Month: March 2006

Roman and Greek Imperial Epic. Rethymnon Classical Studies 2

Michael Paschalis, Μιχάλης Πασχάλης  / Crete University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Stephen Harrison, 

The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society

Ian Morris, Barry B. Powell  / Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006

Reviewed by Wilfred Major, 

The Colosseum

Erin Hunter  / Harvard University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Alessandra Bravi, 

Homeric Hymns

Sarah Ruden  / Hackett, 2005

Reviewed by Roger Fisher, 

Der Delos-Hymnus des Kallimachos innerhalb seines Hymnensextetts. Orbis antiquus, 39

Karina Ukleja  / Aschendorff, 2005

Reviewed by Massimo Giuseppetti, 

BMCR Books Received (February)

Rhetoric in Antiquity. Translated by W.E. Higgins

Laurent Pernot  / Catholic University of America Press, 2005

Reviewed by Stefanie Kennell, 

The Plays of Sophocles

A.F. Garvie  / Duckworth (Bristol Classical Press), 2005

Reviewed by Seth Schein, 

The War That Still Goes On

ALSO SEEN: The Royal Shakespeare Company  / February 12, 2006

Reviewed by Neil Forsyth, 

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Volume XXVI, Summer 2004

D. N. (David N.) Sedley  / Oxford University Press, 2004

Reviewed by G.S. Cowley, 

Epic Succession and Dissension. Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623-14.582 and the Reinvention of the Aeneid

Sophia Papaioannou  / De Gruyter, 2005

Reviewed by Christopher Francese, 

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian

Michael Maas  / Cambridge University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Mischa Meier, 

Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity. Gender, Theory, and Religion Series

Jennifer Wright Knust  / Columbia University Press, 2006

Reviewed by David Reis, 

A Companion to Tragedy. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

Rebecca W. Bushnell  / Blackwell Pub, 2005

Reviewed by Blake Tyrrell, 

La pétition à Byzance. Centre de Recherche d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, Monographies 14

Denis Feissel, Jean Gascou  / Association des amis du Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance, 2004

Reviewed by Raymond Van Dam, 

Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context. Hellenistic Culture and Society, 43

Sara Raup Johnson  / University of California Press, 2005

Reviewed by Jed Wyrick, 

Rak on Fisher on Sarah Ruden (trans.), Homeric Hymns

Response by Rak Brian | Original Review by

Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality

Monica (Monica R.) Gale  / Classical Press of Wales, 2004

Reviewed by Andrew Fenton, 

The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC-AD 300. Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Representation

Christopher H. Hallett  / Oxford University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Brunilde Ridgway, 

Properzio. Elegie. Edizione critica e traduzione

Sextus Propertius, Giancarlo Giardina  / Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 2005

Reviewed by Frédéric Nau,