Month: February 2005

BMCR Books Received (January)

Mercanti e politica nel mondo antico. Saggi di storia antica, 21

Carlo Zaccagnini  / "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, c2003

Reviewed by Gonzalo Rubio, 

Poetic Memory. Allusion in the Poetry of Callimachus and the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Mnemosyne, Supplementa 258

Heather van Tress  / Brill, 2004

Reviewed by Yannick Durbec, 

Plautus. Amphitryo. Focus Classical Commentary

Titus Maccius Plautus, Anne (Anne Elizabeth) Mahoney  / Focus Pub./R. Pullins Co, 2004

Reviewed by A. Fuchs, 

Alcock on Conybeare on Goldhill

Response by Anthony Alcock | Original Review by Catherine Conybeare, 

A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society and Culture

Sarah B. Pomeroy  / Oxford University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Timothy Howe, 

Spartan Society

Thomas J. Figueira, Pierre Brulé  / The Classical Press of Wales, 2004

Reviewed by Ibrahim Amin, 

The Etruscans. Art, Architecture and History

Federica Borrelli, Maria Cristina Targia, Stefano Peccatori, Stefano Zuffi  / J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004

Reviewed by Silvana Gaeta, 

Classical Literature: A Concise History

R. B. Rutherford  / Blackwell, 2005

Reviewed by Carol Harding, 

Homeric Megathemes: War – Homilia – Homecoming. Originally published as Homêrika megathemata: polemos – homilia – nostos (Athens 1999). Translated by David Connolly

D. N. Marōnitēs, David Connolly  / Lexington Books, 2004

Reviewed by James Holoka, 

Discs of Splendor. The Relief Mirrors of the Etruscans

Alexandra Ann Carpino  / University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

Reviewed by V. Izzet, 

Ruling the Later Roman Empire

Christopher Kelly  / Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Michael Kulikowski, 

I frammenti di Mnasea: Introduzione testo e commento. Università degli Studi di Milano, Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia 209, Sezione di filologia classica

Pietro Cappelletto  / LED, 2003

Reviewed by S. Olson, 

Friendship and Poetry: Studies in Danish Neo-Latin Literature. Edited by Marianne Pade, Keren Skovgaard-Petersen, and Peter Zeeberg. Renaessancestudier Series 12

Minna Skafte Jensen, Marianne Pade, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, Peter Zeeberg  / Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2004

Reviewed by Dana Sutton, 

Sulla Musica Greca Antica: Studi e Ricerche. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità

Angelo Meriani  / Guida, 2003

Reviewed by Peter Wilson, 

Jensen on Sutton on Jensen

Response by Minna Jensen | Original Review by Dana Sutton, 

Casa della Caccia antica (VII 4, 48). Häuser in Pompeji, ed. by Volker Michael Strocka, vol. 11

Volker Michael Strocka, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.  / E. Wasmuth, 1984-c2004

Reviewed by John Clarke, 

The Horse and Jockey from Artemision: A Bronze Equestrian Monument of the Hellenistic Period

Seán A. Hemingway  / University of California Press, 2004

Reviewed by Janet Grossman, 

Le relazioni diplomatiche di Roma, Vol. I: dall’età regia alla conquista del primato in Italia (753-265 a.C)

Filippo Canali De Rossi  / "stampato in proprio", 2004

Reviewed by John Muccigrosso, 

Numbering and Measuring in the Classical World

William Frank Richardson  / Bristol Phoenix Press, 2004

Reviewed by Michael DiMaio,