Reviews for 2003

  • 2003.01.01:  Marco Fantuzzi, Richard Hunter, Muse e modelli. La poesia ellenistica da Alessandro Magno ad Augusto. Roma-Bari: 2002. Pp. x, 600. EUR 48.00. ISBN 88-420-6537-4.
    Reviewed by William Beck.

  • 2003.01.02:  December Books Received.


  • 2003.01.03:  Heikki Solin, Die stadtrömischen Sklavennamen. Ein Namenbuch I-III. Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei, Beiheft 2. Stuttgart: 1996. Pp. xxiv + xvi + xvi + 727. EUR 100.00. ISBN 3-515-07002-8.
    Reviewed by John Bodel.

  • 2003.01.04:  Bernard Pouderon, Les personnages du roman grec. In collaboration with Christine Hunzinger and Dimitri Kasprzyk. Collection de la Maison de l'Orient 29, Litt. 7. Lyons: 2001. Pp. 460. ISBN 2-903264-22-8.
    Reviewed by Tim Whitmarsh.

  • 2003.01.05:  William M. Calder III, R. Scott Smith, John Vaio, Teaching the English Wissenschaft. The Letters of Sir George Cornewall Lewis to Karl Otfried Müller (1828-1839). Spudasmata, 85. Hildesheim: 2002. Pp. xxv, 119. EUR 18.80. ISBN 3-487-11558-1.
    Reviewed by Wilfried Nippel.

  • 2003.01.06:  Guglielmo Genovese, I santuari rurali nella Calabria greca. Studia archaeologica 102. Rome: 1999. Pp. 213; 86 pls. ISBN 88-8265-065-0.
    Reviewed by Ingrid E.M. Edlund-Berry.

  • 2003.01.07:  Ryan K. Balot, Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens. Princeton: 2001. Pp. xi, 291. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-04855-X.
    Reviewed by Barry Strauss.

  • 2003.01.08:  Paul Mirecki, Marvin Meyer, Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World. Leiden: 2002. Pp. xvii + 468. EUR 161.00/$187.00. ISBN 90-04-11676-1.
    Reviewed by Gary Beckman.

  • 2003.01.09:  Pierre Debord, Ender Varinlioglu, Les hautes terres de Carie. Mémoires 4. Bordeaux: 2001. Pp. 329. EUR 73.00. ISBN 2-910023-20-6.
    Reviewed by Andreas Victor Walser.

  • 2003.01.10:  Margaret Alexiou, The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition. Second edition. Revised by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and Panagiotis Roilos. Lanham, MD: 2002. Pp. xviii, 320. $65.00 (hb). ISBN 0-7425-0756-4.
    Reviewed by Diana Wright.

  • 2003.01.11:  Margaret Alexiou, After Antiquity: Greek Language, Myth, and Metaphor. With a foreword by Gregory Nagy. Ithaca: 2002. Pp. xvi + 570. $59.95. ISBN 0-8014-3301-0.
    Reviewed by William F. Wyatt.

  • 2003.01.12:  Aldo Luisi, Nicoletta F. Berrino, Culpa Silenda: Le Elegie dell'Error Ovidiano. Quaderni di "Invigilata Lucernis" 17. Bari: 2002. Pp. 248. EUR 17.00. ISBN 88-7228-345-0.
    Reviewed by J. A. Richmond.

  • 2003.01.13:  Claudia Baracchi, Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic. Bloomington and Indianapolis: 2002. Pp. 264. $49.95 (hb). ISBN 0-253-33995-2.
    Reviewed by Svetla Slaveva-Griffin.

  • 2003.01.14:  Gabriella Carbone, Il centone De alea. Introduzione, testo, traduzione, note critiche, commento e Appendice. Studi Latini 44. Napoli: 2002. Pp. 156. EUR 15.00. ISBN 88-8096-885-8.
    Reviewed by Thomas Opsomer.

  • 2003.01.15:  Luc Brisson, Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, translated from the French by Janet Lloyd. Berkeley: 2002. Pp. xiv, 195. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-520-23148-1.
    Reviewed by Aileen Ajootian.

  • 2003.01.16:  Derek A. Welsby, The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia. Pagans, Christians and Muslims along the Middle Nile. London: 2002. Pp. 296. £29.99. ISBN 0-7141-1947-4.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig.

  • 2003.01.17:  James M. May, Brill's Companion to Cicero: Oratory and Rhetoric. Leiden: 2002. Pp. xiii, 632. $174.00. ISBN 90-04-12147-1.
    Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck.

  • 2003.01.18:  R. B. Branham, Bakhtin and the Classics. Evanston, IL: 2002. Pp. xxvii, 295. $89.95 (hb). ISBN 0-8101-1905-6.
    Reviewed by Thomas R. Walsh.

  • 2003.01.19:  Amato on Carlini on Amato on Torraca.
    Response by Eugenio Amato.

  • 2003.01.20:  J. H. Hordern, The Fragments of Timotheus of Miletus. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: 2002. Pp. xxii + 266. $72.00. ISBN 0-19-924694-7.
    Reviewed by S. Douglas Olson.

  • 2003.01.21:  ALSO SEEN: C. D. N. Costa, Greek Fictional Letters: A Selection with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford: 2002. Pp. 216. $27.50 (pb). ISBN 0-19-924546-0.
    Reviewed by Lee T. Pearcy.

  • 2003.01.22:  Hubert Petersmann, Lingua et Religio: ausgewählte kleine Schriften zur antiken Religionsgeschichte auf sprachwissenschaftlicher Grundlage, herausgegeben von Bernd Heßen. Hypomnemata: Supplement-Reihe 1. Göttingen: 2002. Pp. 304. EUR 56.00. ISBN 3-525-25231-5.
    Reviewed by Eugene N. Lane.

  • 2003.01.23:  Ralph W. Mathisen, Law, society and authority in late Antiquity. Oxford: 2001. Pp. 324. $72.00. ISBN 0-19-924032-9.
    Reviewed by Jan Prostko-Prostynski.

  • 2003.01.24:  Manuel Baumbach, Lukian in Deutschland. Eine forschungs- und rezeptionsgeschichtliche Analyse vom Humanismus bis zur Gegenwart. München: 2002. Pp. 320. EUR 34.90. ISBN 3-7705-3597-9.
    Reviewed by Heinz-Guenther Nesselrath.

  • 2003.01.25:  Giusto Traina, Studi sull'XI libro dei Geographika di Strabone. Con la collaborazione di Alessio Antonio De Siena e Bernadette Tisé. Studi di Filologia e Letteratura 6. Galatina (Lecce): 2001. Pp. 197. EUR 18.08. ISBN 88-80863-95-9.
    Reviewed by Johannes Engels.

  • 2003.01.26:  Katharina Volk, The Poetics of Latin Didactic. Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius. Oxford: 2002. Pp. xv + 288. £45.00. ISBN 0-19-924550-9.
    Reviewed by E.J. Kenney.

  • 2003.01.27:  Delbert Burkett, An Introduction to the New Testament and the Origins of Christianity. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. 600. $80.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-80955-X.
    Reviewed by Peter Oakes.

  • 2003.01.28:  Nicholas Denyer, Plato: Alcibiades. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: 2001. Pp. xi + 254. $65.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-63281-1.
    Reviewed by Mark Joyal.

  • 2003.01.29:  Mark Morford, The Roman Philosophers: from the time of Cato the Censor to the death of Marcus Aurelius. London and New York: 2002. Pp. xii + 292. $70.00. ISBN 0-415-18851-2.
    Reviewed by Brad Inwood.

  • 2003.01.30:  Roilos and Yatromanolakis on Wright on Alexiou.
    Response by Panagiotis Roilos and Dimitrios Yatromanolakis.

  • 2003.01.31:  James Morwood, The Plays of Euripides. London: 2002. Pp. vii, 99. $15.00. ISBN 1-85399-614-9.
    Reviewed by Robin Mitchell-Boyask.

  • 2003.01.32:  André Laks, Claire Louguet, Qu'est-ce que la Philosophie Présocratique? Cahiers de Philologie vol. 20. Villeneuve d'Ascq: 2002. Pp. 550. EUR 29.00. ISBN 2-85939-740-X.
    Reviewed by Christopher Gribbin.

  • 2003.01.33:  Elaine K. Gazda, The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Supplementary Volume I. Ann Arbor: 2002. Pp. 320; pls. 120. $65.00. ISBN 0-472-11189-2.
    Reviewed by Mary-Anne Zagdoun.

  • 2003.01.34:  Barbara Weiden Boyd, Brill's Companion to Ovid. Leiden: 2002. Pp. 533. EUR 159.00/$ 185.00. ISBN 90-04-12156-0.
    Reviewed by Roy Gibson.

  • 2003.01.35:  Konstantinos Kapparis, Abortion in the Ancient World. London: 2002. Pp. viii + 264. £40.00. ISBN 0-7156-3080-6.
    Reviewed by David Noy.

  • 2003.01.36:  Casey Dué, Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis. In the series "Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches". Lanham, MD: 2002. Pp. viii + 140. $26.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7425-2219-9.
    Reviewed by Stephen Evans.

  • 2003.02.01:  M. Andrew Holowchak, Ancient Science and Dreams. Oneirology in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Lanham, MD: 2001. Pp. xxii, 210. $36.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7618-2157-0.
    Reviewed by Christine Walde.

  • 2003.02.02:  Anna Cox Brinton, Maphaeus Vegius and his Thirteenth Book of the Aeneid. London: 2002. Pp. 183. £14.99. ISBN 1-85399-629-7.
    Reviewed by Emma Buckley.

  • 2003.02.03:  Paul Schubert, A Yale Papyrus (P. Yale III 137) in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library III. American Studies in Papyrology 41. Oakville: 2001. Pp. xii, 112; pls. 7. $44.95. ISBN 0-9700591-1-6.
    Reviewed by Jane Rowlandson.

  • 2003.02.04:  Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition. Berkeley: 2002. Pp. xvi, 351. $65.00. ISBN 0-520-22060-9.
    Reviewed by Paul Ojennus.

  • 2003.02.05:  Paul Dräger, Die Argonautica des Apollonius Rhodios. Das zweite Zorn-Epos der griechischen Literatur. BzA 158. München/Leipzig: 2001. Pp. 174. EUR 80.00. ISBN 3-598-77707-8.
    Reviewed by B. Scherer.

  • 2003.02.06:  Books Received (January).


  • 2003.02.07:  Richard Kraut, Aristotle: Political Philosophy. Oxford: 2002. Pp. xiv, 520. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-878200-4.
    Reviewed by David Keyt.

  • 2003.02.08:  Julia Annas, Raphael Woolf, Cicero, On Moral Ends. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: 2001. Pp. xxxix, 158. $14.00 (pb). ISBN 0-521-66901-4.
    Reviewed by Catherine Conybeare.

  • 2003.02.09:  Daniel Caner, Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: 2002. Pp. 325. $65.00. ISBN 0-520-23324-7.
    Reviewed by Raymond Van Dam.

  • 2003.02.10:  John Miles Foley, How to Read an Oral Poem. Urbana and Chicago: 2002. Pp. xviii, 256. $19.95. ISBN 0-252-07082-8.
    Reviewed by Gabriel Bodard.

  • 2003.02.11:  Thomas Harrison, Greeks and Barbarians. New York: 2002. Pp. xv + 336. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-93959-3.
    Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk.

  • 2003.02.12:  Marjorie Susan Venit, Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: The Theater of the Dead. New York: 2002. Pp. xv + 267. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-80659-3.
    Reviewed by Allen Kerkeslager.

  • 2003.02.13:  Christian Körner, Philippus Arabs. Berlin: 2002. Pp. xv + 435. EUR 98.00. ISBN 3-11-017205-4.
    Reviewed by Michael Meckler.

  • 2003.02.14:  Sulochana R. Asirvatham, Corinne Ondine Pache, John Watrous, Between Magic and Religion. Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Society. Lanhan, MD: 2001. Pp. 212. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8476-9969-2.
    Reviewed by David Porreca.

  • 2003.02.15:  William S. Anderson, Lorina N. Quartarone, Approaches to Teaching Vergil's Aeneid. "Approaches to Teaching World Literature" series. New York: 2002. Pp. xiii, 255. $37.50 (hb). ISBN 0-87352-771-2.
    Reviewed by Rudolph Masciantonio.

  • 2003.02.16:  François Chamoux, Hellenistic Civlization. First published as La civilisation hellénistique (Paris: Arthaud, 1981). Translated by Michel Roussel. Malden, MA and Oxford: 2003. Pp. xii + 452. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 0-631-22242-1.
    Reviewed by Michael D. Dixon.

  • 2003.02.17:  Eleanor Dickey, Latin Forms of Address from Plautus to Apuleius. Oxford: 2002. Pp. viii, 414. £45.00. ISBN 0-19-924287-9.
    Reviewed by Philip Burton.

  • 2003.02.18:  A. B. Scott, Hildebertus: Carmina Minora. Editio altera. Munich: 2001. Pp. xxxvi, 112. EUR 58.00/$60.50. ISBN 3-598-71984-1.
    Reviewed by Bridget K. Balint.

  • 2003.02.19:  Theresa Urbainczyk, Theodoret of Cyrrhus: The Bishop and the Holy Man. Ann Arbor: 2002. Pp. x, 174. $49.50. ISBN 0-472-11266-X.
    Reviewed by Adam H. Becker.

  • 2003.02.20:  Silvia Barbantani, FATIS NIKHFOROS. Frammenti di elegia encomiastica nell'età delle Guerre Galatiche: Supplementum Hellenisticum 958 e 969. Biblioteca di Aevum Antiquum: Instituto di Filologia Classica e di Papirologia. Milan: 2001. Pp. xx, 333. EUR 25.82 (pb). ISBN 88-343-0697-X.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes.

  • 2003.02.21:  Woolf on Conybeare on Annas/Woolf.
    Response by Raphael Woolf.

  • 2003.02.22:  S. Douglas Olson, Aristophanes: Acharnians, edited with introduction and commentary. Oxford: 2002. Pp. cii, 379. £65.00. ISBN 0-19-814195-5.
    Reviewed by Alan H. Sommerstein.

  • 2003.02.23:  Laura K. McClure, Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources. Oxford, UK/Malden, MA: 2002. Pp. 318. $62.95 (hb). ISBN 0-631-22588-9.
    Reviewed by Sara E. Phang.

  • 2003.02.24:  Mathilde Skoie, Reading Sulpicia: Commentaries 1475-1990. Oxford: 2002. Pp. 362. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-924573-8.
    Reviewed by Costanza Mastroiacovo.

  • 2003.02.25:  William Allan, Euripides. The Children of Heracles. Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Warminster: 2001. Pp. 240. $28.00 (pb). ISBN 0-85668-741-3.
    Reviewed by Robert Brophy.

  • 2003.02.26:  Dräger on Scherer on Dräger.
    Response by P. Dräger.

  • 2003.02.27:  Robert G. Hoyland, Arabia and the Arabs. From the Bronze Age to Coming of Islam. New York: 2001. Pp. xii, 324. $23.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-19535-7.
    Reviewed by Peter Magee.

  • 2003.02.28:  Laurence Bowkett, Stephen Hill, Diana Wardle, Ken A. Wardle, Classical archaeology in the field: approaches. Classical World Series. London: 2001. Pp. 138. £8.99. ISBN 1-85399-617-3.
    Reviewed by Nicolas Beaudry.

  • 2003.02.29:  Dean Hammer, The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture, Vol. 28. Norman: 2002. Pp. x, 294. $34.95. ISBN 0-8061-3366-X.
    Reviewed by Shawn A. Ross.

  • 2003.02.30:  John G. Fitch, Seneca. Hercules, Trojan Women, Phoenician Women, Medea, Phaedra. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: 2002. Pp. 551. $21.50. ISBN 0-674-99602-X.
    Reviewed by R. Scott Smith.

  • 2003.02.31:  Jean-Jacques Aubert, Boudewijn Sirks, Speculum Iuris. Roman Law as a Reflection of Social and Economic Life in Antiquity. Ann Arbor: 2002. Pp. 203. $49.50. ISBN 0-472-11251-1.
    Reviewed by Vadim B. Prozorov.

  • 2003.02.32:  Antonía Tripolitis, Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age. Grand Rapids, MI: 2002. Pp. x, 165. $16.00 (pb). ISBN 0-8028-4913-X.
    Reviewed by Tim Hegedus.

  • 2003.02.33:  ALSO SEEN. Karl Heinrich Rengstorf, The Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus. Study Edition (2 vols). Leiden: 2002. Pp. xxxviii, 1096; iv, 1152. $299.00. ISBN 90-04-12829-8.
    Reviewed by Catherine Conybeare.

  • 2003.02.34:  Paul W. Ludwig, Eros and Polis: Desire and Community in Greek Political Theory. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. xiii, 398. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-81065-5.
    Reviewed by Clifford A. Bates, Jr..

  • 2003.02.35:  J. Michael Padgett, Roman Sculpture in the Art Museum. Princeton University. Princeton: 2001. Pp. xxix, 426; figs. 394 + 12 col. pls. $45.00. ISBN 0-943012-34-1.
    Reviewed by Amy C. Smith.

  • 2003.02.36:  Kenneth Lapatin, Mysteries of the Snake Goddess: Art, Desire, and the Forging of History. Boston and New York: 2002. Pp. 274. $24.00. ISBN 0-618-14475-7.
    Reviewed by Noula Karatzoglou.

  • 2003.02.37:  Harry B. Evans, Aqueduct Hunting in the Seventeenth Century: Raffaello Fabretti's De aquis et aquaeductibus veteris Romae. Ann Arbor: 2002. Pp. xvi, 309; 38 figs. $55.00. ISBN 0-472-11248-1.
    Reviewed by William Stenhouse.

  • 2003.02.38:  K. Spanoudakis, Philitas of Cos. Mnemosyne Supplement 229. Leiden: 2002. Pp. xxviii, 454. $127.00. ISBN 90-04-12428-4.
    Reviewed by Alexander Sens.

  • 2003.02.39:  Anne Carson, Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan. Martin Classical Lectures. First published in 1999. Paperback edition. Princeton: 2002. Pp. viii, 147. $14.95. ISBN 0-691-09175-7.
    Reviewed by Bruce Krajewski.

  • 2003.02.40:  Paul Woodruff, Sophocles' Antigone. Indianapolis: 2001. Pp. xxxii, 69. $5.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-571-1.
    Reviewed by Thomas H. J. U. Talboy.

  • 2003.03.01:  Karen Eva Carr, Vandals to Visigoths: Rural Settlement Patterns in Early Medieval Spain. Ann Arbor: 2002. Pp. xiv + 242. $54.50. ISBN 0-472-10891-3.
    Reviewed by Michael Kulikowski.

  • 2003.03.02:  Jyri Vaahtera, Roman Augural Lore in Greek Historiography: A Study of the Theory and Terminology. Stuttgart: 2001. Pp. 168. DM 76.27 (pb). ISBN 3-515-07946-7.
    Reviewed by Peter Cohee.

  • 2003.03.03:  BMCR Books Received (February).


  • 2003.03.04:  Maria Federica Petraccia Lucernoni, Gli Stationarii in Età Imperiale. Serta Antiqua et Mediaevalia III. Rome: 2001. Pp. 111. EUR 103.29. ISBN 88-7689-162-5.
    Reviewed by David Noy.

  • 2003.03.05:  J.D. McClatchy, Horace, The Odes. New Translations by Contemporary Poets. Princeton: 2002. Pp. 320. $24.95. ISBN 0-691-04919-X.
    Reviewed by Stephen Harrison.

  • 2003.03.06:  Luca Della Bianca, Simone Beta, Oinos, Il vino nella letteratura greca. Rome: 2002. Pp. 108. EUR 14.50. ISBN 88-430-2151-6.
    Reviewed by N.G. Wilson.

  • 2003.03.07:  F.W. Walbank, Polybius, Rome and the Hellenistic World: Essays and Reflections. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. xiii, 353. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81208-9.
    Reviewed by Donald Walter Baronowski.

  • 2003.03.08:  Karl Christ, Sulla. Eine römische Karriere. Munich: 2002. Pp. 236; 12 figs., 4 maps. EUR 19.90. ISBN 3-406-49285-1.
    Reviewed by A.G. Thein.

  • 2003.03.09:  Ian Worthington, John Miles Foley, Epea and Grammata: Oral and Written Communication in Ancient Greece. Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece, vol. 4. Mnemosyne Supplement 230. Leiden: 2002. Pp. xii, 206. $82.00/EUR 70.00. ISBN 90-04-12455-1.
    Reviewed by James P. Holoka.

  • 2003.03.10:  Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Observations on the letter of Monsieur Mariette, Opinions on Architecture, and Preface to a New Treatise on the Introduction and Progress of the Fine Arts in Europe in Ancient Times. Introduction by J. Wilton-Ely. Translation by C. Beamish and D. Britt. Los Angeles: 2002. Pp. 168; ills. 42. $35.00. ISBN 0-89236-636-2.
    Reviewed by Nancy H. Ramage.

  • 2003.03.11:  Susan Woodford, Images of Myths in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge: 2003. Pp. xxvi, 305; ills. 194. $70.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-78267-8.
    Reviewed by Jenifer Neils.

  • 2003.03.12:  Greg Rowe, Princes and Political Cultures: The New Tiberian Senatorial Decrees. Ann Arbor: 2002. Pp. 195. $49.50. ISBN 0-472-11230-9.
    Reviewed by Peter O'Neill.

  • 2003.03.13:  Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism. Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life 1780-1910. Baltimore: 2002. Pp. 272. $49.95. ISBN 0-8018-6799-1.
    Reviewed by Matthew M. McGowan.

  • 2003.03.14:  Tim Whitmarsh, Greek Literature and the Roman Empire. The Politics of Imitation. Oxford: 2001. Pp. xiv, 377. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-924035-3.
    Reviewed by Lawrence Kim.

  • 2003.03.15:  David Kovacs, Euripides. Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes. Cambridge, MA: 2002. Pp. x, 605. $21.50. ISBN 0-674-99600-3.
    Reviewed by L. Battezzato and E. Medda.

  • 2003.03.16:  Hartwin Brandt, Wird auch silbern mein Haar: Eine Geschichte des Alters in der Antike. Munich: 2002. Pp. 302; 89 b/w photos. 3-406-49593-1. ISBN EUR 29.90.
    Reviewed by Anastasios D. Nikolopoulos.

  • 2003.03.17:  Olli Salomies, The Greek East in the Roman Context. Proceedings of a Colloquium Organised by the Finnish Institute at Athens, May 21 and 22, 1999. Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, VII. Helsinki: 2001. Pp. viii, 218; pls. 5. ISBN 951-98806-0-7.
    Reviewed by Giovanni Salmeri.

  • 2003.03.18:  Klaus Bringmann, Geschichte der Römischen Republik. Munich: 2002. Pp. 463. EUR 35.90. ISBN 3-406-49292-4.
    Reviewed by Chris Epplett.

  • 2003.03.19:  Paul Dräger, D. Magnus Ausonius. Mosella, Bissula, Briefwechsel mit Paulinus Nolanus. Düsseldorf/Zürich: 2002. Pp. 320. EUR 29.80. ISBN 3-7608-1729-7.
    Reviewed by Jennifer Ebbeler.

  • 2003.03.20:  Richard T. Neer, Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, ca. 530-460 BCE. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. 306. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-79111-1.
    Reviewed by Guy Hedreen.

  • 2003.03.21:  G.W. Clarke, Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates: Report on Excavations 1986-1996. Volume One. Mediterranean Archaeology Supplement 5. Sydney: 2002. Pp. xi, 335; pls. 59. $115.00. ISBN 0-9580265-0-5.
    Reviewed by Stefan R. Hauser.

  • 2003.03.22:  Gay L. Byron, Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature. London: 2002. Pp. xii, 223. $25.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-24369-6.
    Reviewed by Anthony Alcock.

  • 2003.03.23:  Barbara Levick, The High Tide of Empire. Emperors and Empire AD 14-117. LACTOR 18. Kingston upon Thames: 2002. Pp. 135. £7.00. ISBN 0-903625-29-6.
    Reviewed by A.T. Fear.

  • 2003.03.24:  Michela Rosellini, Ps. Remmii Palaemonis Regulae. Introduzione, testo e commento. Collectanea Grammatica Latina, 1. Hildesheim: 2001. Pp. lvii, 165. EUR 29.80 (pb). ISBN 3-487-11307-4.
    Reviewed by Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

  • 2003.03.25:  Nino Luraghi, The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus. Oxford: 2001. Pp. 340. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-924050-7.
    Reviewed by Carolyn Dewald.

  • 2003.03.26:  Beta on Wilson on Della Bianca/Beta.
    Response by Simone Beta.

  • 2003.03.27:  Fitch on Smith on Fitch.
    Response by John G. Fitch.

  • 2003.03.28:  Julia Annas, Christopher Rowe, New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient. Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia 6. Cambridge, MA: 2002. Pp. xii, 270. $50.00. ISBN 0-674-01018-3.
    Reviewed by Robin Waterfield.

  • 2003.03.29:  Uvo Hölscher, Pindar. Siegeslieder. Herausgegeben von Thomas Poiss. Mit einem Geleitwort von Michael Theunissen. Munich: 2002. Pp. 160. EUR 26.90. ISBN 3-406-49638-5.
    Reviewed by William Allan.

  • 2003.03.30:  Filippo Coarelli, Pompeii. Translated by Patricia A. Cockram. New York: 2002. Pp. 408; profusely illustrated. $100.00. ISBN 1-878351-59-1.
    Reviewed by Larry Richardson.

  • 2003.03.31:  Rosanna Omitowoju, Rape and the Politics of Consent in Classical Athens. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. ix + 249. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-80074-9.
    Reviewed by Donald Lateiner.

  • 2003.03.32:  Spanoudakis on Sens on Spanoudakis.
    Response by Konstantinos Spanoudakis.

  • 2003.03.33:  John D. Grainger, Nerva and the Roman Succession Crisis of AD 96-99. London: 2003. Pp. xxvii, 162. $75.00. ISBN 0-415-28917-3.
    Reviewed by P.A. Roche.

  • 2003.03.34:  Andrea de Jorio, Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity. A Translation of La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano with introduction and notes by Adam Kendon. First published in 2000. Bloomington: 2002. Pp. cvii, 518. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-253-21506-4.
    Reviewed by Giovanna Ceserani.

  • 2003.03.35:  Rachel Barney, Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus. New York/London: 2001. Pp. vii, 227. $75.00. ISBN 0-8153-3965-8.
    Reviewed by Malcolm D. Hyman.

  • 2003.03.36:  Tracy Lee Simmons, Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin. Foreword by William F. Buckley Jr. Wilmington, DE: 2002. Pp. xviii, 268. $24.95. ISBN 1-882926-73-0.
    Reviewed by Victoria Jennings and Andrea Katsaros.

  • 2003.03.37:  G.D.B. Jones, D.J. Woolliscroft, Hadrian's Wall from the Air. Stroud/Charleston: 2001. Pp. 160. $24.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7524-1946-3.
    Reviewed by Kai Brodersen.

  • 2003.04.01:  Richard Clogg, A Concise History of Greece. Second edition. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. xv, 275. $19.00 (pb).. ISBN 0-521-00479-9.
    Reviewed by Diana Wright.

  • 2003.04.02:  Egbert J. Bakker, Irene J. F. de Jong, Hans van Wees, Brill's Companion to Herodotus. Leiden: 2002. Pp. xx, 652. $208.00. ISBN 90-04-12060-2.
    Reviewed by Stanley M. Burstein.

  • 2003.04.03:  BMCR Books Received (March).


  • 2003.04.04:  Mark W. Edwards, Sound, Sense, and Rhythm: Listening to Greek and Latin Poetry. Princeton: 2002. Pp. xi+191. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-08666-4.
    Reviewed by Michael W. Haslam.

  • 2003.04.05:  Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Der Kouros vom Heiligen Tor. Überraschende Neufunde archaischer Skulptur im Kerameikos in Athen. Sonderband der Antiken Welt, Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie. Mainz am Rhein: 2002. Pp. iv + 58, 42 col. figs., 23 b/w figs., 2 line drawings. EUR 24.80. ISBN 3-8053-2956-3.
    Reviewed by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway.

  • 2003.04.06:  ALSO SEEN: Peter Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000. Second edition. Oxford: 2003. Pp. x, 625. $29.95. ISBN 0-631-22138-7.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2003.04.07:  Anne Mahoney, Roman Sports and Spectacles. Newburyport, MA: 2001. Pp. xiv, 119. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58510-009-9.
    Reviewed by Peter Aronoff.

  • 2003.04.08:  M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music. Oxford: 1992. Pp. 410. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-814975-1.
    Egert Pöhlmann, M.L. West, Documents of Ancient Greek Music. Oxford: 2001. Pp. 222. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-815-223-X.
    Reviewed by William A. Johnson.

  • 2003.04.09:  Sabine Panzram, Stadtbild und Elite: Tarraco, Corduba und Augusta Emerita zwischen Republik und Spätantike. Historia Einzelschriften, Heft 161. Stuttgart: 2002. Pp. 388. EUR 76.00. ISBN 3-515-08039-2.
    Reviewed by Bertrand Goffaux.

  • 2003.04.10:  Nicole Loraux, The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens. Translated by Corinne Pache with Jeff Fort. New York: 2002. Pp. 358. $30.00. ISBN 1-890951-08-0.
    Reviewed by Stephanie Larson.

  • 2003.04.11:  Vayos Liapis, Menandrou Gnomai monostichoi. Eisagôgê, metaphrasê, scholia. Athens: 2002. Pp. 529. ISBN 960-269-189-7.
    Reviewed by Antonis K. Petrides.

  • 2003.04.12:  Martin Bentz, Vasenforschung und Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum -- Standortbestimmung und Perspektiven. Beihefte zum CVA Deutschland, 1. München: 2002. Pp. 144; ills. 192. EUR 51.30. ISBN 3-406-49043-3.
    Reviewed by Thomas Mannack.

  • 2003.04.13:  Lutz Alexander Graumann, Die Krankengeschichten der Epidemienbücher des Corpus Hippocraticum. Medizinhistorische Bedeutung und Möglichkeit der retrospektiven Diagnose. Aachen: 2000. Pp. 272. DM 98.00. ISBN 3-8265-8216-0.
    Reviewed by Monica Bontty.

  • 2003.04.14:  Andrea Cucchiarelli, La satira e il poeta: Orazio tra Epodi e Sermones. Biblioteca di "Materiali e discussione per l'analisi dei testi classici" 17. Pisa: 2001. Pp. 255. EUR 50.00 (pb). ISBN 88-427-0300-1.
    Reviewed by Dan Hooley.

  • 2003.04.15:  Catherine Atherton, Monsters and Monstrosity in Greek and Roman Culture. Nottingham Classical Literature Studies Midland Classical Studies vol. 6. Bari: 2002. Pp. 135. EUR 25.00. ISBN 88-7949-290-X.
    Reviewed by Monica Ressel Giordani.

  • 2003.04.16:  Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp, Schiedsrichter, Gesetzgeber und Gesetzgebung im archaischen Griechenland. Historia-Einzelschrift, 131. Stuttgart: 1999. Pp. 343. EUR 50.00. ISBN 3-515-06928-3.
    Reviewed by Eric W. Robinson.

  • 2003.04.17:  Malcolm Heath, Interpreting Classical Texts. London: 2002. Pp. 153. £9.99. ISBN 0-7156-3174-8.
    Reviewed by Janet Sullivan.

  • 2003.04.18:  A.B. Bosworth, E.J. Baynham, Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction. Oxford: 2002. Pp. ix, 370; 18 figs. $22.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-925275-0.
    Reviewed by Marc Steinmann.

  • 2003.04.19:  Annie Vigourt, Les Présages Impériaux d'Auguste à Domitien. Collections de l'Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. Études d'archéologie et d'histoire ancienne. Paris: 2001. Pp. 532. EUR 50.00. ISBN 2-7018-0146-X.
    Reviewed by Alex Nice.

  • 2003.04.20:  Pierre Judet de la Combe, L'Agamemnon d'Eschyle: Commentaire des dialogues. Paris: 2001. Pp. 892. EUR 59.46. ISBN 2-85939-627-6.
    Reviewed by D.M. Goldstein.

  • 2003.04.21:  Willem Jongman, Marc Kleijwegt, After the Past. Essays in Ancient History in Honour of H. W. Pleket. Mnemosyne Supplement 233. Leiden: 2002. Pp. vii, 378. EUR 79.00. ISBN 90-04-12816-6.
    Reviewed by Jonathan S. Perry.

  • 2003.04.22:  ALSO SEEN: Giuseppina Basta Donzelli, Euripides: Electra. Editio correctior editionis prioris (MXCV). Munich and Leipzig: 2002. Pp. xxxviii, 84. EUR 32.00 (pb). ISBN 3-598-71245-6.
    Reviewed by Martin Cropp.

  • 2003.04.23:  Mary Harlow, Ray Laurence, Growing Up and Growing Old in Ancient Rome. A Life Course Approach. London: 2002. Pp. viii, 184. $23.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-20201-9.
    Reviewed by L.E. Bablitz.

  • 2003.04.24:  David Bouvier, Le sceptre et la lyre. L'Iliade ou les héros de la mémoire. Collection Horos. Grenoble: 2002. Pp. 514. EUR 38.00. ISBN 2-84137-122-0.
    Reviewed by Barbara Clayton.

  • 2003.04.25:  Craig A. Gibson, Interpreting a Classic: Demosthenes and His Ancient Commentators. Berkeley: 2002. Pp. xii, 261. $55.00. ISBN 0-520-22956-8.
    Reviewed by Brad L. Cook.

  • 2003.04.26:  Barbara Feichtinger, Georg Wöhrle, Gender Studies in den Altertumswissenschaften: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen. Trier: 2002. Pp. 124. EUR 17.50. ISBN 3-88476-465-9.
    Reviewed by Farouk F. Grewing.

  • 2003.04.27:  Valerie M. Warrior, Roman Religion: A Sourcebook. Newburyport, MA: 2002. Pp. 215. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58510-030-7.
    Reviewed by Samuel J. Huskey.

  • 2003.04.28:  Kathryn Lomas, Tim Cornell, "Bread and Circuses": Euergetism and Municipal Patronage in Roman Italy. London: 2003. Pp. 192. $80.00. ISBN 0-415-14689-5.
    Reviewed by James M. Quillin.

  • 2003.04.29:  Franco Bellandi, Emanuele Berti, Maurizio Ciappi, Iustissima Virgo: Il mito della Vergine in Germanico e in Avieno. Saggio di commento a Germanico Arati Phaen. 96-139 e Avieno Arati Phaen. 273-352. Pisa: 2001. Pp. 268. EUR 35.00. ISBN 88-427-0319-2.
    Reviewed by Katharina Volk.

  • 2003.05.01:  BMCR Books Received (April).


  • 2003.05.02:  Liapis on Petrides on Liapis.
    Response by Vayos Liapis.

  • 2003.05.03:  James Morwood, John Taylor, Pocket Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary. Oxford: 2002. Pp. 640. $16.95. ISBN 0-19-860512-9.
    Reviewed by Anne Mahoney.

  • 2003.05.04:  Giancarlo Abbamonte, Lucia Gualdo Rosa, Luigi Munzi, PARRHASIANA II. Atti del II Seminario di Studi su Manoscritti Medievali e Umanistici della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli. Napoli, 20-21 ottobre 2000. Naples: 2002. Pp. 243. ISBN ISSN 1128-7209.
    Reviewed by Julia Gaisser.

  • 2003.05.05:  Lucy T. Shoe Meritt, Ingrid E. M. Edlund-Berry, Etruscan and Republican Roman Mouldings. A Reissue of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome XXVIII, 1965 by Lucy Shoe Meritt (including preface and new chapters). Philadelphia: 2000. Pp. 256; pls. 78, figs. 45. $85.00. ISBN 0-924171-77-4.
    Reviewed by Paul D. Scotton.

  • 2003.05.06:  Stefan Rebenich, Jerome. London: 2002. Pp. 211. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-19906-9.
    Reviewed by Vincent Hunink.

  • 2003.05.07:  Erja Salmenkivi, Cartonnage Papyri in Context. New Ptolemaic Documents from Abu Sir al-Malaq. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 119. Helsinki: 2002. Pp. 182; pls. 20. ISBN 951-653-319-1.
    Reviewed by J.G. Manning.

  • 2003.05.08:  Diethard Nickel, Galen. Über die Ausformung der Keimlinge (de foetuum formatione). Corpus medicorum graecorum, V 3, 3. Berlin: 2001. Pp. 198. EUR 99.80. ISBN 3-05-003691-5.
    Reviewed by Rebecca Flemming.

  • 2003.05.09:  Elizabeth Ivory Tylawsky, Saturio's Inheritance: The Greek Ancestry of the Roman Comic Parasite. Artists & Issues in the Theatre, vol. 9. New York: 2002. Pp. 192. $53.95. ISBN 0-8204-4128-7.
    Reviewed by Robert Brophy.

  • 2003.05.10:  Katja Sporn, Heiligtümer und Kulte Kretas in klassischer und hellenisticher Zeit. Studien zu antiken Heiligtümern, 3. Heidelberg: 2002. Pp. 416. EUR 75.00. ISBN 3-935289-00-6.
    Reviewed by Charles Delattre.

  • 2003.05.11:  Christiane Zivie-Coche, Sphinx: History of a Monument. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca: 2002. Pp. xvi, 122. $25.00. ISBN 0-8014-3962-0.
    Reviewed by Joshua T. Katz.

  • 2003.05.12:  Andrea Taddei, Louis Gernet e le techniche del diritto Ateniese. Con il testo delle Études sur la technique du droit athénien à l'époque classique. Pisa: 2001. Pp. 194. EUR 48.00. ISBN 88-427-0321-4.
    Reviewed by Michael Gagarin.

  • 2003.05.13:  Antoine Foucher, Historia proxima poetis. L'influence de la poésie épique sur le style des historiens latins de Salluste à Ammien Marcellin. Collection Latomus, 255. Brussels: 2000. Pp. 487. ISBN 2-87031-196-6.
    Reviewed by Christina S. Kraus.

  • 2003.05.14:  Klaus Geus, Eratosthenes von Kyrene. Studien zur hellenistischen Kultur- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und antiken Rechtsgeschichte, 92. München: 2002. Pp. 413. EUR 88.00. ISBN 3-406-48976-1.
    Reviewed by Astrid Möller.

  • 2003.05.15:  Raffaella Cribiore, Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. Princeton: 2001. Pp. 288. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-00264-9.
    Reviewed by Philomen Probert.

  • 2003.05.16:  John M. Camp, The Archaeology of Athens. New Haven: 2001. Pp. 352. $39.95. ISBN 0-300-08197-9.
    Reviewed by Linda Jones Roccos.

  • 2003.05.17:  Jan Willem Drijvers, John M. Watt, Portraits of Spiritual Authority: Religious Power in Early Christianity, Byzantium & the Christian Orient. Leiden: 1999. Pp. 227. $75.00. ISBN 90-04-11459-9.
    Reviewed by Michelle M. Sauer.

  • 2003.05.18:  Machi Païsi-Apostolopoulou, Eranos. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on the Odyssey (2-7 September 2000). Ithaca: 2001. Pp. 512. EUR 30.00. ISBN 960-85093-4-3.
    Reviewed by Ruth Scodel.

  • 2003.05.19:  Yehudit Turnheim, Asher Ovadiah, Art in the Public and Private Spheres in Roman Caesarea Maritima. RdA Supplementi 27. Roma: 2002. Pp. 80; ills. 116. EUR 180.00. ISBN 88-7689-183-8.
    Reviewed by Hagith Sivan.

  • 2003.05.20:  Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils, Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon. Notre Dame: 2003. Pp. 352. $59.95 (hb). ISBN 0-268-03871-6.
    Reviewed by Harold Tarrant.

  • 2003.05.21:  Raymond Astbury, M. Terentius Varro: Saturarum Menippearum Fragmenta. Second edition. Munich & Leipzig: 2002. Pp. xliv, 155. EUR 48.00. ISBN 3-598-71236-7.
    Reviewed by Regine May.

  • 2003.05.22:  Alessandro Perutelli, Frustula Poetarum. Bologna: 2002. Pp. 187. EUR 13.00. ISBN 88-555-2652-9.
    Reviewed by James E. G. Zetzel.

  • 2003.05.23:  Ruth Scodel, Listening to Homer: tradition, narrative, and audience. Ann Arbor: 2002. Pp. 235. $49.50. ISBN 0-472-11265-1.
    Reviewed by Maureen Alden.

  • 2003.05.24:  Jerry Toner, Rethinking Roman History. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. 138. EUR 15.00. ISBN 0-906672-49-X.
    Reviewed by T. Davina McClain.

  • 2003.05.25:  Michael Reichel, Antonios Rengakos, EPEA PTEROENTA. Beiträge zur Homerforschung. Festschrift für Wolfgang Kullmann zum 75. Geburtstag. Stuttgart: 2002. Pp. 246. EUR 48.00. ISBN 3-515-07980-7.
    Reviewed by Andrew Faulkner.

  • 2003.05.26:  William Allan, Euripides: Medea. London: 2002. Pp. 143. £10.99. ISBN 0-7156-3187-X.
    Reviewed by Markus Dubischar.

  • 2003.05.27:  W.W. Fortenbaugh, Aristotle on Emotion. A Contribution to Philosophical Psychology, Rhetoric, Poetics, Politics and Ethics. First published in 1975. Second Edition with a new epilogue. London: 2003. Pp. 142. £12.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3167-5.
    Reviewed by Peter Aronoff.

  • 2003.06.01:  Coarelli et al. on Richardson on Coarelli.
    Response by Filippo Coarelli, Emidio De Albentiis, Maria Paola Guidobaldi, Fabrizio Pesando, Antonio Varone.

  • 2003.06.02:  ALSO SEEN: Marcel Conche, Lucrèce et l'expérience. Collection Noêsis. Saint-Laurent (Québec): 2003. Pp. 223. EUR 18.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7621-2486-7.
    Reviewed by Tobias Reinhardt.

  • 2003.06.03:  Paul Allen Miller, Latin Erotic Elegy. An anthology and reader. Edited with an introduction and commentary. London and New York: 2002. Pp. 486. $80.00 (hb). ISBN 0-415-24371-8.
    Reviewed by A. Ramírez de Verger.

  • 2003.06.04:  Nadia Urbinati, Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government. Chicago: 2002. Pp. 293. $37.50. ISBN 0-226-84277-0.
    Reviewed by John Lewis and Robert Garmong.

  • 2003.06.05:  M. Gabriella Angeli Bertinelli, Luigi Piccirilli, Linguaggio e terminologia diplomatica dall'antico oriente all'impero bizantino. Atti del Convegno Nazionale, Genova 19 Novembre 1998. "Serta Antiqua et Mediaevalia" IV. Roma: 2001. Pp. 170. ISBN 88-7689-163-3.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2003.06.06:  Michele Fasolo, La via egnatia I. Da Apollonia e Dyrrachium ad Herakleia Lynkestidos. Viae Publicae Romanae, 1. Rome: 2003. Pp. 286.
    Reviewed by Gregory S. Bucher.

  • 2003.06.07:  Andrew Ford, The Origins of Criticism: Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece. Princeton: 2002. Pp. 376. $45.00. ISBN 0-691-07485-2.
    Reviewed by Eustratios Papaioannou.

  • 2003.06.08:  BMCR Books Received (May).


  • 2003.06.09:  H. Görgemanns, Plutarch. Drei religionsphilosophische Schriften. Sammlung Tusculum. Düsseldorff/Zürich: 2003. Pp. 418. EUR 42.00. ISBN 3-7608-1728-9.
    Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst.

  • 2003.06.10:  Hermann S. Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria. Oxford: 2002. Pp. xvi, 419. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-924921-0.
    Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson.

  • 2003.06.11:  Christoph Reusser, Vasen für Etrurien. Verbreitung und Funktionen attischer Keramik im Etrurien des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Zürich: 2002. Pp. 208; 272. $75.00 (pb). ISBN 3-905083-17-5.
    Reviewed by Adolfo J. Dominguez.

  • 2003.06.12:  Paola Volpe, Franco Ferrari, Ricerche su Dione di Prusa. Napoli: 2001. Pp. 180. Lire 12.480.
    Reviewed by Mary-Anne Zagdoun.

  • 2003.06.13:  Gabriel Laguna Mariscal, Estudio literario de la poesía 67 de Catulo. Classical and Byzantine Monographs, LII. Amsterdam: 2002. Pp. 138. EUR 32.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-0638-5.
    Reviewed by Rosario Moreno Soldevila and Ana Pérez Vega.

  • 2003.06.14:  Annabel Robinson, The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford: 2002. Pp. xvi, 332; 18 ills. $70.00. ISBN 0-19-924233-X.
    Reviewed by James P. Holoka.

  • 2003.06.15:  Marcella Farioli, Mundus alter. Utopie e distopie nella commedia greca antica. Milano: 2001. Pp. 293. EUR 23.25 (pb). ISBN 88-343-0720-8.
    Reviewed by María José García Soler.

  • 2003.06.16:  Randall L.B. McNeill, Horace: Image, Identity and Audience. Baltimore: 2001. Pp. 188. $42.50. ISBN 0-8018-6666-9.
    Reviewed by A.D. Morrison.

  • 2003.06.17:  Christos Fakas, Der hellenistische Hesiod. Arats Phainomena und die Tradition der antiken Lehrepik. Serta Graeca: Beiträge zur Erforschung griechischer Texte, Band 11. Wiesbaden: 2001. Pp. x, 258. EUR 65.00. ISBN 3-89500-211-9.
    Reviewed by Christiaan L. Caspers.

  • 2003.06.18:  Joseph W. Shaw, Maria C. Shaw, Kommos IV: The Greek Sanctuary. Part 1: Text; Part 2: Plates. Princeton: 2000. Pp. xvi, 813; pls. 430, foldouts 6, tables 63. $195.00. ISBN 0-691-05080-5.
    Reviewed by Donald C. Haggis.

  • 2003.06.19:  Claude Eilers, Roman Patrons of Greek Cities. Oxford: 2002. Pp. xiii, 334. $80.00. ISBN 0-19-924848-6.
    Reviewed by Koenraad Verboven.

  • 2003.06.20:  Silke Knippschild, "Drum bietet zum Bunde die Hände": Rechtssymbolische Akte in zwischenstaatlichen Beziehungen im orientalischen und griechisch-römischen Altertum. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 5. Stuttgart: 2002. Pp. 223; figs. 23. EUR 50.00. ISBN 3-515-08079-1.
    Reviewed by Anthony Corbeill.

  • 2003.06.21:  Michael Paschalis, Horace and Greek Lyric Poetry. Rethymnon Classical Studies 1. Rethymnon: 2002. Pp. ix, 195. EUR 25.00 (pb). ISBN 960-714-318-3.
    Reviewed by Stephen Harrison.

  • 2003.06.22:  Paul Veyne, Seneca: The Life of a Stoic. New York and London: 2003. Pp. 191. $45.00. ISBN 0-415-91125-7.
    Reviewed by Sarah Byers.

  • 2003.06.23:  Fritz Mitthof, Ein spätantikes Wirtschaftsbuch aus Diospolis Parva. Der Erlanger Papyruskodex und die Texte aus seinem Umfeld (P. Erl. Diosp.). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, Beiheft 12. Leipzig: 2002. Pp. xviii, 103; pls. 20. EUR 78.00. ISBN 3-498-77547-4.
    Reviewed by Roger S. Bagnall.

  • 2003.06.24:  K.S. Brown, Yannis Hamilakis, The Usable Past: Greek Metahistories. Lanham: 2003. Pp. xiv, 239; figs. 33. $70.00 (hb). ISBN 0-7391-0383-0.
    Reviewed by John K. Papadopoulos.

  • 2003.06.25:  Angela Pabst, Die Athenische Demokratie. Munich: 2003. Pp. 124; ills. 6. EUR 7.90. ISBN 3-406-48008-X.
    Reviewed by James P. Holoka.

  • 2003.06.26:  I.P. Stephenson, K.R. Dixon, Roman Cavalry Equipment. Stroud/Charleston, SC: 2003. Pp. 127; figs. 104, colour pls. 18. £17.99/$29.99. ISBN 0-7524-1421-6.
    Reviewed by D.B. Campbell.

  • 2003.06.27:  Guido Bastianini, Un Poeta Ritrovato, Posidippo di Pella. Giornata di studio. Milano 23 novembre 2001. Milan: 2002. Pp. 78. EUR 8.00. ISBN 88-7916-199-7.
    Reviewed by Alexander Sens.

  • 2003.06.28:  Gunnel Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods. Kernos Supplément, 12. Liège: 2002. Pp. 429. EUR 50.00. ISBN (ISSN) 0776-3824.
    Reviewed by Jesper Jensen.

  • 2003.06.29:  Diana Spencer, The Roman Alexander. Reading a Cultural Myth. Exeter: 2002. Pp. 277. $26.95 (pb). ISBN 0-85989-678-1.
    Reviewed by Carlo Franco.

  • 2003.06.30:  Christoph Schäfer, Eumenes von Kardia und der Kampf um die Macht im Alexanderreich. Frankfurt: 2002. Pp. 194. EUR 50.00. ISBN 3-934040-06-03.
    Reviewed by Chris Epplett.

  • 2003.06.31:  Olav Hackstein, Die Sprachform der homerischen Epen. Wiesbaden: 2002. Pp. xxiv, 329. EUR 58.00. ISBN 3-89500-302-6.
    Reviewed by Dag Haug.

  • 2003.06.32:  Elio Lo Cascio, Mercati permanenti e mercati periodici nel mondo romano. Atti degli Incontri capresi di storia dell'economia antica (Capri 13-15 ottobre 1997). Pragmateiai 2. Bari: 2000. Pp. 280. EUR 30.98. ISBN 88-7228-246-2.
    Reviewed by David B. Hollander.

  • 2003.06.33:  Dieter Arnold, The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture. Translated by Sabine Gardiner and Helen Strudwick, edited by Nigel and Helen Strudwick. Princeton: 2003. Pp. 274. $39.95. ISBN 0-691-11488-9.
    Reviewed by Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner.

  • 2003.06.34:  Bruce W. Winter, Philo and Paul among the Sophists: Alexandrian and Corinthian Responses to a Julio-Claudian Movement. Second Edition. Grand Rapids/Cambridge: 2002. Pp. 302. $32.00. ISBN 0-8028-3977-0.
    Reviewed by Jay Twomey.

  • 2003.06.35:  James Tatum, The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam. Chicago: 2003. Pp. xx, 214; figs. 31. $32.00. ISBN 0-226-78993-4.
    Reviewed by Jonathan Shay.

  • 2003.06.36:  Ulrich Eigler, Ulrich Gotter, Nino Luraghi, Uwe Walter, Formen römischer Geschichtsschreibung von den Anfängen bis Livius. Gattungen - Autoren - Kontexte. Darmstadt: 2003. Pp. 352. EUR 39.90. ISBN 3-534-16297-8.
    Reviewed by Christopher B. Krebs.

  • 2003.06.37:  P.K. Marshall, Hyginus: Fabulae. Editio altera. Munich: 2002. Pp. xxii, 242. EUR 54.00. ISBN 3-598-71237-5.
    Reviewed by Wilfred E. Major.

  • 2003.06.38:  Niall W. Slater, Spectator Politics. Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes. Philadelphia: 2002. Pp. 363. $59.95. ISBN 0-8122-3652-1.
    Reviewed by Judith Fletcher.

  • 2003.06.39:  Beat Näf, Antike und Altertumswissenschaft in der Zeit von Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus. Kolloquium Universität Zürich 14.-17. Oktober 1998. Mandelbachtal-Cambridge: 2001. Pp. 641. ISBN 3-934285-46-5.
    Reviewed by Richard F. Thomas.

  • 2003.06.40:  Nikolaos Kaltsas, Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Translated by Dr. David Hardy. Kapon Editions 2002. Los Angeles: 2003. Pp. 376, 28 col. figs., 670 b/w figs. $100.00. ISBN 0-89236-686-9.
    Reviewed by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway.

  • 2003.06.41:  Beate Dignas, Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. Oxford: 2003. Pp. viii, 364. $85.00. ISBN 0-19-925408-7.
    Reviewed by William J. Slater.

  • 2003.06.42:  Rodney Merrill, The Odyssey of Homer. With introductions by Thomas R. Walsh and Rodney Merrill. Ann Arbor: 2002. Pp. viii, 421. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-472-08854-8.
    Reviewed by Stephen Evans.

  • 2003.06.43:  Susan A. Stephens, Seeing Double. Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria. Hellenistic Culture and Society, 37. Berkeley: 2002. Pp. xvi, 292; pls. 6. $65.00. ISBN 0-520229-738.
    Reviewed by Silvia Barbantani.

  • 2003.06.44:  D.I. Woolliscroft, Roman Military Signalling. Stroud and Charleston: 2001. Pp. 191. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7524-1938-2.
    Reviewed by Andrea De Giorgi.

  • 2003.06.45:  Pantelis Michelakis, Achilles in Greek Tragedy. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. 218. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-81843-5.
    Reviewed by David Fitzpatrick.

  • 2003.06.46:  S.R. Llewelyn, New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity. Volume 9: A Review of the Greek Inscriptions and Papyri Published in 1986-87. Grand Rapids and Cambridge: 2002. Pp. xvi, 136. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-8028-4519-3.
    Reviewed by Adam Serfass.

  • 2003.06.47:  Lisa Florman, Myth and Metamorphosis: Picasso's Classical Prints of the 1930s. Paperback reprint of 2001 edition. Cambridge, MA: 2002. Pp. xv, 263. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-262-56155-7.
    Reviewed by Thomas E. Jenkins.

  • 2003.06.48:  Alan Silverman, The Dialectic of Essence. A Study of Plato's Metaphysics. Princeton: 2003. Pp. 393. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-691-09179-X.
    Reviewed by S. A. Burgess.

  • 2003.06.49:  Carmela Concilio, Massimiliano D'Aiuto, Sara Polizio, La Tradizione Metrica della Tragedia Greca. Napoli: 2002. Pp. 74. EUR 7.50.
    Reviewed by Anne Mahoney.

  • 2003.06.50:  Barbara Patzek, Homer und seine Zeit. Munich: 2003. Pp. 127; ills. 9. EUR 7.90. ISBN 3-406-48002-0.
    Reviewed by James P. Holoka.

  • 2003.06.51:  Urbinati on Lewis and Garmong on Urbinati.
    Response by Nadia Urbinati.

  • 2003.07.01:  Daniel Ogden, Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds. A Sourcebook. New York: 2002. Pp. 353. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-515123-2.
    Reviewed by Radcliffe G. Edmonds III.

  • 2003.07.02:  Luc Brisson, Jean-François Pradeau, Platon. Le Politique. Paris: 2003. Pp. 316. ISBN 2-08-071156-3.
    Reviewed by Ruby Blondell.

  • 2003.07.03:  Clifford Angel Bates, Jr., Aristotle's "Best Regime". Kingship, Democracy, and the Rule of Law. Baton Rouge: 2003. Pp. 234. $65.00. ISBN 0-8071-2830-9.
    Reviewed by John Lewis.

  • 2003.07.04:  BMCR Books Received (June).


  • 2003.07.05:  Roberto Cassanelli, Pier Luigi Ciapparelli, Enrico Colle, Massimilano David, Houses and Monuments of Pompeii: The Works of Fausto and Felice Niccolini. With an introduction by Stefano De Caro, Translated by Thomas M. Hartmann. Los Angeles: 2002. Pp. 223. $75.00. ISBN 0-89236-684-2.
    Reviewed by John R. Clarke.

  • 2003.07.06:  Gerrit J. Reinink, Bernard H. Stolte, The Reign of Heraclius (610-641). Crisis and Confrontation. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, 2. Leuven: 2002. Pp. 319. EUR 45.00. ISBN 90-429-1228-6.
    Reviewed by Anthony Alcock.

  • 2003.07.07:  Buckler on Fletcher on Slater.
    Response by Caroline Buckler.

  • 2003.07.08:  Stefan Radt, Strabons Geographika, Band 1, Prolegomena, Buch I-IV: Text und Übersetzung. Göttingen: 2002. Pp. 563. EUR 141.00. ISBN 3-525-25950-6.
    Reviewed by Sarah Pothecary.

  • 2003.07.09:  Ted Kaizer, The Religious Life of Palmyra. Stuttgart: 2002. Pp. 305; pls. vii. EUR 64.00/sFr 102.40. ISBN 3-515-08027-9.
    Reviewed by Tawny L. Holm.

  • 2003.07.10:  Norma Thompson, The Ship of State: Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America. New Haven: 2001. Pp. 243. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-08817-5.
    Reviewed by Stephen Salkever.

  • 2003.07.11:  Oliver Hekster, Commodus: An Emperor at the Crossroads. Amsterdam: 2002. Pp. vi, 250; pls. 19. EUR 68.00. ISBN 90-5063-238-6.
    Reviewed by P.A. Roche.

  • 2003.07.12:  Harvey Yunis, Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: 2003. Pp. 262. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-80930-4.
    Reviewed by Jason G. Hawke.

  • 2003.07.13:  Fletcher on Buckler on Fletcher on Slater.
    Response by Judith Fletcher.

  • 2003.07.14:  Michael A. Flower, John Marincola, Herodotus: Histories Book IX. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. xvi, 357. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 0-521-59650-5.
    Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk.

  • 2003.07.15:  Pamela Ann Draper, Homer. Iliad Book 1 with notes and vocabulary. Ann Arbor: 2002. Pp. vi, 193. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 0-472-06792-3.
    Reviewed by Martin Schmidt.

  • 2003.07.16:  Giorgio Piras, Varrone e i Poetica Verba: Studio sul settimo libro del De lingua latina. Bologna: 1998. Pp. 220. L 25,000 (pb). ISBN 88-555-2477-1.
    Reviewed by Peter King.

  • 2003.07.17:  Grace M. Ledbetter, Poetics before Plato: Interpretation and Authority in Early Greek Theories of Poetry. Princeton: 2003. Pp. 128. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-09609-0.
    Reviewed by Anastasios D. Nikolopoulos.

  • 2003.07.18:  M.J. Versluys, Aegyptiaca Romana. Nilotic Scenes and the Roman Views of Egypt. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 144. Leiden: 2002. Pp. 509; illus. 171. $149.00. ISBN 90-04-12440-3.
    Reviewed by Prudence J. Jones.

  • 2003.07.19:  Gloria Ferrari, Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece. Chicago: 2002. Pp. viii, 352. $60.00. ISBN 0-226-22436-9.
    Reviewed by Alastair J.L. Blanshard.

  • 2003.07.20:  Niklas Holzberg, Martial und das antike Epigramm. Darmstadt: 2002. Pp. 168. EUR 19.90. ISBN 3-534-15083-X.
    Reviewed by Farouk F. Grewing.

  • 2003.07.21:  Peter Oakes, Rome in the Bible and the Early Church. Carlisle / Grand Rapids: 2002. Pp. xvii, 166. $17.99. ISBN 1-84227-133-4.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Garstad.

  • 2003.07.22:  M. Di Marco, B.M. Palumbo Stracca, E. Lelli, Poiesis. Bibliografia della poesia greca 2000. I (2001). Pisa/Roma: 2002. Pp. 424. EUR 250.00 (annual subscription). ISBN 88-8147-303-8.
    Reviewed by Luis Guichard.

  • 2003.07.23:  Donald J. Mastronarde, Euripides: Medea. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. x, 431. $70.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-64365-1.
    Reviewed by Michael R. Halleran.

  • 2003.07.24:  Maddalena Bonelli, Alessandro di Afrodisia e la metafisica come scienza dimostrativa. Napoli: 2001. Pp. 316. ISBN 88-7088-392-2.
    Reviewed by Anna Marmodoro.

  • 2003.07.25:  Lucia Impelluso, Gods and Heroes in Art. Edited by Stefano Zuffi. Translated by Thomas Michael Hartmann. Originally published in Italian as Eroi e dei dell'antichità (Milan: Elemond, 2002). Los Angeles: 2003. Pp. 384; pls. 400. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-89236-702-4.
    Reviewed by Raymond Cormier.

  • 2003.07.26:  Karen L. King, What is Gnosticism?. Cambridge, MA: 2003. Pp. 343. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01071-X.
    Reviewed by Nicola Denzey.

  • 2003.07.27:  Stephen Halliwell, The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems. Princeton: 2002. Pp. ix, 424. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-691-09258-3.
    Reviewed by Andrew Ford.

  • 2003.07.28:  Don Fowler, Lucretius on Atomic Motion. A Commentary on De Rerum Natura, Book Two, Lines 1-332. Oxford: 2002. Pp. 513. $110.00. ISBN 0-19-924358-1.
    Reviewed by Walter Englert.

  • 2003.07.29:  Thomas K. Hubbard, Homosexuality in Greece and Rome. A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. Berkeley: 2003. Pp. xvii, 558; ills. 26. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 0-520-23430-8.
    Reviewed by J.L. Butrica.

  • 2003.07.30:  Sarah B. Pomeroy, Spartan Women. Oxford: 2002. Pp. xvii, 198. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-513067-7.
    Reviewed by Nicholas F. Jones.

  • 2003.07.31:  Glenn W. Most, Disciplining Classics - Altertumswissenschaft als Beruf. Göttingen: 2002. Pp. 280. EUR 62.00. ISBN 3-525-25905-0.
    Reviewed by Dirk t. D. Held.

  • 2003.07.32:  Donna F. Wilson, Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. ix, 236. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-80660-7.
    Reviewed by Robert J. Rabel.

  • 2003.07.33:  Mary Beard, The Parthenon. Cambridge, MA: 2003. Pp. 209. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-01085-X.
    Reviewed by Nassos Papalexandrou.

  • 2003.07.34:  Paul A. Cartledge, The Greeks. A Portrait of Self and Others. Second edition. Oxford: 2002. Pp. xvi, 260. £9.99/$18.95. ISBN 0-19-280388-3.
    Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk.

  • 2003.07.35:  Stanley M. Burstein, Nancy Demand, Ian Morris, Lawrence Tritle, Current Issues and the Study of Ancient History. Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians 7. Claremont, CA: 2002. Pp. 92. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 1-930053-10-X.
    Reviewed by John Bert Lott.

  • 2003.07.36:  Martin L. West, Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypha. Lives of Homer. Loeb Classical Library, 496. Cambridge, MA: 2003. Pp. xii, 468. $21.50. ISBN 0-674-99606-2.
    Reviewed by R. Scott Garner.

  • 2003.07.37:  Roger Rees, Layers of Loyalty in Latin Panegyric: AD 289-307. Oxford: 2002. Pp. xvii, 237. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-924918-0.
    Reviewed by C.E.V. Nixon.

  • 2003.07.38:  Laurentino García y García, Luciana Jacobelli, Louis Barré, Museo Segreto. With a Facsimile edition of Herculanum et Pompéi. Recueil général des peintures, bronzes, mosaïques... (1877). Pompei: 2001. Pp. 230; 240. EUR 78.00. ISBN 88-88419-05-5.
    Reviewed by Eric M. Moormann.

  • 2003.07.39:  Jonathan Shay, Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. New York: 2002. Pp. xvi, 329. $25.00. ISBN 0-7432-1156-1.
    Reviewed by Jonathan P. Roth.

  • 2003.07.40:  Carine Van Liefferinge, La Théurgie des Oracles Chaldaïques à Proclus. Kernos Supplément 9. Liège: 199. Pp. 319. EUR 40.00. ISBN (ISSN) 0776-3824.
    Reviewed by Robert Lamberton.

  • 2003.07.41:  Roland Mayer, Seneca: Phaedra. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: 2002. Pp. 142. £9.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3165-9.
    Reviewed by Bob Cowan.

  • 2003.07.42:  Debra Hamel, Trying Neaira. The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. New Haven: 2003. Pp. xxiii, 200. $24.95. ISBN 0-300-09431-0.
    Reviewed by Ian Worthington.

  • 2003.07.43:  Klaus Lange, Euripides und Homer. Untersuchungen zur Homer-Nachwirkung in Elektra, Iphigenie im Taurerland, Helena, Orestes, und Kyklops. Hermes Einzelschrift 85. Stuttgart: 2003. Pp. 302. EUR 68.00. ISBN 3-515-07977-7.
    Reviewed by Ruth Scodel.

  • 2003.07.44:  Noel Lenski, Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D. Berkeley: 2002. Pp. xix, 454. $75.00. ISBN 0-520-23332-8.
    Reviewed by Raymond Van Dam.

  • 2003.07.45:  Alistair Elliot, Roman Food Poems. Devon: 2003. Pp. 160. £12.50. ISBN 1-903018-25-0.
    Reviewed by Farouk F. Grewing.

  • 2003.07.46:  Michael Trapp, Greek and Latin Letters. An Anthology with Translation. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: 2003. Pp. 348. $26.00 (pb). ISBN 0-521-49943-7.
    Reviewed by Catherine Conybeare.

  • 2003.07.47:  Charlotte Witt, Ways of Being. Potentiality and Actuality in Aristotle's Metaphysics. Ithaca: 2003. Pp. 161. $35.00. ISBN 0-8014-4032-7.
    Reviewed by Friedemann Buddensiek.

  • 2003.08.01:  T.P. Wiseman, Classics in Progress. Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome. Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press. London: 2002. Pp. xvi, 451. $72.00. ISBN 0-19-726270-8.
    Reviewed by Alessandro Barchiesi.

  • 2003.08.02:  Lillian E. Doherty, Gender and the Interpretation of Classical Myth. London: 2001. Pp. 192. £9.99. ISBN 0-7156-3042-3.
    Reviewed by Susan Deacy.

  • 2003.08.03:  Gregory Schrempp, William Hansen, Myth. A New Symposium. Bloomington, IN: 2002. Pp. 262. $49.95. ISBN 0-253-34158-2.
    Reviewed by Gary Beckman.

  • 2003.08.04:  BMCR Books Received (July).


  • 2003.08.05:  Maria Grazia Lancellotti, Attis between Myth and History: King, Priest and God. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 149. Leiden: 2002. Pp. xiii, 207. $94.00. ISBN 90-04-12851-4.
    Reviewed by Lynn E. Roller.

  • 2003.08.06:  Anton Powell, Stephen Hodkinson, Sparta Beyond the Mirage. London: 2002. Pp. 354. $69.50. ISBN 0-7156-3183-7.
    Reviewed by Sarah B. Pomeroy.

  • 2003.08.07:  G.D. Williams, Seneca: De otio, De brevitate vitae. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: 2003. Pp. xiii, 271. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-58223-7.
    Reviewed by James Ker.

  • 2003.08.08:  David Braund, Christopher Gill, Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome. Studies in Honour of T. P. Wiseman. Exeter: 2003. Pp. x, 358. £40.00. ISBN 0-85989-662-5.
    Reviewed by Sander M. Goldberg.

  • 2003.08.09:  Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Ancient West & East, Vol. 1, No. 1. Leiden: 2002. Pp. 239. $140.00. ISBN 90-04-12813-1.
    Reviewed by Katarzyna Hagemajer Allen.

  • 2003.08.10:  Emanuele Lelli, Arma Virumque... Studi di poesia e storiografia in onore di Luca Canali. Pisa: 2002. Pp. xxxi, 420. EUR 140.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8147-300-3.
    Reviewed by Michael Fontaine.

  • 2003.08.11:  Lorraine Smith Pangle, Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. 225. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-81745-5.
    Reviewed by Clifford Angell Bates, Jr..

  • 2003.08.12:  Emanuele Narducci, Aspetti della fortuna di Cicerone nella cultura latina. Atti del III Symposium Ciceronianum Arpinas. Florence: 2003. Pp. 111. EUR 11.50. ISBN 88-00-81503-0.
    Reviewed by William Stull.

  • 2003.08.13:  Robert Emmet Meagher, The Meaning of Helen: In Search of an Ancient Icon. Wauconda, IL: 2002. Pp. vii, 191. $24.95. ISBN 0-86516-510-6.
    Reviewed by Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean.

  • 2003.08.14:  Vanessa B. Gorman, Eric W. Robinson, Oikistes. Studies in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient World Offered in Honor of A.J. Graham. Mnemosyne Suppl. 234. Leiden: 2002. Pp. 396. EUR 89.00. ISBN 90-04-12579-5.
    Reviewed by C. M. Fauber.

  • 2003.08.15:  Philip Rousseau, The Early Christian Centuries. London: 2002. Pp. viii, 333. $25.00. ISBN 0-582-25653-4.
    Reviewed by H. A. Drake.

  • 2003.08.16:  Bengt Löfstedt, Virgilius Maro grammaticus: Opera omnia. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Munich and Leipzig: 2003. Pp. xviii, 266. EUR 128.00. ISBN 3-598-71233-2.
    Reviewed by Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

  • 2003.08.17:  Wilfried Lingenberg, Das erste Buch der Heroidenbriefe. Echtheitskritische Untersuchungen. Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums. Neue Folge. 1. Reihe, Band 20. Paderborn: 2003. Pp. 334. EUR 46.00 (pb). ISBN 3-506-79070-6.
    Reviewed by J. A. Richmond.

  • 2003.08.18:  Enrico Rebuffat, Poetes Epeon. Tecniche di composizione poetica negli Halieutica di Oppiano. Firenze: 2001. Pp. 273. EUR 28.00. ISBN 88-222-5032-X.
    Reviewed by Adam Bartley.

  • 2003.08.19:  Jan Opsomer, In Search of the Truth: Academic Tendencies in Middle Platonism. Brussels: 1998. Pp. 332. ISBN 90-6569-666-0.
    Reviewed by Stephen Menn.

  • 2003.08.20:  A. Coulié, La céramique thasienne à figures noires. Athens: 2002. Pp. 256; pls. 102. EUR 100.00. ISBN 2-86958-148-3.
    Reviewed by Sara Owen.

  • 2003.08.21:  Gerard J. Pendrick, Antiphon the Sophist. The Fragments. Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 39. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. xi, 472. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-65161-1.
    Reviewed by Joachim Lukoschus.

  • 2003.08.22:  Gigliola Maggiulli, et al., Tradizione enciclopedica e divulgazione in età imperiale. Serta Antiqua et Mediaevalia, II. Roma: 2000. Pp. 222. ISBN 88-7689-168-4.
    Reviewed by Caroline Macé.

  • 2003.08.23:  Douglas E. Gerber, A Commentary on Pindar, Olympian Nine. Hermes Einzelschriften, 87. Stuttgart: 2002. Pp. 94. EUR 34.00. ISBN 3-515-09092-9.
    Reviewed by Shirley Darcus Sullivan.

  • 2003.08.24:  Silke Trojahn, Die auf Papyri erhaltenen Kommentare zur Alten Komödie. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der antiken Philologie. BzA 175. München/Leipzig: 2002. Pp. 264. EUR 78.00. ISBN 3-598-77724-8.
    Reviewed by Mieczyslaw Mejor.

  • 2003.08.25:  Gabriella Ottone, Libyka: Testimonianze e Frammenti. I Frammenti degli Storici Greci, Vol. 1. Tivoli (Roma): 2002. Pp. xxxix, 707. ISBN 88-88617-00-0.
    Reviewed by Stanley M. Burstein.

  • 2003.08.26:  Francesco Citti, Camillo Neri, Seneca nel Novecento. Sondaggi sulla fortuna di un "classico". Roma: 2001. Pp. 271. EUR 15.49. ISBN 88-430-1979-1.
    Reviewed by Ildikó Csepregi.

  • 2003.09.01:  D. S. Levene, D. P. Nelis, Clio and the Poets. Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography. Mnemosyne Supplement, 224. Leiden: 2002. Pp. viii, 399. EUR 98.00. ISBN 90-04-11782-2.
    Reviewed by C. S. Kraus.

  • 2003.09.02:  Dick Davis, Panthea's Children: Hellenistic Novels and Medieval Persian Romances. Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series, No. 3. New York: 2002. Pp. ii, 113. $24.00. ISBN 0-933-27365-7.
    Reviewed by Adam H. Becker.

  • 2003.09.03:  Owen Powell, Galen on the Properties of Foodstuffs. Introduction, Translation and Commentary, with a foreword by John Wilkins. Cambridge: 2003. Pp. 206. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-81242-9.
    Reviewed by Veronika Grimm.

  • 2003.09.04:  Andrew Calimach, Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths. New Rochelle: 2002. Pp. 178. $25.00. ISBN 0-9714686-0-5.
    Reviewed by Teresa Ramsby.

  • 2003.09.05:  BMCR Books Received (August).


  • 2003.09.06:  Judith Herrin, Margaret Mullett, Catherine Otten-Froux, Mosaic. Festschrift for A.H.S. Megaw. BSA Studies, 8. London: 2001. Pp. 200. £35.00. ISBN 0-904887-40-5.
    Reviewed by Amy Papalexandrou.

  • 2003.09.07:  Marcus Deufert, Textgeschichte und Rezeption der plautinischen Komödien im Altertum. Berlin: 2002. Pp. 422. EUR 91.59. ISBN 3-11-017336-0.
    Reviewed by Rolando Ferri.

  • 2003.09.08:  Andreas Willi, The Language of Greek Comedy. Oxford: 2002. Pp. vi, 343. $80.00. ISBN 0-19-924547-9.
    Reviewed by Stephen Colvin.

  • 2003.09.09:  Bonnie Effros, Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages. Berkeley: 2003. Pp. 272. $70.00. ISBN 0-520-23244-5.
    Reviewed by Matthew M. Reeve.

  • 2003.09.10:  Daniel Mendelsohn, Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays. Oxford: 2002. Pp. 257. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-924956-3.
    Reviewed by Laura McClure.

  • 2003.09.11:  Rosaria Vignolo Munson, Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus. Ann Arbor: 2001. Pp. 325. $65.00. ISBN 0-472-11203-1.
    Reviewed by Stephanie Larson.

  • 2003.09.12:  A. H. Sommerstein, Indexes. The Comedies of Aristophanes 12. Warminster: 2002. Pp. 203. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-85668-751-0.
    Reviewed by S. Douglas Olson.

  • 2003.09.13:  Susanna Phillippo, Silent Witness: Racine's Non-Verbal Annotations of Euripides. Research Monographs in French Studies 14. Oxford: 2003. Pp. xv, 214. $29.50. ISBN 1-900755-61-0.
    Reviewed by Eleanor Dickey.

  • 2003.09.14:  Cynthia Damon, Tacitus. Histories, Book I. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: 2003. Pp. 338. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 0-521-57822-1.
    Reviewed by Rhiannon Ash.

  • 2003.09.15:  Peter Fowler, Farming in the First Millennium AD: British Agriculture between Julius Caesar and William the Conquerer. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. 412. $38.00. ISBN 0-521-89056-X.
    Reviewed by Michael Decker.

  • 2003.09.16:  Vinnie Norskov, Greek Vases in New Contexts. The Collecting and Trading of Greek Vases -- An Aspect of the Modern Reception of Antiquity. Aarhus: 2002. Pp. 407; figs. 87; text tables 17. $52.95. ISBN 87-7288-886-5.
    Reviewed by Claire L. Lyons.

  • 2003.09.17:  David West, Horace Odes III: Dulce Periculum. Oxford: 2002. Pp. 280. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-872165-X.
    Reviewed by John T. Quinn.

  • 2003.09.18:  Roderich Kirchner, Sentenzen im Werk des Tacitus. Palingenesia LXXIV. Stuttgart: 2001. Pp. 206. EUR 44.00. ISBN 3-515-07802-9.
    Reviewed by Steven H. Rutledge.

  • 2003.09.19:  C. Austin, G. Bastianini, Posidippi Pellaei quae supersunt omnia. Milan: 2002. Pp. 234. EUR 18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7916-193-8.
    Reviewed by Susan Stephens.

  • 2003.09.20:  Alessandro Pezzati, Adventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia: 2002. Pp. xii, 31; 65 halftone plates. $29.95. ISBN 1-931707-41-3.
    Reviewed by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak.

  • 2003.09.21:  Maurizio Bettini, Ezio Pellizer, Il mito di Narciso. Immagini e racconti dalla Grecia a oggi. Torino: 2003. Pp. 222. EUR 16.00. ISBN 88-06-15727-2.
    Reviewed by Monica Ressel Giordani.

  • 2003.09.22:  David M. Halperin, How to Do the History of Homosexuality. Chicago: 2002. Pp. x, 208. $30.00. ISBN 0-226-31447-2.
    Reviewed by Thomas K. Hubbard.

  • 2003.09.23:  M. Finkelberg, G.G. Stroumsa, Homer, the Bible, and Beyond. Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World. Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 2. Leiden: 2003. Pp. 284. EUR 76.00/$91.00. ISBN 90-04-12665-1.
    Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst.

  • 2003.09.24:  Nicola Biffi, Il medio oriente di Strabone. Libro XVI della Geografia. Introduzione, traduzione e commento. Quaderni di Invigilata Lucernis, 19. Bari: 2002. Pp. 347. EUR 18.00. ISBN 88-7228-356-6.
    Reviewed by Johannes Engels.

  • 2003.09.25:  Biagio Virgilio, Lancia, diadema e porpora. Il re e la regalità ellenistica. Seconda edizione rinnovata e ampliata con una Appendice documentaria. Studi Ellenistici, 14. Pisa: 2003. Pp. 421; pls. 67. EUR 125.00 (pb). ISBN 88-427-0399-0.
    Reviewed by Silvia Barbantani.

  • 2003.09.26:  Ittai Gradel, Emperor Worship and Roman Religion. Oxford: 2002. Pp. xvi, 398. $85.00. ISBN 0-19-815275-2.
    Reviewed by Margaret L. Laird.

  • 2003.09.27:  Wilhelmina F. Jashemski, Frederick. G. Meyer, The Natural History of Pompeii. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. xxiii, 502; ills. 387. £130.00. ISBN 0-521-80054-4.
    Reviewed by M.E. Hoskins Walbank.

  • 2003.09.28:  Sian Lewis, The Athenian Woman: An Iconographic Handbook. London : 2002. Pp. xi, 261; figs. 153. $80.00 (hb). ISBN 0-415-23234-1.
    Reviewed by Mireille M. Lee.

  • 2003.09.29:  Sharon L. James, Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy. Berkeley: 2003. Pp. xv, 350. $55.00. ISBN 0-520-23381-6.
    Reviewed by Alison Sharrock.

  • 2003.09.30:  Adele-Teresa Cozzoli, Euripide: Cretesi. Introduzione, testimonianze, testo critico, traduzione e commento. Università di Urbino, Istituto di Filologia Classica: Testi e Commenti, 15. Pisa and Rome: 2001. Pp. 130; figs. 4. ISBN 88-8147-279-1.
    Reviewed by Martin Cropp.

  • 2003.09.31:  David Kovacs, Euripidea Tertia. Mnemosyne Supplementa, 240. Leiden : 2003. Pp. x, 191. EUR 70.00. ISBN 90-04-12977-4.
    Reviewed by C.W. Marshall.

  • 2003.09.32:  David Joseph Coffta, The Influence of Callimachean Aesthetics on the Satires and Odes of Horace. Studies in Classics 19. Lewiston - Queenston - Lampeter: 2002. Pp. 189. $109.95. ISBN 0-7734-7247-9.
    Reviewed by Gabriel Laguna Mariscal.

  • 2003.09.33:  Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, Tragedy and Athenian Religion. Lanham, MD: 2003. Pp. 546. $85.00 (hb). ISBN 0-7391-033099-7.
    Reviewed by Charles Delattre.

  • 2003.09.34:  Geraldine Herbert-Brown, Ovid's Fasti: Historical Readings at its Bimillennium. Oxford: 2002. Pp. xvi, 327. $80.00. ISBN 0-19-815474-5.
    Reviewed by Barbara Weiden Boyd.

  • 2003.09.35:  Elizabeth Speller, Following Hadrian: A Second-Century Journey Through the Roman Empire. Oxford: 2003. Pp. 352. $28.00. ISBN 0-19-516576-4.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Garstad.

  • 2003.09.36:  Pat Easterling, Edith Hall, Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. 531. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-65140-9.
    Reviewed by Anne Duncan.

  • 2003.09.37:  Michael C. Alexander, The Case for the Prosecution in the Ciceronian Era. Ann Arbor: 2003. Pp. xii, 370. $70.00. ISBN 0-472-11261-9.
    Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck.

  • 2003.09.38:  Christer Bruun, Anna Gallina Zevi, Ostia e Portus nelle loro relazioni con Roma. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 27. Rome: 2002. Pp. 305. EUR 45.00. ISBN 952-5323-04-8.
    Reviewed by David Noy.

  • 2003.09.39:  Werner Suerbaum, Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur der Antike. Erster Band: Die archaische Literatur. Von den Anfängen bis zu Sullas Tod. Die vorliterarische Periode und die Zeit von 240 bis 78 v.Chr. Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft, viii.1. Munich: 2002. Pp. xlviii, 611. EUR 118.00. ISBN 3-406-48134-5.
    Reviewed by Ingo Gildenhard.

  • 2003.09.40:  Yosef Garfinkel, Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture. Austin: TX: 2003. Pp. 352; ills. $49.95. ISBN 0-292-72845-X.
    Reviewed by Peter Magee.

  • 2003.09.41:  Marianne McDonald, The Living Art of Greek Tragedy. Bloomington: 2003. Pp. xii, 224. $39.95. ISBN 0-253-34231-7.
    Reviewed by Matthew Wright.

  • 2003.09.42:  W. Cavanagh, J. Crouwel, R.W.V. Catling, G. Shipley, Continuity and Change in a Greek Rural Landscape: The Laconia Survey. Vol 1: Methodology and Interpretation. ABSA Suppl. 26. London: 2002. Pp. xxx, 500; ills. 92, soil map. £80.00. ISBN 0-904887-22-7.
    Reviewed by David K. Pettegrew.

  • 2003.09.43:  Claire L. Lyons, John K. Papadopoulos, The Archaeology of Colonialism. Los Angeles: 2002. Pp. 284. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 0-89236-635-4.
    Reviewed by Carla M. Antonaccio.

  • 2003.09.44:  Penny MacGeorge, Late Roman Warlords. Oxford: 2003. Pp. xviii, 347. $85.00. ISBN 0-19-925244-0.
    Reviewed by R. W. Burgess.

  • 2003.09.45:  Mark Joyal, In Altum: Seventy-Five Years of Classical Studies in Newfoundland. St. John's, Newfoundland: 2001. Pp. vi, 379. $19.95. ISBN 0-88901-351-9.
    Reviewed by James T. Chlup.

  • 2003.09.46:  Christoph Catrein, Vertauschte Sinne. Untersuchungen zur Synästhesie in der römischen Dichtung. BzA 178. München/Leipzig: 2003. Pp. 240. EUR 82.00. ISBN 3-598-77727-2.
    Reviewed by E.J. Kenney.

  • 2003.09.47:  Georg Schmelz, Kirchliche Amtsträger im spätantiken Ägypten nach den Aussagen der griechischen und koptischen Papyri und Ostraka. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, Beiheft 13. Munich and Leipzig: 2002. Pp. xi, 411. EUR 84.00. ISBN 3-598-77548-2.
    Reviewed by Arietta Papaconstantinou.

  • 2003.09.48:  Roberto Danese, Andrea Bacianini, Alessio 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. Rimini: 2003. Pp. 192 (with a diskette containing links to all the sites). EUR 12.00. ISBN 88-8049-209-8.
    Reviewed by Michael Fontaine.

  • 2003.09.49:  Tim G. Parkin, Old Age in the Roman World: A Cultural and Social History. Baltimore: 2003. Pp. 495. $55.00. ISBN 0-8018-7218-X.
    Reviewed by T. Davina McClain.

  • 2003.10.01:  Michael Paschalis, Stavros Frangoulidis, Space in the Ancient Novel. Ancient Narrative Supplementum 1. Groningen: 2002. Pp. xiv, 192. EUR 50.00. ISBN 90-807390-2-2.
    Reviewed by Juan Martos.

  • 2003.10.02:  J.A. Cerrato, Hippolytus between East and West. The Commentaries and the Provenance of the Corpus. Oxford Theological Monographs. Oxford: 2002. Pp. 280. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-924696-3.
    Reviewed by Eugene V. Afonasin.

  • 2003.10.03:  James M. Rhodes, Eros, Wisdom, and Silence: Plato's Erotic Dialogues. Columbia, MO: 2003. Pp. 592. $49.95. ISBN 0-8262-1459-2.
    Reviewed by Lee Trepanier.

  • 2003.10.04:  ALSO SEEN: Hubert Cancik, Helmut Schneider, Manfred Landfester, Christine F. Salazar assisted by David E. Orton (edd. of English edition), Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. 20 volumes with index. Leiden: 2002 - . EUR 160.00 per volume for first volumes. ISBN 90-04-12259-1 (complete set).
    Reviewed by P. J. Rhodes.

  • 2003.10.05:  D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Statius. Silvae. Loeb Classical Library, 206. Cambridge, MA: 2003. Pp. viii, 438. $21.50. ISBN 0-674-99604-6.
    Reviewed by Paolo Asso.

  • 2003.10.06:  BMCR Books Received (September).


  • 2003.10.07:  McDonald on Wright on McDonald.
    Response by Marianne McDonald.

  • 2003.10.08:  David Shotter, Rome and Her Empire. London: 2003. Pp. 453. £19.99. ISBN 0-582-32816-0.
    Reviewed by Jeremiah B. McCall.

  • 2003.10.09:  Debra Nails, The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics. Indianapolis: 2002. Pp. 414. $75.00. ISBN 0-87220-564-9.
    Reviewed by Christopher Planeaux.

  • 2003.10.10:  Thomas Kruse, Der königliche Schreiber und die Gauverwaltung. Untersuchungen zur Verwaltungsgeschichte Ägyptens in der Zeit von Augustus bis Philippus Arabs (20 v. Chr. - 245 n. Chr.). Archiv für Papyrusforschung, Beiheft 11. 2 volumes. München/Leipzig: 2002. Pp. 1141. EUR 108.00; EUR 98.00. ISBN 3-598-777545-8; ISBN 3-598-777546-6.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig.

  • 2003.10.11:  Bianca-Jeanette Schröder, Jens-Peter Schröder, Studium declamatorium. Untersuchungen zu Schulübungen und Prunkreden von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 176. Munich and Leipzig: 2003. Pp. ix, 400; pls. 6. EUR 88.00. ISBN 3-598-77725-6.
    Reviewed by Stefanie A.H. Kennell.

  • 2003.10.12:  Shaun Tougher, Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond. London: 2002. Pp. xiii, 269. $49.50. ISBN 0-7156-3129-2.
    Reviewed by Donald Lateiner.

  • 2003.10.13:  E. Sapouna Sakellaraki, J.J. Coulton, I.R. Metzger, The Fort at Phylla, Vrachos: Excavations and Researches at a Late Archaic Fort in Central Euboea. BSA Suppl. 33. London : 2002. Pp. xvii, 133; figs. 61. £29.00. ISBN 0-904887-39-1.
    Reviewed by Mark Munn.

  • 2003.10.14:  Aronadio Francesco, Procedure e verità in Platone (Menone, Cratilo, Repubblica). Elenchos, vol. 38. Napoli: 2002. Pp. 279. EUR 30.00. ISBN 88-7088-412-0.
    Reviewed by Sara Rubinelli.

  • 2003.10.15:  ALSO SEEN: David Sacks, Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z. New York: 2003. Pp. xv, 395. $24.95. ISBN 0-7679-1172-5.
    Reviewed by Eleanor Dickey.

  • 2003.10.16:  Françoise Van Haeperen, Le collège pontifical (3ème s. a. C. - 4ème s. p. C.). Études de Philologie, d'Archéologie et d'Histoire Anciennes, 39. Brussels: 2002. Pp. 467. EUR 46.00. ISBN 90-74461-49-2.
    Reviewed by Marietta Horster.

  • 2003.10.17:  Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, Krieg, Handel und Piraterie: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des hellenistischen Rhodos. Klio. Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Beihefte, Neue Folge Band 6. Berlin: 2002. Pp. 416. EUR 69.80. ISBN 3-05-003751-2.
    Reviewed by Alfonso Moreno.

  • 2003.10.18:  Pete Wilson, The Archaeology of Roman Towns. Studies in honour of John S. Wacher. The Archaeology of Roman Towns. Exeter: 2003. Pp. 269. $110.00. ISBN 1-84217-103-8.
    Reviewed by A.T. Fear.

  • 2003.10.19:  William J. Dominik, Words and Ideas. Wauconda, IL: 2002. Pp. 281. $29.00 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-485-1.
    Reviewed by Nicolas P. Gross.

  • 2003.10.20:  Andrea Ercolani, Spoudaiogeloion. Form und Funktion der Verspottung in der aristophanischen Komödie. Drama. Beiträge zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption, 11. Stuttgart/Weimar: 2002. Pp. 414. EUR 29.90 (pb). ISBN 3-476-45297-2.
    Reviewed by Emiliano J. Buis.

  • 2003.10.21:  Mary Ebbott, Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature. Lanham, MD: 2003. Pp. 123. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7391-0538-8.
    Reviewed by Roger Travis.

  • 2003.10.22:  Herbert-Brown on Weiden Boyd on Herbert-Brown.
    Response by Geraldine Herbert-Brown.

  • 2003.10.23:  Anne-Françoise Jaccottet, Choisir Dionysos. Les associations dionysiaques ou la face cachée du dionysisme. Vol. I: Text; II: Documents. Zürich: 2003. Pp. 207; 367. EUR 85.00. ISBN 3-905083-18-3.
    Reviewed by William Slater.

  • 2003.10.24:  G. E. R. Lloyd, The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. xvi, 175. £15.95 (pb).. ISBN 0-521-89461-1.
    Reviewed by Scott Rubarth.

  • 2003.10.25:  Christoph Ulf, Robert Rollinger, Geschlechter, Frauen, Fremde Ethnien in Antiker Ethnographie, Theorie und Realität. Innsbruck: 2002. Pp. 564. EUR 56.00. ISBN 3-7065-1543-1.
    Reviewed by Silke Knippschild.

  • 2003.11.01:  Ilaria Ramelli, Il Chronicon di Arbela: Presentazione, traduzione e note essenziali. 'Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones. Anejos. Serie de sucesivas monografias, 8. Madrid: 2002. Pp. 109. EUR 11.00 (pb). ISBN 84-95215-42-X.
    Reviewed by Edward G. Mathews, Jr..

  • 2003.11.02:  Anton Powell, Kathryn Welch, Sextus Pompeius. London: 2002. Pp. xvii, 285. $59.50. ISBN 0-7156-3127-6.
    Reviewed by Jörg Fündling.

  • 2003.11.03:  BMCR Books Received (October).


  • 2003.11.04:  Sacks on Dickey on Sacks.
    Response by David Sacks.

  • 2003.11.05:  Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr., Athena and Kain: The True Meaning of Greek Myth. Annapolis, MD: 2003. Pp. 224. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-9705438-2-4.
    Reviewed by Wm. Blake Tyrrell.

  • 2003.11.06:  J. Peter Euben, Platonic Noise. Princeton: 2003. Pp. xii, 210. $55.00. ISBN 0-691-114399-8.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2003.11.07:  G.R.F. Ferrari, City and Soul in Plato's Republic. Lecturae Platonis, 2. SanktAugustin: 2003. Pp. 130. EUR 19.50. ISBN 3-89665-170-6.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2003.11.08:  Patrick Faas, Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome. New York: 2003. Pp. 384. $29.95. ISBN 0-312-23958-0.
    Reviewed by John F. Donahue.

  • 2003.11.09:  Gesine Manuwald, Pacuvius. Summus tragicus poeta. Zum dramatischen Profil seiner Tragödien. BzA 19. München/Leipzig: 2003. Pp. 189. EUR 86.00. ISBN 3-598-77803-1.
    Reviewed by Vincent Hunink.

  • 2003.11.10:  István Bodnár, William W. Fortenbaugh, Eudemus of Rhodes. Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, XI. New Brunswick: 2002. Pp. x, 383. $69.95. ISBN 0-7658-0134-5.
    Reviewed by Robert B. Todd.

  • 2003.11.11:  Maristella Pandolfini, Adriano Maggiani, La Tabula Cortonensis e il suo contesto storico-archeologico. Atti dell'Incontro di sudio, 22 giugno 2001. Quaderni di archaeologia etrusco-italica, 28. Roma: 2002. Pp. 101; 2 photographs and 2 facsimiles. EUR 40.00 (pb). ISBN ISSN 99-1252096-3.
    Reviewed by Rex Wallace.

  • 2003.11.12:  Weiden Boyd on Herbert-Brown on Weiden Boyd on Herbert-Brown.
    Response by Barbara Weiden Boyd.

  • 2003.11.13:  Stephen V. Tracy, Athens and Macedon: Attic Letter-Cutters of 300 to 229 B.C. Hellenistic Culture and Society 38. Berkeley: 2003. Pp. xxi, 205. $75.00. ISBN 0-520-23333-6.
    Reviewed by Julia L. Shear.

  • 2003.11.14:  Tad Brennan, Charles Brittain, Simplicius. On Epictetus' Handbook 1-26. Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Edited by Richard Sorabji. London: 2002. Pp. viii, 184. $62.50. ISBN 0-7156-3068-7.
    Tad Brennan, Charles Brittain, Simplicius. On Epictetus' Handbook 27-53. Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Edited by Richard Sorabji. Ithaca: 2002. Pp. viii, 192. $62.50. ISBN 0-8014-3905-1.
    Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson.

  • 2003.11.15:  Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Third edition revised. Oxford: 2003. Pp. lv, 1640. $110.00. ISBN 0-19-860641-9.
    Reviewed by Gregory S. Bucher.

  • 2003.11.16:  J. L. Lightfoot, Lucian, On the Syrian Goddess. Oxford: 2003. Pp. xx, 606. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-925138-X.
    Reviewed by Hugh Mason.

  • 2003.11.17:  Giovanni Alberto Cecconi, Commento storico al libro II dell'epistolario di Q. Aurelio Simmaco. Biblioteca di studi antichi 86. Pisa: 2002. Pp. 478. EUR 125.00 (pb). ISBN 88-427-0317-6.
    Reviewed by Ralf Behrwald.

  • 2003.11.18:  Nikos Kokkinos, Antonia Augusta: Portrait of a Great Roman Lady. Originally published in 1992 by Routledge. London: 2002. Pp. 290. £17.95 (pb). ISBN 1-901965-05-08.
    Reviewed by Susan Sorek.

  • 2003.11.19:  Mason on Mason on Lightfoot.
    Response by Hugh Mason.

  • 2003.11.20:  Rabun Taylor, Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process. Cambridge: 2003. Pp. 303. $75.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-80334-9.
    Reviewed by Paul D. Scotton.

  • 2003.11.21:  Raymond Van Dam, Kingdom of Snow. Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia. Philadelphia: 2002. Pp. viii, 290. $49.95. ISBN 0-8122-3681-5.
    Reviewed by Alexis D'Hautcourt.

  • 2003.11.22:  Trevor Bryce, Life and Society in the Hittite World. Oxford: 2002. Pp. 312. $72.00. ISBN 0-19-924170-8.
    Reviewed by Gary Beckman.

  • 2003.11.23:  Walter Scheidel, Sitta von Reden, The Ancient Economy. Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World. New York: 2002. Pp. xxi, 282. $24.95. ISBN 0-415-94189-X.
    Reviewed by Edward E. Cohen.

  • 2003.11.24:  Scheidel on Cohen on Scheidel/Von Reden.
    Response by Walter Scheidel.

  • 2003.11.25:  Robert Dodaro, George Lawless, Augustine and His Critics. Essays in Honour of Gerald Bonner. Paperback reprint of the first edition of 2000. London and New York: 2002. Pp. xiii, 270. $27.95. ISBN 0-415-20063-6.
    Reviewed by Jan den Boeft.

  • 2003.11.26:  Heikki Solin, Martti Leiwo, Hilla Halla-aho, Latin vulgaire / Latin tardif VI: Actes du VIe colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif, Helsinki, 29 août - 2 septembre 2000. Hildesheim: 2003. Pp. xvi, 594. EUR 80.00. ISBN 3-487-11849-1.
    Reviewed by Eleanor Dickey.

  • 2003.11.27:  Ann Suter, The Narcissus and the Pomegranate. An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Ann Arbor: 2002. Pp. 268. $60.00. ISBN 0-472-11249-X.
    Reviewed by Georgia Petridou.

  • 2003.11.28:  John T. Ramsey, Cicero. Philippics I-II. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: 2003. Pp. xxix, 349. $70.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-41106-8.
    Reviewed by Gesine Manuwald.

  • 2003.11.29:  Jon Miller, Brad Inwood, Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy. Cambridge: 2003. Pp. xii, 330. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-82385-4.
    Reviewed by James E. G. Zetzel.

  • 2003.11.30:  Gregor Staab, Pythagoras in der Spätantike. Studien zu De Vita Pythagorica des Iamblichos von Chalkis, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 165. München/Leipzig: 2002. Pp. 543. EUR 98.00. ISBN 3-598-77714-0.
    Reviewed by Jorgen Mejer.

  • 2003.11.31:  Seth Benardete, Encounters & Reflections. Edited by Ronna Burger. Chicago: 2002. Pp. x, 225. $30.00. ISBN 0-226-04278-2.
    Reviewed by Vincent Renzi.

  • 2003.11.32:  Robert Zaborowski, La crainte et le courage dans l'Iliade et l'Odyssée. Warszawa: 2002. Pp. 373. EUR 15.00. ISBN 83-86700-20-3.
    Reviewed by Stephen Evans.

  • 2003.11.33:  Maria Broggiato, Cratete di Mallo: I frammenti. Edizione, introduzione e note. La Spezia: 2001. Pp. xciv, 359. EUR 30.00. . ISBN 88-87218-34-X.
    Reviewed by James I. Porter.

  • 2003.11.34:  Philippe Rouet, Approaches to the Study of Attic Vases. Beazley and Pottier. Translated by Liz Nash. Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology. Oxford: 2001. Pp. xiii, 167; pls. 21. EUR 60.00. ISBN 0-19-815272-8.
    Reviewed by Amy C. Smith.

  • 2003.11.35:  Lloyd P. Gerson, Knowing Persons: A Study in Plato. Oxford: 2003. Pp. 308. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-925763-9.
    Reviewed by Lee Trepanier.

  • 2003.12.01:  BMCR Books Received (November).


  • 2003.12.02:  Sarah Scott, Jane Webster, Roman Imperialism and Provincial Art. New York: 2003. Pp. xvi, 256. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-80592-9.
    Reviewed by Natalie Boymel Kampen.

  • 2003.12.03:  John R. Bartlett, Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities. London and New York: 2002. Pp. xi, 249. $65.00. ISBN 0-415-18638-2.
    Reviewed by Thomas A. Robinson.

  • 2003.12.04:  A. Erskine, A Companion to the Hellenistic World. Oxford: 2003. Pp. xxviii, 588, maps, ills. £85.00. ISBN 0-631-22537-4.
    Reviewed by Janet Sullivan.

  • 2003.12.05:  Antonio Aloni, Elisabetta Berardi, Giuliana Besso, Sergio Cecchin, I Sette a Tebe. Dal mito alla letteratura. Atti del Seminario Internazionale, Torino 21-22 Febbraio 2001. Bologna: 2002. Pp. 307. EUR 20.00. ISBN 88-555-2690-1.
    Reviewed by Neil W. Bernstein.

  • 2003.12.06:  Alois Winterling, Caligula, eine Biographie. Munich: 2003. Pp. 205. EUR 19.90. ISBN 3-406-50206-7.
    Reviewed by Donna W. Hurley.

  • 2003.12.07:  Jan Opsomer, Carlos Steel, Proclus, On the Existence of Evils. The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Ithaca: 2003. Pp. viii, 160. $65.00. ISBN 0-8014-4100-5.
    Reviewed by Wayne J. Hankey.

  • 2003.12.08:  Babette Pütz, The Symposium and Komos in Aristophanes. Beiträge zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption, 22. Stuttgart/Weimar: 2003. Pp. 306. EUR 39.95 (pb). ISBN 3-476-45318-9.
    Reviewed by Timothy Power.

  • 2003.12.09:  Michael von Albrecht, Cicero's Style: A Synopsis Followed by Selected Analytic Studies. Mnemosyne Suppl. 245. Leiden: 2003. Pp. x, 281. $95.00. ISBN 90-04-12961-8.
    Reviewed by Terence O. Tunberg.

  • 2003.12.10:  Dieter Hertel, Die Mauern von Troja. Mythos und Geschichte im antiken Ilion. München: 2003. Pp. 360; 42 tables. EUR 100.70. ISBN 3-406-50444-2.
    Reviewed by Margalit Finkelberg.

  • 2003.12.11:  J. Malitz, Nikolaos von Damaskus. Leben des Kaisers Augustus. Texte zur Forschung, 80. Darmstadt: 2003. Pp. 210. EUR 34.90. ISBN 3-534-14676-X.
    Reviewed by Yasmina Benferhat.

  • 2003.12.12:  Marianne McDonald, J. Michael Walton, Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy. Introduced by Declan Kiberd. London: 2002. Pp. 304. $35.00. ISBN 0-413-77142-3.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Scharffenberger.

  • 2003.12.13:  Georges Le Rider, La naissance de la monnaie: Pratiques monétaires de l'Orient ancien. Paris: 2001. Pp. xviii, 286. EUR 32.00. ISBN 2-13-051467-7.
    Reviewed by David M. Schaps.

  • 2003.12.14:  Cesare Questa, Renato Raffaelli, Due Seminari Plautini: La tradizione del testo; i modelli. Ludus Philologiae 11. Urbino: 2002. Pp. 282; pls. 19. EUR 27.00. ISBN 88-392-0624-8.
    Reviewed by Michael Fontaine.

  • 2003.12.15:  David Mulroy, The War Against Grammar. Portsmouth, NH: 2003. Pp. 144. $20.00. ISBN 0-86709-551-2.
    Reviewed by Jeremiah Reedy.

  • 2003.12.16:  Mary Lefkowitz, Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn From Myths. New Haven: 2003. Pp. xi, 288. $30.00. ISBN 0-300-10145-7.
    Reviewed by Matthew Wright.

  • 2003.12.17:  María Eugenia Aubet, The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies and Trade. Second Edition. Cambridge: 2001. Pp. xv, 432. $70.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-79161-8.
    Reviewed by Roger Wright.

  • 2003.12.18:  Samuel Eliot Bassett, The Poetry of Homer. Introduction by Bruce Heiden. Lanham, MD: 2003. Pp. xxxi, 271. $27.95. ISBN 0-7391-0696-1.
    Reviewed by Ruth Scodel.

  • 2003.12.19:  Ralph M. Rosen, Ineke Sluiter, Andreia: Studies in Manliness and Courage in Classical Antiquity. Leiden: 2003. Pp. 359. $100.00. ISBN 90-04-11995-7.
    Reviewed by Helen Lovatt.

  • 2003.12.20:  Egon Flaig, Ritualisierte Politik. Zeichen, Gesten und Herrschaft im Alten Rom. Historische Semantik Band 1. Göttingen: 2003. Pp. 288. EUR 36.90. ISBN 3-525-36700-7.
    Reviewed by Harriet I. Flower.

  • 2003.12.21:  Pierre Briant, Darius, Les Perses et l'Empire. Reprint with revisions, originally printed 1992. Series: Découvertes Gallimard 159. France: 2001. Pp. 176; ills. EUR 13.75 (pb). ISBN 2-07-053166-X.
    Reviewed by Cindy L. Nimchuk.

  • 2003.12.22:  Eric W. Robinson, Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources. Oxford: 2004. Pp. 326. $69.95. ISBN 0-631-23394-6.
    Reviewed by John Lewis.

  • 2003.12.23:  David Kovacs, Euripides. Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus. Loeb Classical Library 495. Cambridge, MA: 2002. Pp. 455. $21.50. ISBN 0-674-99601-1.
    Reviewed by Emily Katz Anhalt.

  • 2003.12.24:  John M. Dillon, The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC). Oxford: 2003. Pp. 304. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-823766-9.
    Reviewed by David C. Noe.

  • 2003.12.25:  Sarah Ruden, Lysistrata. Indianapolis: 2003. Pp. x, 126. $5.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-603-3.
    Reviewed by Barbara Clayton.

  • 2003.12.26:  Hilary Mackie, Graceful Errors: Pindar and the Performance of Praise. Ann Arbor: 2003. Pp. 127. $57.50. ISBN 0-472-11330-5.
    Reviewed by Felix Budelmann.

  • 2003.12.27:  Catherine Collobert, L'Avenir de la Philosophie est-il Grec?. Boucherville: 2002. Pp. 236. $19.95. ISBN 2-7621-2393-3.
    Reviewed by Miriam Leonard.

  • 2003.12.28:  David Konstan, Keith Rutter, Envy, Spite and Jealousy: The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece. Edinburgh: 2003. Pp. xii, 305. £45.00. ISBN 0-7486-1603-9.
    Reviewed by Peter Aronoff.

  • 2003.12.29:  Vayos Liapis, Agnôstos Theos. Horia tês anthrôpinês gnôsês stous Prosôkratikous kai ston Oidipoda Turanno. Athens: 2003. Pp. 128.
    Reviewed by Giannis P. Stamatellos.
 
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