Month: November 2009

BMCR Books Received (October, 2009)

The Imagery of Euripides: A Study in the Dramatic Use of Pictorial Language (third edition)

Shirley A. Barlow  / Bristol Classical Press, 2008

Reviewed by Viviana Gastaldi, 

Davidson on Verstraete on Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece

Response by James Davidson | Original Review by Beert Verstraete, 

The Hippocratic Treatise On Glands. Studies in Ancient Medicine v. 36

Elizabeth M. Craik  / Brill, 2009

Reviewed by Robert Mayhew, 

Hermaion. Discovering Ancient Greek Step by Step: A New and Efficient Method, translated and adapted from the French by Monique L. Cardell

Jean-Victor Vernhes  / OPHRYS, 2009

Reviewed by Kirsty Jenkins, 

De Haan, Eickhoff, and Schwegman on Pavel on Nathalie de Hann, Martijn Eickhoff, Marjan Schwegman (ed.), Archaeology and National Identity in Italy and Europe 1800-1950

Response by Nathalie de Haan, Martijn Eickhoff, Marjan Schwegman | Original Review by Catalin Pavel, 

Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean

Irad Malkin, Christy Constantakopoulou, Katerina Panagopoulou  / Routledge, 2009

Reviewed by Sandra Péré-Noguès, 

Corpus rhetoricum. Tome II, Hermogène: les états de cause. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 470

Michel Patillon  / Les Belles lettres, 2009

Reviewed by Malcolm Heath, 

Aristeneto: Lettere d’amore. Introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento

Anna Tiziana Drago  / Pensa Multimedia, 2007

Reviewed by Owen Hodkinson, 

Roman Portraits in Context. Image and Context; v. 2

Jane Fejfer  / Walter de Gruyter, 2008

Reviewed by Alexandra Dardenay, 

The Commerce of War: Exchange and Social Order in Latin Epic

Neil Coffee  / University of Chicago Press, 2009

Reviewed by Neil W. Bernstein, 

Mochlos IIA: Period IV, The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery: The Sites. Prehistory Monographs; 23

Jeffrey S. Soles, Thomas M. Brogan, Sevi Triantaphyllou  / INSTAP Academic Press, 2008

Reviewed by Yannis Galanakis, 

La norme en matière religieuse en Grèce ancienne. Actes du XIIe colloque international du CIERGA (Rennes, septembre 2007). Kernos Supplément 21

Pierre Brulé  / 2009

Reviewed by Laurence Foschia, 

Le cirque romain et son image: [Actes du colloque tenu à l’institut Ausonius, Bordeaux, 2006]. Mémoires, 20

Jocelyne Nelis-Clément, Jean-Michel Roddaz  / Ausonius, 2008

Reviewed by Matthieu Soler, 

Ormand on Davidson on Verstraete on Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece

Response by Kirk Ormand | Original Response by James Davidson, 

Segni e immagini del potere tra antico e tardoantico: i Severi e la provincia Africa proconsularis (Seconda edizione rivista ed aggiornata). Testi e studi di storia antica

Orietta Dora Cordovana  / Prisma, 2007

Reviewed by Roger Hanoune, 

La Catacomba di Santa Lucia e l’Oratorio dei Quaranta Martiti

Mariarita Sgarlata, Grazia Salvo  / Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra, 2006

Reviewed by Paolo Daniele Scirpo, 

He Athene kata te Romaike epoche: Prosphates anakalypseis, nees ereunes / Athens During the Roman Period: Recent Discoveries, New Evidence. Mouseio Benake – Parartema 40

Stavros Vlizos  / 2008

Reviewed by Paraskevi Martzavou, 

Religione votiva: per un’interpretazione storico-religiosa delle terrecotte votive nella Sardegna punica e tardo-punica. Supplemento alla Rivista di Studi Fenici 34 (2006)

Giuseppe Garbati  / Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008

Reviewed by Chiara Peri, 

Musica e filosofia da Damone a Filodemo: sette studi. Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere “La Colombaria” – Serie Studi 245

Aldo Brancacci  / Leo S. Olschki editore, 2008

Reviewed by Marco Ercoles,