Reviews for 2008

  • 2008.01.01:  BMCR Books Received (December, 2007).


  • 2008.01.02:  Andreas Markantonatos, Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles, Athens, and the World. Berlin and New York: 2007. Pp. x, 360. €91.59. ISBN 978-3-11-019326-8.
    Reviewed by Ruth Scodel.

  • 2008.01.03:  Lucia Floridi, Stratone di Sardi. Epigrammi. Testo critico, traduzione e commento. Hellenica, 24. Alessandria: 2007. Pp. xiv, 492. €60.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7694-967-8.
    Reviewed by Luis Arturo Guichard.

  • 2008.01.04:  David B. Hollander, Money in the Late Roman Republic. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 29. Leiden: 2007. Pp. 189. €89.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15649-4.
    Reviewed by Fleur Kemmers.

  • 2008.01.05:  Adam Lajtar, Deir el-Bahari in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: A Study of an Egyptian Temple Based on Greek Sources. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Suppl. IV. Warsaw: 2006. Pp. xviii, 462; ills. 28. ISBN 10: 83-918250-3-5.
    Reviewed by Gil H. Renberg.

  • 2008.01.06:  Peter F. Bang, Mamoru Ikeguchi, Harmut G. Ziche, Ancient Economies, Modern Methodologies: Archaeology, Comparative History, Models and Institutions. Bari: 2006. Pp. 278. €40.00. ISBN 978-88-7228-488-9.
    Reviewed by Alex Gottesman.

  • 2008.01.07:  Raban von Haehling , Griechische Mythologie und frühes Christentum. Darmstadt: 2005. Pp. xiii, 401; ills. 20. ISBN 10: 3-534-18528-5.
    Reviewed by J. R. C. Cousland.

  • 2008.01.08:  Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, Plotinus on Intellect. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 232. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-19-928170-1.
    Reviewed by Andrew Smith.

  • 2008.01.09:  Michael Edwards, Isaeus. The Oratory of Classical Greece, 11. Austin, TX: 2007. Pp. xxxi, 229. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-292-71646-9.
    Reviewed by Deborah Kamen.

  • 2008.01.10:  V. I. Anastasiadis, Eleusína: Théatro mias Antidrastikés Outopías. Athens: 2006. Pp. 207. ISBN 960-354-188-5.
    Reviewed by Andreas Markantonatos.

  • 2008.01.11:  Richard Bett, Sextus Empiricus. Against the Logicians. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 207. $70.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-82497-4.
    Reviewed by Diego E. Machuca.

  • 2008.01.12:  Nicole Méthy, Les Lettres de Pline le Jeune. Un répresentation de l'homme. Paris: 2007. Pp. 489. €31.00. ISBN 978-2-84050-518-1.
    Reviewed by Neil Bernstein.

  • 2008.01.13:  H. A. Shapiro, The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xiii, 303; maps 3, figs. 42. $28.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-52929-7.
    Reviewed by Angela Kühr.

  • 2008.01.14:  Esther Eidinow, Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 516. $160.00. ISBN 978-0-19-927778-0.
    Reviewed by Aaron Kachuck.

  • 2008.01.15:  Michael Paschalis, Pastoral Palimpsests. Essays in the Reception of Theocritus and Virgil. Rethymnon Classical Studies, Volume 3. Heraklion: 2007. Pp. 230. €25.00. ISBN 978-960-524-237-4.
    Reviewed by Mathilde Skoie.

  • 2008.01.16:  Jordi Pàmias i Massana, Eratòstenes de Cirene, Catasterismes. Barcelona: 2004. Pp. 264; map. ISBN 84-7225-843-2.
    Jordi Pàmias, Klaus Geus, Eratosthenes, Sternsagen (Catasterismi). Oberhaid: 2007. Pp. 258; map. €29.95. ISBN 978-3-938083-05-5.
    Reviewed by Markus Asper.

  • 2008.01.17:  Giuseppe Morelli, Nomenclator metricus graecus et latinus. Vol. I: A-Delta. ALPHA-OMEGA, Reihe A, Bd. CCXVIII.1. Hildesheim: 2006. Pp. 504. €118.00. ISBN 978-3-487-13215-0.
    Reviewed by Luigi Bravi.

  • 2008.01.18:  Peter Nadig, Zwischen König und Karikatur. Das Bild Ptolemaios' VIII. im Spannungsfeld der Überlieferung. Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und antiken Rechtsgeschichte 97. Munich: 2007. Pp. vii, 306. €74.00. ISBN 978-3-406-55949-5.
    Reviewed by Paul Edmund Stanwick.

  • 2008.01.19:  Jim Powell, The Poetry of Sappho. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 53. $13.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-19-532672-7.
    Reviewed by Jessica Priestley.

  • 2008.01.20:  Alexander Acimovic, Scipio Africanus. New York: 2007. Pp. 192. $16.95. ISBN 978-0-595-43545-6.
    Reviewed by John Jacobs.

  • 2008.01.21:  Bruce Louden, The Iliad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning. Baltimore: 2006. Pp. ix, 337. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-8018-8280-7.
    Reviewed by D. Thomas Benediktson.

  • 2008.01.22:  Martin Wallraff, Julius Africanus und die christliche Weltchronistik. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 157. Berlin: 2006. Pp. viii, 346. €91.59. ISBN 978-3-11-019105-9.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Garstad.

  • 2008.01.23:  William Fitzgerald, Martial: The World of the Epigram. Chicago: 2007. Pp. 258. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-226-25253-7.
    Reviewed by Ilaria Marchesi.

  • 2008.01.24:  Mark W. Chavalas, Current Issues in the History of the Ancient Near East: Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians 8. Claremont, CA: 2007. Pp. 154. $18.95. ISBN 1-930053-46-0.
    Reviewed by Thomas C. Rust.

  • 2008.01.25:  Adrian Kelly, A Referential Commentary and Lexicon to Homer, Iliad VIII. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 515. £80.00. ISBN 978-0-19-920355-0.
    Reviewed by Christos Tsagalis.

  • 2008.01.26:  Kieran McGroarty, Plotinus on Eudaimonia: A Commentary on Ennead I.4. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 236. $95.00. ISBN 978-0-19-928712-3.
    Reviewed by Richard Dufour.

  • 2008.01.27:  Renato Raffaelli, Alba Tontini, Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates X: "Menaechmi". Urbino: 2007. Pp. 185. €22.00. ISBN 978-88-392-0809-5.
    Reviewed by Fred Franko.

  • 2008.01.28:  Gwenaëlle Aubry, Dieu sans la puissance. Dunamis et energeia chez Aristote et chez Plotin. Paris: 2006. Pp. 332. €38.00. ISBN 978-2-7116-1906-1.
    Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson.

  • 2008.01.29:  Zahra Newby, Ruth Leader-Newby, Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xvii, 303. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86851-8.
    Reviewed by Natalie Boymel Kampen.

  • 2008.01.30:  Eleonora Cavallini, Omero mediatico. Aspetti della ricezione omerica nella civiltà contemporanea. Atti delle Giornate di Studio, Ravenna, 18-19 gennaio 2006. NEMO. Confrontarsi con l'antico, 7. Bologna: 2007. Pp. 247; color ills. €32.00. ISBN 978-88-95451-05-3.
    Reviewed by Luigi Spina.

  • 2008.01.31:  G.W. Bowersock, Lorenzo Valla, On the Donation of Constantine. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 24. Cambridge, MA: 2007. Pp. xvi, 206. ISBN 10: 0-674-02533-4.
    Reviewed by Marc van der Poel.

  • 2008.01.32:  Kevin Uhalde, Expectations of Justice in the Age of Augustine. Philadelphia: 2007. Pp. 248. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-8122-3987-4.
    Reviewed by Jamie Wood.

  • 2008.01.33:  Eduard Nemeth, Politische und militärische Beziehungen zwischen Pannonien und Dakien in der Römerzeit. Relatiile politice si militare intre Pannonia si Dacia in epoca romana (I rapporti politici e militari tra la Pannonia e la Dacia nell'era romana). Cluj-Napoca: 2007. Pp. 248; figs. 3. ISBN 978-973-87264-6-8.
    Reviewed by Nelu Zugravu.

  • 2008.01.34:  Foteini Kolovou, Die Briefe des Eustathios von Thessalonike: Einleitung, Regesten, Text, Indizes. München-Leipzig: 2006. Pp. 260. € 94.00. ISBN 978-3-598-77851-3.
    Reviewed by Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis.

  • 2008.01.35:  Josef Wiesehöfer, Phillip Huyse, Eran und Aneran: Studien zu den Beziehungen zwischen dem Sasanidenreich und der Mittelmeerwelt. Oriens et Occidens 13. Stuttgart: 2006. Pp. 288. €56.00. ISBN 978-3-515-08829-9.
    Reviewed by Matthew P. Canepa.

  • 2008.01.36:  Claudia Moatti, Wolfgang Kaiser, Gens de passage en Méditerranée de l'Antiquité à l'époque moderne. Procédures de contrôle et d'identification. L'Atelier Méditerranéen. Paris: 2007. Pp. 512. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7068-1993-3.
    Reviewed by Luca Fezzi.

  • 2008.01.37:  G. Emmenegger, Der Text des koptischen Psalters aus Al-Mudil. Ein Beitrag zur Textgeschichte der Septuaginta und zur Textkritik koptischer Bibelhandschriften, mit der kritischen Neuausgabe des Papyrus 37 der British Library London (U) und des Papyrus 39 der Leipziger Universitätsbibliothek (2013). Text und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 159. Berlin: 2007. Pp. xxviii, 391. €118.00. ISBN 978-3-11-019948-2.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2008.01.38:  Nancy Shumate, Nation, Empire, Decline: Studies in Rhetorical Continuity from the Romans to the Modern Era. Classical Interfaces, vol. 5. London: 2006. Pp. xiv, 150. £14.99. ISBN 978-0-7156-3551-3.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Todd Lee.

  • 2008.01.39:  Emanuele Lelli, Volpe e leone. Il proverbio nella poesia greca (Alceo, Cratino, Callimaco). Filologia e critica, 93. Roma: 2006. Pp. 200. €80.00 (hb). ISBN 978-88-8476-122-4.
    Reviewed by Massimiliano Ornaghi.

  • 2008.01.40:  Edith Hall, The Theatrical Cast of Athens. Interactions between Ancient Greek Drama and Society. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xi, 481. $115.00. ISBN 978-0-19-929889-1.
    Reviewed by Suzanne Saïd.

  • 2008.01.41:  Mogens Herman Hansen, Polis. An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 237. £42.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-920849-4.
    Reviewed by Martin Schmidt.

  • 2008.01.42:  Stéphane Benoist, Mémoire et histoire: les procédures de condamnation dans l'antiquité romaine. Metz: 2007. Pp. xvii, 360. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 2-85730-035-2.
    Reviewed by Román Facundo Espino.

  • 2008.01.43:  Lowell Edmunds, Oedipus. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World. London/New York: 2006. Pp. 177. £14.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-32935-4.
    Reviewed by David Fitzpatrick.

  • 2008.01.44:  Sarah B. Pomeroy, The Murder of Regilla: A Case of Domestic Violence in Antiquity. Cambridge, MA: 2007. Pp. xii, 249. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02583-7.
    Reviewed by Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

  • 2008.01.45:  Antonio Aloni, Da Pilo a Sigeo. Poemi cantori e scrivani al tempo dei Tiranni. Alessandria: 2006. Pp. 145. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7694-928-3.
    Reviewed by Giorgio Ieranò.

  • 2008.01.46:  Anne McCabe, A Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine: The Sources, Compilation, and Transmission of the Hippiatrica. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 347; pls. 24. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-927755-1.
    Reviewed by Michael Decker.

  • 2008.01.47:  James Keith Elliott, The Collected Biblical Writings of T. C. Skeat. Supplements to Novum Testamentum 113. Leiden: 2004. Pp. xxxiv, 299. $174.00. ISBN 90-04-13920-6.
    Reviewed by Robert A. Kraft.

  • 2008.01.48:  Valentina Garulli, Il Peri poiêtôn di Lobone di Argo. Bologna: 2004. Pp. 224. €16.00. ISBN 978-88-555-2793-4.
    Reviewed by Kathryn Gutzwiller.

  • 2008.01.49:  Heinz Heinen, Handwörterbuch der antiken Sklaverei (HAS). CD-ROM Lieferung 1. Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei, 5. Stuttgart: 2006. €175.00. ISBN 978-3-515-08919-7.
    Reviewed by Marijana Ricl.

  • 2008.01.50:  Andrew Dalby, Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origins of the Epic. New York: 2007. Pp. xxvii, 266. $15.95. ISBN 978-0-393-33019-9.
    Reviewed by Alexander Loney.

  • 2008.01.51:  John J. Cleary, Gary M. Gurtler S.J., Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, vol. xxii, 2006. Leiden: 2007. Pp. 263. $167.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16048-4.
    Reviewed by Daniel P. Maher.

  • 2008.01.52:  S. Douglas Olson, Broken Laughter: Select Fragments of Greek Comedy. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xviii, 476. $135.00. ISBN 978-0-19-928785-7.
    Reviewed by Tom Hawkins.

  • 2008.01.53:  Kurt A. Raaflaub, War and Peace in the Ancient World. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xii, 385. $39.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-4526-8.
    Reviewed by Peter Hunt.

  • 2008.01.54:  Niall McKeown, The Invention of Ancient Slavery?. London: 2007. Pp. 144. £12.99. ISBN 978-0-7156-3185-0.
    Reviewed by Theresa Urbainczyk.

  • 2008.01.55:  T. Bekker-Nielsen, Rome and the Black Sea Region: Domination, Romanisation, Resistance. Black Sea Studies, 5. Aarhus: 2006. Pp. 186; ills. ISBN 10: 87-7934-174-8.
    Reviewed by Christian Winkle.

  • 2008.01.56:  Gerald P. Schaus, Stephen R. Wenn, Onward to the Olympics: Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games. Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece, 5. Waterloo, Ontario: 2007. Pp. xxvii, 376. CA$65.00. ISBN 0-88920-505-1.
    Reviewed by Michael Carter.

  • 2008.01.57:  Juliette de La Genière, Kastraki. Un sanctuaire en Laconie, École française d'Athènes. Études péloponnésiennes 12. Paris: 2005. Pp. iii, 119; figs. 23, pls. 48. €80.00. ISBN 2-86958-215-3.
    Reviewed by Annette Hupfloher.

  • 2008.01.58:  Enrico Medda, "Sed nullus editorum vidit". La filologia di Gottfried Hermann e l'Agamennone di Eschilo. Amsterdam: Supplementi di Lexis XXXI. Amsterdam: 2006. Pp. 250. €60.00. ISBN 90-256-1213-X.
    Reviewed by Massimo Magnani.

  • 2008.01.59:  Isabelle Torrance, Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: 2007. Pp. 174. $22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-7156-3466-0.
    Reviewed by Caroline Trieschnigg.

  • 2008.01.60:  Nicola Hömke, Manuel Baumbach, Fremde Wirklichkeiten: Literarische Phantastik und antike Literatur. Kalliope. Studien zur griechischen und lateinischen Poesie, 6. Heidelberg: 2006. Pp. x, 437. ISBN 10: 3-8253-5266-8.
    Reviewed by Victoria Jennings.

  • 2008.01.61:  P.J. Rhodes, The Greek City States: A Source Book. Second edition. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xiii, 339. $85.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-85049-0.
    Reviewed by Jonathan Strang.

  • 2008.01.62:  Oliver Dickinson, The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age. London and New York: 2006. Pp. xvi, 298. $34.95. ISBN 0-415-13590-7.
    Reviewed by Paul D. Scotton.

  • 2008.01.63:  Rodney A. Whitacre, A Patristic Greek Reader. Peabody, MA: 2007. Pp. 300. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-59856043-5.
    Reviewed by Oleh Kindiy.

  • 2008.01.64:  Marxiano Melotti, Mediterraneo tra miti e turismo. Per una sociologia del turismo archeologico. Milano: 2007. Pp. 208. €15.00. ISBN 978-88-6001-1138.
    Reviewed by Katariina Mustakallio.

  • 2008.01.65:  Nicolas Flessa, Corpus Papyrorum Raineri, XXVII. "(Gott) schütze das Fleisch des Pharao": Untersuchungen zum Magischen Handbuch pWien Aeg 8426. München: 2006. Pp. 156; pls. 4. €58.00. ISBN 978-3-598-77952-7.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig.

  • 2008.02.01:  BMCR Books Received (January, 2008).


  • 2008.02.02:  Jean-Christophe Couvenhes, Bernard Legras, Transferts culturels et politique dans le monde hellénistique. Actes de la table ronde sur les identités collectives (Sorbonne, 7 février 2004). Historie ancienne et médiévale - 86. Paris: 2006. Pp. 188; 188; ills. 5, maps 2. €19.00. ISBN 2-85944-554-4.
    Reviewed by Luca Asmonti.

  • 2008.02.03:  Bella Vivante, Daughters of Gaia. Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Westport, CT: 2007. Pp. v, 230. $49.95. ISBN 0-275-98249-1.
    Reviewed by Christina A. Clark.

  • 2008.02.04:  Mancuso on Summa on Cipolla, Studi sul teatro greco.
    Response by Giacomo Mancuso.

  • 2008.02.05:  Maurizio Buora, Le Regioni di Aquileia e Spalato in Epoca Romana. Convegno Castello di Udine 4 aprile 2006. Treviso: 2007. Pp. 267.
    Reviewed by Maria Federica Petraccia.

  • 2008.02.06:  Pierre Sineux, Amphiaraos. Guerrier, devin et guérisseur. Paris: 2007. Pp. 276. €31.00. ISBN 978-2-251-32441-8.
    Reviewed by Maria Elena Gorrini.

  • 2008.02.07:  Carol Poster, Linda C. Mitchell, Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present. Historical and Bibliographic Studies. Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia, SC: 2007. Pp. xi, 346. $69.95. ISBN 978-1-57003-651-4.
    Reviewed by Ioana Costa.

  • 2008.02.08:  Marc-Antoine Gavray, Simplicius, lecteur du Sophiste. Paris: 2007. Pp. 231. €25.00. ISBN 978-2-252-03626-6.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2008.02.09:  Edmunds on Fitzpatrick on Edmunds, Oedipus.
    Response by Lowell Edmunds.

  • 2008.02.10:  Barbara Graziosi, Emily Greenwood, Homer in the Twentieth Century. Between World Literature and the Western Canon. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xiii, 322. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-929826-6.
    Reviewed by Constanze Güthenke.

  • 2008.02.11:  Amy C. Smith, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain Fascicule 23, Reading Museum Service (Reading Borough Council). Oxford: 2007. Pp. xvi, 47; pls. 40. £55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-726389-1.
    Reviewed by Mary B. Moore.

  • 2008.02.12:  Liz James, Art and Text in Byzantine Culture. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xv, 230. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-521-83409-4.
    Reviewed by Franziska E. Shlosser.

  • 2008.02.13:  D. Brendan Nagle, Stanley M. Burstein, Readings in Greek History: Sources and Interpretations. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xix, 314. $74.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-517824-1.
    Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk.

  • 2008.02.14:  Bruno Bleckmann, Horst Schneider, Eusebius von Caesarea. De vita Constantini. Über das Leben Konstantins. Fontes Christiani, 83. Turnhout: 2007. Pp. 548. €40.09 (pb). ISBN 978-2-503-52560-0.
    Reviewed by Peter Van Nuffelen.

  • 2008.02.15:  Ian Worthington, A Companion to Greek Rhetoric. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 616. £85.00. ISBN 978-1-4051-2551-2.
    Reviewed by Øivind Andersen.

  • 2008.02.16:  David E. Wilhite, Tertullian the African: An Anthropological Reading of Tertullian's Context and Identities. Millennium Studies 14. Berlin: 2007. Pp. xii, 232. €82.24. ISBN 978-3-11-019453-1.
    Reviewed by Geoffrey D. Dunn.

  • 2008.02.17:  Simon Swain, Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul. Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. Oxford: 2007. Pp. ix, 699. £95.00. ISBN 978-0-19-929153-3.
    Reviewed by Maria Fernanda Ferrini.

  • 2008.02.18:  Robert J. Penella, Man and the Word. The Orations of Himerius. Berkeley: 2007. Pp. xii, 312. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-520-25093-2.
    Reviewed by Young Richard Kim.

  • 2008.02.19:  John R. Clarke, Roman Life: 100 B.C. to A.D. 200. New York: 2007. Pp. 176. $35.00. ISBN 0-8109-9339-2.
    Reviewed by Eric Kondratieff.

  • 2008.02.20:  Pavel Gregoric, Aristotle on the Common Sense. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xiv, 252. $60.00. ISBN 978-0-19-927737-7.
    Reviewed by Deborah K. W. Modrak.

  • 2008.02.21:  Johannes Fried, "Donation of Constantine" and "Constitutum Constantini". Berlin-New York: 2007. Pp. 201. $101.00. ISBN 978-3-11-018539-3.
    Reviewed by Jan Nelis.

  • 2008.02.22:  Christy Constantakopoulou, The Dance of the Islands: Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xiii, 330. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921595-9.
    Reviewed by Robin Osborne.

  • 2008.02.23:  Edward Einhorn, Lysistrata. New York: 2006. Pp. 110. $14.95. ISBN 0-9770197-2-1.
    Reviewed by Barbara Clayton.

  • 2008.02.24:  Albert Rijksbaron, The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek: An Introduction. Third edition (American edition). Chicago: 2006. Pp. xvi, 214. ISBN 10: 0-226-71858-1.
    Reviewed by Coulter H. George.

  • 2008.02.25:  José Carlos Fernández Corte, Juan Antonio González Iglesias, Catulo. Poesías. Edición bilingüe. Madrid: 2006. Pp. 802. €14.05. ISBN 84-376-2293-X.
    Reviewed by Emilio Zaina.

  • 2008.02.26:  Jean Alaux, Origine et horizon tragiques. Coll. "Intempestives". Saint-Denis: 2007. Pp. 192. €21.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84292-199-6.
    Reviewed by Aurelie Wach.

  • 2008.02.27:  Nikolaos Katsikoudis, Dôdônê. Oi Timêtikoi Andriantes. (Dodona: The Honorary Statues). Etaireia Êpeirôtikôn Meletôn Idruma Meletôn Ioniou kai Adriatikou Xôrou, 14. 2006. Pp. 184; ills. 79. ISBN 969-860068-5-3.
    Reviewed by John Ma.

  • 2008.02.28:  Mathilde Skoie, Sonia Bjørnstad Velázquez, Pastoral and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-inscribed. Exeter: 2006. Pp. xvi, 184. ISBN 10: 1-904675-58-1.
    Reviewed by Michael Paschalis.

  • 2008.02.29:  Franz Witek, Vergils Landschaften. Versuch einer Typologie literarischer Landschaft. Spudasmata, 111. Hildesheim: 2006. Pp. 274. €42.00 (pb). ISBN 3-487-13191-9.
    Reviewed by Giampiero Scafoglio.

  • 2008.02.30:  Carol G. Thomas, Alexander the Great in His World. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 254. $32.95. ISBN 0-631-23246-X.
    Reviewed by Cheryl Golden.

  • 2008.02.31:  Gideon Nisbet, Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture. Exeter: 2006. Pp. 170. $24.95. ISBN 1-904675-12-3.
    Reviewed by Joanna Paul.

  • 2008.02.32:  Miriam Leonard, Athens in Paris: Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-War French Thought. Classical Presences series, edited by Lorna Hardwick & James I. Porter. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 288. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-927725-7.
    Reviewed by Cashman Kerr Prince.

  • 2008.02.33:  Ivana Petrovic, Von den Toren des Hades zu den Hallen des Olymp: Artemiskult bei Theokrit und Kallimachos. Mnemosyne Suppl. 281. Leiden: 2007. Pp. xv, 317. $120.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15154-3.
    Reviewed by Sabine Schlegelmilch.

  • 2008.02.34:  Barry B. Powell, Homer. Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Second edition. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. 240. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-5325-3.
    Reviewed by Athanassios Vergados.

  • 2008.02.35:  John David Lewis, Early Greek Lawgivers. London: 2007. Pp. 100. £11.99. ISBN 978-1-85399-697-9.
    Reviewed by Ian Worthington.

  • 2008.02.36:  Luc Brisson, Jean-François Pradeau, Les Lois de Platon. Paris: 2007. Pp. vii, 186. €14.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-13-056475-1.
    Reviewed by Elsa Bouchard.

  • 2008.02.37:  Fitzpatrick on Edmunds on Fitzpatrick on Lowell Edmunds, Oedipus.
    Response by David Fitzpatrick.

  • 2008.02.38:  Laurent Pernot, La retorica dei greci e dei romani. Letteratura classica, 26. Palermo: 2006. Pp. 298. €30.00. ISBN 88-6017-017-6.
    Reviewed by Luca Asmonti.

  • 2008.02.39:  Melanie Geiser, Personendarstellung bei Tacitus: am Beispiel von Cn. Domitius Corbulo und Ser. Sulpicius Galba. Die Antike und ihr Weiterleben, Bd. 6. Remscheid: 2007. Pp. 311. €39.90 (pb). ISBN 978-3-89796-183-8.
    Reviewed by members of the Fall 2007 Tacitus seminar at the University of Pennsylvania (C. Damon, S. Bernard, R. Carli, M. Farmer, D. Galante, J. Gerrish, C. Gillespie, C. Ham, A. Jones, J. Nethercut, K. Sagstetter, E. Smith, D. Turner; cdamon@sas.upenn.edu) .

  • 2008.02.40:  Eric D. Perl, Theophany. The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite. Albany: 2007. Pp. 163. $60.00. ISBN 978-0-7914-7111-1.
    Reviewed by Christophe F. Erismann.

  • 2008.02.41:  Miira Tuominen, Apprehension and Argument: Ancient Theories of Starting Points for Knowledge. Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, 3. Dordrecht: 2007. Pp. xiii, 327. €109.95. ISBN 978-1-4020-5042-8.
    Reviewed by Filip Grgic.

  • 2008.02.42:  Maria Esperanza Torrego, José Miguel Baños, Concepción Cabrillana, Julián Méndez Dosuna, Praedicativa II. Esquemas de complementación verbal en griego antiguo y en Latín. Monografías de Filología Latina, 15. Zaragoza: 2007. Pp. 289. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 978-84-7733-893-2.
    Reviewed by Kalle Korhonen.

  • 2008.02.43:  Friederike Herklotz, Prinzeps und Pharao. Der Kult des Augustus in Aegypten. Oikumene. Studien zur antiken Weltgeschichte, 4. Frankfurt am Main: 2007. Pp. 507; map 1. €69.90. ISBN 978-3-938032-15-2.
    Reviewed by Jan Moje.

  • 2008.02.44:  Natalia Agapiou, Endymion au carrefour. La fortune littéraire et artistique du mythe d'Endymion à l'aube de l'ère moderne. Ikonographische Repertorien zur Rezeption des antiken Mythos in Europa, Beiheft IV. Berlin: 2005. Pp. 285. €48.00. ISBN 3-7861-2499-X.
    Reviewed by Corinne Ondine Pache.

  • 2008.02.45:  Regine May, Apuleius and the Drama. The Ass on Stage. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 379. $110.00/€68.00. ISBN 978-0-19-920292-8.
    Reviewed by Lucia Pasetti.

  • 2008.02.46:  Mogens Herman Hansen, The Return of the Polis. The Use and Meanings of the Word polis in Archaic and Classical Sources. Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre 8. Historia Einzelschriften, 198. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 276. €58.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-515-09054-4.
    Reviewed by Jacek Rzepka.

  • 2008.02.47:  Luigi Bravi, Gli epigrammi di Simonide e le vie della tradizione. Filologia e critica 94. Roma: 2006. Pp. 179. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-8476-124-8.
    Reviewed by David Sider.

  • 2008.02.48:  S. Douglas Olson, Athenaeus: The Learned Banqueters. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: 2007. Pp. xxiv, 597; x, 582. ISBN 0-674-99620-8.
    Reviewed by John Wilkins.

  • 2008.02.49:  Paolo Sommella, Tabula Imperii Romani Foglio K-32 Firenze. Union Academique Internationale, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Rome: 2006. Pp. 308; pls. 3. €32.00. ISBN 88-7140-297-9.
    Reviewed by William Harris.

  • 2008.02.50:  Cornelius Hartz, Catulls Epigramme im Kontext hellenistischer Dichtung. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 246. Berlin/New York: 2007. Pp. 241. €88.00. ISBN 978-3-11-019466-1.
    Reviewed by Regina Hoeschele.

  • 2008.02.51:  Brian McGing, Judith Mossman, The Limits of Ancient Biography. Swansea: 2006. Pp. xx, 447. $89.00. ISBN 978-1-905125-12-8.
    Reviewed by John Higgins.

  • 2008.02.52:  John Breuker, Mardah B.C. Weinfield, A Little Book of Latin Love Poetry. A Transitional Reader for Catullus, Horace, and Ovid. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. 138. $21.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-86516-601-1.
    Reviewed by Magdalena Öhrman.

  • 2008.02.53:  Monika R. M. Hasitzka, Koptisches Sammelbuch III. (KSB III). MPER XXIII, 3. Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer). Munich and Leipzig: 2006. Pp. viii, 276. ISBN 10: 3-598-78010-9.
    Reviewed by Gesa Schenke.

  • 2008.02.54:  Mary R. Lefkowitz, Women in Greek Myth. Second edition. Baltimore: 2007. Pp. xix, 238; figs. 14. $22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8018-8650-8.
    Reviewed by Giuseppe Squillace.

  • 2008.03.01:  BMCR Books Received (February, 2008).


  • 2008.03.02:  A.D. Lee, War in Late Antiquity. A Social History. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. xxvi, 282. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-631-22926-1.
    Reviewed by Josh Levithan.

  • 2008.03.03:  Joan Booth, Robert Maltby, What's in a Name? The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature. Swansea: 2006. Pp. 196. $90.00. ISBN 1-905125-09-7.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Hara.

  • 2008.03.04:  Gesine Manuwald, Cicero, Philippics 3-9. Volume 1. Introduction, Text and Translation. Volume 2. Commentary. Texte und Kommentare, 30. Berlin: 2007. Pp. xvi, 1094. €157.01. ISBN 978-3-11-019325-1.
    Reviewed by Josiah Osgood.

  • 2008.03.05:  Scott Noegel, Nocturnal Ciphers: The Allusive Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near East, American Oriental Series, 89. New Haven: 2007. Pp. xvi, 346. $49.50. ISBN 0-940490-20-X.
    Reviewed by Danijela Stefanovic.

  • 2008.03.06:  Christopher Shields, Aristotle. London and New York: 2007. Pp. xvi, 456. $100.00 (hb). ISBN 0-415-28331-0.
    Reviewed by Ian Halim.

  • 2008.03.07:  John Gruber-Miller, When Dead Tongues Speak. Teaching Beginning Greek and Latin. American Philological Association Classical Resources Series 6. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 238. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-19-517495-3.
    Reviewed by Stephen M. Trzaskoma.

  • 2008.03.08:  Clemens Koehn, Krieg - Diplomatie - Ideologie. Zur Aussenpolitik hellenistischer Mittelstaaten, Historia Einzelschriften, 195. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 248. €58.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-515-08990-6.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2008.03.09:  Caroline Winterer, The Mirror of Antiquity. American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750-1900. Ithaca: 2007. Pp. xii, 242. $28.70. ISBN 978-0-8014-4163-9.
    Reviewed by Peter Cohee.

  • 2008.03.10:  A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, R.S. Stroud, R.A. Tybout, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Volume 52 (2002). Leiden: 2006. Pp. xxxvi, 905. €168.00 / $250.00. ISBN 90-04-15508-2.
    Reviewed by Georges Rougemont.

  • 2008.03.11:  Vivienne J. Gray, Xenophon On Government. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. 231. £50.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-58154-7.
    Reviewed by Christopher J. Tuplin.

  • 2008.03.12:  Aniello Salzano, Agli inizi della poesia cristiana latina; autori anonimi dei secc. IV-V. Salerno: 2007. Pp. 154. €20.00. ISBN 978-88-95154-18-3.
    Reviewed by Vincent Hunink.

  • 2008.03.13:  John R. Patterson, Landscapes and Cities: Rural Settlement and Civic Transformation in Early Imperial Italy. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xiv, 348. $110.00. ISBN 0-19-814088-6.
    Reviewed by Miko Flohr.

  • 2008.03.14:  Brian Daley, Gregory of Nazianzus. Series: The Early Church Fathers. London and New York: 2006. Pp. 288. $35.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-12181-1.
    Reviewed by Francois Beyrouti.

  • 2008.03.15:  Carla Bocchetti, El espejo de las Musas: El arte de la descripción en la Ilíada y Odisea. Santiago: 2006. Pp. 150; fig. 1. [Contact micastil@uchile.cl for price]. ISBN 956-19-0506-X.
    Reviewed by Christian Høgel.

  • 2008.03.16:  Christian Heller, Sic transit gloria mundi : das Bild von Pompeius Magnus im Bürgerkrieg. Verzerrung-Stilisierung-historische Realität. Pharos-Studien zur griechisch-römischen Antike 21. St. Katharinen: 2006. Pp. xiii, 306. €28.70 (pb). ISBN 3-89590-167-9.
    Reviewed by Yasmina Benferhat.

  • 2008.03.17:  David J. Breeze, Roman Frontiers in Britain. Classical World Series. London: 2007. Pp. 103. £11.99. ISBN 978-1-85399-698-6.
    Reviewed by Brad Eden.

  • 2008.03.18:  Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence Tritle, Pat Wheatley, Alexander's Empire. Formulation to Decay. A Companion to Crossroads of History. Claremont, CA: 2007. Pp. xv, 301. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-930053-45-8.
    Reviewed by Dawn Gilley.

  • 2008.03.19:  Vincent Jolivet, Ruines Italiennes. Photographies des collections Alinari. Paris: 2006. Pp. 160; ills. 170. €35.00. ISBN 2-07-011866-5.
    Reviewed by Annetta Alexandridis.

  • 2008.03.20:  Florence Malhomme, Anne Gabrièle Wersinger, Mousikè et Aretè. La mousique et l'éthique de l'antiquité à l'âge moderne. Actes du colloque international tenu en Sorbonne les 15-17 décembre 2003. Paris: 2007. Pp. 254. €26.00. ISBN 978-2-7116-1832-3.
    Reviewed by Massimo Raffa.

  • 2008.03.21:  Thomas A. Schmitz, Modern Literary Theory and Ancient Texts. An Introduction. Translation of 2002 German edition. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. x, 241. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-4051-5374-4.
    Reviewed by Chris Eckerman.

  • 2008.03.22:  Pietro Pucci, Inno alle Muse (Esiodo, Teogonia, 1-115), Testo, Introduzione, Traduzione e Commento. Filologia e Critica 96. Pisa / Roma: 2007. Pp. 143. €80.00 (Rilegato). ISBN 978-88-6227-025-0.
    Reviewed by Martina Hirschberger.

  • 2008.03.23:  Sarah Broadie, Aristotle and Beyond: Essays on Metaphysics and Ethics. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. x, 203. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87024-5.
    Reviewed by R.W. Sharples.

  • 2008.03.24:  Alexander Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art. Princeton: 2007. Pp. 186. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-691-09521-9.
    Reviewed by Erik Schmidt.

  • 2008.03.25:  Steven D. Smith, Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton. The Romance of Empire. Ancient Narrative Supplementum, 9. Groningen: 2007. Pp. 282. €77.00. ISBN 978-90-77922-28-6.
    Reviewed by Johanna Akujärvi.

  • 2008.03.26:  H.E.M. Cool, Eating and Drinking in Roman Britain. New York: 2006. Pp. 282. £19.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-00327-8.
    Reviewed by Renate Kurzmann.

  • 2008.03.27:  Virginia Burrus, Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects. Philadelphia: 2008. Pp. xii, 193. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-8122-4044-3.
    Reviewed by Walter Roberts.

  • 2008.03.28:  Ingo Gildenhard, Paideia Romana. Cicero's Tusculan Disputations. Cambridge Classical Journal. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. Supplementary Volume 30. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. 325. £45.00. ISBN 978-0-906014-29-5.
    Reviewed by Giuseppe La Bua.

  • 2008.03.29:  C.W. Marshall, The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 320. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-86161-6.
    Reviewed by George W.M. Harrison.

  • 2008.03.30:  Christoph Markschies, Origenes und sein Erbe: Gesammelte Studien. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 160. Berlin: 2007. Pp. x, 283. $130.00. ISBN 978-3-11-019278-0.
    Reviewed by Shawn W.J. Keough.

  • 2008.03.31:  Rachel Hall Sternberg, Tragedy Offstage: Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens. Austin: 2006. Pp. 238. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-292-71416-8.
    Reviewed by Norman B. Sandridge.

  • 2008.03.32:  S. J. Harrison, Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace. Oxford: 2007. Pp. viii, 262. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-19-920358-1.
    Reviewed by Brian W. Breed.

  • 2008.03.33:  Joanne Berry, The Complete Pompeii. London: 2007. Pp. 256; ills. 318 (275 in color). $40.00. ISBN 978-0-500-05150-4.
    Reviewed by Wakefield Foster.

  • 2008.03.34:  Simon Goldhill, How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today. Chicago: 2007. Pp. 248. $18.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-226-30128-0.
    Reviewed by Timothy Dugan.

  • 2008.03.35:  G.R.F. Ferrari, The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xxvi, 531. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-54842-7.
    Reviewed by Etienne Helmer.

  • 2008.03.36:  Ioanna Karamanou, Euripides. Danae and Dictys. Introduction, Text and Commentary. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 228. München/Leipzig: 2006. Pp. 290; pls. 3. €88.00. ISBN 978-3-598-77840-7.
    Reviewed by Andreas Markantonatos.

  • 2008.03.37:  Claudia Montuschi, Il tempo in Ovidio. Funzioni, meccanismi, strutture. Accademia La colombaria studi, 226. Firenze: 2005. Pp. 463. €47.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-222-5481-8.
    Reviewed by Sergio Casali.

  • 2008.03.38:  Francesca D'Alfonso, Euripide in Giovanni Malala. Alessandria: 2006. Pp. 102. €15.00. ISBN 88-7694-901-1.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Garstad.

  • 2008.03.39:  Michael Attyah Flower, The Seer in Ancient Greece. Berkeley: 2008. Pp. xviii, 305. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25229-5.
    Reviewed by Vivienne Gray.

  • 2008.03.40:  Klaus Tausend, Verkehrswege der Argolis: Rekonstruktion und historische Bedeutung. Geographica Historica, 23. Stuttgart: 2006. Pp. 226; 23 maps in text, 6 topographic drawings (by Johann Biheller); 246 additional photos on CD-ROM in back pocket. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-515-08943-2.
    Reviewed by D. Graham J. Shipley.

  • 2008.03.41:  Ferdinande Hölscher, Tonio Hölscher, Römische Bilderwelten. Von der Wirklichkeit zum Bild und zurück. Kolloquium der Gerda Henkel Stiftung am Deutschen Archäologischen Institut Rom 15.-17.3.2004. Archäologie und Geschichte vol. 12. Heidelberg: 2007. Pp. 270; ills. €48.00. ISBN 978-3-935289-34-4.
    Reviewed by Eric M. Moormann.

  • 2008.03.42:  Sven Von Hofsten, The Feline-Prey Theme in Archaic Greek Art. Classification-Distribution-Origin-Iconographical Context. Stockholm Studies in Classical Archaeology, 14. Stockholm: 2007. Pp. 103; pls. 32. SEK 294.00 (pb). ISBN 978-91-85445-60-8.
    Reviewed by Amalia Avramidou.

  • 2008.03.43:  Gisela Walberg, Midea. The Megaron Complex and Shrine Area. Excavations on the Lower Terraces 1994-1997. Prehistory Monographs 20. Philadelphia: 2007. Pp. 550; 295 in figs volume with 256 b/w illus, 36 b/w pls, 3 col pls, 4 folded plans; 62 tabs and 16 figs in text volume. $130.00. ISBN 978-1-931534-19-2.
    Reviewed by Margaretha Kramer-Hajos.

  • 2008.03.44:  Peter Liddel, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: 2007. Pp. x, 443. $150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-922658-0.
    Reviewed by Matthew R. Christ.

  • 2008.03.45:  Gülden Erkut, Stephen Mitchell, The Black Sea. Past, Present and Future. London: 2007. Pp. 172. £30.00. ISBN 978-1-898249-21-4.
    Reviewed by Deniz Burcu Erciyas.

  • 2008.03.46:  Helmuth Schneider, Geschichte der antiken Technik. C.H. Beck Wissen. München: 2007. Pp. 128. €7.90 (pb). ISBN 978-3-406-53632-8.
    Reviewed by Edith Foster.

  • 2008.03.47:  Polly Low, Interstate Relations in Classical Greece. Morality and Power. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. x, 313. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87206-5.
    Reviewed by Sian Lewis.

  • 2008.03.48:  Laurentino García y García, Alunni, maestri e scuole a Pompei. L'infanzia, la giovinezza e la cultura in epoca romana. Coordinamento e revisione di Maria Elisa García Barraco. Roma: 2004. Pp. 173; figs. 97. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 88-88620-12-5.
    Reviewed by Elisabetta Cova.

  • 2008.04.01:  BMCR Books Received (March, 2008).


  • 2008.04.02:  Craig Kallendorf, The Other Virgil: 'Pessimistic' Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xiv, 252. £45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921236-1.
    Reviewed by Victoria Moul.

  • 2008.04.03:  Monika Schuol, Augustus und die Juden. Rechtsstellung und Interessenpolitik der kleinasiatischen Diaspora. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, 6. Frankfurt am Main: 2007. Pp. 436. €54.90. ISBN 978-3-938032-16-9.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2008.04.04:  Pascal Darcque, Michael Fotiadis, Olga Polychronopoulou, Mythos: La préhistoire égéenne du XIXe au XXIe siècle après J.-C. Actes de la table ronde internationale d'Athènes (21-2 novembre 2002). Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Supplément 46. Athens: 2006. Pp. 400; ills. 56 (including tables, scattered in the text). €80.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86958-195-5.
    Reviewed by John K. Papadopoulos.

  • 2008.04.05:  Fabio Massimo Giuliano, Platone e la Poesia: Teoria della composizione e prassi della ricezione. International Plato Studies Vol. 22. Sankt Augustin: 2005. Pp. 421. €58.00. ISBN 3-89665-294-X.
    Reviewed by Penelope Murray.

  • 2008.04.06:  Cristiano Castelletti, Porfirio, Sullo Stige. Testo greco a fronte, 99. Milan: 2006. Pp. 485; pls. 36. €13.50 (pb). ISBN 978-88-452-5711-8.
    Reviewed by Adrian Mihai.

  • 2008.04.07:  Sheila Dillon, Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture. Context, Subjects, and Styles. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 217; figs. 171. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-85498-9.
    Reviewed by Peter Schultz.

  • 2008.04.08:  David Kremer, Ius latinum. Le concept de droit latin sous la République et l'Empire. Romanité et modernité du droit. Paris: 2006. Pp. xii, 272. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7018-0218-3.
    Reviewed by Christopher Smith.

  • 2008.04.09:  Diana Spencer, Elena Theodorakopoulos, Advice and Its Rhetoric in Greece and Rome. Nottingham Classical Literature Studies, 9. Bari: 2006. Pp. xv, 215. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7949-439-7.
    Reviewed by Helen Van Noorden.

  • 2008.04.10:  Pedro López Barja de Quiroga, Esclaves et affranchis à Rome. Las relaciones de dependencia en las Instituciones de GAYO. Índice temático. Paris: 2007. Pp. 198. €18.00. ISBN 978-2-84867-170-3.
    Reviewed by Francesca Reduzzi Merola.

  • 2008.04.11:  Jaakko Frösén, Tiina Purola, Erja Salmenkivi, Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Papyrology Helsinki, 1-7 August, 2004. 2 vols. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum, 122. Helsinki: 2007. Pp. 1075; pls. 34. ISBN 978-951-653-345-5.
    Reviewed by Rodney Ast.

  • 2008.04.12:  Lucio Cristante, Il calamo della memoria. Riuso di testi e mestiere letterario nella tarda antichità. Trieste, 27-28 Aprile 2006. Atti del II convegno. Incontri Triestini di Filologia Classica V 2005-2006. Trieste: 2006. Pp. vii, 346. €22.00. ISBN 88-8303-192-X.
    Reviewed by Roberto Chiappiniello.

  • 2008.04.13:  Barbara Anceschi, Die Götternamen in Platons Kratylos. Ein Vergleich mit dem Papyrus von Derveni. Studien zur klassischen Philologie, 158. Frankfurt am Main: 2007. Pp. 225. $51.95 (pb). ISBN 978-3-631-56529-2.
    Reviewed by Robbert van den Berg.

  • 2008.04.14:  Ralph M. Rosen, Making Mockery. The Poetics of Ancient Satire. Classical Culture and Society. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xiii, 294. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-530996-6.
    Reviewed by Lowell Edmunds.

  • 2008.04.15:  Charles Martindale, Latin Poetry and the Judgment of Taste. An Essay in Aesthetics. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 265. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921612-3.
    Reviewed by Corby Kelly.

  • 2008.04.16:  Alessia Bonadeo, Elisa Romano, Dialogando con il passato: permanenze e innovazioni nella cultura latina di età flavia. Le Monnier Università / Lingue e Letterature. Firenze: 2007. Pp. ix, 254. €21.00. ISBN 978-88-00-20665-5.
    Reviewed by John Jacobs.

  • 2008.04.17:  William B. Dinsmoor, William B. Dinsmoor, Jr., The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis II: The Classical Building. Edited by Anastasia Norre Dinsmoor. Princeton, NJ: 2004. Pp. 486; figs. 211 (line drawings and photographs in the text); fold out sheets 5 (including 9 Plates with line drawings); tables 10 (incorporated in the text). $125.00. ISBN 0-87661-941-3.
    Reviewed by Tasos Tanoulas.

  • 2008.04.18:  Anna J. Clark, Divine Qualities. Cult and Community in Republican Rome. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xiv, 376. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-19-922682-5.
    Reviewed by Federico Santangelo.

  • 2008.04.19:  Richard A. Gregory, Roman Manchester. The University of Manchester's Excavations within the Vicus 2001-5. Oxford: 2007. Pp. vii, 197; CD-ROM. $100.00/£50.00. ISBN 978-1-84217-271-1.
    Reviewed by Martin Pitts.

  • 2008.04.20:  Sinclair Bell, Glenys Davies, Games and Festivals in Classical Antiquity. Proceedings of the Conference held in Edinburgh 10-12 July 2000. BAR International Series, 1220. Oxford: 2004. Pp. vi, 153; figs. 37, tables 7. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 1-84171-580-8.
    Reviewed by Stephen Evans.

  • 2008.04.21:  Mario Telò, Eupolidis Demi. Testi con commento filologico, 14. Firenze: 2007. Pp. 789. €53.00. ISBN 978-88-00-20666-2.
    Reviewed by Giulia Torello.

  • 2008.04.22:  John K. Papadopoulos, The Art of Antiquity: Piet de Jong and the Athenian Agora. Athens: 2007. Pp. 334; b/w and color ills. 241. $75.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-87661-960-5.
    Reviewed by David Gill.

  • 2008.04.23:  Bruno Gentili, Carmine Catenacci, Polinnia. Poesia greca arcaica. Terza edizione. Firenze: 2007. Pp. x, 405. €21.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-8104-845-8.
    Reviewed by Lucia Athanassaki.

  • 2008.04.24:  Umberto Laffi, Colonie e municipi nello stato romano. Storia e Letteratura, Raccolta di Studi e Testi 239. Roma: 2007. Pp. 278. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-8498-350-3.
    Reviewed by Roman Roth.

  • 2008.04.25:  Gary D. Farney, Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in Republican Rome. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xvi, 337. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86331-5.
    Reviewed by Michael P. Fronda.

  • 2008.04.26:  Larissa Bonfante, Judith Swaddling, Etruscan Myths. London and Austin, TX: 2006. Pp. 80; figs. 53. £8.99. ISBN 0-292-70606-5.
    Reviewed by Michael Turner.

  • 2008.04.27:  Maria Grazia Fileni, Euripide, Eraclidi. I canti. I canti del teatro greco 2. Roma: 2006. Pp. 103; pls. 3. €22.00. ISBN 88-8476-116-6.
    Reviewed by Saulo Delle Donne.

  • 2008.04.28:  Daniel Ogden, In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Traditional Tales of Lucian's Lover of Lies. Swansea: 2007. Pp. ix, 310. $69.50. ISBN 978-1-905125-16-6.
    Reviewed by William Hansen.

  • 2008.04.29:  Kimberly Stratton, Naming the Witch: Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World. New York: 2007. Pp. xv, 289. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-231-13836-9.
    Reviewed by Patrick Maille.

  • 2008.04.30:  Sandra Blakely, Myth, Ritual and Metallurgy in Ancient Greece and Recent Africa. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 328. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-85500-6.
    Reviewed by Isabelle Ratinaud.

  • 2008.04.31:  Petra Schierl, Die Tragödien des Pacuvius: ein Kommentar zu den Fragmenten mit Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung. Berlin and New York: 2006. Pp. xvi, 678. €128.00. ISBN 978-3-11-018249-1.
    Reviewed by Ingo Gildenhard.

  • 2008.04.32:  G. Cruz Andreotti, P. Le Roux, P. Moret, La invención de una geografía de la Península Ibérica I. La época republicana. (Actas del Coloquio Internacional celebrado en la Casa de Velázquez de Madrid entre el 3 y el 4 de marzo de 2005). Málaga-Madrid: 2006. Pp. 250. ISBN 84-95555-91-3.
    G. Cruz Andreotti, P. Le Roux, P. Moret, La invención de una geografía de la Península Ibérica II. La época imperial. (Actas del Coloquio Internacional celebrado en la Casa de Velázquez de Madrid entre el 3 y el 4 de abril de 2006). Málaga-Madrid: 2006. Pp. 377. ISBN 978-84-7785-122-6.
    Reviewed by Carolina López-Ruiz.

  • 2008.04.33:  Mette Moltesen, Anne Marie Nielsen, Agrippina Minor. Life and Afterlife - Liv og eftermaele. Meddelelser fra Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 9. Copenhagen: 2007. Pp. 248; ills. and figs. passim. DKK 150.00 (pb). ISBN 978-87-7452-296-6.
    Reviewed by Lien Foubert.

  • 2008.04.34:  J. H. Gaisser, Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Catullus. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 606. £37.50 (pb). ISBN 978-0-19-928035-3.
    Reviewed by Maeve O'Brien.

  • 2008.04.35:  S. J. Heyworth, P. G. Fowler, S. J. Harrison, Classical Constructions. Papers in Memory of Don Fowler, Classicist and Epicurean. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xvi, 368. £55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921803-5.
    Reviewed by John Henderson.

  • 2008.04.36:  Sergio Daris, Dizionario dei nomi geografici e topografici dell' Egitto greco-romano. Supplemento 4 (2002-2005). Biblioteca degli "Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia" - 5. Pisa-Roma: 2007. Pp. 147. €165.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-6227-004-5.
    Reviewed by Jean A. Straus.

  • 2008.04.37:  Filippo Canali De Rossi, Filius Publicus. Huios tês Poleos e titoli affini in iscrizioni greche di età imperiale. Studi sul vocabolario dell'evergesia 1. Roma: 2007. Pp. xi, 272. €40.00. ISBN 978-88-89670-24-8.
    Reviewed by Giuseppe Squillace.

  • 2008.04.38:  Henrik Rydell Johnsén, Reading John Climacus. Rhetorical Argumentation, Literary Convention and the Tradition of Monastic Formation. Lund: 2007. Pp. xiv, 303. ISBN 978-91-977212-1-9.
    Reviewed by Carly Daniel-Hughes.

  • 2008.04.39:  Harriet Crawford, Regime Change in the Ancient Near East and Egypt: From Sargon of Agade to Saddam Hussein. New York: 2007. Pp. 232. $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-726390-7.
    Reviewed by Gary Beckman.

  • 2008.04.40:  Vanda Zajko, Miriam Leonard, Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 445. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-927438-X.
    Reviewed by Judith Fletcher.

  • 2008.04.41:  Diane Cuny, Une leçon de vie. Les réflexions générales dans le théâtre de Sophocle.Études anciennes. Série grecque, 133. Paris: 2007. Pp. 419. €33.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-32662-7.
    Reviewed by Viviana Gastaldi.

  • 2008.04.42:  Jean-Yves Guillaumin, Sur quelques notices des arpenteurs romains. Paris: 2007. Pp. 177. €22.00. ISBN 978-2-84867-173-4.
    Reviewed by Saskia T. Roselaar.

  • 2008.04.43:  Martin Wallraff, Iulius Africanus: Chronographiae. The Extant Fragments. In collaboration with Umberto Roberto and Karl Pinggéra, William Adler. Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte, NF 15. Translated by W. Adler. Berlin-New York: 2007. Pp. lxxxix, 352. €91.59. ISBN 978-3-11-019493-7.
    Reviewed by Hagith Sivan.

  • 2008.05.01:  Boris Dreyer, Die römische Nobilitätsherrschaft und Antiochos III (205 bis 188 v. Chr.). Frankfurter Althistorische Beiträge 11. Hennef: 2007. Pp. 484. €88.00. ISBN 3-934040-09-0.
    Reviewed by André Heller.

  • 2008.05.02:  BMCR Books Received (April, 2008).


  • 2008.05.03:  Marlies Heinz, Marian H. Feldman, Representations of Political Power. Case Histories of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East. Winona Lake, IN: 2007. Pp. xii, 212. $39.50. ISBN 978-1-57506-135-1.
    Reviewed by Gareth C. Sampson.

  • 2008.05.04:  Laura Chioffi, La collezione epigrafica di Camillo Pellegrino a Casapulla. Roma: 2007. Pp. 45. €16.50. ISBN 978-88-7140-338-X.
    Reviewed by William Stenhouse.

  • 2008.05.05:  Celia E. Schultz, Paul B. Harvey, Jr., Religion in Republican Italy. Yale Classical Studies 33. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xiv, 299. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86366-7.
    Reviewed by Roberta Stewart.

  • 2008.05.06:  Marc Van de Mieroop, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC. 2nd edition. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. xix, 341. $37.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-4911-2.
    Reviewed by Peter Magee.

  • 2008.05.07:  Paraskeue Kotzia, Peri tou Mêlou ê peri tês Aristotelous Teleutês (Liber de Pomo sive de Morte Aristotilis). Seira: Philosophia 12. Thessalonike: 2007. Pp. 370. ISBN 9789608097339.
    Reviewed by Katerina Oikonomopoulou.

  • 2008.05.08:  Stanley M. Burstein, The Reign of Cleopatra. Norman: 2007. Pp. xv, 180; maps 2, pls. 10. $16.95. ISBN 978-0-8061-3871-8.
    Reviewed by Jean A. Straus.

  • 2008.05.09:  Stefano Gori, Maria Chiara Bettini, Gli Etruschi da Genova ad Ampurias. Atti del XXIV Convegno di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, Marseille-Lattes, 26 settembre - 1 ottobre 2002. Two volumes. Pisa: 2006. Pp. xii, 694; figs. 200, pls. 50, tables 35. €1290.00 (hb). ISBN 88-8147-428-X.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2008.05.10:  Lenn E. Goodman, Robert B. Talisse, Aristotle's Politics Today. Albany: 2007. Pp. 167. $60.00. ISBN 978-0-7914-7227-9.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Meilaender.

  • 2008.05.11:  Patricia Curd, Anaxagoras of Clazomenae. Fragments and Testimonia. A Text and Translation with Notes and Essays. The Phoenix Presocratics, 6. Phoenix Supplementary Volumes, 44. Toronto: 2007. Pp. xiv, 279. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-8020-9325-7.
    Reviewed by Giannis P. Stamatellos.

  • 2008.05.12:  Caroline Vout, Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. 285. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86739-9.
    Reviewed by Michael B. Charles.

  • 2008.05.13:  Keld Zeruneith, The Wooden Horse: The Liberation of the Western Mind from Odysseus to Socrates. Translated from the Danish by Russell L. Dees. Edited by W. Glyn Jones. New York, Woodstock and London: 2007. Pp. 605. $35.00. ISBN 978-1-58567-818-1.
    Reviewed by John David Lewis.

  • 2008.05.14:  Jean-Marie Pailler, Bacchus. Figures et pouvoirs. Paris: 1995. Pp. 230; pls. 7. €28.00. ISBN 2-251-38029-9.
    Reviewed by Hélène Pierre.

  • 2008.05.15:  Roman Roth, Styling Romanisation. Pottery and Society in Central Italy. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xvi, 237; ills. 14. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87567-7.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Colantoni.

  • 2008.05.16:  Bruce Lincoln, Religion, empire, and torture. The case of Achaemenian Persia, with a postscript on Abu Ghraib. Chicago: 2007. Pp. 192. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-226-48196-8.
    Reviewed by Tytus K. Mikolajczak.

  • 2008.05.17:  Christophe Pébarthe, Cité, démocratie et écriture. Histoire de l'alphabétisation d'Athènes à l'époque classique. Paris: 2006. Pp. 398. €45.00. ISBN 2-7018-0204-0.
    Reviewed by Zinon Papakonstantinou.

  • 2008.05.18:  Daniele Malfitana, Jeroen Poblome, John Lund, Old Pottery in a New Century: Innovating Perspectives on Roman Pottery Studies (Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Catania, 22-24 Aprile 2004), Monografie dell'Istituto per i beni archeologici e monumentali. Catania: 2006. Pp. 590. €100.00. ISBN 978-88-89375-03-7.
    Reviewed by Shelley Stone.

  • 2008.05.19:  Catherine M. Chin, Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World. Philadelphia: 2008. Pp. 272. ISBN 10: 0-8122-4035-9.
    Reviewed by M. Shane Bjornlie.

  • 2008.05.20:  Kevin Hester, Eschatology and Pain in St. Gregory the Great. Milton Keynes: 2007. Pp. 155. £19.99. ISBN 9781842274378.
    Reviewed by Gregory Halfond.

  • 2008.05.21:  Jochen Althoff, Philosophie und Dichtung im antiken Griechenland. Akten der 7. Tagung der Karl und Gertrud Abel-Stiftung am 10. und 11. Oktober 2002 in Bernkastel-Kues. Philosophie der Antike Band 23. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 156. €30.00. ISBN 978-3-515-08824-4.
    Reviewed by Carl O'Brien.

  • 2008.05.22:  Lynette G. Mitchell, Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece. Swansea: 2007. Pp. xxvi, 262. £45.00. ISBN 978-1-905125-14-2.
    Reviewed by Kelly Joss Wrenhaven.

  • 2008.05.23:  H. Börm, Prokop und die Perser. Oriens et Occidens 16. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 382. €68.00. ISBN 978-3-515-09052-0.
    Reviewed by Geoffrey Greatrex.

  • 2008.05.24:  Peter Wilson, The Greek Theatre and Festivals. Documentary Studies. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xviii, 431; ills. 32. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-19-927747-6.
    Reviewed by Robin Mitchell-Boyask.

  • 2008.05.25:  Maria Michela Sassi, La costruzione del discorso filosofico nell'età dei Presocratici. The Construction of Philosophical Discourse in the Age of the Presocratics. Pisa: 2006. Pp. xii, 397. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7642-180-7.
    Reviewed by Stavros Kouloumentas.

  • 2008.05.26:  Siriol Davies, Jack L. Davis, Between Venice and Istanbul. Colonial landscape in early modern Greece. Hesperia Supplement 40. Princeton, NJ: 2007. Pp. xii, 260; figs. 57, tables 12. $75.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-87661-540-9.
    Reviewed by Stefano Magnani.

  • 2008.05.27:  M. A. R. Habib, A History of Literary Theory and Criticism from Plato to the Present. Malden, MA: 2008. Pp. ix, 838. $52.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-7608-8.
    Reviewed by Leon Golden.

  • 2008.05.28:  Robin F. Rhodes, The Acquisition and Exhibition of Classical Antiquities. Professional, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives. A symposium held at the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, February 24, 2007. Notre Dame: 2007. Pp. xii, 175; figs. 13. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-268-04027-7.
    Reviewed by Derek Fincham.

  • 2008.05.29:  Pierre Vidal-Naquet, The Atlantis Story: A Short History of Plato's Myth. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Exeter: 2007. Pp. xxii, 192; ills. 21. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-85989-805-8.
    Reviewed by Lynn LiDonnici.

  • 2008.05.30:  Jaclyn L. Maxwell, Christianization and Communication in Late Antiquity. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. xi, 198. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86040-6.
    Reviewed by Peter Edwell.

  • 2008.05.31:  J. Theodore Peña, Roman Pottery in the Archaeological Record. New York: 2007. Pp. xviii, 430. $95.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86541-8.
    Reviewed by Stephanie Pryor and Kathleen Warner Slane.

  • 2008.05.32:  Colin F. Macdonald, Carl Knappett, Knossos: Protopalatial Deposits in Early Magazine A and the South-West Houses. Supplementary Volume No. 41. Oxford and Northampton: 2007. Pp. xiv, 205; figs. 61; tables 14; pls. 49. $136.00. ISBN 978-0-904887-53-2.
    Reviewed by Donald C. Haggis.

  • 2008.05.33:  Christiane Reitz, Literatur im Zeitalter Neros, Klassische Philologie kompakt. Darmstadt: 2006. Pp. viii, 149. €14.90. ISBN 3-534-15793-1.
    Reviewed by Martin T. Dinter.

  • 2008.05.34:  Gyburg Radke, Die Kindheit des Mythos--die Erfindung der Literaturgeschichte in der Antike. München: 2007. Pp. 366. €34.90. ISBN 978-3-406-56333-1.
    Reviewed by Hendrik Müller-Reineke.

  • 2008.05.35:  Christian Mann, Die Demagogen und das Volk. Zur politischen Kommunikation im Athen des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Klio, Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Beihefte, Neue Folge Band 13. Berlin: 2007. Pp. 347. €59.80 (€44.80 for subscribers to the journal Klio). ISBN 978-3-05-004351-7.
    Reviewed by Anne Queyrel.

  • 2008.05.36:  Miranda Marvin, The Language of the Muses: The Dialogue Between Greek and Roman Sculpture. Los Angeles: 2008. Pp. viii, 304; color pls. 122, b/w ills. 153. $100.00. ISBN 978-0-89236-806-8.
    Reviewed by Jas Elsner.

  • 2008.05.37:  L.B. van der Meer, Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis. The Linen Book of Zagreb. A Comment on the Longest Etruscan Text. Monographs on Antiquity, 4. Leuven: 2007. Pp. x, 210; color and b/w figs. 28, color pls. 12. €72.00. ISBN 978-90-429-2024-8.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2008.05.38:  BMCR Books Received (May, 2008).


  • 2008.05.39:  Monica R. Gale, Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Lucretius. Oxford: 2007. Pp. x, 441. $180.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-926034-8.
    Reviewed by Katharina Volk.

  • 2008.05.40:  Scot McKendrick, Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts: 1400 Years of Scribes and Scripture. London: 2007. Pp. 160. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-7123-4922-2.
    Reviewed by Catherine Conybeare.

  • 2008.05.41:  Hendrik Lorenz, The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 229. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-929063-6.
    Reviewed by Paul W. Gooch.

  • 2008.05.42:  Susan E. Alcock, Robin Osborne, Classical Archaeology. Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology, 10. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. xiii, 447; figs. 81. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-631-23419-7.
    Reviewed by Lise Hannestad and Sidsel Westh-Hansen.

  • 2008.05.43:  Pauline Schmitt Pantel, François de Polignac, Athènes et le politique. Dans le sillage de Claude Mossé. Paris: 2007. Pp. 352. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-226-17901-2.
    Reviewed by Angela Kühr.

  • 2008.06.01:  Charles McNelis, Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. x, 203. $96.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86741-2.
    Reviewed by Christopher Chinn.

  • 2008.06.02:  Saverio Gualerzi, Penelope o della tessitura. Trame femminili da Omero a Ovidio. Discese, 16. Bari: 2007. Pp. 163. €10.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7600-207-6.
    Reviewed by Ginette Vagenheim.

  • 2008.06.03:  Michel Ferré, Martianus Capella. Les noces de Philologie et de Mercure. Tome IV. Livre IV. La dialectique. Collection des Universités de France. Paris: 2007. Pp. xc, 141. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-01448-7.
    Reviewed by Ilaria L.E. Ramelli.

  • 2008.06.04:  Orrin F. Summerell, Thomas Zimmer, Alkinoos, Didaskalikos. Lehrbuch der Grudsätze Platons. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Anmerkungen, Sammlung wissentschaftlicher Kommentäre. Berlin and New York: 2007. Pp. xx, 91. €72.00. ISBN 978-3-11019451-7.
    Reviewed by Joanna Komorowska.

  • 2008.06.05:  Holford-Strevens on Fincham on R. F. Rhodes, The Acquisition and Exhibition of Classical Antiquities.
    Response by Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

  • 2008.06.06:  Leslie Brubaker, Kallirroe Lindardou, Eat, Drink, and Be Merry (Luke 12:19)--Food and Wine in Byzantium. Papers of the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, In Honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer. Williston: 2007. Pp. 308. $99.95. ISBN 978-0-7546-6119-1.
    Reviewed by Philippe Charlier.

  • 2008.06.07:  James Lesher, Debra Nails, Frisbee Sheffield, Plato's Symposium. Issues in Interpretation and Reception. Hellenic Studies 22. Cambridge, MA: 2006. Pp. 446. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-674-02375-7.
    Reviewed by Patricia Curd.

  • 2008.06.08:  Helma Dik, Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogue. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xvi, 281. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-927929-6.
    Reviewed by D.M. Goldstein.

  • 2008.06.09:  Robert Faulkner, The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics. New Haven and London: 2007. Pp. 288. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-300-12393-7.
    Reviewed by Thomas W. Smith.

  • 2008.06.10:  Giancarlo Giardina, Lucio Anneo Seneca. Tragedie. I. Ercole, Le Troiane, Le Fenicie, Medea, Fedra. Testi e commenti, 22. Pisa/Roma: 2007. Pp. 387. €95.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-6227-016-8.
    Reviewed by Christopher Trinacty.

  • 2008.06.11:  Carol G. Thomas, Craig Conant, The Trojan War. Norman, OK: 2007. Pp. xi, 209. $16.95. ISBN 978-0-8061-3847-9.
    Reviewed by Silvio Bär,.

  • 2008.06.12:  Norbert Eschbach, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Deutschland 83. Göttingen, Archäologischies Institut der Universität 3, Attische Schwartzzfigure Keramik. Munich: 2007. Pp. 166; pls. 860, supplmental pls. 24, figs. 25. €88.00. ISBN 978-3-406-55855-9.
    Reviewed by Michael M. Eisman.

  • 2008.06.13:  Mark Payne, Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. viii, 183. £50.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86577-7.
    Reviewed by Owen Hodkinson.

  • 2008.06.14:  Teresa R. Ramsby, Textual Permanence. Roman Elegists and the Epigraphic Tradition. London: 2007. Pp. ix, 197. $81.00. ISBN 978-0-7156-3632-9.
    Reviewed by Garrett Jacobsen.

  • 2008.06.15:  Augusto Cosentino, Il Battesimo Gnostico: Dottrine, simboli e riti iniziatici nello gnosticismo. Hierá: Collana di studi storico-religiosi 9. Cosenza: 2007. Pp. vii, 357. €30.00. ISBN 978-88-8691923-4.
    Reviewed by Ellen Muehlberger.

  • 2008.06.16:  Florian Ruppenstein, Kerameikos. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen, Bd. XVIII. Die submykenische Nekropole: Neufunde und Neubewertung. München: 2007. Pp. xi, 305; figs. 18, pls. 48, fold-out plan 1. €110.00. ISBN 978-3-7774-3525-1.
    Reviewed by John K. Papadopoulos.

  • 2008.06.17:  Ann Reynolds Scott, Cosa: The Black-Glaze Pottery 2. Ann Arbor: 2008. Pp. xi, 221; b/w pls. 68. ISBN 10: 0-472-11585-5.
    Reviewed by Roman Roth.

  • 2008.06.18:  Diane Arnson Svarlien, Euripides. Medea, with an introduction and notes by Robin Mitchell-Boyask. Indianapolis: 2008. Pp. xxx, 71. $19.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0-87220-924-4.
    Reviewed by David M. Schaps.

  • 2008.06.19:  Peter Bing, Jon Steffen Bruss, Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram. Leiden: 2007. Pp. xxi, 657. $279.00 / €199.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15218-2.
    Reviewed by Michael A. Tueller.

  • 2008.06.20:  John Taylor, Classics and the Bible: Hospitality and Recognition. London: 2007. Pp. xi, 204. $31.00. ISBN 0-7156-3481-3.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Stevens.

  • 2008.06.21:  J.L. Lightfoot, The Sibylline Oracles: With Introduction, Translation, and Commentary on the First and Second Books. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xxiii, 613. $220.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921546-1.
    Reviewed by Aaron Kachuck.

  • 2008.06.22:  Laurent Capdetrey, Le pouvoir séleucide. Territoire, administration, finances d'un royaume hellénistique (312-129 avant J.C.). Collection "Histoire". Rennes: 2007. Pp. 536 . €24.00. ISBN 978-2-7535-0524-7.
    Reviewed by Federicomaria Muccioli.

  • 2008.06.23:  P. J. Finglass, C. Collard, N. J. Richardson, Hesperos. Studies in Ancient Greek Poetry Presented to M. L. West on his Seventieth Birthday. Oxford: 2007. Pp. lvi, 406. $199.00. ISBN 978-0-19-928568-6.
    Reviewed by John Gibert.

  • 2008.06.24:  Michael Maass, Das antike Delphi. Munich: 2007. Pp. 128. €7.90 (pb). ISBN 978-3-406-53631-1.
    Reviewed by Stefanie A. H. Kennell.

  • 2008.06.25:  Marianne PADE, The Reception of Plutarch's Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Two volumes. Copenhagen: 2007. Pp. 743. €82.00. ISBN 978-87-635-0532-1.
    Reviewed by Maude Vanhaelen.

  • 2008.06.26:  Mary Emerson, Greek Sanctuaries. An Introduction. London: 2007. Pp. 172. £12.99 (pb). ISBN 978-1-85399-689-4.
    Reviewed by Laura Gawlinski.

  • 2008.06.27:  Ilaria Ramelli, Allegoristi dell'età classica: Opere e frammenti. Il pensiero occidentale. Milan: 2007. Pp. xlviii, 948. €31.00. ISBN 978-88-452-5842-8.
    Reviewed by Robert Lamberton.

  • 2008.06.28:  Silvia Orlandi, Epigrafia anfiteatrale dell'occidente romano. VI. Roma. Anfiteatri e strutture annesse con una nuova edizione e commento delle iscrizioni del Colosseo. Vetera, 15. Roma: 2004. Pp. 600; pls. 28. €84.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7140-265-9.
    Reviewed by R.T. Scott.

  • 2008.06.29:  Markus Schauer, Aeneas dux in Vergils Aeneis. Eine literarische Fiktion in augusteischer Zeit. Zetemata vol. 128. Munich: 2007. Pp. 304. €64.00. ISBN 978-3-406-56483-3.
    Reviewed by Karl Galinsky.

  • 2008.06.30:  Paul Allen Miller, Postmodern Spiritual Practices: The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. Columbus, OH: 2007. Pp. x, 270. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-814210-70-3.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Todd Lee.

  • 2008.06.31:  C. Howgego, V. Heuchert, A. Burnett, Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 280. $150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-926526-8.
    Reviewed by Philipp Fondermann.

  • 2008.06.32:  Matthew Fox, Cicero's Philosophy of History. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 368. $130.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921192-0.
    Reviewed by Jonathan P. Zarecki.

  • 2008.06.33:  Fitch on Trinacty on Giancarlo Giardina.
    Response by John Fitch.

  • 2008.06.34:  Fergus Millar, A Greek Roman Empire. Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408-450). Sather Classical Lectures, 64. Berkeley: 2006. Pp. xxvi, 279. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-520-25391-9.
    Reviewed by Edward Luttwak.

  • 2008.06.35:  Pat Southern, The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History. Oxford: 2007. Pp. x, 381. $24.95. ISBN 978-019-532878-3.
    Reviewed by David W. Madsen.

  • 2008.06.36:  R. Drew Griffith, Robert B. Marks, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora: Ancient Greek and Roman Humour. Kingston: 2007. Pp. 234. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-9784652-0-9.
    Reviewed by Timothy Saunders.

  • 2008.06.37:  Jean-Philippe Genet, Rome et l'État moderne européen. "Collection de l'École française de Rome" 377. Roma: 2007. Pp. 444. €49.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7283-0771-5.
    Reviewed by Luca Fezzi.

  • 2008.06.38:  Joachim Henning, Post-Roman Towns, Trade and Settlement in Europe and Byzantium. Vol. 1. The Heirs of the Roman West. Millennium-Studien, 5/1. Berlin/New York: 2007. Pp. xxiii, 568; ills. passim, pls. 24. €98.00. ISBN 978-3-11-018356-3.
    Joachim Henning, Post-Roman Towns, Trade and Settlement in Europe and Byzantium. Vol. 2. Byzantium, Pliska, and the Balkans. Millennium-Studien, 5/2. Berlin/New York: 2007. Pp. xix, 707; ills. passim, pls. 36. €98.00. ISBN 978-3-11-018358-0.
    Reviewed by Hendrik Dey.

  • 2008.06.39:  Caroline Humfress, Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 368. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-820841-3.
    Reviewed by Gregory Halfond.

  • 2008.06.40:  Simon Goldhill, Robin Osborne, Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. xv, 319. $100.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86212-6.
    Reviewed by Fiona Hobden.

  • 2008.06.41:  Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet, Libérez la patrie! Patriotisme et politique en Grèce ancienne. Paris: 2006. Pp. 367. €26.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7011-4361-6.
    Reviewed by Kostas Vlassopoulos.

  • 2008.06.42:  Michael B. Charles, Vegetius in Context: Establishing the Date of the Epitoma Rei Militaris. Historia-Einzelschrift, Band 194. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 205. €46.00. ISBN 978-3-515-08989-0.
    Reviewed by Everett L. Wheeler.

  • 2008.07.01:  Rutger J. Allan, Michel Buijs, The Language of Literature. Linguistic Approaches to Classical Texts. Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology. Vol. 13. Leiden: 2007. Pp. xv, 251. $142.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15654-8.
    Reviewed by Daniel Kölligan.

  • 2008.07.02:  BMCR Books Received (June, 2008).


  • 2008.07.03:  Leena Pietilä-Castrén, The Graeco-Roman Terracotta Figurines of Finland and Their Collectors. Helsinki: 2007. Pp. 100. €20.00. ISBN 978-951-98806-6-2.
    Reviewed by Stéphanie Huysecom-Haxhi.

  • 2008.07.04:  Fabio Roscalla, L'autore e l'opera: attribuzioni, appropriazioni, apocrifi nella Grecia antica. Atti del convegno internazionale (Pavia, 27-28 maggio 2005). Memorie e atti di convegni 34. Pisa: 2006. Pp. 214. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-4671630-9.
    Reviewed by Victoria Jennings.

  • 2008.07.05:  Babette Pütz, The Symposium and Komos in Aristophanes. Warminster: 2007. Pp. 244. $48.00 (pb). ISBN 0-85668-772-3.
    Reviewed by Simone Beta.

  • 2008.07.06:  Susan Treggiari, Terentia, Tullia and Publilia. The Women of Cicero's Family. London/New York: 2007. Pp. xxii, 228; maps 3, figs. 7. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-35179-9.
    Reviewed by David Noy.

  • 2008.07.07:  Jan M. Ziolkowski, Michael C. J. Putnam, The Virgilian Tradition. The First Fifteen Hundred Years. New Haven & London: 2008. Pp. xl, 1,082. $100.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-300-10822-4.
    Reviewed by Wolfgang Polleichtner.

  • 2008.07.08:  Alain Deremetz, Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Dictynna: revue de poétique latine, no.1. Lille: 2004. Pp. 227. €14.00 (pb). ISBN 2-84467-088-1.
    Reviewed by Stephen Harrison.

  • 2008.07.09:  Marilynne E. Raybould, Patrick Sims-Williams, A Corpus of Latin Inscriptions of the Roman Empire Containing Celtic Personal Names. Aberystwyth: 2007. Pp. vi, 283; b/w ills. 2. £18.00. ISBN 978-0-9527478-7-1.
    Marilynne E. Raybould , Patrick Sims-Williams, The Geography of Celtic Personal Names in the Latin Inscriptions of the Roman Empire. Aberystwyth: 2007. Pp. i, 210; b/w ills. 3. £19.99. ISBN 978-0-9527478-6-4.
    Reviewed by Philip Freeman.

  • 2008.07.10:  Andrea Balbo, I frammenti degli oratori romani dell' età augustea e tiberiana. Parte seconda. 2 vols. Minima Philologica. Serie latina, 4. Alessandria: 2007. Pp. xxv, 590. €50.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7694-810-4.
    Reviewed by Rolando Ferri.

  • 2008.07.11:  Ramelli on Lamberton on Ramelli, Allegoristi dell'età classica: Opere e frammenti. Il pensiero occidentale.
    Response by Ilaria L.E. Ramelli.

  • 2008.07.12:  Évelyne Prioux, Regards alexandrins. Histoire et théorie des arts dans l'épigramme hellénistique. Hellenistica Groningana, 12. Leuven: 2007. Pp. xxii, 324. €52.00 (pb). ISBN 978-90-429-1842-9.
    Reviewed by José Baracat, Jr..

  • 2008.07.13:  Dominique Lenfant, Athénée et les fragments d'historiens, Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg (16-18 juin 2005). Collections de l'Université Marc Bloch - Strasbourg, Études d'archéologie et d'histoire ancienne. Paris: 2007. Pp. 474. €43.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7018-0230-5.
    Reviewed by Giuseppe Squillace.

  • 2008.07.14:  Ilaria Domenici, Giovanni Lido. Sui segni celesti. Translated by Erika Maderna. Milan: 2007. Pp. 159. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7698-115-9.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2008.07.15:  Davide Susanetti, Euripide. Fra tragedia, mito e filosofia. FRECCE, 51. Roma: 2007. Pp. 323. €25.50 (pb). ISBN 978-88-430-4267-8.
    Reviewed by Dina Bacalexi.

  • 2008.07.16:  Étienne Wolff, Rutilius Namatianus: Sur son retour. Collection des Universités de France. With the collaboration of S. Lancel and J. Soler. Paris: 2007. Pp. xcix, 118. €29.00. ISBN 978-2-251-01447-0.
    Reviewed by Michael Kulikowski.

  • 2008.07.17:  Voula Tsouna, The Ethics of Philodemus. Oxford: 2007. Pp. x, 350. $72.00. ISBN 978-0-19-929217-2.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Asmis.

  • 2008.07.18:  Antonio Banfi, Habent illi iudices suos. Studi sull' esclusività Della giurisdizione ecclesiastica e sulle origini del privilegium fori in diritto romano e bizantino. Milano: 2005. Pp. xi, 395. €38.00. ISBN 88-14-11847-7.
    Reviewed by Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart.

  • 2008.07.19:  Stuart Lyons, Horace's Odes and the Mystery of Do-Re-Mi. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 244. $37.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-85668-790-7.
    Reviewed by Steven J. Willett.

  • 2008.07.20:  James Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece. London: 2007. Pp. v, 634. $42.00. ISBN 0297819976.
    Reviewed by Eric C. Brook.

  • 2008.07.21:  Leonhard Schumacher, Stellung des Sklaven im Sakralrecht. Corpus der römischen Rechtsquellen zur antiken Sklaverei, Teil VI. Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei, Beiheft 3. Stuttgart: 2006. Pp. xxiv, 124. €36.00. ISBN 978-3-515-08977-7.
    Reviewed by Michael Peachin.

  • 2008.07.22:  Anna-Maria Ioppolo, David N. Sedley (edd.), Pyrrhonists, Patricians, Platonizers. Hellenistic Philosophy in the Period 155-86 BC. Tenth Symposium Hellenisticum. Napoli: 2007. Pp. 430. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7088-536-1.
    Reviewed by Diego E. Machuca.

  • 2008.07.23:  David Wolfsdorf, Trials of Reason: Plato and the Crafting of Philosophy. New York: 2008. Pp. 296. $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-532732-8.
    Reviewed by David M. Johnson.

  • 2008.07.24:  Irene J. F. de Jong, René Nünlist, Time in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Volume Two. Leiden: 2007. Pp. xiv, 542. $199.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16506-9.
    Reviewed by Denis Feeney.

  • 2008.07.25:  Pantelis Nigdelis, Epigraphika Thessalonikeia, Symvole sten politike kai koinonike historia tes archaias Thessalonikes. Thessaloniki: 2006. Pp. 646. €40.00. ISBN 960-12-1550-6.
    Reviewed by Paraskevi Martzavou.

  • 2008.07.26:  Hinard on Zarmakoupi on John W. Stamper, The Architecture of Roman Temples: The Republic to the Middle Empire.
    Response by François Hinard.

  • 2008.07.27:  Marco Formisano, La passione di Perpetua e Felicita. Classici Greci e Latini. Milano: 2008. Pp. xiii, 133. €9.20 (pb). ISBN 9788817020732.
    Reviewed by Vincent Hunink.

  • 2008.07.28:  Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai, Jean Guyon, Origine delle catacombe Romane. Atti della giornata tematica dei Seminari di Archeologia Cristiana (Roma 21 marzo 2005). Sussidi a lo Studio delle antichità cristiane XVIII. Città del Vaticano: 2006. Pp. 268. €30.00. ISBN 978-88-85991-43-9.
    Reviewed by Carolyn Osiek.

  • 2008.07.29:  Philipp von Rummel, Habitus barbarus. Kleidung und Repräsentation spätantiker Eliten im 4. und 5. Jahrhundert. Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, 55. Berlin-New York: 2007. Pp. 482. €128.00. ISBN 978-3-11-019150-9.
    Reviewed by Maurizio Buora.

  • 2008.07.30:  Christopher Francese, Ancient Rome in So Many Words. New York: 2007. Pp. 248. $12.95. ISBN 978-0-7818-1153-8.
    Reviewed by Betty Rose Nagle.

  • 2008.07.31:  Christopher Stray, Remaking the classics: literature, genre and media in Britain 1800-2000. London: 2007. Pp. xi, 153. $70.00. ISBN 9780715636732.
    Reviewed by John Bulwer.

  • 2008.07.32:  John Burgess, The Faber Pocket Guide to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: 2005. Pp. XXIX, 384. £8.99. ISBN 0-571-21906-3.
    Reviewed by Giampiero Scafoglio.

  • 2008.07.33:  Evangelos Kyriakidis, The Archaeology of Ritual. Cotsen Advanced Seminars, 3. Los Angeles: 2007. Pp. xii, 319; figs. 55. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 978-1-931745-47-5.
    Reviewed by Sandra Blakely.

  • 2008.07.34:  A. M. Bowie, Herodotus: Histories. Book VIII. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge, UK; New York: 2007. Pp. xi, 258. $36.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521575713.
    Reviewed by Donald Lateiner.

  • 2008.07.35:  David Asheri, Alan B. Lloyd, Aldo Corcella, A Commentary on Herodotus I-IV. Edited by Oswyn Murray and Alfonso Moreno. Oxford: 2007. Pp. lv, 721; maps and plans. £165.00. ISBN 9780198149569.
    Reviewed by Lynette G. Mitchell.

  • 2008.07.36:  Filippo Canali De Rossi, Le relazioni diplomatiche di Roma, Vol. II: dall'intervento in Sicilia fino alla invasione annibalica (264-216 a.C.). Roma: 2007. Pp. 148. €28.00. ISBN 978-88-89670-20-0.
    Reviewed by Sandra Péré-Noguès.

  • 2008.07.37:  Itzhak F. Fikhman, Andrea Jördens, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im spätantiken Ägypten. Kleine Schriften. Historia Einzelschriften 192. Stuttgart: 2006. Pp. xviii, 380. €72.00. ISBN 3-515-08876-8.
    Reviewed by Karl Strobel.

  • 2008.07.38:  Christopher Stray, Classical Books: Scholarship and Publishing in Britain Since 1800. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 101. London: 2007. Pp. vi, 188. £26.00. ISBN 978-1-905670-15-4.
    Reviewed by Lee T. Pearcy.

  • 2008.07.39:  Filippomaria Pontani, Scholia Graeca in Odysseam: 1. Scholia ad libros a-b. Rome: 2007. Pp. xl, 382. €58.00. ISBN 978-88-8498-446-3.
    Reviewed by Eleanor Dickey.

  • 2008.07.40:  Paul Cartledge, The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece. Woodstock: 2003. Pp. 304. $27.95. ISBN 1-58567-402-8.
    Paul Cartledge, Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World. Woodstock: 2006. Pp. 336, 35 b/w plates, 6 maps. $30.00 (pb). ISBN 1-58567-566-0.
    Reviewed by Noreen Humble.

  • 2008.07.41:  Douglas Cairns, Vayos Liapis, Dionysalexandros: Essays on Aeschylus and His Fellow Tragedians in Honour of Alexander F. Garvie. Swansea: 2006. Pp. 312. $69.50. ISBN 978-1-905125-13-5.
    Reviewed by Janette Auer.

  • 2008.07.42:  Derek Hughes, Culture and Sacrifice. Ritual Death in Literature and Opera. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xi, 313. £45.00. ISBN 9780521867337.
    Reviewed by Massimiliano Di Fazio.

  • 2008.07.43:  Frederick Ahl, Two Faces of Oedipus: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Seneca's Oedipus. Ithaca: 2008. Pp. 266. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-7397-5.
    Reviewed by Jennifer E. Thomas.

  • 2008.07.44:  Christopher Tuplin, Persian Responses: Political and Cultural Interactions with(in) the Achaemenid Empire. Swansea: 2007. Pp. xxv, 373. £60.00. ISBN 978-1-905125-18-0.
    Reviewed by Stanley M. Burstein.

  • 2008.07.45:  John Marincola, A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography (2 vols.). Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. 656. $299.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-0216-2.
    Reviewed by John Bauschatz.

  • 2008.07.46:  Albert Rijksbaron, Plato. Ion. Or: On the Iliad. Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology, 14. Leiden / Boston: 2007. Pp. xii, 285. $139.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16321-8.
    Reviewed by Robert Mayhew.

  • 2008.07.47:  David Sedley, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Volume XXXII (Summer 2007). Oxford: 2007. Pp. viii, 391. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-19-922738-9.
    Reviewed by Peter Aronoff.

  • 2008.07.48:  Franz Alto Bauer, Christian Witschel, Statuen in der Spätantike. Wiesbaden: 2007. Pp. viii, 372. €98.00. ISBN 978-3-89500-576-3.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Anderson.

  • 2008.07.49:  Ian Worthington, Demosthenes: Speeches 60 and 61, Prologues, Letters. The Oratory of Classical Greece, Volume 10. Austin, TX: 2006. Pp. xxxv, 142. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-292-71332-1.
    Reviewed by Dustin A. Gish.

  • 2008.07.50:  N.G. Wilson, Aristophanes Fabulae I. Oxford Classical Texts.. Oxford: 2008. Pp. ix, 427. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-19-872180-2.
    N.G. Wilson, Aristophanes Fabulae II. Oxford Classical Texts. Oxford: 2008. Pp. 326. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-19-872181-9.
    Reviewed by Gauthier Liberman.

  • 2008.07.51:  BMCR Books Received (July, 2008).


  • 2008.07.52:  Arthur Keaveney, The Army in the Roman Revolution. London and New York: 2007. Pp. x, 150. £17.99. ISBN 0-415-39487-2.
    Reviewed by Peter Probst.

  • 2008.07.53:  Keith Maclennan, Virgil: Aeneid IV, edited with Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary. London: 2007. Pp. 200. $23.50 (pb). ISBN 978 185399 7051.
    Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono.

  • 2008.07.54:  Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Tradición órfica y cristianismo antiguo. Colección Estructuras y Procesos. Serie Religión. Madrid: 2007. Pp. 413. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 978-84-8164-915-4.
    Reviewed by Alan Farahani and Thomas Figueira.

  • 2008.07.55:  John T. Fitzgerald, Passions and Moral Progress in Greco-Roman Thought. London/New York: 2007. Pp. 416. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-415-28069-3.
    Reviewed by V. Henry T. Nguyen.

  • 2008.07.56:  Margaret R. Graver, Stoicism and Emotion. Chicago: 2007. Pp. 289. $37.50. ISBN 0-226-30557-0.
    Reviewed by William O. Stephens.

  • 2008.07.57:  Michael L. Galaty, William A. Parkinson, Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II. Revised and Expanded Second Edition. Cotsen Institute Monograph 60. Los Angeles: 2007. Pp. x, 254; figs. 54, tables 6. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 978-1-931745-42-0.
    Reviewed by Dimitri Nakassis.

  • 2008.07.58:  Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos, Ancient Poetic Etymology. The Pelopids: Fathers and Sons. Palingenesia, Band 89. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 258. €52.00. ISBN 978-3-515-08939-5.
    Reviewed by Michael Paschalis.

  • 2008.07.59:  Lisa Piazzi, Ovidii Nasonis Heroidum epistula VII: Dido Aeneae. Firenze: 2007. Pp. 349. €39.00. ISBN 9788800206679.
    Reviewed by Antonio Ramírez de Verger.

  • 2008.07.60:  Michael Erler, Stefan Schorn, Die griechische Biographie in hellenistischer Zeit. Akten des internationalen Kongresses vom 26.-29. Juli 2006 in Würzburg. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 245 . Berlin/New York: 2007. Pp. vi, 492. €98.00, $157.00. ISBN 978-3-11-019504-0.
    Reviewed by Joseph Geiger.

  • 2008.07.61:  Matthias Haake, Der Philosoph in der Stadt. Untersuchungen zur öffentlichen Rede über Philosophen und Philosophie in den hellenistischen Poleis. Vestigia, 56. Muenchen: 2007. Pp. x, 386. €70.00. ISBN 978-3-406-55856-6.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2008.07.62:  John Heath, The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 400. £64.00. ISBN 9780521832649.
    Reviewed by Deborah Levine Gera.

  • 2008.07.63:  Julia Wilker, Für Rom und Jerusalem. Die herodianische Dynastie im 1. Jahrhundert n.Chr. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, 5. Frankfurt am Main: 2007. Pp. 564. €69.90. ISBN 978-3-938032-12-1.
    Reviewed by J. Andrew Overman.

  • 2008.07.64:  Margarethe Billerbeck, Stephani Byzantii Ethnica. Volumen I: A-G. Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 43/1. Berlin/New York: 2006. Pp. x, 64*-441. €148.00. ISBN 978-3-11-017449-6.
    Reviewed by Camillo Neri.

  • 2008.08.01:  Dirk Baltzly, Proclus. Commentary on Plato's Timaeus. Volume III, Book 3, Part 1: Proclus on the World's Body. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. 205. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-84595-3.
    Reviewed by Marije Martijn.

  • 2008.08.02:  Lucia Nixon, Making a Landscape Sacred. Outlying Churches and Icon Stands in Sphakia, Southwestern Crete. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xii, 180; figs. 4, tables 13, pls. 21. $48.00 (pb). ISBN 978-1-84217-206-3.
    Reviewed by Eleni Manolaraki.

  • 2008.08.03:  A. Sánchez-Ostiz, J.B. Torres Guerra, R. Martínez, De Grecia a Roma y de Roma a Grecia. Un camino de ida y vuelta. Colección Mundo Antiguo, 12. Pamplona: 2007. Pp. x, 431. €14.00. ISBN 978-84-313-2504-6.
    Reviewed by Román Facundo Espino.

  • 2008.08.04:  Michael Erler, Luc Brisson, Gorgias - Menon: Selected Papers from the Seventh Symposium Platonicum. International Plato Studies, v. 25. Sankt Augustin: 2007. Pp. xi, 389. €58.00. ISBN 9783896653574.
    Reviewed by Malcolm Schofield.

  • 2008.08.05:  Lorna Hardwick, Carol Gillespie , Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds. Classical Presences. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xv, 422. $150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-929610-7.
    Reviewed by Rachel D. Friedman.

  • 2008.08.06:  Cordula Bandt, Der Traktat "Vom Mysterium der Buchstaben". Kritischer Text mit Einführung, Übersetzung und Ammerkungen. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 162. Berlin/New York: 2007. Pp. viii, 260; ills. 25. €82.24. ISBN 978-3-11-019606-1.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2008.08.07:  Giuseppe Scarpat, Lucio Anneo Seneca. Anticipare la morte o attenderla. La lettera 70 a Lucilio. Antichità classica e christiana, 35. Brescia: 2007. Pp. 114. €12.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-394-0742-9.
    Reviewed by Ioana Costa.

  • 2008.08.08:  Andrew D. Irvine, Socrates on Trial. A Play Based on Aristophanes' Clouds and Plato's Apology, Crito, and Phaedo Adapted for Modern Performance. Toronto: 2008. Pp. viii, 136. $17.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8020-9538-1.
    Reviewed by Maya Alapin.

  • 2008.08.09:  Anton Bierl, Rebecca Lämmle, Katharina Wesselmann, Literatur und Religion 2. Wege zu einer mythisch-rituellen Poetik bei den Griechen. MythosEikonPoiesis, 1/2. Berlin/New York: 2007. Pp. xii, 436. €91.59. ISBN 978-3-11-019485-2.
    Reviewed by Reyes Bertolín Cebrián.

  • 2008.08.10:  Roger D. Woodard, The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology. Cambridge:Pp. xvi, 536; 25 fig. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-60726-1.
    Reviewed by Angela Kühr.

  • 2008.08.11:  Christopher Ligota, Letizia Panizza, Lucian of Samosata Vivus et Redivivus. Warburg Institute Colloquia, 10. London/Turin: 2007. Pp. 222. £36.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-85481-138-0.
    Reviewed by Sonia Sabnis.

  • 2008.08.12:  Geert Roskam, Live Unnoticed (Lathe biosas): On the Vicissitudes of an Epicurean Doctrine. Philosophia Antiqua, v. 111. Leiden/Boston: 2007. Pp. x, 233. $125.00. ISBN 9789004161719.
    Reviewed by James Jope.

  • 2008.08.13:  Rita Felski, Rethinking Tragedy. Baltimore: 2008. Pp. viii, 368. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8018-8740-6.
    Reviewed by Viviana Gastaldi.

  • 2008.08.14:  Fritz-Gregor Herrmann, Words and Ideas. The Roots of Plato's Philosophy. Swansea: 2007. Pp. xv, 368. $79.50. ISBN 978-1-905125-20-3.
    Reviewed by Phillip Sidney Horky.

  • 2008.08.15:  Note from the Editors.
    Editorial note by Richard Hamilton.

  • 2008.08.16:  Anthony Kenny, Philosophy in the Modern World. A New History of Western Philosophy Volume 4. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xv, 347. £25.00. ISBN 978-0-19-875279-0.
    Reviewed by Sophia M. Connell.

  • 2008.08.17:  J.H.D. Scourfield, Texts and Culture in Late Antiquity: Inheritance, Authority, and Change. Swansea: 2007. Pp. xii, 346. $89.50. ISBN 978-1-905125-17-3.
    Reviewed by Bret Mulligan and William Wren Lebowitz.

  • 2008.08.18:  Ronald Weed, Aristotle on Stasis: A Moral Psychology of Political Conflict. Berlin: 2007. Pp. 236. €37.00. ISBN 978-3-8325-1380-1.
    Reviewed by Steven C. Skultety.

  • 2008.08.19:  David Bloch, Aristotle on Memory and Recollection: Text, Translation, Interpretation, and Reception in Western Scholasticism. Leiden: 2007. Pp. xiii, 276. €89.00 /$125.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16046-0.
    Reviewed by Robert Mayhew.

  • 2008.08.20:  Askold Ivantchik, Vakhtang Licheli, Achaemenid Culture and Local Traditions in Anatolia, Southern Caucasus and Iran: New Discoveries. Leiden/Boston: 2007. Pp. 154; ills. €89.00 / $119.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16328-7.
    Reviewed by Margaret C. Miller.

  • 2008.08.21:  Walther Sallaberger, Das Gilgamesch-Epos: Mythos, Werk und Tradition. München: 2008. Pp. 128. €7.90. ISBN 978-3-406-56243-3.
    Reviewed by Mehmet-Ali Ataç.

  • 2008.08.22:  Pierre Vidal-Naquet, L'Atlantide. Petite histoire d'un mythe platonicien. Paris: 2005. Pp. 199. €18.00. ISBN 2-251-38071-X.
    Reviewed by Heinz-Guenther Nesselrath.

  • 2008.08.23:  Ada Cohen, Jeremy B. Rutter, Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy. Hesperia Supplement 41. Princeton: 2007. Pp. xxv, 429; ills. 178, tables 8. $75.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-87661-541-6.
    Reviewed by Neil W. Bernstein.

  • 2008.08.24:  Brian Madigan, Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts: Geometric, Black-figure, and Red-figure. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 12. Leiden/Boston: 2007. Pp. xvii, 80; ills. 114. $170.00. ISBN 9789004164086.
    Reviewed by Mary B. Moore.

  • 2008.08.25:  Serafina Cuomo, Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. 224. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-00903-4.
    Reviewed by Milo Nikolic.

  • 2008.08.26:  Lara Pagani, Asclepiades, of Bithynia: I frammenti degli scritti omerici. Pleiadi 7. Roma: 2007. Pp. 273. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 9788884984432.
    Reviewed by Alexandra Trachsel.

  • 2008.08.27:  Andrew Scholtz, Concordia Discors: Eros and Dialogue in Classical Athenian Literature. Hellenic Studies, 24. Washington, D.C.: 2007. Pp. ix, 174. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674025981.
    Reviewed by Nicholas Rynearson.

  • 2008.08.28:  Bruce Redford, Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England. Los Angeles: 2008. Pp. xi, 220. $49.95. ISBN 9780892369249.
    Reviewed by David Cast.

  • 2008.08.29:  Tamar Hodos, Local Responses to Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean. London/New York: 2006. Pp. x, 264; figs. 97. $130.00. ISBN 978-0-415-37836-9.
    Reviewed by Adam Rabinowitz.

  • 2008.08.30:  Christopher A. Faraone, The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xi, 199. $90.00. ISBN 9780199236985.
    Reviewed by Chris Eckerman.

  • 2008.08.31:  Hans-Christian Günther, Brill's Companion to Propertius. Leiden: 2006. Pp. xxii, 476. $323.00. ISBN 90-04-13682-7.
    Reviewed by Christina Shuttleworth Kraus.

  • 2008.08.32:  Dorothee Elm von der Osten, Liebe als Wahnsinn. Die Konzeption der Göttin Venus in den Argonautica des Valerius Flaccus. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 20. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 204. €49.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-515-08958-6.
    Reviewed by Bob Cowan.

  • 2008.08.33:  Philip Perkins, Etruscan Bucchero in the British Museum. Research Publication no. 165. London: 2007. Pp. 136; maps 2, figs. 308. £60.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-86159-165-7.
    Reviewed by Richard De Puma.

  • 2008.08.34:  John Bintliff, Phil Howard, Anthony Snodgrass, Testing the Hinterland: The Work of the Boeotia Survey (1989-1991) in the Southern Approaches to the City of Thespiai. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xviii, 320. $134.00. ISBN 9781902937373.
    Reviewed by Kristina Winther Jacobsen.

  • 2008.08.35:  Milena Minkova, Introduction to Latin Prose Composition. Wauconda, IL: 2007. Pp. xiii, 154. $26.00. ISBN 978-0-86516-672-1.
    Reviewed by Akihiko Watanabe.

  • 2008.08.36:  Lin Foxhall, Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece. Seeking the Ancient Economy. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xvii, 294; figs. 66, tables 8. $117.00. ISBN 978-0-19-815288-0.
    Reviewed by Timothy Howe.

  • 2008.08.37:  P. J. Finglass, Pindar: Pythian Eleven. Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 45. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. ix, 158. $99.00. ISBN 9780521884815.
    Reviewed by William Slater.

  • 2008.08.38:  Lorna Hardwick, Christopher Stray, A Companion to Classical Receptions. Oxford: 2008. Pp. xviii, 538. $175.00. ISBN 978-1-4051-5167-2.
    Reviewed by John Henderson.

  • 2008.08.39:  Shane Butler, Angelo Poliziano: Letters. Volume I, Books I-IV. I Tatti Renaissance Library, 21. Cambridge, MA: 2005. Pp. 362. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-02196-7.
    Reviewed by Alison Frazier.

  • 2008.08.40:  Getzel M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa. Hellenistic Culture and Society XLVI. Berkeley: 2006. Pp. 501; ills. 8. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-520-24148-0.
    Reviewed by Andrea U. De Giorgi.

  • 2008.08.41:  James Warren, Presocratics. Ancient Philosophies. Stocksfield: 2007. Pp. 224. £14.99. ISBN 978-1-84465-092-7.
    Reviewed by Jenny Bryan.

  • 2008.08.42:  Jonathan Edmondson, Alison Keith, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture. Toronto/Buffalo: 2008. Pp. xvii, 370; plates 56 p. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-8020-9319-6.
    Reviewed by Jonathan Mannering.

  • 2008.08.43:  Kevin Corrigan, John D. Turner, Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern. Leiden/Boston: 2007. Pp. xi, 278. €119.00, $167.00. ISBN 9789004158412.
    Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson.

  • 2008.08.44:  John Tipton, Ajax. Chicago: 2008. Pp. xv, 112. $13.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-9787-4675-9.
    Reviewed by Sarah Nooter.

  • 2008.08.45:  Gabriella Pironti, Entre ciel et guerre: Figures d'Aphrodite en Grèce ancienne. Kernos Suppl. 18. Liège: 2007. Pp. 336. £33.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-9600717-1-9.
    Reviewed by Stephanie L. Budin.

  • 2008.08.46:  Leopoldo Gamberale, Plauto secondo Pasolini: Un progetto di teatro fra antico e moderno. Ludus Philologiae, 15. Urbino: 2006. Pp. xii, 209. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-392-0763-0.
    Reviewed by Rosanna Lauriola.

  • 2008.08.47:  Richard Sorabji, Robert W. Sharples, Greek and Roman Philosophy 100 BC-200 AD. 2 vols. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement 94. London: 2007. Pp. xii, 720. £90.00 (pb). ISBN 9781905670079; 9781905670086.
    Reviewed by Carl O'Brien.

  • 2008.08.48:  Jean-Baptiste Gourinat, Le stoïcisme. "Que sais-je?" no. 770. Paris: 2007. Pp. 128. €8.00. ISBN 978-2-13-056267-2.
    Reviewed by Andreas U. Schmidhauser.

  • 2008.08.49:  Eva Rystedt, Berit Wells, Pictorial Pursuits. Figurative Painting on Mycenaean and Geometric Pottery. Papers from two seminars at the Swedish Institute at Athens in 1999 and 2001. Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae, series 4, 53. Stockholm: 2006. Pp. 313. $177.50 (pb). ISBN 91-7916-053-0.
    Reviewed by Sarah P. Morris.

  • 2008.08.50:  Peter Garnsey, Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. 267. $29.99. ISBN 978-0-521-70023-8.
    Reviewed by Alex Gottesman.

  • 2008.08.51:  Robin Osborne, Debating the Athenian Cultural Revolution: Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Politics, 430-380 BC. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. xv, 341. $99.00. ISBN 9780521879163.
    Reviewed by Yun Lee Too.

  • 2008.08.52:  Roman Roth, Johannes Keller, Roman by Integration: Dimensions of Group Identity in Material Culture and Text. Journal of Roman Archaeology. Supplementary Series, 66. Portsmouth, RI: 2007. Pp. 103, figs. 10. $37.50. ISBN 978-1-887829-66-3.
    Reviewed by Danijel Dzino.

  • 2008.08.53:  Andrea Blasina, Il Prometeo del Duca. La prima traduzione Italiana del Prometeo di Eschilo (Vat. Urb. Lat. 789). Classics in the Libraries, 1. Amsterdam: 2006. Pp. 113. €30.00. ISBN 90-256-1219-9.
    Reviewed by Carmel McCallum-Barry.

  • 2008.08.54:  Caroline van Eck, Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. xii, 225; ills. 54. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-521-84435-2.
    Reviewed by David Cast.

  • 2008.08.55:  Alan H. Sommerstein, Judith Fletcher, Horkos. The Oath in Greek Society. Exeter: 2007. Pp. xii, 304. $95.00. ISBN 978-1-904675-67-9.
    Reviewed by Danielle L. Kellogg.

  • 2008.09.01:  BMCR Books Received (August, 2008).


  • 2008.09.02:  Kasia Szpakowska, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. Recreating Lahun. Malden: 2008. Pp. xii, 244; ills. 50. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-4051-1856-9.
    Reviewed by Danijela Stefanovic.

  • 2008.09.03:  Grégory Bongard-Levine, Corinne Bonnet, Yuri Litvinenko, Arnaldo Marcone, Mongolus Syrio Salutem Optimam Dat. La correspondance entre Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff et Franz Cumont. Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 36. Paris: 2007. Pp. xvi, 364; pls. 22. €70.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-87554-193-0.
    Reviewed by William M. Calder III.

  • 2008.09.04:  Nicola Denzey, The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women. Boston: 2007. Pp. xxi, 290. $27.95. ISBN 9780807013083.
    Reviewed by Caroline T. Schroeder.

  • 2008.09.05:  Edoarda Barra-Salzédo, En soufflant la grâce: Âmes, souffles et humeurs en Grèce ancienne. Collection HOROS. Grenoble: 2007. Pp. 246. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84137-207-2.
    Reviewed by Gregory A. Smith.

  • 2008.09.06:  Frederick M. J. Waanders, An Analytical Study of Mycenaean Compounds: Structure, Types. Biblioteca di "Pasiphae" 7. Pisa/Roma: 2008. Pp. 100. €95.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862270526.
    Reviewed by Olga Tribulato.

  • 2008.09.07:  Barbara Ferré, Martianus Capella. Les noces de Philologie et de Mercure. Tome VI. Livre VI. La géométrie. Collection des Universités de France. Paris: 2007. Pp. cxxii, 211. €39.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-01449-4.
    Reviewed by Félix Racine.

  • 2008.09.08:  Jack L. Davis, Sandy Pylos. An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino. Second edition. Princeton, NJ: 2008. Pp. lix, 342; figs. 135. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-87661-961-2.
    Reviewed by Stefanie A. H. Kennell.

  • 2008.09.09:  Ilana Tahan, Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image. London: 2007. Pp. 160; figs. 142. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-7123-4921-9.
    Reviewed by Rachael Goldman.

  • 2008.09.10:  Ioana A. Oltean, Dacia. Landscape, Colonisation, Romanisation. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. London/New York: 2007. Pp. xii, 248; figs. 79. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-415-41252-0.
    Reviewed by Elias K. Petropoulos.

  • 2008.09.11:  Sally-Ann Ashton, Cleopatra and Egypt. Blackwell Ancient Lives. Malden, MA/Oxford: 2008. Pp. 240. $79.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-1389-2.
    Reviewed by James Allan Evans.

  • 2008.09.12:  Detlef Liebs, Vor den Richtern Roms. Berühmte Prozesse der Antike. München: 2007. Pp. 254. €24.90. ISBN 978-3-406-56296-9.
    Reviewed by Andrea Balbo.

  • 2008.09.13:  Mary Harlow, Ray Laurence, Age and Ageing in the Roman Empire. Journal of Roman Archaeology. Supplementary Series 65. Portsmouth, R.I.: 2007. Pp. 220; figs. 29. $84.50. ISBN 978-1-887829-65-6.
    Reviewed by Emma-Jayne Graham.

  • 2008.09.14:  Sara Elise Phang, Roman Military Service. Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xv, 336. $90.00. ISBN 9780521882699.
    Reviewed by Josh Levithan.

  • 2008.09.15:  Jerzy Linderski, Roman Questions II. Selected Papers. HABES, 44. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. xi, 726. €100.00. ISBN 978-3-515-08134-4.
    Reviewed by Josiah Osgood.

  • 2008.09.16:  Dagmar Hofmann, Suizid in der Spätantike: seine Bewertung in der lateinischen Literatur. Altertumswissenschaft 18. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 250. €44.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515091398.
    Reviewed by Anton J.L. van Hooff.

  • 2008.09.17:  Michel Patillon, Corpus rhetoricum. Préambule à la rhétorique, Anonyme; Progymnasmata, Aphthonios. En annexe: Progymnasmata, Pseudo-Hermogène. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque 460. Paris: 2008. Pp. lxxvi, 263. €52.00. ISBN 9782251005430.
    Reviewed by Denis Searby.

  • 2008.09.18:  Christos C. Tsagalis, Inscribing Sorrow: Fourth-century Attic Funerary Epigrams. Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 1. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. xiv, 368. $118.00. ISBN 9783110201321.
    Reviewed by Valentina Garulli.

  • 2008.09.19:  Richard Stoneman, Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend. New Haven, CT/London: 2008. Pp. xvii, 314. $35.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-300-11203-0.
    Reviewed by Dawn L. Gilley.

  • 2008.09.20:  Jens Daehner, The Herculaneum Women. History, Context, Identities. Los Angeles: 2007. Pp. xiv, 178; maps 5, figs. passim. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-89236-882-2.
    Reviewed by Agnes Allroggen-Bedel.

  • 2008.09.21:  Gaëlle Jeanmart, Herméneutique et subjectivité dans les Confessions d'Augustin. Collection Monothéismes et philosophie. Turnhout: 2006. Pp. 451. €85.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-503-51843-5.
    Reviewed by Karin Schlapbach.

  • 2008.09.22:  Hansen on Rzepka on M.H. Hansen, The Return of the Polis.
    Response by Mogens Herman Hansen.

  • 2008.09.23:  Rainer C.S. Felsch, Kalapodi II. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen im Heiligtum der Artemis und des Apollon von Hyampolis in der antiken Phokis. Mainz am Rhein: 2007. Pp. xv, 558; Abb. 12, Tafeln 106, Beilg. 13. €144.00. ISBN 978-3-8053-3771-7.
    Reviewed by Nassos Papalexandrou.

  • 2008.09.24:  R.F. Regtuit, Scholia in Thesmophoriazusas; Ranas; Ecclesiazusas et Plutum. Scholia in Aristophanem, III 2/3. Groningen: 2007. Pp. 131. €110.00. ISBN 978-90-6980-173-5.
    Reviewed by R. Tordoff.

  • 2008.09.25:  Barbara Kowalzig, Singing for the Gods. Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xviii, 508. $170.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921996-4.
    Reviewed by Richard Seaford.

  • 2008.09.26:  Jonathan Powell, Logos. Rational Argument in Classical Rhetoric. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 96. London: 2007. Pp. vii, 139. £24.00. ISBN 978-1-905670-10-9.
    Reviewed by Giuseppe Squillace.

  • 2008.09.27:  Thomas Boiy, Between High and Low. A Chronology of the Early Hellenistic Period. Oikumene Studien zur antiken Weltgeschichte, Bd. 5. Frankfurt am Main: 2007. Pp. 175. €29.90. ISBN 978-3-938032-20-6.
    Reviewed by Michael Kleu.

  • 2008.09.28:  Peter Franz Mittag, Antiochos IV. Epiphanes. Eine politische Biographie. Klio: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte. Beihefte, neue Folge Band 11. Berlin: 2006. Pp. 429. €69.80. ISBN 3-05-004205-2.
    Reviewed by Rolf Strootman.

  • 2008.09.29:  Fiona McHardy, Revenge in Athenian Culture. London: 2008. Pp. vii, 179. $70.00. ISBN 9780715635698.
    Reviewed by Ruth Scodel.

  • 2008.09.30:  John D. Grainger, Alexander the Great Failure. The Collapse of the Macedonian Empire. London: 2007. Pp. xix, 236; maps 5. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-84725-188-6.
    Reviewed by Waldemar Heckel.

  • 2008.09.31:  Irene Frings, Das Spiel mit den eigenen Texten. Wiederholung und Selbstzitat bei Ovid. Zetemata, 124. München: 2005. Pp. 302. €64.00 (pb). ISBN 3-406-531-520.
    Reviewed by James Burbidge.

  • 2008.09.32:  John M. Trappes-Lomax, Catullus. A Textual Reappraisal. Swansea: 2007. Pp. xi, 315. $69.50. ISBN 978-1-905125-15-9.
    Reviewed by S. J. Heyworth.

  • 2008.09.33:  William Dominik, Jon Hall, A Companion to Roman Rhetoric. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. 523. $149.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-2091-3.
    Reviewed by Christopher S. van den Berg.

  • 2008.09.34:  Pedro López Barja de Quiroga, Imperio legítimo. El pensamiento político en tiempos de Cicerón. Colección Teoría y Crítica, 20. Madrid: 2007. Pp. 374. €21.00 (pb). ISBN 978-84-7774-775-8.
    Reviewed by Cristina Rosillo López.

  • 2008.09.35:  J. den Boeft, J.W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst, H.C. Teitler, Ammianus After Julian: The Reign of Valentinian and Valens in Books 26-31 of the Res Gestae. Mnemosyne Supplementa, 289. Leiden: 2007. Pp. x, 326. $139.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16212-9.
    Reviewed by Peter O'Brien.

  • 2008.09.36:  Clifford Ando, The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 44. Berkeley: 2008. Pp. xxiv, 239. $45.00 / £26.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25083-3.
    Reviewed by Michael Stuart Williams.

  • 2008.09.37:  Livia Capponi, Il tempio di Leontopoli in Egitto: Identità politica e religiosa dei Giudei di Onia (c. 150 a.C-73 d.C.). Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Pavia 118. Pisa: 2007. Pp. 255. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788846719430.
    Reviewed by David Noy.

  • 2008.09.38:  Giovanni Reale, I Presocratici. Prima traduzione integrale con testi originali a fronte delle testimonianze e dei frammenti nella raccolta di Hermann Diels e Walther Kranz. Milano: 2006. Pp. lviii, 2002. €39.00. ISBN 88-452-5740-1.
    Reviewed by Adrian Mihai.

  • 2008.09.39:  Mary Beard, The Roman Triumph. Cambridge, MA: 2007. Pp. 434; figs. 42, plan 1. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02613-1.
    Reviewed by F.J. Vervaet.

  • 2008.09.40:  Nikos Kokkinos, The World of the Herods. Volume 1 of the International Conference The World of the Herods and the Nabataeans held at the British Museum, 17-19 April 2001. Oriens et Occidens, 14. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 327. €62.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-515-08817-6.
    Reviewed by Allen Kerkeslager.

  • 2008.09.41:  Julia Dyson Hejduk, Clodia: A Sourcebook. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture, v. 33. Norman: 2008. Pp. 269. $21.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806139074.
    Reviewed by Beert C. Verstraete.

  • 2008.09.42:  Patricia J. Johnson, Ovid Before Exile. Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison, WI: 2008. Pp. x, 184. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-299-22400-4.
    Reviewed by Steven J. Green.

  • 2008.09.43:  José A. Beltrán, Marco Valerio Marcial: Actualización científica y bibliográfica. Tres décadas de estudios sobre Marcial (1971-2000). Monografías de Filología Latina, 13. Zaragoza: 2005. Pp. 363. €20.00. ISBN 84-96214-60-5.
    Reviewed by Rosario Moreno Soldevila.

  • 2008.09.44:  Manuel Tröster, Themes, Character, and Politics in Plutarch's Life of Lucullus: The Construction of a Roman Aristocrat. Historia Einzelschriften 201. Stuttgart: 2008. Pp. 206. €52.00. ISBN 9783515091244.
    Reviewed by Michael Nerdahl.

  • 2008.09.45:  Marcel Detienne, The Greeks and Us: A Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Malden, MA/Cambridge, UK: 2007. Pp. xiii, 159. $69.95. ISBN 978-0-7456-3901-7.
    Reviewed by Nickolas Pappas.

  • 2008.09.46:  Thomas Heine Nielsen, Olympia and the Classical Hellenic City-State Culture. Historik-filosofiske Meddelelser, 96. Copenhagen: 2007. Pp. 139. DKK 120.00 (pb). ISBN 978-87-7304-309-7.
    Reviewed by Stephen Brunet.

  • 2008.09.47:  Robert Rollinger, Andreas Luther, Josef Wiesehöfer, Getrennte Wege?: Kommunikation, Raum und Wahrnehmung in der Alten Welt. Oikumene Studien zur Antiken Weltgeschichte, Bd. 2. Frankfurt am Main: 2007. Pp. 655. €79.90. ISBN 9783938032145.
    Reviewed by Leonardo Gregoratti.

  • 2008.09.48:  Irving L. Finkel, Ancient Board Games in Perspective. Papers from the 1990 Britsh Museum colloquium, with additional contributions. London: 2007. Pp. vi, 281. $100.00. ISBN 978-0-714-11153-7.
    Reviewed by John Aveline.

  • 2008.09.49:  Marie Sally Cleary, Myths for the Millions. Thomas Bulfinch, His America, and His Mythology Book. Kulturtransfer und Geschlechterforschung, 4. Frankfurt am Main: 2007. Pp. xvi, 414. $82.95. ISBN 978-3-631-51902-8.
    Reviewed by Kris Fletcher.

  • 2008.09.50:  Martin Hinterberger, Elisabeth Schiffer, Byzantinische Sprachkunst. Studien zur byzantinischen Literatur gewidmet Wolfram Hörandner zum 65. Geburtstag. Byzantinisches Archiv, 20. Berlin/New York: 2007. Pp. x, 357; pls. 23. €119.63. ISBN 978-3-11-019501-9.
    Reviewed by Horst Schneider.

  • 2008.09.51:  Peter Stork, Index of Verb Forms in Thucydides. Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. xiv, 242. $109.00. ISBN 9789004164390.
    Reviewed by Luuk Huitink.

  • 2008.09.52:  Bernard Andreae, Karin Rhein, Kleopatra und die Caesaren. Katalog einer Ausstellung des Bucerius Kunst Forums, Hamburg, 28. Oktober 2006 bis 4. Februar 2007. München: 2006. Pp. 262; ills. $42.00. ISBN 987-3-7774-3245-8.
    Reviewed by Miguel John Versluys.

  • 2008.09.53:  Maria Antonietta Giua, Ripensando Tacito (e Ronald Syme): Storia e storiografia: Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Firenze, 30 novembre - 1 dicembre 2006). Memorie e atti di convegni, 41. Pisa: 2007. Pp. 231. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788846720238.
    Reviewed by Christopher Whitton.

  • 2008.09.54:  Maria Michela Sassi, Tracce nella mente. Teorie della memoria da Platone e i moderni. Seminari e Convegni, 9. Pisa: 2007. Pp. x, 265; ills. 12. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7642-222-5.
    Reviewed by Anna Marmodoro.

  • 2008.09.55:  John R. Clarke, Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250. Berkeley: 2007. Pp. xi, 322; pls. 24, figs. 119. $55.00. ISBN 9780520237339.
    Reviewed by Alexandre G. Mitchell.

  • 2008.09.56:  Ruth Morello, A.D. Morrison, Ancient Letters. Classical and Late Antique Epistolography. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xvii, 373. $115.00. ISBN 978-0-19-920395-6.
    Reviewed by Bret Mulligan.

  • 2008.09.57:  Roger S. Bagnall, Egypt in the Byzantine World 300-700. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xv, 464; figs. 74. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87137-2.
    Reviewed by Shawn W.J. Keough.

  • 2008.09.58:  Manuel Baumbach, Silvio Bär, Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic. Millennium-Studien v. 17. Berlin/New York: 2007. Pp. vi, 501. $141.00. ISBN 978-3-11-019577-4.
    Reviewed by Vincent Tomasso.

  • 2008.09.59:  Marilyn B. Skinner, A Companion to Catullus. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. xxvi, 590. $149.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-3533-7.
    Reviewed by Susanna Braund.

  • 2008.09.60:  Antonio La Penna, L'impossibile giustificazione della storia. Un'interpretazione di Virgilio. Roma/Bari: 2005. Pp. xii, 580. €40.00. ISBN 978-88-420-7639-2.
    Niklas Holzberg, Virgilio. (Der Dichter und sein Werk, 2006. Edizione italiana a cura di Camillo Neri). Le vie della civiltà. Bologna: 2008. Pp. 310. €21.00. ISBN 978-88-15-12039-7.
    Reviewed by Giampiero Scafoglio.

  • 2008.09.61:  Mary Jaeger, Archimedes and the Roman Imagination. Ann Arbor: 2008. Pp. xiv, 230. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-472-11630-0.
    Reviewed by Serafina Cuomo.

  • 2008.09.62:  Kaveh Farrokh, Shadows in the Desert. Ancient Persia at War. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 320. $29.95; £14.99. ISBN 9781846031083.
    Reviewed by Jona Lendering.

  • 2008.09.63:  Reviel Netz, William Noel, Der Kodex des Archimedes. Das Berühmteste Palimpsest der Welt wird entschlüsselt. München: 2007. Pp. 303. €20.50. ISBN 978-3-406-56336-2.
    Reviewed by Eugene Afonasin.

  • 2008.09.64:  Tankred Howe, Vandalen, Barbaren und Arianer bei Victor von Vita. Studien zur alten Geschichte, Bd 7. Frankfurt: 2007. Pp. 411. €57.90. ISBN 9783938032176.
    Reviewed by B. N. Wolfe.

  • 2008.09.65:  Werner Suerbaum, Handbuch der illustrierten Vergil-Ausgaben 1502-1840: Geschichte, Typologie, Zyklen und kommentierter Katalog der Holzschnitte und Kupferstiche zur Aeneis in Alten Drucken; mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Bestände der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München und ihrer Digitalisate von Bildern zu Werken des P. Vergilius Maro. Bibliographien zur klassischen Philologie, Bd. 3. Hildesheim/New York: 2008. Pp. 684; 2 DVDs. €89.00. ISBN 9783487135908.
    Reviewed by Patricia A. Johnston.

  • 2008.09.66:  Franz Cumont, Les Religions orientales dans le paganisme romain. Bibliotheca Cumontiana. Scripta Maiora, 1. volume édité par Corinne Bonnet e Françoise Van Haeperen avec la collaboration de Bastien Toune. Torino: 2006. Pp. lxxv, 403. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-8419-289-9.
    Reviewed by Chiara O. Tommasi Moreschini.

  • 2008.09.67:  Gregory Hutchinson, Propertius Elegies Book IV. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 258. $32.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-52561-9.
    Reviewed by Frédéric Nau.

  • 2008.10.01:  BMCR Books Received (September, 2008).


  • 2008.10.02:  Niklas Holzberg, Ovids Metamorphosen. C.H. Beck Wissen. München: 2007. Pp. 128. €7.90 (pb). ISBN 978-3-406-53621-2.
    Reviewed by John Jacobs.

  • 2008.10.03:  Maddalena Bonelli, Timée le Sophiste: Lexique platonicien. Avec une introduction de Jonathan Barnes. Philosophia Antiqua 108. Leiden/Boston: 2007. Pp. xiii, 668. $209.00. ISBN 9789004158870.
    Reviewed by Joanna Komorowska.

  • 2008.10.04:  Kate Cooper, The Fall of the Roman Household. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xvi, 319. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-88460-0.
    Reviewed by Matthew J. Perry.

  • 2008.10.05:  Rossella Gigli, MEGALAI NESOI. Studi dedicati a Giovanni Rizza per il suo ottantesimo compleanno. 2 vols. Studi e Materiali di Archeologia Mediterranea, 2 and 3. Catania: 2005. Pp. 327; 394; figs. passim. €280.00. ISBN 88-89375-01-9.
    Reviewed by Paolo Daniele Scirpo.

  • 2008.10.06:  Claire-Françoise de Roguin, "... et recouvre d'une montagne leur cité!" La fin du monde des héros dans les épopées homériques. Hypomnemata, 169. Göttingen: 2007. Pp. 295. €78.90. ISBN 978-3-525-25280-2.
    Reviewed by C. Michael Sampson.

  • 2008.10.07:  David Raeburn, Sophocles: Electra and Other Plays. Penguin Classics. London: 2008. Pp. xlvi, 309. $12.00 (pb). ISBN 9780140449785.
    Reviewed by P. J. Finglass.

  • 2008.10.08:  David Wills, The Mirror of Antiquity: 20th Century British Travellers in Greece. Newcastle: 2007. Pp. xii, 162. £29.99. ISBN 1-84718-267-4.
    Reviewed by Peter Green.

  • 2008.10.09:  Julie K. Ward, Aristotle on Homonymy: Dialectic and Science. Cambridge: 2008. Pp. x, 220. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87486-1.
    Reviewed by Octavian Gabor.

  • 2008.10.10:  Hector D'Agostino, Onomacriti testimonia et fragmenta. Quaderni, 10. Pisa/Roma: 2007. Pp. liii, 113. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-8147-461-5.
    Reviewed by Federico Condello.

  • 2008.10.11:  Graham Ley, The Theatricality of Greek Tragedy: Playing Space and Chorus. Chicago: 2007. Pp. 240; halftones 5, line drawings 14. $40.00. ISBN 978-0-226-47757-2.
    Reviewed by Mary-Kay Gamel.

  • 2008.10.12:  L.P.E. Parker, Euripides. Alcestis. Edited with Introduction and Commentary. Oxford: 2007. Pp. lxxxvii, 307. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-19-925467-5.
    Reviewed by Peter Riemer.

  • 2008.10.13:  Victoria Jennings, Andrea Katsaros, The World of Ion of Chios. Mnemosyne Supplementa, 288. Monographs on Greek and Roman Language and Literature. Leiden: 2007. Pp. xiv, 449. $139.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16045-3.
    Reviewed by Hakan Tell.

  • 2008.10.14:  Mario Lentano, La prova del sangue. Storie di identità e storie di legittimità nella cultura latina. Antropologia del mondo antico, 3. Bologna: 2007. Pp. 295. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-15-12109-7.
    Reviewed by Anastasios D. Nikolopoulos.

  • 2008.10.15:  Robert Kirstein, Junge Hirten und alte Fischer. Die Gedichte 27, 20 und 21 des Corpus Theocriteum. Texte und Kommentare, 29. Berlin: 2007. Pp. 247. €63.55. ISBN 978-3-11-019224-7.
    Reviewed by Hans Bernsdorff.

  • 2008.10.16:  Alberto Bernabé Pajares, Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal, Instructions for the Netherworld: The Orphic Gold Tablets. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, v. 162. Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. xii, 379. $188.00. ISBN 9789004163713.
    Reviewed by Radcliffe G. Edmonds III.

  • 2008.10.17:  Richard E. DeMaris, The New Testament in its Ritual World. London/New York: 2008. Pp. x, 143. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415438261.
    Reviewed by V. Henry T. Nguyen.

  • 2008.10.18:  Samuel C. Rickless, Plato's Forms in Transition. A Reading of the Parmenides. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. 272. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86456-5.
    Reviewed by Mauro Tulli.

  • 2008.10.19:  Efstratios Sarischoulis, Schicksal, Götter und Handlungsfreiheit in den Epen Homers. Palingenesia, Bd. 92. Stuttgart: 2008. Pp. 312. €64.00. ISBN 9783515091688.
    Reviewed by Reyes Bertolín Cebrián.

  • 2008.10.20:  Adalberto Giovannini, Les relations entre États dans la Grèce antique. Du temps d'Homère à l'intervention romaine (ca. 700-200 av. J.-C.). Historia Einzelschriften, 193. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 445. €74.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-515-08953-1.
    Reviewed by Sven Günther.

  • 2008.10.21:  Margaret M. Miles, Art as Plunder: The Ancient Origins of Debate about Cultural Property. New York: 2008. Pp. xiii, 426. $90.00. ISBN 9780521872805.
    Reviewed by Silke Knippschild.

  • 2008.10.22:  Jacques Jouanna, Sophocle. Paris: 2007. Pp. 906. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-213-60384-1.
    Reviewed by Brigitte Le Guen.

  • 2008.10.23:  Vered Lev Kenaan, Pandora's Senses. The Feminine Character of the Ancient Text. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison, WI: 2008. Pp. xii, 253. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-299-22410-3.
    Reviewed by Jimena Palacios.

  • 2008.10.24:  N.J. Sewell-Rutter, Guilt by Descent. Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Greek Tragedy. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford/New York: 2007. Pp. xiii, 202. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-19-922733-4.
    Reviewed by Enrico Medda.

  • 2008.10.25:  Lukas de Blois, Elio Lo Cascio, The Impact of the Roman Army (200 BC-AD 476): Economic, Social, Political, Religious and Cultural Aspects. Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 200 B.C.-A. D. 476), Capri, March 29-April 2, 2005. Leiden/Boston: 2007. Pp. xxii, 594. €139.00; $195.00. ISBN 9789004160446.
    Reviewed by Maurizio Buora.

  • 2008.10.26:  Ann Suter, Lament: Studies in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. x, 288. £41.00; $74.00. ISBN 978-0-19-533692-4.
    Reviewed by Maureen Alden.

  • 2008.10.27:  Rainer Friedrich, Formular Economy in Homer. The Poetics of the Breaches. Hermes Einzelschriften, 100. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 159. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-515-09065-0.
    Reviewed by Deborah Beck.

  • 2008.10.28:  Roberto Pretagostini, Ricerche sulla poesia alessandrina II. Forme allusive e contenuti nuovi. Quaderni dei seminari romani di cultura greca, 11. Roma: 2007. Pp. xii, 236. €31.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7140-352-5.
    Reviewed by Jan Kwapisz.

  • 2008.10.29:  Tommaso Gnoli, Federicomaria Muccioli, Atti del convegno di studi. Incontri tra culture nell'oriente ellenistico e romano, Ravenna 11-12 marzo 2005. Milano: 2007. Pp. 261. €22.00. ISBN 9788884836182.
    Reviewed by Annalisa Calapà.

  • 2008.10.30:  Franco Bellandi, Lepos e pathos. Studi su Catullo. Testi e manuali per l'insegnamento universitario del latino 101.. Bologna: 2007. Pp. 502. €36.00. ISBN 9788855529730.
    Reviewed by Julia Gaisser.

  • 2008.10.31:  Wilfried Nippel, Antike oder moderne Freiheit? Die Begründung der Demokratie in Athen und in der Neuzeit. Europäische Geschichte. Frankfurt am Main: 2007. Pp. 456. €11.95. ISBN 9783596601042.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Straumann.

  • 2008.10.32:  John W. I. Lee, A Greek army on the march: soldiers and survival in Xenophon's Anabasis. Cambridge; New York: 2007. Pp. xii, 323. $99.00. ISBN 9780521870689.
    Reviewed by Vivienne Gray.

  • 2008.10.33:  Sophia Papaioannou, Redesigning Achilles: 'Recycling' the Epic Cycle in the 'Little Iliad': (Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.1-13.622). Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Bd. 89. Berlin/New York: 2007. Pp. xii, 304. $118.00. ISBN 9783110200485.
    Reviewed by Ioannis Ziogas.

  • 2008.10.34:  Rhiannon Ash, Tacitus: Histories Book II. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. ix, 415. $39.99. ISBN 9780521891356.
    Reviewed by Rebecca Edwards.

  • 2008.10.35:  Anastasia Serghidou, Fear of Slaves - Fear of Enslavement in the Ancient Mediterranean. Peur de l'esclave - Peur de l'esclavage en Mediterranee ancienne (Discours, représentations, pratiques). Actes di XXIXe Colloque du Groupe International de Recherche sur l'Esclavage dans l'Antiquité (GIREA). Rethymnon 4-7 November 2004. Franche-Comté: 2007. Pp. 453. €33.00. ISBN 978-2-84867-169-7.
    Reviewed by TammyJo Eckhart.

  • 2008.10.36:  Michèle Biraud, Dominique Voisin, Arnaud Zucker , Parthénios de Nicée. Passions d'amour. Grenoble: 2008. Pp. 314. €26.00. ISBN 9783596601042.
    Reviewed by Simone Viarre.

  • 2008.10.37:  Apostolos L. Pierris, The Empedoclean Kosmos: Structure, Process and the Question of Cyclicity. Proceedings of the Symposium Philosophiae Antiquae Tertium Myconense July 6th - July 13th, 2003. Part 1: Papers. Patras: 2005. Pp. 425, xcvi (App.). €100.00. ISBN 960-88183-1-1.
    Reviewed by Jenny Bryan.

  • 2008.10.38:  Sylvain Delcomminette, Le Philèbe de Platon: introduction à l'agathologie platonicienne. Philosophia Antiqua, 100. Leiden/Boston: 2006. Pp. xvi, 680. €163.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15026-3.
    Reviewed by Joachim Aufderheide.

  • 2008.10.39:  Jason König, Tim Whitmarsh, Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. xiii, 304. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521859-69-1.
    Reviewed by Daniel Harris-McCoy.

  • 2008.10.40:  Thomas A. J. McGinn, Widows and Patriarchy: Ancient and Modern. London: 2008. Pp. vii, 230. $50.00. ISBN 9780715637432.
    Reviewed by John Henderson.

  • 2008.11.01:  Books Received (October, 2008).


  • 2008.11.02:  Polignac on Budin on Pironti.
    Response by François de Polignac.

  • 2008.11.03:  Balbo on Ferri on Balbo.
    Response by Andrea Balbo.

  • 2008.11.04:  Laura Micozzi , Il catalogo degli eroi. Saggio di commento a Stazio Tebaide 4, 1-344. Testi e commenti, 4. Pisa: 2007. Pp. xii, 317. €30.00. ISBN 978-88-7642-217-1.
    Reviewed by Stephen Harrison.

  • 2008.11.05:  S. C. Todd, A Commentary on Lysias, Speeches 1-11. Oxford: 2007. Pp. ix, 783. $299. ISBN 9780198149095.
    Reviewed by Matthew R. Christ.

  • 2008.11.06:  Greg Woolf, Et Tu, Brute? A Short History of Political Murder. Cambridge, MA: 2007. Pp. xx, 199, ills. 24. $19.95.
    Reviewed by Eleanor Cowan.

  • 2008.11.07:  Paul Erdkamp, A Companion to the Roman Army. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. xxvi, 574; ills. 24. $174.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-2153-8.
    Reviewed by Duncan B. Campbell.

  • 2008.11.08:  Henry Hurst, Sara Owen, Ancient Colonizations. Analogy, Similarity & Difference. London: 2005. Pp. 165. £16.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3298-1.
    Reviewed by Irad Malkin.

  • 2008.11.09:  Richard H. Wilkinson, Egyptology Today. Cambridge: 2008. Pp. xiv, 283. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-68226-8.
    Reviewed by L. R. Siddall.

  • 2008.11.10:  Tomasz Derda, Arsinoites Nomos. Administration of the Fayum under Roman Rule. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement, 7. Warsaw: 2006. Pp. xviii, 345; maps 4, tables 2. $79.00. ISBN 978-83-918250-6-8.
    Reviewed by Peter Fibiger Bang.

  • 2008.11.11:  Davide Del Bello, Forgotten Paths. Etymology and the Allegorical Mindset. Washington, DC: 2007. Pp. xvi, 187. $64.95. ISBN 978-0-8132-1484-9.
    Reviewed by Dunstan Lowe.

  • 2008.11.12:  Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, L'Historia. Commencements grecs. Collection Folio essais. Paris: 2007. Pp. 585. €10.30 (pb). ISBN 978-2-07-034869-5.
    Reviewed by Peter Van Nuffelen.

  • 2008.11.13:  Emanuele Papi, Supplying Rome and the Empire: the Proceedings of an International Seminar Held at Siena-Certosa di Pontignano on May 2-4, 2004, on Rome, the Provinces, Production and Distribution. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary series no. 69. Portsmouth, R.I.: 2007. Pp. 227. $69.00. ISBN 9781887829694.
    Reviewed by Edward Luttwak.

  • 2008.11.14:  David Fearn, Bacchylides. Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xii, 428; figs. 6. $140.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921550-8.
    Reviewed by Giambattista D'Alessio.

  • 2008.11.15:  Darejan Kacharava, Guram Kvirkvelia, Jennifer Chi, Wine, Worship, and Sacrifice: the Golden Graves of Ancient Vani. Princeton: 2008. Pp. 215. $40.00. ISBN 9780691138565.
    Reviewed by Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi.

  • 2008.11.16:  Raymond Van Dam, The Roman Revolution of Constantine. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xii, 441; map 1. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-88209-5.
    Reviewed by Andrea Sterk.

  • 2008.11.17:  Jörg Rüpke, Religion of the Romans. (Translation of 2001 edition by Richard Gordon). Cambridge, UK/Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. 368. $26.95 (pb). ISBN 9780745630151.
    Reviewed by Jan Nelis.

  • 2008.11.18:  Kathryn Gutzwiller, A Guide to Hellenistic Literature. Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. xv, 261; figs. 11; maps 3. $84.95. ISBN 978-0-631-23321-3.
    Reviewed by Chad Matthew Schroeder.

  • 2008.11.19:  Charles Burnett, Nicholas Mann, Britannia Latina: Latin in the Culture of Great Britain from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Warburg Institute Colloquia 8. London/Turin: 2005. Pp. x, 230. £24.00. ISBN 0-85481-137-0.
    Reviewed by Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

  • 2008.11.20:  Theodore Scaltsas, Andrew S. Mason, The Philosophy of Epictetus. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 181. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-19-923307-6.
    Reviewed by Thornton Lockwood.

  • 2008.11.21:  Jean-François Pradeau, Études Platoniciennes IV. Les puissances de l'âme selon Platon. Paris: 2007. Pp. 464. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-44332-4.
    Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson.

  • 2008.11.22:  Greg Recco, Athens Victorious: Democracy in Plato's Republic. Lanham, MD: 2007. Pp. vii, 253. $75.00. ISBN 9780739123263.
    Reviewed by Jakub Jirsa.

  • 2008.11.23:  Hanna Boeke, The Value of Victory in Pindar's Odes. Gnomai, Cosmology and the Role of the Poet. Mnemosyne Supplementa, 285. Leiden/Boston: 2007. Pp. x, 227. $125.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15848-1.
    Reviewed by Maria G. Xanthou.

  • 2008.11.24:  Gerald A. Press, Plato. A Guide for the Perplexed. Guides for the Perplexed. London/New York: 2007. Pp. viii, 240. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8264-9176-3.
    Reviewed by S. A. Burgess.

  • 2008.11.25:  W.S. Hanson, K. Speller, P. A. Yeoman, J. Terry, Elginhaugh: A Flavian Fort and Its Annexe (2 vols.). Britannia Monograph Series, No. 23. London: 2007. Pp. xxxvii, xiii, 686. $116.00 (pb). ISBN 9780907764342.
    Reviewed by Philippe Charlier.

  • 2008.11.26:  Joel C. Relihan, Apuleius. The Golden Ass. Or, A Book of Changes. Indianapolis/Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xlv, 277; maps 4. $37.95. ISBN 978-0-87220-888-9.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2008.11.27:  Karl Christ, Der andere Stauffenberg: der Historiker und Dichter Alexander von Stauffenberg. München: 2008. Pp. 200. €22.90. ISBN 9783406569609.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2008.11.28:  Cinzia Bearzot, Franca Landucci, Giuseppe Zecchini, L'Onomasticon di Giulio Polluce. Tra lessicografia e antiquaria. Contributi di storia antica, 5. Milano: 2007. Pp. viii, 173. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-343-1496-8.
    Reviewed by Philip Rance.

  • 2008.11.29:  Domenico Cufalo, Scholia Graeca in Platonem. I: Scholia ad dialogos tetralogiarum I-VII continens. Pleiadi 5.1. Roma: 2007. Pp. cliii, 331. €66.00. ISBN 9788884983534.
    Reviewed by Stephanos Matthaios.

  • 2008.11.30:  Sabine Fourrier, Antoine Hermary, Amathonte VI. Le sanctuaire d'Aphrodite des origines au début d'époque impériale. Études Chypriotes XVII. Avec la collaboration de Philippe Columeau, Bettina Fischer-Genz, Marie-Dominique Nenna, Martin Schmid and des contributions de Michel Amandry, Marie-Françoise Billiot, Sandrine Marquié, Jean-Denis Vigne. Athens: 2006. Pp. 222; figs. 508. pls. 50; 1 plan. €100.00 (pb). ISBN 2-869958-220-X.
    Reviewed by Anja Ulbrich.

  • 2008.11.31:  Roger D. Woodard, The Ancient Languages of Europe. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xix, 261. $39.99 (pb). ISBN 97805216849.
    Reviewed by Zsolt Simon.

  • 2008.11.32:  Keith Yellin, Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership. Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia, S.C.: 2008. Pp. x, 191. $34.95. ISBN 9781570037351.
    Reviewed by Gregory S. Aldrete.

  • 2008.11.33:  Edith Hall, Amanda Wrigley, Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds, and Frogs. London: 2007. Pp. xx, 390. $89.50. ISBN 9781904350613.
    Reviewed by Lee T. Pearcy.

  • 2008.11.34:  Federico Biddau, Q. Terentii Scauri De orthographia. Bibliotheca Weidmanniana, 6, Pars. 5. Hildesheim: 2008. Pp. cxiv, 244. €58.00 (pb). ISBN 9783615003413.
    Reviewed by Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

  • 2008.12.01:  Books Received (November, 2008).


  • 2008.12.02:  Katherine Clarke, Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xii, 408. $150.00. ISBN 9780199291083.
    Reviewed by Andrea Primo.

  • 2008.12.03:  Pierre Briant, Francis Joannès, La transition entre l'empire achéménide et les royaumes hellénistiques. Persika, 9. Paris: 2006. Pp. 476. €75.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7018-0213-8.
    Reviewed by Paola Ceccarelli.

  • 2008.12.04:  Bernard Freydberg, Philosophy and Comedy: Aristophanes, Logos, and Eros. Bloomington: 2008. Pp. 235. $65.00. ISBN 9780253219701.
    Reviewed by James Brusuelas.

  • 2008.12.05:  Maurizio Migliori, Linda M. Napolitano Valditara, Davide Del Forno, Plato Ethicus: Philosophy is Life: Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Piacenza (Italy) 2003. Lecturae Platonis; v. 4. Sankt Augustin: 2004. Pp. 353. €49.50. ISBN 9783896653277.
    Reviewed by Gerald A. Press.

  • 2008.12.06:  D.M. Carter, The Politics of Greek Tragedy. Greece and Rome Live. Exeter: 2007. Pp. xii, 209. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-904675-16-7.
    Reviewed by Synnøve Des Bouvrie.

  • 2008.12.07:  Federico Santangelo, Sulla, the Elites and the Empire: A Study of Roman Policies in Italy and the Greek East. Impact of Empire 8. Leiden/Boston: 2007. Pp. xiv, 300. $139.00. ISBN 9789004163867.
    Reviewed by Gareth C. Sampson.

  • 2008.12.08:  Antonio Gonzales, La fin du statut servile? (affranchissement, libération, abolition) (2 vols.). Franche-Comté: 2008. Pp. x, 563. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 9782848672250.
    Reviewed by Deborah Kamen.

  • 2008.12.09:  Maurizio Bettini, Voci: Antropologia sonora del mondo antico. Saggi, 892. Torino: 2008. Pp. xiv, 304. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 9788806191320.
    Reviewed by Matthew Fox.

  • 2008.12.10:  Sauge on Van Nuffelen on Darbo-Peschanski.
    Response by André Sauge.

  • 2008.12.11:  An Asinine Supplement: O'Donnell on O'Donnell on J. Relihan, Apuleius. The Golden Ass.
    Response by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2008.12.12:  Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Greek Tragedy. Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Malden, MA: 2008. Pp. xii, 218. $74.95. ISBN 9781405121606.
    Reviewed by Jeremy B. Lefkowitz.

  • 2008.12.13:  Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception. Hellenic Studies 28. Washington, D.C.: 2007. Pp. xx, 442. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674026865.
    Reviewed by Gauthier Liberman.

  • 2008.12.14:  Franco Bellandi, Rolando Ferri, Aspetti della scuola nel mondo romano: atti del convegno (Pisa, 5-6 dicembre 2006). Supplementi di Lexis 51. Amsterdam: 2008. Pp. 345. €76.00 (pb). ISBN 9025612334.
    Reviewed by John Henderson.

  • 2008.12.15:  Lucia Pasetti, Plauto in Apuleio. Bologna: 2007. Pp. 227. €17.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-555-2910-5.
    Reviewed by Regine May.

  • 2008.12.16:  László Várady, Classical Political Thought at Work: Thucydides, Roman Convergence, Modern Challenges. Budapest: 2007. Pp. 87. $20.00. ISBN 9789630585354.
    Reviewed by Wolfgang Polleichtner.

  • 2008.12.17:  Martin Lindner, Rom und seine Kaiser im Historienfilm. Frankfurt am Main: 2007. Pp. 332. €49.90. ISBN 9783938032183.
    Reviewed by Kresimir Matijevic.

  • 2008.12.18:  Werner Riess, Paideia at Play: Learning and Wit in Apuleius. Ancient Narrative. Supplementum, 11. Groningen: 2008. Pp. xxi, 302. €85.00. ISBN 9789077922415.
    Reviewed by Lara Nicolini.

  • 2008.12.19:  Roberto Petriaggi, Archaeologia Maritima Mediterranea. An International Journal on Underwater Archaeology. Volume 5. Pisa and Rome: 2008. Pp. 214. Subscription: Italy: €145.00 (individuals); €395.00 (institutions with online edition); Abroad: €195.00 (individuals). ISBN ISSN: 1724-6091.
    Reviewed by John Peter Oleson.

  • 2008.12.20:  Michael C. Stokes, Dialectic in Action: An Examination of Plato's Crito. Swansea: 2005. Pp. 246. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-9543845-9-3.
    Reviewed by David Foster.

  • 2008.12.21:  Christian Laes, Johan Strubbe, Jeugd in het Romeinse Rijk: Jonge jaren, wilde haren?. Leuven: 2008. Pp. 238. €24.95 (pb). ISBN 978058265272.
    Reviewed by Beert C. Verstraete.

  • 2008.12.22:  Christopher Rowe, Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. ix, 290. $99.00. ISBN 9780521859325.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Meilaender.

  • 2008.12.23:  Olivier Hekster, Gerda de Kleijn, Daniëlle Slootjes, Crises and the Roman Empire: Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire, Nijmegen, June 20-24, 2006. Impact of Empire v. 7. Leiden/Boston: 2007. Pp. xiii, 448. $179.00. ISBN 9789004160507.
    Reviewed by Peter Fibiger Bang.

  • 2008.12.24:  Giovan Battista D'Alessio, Callimaco: Inni; Epigrammi; Ecale; Aitia; Giambi e altri frammenti, 4th edition, 2 vols. (Revised and enlarged edition). BUR Classici greci e latini 1104-1105. Milano: 2007. Pp. 789. €21.50 (pb). ISBN 9788817170710.
    Reviewed by K. Spanoudakis.

  • 2008.12.25:  Theodore Ziolkowski, Minos and the Moderns: Cretan Myth in Twentieth-century Literature and Art. Classical Presences. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xii, 173. $55.00. ISBN 9780195336917.
    Reviewed by Constanze Güthenke.

  • 2008.12.26:  Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: Una introduzione. Studia Erudita 8. Pisa/Roma: 2008. Pp. 206. €44.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862270144.
    Reviewed by Jean A. Straus.

  • 2008.12.27:  Volker Grieb, Hellenistische Demokratie: politische Organisation und Struktur in freien griechischen Poleis nach Alexander dem Grossen. Historia Einzelschriften 199. Stuttgart: 2008. Pp. 407. €77.00. ISBN 9783515090636.
    Reviewed by Sara Saba.

  • 2008.12.28:  Daryn Lehoux, Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World: Parapegmata and Related Texts in Classical and Near Eastern Societies. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. xiv, 566. $125.00. ISBN 9780521851817.
    Reviewed by Y. Tzvi Langermann.

  • 2008.12.29:  D. C. A. Hillman, The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization. New York: 2008. Pp. 243. $24.95.
    Reviewed by Philippe Charlier.

  • 2008.12.30:  Silvia Strassi, L'archivio di Claudius Tiberianus da Karanis. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete. Beiheft; 26. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. xlviii, 194. $205.00. ISBN 9783110201192.
    Reviewed by Livia Capponi.

  • 2008.12.31:  Gavin Kelly, Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xi, 378. $99.00. ISBN 9780521842990.
    Reviewed by Eric Fournier.

  • 2008.12.32:  Gernot Krapinger, [Quintilian] Der Gladiator (Grössere Deklamationen, 9). Collana Scientifica, 18. Cassino: 2007. Pp. 203. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 9788883170416.
    Reviewed by Stefanie A. H. Kennell.

  • 2008.12.33:  Enrico Dal Lago, Constantina Katsari, Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern. Cambridge: 2008. Pp. xiv, 375. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-88183-8.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Garstad.

  • 2008.12.34:  Maria Elisabetta Giannuzzi, Stratone di Sardi: Epigrammi. Satura, 7. Lecce: 2007. Pp. 478. €34.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882356408.
    Reviewed by Guillermo Galán Vioque.

  • 2008.12.35:  Alejandro Bancalari Molina, Orbe Romano e Imperio Global: La Romanización desde Augusto a Caracalla. Santiago: 2007. Pp. 331. $28.00. ISBN 9789561119741.
    Reviewed by Lorenzo Gagliardi.

  • 2008.12.36:  Marina McCoy, Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. viii, 212. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87863-0.
    Reviewed by Evan G. Rodriguez and Ravi Sharma.

  • 2008.12.37:  Ilaria Marchesi, The Art of Pliny's Letters: A Poetics of Allusion in the Private Correspondence. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xii, 278. $99.00. ISBN 9780521882279.
    Reviewed by Sandra Citroni Marchetti.

  • 2008.12.38:  Andreas Willi, Sikelismos. Sprache, Literatur und Gesellschaft im griechischen Sizilien (8.-5. Jh. v. Chr.). Biblioteca Helvetica Romana XXIX. Basel: 2008. Pp. xvii, 477. €47.50. ISBN 9783796522550.
    Reviewed by Susana Mimbrera Olarte.

  • 2008.12.39:  A. J. Boyle, Octavia: Attributed to Seneca. (With introduction, translation, and commentary). Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xc, 340. $130.00. ISBN 9780199287840.
    Reviewed by George W.M. Harrison.

  • 2008.12.40:  Elizabeth-Anne Scarth, Mnemotechnics and Virgil: The Art of Memory and Remembering. Saarbrücken: 2008. Pp. v, 109. $76.00 (pb). ISBN 9783836476669.
    Reviewed by Giampiero Scafoglio.

  • 2008.12.41:  David R. Slavitt, Lucretius. De rerum natura = The Nature of Things: A Poetic Translation. The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature. Berkeley: 2008. Pp. xiv, 301. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 9780520255937.
    Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono.

  • 2008.12.42:  C. W. Shelmerdine, Introduction to Greek. Second edition. Newburyport, MA: 2008. Pp. xiv, 317. $36.95 (pb). ISBN 9781585101849.
    C. A. E. Luschnig, An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach. Second edition, revised by C.A.E. Luschnig and Deborah Mitchell. Indianapolis: 2007. Pp. xviii, 374. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-87220-889-6.
    Reviewed by Kirsty Jenkins.
 
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