Reviews for 2009

  • 2009.01.01:  BMCR Books Received (December, 2008).


  • 2009.01.02:  Simon Swain, Stephen Harrison, Jas Elsner, Severan Culture. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. 569. $160.00. ISBN 9780521859820.
    Reviewed by Tom Hawkins.

  • 2009.01.03:  Jeremy M. Schott, Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity. Divinations. Philadelphia: 2008. Pp. 254. $59.95. ISBN 9780812240924.
    Reviewed by Heidi Marx-Wolf.

  • 2009.01.04:  Antonino Grillone, Blossi Aem. Draconti. Orestis Tragoedia. Introduzione, testo critico e commento. Invigilata Lucernis 33. Bari: 2008. Pp. 221. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788872285237.
    Reviewed by Georg Luck.

  • 2009.01.05:  Guido Avezzù, Paolo Scattolin, I classici greci e i loro commentatori. Dai papiri ai marginalia rinascimentali. Atti del convegno Rovereto, 20 ottobre 2006. Memorie, ser. II, vol. X. Rovereto: 2006. Pp. 246.
    Reviewed by Saulo Delle Donne.

  • 2009.01.06:  Pauliina Remes, Plotinus on Self: The Philosophy of the 'We'. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. ix, 287. $95.00. ISBN 9780521867290.
    Reviewed by Giannis Stamatellos.

  • 2009.01.07:  Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, The Route of Parmenides: revised and expanded edition; with a new introduction, three supplemental essays, and an essay by Gregory Vlastos (originally published 1970). Las Vegas: 2008. Pp. lix, 408. $42.00 (pb). ISBN 9781930972117.
    Reviewed by Marina N. Volf.

  • 2009.01.08:  Stratis Kyriakidis, Catalogues of Proper Names in Latin Epic Poetry. Lucretius - Virgil - Ovid. Pierides. Studies in Greek and Latin Literature. Newcastle: 2007. Pp. xix, 219. $69.99. ISBN 978-1-84718-146-6.
    Reviewed by Christopher Francese.

  • 2009.01.09:  Carlos Lévy, Les scepticismes. Que sais-je? 2829. Paris: 2008. Pp. 126. €8.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-13-056268-9.
    Reviewed by Diego E. Machuca.

  • 2009.01.10:  James Morwood, Virgil, A Poet in Augustan Rome. Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. v, 161. $26.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521689441.
    Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono.

  • 2009.01.11:  Kathleen Riley, The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. viii, 398. $130.00. ISBN 9780199534487.
    Reviewed by Viviana Gastaldi.

  • 2009.01.12:  John Warden, Taking Back the Text: Poetic Technique in Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus. Toronto: 2008. Pp. 111. $72.50 (Canadian). ISBN 9780888666567.
    Reviewed by Robert Maltby.

  • 2009.01.13:  Jan N. Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East. Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, v. 8. Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. xviii, 424. $148.00. ISBN 9789004164734.
    Reviewed by Barry B. Powell.

  • 2009.01.14:  M. Lagogianne-Georgakarakou, K. Bourazeles, Edoxen tei boulei kai toi demoi: H athenaike demokratia milaei me tis epigraphes tes. Athens: 2007. Pp. 151. ISBN 9789608986213.
    Reviewed by Marijana Ricl.

  • 2009.01.15:  Herbert Jordan, Homer, The Iliad. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture; v. 35. Norman: 2008. Pp. xxxii, 512. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806139746.
    Reviewed by Calum Maciver.

  • 2009.01.16:  Kostas Vlassopoulos, Unthinking the Greek Polis. Ancient Greek History Beyond Eurocentrism. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. xiv, 288. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87744-2.
    Reviewed by Angela Kühr.

  • 2009.01.17:  Waldemar Heckel, The Conquests of Alexander the Great. Key Conflicts of Classical Antiquity. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xxi, 218. $25.00. ISBN 9780521842471.
    Reviewed by Giuseppe Squillace.

  • 2009.01.18:  Pavlína N. Sípová, Alena Sarkissian, Staging of Classical Drama Around 2000. Newcastle, UK: 2007. Pp. 227. £34.99. ISBN 9781847183187.
    Reviewed by Timothy Dugan.

  • 2009.01.19:  David L. Stone, Lea M. Stirling, Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa. Toronto: 2007. Pp. xii, 249. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-8020-9083-6.
    Reviewed by Kathryn J. McDonnell.

  • 2009.01.20:  Timothy Howe, Pastoral Politics: Animals, Agriculture and Society in Ancient Greece. Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians 9. Claremont: 2008. Pp. x, 143. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9781930053540.
    Reviewed by Evrydiki Tasopoulou.

  • 2009.01.21:  John J. Dobbins, Pedar W. Foss, The World of Pompeii. New York: 2007. Pp. xli, 662; maps 4; figs. passim. $250.00. ISBN 978-0-415-17324-7.
    Reviewed by Carol C. Mattusch.

  • 2009.01.22:  Charles W. Dunmore, Rita M. Fleischer, Studies in Etymology (2nd edition). Newburyport, MA: 2008. Pp. ix, 236. $28.95 (pb). ISBN 9781585100125.
    Reviewed by B. N. Wolfe.

  • 2009.01.23:  Dugdale on Fratantuono on James Morwood, Virgil: A Poet in Augustan Rome.
    Response by Eric Dugdale.

  • 2009.01.24:  Vasiles A. Fyntikoglou, Virgiliou. Vougonia: To epullio tou Aristaiou (Georgikon IV 281-558). Vivliotheke Archaion Sungrapheon, 42. Athens: 2007. Pp. 388. ISBN 9789602691946.
    Reviewed by Sophia Papaioannou.

  • 2009.01.25:  Galit Noga-Banai, The Trophies of the Martyrs: An Art Historical Study of Early Christian Silver Reliquaries. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xvi, 186, ills. 52. $170.00. ISBN 9780199217748.
    Reviewed by Lucy Grig.

  • 2009.01.26:  Ahmed Etman, A Belle in the Prison of Socrates. Newcastle: 2008. Pp. xix, 100. £24.99. ISBN 9781847185273.
    Reviewed by Jo Heirman.

  • 2009.01.27:  Joseph Geiger, The First Hall of Fame: A Study of the Statues in the Forum Augustum. Mnemosyne Supplementa 295. Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. x, 225. $154.00. ISBN 9789004168695.
    Reviewed by Domitilla Campanile.

  • 2009.01.28:  Francisco Miguel del Rincón Sánchez, Trágicos menores del Siglo V A.C. (de Tespis a Neofrón): estudio filológico y literario. Tesis doctorales cum laude. Serie L (Literatura), 45. Madrid: 2007. Pp. 518. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788473926768.
    Reviewed by Miryam Librán Moreno.

  • 2009.01.29:  Jo Willmott, The Moods of Homeric Greek. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. xii, 264. $99.00. ISBN 9780521879880.
    Reviewed by D.M. Goldstein.

  • 2009.01.30:  Cynthia S. Colburn, Maura K. Heyn, Reading a Dynamic Canvas: Adornment in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Newcastle: 2008. Pp. x, 230. £34.99. ISBN 9781847184061.
    Reviewed by Liza Cleland.

  • 2009.01.31:  Cristina D'Ancona Costa, The Libraries of the Neoplatonists. Proceedings of the Meeting of the European Science Foundation Network "Late Antiquity and Arabic Thought: Patterns in the Constitution of European Culture", Strasbourg, March 12-14, 2004. Philosophia antiqua, v. 107. Leiden/Boston: 2007. Pp. xxxvi, 531. $199.00. ISBN 9789004156418.
    Reviewed by Christophe F. Erismann.

  • 2009.01.32:  Jeffrey Henderson, Aristophanes: Frogs. Translation with Introduction and Notes. Focus Classical Library. Newburyport, MA: 2008. Pp. 107. $9.95 (pb). ISBN 9781585103089.
    Reviewed by Erin K. Moodie.

  • 2009.01.33:  Tim Whitmarsh, Ancient Greek Literature. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. 284. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-74 56-2792-7.
    Reviewed by Yun Lee Too.

  • 2009.01.34:  Michalis A. Tiverios, Perikleische Panathenäen: Ein Krater des Malers von München 2335. Gutenberg: 2008. Pp. 154. €24.90 (pb). ISBN 9783940598004.
    Reviewed by Mary B. Moore.

  • 2009.01.35:  Carlo Scardino, Gestaltung und Funktion der Reden bei Herodot und Thukydides. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd. 250. Berlin: 2007. Pp. xi, 858. €148.00. ISBN 9783110195118.
    Reviewed by Edith Foster.

  • 2009.01.36:  Carsten Binder, Plutarchs Vita des Artaxerxes: Ein historischer Kommentar. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft. Beihefte N.F. 1. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. xii, 417; CD-ROM. $157.00. ISBN 9783110202694.
    Reviewed by M. Weiskopf.

  • 2009.01.37:  Jacob Bernays, Geschichte der Klassischen Philologie. Vorlesungsnachschrift von Robert Münzel. Spudasmata Bd. 120. Hildesheim/New York: 2008. Pp. 198. €29.80 (pb). ISBN 9783487136974.
    Reviewed by Jochen Lückoff.

  • 2009.01.38:  Michele George, The Roman Family in the Empire. Rome, Italy, and Beyond. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 384. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-926841-X.
    Reviewed by Aglaia McClintock.

  • 2009.01.39:  Jaime Alvar, Romanising Oriental Gods. Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras. Translated and edited by Richard Gordon. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 165. Leiden: 2008. Pp. xx, 486. €152.00 / $225.00 (hb). ISBN 9789004132931.
    Reviewed by Laurent Bricault.

  • 2009.01.40:  Louis Robert, Choix d'écrits. Édité par Denis Rousset avec la collaboration de Philippe Gauthier et Ivana Savalli-Lestrade. Paris: 2007. Pp. 799; figs. 77. €85.00. ISBN 978-2-251-38083-4.
    Reviewed by Thomas Corsten.

  • 2009.01.41:  Marcelle Robinson, Schliemann's Silent Partner, Frank Calvert (1828-1908). Pioneer, Scholar and Survivor. Philadelphia: 2006. Pp. 700; maps 3. $35.09. ISBN 978-1-4134-2916-9 .
    Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk.

  • 2009.01.42:  Pepa Castillo, Silke Knippschild, Marta García Morcillo, Carmen Herreros, Congreso Internacional: Imagines: La Antigüedad en las Artes Escénicas y Visuales / International Conference: Imagines: The reception of antiquity in performing and visual arts. Logroño 22-24 de Octobre de 2007. Logroño: 2008. Pp. 800; ill. 203. ISBN 9788496487321.
    Reviewed by Claudio Franzoni.

  • 2009.01.43:  P. Gregory Warden, From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany. Dallas: 2009. Pp. 357, ills. $45.00. ISBN 978-1-60702-755-3.
    Reviewed by Jenifer Neils.

  • 2009.01.44:  Matthew Hartnett, By Roman Hands: Inscriptions and Graffiti for Students of Latin. Newburyport, MA: 2008. Pp. xvii, 110. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 9781585102945.
    Reviewed by Roger Wright.

  • 2009.01.45:  John Henderson, The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville. Truth from Words. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xi, 232. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86740-5.
    Reviewed by Marco Formisano.

  • 2009.02.01:  BMCR Books Received (January, 2009).


  • 2009.02.02:  Collaborative Response to Lendering on Kaveh Farrokh, Shadows in the Desert. Ancient Persia at War.
    Response by Valeri Vashakidze.

  • 2009.02.03:  Samantha Schad, A Lexicon of Latin Grammatical Terminology. Studia Erudita, 6. Pisa/Rome: 2007. Pp. xxiv, 453; tbls 5. €150.00. ISBN 978-88-6227-003-8.
    Reviewed by Pierre Swiggers.

  • 2009.02.04:  Robert Mayhew, Plato: Laws 10. Clarendon Plato Series. Oxford: 2008. Pp. vi, 238. $70.00. ISBN 9780199225965.
    Reviewed by Lewis Trelawny-Cassity.

  • 2009.02.05:  David J. Breeze, Edge of Empire: Rome's Scottish Frontier, the Antonine Wall. Edinburgh: 2008. Pp. 128. £14.99 (pb). ISBN 9781841587370.
    Reviewed by Brad Eden.

  • 2009.02.06:  Antonina Kalinina, Der Horazkommentar des Pomponius Porphyrio: Untersuchungen zu seiner Terminologie und Textgeschichte. Palingenesia, Bd. 91. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 154. €38.00. ISBN 9783515091022.
    Reviewed by James Zetzel.

  • 2009.02.07:  Geoffrey D. Dunn, Tertullian's Aduersus Iudaeos: A Rhetorical Analysis. Patristic Monograph Series 19. Washington, D.C.: 2008. Pp. xiv, 210. $39.95. ISBN 9780813215266.
    Reviewed by Stéphanie Binder.

  • 2009.02.08:  Susan Deacy, Athena. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World. London/New York: 2008. Pp. xviii, 175; figs. 19. $28.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415300667.
    Daniel Ogden, Perseus. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World. London/New York: 2008. Pp. xxiv, 194; figs. 9. $28.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415427258.
    Reviewed by Jenifer Neils.

  • 2009.02.09:  Ann Terry, Henry Maguire, Dynamic Splendor. The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Eufrasius at Porec. University Park: 2007. Pp. 416; ills. 301. $95.00. ISBN 978-0-271-02873-6.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Anderson.

  • 2009.02.10:  Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xiv, 209. $99.00. ISBN 9780521873451.
    Reviewed by Aaron Kachuck.

  • 2009.02.11:  Delphina Fabbrini, Il migliore dei mondi possibili: Gli epigrammi ecfrastici di Marziale per amici e protettori. Studi e testi, 26. Firenze: 2007. Pp. xxii, 301. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 8889051124.
    Reviewed by Évelyne Prioux.

  • 2009.02.12:  John Ray, The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt. Wonders of the World. Cambridge, MA: 2007. Pp. 199. $19.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02493-9.
    Reviewed by Marc Pierce.

  • 2009.02.13:  Arthur M. Eckstein, Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC. Malden, MA/Oxford: 2008. Pp. xii, 444. $119.95; £60.00. ISBN 9781405160728.
    Reviewed by André Heller.

  • 2009.02.14:  Kim Bowes, Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xvi, 363. $95.00. ISBN 9780521885935.
    Reviewed by Carlos Machado.

  • 2009.02.15:  J. C. Yardley, Tacitus. The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero. Oxford World's Classics. With introduction and notes by Anthony A. Barrett. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xxxv, 546. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 9780192824219.
    Reviewed by John Aveline.

  • 2009.02.16:  Ilaria Ramelli, David Konstan, Terms for Eternity: aiônios and aïdios in Classical and Christian Texts. Piscataway, NJ: 2007. Pp. viii, 257. $103.00. ISBN 9781593336943.
    Reviewed by B. N. Wolfe.

  • 2009.02.17:  Luigi Ferreri, La questione omerica dal cinquecento al settecento. Pleiadi 10. Roma: 2007. Pp. xii, 372. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 9788884984609.
    Reviewed by Bruce Heiden.

  • 2009.02.18:  Iris Tzachili, Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age: Proceedings of an International Symposium Held at the University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece, on November 19-21, 2004. Athens: 2008. Pp. 345. ISBN 9789609826105.
    Reviewed by Nicholas G. Blackwell.

  • 2009.02.19:  Zainab Bahrani, Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia. New York/Cambridge: 2008. Pp. 276. $32.95. ISBN 9781890951849.
    Reviewed by Corinne Bonnet.

  • 2009.02.20:  Steffen Diefenbach, Römische Erinnerungsräume: Heiligenmemoria und kollektive Identitäten im Rom des 3. bis 5. Jahrhunderts n. Chr., Millennium-Studien, Bd. 11. Berlin: 2007. Pp. xi, 635. €88.00. ISBN 9783110191295.
    Reviewed by Stefano Magnani.

  • 2009.02.21:  Marco Traverso, Esercito romano e società italica in età imperiale. Serta antiqua et mediaevalia; 10. Roma: 2006. Pp. viii, 325. €100.00 (pb). ISBN 8876892125.
    Reviewed by Maurizio Buora.

  • 2009.02.22:  Gabriella Vanotti, Aristotele. Racconti meravigliosi. Introduzione, traduzione, note e apparati. Testi a fronte, 104. Milano: 2007. Pp. 235. €10.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-452-5843-5.
    Reviewed by Laura Gibbs.

  • 2009.02.23:  Edwin Carawan, Oxford Readings in the Attic Orators. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford/New York: 2007. Pp. xxiv, 450. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 9780199279937.
    Reviewed by Jeremy Trevett.

  • 2009.02.24:  Maria Pretzler, Pausanias: Travel Writing in Ancient Greece. Classical Literature and Society. London: 2007. Pp. xiii, 225. $18.00 (pb). ISBN 9780715634967.
    Reviewed by William Hutton.

  • 2009.02.25:  Michael B. Cosmopoulos, Experiencing War: Trauma and Society from Ancient Greece to the Iraq War. Chicago: 2007. Pp. v, 288. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 0890056064978.
    Reviewed by Heather Sebo.

  • 2009.02.26:  Andrew Faulkner, The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite: Introduction, Text, and Commentary. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xv, 342. $130.00. ISBN 9780199238040.
    Reviewed by Laura Carrara.

  • 2009.02.27:  Dobrinka Chiekova, Cultes et vie religieuse des cites grecques du Pont gauche (VIIe- Ier siecles avant J.-C.). Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XXXVIII, Archäologie, v. 76. Bern: 2008. Pp. xv, 325. $84.95 (pb). ISBN 9783039114481.
    Reviewed by Federica Cordano.

  • 2009.02.28:  Peter Jones, Vote for Caesar: How the Ancient Greeks and Romans Solved the Problems of Today. London: 2008. Pp. viii, 264. £9.99. ISBN 9780752891408.
    Reviewed by John David Lewis.

  • 2009.02.29:  Friedrich on Beck on Rainer Friedrich, Formular Economy in Homer. The Poetics of the Breaches.
    Response by Rainer Friedrich.

  • 2009.02.30:  G. J. Oliver, War, Food, and Politics in Early Hellenistic Athens. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xxiii, 360; tables 4, maps 7, figs. 8. $140.00. ISBN 978-0-19-928350-7.
    Reviewed by Michael D. Dixon.

  • 2009.02.31:  Danielle van Mal-Maeder, La fiction des déclamations. Mnemosyne Supplementa 290. Leiden/Boston: 2007. Pp. ix, 193. $113.00. ISBN 9789004156722.
    Reviewed by Neil W. Bernstein.

  • 2009.02.32:  John Victor Luce, Christine Morris, Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, The Lure of Greece: Irish Involvement in Greek Culture, Literature, History and Politics. Dublin: 2007. Pp. xvi, 170. €29.00. ISBN 9780952823667.
    Reviewed by John Higgins.

  • 2009.02.33:  J. R. W. Prag, Sicilia Nutrix Plebis Romanae: Rhetoric, Law, and Taxation in Cicero's Verrines. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement 97. London: 2007. Pp. ix, 189. £28.00. ISBN 9781905670116.
    Reviewed by Ayelet Haimson Lushkov.

  • 2009.02.34:  Edward J. Watts, City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria (First paperback printing, originally published 2006). The Transformation of the Classical Heritage; 41. Berkeley/London: 2008. Pp. xii, 288. $27.50 (pb). ISBN 9780520258167.
    Reviewed by Jerker Blomqvist.

  • 2009.02.35:  Roger D. Woodard, The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xix, 251. $39.99. ISBN 9780521684972.
    Reviewed by Mark Weeden.

  • 2009.02.36:  Yardley on Aveline on J.C. Yardley and Anthony A. Barrett, Tacitus. The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero.
    Response by J.C. Yardley.

  • 2009.02.37:  Ousager on Stamatellos on Pauliina Remes, Plotinus on Self: The Philosophy of the 'We'.
    Response by Asger Ousager.

  • 2009.02.38:  Andrea Rodighiero, Una serata a Colono: fortuna del secondo Edipo. Kátoptron / Università degli studi di Verona, 1. Verona: 2007. Pp. xiii, 127. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788887082661.
    Reviewed by Cressida Ryan.

  • 2009.02.39:  Joan Booth, Cicero on the Attack. Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond. Swansea: 2007. Pp. xiv, 215. $69.50. ISBN 978-1-905125-19-7.
    Reviewed by Rita Degl'Innocenti Pierini.

  • 2009.02.40:  John Frederick Phillips, Order from Disorder: Proclus' Doctrine of Evil and Its Roots in Ancient Platonism. Ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Texts and Contexts v. 5. Leiden/Boston: 2007. Pp. ix, 280. $153.00. ISBN 9789004160187.
    Reviewed by Todd Krulak.

  • 2009.02.41:  Erik Eliasson, The Notion of That Which Depends on Us in Plotinus and Its Background. Philosophia Antiqua, v. 113. Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. xii, 253. $148.00. ISBN 9789004166141.
    Reviewed by Richard Dufour.

  • 2009.02.42:  T. Corey Brennan, T. Alan Broughton, Ryan C. Fowler, Andrew G. Scott, Kathleen J. Shea, Autobiography: 'A Scholar's Life' by T. R. S. Broughton (1900-1993). American Journal of Ancient History, n.s. vol. 5 2006 [2008]. Piscataway, N.J.: 2008. Pp. xvii, 310. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9781593338374.
    Reviewed by James E. G. Zetzel.

  • 2009.02.43:  Kenneth Lapatin, Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases: Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Connection with the Exhibition 'The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases', at the Getty Villa, June 15-17, 2006. Los Angeles: 2008. Pp. xii, 242. $75.00 (pb). ISBN 9780892369010.
    Reviewed by Sheramy D. Bundrick.

  • 2009.02.44:  Beryl Barr-Sharrar, The Derveni Krater: Masterpiece of Classical Greek Metalwork. Ancient Art and Architecture in Context, vol. 1. Princeton: 2008. Pp. xvi, 239; figs. 169, map 1, pls. 32. $75.00. ISBN 9780876619629.
    Reviewed by Alexis Q. Castor.

  • 2009.02.45:  Philip Sabin, Michael Whitby, Hans van Wees, The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare. Volume 1, Greece, The Hellenistic World and the Rise of Rome. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. xxx, 663. $240.00. ISBN 9780521782739.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig.

  • 2009.02.46:  David G. Hunter, Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity: The Jovinianist Controversy. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford/New York: 2007. Pp. xix, 316. $99.00. ISBN 9780199279784.
    Reviewed by Shawn W.J. Keough.

  • 2009.02.47:  Ernst Heitsch, Geschichte und Personen bei Thukydides: eine Interpretation des achten Buches. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd. 248. Berlin/New York: 2007. Pp. x, 180. $93.00. ISBN 9783110201291.
    Reviewed by Gauthier Liberman.

  • 2009.02.48:  Thomas Gärtner, Untersuchungen zur Gestaltung und zum historischen Stoff der Johannis Coripps. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Bd. 90. Berlin: 2008. Pp. 136. $86.00. ISBN 9783110201079.
    Reviewed by Silvio Bär.

  • 2009.02.49:  Emmanuel Bermon, La signification et l'enseignement: Texte latin, traduction française et commentaire du de magistro de saint Augustin. Textes et traditions, 15. Paris: 2007. Pp. 610. €55.00 (pb). ISBN 9782711619511.
    Reviewed by Vincent Hunink.

  • 2009.02.50:  Roger Wright, Latin vulgaire--latin tardif VIII: actes du VIIIe Colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif, Oxford, 6-9 septembre 2006. Hildesheim/New York: 2008. Pp. xiii, 623. €98.00 (pb). ISBN 9783487135328.
    Reviewed by Rolando Ferri.

  • 2009.02.51:  Ramelli and Konstan on Wolfe on Ilaria Ramelli, David Konstan, Terms for Eternity: aiônios and aïdios in Classical and Christian Texts.
    Response by Ilaria L.E. Ramelli and David Konstan.

  • 2009.02.52:  Sabine Fourrier, La coroplastie chypriote archaïque: Identités culturelles et politiques à l'époque des royaumes (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, n° 46). Lyon: 2007. Pp. 196, pl. XXIII. ISBN 978-2-903264-66-6.
    Reviewed by Thierry Petit.

  • 2009.02.53:  Mario Capasso, Francesco Magistrale, Scripta. An International Journal of Codicology and Palaeography. Volume 1 (2008). Pisa/Roma: 2008. Pp. 173. Subscription: Italy: €60.00 (individuals); €90.00 (institutions, with online edition); Abroad: €90.00 (individuals); €120.00 (institutions, with online edition); €140.00 (single issue). ISBN 1971-9027.
    Reviewed by Stefano Valente.

  • 2009.03.01:  BMCR Books Received (February, 2009).


  • 2009.03.02:  William Allan, Euripides: Helen. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xiii, 371. $38.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521545419.
    Reviewed by Brian V. Lush.

  • 2009.03.03:  Ivan Garofalo, Galenos: Rivista di filologia dei testi medici antichi 1 - 2007. Pisa/Roma: 2007. Pp. 233 (pb). ISBN 1973-5049.
    Reviewed by Antoine Pietrobelli.

  • 2009.03.04:  Stefan Pfeiffer, Ägypten unter fremden Herrschern zwischen persischer Satrapie und römischer Provinz. Oikumene Studien zur antiken Weltgeschichte, Bd. 3. Frankfurt am Main: 2007. Pp. 224; 16 pl. €49.90. ISBN 9783938032138.
    Reviewed by Jan Moje.

  • 2009.03.05:  Luke Lavan, Ellen Swift, Toon Putzeys, Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity. Late Antique Archaeology, v. 5. Leiden/Boston: 2007. Pp. viii, 741. $204.00. ISBN 9789004165502.
    Reviewed by Stefanie Hoss.

  • 2009.03.06:  Francesca Prescendi, Décrire et comprendre le sacrifice. Les réflexions des Romains sur leur propre religion à partir de la littérature antiquaire. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge (PAwB), 19. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 284. €59.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-515-08888-6.
    Reviewed by Christopher Smith.

  • 2009.03.07:  Mladen Popovic, Reading the Human Body. Physiognomics and Astrology in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hellenistic-Early Roman Period Judaism. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah vol. 67. Leiden/Boston: 2007. Pp. xx, 346. €104.00; US $155.00. ISBN 9789004157170.
    Reviewed by Joanna Komorowska.

  • 2009.03.08:  Catherine Abadie-Reynal, La céramique romaine d'Argos (fin du IIe s. av. J.-C.-fin du IVe s. ap. J.-C.). Études péloponnésiennes, 13. Athens: 2007. Pp. 342; pls. 78. €110.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86958-200-5.
    Reviewed by Kathleen Warner Slane.

  • 2009.03.09:  Arthur J. Pomeroy, 'Then It Was Destroyed by the Volcano'. The Ancient World in Film and on Television. London: 2008. Pp. viii, 152. £14.99; $27.00 (pb). ISBN 9780715630266.
    Reviewed by Maarten De Pourcq.

  • 2009.03.10:  Christopher Stray, Gilbert Murray Reassessed. Hellenism, Theatre, and International Politics. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xii, 400. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-19-920879-1.
    Reviewed by Giuliana Scalera McClintock.

  • 2009.03.11:  Ragnar Hedlund, "...Achieved Nothing Worthy of Memory". Coinage and Authority in the Roman Empire c. AD 260-295. Studia Numismatica Upsaliensia 5. Uppsala: 2008. Pp. ix, 267. $89.50. ISBN 9789155471200.
    Reviewed by Clare Rowan.

  • 2009.03.12:  Paolo Poccetti, Les prénoms de l'Italie antique, Journée d'études, Lyon, 26 janvier 2004. Ricerche sull lingue di frammentaria attestaziona 5. Pisa/Roma: 2008. Pp. 150. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862270489.
    Reviewed by D. M. Goldstein.

  • 2009.03.13:  Robert H. F. Carver, The Protean Ass: The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xv, 545. $170.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921786-1.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Todd Lee.

  • 2009.03.14:  Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Greek Colonisation: An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas, Volume Two. Mnemosyne, Supplementa 193. Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. xviii, 566; 56 figs. $232.00. ISBN 9789004155763.
    Reviewed by Elias K. Petropoulos.

  • 2009.03.15:  F. J. Campos Daroca, F. J. García González, J. L. López Cruces, L. P. Romero Mariscal, Las personas de Eurípides. Classical and Byzantine Monographs, 65. Amsterdam: 2007. Pp. xxii, 347. €84.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-0638-5.
    Reviewed by Esther Paglialunga.

  • 2009.03.16:  Margaret Rachel Kitzinger, The Choruses of Sophokles' Antigone and Philoktetes: A Dance of Words. Mnemosyne Supplementa 292. Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. 146. $113.00. ISBN 9789004165144.
    Reviewed by Victor Bers.

  • 2009.03.17:  Theresa Urbainczyk, Slave Revolts in Antiquity. Berkeley/Los Angeles: 2008. Pp. xiii, 177. $19.95. ISBN 9780520257023.
    Reviewed by Teresa Ramsby.

  • 2009.03.18:  Gemma Donati, L'Orthographia di Giovanni Tortelli. Percorsi dei classici, 11. Messina: 2006. Pp. xix, 407; pls. 24. €60.00 (pb). ISBN 88-87541-31-0.
    Reviewed by Giancarlo Abbamonte.

  • 2009.03.19:  Marcelo D. Boeri, Apariencia y Realidad en el Pensamiento Griego. Investigaciones sobre Aspectos Epistemológicos, Éticos y de Teoría de la Acción en Algunas Teorías de la Antigüedad. Buenos Aires: 2007. Pp. xii, 376. $39.00 (pb). ISBN 978-950-563-404-0.
    Reviewed by Reyes Bertolín Cebrián.

  • 2009.03.20:  Michel Narcy, Alonso Tordesillas, Xénophon et Socrate. Actes du colloque d'Aix-en-Provence (6-9 novembre 2003). Bibliothèque d'histoire de la philosophie. Nouvelle série. Paris: 2008. Pp. 322. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 9782711619870.
    Reviewed by David M. Johnson.

  • 2009.03.21:  James Clackson, Geoffrey Horrocks, The Blackwell History of the Latin Language. Malden/Oxford/Victoria: 2007. Pp. viii, 324. $99.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-6209-8.
    Reviewed by Brent Vine.

  • 2009.03.22:  ALSO SEEN: J. T. Ramsey, Sallust's Bellum Catilinae. Second edition. New York/Oxford: 2007. Pp. 280. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9780195320855.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2009.03.23:  Nicholas Sekunda, Corolla Cosmo Rodewald. Monograph Series Akanthina 2. Gdansk: 2007. Pp. 192, pls. 4. $90.00. ISBN 978-83-7531-060-3.
    Reviewed by P. J. Rhodes.

  • 2009.03.24:  Gareth C. Sampson, The Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae, and the Invasion of the East. Barnsley: 2008. Pp. xvi, 224. £19.99. ISBN 9781844156764.
    Reviewed by Jason M. Schlude.

  • 2009.03.25:  François Hinard, Svllana varia: Aux sources de la première guerre civile romaine. De l'archéologie à l'histoire. Paris: 2008. Pp. 168. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 9782701802428.
    Reviewed by Federico Santangelo.

  • 2009.03.26:  Alexandra Lianeri, Vanda Zajko, Translation and the Classic: Identity as Change in the History of Culture. Classical Presences. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xii, 435. £70.00; $150.00. ISBN 9780199288076.
    Reviewed by Victoria Moul.

  • 2009.03.27:  Nikolaus Himmelmann, Grundlagen der griechischen Pflanzendarstellung. Paderborn: 2005. Pp. 108, ills. €28.90 (pb). ISBN 9783506728975.
    Reviewed by Madeleine Mertens-Horn.

  • 2009.03.28:  Cynthia S. Colburn, Maura K. Heyn, Reading a Dynamic Canvas: Adornment in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Newcastle: 2008. Pp. x, 230. £34.99. ISBN 9781847184061.
    Reviewed by Kelly Olson.

  • 2009.03.29:  P. A. Meijer, Stoic Theology: Proofs for the Existence of the Cosmic God and of the Traditional Gods: Including a Commentary on Cleanthes' Hymn on Zeus. Delft: 2007. Pp. xii, 256. $39.00 (pb). ISBN 9789059722026.
    Reviewed by Marcelo D. Boeri.

  • 2009.03.30:  Michel Fattal, Plotino, gli Gnostici e Agostino (Traduzione italiana di Amalia Riccardo). Skepsis 20. Napoli: 2008. Pp. 164. €14.00 (pb). ISBN 9788875642785.
    Reviewed by Cinzia Arruzza.

  • 2009.03.31:  Stephen L. Dyson, Robert J. Rowland, Jr., Archaeology and History in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. Shepherds, Sailors, and Conquerors. Philadelphia: 2008. Pp. viii, 240; maps 2, figs. 89. $49.95. ISBN 978-1-934536-02-5.
    Reviewed by Catherine M. Draycott.

  • 2009.03.32:  Haïdo Koukouli-Chyssanthaki, René Treuil, Laurent Lespez, Dimitra Malamidou, Dikili Tash, village préhistorique de Macédoine orientale. Recherches franco-helléniques dirigées par la Société archéologique d'Athènes et l'École française d'Athènes (1986-2001). Bibliothèque de la Société archéologique d'Athènes 254. Athènes: 2008. Pp. 416. €80.00 (pb). ISBN 9789608145689.
    Reviewed by John K. Papadopoulos.

  • 2009.03.33:  Yves Duhoux, Anna Morpurgo Davies, A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and Their World, Volume 1. Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de linguistique de Louvain. Antiquité 120. Louvain-la-Neuve/Dudley, MA: 2008. Pp. x, 448. €55.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042918481.
    Reviewed by Michael F. Lane.

  • 2009.03.34:  Markus Mülke, Der Autor und sein Text. Die Verfälschung des Originals im Urteil antiker Autoren. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte Bd. 93. Berlin/New York: 2007. Pp. 419. $157.00. ISBN 9783110202502.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2009.03.35:  Othmar Jaeggi, Die griechischen Porträts. Antike Repräsentation - Moderne Projektion. Berlin: 2008. Pp. 240. €39.00. ISBN 9783496013921.
    Reviewed by Eric M. Moormann.

  • 2009.03.36:  Luigi Battezzato, Linguistica e retorica della tragedia greca. Sussidi Eruditi 78. Roma: 2008. Pp. xvi, 184. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9788884985071.
    Reviewed by Martin Cropp.

  • 2009.03.37:  Anton Powell, Virgil the Partisan: A Study in the Re-Integration of Classics. Swansea: 2008. Pp. xi, 309. $69.50. ISBN 9781905125210.
    Reviewed by Román Facundo Espino.

  • 2009.03.38:  André Hurst, Lycophron, Alexandra. Collection des universités de France Série grecque. Paris: 2008. Pp. xciii, 334. €55.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005515.
    Reviewed by Gauthier Liberman.

  • 2009.03.39:  Olivier Hekster, Rome and Its Empire, AD 193-284. Debates and Documents in Ancient History. Edinburgh: 2008. Pp. xix, 183. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 9780748623044.
    Reviewed by Andrew G. Scott.

  • 2009.03.40:  Katharina Volk, Vergil's Eclogues. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. 293. $130.00/£65.00. ISBN 9780199202935.
    Reviewed by Timothy Saunders.

  • 2009.03.41:  A. Trofimova, Alexandr Velikiy: Put' na Vostok = Alexander the Great. The Road to the East. Exhibition Catalogue. The State Hermitage Museum. In Russian with English summary. St. Petersburg: 2007. Pp. 512; ills. passim. ISBN 5-93572-235-6.
    Reviewed by Rossitza B. Schroeder.

  • 2009.03.42:  Michael Wedde, Celebrations. Sanctuaries and the Vestiges of Cult Activity. Selected papers and discussions from the Tenth Anniversary Symposium of the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 12-16 May 1999. Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 6. Bergen: 2004. Pp. 303. $87.50. ISBN 82-91626-23-5.
    Reviewed by Naoise Mac Sweeney.

  • 2009.03.43:  Catherine Grandjean, Le Péloponnèse d'Epaminondas à Hadrien: Colloque de Tours, 6-7 octobre 2005. Études, 21. Pessac: 2008. Pp. 424. €35.00. ISBN 9782910023898.
    Reviewed by R. Malcolm Errington.

  • 2009.03.44:  Chiara Aceti, Daniela Leuzzi, Lara Pagani, Eroi nell'Iliade: personaggi e strutture narrative. Pleiadi 8. Roma: 2008. Pp. xiii, 496. €64.00 (pb). ISBN 9788884984982.
    Reviewed by Maria Serena Mirto.

  • 2009.03.45:  Franca Landucci Gattinoni, Diodoro Siculo: Biblioteca storica: libro XVIII: commento storico. Storia. Ricerche. Milano: 2008. Pp. liii, 345. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788834315781.
    Reviewed by Alexander Meeus.

  • 2009.03.46:  Philip Sabin, Hans van Wees, Michael Whitby, The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare. Vol. II: Rome from the Late Republic to the Late Empire. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. Vol. 1, xxx, 663 pp.; Vol. 2, xxi, 608 pp. $440.00. ISBN 9780521857796.
    Reviewed by Josh Levithan.

  • 2009.03.47:  Tim Whitmarsh, The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xv, 392. $36.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521684880.
    Reviewed by Yun Lee Too.

  • 2009.03.48:  Philip Matyszak, Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day. London: 2008. Pp. 136. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 9780500287651.
    Philip Matyszak, Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day. London: 2008. Pp. 144. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 9780500287606.
    Reviewed by John Bulwer.

  • 2009.03.49:  John G. Zumbrunnen, Silence and Democracy: Athenian Politics in Thucydides' History. University Park, Pa.: 2008. Pp. viii, 200. $45.00. ISBN 9780271033570.
    Reviewed by Giuseppe Squillace.

  • 2009.03.50:  Susan R. Holman, Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society. Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History. Grand Rapids, MI: 2008. Pp. 320. $32.99 (pb). ISBN 9780801035494.
    Reviewed by Silke Sitzler.

  • 2009.03.51:  Beate Dignas, Engelbert Winter, Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbours and Rivals. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. 347, figs. 18, maps 14. $34.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-61407-8.
    Reviewed by Alan Farahani.

  • 2009.03.52:  Maurizio Buora, Massimo Lavarone, Habitus. Identità e integrazione nel mondo antico attraverso lo studio delle fibule. Castello, Udine: 2007. Pp. 47, DVD (pb). ISBN 9788895752013.
    Maurizio Buora, Stefan Seidel, Fibule antiche del Friuli. Cataloghi e Monografie Archeologiche dei Musei Civici di Udine 9. Castello, Udine / Roma: 2008. Pp. 237, CD-ROM. €150.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882654641.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2009.03.53:  Katharina Volk, Vergil's Georgics. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford/ New York: 2008. Pp. 281. $49.95 (pb). ISBN 9780199542949.
    Reviewed by Randall Pogorzelski.

  • 2009.03.54:  Teresa Morgan, Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empire. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xiv, 380; ills. 5, table 1. $105.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87553-0.
    Reviewed by Cheryl L. Golden.

  • 2009.03.55:  David O. Ross, Virgil's Aeneid: A Reader's Guide. Malden, MA/Oxford: 2007. Pp. ix, 155. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9781405159739.
    Reviewed by Lisa Rengo George.

  • 2009.03.56:  W. Jeffrey Tatum, Always I Am Caesar. Malden, MA/Oxford: 2008. Pp. viii, 198. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-4051-7525-8.
    Reviewed by Ayelet Haimson Lushkov.

  • 2009.03.57:  Chiara Robbiano, Becoming Being: On Parmenides' Transformative Philosophy. International Pre-Platonic Studies; v. 5. Sankt Augustin: 2006. Pp. 240. €54.00. ISBN 9783896653833.
    Reviewed by Shaul Tor.

  • 2009.03.58:  Johannes Kramer, Vulgärlateinische Alltagsdokumente auf Papyri, Ostraka, Täfelchen und Inschriften. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete. Beiheft; 23. Berlin/New York: 2007. Pp. 182. $109.00. ISBN 9783110202243.
    Reviewed by Kalle Korhonen.

  • 2009.03.59:  Lucia Amalia Scatozza Höricht, Pithecusa: materiali votivi da Monte Vico e dall'area di Santa Restituta. Corpus delle stipi votive in Italia. XX. Regio I; 3. Roma: 2007. Pp. 116; xxviii p. of plates. €95.00 (pb). ISBN 9788876892257.
    Reviewed by Ingrid Edlund-Berry.

  • 2009.03.60:  Ruth Scodel, Anja Bettenworth, Whither Quo Vadis?: Sienkiewicz's Novel in Film and Television. Chichester/Malden, MA: 2008. Pp. x, 292. $100.00. ISBN 9781405183857.
    Reviewed by Simon Goldhill.

  • 2009.04.01:  BMCR Books Received (March, 2009).


  • 2009.04.02:  Carl Joachim Classen, Vorbilder - Werte - Normen in den homerischen Epen. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 260. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. x, 287. $137.00. ISBN 9783110202595.
    Reviewed by Wolfgang Polleichtner.

  • 2009.04.03:  John Claughton, Herodotus and the Persian Wars. Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. vii, 152. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521689434.
    Reviewed by Abram C. Ring.

  • 2009.04.04:  Robert B. Koehl, Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta. Philadephia: 2006. Pp. xxxiii, 423; pls. 61, ills. 17, tbs. 26, figs. 47. $120.00. ISBN 1-931534-16-0.
    Reviewed by Judith Weingarten.

  • 2009.04.05:  J. L. Marr, P. J. Rhodes, The 'Old Oligarch': The Constitution of the Athenians Attributed to Xenophon. Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Oxford: 2008. Pp. 178. $36.00 (pb). ISBN 9780856687815.
    Reviewed by Delfim F. Leâo.

  • 2009.04.06:  Editorial Note.
    Editorial note by Richard Hamilton, James J. O'Donnell, Camilla MacKay .

  • 2009.04.07:  William Tabbernee, Peter Lampe, Pepouza and Tymion: The Discovery and Archaeological Exploration of a Lost Ancient City and an Imperial Estate. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. xx, 338. $138.00. ISBN 9783110194555.
    Reviewed by Tommaso Gnoli.

  • 2009.04.08:  Response: Boeri on Reyes Bertolín Cebrián on Marcelo D. Boeri, Apariencia y Realidad en el Pensamiento Griego. Investigaciones sobre Aspectos Epistemológicos, Eticos y de Teoría de la Acción en Algunas Teorías de la Antigüedad.
    Response by Marcelo D. Boeri.

  • 2009.04.09:  Anika Nicolosi, Ipponate, epodi di Strasburgo - Archiloco, epodi di Colonia (con un'appendice su P. Oxy. LXIX 4708). Eikasmos, 14. Bologna: 2007. Pp. 396; pl. 1. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-555-2914-3.
    Reviewed by Ralph M. Rosen.

  • 2009.04.10:  Philip J. Smith, The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Hellenistic and Roman Megaris, Greece. BAR International Series; 1762. Oxford: 2008. Pp. xii, 276. £53.00 (pb). ISBN 9781407302126.
    Reviewed by Peter Liddel.

  • 2009.04.11:  Ruth Macrides, George Akropolites. The History. Translated with an Introduction and Commentary. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 440; tables 5, maps 2. $130.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921067-1.
    Reviewed by Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis.

  • 2009.04.12:  Daniele Malfitana, Jeroen Poblome, John Lund, Facta: A Journal of Roman Material Culture Studies, 1 -2007. Pisa/Roma: 2008. Pp. 182. Abonnement €40.00-80.00, numéro €95.00 (pb). ISBN 1971-9051.
    Reviewed by Xavier Deru.

  • 2009.04.13:  Gerald M. Mara, The Civic Conversations of Thucydides and Plato: Classical Political Philosophy and the Limits of Democracy. Albany: 2008. Pp. x, 327. $85.00. ISBN 9780791474990.
    Reviewed by Diego De Brasi.

  • 2009.04.14:  Antony Kamm, The Romans: An Introduction (2nd edition, first published 1995). London/New York: 2008. Pp. vii, 241. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415458252.
    Reviewed by Salvador Bartera.

  • 2009.04.15:  Luc Brisson, Marie-Hélène Congourdeau, Jean-Luc Solère, L'Embryon: formation et animation. Antiquité grecque et latine, traditions hèbraïque, chrétienne et islamique. Histoire des doctrines de l'Antiquité classique 38. Paris: 2008. Pp. 290. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 9782711619573.
    Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst.

  • 2009.04.16:  John Mouracade, Aristotle on Life. Kelowna, BC: 2008. Pp. x, 197. $28.95 (pb). ISBN 9780920980972.
    Reviewed by R. W. Sharples.

  • 2009.04.17:  Ed DeHoratius, An Ovid Reader. Newburyport, MA: 2009. Pp. vii, 253. $26.95 (pb). ISBN 9781585101498.
    Reviewed by John Bulwer.

  • 2009.04.18:  Francis Cairns, Papers on Roman Elegy: 1969-2003. Eikasmos. Studi; 16. Bologna: 2007. Pp. viii, 483. €35.00. ISBN 9788855529662.
    Reviewed by Donncha O'Rourke.

  • 2009.04.19:  William Fitzgerald, Emily Gowers, Ennius Perennis: The Annals and Beyond. Cambridge Classical Journal. Supplementary Volume, 31. Cambridge:Pp. xiii, 172. $90.00. ISBN 9780906014301.
    Reviewed by Sandro La Barbera.

  • 2009.04.20:  Victor I Stoichita, The Pygmalion Effect: From Ovid to Hitchcock. (Translated by Alison Anderson). The Louise Smith Bross Lectures. Chicago: 2008. Pp. viii, 252; 12 p. of plates. $45.00. ISBN 9780226775210.
    Reviewed by David Cast.

  • 2009.04.21:  Holger Kockelmann, Praising the Goddess: A Comparative and Annotated Re-edition of Six Demotic Hymns and Praises Addressed to Isis. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. 131. $84.00. ISBN 9783110212242.
    Reviewed by Laurent Bricault.

  • 2009.04.22:  V. Henry T. Nguyen, Christian Identity in Corinth: A Comparative Study of 2 Corinthians, Epictetus and Valerius Maximus. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe 243. Tübingen: 2008. Pp. xii, 272. €59.00 (pb). ISBN 9783161496660.
    Reviewed by John K. Goodrich.

  • 2009.04.23:  Colin Renfrew, Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos 1974-77. British School at Athens Supplementary Volume, 42. Co-edited by Neil Brodie, Christine Morris and Chris Scarre. London: 2007. Pp. xvi, 521; pls. 61, figs. 202. £123.00. ISBN 9780904887549.
    Reviewed by David Gill.

  • 2009.04.24:  Josiah Ober, Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens. Princeton: 2008. Pp. xvi, 342. $29.95. ISBN 9780691133478.
    Reviewed by Christopher Moore.

  • 2009.04.25:  R. Drew Griffith, Mummy Wheat: Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Lanham: 2008. Pp. xxxvi, 233. $37.00 (pb). ISBN 9780761842989.
    Reviewed by Nikolaos Lazaridis.

  • 2009.04.26:  Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, Konversion zur Philosophie in der Spätantike. Kaiser Julian und Synesios von Kyrene. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge Bd. 23. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 309. €58.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515090926.
    Reviewed by Michael Kleu.

  • 2009.04.27:  Daniel Polz, Der Beginn des Neuen Reiches. Zur Vorgeschichte einer Zeitenwende. Sonderschriften des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo, 31. Berlin/New York: 2007. Pp. xvi, 446; ills. 111, pls. 35, CD-ROM. €110.28. ISBN 978-3-11-019347.
    Reviewed by Jan Moje.

  • 2009.04.28:  Stephanie Budin, The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity. New York: 2008. Pp. xi, 366. $90.00. ISBN 9780521880909.
    Reviewed by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge.

  • 2009.04.29:  Ann-Cathrin Harders, Suavissima Soror: Untersuchungen zu den Bruder-Schwester-Beziehungen in der römischen Republik. Vestigia; Bd. 60. München: 2008. Pp. viii, 344. €70.00. ISBN 9783406577772.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse Witten.

  • 2009.04.30:  Nino Luraghi, The Ancient Messenians: Constructions of Ethnicity and Memory. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xiv, 389. $120.00. ISBN 9780521855877.
    Reviewed by Yves Lafond.

  • 2009.04.31:  Christa Steinby, The Roman Republican Navy: From the Sixth Century to 167 B.C. Commentationes humanarum litterarum, 123. Helsinki: 2007. Pp. 236. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 9789516533509.
    Reviewed by Christopher J. Dart.

  • 2009.04.32:  Brad Inwood, Seneca. Selected Philosophical Letters. Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xxv, 409. $81.00. ISBN 978-0-19-823894-2.
    Reviewed by Francesco Citti.

  • 2009.04.33:  Chiara Carsana, Commento storico al libro II delle Guerre Civili di Appiano. (parte I). Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Pavia 116. Pisa: 2007. Pp. 309. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788846718785.
    Reviewed by Richard Westall.

  • 2009.04.34:  Anne Carson, Sophocles' Electra. With commentary by Michael Shaw. Series editors: Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro. New York: 2001. Pp. 127 (pb). ISBN 0-19-504960-8.
    Hanna M. Roisman, Sophocles. Electra. Translation with notes, introduction, interpretive essay and afterlife. Series Editors: James Clauss and Stephen Esposito. Focus Classical Library. Newburyport, MA: 2008. Pp. 135. $8.95 (pb). ISBN 9781585102815.
    Reviewed by Elke Steinmeyer.

  • 2009.04.35:  Carolyn Graves-Brown, Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt: 'Don your wig for a joyful hour'. Swansea: 2008. Pp. xxv, 220. $100.00. ISBN 9781905125241.
    Reviewed by Danijela Stefanovic.

  • 2009.04.36:  Susan P. Mattern, Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing. Baltimore: 2008. Pp. x, 279. $55.00. ISBN 9780801888359.
    Reviewed by Shelley Reid.

  • 2009.04.37:  Dorota M. Dutsch, Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices. Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xiii, 278. $110.00. ISBN 9780199533381.
    Reviewed by Anise K. Strong.

  • 2009.04.38:  Edward Bispham, From Asculum to Actium. The Municipalization of Italy from the Social War to Augustus. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xviii, 566. $215.00. ISBN 978-0-19-923184-3.
    Reviewed by Clifford Ando.

  • 2009.04.39:  Andrew Lintott, Cicero As Evidence: A Historian's Companion. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. x, 469. $130.00. ISBN 9780199216444.
    Reviewed by Barbara Saylor Rodgers.

  • 2009.04.40:  David Damrosch, How to Read World Literature. How to Study Literature. Oxford: 2009. Pp. vii, 139. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9781405168267.
    Reviewed by Stavroula Constantinou.

  • 2009.04.41:  E. Anne Mackay, Orality, Literacy, Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman World (Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece, Volume 7). Mnemosyne Supplementa 298. Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. vi, 281 p., [8] p. of plates. $158.00. ISBN 9789004169913.
    Reviewed by Maria Chiara Scappaticcio.

  • 2009.04.42:  Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions Grecques Dialectales de Sicile. Tome II. Hautes Études du monde gréco-romain 40. Genève: 2008. Pp. 220. $82.00 (pb). ISBN 9782600013406.
    Reviewed by Sandra Péré-Noguès.

  • 2009.04.43:  Steven Lowenstam, As Witnessed by Images: The Trojan War Tradition in Greek and Etruscan Art. Baltimore: 2008. Pp. xiii, 230. $50.00. ISBN 9780801887758.
    Reviewed by Todd Clary.

  • 2009.04.44:  Véronique Chankowski, Athènes et Délos à l'époque classique. Recherches sur l'administration du sanctuaire d'Apollon délien. Bibliothèque des Ecoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome; 331. Athènes: 2008. Pp. 590. €90.00 (pb). ISBN 9782869581975.
    Reviewed by William Slater.

  • 2009.04.45:  Kelly Olson, Dress and the Roman Woman: Self-Presentation and Society. London/New York: 2008. Pp. xv, 171; fig. 30. $35.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415414760.
    Reviewed by Carly Daniel-Hughes.

  • 2009.04.46:  Helmut Baumann, Flora mythologica: griechische Pflanzenwelt in der Antike (Vollständig überarbeite Ausgabe). Akanthus crescens; 8. Kilchberg: 2007. Pp. 173. €40.50 (pb). ISBN 9783905083248.
    Reviewed by Nassos Papalexandrou.

  • 2009.04.47:  Magdalena Öhrman, Varying Virtue. Mythological Paragons of Wifely Virtues in Roman Elegy. Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia, 15. Lund: 2008. Pp. 218 (pb). ISBN 978-91-628-7394-3.
    Reviewed by Glenn C. Lacki.

  • 2009.04.48:  Luc Brisson, Le sexe incertain: androgynie et hermaphrodisme dans l'Antiquité gréco-romaine (1st edition 1997). Vérité des Mythes. Paris: 2008. Pp. 182. €21.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251324456.
    Reviewed by Arnaud Paturet.

  • 2009.04.49:  Jörg Graf, Myriam Krutzsch, Ägypten lesbar machen --: die klassische Konservierung/Restaurierung von Papyri und neuere Verfahren: Beiträge des 1. Internationalen Workshops der Papyrusrestauratoren, Leipzig, 7.-9. September 2006. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete. Beiheft; 24. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. 121; xxxii p. of plates. $109.00. ISBN 9783110201178.
    Reviewed by Jean A. Straus.

  • 2009.04.50:  Federica Giacobello, Larari pompeiani: Iconografia e culto dei Lari in ambito domestico. Il filarete / Università degli studi di Milano, Facoltà di lettere e filosofia; 251. Milano: 2008. Pp. 294. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 9788879163743.
    Reviewed by Lauren Hackworth Petersen.

  • 2009.04.51:  David Soren, An Ancient Roman Spa at Mezzomiglio. Chianciano Terme, Tuscany. Antiche Terme Romane a Mezzomiglio. Chianciano Terme, Toscana. Volume 1. Archaeological Excavations/Scavi Archeologici 1995-2001. Oxford: 2007. Pp. ix, 416; figs. passim. £42.00 (pb). ISBN 1-84171-761-4.
    Reviewed by Philippe Charlier.

  • 2009.04.52:  Ursula Offermann, Lebendige Kommunikation. Die Verwandlung des Odysseus in Homers Odyssee als kognitiv-emotives Hörerkonzept. München: 2006. Pp. xx, 303. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 9783891295922.
    Reviewed by Markus A. Gruber.

  • 2009.04.53:  Virgilio Masciadri, Eine Insel im Meer der Geschichten: Untersuchungen zu Mythen aus Lemnos. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge; Bd. 18. Stuttgart: 2008. Pp. 412. €68.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515088183.
    Reviewed by Angela Kühr.

  • 2009.04.54:  Angelo Giavatto, Interlocutore di se stesso: la dialettica di Marco Aurelio. Europaea memoria. Reihe 1, Studien. 58. Hildesheim/New York: 2008. Pp. vi, 269. €34.80 (pb). ISBN 9783487136417.
    Reviewed by John Henderson.

  • 2009.04.55:  Roberta Panzanelli, Eike D. Schmidt, Kenneth Lapatin, The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present. Los Angeles: 2008. Pp. xiv, 186. $49.95 (pb). ISBN 9780892369188.
    Reviewed by Mark Bradley.

  • 2009.04.56:  Paolo Santé, Gli scoli metrici a Pindaro. Studi di metrica classica 13. Pisa/Roma: 2008. Pp. 71. €36.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862271080.
    Reviewed by Roosevelt Rocha.

  • 2009.04.57:  Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen, Urban Life and Local Politics in Roman Bithynia: The Small World of Dion Chrysostomos. Black Sea Studies, 7. Aarhus: 2008. Pp. 211. $40.00. ISBN 9788779343504.
    Reviewed by A. T. Fear.

  • 2009.04.58:  Beate Dignas, Kai Trampedach, Practitioners of the Divine: Greek Priests and Religious Officials from Homer to Heliodorus. Hellenic Studies; 30. Washington, DC/Cambridge, Mass.: 2008. Pp. xii, 285. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674027879.
    Reviewed by Paraskevi Martzavou.

  • 2009.04.59:  Biagio Virgilio, Studi ellenistici XX. Pisa/Roma: 2008. Pp. 553. €195.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862271059.
    Reviewed by Livia Capponi.

  • 2009.04.60:  Rolf Rilinger, Ordo und dignitas. Beiträge zur römischen Verfassungs- und Sozialgeschichte. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 400. €72.00. ISBN 978-3-515-08609-7.
    Reviewed by Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart.

  • 2009.04.61:  Alan Shapiro, Euripides: Trojan Women. Greek Tragedy in New Translations. New York/Oxford: 2008. Pp. 113. $12.95 (pb). ISBN 9780195179101.
    Reviewed by Maxine Lewis.

  • 2009.04.62:  Dunstan Lowe, Kim Shahabudin, Classics for All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne:Pp. xviii, 287. £44.99. ISBN 9781443801201.
    Reviewed by Maria Beatrice Bittarello.

  • 2009.04.63:  M. C. Howatson, Frisbee C. C. Sheffield, Plato. The Symposium. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xxxv, 91. $13.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521682985.
    Reviewed by Yancy Hughes Dominick.

  • 2009.04.64:  Barry Cunliffe, Europe Between the Oceans. Themes and Variations: 9000 BC to AD 1000. New Haven: 2008. Pp. ix, 518. $39.95. ISBN 9780300119237.
    Reviewed by TammyJo Eckhart.

  • 2009.04.65:  Andrew Lear, Eva Cantarella, Images of Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods. London/New York: 2008. Pp. xvii, 262. $115.00. ISBN 9780415223676.
    Reviewed by Craig Williams.

  • 2009.04.66:  Walter Scheidel, Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires. Oxford Studies in Early Empires. Oxford/New York: 2009. Pp. xiii, 240. $74.00. ISBN 9780195336900.
    Reviewed by Hyun Jin Kim.

  • 2009.04.67:  Paul Christesen, Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. xvii, 580. $115.00. ISBN 9780521866347.
    Reviewed by Stephen Brunet.

  • 2009.04.68:  Helen King, Véronique Dasen, La médecine dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine. Lausanne: 2008. Pp. ix, 129. €18.66 (pb). ISBN 9782970053668.
    Reviewed by Lydie Bodiou.

  • 2009.04.69:  John Mulryan, Steven Brown, Natale Conti's Mythologiae. 2 Volumes. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 316. Tempe: 2006. Pp. xlvi, 978. $110.00. ISBN 978-0-86698-361-7.
    Reviewed by R. Scott Smith.

  • 2009.04.70:  Giovanni Cerri, Dante e Omero: Il volto di Medusa. Il vello d'oro 24. Lecce: 2007. Pp. 156. €12.00 (pb). ISBN 978882343644.
    Reviewed by Greta Hawes.

  • 2009.04.71:  Gary Alan Scott, Philosophy in Dialogue: Plato's Many Devices. Evanston: 2007. Pp. xxxii, 264. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8101-2356-4.
    Reviewed by Rebecca Bensen Cain.

  • 2009.04.72:  Peter Brown, The Body and Society. Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. Twentieth-anniversary edition with a new introduction. Columbia Classics in Religion. New York: 2008. Pp. lxvii, 504. $79.50. ISBN 978-0-231-14406-3.
    Reviewed by Kevin Kia-Choong Teo.

  • 2009.04.73:  Maria Moog-Grünewald, Mythenrezeption: Die antike Mythologie in Literatur, Musik und Kunst von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Der Neue Pauly. Supplemente 5. Stuttgart: 2008. Pp. ix, 749; figs. €179.95. ISBN 9783476020321.
    Reviewed by Eric M. Moormann.

  • 2009.04.74:  Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris, Richard P. Saller, The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. xiv, 942. $225.00. ISBN 9780521780537.
    Reviewed by Constantina Katsari.

  • 2009.04.75:  Lothar Haselberger, Urbem adornare: die Stadt Rom und ihre Gestaltumwandlung unter Augustus = Rome's Urban Metamorphosis under Augustus (English translation of the main text by Alexander Thein). Journal of Roman Archaeology. Supplementary Series; no. 64. Portsmouth, R.I.: 2007. Pp. 288. $99.00. ISBN 9781887829649.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis.

  • 2009.04.76:  Pantelis Golitsis, Les commentaries de Simplicius et de Jean Philopon à la "Physique" d'Aristote: tradition et innovation. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina. Quellen und Studien; Bd. 3. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. ix, 306. $118.95. ISBN 9783110195415.
    Reviewed by Robert B. Todd.

  • 2009.04.77:  Joel C. Relihan, The Prisoner's Philosophy. Life and Death in Boethius's Consolation. Notre Dame, IN: 2007. Pp. xiv, 222. $30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-268-04024-6.
    Reviewed by John Casey.

  • 2009.04.78:  Dominic Scott, Maieusis: Essays in Ancient Philosophy in Honour of Myles Burnyeat. Oxford/New York: 2007. Pp. xi, 425. $120.00. ISBN 9780199289974.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2009.04.79:  Dimitrios V. Grammenos, Elias K. Petropoulos, Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea 2 (2 vols.). BAR International Series; 1675 (1-2). Oxford: 2001. Pp. viii, 1262. 140.00 (pb). ISBN 9781407301105.
    Reviewed by Valeriya Kozlovskaya.

  • 2009.04.80:  Abraham P. Bos, Rein Ferwerda, Aristotle, On the Life-bearing Spirit (De spiritu): A Discussion with Plato and His Predecessors on Pneuma as the Instrumental Body of the Soul. Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. 209. $129.00. ISBN 9789004164581.
    Reviewed by Robert Mayhew.

  • 2009.05.01:  BMCR Books Received (April, 2009).


  • 2009.05.02:  Alexandra Trachsel, La Troade: un paysage et son héritage littéraire. Les commentaires antiques sur la Troade, leur genèse et leur influence, Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana 28. Basel: 2007. Pp. xx, 501. €40.50. ISBN 9783796522543.
    Reviewed by Andrea Primo.

  • 2009.05.03:  Beatrice Motta, Il Contra fatum di Gregorio di Nissa nel dibattito tardo-antico sul fatalismo e sul determinismo. Studi sulla tardoantichità, 2. Pisa/Roma: 2008. Pp. 178. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862270847.
    Reviewed by George Arabatzis.

  • 2009.05.04:  O'Daly on Hunink on Emmanuel Bermon (ed.), La signification et l'enseignement.
    Response by Gerard O'Daly.

  • 2009.05.05:  Niketas Siniossoglou, Plato and Theodoret: The Christian Appropriation of Platonic Philosophy and the Hellenic Intellectual Resistance. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xi, 267. $95.00. ISBN 9780521880732.
    Reviewed by Aaron P. Johnson.

  • 2009.05.06:  Harold Tarrant, Dirk Baltzly, Reading Plato in Antiquity. London: 2006. Pp. 268. $90.00; £50.00. ISBN 0-7-156-3455-0.
    Reviewed by Sarah Klitenic Wear.

  • 2009.05.07:  Erik Hallager, Jesper Tae Jensen, Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens, volume 5. Athens: 2007. Pp. 212. €40.95; $39.95 (pb). ISBN 978-87-7288-725-8.
    Reviewed by D.G.J. Shipley.

  • 2009.05.08:  Bruce Chilton, The Cambridge Companion to the Bible. Second Edition. First edition published in 1997. Cambridge: 2008. Pp. x, 724; maps 19; ills. passim. $34.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-69140-6.
    Reviewed by Dave Leal.

  • 2009.05.09:  Nicholas Denyer, Plato, Protagoras. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xiii, 207. $35.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521549691.
    Reviewed by James H. Collins II.

  • 2009.05.10:  Christian Lange, Ephraem der Syrer: Kommentar zum Diatessaron I. Fontes Christiani Bd. 54/1. Turnhout: 2008. Pp. 366. €37.29 (pb). ISBN 9782503519746.
    Christian Lange, Ephraem der Syrer: Kommentar zum Diatessaron II. Fontes Christiani Bd. 54/2. Turnhout: 2008. Pp. viii, 332. €37.29 (pb). ISBN 9782503528694.
    Reviewed by Daniel King.

  • 2009.05.11:  Maria Wyke, Caesar: A Life in Western Culture. Chicago: 2008. Pp. ix, 287. $25.00. ISBN 0226921530.
    Reviewed by Jonathan S. Perry.

  • 2009.05.12:  Sebastian Brather, Zwischen Spätantike und Frühmittelalter: Archäologie des 4. bis 7. Jahrhunderts im Westen. Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde 57. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. vii, 480. $205.00. ISBN 9783110200492.
    Reviewed by Gheorghe Alexandru Niculescu.

  • 2009.05.13:  Wytse Keulen, Gellius the Satirist: Roman Cultural Authority in Attic Nights. Mnemosyne Supplements 297. Leiden/Boston: 2009. Pp. 365. €121.00, $179.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16986-9.
    Reviewed by Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

  • 2009.05.14:  Walter Lapini, Capitoli su Posidippo. Hellenica, 25. Alessandria: 2007. Pp. xvii, 493. €60.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7694-993-7.
    Reviewed by Alexander Sens.

  • 2009.05.15:  Laurent Pernot, A l'école des anciens: professeurs, élèves et étudiants: précédé d'un entretien avec Jacqueline de Romilly. Signets Belles Lettres 4. Paris: 2008. Pp. xxiv, 310. €13.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251030043.
    Reviewed by Paola Francesca Moretti.

  • 2009.05.16:  David Sedley, Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity. Sather Classical Lectures, 66. Berkeley: 2007. Pp. xvii, 269. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25364-3.
    Reviewed by Börje Bydén.

  • 2009.05.17:  Bernard Pouderon, Enrico Norelli, Histoire de la littérature grecque chrétienne, 1. Introduction. Initiations aux Pères de l'Église. Paris: 2008. Pp. 333. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 9782204082280.
    Reviewed by Eric Fournier.

  • 2009.05.18:  Carol C. Mattusch, Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples. National Gallery of Art, October 19, 2008-March 22, 2009; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 3-October 4, 2009. Washington: 2008. Pp. xvi, 365. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 9780894683534.
    Reviewed by John R. Clarke.

  • 2009.05.19:  H. Baltussen, Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius: The Methodology of a Commentator. London: 2008. Pp. xii, 292. £50.00. ISBN 9780715635001.
    Reviewed by Ian Mueller.

  • 2009.05.20:  Cornelia B. Horn, Robert R. Phenix, Jr., John Rufus: The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 24. Atlanta: 2008. Pp. xcii, 370. $51.95 (pb). ISBN 9781589832008.
    Reviewed by Kathleen Gibbons.

  • 2009.05.21:  Nicoletta Momigliano, Knossos Pottery Handbook: Neolithic and Bronze Age (Minoan). BSA Studies 14. London: 2007. Pp. xv, 276; figs. 148; tables 34; pl. 1; CD. $170.00; £60.00. ISBN 978-0-904887-55-6.
    Reviewed by Sean Hemingway.

  • 2009.05.22:  Altay Coskun, Freundschaft und Gefolgschaft in den auswärtigen Beziehungen der Römer (2. Jahrhundert v.Chr. - 1. Jahrhundert n. Chr.). Inklusion/Exklusion Bd. 9. Franfurt am Mein: 2008. Pp. 261. $65.95. ISBN 9783631584248.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2009.05.23:  Craig Cooper, Epigraphy and the Greek Historian. Phoenix Supplementary Volume, 47. Toronto/Buffalo: 2008. Pp. xvii, 197. $75.00. ISBN 9780802090690.
    Reviewed by Claire Taylor.

  • 2009.05.24:  Myrto Garani, Empedocles Redivivus: Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius. Studies in Classics. London/New York: 2007. Pp. xii, 324. $95.00. ISBN 9780415988490.
    Reviewed by Bill Gladhill.

  • 2009.05.25:  Francis Cairns, Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry. Corrected and with new material. First edition published in 1972. Ann Arbor: 2007. Pp. ix, 336. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-9799713-1-0.
    Reviewed by Anna S. Uhlig.

  • 2009.05.26:  Helmut Krasser, Dennis Pausch, Ivana Petrovic, Triplici invectus triumpho. Der römische Triumph in augusteischer Zeit. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 25. Stuttgart: 2008. Pp. 327. €60.00. ISBN 9783515092494.
    Reviewed by Ida Östenberg.

  • 2009.05.27:  J. den Boeft, J.W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst, H.C. Teitler, Philological and Historical Commentary of Ammianus Marcellinus XXVI. Leiden: 2008. Pp. xxix, 356. $156.00. ISBN 9789004163461.
    Reviewed by David Woods.

  • 2009.05.28:  Gustav Adolf Seeck, Euripides. Alkestis. Griechische Dramen. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. x, 231. $71.00. ISBN 9783110188769.
    Reviewed by Niall W. Slater.

  • 2009.05.29:  Eric Dugdale, Greek Theatre in Context. Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. viii, 200. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521689427.
    Reviewed by Panos Seranis.

  • 2009.05.30:  Sarah Iles Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination. Blackwell Ancient Religions. Malden, MA/Oxford: 2008. Pp. xiii, 193. $89.95. ISBN 9781405115728.
    Reviewed by Amelia R. Brown.

  • 2009.05.31:  Reyes Bertolín Cebrián, Singing the Dead: A Model for Epic Evolution. New York: 2006. Pp. 171. $62.95. ISBN 9780820481654.
    Reviewed by Massimiliano Di Fazio.

  • 2009.05.32:  Ángel Martínez Fernández, Epigramas Helenísticos de Creta, Manuales y Anejos de "Emerita"; 48. Madrid: 2006. Pp. 352; 56 plates. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-8-400-08469-1.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2009.05.33:  Francis A. Grabowski III, Plato, Metaphysics and the Forms. Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy. New York/London: 2008. Pp. xi, 163. $130.00. ISBN 9780826497802.
    Reviewed by Lee Trepanier.

  • 2009.05.34:  J. H. Kim On Chong-Gossard, Gender and Communication in Euripides' Plays: Between Song and Silence. Mnemosyne: Supplements; 296. Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. 263. $142.00. ISBN 9789004168800.
    Reviewed by Evert van Emde Boas.

  • 2009.05.35:  Kjeld Matthiessen, Euripides. Hekabe. Griechische Dramen. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. x, 294. $71.00. ISBN 9783110188097.
    Reviewed by Justina Gregory.

  • 2009.05.36:  J. Marks, Zeus in the Odyssey. Washington, D.C.: 2008. Pp. vii, 175. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674028128.
    Reviewed by André Malta.

  • 2009.05.37:  Tim G. Parkin, Arthur J. Pomeroy, Roman Social History: A Sourcebook. Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World. London/New York: 2007. Pp. xvii, 388. $37.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415426756.
    Reviewed by Fanny Dolansky.

  • 2009.05.38:  Milena Minkova, Terence Tunberg, Latin for the New Millennium: Student Text, Level 1. Wauconda, Ill.: 2008. Pp. xxxiv, 442. $67.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-86516-560-1.
    Milena Minkova, Terence Tunberg, Latin for the New Millennium: Teacher Manual, Level 1. Wauconda, Ill.: 2008. Pp. lx, 442. $99.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-86516-562-5.
    Reviewed by Bradley Ritter.

  • 2009.05.39:  Stephanie Dalley, Esther's Revenge at Susa. From Sennacherib to Ahasuerus. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xvi, 262; maps 4, figs. 53. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921663-5.
    Reviewed by Gary Beckman.

  • 2009.05.40:  Ineke Sluiter, Ralph M. Rosen, Kakos: Badness and Anti-value in Classical Antiquity. Mnemosyne: Supplements. History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity; 307. Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. viii, 514. $231.00. ISBN 9789004166240.
    Reviewed by Pamela Gordon.

  • 2009.05.41:  Francesca Maltomini, Tradizione antologica dell'epigramma greco: le sillogi minori di età bizantina e umanistica. Pleiadi 9. Roma: 2008. Pp. 214. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788884984807.
    Reviewed by Lucia Floridi.

  • 2009.05.42:  Randall T. Ganiban, Vergil: Aeneid Book 2. Newburyport, MA: 2008. Pp. 175. $15.95 (pb). ISBN 9781585102266.
    Reviewed by Beatrice Larosa.

  • 2009.05.43:  Andrea Tschemplik, Knowledge and Self-knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus. Lanham: 2008. Pp. ix, 183. $65.00. ISBN 9780739125731.
    Reviewed by Christopher Moore.

  • 2009.05.44:  Adrian Kuzminski, Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism. Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion. Lanham: 2008. Pp. xiv, 155. $65.00. ISBN 9780739125069.
    Reviewed by Jerker Blomqvist.

  • 2009.05.45:  Nikolaos Kaltsas, Alan Shapiro, Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens. New York: 2008. Pp. 367 (pb). ISBN 9780977659845.
    Reviewed by Jessica Paga.

  • 2009.05.46:  Carsana on Westall on C. Carsana, Commento storico al libro II delle Guerre Civili di Appiano (parte I), ETS, Pisa 2007.
    Response by Chiara Carsana.

  • 2009.05.47:  Chris Kraus, Simon Goldhill, Helene P. Foley, Jas Elsner, Visualizing the Tragic. Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature. Essays in Honour of Froma Zeitlin. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xxii, 475; ills. 36. $175.00; £78.00. ISBN 9780199276028.
    Reviewed by Luigi Battezzato.

  • 2009.05.48:  Mauro Bonazzi, Christoph Helmig, Platonic Stoicism - Stoic Platonism: The Dialogue between Platonism and Stoicism in Antiquity. Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Series I; 39. Leuven: 2007. Pp. xv, 310. €69.50. ISBN 9789058676252.
    Reviewed by Claudio Moreschini.

  • 2009.05.49:  Harry A. Hoffner, Jr., H. Craig Melchert, A Grammar of the Hittite Language. Part 1: Reference Grammar. Languages of the Ancient Near East; 1. Winona Lake, IN: 2008. Pp. xxii, 468; CD-ROM. $59.50. ISBN 9781575061191.
    Harry A. Hoffner, Jr., H. Craig Melchert, A Grammar of the Hittite Language. Part 2: Tutorial. Languages of the Ancient Near East; 1. Winona Lake, IN: 2008. Pp. vi, 75. $22.50. ISBN 9781575061481.
    Reviewed by Philomen Probert.

  • 2009.05.50:  Leonhard Burckhardt, Militärgeschichte der Antike. Beck'schen Reihe; 2447. München: 2008. Pp. 128. €7.90 (pb). ISBN 9783406562471.
    Reviewed by Patricia Baker.

  • 2009.05.51:  Daniel R. Schwartz, 2 Maccabees. Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. x, 617. $158.00. ISBN 9783110191189.
    Reviewed by Frank Shaw.

  • 2009.05.52:  Joy Connolly, The State of Speech. Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome. Princeton: 2007. Pp. xiii, 320. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-691-12364-6.
    Reviewed by Catherine Conybeare.

  • 2009.05.53:  Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz, The Odes of Horace. Baltimore: 2008. Pp. xxxi, 173. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9780801889967.
    Reviewed by Paul Franz.

  • 2009.05.54:  Monica R. Gale, Lucretius: De Rerum Natura V. Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Oxford: 2008. Pp. vii, 222. $36.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-85668-889-8.
    Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono.

  • 2009.05.55:  Ernst Osterkamp, Wissensästhetik: Wissen über die Antike in ästhetischer Vermittlung. Transformationen der Antike; Bd. 6. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. x, 386. $125.00. ISBN 9783110204919.
    Reviewed by Claudio Franzoni.

  • 2009.05.56:  Daniel Greenspan, The Passion of Infinity: Kierkegaard, Aristotle and the Rebirth of Tragedy. Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series, 19. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. x, 336. $141.00. ISBN 9783110203967.
    Reviewed by Steven M. Stannish.

  • 2009.05.57:  Alden A. Mosshammer, The Easter Computus and the Origins of the Christian Era. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xi, 474. $130.00. ISBN 9780199543120.
    Reviewed by Gregory Halfond.

  • 2009.05.58:  Joachim Latacz, Thierry Greub, Peter Blome, Alfried Wieczorek, Homer: der Mythos von Troia in Dichtung und Kunst. München: 2008. Pp. 506. $77.00. ISBN 9783777439655.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig.

  • 2009.05.59:  César Fornis, Grecia exhausta: ensayo sobre la guerra de Corinto. Hypomnemata, Bd. 175. Göttingen: 2008. Pp. 362. €98.00. ISBN 9783525252864.
    Reviewed by María Cruz Cardete del Olmo.

  • 2009.05.60:  Maria-Zoe Petropolou, Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: 2008. Pp. xii, 336. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921854-7.
    Reviewed by Paul Dilley.

  • 2009.05.61:  Sven Günther, "Vectigalia nervos esse rei publicae": die indirekten Steuern in der Römischen Kaiserzeit von Augustus bis Diokletian. Philippika. Marburger alterumskundliche Abhandlungen 26. Wiesbaden: 2008. Pp. viii, 197. €48.00. ISBN 9783447058452.
    Reviewed by Juan Ballesteros.

  • 2009.05.62:  Susan Helen Langdon, Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100--700 B.C.E. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xviii, 388. $90.00. ISBN 9780521513210.
    Reviewed by John K. Papadopoulos.

  • 2009.06.01:  BMCR Books Received (May, 2009).


  • 2009.06.02:  Maurizio Sannibale, La raccolta Giacinto Guglielmi, Parte II: Bronzi e materiali vari. Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Cataloghi, 4/2. Roma: 2008. Pp. 374. €235.00. ISBN 978-88-8265-432-X.
    Reviewed by Maria Cristina Biella.

  • 2009.06.03:  Maria Luisa Catoni, La comunicazione non verbale nella Grecia antica. Gli schemata nella danza, nell'arte, nella vita. Universale Bollati Boringhieri 560. Torino: 2008. Pp. 416. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788833918969.
    Reviewed by Laura Miguélez-Cavero and Alicia Miguélez-Cavero.

  • 2009.06.04:  Robert Volk, Die Schriften des Johannes von Damaskos VI/1: Historia animae utilis de Barlaam et Ioasaph (spuria). Patristische Texte und Studien Bd. 61. Berlin: 2009. Pp. xlii, 596. €128.00; $179.00. ISBN 978-3-11-019462-3.
    Robert Volk, Die Schriften des Johannes von Damaskos VI/2: Historia animae utilis de Barlaam et Ioasaph (spuria). Text und zehn Appendices. Patristische Texte und Studien Bd. 60. Berlin: 2006. Pp. xiv, 512. €118.00; $165.00. ISBN 978-3-11-018134-0.
    Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst.

  • 2009.06.05:  Mamoun Fansa, ALSO SEEN: Tierisch moralisch. Die Welt der Fabel in Orient und Okzident. Begleitschrift zur Sonderausstellung des Landesmuseums Natur und Mensch Oldenburg vom 22. Februar bis zum 01. Juni 2009. (Schriftenreihe des Landesmuseums Natur und Mensch, Heft 63). Wiesbaden: 2009. Pp. 315. €24.90. ISBN 9783895006630.
    Reviewed by Victoria Jennings.

  • 2009.06.06:  Ales Havlícek, Martin Cajthaml, Plato's Symposium: Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Prague: 2007. Pp. 349. €18.00. ISBN 9788072982936.
    Reviewed by David Hernández de la Fuente.

  • 2009.06.07:  Richard J. A. Talbert, Richard W. Unger, Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods. Technology and Change in History, v. 10. Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. xix, 299; [16] p. of plates. $154.00. ISBN 9789004166639.
    Reviewed by Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen.

  • 2009.06.08:  Alfred Dunshirn, Griechisch für das Philosophiestudium. UTB 8403. Wien: 2008. Pp. 172. €14.90 (pb). ISBN 9783825284039.
    Reviewed by Jerker Blomqvist.

  • 2009.06.09:  Alan Beale, Euripides Talks. London: 2008. Pp. x, 139. £12.99 (pb). ISBN 9781853997129.
    Reviewed by Viviana Gastaldi.

  • 2009.06.10:  Eric Nelson, Thomas Hobbes: Translations of Homer. (2 vols.). Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. cii, 733. $250.00. ISBN 9780199262144.
    Reviewed by Miklós Péti.

  • 2009.06.11:  T. P. Wiseman, Unwritten Rome. Exeter: 2008. Pp. ix, 366. $37.95 (pb). ISBN 9780859898232.
    Reviewed by Gary D. Farney.

  • 2009.06.12:  Björn Forsén, Giovanni Salmeri, The Province Strikes Back: Imperial Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean. Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, 13. Helsinki: 2008. Pp. 214. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9789519880686.
    Reviewed by Giovanni Geraci.

  • 2009.06.13:  Marilena Amerise, Girolamo e la Senectus: età della vita e morte nell'epistolario. Studia ephemeridis Augustinianum 109. Roma: 2008. Pp. 150. €25.50. ISBN 8879611186.
    Reviewed by Richard Westall.

  • 2009.06.14:  Cashman Kerr Prince, Chariton, Callirhoe. Book I. Bryn Mawr: 2009. Pp. 57. $9.50 (pb). ISBN 9781931019057.
    Reviewed by Stephen M. Trzaskoma.

  • 2009.06.15:  Dimitrios V. Grammenos, Elias K. Petropoulos, Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea 2 (2 vols.). BAR International Series; 1675 (1-2). Oxford: 2007. Pp. viii, 1262. £140.00 (pb). ISBN 9781407301105.
    Reviewed by Stanley Burstein.

  • 2009.06.16:  Jean-François Cottier, Profession latiniste. Profession. Montréal: 2008. Pp. 66. $9.95 (pb). ISBN 9782760620971.
    Reviewed by John Bulwer.

  • 2009.06.17:  Mario Rosa, Stefano Bruni, Symbolae Antiquariae 1 - 2008. Pisa/Roma: 2008. Pp. 219. ISBN 19726538.
    Reviewed by William Stenhouse.

  • 2009.06.18:  Giovanni Cerri, La poetica di Platone: una teoria della comunicazione (Terza edizione aggiornata e ampliata di Platone sociologo della comunicazione). Il vello d'oro 26. Lecce: 2007. Pp. 175. €14.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882343910.
    Reviewed by Diego De Brasi.

  • 2009.06.19:  Magnus Schallenberg, Freiheit und Determinismus: ein philosophischer Kommentar zu Ciceros Schrift De fato. Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie, Bd. 75. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. xiii, 369. $141.00. ISBN 9783110189407.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2009.06.20:  Massimo Lazzeri, Studi sulla Gerioneide di Stesicoro. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell' Antichità, Università degli studi di Salerno, 35. Naples: 2008. Pp. 470. €45.00. ISBN 978-88-89776-85-8.
    Reviewed by Anne Mahoney.

  • 2009.06.21:  Susanna Braund, A Lucan Reader: Selections from Civil War. BC Latin Readers. Mundelein, Ill.: 2009. Pp. xxxiv, 134. $19.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865166615.
    Reviewed by Jennifer E. Thomas.

  • 2009.06.22:  Valérie Fromentin, Estelle Bertrand, Dion Cassius. Histoire Romaine: Livres 45 & 46. Collection des Universités de France. Paris: 2008. Pp. cxi, 199. €55.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005454.
    Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono and Alison Baird Lovell.

  • 2009.06.23:  Chiara Carsana, Maria Teresa Schettino, Utopia e utopie nel pensiero storico antico. Centro Ricerche e Documentazione sull'Antichità Classica. Monografie 30. Roma: 2008. Pp. vi, 216. €110.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882654733.
    Reviewed by Livia Capponi.

  • 2009.06.24:  Evina Sistakou, Reconstructing the Epic: Cross-readings of the Trojan Myth in Hellenistic Poetry. Hellenistica Groningana; 14. Leuven: 2008. Pp. 210. €54.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042921177.
    Reviewed by Giampiero Scafoglio.

  • 2009.06.25:  Lillian E. Doherty, Homer's Odyssey. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford/New York: 2009. Pp. xii, 360. $59.95 (pb). ISBN 9780199233335.
    Reviewed by Cynthia King.

  • 2009.06.26:  Jane Wilson Joyce, Statius, Thebaid: A Song of Thebes. Masters of Latin Literature. Ithaca: 2008. Pp. xxxv, 502. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 9780801482854.
    Reviewed by Kyle G. Gervais.

  • 2009.06.27:  Matthew Wright, Euripides: Orestes. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: 2008. Pp. 176. £12.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-7156-3714-2.
    Reviewed by Lidia Gambon.

  • 2009.06.28:  Angela Maria Andrisano, Biblioteche del mondo antico: Dalla tradizione orale alla cultura dell'Impero. Lingue e letterature Carocci, 75. Rome: 2007. Pp. 207. €19.30 (pb). ISBN 978-88-430-4236-4.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2009.06.29:  Perrine Galand-Hallyn, La villa et l'univers familial dans l'Antiquité et à la Renaissance. Rome et ses renaissances. Paris: 2008. Pp. 292. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782840505389.
    Reviewed by Geoff W. Adams.

  • 2009.06.30:  William Hansen, Anonymous. Life of Aesop. Bryn Mawr: 2008. Pp. 101. $11.95. ISBN 9781931019040.
    Reviewed by Mario Andreassi.

  • 2009.06.31:  Randall T. Ganiban, Statius and Virgil. The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. 258. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-84039-2.
    Reviewed by Bob Cowan.

  • 2009.06.32:  Michael Ewans, Opera from the Greek: Studies in the Poetics of Appropriation. Aldershot/Burlington, VT: 2007. Pp. i, 216. $99.95. ISBN 978-0-7546-6099-6.
    Reviewed by Mary-Kay Gamel.

  • 2009.06.33:  Stavros Frangoulidis, Witches, Isis and Narrative: Approaches to Magic in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes; 2. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. xii, 255. $98.00. ISBN 9783110205947.
    Reviewed by Alexander Kirichenko.

  • 2009.06.34:  Andrew L. Sihler, New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (Paperback reprint of 1995 edition). Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xxii, 686. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 9780195373363.
    Reviewed by Zsolt Simon.

  • 2009.06.35:  André Laks, Diogène d'Apollonie: edition, traduction et commentaire des fragments et témoignages. International Pre-platonic Studies; v. 6. Sankt Augustin: 2008. Pp. 336. €44.50. ISBN 9783896654403.
    Reviewed by Eugene Afonasin.

  • 2009.06.36:  Bruce Heiden, Homer's Cosmic Fabrication: Choice and Design in the Iliad. American Philological Association, American Classical Studies 52. New York/Oxford: 2008. Pp. xvi, 254. $74.00. ISBN 9780195341072.
    Reviewed by Minna Skafte Jensen.

  • 2009.06.37:  Robin Osborne, Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC. Second edition (first edition published 1996). Routledge History of the Ancient World. London/New York: 2009. Pp. xx, 377. $41.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415469913.
    Reviewed by Cynthia King.

  • 2009.06.38:  Ian Worthington, Philip II of Macedonia. New Haven/London: 2008. Pp. xx, 303; 16 p. of plates. $35.00. ISBN 9780300120790.
    Reviewed by Jesper Majbom Madsen.

  • 2009.06.39:  Sharon Waxman, Loot: The Battle Over Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World. New York: 2008. Pp. xiv, 414; 8 p. of plates. $30.00. ISBN 9780805086539.
    Reviewed by Thomas C. Rust.

  • 2009.06.40:  Linos G. Benakis, Michael Psellos: Kommentar zur Physik des Aristoteles. Editio princeps. Einleitung, Text, Indices. Corpus Philosophorum Medii Aevi, Commentaria in Aristotelem Byzantina 5. Athens: 2008. Pp. ix, 450. ISBN 9789604041244.
    Reviewed by Robert B. Todd.

  • 2009.06.41:  Michael J. B. Allen, Marsilio Ficino: Commentaries on Plato. Volume I, Phaedrus and Ion. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Cambridge, Mass./London:Pp. lix, 269. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-03119-7.
    Reviewed by A. Ch. F. Weizmann.

  • 2009.06.42:  Judith Swaddling, The Ancient Olympic Games (2nd ed., revised and updated). Austin: 2008. Pp. 120. $19.95. ISBN 0-292-71893-4.
    Reviewed by Jonathan Perry.

  • 2009.06.43:  J. H. F. Dijkstra, Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion: A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298-642 CE). Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 173. Leuven: 2008. Pp. xvii, 466. €85.00. ISBN 9789042920316.
    Reviewed by Robert B. Gozzoli.

  • 2009.06.44:  Arthur M. Eckstein, Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome. Berkeley: 2006. Pp. 369. $49.95. ISBN 9780520246188.
    Reviewed by James Quillin.

  • 2009.06.45:  R. Tomber, Indo-Roman Trade: From Pots to Pepper. Duckworth Debates in Archaeology. London: 2008. Pp. 216. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 9780715636961.
    Reviewed by Norbert Kramer.

  • 2009.06.46:  David Sedley, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Vol. 34, Summer 2008. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. 423; 2 p. of plates. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9780199544899.
    Reviewed by Daniel P. Maher.

  • 2009.06.47:  Alain Delattre, Papyrus coptes et grecs du monastère d'apa Apollô de Baouît conserveés aux Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles. Bruxelles: 2004. Pp. 351; pls. 60. €30.00. ISBN 978-2-8031-0236-5.
    Reviewed by AnneMarie Luijendijk.

  • 2009.06.48:  Mary Beard, The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found. Cambridge, MA: 2008. Pp. 360; 16 p. of plates. $26.95. ISBN 9780674029767.
    Reviewed by Carol C. Mattusch.

  • 2009.06.49:  Michael Gagarin, Writing Greek Law. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xi, 282. $99.00. ISBN 9780521886611.
    Reviewed by Zinon Papakonstantinou.

  • 2009.06.50:  Robin Robertson, Euripides: Medea. New York: 2008. Pp. xxii, 85. $16.00. ISBN 9781416592235.
    Reviewed by George L. Greaney.

  • 2009.06.51:  Peter Fibiger Bang, The Roman Bazaar: A Comparative Study of Trade and Markets in a Tributary Empire. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xv, 358. $110.00. ISBN 9780521855327.
    Reviewed by Harri Kiiskinen.

  • 2009.06.52:  Elizabeth Jeffreys, John F. Haldon, Robin Cormack, The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xxix, 1021. $158.00. ISBN 9780199252466.
    Reviewed by Przemyslaw Marciniak.

  • 2009.06.53:  Sabine Panzram, Städte im Wandel: bauliche Inszenierung und literarische Stilisierung lokaler Eliten auf der Iberischen Halbinsel: Akten des interntionalen Kolloquiums des Arbeitsbereiches für Alte Geschichte des Historischen Seminars der Universität Hamburg und des Seminars für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Trier im Warburg-Haus Hamburg, 20. - 22. Oktober 2005. Geschichte und Kultur der iberischen Welt; Bd. 5. Hamburg/Münster: 2007. Pp. vi, 400. €39.90. ISBN 9783825808563.
    Reviewed by Danielle Slootjes.

  • 2009.06.54:  Nora M. Dimitrova, Theoroi and Initiates in Samothrace: The Epigraphical Evidence. Hesperia Supplement, 37. Princeton: 2008. Pp. xiv, 280. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 9780876615379.
    Reviewed by Kirsten M. Bedigan.

  • 2009.06.55:  Margarita Gleba, Hilary Becker, Votives, Places and Rituals in Etruscan Religion. Studies in Honor of Jean MacIntosh Turfa. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 166. Leiden: 2008. Pp. xliv, 291. $154.00. ISBN 978004170452.
    Reviewed by Liza Cleland.

  • 2009.06.56:  Anne L. Klinck, Woman's Songs in Ancient Greece. Montreal/Kingston: 2008. Pp. xxii, 290. $85.00. ISBN 9780773534483.
    Reviewed by Mary R. Lefkowitz.

  • 2009.06.57:  Jacob Blevins, Dialogism and Lyric Self-fashioning: Bakhtin and the Voices of a Genre. Selinsgrove, Pa.: 2008. Pp. 265. $60.00. ISBN 9781575911205.
    Reviewed by Stephen M. Kershner.

  • 2009.07.01:  BMCR Books Received (June, 2009).


  • 2009.07.02:  Sarolta A. Takács, The Construction of Authority in Ancient Rome and Byzantium: The Rhetoric of Empire. Cambridge/New York: 2009. Pp. xxiii, 167. $80.00. ISBN 9780521878654.
    Reviewed by Steven D. Smith.

  • 2009.07.03:  David Christenson, Plautus: Four Plays. Casina, Amphitryon, Captivi, Pseudolus. Focus Classical Library. Newburyport, MA: 2008. Pp. 265. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 9781585101559.
    Reviewed by Vincent Hunink.

  • 2009.07.04:  Miriam R. Pelikan Pittenger, Contested Triumphs: Politics, Pageantry, and Performance in Livy's Republican Rome. Berkeley: 2008. Pp. xiii, 365. $60.00. ISBN 9780520241398.
    Reviewed by Jessica H. Clark.

  • 2009.07.05:  Yves Lafond, La mémoire des cités dans la Péloponnèse d'époque romaine (IIe siècle av. J-C-IIIe siècle après J.-C.). Collection Histoire. Rennes: 2006. Pp. 385. €22.00. ISBN 978-2-7535-0304-5.
    Reviewed by Arthur Eckstein.

  • 2009.07.06:  Joëlle Delattre, Sur le Contre les professeurs de Sextus Empiricus. Lille: 2006. Pp. 159. €17.00 (pb). ISBN 9782844670779.
    Reviewed by Diego E. Machuca.

  • 2009.07.07:  Michael M. Sage, The Republican Roman Army: A Sourcebook. Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World. New York/London: 2008. Pp. vii, 310. $41.95. ISBN 9780415178808.
    Reviewed by Jeremy Armstrong.

  • 2009.07.08:  Michael W. Holmes, The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations. 3rd edition. Grand Rapids: 2007. Pp. xxv, 806. $42.99. ISBN 9780801034688.
    Reviewed by Timothy B. Sailors.

  • 2009.07.09:  Stefan Büttner, Antike Ästhetik. Eine Einführung in die Prinzipien des Schönen. München: 2006. Pp. 211; 14 ills. €12.90. ISBN 3-406-54092-9.
    Reviewed by Martin S. Harbsmeier.

  • 2009.07.10:  Rachel Meredith Kousser, Hellenistic and Roman Ideal Sculpture: The Allure of the Classical. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xv, 208. $85.00. ISBN 9780521877824.
    Reviewed by Olympia Bobou.

  • 2009.07.11:  Friedrich Burrer, Holger Müller, Kriegskosten und Kriegsfinanzierung in der Antike. Darmstadt: 2008. Pp. 336. €79.90. ISBN 9783534209209.
    Reviewed by Andrea Schuetze.

  • 2009.07.12:  Gottfried Gruben, Klassische Bauforschung. München: 2007. Pp. 304. €39.90; $56.00. ISBN 978-3-7774-3085-0.
    Reviewed by Barbara A. Barletta.

  • 2009.07.13:  Johannes J. L. Smolenaars, Harm-Jan van Dam, Ruurd R. Nauta, The Poetry of Statius. Mnemosyne, Supplementa 306. Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. x, 269. $152.00. ISBN 9789004171343.
    Reviewed by Pramit Chaudhuri.

  • 2009.07.14:  Nicholas Nicastro, Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe. New York: 2008. Pp. xi, 223. $23.95. ISBN 9780312372477.
    Reviewed by T.E. Rihll.

  • 2009.07.15:  Gideon Bohak, Ancient Jewish Magic: A History. Cambridge, UK/New York: 2008. Pp. ix, 483. $135.00. ISBN 9780521874571.
    Reviewed by David Frankfurter.

  • 2009.07.16:  Hubert Zehnacker, Pline le Jeune. Lettres: Livres I-III. nouvelle édition. Collection des universités de France. Série latine 391. Paris: 2009. Pp. xlii, 193. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251014517.
    Reviewed by Gauthier Liberman.

  • 2009.07.17:  André Chastagnol, Le pouvoir impérial à Rome: figures et commémorations. Scripta varia IV (Textes édités par Stéphane Benoist & Ségolène Demougin). Hautes Études du Monde Gréco-Romain 41. Genève: 2008. Pp. xvi, 492. $134.40 (pb). ISBN 9782600013437.
    Reviewed by Arnaud Paturet.

  • 2009.07.18:  Catherine M. Draycott, Geoffrey D. Summers, Kerkenes Special Studies 1: Sculpture and Inscriptions from the Monumental Entrance to the Palatial Complex at Kerkenes Dag, Turkey. With a contribution by Claude Brixhe and Turkish summary by G. Bike Yazicioglu. Oriental Institute Publications 135. Chicago: 2008. Pp. xxiv, 89; 98 p. of plates. $90.00. ISBN 978-1-885923-57-8.
    Reviewed by Lynn E. Roller.

  • 2009.07.19:  Erika Kunze-Götte, Myrte als Attribut und Ornament auf attischen Vasen. Akanthiskos, 1. Kilchberg, Switzerland: 2006. Pp. 104; 55 black and white ills., 4 line drawings. €31.00; $43.00. ISBN 978-905083-23-X.
    Reviewed by Nassos Papalexandrou.

  • 2009.07.20:  Christos Karvounis, Demosthenes. Reden zur Finanzierung der Kriegsflotte. Texte zur Forschung Band 90. Darmstadt: 2008. Pp. 143. €39.90. ISBN 9783534193479.
    Reviewed by Jeremy Trevett.

  • 2009.07.21:  Response: Frangoulidis on Kirichenko on Stavros Frangoulidis, Witches, Isis and Narrative: Approaches to Magic in Apuleius' Metamorphoses.
    Response by Stavros Frangoulidis.

  • 2009.07.22:  Anne-Maria Wittke, Eckart Olshausen, Richard Szydlak, Historischer Atlas der antiken Welt. Der Neue Pauly. Supplemente Band 3. Stuttgart/Weimar: 2007. Pp. xix, 308. €179.95. ISBN 978-3-476-02031-4.
    Reviewed by Richard J. A. Talbert.

  • 2009.07.23:  S. J. Heyworth, Sexti Properti Elegi. Oxford Classical Texts. Oxford: 2007. Pp. lxxxi, 217. £18.50/$49.95/€20.32. ISBN 978-0-19-814674-2.
    S. J. Heyworth, Cynthia. A Companion to the Text of Propertius. Oxford:Pp. xvi, 647. £105/$250/€194.26. ISBN 978-0-19-922870-6.
    Reviewed by Antonio Ramírez de Verger.

  • 2009.07.24:  Reeve C.D.C, Plato: Republic. Indianapolis: 2005. Pp. Pp. 392. $10.95. ISBN 0872207366.
    Reviewed by David C. Noe.

  • 2009.07.25:  Giovanni Ruffini, Social Networks in Byzantine Egypt. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. x, 278. $110.00. ISBN 9780521895378.
    Reviewed by Conor Whately.

  • 2009.07.26:  Elena Gritti, Proclo: dialettica, amima, esegesi. Il filarete / Università degli studi di Milano, Facoltà di lettere e filosofia; 257. Milano: 2008. Pp. 419. €36.00 (pb). ISBN 9788879163859.
    Reviewed by Francesca Lazzarin.

  • 2009.07.27:  Pia Guldager Bilde, Jane Hjarl Petersen, Meetings of Cultures in the Black Sea Region: Between Conflict and Coexistence. Black Sea Studies 8. Aarhus: 2008. Pp. 422. $63.95. ISBN 9788779344198.
    Reviewed by Yulia Ustinova.

  • 2009.07.28:  Blanca María Prósper, El bronce celtibérico de Botorrita I. Ricerche sulle lingue di frammentaria attestazione; 6. Pisa/Roma: 2008. Pp. 97. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862271188.
    Reviewed by E. Nieto Ballester.

  • 2009.07.29:  Richard A. Billows, Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome. Roman Imperial Biographies. London/New York: 2009. Pp. xv, 312; 6 p. of plates. $120.00. ISBN 9780415333146.
    Reviewed by Richard Westall.

  • 2009.07.30:  Martin Revermann, Peter Wilson, Performance, Iconography, Reception: Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xvi, 583. $190.00. ISBN 9780199232215.
    Reviewed by Miryam Librán Moreno.

  • 2009.07.31:  Florence Bourbon, Hippocrate, Tome XII 1re partie: Nature de la femme. Collection des Universités de France. Paris: 2008. Pp. cxli, 279. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005485.
    Reviewed by Vito Lorusso.

  • 2009.07.32:  Geoffrey C. R. Schmalz, Augustan and Julio-Claudian Athens: A New Epigraphy and Prosopography. Mnemosyne: Supplements. History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity; 302. Leiden/Boston: 2009. Pp. xvi, 369. $185.00. ISBN 9789004170094.
    Reviewed by Eric Perrin-Saminadayar.

  • 2009.07.33:  A. J. S. Spawforth, The Court and Court Society in Ancient Monarchies. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. xiii, 358. $115.00. ISBN 9780521874489.
    Reviewed by Rolf Strootman.

  • 2009.07.34:  Margaret Malamud, Ancient Rome and Modern America. Classical Receptions. Malden, MA/Oxford: 2009. Pp. xi, 296. 39.95 (pb). ISBN 9781405139342.
    Reviewed by Jan Nelis.

  • 2009.07.35:  Emily Baragwanath, Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xi, 374. $130.00. ISBN 9780199231294.
    Reviewed by Michael A. Flower.

  • 2009.07.36:  J. R. W. Prag, Ian Repath, Petronius: A Handbook. Chichester/Malden, MA: 2009. Pp. xii, 256. $100.00. ISBN 9781405156875.
    Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono.

  • 2009.07.37:  John Alexander Lobur, Consensus, Concordia, and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology. Studies in Classics. New York/London: 2008. Pp. xiii, 322. $100.00. ISBN 978-0-415-97788-3.
    Reviewed by Trevor Stacy Luke.

  • 2009.07.38:  Alberto Camerotto, Diafonie. Esercizi sul Comico. Atti del Seminario di Studi Venezia, 25 maggio 2006. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità e del Vicino Oriente, 3. Padova: 2007. Pp. 164 (pb). ISBN 978-88-95672-01-4.
    Reviewed by Rosanna Lauriola.

  • 2009.07.39:  José Luis Moralejo, Horacio: Odas, canto secular, epodos. Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 360. Madrid: 2007. Pp. 583. €33.00. ISBN 9788424928797.
    Reviewed by Jennifer Ferriss-Hill.

  • 2009.07.40:  Mary P. Chatfield, Cristoforo Landino: Poems. The I Tatti Renaissance library 35. Cambridge, Mass./London: 2008. Pp. xxv, 398. $29.95. ISBN 9780674031487.
    Reviewed by Sandro La Barbera.

  • 2009.07.41:  Yoav Rinon, Homer and the Dual Model of the Tragic. Ann Arbor: 2008. Pp. 220. $65.00. ISBN 9780472116638.
    Reviewed by Robert J. Rabel.

  • 2009.07.42:  William S. Campbell, Paul and the Creation of Christian Identity. The Library of New Testament Studies 322. New York: 2006. Pp. 224. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 9780567033673.
    Reviewed by Ralph J. Korner.

  • 2009.07.43:  Timothy Saunders, Bucolic Ecology. Virgil's Eclogues and the Environmental Literary Tradition. London: 2008. Pp. viii, 184. £18.00 (pb). ISBN 9780715636176.
    Reviewed by John Van Sickle.

  • 2009.07.44:  Dylan Sailor, Writing and Empire in Tacitus. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xi, 359. $99.00. ISBN 9780521897471.
    Reviewed by Olivier Devillers.

  • 2009.07.45:  Ronnie Ancona, David J. Murphy, Horace: A Legamus Transitional Reader. Mundelein, Ill.: 2008. Pp. xxiv, 189. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-86516-676-9.
    Reviewed by John Aveline.

  • 2009.07.46:  Minke W. Hazewindus, When Women Interfere. Studies in the Role of Women in Herodotus' Histories. Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology, 12. Leiden: 2004. Pp. 256. €68.00. ISBN 90-5063-449-4.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Irwin.

  • 2009.07.47:  Emilia Ruiz Yamuza, Tres verbos que significan "deber" en griego antiguo. Zaragoza: 2008. Pp. 190. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9788479560485.
    Reviewed by José Marcos Macedo.

  • 2009.07.48:  Christoph Pieper, Elegos redolere Vergiliosque sapere: Cristoforo Landinos "Xandra" zwischen Liebe und Gesellschaft. Noctes Neolatinae Bd. 8. Hildesheim: 2008. Pp. xx, 356. €88.00. ISBN 9783487135946.
    Reviewed by Jeroen De Keyser.

  • 2009.07.49:  Anthony A. Barrett, Lives of the Caesars. Malden, MA/Oxford: 2008. Pp. xvii, 322. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 9781405127554.
    Reviewed by Michael B. Charles.

  • 2009.07.50:  Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Rome's Cultural Revolution. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xxi, 502; 16 p. of plates. $130.00. ISBN 978-0-521-89684-9.
    Reviewed by Joseph Geiger.

  • 2009.07.51:  Friedrich Burrer, Holger Müller, Kriegskosten und Kriegsfinanzierung in der Antike. Darmstadt: 2008. Pp. 336. €79.90. ISBN 9783534209209.
    Reviewed by David Colling.

  • 2009.07.52:  Peter Norton, Episcopal Elections 250-600: Hierarchy and Popular Will in Late Antiquity. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xi, 271. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-920747-3.
    Reviewed by Richard Lim.

  • 2009.07.53:  Judith M. Barringer, Art, Myth, and Ritual in Classical Greece. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xv, 267. $27.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521646475.
    Reviewed by Clemente Marconi.

  • 2009.07.54:  Stella G. Souvatzi, A Social Archaeology of Households in Neolithic Greece: An Anthropological Approach. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xxi, 309. $95.00. ISBN 9780521836890.
    Reviewed by J. A. Baird.

  • 2009.07.55:  Catherine J. Castner, Biondo Flavio's Italia Illustrata: Text, Translation, and Commentary. Volume I: Northern Italy. Binghamton, NY: 2005. Pp. xxxvi, 385. $36.00 (pb). ISBN 9781586842550.
    Reviewed by William Hutton.

  • 2009.07.56:  Jakub Pigon, The Children of Herodotus: Greek and Roman Historiography and Related Genres. Newcastle: 2009. Pp. 404. £39.99. ISBN 9781443800150.
    Reviewed by Cynthia King.

  • 2009.07.57:  Zbigniew T. Fiema, Jaakko Frösén, Petra - The Mountain of Aaron. The Finnish Archaeological Project in Jordan. Volume I. The Church and the Chapel. Helsinki: 2008. Pp. 447; 69 figs. €125.00. ISBN 9789516533646.
    Reviewed by Walter D. Ward.

  • 2009.07.58:  Jörg Rüpke, Fasti sacerdotum: A Prosopography of Pagan, Jewish, and Christian Religious Officials in the City of Rome, 300 BC to AD 499. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. viii, 1107. $399.00. ISBN 9780199291137.
    Reviewed by Linda Zollschan.

  • 2009.07.59:  Sinclair Bell, Inge Lyse Hansen, Role Models in the Roman World: Identity and Assimilation. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary Volume 7. Ann Arbor: 2008. Pp. xi, 316. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-472-11589-1.
    Reviewed by John Jacobs.

  • 2009.07.60:  Paolo Montanari, Sepolcri circolari di Roma e suburbio: Elementi architettonici dell'elevato. Workshop di archeologia classica. Quaderni; 2. Pisa/Roma: 2009. Pp. 110. €34.00. ISBN 9788862271981.
    Reviewed by Jean-Noël Castorio.

  • 2009.07.61:  Jens Bartels, Städtische Eliten im römischen Makedonien. Untersuchungen zur Formierung und Struktur. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd. 242. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. x, 258. $137.00. ISBN 9783110195002.
    Reviewed by Maria Deoudi.

  • 2009.07.62:  K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5, Setnakht, Ramesses III and Contemporaries. Malden, Mass./Oxford: 2008. Pp. xxiv, 523. $400.00. ISBN 9780631184317.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig.

  • 2009.07.63:  Irene Berti, Marta Garcia Morcillo, Hellas on Screen: Cinematic Receptions of Ancient History, Literature and Myth. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien; Bd. 45. Stuttgart: 2008. Pp. 266; 16 p. of plates. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 97835150092234.
    Reviewed by Arthur J. Pomeroy.

  • 2009.07.64:  Claudio Ferone, Laurentino García y García, Questioni pompeiane ed altri scritti di Raffaele Garrucci. Collezione Archeologica; 7. Roma: 2008. Pp. 216. €30.00. ISBN 9788888620558.
    Reviewed by M. F. Petraccia.

  • 2009.07.65:  William A. Johnson, Holt N. Parker, Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome. Oxford/New York: 2009. Pp. xv, 430. $74.00. ISBN 9780195340150.
    Reviewed by Curtis Dozier.

  • 2009.07.66:  Marcello Carastro, L'antiquité en couleurs: catégories, pratiques, représentations. [Actes des journées d'études organisées à Paris les 12 et 13 décembre 2005 organisées par l'atelier antiquité et sciences sociales du centre Louis Gernet de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes]. Horos. Grenoble: 2009. Pp. 346. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9782841372409.
    Reviewed by Pascal Payen.

  • 2009.07.67:  Jonathan S. Burgess, The Death and Afterlife of Achilles. Baltimore: 2009. Pp. xii, 184. $45.00. ISBN 9780801890291.
    Reviewed by Calum Maciver.

  • 2009.07.68:  John Bodel, Saul M. Olyan, Household and Family Religion in Antiquity. The Ancient World: Comparative Histories. Malden, MA/Oxford:Pp. xii, 324. $100.00. ISBN 9781405175791.
    Reviewed by David Elton Gay.

  • 2009.07.69:  William V. Harris, Brooke Holmes, Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the Gods. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition. Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. xiii, 322. $169.00; €114.00. ISBN 9789004172043.
    Reviewed by Carl O'Brien.

  • 2009.07.70:  G. Camporeale, La città murata in Etruria: Atti del XXV Convegno di studi etruschi ed italici, Chianciano Terme, Sarteano, Chiusi, 30 marzo - 3 aprile 2005: in memoria di Massimo Pallottino. Atti di convegni / Istituto nazionale di studi etruschi ed italici; 25. Pisa/Roma: 2008. Pp. 538. €960.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862270267.
    Reviewed by Ivo van der Graaff.

  • 2009.07.71:  Ton Derks, Nico Roymans, Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity: The Role of Power and Tradition. Amsterdam Archaeological Studies 13. Amsterdam: 2009. Pp. 368. $65.00. ISBN 9789089640789.
    Reviewed by Omar Coloru.

  • 2009.07.72:  Constanze Güthenke, Placing Modern Greece. The Dynamics of Romantic Hellenism, 1770-1840. Classical Presences. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. viii, 276. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-19-923185-0.
    Reviewed by Dirk t. D. Held.

  • 2009.07.73:  Jerzy Styka, Violence and Aggression in the Ancient World. Classica Cracoviensia, 10. Kraków: 2006. Pp. 227 (pb). ISBN 978-83-7188-917-1.
    Reviewed by Cheryl L. Golden.

  • 2009.07.74:  Reinhard Wolters, Die Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald: Arminius, Varus und das roemische Germanien. München: 2008. Pp. 192. €18.90. ISBN 9783406576744.
    Reviewed by David B. Cuff.

  • 2009.07.75:  Christopher A. Beeley, Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and the Knowledge of God: In Your Light We See Light. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xvi, 396. $49.95. ISBN 9780195313970.
    Reviewed by Claudio Moreschini.

  • 2009.08.01:  Books Received (July 2009).


  • 2009.08.02:  Harris on Dozier on William A. Johnson, Holt N. Parker, Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome.
    Response by W.V. Harris.

  • 2009.08.03:  P. J. Finglass, Sophocles: Electra. Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 44. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. xi, 646. $160.00. ISBN 9780521868099.
    Reviewed by David Kovacs.

  • 2009.08.04:  Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle, Alexander the Great: A New History. Chichester/Malden, MA: 2009. Pp. xix, 366; 2 p. of plates. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 9781405130820.
    Reviewed by Giuseppe Squillace.

  • 2009.08.05:  Elizabeth Irwin, Emily Greenwood, Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. xvi, 352. $99.00. ISBN 9780521876308.
    Reviewed by David J. DeVore.

  • 2009.08.06:  Pauliina Remes, Neoplatonism. Ancient Philosophies. Stocksfield: 2008. Pp. xii, 244. £14.99 (pb). ISBN 9781844651252.
    Reviewed by Jeremy M. Schott.

  • 2009.08.07:  Bob Lister, Meeting the Challenge: International Perspectives on the Teaching of Latin. Cambridge: 2008. Pp. viii, 168 (pb). ISBN 9780521690430.
    Reviewed by Andrea Balbo.

  • 2009.08.08:  Anna Maria Nieddu, La Basilica Apostolorum sulla via Appia e l'area cimiteriale circostante. Monumenti di antichità cristiana, II serie, 19. Città del Vaticano: 2009. Pp. xvi, 494. €90.00. ISBN 9788885991460.
    Reviewed by Hendrik Dey.

  • 2009.08.09:  Claude Vial, Inscriptions de Délos. Index, tome II: les Déliens. Paris: 2008. Pp. 150. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 9782877542029.
    Reviewed by Pierre Fröhlich.

  • 2009.08.10:  Robert Garland, Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks (Paperback edition, first published 1998). Daily Life Through History. Indianapolis/Cambridge:Pp. xxi, 234. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 9780872209565.
    Reviewed by Nicola Cusumano.

  • 2009.08.11:  Neil Hopkinson, Lucian: A Selection. Cambridge Greek and Latin Texts. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. ix, 239. $34.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521603041.
    Reviewed by James Brusuelas.

  • 2009.08.12:  Nicoletta Marini, Demetrio, Lo Stile. Pleiadi 4. Roma: 2007. Pp. x, 353. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-8498-352-7.
    Reviewed by Casper C. de Jonge.

  • 2009.08.13:  A. M. Leskov, The Maikop Treasure. Philadelphia: 2008. Pp. x, 294. $75.00. ISBN 9781934536049.
    Reviewed by Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi.

  • 2009.08.14:  Vincent L. Gaffney, R. H. White, H. Goodchild, Wroxeter, the Cornovii, and the Urban Process: Final Report on the Wroxeter Hinterland Project 1994-1997. Vol. 1, Researching the Hinterland. Journal of Roman Archaeology. Supplementary Series, no. 68. Portsmouth, R.I.: 2007. $99.50. ISBN 9781887829687.
    Reviewed by Ardle Mac Mahon.

  • 2009.08.15:  Zehnacker on Liberman on Hubert Zehnacker (ed.), Pline le Jeune. Lettres: Livres I-III. nouvelle édition. Collection des universités de France. Série latine 391. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2009.
    Response by Hubert Zehnacker.

  • 2009.08.16:  Ancona and Murphy on Aveline on Ancona and Murphy, Horace: A Legamus Transitional Reader.
    Response by Ronnie Ancona and David J. Murphy.

  • 2009.08.17:  Alain Bresson, L'économie de la Grèce des cités (fin VIe-Ier siècle a. C.). I. Les structures et la production. Collection U. Paris: 2007. Pp. 264. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782200265045.
    Alain Bresson, L'économie de la Grèce des cités (fin VIe-Ier siècle a. C.). II. Les espaces de l'échange. Collection U. Paris: 2008. Pp. 335. €28.50 (pb). ISBN 9782200353582.
    Reviewed by Ephraim Lytle.

  • 2009.08.18:  David D. Phillips, Avengers of Blood: Homicide in Athenian Law and Custom from Draco to Demosthenes. Historia Einzelschriften; Bd. 202. Stuttgart: 2008. Pp. 279. €59.00. ISBN 9783515091237.
    Reviewed by John David Lewis.

  • 2009.08.19:  Aldo Brancacci, Studi storiografia filosofica antica. Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere. La Colombaria - Serie Studi 243. Firenze: 2008. Pp. vi, 161. €20.00. ISBN 9788822257727.
    Reviewed by Daniel Hogg.

  • 2009.08.20:  Cathy Gere, Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism. Chicago: 2009. Pp. x, 277. $27.50. ISBN 9780226289533.
    Reviewed by Nicoletta Momigliano.

  • 2009.08.21:  Adamantios Sampson, The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Vol. 1, Intra-site Analysis, Local Industries, and Regional Site Distribution. Prehistory Monographs; 21. Philadelphia: 2006. Pp. xxii, 255+. $80.00. ISBN 9781931534208.
    Reviewed by Seth Button.

  • 2009.08.22:  Anna Leone, Domenico Palombi, Susan Walker, Res bene gestae: ricerche di storia urbana su Roma antica in onore di Eva Margareta Steinby. Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae, Supplementum, IV. Roma: 2007. Pp. xviii, 478; 169 ills. 134.00 (pb). ISBN 9788871403533.
    Reviewed by Mary T. Boatwright.

  • 2009.08.23:  Pamela Marin, Blood in the Forum: The Struggle for the Roman Republic. London/New York: 2009. Pp. xix, 198. $29.95. ISBN 9781847251671.
    Reviewed by Darryl A. Phillips.

  • 2009.08.24:  Peter C. Bouteneff, Beginnings: Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives. Grand Rapids, MI: 2008. Pp. xv, 240. $22.99 (pb). ISBN 9780801032332.
    Reviewed by Anna Van den Kerchove.

  • 2009.08.25:  Paul T. Keyser, Georgia L. Irby-Massie, The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek Tradition and Its Many Heirs. London/New York: 2008. Pp. x, 1062. $360.00. ISBN 9780415340205.
    Reviewed by Katharina Volk.

  • 2009.08.26:  José Fernández Delgado, Francisca Pordomingo, Antonio Stramaglia, Escuela y Literatura en la Grecia Antigua. Actas del Simposio Internacional Universidad de Salamanca 17-19 Noviembre de 2004. Collana Scientifica, 17. Studi Archeologici, Artistici, Filologici, Filosofici, Letterari e Storici. Cassino: 2007. Pp. 750. €58.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-8317-042-3.
    Reviewed by Luigi Pirovano.

  • 2009.08.27:  Raimund Schulz, Kleine Geschichte des antiken Griechenland. Ditzingen: 2008. Pp. 480. €19.90. ISBN 9783150106792.
    Reviewed by Angela Kühr.

  • 2009.08.28:  Zinon Papakonstantinou, Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece. London: 2008. Pp. xiv, 233. $50.00. ISBN 9780715637296.
    Reviewed by Alex Gottesman.

  • 2009.08.29:  Peter M. Edwell, Between Rome and Persia: The Middle Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Palmyra under Roman Control. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. London/New York: 2008. Pp. xx, 289. $125.00. ISBN 9780415424783.
    Reviewed by Leonardo Gregoratti.

  • 2009.08.30:  Raoul Schrott, Homer. Ilias. München: 2008. Pp. xl, 630. €34.90. ISBN 9783446230460.
    Raoul Schrott, Homers Heimat: der Kampf um Troia und seine realen Hintergründe. München: 2008. Pp. 426. €24.90. ISBN 9783446230231.
    Reviewed by Paul Dräger.

  • 2009.08.31:  Roger Batty, Rome and the Nomads. The Pontic-Danubian Realm in Antiquity. Oxford: 2008. Pp. xxiv, 652; figs. 59, tables 10, pls. 32. $190.00. ISBN 9780198149361.
    Reviewed by Zosia Archibald.

  • 2009.08.32:  Drew A. Hyland, Plato and the Question of Beauty. Studies in Continental Thought. Bloomington: 2008. Pp. xii, 150. $21.95 (pb). ISBN 9780253219770.
    Reviewed by Yancy Hughes Dominick.

  • 2009.08.33:  Ronna Burger, Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: On the Nicomachean Ethics (paperback reprint of 2008 edition). Chicago/London: 2009. Pp. viii, 309. $22.50. ISBN 9780226080529 .
    Reviewed by Thornton C. Lockwood.

  • 2009.08.34:  Jean Andreau, Véronique Chankowski, Vocabulaire et expression de l'économie dans le monde antique. Études, 19. Pessac: 2007. Pp. 463. €35.00. ISBN 9788910023920.
    Reviewed by Giovanni Geraci.

  • 2009.08.35:  Philippe Charlier, Ostéo-archéologie et techniques médico-légales: Tendances et perspectives. Pour un manuel pratique de paléopathologie humaine. Collection Pathographie, 2. Paris: 2008. Pp. 684. €80.00 (pb). ISBN 9782701802374.
    Reviewed by Olivier Mariaud.

  • 2009.08.36:  William Desmond, Cynics. Ancient Philosophies. Stocksfield: 2008. Pp. vi, 290. £15.99 (pb). ISBN 9781844651290.
    Reviewed by Scott Rubarth.

  • 2009.08.37:  Karin Zeleny, Itali Modi: Akzentrhythmen in der lateinischen Dichtung der augusteischen Zeit. Wien: 2008. Pp. 294; CD. $85.00. ISBN 9783700139562.
    Reviewed by Carole Fry.

  • 2009.08.38:  Stefan Priwitzer, Faustina minor - Ehefrau eines Idealkaisers und Mutter eines Tyrannen quellenkritische Untersuchungen zum dynastischen Potential, zur Darstellung und zu Handlungsspielräumen von Kaiserfrauen im Prinzipat. Tübinger althistorische Studien Bd. 6. Bonn: 2008. Pp. xv, 233. €79.00. ISBN 9783774935488.
    Reviewed by Jörg Fündling.

  • 2009.08.39:  Giusto Picone, Clementia Caesaris. Modelli etici, parenesi e retorica dell'esilio. Palermo: 2008. Pp. 382, Codice B8470. €30.00. ISBN 978-88-6017-065-1.
    Reviewed by Renata Raccanelli.

  • 2009.08.40:  Gail Fine, The Oxford Handbook of Plato. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. xi, 604. $150.00. ISBN 9780195182903.
    Reviewed by Ravi Sharma.

  • 2009.08.41:  Benjamin W. Fortson IV, Language and Rhythm in Plautus: Synchronic and Diachronic Studies. Sozomena / Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts; 3. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. 250. $98.00. ISBN 9783110205930.
    Reviewed by Ariana Traill.

  • 2009.08.42:  Max Weber, Roman Agrarian History. (Translation by Richard I. Frank of 1891 doctoral dissertation). Claremont: 2008. Pp. xiv, 244. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 193005355x.
    Reviewed by Gareth C. Sampson.

  • 2009.08.43:  Gideon Nisbet, Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture. Greece and Rome live. Exeter: 2008. Pp. xiv, 188. ISBN 9781904675785.
    Reviewed by Seán Easton.

  • 2009.08.44:  Robert C. Ketterer, Ancient Rome in Early Opera. Urbana/Chicago: 2009. Pp. xi, 253. $40.00. ISBN 9780252033780.
    Reviewed by Chiara O. Tommasi Moreschini.

  • 2009.08.45:  Martin M. Winkler, The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology. Columbus: 2009. Pp. xi, 223. $54.95. ISBN 9780814208649.
    Reviewed by Michelle Borg.

  • 2009.08.46:  Silke Anzinger, Schweigen im römischen Epos: zur Dramaturgie der Kommunikation bei Vergil, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus und Statius. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde; Bd. 237. Berlin/New York: 2007. Pp. xi, 408 . $137.00. ISBN 9783110194784.
    Reviewed by Mariusz Zagorski.

  • 2009.08.47:  Markus A. Gruber, Der Chor in den Tragödien des Aischylos: Affekt und Reaktion. Drama n.s., Bd. 7. Tübingen: 2008. Pp. xiii, 570. €78.00 (pb). ISBN 9783823364849.
    Reviewed by Joshua Billings.

  • 2009.08.48:  Paul Stern, Knowledge and Politics in Plato's Theaetetus. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. x, 315. $90.00. ISBN 9780521884297.
    Reviewed by Jacques A. Bailly.

  • 2009.08.49:  John Murrell, Cicero and the Roman Republic. Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. vi, 184. $26.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521691161.
    Reviewed by Ayelet Haimson Lushkov.

  • 2009.08.50:  Alan H. Sommerstein, Aeschylus, Volume II, Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-bearers. Eumenides. 146. Cambridge, Mass./London: 2009. Pp. xxxvii, 494. $24.00. ISBN 9780674996281.
    Alan H. Sommerstein, Aeschylus, Volume III, Fragments. 505. Cambridge, Mass./London: 2008. Pp. xiii, 363. $24.00. ISBN 9780674996298.
    Reviewed by Vittorio Citti.

  • 2009.08.51:  Enrica Culasso Gastaldi, Le prossenie ateniesi del IV secolo a.C.: gli onorati asiatici. Fonti e studi di storia antica; 10. Alessandria: 2004. Pp. 358. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9788876946769.
    Reviewed by Shane Wallace.

  • 2009.08.52:  Ruth Webb, Demons and Dancers: Performance in Late Antiquity. Cambridge, Mass.: 2008. Pp. viii, 296; 10 p. of plates. $45.00. ISBN 9780674031920.
    Reviewed by Katherine M. D. Dunbabin.

  • 2009.08.53:  Fabio Colivicchi, Materiali in alabastro, vetro, avorio, osso, uova di struzzo. Materiali del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Tarquinia XVI. Roma: 2007. Pp. xi, 258; 53 p. of figs., 8 p. of plts. €200.00 (pb). ISBN 9788876892311.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2009.08.54:  Guglielmo Cavallo, Herwig Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. xvii, 153. €98.00, $118.00. ISBN 9783110201246.
    Reviewed by Stefano Valente.

  • 2009.08.55:  Amina Kropp, Magische Sprachverwendung in vulgärlateinischen Fluchtafeln (defixiones). ScriptOralia; 135. Tübingen: 2008. Pp. 450. €98.00. ISBN 9783823364368.
    Reviewed by Maurizio Buora.

  • 2009.08.56:  Harald Froschauer, Zeichnungen und Malereien aus den Papyrussammlungen in Berlin und Wien. Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer). Neue Serie XXI. Folge (MPER) XXXI. Berlin/New York: 2009. Pp. xvi, 121. $112.00. ISBN 9783110207392.
    Reviewed by Eric M. Moormann.

  • 2009.08.57:  Maria Serena Mirto, Euripide. Ione. Classici greci e latini. Milano: 2009. Pp. 345. €12.00 (pb). ISBN 9788817028936.
    Reviewed by Matteo Pellegrino.

  • 2009.08.58:  Carlo Natali, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII. Symposium Aristotelicum. Oxford/New York: 2009. Pp. 296. $90.00. ISBN 9780199558445.
    Reviewed by Robert Mayhew.

  • 2009.08.59:  Valerie M. Warrior, Greek Religion: A Sourcebook. Focus Classical Sources. Newburyport, MA: 2009. Pp. xii, 305. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 9781585100316.
    Reviewed by Benjamin W. Hicks.

  • 2009.08.60:  Paolo Fedeli, Irma Ciccarelli, Q. Horati Flacci, Carmina. Liber IV. Bibliotheca Nazionale. Testi con commento filologico, 17. Firenze: 2008. Pp. 706. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 9788800208024.
    Reviewed by Gregor Bitto.

  • 2009.08.61:  Andreas Kakoschke, Die Personennamen in der römischen Provinz Rätien. Alpha-Omega Reihe A Bd. 252. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: 2009. Pp. 325. €148.00. ISBN 9783487139173.
    Reviewed by Maurizio Buora.

  • 2009.08.62:  Frédéric Hurlet, Les Empires. Antiquité et Moyen Âge. Analyse comparée. Histoire. Rennes: 2008. Pp. 252; maps. €18.00. ISBN 978-2-7535-0604-6.
    Reviewed by Peter Fibiger Bang.

  • 2009.08.63:  Julie Candler Hayes, Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture in France and England, 1600-1800. Stanford, CA: 2009. Pp. x, 321. $60.00. ISBN 9780804759441.
    Reviewed by Johanna Akujärvi.

  • 2009.08.64:  John J. Cleary, Gary M. Gurtler, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Volume XXIII (2007). Leiden: 2008. Pp. x, 234. $158.00. ISBN 9789004166868.
    Reviewed by Alain G. Cogan.

  • 2009.08.65:  Marco Beretta, Francesco Citti, Lucrezio, la natura e la scienza. Biblioteca di Nuncius / Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza, Firenze; 66. Firenze: 2008. Pp. vi, 237. €26.00 (pb). ISBN 9788822258120.
    Reviewed by Fabio Tutrone.

  • 2009.08.66:  Louise Revell, Roman Imperialism and Local Identities. Cambridge/New York: 2009. Pp. xiii, 221. $80.00. ISBN 9780521887304.
    Reviewed by Emma-Jayne Graham.

  • 2009.08.67:  Derek Collins, Magic in the Ancient Greek World. Blackwell Ancient Religions. Malden, MA: 2008. Pp. xiv, 207. $28.00 (pb). ISBN 9781405132398.
    Reviewed by D. Felton.

  • 2009.08.68:  Claude Eilers, Diplomats and Diplomacy in the Roman World. Mnemosyne, Supplements 304. Leiden/Boston: 2009. Pp. xi, 254. $157.00. ISBN 9789004170988.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2009.08.69:  Stanley Ireland, Roman Britain: A Sourcebook. Third edition. Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World. London/New York: 2008. Pp. xvi, 284; 3 maps. $42.95; £22.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-47178-7.
    Reviewed by Duncan B. Campbell.

  • 2009.08.70:  Stephen Mitchell, Constantina Katsari, Patterns in the Economy of Roman Asia Minor. Swansea: 2005. Pp. xxxii, 335. $79.50. ISBN 1-905125-02-X.
    Reviewed by David B. Hollander.

  • 2009.08.71:  John Buckler, Hans Beck, Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC. Cambridge, UK/New York: 2008. Pp. xviii, 309. $99.00. ISBN 9780521837057.
    Reviewed by Jeremy McInerney.

  • 2009.09.01:  BMCR Books Received (August 2009).


  • 2009.09.02:  Catherine Johns, Dogs: History, Myth, Art. Cambridge, MA: 2008. Pp. 208. $35.00. ISBN 9780674030930.
    Reviewed by Evrydiki Tasopoulou.

  • 2009.09.03:  Giovanna Daverio Rocchi, Tra concordia e pace: parole e valori della Grecia antica: giornata di studio, Milano, 21 ottobre 2005. Quaderni di Acme; 92. Milano: 2007. Pp. xxviii, 376. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788832360769.
    Reviewed by Anne Queyrel.

  • 2009.09.04:  Christoph Michels, Kulturtransfer und monarchischer "Philhellenismus": Bithynien, Pontos und Kappadokien in hellenistischer Zeit. Schriften zur politischen Kommunikation Bd. 4. Göttingen: 2008. Pp. 439. €61.90. ISBN 9783899715361.
    Reviewed by Michael Kleu.

  • 2009.09.05:  János György Szilágyi, Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Hongrie. Budapest, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Fascicule 2. [18], trans. Ágnes Bencze. (Union Académique Internationale, avec le concours financier de l'UNESCO). Rome: 2007. Pp. 135; 49 p. of plates. €200.00. ISBN 978-88-8265-456-6.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2009.09.06:  Friedrich Creuzer, Gottfried Hermann, Lettere sulla mitologia. A cura di Sotera Fornaro. Pisa: 2009. Pp. 288. €18.00. ISBN 978-884672285-0.
    Reviewed by Jordi Pàmias.

  • 2009.09.07:  David Matz, Daily Life of the Ancient Romans. Daily Life through History. Indianapolis: 2008. Pp. xxi, 164. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 9780872209572.
    Reviewed by Renate Kurzmann.

  • 2009.09.08:  W. D. Taylour, R. Janko, Ayios Stephanos: Excavations at a Bronze Age and Medieval Settlement in Southern Laconia. Supplementary Volume no. 44. London: 2008. Pp. xxvii, 644; 60 p. of plates; 1 CD. $300.00. ISBN 9780904887587.
    Reviewed by Daniel J. Pullen.

  • 2009.09.09:  Debbie Challis, From the Harpy Tomb to the Wonders of Ephesus: British Archaeologists in the Ottoman Empire 1840-1880. London: 2008. Pp. xi, 211. $33.00 (pb). ISBN 9780715637579.
    Reviewed by Françoise Chircop Rutland.

  • 2009.09.10:  Haruo Konishi, Power and Structure in Thucydides: An Analytical Commentary. Volume One, The Pre-war Period - The First Year. Supplementi di Lexis 52. Amsterdam: 2008. Pp. xi, 492. €100.00 (pb). ISBN 9025612359.
    Haruo Konishi, Power and Structure in Thucydides: An Analytical Commentary. Volume Two. The Second Year - The Sixth Year. Supplementi di Lexis 53. Amsterdam: 2008. Pp. 540. €100.00 (pb). ISBN 9025612369.
    Haruo Konishi, Power and Structure in Thucydides: An Analytical Commentary. Volume Three. The Seventh Year - The Tenth Year. Supplementi di Lexis 54. Amsterdam: 2009. Pp. x, 429. €100.00 (pb). ISBN 9025612423.
    Reviewed by Tim Rood.

  • 2009.09.11:  Christian Mileta, Der König und sein Land: Untersuchungen zur Herrschaft der hellenistichen Monarchen über das königliche Gebiet Kleinasiens und seine Bevölkerung. Klio. Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte. Beihefte Neue Folge; 14. Berlin: 2008. Pp. 200. €59.80. ISBN 9783050044743.
    Reviewed by Lucia Criscuolo.

  • 2009.09.12:  Froma I. Zeitlin, Under the Sign of the Shield: Semiotics and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes. Second edition (first published 1982). Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Lanham, Md.: 2009. Pp. xix, 176. $55.00. ISBN 9780739125892.
    Reviewed by C. Michael Sampson.

  • 2009.09.13:  Adolf H. Borbein, Thomas W. Gaethgens, Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums. Katalog der antiken Denkmäler. Erste Auflage Dresden 1764. Zweite Auflage Wien 1776. Schriften und Nachlass Bd. 4,2. Mainz am Rhein: 2006. Pp. 614; ills. 1402. €82.00. ISBN 978-3-8053-3745-8.
    Adolf H. Borbein, Max Kunze, Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Anmerkungen über die Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums. Dresden 1767: Texte und Kommentar. Schriften und Nachlass Bd. 4,4. Mainz am Rhein: 2008. Pp. xxvi, 280; ills. 86. €46.00. ISBN 978-3-8053-3844-8.
    Reviewed by A. A. Donohue.

  • 2009.09.14:  P. L. Chambers, The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius: An Intermediate Reader and Grammar Review. Norman: 2009. Pp. xi, 108. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806139937.
    Reviewed by Patrick Paul Hogan.

  • 2009.09.15:  Péter Kovács, Marcus Aurelius' Rain Miracle and the Marcomannic Wars. Mnemosyne Supplements 308. Leiden/Boston: 2009. Pp. xviii, 301. $154.00. ISBN 9789004166394.
    Reviewed by Andy Fear.

  • 2009.09.16:  Luciana Gallo, Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture: The Elgin Drawings at the British Museum. Cambridge/New York: 2009. Pp. xvii, 344. $150.00. ISBN 9780521881630.
    Reviewed by David Cast.

  • 2009.09.17:  Alessia Fassone, Enrico Ferraris, Egypt: Pharaonic Period. (Translation of 2007 edition by Jay Hyams). Dictionaries of Civilization. Berkeley: 2008. Pp. 383. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780520256484.
    Reviewed by Roberto B. Gozzoli.

  • 2009.09.18:  Therese Fuhrer, Die christlich-philosophischen Diskurse der Spätantike: Texte, Personen, Institutionen: Akten der Tagung vom 22.-25. Februar 2006 am Zentrum für Antike und Moderne der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Philosophie der Antike, Bd. 28. Stuttgart: 2008. Pp. 438. €65.00. ISBN 9783515090834.
    Reviewed by Ilaria L.E. Ramelli.

  • 2009.09.19:  Oleh Kindiy, Christos Didaskalos. The Christology of Clement of Alexandria. Saarbrücken: 2008. Pp. 245. £54.00; €79.00 (pb). ISBN 9783836466905.
    Reviewed by Anders-Christian Jacobsen.

  • 2009.09.20:  Alan H. Sommerstein, Talking About Laughter: And Other Studies in Greek Comedy. Oxford/New York: 2009. Pp. xiv, 343. $125.00. ISBN 9780199554195.
    Reviewed by Andrew Hartwig.

  • 2009.09.21:  Margaret Dickin, A Vehicle for Performance: Acting the Messenger in Greek Tragedy. Lanham, Md.: 2009. Pp. v, 212. $32.00 (pb). ISBN 9780761843559.
    Reviewed by Simon Perris.

  • 2009.09.22:  Emanuele Narducci, Cicerone: la parola e la politica. Storia e Società. Roma: 2009. Pp. xviii, 450. €30.00. ISBN 9788842088301.
    Reviewed by Yasmina Benferhat.

  • 2009.09.23:  Mario Erasmo, Reading Death in Ancient Rome. Columbus: 2008. Pp. xii, 257; ill. 6. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-8142-1092-5.
    Reviewed by Peter Keegan.

  • 2009.09.24:  Genevieve Liveley, Patricia Salzman-Mitchell, Latin Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story. Columbus: 2008. Pp. x, 285. $69.95 ($9.95 CD). ISBN 9780814204061.
    Reviewed by John Henderson.

  • 2009.09.25:  Joel C. Relihan, Apuleius, The Tale of Cupid and Psyche. Indianapolis: 2009. Pp. xxiii, 102. $8.95 (pb). ISBN 9780872209725.
    Reviewed by David P. C. Carlisle.

  • 2009.09.26:  S. Barnish, L. Cracco Ruggini, L. Cuppo, R. Marchese, M. Breu, ALSO SEEN: Vivarium in Context. Vicenza: 2008. Pp. 140. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9788890203528.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2009.09.27:  Seyoon Kim, Christ and Caesar: The Gospel and the Roman Empire in the Writings of Paul and Luke. Grand Rapids, Mich.: 2008. Pp. xvi, 228. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8028-6008-8.
    Reviewed by Joseph D. Fantin.

  • 2009.09.28:  William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy. Oxford/New York: 2009. Pp. xii, 314. $19.95. ISBN 9780195374612.
    Reviewed by Walter M. Roberts III.

  • 2009.09.29:  Alessandro Lagioia, Nicola Trevet. Commento all'Oedipus di Seneca. Quaderni di Invigilata Lucernis 35. Bari: 2008. Pp. lii, 137. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788872285527.
    Reviewed by John Henderson.

  • 2009.09.30:  Csaba A. La'da, Greek Documentary Papyri from Ptolemaic Egypt. Corpus Papyrorum Raineri (CPR) Bd. 28. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. xxii, 229. $137.00. ISBN 9783110195231.
    Reviewed by T. V. Evans.

  • 2009.09.31:  Emily Wilson, The Death of Socrates. Profiles in History. Cambridge, MA: 2007. Pp. 247; ills. 18. $19.95. ISBN 100674026837.
    Reviewed by Marc Mastrangelo.

  • 2009.09.32:  Anthony Grafton, Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West. Cambridge, Mass.: 2009. Pp. viii, 422. $29.95. ISBN 9780674032576.
    Reviewed by Véronique Krings.

  • 2009.09.33:  Françoise Dumasy, François Queyrel, Archéologie et environnement dans la Méditerranée antique. École pratique des Hautes Études, Sciences historiques et philologiques III. Hautes études du monde gréco-romain, 42. Genève: 2009. Pp. x, 276. $120.00 (pb). ISBN 9782600013420.
    Reviewed by Philippe Boissinot.

  • 2009.09.34:  Pedro López Barja de Quiroga, Historia de la manumisión en Roma: de los orígenes a los Severos. Gerión-Anejos 11. Madrid: 2007. Pp. 136. €12.00 (pb). ISBN 9788466930536.
    Reviewed by Lorenzo Gagliardi.

  • 2009.09.35:  Nicholas D. Cahill, Love for Lydia: A Sardis Anniversary Volume Presented to Crawford H. Greenewalt, Jr. Archaeological Exploration of Sardis; Report 4. Cambridge, Mass./London: 2009. Pp. xvi, 249; [20] p. of plates. $50.00. ISBN 9780674031951.
    Reviewed by Naoise Mac Sweeney.

  • 2009.09.36:  Alice Rio, Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish Formulae, c. 500-1000. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series. Cambridge/New York: 2009. Pp. xii, 299. $99.00. ISBN 9780521514996.
    Reviewed by Roger Wright.

  • 2009.09.37:  Gregory S. Aldrete, Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia (paperback edition; first published 2004). Norman: 2009. Pp. xv, 278. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806140278.
    Reviewed by Gretchen Kreahling McKay.

  • 2009.09.38:  Juan Carlos Iglesias Zoido, Retórica e Historiografía. El discurso militar en la historiografía desde la Antigüedad hasta el Renacimiento. Madrid: 2008. Pp. xvi, 568. €35.00. ISBN 84-7882-624-6.
    Reviewed by Claudio Buongiovanni.

  • 2009.09.39:  Gruber on Billings on Gruber, Der Chor in den Tragödien des Aischylos.
    Response by Markus A. Gruber.

  • 2009.09.40:  Annette Harder, Alasdair A. MacDonald, Gerrit J. Reinink, Calliope's Classroom: Studies in Didactic Poetry from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Leuven: 2007. Pp. 324. €60.00. ISBN 9789042918085.
    Reviewed by Matthew Semanoff.

  • 2009.09.41:  Charlotte Lerouge, L' image des Parthes dans le monde gréco-romain. Du début du Ier siècle av. J.-C. jusqu' à la fin du Haut-Empire romain. Oriens et Occidens, 17. Stuttgart: 2007. Pp. 427; ills. 9. €62.00. ISBN 9783515085304.
    Reviewed by Leonardo Gregoratti.

  • 2009.09.42:  Michèle Lamont, How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment. Cambridge, Mass.: 2009. Pp. 330. $27.95. ISBN 9780674032668.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2009.09.43:  Éric Perrin-Saminadayar, Éducation, culture et société à Athènes. Les acteurs de la vie culturelle athénienne (229-88). Un tout petit monde. De l'archéologie à l'histoire. Paris: 2007. Pp. 699. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7018-0231-2.
    Reviewed by Nigel M. Kennell.

  • 2009.09.44:  Liberman on Zehnacker on Liberman on Zehnacker, Pline le Jeune. Lettres: Livres I-III. nouvelle édition.
    Response by Gauthier Liberman.

  • 2009.09.45:  Monica Matthews, Caesar and the Storm: A Commentary on Lucan, De Bello Civili, Book 5, lines 476-721. Oxford/New York: 2008. Pp. 321. $77.95 (pb). ISBN 9783039107360.
    Reviewed by Paul Roche.

  • 2009.09.46:  Eva Nyström, Containing Multitudes: Codex Upsaliensis Graecus 8 in Perspective. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia 11. Uppsala: 2009. Pp. 340. (pb). ISBN 9789155475017.
    Reviewed by Eugenia Russell.

  • 2009.09.47:  Ronald Polansky, Aristotle's De anima. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. xvi, 580. $100.00. ISBN 9780521862745.
    Reviewed by Octavian Gabor.

  • 2009.09.48:  Robert Hannah, Time in Antiquity. Sciences of Antiquity. London/New York: 2009. Pp. xiii, 206. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415331562.
    Reviewed by Tiberiu Popa.

  • 2009.09.49:  Christiane Dehl-von Kaenel, Geometrische Keramik. Deutschland, Bd. 85. Berlin, Antikenmuseum ehemals Antiquarium, Bd. 10. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. München: 1980. Pp. 125; 22 p. ills., 56 p. of plates. €98.00. ISBN 9783406578397.
    Reviewed by Mary B. Moore.

  • 2009.09.50:  Christina Kokkinia, Boubon: The Inscriptions and Archaeological Remains; A Survey 2004-2006. Meletemata 60. Athens: 2008. Pp. x, 193; 23 p. of plates. €86.00 (pb). ISBN 9789607905475.
    Reviewed by N. P. Milner.

  • 2009.09.51:  Gigliola Maggiulli, Per alta nemora. La poesia del mondo vegetale in Seneca tragico. Quaderni della "Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale", 9. Pisa/Roma: 2007. Pp. 156; CD-ROM. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-6227-007-6.
    Reviewed by Bob Cowan.

  • 2009.09.52:  Michael Barich, Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica. Gambier, OH: 2009. Pp. 256. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 9781880977293.
    Reviewed by P. J. Davis.

  • 2009.09.53:  Vassiliki Panoussi, Greek Tragedy in Vergil's "Aeneid": Ritual, Empire, and Intertext. Cambridge/ New York: 2009. Pp. xiii, 257. $80.00. ISBN 9780521895224.
    Reviewed by Wolfgang Polleichtner.

  • 2009.09.54:  Michael A. Tueller, Look Who's Talking: Innovations in Voice and Identity in Hellenistic Epigram. Hellenistica Groningana; 13. Leuven/Paris/Dudley, MA: 2008. Pp. xii, 231. €54.00. ISBN 978-90-429-2011-8.
    Reviewed by Marco Fantuzzi.

  • 2009.09.55:  Jon Hall, Politeness and Politics in Cicero's Letters. Oxford/New York: 2009. Pp. xi, 275. $85.00. ISBN 9780195329063.
    Reviewed by Jonathan P. Zarecki.

  • 2009.09.56:  Leanne Bablitz, Actors and Audience in the Roman Courtroom. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. London/New York: 2007. Pp. ix, 290. $115.00. ISBN 9780415427609.
    Reviewed by Elaine Fantham.

  • 2009.09.57:  Franz Hasenhütl, Die Heidenrede im "Octavius" des Minucius Felix als Brennpunkt antichristlicher Apologetik: Weltanschauliche und gesellschaftliche Widersprüche zwischen paganer Bildungsoberschicht und Christentum. Theologie Bd. 89. Wien/Berlin: 2008. Pp. 168. €19.90 (pb). ISBN 9783825817367.
    Reviewed by Jochen Walter.

  • 2009.09.58:  Roger Rees, Ted Hughes and the Classics. Classical Presences. Oxford/New York: 2009. Pp. xii, 348. $135.00. ISBN 978-0-19-922971-0.
    Reviewed by Simon Goldhill.

  • 2009.09.59:  Klaus Kilian, Tobias Mühlenbruch, Die handgemachte geglättete Keramik Mykenischer Zeitstellung. Tiryns, Bd. 15. Wiesbaden: 2007. Pp. x, 129; 38 p. of plates. €39.00. ISBN 9783895005497.
    Reviewed by Margaretha Kramer-Hajos.

  • 2009.09.60:  Susanna Braund, Seneca, De clementia. Oxford/New York: 2009. Pp. xiii, 456. $150.00. ISBN 9780199240364.
    Reviewed by Guillaume Flamerie de Lachapelle.

  • 2009.09.61:  James Davidson, Also Seen: The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece. London: 2007. Pp. v, 634. $42.00. ISBN 0297819976.
    Reviewed by Beert Verstraete.

  • 2009.09.62:  Keyne Cheshire, Alexander the Great. Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts. Cambridge/New York: 2009. Pp. viii, 189. (pb). ISBN 9780521707091.
    Reviewed by Charles E. Muntz.

  • 2009.09.63:  Richard Alston, Onno van Nijf, Feeding the Ancient Greek City. Groningen-Royal Holloway Studies on the Greek City after the Classical Age 1. Leuven: 2008. Pp. x, 207. €75.00. ISBN 9789042920378.
    Reviewed by Brian Rutishauser.

  • 2009.09.64:  Jacques Collina-Girard, L'Atlantide retrouvée? Enquête scientifique autour d'un mythe. Paris: 2009. Pp. 223. €18.50 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7011-4608-9.
    Reviewed by Heinz-Guenther Nesselrath.

  • 2009.09.65:  Éric Rebillard, Musarna 3: la nécropole impériale. Collection de l'École française de Rome; 415. Rome: 2009. Pp. viii, 333; 86 p. of plates . €115.00 (pb). ISBN 9782728308194.
    Reviewed by Jean-Noël Castorio.

  • 2009.09.66:  Attilio Mastrocinque, Des Mystères de Mithra aux Mystères de Jesus. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge. Stuttgart: 2009. Pp. 128; 7 p. of plates. €39.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515092500.
    Reviewed by André Sauge.

  • 2009.09.67:  Altay Coskun, Bürgerrechtsentzug oder Fremdenausweisung? Studien zu den Rechten von Latinern und weiteren Fremden sowie zum Bürgerrechtswechsel in der Römischen Republik (5. bis frühes 1. Jh. v.Chr.). HERMES - Einzelschriften Bd. 101. Stuttgart: 2009. Pp. 236. €50.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515093033.
    Reviewed by Saskia T. Roselaar.

  • 2009.09.68:  John Richardson, The Language of Empire: Rome and the Idea of Empire from the Third Century BC to the Second Century AD. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. ix, 220. $99.00. ISBN 9780521815017.
    Reviewed by Nicole Methy.

  • 2009.09.69:  Stephen Halliwell, Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xiii, 616. $65.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521717748.
    Reviewed by Catherine Conybeare.

  • 2009.09.70:  Eckard Lefèvre, Eckart Schäfer, Michael Marullus: ein Grieche als Renaissancedichter in Italien. NeoLatina, 15. Tübingen: 2008. Pp. 288. €98.00. ISBN 9783823364351.
    Reviewed by Werner J. C. M. Gelderblom.

  • 2009.09.71:  Jean-Michel Poinsotte, Commodien Instructions. Collections des universités de France. Série latine 392. Paris: 2009. Pp. lxxvi, 557. €89.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251014524.
    Reviewed by Roald Dijkstra.

  • 2009.09.72:  Andrea M. Gáldy, Cosimo I de' Medici as Collector: Antiquities and Archaeology in Sixteenth-century Florence. Newcastle: 2009. Pp. xxvi, 571. £54.99. ISBN 9781443801720.
    Reviewed by Natalia Agapiou.

  • 2009.09.73:  Gregg Gardner, Kevin L. Osterloh, Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World. Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum, 123. Tübingen: 2008. Pp. viii, 475. €109.00. ISBN 9783161494116.
    Reviewed by Sabrina Inowlocki-Meister.

  • 2009.09.74:  James Gardner, Marco Girolamo Vida. Christiad. The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 39. Cambridge, Mass.: 2009. Pp. xxviii, 464. $29.95. ISBN 9780674034082.
    Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono.

  • 2009.09.75:  Nathalie de Hann, Martijn Eickhoff, Marjan Schwegman, Archaeology and National Identity in Italy and Europe 1800-1950. Fragmenta. Journal of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome 2 (2008). Turnhout: 2008. Pp. 263. €72.00. ISBN 9782503524061.
    Reviewed by Catalin Pavel.

  • 2009.10.01:  BMCR Books Received (September, 2009).


  • 2009.10.02:  A. S. Hollis, Callimachus, Hecale. Revised second edition. Oxford/New York: 2009. Pp. xiii, 439. $130.00. ISBN 9780199562466.
    Reviewed by Konstantinos Spanoudakis.

  • 2009.10.03:  Ruth Webb, Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice. Farnham, England/Burlington, VT: 2009. Pp. xiii, 238. £55.00. ISBN 9780754661252.
    Reviewed by Simon Goldhill.

  • 2009.10.04:  Helen Lovatt, Statius and Epic Games. Sport, Politics, and Poetics in the Thebaid. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xii, 336. $80.00. ISBN 0521847427.
    Reviewed by Michael Dewar.

  • 2009.10.05:  Benita Kane Jaro, Betray The Night: A Novel About Ovid. Mundelein, Ill.: 2009. Pp. 312. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865167124.
    Reviewed by Paul Robertson.

  • 2009.10.06:  R. J. Hankinson, The Cambridge Companion to Galen. Cambridge Companions. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xxi, 450. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521525589.
    Reviewed by Y. Tzvi Langermann.

  • 2009.10.07:  Kaius Tuori, Ancient Roman Lawyers and Modern Legal Ideals: Studies on the Impact of Contemporary Concerns in the Interpretation of Ancient Roman Legal History. Studien zur europaeischen Rechtsgeschichte, Bd. 220. Frankfurt am Main: 2007. Pp. xii, 220. €46.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-465-04034-7.
    Reviewed by Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart.

  • 2009.10.08:  Ian Hughes, Belisarius: The Last Roman General. Yardley, PA: 2009. Pp. xvi, 272. $26.00. ISBN 9781594160851.
    Reviewed by Nadejda Popov-Reynolds.

  • 2009.10.09:  Wilfried Kühn, Quel savoir après le scepticisme: Plotin et ses prédécesseurs sur la connaissance de soi. Histoire des doctrines de l'antiquité classique, 37. Paris: 2009. Pp. 471. €50.00 (pb). ISBN 9782711619559.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2009.10.10:  Ilaria Ramelli, ALSO SEEN: Stoici Romani Minori: Marco Manilio-Musonio Rufo-Anneo Cornuto-Cheremone di Alessandria-Aulo Persio-Trasea Peto-Anneo Lucano-Decimo Giunio Giovenale-Mara Bar Serapion. Il Pensiero Occidentale. Milan: 2009. Pp. 2632. €45.00. ISBN 9788845261961.
    Reviewed by Gretchen Reydams-Schils.

  • 2009.10.11:  Pita Kelekna, The Horse in Human History. Cambridge/New York: 2009. Pp. xiv, 460. $27.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521736299.
    Reviewed by Ryan Platte.

  • 2009.10.12:  Antonis Kotsonas, The Archaeology of Tomb A1K1 of Orthi Petra in Eleutherna: The Early Iron Age Pottery. Heraklion: 2008. Pp. 397. (pb). ISBN 978-960-88394-6-5.
    Reviewed by Lisa Mallen.

  • 2009.10.13:  Pat Wheatley, Robert Hannah, Alexander & His Successors: Essays from the Antipodes. Claremont, CA: 2009. Pp. xxii, 372. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781930053588.
    Reviewed by Janice J. Gabbert.

  • 2009.10.14:  Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel, The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium. Oxford/New York: 2009. Pp. xviii, 381. £47.00; $85.00. ISBN 978-0-19-537158-1.
    Reviewed by Christopher J. Tuplin.

  • 2009.10.15:  Mark Golden, Greek Sport and Social Status. Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series. Austin: 2008. Pp. xvi, 214. $50.00. ISBN 9780292718692.
    Reviewed by Paul Christesen.

  • 2009.10.16:  Carl J. Richard, The Golden Age of the Classics in America: Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States. Cambridge, Mass./London: 2009. Pp. xiii, 258. $45.00. ISBN 9780674032644.
    Reviewed by Rudolph Masciantonio.

  • 2009.10.17:  Judith Perkins, Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. London/New York: 2009. Pp. x, 209. $110.00. ISBN 9780415397445.
    Reviewed by Melissa A. Rothfus.

  • 2009.10.18:  Peter Howell, Martial. Ancients in Action. London: 2009. Pp. 126. £11.99 (pb). ISBN 9781853997020.
    Reviewed by Shannon N. Byrne.

  • 2009.10.19:  W. R. Johnson, A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome: Readings in Propertius and His Genre. Columbus: 2009. Pp. xiii, 165. $29.95. ISBN 9780814203996.
    Reviewed by Randall Childree.

  • 2009.10.20:  Enrico Campanile, Latina & Italica: scritti minori sulle lingue dell'Italia antica (2 vols.). Ricerche sulle lingue di frammentaria attestazione 3. Pisa/Roma: 2008. Pp. xxxii, 1052. €220.00. ISBN 9788862271257.
    Reviewed by E. Nieto Ballester.

  • 2009.10.21:   Frederick Ahl, ALSO SEEN: Virgil: Aeneid. Oxford: 2007. Pp. lxii, 468. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-19-923195-9.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2009.10.22:  Perrine Galand-Hallyn, Sylvie Laigneau, Carlos Lévy, Wim Verbaal, La société des amis à Rome et dans la littérature médiévale et humaniste. Turnhout: 2008. Pp. 418. €85.00 (pb).
    Reviewed by Arnaud Paturet.

  • 2009.10.23:  Luc Brisson, Porphyre. Sentences. (2 vols.). Histoire des doctrines de l'antiquité classique, XXXIII. Paris: 2005. Pp. 874. €45.00. ISBN 271161320.
    Reviewed by Morgan Gaulin.

  • 2009.10.24:  Ramsay MacMullen, The Second Church. Popular Christianity A.D. 200-400. Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplements 1. Atlanta: 2009. Pp. xii, 210. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 978-158983403-3.
    Reviewed by Ilaria L.E. Ramelli.

  • 2009.10.25:  Stefania Filosini, Paolino di Nola, Carmi 10 e 11: introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento. Roma: Studi e testi tardoantichi 6. Roma: 2008. Pp. 284. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 9788889670354.
    Reviewed by John Henderson.

  • 2009.10.26:  Gilles Gorre, Les relations du clergé égyptien et des lagides d'après des sources privées. Studia Hellenistica; 45. Leuven: 2009. Pp. lviii, 641. €105.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042920354.
    Reviewed by M. Weiskopf.

  • 2009.10.27:  Nancy Worman, Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens. Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. xi, 385. $99.00. ISBN 9780521857871.
    Reviewed by Bruce Krajewski.

  • 2009.10.28:  Paul Dräger, Alkuin, Vita sancti Willibrordi; Das Leben des heiligen Willibrord. Trier: 2008. Pp. 219. €24.90 (pb). ISBN 9783898901277.
    Reviewed by Joseph Reisdoerfer.

  • 2009.10.29:  James Morwood, Mark Warman, Our Greek and Latin Roots (2nd edition, first published 1990). Cambridge/New York: 2008. Pp. 72. $26.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521699990.
    Reviewed by Vibeke Roggen.

  • 2009.10.30:  Robin Waterfield, Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths. New York: 2009. Pp. xxv, 253. $27.95. ISBN 9780393065275.
    Reviewed by Pierre Brulé.

  • 2009.10.31:  Giusto Traina, 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire (translation of 2007 Italian edition). Princeton: 2009. Pp. xix, 203. $24.95. ISBN 9780691136691.
    Reviewed by Conor Whately.

  • 2009.10.32:  David Langslow, Jacob Wackernagel. Lectures on Syntax: With Special Reference to Greek, Latin, and Germanic. Oxford/New York: 2009. Pp. xxii, 982. $250.00. ISBN 9780198153023.
    Reviewed by Andreas Willi.

  • 2009.10.33:  Hadrien Bru, François Kirbihler, Stéphane Lebreton, L'Asie mineure dans l'Antiquité: Échanges, populations et territoires. Histoire. Rennes: 2009. Pp. 483. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 9782753507760.
    Reviewed by Maria Beatrice Bittarello.

  • 2009.10.34:  Carmela Angela Di Stefano, Demetra; La divinità, i santuari, il culto, la leggenda, Atti del I Congresso internazionale, Enna, 1-4 luglio 2004. Pisa/Roma: 2008. Pp. 296. €185.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862270380.
    Reviewed by Milena Melfi.

  • 2009.10.35:  Andrea Primo, La storiografia sui seleucidi: da Megastene a Eusebio di Cesarea. Studi ellenistici 10. Pisa/Roma: 2009. Pp. 390. €140.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862271264.
    Reviewed by Michael Weiskopf.

  • 2009.10.36:  Dieter Planck, Andreas Thiel, Das Limes-Lexikon: Roms Grenzen von A bis Z. Beck'sche Reihe; 1836. München: 2009. Pp. 160. €9.95 (pb). ISBN 9783406568169.
    Reviewed by Chris Epplett.

  • 2009.10.37:  Alex G. Garman, The Cult of the Matronae in the Roman Rhineland: An Historical Evaluation of the Archaeological Evidence. Lewiston, NY: 2008. Pp. iii, 174. $99.95. ISBN 9780773452244.
    Reviewed by Timothy M. Teeter.

  • 2009.10.38:  Andrew Barker, The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xii, 481; figs. 11. $115.00. ISBN 9780521879514.
    Reviewed by Nathan Sidoli.

  • 2009.10.39:  David Konstan, A Life Worthy of the Gods: The Materialist Psychology of Epicurus (revised and expanded edition, in part originally published in 1973 as Some Aspects of Epicurean Psychology by E. J. Brill, Leiden). Las Vegas: 2008. Pp. xx, 176. $34.00 (pb). ISBN 9781930972285.
    Reviewed by Wilson H. Shearin.

  • 2009.10.40:  Kristoffel Demoen, Danny Praet, Theios Sophistes: Essays on Flavius Philostratus' Vita Apollonii. Mnemosyne Supplements 305. Leiden/Boston: 2009. Pp. xvi, 405. $200.00. ISBN 9789004171091.
    Reviewed by Adam M. Kemezis.

  • 2009.10.41:  Louisa D. Loukopoulou, Selene Psoma, Thrakika Zetemata I. Meletemata 58. Athens: 2008. Pp. 175. (pb). ISBN 9789607905451.
    Reviewed by Maria Deoudi.

  • 2009.10.42:  Laurence M. V. Totelin, Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greece. Studies in Ancient Medicine 34. Leiden/Boston: 2009. Pp. xviii, 366. $179.00; €121.00. ISBN 9789004171541.
    Reviewed by Magali de Haro Sanchez.

  • 2009.10.43:  Arthur McDevitt, Bacchylides: The Victory Poems. London: 2009. Pp. vii, 232. $27.00 (pb). ISBN 9781853997211.
    Reviewed by Chris Eckerman.

  • 2009.10.44:  Markus Handy, Die Severer und das Heer. Studien zur Alten Geschichte Bd. 10. Berlin: 2009. Pp. 283. €49.90. ISBN 9783938032251.
    Reviewed by Jochen Lückoff.

  • 2009.10.45:  Chiara Torre, Martini Bracarensis De ira: introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento. Studi e testi tardoantichi; 7. Roma: 2008. Pp. 274. €35.00. ISBN 9788889670347.
    Reviewed by Kevin Uhalde.

  • 2009.10.46:  Dominique Lenfant, Les histoires perses de Dinon et d'Héraclide. Persika; 13. Paris: 2009. Pp. 370. €52.00 (pb). ISBN 9782701802558.
    Reviewed by M. Weiskopf.

  • 2009.10.47:  Jacques Lamoureux, Noël Aujoulat, Synésios de Cyrène, Tome V: Opuscules II. Collection des Universités de France. Paris: 2008. Pp. xii, 155. €33.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005478.
    Jacques Lamoureux, Noël Aujoulat, Synésios de Cyrène, Tome VI: Opuscules III. Collection des Universités de France. Paris: 2008. Pp. x, 358. €57.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005492.
    Reviewed by Nicola Montenz.

  • 2009.10.48:  Seyed Mohammad Reza Darbandi, Antigoni Zournatzi, Ancient Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross-Cultural Encounters. 1st International Conference (Athens, 11-13 November 2006). Athens: 2008. Pp. xxix, 377. €60.00 (pb). ISBN 9789609309554.
    Reviewed by Margaret C. Miller.

  • 2009.10.49:  Pierre Briant, Lettre ouverte à Alexandre le Grand. Arles: 2008. Pp. 230. €21.80 (pb). ISBN 9782742780259.
    Reviewed by David Engels.

  • 2009.10.50:  Yulia Ustinova, Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind. Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth. Oxford/New York: 2009. Pp. xi, 315. $95.00. ISBN 9780199548569.
    Reviewed by Catalin Partenie.

  • 2009.10.51:  Umberto Pappalardo, The Splendor of Roman Wall Painting. Los Angeles: 2009. Pp. 240. $45.00. ISBN 9780892369584.
    Reviewed by Francesca Tronchin.

  • 2009.10.52:  Ellen Swift, Style and Function in Roman Decoration: Living with Objects and Interiors. Burlington, VT: 2009. Pp. xii, 231. $99.95. ISBN 9780754665632.
    Reviewed by Sarah Levin-Richardson.

  • 2009.10.53:  Nicola Cusumano, Mythos. Rivista di Storia delle Religioni, n.s., I, (2006-2007) [XIII-XIV, serie continua]. Caltanissetta: 2006-2007. Pp. 264. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882412951.
    Reviewed by Paolo Daniele Scirpo.

  • 2009.10.54:  Rudolf Haensch, Selbstdarstellung und Kommunikation: Die Veröffentlichung staatlicher Urkunden auf Stein und Bronze in der römischen Welt. Vestigia. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte Bd. 61. München: 2009. Pp. vi, 472. €78.00. ISBN 9783406582875.
    Reviewed by Jens Bartels.

  • 2009.10.55:  Paul Millett, Theophrastus and His World. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Supplement Vol. 33. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. x, 188. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-90614-32-5.
    Reviewed by John Scarborough.

  • 2009.10.56:  Harald Thorsrud, Ancient Scepticism. Ancient Philosophies. Stocksfield: 2008. Pp. xvi, 248. £45.00. ISBN 978-1-84465-130-6.
    Reviewed by Diego E. Machuca.

  • 2009.10.57:  Lynette Mitchell, Lene Rubinstein, Greek History and Epigraphy. Essays in Honour of P. J. Rhodes. Swansea: 2009. Pp. xxviii, 301. $110.00. ISBN 9781905125234.
    Reviewed by Araceli Striano.

  • 2009.10.58:  JoAnn DellaNeva, Ciceronian Controversies. English Translation by Brian Duvick. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 26. Cambridge, MA: 2007. Pp. 295. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02520-2.
    Reviewed by Michael Fontaine.

  • 2009.10.59:  Gloria Ferrari, Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta. Chicago: 2008. Pp. viii, 184. $45.00. ISBN 9780226668673.
    Reviewed by A. J. Podlecki.

  • 2009.10.60:  Beth Alpert Nakhai, The World of Women in the Ancient and Classical Near East. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: 2008. Pp. xviii, 215. £39.99; $79.99. ISBN 9781443800303.
    Reviewed by Stephanie L. Budin.

  • 2009.10.61:  Vedia Izzet, The Archaeology of Etruscan Society. Cambridge/New York: 2007. Pp. xii, 320. $99.00. ISBN 9780521858779.
    Reviewed by Hilary Becker.

  • 2009.10.62:  Response: López Barja de Quiroga on Gagliardi on López Barja de Quiroga, Historia de la manumisión en Roma: de los orígenes a los Severos.
    Response by Pedro López Barja de Quiroga.

  • 2009.10.63:  Christoph Menke, Tragic Play: Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett (translated by James Phillips; first published 2005). Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. New York: 2009. Pp. xi, 232. $55.00. ISBN 9780231145565.
    Reviewed by Joshua Billings.

  • 2009.11.01:  BMCR Books Received (October, 2009).


  • 2009.11.02:  Shirley A. Barlow, The Imagery of Euripides: A Study in the Dramatic Use of Pictorial Language (third edition). London: 2008. Pp. xxviii, 169. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9781853997105.
    Reviewed by Viviana Gastaldi.

  • 2009.11.03:  Response: Davidson on Verstraete on Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece.
    Response by James Davidson.

  • 2009.11.04:  Elizabeth M. Craik, The Hippocratic Treatise On Glands. Studies in Ancient Medicine v. 36. Leiden: 2009. Pp. viii, 169. $123.00. ISBN 9789004175631.
    Reviewed by Robert Mayhew.

  • 2009.11.05:  Jean-Victor Vernhes, Hermaion. Discovering Ancient Greek Step by Step: A New and Efficient Method, translated and adapted from the French by Monique L. Cardell. Paris: 2009. Pp. 487. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9782708012196.
    Reviewed by Kirsty Jenkins.

  • 2009.11.06:  Response by De Haan, Eickhoff, and Schwegman on Nathalie de Hann, Martijn Eickhoff, Marjan Schwegman (ed.), Archaeology and National Identity in Italy and Europe 1800-1950.
    Response by Nathalie de Haan, Martijn Eickhoff, Marjan Schwegman.

  • 2009.11.07:  Irad Malkin, Christy Constantakopoulou, Katerina Panagopoulou, Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean. London/New York: 2009. Pp. xii, 321. €82.90; $115.00. ISBN 978-0-415-45989-1.
    Reviewed by Sandra Péré-Noguès.

  • 2009.11.08:  Michel Patillon, Corpus rhetoricum. Tome II, Hermogène: les états de cause. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 470. Paris: 2009. Pp. cvii, 205. €31.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005539.
    Reviewed by Malcolm Heath.

  • 2009.11.09:  Anna Tiziana Drago, Aristeneto: Lettere d'amore. Introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento. Lecce: 2007. Pp. 656. €38.00. ISBN 9788882325503.
    Reviewed by Owen Hodkinson.

  • 2009.11.10:  Jane Fejfer, Roman Portraits in Context. Image and Context; v. 2. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. ix, 592. $129.95. ISBN 9783110186642.
    Reviewed by Alexandra Dardenay.

  • 2009.11.11:  Neil Coffee, The Commerce of War: Exchange and Social Order in Latin Epic. Chicago: 2009. Pp. xi, 326. $50.00. ISBN 9780226111872.
    Reviewed by Neil W. Bernstein.

  • 2009.11.12:  Jeffrey S. Soles, Thomas M. Brogan, Sevi Triantaphyllou, Mochlos IIA: Period IV, The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery: The Sites. Prehistory Monographs; 23. Philadelphia: 2008. Pp. xxx, 265; 145 p. of plates. $80.00. ISBN 9781931534239.
    Reviewed by Yannis Galanakis.

  • 2009.11.13:  Pierre Brulé, La norme en matière religieuse en Grèce ancienne. Actes du XIIe colloque international du CIERGA (Rennes, septembre 2007). Kernos Supplément 21. Liège: 2009. Pp. 342. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 9782960071740.
    Reviewed by Laurence Foschia.

  • 2009.11.14:  Jocelyne Nelis-Clément, Jean-Michel Roddaz, Le cirque romain et son image: [Actes du colloque tenu à l'institut Ausonius, Bordeaux, 2006]. Mémoires, 20. Bordeaux: 2008. Pp. 584. €70.00. ISBN 978-2-35613-001-3.
    Reviewed by Matthieu Soler.

  • 2009.11.15:  Response: Ormand on Davidson on Verstraete on Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece.
    Response by Kirk Ormand.

  • 2009.11.16:  Orietta Dora Cordovana, Segni e immagini del potere tra antico e tardoantico: i Severi e la provincia Africa proconsularis (Seconda edizione rivista ed aggiornata). Testi e studi di storia antica. Catania: 2007. Pp. ix, 538. €60.00 (pb). ISBN 9788886808323.
    Reviewed by Roger Hanoune.

  • 2009.11.17:  Mariarita Sgarlata, Grazia Salvo, La Catacomba di Santa Lucia e l'Oratorio dei Quaranta Martiti. Siracusa: 2006. Pp. 113. (pb). ISBN 88-7260-171-1.
    Reviewed by Paolo Daniele Scirpo.

  • 2009.11.18:  Stavros Vlizos, He Athene kata te Romaike epoche: Prosphates anakalypseis, nees ereunes / Athens During the Roman Period: Recent Discoveries, New Evidence. Mouseio Benake - Parartema 40. Athens: 2008. Pp. 488. (pb). ISBN 9789604760022.
    Reviewed by Paraskevi Martzavou.

  • 2009.11.19:  Giuseppe Garbati, Religione votiva: per un'interpretazione storico-religiosa delle terrecotte votive nella Sardegna punica e tardo-punica. Supplemento alla Rivista di Studi Fenici 34 (2006). Pisa/Roma: 2008. Pp. 121. €160.00. ISBN 9788862270779.
    Reviewed by Chiara Peri.

  • 2009.11.20:  Aldo Brancacci, Musica e filosofia da Damone a Filodemo: sette studi. Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere "La Colombaria" - Serie Studi 245. Firenze: 2008. Pp. 161. €18.00. ISBN 9788822258212.
    Reviewed by Marco Ercoles.

  • 2009.11.21:  Charles Kahn, Essays on Being. Oxford/New York: 2009. Pp. 225. $40.00. ISBN 9780199534807.
    Reviewed by Simon Noriega-Olmos.

  • 2009.11.22:  Maria Deoudi, Ithake: Die Polis-Höhle, Odysseus und die Nymphen. Thessaloniki: 2008. Pp. 389. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9789601216959.
    Reviewed by Jorrit Kelder.

  • 2009.11.23:  Kate Gilhuly, The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens. Cambridge/New York: 2009. Pp. xii, 208. $80.00. ISBN 9780521899987.
    Reviewed by S. Larson.

  • 2009.11.24:  A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, R.S. Stroud, R.A. Tybout, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Volume LIV (2004). Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. xxxiii, 916. $256.00. ISBN 9789004166875.
    Reviewed by Julia Lougovaya.

  • 2009.11.25:  Hugo Beikircher, Silvia Clavadetscher, Cornelis G. van Leijenhorst, Claudia Wick, Thesaurus linguae latinae: Editus iussu et auctoritate consilii ab academiis societatibusque diversarum nationum electi. Vol. X, 2 Fasc. XVI, pubertas - pulso. Berlin/New York: 2008. Pp. 174. (pb). ISBN 9783110203721.
    Reviewed by Rolando Ferri.

  • 2009.11.26:  Stephen Trow, Simon James, Tom Moore, Becoming Roman, Being Gallic, Staying British: Research and Excavations at Ditches 'Hillfort' and Villa 1984-2006. Oxford: 2008. Pp. xv, 224. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 9781842173367.
    Reviewed by Geoff W. Adams.

  • 2009.11.27:  Michiel Arnoud Cor de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages (vol. 7 in the series "Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary"). Leiden/Boston: 2008. Pp. xiii, 825. €229.00, $341.00. ISBN 9004167978.
    Reviewed by Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo.

  • 2009.11.28:  Alexis Pinchard, Les langues de sagesse dans la Grèce et l'Inde anciennes. Hautes Études du monde gréco-romain 43. Genève: 2009. Pp. x, 637. $140.00 (pb). ISBN 9782600013475.
    Reviewed by Alberto Bernabé.

  • 2009.11.29:  Paul Murgatroyd, Apuleius: Metamorphoses: An Intermediate Latin Reader. Cambridge/New York: 2009. Pp. x, 151. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521690553.
    Reviewed by Vincent Hunink.
 
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