Month: May 2009

BMCR Books Received (April, 2009)

La Troade: un paysage et son héritage littéraire. Les commentaires antiques sur la Troade, leur genèse et leur influence, Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana 28

Alexandra Trachsel  / Schwabe, 2007

Reviewed by Andrea Primo, 

Il Contra fatum di Gregorio di Nissa nel dibattito tardo-antico sul fatalismo e sul determinismo. Studi sulla tardoantichità, 2

Beatrice Motta  / Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008

Reviewed by George Arabatzis, 

O’Daly on Hunink on Emmanuel Bermon (ed.), La signification et l’enseignement

Response by Gerard O'Daly | Original Review by Vincent Hunink, 

Plato and Theodoret: The Christian Appropriation of Platonic Philosophy and the Hellenic Intellectual Resistance. Cambridge Classical Studies

Niketas Siniossoglou  / Cambridge University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Aaron P. Johnson, 

Reading Plato in Antiquity

Harold Tarrant, Dirk Baltzly  / Duckworth, 2006

Reviewed by Sarah Klitenic Wear, 

Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens, volume 5

Erik Hallager, Jesper Tae Jensen  / Danish Institute at Athens, 2007

Reviewed by D.G.J. Shipley, 

The Cambridge Companion to the Bible. Second Edition. First edition published in 1997

Bruce Chilton  / Cambridge University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Dave Leal, 

Plato, Protagoras. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Nicholas Denyer  / Cambridge University Press, 2008

Reviewed by James H. Collins II, 

Ephraem der Syrer 54/1 and 54/2

Christian Lange  / Brepols, 2008 Christian Lange, Christian Lange  / Brepols, 2008

Reviewed by Daniel King, 

Caesar: A Life in Western Culture

Maria Wyke  / University of Chicago Press, 2008

Reviewed by Jonathan S. Perry, 

Zwischen Spätantike und Frühmittelalter: Archäologie des 4. bis 7. Jahrhunderts im Westen. Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde 57

Sebastian Brather  / Walter de Gruyter, 2008

Reviewed by Gheorghe Alexandru Niculescu, 

Gellius the Satirist: Roman Cultural Authority in Attic Nights. Mnemosyne Supplements 297

Wytse Keulen  / Brill, 2009

Reviewed by Leofranc Holford-Strevens, 

Capitoli su Posidippo. Hellenica, 25

Walter Lapini  / Edizioni dell'Orso, 2007

Reviewed by Alexander Sens, 

A l’école des anciens: professeurs, élèves et étudiants

Laurent Pernot  / Les Belles Lettres, 2008

Reviewed by Paola Francesca Moretti, 

Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity. Sather Classical Lectures, 66

David Sedley  / University of California Press, 2007

Reviewed by Börje Bydén, 

Histoire de la littérature grecque chrétienne, 1. Introduction. Initiations aux Pères de l’Église

Bernard Pouderon, Enrico Norelli  / Cerf, 2008

Reviewed by Eric Fournier, 

Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples. National Gallery of Art, October 19, 2008-March 22, 2009; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 3-October 4, 2009

Carol C. Mattusch, Mary Beard, Bettina Bergmann, Stefano De Caro, Pietro Giovanni Guzzo, and Kenneth Lapatin  / National Gallery of Art, 2008

Reviewed by John R. Clarke, 

Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius: The Methodology of a Commentator

H. Baltussen  / Duckworth, 2008

Reviewed by Ian Mueller, 

John Rufus: The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 24

Cornelia B. Horn, Jr.  / Society of Biblical Literature, 2008

Reviewed by Kathleen Gibbons,