Rhea Classical Reviews
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An online, open access book review journal that prioritizes emerging and underrepresented scholarly voices in Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Website: rheaclassicalreviews.com
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Rhea Classical Review
More inclusive scholarly reviews.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Thanks for the shout out, Hannah!
First and Last review of November (we're off for Thanksgiving in two weeks), but it's a great one with a fantastic dialogue!
Stephanie Murphy reviews "Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory" ed. Martine de Marre and Rajiv K. Bhola (Routledge 2022).
Stephanie Murphy reviews "Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory" ed. Martine de Marre and Rajiv K. Bhola (Routledge 2022).
Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory
De Marre, Martine and Rajiv K. Bhola, eds., Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory, (New York: Routledge, 2022). 9780367371449. Reviewed by Stephanie Murphy, University of North Texas, Stephaniemurphy3…
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November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
First and Last review of November (we're off for Thanksgiving in two weeks), but it's a great one with a fantastic dialogue!
Stephanie Murphy reviews "Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory" ed. Martine de Marre and Rajiv K. Bhola (Routledge 2022).
Stephanie Murphy reviews "Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory" ed. Martine de Marre and Rajiv K. Bhola (Routledge 2022).
Last review of October (shouldn't be too spooky for you)!
@medicamentislibris.bsky.social review's "Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory. An Encyclopaedic Workshop" by Anna Anguissola (Routledge 2023)
@medicamentislibris.bsky.social review's "Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory. An Encyclopaedic Workshop" by Anna Anguissola (Routledge 2023)
Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory. An Encyclopaedic Workshop
Anna Anguissola, Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory. An Encyclopaedic Workshop. London and New York: Routledge, 2023. ISBN 9781032056227. Reviewed by Jazz Demetrioff, University at Buffalo (S…
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October 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Last review of October (shouldn't be too spooky for you)!
@medicamentislibris.bsky.social review's "Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory. An Encyclopaedic Workshop" by Anna Anguissola (Routledge 2023)
@medicamentislibris.bsky.social review's "Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory. An Encyclopaedic Workshop" by Anna Anguissola (Routledge 2023)
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My review of a collection of articles among which @christophersmith.bsky.social, @lbciddio.bsky.social, @sethbernard.bsky.social, @hilarybeckertxny.bsky.social and others. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
Wake up and smell that new book review, peeps!
@ullamr.bsky.social reviews "Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy" ed. Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen ( Routledge 2022)
@ullamr.bsky.social reviews "Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy" ed. Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen ( Routledge 2022)
Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy
Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen, eds., Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy (London and New York: Routledge, 2022). 9780367631727. Reviewed by Ulla Rajala, Stockholm Unive…
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October 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
My review of a collection of articles among which @christophersmith.bsky.social, @lbciddio.bsky.social, @sethbernard.bsky.social, @hilarybeckertxny.bsky.social and others. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
Wake up and smell that new book review, peeps!
@ullamr.bsky.social reviews "Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy" ed. Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen ( Routledge 2022)
@ullamr.bsky.social reviews "Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy" ed. Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen ( Routledge 2022)
Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy
Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen, eds., Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy (London and New York: Routledge, 2022). 9780367631727. Reviewed by Ulla Rajala, Stockholm Unive…
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October 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Wake up and smell that new book review, peeps!
@ullamr.bsky.social reviews "Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy" ed. Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen ( Routledge 2022)
@ullamr.bsky.social reviews "Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy" ed. Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen ( Routledge 2022)
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Our latest book review!
Adrien Mangili reviews Donato Verardi (ed.), "Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2023).
Adrien Mangili reviews Donato Verardi (ed.), "Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2023).
Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker
Donato Verardi, ed., Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworkers (London, New York, and Dublin: Bloomsbury, 2023). 9781350121092. Reviewed by Ad…
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October 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Our latest book review!
Adrien Mangili reviews Donato Verardi (ed.), "Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2023).
Adrien Mangili reviews Donato Verardi (ed.), "Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2023).
Our latest book review!
Adrien Mangili reviews Donato Verardi (ed.), "Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2023).
Adrien Mangili reviews Donato Verardi (ed.), "Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2023).
Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker
Donato Verardi, ed., Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworkers (London, New York, and Dublin: Bloomsbury, 2023). 9781350121092. Reviewed by Ad…
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October 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Our latest book review!
Adrien Mangili reviews Donato Verardi (ed.), "Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2023).
Adrien Mangili reviews Donato Verardi (ed.), "Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2023).
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My old teacher Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod wrote a good review!
New book review on Rhea!
Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod reviews Andrew Fox, "Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate" ( @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2023). 🌳🌲🌴
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod reviews Andrew Fox, "Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate" ( @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2023). 🌳🌲🌴
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate.
Andrew Fox, Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate (London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). 9781350237803. Reviewed by Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod, S…
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September 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My old teacher Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod wrote a good review!
New book review on Rhea!
Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod reviews Andrew Fox, "Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate" ( @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2023). 🌳🌲🌴
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod reviews Andrew Fox, "Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate" ( @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2023). 🌳🌲🌴
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate.
Andrew Fox, Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate (London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). 9781350237803. Reviewed by Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod, S…
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September 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
New book review on Rhea!
Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod reviews Andrew Fox, "Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate" ( @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2023). 🌳🌲🌴
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod reviews Andrew Fox, "Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate" ( @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2023). 🌳🌲🌴
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Rhea is back with a new book review!
@eancients.bsky.social reviews @mbinzurich.bsky.social, "Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis: Beyond Light and Darkness" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2019).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
@eancients.bsky.social reviews @mbinzurich.bsky.social, "Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis: Beyond Light and Darkness" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2019).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis: Beyond Light and Darkness
Mattias Brand, Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis: Beyond Light and Darkness, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 102 (Leiden: Brill, 2019). ISBN 9789004510296. Reviewed by…
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September 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Rhea is back with a new book review!
@eancients.bsky.social reviews @mbinzurich.bsky.social, "Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis: Beyond Light and Darkness" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2019).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
@eancients.bsky.social reviews @mbinzurich.bsky.social, "Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis: Beyond Light and Darkness" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2019).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
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Guys, I am SO EXCITED about Rhea's new venture Rhea Receptions!!! Want to write about Percy Jackson? Newspaper articles about discoveries at Pompeii? A cool new museum exhibit or video game? Get in contact with us and let's chat - reviews, essays, creativity encouraged!
Announcing our new forum, RHEA RECEPTIONS!
“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025
Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025
Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
August 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Guys, I am SO EXCITED about Rhea's new venture Rhea Receptions!!! Want to write about Percy Jackson? Newspaper articles about discoveries at Pompeii? A cool new museum exhibit or video game? Get in contact with us and let's chat - reviews, essays, creativity encouraged!
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This looks exciting!
Announcing our new forum, RHEA RECEPTIONS!
“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025
Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025
Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
August 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This looks exciting!
Announcing our new forum, RHEA RECEPTIONS!
“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025
Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025
Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
August 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Announcing our new forum, RHEA RECEPTIONS!
“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025
Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025
Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
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Just wanted to say that @rheaclassical.bsky.social is a peer-review platform exclusively dedicated to reviews of and by alt-ac, pre-tenure, non-tenure, contingent, grad students, and folks outside of academia if anyone is interested in reviewing for us!
August 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Just wanted to say that @rheaclassical.bsky.social is a peer-review platform exclusively dedicated to reviews of and by alt-ac, pre-tenure, non-tenure, contingent, grad students, and folks outside of academia if anyone is interested in reviewing for us!
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This week’s reading just arrived! So excited to crack into this timely new work from @platanoclassics.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This week’s reading just arrived! So excited to crack into this timely new work from @platanoclassics.bsky.social
Our final review of the summer on Rhea. Back in September!
Thomas R. Keith reviews Boris Kayachev, "Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana" (Classical Press of Wales 2020).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Thomas R. Keith reviews Boris Kayachev, "Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana" (Classical Press of Wales 2020).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana
Kayachev, Boris. Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana. Introduction, Text, Apparatus Criticus, Translation and Commentary. Swansea, UK: Classical Press of Waales, 2020. ISBN 978-1-910589-81-6…
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June 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Our final review of the summer on Rhea. Back in September!
Thomas R. Keith reviews Boris Kayachev, "Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana" (Classical Press of Wales 2020).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Thomas R. Keith reviews Boris Kayachev, "Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana" (Classical Press of Wales 2020).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
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Our latest book review on Rhea!
Matthew J. Chalmers reviews Luis Alejandro Salas, "Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2020).
Matthew J. Chalmers reviews Luis Alejandro Salas, "Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2020).
Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments
Luis Alejandro Salas, Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments (Leiden: Brill, 2020). 9789004439184. Reviewed by Matthew J. Chalmers, Independent Scholar, mattjcha…
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June 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Our latest book review on Rhea!
Matthew J. Chalmers reviews Luis Alejandro Salas, "Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2020).
Matthew J. Chalmers reviews Luis Alejandro Salas, "Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2020).
Our latest book review on Rhea!
Matthew J. Chalmers reviews Luis Alejandro Salas, "Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2020).
Matthew J. Chalmers reviews Luis Alejandro Salas, "Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2020).
Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments
Luis Alejandro Salas, Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments (Leiden: Brill, 2020). 9789004439184. Reviewed by Matthew J. Chalmers, Independent Scholar, mattjcha…
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June 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Our latest book review on Rhea!
Matthew J. Chalmers reviews Luis Alejandro Salas, "Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2020).
Matthew J. Chalmers reviews Luis Alejandro Salas, "Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2020).
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Great post day! Can’t wait to review this for @rheaclassical.bsky.social 📚💙 #classicssky
June 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Great post day! Can’t wait to review this for @rheaclassical.bsky.social 📚💙 #classicssky
It's new book review day on Rhea!
David M. Wheeler reviews Donald H. Sanders, "From Photography to 3D Models and Beyond: Visualizations in Archaeology" (@archaeopress.bsky.social 2023).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue at the end of the review!
David M. Wheeler reviews Donald H. Sanders, "From Photography to 3D Models and Beyond: Visualizations in Archaeology" (@archaeopress.bsky.social 2023).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue at the end of the review!
From Photography to 3D Models and Beyond: Visualizations in Archaeology
Donald H. Sanders, From Photography to 3D Models and Beyond: Visualizations in Archaeology (Oxford: Archeopress, 2023). 9781803276182. Reviewed by David M. Wheeler, University of California, Berkel…
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May 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It's new book review day on Rhea!
David M. Wheeler reviews Donald H. Sanders, "From Photography to 3D Models and Beyond: Visualizations in Archaeology" (@archaeopress.bsky.social 2023).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue at the end of the review!
David M. Wheeler reviews Donald H. Sanders, "From Photography to 3D Models and Beyond: Visualizations in Archaeology" (@archaeopress.bsky.social 2023).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue at the end of the review!
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Want a summer project and see a book you like on our book list??? Come write for Rhea! Even if it's your first book review and/or you're a grad student, don't be shy! We have mentorship for grad students!
CALLING ALL POTENTIAL BOOK REVIEWERS
See something on our booklist you'd like to review? We'll be delighted to publish you! All the steps of the review process are laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you!
rheaclassicalreviews.com/for-reviewers/
See something on our booklist you'd like to review? We'll be delighted to publish you! All the steps of the review process are laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Review Process Guidelines Books for review Review requests Book suggestions
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May 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Want a summer project and see a book you like on our book list??? Come write for Rhea! Even if it's your first book review and/or you're a grad student, don't be shy! We have mentorship for grad students!
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Check this out!
CALLING ALL POTENTIAL BOOK REVIEWERS
See something on our booklist you'd like to review? We'll be delighted to publish you! All the steps of the review process are laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you!
rheaclassicalreviews.com/for-reviewers/
See something on our booklist you'd like to review? We'll be delighted to publish you! All the steps of the review process are laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you!
rheaclassicalreviews.com/for-reviewers/
For Reviewers
Review Process Guidelines Books for review Review requests Book suggestions
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May 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Check this out!
CALLING ALL POTENTIAL BOOK REVIEWERS
See something on our booklist you'd like to review? We'll be delighted to publish you! All the steps of the review process are laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you!
rheaclassicalreviews.com/for-reviewers/
See something on our booklist you'd like to review? We'll be delighted to publish you! All the steps of the review process are laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you!
rheaclassicalreviews.com/for-reviewers/
For Reviewers
Review Process Guidelines Books for review Review requests Book suggestions
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May 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
CALLING ALL POTENTIAL BOOK REVIEWERS
See something on our booklist you'd like to review? We'll be delighted to publish you! All the steps of the review process are laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you!
rheaclassicalreviews.com/for-reviewers/
See something on our booklist you'd like to review? We'll be delighted to publish you! All the steps of the review process are laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you!
rheaclassicalreviews.com/for-reviewers/
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It's new book review day on Rhea!
Janette Snyder reviews Gesthimani Seferiadi, "Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2022).
Janette Snyder reviews Gesthimani Seferiadi, "Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2022).
Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae
Gesthimani Seferiadi, Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae (Bloomsbury Academic Press: 2022). 9781350260313. Reviewed by Janette Snyder, Florida State University, [email protected]. Despite the …
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May 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It's new book review day on Rhea!
Janette Snyder reviews Gesthimani Seferiadi, "Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2022).
Janette Snyder reviews Gesthimani Seferiadi, "Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2022).