Month: October 2004

Eroticism in Ancient and Medieval Greek Poetry

J. C. B. Petropoulos  / Duckworth, 2003

Reviewed by Vayos Liapis, 

Histoire de la littérature grecque a l’époque hellénistique

Luciano Canfora  / Desjonquères, 2004

Reviewed by Jacqueline Klooster, 

Lettera e profezia nell’esegesi di Gregorio Magno. Quaderni di “Invigilata Lucernis,” Dipartamento di Studi Classici e Cristiani, Università degli Studi di Bari, vol. 20

Vincenzo Recchia  / Edipuglia, 2003

Reviewed by Vadim Prozorov, 

BMCR Books Received (September)

Beautiful City: The Dialectical Character of Plato’s Republic

David Roochnik  / Cornell University Press, 2003

Reviewed by Colin Anderson, 

Consuetudinis amor. Fragments d’histoire romaine (IIe-VIe siècles) offerts à Jean-Pierre Callu. Saggi di storia antica, 19

Jean Pierre Callu, François Chausson, Etienne Wolff  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2003

Reviewed by Jörg Fündling, 

Vergil, The Aeneid

Virgil., Richard S. Caldwell, Merle Mainelli Poulton  / Focus Pub, 2004

Reviewed by Betty Nagle, 

Greek Historical Inscriptions 404-323 BC

P. J. (Peter John) Rhodes, Robin Osborne  / Oxford University Press, 2003

Reviewed by Thomas Corsten, 

The manuscript tradition of Procopius’ Gothic Wars: a reconstruction of family y in the light of a hitherto unknown manuscript (Athos, Lavra H-73). BzA 205

Maria K. Kalli  / Saur, 2004

Reviewed by N.G. Wilson, 

Canfora on Klooster on Canfora

Response by Luciano Canfora | Original Review by Jacqueline Klooster, 

An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity. Harvard Theological Studies, 52

Laura Salah Nasrallah  / Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2003

Reviewed by Stephen Felder, 

Plato’s Cratylus

D. N. Sedley  / Cambridge University Press, 2003

Reviewed by Zina Giannopoulou, 

Batracomiomachia. Volgarizzamento del 1456 di Aurelio Simmaco de Iacobiti

Marcello Marinucci, Aurelio Simmaco De Iacobiti  / Esedra, 2001

Reviewed by Federico Condello, 

Aristotele e i suoi esegeti neoplatonici. Logica e ontologia nelle interpretazioni greche e arabe. Atti del convegno internazionale Roma 19-20 ottobre 2001

Vincenza Celluprica, Cristina D'Ancona Costa  / Bibliopolis, 2004

Reviewed by Lloyd Gerson, 

Eros on the Nile. Translated from the Polish by Geoffrey L. Packer

Karol Myśliwiec  / Cornell University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Mehmet-Ali Ataç, 

Reminiszenzen früher Lyrik bei den attischen Tragikern: Beiträge zur Anspielungstechnik und poetischen Tradition. Zetemata, Heft 118

Andreas Bagordo  / Beck, 2003

Reviewed by John Davidson, 

I frammenti di Aristarco di Samotracia negli etimologici bizantini

of Samothrace Aristarchus, Francesca Schironi  / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004

Reviewed by Emanuele Dettori, 

The Law Most Beautiful and Best: Medical Argument and Magical Rhetoric in Plato’s Laws

Randall Baldwin Clark  / Lexington Books, 2003

Reviewed by John Dillon, 

Marriage and Marital Arrangements. A History of the Greek Marriage Document in Egypt. 4th century BCE – 4th century CE. Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und antiken Rechtsgeschichte, 93

Uri Yiftach-Firanko  / C.H. Beck, 2003

Reviewed by Benjamin Garstad, 

The Chreia and Ancient Rhetoric; Progymnasmata

Ronald Hock, Edward O'Neil  / Society of Biblical Literature, 2002 Ronald Hock, Edward O'Neil, George A. Kennedy  / Society of Biblical Literature, 2003

Reviewed by Maud Gleason,