Month: December 2005

BMCR Books Received (November)

Catullus’ Poem on Attis. Texts and Contexts

Ruurd R. Nauta, Annette Harder  / Brill, 2005

Reviewed by Sumi Furiya, 

Latin Letters, Reading Roman Correspondence. Illustrated by Dona Black. Focus Classical Commentaries

C. A. E. Luschnig, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger Pliny  / Focus Pub, 2006

Reviewed by Vincent Hunink, 

Pompeii. The Living City

Alex Butterworth, Ray Laurence  / Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005

Reviewed by Pamela Marin, 

The Worlds of Roman Women

Ann Raia, C. A. E. Luschnig, Judith Lynn Sebesta  / Focus, 2005

Reviewed by Stacie Raucci, 

Tres Mures Caeci. Illustrated by Michelle Thoburn

David Noe  / Patrick Henry College Press, 2005

Reviewed by Vibeke Roggen, 

Byzantinische Zeitschrift. Bibliographie. 2nd ed.: vols. 83 (1990)-94 (2001), Suppl. I-III. CD-Rom Edition. Also available for network (LAN) use

Peter Schreiner  / K.G. Saur, 2004

Reviewed by Paul Stephenson, 

Sei Letture Plautine

Cesare Questa  / QuattroVenti, 2004

Reviewed by Joanne Walker, 

Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome. Innovations in Context

Lynne C. Lancaster  / Cambridge University Press, 2005

Reviewed by James Packer, 

L’Action efficace. Études sur la philosophie de l’action d’Aristote

Carlo Natali  / Peeters, 2004

Reviewed by Lloyd Gerson, 

Coins, Cult and Cultural Identity: Augustan Coins, Hot Springs and the Early Roman Baths at Bourbonne-les-Bains. Leicester Archaeology Monographs 10

Eberhard W. Sauer  / School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, 2005

Reviewed by Stefan Krmnicek, 

Procne e Filomela. Dal mito al simbolo letterario

Paolo Monella  / Pàtron, 2005

Reviewed by Valentina DeNardis, 

Chamberland on Aronoff on Mahoney

Response by Guy Chamberland | Original Review by Peter Aronoff, 

Moreschini on Dyck on Moreschini

Response by C. Moreschini | Original Review by Andrew Dyck, 

Cleopatra and Rome

Diana E. E. Kleiner  / Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Prudence Jones, 

Goddesses and the divine feminine: a western religious history

Rosemary Radford Ruether  / University of California Press, 2005

Reviewed by Nicki Waugh, 

Negotiatio Germaniae: Tacitus’ Germania und Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Giannantonio Campano, Conrad Celtis und Heinrich Bebel. Hypomnemata 158

Christopher B. Krebs  / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005

Reviewed by Christopher Whitton, 

Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions

Raʻanan S. Boustan, Annette Yoshiko Reed  / Cambridge University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Pablo Torijano, 

Scythians and Greeks: Cultural Interactions in Scythia, Athens and the Early Roman Empire (sixth century BC – first century AD)

David Braund  / University of Exeter Press, 2005

Reviewed by Elias Petropoulos, 

From the Editors’ Disk: Reviewers wanted