Month: March 2010

BMCR Books Received (February, 2010)

Hermann Dessau (1856-1931) zum 150. Geburtstag des Berliner Althistorikers und Epigraphikers

Manfred G. Schmidt  / Walter de Gruyter, 2009

Reviewed by Erich Kettenhofen, 

Homer’s Winged Words: The Evolution of Early Greek Epic Diction in the Light of Oral Theory. Mnemosyne Supplements 313

Steve Reece  / Brill, 2009

Reviewed by D. M. Goldstein, 

Fisher on Joyal on Fisher on Joyal, McDougall, and Yardley, Greek and Roman Education: A Sourcebook

Response by Roger S. Fisher | Original Response by Joyal Mark, 

Dialoghi spuri di Platone. Classici della filosofia 8/5

Francesco Aronadio  / Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 2008

Reviewed by John Dillon, 

Severus Sophista Alexandrinus: Progymnasmata quae exstant omnia. Bibliotheca Teubneriana 2002

Eugenio Amato  / Walter de Gruyter, 2009

Reviewed by Craig A. Gibson, 

Critical Moments in Classical Literature: Studies in the Ancient View of Literature and Its Uses

Richard Hunter  / Cambridge University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Nancy Worman, 

On Coming After: Studies in Post-classical Greek Literature and its Reception (2 vols.). Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes; 3

Richard Hunter  / Walter De Gruyter, 2008

Reviewed by David Konstan, 

Enargeia: Untersuchung zur Charakteristik alexandrinischer Dichtung. HERMES Einzelschriften Bd. 102

Nina Otto  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009

Reviewed by Jacqueline Klooster, 

Sylloge nummorum religionis isiacae et sarapiacae (SNRIS). Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 38

Laurent Bricault  / Diffusion de Boccard, 2008

Reviewed by Jacques Alexandropoulos, 

Il Richiamo del Testo: Contributi di filologia e letteratura (4 vols.)

Vincenzo Di Benedetto  / Edizioni ETS, 2007

Reviewed by Suzanne Saïd, 

Reading Homer: Film and Text

Kostas Myrsiades  / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Robert J. Rabel, 

Le Cycle de l’anneau: de Minos à Tolkien. L’antiquité au présent

Charles Delattre  / Belin, 2009

Reviewed by Christine Kossaifi, 

Horaz: Dichter und Werk

Niklas Holzberg  / C. H. Beck, 2009

Reviewed by Tina Chronopoulos, 

L’arte di Asclepio: medici e malattie in età antica. Società antiche

Giovanna De Sensi Sestito  / Rubbettino Editore, 2008

Reviewed by Maria Elena Gorrini, 

Cicero’s Philippics: History, Rhetoric and Ideology. Prudentia 37-38

Tom Stevenson, Marcus Wilson  / Polygraphia, 2008

Reviewed by John Henderson, 

Metaphors Cicero Lived By: The Role of Metaphor and Simile in De senectute. Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia, 16

Aron Sjöblad  / Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, 2009

Reviewed by Myles Lavan, 

Parmenides, Cosmos, and Being: A Philosophical Interpretation

Panagiotis Thanassas  / Marquette University Press, 2007

Reviewed by Vishwa Adluri, 

Greek Personal Religion: A Reader

Stephen Instone  / Phillips, 2009

Reviewed by Louise Bruit Zaidman, 

Le Metamorfosi di Apuleio. Letteratura e identità. Arti Spazi Scritture, 5

Luca Graverini  / Giardini Editori e Stampatori in Pisa, 2007

Reviewed by Juan Martos,