Month: September 2011

BMCR Books Received (August, 2011)

Roman Perspectives: Studies in Political and Cultural History, from the First to the Fifth Century

John Matthews  / Classical Press of Wales, 2010

Reviewed by John F. Donahue, 

Югоизточна България през II – I хилядолетие пр. Хр. (South-Eastern Bulgaria during the 2nd -1st millennium B.C.)

R. Georgieva, T. Stoyanov, D. Momchilov  / Zograf Press, 2010

Reviewed by Petya Ilieva, 

Roman Egypt. Classical World Series

Livia Capponi  / Bristol Classical Press, 2010

Reviewed by Nikolaos Lazaridis, 

Desire, Practical Reason, and the Good

Sergio Tenenbaum  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Robert Zaborowski, 

Socratic Moral Psychology

Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Scott Carson, 

Alexandreia und das ptolemäische Ägypten: Kulturbegegnungen in hellenistischer Zeit

Gregor Weber  / Verlag Antike, 2010

Reviewed by M. Weiskopf, 

Entre tutelle romaine et autonomie civique. L’administration judiciaire dans les provinces hellénophones de l’Empire romain (129 av. J.-C. – 235 apr. J.-C.)

Julien Fournier  / École française d'Athènes, 2010

Reviewed by Clifford Ando, 

Plato’s Counterfeit Sophists

Håkan Tell  / Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, 2011

Reviewed by Hans-Peder Hanson, 

Being Nature and Life in Aristotle: Essays in Honor of Allan Gotthelf

James G. Lennox, Robert Bolton  / Cambridge University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Daniel P. Maher, 

Roman Attitudes Toward the Christians: From Claudius to Hadrian. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 261

John Granger Cook  / Mohr Siebeck, 2010

Reviewed by Eric Fournier, 

Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume 1: Jerusalem, Part 1: 1 – 704. Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palestinae. A multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad

Hannah M. Cotton, Additional editors: Leah Di Segni, Werner Eck, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Haggai Misgav, Jonathan Price, Israel Roll and Ada Yardeni.  / Walter de Gruyter, 2010

Reviewed by Hagith Sivan, 

Philology and Its Histories. Classical Memories/Modern Identities

Sean Gurd  / Ohio State University Press, 2010

Reviewed by David Butterfield, 

Musa pedestris: metre and meaning in Roman verse

Llewelyn Morgan  / Oxford University Press, 2010

Reviewed by Joshua T. Katz, 

Cicero und das römische Bürgerrecht: die Verteidigung des Dichters Archias. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und historisch-philologische Kommentierungen. Vertumnus Bd 5

Altay Coşkun  / Edition Ruprecht, 2010

Reviewed by Barbara Saylor Rodgers, 

The Neo-Latin Epigram: a Learned and Witty Genre. Supplementa humanistica Lovaniensia 25

Susanna de Beer, Karl A. E. Enenkel, David Rijser  / Leuven University Press, 2009

Reviewed by Ricardo da Cunha Lima, 

Apollodorus Mechanicus, Siege-matters (Πολιορκητικά). Historia Einzelschriften 216

David Whitehead  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010

Reviewed by John David Lewis, 

Specters of Paul: Sexual Difference in Early Christian Thought. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion

Benjamin H. Dunning  / University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011

Reviewed by

The Feminine Personification of Wisdom: a Study of Homer’s Penelope, Cappadocian Macrina, Boethius’ Philosophia and Dante’s Beatrice

Wendy Elgersma Helleman  / Edwin Mellen Press, 2009

Reviewed by Beert Verstraete, 

Une journée à Cyrène: lecture du Rudens de Plaute. Cahiers du GITA, 18

Bénédicte Delignon, Sabine Luciani, Pascale Paré-Rey  / Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2011

Reviewed by John Henderson,