Month: February 2009

BMCR Books Received (January, 2009)

Collaborative Response to Lendering on Kaveh Farrokh, Shadows in the Desert. Ancient Persia at War

Response by Valeri Vashakidze, David (Georgi) Tcheishvili, George Gulordava, Tariel Jikia, David Khoupenia, Niko Kachareva, Imre Bartfai | Original Review by Jona Lendering, 

A Lexicon of Latin Grammatical Terminology. Studia Erudita, 6

Samantha Schad  / Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2007

Reviewed by Pierre Swiggers, 

Plato: Laws 10. Clarendon Plato Series

Robert Mayhew  / Clarendon Press, 2008

Reviewed by Lewis Trelawny-Cassity, 

Edge of Empire: Rome’s Scottish Frontier, the Antonine Wall

David J. Breeze  / Birlinn, 2008

Reviewed by Brad Eden, 

Der Horazkommentar des Pomponius Porphyrio: Untersuchungen zu seiner Terminologie und Textgeschichte. Palingenesia, Bd. 91

Antonina Kalinina  / Steiner, 2007

Reviewed by James Zetzel, 

Tertullian’s Aduersus Iudaeos: A Rhetorical Analysis. Patristic Monograph Series 19

Geoffrey D. Dunn  / Catholic University of America Press, 2008

Reviewed by Stéphanie Binder, 

Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World, Athena and Perseus

Susan Deacy  / Routledge, 2008 Susan Deacy, Daniel Ogden  / Routledge, 2008

Reviewed by Jenifer Neils, 

Dynamic Splendor. The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Eufrasius at Porec

Ann Terry, Henry Maguire  / Penn State University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Benjamin Anderson, 

Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius

Robin Mitchell-Boyask  / Cambridge University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Aaron Kachuck, 

Il migliore dei mondi possibili: Gli epigrammi ecfrastici di Marziale per amici e protettori. Studi e testi, 26

Delphina Fabbrini  / Università degli Studi di Firenze. Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità "Giorgio Pasquali", 2007

Reviewed by Évelyne Prioux, 

The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt. Wonders of the World

John Ray  / Harvard University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Marc Pierce, 

Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC

Arthur M. Eckstein  / Blackwell Publishing, 2008

Reviewed by André Heller, 

Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity

Kim Bowes  / Cambridge University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Carlos Machado, 

Tacitus. The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero. Oxford World’s Classics. With introduction and notes by Anthony A. Barrett

J. C. Yardley  / Oxford University Press, 2008

Reviewed by John Aveline, 

Terms for Eternity: aiônios and aïdios in Classical and Christian Texts

Ilaria Ramelli, David Konstan  / Gorgias Press, 2007

Reviewed by B. N. Wolfe, 

La questione omerica dal cinquecento al settecento. Pleiadi 10

Luigi Ferreri  / Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2007

Reviewed by Bruce Heiden, 

Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age: Proceedings of an International Symposium Held at the University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece, on November 19-21, 2004

Iris Tzachili  / Ta Pragmata Publications, 2008

Reviewed by Nicholas G. Blackwell, 

Rituals of War: The Body and Violence in Mesopotamia

Zainab Bahrani  / Zone Books, 2008

Reviewed by Corinne Bonnet, 

Römische Erinnerungsräume: Heiligenmemoria und kollektive Identitäten im Rom des 3. bis 5. Jahrhunderts n. Chr., Millennium-Studien, Bd. 11

Steffen Diefenbach  / Walter De Gruyter, 2007

Reviewed by Stefano Magnani,