REVIEWS WEST AND EAST: A REVIEW ARTICLE (12) Reference Oxford University Press and Wiley-Blackwell, dominant in the genre of the handbook, are also heavily involved in encyclopaedias, some thematic (for example migration), others dealing with regions or periods. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Greece and Rome 1 is a handsome and, in all senses, weighty production from the American arm of OUP: the entire Editorial Board is based in the United States (hence the BCE/CE usage?). The contributors, however (over 600, some younger scholars but others well established), are drawn from across the Anglosphere and all corners of Europe and adjacent areas (their affiliations could have been tidied up a bit, pp. cv–cxxxix). The 7-volume set houses well over a thousand entries, typi- cally of around 1200 words in length including the bibliographies that conclude them, but with some far longer (for example Aristophanes and Aristotle), topped by a 25-page tabular chronology arranged in parallel columns headed ‘Rome and the West’, ‘Greece and the East’, ‘Language, Literature, Philosophy, Religious Thought’ and ‘Art and Architecture’, and tailed by a 217-page index. There are over 40 useful maps (the general map of the Graeco-Roman world considerately repeated as front matter in each volume) and helpful genealogical tables (the Antonines, Flavians, Julio-Claudians, Severans, etc.). It is impossible to give a full flavour of this monumental work between ‘Achaea and the Achaean Confederacy’ and ‘Achilles’, the opening bats, and ‘Zeus’ and ‘Zoology’, via rulers and statesmen (Herod and Hadrian) and forms of political organisation (Tyranny, Democ- racy, Empire, Polis), battles and peoples (Actium and Salamis, Etruscans and Goths), writers and scholars ancient and modern (Herodotus and Strabo, Gibbon and Beazley), religions, gods and myths (Gnosticism, Cybele, Medusa), philosophers and philosophies (Plato and Cynics), places, material cultural attributes (Glass, Textiles, Terracotta Figurines), poetry (numerous pieces), etc. From the Elgin Marbles to the Parthenon, Banquets to the Sympo- sium and Childhood to Death, here is well-considered choice, in subjects and those chosen to tackle them, well-executed articles and well-produced volumes (in a practical and handle- able format; and now, in the spirit of the times, available electronically as well via http:// www.oxfordreference.com/), forming an essential reference work for all. East Susanne Carlsson’s Uppsala dissertation forms the basis of her important study of Hellen- istic democracy in Iasos, Kalymna, Cos and Miletus through the examination of inscrip- 1 M. Gagarin (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, 7 vols., Oxford Univer- sity Press, New York/Oxford 2010, cxlii+ 390 pp., vii+454 pp., vii+433 pp., vii+468 pp., vii+456 pp., vii+441pp., vii+517 pp., illustrations. Cased. ISBN 978-0-19-517072-6. doi: 10.2143/AWE.12.0.2994455 AWE 12 (2013) 303-453