Month: September 2008

BMCR Books Received (August, 2008)

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. Recreating Lahun

Kasia Maria Szpakowska  / Blackwell Pub, 2008

Reviewed by Danijela Stefanovic, 

Mongolus Syrio Salutem Optimam Dat. La correspondance entre Mikhaïl Rostovtzeff et Franz Cumont. Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 36

Grégory Bongard-Levine, Corinne Bonnet, Yuri Litvinenko, Arnaldo Marcone  / De Boccard, 2007

Reviewed by

The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women

Nicola Denzey Lewis  / Beacon Press, 2007

Reviewed by Caroline T. Schroeder, 

En soufflant la grâce: Âmes, souffles et humeurs en Grèce ancienne. Collection HOROS

Edoarda Barra-Salzédo  / J. Millon, 2007

Reviewed by Gregory A. Smith, 

An Analytical Study of Mycenaean Compounds: Structure, Types. Biblioteca di “Pasiphae” 7

F. M. J. Waanders  / F. Serra, 2008

Reviewed by Olga Tribulato, 

Martianus Capella. Les noces de Philologie et de Mercure. Tome VI. Livre VI. La géométrie. Collection des Universités de France

Martianus Capella, Michel Ferré, Barbara Ferré, Jean-Yves Guillaumin, Jean-Frédéric Chevalier  / Les Belles Lettres, 2007

Reviewed by Félix Racine, 

Sandy Pylos. An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino. Second edition

Jack L. Davis, John Bennet, Susan E. Alcock  / American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2008

Reviewed by Stefanie A. H. Kennell, 

Hebrew Manuscripts: The Power of Script and Image

Ilana Tahan  / The British Library, 2007

Reviewed by Rachael Goldman, 

Dacia. Landscape, Colonisation, Romanisation. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Ioana A. (Ioana Adina) Oltean  / Routledge, 2007

Reviewed by Elias K. Petropoulos, 

Cleopatra and Egypt. Blackwell Ancient Lives

Sally-Ann Ashton  / Blackwell Pub, 2008

Reviewed by James Allan Evans, 

Vor den Richtern Roms. Berühmte Prozesse der Antike

Detlef Liebs  / C.H. Beck, 2007

Reviewed by Andrea Balbo, 

Age and Ageing in the Roman Empire. Journal of Roman Archaeology. Supplementary Series 65

Mary Harlow, Ray Laurence  / Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2007

Reviewed by Emma-Jayne Graham, 

Roman Military Service. Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate

Sara Elise Phang  / Cambridge University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Josh Levithan, 

Roman Questions II. Selected Papers. HABES, 44

Jerzy Linderski  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007

Reviewed by Josiah Osgood, 

Suizid in der Spätantike: seine Bewertung in der lateinischen Literatur. Altertumswissenschaft 18

Dagmar Hofmann  / F. Steiner, 2007

Reviewed by Anton J.L. van Hooff, 

Corpus rhetoricum. Préambule à la rhétorique, Anonyme; Progymnasmata, Aphthonios. En annexe: Progymnasmata, Pseudo-Hermogène. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque 460

Michel Patillon, 2ος/3ος αι. ;.C@.Χ. Ερμογένης ο Ταρσεύς  / Les Belles Lettres, 2008

Reviewed by Denis Searby, 

Inscribing Sorrow: Fourth-century Attic Funerary Epigrams. Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes 1

Christos Tsagalis  / W. De Gruyter, 2008

Reviewed by Valentina Garulli, 

Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend

Richard Stoneman  / Yale University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Dawn L. Gilley, 

The Herculaneum Women. History, Context, Identities

Jens Daehner  / J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007

Reviewed by Agnes Allroggen-Bedel,