Month: April 2010

BMCR Books Received (March, 2010)

Moines et communautés monastiques en Égypte (IVe-VIIIe siècles). JJP supplement 11

Ewa Wipszycka  / Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2009

Reviewed by Shawn W.J. Keough, 

Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece

Sabine Albersmeier  / Walters Art Museum, 2009

Reviewed by Susan B. Matheson, 

Male mort: morts violentes dans l’Antiquité

Philippe Charlier  / Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2009

Reviewed by Jean-Noël Castorio, 

Akrasia in Greek Philosophy. From Socrates to Plotinus. Philosophia Antiqua, 106

Christopher Bobonich, Pierre Destrée  / Brill, 2007

Reviewed by Peter Lautner, 

The Invectives of Sallust and Cicero: Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Sozomena. Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts v. 6

Anna A. Novokhatko  / Walter de Gruyter, 2009

Reviewed by Iris Samotta, 

Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, Book 1: A Commentary

Andrew Zissos  / Oxford University Press, 2008

Reviewed by Antony Augoustakis, 

Ciceros Dichtungstheorie: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der antiken Literaturästhetik. Klassische Philologie Bd. 3

Dionysios Chalkomatas  / Timme, 2007

Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck, 

Conrad Celtis: Oden/Epoden/Jahrhundertlied: libri odarum quattuor, cum epodo et saeculari carmine (1513). NeoLatina, 16

Eckart Schäfer  / Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008

Reviewed by Sandro La Barbera, 

Thebaid and Achilleid, Volumes I-III

J. B. Hall, A. L. Ritchie, M. J. Edwards  / Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007 J. B. Hall, A. L. Ritchie, M. J. Edwards, J.B. Hall, A.L. Ritchie, M.J. Edwards  / Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007 J. B. Hall, A. L. Ritchie, M. J. Edwards, J.B. Hall, A.L. Ritchie, M.J. Edwards, J.B. Hall, A.L. Ritchie, M.J. Edwards  / Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008

Reviewed by Valéry Berlincourt, 

Vitruve: De l’architecture. Livre v. Collection des Universités de France

Catherine Saliou  / Les belles lettres, 2009

Reviewed by John Bulwer, 

Making Myths: Jews in Early Christian Identity Formation

Leonard V. Rutgers  / Peeters, 2009

Reviewed by Stéphanie E. Binder, 

I primi atomisti. Raccolta dei testi che riguardano Leucippo e Democrito. I testi in traduzione italiana con CD allegato. Studi / Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere “La Colombaria”, 246

Walter Leszl  / Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2009

Reviewed by Guy Lachenaud, 

Philosophical Presences in the Ancient Novel. Ancient Narrative. Supplementum, 10

J. R. Morgan, Meriel Jones  / Barkhuis; Groningen University Library, 2007

Reviewed by

Parmenide: tradizione del testo e questioni di lingua. Seminari romani di cultura greca. Quaderni 12

Enzo Passa  / Edizioni Quasar, 2009

Reviewed by Alcorac Alonso Déniz, 

Miti e note: Musica con antichi racconti. Polymnia. Studi di filologia classica 11

Franco Serpa  / Edizioni Università Trieste,

Reviewed by Edoardo Buroni, 

Strabons Geographika, Band 8. Buch XIV- XVII: Kommentar

Stefan Radt  / Ruprecht, 2009

Reviewed by Johannes Engels, 

Comic Epic and Parodies of Epic: Literature for Youth and Children in Ancient Greece. Spudasmata Bd. 122

Reyes Bertolín Cebrián  / Georg Olms Verlag, 2008

Reviewed by Mario Andreassi, 

Das Vorbild der Vergangenheit: Geschichtsbild und Reformvorschläge bei Cicero und Sallust. Historia Einzelschriften, 204

Iris Samotta  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009

Reviewed by M. Weiskopf, 

A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint

Takamitsu Muraoka  / Peeters, 2009

Reviewed by Frank Shaw,