Month: August 2011

BMCR Books Received (July, 2011)

Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram

Manuel Baumbach, Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Lucia Floridi, 

Classical Latin: An Introductory Course

J. C. McKeown  / Hackett Publishing Company, 2010

Reviewed by Antonio Ramírez de Verger, 

Ovid’s Amores, Book One: A Commentary. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture 41

Maureen B. Ryan, Caroline A. Perkins  / University of Oklahoma Press, 2011

Reviewed by Erika Zimmermann Damer, 

Manilius, Astronomica, Buch V (2 vols.). Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare

Wolfgang Hübner  / De Gruyter, 2010

Reviewed by Joanna Komorowska, 

Da ‘classico’ a ‘classico’. Paradigmi letterari tra Antico e Moderno

Paolo Esposito  / Edizioni ETS, 2010

Reviewed by Ioannis Deligiannis, 

Creative Eloquence: The Construction of Reality in Cicero’s Speeches

Ingo Gildenhard  / Oxford University Press, 2011

Reviewed by James Zetzel, 

A Commentary on Book 4 of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica. Mnemosyne Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman Language and Literature, 311

Paul Murgatroyd  / Brill, 2009

Reviewed by Thomas Gärtner, 

Studies on the Text of Macrobius’ Saturnalia

Robert A. Kaster  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Jarrett Welsh, 

Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa

Walter E. Kaegi  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by David Woods, 

Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity. Mnemosyne Supplements 323

Ralph M. Rosen, Ineke Sluiter  / Brill, 2010

Reviewed by Brendan Boyle, 

One God. Pagan Monotheism in the Roman Empire

Stephen Mitchell, Peter Van Nuffelen  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Michele Renee Salzman, 

Aristotle On the Nature of Truth

Christopher P. Long  / Cambridge University Press, 2011

Reviewed by Francisco J. Gonzalez, 

Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire: Generic Interactions. Mnemosyne Supplements 321

John F. Miller, A. J. Woodman  / Brill, 2010

Reviewed by Jakub Pigoń, 

Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea

David Konstan  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Jakub Jirsa, 

Ten Gifts of the Demiurge: Proclus on Plato’s Timaeus

Emilie Kutash  / Bristol Classical Press, 2011

Reviewed by Dirk Baltzly, 

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism

Richard Bett  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Eugene V. Afonasin, 

Moni Odigitria: A Prepalatial Cemetery and Its Environs in the Asterousia, Southern Crete. Prehistory Monographs 30

Andonis Vasilakis, Keith Branigan  / INSTAP Academic Press, 2010

Reviewed by Luca Girella, 

Describing and Interpreting the Past: European and American Approaches to the Written Record of the Excavation

Cătălin Pavel  / Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti,

Reviewed by Sveta Matskevich, 

Sub imagine somni: Nighttime Phenomena in Greco-Roman Culture. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 46

Emma Scioli, Christine Walde  / Edizioni ETS, 2010

Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono,