December 2021 – Rhea Classical Review

Other Natures: Environmental Encounters with Ancient Greek Ethnography

Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Other Natures: Environmental Encounters with Ancient Greek Ethnography (Oakland: University of California Press, 2020). 9780520343481. Reviewed by Emily S. Wilson, Colorado State University, wilsones@colostate.edu. A video from the exhibit “Restoring Earth” at the Field Museum in Chicago asks, “What can the past teach us about living with nature?” (170). Quite a bit, it…More

Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia: Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity

Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper, Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia: Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). 9781108769020. Reviewed by Leticia R. Rodriguez, Florida State University, lrrodriguez@fsu.edu. Intimacy, interaction and play, and social norms as activated and understood through the miniature are but some of the themes that Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper rigorously and playfully explores in…More

The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B: Interpretation and Scribal Practice

Anna Judson, The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B: Interpretation and Scribal Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). 9781108494724. Reviewed by Theodore Nash, University of Michigan, theonash@umich.edu. This review has been reverted to its unedited version per the request of the reviewer (1/4/2022) In the story best known, Linear B was deciphered by Michael Ventris in…More