Month: November 2004

BMCR Books Received (October)

Statius. Vol. 2: Thebaid, Books 1-7; Vol. 3: Books 8-12. Loeb Classical Library, 207 and 498

D.R. Shackleton Bailey  / Harvard University Press, 2003

Reviewed by Paolo Asso, 

Die Orgel im Altertum

Michael Markovits  / Brill, 2003

Reviewed by Kai Brodersen, 

Plato on Knowledge and Forms. Selected Essays

Gail Fine  / Clarendon Press, 2003

Reviewed by Friedemann Buddensiek, 

The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles

Jeffrey M. Hurwit, Adam D. Newton, Jeffrey M. Hurwit  / Cambridge University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Sheramy Bundrick, 

The Cauldron of Ariantas: Studies presented to A. N. Sceglov on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Black Sea Studies I

Pia Guldager Bilde, Jakob Munk Højte, Vladimir F. Stolba, A. N. Shcheglov, Center for sortehavsstudier (Denmark)  / Aarhus University Press, 2003

Reviewed by Stanley Burstein, 

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Finland, fascicule 1. Societas Scientiarum Fennica

Union académique internationale., Suomen Tiedeseura.  / Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2003-

Reviewed by Michael Eisman, 

Pius II: Commentaries

Pope Pius II, Margaret Meserve, Marcello Simonetta  / Harvard University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Dustin Gish, 

Contexts of War. Manipulation of Genre in Virgilian Battle Narrative

Andreola Rossi  / University of Michigan Press, 2004

Reviewed by Stephen Harrison, 

Ancient Voices. Modern Echoes. Theatre in the Greek World. Exhibition Catalogue

J. R. (John Richard) Green, Nicholson Museum.  / Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, 2003

Reviewed by Martina Meyer, 

Continuity of Empire (?). Assyria, Media, Persia. Proceedings of the International Meeting in Padua, 26th-28th April 2001. History of the Ancient Near East. Monographs, V

Giovanni Lanfranchi, Michael Roaf, Robert Rollinger  / S.a.r.g.o.n., 2003

Reviewed by J. Muhly, 

Eros und Distanz. Untersuchungen zu Asklepiades in seinem Kreis. BzA 167

Sibylle Ihm  / Saur, 2004

Reviewed by Regina Hoeschele, 

Rome Supplement

Christopher Stray  / Published for the Classical Association by Oxford University Press, 2003

Reviewed by P. Naiditch, 

Proklos: Grundkurs über Einheit. Grundzüge der neuplatonischen Welt. Text, Übersetzung, Einleitung und Kommentar

approximately 410-485 Proclus, Erwin Sonderegger  / Academia Verlag, 2004

Reviewed by Christian Tornau, 

Lucans poetische Technik. Studien zum historischen Epos. Mnemosyne Supplement 249

Jan Radicke  / Brill, 2004

Reviewed by Antony Augoustakis, 

Vegetius. Epitoma Rei Militaris. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis

Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Michael D. Reeve  / Clarendon Press, 2004

Reviewed by Michael Charles, 

La Sibylle: Parole et représentation. Collection “Interférences”

Monique Bouquet, Françoise Morzadec  / Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2004

Reviewed by Raymond Cormier, 

The Idea of European Community in History Volumes I and II

Euangelos Konstantinu Chrysos, Paschalis Kitromilides  / National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, 2003 Euangelos Konstantinu Chrysos, Paschalis Kitromilides, Kostas Buraselis, K. Zoumboulakis  / National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, 2003

Reviewed by Thomas Corsten, 

Forme di comunicazione nel mondo antico e metamorfosi del mito: dal teatro al romanzo

Marcella Guglielmo, Edoardo Bona, Pôle alpin de recherches sur les sociétés anciennes.  / Edizioni dell'Orso, 2003

Reviewed by Luca Graverini, 

Homer’s Sun Still Shines: Ancient Greece in Essays, Poems and Translations

Vera Lachmann, Charles A. (Charles Allen) Miller  / Trackaday, 2004

Reviewed by John Lewis,