Reviews for 2006

  • 2006.01.01:  Gillian Clark, Christianity and Roman Society. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xii, 137. $75.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-63310-9.
    Reviewed by Gregory S. Bucher.

  • 2006.01.02:  Helen Rhee, Early Christian Literature. Christ and Culture in the Second and Third Centuries. London: 2005. Pp. xiii, 266. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-35488-9.
    Reviewed by M. J. Edwards.

  • 2006.01.03:  Ludwig Bernays, Ars poetica. Studien zu formalen Aspekten der antiken Dichtung. Prismata. Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, IX. Frankfurt am Main: 2000. Pp. 237. DM79.00. ISBN 3-631-34685-9.
    Reviewed by Georg, The Graf v. Gries.

  • 2006.01.04:  Eric Shanower, Age of Bronze. Vol. 2: Sacrifice. Orange, CA: 2004. Pp. 223. $29.95. ISBN 1-58240-360-4.
    Reviewed by Karl M. Petruso.

  • 2006.01.05:  Colin Austin, Aristophanes. Thesmophoriazusae. Oxford: 2004. Pp. cviii, 363. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-926527-5.
    Reviewed by Ian C. Storey.

  • 2006.01.06:  Editorial Note.
    Editorial note by Richard Hamilton and James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2006.01.07:  Dyck on Moreschini on Dyck on Moreschini.
    Response by Andrew R. Dyck.

  • 2006.01.08:  Glenn W. Most, Doubting Thomas. Cambridge, MA: 2005. Pp. 267. $27.95. ISBN 0-674-01914-8.
    Reviewed by Philipp Brandenburg Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

  • 2006.01.09:  Luc Brisson, Jean-François Pradeau, Plotin. Traités 27-29. GF Flammarion. Paris: 2005. Pp. 299. €10.60 (pb). ISBN 2-08-071203-9.
    Reviewed by Eugene V. Afonasin and Igor V. Berestov.

  • 2006.01.10:  Barbara Nevling Porter, Ritual and Politics in Ancient Mesopotamia. American Oriental Series 38. New Haven, CT: 2005. Pp. 120. $42.00. ISBN 0-940490-19-6.
    Reviewed by Mehmet-Ali Ataç.

  • 2006.01.11:  Claude Mossé, Alexander: Destiny and Myth. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Baltimore: 2004. Pp. 256. $58.00 (hb). ISBN 0-8018-7995-7.
    Reviewed by Evangelia Anagnostou-Laoutides.

  • 2006.01.12:  I. Sluiter, R. M. Rosen, Free Speech in Classical Antiquity. Mnemosyne, Suppl. 254. Leiden: 2004. Pp. xii, 450. €120.00. ISBN 90-04-13925-7.
    Reviewed by Lucio Bertelli.

  • 2006.01.13:  A. Keaveney, Sulla: The Last Republican. Second edition. London and New York: 2005. Pp. xi, 233. $29.95. ISBN 0-415-33661-9.
    Reviewed by Michael B. Charles.

  • 2006.01.14:  Jean MacIntosh Turfa, Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia: 2005. Pp. 360; ills. 500, pls. 36, tables 6, maps. $59.95. ISBN 1-931707-52-9.
    Reviewed by Ross H. Cowan.

  • 2006.01.15:  Michael Peachin, Frontinus and the curae of the curator aquarum. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien, Bd. 39. Stuttgart: 2004. Pp. ix, 197. €39.00. ISBN 3-515-08638-6.
    Reviewed by Cynthia Damon.

  • 2006.01.16:  Stephan Schmal, Tacitus. Studienbücher Antike, Band 14. Hildesheim: 2005. Pp. 240. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 3-487-12884-5.
    Reviewed by Rebecca Edwards.

  • 2006.01.17:  Davide Susanetti, Favole antiche: Mito greco e tradizione letteraria europea. Rome: 2005. Pp. 291. €19.80. ISBN 88-430-3327-1.
    Reviewed by Maria Stadter Fox.

  • 2006.01.18:  John J. O'Keefe, R. R. Reno, Sanctified Vision: An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible. Baltimore: 2005. Pp. xii, 156. $16.95. ISBN 0-8018-8088-2.
    Reviewed by Richard J. Goodrich.

  • 2006.01.19:  Andrea Follak, Der "Aufblick zur Idee". Eine vergleichende Studie zur Platonischen Pädagogik bei Friedrich Schleiermacher, Paul Natorp und Werner Jaeger. Göttingen: 2005. Pp. 147. €39.90. ISBN 3-525-30149-9.
    Reviewed by Constanze Güthenke.

  • 2006.01.20:  Elisabeth Meier Tetlow, Women, Crime, and Punishment in Ancient Law and Society. Vol. 2. Ancient Greece. New York and London: 2005. Pp. xiv, 353: ills. 36, maps 2. $35.00. ISBN 0-8264-1629-2.
    Reviewed by Virginia J. Hunter.

  • 2006.01.21:  Anthony J. Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt. Ancient World at War Series. Malden, MA: 2005. Pp. 291. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-1372-3.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig.

  • 2006.01.22:  Tobias Fischer-Hansen, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek fasc. 1, Denmark fasc. 10. Copenhagen: 2004. Pp. 165; figs. 36; profile drawings 82; color pls. 7, b/w pls. 132. DKK 625.00/€83.22. ISBN 87-7452-272-8.
    Reviewed by Jenifer Neils.

  • 2006.01.23:  Maria Teresa Sblendorio Cugusi, L'uso stilistico dei composti nominali nei Carmina Latina Epigraphica. Quaderni di "Invigilata Lucernis", 25. Bari: 2005. Pp. 144. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7228-422-8.
    Reviewed by Evelyne Prioux.

  • 2006.01.24:  James E. G. Zetzel, Marginal Scholarship and Textual Deviance. The Commentum Cornuti and the Early Scholia on Persius. BICS, Supplement 84. London: 2005. Pp. xiv, 242; ills.. £45.00. ISBN 0-900587-96-2.
    Reviewed by Ulrich Schlegelmilch.

  • 2006.01.25:  Laurent Gourmelen, Kékrops, le Roi Serpent. Etudes Anciennes. Paris: 2005. Pp. 471. €39.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-32657-X.
    Reviewed by Maurizio Bettini.

  • 2006.01.26:  Federico Borca, Confrontarsi con l'Altro. I Romani e la Germania. Milano: 2004. Pp. 125. €14.00. ISBN 88-488-0318-0.
    Reviewed by Eva Valvo.

  • 2006.01.27:  Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, Gábor Zólyomi, The Literature of Ancient Sumer. Oxford: 2004. Pp. lxiv, 372. £63.00. ISBN 0-19-926311-6.
    Reviewed by Martin Worthington.

  • 2006.01.28:  Daniel I. Jacob, Zêtêmata logotechnikês theôrias stên Poiêtikê tou Aristotelê. Athens: 2004. Pp. 170.
    Reviewed by Vayos J. Liapis.

  • 2006.01.29:  Richard Dufour, Chrysippe. Oeuvre philosophique, 2 vols. Paris: 2004. Pp. lv, 688; 747. €71.00. ISBN 2-251-74203-4.
    Reviewed by Joachim Lukoschus.

  • 2006.01.30:  Birgitta L. Sjöberg, Asine and the Argolid in the Late Helladic III Period. A Socio-Economic Study. BAR International Series 1225. Oxford: 2004. Pp. vi, 157. £29.00 (pb). ISBN 1-84171-590-5.
    Reviewed by Patrick M. Thomas.

  • 2006.01.31:  Michael Share, Philoponus. Against Proclus's "On the Eternity of the World 1-5." The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Ithaca: 2005. Pp. ix, 154. $72.50. ISBN 0-8014-4214-1.
    Reviewed by Wayne J. Hankey.

  • 2006.01.32:  Loren J. Samons II, What's Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship. Berkeley: 2004. Pp. 307. $27.50. ISBN 0-520-23660-2.
    Reviewed by Mogens Herman Hansen.

  • 2006.01.33:  Gottskálk Jensson, The Recollections of Encolpius: The Satyrica of Petronius as Milesian Fiction. Ancient Narrative Supplementum 2. Groningen: 2004. Pp. xii, 327. €65.00. ISBN 90-807390-8-1.
    Reviewed by Anton Bitel.

  • 2006.01.34:  P. Habermehl, Perpetua und der Ägypter oder Bilder des Bösen im frühen afrikanischen Christentum. Second edition. Berlin: 2004. Pp. 341. €98.00. ISBN 3-11-018184-3.
    Reviewed by Jan N. Bremmer.

  • 2006.01.35:  A. Bencivenni, Progetti di riforme costituzionali nelle epigrafi greche dei secoli IV-II a.C. Bologna: 2003. Pp. 430. €40.00. ISBN 88-8478-053-5.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2006.01.36:  Simon Hornblower, Thucydides and Pindar. Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xv, 454. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-924919-9.
    Reviewed by Bruno Currie.

  • 2006.01.37:  Jon R. Stone, The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs, and Sayings. New York and London: 2005. Pp. xvii, 394. $85.00 (hb). ISBN 0-415-96908-5.
    Reviewed by Fred W. Jenkins.

  • 2006.01.38:  Claudia Rapp, Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 37. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. xii; 346. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-24296-3.
    Reviewed by William Klingshirn.

  • 2006.01.39:  V. Hunink, Tertullian, De Pallio. Amsterdam: 2005. Pp. 332. €68.00. ISBN 90-5063-439-7.
    Reviewed by Roland Mayer.

  • 2006.01.40:  B. Seidensticker, Über das Vergnügen an tragischen Gegenständen: Studien zum antiken Drama. Edited by J. Holzhausen. Munich and Leipzig: 2005. Pp. 454. €96.00. ISBN 3-598-73024-1.
    Reviewed by Ruth Scodel.

  • 2006.01.41:  David Sider, The Library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Los Angeles: 2005. Pp. 128. $40.00. ISBN 0-89236-799-7.
    Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk.

  • 2006.01.42:  Lukas de Blois, Jeroen Bons, Ton Kessels, Dirk M. Schenkeveld, The Statesman in Plutarch's Works, Volume II: The Statesman in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives. Mnemosyne Suppl. 250/II. Leiden: 2005. Pp. xx, 395. €99.00/$134.00. ISBN 90-04-13808-0.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2006.01.43:  Sarah Bassett, The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xxi, 291; b/w ills. 37. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-82723-X.
    Reviewed by Antony Eastmond.

  • 2006.01.44:  Monica Berti, Fra tirannide e democrazia. Ipparco figlio di Carmo e il destino dei Pisistratidi ad Atene. Fonti e Studi di Storia Antica, 8. Alessandria: 2004. Pp. 232. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7694-814-7.
    Reviewed by Minna Skafte Jensen.

  • 2006.01.45:  Jon Steffen Bruss, Hidden Presences. Monuments, Gravesites, and Corpses in Greek Funerary Epigram. Hellenistica Groningana X. Leuven: 2005. Pp. 201. €40.00. ISBN 90-429-1641-9.
    Reviewed by Yannick Durbec.

  • 2006.01.46:  Zetzel on Schlegelmilch on Zetzel, Marginal Scholarship and Textual Deviance.
    Response by James E. G. Zetzel.

  • 2006.01.47:  Jasper Gaunt, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain, fascicule 21. Harrow School. With the collaboration of Thomas Mannack. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xx, 65; figs. 4, pls. 56. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-726306-2.
    Reviewed by Mary B. Moore.

  • 2006.01.48:  Victoria Emma Pagán, Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History. Austin, TX: 2005. Pp. 208. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-70561-1.
    Reviewed by Debra L. Nousek.

  • 2006.01.49:  Giuseppe Squillace, Basileis ê tyrannoi: Filippo II e Alessandro Magno tra opposizione e consenso. Società Antiche, 6. Soveria Mannelli: 2004. Pp. 234; ills. 7. €13.00 (pb). ISBN 88-498-0892-5.
    Reviewed by Jacek Rzepka.

  • 2006.01.50:  Douglas R. Edwards, Religion and Society in Roman Palestine. Old Questions, New Approaches. London/New York: 2004. Pp. 194. $87.50. ISBN 0-415-30597-7.
    Reviewed by Susan Sorek.

  • 2006.01.51:  S. Montiglio, Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture. Chicago: 2005. Pp. 288. $50.00. ISBN 0-226-53497-9.
    Reviewed by Isabelle Torrance.

  • 2006.01.52:  Frank J. Frost, Politics and the Athenians. Essays on Athenian History and Historiography. Campbellvile, ON: 2005. Pp. 302. $55.00. ISBN 0-88866-650-0.
    Reviewed by James Allan Evans.

  • 2006.01.53:  Mary Beagon, The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal. Natural History Book 7. Translation with introduction and historical commentary. Clarendon Ancient History Series. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 544. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-927701-X.
    Reviewed by Donald Lateiner.

  • 2006.02.01:  Sean Alexander Gurd, Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology. Ithaca: 2005. Pp. 188. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-4329-6.
    Reviewed by Robin Mitchell-Boyask.

  • 2006.02.02:  A. Boschi, A. Bozzato, I greci al cinema. Dal peplum 'd'autore' alla grafica computerizzata. Bologna: 2005. Pp. 110. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 88-86909-73-X.
    Reviewed by James J. Clauss.

  • 2006.02.03:  S. Edmunds, P. Jones, G. Nagy, Text & Textile: An Introduction to Wool-Working for Readers of Greek and Latin. New Brunswick, NJ: 2004. $30.00. ISBN 0-9759617-0-5.
    Reviewed by Kevin F. Daly.

  • 2006.02.04:  Charlotte Schubert, Der hippokratische Eid. Medizin und Ethik von der Antike bis heute. Berlin: 2005. Pp. 122. €34.90. ISBN 3-534-18770-9.
    Reviewed by Pedro de Blas.

  • 2006.02.05:  Marguerite Johnson, Terry Ryan, Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. A Sourcebook. London and New York: 2005. Pp. xxvi, 244. $75.00 (hb). ISBN 0-415-17330-2.
    Reviewed by Mark Golden.

  • 2006.02.06:  Alan Dundes, Folklore: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. Four volumes. London and New York: 2005. Pp. xxvi, 352; ix, 279; viii, 350; xi, 506. $865.00. ISBN 0-415-31662-6.
    Reviewed by William Hansen.

  • 2006.02.07:  BMCR Books Received (January).


  • 2006.02.08:  F. Bessone, E. Malaspina, Politica e cultura in Roma antica. Atti dell'incontro di studio in ricordo di Italo Lana, Torino 16-17 ottobre 2003. Bologna: 2005. Pp. 171. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 88-555-2828-9.
    Reviewed by Matthew Leigh.

  • 2006.02.09:  Josiah Ober, Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going on Together. Princeton: 2005. Pp. 273. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-12095-1.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Meilaender.

  • 2006.02.10:  Helena Dettmer, Marcia Lindgren, Workbook to Accompany the Second Edition of Donald M. Ayers's English Words from Latin and Greek Elements. Tucson: 2005. Pp. 269. $15.95. ISBN 0-8165-2318-5.
    Reviewed by Teresa R. Ramsby.

  • 2006.02.11:  Fergus Millar, Rome, the Greek World, and the East. Vol. 2: Government, Society & Culture in the Roman Empire. Edited by Hannah M. Cotton & Guy M. Rogers. Chapel Hill: 2004. Pp. 470. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8078-5520-0.
    Reviewed by Susan Sorek.

  • 2006.02.12:  Deborah Levine Gera, Ancient Greek Ideas on Speech, Language and Civilization. Oxford: 2003. Pp. 272. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-925616-0.
    Reviewed by Andrew L. Ford.

  • 2006.02.13:  Klaus Döring, [Plato]. Theages. Übersetzung und Kommentar. Platon, Werke, Band V 1. Göttingen: 2004. Pp. 93. €29.90. ISBN 3-525-30416-1.
    Reviewed by Harold Tarrant.

  • 2006.02.14:  J.E. Lendon, Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity. New Haven: 2005. Pp. xii, 468; ills., maps. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-10663-7.
    Reviewed by Barry Strauss.

  • 2006.02.15:  Gavrilov et al. on Ivantchik on Dickey on Gavrilov et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Regni Bosporani: Album Imaginum.
    Response by Alexander Gavrilov, Natalia Pavlichenko, Denis Keyer Bibliotheca Classica Petropolitana.

  • 2006.02.16:  Nigel James Nicholson, Aristocracy and Athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xiv, 280. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-84522-X.
    Reviewed by Jason Koenig.

  • 2006.02.17:  Werner Eck, Matthäus Heil, Senatores populi Romani. Realität und mediale Präsentation einer Führungsschicht. HABES, 40. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 329. €50.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08684-6.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2006.02.18:  François Jouan, Euripide. Tragédies, tome VIII, 2e partie: Rhésos. Paris: 2004. Pp. lxxx, 88. €35.00. ISBN 2-251-00519-6.
    Reviewed by Marco Fantuzzi.

  • 2006.02.19:  Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Third electronic edition. Munich: 2005. €1,050.00. ISBN 3-598-40772-6 (CD-ROM).
    Reviewed by Peter Heslin.

  • 2006.02.20:  Claire L. Lyons, John K. Papadopoulos, Lindsey S. Stewart, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Antiquity & Photography. Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites. Los Angeles: 2005. Pp. xiii, 229; ills. 130. $65.00. ISBN 0-89236-805-5.
    Reviewed by Michael M. Eisman.

  • 2006.02.21:  David J. Ladouceur, The Latin Psalter. Introduction, selected text and commentary. London: 2005. Pp. 126. €21.50. ISBN 1-85399-683-1.
    Reviewed by Vincent Hunink.

  • 2006.02.22:  Jill Frank, A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics. Chicago: 2005. Pp. 199. $19.00 (pb). ISBN 0-226-26019-4.
    Reviewed by Susan Lape.

  • 2006.02.23:  Diana Wood Conroy, The Fabric of the Ancient Theatre: Excavation Journals from Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean. Lefkosia, Cyprus: 2004. Pp. xiii, 394. $56.00. ISBN 9963-642-14-4.
    Reviewed by Daniel M. Millette.

  • 2006.02.24:  Gaspard Fossati, Aya Sofia Constantinople. CD-Rom. Oakland, CA: 2005. $30.00. ISBN 1-891-788-34-5.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2006.02.25:  Lisa Piazzi, Lucrezio e i Presocratici. Un commento a De rerum natura 1, 635-920. Testi e Commenti 1. Pisa: 2005. Pp. 322. €40.00. ISBN 88-7642-151-3.
    Reviewed by Piet H. Schrijvers.

  • 2006.02.26:  Richard Hingley, Globalizing Roman Culture: Unity, Diversity and Empire. London and New York: 2005. Pp. xiii, 208. $29.95. ISBN 0-415-35176-6.
    Reviewed by Eric Adler.

  • 2006.02.27:  Pat Thane, A History of Old Age. London and Los Angeles: 2005. Pp. 320; color ills. 108, b/w ills. 123. $49.95. ISBN 0-89236-834-9.
    Reviewed by Marcus Sigismund.

  • 2006.02.28:  Sutton on O'Donnell on Gaspard Fossati, Aya Sofia Constantinople CD-Rom.
    Response by Dana F. Sutton.

  • 2006.02.29:  Genevieve Liveley, Ovid: Love Songs. London: 2005. Pp. 141. £10.99 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-670-X.
    Reviewed by D. Thomas Benediktson.

  • 2006.02.30:  Ilaria Ramelli, I Setti sapienti: vite e opinioni nell'edizione di Bruno Snell. Originally published as Leben und Meinungen der Sieben Weisen, 4th edition (1971). Milano: 2005. Pp. 264. €10.00 (pb). ISBN 88-452-3397-9.
    Reviewed by Andrew L. Ford.

  • 2006.02.31:  Denise Kimber Buell, Why This New Race: Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity. New York: 2005. Pp. 288. $45.00. ISBN 0-231-13334-0.
    Reviewed by Aaron P. Johnson.

  • 2006.02.32:  Yaron Z. Eliav, God's Mountain. The Temple Mount in Time, Place, and Memory. Baltimore: 2005. Pp. xxxvi, 353. $45.00. ISBN 0-8018-8213-3.
    Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst.

  • 2006.02.33:  Zeba A. Crook, Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche 130. Berlin/New York: 2004. Pp. 310. €88.00. ISBN 3-11-018265-3.
    Reviewed by Carolyn Osiek.

  • 2006.02.34:  Alain M. Gowing, Empire and Memory. The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xiv, 178. $70.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-83622-0.
    Reviewed by Sander M. Goldberg.

  • 2006.02.35:  Laura Nicotra, Archeologia al femminile. Il cammino delle donne nella disciplina archeologica attraverso le figure di otto archeologhe classiche vissute dalla metà dell'Ottocento ad oggi. Studia archaeologica, 129. Roma: 2004. Pp. 297. €160.00. ISBN 88-8265-284-X.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Colantoni.

  • 2006.02.36:  Stephan F. Schröder, Katalog der antiken Skulpturen des Museo del Prado in Madrid. Vol. 2: Idealplastik. Mainz am Rhein: 2004. Pp. xii, 537. €86.00. ISBN 3-8053-1758-1.
    Reviewed by Jens Daehner.

  • 2006.02.37:  Andrea Carandini, Emanuele Greco, Workshop di archeologia classica. Paesaggi, costruzioni, reperti. Annuario internazionale. 1 (2004). Pisa/Roma: 2004. Pp. 214. €50.00 (subscription, Italy, individuals). ISBN ISSN 1724-9120.
    Reviewed by Vincent Jolivet.

  • 2006.02.38:  Johan Henrik Schreiner, Two Battles and Two Bills: Marathon and the Athenian Fleet. The Norwegian Institute at Athens. Monographs, vol. 3. Oslo: 2004. Pp. viii, 159; map 1. SEK 250.00. ISBN 82-91626-30-8.
    Reviewed by John Buckler.

  • 2006.02.39:  Karl Gerhard Hempel, Die Nekropole von Tarent im 2. und 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Studien zur materiellen Kultur. With an Italian translation of the main text. Taranto: 2001. Pp. 314. €77.47 (pb). ISBN 88-8099-101-9.
    Reviewed by Deborah Chatr Aryamontri.

  • 2006.02.40:  J. M. Cook, R. V. Nichols, Old Smyrna Excavations: The Temples of Athena. With an Appendix by D. M. Pyle. Annual of the British School at Athens, Supplementary Volume No. 30. London: 1998. Pp. xxvii, 214; figs. 42, pls. 30; fold-out pls. 4. £55.00. ISBN 0-904887-28-6.
    Reviewed by Margaret M. Miles.

  • 2006.02.41:  Irad Malkin, Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity. London and New York: 2005. Pp. vi, 149; ills., maps, table. $105.00. ISBN 0-415-35635-0.
    Reviewed by Elias K. Petropoulos.

  • 2006.02.42:  William Cavanagh, Christopher Mee, Peter James, The Laconia Rural Sites Project. BSA Supplementary Volume 36. London: 2005. Pp. 366; figs. 233, tables 56. £49.00. ISBN 0-904887-47-2.
    Reviewed by Christopher L. Witmore.

  • 2006.02.43:  Robert Bagg, The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone, Introductions and Notes by Robert Bagg and Mary Bagg. Amherst and Boston: 2004. Pp. 304. $19.95. ISBN 1-55849-454-5.
    Reviewed by Andreas Markantonatos.

  • 2006.02.44:  Jonas Eiring, John Lund, Transport Amphorae and Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean. Acts of the International Colloquium at the Danish Institute at Athens, September 26-29, 2002. Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, 5. Athens: 2004. Pp. 539; ills. $59.95. ISBN 87-7934-118-7.
    Reviewed by Roald F. Docter.

  • 2006.02.45:  Paolo Esposito, Gli scolii a Lucano ed altra scoliastica Latina. Pisa: 2004. Pp. 203. €13.00. ISBN 88-467-1081-9.
    Reviewed by Vincent Hunink.

  • 2006.02.46:  Giancarlo Abbamonte, Ferruccio Conti Bizzarro, Luigi Spina, L'ultima parola. L'analisi dei testi: teorie e pratiche nell'antichità greca e latina. Napoli: 2004. Pp. 453. €39.00. ISBN 88-87375-82-8.
    Reviewed by Daniela Borrelli.

  • 2006.02.47:  Lucy Grig, Making Martyrs in Late Antiquity. London: 2004. Pp. xiii, 207. £45.00. ISBN 0-7156-3285-X.
    Reviewed by Johan Leemans.

  • 2006.02.48:  Barbara Goward, Aeschylus: Agamemnon. London: 2005. Pp. 160. £11.99. ISBN 0-7156-3385-6.
    Reviewed by Fiona McHardy.

  • 2006.02.49:  Marianne Pade, On Renaissance Commentaries. Noctes Neolatinae. Neo-Latin Texts and Studies, Band 4. Hildesheim: 2005. Pp. 139. €34,80. ISBN 3-487-12955-8.
    Reviewed by M. Skoie.

  • 2006.02.50:  Jean-Marie Salamito, Les virtuoses et la multitude. Aspects sociaux de la controverse entre Augustin et les pélagiens. Grenoble: 2005. Pp. 350. €29.00. ISBN 2-84137-168-9.
    Reviewed by Josef Lössl.

  • 2006.02.51:  José Guillermo Montes Cala, Manuel Sánchez Ortiz de Landaluce, Rafael Jesús Gallé Cejudo, Tomás Silva Sánchez, Studia Hellenistica Gaditana I: Teócrito, Arato, Argonáuticas órficas. Cádiz: 2003. Pp. 328. €12,00. ISBN 84-96274-21-7.
    Reviewed by Enrico Magnelli.

  • 2006.02.52:  Susan O. Shapiro, O tempora! O mores! Cicero's Catilinarian Orations. A student edition with historical essays. Norman, OK: 2005. Pp. 304; maps 4. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8061-3662-6.
    Reviewed by Jackie Elliott.

  • 2006.02.53:  Perez Zagorin, Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader. Princeton: 2005. Pp. xvi, 190. $24.95. ISBN 0-691-12351-9.
    Reviewed by James P. Holoka.

  • 2006.02.54:  Gary R. Grund, Humanist Comedies. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Cambridge, MA: 2005. Pp. xxx, 460. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01744-7.
    Reviewed by Diane Louise Johnson.

  • 2006.02.55:  Marguerite Yon, Kition dans les textes. Testimonia littéraires et épigraphiques et Corpus des inscriptions. Publications de la Mission Archéologique Française de Kition-Bamboula, V. Paris: 2004. Pp. 380. €44.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86538-292-3.
    Reviewed by Céline Marquaille.

  • 2006.02.56:  Leon Golden, Understanding the Iliad. Bloomington, IN: 2006. Pp. 184. $11.50. ISBN 1-4208-1351-X.
    Reviewed by Brett Robbins.

  • 2006.02.57:  A.J. Kleywegt, Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book 1: A Commentary. Leiden: 2005. Pp. 506. €159.00. ISBN 90-04-13924-9.
    Reviewed by Andrew Zissos.

  • 2006.02.58:  Harvey Yunis, Demosthenes, Speeches 18 and 19. The Oratory of Classical Greece, vol. 9. Austin, TX: 2005. Pp. xxix, 243. $45.00 (hb). ISBN 0-292-70577-8.
    Reviewed by Brad L. Cook.

  • 2006.02.59:  Philipp Brandenburg, Apollonios Dyskolos. Über das Pronomen. Einführung, Text, Übersetzung und Erläuterungen. BzA 222. München/Leipzig: 2005. Pp. 676. €120.00. ISBN 3-598-77834-1.
    Reviewed by Rolando Ferri.

  • 2006.02.60:  Tim Whitmarsh, Ancient Greek Literature. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. viii, 284. $25.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7456-2792-7.
    Reviewed by Lee T. Pearcy.

  • 2006.03.01:  Michael Paschalis, Roman and Greek Imperial Epic. Rethymnon Classical Studies 2. Rethymnon: 2005. Pp. ix, 195. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 960-524-203-6.
    Reviewed by Stephen Harrison.

  • 2006.03.02:  Ian Morris, Barry Powell, The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society. Upper Saddle River, NJ: 2005. Pp. 576. $52.20 (pb). ISBN 0-13-921156-X.
    Reviewed by Wilfred E. Major.

  • 2006.03.03:  Keith Hopkins, Mary Beard, The Colosseum. Cambridge, MA: 2005. Pp. vii, 214. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-01895-8.
    Reviewed by Alessandra Bravi.

  • 2006.03.04:  Sarah Ruden, Homeric Hymns. Indianopolis, IN: 2005. Pp. 104. $8.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-725-0.
    Reviewed by Roger S. Fisher.

  • 2006.03.05:  Karina Ukleja, Der Delos-Hymnus des Kallimachos innerhalb seines Hymnensextetts. Orbis antiquus, 39. Münster: 2005. Pp. vii, 353. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 3-402-05400-0.
    Reviewed by Massimo Giuseppetti.

  • 2006.03.06:  BMCR Books Received (February).


  • 2006.03.07:  Laurent Pernot, Rhetoric in Antiquity. Translated by W.E. Higgins. Washington, DC: 2005. Pp. xiv, 269. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8132-1407-6.
    Reviewed by Stefanie A.H. Kennell.

  • 2006.03.08:  A.F. Garvie, The Plays of Sophocles. London: 2005. Pp. 94. £10.99 (pb). ISBN 1-853-00680-7.
    Reviewed by Seth L. Schein.

  • 2006.03.09:  ALSO SEEN: The Royal Shakespeare Company, The War That Still Goes On. Novello Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London: February 12, 2006.
    Reviewed by Neil Forsyth.

  • 2006.03.10:  D. Sedley, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Volume XXVI, Summer 2004. Oxford: 2004. Pp. viii, 380. £21.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-927250-6.
    Reviewed by G.S. Bowe and J.D. Cowley.

  • 2006.03.11:  Sophia Papaioannou, Epic Succession and Dissension. Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623-14.582 and the Reinvention of the Aeneid. Berlin: 2005. Pp. 218. $84.00. ISBN 3-11-018326-9.
    Reviewed by Christopher Francese.

  • 2006.03.12:  Michael Maas, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 626. $34.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-81746-3.
    Reviewed by Mischa Meier.

  • 2006.03.13:  Jennifer Wright Knust, Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity. Gender, Theory, and Religion Series. New York: 2006. Pp. ix, 279. $45.00. ISBN 0-231-13662-5.
    Reviewed by David M. Reis.

  • 2006.03.14:  Rebecca Bushnell, A Companion to Tragedy. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Malden, MA: 2005. Pp. 556. $124.95. ISBN 1-4051-0735-9.
    Reviewed by Wm. Blake Tyrrell.

  • 2006.03.15:  Denis Feissel, Jean Gascou, La pétition à Byzance. Centre de Recherche d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, Monographies 14. Paris: 2004. Pp. 199. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 2-9519198-2-4.
    Reviewed by Raymond Van Dam.

  • 2006.03.16:  Sara Raup Johnson, Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context. Hellenistic Culture and Society, 43. Berkeley: 2004. Pp. 271. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-23307-7.
    Reviewed by Jed Wyrick.

  • 2006.03.17:  Rak on Fisher on Sarah Ruden (trans.), Homeric Hymns.
    Response by Brian Rak.

  • 2006.03.18:  Monica Gale, Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality. Swansea: 2004. Pp. 264. $69.50. ISBN 0-9543845-6-3.
    Reviewed by Andrew Fenton.

  • 2006.03.19:  Christopher H. Hallett, The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC-AD 300. Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Representation. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xxi, 391; figs. 12, pls. 160. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-924049-3.
    Reviewed by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway.

  • 2006.03.20:  Giancarlo Giardina, Properzio. Elegie. Edizione critica e traduzione. Roma: 2005. Pp. 418. €95.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8476-118-2.
    Reviewed by Frédéric Nau.

  • 2006.03.21:  Philippa Lang, Re-Inventions: Essays on Hellenistic and Early Roman Science. Apeiron 37.4. Kelowna, BC: 2004. Pp. vi, 135. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 0-920980-89-9.
    Reviewed by Paul T. Keyser.

  • 2006.03.22:  Benjamin Bennett, All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater. Ithaca: 2005. Pp. 241. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-4309-1.
    Reviewed by Rush Rehm.

  • 2006.03.23:  John G. Younger, Sex in the Ancient World: From A to Z. London and New York: 2005. Pp. 217; pls. 43. $79.00. ISBN 0-415-24252-5.
    Reviewed by Gina Salapata.

  • 2006.03.24:  Stephan T.A.M. Mols, Eric M. Moormann, Omni pede stare. Saggi architettonici e circumvesuviani in memoriam Jos de Waele. Studi della Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei 9. Naples: 2005. Pp. 344. €130.00. ISBN 88-510-0265-7.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2006.03.25:  Paolo Fedeli, Properzio: Elegie, Libro II. Introduzione, testo e commento. ARCA Classical Texts, Papers and Monographs 45. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 1070. £150.00/$300.00. ISBN 0-905205-42-1.
    Reviewed by J.L. Butrica.

  • 2006.03.26:  Bernhard Linke, Die römische Republik von den Gracchen bis Sulla. Darmstadt: 2005. Pp. x, 150. €14.90. ISBN 3-534-15498-3.
    Reviewed by Paul Erdkamp.

  • 2006.03.27:  Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre, Gordion Seals and Sealings: Individuals and Society. Gordion Special Studies III, University Museum Monograph 124. Philadelphia, PA: 2005. Pp. 208; ills. 237 (CD-Rom). $59.95. ISBN 1-9311707-82-0.
    Reviewed by Geoffrey D. Summers.

  • 2006.03.28:  Thomas Kazen, Jesus and Purity Halakhah: Was Jesus Indifferent to Impurity? Coniectanea Biblica New Testament Series 38. Stockholm: 2002. Pp. xii, 402. SEK182.00. ISBN 91-22-01964-2.
    Reviewed by Susan Haber.

  • 2006.03.29:  R.T. Wallinga, Xerxes' Greek Adventure: The Naval Perspective. Mnemosyne Supplement 265. Leiden: 2005. Pp. xiii, 174; maps 3, pl. 1. €99.00. ISBN 90-04-14140-5.
    Reviewed by David Potter.

  • 2006.03.30:  Girolamo Arnaldi, Italy and Its Invaders. Originally published as L'Italia e i suoi invasori (2002). Translated by Anthony Shugar. Cambridge, MA: 2005. Pp. 229. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-01870-2.
    Reviewed by John Lewis.

  • 2006.03.31:  Scott McGill, Virgil Recomposed. The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity. American Classical Studies, 48. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 260. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-517564-6.
    Reviewed by Giuseppe La Bua.

  • 2006.03.32:  Orazio Paoletti, Giovannangelo Camporeale, Dinamiche di sviluppo delle città nell'Etruria Meridionale: Veio, Caere, Tarquinia, Vulci. Atti del XXIII Convegno di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, Roma, Veio, Cerveteri/Pyrgi, Tarquinia, Tuscania, Vulci, Viterbo, 1-6 ottobre 2001. Two Volumes. Pisa and Rome: 2005. Pp. xii, 752; figs. 223, b/w pls. 107. €1160.00 (hb). ISBN 88-8147-376-3.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2006.03.33:  Olson on Storey on Austin-Olson, Aristophanes. Thesmophoriazusae.
    Response by S. Douglas Olson.

  • 2006.03.34:  I. Kantzios, The Trajectory of Archaic Greek Trimeters. Mnemosyne Supplement, 265. Leiden: 2005. Pp. 208. €112.00. ISBN 90-04-14536-2.
    Reviewed by Liana Lomiento.

  • 2006.03.35:  Bradley A. Ault, Lisa C. Nevett, Ancient Greek Houses and Households: Chronological, Regional, and Social Diversity. Philadelphia, PA: 2005. Pp. x, 190. $55.00. ISBN 0-8122-3875-3.
    Reviewed by Ruth Westgate.

  • 2006.03.36:  Norbert Kunisch, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Deutschland, fascicule 79, Bochum, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr Universität, Band 1. Munich: 2005. Pp. 76; figs. 27, Beilagen 17; pls. 59. €88.00. ISBN 3-406-53754-5.
    Reviewed by Mary B. Moore.

  • 2006.03.37:  Bernadette Simon, Nonnos de Panopolis, Les Dionysiaques. Tome XVI. Chants XLIV-XLVI. Paris: 2004. Pp. 262. €46.00. ISBN 2-251-00521-8.
    Claudia Greco, Nonno di Panopoli, Parafrasi del Vangelo di S. Giovanni. Canto tredicesimo. Alexandria: 2004. Pp. 176. €17.00. ISBN 88-7694-744-2.
    Gianfranco Agosti, Nonno di Panopoli, le Dionisiache (Canti XXV-XXXIX). Volume terzo. Introduzione, traduzione e commento. BUR Classici Greci e Latini. Milano: 2004. Pp. 898. €19.00. ISBN 88-17-00261-5.
    Domenico Accorinti, Nonno di Panopoli, le Dionisiache (Canti XL-XLVIII). Volume quarto. Introduzione, traduzione e commento. BUR Classici Greci e Latini. Milano: 2004. Pp. 758. €19.00. ISBN 88-17-00262-3.
    Reviewed by Robert Shorrock.

  • 2006.03.38:  Erika Kunze-Götte, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Deutschland fasc.78. München, Antikensammlungen Fascicule 14: Attisch-Schwarzfigurige Halsamphoren. Munich: 2005. Pp. 94; b/w pls. 49, profile drawings. ISBN 3-406-53203-9.
    Reviewed by Ann Steiner.

  • 2006.03.39:  I. Ramelli, G. Lucchetta, Allegoria. Volume I. L'età classica. Introduzione e cura di R. Radice. Milan: 2004. Pp. 550. €45.00. ISBN 88-343-5007-3.
    Reviewed by Roberto Chiappiniello.

  • 2006.03.40:  Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other. How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. New York: 2005. Pp. xviii. 397; maps. $29.95. ISBN 1-4000-6095-8.
    Reviewed by Stewart Flory.

  • 2006.03.41:  Marek Jan Olbrycht, Aleksander Wielki i swiat iranski [Alexander the Great and the Iranian World]. Rzeszow, Poland: 2004. Pp. 412. ISBN 83-7338-134-1.
    Reviewed by Tytus K. Mikolajczak.

  • 2006.03.42:  Josh Beer, Sophocles and the Tragedy of Athenian Democracy. Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies 105. Westport, CT: 2004. Pp. 190. $84.95. ISBN 0-313-28946-8.
    Reviewed by Judith Owen.

  • 2006.03.43:  Charikleia Armoni, James M.S. Cowey, Dieter Hagedorn, Die griechischen Ostraka der Heidelberger Papyrus-Sammlung. Veröffentlichungen aus der Heidelberger Papyrus-Sammlung, 11. Heidelberg: 2005. Pp. xxiii, 514. €98.00. ISBN 3-8253-5087-8.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2006.03.44:  Robert M. Berchman, Porphyry Against the Christians. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 1. Leiden: 2005. Pp. 243. €129.00. ISBN 90-04-14811-6.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2006.03.45:  Karen Piepenbrink, Christliche Identität und Assimilation in der Spätantike. Probleme des Christseins in der Reflexion der Zeitgenossen. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, 3. Frankfurt am Main: 2005. Pp. 432. €54.90. ISBN 3-938032-06-5.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2006.03.46:  Konrad Vössing, Biographie und Prosopographie. Internationales Kolloquium zum 65. Geburtstag von Anthony R. Birley. Historia Einzelschrift 178. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 146. €34.00. ISBN 3-515-08538-6.
    Reviewed by Olivier Hekster.

  • 2006.03.47:  Cristina Viano, L'Alchimie et ses racines philosophiques: La tradition grecque et la tradition arabe. Paris: 2005. Pp. 242. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7116-1754-8.
    Reviewed by Tzvi Langermann.

  • 2006.03.48:  Donatella Mazzoleni, Umberto Pappalardo, Luciano Romano, Pompejanische Wandmalerei. Architektur und illusionistische Dekoration. München: 2005. Pp. 415; color ills. 344, foldouts 3. €128.00. ISBN 3-7774-2445-5.
    Reviewed by Stephan T.A.M. Mols.

  • 2006.03.49:  Steven Fine, Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 267. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-84491-6.
    Reviewed by Tyler Jo Smith.

  • 2006.04.01:  BMCR Books Received (March).


  • 2006.04.02:  Hempel on Chatr Aryamontri on Hempel, Die Nekropole von Tarent im 2. und 1. Jh.v.Chr.
    Response by Karl Gerhard Hempel.

  • 2006.04.03:  Marilena Amerise, Il battesimo di Costantino il Grande. Storia di una scomoda eredità. Hermes Einzelschrift 95. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 177. €34.00. ISBN 3-515-08721-4.
    Reviewed by Jan Willem Drijvers.

  • 2006.04.04:  Andrew Bell, Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City. Oxford/New York: 2004. Pp. viii, 289. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-924234-8.
    Reviewed by Kathleen Coleman.

  • 2006.04.05:  Steven Fine, Art & Judaism in the Greco-Roman World. Toward a New Jewish Archaeology. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 267. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-84491-6.
    Reviewed by Jodi Magness.

  • 2006.04.06:  Klaus Bringmann, Geschichte der Juden im Altertum: Vom babylonischen Exil bis zur arabischen Eroberung. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 365. €32.00. ISBN 3-608-94138-X.
    Reviewed by Linda Zollschan.

  • 2006.04.07:  Hédi Slim, Pol Trousset, Roland Paskoff, Ameur Oueslati, Le littoral de la Tunisie: Étude géoarchéologique et historique. Études d'Antiquités africaines. Paris: 2004. Pp. 308. €49.00. ISBN 2-271-06260-8.
    Reviewed by David L. Stone.

  • 2006.04.08:  Hanna M. Roisman, Sophocles: Philoctetes. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: 2005. Pp. 159. $22.00. ISBN 0-7156-3384-8.
    Reviewed by Ian C. Storey.

  • 2006.04.09:  Michael Lloyd, Sophocles: Electra. London: 2005. Pp. 160. £11.99. ISBN 0-7156-3303-1.
    Reviewed by David Fitzpatrick.

  • 2006.04.10:  S. Iles Johnston, P.T. Struck, Mantikê. Studies in Ancient Divination. Leiden: 2005. Pp. 322. €94.00. ISBN 90-04-14497-8.
    Reviewed by Alex Nice.

  • 2006.04.11:  Richard Kraut, Steven Skultety, Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays. Lanham, MD: 2005. Pp. xvi, 256. $75.00 (hb). ISBN 0-7425-3423-5.
    Reviewed by Thomas W. Smith.

  • 2006.04.12:  Arthur Golding, Ovid's Metamorphoses. A Selection. Edited with an Introduction by Peter Scupham. Manchester: 2005. Pp. 156. £9.95. ISBN 1-85754-776-4.
    Reviewed by Kris Fletcher.

  • 2006.04.13:  Olivier Callot, Salamine de Chypre XVI: Les Monnaies. Fouilles de la ville 1964-1974. Mission Archéologique de Salamine de Chypre. Paris: 2004. Pp. 219. €45.00. ISBN 2-903264-95-3.
    Reviewed by Jörg Starck.

  • 2006.04.14:  Julia Valeva, The Painted Coffers of the Ostrusha Tomb. Sofia, Bulgaria: 2005. Pp. 200; color pls. 18, b/w figs. 140. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 954-406-127-4.
    Reviewed by Stella Miller-Collett.

  • 2006.04.15:  Orestis Karavas, Lucien et la tragédie. Berlin and New York: 2005. Pp. 374. €98.00. ISBN 3-11-018493-1.
    Reviewed by Johanna Hanink.

  • 2006.04.16:  Peter Green, The Poems of Catullus. A bilingual edition. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. 339. $24.95. ISBN 0-520-24264-5.
    Reviewed by Antonio Ramírez de Verger and Jan J. Zoltwoski.

  • 2006.04.17:  Peter Manchester, The Syntax of Time. The Phenomenology of Time in Greek Physics and Speculative Logic from Iamblichus to Anaximander. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 2. Leiden: 2005. Pp. 179. €99.00. ISBN 90-04-14712-8.
    Reviewed by Eugene V. Afonasin.

  • 2006.04.18:  B. M. Lavelle, Fame, Money, and Power: The Rise of Peisistratos and "Democratic" Tyranny at Athens. Ann Arbor: 2004. Pp. xiv, 370; map 1, figs. 10. $65.00. ISBN 0-472-11424-7.
    Reviewed by Greg Anderson.

  • 2006.04.19:  Stephen Harrison, A Companion to Latin Literature. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xviii, 450. $99.95. ISBN 0-631-23529-9.
    Reviewed by Erik Hamer.

  • 2006.04.20:  Edward Champlin, Nero. First published in 2003. Paperback edition. Cambridge, MA: 2005. Pp. 346; ills. 5, maps 5. $17.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01822-2.
    Reviewed by Paul Roche.

  • 2006.04.21:  Carlo Natali, Stefano Maso, La catena delle cause. Determinismo e antideterminismo nel pensiero antico e in quello contemporaneo. Amsterdam: 2005. Pp. 421. €108.00. ISBN 90-256-1200-8.
    Reviewed by James Warren.

  • 2006.04.22:  John W. Stamper, The Architecture of Roman Temples: The Republic to the Middle Empire. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xv, 287. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-81068-X.
    Reviewed by Mantha Zarmakoupi.

  • 2006.04.23:  Prudence J. Jones, Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture. Lanham, MD: 2005. Pp. xiv, 123. $60.00 (hb). ISBN 0-7391-1108-6.
    Reviewed by Brian Campbell.

  • 2006.04.24:  Bonnie A. Catto, Latina Mythica. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. xiv, 201. $24.00. ISBN 0-86516-599-8.
    Reviewed by Tracy Deline.

  • 2006.04.25:  Carolyn Dewald, Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. 258. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-24127-4.
    Reviewed by Tim Rood.

  • 2006.04.26:  Anne Mahoney, Morice's Stories in Attic Greek. Newburyport, MA: 2005. Pp. 204. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58510-189-3.
    Reviewed by Bret Mulligan.

  • 2006.04.27:  Geoffrey Thorndike Martin, Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge, c. 3000 BC- AD 1150. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 202. $190.00. ISBN 0-521-84290-5.
    Reviewed by Monica M. Bontty.

  • 2006.04.28:  Karanasiou on Mahoney on Argyri G. Karanasiou, Die Rezeption der lyrischen Partien der attischen Tragödie in der griechischen Literatur.
    Response by Argyri G. Karanasiou.

  • 2006.04.29:  Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola, Richard J.A. Talbert, The Romans from Village to Empire. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xxvii, 516. $39.00. ISBN 0-19-511876-6.
    Reviewed by Debra L. Nousek.

  • 2006.04.30:  Thomas McCarthy, Nunc Loquâmur: Guided Conversations for Latin. Newburyport, MA: 2005. Pp. 72. $14.95. ISBN 1-58510-186-9.
    Reviewed by Akihiko Watanabe.

  • 2006.04.31:  J. den Boeft, J.W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst, H.C. Teitler, Philological and Historical Commentary of Ammianus Marcellinus XXV. Leiden: 2005. Pp. xxv, 415. $150.00. ISBN 90-04-14214-2.
    Reviewed by Michael Kulikowski.

  • 2006.04.32:  C.A.J. Littlewood, Self-Representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy. Oxford: 2004. Pp. vi, 331. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-926761-8.
    Reviewed by Alessandro Schiesaro.

  • 2006.04.33:  ALSO SEEN: Leofranc Holford-Strevens, The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions, 133. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xvi, 144; ills. 24. £6.99. ISBN 0-19-280499-5.
    Reviewed by Graham Shipley.

  • 2006.04.34:  Thomas Habinek, The World of Roman Song: From Ritualized Speech to Social Order. Baltimore: 2005. Pp. 329. $52.00. ISBN 0-8018-8105-6.
    Reviewed by Michèle Lowrie.

  • 2006.04.35:  Colin Sydenham, Horace: The Odes. New verse translation with facing Latin text and notes. London: 2004. Pp. xii, 287. £16.99. ISBN 0-7156-3431-3.
    Reviewed by V. A. Moul.

  • 2006.04.36:  Christopher Stray, The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906. Reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway, and Arthur Verrall. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 172. $54.00. ISBN 0-906014-27-1.
    Reviewed by Pär Sandin.

  • 2006.04.37:  Christopher L.H. Barnes, Images and Insults: Ancient Historiography and the Outbreak of the Tarentine War. Historia Einzelschrift, 187. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 168. €34.00. ISBN 3-515-08689-7.
    Reviewed by Michael P. Fronda.

  • 2006.04.38:  Lee T. Pearcy, The Grammar of Our Civility: Classical Education in America. Waco, TX: 2005. Pp. xii, 184. $24.95. ISBN 1-932792-16-3.
    Reviewed by David M. Pollio.

  • 2006.05.01:  BMCR Books Received (April).


  • 2006.05.02:  Giancarlo Giardina, Properzio. Elegie. Edizione critica e traduzione. Roma: 2005. Pp. 418. €95.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8476-118-2.
    Reviewed by Frédéric Nau.

  • 2006.05.03:  Magdalene Stoevesandt, Feinde - Gegner - Opfer. Zur Darstellung der Troianer in den Kampfszenen der Ilias. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, Band 30. Basel: 2005. Pp. xii, 490. €75.50. ISBN 3-7965-2082-0.
    Reviewed by M.M. Willcock.

  • 2006.05.04:  J. Christopher Warner, The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton. Ann Arbor: 2005. Pp. 282. $75.00. ISBN 0-472-11518-9.
    Reviewed by Antony Augoustakis.

  • 2006.05.05:  Tomas Hägg, Bo Utas, The Virgin and her Lover: Fragments of an Ancient Greek Novel and a Persian Epic Poem. Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature, vol. XXX. Leiden: 2003. Pp. xiii, 278; pls. 6. $122.00. ISBN 90-04-13260-0.
    Reviewed by Adam H. Becker.

  • 2006.05.06:  Gregor Maurach, Kleine Geschichte der antiken Komödie. Darmstadt: 2005. Pp. 160. €24.90. ISBN 3-534-18326-6.
    Reviewed by Yasmina Benferhat.

  • 2006.05.07:  Ian Mueller, Simplicius, On Aristotle's On the Heavens 2.1-9. The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Ithaca: 2004. Pp. x, 224. $75.00. ISBN 0-8014-4102-1.
    Reviewed by Börje Bydén.

  • 2006.05.08:  Jens-Arne Dickmann, Pompeji. Archäologie und Geschichte. Munich: 2005. Pp. 128; ills. 20. €7.90. ISBN 3-406-50887-1.
    Reviewed by Miko Flohr.

  • 2006.05.09:  Guy G. Stroumsa, La Fin du sacrifice. Les mutations religieuses de l'Antiquité tardive. Collection Collège de France. Paris: 2005. Pp. 217. €24.90. ISBN 2-7381-1634-5.
    Reviewed by Morgan Gaulin.

  • 2006.05.10:  J.F. Cherry, D. Margomenou, L.E. Talalay, Prehistorians Round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline. Papers presented at a Workshop held in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, March 14-16, 2003. Kelsey Museum Publication 2. Ann Arbor: 2005. Pp. 179; figs. 30, tables 11. $19.95. ISBN 0-9741873-1-3.
    Reviewed by Athena Hadji.

  • 2006.05.11:  Catherine M. Schlegel, Satire and the Threat of Speech: Horace's Satires Book I. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison: 2005. Pp. viii, 186. $35.00. ISBN 0-299-20950-6.
    Reviewed by Catherine Keane.

  • 2006.05.12:  François-Régis Chaumartin, Sénèque, De la clémence. Nouvelle édition. Paris: 2005. Pp. xcii, 124 (2-53 doubles). €31.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-01439-X.
    Reviewed by Ermanno Malaspina.

  • 2006.05.13:  Stefan Knoch, Sklavenfürsorge im Römischen Reich. Hildesheim: 2005. Pp. vii, 338. €39.80 (pb). ISBN 3-487-13023-8.
    Reviewed by Marcus Sigismund.

  • 2006.05.14:  Fariba Zarinebaf, John Bennet, Jack L. Davis, A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th century. Hesperia Supplement 34. Princeton: 2005. Pp. 310; CD-Rom. $45.00. ISBN 0-87661-534-5.
    Reviewed by Kostas Vlassopoulos.

  • 2006.05.15:  Clemens Homoth-Kuhs, Phylakes und Phylakon-Steuer im griechisch-römischen Ägypten. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des antiken Sicherheitswesens. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete; Beiheft 17. München / Leipzig: 2005. Pp. xiii, 222. €98.00. ISBN 3-598-77592-X.
    Reviewed by Sven Günther.

  • 2006.05.16:  Laurel Fulkerson, The Ovidian Heroine as Author: Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 187. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-84672-2.
    Reviewed by Jennifer Ebbeler.

  • 2006.05.17:  Jeffrey Barnouw, Propositional Perception: Phantasia, Predication and Sign in Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics. Lanham, MD: 2002. Pp. 383. $50.50 (pb). ISBN 0-7618-2341-7.
    Reviewed by Joshua J. Reynolds.

  • 2006.05.18:  Daniel Russell, Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life. Oxford: 2005. Pp. ix, 272. $74.00/£45.00. ISBN 0-19-928284-6.
    Reviewed by Robin Waterfield.

  • 2006.05.19:  Richard Jasnow, Karl-Th. Zauzich, The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth: A Demotic Discourse on Knowledge and Pendant to the Classical Hermetica. Volume 1: Text. Volume 2: Plates. Wiesbaden: 2005. Pp. xx, 581; x, pls. 67. €178.00. ISBN 3-447-05082-9.
    Reviewed by Kevin van Bladel.

  • 2006.05.20:  Markus Sehlmeyer, Uwe Walter, Unberührt von jedem Umbruch? Der Althistoriker Ernst Hohl zwischen Kaiserreich und früher DDR. Frankfurt am Main: 2005. Pp. 125. €27.90. ISBN 3-938032-08-1.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2006.05.21:  John E. Curtis, Nigel Tallis, Forgotten Empire. The World of Ancient Persia. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. 272; ills. 300. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-24731-0.
    Reviewed by Wolfgang Messerschmidt.

  • 2006.05.22:  Hartmut Leppin, Einführung in die Alte Geschichte. München: 2005. Pp. 198. €19.90. ISBN 3-406-53527-5.
    Reviewed by Bjorn Paarmann.

  • 2006.05.23:  Richard Kannicht, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. Volume 5. Euripides (in two parts). Göttingen: 2004. Pp. 1, 164. €368.00. ISBN 3-525-25755-4.
    Reviewed by Martin Cropp.

  • 2006.05.24:  E.K. Petropoulos, Hellenic Colonization in Euxeinos Pontos. Penetration, Early Establishment and the Problem of the "Emporion" Revisited. BAR International Series 1394. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 181. £32.00 (pb). ISBN 1-84171-832-7.
    Reviewed by D. Burcu Erciyas.

  • 2006.05.25:  Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Euripides: Hecuba. Newburyport, MA: 2006. Pp. 111. $8.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58510-148-6.
    Reviewed by Justina Gregory.

  • 2006.05.26:  Christoper Nappa, Reading after Actium: Vergil's Georgics, Octavian, and Rome. Ann Arbor: 2005. Pp. 293. $75.00. ISBN 0-472-11475-1.
    Reviewed by Josiah Osgood.

  • 2006.05.27:  Michael Share, Philoponus, Against Proclus' On the Eternity of the World 6-8. Ithaca: 2005. Pp. viii, 200. $75.00. ISBN 0-8014-4217-6.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2006.05.28:  James H. S. McGregor, Rome from the Ground Up. Cambridge, MA: 2005. Pp. 332. $29.95. ISBN O-674-01911-3.
    Reviewed by Peter Keegan.

  • 2006.05.29:  Arnold A. Lelis, William A. Percy, Beert C. Verstraete, The Age of Marriage in Ancient Rome. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: 2003. Pp. 148. $99.95. ISBN 0-7734-6665-7.
    Reviewed by Walter McCall.

  • 2006.05.30:  Harald Mielsch, Griechische Tiergeschichten in der antiken Kunst. Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt, Band 111. Mainz: 2005. Pp. 148; color ills. 73, b/w 22. €24.90. ISBN 3-8053-3548-2.
    Reviewed by Annetta Alexandridis.

  • 2006.05.31:  Sabah Ferdi, Corpus des mosaïques de Cherchel. Études d'antiquités Africaines. Paris: 2005. Pp. 256; b/w pls. 82, color 9. €39.00. ISBN 2-271-06359-0.
    Reviewed by John R. Clarke.

  • 2006.05.32:  Norbert Geske, Nikias und das Volk von Athen im Archidamischen Krieg. Historia Einzelschriften, 186. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 224. €36.00. ISBN 3-515-08566-1.
    Reviewed by Edith Foster.

  • 2006.05.33:  Hugh Lloyd-Jones, The Further Academic Papers of Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 455. £65.00. ISBN 0-19-927932-2.
    Reviewed by Simon Goldhill.

  • 2006.05.34:  Jesper Carlsen, The Rise and Fall of a Roman Noble Family. The Domitii Ahenobarbi 196 BC-AD 68. Odense: 2006. Pp. 259. DKK278.00. ISBN 87-7838-996-8.
    Reviewed by Robin Seager.

  • 2006.05.35:  Amy Richlin, Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus, translated with introductions and notes. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. xiv, 288. $45.00 (hb). ISBN 0-520-24274-2.
    Reviewed by Vincent Hunink.

  • 2006.05.36:  William Stenhouse, Reading Inscriptions and Writing Ancient History: Historical Scholarship in the Late Renaissance. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 86. London: 2005. Pp. x, 204; pls. £50.00. ISBN 0-900587-98-9.
    Reviewed by Julia Lougovaya-Ast.

  • 2006.05.37:  James I. Porter, Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome. Princeton: 2005. Pp. 450; ills. $70.00 (hb). ISBN 0-691-08941-8.
    Reviewed by Eric M. Moormann.

  • 2006.05.38:  Manfred Hoffmann, Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus. De spiritalis historiae gestis. Buch 3. Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 217. München/Leipzig: 2005. Pp. lii, 336. €118.00. ISBN 3-598-77829-5.
    Reviewed by Gerard O'Daly.

  • 2006.05.39:  Johanna Akujärvi, Researcher, Traveller, Narrator: Studies in Pausanias' Periegesis. Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia 12. Stockholm: 2005. Pp. 314. $99.50. ISBN 91-22-02134-5.
    Reviewed by Steven D. Smith.

  • 2006.05.40:  Christopher A. Faraone, Laura K. McClure, Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World. Madison: 2006. Pp. 496. $24.95. ISBN 0-299-21314-5.
    Reviewed by Anise K. Strong.

  • 2006.05.41:  Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Encountering the Sacred. The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. xvi, 250. $45.00. ISBN 0-520-24191-6.
    Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst.

  • 2006.05.42:  R. G. M. Nisbet, Niall Rudd, A Commentary on Horace: Odes Book III. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xxx, 389. $185.00. ISBN 0-19-926314-0.
    Reviewed by Lindsay C. Watson.

  • 2006.05.43:  Patrick Counillon, Pseudo-Skylax: le Périple du Pont-Euxin. Texte, traduction, commentaire philologique et historique. Scripta Antiqua, 8. Bordeaux: 2004. Pp. 166; maps 2. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 2-910023-47-8.
    Reviewed by Liv Mariah Yarrow.

  • 2006.05.44:  Charlotte Roberts, Keith Manchester, The Archaeology of Disease. Third edition. Ithaca: 2005. Pp. ix, 322. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-4232-X.
    Reviewed by Cl. Prêtre.

  • 2006.05.45:  Tad Brennan, The Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties, and Fate. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 340. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-925626-8.
    Reviewed by Andrew Smith.

  • 2006.05.46:  Christopher Tuplin, Xenophon and his World. Papers from a conference held in Liverpool in July 1999. Historia Einzelschriften, 172. Stuttgart: 2004. Pp. 524. €84.00. ISBN 3-515-08392-8.
    Reviewed by Stefan Stanke.

  • 2006.06.01:  BMCR Books Received (May).


  • 2006.06.02:  Sara Forsdyke, Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy: The Politics of Exclusion in Ancient Greece. Princeton: 2005. Pp. xiv, 344. $45.00. ISBN 0-691-11975-9.
    Reviewed by Peter Hunt.

  • 2006.06.03:  Ruurd R. Nauta, Harm-Jan van Dam, Johannes J.L. Smolenaars, Flavian Poetry. Mnemosyne Suppl. 270. Leiden: 2006. Pp. 408. €109.00. ISBN 90-04-14794-2.
    Reviewed by Neil W. Bernstein.

  • 2006.06.04:  ALSO SEEN: Noel Lenski, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. xviii, 469; with 54 pages tipped in of plates including figures, plans, and coins. £45.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-8138-9.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2006.06.05:  Alessandro Perutelli, Prolegomeni a Sisenna. Pisa: 2004. Pp. 140. €13.00. ISBN 88-467-0978-0.
    Reviewed by James E. G. Zetzel.

  • 2006.06.06:  ALSO SEEN: John N. Grant, Denis L. Drysdall, The Collected Works of Erasmus: Adages III.iv.1-IV.ii.100. Vol. 35. Toronto: 2005. Pp. 592. $150.00. ISBN 0-8020-3643-0.
    Reviewed by Richard Joines.

  • 2006.06.07:  L. de Ligt, E. A. Hemelrijk, H. W. Singor, Roman Rule and Civic Life: Local and Regional Perspectives. Impact of Empire, vol. 4. Amsterdam: 2004. Pp. xvii, 448; b/w pls. 18. €128.00. ISBN 90-5063-418-4.
    Reviewed by Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho.

  • 2006.06.08:  Andrew Barker, Psicomusicologia nella Grecia Antica. A cura di Angelo Meriani. Università degli Studi di Salerno. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità. Napoli: 2005. Pp. 205. €11.90. ISBN 88-7188-989-4.
    Reviewed by Massimo Raffa.

  • 2006.06.09:  Margo Kitts, Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals and Narratives in the Iliad. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xi, 244. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-85529-2.
    Reviewed by Jonathan Ready.

  • 2006.06.10:  Craig S. Keener, 1-2 Corinthians. New Cambridge Bible Commentary. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 299. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-83462-7.
    Reviewed by Charles A. Anderson.

  • 2006.06.11:  Sophie Métivier, La Cappadoce (IVe-VIe Siècle): Une histoire provinciale de l'Empire romain d'Orient. Byzantina Sorbonensia 22. Paris: 2005. Pp. 496. €32.00. ISBN 2-85944-522-6.
    Reviewed by Susan R. Holman.

  • 2006.06.12:  Monica Silveira Cyrino, Big Screen Rome. Malden, MA: 2005. Pp. 274. $72.95 (hb). ISBN 1-4051-1683-8.
    Reviewed by Paula James.

  • 2006.06.13:  Stella Georgoudi, Renée Koch Piettre, Francis Schmidt, La cuisine et l'autel: les sacrifices en questions dans les sociétés de la Méditerranée ancienne. Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études, Sciences Religieuses 124. Turnhout: 2005. Pp. xviii, 460; b/w ills. 23. €75.00 (pb). ISBN 2-503-51739-0.
    Reviewed by Sergio Knipe.

  • 2006.06.14:  Dale B. Martin, Patricia Cox Miller, The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography. Durham, NC: 2005. Pp. 364. $24.95. ISBN 0-8223-3422-4.
    Reviewed by Matthew Kraus.

  • 2006.06.15:  David Shotter, Augustus Caesar. Second edition. London and New York: 2005. Pp. 128; pls. 15, figs. 5. $18.00. ISBN 0-415-31936-6.
    Reviewed by Anne-Marie Lewis.

  • 2006.06.16:  Dieter Flach, Cornelius Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus. Streitgespräch über die Redner. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 113. €23.00. ISBN 3-515-08769-9.
    Reviewed by Roland Mayer.

  • 2006.06.17:  Tara S. Welch, The Elegiac Cityscape. Propertius and the Meaning of Roman Monuments. Columbus, OH: 2005. Pp. 223. $49.95. ISBN 0-8142-1009-0.
    Reviewed by Frédéric Nau.

  • 2006.06.18:  David Sedley, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume XXV, Winter 2003. Oxford: 2003. Pp. 392. $59.95. ISBN 0-19-926825-8.
    Reviewed by Michael Pakaluk.

  • 2006.06.19:  Charles Rowan Beye, Ancient Epic Poetry: Homer, Apollonius, Virgil, With a Chapter on the Gilgamesh Poems. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. 310. $35.00. ISBN 0-86516-607-2.
    Reviewed by Andrew E. Porter.

  • 2006.06.20:  Victoria Pedrick, Seven M. Oberhelman, The Soul of Tragedy: Essays on Athenian Drama. Chicago: 2005. Pp. 323. $22.50. ISBN 0-226-65359-5.
    Reviewed by Norman B. Sandridge.

  • 2006.06.21:  W. Martin Bloomer, The Contest of Language. Before and Beyond Nationalism. Notre Dame, IN: 2005. Pp. 274. $55.00 (hb). ISBN 0-268-02190-2.
    Reviewed by Nicolas Wiater.

  • 2006.06.22:  G.E.R. Lloyd, The Delusions of Invulnerability: Wisdom and Morality in Ancient Greece, China and Today. London: 2005. Pp. 176. £12.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3386-4.
    Reviewed by James Jope and H. Lyman Miller Stanford University.

  • 2006.06.23:  Francesca Spatafora, Stefano Vassallo, Das Eigene und das Andere: Griechen, Sikaner und Elymer: neue archaeologische Forschungen im antiken Sizilien. Palermo: 2004. Pp. xi, 213. €39.00. ISBN 3-905083-21-3.
    Reviewed by Nassos Papalexandrou.

  • 2006.06.24:  Andrés Rosler, Political Authority and Obligation in Aristotle. Oxford Aristotle Studies. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 312. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-925150-9.
    Reviewed by Ran Baratz.

  • 2006.06.25:  Vassilios Sabatakakis, Aspects of Morphological and Stylistic Variation of the Verb in Erotokritos. Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia 9. Stockholm: 2004. Pp. 163. SEK 223.00 / $30.00. ISBN 91-22-02071-3.
    Reviewed by Eleni Manolaraki.

  • 2006.06.26:  J. F. Mountford, Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose Composition. Foreword and Updates by Donald E. Sprague. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. vi, 450. $29.00. ISBN 0-86516-595-5.
    Reviewed by Daniel J. Nodes.

  • 2006.06.27:  Ales Havlícek, Filip Karfík, Plato's Protagoras. Proceedings of the Third Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Prague: 2003. Pp. 258. €23.00. ISBN 80-7298-092-0.
    Reviewed by Gerald A. Press.

  • 2006.06.28:  Egbert J. Bakker, Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xiii, 205. $17.95. ISBN 0-674-01955-5.
    Reviewed by James Bradley Wells.

  • 2006.06.29:  Kitts on Ready on Margo Kitts, Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals and Narratives in the Iliad.
    Response by Margo Kitts.

  • 2006.06.30:  Adrian Murdoch, Rome's Greatest Defeat. Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest. Gloucestershire: 2006. Pp. xiv, 234. £20.00. ISBN 0-7509-4015-8.
    Reviewed by Jona Lendering.

  • 2006.06.31:  David Sedley, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Volume XXVII (Winter 2004). Oxford: 2004. Pp. 350. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-927713-3.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2006.06.32:  ALSO SEEN: Thomas Dietrich, The Origin of Culture and Civilization. The Cosmological Philosophy of the Ancient World View regarding Myth, Astrology, Science, and Religion. Austin, TX: 2005. Pp. 357. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 0-9764981-6-2.
    Reviewed by Eugene V. Afonasin.

  • 2006.06.33:  E. Amato, J. Schamp, Ethopoiia. La représentation de caractères entre fiction scolaire et réalité vivante à l'époque impériale et tardive. Salerno: 2005. Pp. xv, 231. €38.00. ISBN 88-88123-10-5.
    Reviewed by Laura Miguélez Cavero.

  • 2006.06.34:  Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh, Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xxxvi, 723. $115.00. ISBN 0-19-815087-3.
    Reviewed by John Bulwer.

  • 2006.06.35:  Patrice Brun, Impérialisme et démocratie à Athènes. Inscriptions de l'époque classique. Paris: 2005. Pp. 350. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 2-200-26928-5.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2006.06.36:  ALSO SEEN: Elizabeth Hartley, Constantine the Great: York's Roman Emperor. Aldershot, UK: 2006. Pp. 280; ills., maps. $100.00. ISBN 0-85331-928-6.
    Reviewed by Michael DiMaio, Jr..

  • 2006.06.37:  John H. Oakley, Picturing Death in Classical Athens. The Evidence of the White Lekythoi. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xxvi, 268; b/w figs. 175, colour pls. 8. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-82016-2.
    Reviewed by Margaret C. Miller.

  • 2006.06.38:  Nikos Merouses, Chios. Physiko periballon & katoikese apo te neolithike epoche mechri to telos tes archaiothtas. Chios: 2002. Pp. 240; ills., maps. ISBN 960-87298-0-7.
    Reviewed by Maria Papaioannou.

  • 2006.06.39:  Justina Gregory, A Companion to Greek Tragedy. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xviii, 552. £85.00. ISBN 1-4051-0770-7.
    Reviewed by Matthew Wright.

  • 2006.06.40:  Makis Aperghis, The Seleukid Royal Economy. The Finances and Financial Administration of the Seleukid Empire. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. 361. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-83707-3.
    Reviewed by Rolf Strootman.

  • 2006.06.41:  George L. Greaney, Aeschines. De falsa legatione / On the false embassy. Studies in Classics, 31. Lewiston: 2005. Pp. 114. $99.95. ISBN 0-7734-6148-5.
    Reviewed by Frances Pownall.

  • 2006.07.01:  Nardelli on Kitts on Ready on Kitts.
    Response by Jean-Fabrice Nardelli.

  • 2006.07.02:  Dietrich on Afonasin on Thomas K. Dietrich, The Origin of Culture and Civilization.
    Response by Thomas K. Dietrich.

  • 2006.07.03:  Jeannine Diddle Uzzi, Children in the Visual Arts of Imperial Rome. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 252. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-82026-X.
    Reviewed by Janet Burnett Grossman.

  • 2006.07.04:  Irene Huber, Rituale der Seuchen- und Schadensabwehr im Vorderen Orient und Griechenland. Formen kollektiver Krisenbewältigung in der Antike. Oriens et Occidens 10. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 287. €60.00. ISBN 3-515-08045-7.
    Reviewed by Eleni Hatzimavroudi.

  • 2006.07.05:  A. Spawforth, The Complete Greek Temples. London: 2006. Pp. 240. $40.00. ISBN 0-500-05142-9.
    Reviewed by Robin Osborne.

  • 2006.07.06:  O. Hekster, R. Fowler, Imaginary Kings: Royal Images in the Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome. Oriens et Occidens 11. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 231. €63.00. ISBN 3-515-08765-6.
    Reviewed by Carlos F. Noreña.

  • 2006.07.07:  Martin Bommas, Heiligtum und Mysterium. Griechenland und seine ägyptischen Gottheiten. Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie. Mainz am Rhein: 2005. Pp. 138. €41.00. ISBN 3-8053-3442-7.
    Reviewed by Peter Nadig.

  • 2006.07.08:  Eberhard Heck, Antonie Wlosok, L. Caelius Firmianus Lactantius. Divinarum Institutionum Libri septem. Fasc. 1 Libri I et II. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: 2005. Pp. 200. €62.00 (pb). ISBN 3-598-71265-0.
    Reviewed by Claudio Moreschini.

  • 2006.07.09:  BMCR Books Received (June).


  • 2006.07.10:  Kitts on Nardelli on Kitts, Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society.
    Response by Margo Kitts.

  • 2006.07.11:  N. M. Kay, Epigrams from the Anthologia Latina. Text, Translation and Commentary. London: 2006. Pp. 388. £45.00. ISBN 0-7156-3406-2.
    Reviewed by Gauthier Liberman.

  • 2006.07.12:  Michael Link, Die 'Erzählung' des Pseudo-Neilos. Ein spätantiker Märtyrerroman. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 220. München/Leipzig: 2005. Pp. ix, 162. €58.00. ISBN 3-598-77832-2.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2006.07.13:  Hugh Bowden, Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle. Divination and Democracy. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 188. $25.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-53081-4.
    Reviewed by Timothy Howe.

  • 2006.07.14:  Philip J. van der Eijk, Hippocrates in Context. Papers read at the XIth International Hippocrates Colloquium. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 27 - 31 August 2002. Studies in Ancient Medicine 31. Leiden: 2005. Pp. xvi, 528; ills. 4. €149.00. ISBN 90-04-14430-7.
    Reviewed by Marietta Horster.

  • 2006.07.15:  Giovanni Reale, Diogene Laerzio. Vite e dottrine dei più celebri filosofi. Il pensiero occidentale. Milano: 2005. Pp. cl, 1666. €36.00. ISBN 88-452-3301-4.
    Reviewed by Eugenio Amato.

  • 2006.07.16:  Immanuel Musäus, Der Pandoramythos bei Hesiod und seine Rezeption bis Erasmus von Rotterdam. Hypomnemata, 151. Göttingen: 2004. Pp. 234. €46.90. ISBN 3-525-252150-1.
    Reviewed by E. F. Beall.

  • 2006.07.17:  Fotini Skenteri, Herodes Atticus reflected in occasional poetry of Antonine Athens. Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia 13. Stockholm: 2005. Pp. 119. $69.50. ISBN 91-22-02137-X.
    Reviewed by Tom Hawkins.

  • 2006.07.18:  Chrysanthi Gallou, The Mycenaean Cult of the Dead. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1372. Oxford: 2005. Pp. vi, 240; figs. 90, tables 5. £36.00. ISBN 1-84171-814-9.
    Reviewed by Michael Boyd.

  • 2006.07.19:  Dieter Flach, Varro. Über die Landwirtschaft. Texte zur Forschung 87. Darmstadt: 2006. Pp. 352. €74.90. ISBN 3-534-19069-6.
    Reviewed by Philipp Brandenburg.

  • 2006.07.20:  Rex D. Butler, The New Prophecy & "New Visions": Evidence of Montanism in The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas. Patristic Monograph Series 18. Washington, DC: 2006. Pp. xx, 211. $44.95. ISBN 0-8132-1455-6.
    Reviewed by Ian H. Henderson.

  • 2006.07.21:  Niall Rudd, The Common Spring: Essays on Latin and English Poetry. Bristol: 2005. Pp. x, 268. £39.95. ISBN 1-904675-48-4.
    Reviewed by Stephen Harrison.

  • 2006.07.22:  Mary R. Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant, Women's Life in Greece and Rome. A Source Book in Translation. Third Edition. Baltimore: 2005. Pp. xxvii, 420. $59.95 (hb). ISBN 0-8018-8309-1.
    Reviewed by Fiona Hobden.

  • 2006.07.23:  A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, R. S. Stroud, R. A. Tybout, Supplementum epigraphicum graecum. Volume 51 (2001). Amsterdam: 2005. Pp. xxxiv, 937. €160.00. ISBN 90-5063-459-1.
    Reviewed by Gary Reger.

  • 2006.07.24:  Suzanne Amigues, Théophraste. Recherches sur les plantes. Tome V. Livre IX. Paris: 2006. Pp. 397. €55.00. ISBN 2-251-00529-3.
    Reviewed by Laurence M. V. Totelin.

  • 2006.07.25:  Ulf Gregor Hamacher, Senecas 82. Brief an Lucilius. Dialektikkritik illustriert am Beispiel der Bekämpfung des metus mortis. Ein Kommentar. München/Leipzig: 2006. Pp. 473. €96.00. ISBN 3-598-77842-2.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2006.07.26:  Karl Galinsky, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 407. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-521-00393-8.
    Reviewed by Lee L. Brice.

  • 2006.07.27:  Albertus Bernabé, Poetae Epici Graeci. Testimonia et Fragmenta. Pars II: Orphicorum et Orphicis Similium Testimonia et Fragmenta. Fasciculus 1. München and Leipzig: 2004. Pp. lxxxv, 394. €112.00. ISBN 3-598-71707-5.
    Reviewed by S. Douglas Olson.

  • 2006.07.28:  Christopher Leslie Brown, Philip D. Morgan, Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age. New Haven: 2006. Pp. xvi, 368. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-300-10900-8.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Garstad.

  • 2006.07.29:  Irmtaut Heitmeier, Das Inntal: Siedlungs- und Raumentwicklung eines Alpentales im Schnittpunkt der politischen Interessen von der römischen Okkupation bis in die Zeit Karls des Grossen. Schlern-Schriften, 324. Studien zur Frühgeschichte des historischen Tiroler Raums, 1. Innsbruck: 2005. Pp. 430; ills., map. €50.00. ISBN 3-7030-0399-5.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2006.07.30:  Shadi Bartsch, Thomas Bartscherer, Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern. Chicago: 2005. Pp. 328. $29.00. ISBN 0-226-03838-6.
    Reviewed by Peter Toohey.

  • 2006.07.31:  David French, Canhasan Sites 2. Canhasan I: The Pottery. Monograph No. 32. Ankara: 2005. Pp. xvi, 293; ills. $90.00. ISBN 11-898249-16-4.
    Reviewed by Charles C. Kolb.

  • 2006.07.32:  Zahra Newby, Greek Athletics in the Roman World: Victory and Virtue. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xiv, 314. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-927930-6.
    Reviewed by Paul Christesen.

  • 2006.07.33:  Rosalba Panvini, Lavinia Sole, L'acropoli di Gela: stipi, depositi o scarichi. Corpus delle stipi in Italia 18. Roma: 2005. Pp. 203; pls. 93. €220.00. ISBN 88-7689-189-7.
    Reviewed by Paolo Daniele Scirpo.

  • 2006.07.34:  Fabian Reiter, Die Nomarchen des Arsinoites: Ein Beitrag zum Steuerwesen im römischen Ägypten. Papyrologica Coloniensia XXXI. Paderborn: 2004. Pp. x, 369; pls. 9. €58.90. ISBN 3-506-72893-8.
    Reviewed by J. David Thomas.

  • 2006.07.35:  Drew A. Mannetter, Book 7 of Caesar's Bellum Gallicum with Introduction, Text, Vocabulary and Notes. Boca Raton, LA: 2004. Pp. viii, 382. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58112-427-9.
    Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck.

  • 2006.07.36:  Nardelli on Olson on A. Bernabé, Poetae Epici Graeci.
    Response by Jean-Fabrice Nardelli.

  • 2006.07.37:  Umberto Roberto, Ioannis Antiocheni Fragmenta ex Historia chronica. Introduzione, edizione critica e traduzione. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 154. Berlin: 2005. Pp. ccxi, 661. €178.00. ISBN 3-11-018687-X.
    Reviewed by Alan Cameron.

  • 2006.07.38:  Alessandro Barchiesi, Ovidio: Metamorfosi, Volume I (Libri I-II). Traduzione di Ludovica Koch. Milan: 2005. Pp. cxc, 310. €27.00. ISBN 88-04-54481-3.
    Reviewed by Sergio Casali.

  • 2006.07.39:  Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Amiel Vardi, The Worlds of Aulus Gellius. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 408. $145.00. ISBN 0-19-926482-1.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2006.07.40:  Rene Pfeilschifter, Titus Quinctius Flamininus. Untersuchungen zur römischen Griechenlandpolitik. Hypomnemata, 162. Göttingen: 2005. Pp. 442. €79.90. ISBN 3-525-25261-7.
    Reviewed by Dylan Bloy.

  • 2006.07.41:  Hans Dieter Betz, The "Mithras Liturgy". Text, translation and commentary. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 18. Tübingen: 2003. Pp. xi, 275. €39.00. ISBN 3-16-148813-X.
    Reviewed by Anders Lisdorf.

  • 2006.07.42:  George Jennison, Animals for Show and Pleasure in Ancient Rome. Originally published 1937 by Manchester University Press. Philadelphia: 2005. Pp. 209. $16.50. ISBN 0-8122-1919-8.
    Reviewed by James M. Quillin.

  • 2006.07.43:  Blunt on Lebedev on Afonasin on Antiquarium.
    Response by Suzanne Blunt.

  • 2006.07.44:  Jochen Werner Mayer, Imus ad villam: Studien zur Villeggiatur im stadtrömischen Suburbium in der späten Republik und frühen Kaiserzeit. Geographica Historica, 20. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 266. €44.00. ISBN 3-515-08787-7.
    Reviewed by Geoff W. Adams.

  • 2006.07.45:  Cristiano Iaia, Produzioni toreutiche della prima età del Ferro in Italia centro-settentrionale. Stili decorativi, circolazione, significato. Biblioteca di "Studi Etruschi", 40. Pisa: 2005. Pp. 320; figs. 110, b/w pls. 21. €510.00 (hb). ISBN 88-8147-294-5.
    Reviewed by Francesca Fulminante.

  • 2006.07.46:  Sheramy Bundrick, Music and Image in Classical Athens. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xvi, 256; b/w figs. 110. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-84806-7.
    Reviewed by Sophie Gibson.

  • 2006.07.47:  Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, Gott und die Götter bei Plutarch. Götterbilder - Gottesbilder - Weltbilder. Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, 54. Berlin: 2005. Pp. x, 287. €88.00. ISBN 3-11-018479-6.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2006.07.48:  Lily Y. Beck, Dioscorides. De Materia Medica. Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien 38. Hildesheim: 2005. Pp. xxvii, 540. €78.00. ISBN 3-487-12881-0.
    Reviewed by Lynn LiDonnici.

  • 2006.07.49:  Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. x, 235. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-81985-7.
    Reviewed by John Lombardini.

  • 2006.07.50:  Klaus Rosen, Julian. Kaiser, Gott und Christenhasser. Stuttgart: 2006. Pp. 580. €32.00. ISBN 3-608-94296-3.
    Reviewed by Jochen Lückoff.

  • 2006.07.51:  David Phillips, David Pritchard, Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World. Swansea: 2003. Pp. xxxi, 416. $75.00. ISBN 0-9543845-1-2.
    Reviewed by Thomas Heine Nielsen.

  • 2006.07.52:  E. Griffiths, Medea. London and New York: 2006. Pp. 147. £12.99. ISBN 0-415-30070-3.
    Reviewed by Isabelle Torrance.

  • 2006.07.53:  P. Green, Diodorus Siculus Books 11-12.37.1. Greek History, 480-431 BC -- the Alternative Version. Austin, TX: 2006. Pp. xxiv, 312. $55.00 (hb). ISBN 0-292-70604-9.
    Reviewed by Christopher Tuplin.

  • 2006.07.54:  Bradley A. Ault, The Excavations at Ancient Halieis Volume 2: The Houses. The Organization and Use of Domestic Space. Bloomington, IN: 2005. Pp. xiv, 171. $75.00. ISBN 0-253-34709-2.
    Reviewed by Justin St. P. Walsh.

  • 2006.07.55:  Burkhard Meissner, Oliver Schmitt, Michael Sommer, Krieg, Gesellschaft, Institutionen: Beiträge zu einer vergleichenden Kriegsgeschichte. Berlin: 2005. Pp. 448; pls. 25. €69.80. ISBN 3-05-004097-1.
    Reviewed by Everett L. Wheeler.

  • 2006.07.56:  Konstan on Nardelli on Olson on A. Bernabé, Poetae Epici Graeci.
    Response by David Konstan.

  • 2006.07.57:  Pierre Destrée, Nicholas D. Smith, Socrates' Divine Sign: Religion, Practice, and Value in Socratic Philosophy. APEIRON: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, Vol. 38/ no. 2 (June 2005). Kelowna, BC: 2005. Pp. xii, 180. $69.95 (hb). ISBN 0-920980-90-2.
    Reviewed by John Partridge.

  • 2006.07.58:  P. Siewert, Ostrakismos-Testimonien I: Die Zeugnisse antiker Autoren der Inschriften und Ostraka über das athenische Scherbengericht aus vorhellenistischer Zeit (487-322 v. Chr.). Historia Einzelschriften 155. Stuttgart: 2002. Pp. 555. €100.00. ISBN 3-515-07947-5.
    Reviewed by Konrad H. Kinzl.

  • 2006.07.59:  Peter Stein, Schriftkultur. Eine Geschichte des Schreibens und Lesens. Munich: 2006. Pp. 360. €39.40. ISBN 3-896-78564-8.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2006.07.60:  Mauro Bonazzi, Vincenza Celluprica, L'eredità Platonica. Studi sul Platonismo da Arcesilao a Proclo. Naples: 2005. Pp. 335. €40,00. ISBN 88-7088-484-8.
    Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson.

  • 2006.07.61:  Giulio Paolucci, Documenti e memorie sulle antichità e il museo di Chiusi. Pisa: 2005. Pp. 227. €360.00 (hb). ISBN 88-8147-380-1.
    Reviewed by Harri Kiiskinen.

  • 2006.07.62:  Christophe Hugoniot, Frederic Hurlet, Silvia Milanezi, Le statut de l'acteur dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine. Tours: 2004. Pp. 368. €44.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86906-185-4.
    Reviewed by John Jory.

  • 2006.07.63:  Carol G. Thomas, Finding People in Early Greece. Columbia and London: 2005. Pp. 154. $34.95. ISBN 0-8262-1577-7.
    Reviewed by Olivier Mariaud.

  • 2006.07.64:  BMCR Books Received (July).


  • 2006.07.65:  Alexandra Villing, The Greeks in the East. British Museum Research Publication 157. London: 2005. Pp. v, 123; figs. 109, color pls. 44, tables 4. $50.00. ISBN 0-86159-157-7.
    Reviewed by Barbara A. Barletta.

  • 2006.07.66:  William Charlton, Philoponus, On Aristotle's On the Soul 2. 7-12. Ithaca: 2005. Pp. x, 213. $75.00. ISBN 0-8014-4337-7.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2006.07.67:  Marc C. Amodio, New Directions in Oral Theory. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 287. Tempe, AZ: 2005. Pp. x, 341. $40.00. ISBN 0-86698-330-9.
    Reviewed by Margalit Finkelberg.

  • 2006.07.68:  Nancy Sherman, Stoic Warriors. The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xii, 242. $26.00. ISBN 0-19-515216-6.
    Reviewed by Liz Gloyn.

  • 2006.07.69:  David Konstan, The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature. Toronto: 2006. Pp. 422. $85.00. ISBN 0-8020-9103-2.
    Reviewed by Daniel M. Gross.

  • 2006.08.01:  Casey Dué, The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy. Austin, TX: 2006. Pp. 216. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-70946-3.
    Reviewed by W. Tyson Hausdoerffer.

  • 2006.08.02:  C. Moreschini, Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, Opuscula theologica. Editio altera. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Munich/Leipzig: 2005. Pp. xxii, 263. €76.00. ISBN 3-598-71278-2.
    Reviewed by Stefano Martinelli Tempesta.

  • 2006.08.03:  G. Romeyer-Dherbey, J.-B. Gourinat, Les Stoïciens. Paris: 2005. Pp. 622. €48.00. ISBN 2-7116-1778-5.
    Reviewed by Gretchen Reydams-Schils.

  • 2006.08.04:  Judith M. Barringer, Jeffrey M. Hurwit, Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives. Austin, TX: 2005. Pp. xxi, 306; ills. 158. $55.00. ISBN 0-292-70622-7.
    Reviewed by Julia L. Shear.

  • 2006.08.05:  William D. Desmond, The Greek Praise of Poverty. Origins of Ancient Cynicism. Notre Dame, IN: 2006. Pp. xiv, 240. $48.00 (hb). ISBN 0-268-02581-9.
    Reviewed by Kostas Vlassopoulos.

  • 2006.08.06:  Bernhard Ahlrichs, "Prüfstein der Gemüter." Untersuchungen zu den ethischen Vorstellungen in den Parallelbiographien Plutarchs am Beispiel des "Coriolan". Beiträge zur Altertumwissenschaft, 16. Hildesheim: 2005. Pp. 549. €78.00 (pb). ISBN 3-487-13036-X.
    Reviewed by Alexei V. Zadorojnyi.

  • 2006.08.07:  V. Dasen, Jumeaux, Jumelles dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine. Zurich: 2005. Pp. 332; ills. 185. €45.00/CHF 75.00 (pb). ISBN 3-905083-20-5.
    Reviewed by Charles Delattre.

  • 2006.08.08:  Richard Sorabji, Aristotle On Memory. Second edition. Chicago: 2006. Pp. xxviii, 122. $15.00. ISBN 0-226-76823-6.
    Reviewed by Pavel Gregoric.

  • 2006.08.09:  Emma Griffiths, Euripides: Heracles. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: 2006. Pp. 175. £11.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3186-1.
    Reviewed by Caroline Trieschnigg.

  • 2006.08.10:  Gilda Bartoloni, Filippo Delpino, Oriente e Occidente: metodi e discipline a confronto. Riflessioni sulla cronologia dell'età del ferro in Italia, Atti dell'Incontro di studi, Roma, 30-31 ottobre 2003. Mediterranea, 1 (2004). Pisa: 2005. Pp. 678; pls. €495.00. ISBN 88-8147-389-5.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2006.08.11:  Wolfgang Blösel, Themistokles bei Herodot: Spiegel Athens im fünften Jahrhundert. Studien zur Geschichte und historiographischen Konstruktion des griechischen Freiheitskampfes 480 v. Chr. Historia Einzelschriften 183. Stuttgart: 2004. Pp. 422. €76.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08533-5.
    Reviewed by Bernd Steinbock.

  • 2006.08.12:  WEB REVIEW: Aristarchus, (www.aristarchus.unige.it).
    Reviewed by Carla Castelli.

  • 2006.08.13:  Peter Adamson, Han Balthussen, M.W.F. Stone, Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic & Latin Commentaries, Vol. 1 (= BICS Suppl. 83.1). London: 2004. Pp. xii, 280. £60.00. ISBN 0-900587-94-6.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2006.08.14:  Deborah Beck, Homeric Conversation. Washington, DC: 2005. Pp. ix, 317. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-01962-8.
    Reviewed by Mark W. Edwards.

  • 2006.08.15:  Helen King, Health in Antiquity. London and New York: 2005. Pp. 292. $87.50. ISBN 0-415-22065-3.
    Reviewed by Philip van der Eijk.

  • 2006.08.16:  Jens Halfwassen, Der Aufstieg zum Einen, Untersuchungen zu Platon und Plotin. Zweite, um einen Forschungsbericht erweiterte Auflage. München/Leipzig: 2006. Pp. 440. €58.00. ISBN 3-598-73055-1.
    Reviewed by David Engels.

  • 2006.08.17:  Riggs Alden Smith, The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid. Austin, TX: 2005. Pp. xviii, 254. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-70657-X.
    Reviewed by Stephen Harrison.

  • 2006.08.18:  Christine Walde, Lucan im 21. Jahrhundert. München/Leipzig: 2005. Pp. 358. €94.00. ISBN 3-598-73026-8.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2006.08.19:  Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, The Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study. Washington, DC: 2006. Pp. 288. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-01961-X.
    Reviewed by Linda Honey.

  • 2006.08.20:  Claudio Rosato, Euripide sulla scena latina arcaica. La "Medea" di Ennio e le "Baccanti" di Accio. Lecce: 2005. Pp. 245. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8232-421-4.
    Reviewed by Anastasios Nikolopoulos.

  • 2006.08.21:  Annetta Alexandridis, Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses. Eine Untersuchung ihrer bildlichen Darstellung von Livia bis Iulia Domna. Mainz: 2004. Pp. xv, 432; pls. 64. €75.80. ISBN 3-8053-3304-8.
    Reviewed by Emily A. Hemelrijk.

  • 2006.08.22:  Alain Duplouy, Le Prestige des Élites: Recherches sur les modes de reconnaissance sociale en Grèce entre les Xe et Ve siècles avant J.-C. Paris: 2006. Pp. 418. €37.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-38076-0.
    Reviewed by Timothy Power.

  • 2006.08.23:  Jenifer Neils, The Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xvi, 430. £45.00. ISBN 0-521-82093-6.
    Reviewed by Julia L. Shear.

  • 2006.08.24:  Matthias Gelzer, Pompeius. Lebensbild eines Römers. Neudruck der Ausgabe von 1984 mit einem Forschungsüberblick und einer Ergänzungsbibliographie von Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 244. €29.00. ISBN 3-515-08474-6.
    Reviewed by Timo Stickler.

  • 2006.08.25:  Ralf Scharf, Der Dux Mogontiacensis und die Notitia Dignitatum. Eine Studie zur spätantiken Grenzverteidigung. Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Bd. 50. Berlin/New York: 2005. Pp. 352. €98.00. ISBN 3-11-018835-X.
    Reviewed by Timo Stickler.

  • 2006.08.26:  Maria Carducci Bolchazy, Classical Considerations: Useful Wisdom from Greece and Rome. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. 127; illus. 6. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-618-8.
    Reviewed by Zara. M. Torlone.

  • 2006.08.27:  Evangelos Karakasis, Terence and the Language of Roman Comedy. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xiv, 309. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-84298-0.
    Reviewed by Ariana Traill.

  • 2006.08.28:  Christian Laes, Kinderen bij de Romeinen: Zes Eeuwen Dagelijks Leven. Leuven: 2006. Pp. 343; ills. €24.95. ISBN 90-5826-393-2.
    Reviewed by Beert C. Verstraete.

  • 2006.08.29:  R.M. Dancy, Plato's Introduction of Forms. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xii, 348. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-83801-0.
    Reviewed by Marina N. Volf.

  • 2006.08.30:  Maria Berg Briese, Leif Erik Vaag, Trade Relations in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity: The Ceramic Evidence. Halicarnassian Studies 3. Odense: 2005. Pp. 256. DKK 250.00. ISBN 87-7838-958-5.
    Reviewed by Jane Francis.

  • 2006.08.31:  Raymond Marks, From Republic to Empire. Scipio Africanus in the Punica of Silius Italicus. Frankfurt am Main: 2005. Pp. 308. $57.95. ISBN 3-631-54584-3.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen.

  • 2006.08.32:  Bernard Gerlaud, Nonnos de Panopolis, Les Dionysiaques. Tome XI, Chants XXXIII-XXXIV. Paris: 2005. Pp. xiii, 267. €47.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-00525-0.
    Reviewed by Gianfranco Agosti.

  • 2006.08.33:  Christopher Howgego, Volker Heuchert, Andrew Burnett, Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xv, 228; pls. 32. $150.00. ISBN 0-9734982-0-X.
    Reviewed by John Aveline.

  • 2006.08.34:  Rose Williams, Vergil for Beginners: A Dual Approach to Early Vergil Study. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. x, 86. $19.00. ISBN 0-86516-628-5.
    Reviewed by Pamela Marin.

  • 2006.08.35:  Dorothea Frede, Brad Inwood, Language and Learning. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xii, 353. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-84181-X.
    Reviewed by Jon Miller.

  • 2006.08.36:  Olson on Nardelli on Olson on Bernabe.
    Response by S. Douglas Olson.

  • 2006.08.37:  Monte Ransome Johnson, Aristotle on Teleology. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xi, 339. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-928530-6.
    Reviewed by Thornton Lockwood.

  • 2006.08.38:  Vera-Elisabeth Hirschmann, Horrenda Secta. Untersuchungen zum frühchristlichen Montanismus und seinen Verbindungen zur paganen Religion Phrygiens. Historia Einzelschriften 179. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 168. €37.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08675-7.
    Reviewed by Peter Van Nuffelen.

  • 2006.08.39:  Giulio Guidorizzi, Marziano Melotti, Orfeo e le sue metamorfosi. Quaderni del D@MS di Torino 4. Rome: 2005. Pp. 189. €18.10. ISBN 88-430-3348-4.
    Reviewed by Rebecca Armstrong.

  • 2006.08.40:  Caroline Lehmler, Syrakus unter Agathokles und Hieron II. Die Verbindung von Kultur und Macht in einer hellenistischen Metropole. Frankfurt am Main: 2005. Pp. 254. €37.90. ISBN 3-938032-07-3.
    Reviewed by José M. González.

  • 2006.08.41:  Lindsay Judson, Vassilis Karasmanis, Remembering Socrates. Philosophical Essays. Oxford: 2006. Pp. viii, 207. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-927613-7.
    Reviewed by Robert Zaborowski.

  • 2006.08.42:  Cristina Servadei, La Figura di Theseus nella Ceramica Attica. Iconografia e Iconologia del Mito nell'Atene Arcaica e Classica. Bologna: 2005. Pp. 286; CD-ROM. €25.00. ISBN 88-7849-005-9.
    Reviewed by Amalia Avramidou.

  • 2006.08.43:  Jeremy Tanner, The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece. Religion, Society and Artistic Rationalisation. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xv, 331; b/w ills. 62. $99.00. ISBN 0-521-84614-5.
    Reviewed by Balbina Baebler.

  • 2006.08.44:  Maria José Strazzulla, Ancient Lebanon: Monuments Past and Present. Los Angeles: 2006. Pp. 71; color ills. 80, map 1, site plans 4, color overlays 16. $29.95. ISBN 88-8162-142-8.
    Reviewed by Michael Decker.

  • 2006.08.45:  Sander M. Goldberg, Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic: Poetry and its Reception. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 249. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-85461-X.
    Reviewed by Denis Feeney.

  • 2006.08.46:  I.J.F. de Jong, A. Rijksbaron, Sophocles and the Greek Language: Aspects of Diction, Syntax and Pragmatics. Mnemosyne Suppl. 269. Leiden: 2006. Pp. xiv, 267. $146.00. ISBN 90-04-14752-7.
    Reviewed by Victor Bers.

  • 2006.08.47:  Laurence Villard, Couleurs et vision dans l'antiquité classique. Rouen: 2002. Pp. 196. €19.00 (pb). ISBN 2-87775-336-0.
    Reviewed by Mark Bradley.

  • 2006.08.48:  Kirk Freudenburg, The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 352. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-00627-9.
    Reviewed by Martha Habash.

  • 2006.08.49:  Pantelis Michelakis, Euripides. Iphigenia at Aulis. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: 2006. Pp. 176. £11.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-2994-8.
    Reviewed by George Adam Kovacs.

  • 2006.08.50:  Anthony R. Birley, The Roman Government of Britain. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xvi, 532. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-925237-8.
    Reviewed by S.J.V. Malloch.

  • 2006.08.51:  János György Szilágyi, In Search of Pelasgian Ancestors: The 1861 Hungarian Excavations in the Apennines. Translated by Péter Agócs. Budapest: 2004. Pp. 219; b/w ills. 66, color ills. 12, fold-out map. ISBN 963-9165-75-1.
    Reviewed by Richard De Puma.

  • 2006.08.52:  V. Cojocaru, Ethnic Contacts and Cultural Exchanges North and West of the Black Sea from the Greek Colonization to the Ottoman Conquest. Iasi: 2005. Pp. 550. ISBN 973-7834-37-2.
    Reviewed by Maya Vassileva.

  • 2006.08.53:  Stefano Medas, De rebus nauticis: L'arte della navigazione nel mondo antico. Rome: 2004. Pp. 234; ills. 91. €70.00. ISBN 88-8265-278-5.
    Reviewed by Boris Dunsch.

  • 2006.08.54:  Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto, Unfreie Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. Eine Einführung. Hildesheim: 2005. Pp. xviii, 417. €48.00. ISBN 3-487-12912-4.
    Reviewed by Walter Scheidel.

  • 2006.08.55:  Sheila Dillon, Katherine E. Welch, Representations of War in Ancient Rome. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. xiv, 365. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-84817-2.
    Reviewed by Josh Levithan.

  • 2006.08.56:  Simonetta Grandolini, Lirica e Teatro in Grecia. Il Testo e la sua ricezione. Atti del II incontro di Studi. Perugia, 23-24 gennaio 2003. Napoli: 2005. Pp. 254. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 88-495-1158-2.
    Reviewed by Sebastiana Nervegna.

  • 2006.08.57:  Nancy Thomson de Grummond, Erika Simon, The Religion of the Etruscans. Austin: 2006. Pp. 225. $50.00. ISBN 0-292-70687-1.
    Reviewed by Alexandra A. Carpino.

  • 2006.08.58:  Coulter H. George, Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 288. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-84789-3.
    Reviewed by Jonas S. Green.

  • 2006.09.01:  BMCR Books Received (August).


  • 2006.09.02:  Jean Susorney Wellington, Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations Found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and Related Disciplines. Revised and expanded edition. Westport, CT: 2003. Pp. 684. $99.95. ISBN 0-313-32141-8.
    Reviewed by Eileen Markson.

  • 2006.09.03:  John Dugan, Making a New Man: Ciceronian Self-Fashioning in the Rhetorical Works. Oxford: 2005. Pp. x, 388. $120.00. ISBN 0-19-926780-4.
    Reviewed by Joy Connolly.

  • 2006.09.04:  Markus Hartmann, Die frühlateinischen Inschriften und ihre Datierung. Eine linguistisch-archäologisch-paläographische Untersuchung. Münchener Forschungen zur historischen Sprachwissenschaft; Band 3. Bremen: 2005. Pp. xiv, 466. €60.00. ISBN 3-934106-47-1.
    Reviewed by Sven Günther.

  • 2006.09.05:  Sophie Lalanne, Une éducation grecque: rites de passage et construction des genres dans le roman grec ancien. Paris: 2006. Pp. 311. €27.50 (pb). ISBN 2-7071-4365-0.
    Reviewed by David Konstan.

  • 2006.09.06:  Rainer Jakobi, Grillius: Überlieferung und Kommentar. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Band 77. Berlin/New York: 2005. Pp. x, 297. €84.00. ISBN 3-11-017976-8.
    Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk.

  • 2006.09.07:  Jostein Børtnes, Tomas Hägg, Gregory of Nazianzus: Images and Reflections. Copenhagen: 2006. Pp. 349. $72.00. ISBN 87-635-0386-7.
    Reviewed by Edward Moore.

  • 2006.09.08:  Mark A. Chancey, Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 134. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 304. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-84647-1.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2006.09.09:  Claudia Wagner, John Boardman, A Collection of Classical and Eastern Intaglios, Rings and Cameos. Studies in Gems and Jewellery, I, and British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 1136. Oxford: 2003. Pp. 137; pls. 140. £50.00. ISBN 1-903767-05-9.
    Reviewed by Michel Cottier.

  • 2006.09.10:  Elizabeth Fentress, Caroline J. Goodson, Margaret L. Laird, Stephanie C. Leone, Walls and Memory. The Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (Lazio) from Late Roman Monastery to Renaissance Villa and Beyond. Disciplina Monastica 2. Turnhout: 2005. Pp. v, 445; b/w ills. 132, color ill. 15, b/w line art 3. €90.00. ISBN 2-503-51577-0.
    Reviewed by Hendrik Dey.

  • 2006.09.11:  Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis Michelakis, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 504. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-926351-5.
    Reviewed by Hallie Rebecca Marshall.

  • 2006.09.12:  Emma Stafford, Judith Herrin, Personification in the Greek World: from Antiquity to Byzantium. Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London, Publications no. 7. Aldershot: 2005. Pp. 376. $99.95. ISBN 0-7546-5031-6.
    Reviewed by Alan Shapiro.

  • 2006.09.13:  Beall on Mariaud on Carol Thomas, Finding People in Early Greece.
    Response by E. F. Beall.

  • 2006.09.14:  Maria Iacovou, Archaeological Field Survey in Cyprus. Past History, Future Potentials. Proceedings of a Conference held by the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus, 1-2 December 2000. BSA Studies, 11. London: 2004. Pp. 208. £49.00. ISBN 0-904887-46-4.
    Reviewed by J. D. Muhly.

  • 2006.09.15:  Emily Greenwood, Thucydides and the Shaping of History. London: 2006. Pp. xi, 188; maps 2. $31.00. ISBN 0-7156-3283-3.
    Reviewed by Carolyn Dewald.

  • 2006.09.16:  Corinne Jouanno, Vie d'Ésope. Livre du philosophe Xanthos et son esclave Ésope. Du mode de vie d'Ésope. Paris: 2006. Pp. 265. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-33947-7.
    Reviewed by Victoria Jennings.

  • 2006.09.17:  Gerald Cadogan, Eleni Hatzaki, Adonis Vasilakis, Knossos: Palace, City, State. Proceedings of the Conference in Heraklion organized by the British School at Athens and the 23rd Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Heraklion, in November 2000, for the Centenary of Sir Arthur Evans's Excavations at Knossos. BSA Studies, 12. London: 2004. Pp. 600; ills. 299, tables 22. £96.00. ISBN 0-904887-45-6.
    Reviewed by J. D. Muhly.

  • 2006.09.18:  Duncan Fishwick, The Imperial Cult in the Latin West. Studies in the Ruler Cult of the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire. Volume III (Provincial Cult), Part 2: The Provincial Priesthood. Brill: 2002. Pp. 324; ills. 50. €101.00. ISBN 90-04-12539-6.
    Reviewed by Nayla Kabazi Muntasser.

  • 2006.09.19:  Susanne Pfisterer-Haas, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Leipzig, Antikenmuseum der Universität, Band 3, Attisch-Rotfigurige Schalen, Deutschland, Band 80. Munich: 2006. Pp. 151; text ills. 77, pls. 81, Beil. 19. €88.00. ISBN 3-406-53755-3.
    Reviewed by Jenifer Neils.

  • 2006.09.20:  Pirenne-Delforge on Delattre on V. Dasen, Jumeaux, Jumelles dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine.
    Response by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge.

  • 2006.09.21:  Bruno Gentili, Giovanni Cerri, La letteratura di Roma arcaica e l'ellenismo. Con la collaborazione di Salvatore Monda. Biblioteca Aragno. Torino: 2005. Pp. 352. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8419-221-8.
    Reviewed by Antonis K. Petrides.

  • 2006.09.22:  Luca Graverini, Wytse Keulen, Alessandro Barchiesi, Il romanzo antico. Roma: 2006. Pp. 246. €18.20 (pb). ISBN 88-430-3795-1.
    Reviewed by Stefan Tilg.

  • 2006.09.23:  Marian H. Feldman, Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an "International Style" in the Ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE. Chicago: 2006. Pp. 278. $60.00. ISBN 0-226-24044-4.
    Reviewed by Mehmet-Ali Ataç.

  • 2006.09.24:  Marc Van de Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323BC. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xviii, 313. £17.99. ISBN 0-6312-2552-8.
    Reviewed by Peter Magee.

  • 2006.09.25:  Barbara E. Goff, Classics and Colonialism. London: 2005. Pp. 166. $27.00. ISBN 0-7156-3311-2.
    Reviewed by Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart.

  • 2006.09.26:  Carsten Drecoll, Nachrichten in der Römischen Kaiserzeit. Untersuchungen zu den Nachrichteninhalten in Briefen. Freiburg im Breisgau: 2006. Pp. 260. €39.90. ISBN 3-939380-00-8.
    Reviewed by Joerg Fuendling.

  • 2006.09.27:  Doris Meyer, Inszeniertes Lesevergnügen. Das inschriftliche Epigramm und seine Rezeption bei Kallimachos. Hermes Eizelschriften, Band 93. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. xii, 336. €64.00. ISBN 3-515-08660-9.
    Reviewed by Valentina Garulli.

  • 2006.09.28:  M.R. Dilts, Demosthenis Orationes. Tomus II. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xxiii, 394. $85.00. ISBN 0-19-872169-2.
    Reviewed by Michael Weissenberger.

  • 2006.09.29:  Christian Nicolas, Hôs ephat', dixerit quispiam, comme disait l'autre... Mécanismes de la citation et de la mention dans les langues de l'Antiquité. AGREAH. Recherches et Travaux, hors-série no 15-2006. Grenoble: 2006. Pp. 370. €13.00. ISBN 2-9518254-5-5.
    Reviewed by Johanna Akujärvi.

  • 2006.09.30:  Andreas Luther, Geschichte und Fiktion in der homerischen Odyssee. München: 2006. Pp. 248. €58.00. ISBN 3-406-54192-5.
    Reviewed by Minna Skafte Jensen.

  • 2006.09.31:  Elizabeth A. Clark, History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn. Cambridge, MA: 2004. Pp. x, 325. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01584-3.
    Reviewed by C. S. Kraus.

  • 2006.09.32:  Andrew Riggsby, Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words. Austin: 2006. Pp. 286. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-71303-7.
    Reviewed by Aislinn Melchior.

  • 2006.09.33:  Andrew M. Devine, Laurence D. Stephens, Latin Word Order. Structured Meaning and Information. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xii, 639. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-518168-9.
    Reviewed by M. Esperanza Torrego.

  • 2006.09.34:  Pierre Briant, Rémy Boucharlat, L'archéologie de l'empire achéménide: nouvelles recherches. Actes du colloque organisé au Collège de France par le "Réseau international d'études et de recherches achéménides" (GDR 2538 CNRS), 21-22 novembre 2003. Persika 6 (Chaire d'histoire et civilisation du monde achéménide et de l'empire d'Alexandre, Collège de France). Paris: 2005. Pp. 355; ills., maps. €65.00. ISBN 2-7018-0195-8.
    Reviewed by Antigoni Zournatzi.

  • 2006.10.01:  ALSO SEEN: Hellmut Flashar, Euripides Elektra: übersetzt und mit einem Nachwort versehen. Frankfurt: 2006. Pp. 84. €9.90. ISBN 3-938032-09-X.
    Reviewed by Martin Cropp.

  • 2006.10.02:  Michaela Pfeiffer, Cornelius Nepos. Berühmte Männer. De viris illustribus. Lateinisch-deutsch. Sammlung Tusculum. Düsseldorf: 2006. Pp. 560. €48.00. ISBN 3-7608-1734-3.
    Reviewed by John Noël Dillon.

  • 2006.10.03:  Richard Hunter, The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 360. £50.00. ISBN 0-521-83684-0.
    Reviewed by Kris Fletcher.

  • 2006.10.04:  BMCR Books Received (September).


  • 2006.10.05:  Martin Jehne, Die römische Republik: Von der Gründung bis Caesar. Munich: 2006. Pp. 128; ills. 2. €7.90. ISBN 3-406-50862-6.
    Reviewed by Craige Champion.

  • 2006.10.06:  Pierre Fröhlich, Christel Müller, Citoyenneté et participation à la basse époque hellénistique. Hautes Etudes du monde gréco-romain, 35. Genève: 2005. Pp. 320. CHF 90.00. ISBN 2-600-01052-1.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2006.10.07:  Valentina Prosperi, "Di soavi licor gli orli del vaso". La fortuna di Lucrezio dall'Umanesimo alla Controriforma. Torino: 2004. Pp. xiv, 274. €14.00. ISBN 88-8419-196-3.
    Reviewed by Ángel J. Traver Vera.

  • 2006.10.08:  Gernot Krapinger, [Quintilian.] Die Bienen des armen Mannes. Grössere Deklamationen, 13. Cassino: 2005. Pp. 185. €26.00. ISBN 88-8317-023-7.
    Reviewed by Christopher S. van den Berg.

  • 2006.10.09:  Ioan Piso, An der Nordgrenze des Römischen Reiches: ausgewählte Studien (1972-2003). Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 527. €90.00. ISBN 3-515-08729-X.
    Reviewed by Chris Epplett.

  • 2006.10.10:  Véronique Dasen, Marcel Piérart, Idia kai demosia. Les cadres 'privés' et 'publics' de la religion grecque antique. Actes du IXe colloque du CIERGA, tenu à Fribourg du 8 au 10 septembre 2003. Kernos, suppl. 15. Liège: 2005. Pp. 316. €40.00 (pb). ISBN ISSN 0776-3824.
    Reviewed by Corinne Ondine Pache.

  • 2006.10.11:  Catherine Saliou, Gaza dans l'Antiquité Tardive. Archéologie, rhétorique et histoire. Actes du colloque international de Poitiers (6-7 mai 2004). CARDO 2. Etudes et Textes pour l'Identité Culturelle de l'Antiquité Tardive. Salerno: 2005. Pp. xvi, 239. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 88-88123-09-1.
    Reviewed by Joseph Patrich.

  • 2006.10.12:  Noelle K. Zeiner, Nothing ordinary here: Statius as creator of distinction in the Silvae. New York and London: 2005. Pp. 329. $70.00. ISBN 0-415-97098-9.
    Reviewed by Christopher Chinn.

  • 2006.10.13:  Montanari on Castelli on Aristarchus website.
    Response by Franco Montanari.

  • 2006.10.14:  Pauli Sivonen, Being a Roman Magistrate: Office-holding and Roman Identity in Late Antique Gaul. Bibliotheca Historica 101. Helsinki: 2006. Pp. 178. €29.00. ISBN 951-746-806-7.
    Reviewed by Richard Goodrich.

  • 2006.10.15:  Maria Becker, Kommentar zum Tischgebet des Prudentius (cath. 3). Wissenschaftliche Kommentare zu griechischen und lateinischen Schriftstellern. Heidelberg: 2006. Pp. viii, 279. €64.00. ISBN 3-8253-5002-9.
    Reviewed by Gerard O'Daly.

  • 2006.10.16:  Response-Article: The Album of Bosporan Inscriptions on trial: A further indictment.
    Response by Irina Levinskaya and Sergei Tokhtas'ev.

  • 2006.10.17:  Franz Bömer, P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphosen: Addenda, Corrigenda, Indices. Heidelberg: 2006. Pp. 352. €95.00. ISBN 3-8253-5189-0.
    Reviewed by Gauthier Liberman.

  • 2006.10.18:  Robin Sowerby, The Augustan Art of Poetry: Augustan Translation of the Classics. Oxford: 2006. Pp. viii, 368. $90.00. ISBN 0-19-928612-4.
    Reviewed by Charles Martindale.

  • 2006.10.19:  Sean Keilen, Vulgar Eloquence: On the Renaissance Invention of English Literature. New Haven: 2006. Pp. 240. $40.00. ISBN 0-300-11012-X.
    Reviewed by Syrithe Pugh.

  • 2006.10.20:  John Pedley, Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 272. $80.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-80935-5.
    Reviewed by Barbara A. Barletta.

  • 2006.10.21:  Christiane Kunst, Leben und Wohnen in der römischen Stadt. Darmstadt: 2006. Pp. 167. €39.90. ISBN 3-534-16285-4.
    Reviewed by Kresimir Matijevic.

  • 2006.10.22:  Andrew Laird, The Epic of America: An Introduction to Rafael Landívar and the Rusticatio Mexicana. London: 2006. Pp. viii, 312. £45.00. ISBN 0-7156-3281-7.
    Reviewed by Craig Kallendorf.

  • 2006.10.23:  Patricia B. Salzman-Mitchell, A Web of Fantasies: Gaze, Image and Gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Columbus, OH: 2005. Pp. viii, 262. $59.95 (hb). ISBN 0-8142-0999-8.
    Reviewed by Helen Lovatt.

  • 2006.10.24:  Enrico Medda, Euripide. Le Fenicie. Introduzione, premessa al testo, nota al testo, traduzione e note. Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli. Classici Greci e Latini. Milano: 2006. Pp. 361. €10.80. ISBN 88-17-00960-1.
    Reviewed by Donald J. Mastronarde.

  • 2006.10.25:  John Davie, Euripides: The Bacchae and Other Plays. With an introduction and notes by Richard Rutherford. London: 2005. Pp. lxiv, 360. $12.00. ISBN 978-0-14044-726-1.
    Reviewed by Sophie Mills.

  • 2006.10.26:  Markus Bockmuehl, Donald A. Hagner, The Written Gospel. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xxvi, 360. €29.99. ISBN 0-521-54040-2.
    Reviewed by Matthijs den Dulk.

  • 2006.10.27:  Mark Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia. A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. Berkeley: 2006. Pp. xvii, 452. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-24349-8.
    Reviewed by Kostas Vlassopoulos.

  • 2006.10.28:  Katerina Synodinou, Euripides. Hekabe. 2 volumes. Series: Vivliothiki archaion syngrapheon. Athens: 2005. Pp. 241; 482. €12.56. ISBN 960-227-339-9.
    Reviewed by Dina Bacalexi.

  • 2006.10.29:  Theokritos Kouremenos, George M. Parássoglou, Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou, The Derveni Papyrus. Edited with Introduction and Commentary. Studi e testi per il "Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini", vol. 13. Florence: 2006. Pp. xvi, 310. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 88-222-5567-4.
    Reviewed by Richard Janko.

  • 2006.10.30:  Josiah Osgood, Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 452. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-67177-9.
    Reviewed by J. A. Lobur.

  • 2006.10.31:  James H. Dee, Repertorium Ovidii Metamorphoseon Hexametricum. A Repertory of the Hexameter Patterns in Ovid, Metamorphoses. (Alpha-Omega A 246). Hildesheim: 2006. Pp. xxi, 424. €128.00. ISBN 3-487-13112-9.
    Reviewed by J. A. Richmond.

  • 2006.10.32:  Jürgen Paul Schwindt, La représentation du temps dans la poésie augustéenne. Zur Poetik der Zeit in augusteischer Dichtung. Heidelberg: 2005. Pp. 230. €53.00. ISBN 3-8253-5143-2.
    Reviewed by Yannick Durbec.

  • 2006.10.33:  Christiane Kunst, Römische Adoption: Zur Strategie einer Familienorganisation. Frankfurter althistorische Beiträge, 10. Hennef: 2005. Pp. 352. €58.00. ISBN 3-934040-07-1.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2006.10.34:  de Grummond on Carpino on Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (edd.), The Religion of the Etruscans.
    Response by Nancy T. de Grummond.

  • 2006.10.35:  Catherine Keane, Figuring Genre in Roman Satire. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 182. £29.99. ISBN 0-19-518330-4.
    Reviewed by F. Jones.

  • 2006.10.36:  Anna Andresian, Looking at Latin: A Grammar for Pre-College. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. viii, 280. $49.99. ISBN 0-86516-615-3.
    Reviewed by L.N. Quartarone.

  • 2006.10.37:  François Queyrel, Les portraits des Attalides. Fonction et représentation. Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome 308. Paris: 2003. Pp. 371; pls. 75. €110.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86958-153-X.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Kosmetatou.

  • 2006.10.38:  Herwig Maehler, Urkunden aus Hermupolis (BGU XIX). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 19. München/Leipzig: 2005. Pp. 201; pls. 42. €118.00. ISBN 3-598-77594-9.
    Reviewed by Rodney Ast.

  • 2006.10.39:  Maurizio Bettini, Giulio Guidorizzi, Il mito di Edipo: immagini e racconti dalla Grecia a oggi. Torino: 2004. Pp. xii, 250. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-06-15726-4.
    Reviewed by Robert W. Wallace.

  • 2006.10.40:  Celia E. Schultz, Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic. Chapel Hill, NC: 2006. Pp. 248; ills. 8, table 1. $39.95. ISBN 0-8078-3018-6.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Colantoni.

  • 2006.10.41:  René T.J. Cappers, Roman Foodprints at Berenike: Archaeobotanical Evidence of Subsistence and Trade in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Los Angeles: 2006. Pp. xvi, 229. $35.00. ISBN 1-931745-26-9.
    Reviewed by Arjan Zuiderhoek.

  • 2006.10.42:  U. Bultrighini, Democrazia e antidemocrazia nel mondo greco. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Chieti 9-11 aprile 2003. Alessandria: 2005. Pp. 540. €45.00. ISBN 88-7694-872-4.
    Reviewed by Maria Chiara Pievatolo.

  • 2006.10.43:  Melanie Grunow Sobocinski, Detroit and Rome: Building on the Past. Catalogue of exhibition, October 31-December 2, 2005, Alfred Berkowitz Gallery. Dearborn, MI: 2005. Pp. 127. $15.00 (pb). ISBN 0-933691-09-2.
    Reviewed by Deborah Chatr Aryamontri.

  • 2006.10.44:  Ulrike Riemer, Die römische Germanienpolitik. Von Caesar bis Commodus. Darmstadt: 2006. Pp. 166. €34.90. ISBN 3-534-17438-0.
    Reviewed by John F. Drinkwater.

  • 2006.10.45:  Jonathan Edmondson, Steve Mason, James Rives, Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xvi, 400. $135.00. ISBN 0-19-926212-8.
    Reviewed by Paul B. Harvey, Jr..

  • 2006.10.46:  John Boardman, The World of Ancient Art. London: 2006. Pp. 406; figs. 651, maps 12. $65.00. ISBN 0-500-23827-8.
    Reviewed by Mary B. Moore.

  • 2006.11.01:  BMCR Books Received (October).


  • 2006.11.02:  Kouremenos, Parássoglou, and Tsantsanoglou on Janko on Theokritos Kouremenos, George M. Parássoglou, Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou, The Derveni Papyrus.
    Response by Theokritos Kouremenos, George Parássoglou, and Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou.

  • 2006.11.03:  Marwan Rashed, Aristote. De la géneration et la corruption. Nouvelle édition. Paris: 2005. Pp. cclv, 278. €57.00. ISBN 2-251-00527-7.
    Reviewed by Han Baltussen.

  • 2006.11.04:  Edward M. Anson, Eumenes of Cardia - A Greek among Macedonians. Ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Texts and Contexts; Studies in Philo of Alexandria, 3. Leiden: 2004. Pp. xvii, 286; maps, 4. $135.00. ISBN 0-391-04209-2.
    Reviewed by E. Edward Garvin.

  • 2006.11.05:  Erin O'Connell, Heraclitus and Derrida: Presocratic Deconstruction. New York: 2006. Pp. 186. $61.95. ISBN 0-8204-7492-4.
    Reviewed by Zina Giannopoulou.

  • 2006.11.06:  C. J. Smith, The Roman Clan: The Gens from Ancient Ideology to Modern Anthropology. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 393. $100.00. ISBN 978-0-521-85692-8.
    Reviewed by Ayelet Haimson Lushkov.

  • 2006.11.07:  Charles Brittain, Cicero: on Academic Scepticism. Indianapolis: 2006. Pp. 161. $12.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-774-9.
    Reviewed by Diego E. Machuca.

  • 2006.11.08:  Glenn R. Bugh, The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. xxix, 371. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-53570-0.
    Reviewed by David W. Madsen.

  • 2006.11.09:  Filippomaria Pontani, Eraclito. Questioni omeriche sulle allegorie di Omero in merito agli dèi. Pisa: 2005. Pp. 237. €16.00. ISBN 88-467-1202-1.
    Reviewed by Camillo Neri.

  • 2006.11.10:  M.G. Angeli Bertinelli, A. Donati, Il cittadino, lo straniero, il barbaro, fra integrazione ed emarginazione nell'antichità. Atti del I Incontro Internazionale di Storia antica, Genova, 22-24 maggio 2003. Serta Antiqua et Mediaevalia, VII. Roma: 2005. Pp. 472; pls. 8. €250.00. ISBN 88-7689-233-8.
    Reviewed by Jessica Piccinini.

  • 2006.11.11:  G. Veltri, Libraries, Translations, and 'Canonic' Texts. The Septuagint, Aquila and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian Traditions. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 109. Leiden: 2006. Pp. xi, 278. €105.00. ISBN 90-04-14993-7.
    Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk.

  • 2006.11.12:  ALSO SEEN: Alfred Thomas Barton, Gulielmi Shakespeare Carmina quae Sonnets Nuncupantur Latine Reddita (ed. Ludwig Bernays). Dozwil: 2006. Pp. 237. CHF15.00. ISBN 3-908141-43-5.
    Reviewed by Dana F. Sutton.

  • 2006.11.13:  Keith Seddon, Epictetus' Handbook and the Tablet of Cebes. Guides to Stoic Living. London and New York: 2005. Pp. xiv, 282. £60.00 (hb). ISBN 0-415-32451-3.
    Reviewed by Michael Trapp.

  • 2006.11.14:  D. Brendan Nagle, The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. xii, 352. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-84934-9.
    Reviewed by Cathal Woods.

  • 2006.11.15:  Luigi Santi Amantini, Dalle parole ai fatti. Relazioni interstatali e communicazione politica nel mondo antico. Roma: 2005. Pp. 150. €78.00. ISBN 88-8265-332-3.
    Reviewed by Linda Zollschan.

  • 2006.11.16:  Peter France, Kenneth Haynes, The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English. Volume 4: 1790-1900. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 595. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-924623-8.
    Reviewed by Susanna Braund.

  • 2006.11.17:  D.J. Woolliscroft, B. Hoffmann, Rome's First Frontier: the Flavian Occupation of Northern Scotland. Stroud: 2006. Pp. 254. £19.99. ISBN 0-7524-3044-0.
    Reviewed by Brad Eden.

  • 2006.11.18:  Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, Ancient Greek Literary Letters: Selections in Translation. Routledge Classical Translations. London/New York: 2006. Pp. 176. £16.99 (pb). ISBN 0-415-28551-8.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2006.11.19:  Roger S. Bagnall, Raffaella Cribiore, Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt. 300 B.C.-A.D. 800. With contributions by Evie Ahtaridis. Ann Arbor: 2006. Pp. xiii, 421. $75.00. ISBN 13: 978-0-472-11506-8.
    Reviewed by Sarah B. Pomeroy.

  • 2006.11.20:  Janko on Kouremenos, Parássoglou, and Tsantsanoglou on Janko on Kouremenos, Parássoglou, and Tsantsanoglou, The Derveni Papyrus.
    Response by Richard Janko.

  • 2006.11.21:  J. Michael Walton, Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 320. $95.00. ISBN 0-521-86110-1.
    Reviewed by Anne Mahoney.

  • 2006.11.22:  D. A. Russell, David Konstan, Heraclitus: Homeric Problems. Writings from the Greco-Roma World, 14. Atlanta: 2005. Pp. xxx, 144. $20.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58983-122-5.
    Reviewed by Filippomaria Pontani.

  • 2006.11.23:  Kurt Latte, Peter Allan Hansen, Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon. Volumen III: P-S. Berlin: 2005. Pp. xxxiii, 404. $179.20. ISBN 3-11-017852-4.
    Reviewed by Robert Renehan.

  • 2006.11.24:  Michael Jung, Marathon und Plataiai: Zwei Perserschlachten als "lieux de mémoire" im antiken Griechenland. Göttingen: 2006. Pp. 427. €69.90. ISBN 3-525-25263-3.
    Reviewed by John Dayton.

  • 2006.11.25:  Kathryn Gutzwiller, The New Posidippus. A Hellenistic Poetry Book. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 394. £50.00. ISBN 0-19-926781-2.
    Reviewed by Antonios Rengakos.

  • 2006.11.26:  Judith Steiniger, P. Papinius Statius. Thebais. Kommentar zu Buch 4, 1-344. Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium 14. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 181. €34.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08683-8.
    Reviewed by Gianpiero Rosati.

  • 2006.11.27:  Klaus M. Girardet, Die Konstantinische Wende. Voraussetzungen und geistige Grundlagen der Religionspolitik Konstantins des Grossen. Darmstadt: 2006. Pp. 204. €44.90. ISBN 3-534-19116-1.
    Reviewed by Franziska E. Shlosser.

  • 2006.11.28:  Shadi Bartsch, The Mirror of the Self. Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire. Chicago: 2006. Pp. viii, 325. $45.00. ISBN 0-226-03835-1.
    Reviewed by Bart Van Wassenhove.

  • 2006.11.29:  Kenneth Mauerhofer, Der Hylas-Mythos in der antiken Literatur. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 208. Munich-Leipzig: 2004. Pp. 485. €88.00. ISBN 3-598-77820-1.
    Reviewed by Mark A.J. Heerink.

  • 2006.11.30:  M. Fantuzzi, R. Hunter, Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. viii, 511. $120.00. ISBN 0-521-83511-9.
    Reviewed by J. Andrew Foster.

  • 2006.11.31:  Clare A. Lees, Gillian R. Overing, A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes. University Park, PA: 2006. Pp. x, 272. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 0-271-02860-2.
    Reviewed by John Howe.

  • 2006.11.32:  Edward M. Harris, Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens: Essays on Law, Society, and Politics. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 518. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-85279-X.
    Reviewed by Michael de Brauw.

  • 2006.11.33:  Nicola Biffi, L'Estremo Oriente di Strabone. Libro XV della Geografia. Introduzione, traduzione e commento. Quaderni di "Invigilata Lucernis", 26. Bari: 2005. Pp. 330. €18.00. ISBN 88-7228-450-3.
    Reviewed by Johannes Engels.

  • 2006.11.34:  Trevor Bryce, The Kingdom of the Hittites. New Edition. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xx, 554. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-928132-7.
    Reviewed by Stefanie A. H. Kennell.

  • 2006.11.35:  T. Penner, C. Rowe, Plato's Lysis. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 366. $95.00. ISBN 0-521-79130-8.
    Reviewed by Suzanne Obdrzalek.

  • 2006.11.36:  Senta German, Performance, Power and the Art of the Aegean Bronze Age. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1347. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 118. £27.00. ISBN 1-84171-693-6.
    Reviewed by Zoë Kontes.

  • 2006.11.37:  Ottone on Zollschan on L. Amantini (ed.), Dalle parole ai fatti.
    Response by Gabriella Ottone.

  • 2006.11.38:  Michaela Schmale, Bilderreigen und Erzähllabyrinth. Catulls Carmen 64. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 212. München/Leipzig: 2004. Pp. 307. €88.00. ISBN 3-598-77824-4.
    Reviewed by Christiane Reitz.

  • 2006.11.39:  Prudence J. Jones, Cleopatra. A Sourcebook. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture, 31. Norman, OK: 2006. Pp. 304. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8061-3741-X.
    Reviewed by Susan Sorek.

  • 2006.11.40:  John Henderson, Morals and Villas in Seneca's Letters: Places to Dwell. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. 189. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-82944-5.
    Reviewed by Amanda Wilcox.

  • 2006.11.41:  Rebecca Armstrong, Cretan Women. Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin Poetry. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: 2006. Pp. ix, 351. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-928403-2.
    Reviewed by Roland Mayer.

  • 2006.11.42:  Antonella Borgo, Il ciclo di Postumo nel libro secondo di Marziale. Studi Latini 59. Napoli: 2005. Pp. 127. €10.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7564-157-9.
    Reviewed by Marcello Nobili.

  • 2006.12.01:  BMCR Books Received (November).


  • 2006.12.02:  Kristina Milnor, Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life. Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory. Oxford: 2005. Pp. x, 360. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-928082-7.
    Reviewed by Christina A. Clark.

  • 2006.12.03:  Discovery Channel, The Art of War: Alexander the Great. 51 minutes. VHS and DVD. Films for the Humanities and Sciences. 2004. $89.95. ISBN 1421311364.
    Reviewed by William S. Morison.

  • 2006.12.04:  R. Malcolm Errington, Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius. Chapel Hill: 2006. Pp. xii, 336. $45.00. ISBN 0-8078-3038-0.
    Reviewed by Robin Seager.

  • 2006.12.05:  P. van Nuffelen, Un héritage de paix et de piété. Étude sur les histoires ecclésiastiques de Socrate et Sozomène. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 142. Löwen: 2004. Pp. lxxx, 583. €70.00. ISBN 90-429-1541-2.
    Reviewed by Hartmut Leppin.

  • 2006.12.06:  Eric Osborn, Clement of Alexandria. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xviii, 324. $85.00. ISBN -13: 978-0-521-83753-8.
    Reviewed by Andrew Dinan.

  • 2006.12.07:  Jakob Munk Højte, Roman Imperial Statue Bases from Augustus to Commodus. Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity 7. Aarhus:Pp. 664; figs. 8, tables 81. $59.95. ISBN 87-7934-146-2.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Bartman.

  • 2006.12.08:  Roger Beck, The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xv, 285. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-814089-4.
    Reviewed by Peter Edwell.

  • 2006.12.09:  Paul Erdkamp, The Grain Market in the Roman Empire: A Social, Political, and Economic Study. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 372. $95.00. ISBN 0-521-83878-9.
    Reviewed by Joseph Lemak.

  • 2006.12.10:  Ségolène Demougin, Xavier Loriot, Pierre Cosme, Sabine Lefebvre, H.-G. Pflaum: un historien du XXe siècle. Actes du colloque international, Paris le 21, 22, et 23 octobre 2004. École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Historiques et Philologiques. III Hautes Etudes du Monde Greco-Romain, 37. Genève: 2006. Pp. 542. €148.00 (pb). ISBN 2-600-01099-8.
    Reviewed by Maria Federica Petraccia.

  • 2006.12.11:  ALSO SEEN: Daniel M. Gross, The Secret History of Emotion. Chicago: 2006. Pp. 194. $35.00. ISBN 0-226-30979-7.
    Reviewed by Robert Zaborowski.

  • 2006.12.12:  John Bulwer, Classics Teaching in Europe. London: 2006. Pp. 143. £27.00. ISBN 0-7156-3560-3.
    Reviewed by Anton van Hooff.

  • 2006.12.13:  Martin Amann, Komik in den Tristien Ovids. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft 31. Basel: 2006. Pp. 296. €61.50. ISBN 3-7965-2149-5.
    Reviewed by Samuel J. Huskey.

  • 2006.12.14:  Steven L. Tuck, Latin Inscriptions in the Kelsey Museum. The Dennison & De Criscio Collections. Ann Arbor: 2006. Pp. 254. $95.00. ISBN 0-472-11516-2.
    Reviewed by Kathryn J. McDonnell.

  • 2006.12.15:  Thomas Mannack, Haspels Addenda. Additional References to C. H. E. Haspels Attic Black-figured Lekythoi. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xxvi, 84. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-726315-1.
    Reviewed by Jenifer Neils.

  • 2006.12.16:  Susan I. Rotroff, Robert D. Lamberton, Women in the Athenian Agora. Picture Book No. 26. Athens: 2006. Pp. 56. $4.95. ISBN 0-87661-644-9.
    Reviewed by Carolyn Osiek.

  • 2006.12.17:  R. Pera, L'immaginario del potere. Studi di iconografia monetale. Roma: 2006. Pp. 279; pls. 22. €150.00. ISBN 88-7689-193-5.
    Reviewed by Giampiero Scafoglio.

  • 2006.12.18:  Lyvia Morgan, Aegean Wall Painting: A Tribute to Mark Cameron. British School at Athens Studies 13. London: 2005. Pp. 280; color pls. 90, b/w pls. 135. £79.00. ISBN 0-904887-49-9.
    Reviewed by Catherine Lyon Crawford.

  • 2006.12.19:  Aldo Brancacci, Philosophy and Doxography in the Imperial Age. Firenze: 2005. Pp. viii, 186. €20.00. ISBN 88-222-5474-0.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2006.12.20:  M. Cultraro, I Micenei. Roma: 2006. Pp. 317, b/w figs. 22. €23.20 (pb). ISBN 88-430-3415-4.
    Reviewed by Luca Girella.

  • 2006.12.21:  Andreas Krieckhaus, Senatorische Familien und ihre patriae (1./2. Jahrhundert n. Chr.). Studien zur Geschichtsforschung des Altertums, 14. Hamburg: 2006. Pp. xi, 247. €85.00. ISBN 3-8300-1836-3.
    Reviewed by Sven Günther.

  • 2006.12.22:  Cathy Gere, The Tomb of Agamemnon. Cambridge, MA: 2006. Pp. 202. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-02170-3.
    Reviewed by James P. Holoka.

  • 2006.12.23:  Martin Lindner, Drehbuch Geschichte. Die antike Welt im Film. Antike Kultur und Geschichte, 7. Münster: 2006. Pp. 176. €14.90 (pb). ISBN 3-8258-8957-2.
    Reviewed by Ilja Kuschke.

  • 2006.12.24:  Stefan Radt, Strabons Geographika, Band 4, Buch XIV-XVII: Text und Übersetzung. Göttingen: 2005. Pp. 563. €169.00. ISBN 3-525-25953-8.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig.

  • 2006.12.25:  Michel Sève, Aristote. Constitution d'Athènes: Le régime politique des Athéniens. Librairie Générale Française. Paris: 2006. Pp. 190. €6.50. ISBN 2-253-16095-4.
    Reviewed by P. J. Rhodes.

  • 2006.12.26:  Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Supplementum Supplementi Hellenistici. Texte und Kommentare, 26. Berlin: 2005. Pp. xiii, 159. €64.00. ISBN 3-11-018537-7.
    Reviewed by Giovan Battista D'Alessio.

  • 2006.12.27:  Francesca Santoro L'Hoir, Tragedy, Rhetoric, and the Historiography of Tacitus' Annales. Ann Arbor: 2006. Pp. viii, 401. $85.00. ISBN 13: 978-0-472-11519-8.
    Reviewed by Timothy Joseph.

  • 2006.12.28:  Vassilis Lambropoulos, The Tragic Idea. London: 2006. Pp. 158. $23.50. ISBN 0-7156-3558-1.
    Reviewed by Giampiero Scafoglio.

  • 2006.12.29:  Wolfram Ax, Lateinische Lehrer Europas: Fünfzehn Portraits von Varro bis Erasmus von Rotterdam. Köln: 2005. Pp. xvi, 431. €34.90. ISBN 3-412-14505-X.
    Reviewed by Mark Vessey.

  • 2006.12.30:  Dominic Scott, Plato's Meno. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. x, 238. $90.00. ISBN 13: 978-0-521-64033-6.
    Reviewed by Roslyn Weiss.

  • 2006.12.31:  E. Andrikou, V.L. Aravantinos, L. Godart, A. Sacconi, J. Vroom, Thèbes. Fouilles de la Cadmée, II.2. Les tablettes en linéaire B de la Odos Pelopidou: le contexte archéologique. La céramique de la Odos Pelopidou et la chronologie du linéaire B. Pisa-Roma: 2006. Pp. 257; figs. 66, pls. 77, tables 7, plans 7. €185.00. ISBN 88-8147-395-X.
    Reviewed by Georgia Flouda.

  • 2006.12.32:  Mark Anthony Prost, Nonnos of Panopolis: The Paraphrase of the Gospel of John. Ventura: 2003. Pp. xiv, 263. $29.95. ISBN 0-9713170-4-6.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Garstad.

  • 2006.12.33:  Mark W. Chavalas, The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation. Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History. Malden: 2006. Pp. xxii, 445; map 1, fig. 1. $44.95. ISBN 0-631-23581-7.
    Reviewed by Luis Robert Siddall.

  • 2006.12.34:  Marie-Laurence Haack, Prosopographie des haruspices romains. Biblioteca di Studi Etruschi 42. Pisa and Rome: 2006. Pp. 224. €295.00 (hb). ISBN 88-8147-424-7.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2006.12.35:  Fergus Millar, A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408-450). Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 64. Berkeley: 2006. Pp. 279. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-24703-5.
    Reviewed by Arietta Papaconstantinou.

  • 2006.12.36:  David Frankfurter, Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Ritual Abuse in History. Princeton: 2006. Pp. 312; 10 halftones. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-11350-5.
    Reviewed by Heidi Marx-Wolf.
 
Read Latest
Archives
BMCR Home
Editorial Board
Reviewers' Guidelines
Books Available for Review
Bryn Mawr Classical Commentaries
  

HTML generated at 04:11:51, Sunday, 22 November 2009