Month: July 2005

Berno on Limburg on Berno

Response by Francesca Berno | Original Review by Florence Limburg, 

Taten und Tugenden Traians. Herrschaftsdarstellung im Principat. Hermes Einzelschriften, Heft 91

Gunnar Seelentag  / Steiner, 2004

Reviewed by Louis van den Hengel, 

Babylon Memphis Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture

Walter Burkert  / Harvard University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Molly Levine, 

Greek mercenaries: from the late archaic period to Alexander

Matthew Trundle  / Routledge, 2004

Reviewed by Ian Worthington, 

Omero anti-Omero: Le incredibili storie di un trickster giullare alla corte micenea

Franco Maiullari  / Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 2004

Reviewed by Alexander Beecroft, 

Philosophy in the Ancient World. An Introduction

James A. Arieti  / Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005

Reviewed by Giannis Stamatellos, 

Roman Lives: Ancient Roman Life as Illustrated by Latin Inscriptions. Focus Classical Library

Brian K. Harvey  / Focus Pub./R. Pullins Co, 2004

Reviewed by Peter Keegan, 

Ovid. Metamorphosen, Buch VIII. Narrative Technik und literarischer Kontext. Studien zur klassischen Philologie, Bd. 138

Chrysanthe Tsitsiou-Chelidoni  / Lang, 2003

Reviewed by Gianpiero Rosati, 

The Statesman in Plutarch’s Works. Volume I: Plutarch’s Statesman and His Aftermath: Political, Philosophical, and Literary Aspects. Mnemosyne Suppl. 250

Lukas de Blois  / Brill, 2004

Reviewed by Jan Stronk, 

Greek Ostraca from Kellis: O.Kellis, Nos. 1-293. With a chapter on the ostraka and the archaeology of Ismant el-Kharab by Colin A. Hope. Dakhleh Oasis Project: Monograph 13

Erkan Ali  / Oxbow Books, 2004

Reviewed by Eleanor Dickey, 

Philostratus’ Heroikos: Religion and Cultural Identity in the Third Century C.E

Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken  / Society of Biblical Literature, 2004

Reviewed by Jas' Elsner, 

The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process

Stephen D. Houston  / Cambridge University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Roger Wright, 

Marsilio Ficino. Platonic Theology. Volume 4: Books XII-XIV. I Tatti Renaissance Library, 13

Marsilio Ficino, James Hankins, William Roy Bowen, Michael J. B. Allen, John Warden  / Harvard University Press, 2001-2006

Reviewed by Maude Vanhaelen, 

Women and Law in the Roman Empire. A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood

Judith Evans Grubbs  / Routledge, 2002

Reviewed by Marcus Sigismund, 

Tacitus, The Annals. Translated with Introduction and Notes

Cornelius Tacitus, A. J. (Anthony John) Woodman  / Hackett Pub, 2004

Reviewed by R. Rutherford, 

Attalos, Athens, and the Akropolis. The Pergamene ‘Little Barbarians’ and their Roman and Renaissance Legacy. With an essay by Manolis Korres

Andrew F. Stewart, M. (Manolēs) Korres  / Cambridge University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Brunilde Ridgway, 

BMCR Books Received (June)

Les Cités grecques et le contrôle des magistrats (IVe-Ier siècle avant J.-C.). École pratique des Hautes Études. Hautes Études du monde gréco-romain, 33

Pierre Fröhlich  / Droz, 2004

Reviewed by Edward Harris, 

Gli scolii a Lucano ed altra scoliastica latina. Testi e studi di cultura classica 21

Paolo Esposito  / ETS, 2004

Reviewed by Vincent Hunink, 

Landbesitz griechischer Heiligtümer in archaischer und klassischer Zeit. Rostock Univ. Habil.-Sch. 2003. Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, 53

Marietta Horster  / De Gruyter, 2004

Reviewed by Signe Isager,