Month: March 2011

BMCR Books Received (February, 2011)

A Beginning Latin Christian Reader: de bonis cogitationibus

Rose Williams  / Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2010

Reviewed by Michael Klaassen, 

Antonio Beccadelli. The Hermaphrodite. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 42

Holt Parker  / Harvard University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Thomas Gärtner, 

The Tangled Ways of Zeus: And Other Studies in and around Greek Tragedy

Alan H Sommerstein  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Viviana Gastaldi, 

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

James J. Clauss, Cuypers Martine  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

Reviewed by Christine Kossaifi, 

Readers and Writers in the Ancient Novel. Ancient Narrative. Supplementum 12

Michael Paschalis, Stelios Panayotakis, Gareth Schmeling  / Barkhuis Publishing; Groningen University Library, 2009

Reviewed by Lawrence Kim, 

Untersuchungen zu den griechischen Palimpsesten der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek

Jana Grusková  / Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010

Reviewed by Thomas J Kraus, 

The Multilingual Experience in Egypt, from the Ptolemies to the Abbasids

Arietta Papaconstantinou  / Ashgate, 2010

Reviewed by Katherine McDonald, 

The Taktika of Leo VI. Dumbarton Oaks Texts 12

George T. Dennis  / Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2010

Reviewed by Mark Bartusis, 

The Chronicle of Morea: Historiography in Crusader Greece. Oxford Studies in Byzantium

Teresa Shawcross  / Oxford University Press, 2009

Reviewed by David Elton Gay, 

La philologie au présent: pour Jean Bollack. Cahiers de philologie 27. Série Apparat critique

Christoph König, Denis Thouard  / Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2010

Reviewed by Geert Lernout, 

Das antike Theater. Beck’sche Reihe 2496

Bernd Seidensticker  / C. H. Beck, 2010

Reviewed by Letizia Poli Palladini, 

The Fragments of Parmenides: A Critical Text with Introduction and Translation. The Ancient Testimonia and a Commentary (revised and expanded edition)

A. H. Coxon, Richard D. McKirahan  / Parmenides Publishing, 2009

Reviewed by Jenny Bryan, 

Exposed: Photography and the Classical Nude

Michael Turner  / Nicholson Museum, The University of Sydney, 2011

Reviewed by Simon Goldhill, 

A Companion to Byzantium. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Ancient History

Liz James  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

Reviewed by

Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe

Peter Heather  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Timothy M. Teeter, 

Mason on Zollschan on Olson, Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery

Response by Steve Mason | Original Review by Linda Zollschan, 

Mason on Zollschan on Olson, Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery

Response by Steve Mason | Original Review by Linda Zollschan, 

Ex uno plures: drei Studien zum postumen Persönlichkeitsbild des Alten Cato

Hartmut Wulfram  / Verlag Antike, 2009

Reviewed by Mathilde Simon-Mahé, 

Die Pseudo-Seneca-Epigramme der Anthologia Vossiana: ein Gedichtbuch aus der mittleren Kaiserzeit. Spudasmata Bd. 132

Alfred Breitenbach  / Georg Olms Verlag, 2010

Reviewed by Sandro La Barbera,