New Book Chronicle
Journal: Antiquity
Year: 2012

Many a book misses being reviewed in Antiquity's Reviews section. The reasons are myriad and sometimes even the most blatant flattery of potential reviewers won't work. This is especially true of very large handbooks containing a cast of thousands and chapters by most of the big players in a particular subject. Take the Oxford handbooks: to let them go completely unreviewed would be shameful, as they are excellent overviews. But reviewing 4400 pages in the 5 books received over the past year is