Month: February 2008

BMCR Books Received (January, 2008)

Transferts culturels et politique dans le monde hellénistique. Actes de la table ronde sur les identités collectives (Sorbonne, 7 février 2004). Historie ancienne et médiévale – 86

impr. Chirat)  / Publications de la Sorbonne, 2006

Reviewed by Luca Asmonti, 

Daughters of Gaia. Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Bella Vivante  / Praeger, 2007

Reviewed by Christina A. Clark, 

Mancuso on Summa on Cipolla, Studi sul teatro greco

Response by Giacomo Mancuso | Original Review by Daniela Summa, 

Le Regioni di Aquileia e Spalato in Epoca Romana. Convegno Castello di Udine 4 aprile 2006

Maurizio Buora  / Fondazione Cassamarca, 2007

Reviewed by Maria Federica Petraccia, 

Amphiaraos. Guerrier, devin et guérisseur

Pierre Sineux  / Belles lettres, 2007

Reviewed by Maria Elena Gorrini, 

Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present. Historical and Bibliographic Studies. Studies in Rhetoric/Communication

Carol Poster, Linda C. Mitchell  / University of South Carolina Press, 2007

Reviewed by Ioana Costa, 

Simplicius, lecteur du Sophiste

Marc-Antoine Gavray  / Klincksieck, 2007

Reviewed by John Dillon, 

Edmunds on Fitzpatrick on Edmunds, Oedipus

Response by Edmunds Lowell | Original Review by David Fitzpatrick, 

Homer in the Twentieth Century. Between World Literature and the Western Canon

Barbara Graziosi, Emily Greenwood  / Oxford University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Constanze Güthenke, 

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain Fascicule 23, Reading Museum Service (Reading Borough Council)

Union académique internationale.  / Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1925-c2002

Reviewed by Mary B. Moore, 

Art and Text in Byzantine Culture

Liz James  / Cambridge University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Franziska E. Shlosser, 

Readings in Greek History: Sources and Interpretations

D. Brendan Nagle, Stanley Mayer Burstein  / Oxford University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk, 

Eusebius von Caesarea. De vita Constantini. Über das Leben Konstantins. Fontes Christiani, 83

Eusebius Caesariensis., Bruno Bleckmann, Horst Schneider  / Brepols, 2007

Reviewed by Peter Van Nuffelen, 

A Companion to Greek Rhetoric

Ian Worthington  / Blackwell Pub, 2007

Reviewed by Øivind Andersen, 

Tertullian the African: An Anthropological Reading of Tertullian’s Context and Identities. Millennium Studies 14

David E. Wilhite  / De Gruyter, 2007

Reviewed by Geoffrey D. Dunn, 

Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul. Polemon’s Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam

Simon Swain, G. R. Boys-Stones  / Oxford University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Maria Fernanda Ferrini, 

Man and the Word. The Orations of Himerius

approximately 310-approximately 390 Himerius, Robert J. Penella  / University of California Press, 2007

Reviewed by Young Richard Kim, 

Roman Life: 100 B.C. to A.D. 200

John R. Clarke  / Abrams, 2007

Reviewed by Eric Kondratieff, 

Aristotle on the Common Sense

Pavel Gregoric  / Oxford University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Deborah K. W. Modrak,