Month: October 2005

BMCR Books Received (September)

Lebedev on Afonasin on Antiquarium

Response by Sergey Lebedev | Original Response by

Harari on Wians on Harari

Response by Orna Harari | Original Review by William Wians, 

Greek and Roman Calendars: Constructions of Time in the Classical World

Robert Hannah  / Duckworth, 2005

Reviewed by Anne-Marie Lewis, 

Il linguaggio nelle commedie di Aristofane. Parola positiva e parola negativa nella commedia antica. Suppl. n. 21/22 al Bollettino dei Classici

Simone Beta  / Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 2004

Reviewed by Rosanna Lauriola, 

Aristotle on Truth

Paolo Crivelli  / Cambridge University Press, 2004

Reviewed by S. Rubinelli, 

Neokoroi: Greek cities and Roman Emperors. Cincinnati Classical Studies, New Series Volume IX

Barbara Burrell  / Brill, 2004

Reviewed by Kieran Hendrick, 

Posidippo e gli altri. Il poeta, il genere, il contesto culturale e letterario. Atti dell’incontro di studio, Roma 14-15 maggio 2004 (Appunti Romani di Filologia 6)

Massimo Di Marco, Bruna M. Palumbo Stracca, Emanuele Lelli  / Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, 2005

Reviewed by Alexander Sens, 

Formen der Anrede im byzantinischen Brief vom 6. bis zum 12. Jahrhundert. Wiener byzantinistische Studien, Vol. XXV

Michael Grünbart, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Kommission für Byzantinistik., Universität Wien. Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik.  / Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2005

Reviewed by Franziska Shlosser, 

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Deutschland 77, München Antikensammlungen, 13

Reinhard Lullies, Elena Walter-Karydi, Erika Kunze-Götte, Berthold Fellmann, Susanne Pfisterer-Haas, Yasmin Olivier-Trottenberg, Elke Böhr, Union académique internationale, Germany) Museum Antiker Kleinkunst (Munich, Bavaria (Germany). Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Kommission für das Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum  / C.H. Beck, 1939-2017

Reviewed by Michael Eisman, 

Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity

Anthony Kaldellis  / University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004

Reviewed by William Fahey, 

Travel, communication and geography in Late Antiquity: sacred and profane

Linda Ellis, Frank Kidner, San Francisco State University.  / Ashgate Publishing, 2004

Reviewed by Susan Weingarten, 

Iscrizioni dello Estremo Oriente Greco. Un repertorio. Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien, Bd. 65

Filippo Canali De Rossi, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften., Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften.  / Rudolf Habelt, 2004

Reviewed by Colin Bailey, 

Shakespeare and the Classics

Charles Martindale, A. B. (Albert Booth) Taylor  / Cambridge University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Sander Goldberg, 

Production and Consumption of Animals in Roman Italy: Integrating the Zooarchaeological and Textual Evidence

Michael R. (Michael Ross) MacKinnon  / Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2004

Reviewed by George Houston, 

Parthenope: Studies in Ancient Greek Fiction (1969-2004). Edited by Lars Boje Mortensen and Tormod Eide

Tomas Hägg, Lars Boje Mortensen, Tormod Eide  / Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2004

Reviewed by Michael Anderson, 

Vision and Narrative in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon. Cambridge Classical Studies

Helen Morales  / Cambridge University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Max Goldman, 

Odysseerezeptionen

Andreas Luther  / Verlag Antike, 2005

Reviewed by Filippomaria Pontani, 

The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity

Kathy L. Gaca  / University of California Press, 2003

Reviewed by Amy Richlin, 

Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology. Studies in Classics, vol. 9

Sophie Gibson  / Routledge, 2005

Reviewed by Otto Steinmayer,