Month: June 2006

BMCR Books Received (May)

Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy: The Politics of Exclusion in Ancient Greece

Sara Forsdyke  / Princeton University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Peter Hunt, 

Flavian Poetry. Mnemosyne Suppl. 270

Ruurd R. Nauta, Harm-Jan van Dam, Johannes Jacobus Louis Smolenaars  / Brill, 2006

Reviewed by Neil W. Bernstein, 

The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine

Noel Emmanuel Lenski  / Cambridge University Press, 2006

Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell, 

Prolegomeni a Sisenna

Alessandro Perutelli  / ETS, 2004

Reviewed by James E. G. Zetzel, 

The Collected Works of Erasmus: Adages III.iv.1-IV.ii.100. Vol. 35

Desiderius Erasmus, John L. Grant, Denis L. Drysdall  / University of Toronto Press, 2005

Reviewed by Richard Joines, 

Roman Rule and Civic Life: Local and Regional Perspectives. Impact of Empire, vol. 4

Netherlands) Impact of Empire (Organization). Workshop (4th : 2003 : Leiden, L de Ligt, Emily Ann Hemelrijk, H. W. Singor  / J.C. Gieben, 2004

Reviewed by Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho, 

Psicomusicologia nella Grecia Antica. A cura di Angelo Meriani. Università degli Studi di Salerno. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità

Andrew Barker, Angelo Meriani  / Guida, 2005

Reviewed by Massimo Raffa, 

Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals and Narratives in the Iliad

Margo Kitts  / Cambridge University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Jonathan Ready, 

1-2 Corinthians. New Cambridge Bible Commentary

Craig S. Keener  / Cambridge University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Charles A. Anderson, 

La Cappadoce (IVe-VIe Siècle): Une histoire provinciale de l’Empire romain d’Orient. Byzantina Sorbonensia 22

Sophie Métivier  / Publications de la Sorbonne, 2005

Reviewed by Susan R. Holman, 

Big Screen Rome

Monica Silveira Cyrino  / Blackwell Pub, 2005

Reviewed by Paula James, 

La cuisine et l’autel: les sacrifices en questions dans les sociétés de la Méditerranée ancienne. Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études, Sciences Religieuses 124

Stella Georgoudi, Renée Koch Piettre, Francis Schmidt  / Brepols, 2005

Reviewed by Sergio Knipe, 

The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography

Dale B. Martin, Patricia Cox Miller  / Duke University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Matthew Kraus, 

Augustus Caesar. Second edition

D. C. A. (David Colin Arthur) Shotter  / Routledge, 2005

Reviewed by Anne-Marie Lewis, 

Cornelius Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus. Streitgespräch über die Redner

Cornelius Tacitus, Dieter Flach  / Steiner, 2005

Reviewed by Roland Mayer, 

The Elegiac Cityscape. Propertius and the Meaning of Roman Monuments

Tara S. Welch  / Ohio State University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Frédéric Nau, 

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume XXV, Winter 2003

D. N. (David N.) Sedley  / Oxford University Press, 2003

Reviewed by Michael Pakaluk, 

Ancient Epic Poetry: Homer, Apollonius, Virgil, With a Chapter on the Gilgamesh Poems

Charles Rowan Beye  / Bolchazy-Carducci, 2006

Reviewed by Andrew E. Porter, 

The Soul of Tragedy: Essays on Athenian Drama

Victoria Pedrick, Steven M. Oberhelman  / University of Chicago Press, 2005

Reviewed by Norman B. Sandridge,