Year: 2011

BMCR Books Received (December 2010)

The Hidden Chorus: Echoes of Genre in Tragic Lyric. Oxford Classical Monographs

L. A. Swift  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Anna S. Uhlig, 

Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy

Adrian Kelly  / Duckworth, 2009

Reviewed by Andreas Markantonatos, 

Plutarch’s Practical Ethics: The Social Dynamics of Philosophy

Lieve Van Hoof  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by John Dillon, 

Politics: Antiquity and Its Legacy. Ancients and Moderns

Kostas Vlassopoulos  / Oxford University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Melissa Schwartzberg, 

Iuncturae Homericae: A Study of Noun-epithet Combinations in the Iliad and the Odyssey. Part I: Repertories I-III. Alpha-Omega 256

James H. Dee  / Olms-Weidmann, 2010

Reviewed by Mark W. Edwards, 

Taste or Taboo: Dietary Choices in Antiquity

Michael Beer  / Prospect Books, 2009

Reviewed by Jack Lennon, 

Latin on Stone: Epigraphic Research and Electronic Archives. Roman Studies

Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais  / Lexington Books, 2010

Reviewed by Caillan Davenport, 

La tragedia greca: origini, storia, rinascite. Strumenti per l’università 7

Giorgio Ieranò  / Salerno Editrice, 2010

Reviewed by Letizia Poli Palladini, 

Greek: A Language in Evolution. Essays in Honour of Antonios N. Jannaris

Chrys C. Caragounis  / Georg Olms Verlag, 2010

Reviewed by Christos Karvounis, 

A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names. Volume VA, Coastal Asia Minor: Pontos to Ionia

T. Corsten  / Clarendon Press, 2010

Reviewed by Alcorac Alonso Déniz, 

Plato comicus: die fragmentarischen Komödien ein Kommentar. Studia comica Bd. 1

Serena Pirrotta  / Verlag Antike, 2009

Reviewed by Giacomo Mancuso, 

Aëtiana: The Method and Intellectual Context of a Doxographer. Vol. 3, Studies in the Doxographical Traditions of Ancient Philosophy. Philosophia antiqua 118

J. Mansfeld, D. T. Runia  / Brill, 2009

Reviewed by Kelli Rudolph, 

Aphrodite. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World

Monica S. Cyrino  / Routledge, 2010

Reviewed by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, 

Aurelio Lippo Brandolini. Republics and Kingdoms Compared. The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 40

James Hankins  / Harvard University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Alison Frazier, 

L’embryon et son âme dans les sources grecques (VIe siècle av. J.-C.-Ve siècle apr. J.-C.). Centre de recherche d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance, Monographies 26

Marie-Hélène Congourdeau  / Association des amis du Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance, 2007

Reviewed by Etienne Lepicard, 

A Plato Primer

J. D. G. Evans  / Acumen, 2010

Reviewed by Cathal Woods, 

Casta domus: un seminario sulla legislazione matrimoniale augustea. Terza edizione

Tullio Spagnuolo Vigorita  / Jovene editore, 2010

Reviewed by Lien Foubert, 

Bodies and Boundaries in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Thorsten Fögen, Mireille M. Lee  / Walter de Gruyter, 2009

Reviewed by Michael Broder, 

A Companion to Horace. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Literature and Culture

Gregson Davis  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

Reviewed by Stephen Harrison,