Month: January 2008

BMCR Books Received (December, 2007)

Oedipus at Colonus. Sophocles, Athens, and the World

Andreas Markantonatos  / De Gruyter, 2007

Reviewed by Ruth Scodel, 

Stratone di Sardi. Epigrammi. Testo critico, traduzione e commento. Hellenica, 24

of Sardis Straton, Lucia Floridi  / Edizione dell'Orso, 2007

Reviewed by Luis Arturo Guichard, 

Money in the Late Roman Republic. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 29

David B. (David Bruce) Hollander  / Brill, 2007

Reviewed by Fleur Kemmers, 

Deir el-Bahari in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: A Study of an Egyptian Temple Based on Greek Sources. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Suppl. IV

Adam Lajtar  / Institute of Archaeology, Warsaw University and Fundacja im. Rafala Taubenschlaga, 2006

Reviewed by Gil H. Renberg, 

Ancient Economies, Modern Methodologies: Archaeology, Comparative History, Models and Institutions

Peter F. (Peter Fibiger) Bang, Mamoru Ikeguchi, Harmut G. Ziche  / Edipuglia, 2006

Reviewed by Alex Gottesman, 

Griechische Mythologie und frühes Christentum

Raban von Haehling  / Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2005

Reviewed by J. R. C. Cousland, 

Plotinus on Intellect

Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson.  / Clarendon Press, 2007

Reviewed by Andrew Smith, 

Isaeus. The Oratory of Classical Greece, 11

approximately 420 B.C.-approximately 350 B.C. Isaeus, Michael Edwards  / University of Texas Press, 2007

Reviewed by Deborah Kamen, 

Eleusína: Théatro mias Antidrastikés Outopías

V. I. Anastasiadēs  / Institouto tou Vivliou, A. Kardamitsa, 2006

Reviewed by Andreas Markantonatos, 

Sextus Empiricus. Against the Logicians

Empiricus Sextus, Richard Arnot Home Bett  / Cambridge University Press, 2005

Reviewed by Diego E. Machuca, 

Les Lettres de Pline le Jeune. Un répresentation de l’homme

Nicole Méthy  / Presses de l'université Paris-Sorbonne, 2007

Reviewed by Neil Bernstein, 

The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece

H. A. (Harvey Alan) Shapiro  / Cambridge University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Angela Kühr, 

Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks

Esther Eidinow  / Oxford University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Aaron Kachuck, 

Pastoral Palimpsests. Essays in the Reception of Theocritus and Virgil. Rethymnon Classical Studies, Volume 3

Michael Paschalis, Μιχάλης Πασχάλης  / Crete University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Mathilde Skoie, 

Eratòstenes de Cirene, Catasterismes; Eratosthenes, Sternsagen

Jordi Pàmias i Massana  / Fundació Bernat Metge, 2004 Jordi Pàmias i Massana, Jordi Pàmias i Massana, Klaus Geus  / Utopica, 2007

Reviewed by Markus Asper, 

Nomenclator metricus graecus et latinus. Vol. I: A-Delta. ALPHA-OMEGA, Reihe A, Bd. CCXVIII.1

Giuseppe Morelli, Lucio Cristante  / Olms-Weidmann, 2006-

Reviewed by Luigi Bravi, 

Zwischen König und Karikatur. Das Bild Ptolemaios’ VIII. im Spannungsfeld der Überlieferung. Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und antiken Rechtsgeschichte 97

Peter Nadig  / C.H. Beck, 2007

Reviewed by Paul Edmund Stanwick, 

The Poetry of Sappho

Sappho., Jim Powell  / Oxford University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Jessica Priestley, 

Scipio Africanus

Alexander Acimovic  / iUniverse, Inc, 2007

Reviewed by John Jacobs,