BMCR 2010.12.01

Books Received (November, 2010)

BMCR 2010.12.02

New Heroes in Antiquity: From Achilles to Antinoos

Christopher P. Jones  / Harvard University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Pauline Hanesworth

BMCR 2010.12.03

Sagalassos VI: Geo- and Bio-archaeology at Sagalassos and in its Territory

P. Degryse, M. Waelkens  / Leuven University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Andrea U. De Giorgi

BMCR 2010.12.04

Hippota Nestor. Hellenic Studies 37

Douglas Frame  / Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2009

Reviewed by Andrew E. Porter

BMCR 2010.12.05

New Perspectives on Aristotle’s De Caelo

Alan C. Bowen, Christian Wildberg  / Brill, 2009

Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson

BMCR 2010.12.06

Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVII

J. den Boeft, J. W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst, H. C. Teitler  / Brill, 2009

Reviewed by Stéphane Ratti

BMCR 2010.12.07

Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions: IV. Aramaic Inscriptions and Documents of the Roman Period

John F. Healey  / Oxford University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Herbert Niehr

BMCR 2010.12.08

The Emperors’ Needles. Egyptian Obelisks and Rome

Susan Sorek  / Bristol Phoenix Press, 2010

Reviewed by Andrea Schütze

BMCR 2010.12.09

Law and Drama in Ancient Greece

Edward M. Harris, Delfim F. Leão, P. J. Rhodes  / Duckworth, 2010

Reviewed by Noémie Villacèque

BMCR 2010.12.10

Lucien de Samosate. Comment écrire l’histoire. La roue à livres

André Hurst  / Les belles lettres, 2010

Reviewed by Nadejda Popov-Reynolds

BMCR 2010.12.11

When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East

Carolina López-Ruiz  / Harvard University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Mehmet-Ali Ataç

BMCR 2010.12.12

Plato’s Apology of Socrates: A Commentary

Paul Allen Miller, Charles Platter  / University of Oklahoma Press, 2010

Reviewed by David Hernández de la Fuente

BMCR 2010.12.13

The Athenian Agora Site Guide. Fifth Edition

II  / The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2010

Reviewed by Derek T. Irwin

BMCR 2010.12.14

Diodoro Siculo: Biblioteca storica: libro XIII: commento storico. Storia. Ricerche

Dino Ambaglio  / Vita e Pensiero, 2008

Reviewed by Catherine Rubincam

BMCR 2010.12.15

Imperial Mines and Quarries in the Roman World: Organizational Aspects 27 BC-AD 235. Oxford Classical Monographs

Alfred Michael Hirt  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Kresimir Matijevic

BMCR 2010.12.16

Maxima debetur magistro reverentia: Essays on Rome and the Roman Tradition in Honor of Russell T. Scott. Biblioteca di Athenaeum 54

Jr., Catherine Conybeare (  / New Press edizioni, 2009

Reviewed by Marianne Sághy

BMCR 2010.12.17

A. H. M. Jones and the Later Roman Empire. Brill’s Series on the Early Middle Ages, v. 15

David M. Gwynn  / Brill, 2008

Reviewed by Gavin Kelly

BMCR 2010.12.18

Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy

Page duBois  / Oxford University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Antonio Gonzales

BMCR 2010.12.19

Militia Clericatus Monachici Ordines: Istituzioni Ecclesiastiche e Società in Gregorio Magno (second edition). Testi e studi di storia antica; 20

Pietrina Pellegrini  / Edizioni del Prisma, 2008

Reviewed by Raeleen Chai-Elsholz

BMCR 2010.12.20

Graeco-Roman Slave Markets: Fact or Fiction?

Monika Trümper  / Oxbow Books, 2009

Reviewed by Ulrike Roth