Month: January 2009

BMCR Books Received (December, 2008)

Severan Culture

Simon Swain, Stephen Harrison, Jas Elsner  / Cambridge University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Tom Hawkins, 

Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity. Divinations

Jeremy M. Schott  / University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008

Reviewed by Heidi Marx-Wolf, 

Blossi Aem. Draconti. Orestis Tragoedia. Introduzione, testo critico e commento. Invigilata Lucernis 33

Antonino Grillone  / Edipuglia, 2008

Reviewed by Georg Luck, 

I classici greci e i loro commentatori. Dai papiri ai marginalia rinascimentali. Atti del convegno Rovereto, 20 ottobre 2006. Memorie, ser. II, vol. X

Guido Avezzù, Paolo Scattolin  / Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati, 2006

Reviewed by Saulo Delle Donne, 

Plotinus on Self: The Philosophy of the ‘We’

Pauliina Remes  / Cambridge University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Giannis Stamatellos, 

The Route of Parmenides: revised and expanded edition; with a new introduction, three supplemental essays, and an essay by Gregory Vlastos (originally published 1970)

Alexander P. D. Mourelatos  / Parmenides Pub., 2008

Reviewed by Marina N. Volf, 

Catalogues of Proper Names in Latin Epic Poetry. Lucretius – Virgil – Ovid. Pierides. Studies in Greek and Latin Literature

Stratis Kyriakidis  / Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007

Reviewed by Christopher Francese, 

Les scepticismes. Que sais-je? 2829

Carlos Lévy  / Presses Universitaires de France, 2008

Reviewed by Diego E. Machuca, 

Virgil, A Poet in Augustan Rome. Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts

James Morwood  / Cambridge University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono, 

The Reception and Performance of Euripides’ Herakles: Reasoning Madness. Oxford Classical Monographs

Kathleen Riley  / Oxford University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Viviana Gastaldi, 

Taking Back the Text: Poetic Technique in Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus

John Warden  / Edgar Kent, 2008

Reviewed by Robert Maltby, 

Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East. Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, v. 8

Jan N. Bremmer  / Brill, 2008

Reviewed by Barry B. Powell, 

Edoxen tei boulei kai toi demoi: H athenaike demokratia milaei me tis epigraphes tes

M. Lagogianne-Georgakarakou, K. Bourazeles  / Ministry of Culture, 2007

Reviewed by Marijana Ricl, 

Homer, The Iliad. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture; v. 35

Herbert Jordan  / University of Oklahoma Press, 2008

Reviewed by Calum Maciver, 

Unthinking the Greek Polis. Ancient Greek History Beyond Eurocentrism

Kostas Vlassopoulos  / Cambridge University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Angela Kühr, 

The Conquests of Alexander the Great. Key Conflicts of Classical Antiquity

Waldemar Heckel  / Cambridge University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Giuseppe Squillace, 

Staging of Classical Drama Around 2000

Pavlína N. Sípová, Alena Sarkissian  / Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007

Reviewed by Timothy Dugan, 

Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa

David L. Stone, Lea M. Stirling, David L. Stone; Lea M. Stirling; Habib Ben Younes; Jennifer P. Moore; David J. Mattingly; Anna Leone; Michael McKinnon  / University of Toronto Press, 2007

Reviewed by Kathryn J. McDonnell, 

Pastoral Politics: Animals, Agriculture and Society in Ancient Greece. Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians 9

Timothy Howe  / Regina Books, 2008

Reviewed by Evrydiki Tasopoulou,