Month: February 2011

BMCR Books Received (January, 2011)

Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-modern Societies. The Ancient World: Comparative Histories

Kurt A. Raaflaub, Richard J. A. Talbert  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

Reviewed by Stéphane Lebreton, 

Res gestae divi Augusti: Text, Translation and Commentary

Alison E. Cooley  / Cambridge University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Richard Westall, 

The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy

Martin Puchner  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Christopher Moore, 

De Lycie en Cabalide: la convention entre les Lyciens et Termessos près d’Oinoanda. Fouilles de Xanthos X. Hautes études du monde gréco-romain 45

Denis Rousset  / Droz Librairie, 2010

Reviewed by R. Malcolm Errington, 

Scrittura e falsità. (Presentazione di Paola Biavaschi). Historica 8

Giulio Mauro Facchetti  / Giorgio Bretschneider editore, 2009

Reviewed by Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, 

Culture funerarie d’Abruzzo (IV-I secolo a.C.). Mediterranea supplementi 5

Enrico Benelli, Claudia Rizzitelli  / Fabrizio Serra editore, 2010

Reviewed by Christopher Smith, 

The Villanovan, Etruscan and Hellenistic Collections in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 14

David A. Caccioli  / Brill, 2009

Reviewed by Helen Nagy, 

She-wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon

Cristina Mazzoni  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Genevieve Gessert, 

Griechische Philosophie: Vorlesungsmitschrift aus dem Wintersemester 1897/98 (herausgegeben von Johannes Saltzwedel)

Hermann Diels  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010

Reviewed by Aaron P. Tate, 

Aristoteles Latinus (ALPE X, 1); Aristoteles Latinus (ALPE X, 2.1-2)

Elisa Rubino  / Brepols, 2010 Elisa Rubino, Vuillemin-Diem Gudrun  / Brepols, 2008

Reviewed by Reka Forrai, 

Callimaco. Aitia: libro terzo e quarto. Biblioteca di studi antichi 92

Giulio Massimilla  / Fabrizio Serra editore, 2010

Reviewed by Brian W. Breed, 

Sparta and Laconia: From Prehistory to Pre-modern

W. G. Cavanagh, C. Gallou, M. Georgiadis  / British School at Athens, 2009

Reviewed by Laurence Foschia, 

Greek Vase-painting and the Origins of Visual Humour

Alexandre G. Mitchell  / Cambridge University Press,, 2009

Reviewed by John Boardman, 

Ovid in the Age of Cervantes

Frederick A. De Armas  / University of Toronto Press, 2010

Reviewed by Pablo Alvarez, 

The Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul (paperback edition; first published 2004)

John Freely, Ahmet S. Çakmak  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Raymond Van Dam, 

Letteratura e politica nell’Israele antico. Studi biblici

Giovanni Garbini  / Paideia Editrice, 2010

Reviewed by Chiara Peri, 

Plato and Hesiod

G. R. Boys-Stones, J. H. Haubold  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Marcus Folch, 

Salute e guarigione nella tarda antichità: atti della giornata tematica dei Seminari di archeologia cristiana (Roma – 20 maggio 2004)

Hugo Brandenburg, Stefan Heid, Christoph Markschies  / Pontificio istituto di archeologia cristiana, 2007

Reviewed by Ildikó Csepregi, 

Epic and History

David Konstan, Kurt A. Raaflaub  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

Reviewed by Abram Ring,