Month: April 2009

BMCR Books Received (March, 2009)

Vorbilder – Werte – Normen in den homerischen Epen. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 260

Carl Joachim Classen  / Walter de Gruyter, 2008

Reviewed by Wolfgang Polleichtner, 

Herodotus and the Persian Wars. Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts

John Claughton  / Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008

Reviewed by Abram C. Ring, 

Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta

Robert B. Koehl  / INSTAP Academic Press, 2006

Reviewed by Judith Weingarten, 

J. L. Marr, P. J. Rhodes  / Phillips, 2008

Reviewed by Delfim F. Leâo, 

Editorial Note

Pepouza and Tymion: The Discovery and Archaeological Exploration of a Lost Ancient City and an Imperial Estate

William Tabbernee, Peter Lampe  / Walter de Gruyter, 2008

Reviewed by Tommaso Gnoli, 

Ipponate, epodi di Strasburgo – Archiloco, epodi di Colonia (con un’appendice su P. Oxy. LXIX 4708). Eikasmos, 14

Anika Nicolosi  / Pàtron Editore, 2007

Reviewed by Ralph M. Rosen, 

The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Hellenistic and Roman Megaris, Greece. BAR International Series; 1762

Philip J. Smith  / John and Erica Hedges Ltd., 2008

Reviewed by Peter Liddel, 

George Akropolites. The History. Translated with an Introduction and Commentary. Oxford Studies in Byzantium

Ruth Macrides  / Oxford University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis, 

Facta: A Journal of Roman Material Culture Studies, 1 -2007

Daniele Malfitana, Jeroen Poblome, John Lund  / Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008

Reviewed by Xavier Deru, 

The Civic Conversations of Thucydides and Plato: Classical Political Philosophy and the Limits of Democracy

Gerald M. Mara  / SUNY Press, 2008

Reviewed by Diego De Brasi, 

The Romans: An Introduction (2nd edition, first published 1995)

Antony Kamm  / Routledge, 2008

Reviewed by Salvador Bartera, 

L’Embryon: formation et animation. Antiquité grecque et latine, traditions hèbraïque, chrétienne et islamique. Histoire des doctrines de l’Antiquité classique 38

Luc Brisson, Marie-Hélène Congourdeau, Jean-Luc Solère  / Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2008

Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst, 

Aristotle on Life

John Mouracade  / Academic Printing and Publishing, 2008

Reviewed by R. W. Sharples, 

An Ovid Reader

Ed DeHoratius  / Focus Publishing, 2009

Reviewed by John Bulwer, 

Papers on Roman Elegy: 1969-2003. Eikasmos. Studi; 16

Francis Cairns  / Pàtron, 2007

Reviewed by Donncha O'Rourke, 

Ennius Perennis: The Annals and Beyond. Cambridge Classical Journal. Supplementary Volume, 31

William Fitzgerald, Emily Gowers  / Cambridge Philological Society,

Reviewed by Sandro La Barbera, 

The Pygmalion Effect: From Ovid to Hitchcock. (Translated by Alison Anderson). The Louise Smith Bross Lectures

Victor I Stoichita  / The University of Chicago Press, 2008

Reviewed by

Praising the Goddess: A Comparative and Annotated Re-edition of Six Demotic Hymns and Praises Addressed to Isis

Holger Kockelmann  / Walter de Gruyter, 2008

Reviewed by Laurent Bricault,