15: A. Antonsen-Resch, Von Gnathon zu Saturio. Die Parasitenfigur und das Verhältnis der römischen Komödie zur griechischen.
  13. 2005. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.39: R. Danese (ed.), Titus Maccius Plautus. Asinaria. Editio Plautina Sarsinatis, 2.
  14. 2005. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.05.36: S. Monda (ed.), Titus Maccius Plautus. Vidularia et deperditarum fabularum fragmenta. Editio Plautina Sarsinatis, 21.
  15. 2005. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.05.35: R. Calderan (ed.), Tito Maccio Plauto: Vidularia. Introduzione, testo critico e commento. Edizione riveduta (a cura di Salvatore Monda).
  16. 2004. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.11.30: M. Leigh, Comedy and the Rise of Rome.
  17. 2003. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.12.14: C. Questa, R. Raffaelli (eds.), Due Seminari Plautini: La tradizione del testo; i modelli.

On Classical Latin and Greek Literature and Society

  1. 2023. The New Criterion. Katharina Volk, The Roman Republic of Letters.
  2. 2021. The New Criterion. Shadi Bartsch (tr.), Vergil: The Aeneid.
  3. 2020. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.10.58. Christophe Bourquin, Humor in der Aeneis. Ein rezeptionstheoretischer Versuch.
  4. 2019. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.04.44. Lucio Coco (ed.), Michele Psello. Encomio del vino: Laus Vini.
  5. 2018. The University Bookman. A. M. Juster (tr.), The Elegies of Maximianus.
  6. 2017. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.07.48. S. Kourakou-Dragona, Vine and Wine in the Ancient Greek World. (With Justine Vanden Heuvel)
  7. 2016. Foreign Affairs, March/April 2016: “What Rome Can Teach Us Today: Ancient Lessons for Modern Politics.” Review essay of Mary Beard, SPQR.
  8. 2015. Electryone 3.2: Review essay of W. V. Harris (ed.), Mental Disorders in the Classical World.
  9. 2015. The Humanist, January/February 2015: H. Crespo, Tending the Epicurean Garden. (Spanish translation here)
  10. 2014. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.10.44: P. J. Ahrensdorf and T. L. Pangle (trans.). Sophocles. The Theban plays: Oedipus the tyrant; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone. (Co-authored with Richard Fontaine)
  11. 2012. Gnomon 84, 370: L. Nicolini, Ad (L)usum Lectoris: Etimologia e giochi di parole in Apuleio.
  12. 2007. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.04.18: W. Krenkel, Naturalia non turpia. Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome. Schriften zur antiken Kultur- und Sexualwissenschaft. Ed. W. Bernard and C. Reitz.
  13. 2004. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.02.40: M. Schauer, G. Thome (eds.), Altera Ratio. Klassische Philologie zwischen Subjektivität und Wissenschaft. Festschrift für Werner Suerbaum zum 70. Geburtstag.
  14. 2003. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.09.48: R. Danese (ed.), A. Bacianini, A. Torino, Tra ‘volumen’ e byte: per una didattica sostenibile della cultura latina: una guida a più di 50 siti web (seri, divertenti, kitsch) che ospitano il latino.
  15. 2003. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.08.10: E. Lelli (ed.), Arma Virumque… Studi di poesia e storiografia in onore di Luca Canali.

On the Latin language, postclassical Latin literature, psychiatry, and miscellaneous

  1. 2019. Psychology Today. Susannah Cahalan. The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness.
  2. 2019. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.08.38: Hélène Casanova-Robin (ed.), Giovanni Pontano, L’Éridan / Eridanus.
  3. 2019. MadInAmerica.com: Thomas Szasz: An appraisal of his legacy.
  4. 2019. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.02.14: David A. Traill (ed.), Carmina Burana.
  5. 2019. InMediasRes. Catherine Freis, Richard Freis, and Greg Miller (eds.), George Herbert’s Latin Verse.
  6. 2018. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.11.38: Minkova, Milena. Florilegium recentioris Latinitatis.
  7. 2017. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.11.22: E. Lefèvre (ed.), Jakob Baldes ›Expeditio Polemico-Poëtica‹ (1664): Eine satirische Verteidigung der lateinischen und neulateinischen Literatur.
  8. 2017. Hack your Latin. Reginaldus Thomas Foster and Daniel Patricius McCarthy, Ossa Latinitatis Sola Ad Mentem Reginaldi Rationemque (The Mere Bones of Latin According to the Thought and System of Reginald).
  9. 2017. Gnomon. Eleanor Dickie, Learning Latin the Ancient Way.
  10. 2009. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.10.58: J. Dellaneva and B. Duvick (eds.), Ciceronian Controversies.
  11. 2003. New England Classical Journal 2003, 50-3: D. Califf, A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition.