Month: July 2003

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds. A Sourcebook

Daniel Ogden  / Oxford University Press, 2002

Reviewed by Radcliffe Edmonds, 

Platon. Le Politique

Platon., Luc Brisson, Jean-François Pradeau  / Éditions Flammarion, c2003

Reviewed by Ruby Blondell, 

Aristotle’s “Best Regime”. Kingship, Democracy, and the Rule of Law

Clifford Angell Bates Jr.  / Louisiana State University Press, 2003

Reviewed by John Lewis, 

BMCR Books Received (June)

Houses and Monuments of Pompeii: The Works of Fausto and Felice Niccolini. With an introduction by Stefano De Caro, Translated by Thomas M. Hartmann

Roberto Cassanelli, Stefano De Caro, Thomas M. Hartmann  / J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002

Reviewed by John Clarke, 

The Reign of Heraclius (610-641). Crisis and Confrontation. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, 2

G. J. Reinink, Bernard H. Stolte, Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen.  / Peeters, 2002

Reviewed by Anthony Alcock, 

Buckler on Fletcher on Slater

Response by Caroline Buckler | Original Review by Judith Fletcher, 

Strabons Geographika, Band 1, Prolegomena, Buch I-IV: Text und Übersetzung

Strabo., S. L. Radt  / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002-2011

Reviewed by Sarah Pothecary, 

The Religious Life of Palmyra

Ted Kaizer  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002

Reviewed by Tawny Holm, 

The Ship of State: Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America

Norma Thompson  / Yale University Press, 2001

Reviewed by Stephen Salkever, 

Commodus: An Emperor at the Crossroads

Olivier Hekster  / J.C. Gieben, 2002

Reviewed by P.A. Roche, 

Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece

Harvey Yunis  / Cambridge University Press, 2003

Reviewed by Jason Hawke, 

Fletcher on Buckler on Fletcher on Slater

Response by Judith Fletcher | Original Response by Caroline Buckler, 

Herodotus: Histories Book IX. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Herodotus., Michael A. Flower, John Marincola  / Cambridge University Press, 2002

Reviewed by Jan Stronk, 

Homer. Iliad Book 1 with notes and vocabulary

Homer., P. A. (Pamela Ann) Draper  / University of Michigan Press, 2002

Reviewed by Martin Schmidt, 

Varrone e i Poetica Verba: Studio sul settimo libro del De lingua latina

Giorgio Piras  / Pàtron, 1998

Reviewed by Peter King, 

Poetics before Plato: Interpretation and Authority in Early Greek Theories of Poetry

Grace M. Ledbetter  / Princeton University Press, 2003

Reviewed by Anastasios Nikolopoulos, 

Aegyptiaca Romana. Nilotic Scenes and the Roman Views of Egypt. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 144

M. J. Versluys  / Brill, 2002

Reviewed by Prudence Jones, 

Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece

Gloria Ferrari  / The University of Chicago Press, 2002

Reviewed by Alastair Blanshard, 

Martial und das antike Epigramm

Niklas Holzberg  / Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2002

Reviewed by Farouk Grewing,