BMCR 2016.12.01

Books Received November 2016

BMCR 2016.12.02

Ancient Warfare: Introducing Current Research, Volume 1

Geoff Lee, Helène Whittaker, Graham Wrightson  / Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015

Reviewed by Carlos Villafane

BMCR 2016.12.03

Greek Incubation Rituals in Classical and Hellenistic Times. Kernos. Supplément, 29

Hedvig von Ehrenheim  / Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2015

Reviewed by Balbina Bäbler

BMCR 2016.12.04

Ἰουλιανοῦ τοῦ Σύρου, Ἐπιστολὲς στὸν φιλόσοφο Ἰάμβλιχο

Eleni Fassa  / Στιγμή, 2016

Reviewed by Adrien Lecerf

BMCR 2016.12.05

Refutation of All Heresies. Translated with an Introduction and Notes. Writings from the Greco-Roman world, 40

M. David Litwa  / SBL Press, 2015

Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst

BMCR 2016.12.06

Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums…and Why They Should Stay There

Tiffany Jenkins  / Oxford University Press, 2016

Reviewed by Johanna Hanink

BMCR 2016.12.07

Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid: A Selection of Love Poetry. OCR

Anita Nikkanen  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Reviewed by Christine Kossaifi

BMCR 2016.12.08

Ruling the Greek World: Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 52

Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Elena Muñiz Grivaljo, Fernando Lozano Gómez  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015

Reviewed by Aleksandr Makhlaiuk

BMCR 2016.12.09

Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War through the Classics

Victor Caston, Silke-Maria Weineck  / University of Michigan Press, 2016

Reviewed by Giorgia Proietti

BMCR 2016.12.10

Death Embodied: Archaeological Approaches to the Treatment of the Corpse. Studies in funerary archaeology, 9

Zoë L. Devlin, Emma-Jayne Graham  / Oxbow Books, 2015

Reviewed by Liana Brent

BMCR 2016.12.11

Die Obergeschossareale der Stadthäuser in Herculaneum: architektonische Anlage, raumkontextuelle Einordnung und häusliches Leben

Gernot Losansky  / Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2015

Reviewed by Alexandra Dardenay

BMCR 2016.12.12

The Consumers’ Choice: Uses of Greek Figure-Decorated Pottery. Selected papers on ancient art and architecture, 2

Thomas H. Carpenter, Elizabeth Langridge-Noti, Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell  / Archaeological Institute of America, 2016

Reviewed by Winfred van de Put

BMCR 2016.12.13

The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge. The Yale library of military history

Paul A. Rahe  / Yale University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Timothy Doran

BMCR 2016.12.14

Traders in the Ancient Mediterranean. Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians 11

Timothy Howe  / Association of Ancient Historians, 2015

Reviewed by Rebecca Diana Klug

BMCR 2016.12.15

Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities. Classical presences

Jennifer Ingleheart  / Oxford University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Beert C. Verstraete

BMCR 2016.12.16

Pots, Workshops and Early Iron Age Society: Function and Role of Ceramics in Early Greece

Vicky Vlachou  / CReA-Patrimoine, 2015

Reviewed by Sarah C. Murray

BMCR 2016.12.17

Technical ekphrasis in Greek and Roman Science and Literature: the Written Machine between Alexandria and Rome

Courtney Roby  / Cambridge University Press, 2016

Reviewed by Maria Gerolemou

BMCR 2016.12.18

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy. Oxford handbooks

Christer Bruun, Jonathan Edmondson  / Oxford University Press, 2015

Reviewed by Stéphane Benoist

BMCR 2016.12.19

Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily: A Social and Economic History. Greeks overseas

Franco De Angelis  / Oxford University Press, 2016

Reviewed by Martin Dreher

BMCR 2016.12.20

Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians: Texts in Translation, with Introductions and Notes. Routledge Classical Translations

Anthony Kaldellis  / Routledge, 2015

Reviewed by Przemysław Marciniak