Month: May 2006

BMCR Books Received (April)

Properzio. Elegie. Edizione critica e traduzione

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

Reviewed by Frédéric Nau, 

Feinde – Gegner – Opfer. Zur Darstellung der Troianer in den Kampfszenen der Ilias. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, Band 30

Magdalene Stoevesandt  / Schwabe, 2004

Reviewed by M.M. Willcock, 

The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton

J. Christopher (James Christopher) Warner  / University of Michigan Press, 2005

Reviewed by Antony Augoustakis, 

The Virgin and her Lover: Fragments of an Ancient Greek Novel and a Persian Epic Poem. Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature, vol. XXX

Tomas Hägg, Bo Utas  / Brill, 2003

Reviewed by Adam Becker, 

Kleine Geschichte der antiken Komödie

Gregor Maurach  / Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2005

Reviewed by Yasmina Benferhat, 

Simplicius, On Aristotle’s On the Heavens 2.1-9. The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

of Cilicia Simplicius, Aristotle.  / Cornell University Press, 2004

Reviewed by Börje Bydén, 

Pompeji. Archäologie und Geschichte

Jens-Arne Dickmann  / C.H. Beck, 2005

Reviewed by Miko Flohr, 

La Fin du sacrifice. Les mutations religieuses de l’Antiquité tardive. Collection Collège de France

Gedaliahu A. G. Stroumsa  / O. Jacob, 2005

Reviewed by Morgan Gaulin, 

Prehistorians Round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline. Papers presented at a Workshop held in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, March 14-16, 2003. Kelsey Museum Publication 2

John F. Cherry, Despina Margomenou, Lauren E. (Lauren Elizabeth) Talalay  / Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2005

Reviewed by Athena Hadji, 

Satire and the Threat of Speech: Horace’s Satires Book I. Wisconsin Studies in Classics

Catherine M. Schlegel  / The University of Wisconsin Press, 2005

Reviewed by Catherine Keane, 

Sénèque, De la clémence. Nouvelle édition

Sénèque., François-Régis Chaumartin  / Belles lettres, 2005

Reviewed by Ermanno Malaspina, 

Sklavenfürsorge im Römischen Reich

Stefan Knoch  / Olms, 2005

Reviewed by Marcus Sigismund, 

A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th century. Hesperia Supplement 34

F. (Fariba) Zarinebaf, John Bennet, Jack L. Davis  / American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2005

Reviewed by Kostas Vlassopoulos, 

Phylakes und Phylakon-Steuer im griechisch-römischen Ägypten. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des antiken Sicherheitswesens. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete; Beiheft 17

Clemens Homoth-Kuhs  / Saur, 2005

Reviewed by Sven Günther, 

The Ovidian Heroine as Author: Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides

Laurel Fulkerson  / Cambridge University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Jennifer Ebbeler, 

Propositional Perception: Phantasia, Predication and Sign in Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics

Jeffrey Barnouw  / University Press of America, 2004

Reviewed by Joshua Reynolds, 

Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life

Daniel C. Russell  / Oxford University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Robin Waterfield, 

The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth: A Demotic Discourse on Knowledge and Pendant to the Classical Hermetica. Volume 1: Text. Volume 2: Plates

Richard Lewis Jasnow, Karl-Theodor Zauzich  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005

Reviewed by Kevin van Bladel, 

Unberührt von jedem Umbruch? Der Althistoriker Ernst Hohl zwischen Kaiserreich und früher DDR

Markus Sehlmeyer, Uwe Walter  / Verlag Antike, 2005

Reviewed by Michael Hesse,