Reviews for 2006

  • 2006.01.01:  Gillian Clark, Christianity and Roman Society. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xii, 137. $75.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-63310-9.
    Reviewed by Gregory S. Bucher.

  • 2006.01.02:  Helen Rhee, Early Christian Literature. Christ and Culture in the Second and Third Centuries. London: 2005. Pp. xiii, 266. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-35488-9.
    Reviewed by M. J. Edwards.

  • 2006.01.03:  Ludwig Bernays, Ars poetica. Studien zu formalen Aspekten der antiken Dichtung. Prismata. Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, IX. Frankfurt am Main: 2000. Pp. 237. DM79.00. ISBN 3-631-34685-9.
    Reviewed by Georg, The Graf v. Gries.

  • 2006.01.04:  Eric Shanower, Age of Bronze. Vol. 2: Sacrifice. Orange, CA: 2004. Pp. 223. $29.95. ISBN 1-58240-360-4.
    Reviewed by Karl M. Petruso.

  • 2006.01.05:  Colin Austin, S. Douglas Olson, Aristophanes. Thesmophoriazusae. Oxford: 2004. Pp. cviii, 363. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-926527-5.
    Reviewed by Ian C. Storey.

  • 2006.01.06:  Editorial Note.
    Editorial note by Richard Hamilton and James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2006.01.07:  Dyck on Moreschini on Dyck on Moreschini.
    Response by Andrew R. Dyck.

  • 2006.01.08:  Glenn W. Most, Doubting Thomas. Cambridge, MA: 2005. Pp. 267. $27.95. ISBN 0-674-01914-8.
    Reviewed by Philipp Brandenburg.

  • 2006.01.09:  Luc Brisson, Jean-François Pradeau, Plotin. Traités 27-29. GF Flammarion. Paris: 2005. Pp. 299. €10.60 (pb). ISBN 2-08-071203-9.
    Reviewed by Eugene V. Afonasin and Igor V. Berestov.

  • 2006.01.10:  Barbara Nevling Porter, Ritual and Politics in Ancient Mesopotamia. American Oriental Series 38. New Haven, CT: 2005. Pp. 120. $42.00. ISBN 0-940490-19-6.
    Reviewed by Mehmet-Ali Ataç.

  • 2006.01.11:  Claude Mossé, Alexander: Destiny and Myth. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Baltimore: 2004. Pp. 256. $58.00 (hb). ISBN 0-8018-7995-7.
    Reviewed by Evangelia Anagnostou-Laoutides.

  • 2006.01.12:  I. Sluiter, R. M. Rosen, Free Speech in Classical Antiquity. Mnemosyne, Suppl. 254. Leiden: 2004. Pp. xii, 450. €120.00. ISBN 90-04-13925-7.
    Reviewed by Lucio Bertelli.

  • 2006.01.13:  A. Keaveney, Sulla: The Last Republican. Second edition. London and New York: 2005. Pp. xi, 233. $29.95. ISBN 0-415-33661-9.
    Reviewed by Michael B. Charles.

  • 2006.01.14:  Jean MacIntosh Turfa, Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia: 2005. Pp. 360; ills. 500, pls. 36, tables 6, maps. $59.95. ISBN 1-931707-52-9.
    Reviewed by Ross H. Cowan.

  • 2006.01.15:  Michael Peachin, Frontinus and the curae of the curator aquarum. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien, Bd. 39. Stuttgart: 2004. Pp. ix, 197. €39.00. ISBN 3-515-08638-6.
    Reviewed by Cynthia Damon.

  • 2006.01.16:  Stephan Schmal, Tacitus. Studienbücher Antike, Band 14. Hildesheim: 2005. Pp. 240. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 3-487-12884-5.
    Reviewed by Rebecca Edwards.

  • 2006.01.17:  Davide Susanetti, Favole antiche: Mito greco e tradizione letteraria europea. Rome: 2005. Pp. 291. €19.80. ISBN 88-430-3327-1.
    Reviewed by Maria Stadter Fox.

  • 2006.01.18:  John J. O'Keefe, R. R. Reno, Sanctified Vision: An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible. Baltimore: 2005. Pp. xii, 156. $16.95. ISBN 0-8018-8088-2.
    Reviewed by Richard J. Goodrich.

  • 2006.01.19:  Andrea Follak, Der "Aufblick zur Idee". Eine vergleichende Studie zur Platonischen Pädagogik bei Friedrich Schleiermacher, Paul Natorp und Werner Jaeger. Göttingen: 2005. Pp. 147. €39.90. ISBN 3-525-30149-9.
    Reviewed by Constanze Güthenke.

  • 2006.01.20:  Elisabeth Meier Tetlow, Women, Crime, and Punishment in Ancient Law and Society. Vol. 2. Ancient Greece. New York and London: 2005. Pp. xiv, 353: ills. 36, maps 2. $35.00. ISBN 0-8264-1629-2.
    Reviewed by Virginia J. Hunter.

  • 2006.01.21:  Anthony J. Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt. Ancient World at War Series. Malden, MA: 2005. Pp. 291. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-1372-3.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig.

  • 2006.01.22:  Tobias Fischer-Hansen, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek fasc. 1, Denmark fasc. 10. Copenhagen: 2004. Pp. 165; figs. 36; profile drawings 82; color pls. 7, b/w pls. 132. DKK 625.00/€83.22. ISBN 87-7452-272-8.
    Reviewed by Jenifer Neils.

  • 2006.01.23:  Maria Teresa Sblendorio Cugusi, L'uso stilistico dei composti nominali nei Carmina Latina Epigraphica. Quaderni di "Invigilata Lucernis", 25. Bari: 2005. Pp. 144. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7228-422-8.
    Reviewed by Evelyne Prioux.

  • 2006.01.24:  James E. G. Zetzel, Marginal Scholarship and Textual Deviance. The Commentum Cornuti and the Early Scholia on Persius. BICS, Supplement 84. London: 2005. Pp. xiv, 242; ills.. £45.00. ISBN 0-900587-96-2.
    Reviewed by Ulrich Schlegelmilch.

  • 2006.01.25:  Laurent Gourmelen, Kékrops, le Roi Serpent. Etudes Anciennes. Paris: 2005. Pp. 471. €39.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-32657-X.
    Reviewed by Maurizio Bettini.

  • 2006.01.26:  Federico Borca, Confrontarsi con l'Altro. I Romani e la Germania. Milano: 2004. Pp. 125. €14.00. ISBN 88-488-0318-0.
    Reviewed by Eva Valvo.

  • 2006.01.27:  Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, Gábor Zólyomi, The Literature of Ancient Sumer. Oxford: 2004. Pp. lxiv, 372. £63.00. ISBN 0-19-926311-6.
    Reviewed by Martin Worthington.

  • 2006.01.28:  Daniel I. Jacob, Zêtêmata logotechnikês theôrias stên Poiêtikê tou Aristotelê. Athens: 2004. Pp. 170.
    Reviewed by Vayos J. Liapis.

  • 2006.01.29:  Richard Dufour, Chrysippe. Oeuvre philosophique, 2 vols. Paris: 2004. Pp. lv, 688; 747. €71.00. ISBN 2-251-74203-4.
    Reviewed by Joachim Lukoschus.

  • 2006.01.30:  Birgitta L. Sjöberg, Asine and the Argolid in the Late Helladic III Period. A Socio-Economic Study. BAR International Series 1225. Oxford: 2004. Pp. vi, 157. £29.00 (pb). ISBN 1-84171-590-5.
    Reviewed by Patrick M. Thomas.

  • 2006.01.31:  Michael Share, Philoponus. Against Proclus's "On the Eternity of the World 1-5." The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Ithaca: 2005. Pp. ix, 154. $72.50. ISBN 0-8014-4214-1.
    Reviewed by Wayne J. Hankey.

  • 2006.01.32:  Loren J. Samons II, What's Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship. Berkeley: 2004. Pp. 307. $27.50. ISBN 0-520-23660-2.
    Reviewed by Mogens Herman Hansen.

  • 2006.01.33:  Gottskálk Jensson, The Recollections of Encolpius: The Satyrica of Petronius as Milesian Fiction. Ancient Narrative Supplementum 2. Groningen: 2004. Pp. xii, 327. €65.00. ISBN 90-807390-8-1.
    Reviewed by Anton Bitel.

  • 2006.01.34:  P. Habermehl, Perpetua und der Ägypter oder Bilder des Bösen im frühen afrikanischen Christentum. Second edition. Berlin: 2004. Pp. 341. €98.00. ISBN 3-11-018184-3.
    Reviewed by Jan N. Bremmer.

  • 2006.01.35:  A. Bencivenni, Progetti di riforme costituzionali nelle epigrafi greche dei secoli IV-II a.C. Bologna: 2003. Pp. 430. €40.00. ISBN 88-8478-053-5.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2006.01.36:  Simon Hornblower, Thucydides and Pindar. Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xv, 454. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-924919-9.
    Reviewed by Bruno Currie.

  • 2006.01.37:  Jon R. Stone, The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs, and Sayings. New York and London: 2005. Pp. xvii, 394. $85.00 (hb). ISBN 0-415-96908-5.
    Reviewed by Fred W. Jenkins.

  • 2006.01.38:  Claudia Rapp, Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 37. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. xii; 346. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-24296-3.
    Reviewed by William Klingshirn.

  • 2006.01.39:  V. Hunink, Tertullian, De Pallio. Amsterdam: 2005. Pp. 332. €68.00. ISBN 90-5063-439-7.
    Reviewed by Roland Mayer.

  • 2006.01.40:  B. Seidensticker, Über das Vergnügen an tragischen Gegenständen: Studien zum antiken Drama. Edited by J. Holzhausen. Munich and Leipzig: 2005. Pp. 454. €96.00. ISBN 3-598-73024-1.
    Reviewed by Ruth Scodel.

  • 2006.01.41:  David Sider, The Library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Los Angeles: 2005. Pp. 128. $40.00. ISBN 0-89236-799-7.
    Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk.

  • 2006.01.42:  Lukas de Blois, Jeroen Bons, Ton Kessels, Dirk M. Schenkeveld, The Statesman in Plutarch's Works, Volume II: The Statesman in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives. Mnemosyne Suppl. 250/II. Leiden: 2005. Pp. xx, 395. €99.00/$134.00. ISBN 90-04-13808-0.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2006.01.43:  Sarah Bassett, The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xxi, 291; b/w ills. 37. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-82723-X.
    Reviewed by Antony Eastmond.

  • 2006.01.44:  Monica Berti, Fra tirannide e democrazia. Ipparco figlio di Carmo e il destino dei Pisistratidi ad Atene. Fonti e Studi di Storia Antica, 8. Alessandria: 2004. Pp. 232. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7694-814-7.
    Reviewed by Minna Skafte Jensen.

  • 2006.01.45:  Jon Steffen Bruss, Hidden Presences. Monuments, Gravesites, and Corpses in Greek Funerary Epigram. Hellenistica Groningana X. Leuven: 2005. Pp. 201. €40.00. ISBN 90-429-1641-9.
    Reviewed by Yannick Durbec.

  • 2006.01.46:  Zetzel on Schlegelmilch on Zetzel, Marginal Scholarship and Textual Deviance.
    Response by James E. G. Zetzel.

  • 2006.01.47:  Jasper Gaunt, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain, fascicule 21. Harrow School. With the collaboration of Thomas Mannack. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xx, 65; figs. 4, pls. 56. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-726306-2.
    Reviewed by Mary B. Moore.

  • 2006.01.48:  Victoria Emma Pagán, Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History. Austin, TX: 2005. Pp. 208. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-70561-1.
    Reviewed by Debra L. Nousek.

  • 2006.01.49:  Giuseppe Squillace, Basileis ê tyrannoi: Filippo II e Alessandro Magno tra opposizione e consenso. Società Antiche, 6. Soveria Mannelli: 2004. Pp. 234; ills. 7. €13.00 (pb). ISBN 88-498-0892-5.
    Reviewed by Jacek Rzepka.

  • 2006.01.50:  Douglas R. Edwards, Religion and Society in Roman Palestine. Old Questions, New Approaches. London/New York: 2004. Pp. 194. $87.50. ISBN 0-415-30597-7.
    Reviewed by Susan Sorek.

  • 2006.01.51:  S. Montiglio, Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture. Chicago: 2005. Pp. 288. $50.00. ISBN 0-226-53497-9.
    Reviewed by Isabelle Torrance.

  • 2006.01.52:  Frank J. Frost, Politics and the Athenians. Essays on Athenian History and Historiography. Campbellvile, ON: 2005. Pp. 302. $55.00. ISBN 0-88866-650-0.
    Reviewed by James Allan Evans.

  • 2006.01.53:  Mary Beagon, The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal. Natural History Book 7. Translation with introduction and historical commentary. Clarendon Ancient History Series. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 544. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-927701-X.
    Reviewed by Donald Lateiner.

  • 2006.02.01:  Sean Alexander Gurd, Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology. Ithaca: 2005. Pp. 188. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-4329-6.
    Reviewed by Robin Mitchell-Boyask.

  • 2006.02.02:  A. Boschi, A. Bozzato, I greci al cinema. Dal peplum 'd'autore' alla grafica computerizzata. Bologna: 2005. Pp. 110. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 88-86909-73-X.
    Reviewed by James J. Clauss.

  • 2006.02.03:  S. Edmunds, P. Jones, G. Nagy, Text & Textile: An Introduction to Wool-Working for Readers of Greek and Latin. New Brunswick, NJ: 2004. $30.00. ISBN 0-9759617-0-5.
    Reviewed by Kevin F. Daly.

  • 2006.02.04:  Charlotte Schubert, Der hippokratische Eid. Medizin und Ethik von der Antike bis heute. Berlin: 2005. Pp. 122. €34.90. ISBN 3-534-18770-9.
    Reviewed by Pedro de Blas.

  • 2006.02.05:  Marguerite Johnson, Terry Ryan, Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature. A Sourcebook. London and New York: 2005. Pp. xxvi, 244. $75.00 (hb). ISBN 0-415-17330-2.
    Reviewed by Mark Golden.

  • 2006.02.06:  Alan Dundes, Folklore: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. Four volumes. London and New York: 2005. Pp. xxvi, 352; ix, 279; viii, 350; xi, 506. $865.00. ISBN 0-415-31662-6.
    Reviewed by William Hansen.

  • 2006.02.07:  BMCR Books Received (January).


  • 2006.02.08:  F. Bessone, E. Malaspina, Politica e cultura in Roma antica. Atti dell'incontro di studio in ricordo di Italo Lana, Torino 16-17 ottobre 2003. Bologna: 2005. Pp. 171. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 88-555-2828-9.
    Reviewed by Matthew Leigh.

  • 2006.02.09:  Josiah Ober, Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going on Together. Princeton: 2005. Pp. 273. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-12095-1.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Meilaender.

  • 2006.02.10:  Helena Dettmer, Marcia Lindgren, Workbook to Accompany the Second Edition of Donald M. Ayers's English Words from Latin and Greek Elements. Tucson: 2005. Pp. 269. $15.95. ISBN 0-8165-2318-5.
    Reviewed by Teresa R. Ramsby.

  • 2006.02.11:  Fergus Millar, Rome, the Greek World, and the East. Vol. 2: Government, Society & Culture in the Roman Empire. Edited by Hannah M. Cotton & Guy M. Rogers. Chapel Hill: 2004. Pp. 470. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8078-5520-0.
    Reviewed by Susan Sorek.

  • 2006.02.12:  Deborah Levine Gera, Ancient Greek Ideas on Speech, Language and Civilization. Oxford: 2003. Pp. 272. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-925616-0.
    Reviewed by Andrew L. Ford.

  • 2006.02.13:  Klaus Döring, [Plato]. Theages. Übersetzung und Kommentar. Platon, Werke, Band V 1. Göttingen: 2004. Pp. 93. €29.90. ISBN 3-525-30416-1.
    Reviewed by Harold Tarrant.

  • 2006.02.14:  J.E. Lendon, Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity. New Haven: 2005. Pp. xii, 468; ills., maps. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-10663-7.
    Reviewed by Barry Strauss.

  • 2006.02.15:  Gavrilov et al. on Ivantchik on Dickey on Gavrilov et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Regni Bosporani: Album Imaginum.
    Response by Alexander Gavrilov, Natalia Pavlichenko, Denis Keyer Bibliotheca Classica Petropolitana.

  • 2006.02.16:  Nigel James Nicholson, Aristocracy and Athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xiv, 280. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-84522-X.
    Reviewed by Jason Koenig.

  • 2006.02.17:  Werner Eck, Matthäus Heil, Senatores populi Romani. Realität und mediale Präsentation einer Führungsschicht. HABES, 40. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 329. €50.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08684-6.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2006.02.18:  François Jouan, Euripide. Tragédies, tome VIII, 2e partie: Rhésos. Paris: 2004. Pp. lxxx, 88. €35.00. ISBN 2-251-00519-6.
    Reviewed by Marco Fantuzzi.

  • 2006.02.19:  Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Third electronic edition. Munich: 2005. €1,050.00. ISBN 3-598-40772-6 (CD-ROM).
    Reviewed by Peter Heslin.

  • 2006.02.20:  Claire L. Lyons, John K. Papadopoulos, Lindsey S. Stewart, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Antiquity & Photography. Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites. Los Angeles: 2005. Pp. xiii, 229; ills. 130. $65.00. ISBN 0-89236-805-5.
    Reviewed by Michael M. Eisman.

  • 2006.02.21:  David J. Ladouceur, The Latin Psalter. Introduction, selected text and commentary. London: 2005. Pp. 126. €21.50. ISBN 1-85399-683-1.
    Reviewed by Vincent Hunink.

  • 2006.02.22:  Jill Frank, A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics. Chicago: 2005. Pp. 199. $19.00 (pb). ISBN 0-226-26019-4.
    Reviewed by Susan Lape.

  • 2006.02.23:  Diana Wood Conroy, The Fabric of the Ancient Theatre: Excavation Journals from Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean. Lefkosia, Cyprus: 2004. Pp. xiii, 394. $56.00. ISBN 9963-642-14-4.
    Reviewed by Daniel M. Millette.

  • 2006.02.24:  Gaspard Fossati, Aya Sofia Constantinople. CD-Rom. Oakland, CA: 2005. $30.00. ISBN 1-891-788-34-5.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2006.02.25:  Lisa Piazzi, Lucrezio e i Presocratici. Un commento a De rerum natura 1, 635-920. Testi e Commenti 1. Pisa: 2005. Pp. 322. €40.00. ISBN 88-7642-151-3.
    Reviewed by Piet H. Schrijvers.

  • 2006.02.26:  Richard Hingley, Globalizing Roman Culture: Unity, Diversity and Empire. London and New York: 2005. Pp. xiii, 208. $29.95. ISBN 0-415-35176-6.
    Reviewed by Eric Adler.

  • 2006.02.27:  Pat Thane, A History of Old Age. London and Los Angeles: 2005. Pp. 320; color ills. 108, b/w ills. 123. $49.95. ISBN 0-89236-834-9.
    Reviewed by Marcus Sigismund.

  • 2006.02.28:  Sutton on O'Donnell on Gaspard Fossati, Aya Sofia Constantinople CD-Rom.
    Response by Dana F. Sutton.

  • 2006.02.29:  Genevieve Liveley, Ovid: Love Songs. London: 2005. Pp. 141. £10.99 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-670-X.
    Reviewed by D. Thomas Benediktson.

  • 2006.02.30:  Ilaria Ramelli, I Setti sapienti: vite e opinioni nell'edizione di Bruno Snell. Originally published as Leben und Meinungen der Sieben Weisen, 4th edition (1971). Milano: 2005. Pp. 264. €10.00 (pb). ISBN 88-452-3397-9.
    Reviewed by Andrew L. Ford.

  • 2006.02.31:  Denise Kimber Buell, Why This New Race: Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity. New York: 2005. Pp. 288. $45.00. ISBN 0-231-13334-0.
    Reviewed by Aaron P. Johnson.

  • 2006.02.32:  Yaron Z. Eliav, God's Mountain. The Temple Mount in Time, Place, and Memory. Baltimore: 2005. Pp. xxxvi, 353. $45.00. ISBN 0-8018-8213-3.
    Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst.

  • 2006.02.33:  Zeba A. Crook, Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche 130. Berlin/New York: 2004. Pp. 310. €88.00. ISBN 3-11-018265-3.
    Reviewed by Carolyn Osiek.

  • 2006.02.34:  Alain M. Gowing, Empire and Memory. The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xiv, 178. $70.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-83622-0.
    Reviewed by Sander M. Goldberg.

  • 2006.02.35:  Laura Nicotra, Archeologia al femminile. Il cammino delle donne nella disciplina archeologica attraverso le figure di otto archeologhe classiche vissute dalla metà dell'Ottocento ad oggi. Studia archaeologica, 129. Roma: 2004. Pp. 297. €160.00. ISBN 88-8265-284-X.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Colantoni.

  • 2006.02.36:  Stephan F. Schröder, Katalog der antiken Skulpturen des Museo del Prado in Madrid. Vol. 2: Idealplastik. Mainz am Rhein: 2004. Pp. xii, 537. €86.00. ISBN 3-8053-1758-1.
    Reviewed by Jens Daehner.

  • 2006.02.37:  Andrea Carandini, Emanuele Greco, Workshop di archeologia classica. Paesaggi, costruzioni, reperti. Annuario internazionale. 1 (2004). Pisa/Roma: 2004. Pp. 214. €50.00 (subscription, Italy, individuals). ISBN ISSN 1724-9120.
    Reviewed by Vincent Jolivet.

  • 2006.02.38:  Johan Henrik Schreiner, Two Battles and Two Bills: Marathon and the Athenian Fleet. The Norwegian Institute at Athens. Monographs, vol. 3. Oslo: 2004. Pp. viii, 159; map 1. SEK 250.00. ISBN 82-91626-30-8.
    Reviewed by John Buckler.

  • 2006.02.39:  Karl Gerhard Hempel, Die Nekropole von Tarent im 2. und 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Studien zur materiellen Kultur. With an Italian translation of the main text. Taranto: 2001. Pp. 314. €77.47 (pb). ISBN 88-8099-101-9.
    Reviewed by Deborah Chatr Aryamontri.

  • 2006.02.40:  J. M. Cook, R. V. Nichols, Old Smyrna Excavations: The Temples of Athena. With an Appendix by D. M. Pyle. Annual of the British School at Athens, Supplementary Volume No. 30. London: 1998. Pp. xxvii, 214; figs. 42, pls. 30; fold-out pls. 4. £55.00. ISBN 0-904887-28-6.
    Reviewed by Margaret M. Miles.

  • 2006.02.41:  Irad Malkin, Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity. London and New York: 2005. Pp. vi, 149; ills., maps, table. $105.00. ISBN 0-415-35635-0.
    Reviewed by Elias K. Petropoulos.

  • 2006.02.42:  William Cavanagh, Christopher Mee, Peter James, The Laconia Rural Sites Project. BSA Supplementary Volume 36. London: 2005. Pp. 366; figs. 233, tables 56. £49.00. ISBN 0-904887-47-2.
    Reviewed by Christopher L. Witmore.

  • 2006.02.43:  Robert Bagg, The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone, Introductions and Notes by Robert Bagg and Mary Bagg. Amherst and Boston: 2004. Pp. 304. $19.95. ISBN 1-55849-454-5.
    Reviewed by Andreas Markantonatos.

  • 2006.02.44:  Jonas Eiring, John Lund, Transport Amphorae and Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean. Acts of the International Colloquium at the Danish Institute at Athens, September 26-29, 2002. Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, 5. Athens: 2004. Pp. 539; ills. $59.95. ISBN 87-7934-118-7.
    Reviewed by Roald F. Docter.

  • 2006.02.45:  Paolo Esposito, Gli scolii a Lucano ed altra scoliastica Latina. Pisa: 2004. Pp. 203. €13.00. ISBN 88-467-1081-9.
    Reviewed by Vincent Hunink.

  • 2006.02.46:  Giancarlo Abbamonte, Ferruccio Conti Bizzarro, Luigi Spina, L'ultima parola. L'analisi dei testi: teorie e pratiche nell'antichità greca e latina. Napoli: 2004. Pp. 453. €39.00. ISBN 88-87375-82-8.
    Reviewed by Daniela Borrelli.

  • 2006.02.47:  Lucy Grig, Making Martyrs in Late Antiquity. London: 2004. Pp. xiii, 207. £45.00. ISBN 0-7156-3285-X.
    Reviewed by Johan Leemans.

  • 2006.02.48:  Barbara Goward, Aeschylus: Agamemnon. London: 2005. Pp. 160. £11.99. ISBN 0-7156-3385-6.
    Reviewed by Fiona McHardy.

  • 2006.02.49:  Marianne Pade, On Renaissance Commentaries. Noctes Neolatinae. Neo-Latin Texts and Studies, Band 4. Hildesheim: 2005. Pp. 139. €34,80. ISBN 3-487-12955-8.
    Reviewed by M. Skoie.

  • 2006.02.50:  Jean-Marie Salamito, Les virtuoses et la multitude. Aspects sociaux de la controverse entre Augustin et les pélagiens. Grenoble: 2005. Pp. 350. €29.00. ISBN 2-84137-168-9.
    Reviewed by Josef Lössl.

  • 2006.02.51:  José Guillermo Montes Cala, Manuel Sánchez Ortiz de Landaluce, Rafael Jesús Gallé Cejudo, Tomás Silva Sánchez, Studia Hellenistica Gaditana I: Teócrito, Arato, Argonáuticas órficas. Cádiz: 2003. Pp. 328. €12,00. ISBN 84-96274-21-7.
    Reviewed by Enrico Magnelli.

  • 2006.02.52:  Susan O. Shapiro, O tempora! O mores! Cicero's Catilinarian Orations. A student edition with historical essays. Norman, OK: 2005. Pp. 304; maps 4. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8061-3662-6.
    Reviewed by Jackie Elliott.

  • 2006.02.53:  Perez Zagorin, Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader. Princeton: 2005. Pp. xvi, 190. $24.95. ISBN 0-691-12351-9.
    Reviewed by James P. Holoka.

  • 2006.02.54:  Gary R. Grund, Humanist Comedies. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Cambridge, MA: 2005. Pp. xxx, 460. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01744-7.
    Reviewed by Diane Louise Johnson.

  • 2006.02.55:  Marguerite Yon, Kition dans les textes. Testimonia littéraires et épigraphiques et Corpus des inscriptions. Publications de la Mission Archéologique Française de Kition-Bamboula, V. Paris: 2004. Pp. 380. €44.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86538-292-3.
    Reviewed by Céline Marquaille.

  • 2006.02.56:  Leon Golden, Understanding the Iliad. Bloomington, IN: 2006. Pp. 184. $11.50. ISBN 1-4208-1351-X.
    Reviewed by Brett Robbins.

  • 2006.02.57:  A.J. Kleywegt, Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book 1: A Commentary. Leiden: 2005. Pp. 506. €159.00. ISBN 90-04-13924-9.
    Reviewed by Andrew Zissos.

  • 2006.02.58:  Harvey Yunis, Demosthenes, Speeches 18 and 19. The Oratory of Classical Greece, vol. 9. Austin, TX: 2005. Pp. xxix, 243. $45.00 (hb). ISBN 0-292-70577-8.
    Reviewed by Brad L. Cook.

  • 2006.02.59:  Philipp Brandenburg, Apollonios Dyskolos. Über das Pronomen. Einführung, Text, Übersetzung und Erläuterungen. BzA 222. München/Leipzig: 2005. Pp. 676. €120.00. ISBN 3-598-77834-1.
    Reviewed by Rolando Ferri.

  • 2006.02.60:  Tim Whitmarsh, Ancient Greek Literature. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. viii, 284. $25.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7456-2792-7.
    Reviewed by Lee T. Pearcy.

  • 2006.03.01:  Michael Paschalis, Roman and Greek Imperial Epic. Rethymnon Classical Studies 2. Rethymnon: 2005. Pp. ix, 195. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 960-524-203-6.
    Reviewed by Stephen Harrison.

  • 2006.03.02:  Ian Morris, Barry Powell, The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society. Upper Saddle River, NJ: 2005. Pp. 576. $52.20 (pb). ISBN 0-13-921156-X.
    Reviewed by Wilfred E. Major.

  • 2006.03.03:  Keith Hopkins, Mary Beard, The Colosseum. Cambridge, MA: 2005. Pp. vii, 214. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-01895-8.
    Reviewed by Alessandra Bravi.

  • 2006.03.04:  Sarah Ruden, Homeric Hymns. Indianopolis, IN: 2005. Pp. 104. $8.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-725-0.
    Reviewed by Roger S. Fisher.

  • 2006.03.05:  Karina Ukleja, Der Delos-Hymnus des Kallimachos innerhalb seines Hymnensextetts. Orbis antiquus, 39. Münster: 2005. Pp. vii, 353. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 3-402-05400-0.
    Reviewed by Massimo Giuseppetti.

  • 2006.03.06:  BMCR Books Received (February).


  • 2006.03.07:  Laurent Pernot, Rhetoric in Antiquity. Translated by W.E. Higgins. Washington, DC: 2005. Pp. xiv, 269. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8132-1407-6.
    Reviewed by Stefanie A.H. Kennell.

  • 2006.03.08:  A.F. Garvie, The Plays of Sophocles. London: 2005. Pp. 94. £10.99 (pb). ISBN 1-853-00680-7.
    Reviewed by Seth L. Schein.

  • 2006.03.09:  ALSO SEEN: The Royal Shakespeare Company, The War That Still Goes On.
    Neil Forsyth.

  • 2006.03.10:  D. Sedley, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Volume XXVI, Summer 2004. Oxford: 2004. Pp. viii, 380. £21.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-927250-6.
    Reviewed by G.S. Bowe and J.D. Cowley.

  • 2006.03.11:  Sophia Papaioannou, Epic Succession and Dissension. Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623-14.582 and the Reinvention of the Aeneid. Berlin: 2005. Pp. 218. $84.00. ISBN 3-11-018326-9.
    Reviewed by Christopher Francese.

  • 2006.03.12:  Michael Maas, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 626. $34.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-81746-3.
    Reviewed by Mischa Meier.

  • 2006.03.13:  Jennifer Wright Knust, Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity. Gender, Theory, and Religion Series. New York: 2006. Pp. ix, 279. $45.00. ISBN 0-231-13662-5.
    Reviewed by David M. Reis.

  • 2006.03.14:  Rebecca Bushnell, A Companion to Tragedy. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Malden, MA: 2005. Pp. 556. $124.95. ISBN 1-4051-0735-9.
    Reviewed by Wm. Blake Tyrrell.

  • 2006.03.15:  Denis Feissel, Jean Gascou, La pétition à Byzance. Centre de Recherche d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, Monographies 14. Paris: 2004. Pp. 199. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 2-9519198-2-4.
    Reviewed by Raymond Van Dam.

  • 2006.03.16:  Sara Raup Johnson, Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context. Hellenistic Culture and Society, 43. Berkeley: 2004. Pp. 271. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-23307-7.
    Reviewed by Jed Wyrick.

  • 2006.03.17:  Rak on Fisher on Sarah Ruden (trans.), Homeric Hymns.
    Response by Brian Rak.

  • 2006.03.18:  Monica Gale, Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality. Swansea: 2004. Pp. 264. $69.50. ISBN 0-9543845-6-3.
    Reviewed by Andrew Fenton.

  • 2006.03.19:  Christopher H. Hallett, The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC-AD 300. Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Representation. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xxi, 391; figs. 12, pls. 160. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-924049-3.
    Reviewed by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway.

  • 2006.03.20:  Giancarlo Giardina, Properzio. Elegie. Edizione critica e traduzione. Roma: 2005. Pp. 418. €95.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8476-118-2.
    Reviewed by Frédéric Nau.

  • 2006.03.21:  Philippa Lang, Re-Inventions: Essays on Hellenistic and Early Roman Science. Apeiron 37.4. Kelowna, BC: 2004. Pp. vi, 135. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 0-920980-89-9.
    Reviewed by Paul T. Keyser.

  • 2006.03.22:  Benjamin Bennett, All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater. Ithaca: 2005. Pp. 241. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-4309-1.
    Reviewed by Rush Rehm.

  • 2006.03.23:  John G. Younger, Sex in the Ancient World: From A to Z. London and New York: 2005. Pp. 217; pls. 43. $79.00. ISBN 0-415-24252-5.
    Reviewed by Gina Salapata.

  • 2006.03.24:  Stephan T.A.M. Mols, Eric M. Moormann, Omni pede stare. Saggi architettonici e circumvesuviani in memoriam Jos de Waele. Studi della Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei 9. Naples: 2005. Pp. 344. €130.00. ISBN 88-510-0265-7.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2006.03.25:  Paolo Fedeli, Properzio: Elegie, Libro II. Introduzione, testo e commento. ARCA Classical Texts, Papers and Monographs 45. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 1070. £150.00/$300.00. ISBN 0-905205-42-1.
    Reviewed by J.L. Butrica.

  • 2006.03.26:  Bernhard Linke, Die römische Republik von den Gracchen bis Sulla. Darmstadt: 2005. Pp. x, 150. €14.90. ISBN 3-534-15498-3.
    Reviewed by Paul Erdkamp.

  • 2006.03.27:  Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre, Gordion Seals and Sealings: Individuals and Society. Gordion Special Studies III, University Museum Monograph 124. Philadelphia, PA: 2005. Pp. 208; ills. 237 (CD-Rom). $59.95. ISBN 1-9311707-82-0.
    Reviewed by Geoffrey D. Summers.

  • 2006.03.28:  Thomas Kazen, Jesus and Purity Halakhah: Was Jesus Indifferent to Impurity? Coniectanea Biblica New Testament Series 38. Stockholm: 2002. Pp. xii, 402. SEK182.00. ISBN 91-22-01964-2.
    Reviewed by Susan Haber.

  • 2006.03.29:  R.T. Wallinga, Xerxes' Greek Adventure: The Naval Perspective. Mnemosyne Supplement 265. Leiden: 2005. Pp. xiii, 174; maps 3, pl. 1. €99.00. ISBN 90-04-14140-5.
    Reviewed by David Potter.

  • 2006.03.30:  Girolamo Arnaldi, Italy and Its Invaders. Originally published as L'Italia e i suoi invasori (2002). Translated by Anthony Shugar. Cambridge, MA: 2005. Pp. 229. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-01870-2.
    Reviewed by John Lewis.

  • 2006.03.31:  Scott McGill, Virgil Recomposed. The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity. American Classical Studies, 48. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 260. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-517564-6.
    Reviewed by Giuseppe La Bua.

  • 2006.03.32:  Orazio Paoletti, Giovannangelo Camporeale, Dinamiche di sviluppo delle città nell'Etruria Meridionale: Veio, Caere, Tarquinia, Vulci. Atti del XXIII Convegno di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, Roma, Veio, Cerveteri/Pyrgi, Tarquinia, Tuscania, Vulci, Viterbo, 1-6 ottobre 2001. Two Volumes. Pisa and Rome: 2005. Pp. xii, 752; figs. 223, b/w pls. 107. €1160.00 (hb). ISBN 88-8147-376-3.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2006.03.33:  Olson on Storey on Austin-Olson, Aristophanes. Thesmophoriazusae.
    Response by S. Douglas Olson.

  • 2006.03.34:  I. Kantzios, The Trajectory of Archaic Greek Trimeters. Mnemosyne Supplement, 265. Leiden: 2005. Pp. 208. €112.00. ISBN 90-04-14536-2.
    Reviewed by Liana Lomiento.

  • 2006.03.35:  Bradley A. Ault, Lisa C. Nevett, Ancient Greek Houses and Households: Chronological, Regional, and Social Diversity. Philadelphia, PA: 2005. Pp. x, 190. $55.00. ISBN 0-8122-3875-3.
    Reviewed by Ruth Westgate.

  • 2006.03.36:  Norbert Kunisch, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Deutschland, fascicule 79, Bochum, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr Universität, Band 1. Munich: 2005. Pp. 76; figs. 27, Beilagen 17; pls. 59. €88.00. ISBN 3-406-53754-5.
    Reviewed by Mary B. Moore.

  • 2006.03.37:  Bernadette Simon, Nonnos de Panopolis, Les Dionysiaques. Tome XVI. Chants XLIV-XLVI. Paris: 2004. Pp. 262. €46.00. ISBN 2-251-00521-8.
    Claudia Greco, Nonno di Panopoli, Parafrasi del Vangelo di S. Giovanni. Canto tredicesimo. Alexandria: 2004. Pp. 176. €17.00. ISBN 88-7694-744-2.
    Gianfranco Agosti, Nonno di Panopoli, le Dionisiache (Canti XXV-XXXIX). Volume terzo. Introduzione, traduzione e commento. BUR Classici Greci e Latini. Milano: 2004. Pp. 898. €19.00. ISBN 88-17-00261-5.
    Domenico Accorinti, Nonno di Panopoli, le Dionisiache (Canti XL-XLVIII). Volume quarto. Introduzione, traduzione e commento. BUR Classici Greci e Latini. Milano: 2004. Pp. 758. €19.00. ISBN 88-17-00262-3.
    Reviewed by Robert Shorrock.

  • 2006.03.38:  Erika Kunze-Götte, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Deutschland fasc.78. München, Antikensammlungen Fascicule 14: Attisch-Schwarzfigurige Halsamphoren. Munich: 2005. Pp. 94; b/w pls. 49, profile drawings. ISBN 3-406-53203-9.
    Reviewed by Ann Steiner.

  • 2006.03.39:  I. Ramelli, G. Lucchetta, Allegoria. Volume I. L'età classica. Introduzione e cura di R. Radice. Milan: 2004. Pp. 550. €45.00. ISBN 88-343-5007-3.
    Reviewed by Roberto Chiappiniello.

  • 2006.03.40:  Victor Davis Hanson, A War Like No Other. How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. New York: 2005. Pp. xviii. 397; maps. $29.95. ISBN 1-4000-6095-8.
    Reviewed by Stewart Flory.

  • 2006.03.41:  Marek Jan Olbrycht, Aleksander Wielki i swiat iranski [Alexander the Great and the Iranian World]. Rzeszow, Poland: 2004. Pp. 412. ISBN 83-7338-134-1.
    Reviewed by Tytus K. Mikolajczak.

  • 2006.03.42:  Josh Beer, Sophocles and the Tragedy of Athenian Democracy. Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies 105. Westport, CT: 2004. Pp. 190. $84.95. ISBN 0-313-28946-8.
    Reviewed by Judith Owen.

  • 2006.03.43:  Charikleia Armoni, James M.S. Cowey, Dieter Hagedorn, Die griechischen Ostraka der Heidelberger Papyrus-Sammlung. Veröffentlichungen aus der Heidelberger Papyrus-Sammlung, 11. Heidelberg: 2005. Pp. xxiii, 514. €98.00. ISBN 3-8253-5087-8.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2006.03.44:  Robert M. Berchman, Porphyry Against the Christians. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 1. Leiden: 2005. Pp. 243. €129.00. ISBN 90-04-14811-6.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2006.03.45:  Karen Piepenbrink, Christliche Identität und Assimilation in der Spätantike. Probleme des Christseins in der Reflexion der Zeitgenossen. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, 3. Frankfurt am Main: 2005. Pp. 432. €54.90. ISBN 3-938032-06-5.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2006.03.46:  Konrad Vössing, Biographie und Prosopographie. Internationales Kolloquium zum 65. Geburtstag von Anthony R. Birley. Historia Einzelschrift 178. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 146. €34.00. ISBN 3-515-08538-6.
    Reviewed by Olivier Hekster.

  • 2006.03.47:  Cristina Viano, L'Alchimie et ses racines philosophiques: La tradition grecque et la tradition arabe. Paris: 2005. Pp. 242. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7116-1754-8.
    Reviewed by Tzvi Langermann.

  • 2006.03.48:  Donatella Mazzoleni, Umberto Pappalardo, Luciano Romano, Pompejanische Wandmalerei. Architektur und illusionistische Dekoration. München: 2005. Pp. 415; color ills. 344, foldouts 3. €128.00. ISBN 3-7774-2445-5.
    Reviewed by Stephan T.A.M. Mols.

  • 2006.03.49:  Steven Fine, Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 267. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-84491-6.
    Reviewed by Tyler Jo Smith.

  • 2006.04.01:  BMCR Books Received (March).


  • 2006.04.02:  Hempel on Chatr Aryamontri on Hempel, Die Nekropole von Tarent im 2. und 1. Jh.v.Chr.
    Response by Karl Gerhard Hempel.

  • 2006.04.03:  Marilena Amerise, Il battesimo di Costantino il Grande. Storia di una scomoda eredità. Hermes Einzelschrift 95. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 177. €34.00. ISBN 3-515-08721-4.
    Reviewed by Jan Willem Drijvers.

  • 2006.04.04:  Andrew Bell, Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City. Oxford/New York: 2004. Pp. viii, 289. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-924234-8.
    Reviewed by Kathleen Coleman.

  • 2006.04.05:  Steven Fine, Art & Judaism in the Greco-Roman World. Toward a New Jewish Archaeology. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 267. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-84491-6.
    Reviewed by Jodi Magness.

  • 2006.04.06:  Klaus Bringmann, Geschichte der Juden im Altertum: Vom babylonischen Exil bis zur arabischen Eroberung. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 365. €32.00. ISBN 3-608-94138-X.
    Reviewed by Linda Zollschan.

  • 2006.04.07:  Hédi Slim, Pol Trousset, Roland Paskoff, Ameur Oueslati, Le littoral de la Tunisie: Étude géoarchéologique et historique. Études d'Antiquités africaines. Paris: 2004. Pp. 308. €49.00. ISBN 2-271-06260-8.
    Reviewed by David L. Stone.

  • 2006.04.08:  Hanna M. Roisman, Sophocles: Philoctetes. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: 2005. Pp. 159. $22.00. ISBN 0-7156-3384-8.
    Reviewed by Ian C. Storey.

  • 2006.04.09:  Michael Lloyd, Sophocles: Electra. London: 2005. Pp. 160. £11.99. ISBN 0-7156-3303-1.
    Reviewed by David Fitzpatrick.

  • 2006.04.10:  S. Iles Johnston, P.T. Struck, Mantikê. Studies in Ancient Divination. Leiden: 2005. Pp. 322. €94.00. ISBN 90-04-14497-8.
    Reviewed by Alex Nice.

  • 2006.04.11:  Richard Kraut, Steven Skultety, Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays. Lanham, MD: 2005. Pp. xvi, 256. $75.00 (hb). ISBN 0-7425-3423-5.
    Reviewed by Thomas W. Smith.

  • 2006.04.12:  Arthur Golding, Ovid's Metamorphoses. A Selection. Edited with an Introduction by Peter Scupham. Manchester: 2005. Pp. 156. £9.95. ISBN 1-85754-776-4.
    Reviewed by Kris Fletcher.

  • 2006.04.13:  Olivier Callot, Salamine de Chypre XVI: Les Monnaies. Fouilles de la ville 1964-1974. Mission Archéologique de Salamine de Chypre. Paris: 2004. Pp. 219. €45.00. ISBN 2-903264-95-3.
    Reviewed by Jörg Starck.

  • 2006.04.14:  Julia Valeva, The Painted Coffers of the Ostrusha Tomb. Sofia, Bulgaria: 2005. Pp. 200; color pls. 18, b/w figs. 140. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 954-406-127-4.
    Reviewed by Stella Miller-Collett.

  • 2006.04.15:  Orestis Karavas, Lucien et la tragédie. Berlin and New York: 2005. Pp. 374. €98.00. ISBN 3-11-018493-1.
    Reviewed by Johanna Hanink.

  • 2006.04.16:  Peter Green, The Poems of Catullus. A bilingual edition. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. 339. $24.95. ISBN 0-520-24264-5.
    Reviewed by Antonio Ramírez de Verger and Jan J. Zoltwoski.

  • 2006.04.17:  Peter Manchester, The Syntax of Time. The Phenomenology of Time in Greek Physics and Speculative Logic from Iamblichus to Anaximander. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 2. Leiden: 2005. Pp. 179. €99.00. ISBN 90-04-14712-8.
    Reviewed by Eugene V. Afonasin.

  • 2006.04.18:  B. M. Lavelle, Fame, Money, and Power: The Rise of Peisistratos and "Democratic" Tyranny at Athens. Ann Arbor: 2004. Pp. xiv, 370; map 1, figs. 10. $65.00. ISBN 0-472-11424-7.
    Reviewed by Greg Anderson.

  • 2006.04.19:  Stephen Harrison, A Companion to Latin Literature. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xviii, 450. $99.95. ISBN 0-631-23529-9.
    Reviewed by Erik Hamer.

  • 2006.04.20:  Edward Champlin, Nero. First published in 2003. Paperback edition. Cambridge, MA: 2005. Pp. 346; ills. 5, maps 5. $17.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01822-2.
    Reviewed by Paul Roche.

  • 2006.04.21:  Carlo Natali, Stefano Maso, La catena delle cause. Determinismo e antideterminismo nel pensiero antico e in quello contemporaneo. Amsterdam: 2005. Pp. 421. €108.00. ISBN 90-256-1200-8.
    Reviewed by James Warren.

  • 2006.04.22:  John W. Stamper, The Architecture of Roman Temples: The Republic to the Middle Empire. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xv, 287. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-81068-X.
    Reviewed by Mantha Zarmakoupi.

  • 2006.04.23:  Prudence J. Jones, Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture. Lanham, MD: 2005. Pp. xiv, 123. $60.00 (hb). ISBN 0-7391-1108-6.
    Reviewed by Brian Campbell.

  • 2006.04.24:  Bonnie A. Catto, Latina Mythica. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. xiv, 201. $24.00. ISBN 0-86516-599-8.
    Reviewed by Tracy Deline.

  • 2006.04.25:  Carolyn Dewald, Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. 258. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-24127-4.
    Reviewed by Tim Rood.

  • 2006.04.26:  Anne Mahoney, Morice's Stories in Attic Greek. Newburyport, MA: 2005. Pp. 204. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58510-189-3.
    Reviewed by Bret Mulligan.

  • 2006.04.27:  Geoffrey Thorndike Martin, Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge, c. 3000 BC- AD 1150. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 202. $190.00. ISBN 0-521-84290-5.
    Reviewed by Monica M. Bontty.

  • 2006.04.28:  Karanasiou on Mahoney on Argyri G. Karanasiou, Die Rezeption der lyrischen Partien der attischen Tragödie in der griechischen Literatur.
    Response by Argyri G. Karanasiou.

  • 2006.04.29:  Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola, Richard J.A. Talbert, The Romans from Village to Empire. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xxvii, 516. $39.00. ISBN 0-19-511876-6.
    Reviewed by Debra L. Nousek.

  • 2006.04.30:  Thomas McCarthy, Nunc Loquâmur: Guided Conversations for Latin. Newburyport, MA: 2005. Pp. 72. $14.95. ISBN 1-58510-186-9.
    Reviewed by Akihiko Watanabe.

  • 2006.04.31:  J. den Boeft, J.W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst, H.C. Teitler, Philological and Historical Commentary of Ammianus Marcellinus XXV. Leiden: 2005. Pp. xxv, 415. $150.00. ISBN 90-04-14214-2.
    Reviewed by Michael Kulikowski.

  • 2006.04.32:  C.A.J. Littlewood, Self-Representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy. Oxford: 2004. Pp. vi, 331. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-926761-8.
    Reviewed by Alessandro Schiesaro.

  • 2006.04.33:  ALSO SEEN: Leofranc Holford-Strevens, The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions, 133.
    Graham Shipley.

  • 2006.04.34:  Thomas Habinek, The World of Roman Song: From Ritualized Speech to Social Order. Baltimore: 2005. Pp. 329. $52.00. ISBN 0-8018-8105-6.
    Reviewed by Michèle Lowrie.

  • 2006.04.35:  Colin Sydenham, Horace: The Odes. New verse translation with facing Latin text and notes. London: 2004. Pp. xii, 287. £16.99. ISBN 0-7156-3431-3.
    Reviewed by V. A. Moul.

  • 2006.04.36:  Christopher Stray, The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906. Reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway, and Arthur Verrall. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 172. $54.00. ISBN 0-906014-27-1.
    Reviewed by Pär Sandin.

  • 2006.04.37:  Christopher L.H. Barnes, Images and Insults: Ancient Historiography and the Outbreak of the Tarentine War. Historia Einzelschrift, 187. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 168. €34.00. ISBN 3-515-08689-7.
    Reviewed by Michael P. Fronda.

  • 2006.04.38:  Lee T. Pearcy, The Grammar of Our Civility: Classical Education in America. Waco, TX: 2005. Pp. xii, 184. $24.95. ISBN 1-932792-16-3.
    Reviewed by David M. Pollio.

  • 2006.05.01:  BMCR Books Received (April).


  • 2006.05.02:  Giancarlo Giardina, Properzio. Elegie. Edizione critica e traduzione. Roma: 2005. Pp. 418. €95.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8476-118-2.
    Reviewed by Frédéric Nau.

  • 2006.05.03:  Magdalene Stoevesandt, Feinde - Gegner - Opfer. Zur Darstellung der Troianer in den Kampfszenen der Ilias. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, Band 30. Basel: 2005. Pp. xii, 490. €75.50. ISBN 3-7965-2082-0.
    Reviewed by M.M. Willcock.

  • 2006.05.04:  J. Christopher Warner, The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton. Ann Arbor: 2005. Pp. 282. $75.00. ISBN 0-472-11518-9.
    Reviewed by Antony Augoustakis.

  • 2006.05.05:  Tomas Hägg, Bo Utas, The Virgin and her Lover: Fragments of an Ancient Greek Novel and a Persian Epic Poem. Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Supplements to the Journal of Arabic Literature, vol. XXX. Leiden: 2003. Pp. xiii, 278; pls. 6. $122.00. ISBN 90-04-13260-0.
    Reviewed by Adam H. Becker.

  • 2006.05.06:  Gregor Maurach, Kleine Geschichte der antiken Komödie. Darmstadt: 2005. Pp. 160. €24.90. ISBN 3-534-18326-6.
    Reviewed by Yasmina Benferhat.

  • 2006.05.07:  Ian Mueller, Simplicius, On Aristotle's On the Heavens 2.1-9. The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Ithaca: 2004. Pp. x, 224. $75.00. ISBN 0-8014-4102-1.
    Reviewed by Börje Bydén.

  • 2006.05.08:  Jens-Arne Dickmann, Pompeji. Archäologie und Geschichte. Munich: 2005. Pp. 128; ills. 20. €7.90. ISBN 3-406-50887-1.
    Reviewed by Miko Flohr.

  • 2006.05.09:  Guy G. Stroumsa, La Fin du sacrifice. Les mutations religieuses de l'Antiquité tardive. Collection Collège de France. Paris: 2005. Pp. 217. €24.90. ISBN 2-7381-1634-5.
    Reviewed by Morgan Gaulin.

  • 2006.05.10:  J.F. Cherry, D. Margomenou, L.E. Talalay, Prehistorians Round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline. Papers presented at a Workshop held in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, March 14-16, 2003. Kelsey Museum Publication 2. Ann Arbor: 2005. Pp. 179; figs. 30, tables 11. $19.95. ISBN 0-9741873-1-3.
    Reviewed by Athena Hadji.

  • 2006.05.11:  Catherine M. Schlegel, Satire and the Threat of Speech: Horace's Satires Book I. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison: 2005. Pp. viii, 186. $35.00. ISBN 0-299-20950-6.
    Reviewed by Catherine Keane.

  • 2006.05.12:  François-Régis Chaumartin, Sénèque, De la clémence. Nouvelle édition. Paris: 2005. Pp. xcii, 124 (2-53 doubles). €31.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-01439-X.
    Reviewed by Ermanno Malaspina.

  • 2006.05.13:  Stefan Knoch, Sklavenfürsorge im Römischen Reich. Hildesheim: 2005. Pp. vii, 338. €39.80 (pb). ISBN 3-487-13023-8.
    Reviewed by Marcus Sigismund.

  • 2006.05.14:  Fariba Zarinebaf, John Bennet, Jack L. Davis, A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th century. Hesperia Supplement 34. Princeton: 2005. Pp. 310; CD-Rom. $45.00. ISBN 0-87661-534-5.
    Reviewed by Kostas Vlassopoulos.

  • 2006.05.15:  Clemens Homoth-Kuhs, Phylakes und Phylakon-Steuer im griechisch-römischen Ägypten. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des antiken Sicherheitswesens. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete; Beiheft 17. München / Leipzig: 2005. Pp. xiii, 222. €98.00. ISBN 3-598-77592-X.
    Reviewed by Sven Günther.

  • 2006.05.16:  Laurel Fulkerson, The Ovidian Heroine as Author: Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 187. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-84672-2.
    Reviewed by Jennifer Ebbeler.

  • 2006.05.17:  Jeffrey Barnouw, Propositional Perception: Phantasia, Predication and Sign in Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics. Lanham, MD: 2002. Pp. 383. $50.50 (pb). ISBN 0-7618-2341-7.
    Reviewed by Joshua J. Reynolds.

  • 2006.05.18:  Daniel Russell, Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life. Oxford: 2005. Pp. ix, 272. $74.00/£45.00. ISBN 0-19-928284-6.
    Reviewed by Robin Waterfield.

  • 2006.05.19:  Richard Jasnow, Karl-Th. Zauzich, The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth: A Demotic Discourse on Knowledge and Pendant to the Classical Hermetica. Volume 1: Text. Volume 2: Plates. Wiesbaden: 2005. Pp. xx, 581; x, pls. 67. €178.00. ISBN 3-447-05082-9.
    Reviewed by Kevin van Bladel.

  • 2006.05.20:  Markus Sehlmeyer, Uwe Walter, Unberührt von jedem Umbruch? Der Althistoriker Ernst Hohl zwischen Kaiserreich und früher DDR. Frankfurt am Main: 2005. Pp. 125. €27.90. ISBN 3-938032-08-1.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2006.05.21:  John E. Curtis, Nigel Tallis, Forgotten Empire. The World of Ancient Persia. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. 272; ills. 300. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-24731-0.
    Reviewed by Wolfgang Messerschmidt.

  • 2006.05.22:  Hartmut Leppin, Einführung in die Alte Geschichte. München: 2005. Pp. 198. €19.90. ISBN 3-406-53527-5.
    Reviewed by Bjorn Paarmann.

  • 2006.05.23:  Richard Kannicht, Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. Volume 5. Euripides (in two parts). Göttingen: 2004. Pp. 1, 164. €368.00. ISBN 3-525-25755-4.
    Reviewed by Martin Cropp.

  • 2006.05.24:  E.K. Petropoulos, Hellenic Colonization in Euxeinos Pontos. Penetration, Early Establishment and the Problem of the "Emporion" Revisited. BAR International Series 1394. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 181. £32.00 (pb). ISBN 1-84171-832-7.
    Reviewed by D. Burcu Erciyas.

  • 2006.05.25:  Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Euripides: Hecuba. Newburyport, MA: 2006. Pp. 111. $8.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58510-148-6.
    Reviewed by Justina Gregory.

  • 2006.05.26:  Christoper Nappa, Reading after Actium: Vergil's Georgics, Octavian, and Rome. Ann Arbor: 2005. Pp. 293. $75.00. ISBN 0-472-11475-1.
    Reviewed by Josiah Osgood.

  • 2006.05.27:  Michael Share, Philoponus, Against Proclus' On the Eternity of the World 6-8. Ithaca: 2005. Pp. viii, 200. $75.00. ISBN 0-8014-4217-6.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2006.05.28:  James H. S. McGregor, Rome from the Ground Up. Cambridge, MA: 2005. Pp. 332. $29.95. ISBN O-674-01911-3.
    Reviewed by Peter Keegan.

  • 2006.05.29:  Arnold A. Lelis, William A. Percy, Beert C. Verstraete, The Age of Marriage in Ancient Rome. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: 2003. Pp. 148. $99.95. ISBN 0-7734-6665-7.
    Reviewed by Walter McCall.

  • 2006.05.30:  Harald Mielsch, Griechische Tiergeschichten in der antiken Kunst. Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt, Band 111. Mainz: 2005. Pp. 148; color ills. 73, b/w 22. €24.90. ISBN 3-8053-3548-2.
    Reviewed by Annetta Alexandridis.

  • 2006.05.31:  Sabah Ferdi, Corpus des mosaïques de Cherchel. Études d'antiquités Africaines. Paris: 2005. Pp. 256; b/w pls. 82, color 9. €39.00. ISBN 2-271-06359-0.
    Reviewed by John R. Clarke.

  • 2006.05.32:  Norbert Geske, Nikias und das Volk von Athen im Archidamischen Krieg. Historia Einzelschriften, 186. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 224. €36.00. ISBN 3-515-08566-1.
    Reviewed by Edith Foster.

  • 2006.05.33:  Hugh Lloyd-Jones, The Further Academic Papers of Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 455. £65.00. ISBN 0-19-927932-2.
    Reviewed by Simon Goldhill.

  • 2006.05.34:  Jesper Carlsen, The Rise and Fall of a Roman Noble Family. The Domitii Ahenobarbi 196 BC-AD 68. Odense: 2006. Pp. 259. DKK278.00. ISBN 87-7838-996-8.
    Reviewed by Robin Seager.

  • 2006.05.35:  Amy Richlin, Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays by Plautus, translated with introductions and notes. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. xiv, 288. $45.00 (hb). ISBN 0-520-24274-2.
    Reviewed by Vincent Hunink.

  • 2006.05.36:  William Stenhouse, Reading Inscriptions and Writing Ancient History: Historical Scholarship in the Late Renaissance. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 86. London: 2005. Pp. x, 204; pls. £50.00. ISBN 0-900587-98-9.
    Reviewed by Julia Lougovaya-Ast.

  • 2006.05.37:  James I. Porter, Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome. Princeton: 2005. Pp. 450; ills. $70.00 (hb). ISBN 0-691-08941-8.
    Reviewed by Eric M. Moormann.

  • 2006.05.38:  Manfred Hoffmann, Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus. De spiritalis historiae gestis. Buch 3. Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 217. München/Leipzig: 2005. Pp. lii, 336. €118.00. ISBN 3-598-77829-5.
    Reviewed by Gerard O'Daly.

  • 2006.05.39:  Johanna Akujärvi, Researcher, Traveller, Narrator: Studies in Pausanias' Periegesis. Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia 12. Stockholm: 2005. Pp. 314. $99.50. ISBN 91-22-02134-5.
    Reviewed by Steven D. Smith.

  • 2006.05.40:  Christopher A. Faraone, Laura K. McClure, Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World. Madison: 2006. Pp. 496. $24.95. ISBN 0-299-21314-5.
    Reviewed by Anise K. Strong.

  • 2006.05.41:  Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Encountering the Sacred. The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: 2005. Pp. xvi, 250. $45.00. ISBN 0-520-24191-6.
    Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst.

  • 2006.05.42:  R. G. M. Nisbet, Niall Rudd, A Commentary on Horace: Odes Book III. Oxford: 2004. Pp. xxx, 389. $185.00. ISBN 0-19-926314-0.
    Reviewed by Lindsay C. Watson.

  • 2006.05.43:  Patrick Counillon, Pseudo-Skylax: le Périple du Pont-Euxin. Texte, traduction, commentaire philologique et historique. Scripta Antiqua, 8. Bordeaux: 2004. Pp. 166; maps 2. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 2-910023-47-8.
    Reviewed by Liv Mariah Yarrow.

  • 2006.05.44:  Charlotte Roberts, Keith Manchester, The Archaeology of Disease. Third edition. Ithaca: 2005. Pp. ix, 322. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-4232-X.
    Reviewed by Cl. Prêtre.

  • 2006.05.45:  Tad Brennan, The Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties, and Fate. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 340. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-925626-8.
    Reviewed by Andrew Smith.

  • 2006.05.46:  Christopher Tuplin, Xenophon and his World. Papers from a conference held in Liverpool in July 1999. Historia Einzelschriften, 172. Stuttgart: 2004. Pp. 524. €84.00. ISBN 3-515-08392-8.
    Reviewed by Stefan Stanke.

  • 2006.06.01:  BMCR Books Received (May).


  • 2006.06.02:  Sara Forsdyke, Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy: The Politics of Exclusion in Ancient Greece. Princeton: 2005. Pp. xiv, 344. $45.00. ISBN 0-691-11975-9.
    Reviewed by Peter Hunt.

  • 2006.06.03:  Ruurd R. Nauta, Harm-Jan van Dam, Johannes J.L. Smolenaars, Flavian Poetry. Mnemosyne Suppl. 270. Leiden: 2006. Pp. 408. €109.00. ISBN 90-04-14794-2.
    Reviewed by Neil W. Bernstein.

  • 2006.06.04:  ALSO SEEN: Noel Lenski, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine.
    James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2006.06.05:  Alessandro Perutelli, Prolegomeni a Sisenna. Pisa: 2004. Pp. 140. €13.00. ISBN 88-467-0978-0.
    Reviewed by James E. G. Zetzel.

  • 2006.06.06:  ALSO SEEN: John N. Grant, Denis L. Drysdall, The Collected Works of Erasmus: Adages III.iv.1-IV.ii.100. Vol. 35.
    Richard Joines.

  • 2006.06.07:  L. de Ligt, E. A. Hemelrijk, H. W. Singor, Roman Rule and Civic Life: Local and Regional Perspectives. Impact of Empire, vol. 4. Amsterdam: 2004. Pp. xvii, 448; b/w pls. 18. €128.00. ISBN 90-5063-418-4.
    Reviewed by Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho.

  • 2006.06.08:  Andrew Barker, Psicomusicologia nella Grecia Antica. A cura di Angelo Meriani. Università degli Studi di Salerno. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità. Napoli: 2005. Pp. 205. €11.90. ISBN 88-7188-989-4.
    Reviewed by Massimo Raffa.

  • 2006.06.09:  Margo Kitts, Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals and Narratives in the Iliad. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xi, 244. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-85529-2.
    Reviewed by Jonathan Ready.

  • 2006.06.10:  Craig S. Keener, 1-2 Corinthians. New Cambridge Bible Commentary. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 299. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-83462-7.
    Reviewed by Charles A. Anderson.

  • 2006.06.11:  Sophie Métivier, La Cappadoce (IVe-VIe Siècle): Une histoire provinciale de l'Empire romain d'Orient. Byzantina Sorbonensia 22. Paris: 2005. Pp. 496. €32.00. ISBN 2-85944-522-6.
    Reviewed by Susan R. Holman.

  • 2006.06.12:  Monica Silveira Cyrino, Big Screen Rome. Malden, MA: 2005. Pp. 274. $72.95 (hb). ISBN 1-4051-1683-8.
    Reviewed by Paula James.

  • 2006.06.13:  Stella Georgoudi, Renée Koch Piettre, Francis Schmidt, La cuisine et l'autel: les sacrifices en questions dans les sociétés de la Méditerranée ancienne. Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études, Sciences Religieuses 124. Turnhout: 2005. Pp. xviii, 460; b/w ills. 23. €75.00 (pb). ISBN 2-503-51739-0.
    Reviewed by Sergio Knipe.

  • 2006.06.14:  Dale B. Martin, Patricia Cox Miller, The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography. Durham, NC: 2005. Pp. 364. $24.95. ISBN 0-8223-3422-4.
    Reviewed by Matthew Kraus.

  • 2006.06.15:  David Shotter, Augustus Caesar. Second edition. London and New York: 2005. Pp. 128; pls. 15, figs. 5. $18.00. ISBN 0-415-31936-6.
    Reviewed by Anne-Marie Lewis.

  • 2006.06.16:  Dieter Flach, Cornelius Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus. Streitgespräch über die Redner. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 113. €23.00. ISBN 3-515-08769-9.
    Reviewed by Roland Mayer.

  • 2006.06.17:  Tara S. Welch, The Elegiac Cityscape. Propertius and the Meaning of Roman Monuments. Columbus, OH: 2005. Pp. 223. $49.95. ISBN 0-8142-1009-0.
    Reviewed by Frédéric Nau.

  • 2006.06.18:  David Sedley, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume XXV, Winter 2003. Oxford: 2003. Pp. 392. $59.95. ISBN 0-19-926825-8.
    Reviewed by Michael Pakaluk.

  • 2006.06.19:  Charles Rowan Beye, Ancient Epic Poetry: Homer, Apollonius, Virgil, With a Chapter on the Gilgamesh Poems. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. 310. $35.00. ISBN 0-86516-607-2.
    Reviewed by Andrew E. Porter.

  • 2006.06.20:  Victoria Pedrick, Seven M. Oberhelman, The Soul of Tragedy: Essays on Athenian Drama. Chicago: 2005. Pp. 323. $22.50. ISBN 0-226-65359-5.
    Reviewed by Norman B. Sandridge.

  • 2006.06.21:  W. Martin Bloomer, The Contest of Language. Before and Beyond Nationalism. Notre Dame, IN: 2005. Pp. 274. $55.00 (hb). ISBN 0-268-02190-2.
    Reviewed by Nicolas Wiater.

  • 2006.06.22:  G.E.R. Lloyd, The Delusions of Invulnerability: Wisdom and Morality in Ancient Greece, China and Today. London: 2005. Pp. 176. £12.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3386-4.
    Reviewed by James Jope and H. Lyman Miller Stanford University.

  • 2006.06.23:  Francesca Spatafora, Stefano Vassallo, Das Eigene und das Andere: Griechen, Sikaner und Elymer: neue archaeologische Forschungen im antiken Sizilien. Palermo: 2004. Pp. xi, 213. €39.00. ISBN 3-905083-21-3.
    Reviewed by Nassos Papalexandrou.

  • 2006.06.24:  Andrés Rosler, Political Authority and Obligation in Aristotle. Oxford Aristotle Studies. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 312. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-925150-9.
    Reviewed by Ran Baratz.

  • 2006.06.25:  Vassilios Sabatakakis, Aspects of Morphological and Stylistic Variation of the Verb in Erotokritos. Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia 9. Stockholm: 2004. Pp. 163. SEK 223.00 / $30.00. ISBN 91-22-02071-3.
    Reviewed by Eleni Manolaraki.

  • 2006.06.26:  J. F. Mountford, Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose Composition. Foreword and Updates by Donald E. Sprague. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. vi, 450. $29.00. ISBN 0-86516-595-5.
    Reviewed by Daniel J. Nodes.

  • 2006.06.27:  Ales Havlícek, Filip Karfík, Plato's Protagoras. Proceedings of the Third Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Prague: 2003. Pp. 258. €23.00. ISBN 80-7298-092-0.
    Reviewed by Gerald A. Press.

  • 2006.06.28:  Egbert J. Bakker, Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xiii, 205. $17.95. ISBN 0-674-01955-5.
    Reviewed by James Bradley Wells.

  • 2006.06.29:  Kitts on Ready on Margo Kitts, Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals and Narratives in the Iliad.
    Response by Margo Kitts.

  • 2006.06.30:  Adrian Murdoch, Rome's Greatest Defeat. Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest. Gloucestershire: 2006. Pp. xiv, 234. £20.00. ISBN 0-7509-4015-8.
    Reviewed by Jona Lendering.

  • 2006.06.31:  David Sedley, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Volume XXVII (Winter 2004). Oxford: 2004. Pp. 350. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-927713-3.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2006.06.32:  ALSO SEEN: Thomas Dietrich, The Origin of Culture and Civilization. The Cosmological Philosophy of the Ancient World View regarding Myth, Astrology, Science, and Religion.
    Eugene V. Afonasin.

  • 2006.06.33:  E. Amato, J. Schamp, Ethopoiia. La représentation de caractères entre fiction scolaire et réalité vivante à l'époque impériale et tardive. Salerno: 2005. Pp. xv, 231. €38.00. ISBN 88-88123-10-5.
    Reviewed by Laura Miguélez Cavero.

  • 2006.06.34:  Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh, Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xxxvi, 723. $115.00. ISBN 0-19-815087-3.
    Reviewed by John Bulwer.

  • 2006.06.35:  Patrice Brun, Impérialisme et démocratie à Athènes. Inscriptions de l'époque classique. Paris: 2005. Pp. 350. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 2-200-26928-5.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2006.06.36:  ALSO SEEN: Elizabeth Hartley, Constantine the Great: York's Roman Emperor.
    Michael DiMaio, Jr..

  • 2006.06.37:  John H. Oakley, Picturing Death in Classical Athens. The Evidence of the White Lekythoi. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xxvi, 268; b/w figs. 175, colour pls. 8. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-82016-2.
    Reviewed by Margaret C. Miller.

  • 2006.06.38:  Nikos Merouses, Chios. Physiko periballon & katoikese apo te neolithike epoche mechri to telos tes archaiothtas. Chios: 2002. Pp. 240; ills., maps. ISBN 960-87298-0-7.
    Reviewed by Maria Papaioannou.

  • 2006.06.39:  Justina Gregory, A Companion to Greek Tragedy. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xviii, 552. £85.00. ISBN 1-4051-0770-7.
    Reviewed by Matthew Wright.

  • 2006.06.40:  Makis Aperghis, The Seleukid Royal Economy. The Finances and Financial Administration of the Seleukid Empire. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. 361. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-83707-3.
    Reviewed by Rolf Strootman.

  • 2006.06.41:  George L. Greaney, Aeschines. De falsa legatione / On the false embassy. Studies in Classics, 31. Lewiston: 2005. Pp. 114. $99.95. ISBN 0-7734-6148-5.
    Reviewed by Frances Pownall.

  • 2006.07.01:  Nardelli on Kitts on Ready on Kitts.
    Response by Jean-Fabrice Nardelli.

  • 2006.07.02:  Dietrich on Afonasin on Thomas K. Dietrich, The Origin of Culture and Civilization.
    Response by Thomas K. Dietrich.

  • 2006.07.03:  Jeannine Diddle Uzzi, Children in the Visual Arts of Imperial Rome. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 252. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-82026-X.
    Reviewed by Janet Burnett Grossman.

  • 2006.07.04:  Irene Huber, Rituale der Seuchen- und Schadensabwehr im Vorderen Orient und Griechenland. Formen kollektiver Krisenbewältigung in der Antike. Oriens et Occidens 10. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 287. €60.00. ISBN 3-515-08045-7.
    Reviewed by Eleni Hatzimavroudi.

  • 2006.07.05:  A. Spawforth, The Complete Greek Temples. London: 2006. Pp. 240. $40.00. ISBN 0-500-05142-9.
    Reviewed by Robin Osborne.

  • 2006.07.06:  O. Hekster, R. Fowler, Imaginary Kings: Royal Images in the Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome. Oriens et Occidens 11. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 231. €63.00. ISBN 3-515-08765-6.
    Reviewed by Carlos F. Noreña.

  • 2006.07.07:  Martin Bommas, Heiligtum und Mysterium. Griechenland und seine ägyptischen Gottheiten. Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie. Mainz am Rhein: 2005. Pp. 138. €41.00. ISBN 3-8053-3442-7.
    Reviewed by Peter Nadig.

  • 2006.07.08:  Eberhard Heck, Antonie Wlosok, L. Caelius Firmianus Lactantius. Divinarum Institutionum Libri septem. Fasc. 1 Libri I et II. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: 2005. Pp. 200. €62.00 (pb). ISBN 3-598-71265-0.
    Reviewed by Claudio Moreschini.

  • 2006.07.09:  BMCR Books Received (June).


  • 2006.07.10:  Kitts on Nardelli on Kitts, Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society.
    Response by Margo Kitts.

  • 2006.07.11:  N. M. Kay, Epigrams from the Anthologia Latina. Text, Translation and Commentary. London: 2006. Pp. 388. £45.00. ISBN 0-7156-3406-2.
    Reviewed by Gauthier Liberman.

  • 2006.07.12:  Michael Link, Die 'Erzählung' des Pseudo-Neilos. Ein spätantiker Märtyrerroman. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 220. München/Leipzig: 2005. Pp. ix, 162. €58.00. ISBN 3-598-77832-2.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2006.07.13:  Hugh Bowden, Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle. Divination and Democracy. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 188. $25.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-53081-4.
    Reviewed by Timothy Howe.

  • 2006.07.14:  Philip J. van der Eijk, Hippocrates in Context. Papers read at the XIth International Hippocrates Colloquium. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 27 - 31 August 2002. Studies in Ancient Medicine 31. Leiden: 2005. Pp. xvi, 528; ills. 4. €149.00. ISBN 90-04-14430-7.
    Reviewed by Marietta Horster.

  • 2006.07.15:  Giovanni Reale, Diogene Laerzio. Vite e dottrine dei più celebri filosofi. Il pensiero occidentale. Milano: 2005. Pp. cl, 1666. €36.00. ISBN 88-452-3301-4.
    Reviewed by Eugenio Amato.

  • 2006.07.16:  Immanuel Musäus, Der Pandoramythos bei Hesiod und seine Rezeption bis Erasmus von Rotterdam. Hypomnemata, 151. Göttingen: 2004. Pp. 234. €46.90. ISBN 3-525-252150-1.
    Reviewed by E. F. Beall.

  • 2006.07.17:  Fotini Skenteri, Herodes Atticus reflected in occasional poetry of Antonine Athens. Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia 13. Stockholm: 2005. Pp. 119. $69.50. ISBN 91-22-02137-X.
    Reviewed by Tom Hawkins.

  • 2006.07.18:  Chrysanthi Gallou, The Mycenaean Cult of the Dead. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1372. Oxford: 2005. Pp. vi, 240; figs. 90, tables 5. £36.00. ISBN 1-84171-814-9.
    Reviewed by Michael Boyd.

  • 2006.07.19:  Dieter Flach, Varro. Über die Landwirtschaft. Texte zur Forschung 87. Darmstadt: 2006. Pp. 352. €74.90. ISBN 3-534-19069-6.
    Reviewed by Philipp Brandenburg.

  • 2006.07.20:  Rex D. Butler, The New Prophecy & "New Visions": Evidence of Montanism in The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas. Patristic Monograph Series 18. Washington, DC: 2006. Pp. xx, 211. $44.95. ISBN 0-8132-1455-6.
    Reviewed by Ian H. Henderson.

  • 2006.07.21:  Niall Rudd, The Common Spring: Essays on Latin and English Poetry. Bristol: 2005. Pp. x, 268. £39.95. ISBN 1-904675-48-4.
    Reviewed by Stephen Harrison.

  • 2006.07.22:  Mary R. Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant, Women's Life in Greece and Rome. A Source Book in Translation. Third Edition. Baltimore: 2005. Pp. xxvii, 420. $59.95 (hb). ISBN 0-8018-8309-1.
    Reviewed by Fiona Hobden.

  • 2006.07.23:  A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, R. S. Stroud, R. A. Tybout, Supplementum epigraphicum graecum. Volume 51 (2001). Amsterdam: 2005. Pp. xxxiv, 937. €160.00. ISBN 90-5063-459-1.
    Reviewed by Gary Reger.

  • 2006.07.24:  Suzanne Amigues, Théophraste. Recherches sur les plantes. Tome V. Livre IX. Paris: 2006. Pp. 397. €55.00. ISBN 2-251-00529-3.
    Reviewed by Laurence M. V. Totelin.

  • 2006.07.25:  Ulf Gregor Hamacher, Senecas 82. Brief an Lucilius. Dialektikkritik illustriert am Beispiel der Bekämpfung des metus mortis. Ein Kommentar. München/Leipzig: 2006. Pp. 473. €96.00. ISBN 3-598-77842-2.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2006.07.26:  Karl Galinsky, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 407. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-521-00393-8.
    Reviewed by Lee L. Brice.

  • 2006.07.27:  Albertus Bernabé, Poetae Epici Graeci. Testimonia et Fragmenta. Pars II: Orphicorum et Orphicis Similium Testimonia et Fragmenta. Fasciculus 1. München and Leipzig: 2004. Pp. lxxxv, 394. €112.00. ISBN 3-598-71707-5.
    Reviewed by S. Douglas Olson.

  • 2006.07.28:  Christopher Leslie Brown, Philip D. Morgan, Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age. New Haven: 2006. Pp. xvi, 368. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-300-10900-8.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Garstad.

  • 2006.07.29:  Irmtaut Heitmeier, Das Inntal: Siedlungs- und Raumentwicklung eines Alpentales im Schnittpunkt der politischen Interessen von der römischen Okkupation bis in die Zeit Karls des Grossen. Schlern-Schriften, 324. Studien zur Frühgeschichte des historischen Tiroler Raums, 1. Innsbruck: 2005. Pp. 430; ills., map. €50.00. ISBN 3-7030-0399-5.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2006.07.30:  Shadi Bartsch, Thomas Bartscherer, Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern. Chicago: 2005. Pp. 328. $29.00. ISBN 0-226-03838-6.
    Reviewed by Peter Toohey.

  • 2006.07.31:  David French, Canhasan Sites 2. Canhasan I: The Pottery. Monograph No. 32. Ankara: 2005. Pp. xvi, 293; ills. $90.00. ISBN 11-898249-16-4.
    Reviewed by Charles C. Kolb.

  • 2006.07.32:  Zahra Newby, Greek Athletics in the Roman World: Victory and Virtue. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xiv, 314. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-927930-6.
    Reviewed by Paul Christesen.

  • 2006.07.33:  Rosalba Panvini, Lavinia Sole, L'acropoli di Gela: stipi, depositi o scarichi. Corpus delle stipi in Italia 18. Roma: 2005. Pp. 203; pls. 93. €220.00. ISBN 88-7689-189-7.
    Reviewed by Paolo Daniele Scirpo.

  • 2006.07.34:  Fabian Reiter, Die Nomarchen des Arsinoites: Ein Beitrag zum Steuerwesen im römischen Ägypten. Papyrologica Coloniensia XXXI. Paderborn: 2004. Pp. x, 369; pls. 9. €58.90. ISBN 3-506-72893-8.
    Reviewed by J. David Thomas.

  • 2006.07.35:  Drew A. Mannetter, Book 7 of Caesar's Bellum Gallicum with Introduction, Text, Vocabulary and Notes. Boca Raton, LA: 2004. Pp. viii, 382. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58112-427-9.
    Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck.

  • 2006.07.36:  Nardelli on Olson on A. Bernabé, Poetae Epici Graeci.
    Response by Jean-Fabrice Nardelli.

  • 2006.07.37:  Umberto Roberto, Ioannis Antiocheni Fragmenta ex Historia chronica. Introduzione, edizione critica e traduzione. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 154. Berlin: 2005. Pp. ccxi, 661. €178.00. ISBN 3-11-018687-X.
    Reviewed by Alan Cameron.

  • 2006.07.38:  Alessandro Barchiesi, Ovidio: Metamorfosi, Volume I (Libri I-II). Traduzione di Ludovica Koch. Milan: 2005. Pp. cxc, 310. €27.00. ISBN 88-04-54481-3.
    Reviewed by Sergio Casali.

  • 2006.07.39:  Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Amiel Vardi, The Worlds of Aulus Gellius. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 408. $145.00. ISBN 0-19-926482-1.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2006.07.40:  Rene Pfeilschifter, Titus Quinctius Flamininus. Untersuchungen zur römischen Griechenlandpolitik. Hypomnemata, 162. Göttingen: 2005. Pp. 442. €79.90. ISBN 3-525-25261-7.
    Reviewed by Dylan Bloy.

  • 2006.07.41:  Hans Dieter Betz, The "Mithras Liturgy". Text, translation and commentary. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 18. Tübingen: 2003. Pp. xi, 275. €39.00. ISBN 3-16-148813-X.
    Reviewed by Anders Lisdorf.

  • 2006.07.42:  George Jennison, Animals for Show and Pleasure in Ancient Rome. Originally published 1937 by Manchester University Press. Philadelphia: 2005. Pp. 209. $16.50. ISBN 0-8122-1919-8.
    Reviewed by James M. Quillin.

  • 2006.07.43:  Blunt on Lebedev on Afonasin on Antiquarium.
    Response by Suzanne Blunt.

  • 2006.07.44:  Jochen Werner Mayer, Imus ad villam: Studien zur Villeggiatur im stadtrömischen Suburbium in der späten Republik und frühen Kaiserzeit. Geographica Historica, 20. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 266. €44.00. ISBN 3-515-08787-7.
    Reviewed by Geoff W. Adams.

  • 2006.07.45:  Cristiano Iaia, Produzioni toreutiche della prima età del Ferro in Italia centro-settentrionale. Stili decorativi, circolazione, significato. Biblioteca di "Studi Etruschi", 40. Pisa: 2005. Pp. 320; figs. 110, b/w pls. 21. €510.00 (hb). ISBN 88-8147-294-5.
    Reviewed by Francesca Fulminante.

  • 2006.07.46:  Sheramy Bundrick, Music and Image in Classical Athens. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xvi, 256; b/w figs. 110. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-84806-7.
    Reviewed by Sophie Gibson.

  • 2006.07.47:  Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, Gott und die Götter bei Plutarch. Götterbilder - Gottesbilder - Weltbilder. Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, 54. Berlin: 2005. Pp. x, 287. €88.00. ISBN 3-11-018479-6.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2006.07.48:  Lily Y. Beck, Dioscorides. De Materia Medica. Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien 38. Hildesheim: 2005. Pp. xxvii, 540. €78.00. ISBN 3-487-12881-0.
    Reviewed by Lynn LiDonnici.

  • 2006.07.49:  Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. x, 235. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-81985-7.
    Reviewed by John Lombardini.

  • 2006.07.50:  Klaus Rosen, Julian. Kaiser, Gott und Christenhasser. Stuttgart: 2006. Pp. 580. €32.00. ISBN 3-608-94296-3.
    Reviewed by Jochen Lückoff.

  • 2006.07.51:  David Phillips, David Pritchard, Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World. Swansea: 2003. Pp. xxxi, 416. $75.00. ISBN 0-9543845-1-2.
    Reviewed by Thomas Heine Nielsen.

  • 2006.07.52:  E. Griffiths, Medea. London and New York: 2006. Pp. 147. £12.99. ISBN 0-415-30070-3.
    Reviewed by Isabelle Torrance.

  • 2006.07.53:  P. Green, Diodorus Siculus Books 11-12.37.1. Greek History, 480-431 BC -- the Alternative Version. Austin, TX: 2006. Pp. xxiv, 312. $55.00 (hb). ISBN 0-292-70604-9.
    Reviewed by Christopher Tuplin.

  • 2006.07.54:  Bradley A. Ault, The Excavations at Ancient Halieis Volume 2: The Houses. The Organization and Use of Domestic Space. Bloomington, IN: 2005. Pp. xiv, 171. $75.00. ISBN 0-253-34709-2.
    Reviewed by Justin St. P. Walsh.

  • 2006.07.55:  Burkhard Meissner, Oliver Schmitt, Michael Sommer, Krieg, Gesellschaft, Institutionen: Beiträge zu einer vergleichenden Kriegsgeschichte. Berlin: 2005. Pp. 448; pls. 25. €69.80. ISBN 3-05-004097-1.
    Reviewed by Everett L. Wheeler.

  • 2006.07.56:  Konstan on Nardelli on Olson on A. Bernabé, Poetae Epici Graeci.
    Response by David Konstan.

  • 2006.07.57:  Pierre Destrée, Nicholas D. Smith, Socrates' Divine Sign: Religion, Practice, and Value in Socratic Philosophy. APEIRON: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, Vol. 38/ no. 2 (June 2005). Kelowna, BC: 2005. Pp. xii, 180. $69.95 (hb). ISBN 0-920980-90-2.
    Reviewed by John Partridge.

  • 2006.07.58:  P. Siewert, Ostrakismos-Testimonien I: Die Zeugnisse antiker Autoren der Inschriften und Ostraka über das athenische Scherbengericht aus vorhellenistischer Zeit (487-322 v. Chr.). Historia Einzelschriften 155. Stuttgart: 2002. Pp. 555. €100.00. ISBN 3-515-07947-5.
    Reviewed by Konrad H. Kinzl.

  • 2006.07.59:  Peter Stein, Schriftkultur. Eine Geschichte des Schreibens und Lesens. Munich: 2006. Pp. 360. €39.40. ISBN 3-896-78564-8.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2006.07.60:  Mauro Bonazzi, Vincenza Celluprica, L'eredità Platonica. Studi sul Platonismo da Arcesilao a Proclo. Naples: 2005. Pp. 335. €40,00. ISBN 88-7088-484-8.
    Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson.

  • 2006.07.61:  Giulio Paolucci, Documenti e memorie sulle antichità e il museo di Chiusi. Pisa: 2005. Pp. 227. €360.00 (hb). ISBN 88-8147-380-1.
    Reviewed by Harri Kiiskinen.

  • 2006.07.62:  Christophe Hugoniot, Frederic Hurlet, Silvia Milanezi, Le statut de l'acteur dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine. Tours: 2004. Pp. 368. €44.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86906-185-4.
    Reviewed by John Jory.

  • 2006.07.63:  Carol G. Thomas, Finding People in Early Greece. Columbia and London: 2005. Pp. 154. $34.95. ISBN 0-8262-1577-7.
    Reviewed by Olivier Mariaud.

  • 2006.07.64:  BMCR Books Received (July).


  • 2006.07.65:  Alexandra Villing, The Greeks in the East. British Museum Research Publication 157. London: 2005. Pp. v, 123; figs. 109, color pls. 44, tables 4. $50.00. ISBN 0-86159-157-7.
    Reviewed by Barbara A. Barletta.

  • 2006.07.66:  William Charlton, Philoponus, On Aristotle's On the Soul 2. 7-12. Ithaca: 2005. Pp. x, 213. $75.00. ISBN 0-8014-4337-7.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2006.07.67:  Marc C. Amodio, New Directions in Oral Theory. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 287. Tempe, AZ: 2005. Pp. x, 341. $40.00. ISBN 0-86698-330-9.
    Reviewed by Margalit Finkelberg.

  • 2006.07.68:  Nancy Sherman, Stoic Warriors. The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xii, 242. $26.00. ISBN 0-19-515216-6.
    Reviewed by Liz Gloyn.

  • 2006.07.69:  David Konstan, The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature. Toronto: 2006. Pp. 422. $85.00. ISBN 0-8020-9103-2.
    Reviewed by Daniel M. Gross.

  • 2006.08.01:  Casey Dué, The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy. Austin, TX: 2006. Pp. 216. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-70946-3.
    Reviewed by W. Tyson Hausdoerffer.

  • 2006.08.02:  C. Moreschini, Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, Opuscula theologica. Editio altera. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. Munich/Leipzig: 2005. Pp. xxii, 263. €76.00. ISBN 3-598-71278-2.
    Reviewed by Stefano Martinelli Tempesta.

  • 2006.08.03:  G. Romeyer-Dherbey, J.-B. Gourinat, Les Stoïciens. Paris: 2005. Pp. 622. €48.00. ISBN 2-7116-1778-5.
    Reviewed by Gretchen Reydams-Schils.

  • 2006.08.04:  Judith M. Barringer, Jeffrey M. Hurwit, Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives. Austin, TX: 2005. Pp. xxi, 306; ills. 158. $55.00. ISBN 0-292-70622-7.
    Reviewed by Julia L. Shear.

  • 2006.08.05:  William D. Desmond, The Greek Praise of Poverty. Origins of Ancient Cynicism. Notre Dame, IN: 2006. Pp. xiv, 240. $48.00 (hb). ISBN 0-268-02581-9.
    Reviewed by Kostas Vlassopoulos.

  • 2006.08.06:  Bernhard Ahlrichs, "Prüfstein der Gemüter." Untersuchungen zu den ethischen Vorstellungen in den Parallelbiographien Plutarchs am Beispiel des "Coriolan". Beiträge zur Altertumwissenschaft, 16. Hildesheim: 2005. Pp. 549. €78.00 (pb). ISBN 3-487-13036-X.
    Reviewed by Alexei V. Zadorojnyi.

  • 2006.08.07:  V. Dasen, Jumeaux, Jumelles dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine. Zurich: 2005. Pp. 332; ills. 185. €45.00/CHF 75.00 (pb). ISBN 3-905083-20-5.
    Reviewed by Charles Delattre.

  • 2006.08.08:  Richard Sorabji, Aristotle On Memory. Second edition. Chicago: 2006. Pp. xxviii, 122. $15.00. ISBN 0-226-76823-6.
    Reviewed by Pavel Gregoric.

  • 2006.08.09:  Emma Griffiths, Euripides: Heracles. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: 2006. Pp. 175. £11.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3186-1.
    Reviewed by Caroline Trieschnigg.

  • 2006.08.10:  Gilda Bartoloni, Filippo Delpino, Oriente e Occidente: metodi e discipline a confronto. Riflessioni sulla cronologia dell'età del ferro in Italia, Atti dell'Incontro di studi, Roma, 30-31 ottobre 2003. Mediterranea, 1 (2004). Pisa: 2005. Pp. 678; pls. €495.00. ISBN 88-8147-389-5.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2006.08.11:  Wolfgang Blösel, Themistokles bei Herodot: Spiegel Athens im fünften Jahrhundert. Studien zur Geschichte und historiographischen Konstruktion des griechischen Freiheitskampfes 480 v. Chr. Historia Einzelschriften 183. Stuttgart: 2004. Pp. 422. €76.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08533-5.
    Reviewed by Bernd Steinbock.

  • 2006.08.12:  WEB REVIEW: Aristarchus, (www.aristarchus.unige.it). : .
    Reviewed by Carla Castelli.

  • 2006.08.13:  Peter Adamson, Han Balthussen, M.W.F. Stone, Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic & Latin Commentaries, Vol. 1 (= BICS Suppl. 83.1). London: 2004. Pp. xii, 280. £60.00. ISBN 0-900587-94-6.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2006.08.14:  Deborah Beck, Homeric Conversation. Washington, DC: 2005. Pp. ix, 317. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-01962-8.
    Reviewed by Mark W. Edwards.

  • 2006.08.15:  Helen King, Health in Antiquity. London and New York: 2005. Pp. 292. $87.50. ISBN 0-415-22065-3.
    Reviewed by Philip van der Eijk.

  • 2006.08.16:  Jens Halfwassen, Der Aufstieg zum Einen, Untersuchungen zu Platon und Plotin. Zweite, um einen Forschungsbericht erweiterte Auflage. München/Leipzig: 2006. Pp. 440. €58.00. ISBN 3-598-73055-1.
    Reviewed by David Engels.

  • 2006.08.17:  Riggs Alden Smith, The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid. Austin, TX: 2005. Pp. xviii, 254. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-70657-X.
    Reviewed by Stephen Harrison.

  • 2006.08.18:  Christine Walde, Lucan im 21. Jahrhundert. München/Leipzig: 2005. Pp. 358. €94.00. ISBN 3-598-73026-8.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2006.08.19:  Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, The Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study. Washington, DC: 2006. Pp. 288. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-01961-X.
    Reviewed by Linda Honey.

  • 2006.08.20:  Claudio Rosato, Euripide sulla scena latina arcaica. La "Medea" di Ennio e le "Baccanti" di Accio. Lecce: 2005. Pp. 245. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8232-421-4.
    Reviewed by Anastasios Nikolopoulos.

  • 2006.08.21:  Annetta Alexandridis, Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses. Eine Untersuchung ihrer bildlichen Darstellung von Livia bis Iulia Domna. Mainz: 2004. Pp. xv, 432; pls. 64. €75.80. ISBN 3-8053-3304-8.
    Reviewed by Emily A. Hemelrijk.

  • 2006.08.22:  Alain Duplouy, Le Prestige des Élites: Recherches sur les modes de reconnaissance sociale en Grèce entre les Xe et Ve siècles avant J.-C. Paris: 2006. Pp. 418. €37.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-38076-0.
    Reviewed by Timothy Power.

  • 2006.08.23:  Jenifer Neils, The Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xvi, 430. £45.00. ISBN 0-521-82093-6.
    Reviewed by Julia L. Shear.

  • 2006.08.24:  Matthias Gelzer, Pompeius. Lebensbild eines Römers. Neudruck der Ausgabe von 1984 mit einem Forschungsüberblick und einer Ergänzungsbibliographie von Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 244. €29.00. ISBN 3-515-08474-6.
    Reviewed by Timo Stickler.

  • 2006.08.25:  Ralf Scharf, Der Dux Mogontiacensis und die Notitia Dignitatum. Eine Studie zur spätantiken Grenzverteidigung. Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Bd. 50. Berlin/New York: 2005. Pp. 352. €98.00. ISBN 3-11-018835-X.
    Reviewed by Timo Stickler.

  • 2006.08.26:  Maria Carducci Bolchazy, Classical Considerations: Useful Wisdom from Greece and Rome. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. 127; illus. 6. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-618-8.
    Reviewed by Zara. M. Torlone.

  • 2006.08.27:  Evangelos Karakasis, Terence and the Language of Roman Comedy. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xiv, 309. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-84298-0.
    Reviewed by Ariana Traill.

  • 2006.08.28:  Christian Laes, Kinderen bij de Romeinen: Zes Eeuwen Dagelijks Leven. Leuven: 2006. Pp. 343; ills. €24.95. ISBN 90-5826-393-2.
    Reviewed by Beert C. Verstraete.

  • 2006.08.29:  R.M. Dancy, Plato's Introduction of Forms. Cambridge: 2004. Pp. xii, 348. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-83801-0.
    Reviewed by Marina N. Volf.

  • 2006.08.30:  Maria Berg Briese, Leif Erik Vaag, Trade Relations in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity: The Ceramic Evidence. Halicarnassian Studies 3. Odense: 2005. Pp. 256. DKK 250.00. ISBN 87-7838-958-5.
    Reviewed by Jane Francis.

  • 2006.08.31:  Raymond Marks, From Republic to Empire. Scipio Africanus in the Punica of Silius Italicus. Frankfurt am Main: 2005. Pp. 308. $57.95. ISBN 3-631-54584-3.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Kennedy Klaassen.

  • 2006.08.32:  Bernard Gerlaud, Nonnos de Panopolis, Les Dionysiaques. Tome XI, Chants XXXIII-XXXIV. Paris: 2005. Pp. xiii, 267. €47.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-00525-0.
    Reviewed by Gianfranco Agosti.

  • 2006.08.33:  Christopher Howgego, Volker Heuchert, Andrew Burnett, Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xv, 228; pls. 32. $150.00. ISBN 0-9734982-0-X.
    Reviewed by John Aveline.

  • 2006.08.34:  Rose Williams, Vergil for Beginners: A Dual Approach to Early Vergil Study. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. x, 86. $19.00. ISBN 0-86516-628-5.
    Reviewed by Pamela Marin.

  • 2006.08.35:  Dorothea Frede, Brad Inwood, Language and Learning. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xii, 353. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-84181-X.
    Reviewed by Jon Miller.

  • 2006.08.36:  Olson on Nardelli on Olson on Bernabe.
    Response by S. Douglas Olson.

  • 2006.08.37:  Monte Ransome Johnson, Aristotle on Teleology. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xi, 339. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-928530-6.
    Reviewed by Thornton Lockwood.

  • 2006.08.38:  Vera-Elisabeth Hirschmann, Horrenda Secta. Untersuchungen zum frühchristlichen Montanismus und seinen Verbindungen zur paganen Religion Phrygiens. Historia Einzelschriften 179. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 168. €37.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08675-7.
    Reviewed by Peter Van Nuffelen.

  • 2006.08.39:  Giulio Guidorizzi, Marziano Melotti, Orfeo e le sue metamorfosi. Quaderni del D@MS di Torino 4. Rome: 2005. Pp. 189. €18.10. ISBN 88-430-3348-4.
    Reviewed by Rebecca Armstrong.

  • 2006.08.40:  Caroline Lehmler, Syrakus unter Agathokles und Hieron II. Die Verbindung von Kultur und Macht in einer hellenistischen Metropole. Frankfurt am Main: 2005. Pp. 254. €37.90. ISBN 3-938032-07-3.
    Reviewed by José M. González.

  • 2006.08.41:  Lindsay Judson, Vassilis Karasmanis, Remembering Socrates. Philosophical Essays. Oxford: 2006. Pp. viii, 207. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-927613-7.
    Reviewed by Robert Zaborowski.

  • 2006.08.42:  Cristina Servadei, La Figura di Theseus nella Ceramica Attica. Iconografia e Iconologia del Mito nell'Atene Arcaica e Classica. Bologna: 2005. Pp. 286; CD-ROM. €25.00. ISBN 88-7849-005-9.
    Reviewed by Amalia Avramidou.

  • 2006.08.43:  Jeremy Tanner, The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece. Religion, Society and Artistic Rationalisation. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xv, 331; b/w ills. 62. $99.00. ISBN 0-521-84614-5.
    Reviewed by Balbina Baebler.

  • 2006.08.44:  Maria José Strazzulla, Ancient Lebanon: Monuments Past and Present. Los Angeles: 2006. Pp. 71; color ills. 80, map 1, site plans 4, color overlays 16. $29.95. ISBN 88-8162-142-8.
    Reviewed by Michael Decker.

  • 2006.08.45:  Sander M. Goldberg, Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic: Poetry and its Reception. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 249. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-85461-X.
    Reviewed by Denis Feeney.

  • 2006.08.46:  I.J.F. de Jong, A. Rijksbaron, Sophocles and the Greek Language: Aspects of Diction, Syntax and Pragmatics. Mnemosyne Suppl. 269. Leiden: 2006. Pp. xiv, 267. $146.00. ISBN 90-04-14752-7.
    Reviewed by Victor Bers.

  • 2006.08.47:  Laurence Villard, Couleurs et vision dans l'antiquité classique. Rouen: 2002. Pp. 196. €19.00 (pb). ISBN 2-87775-336-0.
    Reviewed by Mark Bradley.

  • 2006.08.48:  Kirk Freudenburg, The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 352. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-00627-9.
    Reviewed by Martha Habash.

  • 2006.08.49:  Pantelis Michelakis, Euripides. Iphigenia at Aulis. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: 2006. Pp. 176. £11.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-2994-8.
    Reviewed by George Adam Kovacs.

  • 2006.08.50:  Anthony R. Birley, The Roman Government of Britain. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xvi, 532. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-925237-8.
    Reviewed by S.J.V. Malloch.

  • 2006.08.51:  János György Szilágyi, In Search of Pelasgian Ancestors: The 1861 Hungarian Excavations in the Apennines. Translated by Péter Agócs. Budapest: 2004. Pp. 219; b/w ills. 66, color ills. 12, fold-out map. ISBN 963-9165-75-1.
    Reviewed by Richard De Puma.

  • 2006.08.52:  V. Cojocaru, Ethnic Contacts and Cultural Exchanges North and West of the Black Sea from the Greek Colonization to the Ottoman Conquest. Iasi: 2005. Pp. 550. ISBN 973-7834-37-2.
    Reviewed by Maya Vassileva.

  • 2006.08.53:  Stefano Medas, De rebus nauticis: L'arte della navigazione nel mondo antico. Rome: 2004. Pp. 234; ills. 91. €70.00. ISBN 88-8265-278-5.
    Reviewed by Boris Dunsch.

  • 2006.08.54:  Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto, Unfreie Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. Eine Einführung. Hildesheim: 2005. Pp. xviii, 417. €48.00. ISBN 3-487-12912-4.
    Reviewed by Walter Scheidel.

  • 2006.08.55:  Sheila Dillon, Katherine E. Welch, Representations of War in Ancient Rome. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. xiv, 365. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-84817-2.
    Reviewed by Josh Levithan.

  • 2006.08.56:  Simonetta Grandolini, Lirica e Teatro in Grecia. Il Testo e la sua ricezione. Atti del II incontro di Studi. Perugia, 23-24 gennaio 2003. Napoli: 2005. Pp. 254. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 88-495-1158-2.
    Reviewed by Sebastiana Nervegna.

  • 2006.08.57:  Nancy Thomson de Grummond, Erika Simon, The Religion of the Etruscans. Austin: 2006. Pp. 225. $50.00. ISBN 0-292-70687-1.
    Reviewed by Alexandra A. Carpino.

  • 2006.08.58:  Coulter H. George, Expressions of Agency in Ancient Greek. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 288. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-84789-3.
    Reviewed by Jonas S. Green.