Month: March 1998

98.3.01, Rewriting Caucasian History. The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles. The Original Georgian Texts and the Armenian Adaptation

Robert W. Thomson  / Clarendon Press, 1996

Reviewed by Antony Eastmond, 

A Historical Commentary on Thucydides. A Companion to Rex Warner’s Penguin Translation

David Cartwright, Rex Warner  / University of Michigan Press, 1997

Reviewed by Martha Taylor, 

BMCR Books Received (February 1998)

98.3.05, Russian Literature and the Classics. Studies in Russian and European Literature Vol. 1.

Peter I. Barta, David H. J. (David Henry James) Larmour, Paul Allen Miller  / Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996

Reviewed by Vasily Rudich, 

98.3.06, Empire of Honour. The Art of Government in the Roman World

J. E. Lendon  / Clarendon Press, 1997

Reviewed by Michael Peachin, 

98.3.07, Ianiculum-Gianicolo. Storia, topografia, monumenti, leggende dall’antichità al rinascimento

Eva Margareta Steinby  / Institutum Romanum Finlandae, 1996

Reviewed by L. Richardson, 

98.3.08, Arcadius Apis Imperator: Synesios von Kyrene und sein Beitrag zum Herrscherideal der Spatantike

Wolfgang Hagl  / F. Steiner, 1997

Reviewed by Noel Lenski, 

98.3.09, News and Society in the Greek Polis

Sian Lewis  / The University of North Carolina Press, 1996

Reviewed by Frank Russell, 

Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides’ Bacchae

Charles Segal  / Princeton University Press, 1997

Reviewed by Richard Seaford, 

98.3.11, Dissidence and Literature under Nero: The Price of Rhetoricization

Vasily Rudich  / Routledge, 1997

Reviewed by Joy Connolly, 

98.3.12, Musa Lapidaria. A Selection of Latin Verse, Inscriptions. American Classical Studies, 36

E. (Edward) Courtney  / Scholars Press, 1995

Reviewed by Maryline Parca, 

98.3.13, Hermogenes On Issues. Strategies of Argument in Later Greek Rhetoric

active 2nd century Hermogenes, Malcolm Heath  / Clarendon Press, 1995

Reviewed by Ian Rutherford, 

98.3.14, Birds in Mosaics: A Study on the Representation of Birds in Hellenistic and Romano-Campanian Tesselated Mosaics to the Early Augustan Age. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae Vol. 18

Antero Tammisto  / Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 1997

Reviewed by Robert Lamberton, 

Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics

R. W. Sharples  / Routledge, 1996

Reviewed by Tad Brennan, 

98.3.17, The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

Charles Martindale  / Cambridge University Press, 1997

Reviewed by Dan Hooley, 

Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Representations and Realities

Sarah B. Pomeroy  / Clarendon Press, 1996

Reviewed by Marilyn Skinner, 

98.3.19, On Aristotle’s Physics 5, translated by J.O. Urmson, notes by Peter Lautner. The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

of Cilicia Simplicius, J. O. Urmson, Peter Lautner  / Cornell University Press, 1997

Reviewed by Wayne Hankey, 

98.3.20, RESPONSE: Bartlett on Bolin on Bartlett

Response by John R. Bartlett | Original Review by Thomas Bolin,