Year: 2005

Learn to Read Latin. 2 Volumes: Textbook and Workbook

Andrew Keller, Stephanie Russell  / Yale University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Tracy Seiler, 

Plato’s Natural Philosophy. A Study of the Timaeus-Critias

T. K. Johansen  / Cambridge University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Lloyd Gerson, 

Conybeare on Conybeare on Hardmeier

Response by Catherine Conybeare | Original Review by Catherine Conybeare, 

Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography. Edited and Introduced by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop

Mario Liverani, Zainab Bahrani, Marc Van de Mieroop  / Cornell University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Mehmet-Ali Ataç, 

Love, Sex, and Tragedy. How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives

Simon Goldhill  / University of Chicago Press, 2004

Reviewed by Catherine Conybeare, 

Seneca. IX Tragedies II, Oedipus, Agamemnon, Thyestes, Hercules on Oeta, Octavia, Loeb Classical Library 78

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, John G. Fitch  / Harvard University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Rolando Ferri, 

The Derveni Papyrus. Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation

Gábor Betegh  / Cambridge University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Richard Janko, 

Megara Hyblaia and Selinous. The Development of Two Greek City-States in Archaic Sicily. Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph No. 57

Franco De Angelis, University of Oxford. School of Archaeology.  / Oxford University, School of Archaeology, 2003

Reviewed by David Smith, 

Aulus Gellius. An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement. Revised edition

Leofranc Holford-Strevens  / Oxford University Press, 2003

Reviewed by Katerina Oikonomopoulou, 

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,