Reviews for 2005

  • 2005.01.01:  BMCR Books Received (December).


  • 2005.01.02:  Graham Zanker, Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art. Madison, WI: 2004. Pp. xiv, 223. $39.95. ISBN 0-299-19450-7.
    Reviewed by James Clauss.

  • 2005.01.03:  Judith Swaddling, John Prag, Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa. The Story of an Etruscan Noblewoman. The British Museum Occasional Paper Number 100. London: 2002. Pp. vi, 69; color pls. 11. $36.00 (pb). ISBN 0-86159-100-3.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2005.01.04:  William A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus. Toronto: 2004. Pp. 371; pls. 18. $85.00. ISBN 0-820-3734-8.
    Reviewed by S. A. Stephens.

  • 2005.01.05:  Amanda Kolson Hurley, Catullus. London: 2004. Pp. 158. $20.00. ISBN 1-85399-669-6.
    Reviewed by Christopher Nappa.

  • 2005.01.06:  Albert Keith Whitaker, A Journey into Platonic Politics: Plato's Laws. Lanham, MD: 2004. Pp. 254. $39.00. ISBN 0-7618-2689-0.
    Reviewed by Richard Joines.

  • 2005.01.07:  Carolyn L. Connor, Women of Byzantium. New Haven: 2004. Pp. xvii, 396. $45.00. ISBN 0-300-09957-6.
    Reviewed by Stavroula Constantinou.

  • 2005.01.08:  Holford-Strevens on Elsner on Leach.
    Response by Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

  • 2005.01.09:  Christof Hardmeier, et al., Stuttgarter elektronische Studienbibel. CD-Rom for Windows. System requirements: PC minimum Pentium II, 300 MHz; 128 MB RAM, 500 MB virtual RAM. Hard disk space: 60-400 MB. Screen resolution: 1024 x 768 recommended. Windows 98, 98SE, ME, NT 4.0 (SP3), 200. Stuttgart: 2004. €240.00. ISBN 3-438-01963-9.
    Reviewed by Catherine Conybeare.

  • 2005.01.10:  Mario Capasso, Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia. Rivista internazionale 1.2004. Pisa and Rome: 2004. Pp. 153. Annual subscription (2004): Italy: €60.00 (individual), €90.00 (institutions, paperback with Online Edition), €120.00 (institutions, hardback with Online Edition): Abroad: €30.00 extra for each category. ISBN ISSN 1724-6156.
    Reviewed by John Whitehorne.

  • 2005.01.11:  Josephine Balmer, Catullus. Poems of Love and Hate. Northumberland: 2004. Pp. 159. $23.95. ISBN 1-85224-645-6.
    Reviewed by Daniel H. Garrison.

  • 2005.01.12:  Georgia Clarke, Roman House - Renaissance Palaces. Inventing Antiquity in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Cambridge: 2003. Pp. xxvi, 383. $95.00. ISBN 0-521-77008-4.
    Reviewed by Vincent Jolivet.

  • 2005.01.13:  Kathryn Stoddard, The Narrative Voice in the Theogony of Hesiod. Mnemosyne Suppl. 255. Leiden: 2004. Pp. 206. €85.00. ISBN 90-04-14002-6.
    Reviewed by Wm. Blake Tyrrell.

  • 2005.01.14:  Dietmar Najock, Statistischer Schlüssel zum Vokabular in Vergils Eklogen, Alpha-Omega Reihe A vol. CLXXVII. Hildesheim: 2004. Pp. lix, 333. €98.00. ISBN 3-487-12561-7.
    Reviewed by Bernhard Kytzler.

  • 2005.01.15:  Donato Loscalzo, La parola inestenguibile. Studi sull'epinicio pindarico. Roma: 2003. Pp. 174. €34.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8476-038-0.
    Reviewed by Rosanna Lauriola.

  • 2005.01.16:  B.M. Gauly, Senecas 'Naturales Quaestiones'. Naturphilosophie für die römische Kaiserzeit. Zetemata 122. München: 2004. Pp. 301. €64.00. ISBN 3-406-52348-X.
    Reviewed by Florence Limburg.

  • 2005.01.17:  Susan E. Alcock, John F. Cherry, Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean. Oxford: 2004. Pp. 251; figs. 114, tables 35. £45.00. ISBN 1-84217-096-1.
    Reviewed by Daniel R. Stewart.

  • 2005.01.18:  Michel Reddé, Laurent Dubois, Dominique Briquel, Henri Lavagne, François Queyrel, La naissance de la ville dans l'antiquité. Paris: 2003. Pp. 298. €58.00. ISBN 2-7018-0161-2.
    Reviewed by Marek Wecowski.

  • 2005.01.19:  Gideon Nisbet, Greek Epigram in the Roman Empire: Martial's Forgotten Rivals. Oxford: 2003. Pp. 237. £53.00. ISBN 0-19-926377-X.
    Reviewed by Kathryn Gutzwiller.

  • 2005.01.20:  Panos Valavanis, Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece. Translated by David Hardy. Los Angeles: 2004. Pp. 448; ills. 649. $75.00. ISBN 0-89236-762-8.
    Reviewed by Paul Christesen.

  • 2005.01.21:  Andrew Keller, Stephanie Russell, Learn to Read Latin. 2 Volumes: Textbook and Workbook. New Haven: 2004. Pp. 608; 527. $55.00. ISBN 0-300-10354-9.
    Reviewed by Tracy Keefer Seiler.

  • 2005.01.22:  T.K. Johansen, Plato's Natural Philosophy. A Study of the Timaeus-Critias. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. vi, 218. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-79067-0.
    Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson.

  • 2005.01.23:  Conybeare on Conybeare on Hardmeier.
    Response by Catherine Conybeare.

  • 2005.01.24:  Mario Liverani, Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography. Edited and Introduced by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop. Ithaca: 2004. Pp. 214. $75.00. ISBN 0-8014-4333-4.
    Reviewed by Mehmet-Ali Ataç.

  • 2005.01.25:  Simon Goldhill, Love, Sex, and Tragedy. How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives. Chicago: 2004. Pp. 336. $27.50. ISBN 0-226-30117-6.
    Reviewed by Catherine Conybeare.

  • 2005.01.26:  John G. Fitch, Seneca. IX Tragedies II, Oedipus, Agamemnon, Thyestes, Hercules on Oeta, Octavia, Loeb Classical Library 78. Cambridge, MA: 2004. Pp. 654. $21.50. ISBN 0-674-99610-0.
    Reviewed by Rolando Ferri.

  • 2005.01.27:  Gabor Betegh, The Derveni Papyrus. Cosmology, Theology and Interpretation. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xii, 441. $110.00. ISBN 0-521-80108-7.
    Reviewed by Richard Janko.

  • 2005.01.28:  Franco De Angelis, Megara Hyblaia and Selinous. The Development of Two Greek City-States in Archaic Sicily. Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph No. 57. Oxford: 2003. Pp. xxi, 247; pls. 34. $85.00. ISBN 0-947816-56-9.
    Reviewed by David G. Smith.

  • 2005.01.29:  Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Aulus Gellius. An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement. Revised edition. Oxford: 2003. Pp. xvi, 436. £74.00. ISBN 0-19-926319-1.
    Reviewed by Katerina Oikonomopoulou.

  • 2005.02.01:  BMCR Books Received (January).


  • 2005.02.02:  Carlo Zaccagnini, Mercanti e politica nel mondo antico. Saggi di storia antica, 21. Roma: 2003. Pp. 361. €180.00. ISBN 88-8265-245-9.
    Reviewed by Gonzalo Rubio.

  • 2005.02.03:  Heather van Tress, Poetic Memory. Allusion in the Poetry of Callimachus and the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Mnemosyne, Supplementa 258. Leiden: 2004. Pp. ix, 215. €84.40. ISBN 90-04-14157-X.
    Reviewed by Yannick Durbec.

  • 2005.02.04:  Anne Mahoney, Plautus. Amphitryo. Focus Classical Commentary. Newburyport, MA: 2004. Pp. 163. $18.95. ISBN 1-58510-091-9.
    Reviewed by A. Fuchs.

  • 2005.02.05:  Alcock on Conybeare on Goldhill.
    Response by Anthony Alcock.

  • 2005.02.06:  Sarah B. Pomeroy, Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society and Culture. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xxiii, 360; ills. 100, maps 16. $32.95. ISBN 0-19-515681-1.
    Reviewed by Timothy Howe.

  • 2005.02.07:  Thomas J. Figueira, Spartan Society. Swansea: 2004. Pp. 389. $79.50. ISBN 0-9543845-7-1.
    Reviewed by Ibrahim Amin.

  • 2005.02.08:  Federica Borrelli, Maria Cristina Targia, The Etruscans. Art, Architecture and History. Los Angeles: 2004. Pp. 144. $19.95. ISBN 0-89236-753-9.
    Reviewed by Silvana Andrea Gaeta.

  • 2005.02.09:  Richard Rutherford, Classical Literature: A Concise History. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xvii, 350. $29.95. ISBN 0-631-23133-1.
    Reviewed by Carol E. Harding.

  • 2005.02.10:  D.N. Maronitis, Homeric Megathemes: War - Homilia - Homecoming. Originally published as Homêrika megathemata: polemos - homilia - nostos (Athens 1999). Translated by David Connolly. Lanham, MD: 2004. Pp. xiii, 186. $70.00. ISBN 0-7391-0883-2.
    Reviewed by James P. Holoka.

  • 2005.02.11:  A. A. Carpino, Discs of Splendor. The Relief Mirrors of the Etruscans. Madison, WI: 2003. Pp. 156; pls. 120. $45.00. ISBN 0-299-18990-2.
    Reviewed by V. Izzet.

  • 2005.02.12:  Christopher Kelly, Ruling the Later Roman Empire. Cambridge, MA: 2004. Pp. 341. $35.00. ISBN 0-674-01564-9.
    Reviewed by Michael Kulikowski.

  • 2005.02.13:  Pietro Cappelletto, I frammenti di Mnasea: Introduzione testo e commento. Università degli Studi di Milano, Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia 209, Sezione di filologia classica. Milan: 2003. Pp. 420. €36.00. ISBN 88-7916-209-8.
    Reviewed by S. Douglas Olson.

  • 2005.02.14:  Minna Skafte Jensen, Friendship and Poetry: Studies in Danish Neo-Latin Literature. Edited by Marianne Pade, Keren Skovgaard-Petersen, and Peter Zeeberg. Renaessancestudier Series 12. Copenhagen: 2004. Pp. 273. $46.00. ISBN 87-7289-961-1.
    Reviewed by Dana F. Sutton.

  • 2005.02.15:  Angelo Meriani, Sulla Musica Greca Antica: Studi e Ricerche. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità. Salerno: 2003. Pp. 150. €16.30. ISBN 88-7188-794-8.
    Reviewed by Peter Wilson.

  • 2005.02.16:  Jensen on Sutton on Jensen.
    Response by Minna Skafte Jensen.

  • 2005.02.17:  Penelope M. Allison, Frank B. Sear, Casa della Caccia antica (VII 4, 48). Häuser in Pompeji, ed. by Volker Michael Strocka, vol. 11. Munich: 2002. Pp. 104. €128.00. ISBN 3-7774-8820-8.
    Reviewed by John R. Clarke.

  • 2005.02.18:  Seán Hemingway, The Horse and Jockey from Artemision: A Bronze Equestrian Monument of the Hellenistic Period. Berkeley: 2004. Pp. 222. $65.00. ISBN 0-520-23308-5.
    Reviewed by Janet Burnett Grossman.

  • 2005.02.19:  Filippo Canali De Rossi, Le relazioni diplomatiche di Roma, Vol. I: dall'età regia alla conquista del primato in Italia (753-265 a.C). Roma: 2004. Pp. viii, 188.
    Reviewed by John D. Muccigrosso.

  • 2005.02.20:  ALSO SEEN: William F. Richardson, Numbering and Measuring in the Classical World.
    Michael DiMaio, Jr..

  • 2005.02.21:  ALSO SEEN: Archibald A. MacLardy, Completely Parsed Cicero: The First Oration of Cicero Against Catiline.
    Michael DiMaio, Jr..

  • 2005.02.22:  C. J. Rowe, Plato. Second edition. London: 2003. Pp. 228. £14.99 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-662-9.
    Reviewed by Ran Baratz.

  • 2005.02.23:  David Noy, Hanswulf Bloedhorn, Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis. Vol. III: Syria and Cyprus. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 102. Tübingen: 2004. Pp. xvi, 284. €89.00. ISBN 3-16-148188-7.
    Reviewed by Daniel Stoekl Ben Ezra.

  • 2005.02.24:  Koenraad Verboven, The Economy of Friends. Economic Aspects of Amicitia and Patronage in the Late Republic. Bruxelles: 2002. Pp. 399. €54.00. ISBN 2-87031-210-5.
    Reviewed by Lowell Bowditch.

  • 2005.02.25:  R.J. Clare, The Path of the Argo. Language, Imagery and Narrative in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius. Cambridge: 2002. Pp. x, 301. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-81036-1.
    Reviewed by Martijn Cuypers.

  • 2005.02.26:  John Buckler, Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century BC. Leiden: 2003. Pp. xi, 544; maps 7, pls. 20. $190.00. ISBN 90-04-09785-6.
    Reviewed by Peter Green.

  • 2005.02.27:  Rolando Ferri, Octavia: A Play Attributed to Seneca. Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, vol. 41. Cambridge: 2003. Pp. x, 471. £70.00. ISBN 0-521-82326-9.
    Reviewed by George W.M. Harrison.

  • 2005.02.28:  Anton Bierl, Arbogast Schmitt, Andreas Willi, Antike Literatur in neuer Deutung. Festschrift für Joachim Latacz anlässlich seines 70. Geburtstages. München-Leipzig: 2004. Pp. xi, 380. €92.00. ISBN 3-598-73016-0.
    Reviewed by Eleni Hatzimavroudi.

  • 2005.02.29:  Mogens Herman Hansen, Thomas Heine Nielsen, An Inventory of Archaic and Greek Poleis. An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xvi, 1396. £135.00. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
    Reviewed by Frederick Naerebout.

  • 2005.02.30:  Judith M. Lieu, Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World. Oxford: 2004. Pp. x, 370. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-926289-6.
    Reviewed by Tom Robinson.

  • 2005.02.31:  Martina Hirschberger, Gynaikôn Katalogos und Megalai Ehoiai. Ein Kommentar zu den Fragmenten zweier hesiodeischer Epen. BzA 198. München/Leipzig: 2004. Pp. 511. €110.00. ISBN 3-598-77810-4.
    Reviewed by Giovan Battista D'Alessio.

  • 2005.02.32:  Miriam Taverniers, Metaphor and Metaphorology. A selective genealogy of philosophical and linguistic conceptions of metaphor from Aristotle to the 1990s. Ghent: 2002. Pp. xi, 207. €15.00. ISBN 90-382-0284-9.
    Reviewed by Boris Dunsch.

  • 2005.02.33:  Paul Botley, Latin Translation in the Renaissance. The Theory and Practice of Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti and Erasmus. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. 207. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-83717-0.
    Reviewed by Stefano U. Baldassarri.

  • 2005.02.34:  Michel Casevitz, Daniel Babut, Plutarque. Oeuvres morales, Tome XV, 1ère partie. Traité 70: sur les contradictions stoïciennes. Traité 71: Synopsis du traité "que les stoïciens tiennent des propos plus paradoxaux que les poètes". Collection Budé. Paris: 2004. Pp. 382. €54.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-00522-6.
    Reviewed by Richard Dufour.

  • 2005.02.35:  Peter Stewart, Statues in Roman Society. Representation and Response. Oxford: 2003. Pp. 333; ills. 48. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-924094-9.
    Reviewed by Gretchen Kreahling McKay.

  • 2005.02.36:  Andrej Semrov, Die Fundmünzen der römischen Zeit in Slowenien. Kommission für Geschichte des Altertums der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz and Numizmaticni Kabinet Narodnega Muzeja Slovenije, Ljubljana. Teil V. Mainz am Rhein: 2004. Pp. 538; pls. 2. €65.50. ISBN 3-8053-3392-7.
    Reviewed by Stefan Krmnicek.

  • 2005.02.37:  Raymond Van Dam, Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia. Philadelphia: 2003. Pp. viii, 256. $45.00. ISBN 0-8122-3712-9.
    Reviewed by Vasiliki Limberis.

  • 2005.02.38:  L. Rumpf, Naturerkenntnis und Naturerfahrung. Zur Reflexion epikureischer Theorie bei Lukrez. Zetemata 116. Munich: 2003. Pp. 285. €59.90. ISBN 3-406-51181-3.
    Reviewed by Tobias Reinhardt.

  • 2005.02.39:  David. D. Phillips, Athenian Political Oratory, 16 Key Speeches. New York: 2004. Pp. 268. $24.95. ISBN 0-415-96610-8.
    Reviewed by Sandra J. Burgess.

  • 2005.02.40:  Markus Schauer, Gabriele Thome, Altera Ratio. Klassische Philologie zwischen Subjektivität und Wissenschaft. Festschrift für Werner Suerbaum zum 70. Geburtstag. Stuttgart: 2003. Pp. 175. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08315-4.
    Reviewed by Michael Fontaine.

  • 2005.02.41:  Rüdiger Bernek, Dramaturgie und Ideologie. Der politische Mythos in den Hikesiedramen des Aischylos, Sophokles und Euripides. BzA 188. München/Leipzig: 2004. Pp. 347. €96.00. ISBN 3-598-77800-7.
    Reviewed by Edith Foster.

  • 2005.02.42:  Pierre-Louis Malosse, Lettres de Chion d'Héraclée. Salerno: 2004. Pp. xiv, 115. €18.00. ISBN 88-88123-07-5.
    Reviewed by Owen Hodkinson.

  • 2005.02.43:  Terry L. Papillon, Isocrates II. Austin: 2004. Pp. xxix, 302. $50.00 (hb). ISBN 0-292-70245-0.
    Reviewed by Christos Kremmydas.

  • 2005.02.44:  Ian C. Storey, Eupolis. Poet of Old Comedy. Oxford: 2003. Pp. 441. $115.00. ISBN 0-19-925992-5.
    Reviewed by Heinz-Guenther Nesselrath.

  • 2005.02.45:  Linda Jones Hall, Roman Berytus: Beirut in Late Antiquity. London and New York: 2004. Pp. xxiv, 373. $95.00. ISBN 0-415-28919-X.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2005.02.46:  G. Anderson, The Athenian Experiment: Building an Imagined Political Community in Ancient Attica, 508-490 BC. Ann Arbor: 2003. Pp. xvii, 310; pls. 16. $60.00. ISBN 0-472-11320-8.
    Reviewed by David Pritchard.

  • 2005.02.47:  Edward Kessler, Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xii, 222. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-83542-9.
    Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst.

  • 2005.02.48:  Günther Schörner, Votive im römischen Griechenland. Untersuchungen zur späthellenistischen und Kaiserzeitlichen Kunst- und Religionsgeschichte. Altertumswissenschafliches Kolloquium, 7. Stuttgart: 2003. Pp. 638; pls. 100. €90.00. ISBN 3-515-07688-3.
    Reviewed by Mary-Anne Zagdoun.

  • 2005.03.01:  Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers, Fritz Felgentreu, Stephen Wheeler, Aetas Claudianea. Eine Tagung an der Freien Universität Berlin vom 28. bis 30. Juni 2002. München/Leipzig: 2004. Pp. xviii, 258. €88.00. ISBN 3-598-73020-9.
    Reviewed by Bret Mulligan.

  • 2005.03.02:  Owen P. Doonan, Sinop Landscapes: Exploring Connections in a Black Sea Hinterland. Philadelphia: 2004. Pp. 211; figs. 97, tables 14. $39.95. ISBN 0-931707-65-0.
    Reviewed by Michael Decker.

  • 2005.03.03:  A. F. Natoli, The Letter of Speusippus to Philip II. Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary. Historia Einzelschrift 176. Stuttgart: 2004. Pp. 196. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08396-0.
    Reviewed by Ian Worthington.

  • 2005.03.04:  BMCR Books Received (February).


  • 2005.03.05:  Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle, Crossroads of History: The Age of Alexander. Claremont, CA: 2003. Pp. 276. $36.95. ISBN 1-930053-28-2.
    Reviewed by Dawn L. Gilley.

  • 2005.03.06:  Tim Rood, The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination. London: 2004. Pp. ix, 262. £25.00. ISBN 0-7156-3308-2 (UK).
    Reviewed by Simon Goldhill.

  • 2005.03.07:  Peter Michael Swan, The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History, Books 55-56 (9 B.C. - A.D. 14). Oxford: 2004. Pp. 428. $90.00. ISBN 0-19-516774-0.
    Reviewed by Adam Kemezis.

  • 2005.03.08:  David Depew, Takis Poulakos, Isocrates and Civic Education. Austin: 2004. Pp. 277. $50.00. ISBN 0-292-70219-1.
    Reviewed by Tony Natoli.

  • 2005.03.09:  Donna Kurtz, Reception of Classical Art. An Introduction. Studies in Classical Archaeology, III. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 1295. Oxford: 2004. Pp. 89; figs. 159. £28.00 (pb). ISBN 1-84171-545-6.
    Reviewed by Nancy H. Ramage.

  • 2005.03.10:  Robert Morstein-Marx, Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xiv, 313. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-82327-7.
    Reviewed by Andrew M. Riggsby.

  • 2005.03.11:  Rüdiger Kinsky, Diorthoseis. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Hellenismus und zum Nachleben Alexanders des Grossen. BzA, 183. München/Leipzig: 2004. Pp. 252. €58.00. ISBN 3-598-77735-3.
    Reviewed by Walt Stevenson.

  • 2005.03.12:  W. S. Hanson, I. P. Haynes, Roman Dacia. The Making of a Provincial Society. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 56. Portsmouth, RI: 2004. Pp. 190. $79.50. ISBN 1-887829-56-3.
    Reviewed by Jinyu Liu.

  • 2005.03.13:  P.J. Rhodes, Athenian Democracy. New York: 2004. Pp. xviii, 358. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-522140-0.
    Reviewed by James M. Quillin.

  • 2005.03.14:  Mary B. Moore, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art fasc. 5, USA fasc. 37: Greek Geometric and Protoattic Pottery. New York: 2004. Pp. 98; figs. 16, pls. 56. €118.00. ISBN 3-8053-3238-6.
    Reviewed by J. Michael Padgett.

  • 2005.03.15:  Manuela Tecusan, The Fragments of the Methodists. Methodism outside Soranus. Vol. 1: Text and Translation. Studies in Ancient Medicine, 24/1. Leiden: 2004. Pp. 813. €130.00. ISBN 90-04-12451-9.
    Reviewed by Pilar Pérez Cañizares.

  • 2005.03.16:  Christopher M. McDonough, Richard E. Prior, Mark Stansbury, Servius' Commentary on Book Four of Virgil's Aeneid. Wauconda, IL: 2004. Pp. xxiii, 157. $29.00 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-514-9.
    Reviewed by Mario A. Di Cesare.

  • 2005.03.17:  Véronique Dasen, Naissance et petite enfance dans l'Antiquité. Actes du colloque de Fribourg, 28 novembre-1er décembre 2001. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 203. Fribourg: 2004. Pp. 417. €94.00. ISBN 3-7278-1453-5.
    Reviewed by Jenifer Neils.

  • 2005.03.18:  Florian Hurka, Textkritische Studien zu Valerius Flaccus. Hermes Einzelschriften, 90. Stuttgart: 2003. Pp. 147; pls. 2. €36.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08384-7.
    Reviewed by Vibeke Roggen.

  • 2005.03.19:  Leonora Neville, Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xi, 210. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-83865-7.
    Reviewed by Franziska E. Shlosser.

  • 2005.03.20:  Ekaterina V. Haskins, Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle. Columbia, SC: 2004. Pp. 192. $34.95. ISBN 1-57003-526-1.
    Reviewed by Dimos Spatharas.

  • 2005.03.21:  John K. Papadopoulos, Ceramicus Redivivus. The Early Iron Age Potters' Field in the Area of the Classical Athenian Agora. With a contribution by Michael R. Schilling. Hesperia Supplement 31. Athens and Princeton, NJ: 2003. Pp. xxiii, 370; figs. 232, pls. 2, tables 6. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 0-87661-531-0.
    Reviewed by Patrick M. Thomas.

  • 2005.04.01:  Mark Kremer, Plato's Cleitophon: On Socrates and the Modern Mind. Applications of Political Theory series. Edited and translated, with an Interpretive Essay. Lanham, MD: 2004. Pp. ix, 87. $21.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7391-0818-2.
    Reviewed by Dustin A. Gish.

  • 2005.04.02:  Edward Bulwer Lytton, Athens: Its Rise and Fall. Bicentenary edition, edited by Oswyn Murray. London and New York: 2004. Pp. 610. $120.00. ISBN 0-415-32087-9.
    Reviewed by Nadia Urbinati.

  • 2005.04.03:  Nicholas F. Jones, Rural Athens Under the Democracy. Philadelphia: 2004. Pp. xiv, 330. $59.95. ISBN 0-8122-3774-9.
    Reviewed by Geoff Bakewell.

  • 2005.04.04:  Harold Newman, Jon O. Newman, A Genealogical Chart of Greek Mythology. Chapel Hill: 2003. Pp. 272. $75.00. ISBN 0-8078-2790-8.
    Reviewed by Fred W. Jenkins.

  • 2005.04.05:  Katherine M. D. Dunbabin, The Roman Banquet: Images of Conviviality. Cambridge: 2003. Pp. xvii, 291. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-82252-1.
    Reviewed by Ruth Westgate.

  • 2005.04.06:  Marco Formisano, P. Flavio Vegezio Renato. L'arte della guerra romana. Prefazione di C. Petrucelli, introduzione, traduzione e note di M. Formisano. BUR Classici Greci e Latini. Milano: 2003. Pp. xxi, 373. €11.50 (pb). ISBN 88-17-10645-3.
    Reviewed by Emiliano J. Buis.

  • 2005.04.07:  Eran Lupu, Greek Sacred Law. A Collection of New Documents (NGSL). Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 152. Leiden: 2005. Pp. xx, 499; pls. 34. €118.00. ISBN 90-04-13959-1.
    Reviewed by Jan-Mathieu Carbon.

  • 2005.04.08:  BMCR Books Received (March).


  • 2005.04.09:   Ross Shepard Kraemer, Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook. New York: 2004. Pp. xxviii, 487. $24.95. ISBN 0-19-514278-0.
    Reviewed by Kathy L. Gaca.

  • 2005.04.10:  Eric R. Varner, Mutilation and Transformation, Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture. Leiden: 2004. Pp. 340; ill. 215. $249.00. ISBN 90-04-13577-4.
    Reviewed by Silke Knippschild.

  • 2005.04.11:  Cinzia Bearzot, Federalismo e autonomia nelle Elleniche di Senofonte. Milano: 2004. Pp. 176. €14.00. ISBN 88-343-1113-2.
    Reviewed by Jacek Rzepka.

  • 2005.04.12:  Barbara Goff, Citizen Bacchae. Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece. Berkeley: 2004. Pp. 400. $60.00. ISBN 0-520-23998-9.
    Reviewed by William D. Furley.

  • 2005.04.13:  Todd Penner, In Praise of Christian Origins: Stephen and the Hellenists in Lukan Apologetic History. Emory Studies in Early Christianity 10. New York: 2004. Pp. xi, 400. $65.00. ISBN 0-5670-2620-5.
    Reviewed by David M. Reis.

  • 2005.04.14:  Luc Brisson, Jean-François Pradeau, Études Platoniciennes I. Publication annuelle de la Société d'Études Platoniciennes. Paris: 2004. Pp. 350. €35.00. ISBN 2-251-44265-0.
    Reviewed by Matthias Perkams.

  • 2005.04.15:  Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio, Ivana della Porta, The Appian Way: From its Foundation to the Middle Ages. Los Angeles: 2004. Pp. 208. $39.95. ISBN 0-89236-752-0.
    Reviewed by Owen Ewald.

  • 2005.04.16:  Steven Jackson, Mainly Apollonius: Collected Studies. Amsterdam: 2004. Pp. 141. ISBN 90-256-1193-1.
    Reviewed by Anatole Mori.

  • 2005.04.17:  Robert Drews, Early Riders. The Beginnings of Mounted Warfare in Asia and Europe. London/New York: 2004. Pp. 218. $90.00. ISBN 0-415-32624-9.
    Reviewed by Ross H. Cowan.

  • 2005.04.18:  Alexander Arweiler, Cicero rhetor. Die Partitiones Oratoriae und das Konzept des gelehrten Politikers. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 68. Berlin: 2003. Pp. 339. €98.00. ISBN 3-11-018096-0.
    Reviewed by Yelena Baraz.

  • 2005.04.19:  Emma J. Stafford, Life, Myth and Art in Ancient Greece. Los Angeles: 2004. Pp. 144; pls. 110. $19.95. ISBN 0-89236-773-3.
    Reviewed by Fiona Greenland.

  • 2005.04.20:  Andrew Smith, Philosophy in Late Antiquity. London/New York: 2004. Pp. 151. $26.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-22511-6.
    Reviewed by David Konstan.

  • 2005.04.21:  Jan Stenger, Poetische Argumentation: Die Funktion der Gnomik in den Epinikien des Bakchylides. Berlin and New York: 2004. Pp. xi, 383. €98.00. ISBN 3-11-018127-4.
    Reviewed by Ruth Scodel.

  • 2005.04.22:  Theresa Urbainczyk, Spartacus. London: 2004. Pp. 144. £10.99. ISBN 1-85399-668-8.
    Reviewed by Joanna Paul.

  • 2005.04.23:  Jenny Strauss Clay, Hesiod's Cosmos. Cambridge: 2003. Pp. xii, 202. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-82392-7.
    Reviewed by Cashman Kerr Prince.

  • 2005.04.24:  Carlo Santini, Francesco Santucci, Properzio tra storia arte mito. Assisi: 2004. Pp. 271. €35.00. ISBN 88-88661-05-0.
    Reviewed by Frédéric Nau.

  • 2005.04.25:  Emanuele Lelli, Critica e polemiche letterarie nei Giambi di Callimaco. Hellenica 13. Alessandria: 2004. Pp. 156. €15.00. ISBN 88-7694-745-0.
    Reviewed by Yannick Durbec.

  • 2005.04.26:  J. Fejfer, T. Fischer-Hansen, A. Rathje, The Rediscovery of Antiquity: The Role of the Artist. Acta Hyperborea 10. Copenhagen: 2003. Pp. 551. DKK 450.00/$75.00. ISBN 87-7289-829-1.
    Reviewed by William A.P. Childs.

  • 2005.04.27:  Maria Silvana Celentano, Ars - Techne: Il manuale tecnico nelle civiltà greca e romana. Collana del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità Sez. filologica 2. Chieti: 2003. Pp. v, 235. €17.00. ISBN 88-7694-720-5.
    Reviewed by Marietta Horster and Christiane Reitz.

  • 2005.04.28:  Canali De Rossi on Muccigrosso on Canali De Rossi.
    Response by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2005.04.29:  R. Fowler, The Cambridge Companion to Homer. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. 419. $29.99. ISBN 0-521-81302-6.
    Reviewed by Barry B. Powell.

  • 2005.04.30:  Malcolm Heath, Menander: A Rhetor in Context. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xvii, 374. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-925920-8.
    Reviewed by Craig A. Gibson.

  • 2005.04.31:  George H. van Kooten, The Creation of Heaven and Earth. Re-interpretations of Genesis 1 in the Context of Judaism, Ancient Philosophy, Christianity, and Modern Physics. Themes in Biblical Narrative 8. Leiden: 2005. Pp. xiv, 284. €109.00. ISBN 90-04-14235-5.
    Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst.

  • 2005.04.32:  Bruce W. Frier, Thomas A. J. McGinn, A Casebook on Roman Family Law. American Philological Association Classical Resources Series no. 5. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xxi, 506. $35.00. ISBN 0-19-516186-6.
    Reviewed by Charles Pazdernik.

  • 2005.04.33:  Jon D. Mikalson, Ancient Greek Religion. Blackwell Ancient Religions, 1. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xiv, 225. $29.95. ISBN 0-631-23223-0.
    Reviewed by Gabriel Bodard.

  • 2005.04.34:  Filip Karfik, Die Beseelung des Kosmos: Untersuchungen zur Kosmologie, Seelenlehre und Theologie in Platons Phaidon und Timaios. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 199. Leipzig/München: 2004. Pp. 293. €89.00. ISBN 3-598-77811-2.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2005.04.35:  Martin Bentz, Christoph Reusser, Attische Vasen in etruskischem Kontext. Funde aus Häusern und Heiligtümern, Beihefte zum CVA Deutschland 2. München: 2004. Pp. 120. €51.30. ISBN 3-406-51904-0.
    Reviewed by Michael M. Eisman.

  • 2005.04.36:  Anthony Bowen, Peter Garnsey, Lactantius: Divine Institutes. Translated Texts for Historians, 40. Liverpool: 2003. Pp. 472. £20.00 (pb). ISBN 0-85323-988-6.
    Reviewed by Mark Gustafson.

  • 2005.04.37:  Kurt Raaflaub, The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece. First English edition, revised and updated from the German, translation by Renate Franciscono, revised by the author. Chicago: 2004. Pp. 420. $55.00. ISBN 0-226-70101-8.
    Reviewed by Roland Oetjen.

  • 2005.04.38:  Alexander Fol, Jan Lichardus (+), Vassil Nikolov, Die Thraker. Das goldene Reich des Orpheus. Mainz: 2004. Pp. 384. €45.00. ISBN 3-8053-3341-2.
    Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk.

  • 2005.04.39:  Michael C.J. Putnam, James Hankins, Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Cambridge, MA: 2004. Pp. lviii, 184. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01483-9.
    Reviewed by Geoffrey Eatough.

  • 2005.04.40:  Dale Martin, Inventing Superstition from the Hippocratics to the Christians. Cambridge, MA: 2004. Pp. 307. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01534.
    Reviewed by Pauline Ripat.

  • 2005.04.41:  Antonella Russo, Anna Santoni, SNS-Greek & Latin 1.0 for Windows (a software for consulting the data banks TLG E, PHI #5.3 and PHI #7). Pisa: 2004. € 155.00 (single user licence).
    Reviewed by Eugene V. Afonasin.

  • 2005.04.42:  Beryl Rawson, Children and Childhood in Roman Italy. Oxford: 2003. Pp. xiv, 419; ills. 30. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-924034-5.
    Reviewed by L. J. Shumka.

  • 2005.04.43:  Theodora Hantos, Laurea internationalis. Festschrift für Jochen Bleicken zum 75. Geburtstag. Stuttgart: 2003. Pp. 365. €80.00. ISBN 3-515-08095-3.
    Reviewed by Barbara Saylor Rodgers.

  • 2005.04.44:  Edward M. Harris, Lene Rubinstein, The Law and the Courts in Ancient Greece. London: 2004. Pp. 240. £45.00. ISBN 0-7156-3117-9.
    Reviewed by Peter Hunt.

  • 2005.04.45:  M. Meier, Justinian: Herrschaft, Reich und Religion. München: 2004. Pp. 128. €7.90. ISBN 3-406-50832-4.
    Reviewed by René Bloch.

  • 2005.04.46:  Brian Hines, Return to the One: Plotinus' Guide to God-Realization. Bloomington and Salem: 2004. Pp. xx, 372. $16.99 (pb). ISBN 1-58832-100-2.
    Reviewed by G.S. Bowe.

  • 2005.04.47:  Gregory Nagy, Homer's Text and Language. In the series "Traditions". Champaign, IL: 2004. Pp. 197. $35.00. ISBN 0-252-02983-6.
    Reviewed by Minna Skafte Jensen.

  • 2005.04.48:  Annelie Volgers, Claudio Zamagni, Erotapokriseis: Early Christian Question-and-Answer Literature in Context. Proceedings of the Utrecht Colloquium, 13-14 October 2003. Leuven: 2004. Pp. 197. €30.00. ISBN 90-429-1480-7.
    Reviewed by Arietta Papaconstantinou.

  • 2005.04.49:  James C. Wright, The Mycenaean Feast = Hesperia 73:2 (2004). Princeton: 2004. Pp. xiii, 217. $25.00. ISBN 0-87661-951-0.
    Reviewed by Seth Button.

  • 2005.04.50:  Muccigrosso on Canali De Rossi on Muccigrosso on Canali De Rossi.
    Response by John D. Muccigrosso.

  • 2005.04.51:  Bearzot on Rzepka on Bearzot.
    Response by Cinzia Bearzot.

  • 2005.04.52:  Glenn W. Most, Sarah Spence, Re-Presenting Vergil. Special Issue in Honor of Michael C.J. Putnam. Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, 52. Pisa/Rome: 2004. Pp. 243. €50.00. ISBN 88-8147-321-6.
    Reviewed by Stephen Harrison.

  • 2005.04.53:  Néstor-Luis Cordero, By Being, It is. The Thesis of Parmenides. Las Vegas: 2004. Pp. 215. $28.00. ISBN 1-930972-03-2.
    Reviewed by Chiara Robbiano.

  • 2005.04.54:  Richard Hunter, Plato's Symposium. Oxford: 2004. Pp. 150. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-516080-0.
    Reviewed by Joseph A. Almeida.

  • 2005.04.55:  H.F.J. Horstmanshoff, M. Stol, Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine. Studies in Ancient Medicine 27. Leiden: 2004. Pp. 407. $110.00. ISBN 90-04-13666-5.
    Reviewed by Marie-Hélène Congourdeau.

  • 2005.04.56:  Luca Cerchiai, Lorena Jannelli, Fausto Longo, The Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily. Translated by 'Translate-a-Book'. Los Angeles: 2004. Pp. 288; ills. $39.95. ISBN 0-89236-751-2.
    Reviewed by James Allan Evans University of British Columbia.

  • 2005.04.57:  Jens-Uwe Krause, Kriminalgeschichte der Antike. München: 2004. Pp. 228. €24.90. ISBN 3-406-52240-8.
    Reviewed by Joerg Fuendling.

  • 2005.04.58:  R. E. Wallace, An Introduction to Wall Inscriptions from Pompeii and Herculaneum: Introduction. Inscriptions with Notes. Historical Commentary. Vocabulary. Wauconda, IL: 2005. Pp. xlvi, 136. $29.00 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-570-X.
    Reviewed by Peter Kruschwitz.

  • 2005.04.59:  Carolyn Higbie, The Lindian Chronicle and the Greek Creation of Their Past. Oxford: 2003. Pp. xvi, 320. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-924191-0.
    Reviewed by John Marincola.

  • 2005.04.60:  Larissa Bonfante, Etruscan Dress. Updated edition. Baltimore: 2003. Pp. ix, 261. $22.00 (pb). ISBN 0-8018-7413-0.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa and Margarita Gleba.

  • 2005.04.61:  Luciano Landolfi, Paolo Monella, Ars adeo latet arte sua. Riflessioni sull'intertestualità ovidiana. Le Metamorfosi. Palermo: 2003. Pp. 161. €15.00. ISBN 88-7804-233-1.
    Reviewed by Matthew McGowan.

  • 2005.04.62:  Kellee A. Barnard, Thomas M. Brogan, Mochlos IB. Period III. Neopalatial Settlement on the Coast: The Artisan's Quarter and the Farmhouse at Chalinomouri. The Neopalatial Pottery. Philadelphia: 2003. Pp. xix, 207; figs. 59, pls. 28. $80.00. ISBN 1-931534-07-1.
    Reviewed by Aleydis Van de Moortel.

  • 2005.04.63:  Libronix Digital Library System, H.G. Liddell and R. Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon (rev. H.S. Jones and R. McKenzie, rev. supp. by P.G.W. Glare) Oxford 1996. Bellingham: 2003. $145.00.
    Reviewed by Willeon Slenders.

  • 2005.04.64:  David Armstrong, Jeffrey Fish, Patricia A. Johnston, Marilyn B. Skinner, Vergil, Philodemus and the Augustans. Austin: 2004. Pp. xii, 361. $55.00. ISBN 0-292-70181-0.
    Reviewed by L.N. Quartarone.

  • 2005.04.65:  G.C. Macaulay, Herodotus. The Histories. Revised throughout by Donald Lateiner. With Introduction and Notes by Donald Lateiner. Barnes & Noble Classics. New York: 2004. Pp. 584. $6.95 (pb). ISBN 1-59308-102-2.
    Reviewed by David C. Noe.

  • 2005.04.66:  Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xii, 276. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-83434-1.
    Reviewed by Jon Steffen Bruss.

  • 2005.04.67:  Jean-Jaques Aubert, Tâches publiques et enterprise privée dans le monde romain. Genève: 2003. Pp. 357. CHF 30.00 (pb). ISBN 2-600-00937-X.
    Reviewed by Rubina Raja.

  • 2005.04.68:  John R. Clarke, Art in the lives of ordinary Romans: visual representation and non-elite viewers in Italy, 100 B.C. - A.D. 315. Berkeley: 2003. Pp. xii, 383. $65.00. ISBN 0-520-21976-7.
    Reviewed by Matthew B. Roller.

  • 2005.05.01:  Martine Chassignet, L'Annalistique Romaine. Tome 3: L'Annalistique Récente. L'Autobiographie Politique (Fragments). Collection Budé. Paris: 2004. Pp. clix, 297 (text double). €61.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-01435-7.
    Reviewed by Hans Beck.

  • 2005.05.02:  Jan Zahle, Kjeld Kjeldsen, The Maussolleion at Halikarnassos. Vol. 6: Subterranean and pre-Maussollan structures on the site of the Maussolleion. The finds from the tomb chamber of Maussollos. Jutland Archaeological Society Publications XV:6. Aarhus: 2004. Pp. 251; figs. 301, pls. 12. DDK 348.00. ISBN 87-88415-16-3.
    Reviewed by Anne Marie Carstens.

  • 2005.05.03:  Felipe Fernández-Armesto, World of Myths. The Legendary Past. Volume Two. London and Austin, TX: 2004. Pp. 424; ills. 180. $35.00. ISBN 0-292-70607-3.
    Reviewed by Eleni Hatzimavroudi.

  • 2005.05.04:  Michael Given, A. Bernard Knapp, The Sydney Cyprus Survey Project: Social Approaches to Regional Archaeological Survey. Monumenta Archaeologica 21. Los Angeles: 2003. Pp. xxvi, 356; pls. 35, LIII, tables 63. $60.00. ISBN 1-931745-04-8.
    Reviewed by James M.L. Newhard.

  • 2005.05.05:  Neil Christie, Landscapes of Change. Rural Evolutions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Aldershot, Hants: 2004. Pp. xviii, 324. $84.95. ISBN 1-84014-617-6.
    Reviewed by Paolo Squatriti.

  • 2005.05.06:  BMCR Books Received (April).


  • 2005.05.07:  Gainsford on Afonasin on SNS-Greek & Latin 1.0 for Windows.
    Response by Peter Gainsford.

  • 2005.05.08:  Hurka on Roggen on Hurka.
    Response by Florian Hurka.

  • 2005.05.09:  Helga Bumke, Statuarische Gruppen in der frühen griechischen Kunst. Jarbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 32. Ergänzungsheft. Berlin: 2004. Pp. x, 204; figs. 138 on 36 pls. €74.00. ISBN 3-11-018179-7.
    Reviewed by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway.

  • 2005.05.10:  Michael von Albrecht, Wort und Wandlung. Senecas Lebenskunst. Mnemosyne supplementa, 252. Leiden: 2004. Pp. 236. $119.00. ISBN 90-04-13988-5.
    Reviewed by Yasmina Benferhat.

  • 2005.05.11:  Marisa Bonamici, Volterra: l'acropoli e il suo santuario. Scavi 1987-1995. 2 vols. Terra Italia: Collana di studi archeologici sull'Italia antica no.6. Pisa: 2003. Pp. 599; pls. 8. €300.00. ISBN 88-427-0302-8.
    Reviewed by W.V. Harris.

  • 2005.05.12:  ALSO SEEN: William Sanders Scarborough, The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship. Edited and with an Introduction by Michele Valerie Ronnick. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    Catherine Conybeare.

  • 2005.05.13:  Producers of SNS-Greek & Latin on Gainsford on Afonasin.
    Response by Carmine Ampolo, Antonella Russo, Anna Santoni.

  • 2005.05.14:  C. W. Shelmerdine, L. A. Wilding's Greek for Beginners.. Newburyport, MA: 2001. Pp. 216. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58510-010-2.
    Reviewed by Barbara Clayton.

  • 2005.05.15:  Beth Severy, Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire. New York and London: 2003. Pp. xiv, 280. $104.95. ISBN 0-415-30959-X.
    Reviewed by Beryl Rawson.

  • 2005.05.16:  Jennifer Clarke Kosak, Heroic Measures: Hippocratic Medicine in the Making of Euripidean Tragedy. Studies in Ancient Medicine, 30. Leiden: 2004. Pp. x, 229. €90.00. ISBN 90-04-13993-1.
    Reviewed by Matthew Wright.

  • 2005.05.17:  Janet Burnett Grossman, Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone: A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques. Los Angeles: 2003. Pp. 140; ills. 106 (94 color); drawings 2; map 1. $16.95. ISBN 0-89236-708-3.
    Reviewed by Derek B. Counts.

  • 2005.05.18:  Derek Collins, Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry. Center for Hellenic Studies/Hellenic Studies, 7. Cambridge, MA: 2005. Pp. xix, 267. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01644-0.
    Reviewed by Christian Werner.

  • 2005.05.19:  Lorenzo Gagliardi, Decemviri e centumviri. Origini e competenze. Università degli Studi di Milano. Facoltà di Giurisprudenza. Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di Diritto Romano, 36. Milano: 2002. Pp. 570. €69.706 (pb). ISBN 88-14-08850-0.
    Reviewed by Alejandro Valiño.

  • 2005.05.20:  D. Mark Possanza, Translating the Heavens: Aratus, Germanicus, and the Poetics of Latin Translation. Lang Classical Studies vol. XIV. New York/Washington, D.C.: 2004. Pp. xiv, 279. $69.95. ISBN 0-8204-6939-4.
    Reviewed by Chad Matthew Schroeder.

  • 2005.05.21:  Rose Williams, Cicero the Patriot. With separate Teacher's Manual. Wauconda, IL: 2004. Pp. 90; 70. $10.00 each (pb). ISBN 0-86516-587-4; 0-86516-588-2.
    Reviewed by Rex Stem.

  • 2005.05.22:  John Henderson, Hortus: The Roman Book of Gardening. London/New York: 2004. Pp. 152. $31.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-32450-5.
    Reviewed by Katharine T. von Stackelberg.

  • 2005.05.23:  Olimpia Imperio, Parabasi di Aristofane. Acarnesi, Cavalieri, Vespe, Uccelli. Studi e commenti, 13. Bari: 2004. Pp. 448. €23.00 (pb).
    Reviewed by Antonis K. Petrides.

  • 2005.05.24:  Ecole suisse d'archéologie en Grèce, Eretria. A Guide to the Ancient City. Translated from French by Steven Rendall. Fribourg: 2004. Pp. 316; plans 100, photos 200. CHF 29.00/€19.00 (pb). ISBN 2-88474-112-7.
    Reviewed by Olivier Mariaud.

  • 2005.05.25:  H. Berneder, Magna Mater Kult und Sibyllinen. Kulttransfer und annalistische Geschichtsfiktion. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, Sonderheft 119. Innsbruck: 2004. Pp. 185. €36.00. ISBN 3-85124-212-2.
    Reviewed by Renate Kurzmann.

  • 2005.05.26:  C. Mülke, Solons Politische Elegien und Iamben (Fr. 1-13; 32-37 West). Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Beiträge sur Altertumskunde 177. Munich/Leipzig: 2002. Pp. 414. €92.00. ISBN 3-598-77726-4.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Irwin.

  • 2005.05.27:  Holger Sonnabend, Thukydides. Studienbücher Antike, 13. Hildesheim: 2004. Pp. 140. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 3-487-12787-3.
    Reviewed by Edith Foster.

  • 2005.05.28:  Martin Henig, Roman Sculpture from the North West Midlands. Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani, Great Britain, Vol. I, Fasc. 9. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xxv, 66; b/w pls. 52. $135.00. ISBN 0-19-726290-2.
    Reviewed by A.T. Fear.

  • 2005.05.29:  Robert Knapp, Pamela Vaughn, Finis Rei Publicae: Eyewitnesses to the End of the Roman Republic. An Intermediate Text. Second edition. Newburyport, MA: 2003. Pp. 172; 126. $26.95 (Text). $12.95 (Workbook). ISBN 1-58510-079-X; 1-58510-080-3.
    Reviewed by Richard H. Davis Jr..

  • 2005.05.30:  Louis-André Dorion, Michele Bandini, Xénophon Mémorables. Tome 1. Introduction générale, Livre I. Collection Budé. Paris: 2000. Pp. cccxxxii, 218. €54.00. ISBN 2-251-00482-3.
    Reviewed by Gabriel Danzig.

  • 2005.05.31:  Richard A. Burridge, What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography. Second Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: 2004. Pp. xiv, 366. $34.00 (pb). ISBN 0-8028-0971-5.
    Reviewed by James V. Morrison.

  • 2005.05.32:  Leda Ciraolo, Jonathan Seidel, Magic and Divination in the Ancient World. Leiden: 2002. Pp. xii, 152. $69.00. ISBN 90-04-12406-3.
    Jan N. Bremmer, Jan R. Veenstra, Brannon Wheeler, The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. Leuven: 2002. Pp. xv, 318. €45.00. ISBN 90-429-1227-8.
    Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World. University Park, PA: 2003. Pp. xiv, 255. $55.00 (hb). ISBN 0-271-02257-4.
    Reviewed by David Frankfurter.

  • 2005.05.33:  Isolde Stark, Die hämische Muse. Spott als soziale und mentale Kontrolle in der griechischen Komödie. Zetemata 121. München: 2004. Pp. 352. €76.00. ISBN 3-406-523-471.
    Reviewed by Markus Asper.

  • 2005.05.34:  Afonasin on Gainsford on Afonasin on SNS-Greek & Latin 1.0 for Windows.
    Response by Eugene V. Afonasin.

  • 2005.05.35:  ALSO SEEN: Roberto Calderan, Tito Maccio Plauto: Vidularia. Introduzione, testo critico e commento. Edizione riveduta (a cura di Salvatore Monda).
    Michael Fontaine.

  • 2005.05.36:  Salvator Monda, Titus Maccius Plautus. Vidularia et deperditarum fabularum fragmenta. Editio Plautina Sarsinatis, 21. Sarsinae/Urbini: 2004. Pp. 120. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 88-392-0673-6.
    Reviewed by Michael Fontaine.

  • 2005.05.37:  Jean-Claude Decourt, Inscriptions Grecques de la France (IGF). Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 38. Lyon: 2004. Pp. 363; ills. €38.00. ISBN 2-903264-80-5.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2005.05.38:  Nigel Spivey, Michael Squire, Panorama of the Classical World. London: 2004. Pp. 368; color ills. 400, b/w ills. 190, map 1. $50.00. ISBN 0-89236-769-5.
    Reviewed by Donald Lateiner.

  • 2005.05.39:  Eberhard W. Sauer, Archaeology and Ancient History: Breaking Down the Boundaries. London and New York: 2004. Pp. 206; ills. 13. $120.00 (hb). ISBN 0-415-30199-3.
    Reviewed by Susan Rotroff.

  • 2005.05.40:  Michael Lipka, Xenophon's Spartan Constitution. Introduction, Text, Commentary. Texte und Kommentare, 24. Berlin: 2002. Pp. 302. €98.00. ISBN 3-11-017466-9.
    Reviewed by Stefan Stanke.

  • 2005.05.41:  Edmund C. Cueva, The Myths of Fiction: Studies in the Canonical Greek Novels. Ann Arbor: 2004. Pp. 154. $47.50. ISBN 0-472-11427-1.
    Reviewed by Akihiko Watanabe.

  • 2005.05.42:  Michela Rosellini, Iulius Valerius, Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis. Editio correctior cum addendis. Munich and Leipzig: 2004. Pp. l, 222. $90.00. ISBN 3-598-71279-0.
    Reviewed by Brad L. Cook.

  • 2005.05.43:  Werner Suerbaum, Cato Censorius in der Forschung des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine kommentierte chronologische Bibliographie für 1900-1999 nebst systematischen Hinweisen und einer Darstellung des Schriftstellers M. Porcius Cato (234-149 v. Chr.). Bibliographien zur klassischen Philologie, Bd. 2. Hildesheim: 2004. Pp. 312. €44.80. ISBN 3-487-12589-7.
    Reviewed by Christopher B. Krebs.

  • 2005.05.44:  Ivy Livingston, A Linguistic Commentary on Livius Andronicus. New York and London: 2004. Pp. xxi, 95. $65.00. ISBN 0-415-96899-2.
    Reviewed by James E. G. Zetzel.

  • 2005.05.45:  Romolo Augusto Staccioli, The Roads of the Romans. Translated by Steven Sartarelli. Los Angeles: 2004. Pp. 132; color ills. 120. $29.95. ISBN 0-89236-732-6.
    Reviewed by Vadim Prozorov.

  • 2005.05.46:  BMCR Books Received (May).


  • 2005.05.47:  Armstrong et al. on Quartarone on Armstrong et al.
    Response by David Armstrong, Jeffrey Fish, Patricia A. Johnston, and Marilyn B. Skinner.

  • 2005.05.48:  Philippe Borgeaud, Mother of the Gods. From Cybele to the Virgin Mary. Originally published as La Mère des dieux: De Cybele à la Vierge Marie. Éditions de Seuil, Collection "La Libraire du XXe siècle", 1996. Translated from the French by Lysa Hochroth. Baltimore: 2004. Pp. xix, 186. $49.95. ISBN 0-8018-7985-X.
    Reviewed by Lynn E. Roller.

  • 2005.05.49:  Michael Lipka, Language in Vergil's Eclogues. Berlin: 2001. Pp. xii, 224. €89.00. ISBN 3-11-016936-3.
    Reviewed by David Meban.

  • 2005.05.50:  Emanuele Narducci, Cicerone e i suoi interpreti: Studi sull' Opera e la Fortuna. Pisa: 2004. Pp. 442. €19.00. ISBN 88-467-0974-8.
    Reviewed by Jon Hall.

  • 2005.05.51:  Steven J. Green, Ovid, Fasti 1. A Commentary. Mnemosyne, Suppl. 251. Leiden: 2004. Pp. 365. €90.00. ISBN 90-04-13985-0.
    Reviewed by Molly Pasco-Pranger.

  • 2005.05.52:  C. Bearzot, F. Landucci Gattinoni, Contro le 'leggi immutabili'. Gli Spartani fra tradizione e innovazione. Contributi di Storia Antica 2. Milano: 2004. Pp. 207. €18.00. ISBN 88-343-1985-0.
    Reviewed by L. Prauscello.

  • 2005.05.53:  Francesca Romana Berno, Lo specchio, il vizio e la virtù. Studio sulle Naturales Quaestiones di Seneca. Testi e manuali per l'insegnamento universitario del Latino 79. Bologna: 2003. Pp. 390. €32.00. ISBN 88-555-2723-1.
    Reviewed by Florence Limburg.

  • 2005.05.54:  Jed Wyrick, The Ascension of Authorship: Attribution and Canon Formation in Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian Traditions. Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature 49. Cambridge, MA: 2004. Pp. xv, 508. $27.50 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01662-9.
    Reviewed by Ellen Muehlberger.

  • 2005.05.55:  Jens David Baumbach, The Significance of Votive Offerings in Selected Hera Sanctuaries in the Peloponnese, Ionia and Western Greece. BAR International Series 1249. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xvi, 212. £35.00 (pb). ISBN 1-84171-609-X.
    Reviewed by Nassos Papalexandrou.

  • 2005.05.56:  Wolfram Hörandner, Johannes Koder, Maria A. Stassinopoulou, Wiener Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik: Beiträge zum Symposion Vierzig Jahre Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik der Universität Wien im Gedenken an Herbert Hunger. Wien, 4.-7. December 2002. Byzantina et Neograeca Vindobonensia 24. Vienna: 2004. Pp. 496; pls. 46. €98.00. ISBN 3-7001-3269-7.
    Reviewed by Franziska E. Shlosser.

  • 2005.05.57:  Mischa Meier, Barbara Patzek, Uwe Walter, Josef Wiesehöfer, Deiokes, König der Meder - Eine Herodot-Episode in ihren Kontexten. Oriens et Occidens 7. Wiesbaden: 2004. Pp. 99. €28.00. ISBN 3-515-08585-8.
    Reviewed by Bruno Jacobs.

  • 2005.05.58:  Daniel C. Snell, A Companion to the Ancient Near East. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xix, 504. $124.95. ISBN 0-631-23293-1.
    Reviewed by Geoffrey D. Summers.

  • 2005.06.01:  Simo Knuuttila, Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Oxford: 2004. Pp. 341. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-926638-7.
    Reviewed by David Konstan.

  • 2005.06.02:  Beat Näf, Traum und Traumdeutung im Altertum. Darmstadt: 2004. Pp. 244; ills. 37. €34.90. ISBN 3-534-17998-6.
    Reviewed by Marion Gindhart.

  • 2005.06.03:  Federico Borca, Luoghi, Corpi, Costumi. Determinismo ambientale ed etnografia antica. Roma: 2003. Pp. 161. €20.50 (pb). ISBN 88-8498-108-5.
    Reviewed by Charlotte Lerouge-Cohen.

  • 2005.06.04:  Marcel Le Glay, Jean-Louis Voisin, Yann Le Bohec, A History of Rome. Translated by Antonia Nevill; preface and new material by David Cherry; additional material by Donald Kyle. Malden, MA: 2005. Pp. 592. $34.95. ISBN 1-4051-1083-X.
    Reviewed by Eleni Manolaraki.

  • 2005.06.05:  Patricia Curd, The Legacy of Parmenides. Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought. Las Vegas: 2004. Pp. xxix, 280. $22.00. ISBN 1-930972-15-6.
    Reviewed by Marina N. Volf.

  • 2005.06.06:  Beat Näf, et al., Geschichte der Antike. Ein multimedialer Grundkurs. CD-Rom. Version 1. Mac OS 9/X and Windows.. Stuttgart/Weimar: 2004. ISBN 3-476-02007-X.
    Reviewed by Monica M. Bontty.

  • 2005.06.07:  Johannes Hahn, Gewalt und religiöser Konflikt. Studien zu den Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Christen, Heiden und Juden im Osten des Römischen Reiches (von Konstantin bis Theodosius II). Klio Beihefte N.F. 8. Berlin: 2004. Pp. 348. €69.80. ISBN 3-05-003760-1.
    Reviewed by Mischa Meier.

  • 2005.06.08:  Peter T. Struck, Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts. Princeton: 2004. Pp. 316. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-11697-0.
    Reviewed by Bruce Krajewski.

  • 2005.06.09:  Willett on Noe on Lateiner.
    Response by Steven J. Willett.

  • 2005.06.10:  Daniel Kah, Peter Scholz, Das hellenistische Gymnasion. Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel, 8. Berlin: 2004. Pp. 465. €69.80. ISBN 3-05-004078-5.
    Reviewed by Signe Isager.

  • 2005.06.11:  Audrey Cruse, Roman Medicine. Stroud: 2004. Pp. 256; ills. 95, pls. 34. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7524-1461-5.
    Reviewed by John Scarborough.

  • 2005.06.12:  Konrad Vössing, Mensa Regia. Das Bankett beim hellenistischen König und beim römischen Kaiser. BzA 193. München/Leipzig: 2004. Pp. 627; pls. 13. €110.00. ISBN 3-598-77805-8.
    Reviewed by Werner Tietz.

  • 2005.06.13:  André Laks, Marwan Rashed, Aristote et le mouvement des animaux. Dix études sur le De motu animalium. Villeneuve d'Ascq: 2004. Pp. 248. €22.00. ISBN 2-85939-840-6.
    Reviewed by Guillaume Dye.

  • 2005.06.14:  Stephen Bertman, Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome. A collection of new translations. New American Library. New York: 2005. Pp. xxiii, 132. $13.95. ISBN 0-451-21480-3.
    Reviewed by Roger Rees.

  • 2005.06.15:  Ellen Perry, The Aesthetics of Emulation in the Visual Arts of Ancient Rome. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 208. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-83165-2.
    Reviewed by Lisa A. Hughes.

  • 2005.06.16:  Susan Woodford, The Art of Greece and Rome. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xxi, 163. $55.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-83280-2.
    Reviewed by David W. Madsen.

  • 2005.06.17:  Stelios Lydakis, Ancient Greek Painting and Its Echoes in Later Art. Translated by John Davis. Los Angeles: 2004. Pp. 304; color ills. 225, b/w ills. 56. $75.00. ISBN 0-89236-683-4.
    Reviewed by Thomas E. Jenkins.

  • 2005.06.18:  Stephan Berrens, Sonnenkult und Kaisertum von den Severern bis zu Constantin I. (193-337 n. Chr.). Historia Einzelschriften, 185. Stuttgart: 2004. Pp. 282; pls. 2. €44.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08575-0.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2005.06.19:  Rubio on Summers on Rubio.
    Response by Gonzalo Rubio.

  • 2005.06.20:  Philip A. Harland, Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society. Minneapolis: 2003. Pp. xvi, 399. $22.00. ISBN 0-8006-3589-2.
    Reviewed by Juan Garcés.

  • 2005.06.21:  Kevin Butcher, Roman Syria and the Near East. Los Angeles: 2003. Pp. 472; ills. 198 (30 in color). $55.00. ISBN 0-89236-715-6.
    Reviewed by Joel Walker.

  • 2005.06.22:  ALSO SEEN: Brian Feuer, Mycenaean Civilization: An Annotated Bibliography through 2002. Revised edition.
    Michael Broyles.

  • 2005.06.23:  Paolo d'Alessandro, Rufini Antiochensis Commentaria in metra terentiana et de compositione et de numeris oratorum. Collectanea Grammatica Latin, 3. Hildesheim: 2004. Pp. clxvi, 52. €29.30 (pb). ISBN 3-487-12752-0.
    Reviewed by Diane L. Johnson.

  • 2005.06.24:  Karl A.E. Enenkel, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, The Manipulative Mode. Political Propaganda in Antiquity: A Collection of Case Studies. Mnemosyne, Suppl. 261. Leiden: 2005. Pp. 318. €95.00. ISBN 90-04-14291-6.
    Reviewed by John Alexander Lobur.

  • 2005.06.25:  J. H. W. Penney, Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies. Oxford: 2004. Pp. 598. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-925892-9.
    Reviewed by Anne Mahoney.

  • 2005.06.26:  Nino Luraghi, Susan E. Alcock, Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures. Cambridge, MA: 2003. Pp. vii, 314. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01223-2.
    Reviewed by Ellen G. Millender.

  • 2005.06.27:  R. J. Tarrant, P. Ouidi Nasonis Metamorphoses. Oxford Classical Texts. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xlviii, 534. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-814666-3.
    Reviewed by Mark Possanza.

  • 2005.06.28:  Cinzia Bearzot, Franca Landucci, Giuseppe Zecchini, Gli stati territoriali nel mondo antico. Contributi di storia antica, 1. Milano: 2003. Pp. viii, 355. €28.00. ISBN 88-343-1003-9.
    Reviewed by Jacek Rzepka.

  • 2005.06.29:  Francesca Rochberg, The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xxviii, 331. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-83010-9.
    Reviewed by Eleanor Robson.

  • 2005.06.30:  John Bert Lott, The Neighborhoods of Augustan Rome. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xiv, 262. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-82827-9.
    Reviewed by Adam Serfass.

  • 2005.06.31:  Oliver Ehlen, Leitbilder und romanhafte Züge in apokryphen Evangelientexten. Untersuchungen zur Motivik and Erzählungsstruktur anhand des Protevanglium Jacobi und der Acta Pilati Graec. B. Stuttgart: 2004. Pp. 312. €60.00. ISBN 3-515-08470-3.
    Reviewed by A. Alcock.

  • 2005.07.01:  Berno on Limburg on Berno.
    Response by Francesca Romana Berno.

  • 2005.07.02:  Gunnar Seelentag, Taten und Tugenden Traians. Herrschaftsdarstellung im Principat. Hermes Einzelschriften, Heft 91. Stuttgart: 2004. Pp. 556. €80.00. ISBN 3-515-08539-4.
    Reviewed by Louis B. N. van den Hengel.

  • 2005.07.03:  Walter Burkert, Babylon Memphis Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture. Cambridge, MA: 2004. Pp. 178. $22.95. ISBN 0-674-01489-8.
    Reviewed by Molly M. Levine.

  • 2005.07.04:  Matthew Trundle, Greek Mercenaries from the Late Archaic Period to Alexander. London & New York: 2004. Pp. xxi, 196. $87.50. ISBN 0-415-33812-3.
    Reviewed by Ian Worthington.

  • 2005.07.05:  Franco Maiullari, Omero anti-Omero: Le incredibili storie di un trickster giullare alla corte micenea. Roma: 2004. Pp. 269. €56.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8476-016-X.
    Reviewed by Alexander J. Beecroft.

  • 2005.07.06:  James A. Arieti, Philosophy in the Ancient World. An Introduction. Lanham, MD: 2005. Pp. 416. $28.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7425-3329-8.
    Reviewed by Giannis P. Stamatellos.

  • 2005.07.07:  Brian K. Harvey, Roman Lives: Ancient Roman Life as Illustrated by Latin Inscriptions. Focus Classical Library. Newburyport, MA: 2005. Pp. ix, 198. $9.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58510-114-1.
    Reviewed by Peter Keegan.

  • 2005.07.08:  Chrysanthe Tsitsiou-Chelidoni, Ovid. Metamorphosen, Buch VIII. Narrative Technik und literarischer Kontext. Studien zur klassischen Philologie, Bd. 138. Frankfurt am Main: 2003. Pp. 503. €74.50 (pb). ISBN 3-631-36111-4.
    Reviewed by Gianpiero Rosati.

  • 2005.07.09:  Lukas de Blois, Jeroen Bons, Ton Kessels, Dirk M. Schenkeveld, The Statesman in Plutarch's Works. Volume I: Plutarch's Statesman and His Aftermath: Political, Philosophical, and Literary Aspects. Mnemosyne Suppl. 250. Leiden/Boston: 2004. Pp. viii, 350. €95.00/$125.00. ISBN 90-04-13795-5.
    Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk.

  • 2005.07.10:  K. A. Worp, Greek Ostraca from Kellis: O.Kellis, Nos. 1-293. With a chapter on the ostraka and the archaeology of Ismant el-Kharab by Colin A. Hope. Dakhleh Oasis Project: Monograph 13. Oxford: 2004. Pp. viii, 280; CD-Rom. 1-84217-128-3. ISBN $115.00.
    Reviewed by Eleanor Dickey.

  • 2005.07.11:  Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, Philostratus' Heroikos: Religion and Cultural Identity in the Third Century C.E. Atlanta, GA: 2004. Pp. 452. $49.95. ISBN 1-58983-091-1.
    Reviewed by Jas' Elsner.

  • 2005.07.12:  Stephen D. Houston, The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xviii, 417. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-83861-4.
    Reviewed by Roger Wright.

  • 2005.07.13:  Michael J.B. Allen, James Hankins, Marsilio Ficino. Platonic Theology. Volume 4: Books XII-XIV. I Tatti Renaissance Library, 13. Cambridge, MA: 2004. Pp. 371. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01482-0.
    Reviewed by Maude Vanhaelen.

  • 2005.07.14:  Judith Evans Grubbs, Women and Law in the Roman Empire. A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood. London and New York: 2002. Pp. xxiv, 349. $115.00 (hb). ISBN 0-415-15240-2.
    Reviewed by Marcus Sigismund.

  • 2005.07.15:  A.J. Woodman, Tacitus, The Annals. Translated with Introduction and Notes. Indianapolis and Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xxx, 412. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-558-4.
    Reviewed by R. B. Rutherford.

  • 2005.07.16:  Andrew Stewart, Attalos, Athens, and the Akropolis. The Pergamene 'Little Barbarians' and their Roman and Renaissance Legacy. With an essay by Manolis Korres. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xxv, 358; figs. 287 (including 70 line drawings), 1 map, 1 foldout plate. $95.00. ISBN 0-521-83163-6.
    Reviewed by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway.

  • 2005.07.17:  BMCR Books Received (June).


  • 2005.07.18:  P. Fröhlich, Les Cités grecques et le contrôle des magistrats (IVe-Ier siècle avant J.-C.). École pratique des Hautes Études. Hautes Études du monde gréco-romain, 33. Geneva and Paris: 2004. Pp. xii, 634. CHF 148.00 (pb). ISBN 2-600-00956-6.
    Reviewed by Edward M. Harris.

  • 2005.07.19:  ALSO SEEN: Paolo Esposito, Gli scolii a Lucano ed altra scoliastica latina. Testi e studi di cultura classica 21.
    Vincent Hunink.

  • 2005.07.20:  Marietta Horster, Landbesitz griechischer Heiligtümer in archaischer und klassischer Zeit. Rostock Univ. Habil.-Sch. 2003. Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, 53. Berlin: 2004. Pp. ix, 260. €84.00. ISBN 3-11-018219-X.
    Reviewed by Signe Isager.

  • 2005.07.21:  Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold, Homer: The Resonance of Epic. In the series 'Classical Literature and Society'. London: 2005. Pp. 176. £16.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3282-5.
    Reviewed by Minna Skafte Jensen.

  • 2005.07.22:  Christine Finn, Past Poetic. Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney. London: 2004. Pp. 214. £45.00. ISBN 0-7156-3237-X.
    Reviewed by Susan Joseph.

  • 2005.07.23:  Jonathan Powell, Jeremy Paterson, Cicero the Advocate. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xi, 448. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-815280-9.
    Reviewed by Bob Kaster.

  • 2005.07.24:  Alexander Weiss, Sklave der Stadt: Untersuchungen zur öffentlichen Sklaverei in den Städten des Römischen Reiches. Historia Einzelschriften no. 173. Stuttgart: 2004. Pp. 265. €46.00. ISBN 3-515-08383-9.
    Reviewed by Noel Lenski.

  • 2005.07.25:  C.F. Konrad, Augusto Augurio. Rerum Humanarum et Divinarum Commentationes in Honorem Jerzy Linderski. Stuttgart: 2004. Pp. 203. €36.00. ISBN 3-515-08578-5.
    Reviewed by Alex Nice.

  • 2005.07.26:  Z. Philip Ambrose, Ovid. The Metamorphoses. Focus Classical Library. Newburyport, MA: 2004. Pp. xxi, 438. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58510-103-6.
    Reviewed by Betty Rose Nagle.

  • 2005.07.27:  Françoise Dunand, Christiane Zivie-Coche, Gods and Men in Egypt. 3000 BCE to 395 CE. Originally published in French as Dieux et hommes en Egypt (Armand Colin, 2002). Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca: 2004. Pp. 378. $45.00. ISBN 0-8014-4165-X.
    Reviewed by Peter Nadig.

  • 2005.07.28:  Martin C. Albl, Pseudo-Gregory of Nyssa: Testimonies against the Jews. Atlanta: 2004. Pp. xxx, 172. $23.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58983-092-X.
    Reviewed by Edward Moore.

  • 2005.07.29:  Penelope M. Allison, Pompeian Households. An Analysis of the Material Culture. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Monograph 42. Los Angeles: 2004. Pp. xvii, 225; figs. 114, tables 74. $40.00. ISBN 0-917956-96-6.
    Reviewed by Stephan T.A.M. Mols.

  • 2005.07.30:  Robert Leighton, Tarquinia. An Etruscan City. Duckworth Archaeological Histories Series. London: 2004. Pp. 218. £16.99. ISBN 0-7156-3162-4.
    Reviewed by Patricia S. Lulof.

  • 2005.07.31:  Reinhold Merkelbach, Josef Stauber, Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten. Band 4: Die Südküste Kleinasiens, Syrien und Palaestina. München/Leipzig: 2002. Pp. xvi, 471. €139.00. ISBN 3-598-73007-1.
    Reviewed by Julia Lougovaya-Ast.

  • 2005.07.32:  Susanna Braund, Glenn W. Most, Ancient Anger. Perspectives from Homer to Galen. Yale Classical Studies 32. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. 325. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-82625-X.
    Reviewed by Peter Aronoff.

  • 2005.07.33:  Paolo Esposito, Enrico M. Ariemma, Lucano e la tradizione epica latina. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Fisciano-Salerno, 19-20 ottobre 2001. Università degli Studi di Salerno, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità. Naples: 2004. Pp. 203. €16.70. ISBN 88-7188-834-0.
    Reviewed by Paolo Asso.

  • 2005.07.34:  Leslie Brubaker, Julia M. H. Smith, Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. 333. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-01327-5.
    Reviewed by Alexandra Cuffel.

  • 2005.07.35:  Jona Lendering, Alexander de Grote. De ondergang van het Perzische rijk. Amsterdam: 2004. Pp. 407. €22.95. ISBN 90-253-3144-0.
    Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk.

  • 2005.07.36:  Michael Kulikowski, Late Roman Spain and its Cities. Baltimore and London: 2004. Pp. xxi, 489. $55.00. ISBN 0-8018-7978-7.
    Reviewed by Leonard Curchin.

  • 2005.07.37:  Alan James, Quintus of Smyrna. The Trojan Epic. Posthomerica. Baltimore and London: 2004. Pp. xl, 365. $49.95. ISBN 0-8018-7965-5.
    Reviewed by Martijn Cuypers.

  • 2005.07.38:  John M. Cooper, Knowledge, Nature, and the Good. Essays on Ancient Philosophy. Princeton: 2004. Pp. 400. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-691-11724-1.
    Reviewed by Henry Dyson.

  • 2005.07.39:  Rupertus Marius Danese, Titus Maccius Plautus. Asinaria. Editio Plautina Sarsinatis, 2. Sarsinae/Urbini: 2004. Pp. 94. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 88-392-0575-6.
    Reviewed by Michael Fontaine.

  • 2005.07.40:  Lucilla Burn, Hellenistic Art from Alexander the Great to Augustus. Los Angeles: 2005. Pp. 192; ills. 108. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-89236-776-8.
    Reviewed by Charmaine Gorrie.

  • 2005.07.41:  Diskin Clay, Euripides: The Trojan Women. Newburyport, MA: 2005. Pp. 122. $8.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58510-111-7.
    Reviewed by Justina Gregory.

  • 2005.07.42:  Eugene Garver, For The Sake of Argument: Practical Reasoning, Character and the Ethics of Belief. Chicago: 2004. Pp. 272. $22.50 (pb). ISBN 0-226-28397-6.
    Reviewed by Lawrence J. Jost.

  • 2005.07.43:  Ian C. Storey, Arlene Allan, A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama. Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature. Malden, MA: 2004. Pp. xiv, 311. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-0215-2.
    Reviewed by Rebecca F. Kennedy.

  • 2005.07.44:  David Roochnik, Retrieving the Ancients: An Introduction to Greek Philosophy. Malden, MA: 2004. Pp. vii, 238. $59.95 (hb). ISBN 1-4051-0861-4.
    Reviewed by Michael S. Kochin.

  • 2005.07.45:  J. Barnouw, Odysseus, Hero of Practical Intelligence. Deliberation and Signs in Homer's Odyssey. Lanham, MD: 2004. Pp. xi, 377. $49.00. ISBN 0-7618-3026-X.
    Reviewed by G. Lentini.

  • 2005.07.46:  Daniel Ogden, Aristomenes of Messene: Legends of Sparta's Nemesis. Swansea: 2004. Pp. xxiv, 244. $69.50. ISBN 0-9543845-4-7.
    Reviewed by Barbara McCauley.

  • 2005.07.47:  H.I. Flower, The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. 405. £55.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-80794-8.
    Reviewed by Ulrike Roth.

  • 2005.07.48:  I. J. F. de Jong, R. Nünlist, A. Bowie, Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. Volume One. Mnemosyne Supplement 257. Leiden: 2004. Pp. xviii, 583. €149.00. ISBN 90-04-13927-3.
    Reviewed by Ruth Scodel.

  • 2005.07.49:  Klaus Schöpsdau, Nomoi (Gesetze). Buch IV-VII. Platon Werke. Übersetzung und Kommentar. Band IX. 2. Göttingen: 2003. Pp. 651. €106.00. ISBN 3-525-30434-X.
    Reviewed by Pedro de Blas.

  • 2005.07.50:  Rupertus Marius Danese, Titus Maccius Plautus. Asinaria. Editio Plautina Sarsinatis II. Sarsinae/Urbini: 2004. Pp. 103. €15.00. ISBN 88-392-0575-6.
    Reviewed by Joanne Walker.

  • 2005.07.51:  Stephen M. Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet, Anthology of Classical Myth. Primary Sources in Translation. With an Appendix on Linear B Sources by Thomas G. Palaima. Indianapolis: 2004. Pp. lvii, 576. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-721-8.
    Reviewed by Jerker Blomqvist.

  • 2005.07.52:  Michael J. Hyde, The Ethos of Rhetoric. With a foreword by Calvin O. Schrag. Columbia, SC: 2004. Pp. xxviii, 231. $90.00. ISBN 1-57003-538-5.
    Reviewed by Kristina Chew.

  • 2005.07.53:  Mario Erasmo, Roman Tragedy: Theatre to Theatricality. Austin: 2004. Pp. xii, 211. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-70242-6.
    Reviewed by Bob Cowan.

  • 2005.07.54:  Gretchen Reydams-Schils, The Roman Stoics. Self, Responsibility, and Affection. Chicago: 2005. Pp. 224. $35.00. ISBN 0-226-30837-5.
    Reviewed by Guillaume Dye.

  • 2005.07.55:  Richard Sorabji, The Philosophy of the Commentators. 200-600 AD. A Sourcebook. Three volumes. Ithaca, NY: 2005. Pp. xv, 430; xix, 401; xvii, 394. $39.50 (each). ISBN 0-8014-8987-3; 0-8014-8988-1; 0-8014-8989-X.
    Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson.

  • 2005.07.56:  Uwe Walter, Memoria und res publica. Zur Geschichtskultur im republikanischen Rom. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, Band 1. Frankfurt am Main: 2004. Pp. 478. €49.90. ISBN 3-938032-00-6.
    Reviewed by Alain M. Gowing.

  • 2005.07.57:  James D. Ernest, The Bible in Athanasius of Alexandria. The Bible in Ancient Christianity 2. Leiden: 2004. Pp. xiv, 482. €133.00. ISBN 0-391-04176-2.
    Reviewed by Hugh Houghton.

  • 2005.07.58:  Carol C. Mattusch, The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection. Los Angeles: 2005. Pp. xxiii, 392; ills. 500, map. $85.00. ISBN 0-89236-722-9.
    Reviewed by Eric M. Moormann.

  • 2005.07.59:  Luciana Jacobelli, Gladiators at Pompeii. Originally published in Italian, L'Érma di Bretschneider 2003. Translated by Mary Becker. Los Angeles: 2003. Pp. 128; ills. 120. $29.95. ISBN 0-89236-731-8.
    Reviewed by Joseph Patrich.

  • 2005.07.60:  ALSO SEEN: Kevin Corrigan, Elena Glazov-Corrigan, Plato's Dialectic at Play: Argument, Structure, and Myth in the Symposium.
    Zdravko Planinc.

  • 2005.07.61:  Benedetto Fontana, Cary J. Nederman, Gary Remer, Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy. University Park, PA: 2004. Pp. 337. $55.00. ISBN 0-271-02456-9.
    Reviewed by Travis D. Smith.

  • 2005.07.62:  W.V. Harris, G. Ruffini, Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, vol. XXVI. Leiden: 2004. Pp. 296. €75.00. ISBN 90-04-14105-7.
    Reviewed by Marjorie Susan Venit.

  • 2005.07.63:  David Whitehead, P.H. Blyth, Athenaeus Mechanicus, On Machines. Historia-Einzelschrift, 182. Stuttgart: 2004. Pp. 236; figs. 23. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08532-7.
    Reviewed by Duncan B. Campbell.

  • 2005.07.64:  Erik Christiansen, Coinage in Roman Egypt: The Hoard Evidence. Aarhus: 2004. Pp. 208. $29.95. ISBN 87-7288-964-0.
    Reviewed by Allen Kerkeslager.

  • 2005.07.65:  Dexter Hoyos, Hannibal's Dynasty: Power and Politics in the Western Mediterranean, 247-183 B.C. Paperback edition. Oxford: 2005. Pp. vii, 304. $33.95. ISBN 0-415-35958-9.
    Reviewed by Paul Burton.

  • 2005.07.66:  Hans van Wees, Greek Warfare. Myths and Realities. London: 2004. Pp. xvi, 349. £20.00. ISBN 0-7156-2967-0.
    Reviewed by Kevin F. Daly.

  • 2005.07.67:  Adriaan Rademaker, Sophrosyne and the Rhetoric of Self-Restraint: Polysemy and Persuasive Use of an Ancient Greek Value Term. Mnemosyne Suppl. 259. Leiden: 2005. Pp. xi, 375. $115.00. ISBN 90-04-14251-7.
    Reviewed by Brad Levett.

  • 2005.07.68:  James Warren, Facing Death, Epicurus and his Critics. Oxford: 2004. Pp. viii, 240. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-925289-0.
    Reviewed by Thornton Lockwood.

  • 2005.07.69:  Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History. London: 2005. Pp. xvi, 576. £15.00. ISBN 0-333-98914-7.
    Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 350. £16.99. ISBN 0-10-280564-9.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2005.07.70:  Michel Buijs, Clause Combining in Ancient Greek Narrative Discourse. The Distribution of Subclauses and Participial Clauses in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis. Mnemosyne Supplementa 260. Leiden: 2005. Pp. 277. €85.00. ISBN 90-04-14250-9.
    Reviewed by Steven D. Smith.

  • 2005.07.71:  Françoise Dunand, Christiane Zivie-Coche, Gods and Men in Egypt. 3000 BCE to 395 CE. Originally published by Armand Colin, 2002. Translated from the French by David Lorton. Ithaca: 2004. Pp. 367. $25.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8853-2.
    Reviewed by Mehmet-Ali Ataç.

  • 2005.07.72:  Louis Callebat, Vitruve, de l'Architecture, Livre VI. Collection des Universités de France, publiée sous le patronage de l'Association Guillaume Budé. Paris: 2004. Pp. 255. €39.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-01437-3.
    Reviewed by Margaret Muther D'Evelyn.

  • 2005.07.73:  Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp, Senatus Populusque Romanus. Die politische Kultur der Republik-Dimensionen und Deutungen. Stuttgart: 2004. Pp. 334. €48.00. ISBN 3-515-08594-7.
    Reviewed by Chris Epplett.

  • 2005.07.74:  Vivian Nutton, Ancient Medicine. London and New York: 2004. Pp. xiv, 486; ills. 31, maps & plans 4. $105.00. ISBN 0-415-08611-6.
    Reviewed by John Scarborough.

  • 2005.07.75:  Daniela Baldoni, Vasi a matrice di età imperiale a Iasos, Missione archeologica Italiana di Iasos III. Archaeologica, 139. Rome: 2003. Pp. ix, 102; figs. 22, pls. 63. €146.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-196-X.
    Reviewed by Billur Tekkok.

  • 2005.07.76:  BMCR Books Received (July).


  • 2005.07.77:  Roggen on Hurka on Roggen on Hurka.
    Response by Vibeke Roggen.

  • 2005.07.78:  Emanuele Narducci, Introduzione a Cicerone, Nuova edizione. Universale Laterza, 851. Roma-Bari: 2005. Pp. 244. €10.00 (pb). ISBN 88-420-7605-8.
    Reviewed by Francisco Pina Polo.

  • 2005.07.79:  Robin Osborne, The Old Oligarch: Pseudo-Xenophon's Constitution of the Athenians. LACTOR 2. Second Edition. Introduction, Translation and Commentary. London: 2004. Pp. 29. £3.00 (pb). ISBN 0-903625-31-8.
    Reviewed by James Jan Sullivan.

  • 2005.07.80:  H. R. Goette, T. M. Weber, Marathon: Siedlungskammer und Schlachtfeld - Sommerfrische und Olympische Wettkampfstätte. Mainz am Rhein: 2004. Pp. 142. €41.00. ISBN 3-8053-3378-1.
    Reviewed by Tim Rood.

  • 2005.07.81:  Jean A. Straus, L'Achat et la vente des esclaves dans l'Égypte romaine: Contribution papyrologique à l'étude de l'esclavage dans une province orientale de l'empire romain. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, Beiheft 14. München/Leipzig: 2004. Pp. xliv, 373; pls. 4. €92.00. ISBN 3-598-77549-0.
    Reviewed by Carolyn Osiek.

  • 2005.07.82:  Philip Hills, Horace. London: 2005. Pp. 160. £10.99. ISBN 1-85399-674-2.
    Reviewed by Richard Joines.

  • 2005.07.83:  ALSO SEEN: Fik Meijer, Emperors Don't Die in Bed. First published in 2001 by Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep (Amsterdam). Translated by S.J. Leinbach..
    Michael DiMaio, Jr..

  • 2005.07.84:  Chrysoulla Veligianni-Terzi, Oi Ellênídes póleis kai to basíleio tôn Odrusôn apó Abdêrôn póleôs méxri Ístrou potamoú. Thessaloniki: 2004. Pp. 397; maps, 2. ISBN 960-343-783-2.
    Reviewed by Peter Delev.

  • 2005.07.85:  Danai-Christina Naoum, Georgina Muskett, Mercourios Georgiadis, Cult and Death. Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of Postgraduate Researchers, The University of Liverpool, May 2002. Liverpool Interdisciplinary Symposium in Antiquity 2002. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1282. Oxford: 2004. Pp. 86. £25.00 (pb). ISBN 1-84171-635-9.
    Reviewed by Gerald Cadogan.

  • 2005.08.01:  David S. Potter, The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395. Routledge History of the Ancient World. London/New York: 2004. Pp. 762. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 0-415-10058-5.
    Reviewed by David Engels.

  • 2005.08.02:  J.H. Hordern, Sophron's Mimes. Text, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford: 2004. Pp. 250. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-926613-1.
    Reviewed by Rolando Ferri.

  • 2005.08.03:  Kochin on Kochin on Roochnik.
    Response by Michael S. Kochin.

  • 2005.08.04:  Paola Buzi, Titoli e autori nella tradizione copta: studio storico e tipologico. Biblioteca degli 'Studi di egittologia e di papirologia', 2. Pisa: 2005. Pp. 131. €120.00 (pb). ISBN 88-427-1303-1.
    Reviewed by Anthony Alcock.

  • 2005.08.05:  Mark C. Amodio, Writing the Oral Tradition: Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England. Notre Dame, IN: 2004. Pp. 320. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 0-268-02024-8.
    Reviewed by Andrew Taylor.

  • 2005.08.06:  J. Lembke, Virgil's Georgics. A New Verse Translation. New Haven and London: 2005. Pp. 130. $23.00. ISBN 0-300-10792-7.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Stevens.

  • 2005.08.07:  J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Translated into Ancient Greek by Andrew Wilson. London: 2004. Pp. 250. $21.95. ISBN 0-7475-6897-9.
    Reviewed by Tad Brennan.

  • 2005.08.08:  A. Bruzzone, Flavio Merobaude: Panegirico in versi. Academia Latinitati Fovendae: Bibliotheca Scriptorum Latinorum 6. Rome: 1999. Pp. iv, 346. It. Lire 90,000 [€46.48]. ISBN 88-86301-06-5.
    Reviewed by Simon Corcoran.

  • 2005.08.09:  Derek Krueger, Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East. Philadelphia: 2004. Pp. 312. $59.95. ISBN 0-8122-3819-2.
    Reviewed by Jennifer Knust.

  • 2005.08.10:  Martin Goodman, Jews in a Graeco-Roman World. Oxford: 1998 [actually spring 1999]. Pp. x, 293. $72.00. ISBN 0-19-815078-4.
    Reviewed by Beth Pollard and Robert Kraft.

  • 2005.08.11:  ALSO SEEN: R. Osborne, Studies in Ancient Greek and Roman Society.
    S. D. Lambert.

  • 2005.08.12:  Mabel Lang, The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora. 2nd edition. Revised by John McK. Camp II. Excavations of the Athenian Agora, Picture Book 4. Princeton, NJ: 2004. Pp. 32; pls. 40. $4.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87661-642-2.
    Reviewed by Stephanie Larson.

  • 2005.08.13:  Brian Campbell, Greek and Roman Military Writers. Selected Readings. Routledge Classical Translations. London/New York: 2004. Pp. xxiv, 231. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-28547-X.
    Reviewed by James Thorne.

  • 2005.08.14:  Simon Keay, Stephanie Moser, Greek Art in View: Essays in Honour of Brian Sparkes. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xvii, 172; ills. 95, tables 6. $55.00. ISBN 1-84217-137-2.
    Reviewed by Michael M. Eisman.

  • 2005.08.15:  O'Donnell, Hamilton, and Conybeare on [Anon.] on [Name Deleted].
    Response by James J. O'Donnell, Richard Hamilton, and Catherine Conybeare.

  • 2005.08.16:  Joachim Latacz, Homers Ilias. Gesamtkommentar. Auf der Grundlage der Ausgabe von Ameis-Hentze-Cauer (1868-1913). Band: II Zweiter Gesang (B). Faszikel 1: Text und Übersetzung; Faszikel 2: Kommentar. Munich/Leipzig: 2003. Pp. xviii, 57; xv, 346. €42.00; €78.00. ISBN 3-598-74305-X; 3-598-74306-8.
    Reviewed by J.B. Lethbridge.

  • 2005.08.17:  Cristiana Franco, Senza ritegno: Il cane e la donna nell' immaginario della Grecia antica. Bologna: 2003. Pp. 372. €24.00. ISBN 88-15-09418-0.
    Reviewed by Sharon L. James.

  • 2005.08.18:  Andrea Carandini, Palatino, Velia e Sacra Via. Paesaggi urbani attraverso il tempo. Workshop di archeologia classica. Quaderni, 1. Rome: 2004. Pp. 95. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8476-014-3.
    Reviewed by Elisha Ann Dumser.

  • 2005.08.19:  Mitchell H. Miller, Jr., The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman. Las Vegas, NV: 2005. Pp. xxxiii, 180. $20.00. ISBN 1-930972-16-4.
    Reviewed by Jamey Findling.

  • 2005.08.20:  Angelos Chaniotis, War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xxiv, 308. $27.95. ISBN 0-631-22608-7.
    Reviewed by Michael P. Fronda.

  • 2005.08.21:  Timothy Johnson, Symposion of Praise. Horace Returns to Lyric in Odes IV. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison, WI: 2004. Pp. xxi, 320. $45.00. ISBN 0-299-20740-4.
    Reviewed by V. A. Moul.

  • 2005.08.22:  Robin Osborne, Greek History. London and New York: 2004. Pp. x, 175. $84.95 (hb). ISBN 0-415-31717-7.
    Reviewed by Robert W. Wallace.

  • 2005.08.23:  Nassos Papalexandrou, The Visual Poetics of Power. Warriors, Youths, and Tripods in Early Greece. Series 'Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches'. Lanham, MD: 2005. Pp. 293. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7391-0734-8.
    Reviewed by M. Wilson Jones.

  • 2005.08.24:  M. Zimmerman, et al., Apuleius Madaurensis. Metamorphoses, Book IV 28-35, V and VI 1-24. The Tale of Cupid and Psyche. Text, Introduction and Commentary. Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius. Groningen: 2004. Pp. 596. €110.00. ISBN 90-6980-146-9.
    Reviewed by Donald Lateiner.

  • 2005.08.25:  Yasmin Syed, Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self. Subject and Nation in Literary Discourse. Ann Arbor: 2005. Pp. 277. $65.00. ISBN 0-472-11432-8.
    Reviewed by Dunstan Lowe.

  • 2005.08.26:  Aloïs Riegl, Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts. Originally published as Historische Grammatik der bildenden Künste (1966). Translated by Jacqueline E. Jung. New York: 2004. Pp. 474. $36.95. ISBN 1-890951-45-5.
    Reviewed by Vladimir Baranov.

  • 2005.08.27:  Moleas on Hinge on Moleas.
    Response by Wendy Moleas.

  • 2005.08.28:  Alcock on Knust on Krueger.
    Response by A. Alcock.

  • 2005.08.29:  Brennan on Brennan on Rowlings.
    Response by Tad Brennan.

  • 2005.08.30:  Rolf Hurschmann, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Deutschland, Band 76, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Skulpturensammlung, Band 1. Munich: 2003. Pp. 96; pls. 54, figs. 19. €88.00. ISBN 3-406-51718-8.
    Reviewed by Michael Turner.

  • 2005.08.31:  Wolfgang Kullmann, Realität, Imagination und Theorie. Kleine Schriften zu Epos und Tragödie in der Antike. Edited by Antonios Rengakos. Stuttgart: 2002. Pp. 320. € 68.00. ISBN 3-515-08184-4.
    Reviewed by Jonathan S. Burgess.

  • 2005.08.32:  Donatella Mazzoleni, Umberto Pappalardo, Domus: Wall Painting in the Roman House. Los Angeles: 2005. Pp. 384; color ills. 350, folsdouts 3. $150.00. ISBN 0-89236-766-0.
    Reviewed by John R. Clarke.

  • 2005.08.33:  ALSO SEEN: Gillian Clark, Augustine: The Confessions.
    Philip Freeman.

  • 2005.08.34:  ALSO SEEN: Renato Oniga, Il Latino: Breve introduzione linguistica.
    Brent Vine.

  • 2005.08.35:  Frank L. Holt, Into the Land of Bones. Alexander the Great in Afghanistan. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. xii, 241. $24.95. ISBN 0-520-24553-9.
    Reviewed by Jona Lendering.

  • 2005.08.36:  Roger D. Woodard, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xx, 1162; maps 5. $170.00. ISBN 0-521-56256-2.
    Reviewed by Joshua T. Katz.

  • 2005.08.37:  F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. CD-Rom Edition. Leiden: 2004. €1,500.00. ISBN 90-04-14137-5.
    Reviewed by John Marincola.

  • 2005.08.38:  Debra Hawhee, Bodily Arts. Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece. Austin, TX: 2005. Pp. 256; ills. 24. $40.00. ISBN 0-292-70584-0.
    Joseph Roisman, The Rhetoric of Manhood. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. 283. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-24192-4.
    Reviewed by Victor Bers.

  • 2005.08.39:  François Queyrel, L'Autel de Pergame. Images et pouvoir en Grèce d'Asie. Antiqua vol. 9. Paris: 2005. Pp. 207; color pls. 21, figs. 159, maps 2. €55.00. ISBN 2-7084-0734-1.
    Reviewed by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway.

  • 2005.08.40:  G. Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome. From Prehistory to the First Punic War. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. xvi, 400. $45.00. ISBN 0-520-22651-8.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2005.08.41:  Archer St. Clair, Carving as Craft: Palatine East and the Greco-Roman Bone and Ivory Carving Tradition. Baltimore: 2003. Pp. xii, 228; ills. 15, figs. 47, pls. 58. $89.95. ISBN 0-8018-7261-8.
    Reviewed by Kenneth Lapatin.

  • 2005.08.42:  Michael Chase, Simplicius. On Aristotle's Categories 1-4. . Ithaca: 2003. Pp. 192. $69.95. ISBN 0-8014-4101-3.
    Reviewed by Scott Rubarth.

  • 2005.08.43:  Ivan Christov, Rhizai. A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science. Vols. I.1 (2004), I.2 (2004), II.1 (2005). Sofia, Bulgaria: 2004-2005. ISBN ISSN 1312-3963.
    Reviewed by David Sedley.

  • 2005.08.44:  Friederike Berger, Die Textgeschichte der Historia animalium des Aristoteles. Serta Graeca 21. Wiesbaden: 2005. Pp. ix, 242; pls. 19. €88.00. ISBN 3-89500-439-1.
    Reviewed by N.G. Wilson.

  • 2005.08.45:  Libronix Digital Library System, H.G. Liddell and R. Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon (rev. H.S. Jones and R. McKenzie, rev. supp. by P.G.W. Glare) Oxford 1996. Bellingham: 2003. $145.00.
    Wilhelm Pape, Electronic Edition of Griechisch-Deutsch: Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache, 3te Auflage (1914). Berlin: 2005. €45.00. ISBN 3-89853-517-7.
    Reviewed by Gerald Verbrugghe.

  • 2005.09.01:  BMCR Books Received (August).


  • 2005.09.02:  T. P. Wiseman, The Myths of Rome. Exeter: 2004. Pp. xxii, 389. £50.00. ISBN 0-85989-703-6.
    Reviewed by Peter Keegan.

  • 2005.09.03:  Andrew S. Jacobs, Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity. Stanford: 2004. Pp. 264. $55.00. ISBN 0-8047-4705-9.
    Reviewed by Matthew Kraus.

  • 2005.09.04:  Inge Nielsen, Cultic Theatres and Ritual Drama: A Study in Regional Development and Religious Interchange Between East and West in Antiquity. Aarhus: 2002. Pp. 395. $59.95. ISBN 87-7288-879-2.
    Reviewed by Rabun Taylor.

  • 2005.09.05:  Elaine Fantham, The Roman World of Cicero's De Oratore. Oxford: 2004. Pp. x, 354. $120.00. ISBN 0-19-926315-9.
    Reviewed by James E. G. Zetzel.

  • 2005.09.06:  ALSO SEEN: Roger Wright, A Sociophilological Study of Late Latin. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 10.
    James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2005.09.07:  Foster on Verbrugghe on e-LSJ.
    Response by Daniel Foster.

  • 2005.09.08:  Daryl Hine, Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns. Chicago: 2005. Pp. 220. $35.00. ISBN 0-226-32965-8.
    Reviewed by Sarah K. Torrence.

  • 2005.09.09:  Timothy Hill, Ambitiosa Mors. Suicide and Self in Roman Thought and Literature. New York and London: 2004. Pp. 335. $80.00. ISBN 0-415-97097-0.
    Reviewed by Anton J.L. van Hooff.

  • 2005.09.10:  Vyacheslav Tsypine, Sergey Lebedev, Vassily Lebedev, Antiquarium 2.0. A search engine for the TLG #E and PHI 5/7 CD-ROMs. : . $200.00 (individual).
    Reviewed by Monica Berti & Virgilio Costa.

  • 2005.09.11:  Nino Marinone, Cronologia Ciceroniana. Seconda edizione aggiornata e corretta con nuova versione interattiva in cd-rom, a cura di Ermanno Malaspina. Bologna: 2004. Pp. 518. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 88-555-2773-8.
    Reviewed by Walter Englert.

  • 2005.09.12:  Ortwin Knorr, Verborgene Kunst. Argumentationsstruktur und Buchaufbau in den Satiren des Horaz. Hildesheim: 2004. Pp. 277. €34.80. ISBN 3-487-12539-0.
    Reviewed by Fritz Felgentreu.

  • 2005.09.13:  Anthony T. Edwards, Hesiod's Ascra. Berkeley: 2004. Pp. 208. $45.00. ISBN 0-520-23658-0.
    Reviewed by Timothy Howe.

  • 2005.09.14:  Giovannangelo Camporeale, The Etruscans Outside Etruria. Los Angeles: 2004. Pp. 317; ills. 240. $49.95. ISBN 0-89236-767-9.
    Reviewed by Vincent Jolivet.

  • 2005.09.15:  Berislav Brckovic, Odysseus' Ithaca. Zagreb: 2004. Pp. 145. ISBN 9536060183.
    Reviewed by Masa Culumovic.

  • 2005.09.16:  M. Patillon, Anonyme de Séguier. Art du discours politique. Paris: 2005. Pp. xcxi, 150 (pp. 1-61 double). €47.00. ISBN 2-251-00526-9.
    Reviewed by Malcolm Heath.

  • 2005.09.17:  Alain Bresson, Anne-Marie Cocula, Christophe Pébarthe, L'écriture publique du pouvoir. Études 10. Paris: 2005. Pp. 219. €40.00. ISBN 2-910023-49-4.
    Reviewed by Bjorn Paarmann.

  • 2005.09.18:  Frans de Haas, Jaap Mansfeld, Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption, Book I. Symposium Aristotelicum. Oxford: 2004. Pp. x, 326. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-924292-5.
    Reviewed by Vincent Renzi.

  • 2005.09.19:  José María Candau Morón, Francisco Javier González Ponce, Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti, Historia y mito. El pasado legendario como fuente de autoridad. Actas del Simposio Internacional celebrado en Sevilla, Valverde del Camino y Huelva entre el 22 y el 25 de abril de 2003. Málaga: 2004. Pp. 517. €20.28. ISBN 84-7785-625-7.
    Reviewed by Angel Ruiz.

  • 2005.09.20:  Alan Cameron, Greek Mythography in the Roman World. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xvi, 346. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-517121-7.
    Reviewed by Stephen M. Trzaskoma.

  • 2005.09.21:  Charles Martindale, Latin Poetry and the Judgment of Taste. An Essay in Aesthetics. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 265. $90.00. ISBN 0-19-924040-X.
    Reviewed by Zara M. Torlone.

  • 2005.09.22:  Antonella Borgo, Retorica e poetica nei proemi di Marziale. Napoli: 2003. Pp. 134. €15.00. ISBN 88-7564-025-4.
    Reviewed by Craig Williams.

  • 2005.09.23:  Erasmo on Cowan on Erasmo.
    Response by Mario Erasmo.

  • 2005.09.24:  Worthington on Marincola on Jacoby's FGrH.
    Response by Ian Worthington.

  • 2005.09.25:  Jacco Dieleman, Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual (100-300 CE). Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 153. Leiden: 2005. Pp. xiv, 342. €65.00. ISBN 90-04-14185-5.
    Reviewed by Lynn LiDonnici.

  • 2005.09.26:  Eva Cantarella, Scritti in ricordo di Barbara Bonfiglio. Milano: 2004. Pp. xi, 418. €32.00. ISBN 88-14-10778-5.
    Reviewed by Francesca Reduzzi Merola and Aglaia McClintock.

  • 2005.09.27:  Raymond Schoder, Vincent Horrigan, A Reading Course in Homeric Greek. Book 1, revised with additional material by Leslie Collins Edwards. Newburyport, MA: 2004. Pp. xiv, 434. $39.95. ISBN 1-58510-175-3.
    Reviewed by Panos Seranis.

  • 2005.09.28:  Georg Gerster, The Past from Above: Aerial Photographs of Archaeological Sites. Los Angeles: 2005. Pp. 416; ills. 516. $65.00. ISBN 0-89236-817-9.
    Reviewed by Paul Christesen.

  • 2005.09.29:  Margherita Catucci, Lorena Jannelli, Lucia Sanesi Mastrocinque, Il deposito dall'Acropoli di Cuma, Corpus delle stipi votive in Italia XVI. Archaeologica 138. Rome: 2002. Pp. 124; pls. 28. €180.00. ISBN 88-7689-202-8.
    Reviewed by Ingrid Edlund-Berry.

  • 2005.09.30:  Maria Pia Pattoni, Longo Sofista, Dafni e