Month: March 2009

BMCR Books Received (February, 2009)

Euripides: Helen. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

William Allan  / Cambridge University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Brian V. Lush, 

Galenos: Rivista di filologia dei testi medici antichi 1 – 2007

Ivan Garofalo  / Fabrizio Serra, 2007

Reviewed by Antoine Pietrobelli, 

Ägypten unter fremden Herrschern zwischen persischer Satrapie und römischer Provinz. Oikumene Studien zur antiken Weltgeschichte, Bd. 3

Stefan Pfeiffer  / Verlag Antike, 2007

Reviewed by Jan Moje, 

Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity. Late Antique Archaeology, v. 5

Luke Lavan, Ellen Swift, Toon Putzeys  / Brill, 2007

Reviewed by Stefanie Hoss, 

Décrire et comprendre le sacrifice. Les réflexions des Romains sur leur propre religion à partir de la littérature antiquaire. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge (PAwB), 19

Francesca Prescendi  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007

Reviewed by Christopher Smith, 

Reading the Human Body. Physiognomics and Astrology in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hellenistic-Early Roman Period Judaism. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah vol. 67

Mladen Popovic  / Brill, 2007

Reviewed by Joanna Komorowska, 

La céramique romaine d’Argos (fin du IIe s. av. J.-C.-fin du IVe s. ap. J.-C.). Études péloponnésiennes, 13

Catherine Abadie-Reynal  / École française d'Athènes, 2007

Reviewed by Kathleen Warner Slane, 

‘Then It Was Destroyed by the Volcano’. The Ancient World in Film and on Television

Arthur J. Pomeroy  / Duckworth, 2008

Reviewed by Maarten De Pourcq, 

Gilbert Murray Reassessed. Hellenism, Theatre, and International Politics

Christopher Stray  / Oxford University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Giuliana Scalera McClintock, 

“…Achieved Nothing Worthy of Memory”. Coinage and Authority in the Roman Empire c. AD 260-295. Studia Numismatica Upsaliensia 5

Ragnar Hedlund  / Uppsala Universitet, 2008

Reviewed by Clare Rowan, 

Les prénoms de l’Italie antique, Journée d’études, Lyon, 26 janvier 2004. Ricerche sull lingue di frammentaria attestaziona 5

Paolo Poccetti  / Fabrizio Serra, 2008

Reviewed by

The Protean Ass: The Metamorphoses of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Oxford Classical Monographs

Robert H. F. Carver  / Oxford University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Benjamin Todd Lee, 

Greek Colonisation: An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas, Volume Two. Mnemosyne, Supplementa 193

Gocha R. Tsetskhladze  / Brill, 2008

Reviewed by Elias K. Petropoulos, 

Las personas de Eurípides. Classical and Byzantine Monographs, 65

F. J. Campos Daroca, F. J. García González, J. L. López Cruces, L. P. Romero Mariscal  / Adolf M. Hakkert Editore, 2007

Reviewed by Esther Paglialunga, 

The Choruses of Sophokles’ Antigone and Philoktetes: A Dance of Words. Mnemosyne Supplementa 292

Margaret Rachel Kitzinger  / Brill, 2008

Reviewed by Victor Bers, 

Slave Revolts in Antiquity

Theresa Urbainczyk  / University of California Press, 2008

Reviewed by Teresa Ramsby, 

L’Orthographia di Giovanni Tortelli. Percorsi dei classici, 11

Gemma Donati  / Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Umanistici, 2006

Reviewed by Giancarlo Abbamonte, 

Apariencia y Realidad en el Pensamiento Griego. Investigaciones sobre Aspectos Epistemológicos, Éticos y de Teoría de la Acción en Algunas Teorías de la Antigüedad

Marcelo D. Boeri  / Ediciones Colihue, 2007

Reviewed by Reyes Bertolín Cebrián, 

Xénophon et Socrate. Actes du colloque d’Aix-en-Provence (6-9 novembre 2003). Bibliothèque d’histoire de la philosophie. Nouvelle série

Michel Narcy, Alonso Tordesillas  / J. Vrin, 2008

Reviewed by David M. Johnson,