BMCR 2013.06.01

Books Received May 2013

BMCR 2013.06.02

Michael Attaleiates: The History. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 16

Anthony Kaldellis, Dimitris Krallis  / Harvard University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Michele Trizio

BMCR 2013.06.03

From the Ptolemies to the Romans: Political and Economic Change in Egypt

Andrew Monson  / Cambridge University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Peter Nadig

BMCR 2013.06.04

Polybius: The Histories. Volume VI, Books 28-39 (revised edition), Unattributed fragments. Loeb Classical Library, 161

W. R. Paton, F. W. Walbank, Christian Habicht, S. Douglas Olson  / Harvard University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Duncan B. Campbell

BMCR 2013.06.05

Beyond Hearth and Home: Women in the Public Sphere in Neo-Assyrian Society. Publications of the Foundation for Finnish Assyriological Research, 5; State Archives of Assyria studies, 21

Sherry Lou Macgregor  / Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2012

Reviewed by Frauke Weiershäuser

BMCR 2013.06.06

Plato and the Divided Self

Rachel Barney, Tad Brennan, Charles Brittain  / Cambridge University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Peter Lautner

BMCR 2013.06.07

Pour une archéologie de la médecine romaine. Collection Pathographie, 8

Danielle Gourevitch  / De Boccard, 2011

Reviewed by Philippe Mudry

BMCR 2013.06.08

The Interplay of Ideas in Vergilian Bucolic. Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 346

Gregson Davis  / Brill, 2012

Reviewed by Kristi Eastin

BMCR 2013.06.09

Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy. Onassis series in Hellenic culture

Simon Goldhill  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Andreas Markantonatos

BMCR 2013.06.10

Inscriptional Records for the Dramatic Festivals in Athens: IG II2 2318-2325 and Related Texts. Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy

Benjamin W. Millis, S. Douglas Olson  / Brill, 2012

Reviewed by Stephen D. Lambert

BMCR 2013.06.11

La quatrième fonction: altérité et marginalité dans l’idéologie des Indo-Européens. Vérité des mythes​

Pierre Sauzeau, André​ Sauzeau  / Les Belles Lettres, 2012

Reviewed by Jean-Christophe Vincent

BMCR 2013.06.12

Publio Papinio Stazio, Achilleide

Gianfranco Nuzzo  / Palumbo, 2012

Reviewed by Gregor Bitto

BMCR 2013.06.13

The Archaeology of Roman Southern Pannonia: The State of Research and Selected Problems in the Croatian Part of the Roman Province of Pannonia. BAR International Series, S2393, 2012

Branka Migotti  / Archaeopress, 2012

Reviewed by Mariana Egri

BMCR 2013.06.14

The World of the Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History

Trevor Bryce  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Lorenzo d’Alfonso

BMCR 2013.06.15

Olympia: Archäologie eines Heiligtums. Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie

Helmut Kyrieleis  / Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2011

Reviewed by Stefanie A. H. Kennell

BMCR 2013.06.16

Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric

David Sansone  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

Reviewed by Ruth Scodel

BMCR 2013.06.17

Imagines Italicae: A Corpus of Italic Inscriptions (3 vols.). Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies supplement 110

M. H. Crawford, Other editors: W. M. Broadhead, J. P. T. Clackson, F. Santangelo, S. Thompson, M. Watmough and computing by E. Bissa and G. Bodard.  / Institute of Classical Studies University of London, 2011

Reviewed by Benjamin W. Fortson IV and Michael Weiss

BMCR 2013.06.18

Medusa’s Gaze: The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese. Emblems of antiquity

Marina Belozerskaya  / Oxford University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Robert Steven Bianchi

BMCR 2013.06.19

Die Parther: die vergessene Großmacht​

Uwe Ellerbrock, Sylvia Winkelmann  / Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2012

Reviewed by Everett L. Wheeler

BMCR 2013.06.20

An Apuleius Reader: Selections from the Metamorphoses. BC Latin readers

Ellen D. Finkelpearl  / Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2012

Reviewed by Martha Habash