Month: March 2008

BMCR Books Received (February, 2008)

War in Late Antiquity. A Social History

A. D. Lee  / Blackwell Pub, 2007

Reviewed by Josh Levithan, 

What’s in a Name? The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature

Joan Booth, Robert Maltby, Frédérique Biville  / Classical Press of Wales, 2006

Reviewed by James J. O'Hara, 

Cicero, Philippics 3-9. Volume 1. Introduction, Text and Translation. Volume 2. Commentary. Texte und Kommentare, 30

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Gesine Manuwald  / Walter de Gruyter, 2007

Reviewed by Josiah Osgood, 

Nocturnal Ciphers: The Allusive Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near East, American Oriental Series, 89

Scott B. Noegel  / American Oriental Society, 2007

Reviewed by Danijela Stefanovic, 

Aristotle

Christopher John Shields  / Routledge, 2007

Reviewed by Ian Halim, 

When Dead Tongues Speak. Teaching Beginning Greek and Latin. American Philological Association Classical Resources Series 6

John Gruber-Miller  / Oxford University Press, 2006

Reviewed by Stephen M. Trzaskoma, 

Krieg – Diplomatie – Ideologie. Zur Aussenpolitik hellenistischer Mittelstaaten, Historia Einzelschriften, 195

Clemens Koehn  / F. Steiner, 2007

Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi, 

The Mirror of Antiquity. American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750-1900

Caroline Winterer  / Cornell University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Peter Cohee, 

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Volume 52 (2002)

Angelos Chantotis, M. B. Richardson, E Sverkos  / Brill, 2006

Reviewed by Georges Rougemont, 

Xenophon On Government

Xenophon., Vivienne Gray  / Cambridge University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Christopher J. Tuplin, 

Agli inizi della poesia cristiana latina; autori anonimi dei secc. IV-V

Aniello Salzano  / Edisud, [2006]

Reviewed by Vincent Hunink, 

Landscapes and Cities: Rural Settlement and Civic Transformation in Early Imperial Italy

John R. Patterson  / Oxford University Press, 2006

Reviewed by Miko Flohr, 

Gregory of Nazianzus. Series: The Early Church Fathers

Brian E. Daley  / Routledge, 2006

Reviewed by Francois Beyrouti, 

El espejo de las Musas: El arte de la descripción en la Ilíada y Odisea

Carla Bocchetti, Universidad de Chile. Centro de Estudios Griegos Bizantinos y Neohelénicos.  / Centro de Estudios Griegos Bizantinos y Neohelénicos, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile, [2006]

Reviewed by Christian Høgel, 

Sic transit gloria mundi : das Bild von Pompeius Magnus im Bürgerkrieg. Verzerrung-Stilisierung-historische Realität. Pharos-Studien zur griechisch-römischen Antike 21

Christian Heller  / Scripta Mercaturae, 2006

Reviewed by Yasmina Benferhat, 

Roman Frontiers in Britain. Classical World Series

David J. (David John) Breeze  / Bristol Classical Press, 2007

Reviewed by Brad Eden, 

Alexander’s Empire. Formulation to Decay. A Companion to Crossroads of History

Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle, Pat Wheatley  / Regina Books, 2007

Reviewed by Dawn Gilley, 

Ruines Italiennes. Photographies des collections Alinari

Vincent Jolivet, Fratelli Alinari.  / Gallimard, [2006]

Reviewed by Annetta Alexandridis, 

Mousikè et Aretè. La mousique et l’éthique de l’antiquité à l’âge moderne. Actes du colloque international tenu en Sorbonne les 15-17 décembre 2003

Florence Malhomme, Anne Gabrièle Wersinger  / J. Vrin, 2007

Reviewed by Massimo Raffa,