Month: July 2009

BMCR Books Received (June, 2009)

The Construction of Authority in Ancient Rome and Byzantium: The Rhetoric of Empire

Sarolta A. Takács  / Cambridge University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Steven D. Smith, 

Plautus: Four Plays. Casina, Amphitryon, Captivi, Pseudolus. Focus Classical Library

David Christenson  / Focus Publishing, 2008

Reviewed by Vincent Hunink, 

Contested Triumphs: Politics, Pageantry, and Performance in Livy’s Republican Rome

Miriam R. Pelikan Pittenger  / University of California Press, 2008

Reviewed by Jessica H. Clark, 

La mémoire des cités dans la Péloponnèse d’époque romaine (IIe siècle av. J-C-IIIe siècle après J.-C.). Collection Histoire

Yves Lafond  / Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2006

Reviewed by Arthur Eckstein, 

Sur le Contre les professeurs de Sextus Empiricus

Joëlle Delattre  / Presses de l'Université de Charles-de-Gaulle-Lille 3, 2006

Reviewed by Diego E. Machuca, 

The Republican Roman Army: A Sourcebook. Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

Michael M. Sage  / Routledge, 2008

Reviewed by Jeremy Armstrong, 

The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations. 3rd edition

Michael W. Holmes  / Baker Academic, 2007

Reviewed by Timothy B. Sailors, 

Antike Ästhetik. Eine Einführung in die Prinzipien des Schönen

Stefan Büttner  / C.H. Beck, 2006

Reviewed by Martin S. Harbsmeier, 

Hellenistic and Roman Ideal Sculpture: The Allure of the Classical

Rachel Meredith Kousser  / Cambridge University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Olympia Bobou, 

Kriegskosten und Kriegsfinanzierung in der Antike

Friedrich Burrer, Holger Müller  / WBG, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2008

Reviewed by Andrea Schuetze, 

Klassische Bauforschung

Gottfried Gruben  / Hirmer Verlag, 2007

Reviewed by Barbara A. Barletta, 

The Poetry of Statius. Mnemosyne, Supplementa 306

Johannes J. L. Smolenaars, Harm-Jan van Dam, Ruurd R. Nauta  / Brill, 2008

Reviewed by Pramit Chaudhuri, 

Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe

Nicholas Nicastro  / St. Martin's Press, 2008

Reviewed by T.E. Rihll, 

Ancient Jewish Magic: A History

Gideon Bohak  / Cambridge University Press, 2008

Reviewed by David Frankfurter, 

Pline le Jeune. Lettres: Livres I-III. nouvelle édition. Collection des universités de France. Série latine 391

Hubert Zehnacker  / Les Belles Lettres, 2009

Reviewed by Gauthier Liberman, 

Ségolène Demougin). Hautes Études du Monde Gréco-Romain 41

André Chastagnol  / Droz, 2008

Reviewed by Arnaud Paturet, 

Kerkenes Special Studies 1

Catherine M. Draycott, Geoffrey D. Summers  / The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2008

Reviewed by Lynn E. Roller, 

Myrte als Attribut und Ornament auf attischen Vasen. Akanthiskos, 1

Erika Kunze-Götte  / Akanthus, 2006

Reviewed by Nassos Papalexandrou, 

Demosthenes. Reden zur Finanzierung der Kriegsflotte. Texte zur Forschung Band 90

Christos Karvounis  / Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2008

Reviewed by Jeremy Trevett,