Month: July 2010

BMCR Books Received (June, 2010)

Rotman on Lenski on Youval Rotman, Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World

Response by Youval Rotman | Original Review by Noel Lenski, 

Aufstieg und Abstieg der Seele: Diesseitigkeit und Jenseitigkeit in Plotins Ethik der Sorge. Hypomnemata Bd. 180

Euree Song  / Ruprecht, 2009

Reviewed by John Dillon, 

Sixty-Five Papyrological Texts: Presented to Klaas A. Worp on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 33

F. A. J. Hoogendijk, B. P. Muhs  / Brill, 2008

Reviewed by Daniela Colomo, 

Seneca and the Self

Shadi Bartsch, David Wray  / Cambridge University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Amanda Wilcox, 

Plotin. Traités 42-44. Sur les genres de l’être I, II et III. GF Flammarion, 1348. Présentés, traduits et annotés par Luc Brisson

Luc Brisson, Jean-François Pradeau  / Éditions Flammarion, 2008

Reviewed by Frans A.J. de Haas, 

Dion von Prusa: Der Philosoph und sein Bild. Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam Religionemque pertinentia (SAPERE) 13

Heinz-Günther Nesselrath  / Mohr Siebeck, 2009

Reviewed by Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen, 

The Italians on the Land: Changing Perspectives on Republican Italy Then and Now

Arthur Keaveney, Louise Earnshaw-Brown  / Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009

Reviewed by Christopher J. Dart, 

The Thracians in the Roman Imperial Army: From the First to the Third Century A.D. I. Auxilia. Center for Roman Military Studies 2

Mihail Zahariade  / Mega Publishing House, 2009

Reviewed by Caillan Davenport, 

Reconstruire Troie: permanence et renaissances d’une cité emblématique

Michel Fartzoff, Murielle Faudot, Évelyne Geny, Marie-Rose Guelfucci  / Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2009

Reviewed by Catalin Pavel, 

Plutarch, On the Daimonion of Socrates: Human Liberation, Divine Guidance, and Philosophy. Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam Religionemque pertinentia (SAPERE) 16

Heinz-Günther Nesselrath  / Mohr Siebeck, 2010

Reviewed by Robert Lamberton, 

Writing Ancient History: An Introduction to Classical Historiography

Luke Pitcher  / I. B. Tauris, 2009

Reviewed by Lynette Mitchell, 

Johannes Wiedewelt: A Danish Artist in Search of the Past, Shaping the Future. Acta Hyperborea 11

Marjatta Nielsen, Annette Rathje  / Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2010

Reviewed by John Henderson, 

Responses to Oliver Stone’s Alexander: Film, History, and Cultural Studies. Wisconsin Studies in Classics

Paul Cartledge, Fiona Rose Greenland  / University of Wisconsin Press, 2010

Reviewed by Sheramy D. Bundrick, 

La religion des femmes en Grèce ancienne: mythes, cultes et société

Lydie Bodiou, Véronique Mehl  / Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009

Reviewed by Marietta Horster, 

Hellas und der Orient: Phasen wechselseitiger Rezeption. Julius-Wellhausen-Vorlesung 2

Albrecht Dihle, Reinhard Feldmeier  / Walter de Gruyter, 2009

Reviewed by Nassos Papalexandrou, 

Epinikien und ihr Aufführungsrahmen. Nikephoros. Beihefte, Bd. 17

Arlette Neumann-Hartmann  / Weidmann, 2009

Reviewed by Jean-Yves Strasser, 

History of Venice, Volumes 1, 2, and 3

Robert W. Ulery, Jr.  / Harvard University Press, 2007 Robert W. Ulery, Jr., Robert W. Ulery, Jr.  / Harvard University Press, 2008 Robert W. Ulery, Jr., Robert W. Ulery, Jr., Robert W. Ulery, Jr.  / Harvard University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Diana Gilliland Wright, 

Francesco Filelfo: Odes. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 41

Diana Robin  / Harvard University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Daniel T. Barber, 

Estudios de Epigrafía Griega. Serie investigación 1

Ángel Martínez Fernández  / Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de la Laguna, 2009

Reviewed by Vassilios P. Vertoudakis,