Month: November 2007

BMCR Books Received (October, 2007)

Orfeo y el orfismo en la poesía de Empédocles: influencias y paralelismos. Colección de Estudios, 98

Carlos Megino Rodríguez  / UAM Ediciones, 2005

Reviewed by Jean-Claude Picot, 

On the Wings of Time. Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru

Sabine MacCormack  / Princeton University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Chiara O. Tommasi Moreschini, 

The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times. Translated from the German by David Lorton

Florian Ebeling  / Cornell University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst, 

The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. With the collaboration of M. Hall

of Seville Isidore, Stephen A. Barney  / Cambridge University Press, 2006

Reviewed by Rolando Ferri, 

Brisson on Baracat on Luc Brisson, Jean-François Pradeau, Plotin Traités 38-41

Response by Luc Brisson | Original Review by

Les inscriptions éléennes dialectales

Sophie Minon  / Droz, 2007

Reviewed by Stephen Colvin, 

Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World: The Metopes of Selinus

Clemente Marconi, Getty Foundation.  / Cambridge University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Barbara A. Barletta, 

Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity. Late Antique Archaeology 3.1

William Bowden, Adam Gutteridge, Carlos Machado  / Brill, 2006

Reviewed by Tamara Lewit, 

Per i Convivia Mediolanensia di Francesco Filelfo Messina: Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Umanistici. Quaderni di Filologia medievale e umanistica, 11

Daniela Gionta  / Centro interdipartimentale di studi umanistici, 2005

Reviewed by Stefano Martinelli Tempesta, 

Das Geschichtsbild der Ilias. Eine Untersuchung aus phänomenologischer und narratologischer Perspektive. Hypomnemata, 163

Jonas Grethlein  / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006

Reviewed by Barbara Patzek, 

Tunisian Mosaics : Treasures from Roman Africa. Translated from the French by Sharon Grevet

Aïcha Ben Abed Ben Khader  / Getty Conservation Institute, 2006

Reviewed by Will Wootton, 

Corpus Hermeticum. Edizione e commento di A.D. Nock e A.-J. Festugière. Edizione dei testi ermetici copti e commento di I. Ramelli. Testo greco, latino e copto a fronte. Bompiani. Il pensiero occidentale

A. J. (André Jean) Festugière, Arthur Darby Nock, Ilaria Ramelli  / Bompiani, 2005

Reviewed by Eugene V. Afonasin, 

Theatron. Rhetorische Kultur in Spätantike und Mittelalter / Rhetorical Culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Millennium-Studien, 13

Georgios Fatouros, Michael Grünbart  / De Gruyter, 2007

Reviewed by Benjamin Goldlust, 

Faces of Power: Imperial Portraiture on Roman Coins

Nicholson Museum., Peter Brennan, Michael Turner, Nicholas L. Wright  / The Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, 2007

Reviewed by Rachel Meyers, 

Greeks on the Black Sea: Ancient Art from the Hermitage

Anna A. Trofimova, J. Paul Getty Museum.  / J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007

Reviewed by Rachael Goldman, 

Beyond the Canon. Hellenistica Groningana 11

Annette Harder, R. F. (Remco F.) Regtuit, G. C. Wakker  / Peeters, 2006

Reviewed by Claudio De Stefani, 

Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond. Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava, Supplementum vol. 283

Jan Felix Gaertner  / Brill, 2007

Reviewed by Rita Degl'Innocenti Pierini, 

Reading Greek Vases

Ann Steiner  / Cambridge University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Michael Squire, 

Il mito delle Sirene. Immagini e racconti dalla Grecia a oggi

Maurizio Bettini, Luigi Spina, Cles Mondadori  / Einaudi, 2007

Reviewed by Natalia Agapiou,