BMCR 2013.05.01

Books Received April 2013

BMCR 2013.05.02

Variation and Change in Greek and Latin. Papers and monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, 17

Martti Leiwo, Hilla Halla-aho, Marja Vierros  / Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens, 2012

Reviewed by Jerker Blomqvist

BMCR 2013.05.03

Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity. Divinations: rereading late ancient religion

Andrew Crislip  / University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013

Reviewed by Wendy Mayer

BMCR 2013.05.04

Tiberius to Nero. Lactor, 19

M. G. L. Cooley  / London Association of Classical Teachers, 2011

Reviewed by Caillan Davenport

BMCR 2013.05.05

The Invention of Greek Ethnography: From Homer to Herodotus. Greeks overseas

Joseph E. Skinner  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by S.C. Caneva

BMCR 2013.05.06

Britain and Its Empire in the Shadow of Rome: The Reception of Rome in Socio-Political Debate from the 1850s to the 1920s

Sarah J. Butler  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2012

Reviewed by Simon Goldhill

BMCR 2013.05.07

The Use of Anonymous Characters in Greek Tragedy: The Shaping of Heroes. Mnemosyne Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin Language and Literature, 344

Florence Yoon  / Brill, 2012

Reviewed by Jonathan L. Ready

BMCR 2013.05.08

LM IB Pottery: Relative Chronology and Regional Differences

Thomas M. Brogan, Erik Hallager  / Danish Institute at Athens, 2011

Reviewed by Luca Girella

BMCR 2013.05.09

Publio Virgilio Marone. Le Bucoliche

Andrea Cucchiarelli, Alfonso Traina  / Carocci editore, 2012

Reviewed by Richard F. Thomas

BMCR 2013.05.10

Panskoye I, Volume 2: The Necropolis. Archaeological investigations in Western Crimea

Vladimir F. Stolba, Eugeny Rogov  / Aarhus University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Adam Rabinowitz

BMCR 2013.05.11

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage

William E. Metcalf  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Andrew Meadows

BMCR 2013.05.12

“Dis Manibus, pili, epitaffi et altre cose antiche” di Giovannantonio Dosio: il codice N.A. 618 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze

Giovanna Tedeschi Grisanti, Heikki Solin  / Edizioni ETS, 2011

Reviewed by William Stenhouse

BMCR 2013.05.13

Lucans Bellum Civile. Studien zum Spektrum seiner Rezeption von der Antike bis ins 19. Jahrhundert. Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, 78

Christine Walde  / Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009

Reviewed by Martin T. Dinter

BMCR 2013.05.14

Childhood in Ancient Athens: Iconography and Social History. Routledge monographs in classical studies

Lesley A. Beaumont  / Routledge, 2012

Reviewed by Katherine V. Huntley

BMCR 2013.05.15

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature. Oxford Handbooks

Ralph J. Hexter, David Townsend  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Corey J. Zwikstra

BMCR 2013.05.16

Sophokles. König Ödipus. Griechische Dramen

Bernd Manuwald  / De Gruyter, 2012

Reviewed by P. J. Finglass

BMCR 2013.05.17

Tacitus the Epic Successor: Virgil, Lucan, and the Narrative of Civil War in the Histories. Mnemosyne Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin Language and Literature, 345

Timothy A. Joseph  / Brill, 2012

Reviewed by Salvador Bartera

BMCR 2013.05.18

Tacitus. Oxford readings in classical studies

Rhiannon Ash  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Rubén Olmo López

BMCR 2013.05.19

Forms and Concepts: Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina, Bd 5

Christoph Helmig  / De Gruyter, 2012

Reviewed by Lloyd Gerson

BMCR 2013.05.20

A History of Pergamum: Beyond Hellenistic Kingship

Richard Evans  / Continuum, 2012

Reviewed by Jens Jakobsson