Month: September 2003

Clio and the Poets. Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography. Mnemosyne Supplement, 224

D. S. Levene, Damien Nelis  / Brill, 2002

Reviewed by C. Kraus, 

Panthea’s Children: Hellenistic Novels and Medieval Persian Romances. Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series, No. 3

Dick Davis  / Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2002

Reviewed by Adam Becker, 

Galen on the Properties of Foodstuffs. Introduction, Translation and Commentary, with a foreword by John Wilkins

Galen., O. W. Powell  / Cambridge University Press, 2003

Reviewed by Veronika Grimm, 

Lovers’ Legends: The Gay Greek Myths

Andrew Calimach  / Haiduk Press, 2002

Reviewed by Teresa Ramsby, 

BMCR Books Received (August)

Mosaic. Festschrift for A.H.S. Megaw. BSA Studies, 8

A. H. S. (Arthur Hubert Stanley) Megaw, Judith Herrin, Margaret Mullett, Catherine Otten-Froux  / British School at Athens, 2001

Reviewed by Amy Papalexandrou, 

Textgeschichte und Rezeption der plautinischen Komödien im Altertum

Marcus Deufert  / De Gruyter, 2002

Reviewed by Rolando Ferri, 

The Language of Greek Comedy

Andreas Willi  / Oxford University Press, 2002

Reviewed by Stephen Colvin, 

Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages

Bonnie Effros  / University of California Press, 2003

Reviewed by Matthew Reeve, 

Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays

Daniel Adam Mendelsohn  / Oxford University Press, 2002

Reviewed by Laura McClure, 

Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus

Rosaria Vignolo Munson  / University of Michigan Press, 2001

Reviewed by Stephanie Larson, 

Indexes. The Comedies of Aristophanes 12

Alan H. Sommerstein  / Aris & Phillips, 2002

Reviewed by S. Douglas Olson, 

Silent Witness: Racine’s Non-Verbal Annotations of Euripides. Research Monographs in French Studies 14

Susanna Phillippo, University of Oxford. European Humanities Research Centre.  / Legenda, 2003

Reviewed by Eleanor Dickey, 

Tacitus. Histories, Book I. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Cornelius Tacitus, Cynthia Damon  / Cambridge University Press, 2003

Reviewed by Rhiannon Ash, 

Farming in the First Millennium AD: British Agriculture between Julius Caesar and William the Conquerer

P. J. Fowler  / Cambridge University Press, 2002

Reviewed by Michael Decker, 

Greek Vases in New Contexts. The Collecting and Trading of Greek Vases — An Aspect of the Modern Reception of Antiquity

Vinnie Nørskov  / Aarhus University Press, 2002

Reviewed by Claire Lyons, 

Horace Odes III: Dulce Periculum

Horace., David West  / Oxford University Press, 2002

Reviewed by John Quinn, 

Sentenzen im Werk des Tacitus. Palingenesia LXXIV

Roderich Kirchner  / Steiner, 2001

Reviewed by Steven Rutledge, 

Posidippi Pellaei quae supersunt omnia

of Pella Posidippus, Colin Austin, Guido Bastianini  / LED, 2002

Reviewed by Susan Stephens, 

Adventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Alessandro Pezzati, University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.  / University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002

Reviewed by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak,