Month: January 2010

BMCR Books Received (December, 2009)

Sallust: The War Against Jugurtha. Aris and Phillips Classical Texts

Michael Comber, Catalina Balmaceda  / Oxbow Books, 2009

Reviewed by Christina S. Kraus, 

Publio Virgilio Marón. Eneida. Volumen I (Libros I-III). Alma mater

Luis Rivero García, Juan A. Estévez Sola, Miryam Librán Moreno, Antonio Ramírez de Verger  / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Tirant lo Blanch, 2009

Reviewed by Giampiero Scafoglio, 

Die Casa del Fauno in Pompeji (VI 12). Band 1. Stratigraphische Befunde der Ausgrabungen in den Jahren 1961 bis 1963; Bauhistorische Analyse. Archäologische Forschungen; 25

Andrea Faber  / Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2009

Reviewed by Maurizio Buora, 

Thesaurus Linguae Etruscae. I. Indice lessicale. Seconda edizione completamente riveduta sulla base della prima edizione pubblicata nel 1978 da Massimo Pallottino

Enrico Benelli  / Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2009

Reviewed by Gilles van Heems, 

The Politics of Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica

Anatole Mori  / Cambridge University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Helen Lovatt, 

Bains curatifs et bains hygiéniques en Italie de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge. Collection de l’École française, 383

Marie Guérin-Beauvois, Jean-Marie Martin  / De l'École française de Rome, 2007

Reviewed by Sandra K. Lucore, 

Forms of Astonishment: Greek Myths of Metamorphosis

Richard Buxton  / Oxford University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Barry B. Powell, 

Interpreting the Athenian Empire

John Ma, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Robert Parker  / Duckworth, 2009

Reviewed by Giuseppe Squillace, 

Ovid Revisited: The Poet in Exile

Jo-Marie Claassen  / Duckworth, 2008

Reviewed by Rita Degl'Innocenti Pierini, 

Grecia maggiore: intrecci culturali con l’Asia nel periodo arcaico

Christoph Riedweg  / Schwabe Verlag, 2009

Reviewed by Corinne Bonnet, 

Kleopatra-Studien: Gesammelte Schriften zur ausgehenden Ptolemäerzeit. Xenia Bd. 49

Heinz Heinen  / UVK, Univ.-Verlag Konstanz, 2009

Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig, 

In pursuit of Wissenschaft: Festschrift für William M. Calder III zum 75. Geburtstag. Spudasmata, Bd. 119

Stephan Heilen, Robert Kirstein, R. Scott Smith, Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Rogier L. van der Wal and Matthias Vorwerk (edd.)  / Georg Olms Verlag, 2008

Reviewed by Massimo Magnani, 

The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass. A Study in Transmission and Reception. Martin Classical Lectures

Julia Haig Gaisser  / Princeton University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Robert H. F. Carver, 

Machtfragen: zur kulturellen Repräsentation und Konstruktion von Macht in Antike, Mittelalter und Neuzeit

Alexander H. Arweiler, Bardo M. Gauly  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008

Reviewed by Andrea Schuetze, 

Servio: stratificazioni esegetiche e modelli culturali / Servius: exegetical stratifications and cultural models. Collection Latomus; v. 317

Sergio Casali, Fabio Stok  / Éditions Latomus, 2008

Reviewed by Ute Tischer, 

Greek and Roman Education: A Sourcebook. Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

Mark Joyal, Iain McDougall, J. C. Yardley  / Routledge, 2009

Reviewed by Roger S. Fisher, 

Reading Latin Poetry Aloud: A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse

Clive Brooks  / Cambridge University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Christopher Francese, 

Rivers of Fire: Mythic Themes in Homer’s Iliad

C. J. Mackie  / New Academia Publishing, 2008

Reviewed by Katie Billotte, 

Retorica e storia: una lettura delle Suasoriae di Seneca Padre. Quaderni di Invigilata lucernis 32

Elvira Migliario  / Edipuglia, 2007

Reviewed by John Henderson,