Month: April 2011

BMCR Books Received (March, 2011)

Three Homeric Hymns: To Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite. Hymns 3, 4, and 5. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Nicholas Richardson  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Patrick James, 

Ancient Rome at the Cinema: Story and Spectacle in Hollywood and Rome. Greece and Rome Live

Elena Theodorakopoulos  / Bristol Phoenix Press, 2010

Reviewed by John Aveline, 

Citizens of Discord: Rome and Its Civil Wars

Brian W. Breed, Cynthia Damon, Andreola Rossi  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Charles McNelis and Josiah Osgood, 

Augustus: Aufrührer – Herrscher – Heiland. Eine Biographie

Werner Dahlheim  / Verlag C. H. Beck, 2010

Reviewed by M. Weiskopf, 

The Athenian Agora, Volume XXXII: Roman Pottery: Fine-ware Imports

John W. Hayes  / American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2008

Reviewed by J. Theodore Peña, 

Historiae Augustae: colloquium Genevense in honorem F. Paschoud septuagenarii

Lavinia Galli Milić, Nicole Hecquet-Noti  / Edipuglia, 2010

Reviewed by David Rohrbacher, 

City of the Ram-man: The Story of Ancient Mendes

Donald B. Redford  / Princeton University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Robert Gozzoli, 

By the Sweat of your Brow: Roman Slavery in its Socio-economic Setting. BICS Supplement 109

Ulrike Roth  / Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2010

Reviewed by Kyle Harper, 

Manger en Grèce classique: la nourriture, ses plaisirs et ses contraintes

Janick Auberger  / Presses de l'Université Laval, 2010

Reviewed by Fernando Notario Pacheco, 

Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater

Eric Csapo  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

Reviewed by John Jory, 

Catullus, Cicero, and a Society of Patrons: The Generation of the Text

Sarah Culpepper Stroup  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Christopher S. van den Berg, 

Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia

Giovanni Casadio, Patricia A. Johnston  / University of Texas Press, 2009

Reviewed by Kirsten Bedigan, 

Roman Imperialism. Debates and Documents in Ancient History

Andrew Erskine  / Edinburgh University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Michael P. Fronda, 

Intorno all’Adriatico. Atti del convegno Intorno all’Adriatico, Trieste (Italia) – Piran/Pirano (Slovenja), 30-31 maggio 2009. Quaderni Friulani di Archeologia 19

Fabio Prenc  / Società Friulana di Archeologia, 2009

Reviewed by Maria Cecilia D’Ercole, 

The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 45

Matthew P. Canepa  / University of California Press, 2009

Reviewed by Peter Edwell, 

The Land of Ionia: Society and Economy in the Archaic Period

Alan M. Greaves  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

Reviewed by Lee E. Patterson, 

From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East

Hannah M. Cotton, Robert G. Hoyland, Jonathan J. Price, David J. Wasserstein  / Cambridge University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Christian Høgel, 

Cicero: Pro Caelio. Focus Classical Commentary

Elizabeth Keitel, Jane W. Crawford  / Focus Publishing, 2010

Reviewed by Ramón Gutiérrez González, 

Cicero. Pro Sexto Roscio. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Andrew R. Dyck  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Claude Loutsch,