Month: February 2007

Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt. Translated from the German by David Lorton, abridged and updated by the author

Jan Assmann  / Cornell University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Barry Powell, 

Athletics in the Ancient World

Zahra Newby  / Bristol Classical Press, 2006

Reviewed by James Bradley Wells, 

Minoan Glyptic: Typology, Deposits and Iconography from the Early Minoan Period to the Late Minoan IB Destruction in Crete. BAR International Series 1442

Konstantinos Galanakis  / John and Erica Hedges Ltd, 2005

Reviewed by Judith Weingarten, 

Hostages and Hostage-Taking in the Roman Empire

Joel Allen  / Cambridge University Press, 2006

Reviewed by Everett L. Wheeler, 

s-stem nouns and adjectives in Greek and Proto-Indo-European. A diachronic study in word formation

Torsten Meissner  / Oxford University Press, 2006

Reviewed by Daniel Kölligan, 

BMCR Books Received (January)

Iseo: La Successione di Kiron

approximately 420 B.C.-approximately 350 B.C. Isaeus, Stefano Ferrucci  / Edizioni ETS, 2005

Reviewed by Brenda Griffith-Williams, 

Roman Manliness: Virtus and the Roman Republic

Myles Anthony McDonnell  / Cambridge University Press, 2006

Reviewed by Bob Kaster, 

Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman And Indo-European Myth and History

Todd Compton  / Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2006

Reviewed by Mary R. Lefkowitz, 

Die Jacobsthal-Reliefs. Konturierte Tonreliefs aus dem Griechenland der Frühklassik. RdA Supplement 29

Florian Stilp  / G. Bretschneider, 2006

Reviewed by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, 

Le défi de l’art. Philostrate, Callistrate et l’image sophistique. La Licorne 75

Michel Costantini, Françoise Graziani, Stéphane Rolet, Impr. Jouve)  / Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2006

Reviewed by Laurent Pernot, 

Cicero. Pro Archia Poeta Oratio. Introduction, Text, Vocabulary, and Commentary. Second edition

Steven M. Cerutti, Linda A. Fabrizio  / Bolchazy-Carducci, 2006

Reviewed by Christopher S. van den Berg, 

Tacitus. Ancients in Action

Rhiannon Ash  / Bristol Classical, 2006

Reviewed by Cynthia Damon, 

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction

Michael Pakaluk  / Cambridge University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Richard Kraut, 

Commentum Cornuti in Persium

Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, Wendell Clausen, James E. G. Zetzel  / Saur, 2004

Reviewed by R. Scott Smith, 

Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study

Frank Sear  / Oxford University Press, 2006

Reviewed by Mary C. Sturgeon, 

Roman Working Lives and Urban Living

Ardle MacMahon, J. (A. Jennifer) Price  / Oxbow Books, 2005

Reviewed by Miko Flohr, 

Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment

Bryan Garsten  / Harvard University Press, 2006

Reviewed by Bruce Krajewski, 

Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity. Seeing the Gods

Jaś Elsner, Ian Rutherford  / Oxford University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Laura Nasrallah, 

Mars en Occident: Actes du colloque international “Autour d’allonnes (Sarthe). Les sanctuaires de Mars en Occident”. Le Mans, Université du Maine, 4-6 Juin 2003. Archéologie et Culture

Archéologies d'Orient et d'Occident (Paris), Centre d'études des sociétés antiques et médiévales (Le Mans), Impr. Barnéoud)  / Presses universitaires de Rennes, DL 2006

Reviewed by Christopher Smith,