Reviews for 2007

  • 2007.01.01:  BMCR Books Received (December).


  • 2007.01.02:  Francesca Romana Berno, L. Anneo Seneca. Lettere a Lucilio libro VI: le lettere 53-57. Testi e manuali per l'insegnamento universitario del latino 91. Bologna: 2006. Pp. 419. €32.00. ISBN 88-555-2864-5.
    Reviewed by Andrea Balbo.

  • 2007.01.03:  John Henderson, Plautus, Asinaria, The One about the Asses. Madison, Wisconsin: 2006. Pp. 252. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-299-21994-1.
    Reviewed by Vincent Hunink.

  • 2007.01.04:  Michael C.J. Putnam, Poetic Interplay: Catullus & Horace. Princeton: 2006. Pp. 184. $39.95. ISBN 0-691-12537-6.
    Reviewed by Frédéric Nau.

  • 2007.01.05:  Marietta Horster, Christiane Reitz, Wissensvermittlung in dichterischer Gestalt (Palingenesia Vol. 85). Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 348. €60.00. ISBN 3-515-08698-6.
    Reviewed by Ruth Scodel.

  • 2007.01.06:  Holford-Strevens on Garstad on Mark Anthony Prost, Nonnos of Panopolis: The Paraphrase of the Gospel of John.
    Response by Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

  • 2007.01.07:  Cocrane on van Hooff on John Bulwer, Classics Teaching in Europe.
    Response by John Cochrane.

  • 2007.01.08:  Alastair Minnis, Ian Johnson, The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 2 The Middle Ages. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 865. £160.00. ISBN 0-521-30007-X.
    Reviewed by Francesco Stella.

  • 2007.01.09:  M. Gagarin, D. Cohen, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. v, 480. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-52159-9.
    Reviewed by Joseph A. Almeida.

  • 2007.01.10:  David Grene, Of Farming & Classics: A Memoir. Chicago: 2007. Pp. xii, 169. $30.00. ISBN 0-226-30801-4.
    Reviewed by William M. Calder III.

  • 2007.01.11:  Edward Bispham, Thomas Harrison, Brian A. Sparkes, The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome. Edinburgh: 2006. Pp. xii, 604; numerous figs. £120.00. ISBN 0-7486-1629-2.
    Reviewed by Duncan B. Campbell.

  • 2007.01.12:  Derek Krueger, Byzantine Christianity. A People's History of Christianity, Vol. 3. Minneapolis: 2006. Pp. xx, 272. $35.00. ISBN 0-8006-3413-6.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Garstad.

  • 2007.01.13:  Pietrina Anello, Giuseppe Martorana, Roberto Sammartano, Ethne e religioni nella Sicilia Antica. Atti del convegno (Palermo, 6-7 Dicembre 2000). Supplementi a Kókalos, XVIII. Roma: 2006. Pp. xii, 435; pls. xix. €200.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-190-0.
    Reviewed by Paolo Daniele Scirpo.

  • 2007.01.14:  Fergus Millar, Rome, the Greek World, and the East. Volume 3: The Greek World, the Jews, and the East. Edited by Hannah M. Cotton and Guy M. Rogers. Chapel Hill: 2006. Pp. 552; ills. 4, maps 3. $70.00 (hb). ISBN 0-8078-3030-5.
    Reviewed by Hagith Sivan.

  • 2007.01.15:  ALSO SEEN: Johannes Platschek, Studien zu Ciceros Rede für P. Quinctius. Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und antiken Rechtsgeschichte, 94.
    Orla Mulholland.

  • 2007.01.16:  Rimell on Habash on K. Freudenburg, Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire.
    Response by Victoria Rimell.

  • 2007.01.17:  Charles Delattre, Manuel de mythologie grecque. Pratiques du mythe. Rosny-sous-Bois: 2005. Pp. 319. €19.00. ISBN 2-7495-0477-5.
    Reviewed by Janette Auer.

  • 2007.01.18:  Roger Ling, Lesley Ling, The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii. Vol. II: The Decorations. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 590. $325.00. ISBN 0-19-926695-6.
    Reviewed by John Geyssen.

  • 2007.01.19:  A. Vasileiades, et al., Demetrio stephanos. Timetikos tomos gia ton kathegete Demetre Lupourle. Thessalonike: 2004. Pp. 474. €39.00. ISBN 960-12-1345-7.
    Reviewed by Sophia Papaioannou.

  • 2007.01.20:  Jonathan S. Perry, The Roman Collegia. The Modern Evolution of an Ancient Concept. Mnemosyne Supplement 277. Leiden: 2006. Pp. xii, 247. $129.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15080-5.
    Reviewed by Torrey Seland.

  • 2007.01.21:  Margherita Facella, La dinastia degli Orontidi nella Commagene ellenistico-romana. Studi ellenistici 17. Pisa: 2006. Pp. 508; figs. 65. €165.00 (pb). ISBN 88-427-1116-0.
    Reviewed by Matthew P. Canepa.

  • 2007.01.22:  Anthony R. Birley, Hadrian. Der rastlose Kaiser. Mainz am Rhein: 2006. Pp. 124; ills. 59. €24.90. ISBN 13: 978-3-8053-3656-7.
    Reviewed by Joerg Fuendling.

  • 2007.01.23:  Linda Jones Roccos, Ancient Greek Costume: An Annotated Bibliography, 1784-2005. Jefferson, NC: 2006. Pp. 175. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7864-2274-4.
    Reviewed by Mireille Lee.

  • 2007.01.24:  Barbara Weiden Boyd, Vergil's Aeneid 8 & 11: Italy & Rome. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. 102. $15.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-86516-580-9.
    Reviewed by Dunstan Lowe.

  • 2007.01.25:  Carol Lawton, Marbleworkers in the Athenian Agora. Excavations of Athenian Agora: Picture Book 27. Agora color photographs by Craig A. Mauzy. Princeton: 2006. Pp. 52. $4.95. ISBN 0-87661-645-7.
    Reviewed by Nassos Papalexandrou.

  • 2007.01.26:  Randal S. Howarth, The Origins of Roman Citizenship. Lewiston, NY: 2006. Pp. 248. $109.95. ISBN 978-0-7734-5812-3.
    Reviewed by Thomas C. Rust.

  • 2007.01.27:  ALSO SEEN: Frederick W. Clayton, The Comedies of Terence. Introduced by Matthew Leigh.
    Adrian Gratwick.

  • 2007.01.28:  Vincent Farenga, Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece: Individuals Performing Justice and the Law. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. ix, 592. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-84559-9.
    Reviewed by Geoff Bakewell.

  • 2007.01.29:  Hélène Cuvigny, Ostraca de Krokodilô. La correspondence militaire et sa circulation (O. Krok. 1-151). Praesidia du désert de Bérénice II. Fouilles de l'IFAO 51. Le Caire: 2005. Pp. 283. €35.00. ISBN 2-7247-0370-7.
    Reviewed by Thomas Kruse.

  • 2007.01.30:  Christer Bruun, Interpretare i bolli laterizi di Roma e della valle del Tevere: produzione, storia economica e topografica. Atti del convegno all'Ecole française de Rome e all'Institutum Romanun Finlandiae, 31 marzo e 1 aprile 2000. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 27. Roma: 2005. Pp. 324. €45.00. ISBN 952-5323-10-2.
    Reviewed by Maurizio Buora.

  • 2007.01.31:  Bruno Currie, Pindar and the Cult of Heroes. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xv, 487. £68.00. ISBN 978-0-19-927724-7.
    Reviewed by Franco Ferrari.

  • 2007.01.32:  Heinz Heinen, Vom hellenistischen Osten zum römischen Westen. Ausgewählte Schriften zur Alten Geschichte. Historia Einzelschriften 191. Stuttgart: 2006. Pp. 553. €80.00. ISBN 3-515-08740-0.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2007.01.33:  Kleopatra Ferla, Priene. Second edition. Athens: 2006. Pp. 231. $50.00. ISBN 0-674-01272-0.
    Reviewed by Michael Metcalfe.

  • 2007.01.34:  Nikos P. Bezantakos, Christos C. Tsagalis, Mousaôn archômetha: O Hsiodos kai h archaikê epikê poiesê. Athens: 2006. Pp. 591. €35.00. ISBN 960-16-1897-X.
    Reviewed by Evina Sistakou.

  • 2007.01.35:  Doherty on Calder on David Grene, Of Farming & Classics: A Memoir.
    Response by Lillian Doherty.

  • 2007.01.36:  Leif Carlsson, Round Trips to Heaven: Otherworldly Travelers in Early Judaism and Christianity. Lund Studies in History of Religions, 19. Stockholm: 2004. Pp. 398. $99.50. ISBN 91-22-02106-X.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2007.01.37:  S.P. Oakley, A Commentary on Livy Books VI-X. Volume III. Book IX. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xvi, 758. ISBN 10: 0-19-927143-7.
    Reviewed by S.J. Northwood.

  • 2007.01.38:  R. A. H. King, Common to Body and Soul. Philosophical Approaches to Explaining Living Behaviour in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Berlin: 2006. Pp. 279. €78.00. ISBN 3-11-018333-1.
    Reviewed by Alberto Alonso Guardo.

  • 2007.01.39:  A.J. Boyle, Roman Tragedy. London and New York: 2006. Pp. 303. £12.99 (pb). ISBN 0-415-25103-6.
    Reviewed by Aikaterini Tsoka.

  • 2007.01.40:  Howard D. Weinbrot, Menippean Satire Reconsidered. From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. Baltimore: 2005. Pp. xvi, 375. $60.00. ISBN 0-8018-8210-9.
    Reviewed by Jean-François Vallée.

  • 2007.01.41:  J. M. Hall, A History of the Archaic Greek World ca. 1200-479 BCE. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. xx, 321. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 0-631-22668-0.
    Reviewed by Kostas Vlassopoulos.

  • 2007.01.42:  W. Heckel, Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xxv, 389. £50.00. ISBN 1-4051-1210-7.
    Reviewed by Ian Worthington.

  • 2007.01.43:  Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Platon: Kritias. Platon Werke VIII, 4 (translation and commentary). Göttingen: 2006. Pp. 496. €79.90. ISBN 3-525-30431-5.
    Reviewed by Barbara Sattler.

  • 2007.01.44:  D. Asheri, Erodoto, Le Storie. Libro IX. La battaglia di Platea. Commento aggiornato da P. Vannicelli. Testo critico di A. Corcella. Traduzione di A. Fraschetti. Milan: 2006. Pp. lxxii, 461. €27.00. ISBN 88-04-54918-1.
    Reviewed by Gabriella Vanotti.

  • 2007.01.45:  Maria Wyke, Julius Caesar in Western Culture. Malden, MA: 2006. Pp. 365. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-2599-3.
    Reviewed by Pamela Marin.

  • 2007.02.01:  Jan Assmann, Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt. Translated from the German by David Lorton, abridged and updated by the author. Ithaca: 2005. Pp. 490. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8014-4241-4.
    Reviewed by Barry Powell.

  • 2007.02.02:  Zahra Newby, Athletics in the Ancient World. London: 2006. Pp. 128; b/w ills. 25. $20.00. ISBN 1-85399-688-2.
    Reviewed by James Bradley Wells.

  • 2007.02.03:  Konstantinos Galanakis, Minoan Glyptic: Typology, Deposits and Iconography from the Early Minoan Period to the Late Minoan IB Destruction in Crete. BAR International Series 1442. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xx, 271; figs. 106, colour pls. 2. £46.00. ISBN 1-84171-725-8.
    Reviewed by Judith Weingarten.

  • 2007.02.04:  Joel Allen, Hostages and Hostage-Taking in the Roman Empire. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. xiv, 291; figs. 10. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-86183-7.
    Reviewed by Everett L. Wheeler.

  • 2007.02.05:  Torsten Meissner, s-stem nouns and adjectives in Greek and Proto-Indo-European. A diachronic study in word formation. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xii, 264. ISBN 10: 0-19-928008-8.
    Reviewed by Daniel Kölligan.

  • 2007.02.06:   BMCR Books Received (January).


  • 2007.02.07:  Stefano Ferrucci, Iseo: La Successione di Kiron. Pisa: 2005. Pp. 258. €18.00. ISBN 88-467-1194-7.
    Reviewed by Brenda Griffith-Williams.

  • 2007.02.08:  Myles McDonnell, Roman Manliness: Virtus and the Roman Republic. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. xxi, 481; ills. 11. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-82788-4.
    Reviewed by Bob Kaster.

  • 2007.02.09:  Todd Compton, Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman And Indo-European Myth and History. Washington, DC: 2006. Pp. xvi, 432. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01958-X.
    Reviewed by Mary R. Lefkowitz.

  • 2007.02.10:  Florian Stilp, Die Jacobsthal-Reliefs. Konturierte Tonreliefs aus dem Griechenland der Frühklassik. RdA Supplement 29. Rome: 2006. Pp. xii, 281; pls. 85. €248.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-211-7.
    Reviewed by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway.

  • 2007.02.11:  Michel Costantini, Françoise Graziani, Stéphane Rolet, Le défi de l'art. Philostrate, Callistrate et l'image sophistique. La Licorne 75. Rennes: 2006. Pp. 288. €15.00. ISBN 2-7535-0257-9.
    Reviewed by Laurent Pernot.

  • 2007.02.12:  Steven M. Cerutti, Cicero. Pro Archia Poeta Oratio. Introduction, Text, Vocabulary, and Commentary. Second edition. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. xxvii, 128. $18.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-86516-642-4.
    Reviewed by Christopher S. van den Berg.

  • 2007.02.13:  Rhiannon Ash, Tacitus. Ancients in Action. Bristol: 2006. Pp. 159. £10.99. ISBN 1-85399-687-4.
    Reviewed by Cynthia Damon.

  • 2007.02.14:  Michael Pakaluk, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 342. $27.00. ISBN 0-521-52068-1.
    Reviewed by Richard Kraut.

  • 2007.02.15:  Wendell V. Clausen, James G. Zetzel, Commentum Cornuti in Persium. Munich and Leipzig: 2004. Pp. ix, 201. $96.50. ISBN 3-598-71578-1.
    Reviewed by R. Scott Smith.

  • 2007.02.16:  Frank Sear, Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xxxix, 465; tables 25, plans 451, maps 7, figs. 34, pls. 144. ISBN 10: 0-19-814469-5.
    Reviewed by Mary C. Sturgeon.

  • 2007.02.17:  Ardle MacMahon, Jennifer Price, Roman Working Lives and Urban Living. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 223. £20.00. ISBN 1-84217-186-0.
    Reviewed by Miko Flohr.

  • 2007.02.18:  Bryan Garsten, Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment. Cambridge, MA: 2006. Pp. 276. $45.00. ISBN 0-674-02168-1.
    Reviewed by Bruce Krajewski.

  • 2007.02.19:  Jas Elsner, Ian Rutherford, Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity. Seeing the Gods. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 532. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-925079-0.
    Reviewed by Laura Nasrallah.

  • 2007.02.20:  Veronique Brouquier-Redde, Estelle Bertrand, Marie-Bernadette Chardenoux, Katherine Gruel, Marie-Claude L'Huillier, Mars en Occident: Actes du colloque international "Autour d'allonnes (Sarthe). Les sanctuaires de Mars en Occident". Le Mans, Université du Maine, 4-6 Juin 2003. Archéologie et Culture. Rennes: 2006. Pp. 337. €34.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7535-0207-2.
    Reviewed by Christopher Smith.

  • 2007.02.21:  Stephen L. Dyson, In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts: A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. New Haven: 2006. Pp. xv, 316. $45.00. ISBN 0-300-11097-9.
    Reviewed by David Gill.

  • 2007.02.22:  S. P. Oakley, A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X. Volume IV: Book X. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 672. ISBN 10: 0-19-927256-5.
    Reviewed by Jane D. Chaplin.

  • 2007.02.23:  Rebecca Langlands, Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 408. $99.00. ISBN 0-521-85943-3.
    Reviewed by Lien Foubert.

  • 2007.02.24:  Jason König, Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xix, 398. $110.00. ISBN 0-521-83845-2.
    Reviewed by John Scarborough.

  • 2007.02.25:  Ken Dowden, Zeus. London and New York: 2006. Pp. 164. $22.95. ISBN 0-415-30503-9.
    Reviewed by Mark Alonge.

  • 2007.02.26:  Meike Rühl, Literatur gewordener Augenblick. Die Silven des Statius im Kontext literarischer und sozialer Bedingungen. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 81. Berlin: 2006. Pp. 421. €118.00. ISBN 978-3-11-019112-7.
    Reviewed by Neil W. Bernstein.

  • 2007.02.27:  D. R. Shackleton Bailey, [Quintilian]. The Lesser Declamations. Loeb Classical Library 500-501. Cambridge, MA: 2006. Pp. ix, 467; viii, 445. ISBN 0-674-99618-6.
    Reviewed by Anthony Corbeill.

  • 2007.02.28:  R. Joy Littlewood, A Commentary on Ovid, Fasti, Book 6. Oxford: 2006. Pp. lxxxvi, 259. $115.00. ISBN 0-19-927134-8.
    Reviewed by Peter Davis.

  • 2007.02.29:  Robert C. Hill, Theodore of Mopsuestia. Commentary on Psalms 1-81. Writings from the Greco-Roman World 5. Atlanta: 2006. Pp. xxxviii, 1138. $89.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58983-060-1.
    Reviewed by Augusto Guida.

  • 2007.02.30:  E. V. Alexiou, Isokratês Evagoras: Ermêneutikê Ekdosê. Thessaloniki: 2005. Pp. 259. ISBN 960-12-1412-7.
    Reviewed by Andreas Markantonatos.

  • 2007.02.31:  John Matthews, The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business, and Daily Life in the Roman East. New Haven: 2006. Pp. 244. $60.00. ISBN 0-300-10898-2.
    Reviewed by Richard J.A. Talbert.

  • 2007.02.32:  Valerie M. Warrior, Roman Religion. Cambridge Introduction to Roman Civilization. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 165. $55.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-82511-3.
    Reviewed by Celia E. Schultz.

  • 2007.02.33:  K. Kagan, The Eye of Command. Ann Arbor: 2007. Pp. 271. $24.95. ISBN 0-472-03128-7.
    Reviewed by Michael B. Charles.

  • 2007.02.34:  Tobias Reinhardt, Michael Lapidge, J.N. Adams, Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose. Proceedings of the British Academy, 129. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 514. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-726332-1.
    Reviewed by Rolando Ferri.

  • 2007.02.35:  Paul Dräger, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Homers Ilias (Vorlesung WS 1887/1888 Göttingen). Spudasmata, 109. Hildesheim: 2006. Pp. 440. €78.00. ISBN 3-487-13136-6.
    Reviewed by Edith Foster.

  • 2007.02.36:  Roger D. Woodard, Indo-European Sacred Space. Vedic and Roman Cult. Urbana-Chicago: 2006. Pp. 296. $50.00. ISBN 0-252-02988-7.
    Reviewed by Marco V. García-Quintela.

  • 2007.02.37:  Poulheria Kyriakou, A Commentary on Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris. UaLG 80. Berlin: 2006. Pp. 504. $118.95. ISBN 978-3-11-019099-1.
    Reviewed by H.-C. Günther.

  • 2007.02.38:  Richard J. King, Desiring Rome. Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid's Fasti. Columbus, OH: 2006. Pp. 328. $69.95 (hb). ISBN O-8142-1020-1.
    Reviewed by Peter Keegan.

  • 2007.02.39:  James Morrison, Reading Thucydides. Columbus, OH: 2006. Pp. 282. $49.95 (hb). ISBN 0-8142-1035-2.
    Reviewed by Gerald Mara.

  • 2007.02.40:  William V. Harris, Rethinking the Mediterranean. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 414. $187.50 (hb). ISBN 0-19-9264545-3.
    Reviewed by Claudia Moatti.

  • 2007.02.41:  Craig A. Mauzy, Agora Excavations 1931-2006: A Pictorial History. With contributions by John McK. Camp II. Princeton: 2006. Pp. 128; figs. 256. $15.00. ISBN 0-87661-910-3.
    Reviewed by Nassos Papalexandrou.

  • 2007.02.42:  Garrett G. Fagan, Paul Murgatroyd, From Augustus to Nero: An Intermediate Latin Reader. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 214. $80.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-82120-7.
    Reviewed by Joseph B. Solodow.

  • 2007.02.43:  Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier, Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and his Influence on Thought and Art in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Ithaca: 2006. Pp. xii, 359. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-8014-4396-1.
    Reviewed by Eve A. Browning.

  • 2007.02.44:  Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination. Berkeley: 2006. Pp. xviii, 442. $45.00. ISBN 0-520-24147-9.
    Reviewed by Brent Landau.

  • 2007.02.45:  Judith Ginsburg, Representing Agrippina: Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 147. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-518141-7.
    Reviewed by Kristina Milnor.

  • 2007.02.46:  Dominique Lenfant, Ctésias de Cnide. La Perse. L'Inde. Autres fragments. Collection des Universités de France publiée sous le patronage de l'Association Guillaume Budé. Paris: 2004. Pp. 829; maps 2. €87.00. ISBN 2-251-00518-8.
    Reviewed by Robert Rollinger.

  • 2007.02.47:  Murgatroyd on Solodow on P. Murgatroyd and G.G. Fagan, From Augustus to Nero.
    Response by Paul Murgatroyd.

  • 2007.02.48:  Cinzia Bearzot, Franca Landucci, Diodoro e l'altra Grecia: Macedonia, Occidente, Ellenismo nella Biblioteca storica. Atti del Convegno, Milano, 15-16 gennaio 2004. Milan: 2005. Pp. vii, 423. €30.00. ISBN 88-343-5006-5.
    Reviewed by Catherine Rubincam.

  • 2007.02.49:  Robert Garland, Celebrity in Antiquity: From Media Tarts to Tabloid Queens. London: 2006. Pp. ix, 177. £12.99. ISBN 0-7156-3448-8.
    Reviewed by Amber Scaife.

  • 2007.02.50:  Joseph W. Shaw, Maria C. Shaw, Kommos V: The Monumental Buildings at Kommos. Princeton: 2006. Pp. 948; pls. 356, one color period plan, two color restored views, three fold-out site plans. $195.00. ISBN 0-691-12123-0.
    Reviewed by Paul D. Scotton.

  • 2007.02.51:  Jill Harries, Cicero and the Jurists. From Citizens' Law to the Lawful State. London: 2006. Pp. 256. $70.00. ISBN 0-7156-3432-1.
    Reviewed by Paul Erdkamp.

  • 2007.02.52:  Maria Gabriella Angeli Bertinelli, Angela Donati, Le vie della storia: migrazioni di popoli, viaggi di individui, circolazione di idee nel Mediterraneo antico. Atti del II Incontro Internazionale di Storia Antica (Genova 6-8 ottobre 2004). Serta Antiqua et Mediaevalia IX. Storia Antica V. Roma: 2006. Pp. 405; pls. 6. €160.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-230-3.
    Reviewed by Sara Saba.

  • 2007.02.53:  Loredana Capuis, A. M. Chieco Bianchi, Este II -- La Necropoli di Villa Benvenuti. Monumenti Antichi pubblicati per cura della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, serie monografica volume VII (LXIV della serie generale). Roma: 2006. Pp. 536; pls. 63. €290.00. ISBN 88-7689-232-X.
    Reviewed by Philippe Charlier.

  • 2007.02.54:  Bernard Zimmermann, Die griechische Komödie. Frankfurt: 2006. Pp. 232. €32.90. ISBN 3-938032-10-3.
    Reviewed by Brandon W. Shaw.

  • 2007.03.01:   BMCR Books Received (February).


  • 2007.03.02:  Ricardo Salles, The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism. Burlington, VT: 2005. Pp. x, 132. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-3976-2.
    Reviewed by Marcelo D. Boeri.

  • 2007.03.03:  William E. Mann, Augustine's Confessions: Critical Essays. Lanham, MD: 2006. Pp. xii, 240. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7425-4232-7.
    Reviewed by Kevin Kaatz.

  • 2007.03.04:  Wolfram Ax, Text und Stil. Studien zur antiken Literatur und deren Rezeption. Herausgegeben von Christian Schwarz. Stuttgart: 2006. Pp. 316. €78.00. ISBN 3-515-08825-3.
    Reviewed by Ranja Knöbl.

  • 2007.03.05:  Kostandinos S. Christakis, Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi: Traditions and Trends in the Production and Consumption of Storage Containers in Bronze Age Crete. Prehistory Monographs 18. Philadelphia: 2005. Pp. 214; figs. 45, pls. 28. $60.00. ISBN 1-931534-15-2.
    Reviewed by Charles C. Kolb.

  • 2007.03.06:  Thalia Papadopoulou, Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xi, 229. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-521-85126-8.
    Reviewed by Massimo Magnani.

  • 2007.03.07:  Alessia Bonadeo, Iride: un arco tra mito e natura. Grassina (Firenze): 2004. Pp. 259; ills. 8. €17.30. ISBN 88-00-86092-3.
    Reviewed by Eleni Manolaraki.

  • 2007.03.08:  Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg, Römische Studien: Geschichtsbewusstsein - Zeitalter der Gracchen - Krise der Republik. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 232. München/Leipzig: 2006. Pp. 434. €118.00. ISBN 3-598-77844-9.
    Reviewed by Kresimir Matijevic.

  • 2007.03.09:  Beth Cohen, The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases. Los Angeles: 2006. Pp. xii, 371; map 1. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-89236-571-5.
    Reviewed by J. Michael Padgett.

  • 2007.03.10:  Robert DeMaria, Jr., Robert D. Brown, Classical Literature and Its Reception. An Anthology. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. 523. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-1294-8.
    Reviewed by Grigory Starikovsky.

  • 2007.03.11:  Andrea Tschemplik, The Republic. The Comprehensive Student Edition. Lanham, MD: 2005. Pp. 416. $16.95. ISBN 0-7245-4398-6.
    Reviewed by Lee Trepanier.

  • 2007.03.12:  René Hoven, Lexique de la prose latine de la Renaissance. Avec la collaboration dé Laurent Grailet. Deuxième édition revue et considérablement augmentée. English Translation by Coen Maes, revised by Karin Renard-Jadoul. Leiden: 2006. Pp. lix, 683. €160.00. ISBN 978-90-04-13984-8.
    Reviewed by Marc van der Poel.

  • 2007.03.13:  Donald C. Haggis, Kavousi I: The Archaeological Survey of the Kavousi Region. Prehistory Monographs 16. Philadelphia, PA: 2005. Pp. 165; figs. 69, pls. 39. $80.00. ISBN 1-931534-18-7.
    Reviewed by Saro Wallace.

  • 2007.03.14:  Joseph Roisman, The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens. Berkeley: 2006. Pp. xiv, 199. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-24787-1.
    Reviewed by Andrew Wolpert and Victoria Pagán.

  • 2007.03.15:  Dieter Timpe, Römisch-germanische Begegnung in der späten Republik und frühen Kaiserzeit. Voraussetzungen-Konfrontationen-Wirkungen. Gesammelte Studien. München/Leipzig: 2006. Pp. 470. €98.00. ISBN 978-3-598-77845-2.
    Reviewed by John F. Drinkwater.

  • 2007.03.16:  Maria Plaza, The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire: Laughing and Lying. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 370. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-928111-4.
    Reviewed by Dunstan Lowe.

  • 2007.03.17:  Octavian Bounegru, Trafiquants et navigateurs sur le Bas-Danube et dans le Pont Gauche à l'époque romaine. PHILIPPIKA. Marburger Altertumskundliche Abhandlungen 9. Wiesbaden: 2006. Pp. 197; ills. €59.70. ISBN 3-447-05217-1.
    Reviewed by Elias K. Petropoulos.

  • 2007.03.18:  Jan Felix Gaertner, Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 1. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 624. $175.00. ISBN 978-0-19-927721-6.
    Reviewed by Sanjaya Thakur.

  • 2007.03.19:  Turfa on Turfa on Bartoloni and Delpino (edd.), Oriente e Occidente.
    Response by Jean Turfa.

  • 2007.03.20:  Franz Bücher, Verargumentierte Geschichte. Exempla Romana im politischen Diskurs der späten römischen Republik. Hermes Einzelschriften 96. Stuttgart: 2006. Pp. 363; CD-Rom. €76.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08870-9.
    Reviewed by Yasmina Benferhat.

  • 2007.03.21:  Anna Marguerite McCann, John Peter Oleson, Deep-Water Shipwrecks off Skerki Bank. The 1997 Survey. Journal of Roman Archaeology Suppl. Series, 58. Portsmouth, RI: 2004. Pp. 224; ills. 270. $99.00. ISBN 1-887829-58-X.
    Reviewed by Justin Leidwanger.

  • 2007.03.22:  Holt N. Parker, Censorinus. The Birthday Book. Chicago: 2007. Pp. xiv, 102. $25.00. ISBN 0-226-09974-1.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Stevens.

  • 2007.03.23:  John Fotopoulos, The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune. Supplements to Novum Testamentum 122. Leiden: 2006. Pp. xv, 468. ISBN 10: 90-04-14304-1.
    Reviewed by John A.L. Lee.

  • 2007.03.24:  D. Paniagua Aguilar, Flavio Vegecio Renato: Compendio de técnica militar. Letras Universales. Madrid: 2006. Pp. 399. €10.00. ISBN 84-376-2313-8.
    Reviewed by Michael B. Charles.

  • 2007.03.25:  Pierre Hadot, The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature. Originally published as Le Voile d'Isis: Essai sur l'histoire de l'idée de Nature (Paris: Gallimard, 2004). Translation by Michael Chase. Cambridge, MA: 2006. Pp. 399 (extensive notes and index; no bibliography). $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02316-1.
    Reviewed by Robert J. Dostal.

  • 2007.03.26:  Neil Morpeth, Thucydides' War: Accounting for the Faces of Battle. Spudasmata, Band 112. Hildesheim: 2006. Pp. 348. €49.80. ISBN 3-487-13256-7.
    Reviewed by John Lewis.

  • 2007.03.27:  Gordon P. Kelly, A History of Exile in the Roman Republic. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 260. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-84860-1.
    Reviewed by Cristina Rosillo López.

  • 2007.03.28:  Tobias Reinhardt, Michael Winterbottom, Quintilian Institutio Oratoria Book 2. Introduction, Text, Commentary. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 435. £85.00. ISBN 0-19-926265-9.
    Reviewed by Bé Breij.

  • 2007.03.29:  Enrico Medda, Marina Serena Mirto, Marina Pia Pattoni, Kômôidotragôidia: intersezioni del tragico e del comico nel teatro del V secolo a.C. Pisa: 2006. Pp. xi, 354. ISBN 10: 88-7642-202-1.
    Reviewed by Alan H. Sommerstein.

  • 2007.03.30:  Michael Collier, Georgia Machemer, Euripides: Medea. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 128. $10.95. ISBN 0-19-514566-6.
    Reviewed by W. Tyson Hausdoerffer.

  • 2007.03.31:  Glenn W. Most, Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia. Loeb Classical Library 57. Cambridge, MA: 2006. Pp. 308. $21.50. ISBN 0-674-99622-4.
    Reviewed by Richard Janko.

  • 2007.03.32:  Peter M. Fraser, Elaine Matthews, A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names. Vol. IV. Macedonia, Thrace, Northern Regions of the Black Sea. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xxix, 387. £121.00. ISBN 0-19-927333-2.
    Reviewed by Zosia Archibald.

  • 2007.03.33:  Solodow on Murgatroyd on Solodow on P. Murgatroyd and G.G. Fagan, From Augustus to Nero.
    Response by Joseph B. Solodow.

  • 2007.03.34:  Carl A. Huffman, Archytas of Tarentum, Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xv, 665. $175.00. ISBN 0-521-83746-4.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2007.03.35:  François Hinard, Yasmina Benferhat, Cicéron. Discours (Tome 1.2): Pour Sextus Roscius. "Nouvelle édition". Paris: 2006. Pp. cviii, 111. €35.00. ISBN 10: 2-251-01444-6.
    Reviewed by Paul B. Harvey, Jr..

  • 2007.03.36:  J. C. Yardley, Livy: Hannibal's war (books 21-30). With an introduction and notes by Dexter Hoyos. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xlviii, 740. $15.95. ISBN 0-19-283159-3.
    Reviewed by John Jacobs.

  • 2007.03.37:  Francesco Paolo Rizzo, Sicilia cristiana dal I al V secolo. Volume Primo. Testimonia Siciliae Antiquae I.14; Supplementi a Kokalos 17. Rome: 2005. Pp. 268. €85.00. ISBN 88-7689-191-9.
    Francesco Paolo Rizzo, Gli albori della Sicilia cristiana. Secoli I-V. Temi e luoghi del mondo antico 17. Bari: 2005. Pp. 280. €26.00. ISBN 88-7228-443-0.
    Reviewed by R. J. A. Wilson.

  • 2007.03.38:  McDonnell on Kaster on M. McDonnell, Roman Manliness: Virtus and the Roman Republic.
    Response by Myles McDonnell.

  • 2007.03.39:  Brian W. Breed, Pastoral Inscriptions: Reading and Writing Virgil's Eclogues. London: 2006. Pp. viii, 199. $31.00. ISBN 0-7156-3449-6.
    Reviewed by Richard Hunter.

  • 2007.03.40:  Benferhat on Harvey on François Hinard and Yasmina Benferhat, Cicéron. Discours (Tome 1.2): Pour Sextus Roscius.
    Response by Yasmina Benferhat.

  • 2007.03.41:  Kurt A. Raaflaub, Josiah Ober, Robert W. Wallace, Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece. With chapters by Paul Cartledge and Cynthia Farrar. Berkeley: 2007. Pp. xii, 242. ISBN 10: 0-520-24562-8.
    Reviewed by P. J. Rhodes.

  • 2007.04.01:  BMCR Books Received (March).


  • 2007.04.02:  Hinard on Harvey on François Hinard and Yasmina Benferhat, Cicéron. Discours (Tome 1.2): Pour Sextus Roscius.
    Response by François Hinard.

  • 2007.04.03:  Dorothee Elm von der Osten, Jörg Rüpke, Katharina Waldner, Texte als Medium und Reflexion von Religion im römischen Reich. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 14. Stuttgart: 2006. Pp. 260. €49.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08641-2.
    Reviewed by Peter Van Nuffelen.

  • 2007.04.04:  William Hutton, Describing Greece. Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 372. $95.00. ISBN 0-521-84720-6.
    Reviewed by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge.

  • 2007.04.05:  Claude Calame, Pratiques poétiques de la memoire. Représentations de l'espace-temps en Grèce ancienne. Paris: 2006. Pp. 322. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7071-4798-2.
    Reviewed by E.M. Griffiths.

  • 2007.04.06:  Donald G. Kyle, Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. xviii, 403. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 0-631-22971-X.
    Reviewed by Mark Golden.

  • 2007.04.07:  Josef Wiesehöfer, Theodor Mommsen: Gelehrter, Politiker und Literat, unter Mitarbeit von Henning Börm. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 259. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08719-2.
    Reviewed by Corinne Bonnet.

  • 2007.04.08:  J. Angelo Corlett, Interpreting Plato's Dialogues. Las Vegas: 2005. Pp. 150. $28.00. ISBN 1-930972-02-4.
    Reviewed by Joe McCoy.

  • 2007.04.09:  A. Bonadeo, Mito e natura allo specchio: L'eco nel pensiero greco e latino. Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell' Università di Pavia 103. Pisa: 2003. Pp. 164; pls. 14. €13.00. ISBN 88-467-0807-5.
    Reviewed by Robert Tordoff.

  • 2007.04.10:  Robert A. Kaster, Emotion, Restraint,and Community in Ancient Rome. Oxford and New York: 2005. Pp. xiv, 245. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-514078-8.
    Reviewed by Matthew B. Roller.

  • 2007.04.11:  Fred S. Kleiner, A History of Roman Art. Belmont, CA: 2007. Pp. 340. $85.95. ISBN 0-534-63846-5.
    Reviewed by Lee Ann Riccardi.

  • 2007.04.12:  Matthias Baltes, EPINOHMATA. Kleine Schriften zur antiken Philosophie und homerischen Dichtung, herausgeben von Marie-Luise Lakmann. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 221. München - Leipzig: 2005. Pp. xxii, 329. € 88.00. ISBN 3-598-77833-3.
    Reviewed by Christoph Helmig.

  • 2007.04.13:  Francesco Paolo Rizzo, Sicilia cristiana. Dal I al V secolo (Volume II). Supplementi a Kokalos, XVII. Roma: 2006. Pp. 268; 371. €85.00. ISBN 88-7689-229-X.
    Reviewed by Paolo Daniele Scirpo.

  • 2007.04.14:  Addendum to Jacobs on J. C. Yardley (trans.), Livy: Hannibal's war (books 21-30).
    Response by John Jacobs.

  • 2007.04.15:  Cédric Brélaz, La sécurité publique en Asie Mineure sous le Principat (Ier-IIIème s. ap. J.-C.). Basel: 2005. Pp. xii, 530. €82.50. ISBN 3-7965-2200-9.
    Reviewed by Thomas Corsten.

  • 2007.04.16:  Phillip Harding, Didymos: On Demosthenes. Clarendon Ancient History Series. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 286. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-928359-1.
    Reviewed by Judson Herrman.

  • 2007.04.17:  Stephen Harrison, Michael Paschalis, Stavros Frangoulidis, Metaphor and the Ancient Novel. Ancient Narrative Supplementum 4. Groningen: 2005. Pp. xiii, 281. €60.00. ISBN 90-77922-03-2.
    Reviewed by Gillian McIntosh.

  • 2007.04.18:  Werner Krenkel, Naturalia non turpia. Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome. Schriften zur antiken Kultur- und Sexualwissenschaft. Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Bernard und Christiane Reitz. Spudasmata, 113. Hildesheim: 2006. Pp. 560; ills. 12. €78.00. ISBN 978-3-487-13272-3.
    Reviewed by Michael Fontaine.

  • 2007.04.19:  Rainer Knab, Platons Siebter Brief. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Spudasmata, Band 110. Hildesheim/Zurich/New York: 2006. Pp. vi, 337. €48.00. ISBN 3-487-13168-4.
    Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson.

  • 2007.04.20:  Woldemar Görler, Kleine Schriften zur hellenistisch-römischen Philosophie. Edited by Christoph Catrein. Philosophia Antiqua, XCV. Leiden/Boston: 2004. Pp. 379. $144.00. ISBN 90-04-13736-X.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2007.04.21:  Alessandro Perutelli, Ulisse nella cultura romana. Firenze: 2006. Pp. xi, 134. €11.50 (pb). ISBN 88-00-86073-7.
    Reviewed by Kris Fletcher.

  • 2007.04.22:  David Mattingly, An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire. London: 2006. Pp. 622. ISBN 10: 0-713-99063-5.
    Reviewed by Renate Kurzmann.

  • 2007.04.23:  John Boardman, The History of Greek Vases. Potters, Painters and Pictures. London: 2006. Pp. 320; ills. 358. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-500-28593-4.
    Reviewed by Mary B. Moore.

  • 2007.04.24:  Marina Rubinich, Ceramica e coroplastica dalla Magna Grecia nella Collezione de Brandis. Cataloghi e Monografie Archeologiche dei Civici Musei di Udine, 8. Trieste: 2006. Pp. 285. €80.00. ISBN 88-8018-40-9.
    Reviewed by Christopher Smith.

  • 2007.04.25:  James A. Arieti, Roger M. Barrus, Plato, Gorgias. Newburyport, MA: 2007. Pp. ix, 236. $12.95. ISBN 978-1-58510-243-3.
    Reviewed by Raphael Woolf.

  • 2007.04.26:  J. H. Blok, A. P. M. H. Lardinois, Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches. Brill: 2006. Pp. 476. $199.00. ISBN 90-04-14954-6.
    Reviewed by B. M. Lavelle.

  • 2007.04.27:  Angiola Maria Volpi, Sources et influences classiques dans la poésie de Dryden. Paris: 2002. Pp. 600. €56.00. ISBN 2-284-04402-6.
    Reviewed by Victoria T. Larson.

  • 2007.04.28:  Stelios Ramfos, Fate and Ambiguity in Oedipus the King. Translated by Norman Russell. Boston: 2006. Pp. 185. $19.95. ISBN 0-9724661-9-3.
    Reviewed by Kevin Hawthorne.

  • 2007.04.29:  M. Jehne, R. Pfeilschifter, Herrschaft ohne Integration? Rom und Italien in republikanischer Zeit. Studien zur Alten Geschichte 4. Frankfurt am Main: . Pp. 336. ISBN 10: 3-938032-11-1.
    Reviewed by Roman Roth.

  • 2007.04.30:  Gavrilov et al. on Corpus Inscriptionum Regni Bosporani: Album Imaginum.
    Response by Alexander Gavrilov, Natalia Pavlichenko, and Denis Keyer.

  • 2007.04.31:  E. Lelli, Callimaco. Giambi XIV-XVII. Roma: 2005. Pp. x, 217. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8476-018-6.
    Reviewed by Markus Asper.

  • 2007.04.32:  William W. Fortenbaugh, Aristotle's Practical Side. On his Psychology, Ethics, Politics and Rhetoric. Leiden: 2006. Pp. xii, 484. $194.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15164-2.
    Reviewed by Priscilla Sakezles.

  • 2007.04.33:  Pascal Darcque, L'habitat mycénien. Formes et fonctions de l'espace bäti en Grèce continentale à la fin du IIe millénaire avant J.-C. BEFAR, 319. Paris: 2005. Pp. 450; figs. 113, pls. 163. €90.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86958-189-0.
    Reviewed by Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood.

  • 2007.04.34:  Paolo Cipolla, Studi sul Teatro Greco. Supplementi di Lexis, XL. Amsterdam: 2006. Pp. 149. €36.00. ISBN 90-256-1211-3.
    Reviewed by Daniela Summa.

  • 2007.04.35:  James Evans, J. Lennart Berggren, Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena. A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Survey of Astronomy. Princeton: 2006. Pp. 325. $49.50. ISBN 0-691-12339-X.
    Reviewed by Jacqueline Feke.

  • 2007.04.36:  Andreas Hagmaier, M. A. Muret, Iulius Caesar, M. Virdung, Brutus: Zwei Neulateinische Tragödien, Text, Übersetzung und Interpretation. Munich: 2006. Pp. 336. €84.00. ISBN 3-598-77847-3.
    Reviewed by Anne Mahoney.

  • 2007.04.37:  Tanja Itgenshorst, Tota illa pompa. Der Triumph in der römischen Republik. Hypomnemata 161. Göttingen: 2005. Pp. 300; CD-Rom. €69.90. ISBN 3-525-25260-9.
    Reviewed by Ida Östenberg.

  • 2007.04.38:  Stefano Amendola, Donne e Preghiera: Le preghiere dei personaggi femminili nelle tragedie superstiti di Eschilo. Supplementi di Lexis, XXXVIII. Amsterdam: 2006. Pp. 133. €36.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-1206-7.
    Reviewed by C. Michael Sampson.

  • 2007.04.39:  Giuseppina Magnaldi, Parola d'autore, parola di copista. Usi correttivi ed esercizi di scuola nei codici di Cic. Phil. 1.1 -13.10. Minima Philologica: Collana di edizioni critiche e commenti diretta da Lucio Bertelli e Gian Franco Gianotti, Serie Latina 2. Alessandria: 2004. Pp. 280. €20.00. ISBN 88-7694-742-6.
    Reviewed by María Eugenia Steinberg.

  • 2007.04.40:  Giuseppe Lentini, Il 'padre di Telemaco': Odisseo tra Iliade e Odissea. Biblioteca di 'Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici', 18. Pisa: 2006. Pp. 215. €92.00. ISBN 88-427-1450-X.
    Reviewed by Christian Werner.

  • 2007.04.41:  Warren S. Smith, Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: from Plautus to Chaucer. Ann Arbor: 2005. Pp. xiv, 295. $70.00. ISBN 0-472-11426-3.
    Reviewed by Vibeke Roggen.

  • 2007.04.42:  Susan Walker, Sally-Ann Ashton, Cleopatra. Ancients in Action. London: 2006. Pp. 125. $20.00 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-673-4.
    Reviewed by Susan Sorek.

  • 2007.04.43:  Irene Bald Romano, Classical Sculpture: Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek, and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia, PA: 2006. Pp. xii, 332; CD-ROM. $59.95. ISBN 1-931707-84-7.
    Reviewed by David Gill.

  • 2007.04.44:  Danielle A. Parks, The Roman Coinage of Cyprus. Nicosia: 2004. Pp. 316. CY£26.25. ISBN 9963-9070-0-8.
    Reviewed by John Aveline.

  • 2007.04.45:  Kasia Szpakowska, Through A Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams and Prophesy in Ancient Egypt. Swansea: 2006. Pp. 274. $90.00. ISBN 1-905125-08-9.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Waraksa.

  • 2007.04.46:  A.P. David, The Dance of the Muses: Choral Theory and Ancient Greek Poetics. New York: 2006. Pp. 284. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-19-929240-0.
    Reviewed by Ronald J.J. Blankenborg.

  • 2007.04.47:  Carolyn Dewald, John Marincola, The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 378. $75.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-83001-X.
    Reviewed by Jessica Evans.

  • 2007.04.48:  Pascale Fleury, Lectures de Fronton: Un rhéteur latin à l'époque de la Seconde Sophistique. Paris: 2006. Pp. ix, 375. ISBN 10: 2-251-32661-8.
    Reviewed by Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

  • 2007.04.49:  Marco Fucecchi, Una guerra in Colchide. Valerio Flacco, Argonautiche 6,1-426. Pisa: 2006. Pp. 385. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-467-1442-8.
    Reviewed by Gauthier Liberman.

  • 2007.04.50:  Stanley Lombardo, Virgil. The Essential Aeneid. Indianapolis: 2006. Pp. 212. $6.95. ISBN 0-87220-790-0.
    Reviewed by Joanne McNamara.

  • 2007.04.51:  Alessandro Fusi, M. Valerii Martialis epigrammaton liber tertius. Introduzione, edizione critica, traduzione e commento. Spudasmata 108. Zürich-New York: 2006. Pp. 580. €88.00. ISBN 3-487-13094-7.
    Reviewed by Rosario Moreno Soldevila.

  • 2007.04.52:  Francesca Delneri, I culti misterici stranieri nei frammenti della comedia attica antica. Bologna: 2006. Pp. 450. €37.00. ISBN 88-555-2897-1.
    Reviewed by Kostas Vlassopoulos.

  • 2007.04.53:  P.J. Heslin, The Transvestite Achilles. Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. xx, 349. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-85145-9.
    Reviewed by Bob Cowan.

  • 2007.04.54:  Karla F.L. Pollmann, Statius, Thebaid 12: Introduction, Text, and Commentary. Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums. Neue Folge. 1. Reihe, Band 25. Paderborn: 2004. Pp. 311. €59.00. ISBN 3-506-71783-9.
    Reviewed by Bob Cowan.

  • 2007.04.55:  R. Jung, XRONOLOGIA COMPARATA. Vergleichende Chronologie von Südgriechenland und Süditalien von ca. 1700/1600 bis 1000 v.u.Z. Wien: 2006. Pp. 260. ISBN 10: 3-7001-3729-X.
    Reviewed by Elisabetta Borgna.

  • 2007.04.56:  Hasan Dedeoglu, The Lydians and Sardis. Istanbul: 2003. Pp. 118; maps 3, color figs. 110, b/w figs. 11. £30.00. ISBN 975-7199-99-0.
    Reviewed by Catherine M. Draycott.

  • 2007.04.57:  L. Prauscello, Singing Alexandria. Music Between Practice and Textual Transmission. Leiden: 2006. Pp. 241. $146.00. ISBN 90-04-14985-6.
    Reviewed by Liana Lomiento.

  • 2007.04.58:  Mogens Herman Hansen, The Shotgun Method: The Demography of the Ancient Greek City-State Culture. Columbia and London: 2006. Pp. ix, 140. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-8262-1667-0.
    Reviewed by Peter Hunt.

  • 2007.04.59:  Mogens Herman Hansen, Studies in the Population of Aigina, Athens and Eretria. Historisk-filosofiske Meddelelser 94. Copenhagen: 2006. Pp. 99. DKK 80.00 (pb). ISBN 87-7304-326-5.
    Reviewed by Danielle L. Kellogg.

  • 2007.04.60:  Nicoletta Francesca Berrino, Mulier potens: realtà femminili nel mondo antico. Historie: Collana di Studi e monumenti per le scienze dell'antichità 4. Galatina (Lecce): 2006. Pp. 198. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8086-656-7.
    Reviewed by Carolyn Osiek.

  • 2007.04.61:  Victoria Rimell, Ovid's Lovers: Desire, Difference, and the Poetic Imagination. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 235. $90.00. ISBN 13: 978-0-521-86219-6.
    Reviewed by Jennifer Ingleheart.

  • 2007.04.62:  L. Gagliardi, Mobilità e integrazione delle persone nei centri cittadini romani -- Aspetti giuridici -- I -- La classificazione degli incolae. Milano: 2006. Pp. 584. €60.00. ISBN 88-14-12232-6.
    Reviewed by Maria Federica Petraccia.

  • 2007.04.63:  Roger Beck, A Brief History of Ancient Astrology. Brief Histories of the Ancient World. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. xi, 159. ISBN 10: 1-4051-1087-2.
    Reviewed by Joanna Komorowska.

  • 2007.04.64:  Thomas Bénatouïl, Faire usage: la pratique du stoïcisme. Histoire des doctrines de l'antiquité classique 35. Paris: 2006. Pp. 364. €38.00. ISBN 2-7116-1840-4.
    Reviewed by Jula Wildberger.

  • 2007.04.65:  Audano et al. on Fletcher on Perutelli, Ulisse nella cultura romana.
    Response by Sergio Audano, Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica (sergioaudano@libero.it); Alberto Cavarzere, Università di Verona (cavar@interfree.it); Fabio Gasti, Università di Pavia (gasti@unipv.it); Giancarlo Mazzoli, Università di Pavia (gmazzoli@unipv.it); Gabriella Moretti, Università di Trento (gabrimoretti@libero.it); Emanuele Narducci, Università di Firenze (emanuele.narducci@tin.it); Rita Degl'Innocenti Pierini, Università di Firenze (rpierini@unifi.it); Alessandro Russo.

  • 2007.04.66:  Carmen González Vásquez, Diccionario del Teatro Latino. Léxico, dramaturgia, escenografía. Madrid: 2004. Pp. xxi, 334. ISBN 84-7882-519-3.
    Reviewed by Esther Paglialunga.

  • 2007.04.67:  Giampiero Scafoglio, L'Astyanax di Accio: Saggio sul background mitografico, testo critico e commento dei frammenti. Collection Latomus, 295. Bruxelles: 2006. Pp. 157. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 2-87031-236-9.
    Reviewed by Bob Cowan.

  • 2007.04.68:  Corinne Ondine Pache, Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece. Urbana and Chicago: 2004. Pp. 234; b/w figs. 68. $40.00. ISBN 0-252-02929-1.
    Reviewed by Lesley A. Beaumont.

  • 2007.04.69:  Martin Revermann, Comic Business: Theatricality, Dramatic Technique, and Performance Contexts of Aristophanic Comedy. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xiv, 396. $115.00. ISBN 0-19-815271-X.
    Reviewed by Ralph M. Rosen.

  • 2007.04.70:  R.R.R. Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias. Aphrodisias II. Mainz am Rhein: 2006. Pp. xiv, 338; figs. 27, b/w pls. 163. €76.80. ISBN 3-8053-3527-X.
    Reviewed by Jeremy Tanner.

  • 2007.04.71:  John T. Fitzgerald, Thomas H. Olbricht, L. Michael White, Early Christianity and Classical Culture: Comparative Studies in Honor of Abraham J. Malherbe. Leiden: 2003. Pp. 740. $211.00. ISBN 90-04-13022-5.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Digeser.

  • 2007.05.01:  BMCR Books Received (April).


  • 2007.05.02:  Murgatroyd on Solodow on Murgatroyd on Solodow on P. Murgatroyd and G.G. Fagan, From Augustus to Nero.
    Response by Paul Murgatroyd.

  • 2007.05.03:  Cesare Zizza, Le iscrizioni nella Periegesi di Pausania. Commento ai testi epigrafici. Pisa: 2006. Pp. 518. €32.00. ISBN 88-467-1598-5.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2007.05.04:  Emmanuèle Caire, Sylvie Pittia, Guerre et diplomatie romaines (IVe - IIIe siècles). Pour un réexamen des sources. Aix-en-Provence: 2006. Pp. 328. €29.00. ISBN 2-85399-649-2.
    Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi.

  • 2007.05.05:  Dwyer on Marin on Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence, Pompeii. The Living City.
    Response by Eugene Dwyer.

  • 2007.05.06:  Pia Guldager Bilde, Vladimir F. Stolba, Surveying the Greek Chora: The Black Sea Region in a Comparative Perspective. Black Sea Studies, 4. Denmark: 2006. Pp. 346. €39.95. ISBN 87-7934-238-8.
    Reviewed by Elias K. Petropoulos.

  • 2007.05.07:  G. Messineo, E. Borgia, Ancient Sicily, Monuments Past and Present. Rome: 2006. Pp. 72; color ills. 95, map 1, site plans 2, color overlays 17. ISBN 10: 88-8162-147-9.
    Reviewed by Brian E. McConnell.

  • 2007.05.08:  Trevor Curnow, Ancient Philosophy and Everyday Life. Newcastle: 2006. Pp. x, 98. $49.99. ISBN 1-84718-042-6.
    Reviewed by Jakub Jirsa.

  • 2007.05.09:  Devin Stauffer, The Unity of Plato's Gorgias: Rhetoric, Justice, and the Philosophic Life. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. vii, 191. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-85847-X.
    Reviewed by Dustin A. Gish.

  • 2007.05.10:  Philomen Probert, Ancient Greek Accentuation. Synchronic Patterns, Frequency Effects, and Prehistory. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xxvi, 444. $150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-927960-9.
    Reviewed by James Clackson.

  • 2007.05.11:  Bissera V. Pentcheva, Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium. University Park, PA: 2006. Pp. xviii, 302. $60.00. ISBN 0-271-02551-2.
    Reviewed by Rossitza B. Schroeder.

  • 2007.05.12:  David on Blankenborg on A.P. David, The Dance of the Muses: Choral Theory And Ancient Greek Poetics.
    Response by A.P. David.

  • 2007.05.13:  U. Fantasia, Tucidide. La guerra del Peloponneso. Libro II, testo, traduzione e commento con saggio introduttivo. Studi e testi di storia antica, 14. Pisa: 2003. Pp. 648. €28.00. ISBN 88-467-0582-3.
    Reviewed by Nino Luraghi.

  • 2007.05.14:  Prauscello on Lomiento on L. Prauscello, Singing Alexandria. Music Between Practice and Textual Transmission.
    Response by L. Prauscello.

  • 2007.05.15:  Benjamin W. Fortson IV, Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction. Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics, 19. Malden, MA: 2004. Pp. xviii, 468. $44.95. ISBN 1-4051-0316-7.
    Reviewed by Gary Holland.

  • 2007.05.16:  Roger S. Bagnall, Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot: 2006. Pp. 352; figs. 6. ISBN 10: 0-7546-5906-2.
    Reviewed by Pablo Ubierna and Diego M. Santos.

  • 2007.05.17:  Malcolm Schofield, Plato: Political Philosophy. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 384. $35.00. ISBN 0-19-924946-6.
    Reviewed by Edward Moore.

  • 2007.05.18:  Guido Bastianini, Michael Haslam, Herwig Maehler, Franco Montanari, Cornelia E. Römer, Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in Papyris reperta (CLGP), adiuvante Marco Stroppa, Pars I: Commentaria et Lexica in auctores; vol. 1, fasc.4: Aristophanes - Bacchylides. München / Leipzig: 2006. Pp. xxxii, 310; pls. 8. €138.00. ISBN 13: 978-3-598-73054-2.
    Reviewed by William Slater.

  • 2007.05.19:  Robert M. Frakes, DePalma Digeser, Religious Identity in Late Antiquity. Toronto: 2006. Pp. 290. $82.50. ISBN 0-88866-653-5.
    Reviewed by Lucy Grig.

  • 2007.05.20:  David Ivan Rankin, From Clement to Origen: The Social and Historical Context of the Church Fathers. Burlington, VT: 2006. Pp. 171. $89.95. ISBN 0-7546-5716-7.
    Reviewed by Patrick Maille.

  • 2007.05.21:  C.C.W. Taylor, Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Books II-IV. Clarendon Aristotle Series. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xxiv, 258. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-825067-3.
    Reviewed by Peter Aronoff.

  • 2007.05.22:  Susan D. Collins, Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 206. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-86046-6.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Meilaender.

  • 2007.05.23:  Ulrich Schmitzer, Suus cuique mos. Studien zur paganen Kultur des lateinischen Westens im 4. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Vertumnus, Berliner Beiträge zur Klassischen Philologie und zu ihren Nachbargebieten, Band 1. Ruprecht: 2006. Pp. 252. €39.90. ISBN 3-89744-242-6.
    Reviewed by Benjamin Goldlust.

  • 2007.05.24:  C. Sotinel, Identité civique et Christianisme: Aquilée du IIIe au VIe siècle. Rome: 2005. Pp. 458. €53.00. ISBN 2-7283-0735-0.
    Reviewed by Lucy Grig.

  • 2007.05.25:  Stephen Harrison, The Cambridge Companion to Horace. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xiii, 381. $27.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-53684-4.
    Reviewed by Niall Rudd.

  • 2007.05.26:  Jacqueline Champeaux, Arnobe. Contre les gentils (Contre les païens). Livre III. Collection des Universités de France. Paris: 2007. Pp. xlv, 175. €35.00. ISBN 978-2-251-01445-6.
    Reviewed by Marie-Pierre Bussières.

  • 2007.05.27:  Richard McKeon, The Selected Writings of Richard McKeon. Volume II: Culture, Education, and the Arts. Edited by Zahava K. McKeon and William G. Swenson, introduction by Wayne Booth. Chicago: 2005. Pp. xxv, 368. $50.00. ISBN 0-226-56038-4.
    Reviewed by William Michell.

  • 2007.05.28:  John Lewis, Solon the Thinker. Political Thought in Archaic Athens. London: 2006. Pp. ix, 178. $70.00. ISBN 0-7156-3456-9.
    Reviewed by Zinon Papakonstantinou.

  • 2007.05.29:  Michael von Albrecht, Vergil: Bucolica - Georgica - Aeneis. Eine Einführung. Heidelberger Studienhefte zur Altertumwissenschafts. Heidelberg: 2006. Pp. vi, 235. €19.00. ISBN 3-8253-5265-X.
    Reviewed by Giampiero Scafoglio.

  • 2007.05.30:  Nathan Rosenstein, Robert Morstein-Marx, A Companion to the Roman Republic. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xxx, 737. ISBN 10: 1-4051-0217-9.
    Reviewed by S. J. Northwood.

  • 2007.05.31:  Leonid Zhmud, The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity. Peripatoi. Philologisch-historische Studien zum Aristotelismus, 19. Berlin: 2006. Pp. xii, 332. ISBN 10: 3-11-017966-0.
    Reviewed by Vito Lorusso.

  • 2007.05.32:  G. Davies, Roman Siege Works. Stroud: 2006. Pp. 160; figs. 49, pls. 17. £18.99. ISBN 0-7524-2897-7.
    Reviewed by Duncan B. Campbell.

  • 2007.05.33:  Richard Kalmin, Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine: Decoding the Literary Record. New York: 2006. Pp. 300. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-19-530619-4.
    Reviewed by Susan Marks.

  • 2007.05.34:  H. Nikitinski, David Ruhnkenius: Elogium Tiberii Hemsterhusii. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: 2006. Pp. 41; pls. 2. €32.00. ISBN 978-3-598-71322-4.
    Reviewed by David Butterfield.

  • 2007.05.35:  Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar, Life of a Colossus. New Haven: 2006. Pp. 519. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-300-12048-6.
    Reviewed by Josh Levithan.

  • 2007.05.36:  George E. Karamanolis, Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry. Oxford: 2006. Pp. x, 419. $90.00. ISBN 0-19-926456-2.
    Reviewed by Julien Villeneuve.

  • 2007.05.37:  Kinuko Hasegawa, The Familia Urbana during the Early Empire. A Study of Columbaria Inscriptions. BAR International Series 1440. Oxford: 2005. Pp. iv, 115; ills. 28. ISBN 10: 1-84171-876-9.
    Reviewed by Peter Keegan.

  • 2007.05.38:  Christoph Schäfer, Kleopatra. Gestalten der Antike. Darmstadt: 2006. Pp. 335. €34.90. ISBN 3-534-15418-5.
    Reviewed by Jean A. Straus.

  • 2007.05.39:  Viccy Coltman, Fabricating the Antique: Neoclassicism in Britain. Chicago and London: 2006. Pp. xii, 256. $48.00. ISBN 0-226-11396-5.
    Reviewed by Jeffrey Collins.

  • 2007.05.40:  Michael Kulikowski, Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xii, 225; maps. $25.00. ISBN 0-521-84633-1.
    Reviewed by Michael J. Kelly.

  • 2007.05.41:  Maurizio Buora, Luca Villa, Goti nell'arco alpino orientale. Archeologia di Frontiera 5. Udine: 2006. Pp. 184. €20.00. ISBN 88-88018-45-X.
    Reviewed by Michael Kulikowski.

  • 2007.05.42:  A. A. Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus: Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xv, 439. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-927912-8.
    Reviewed by Nathan Powers.

  • 2007.05.43:  Mark Edwards, Culture and Philosophy in the Age of Plotinus. Classical Literature and Society Series. London: 2006. Pp. 198. $31.00. ISBN 0-7156-3563-8.
    Reviewed by Giannis Stamatellos.

  • 2007.05.44:  BMCR Books Received (May).


  • 2007.06.01:  Montana on Slater on Guido Bastianini, Michael Haslam, Herwig Maehler, Franco Montanari, Cornelia E. Römer, Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in Papyris reperta (CLGP) Pars I: Commentaria et Lexica in auctores; vol. 1, fasc.4: Aristophanes-Bacchylides.
    Response by Fausto Montana.

  • 2007.06.02:  Marianne Heidenreich, Christian Gottlob Heyne und die alte Geschichte. München & Leipzig: 2006. Pp. 647. €110.00. ISBN 978-3-598-77841-4.
    Reviewed by Dirk t.D. Held.

  • 2007.06.03:  Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Brill's New Pauly. Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World - Antiquity, Vol. 9 (Mini-Obe). English edition. Leiden: 2006. Pp. lvi, 472. ISBN 10: 90-04-12272-9.
    Reviewed by Hagith Sivan.

  • 2007.06.04:  Peter Sarris, Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. viii, 258. ISBN 10: 0-521-86543-3.
    Reviewed by M. Shane Bjornlie.

  • 2007.06.05:  Jens-Uwe Krause, Christian Witschel, Die Stadt in der Spätantike -- Niedergang oder Wandel? Akten des internationalen Kolloquiums in München am 30. und 31. Mai 2003. Historia Einzelschriften Bd. 190. Stuttgart: 2006. Pp. 492. €68.00. ISBN 13: 978-3-515-08810-7.
    Reviewed by Jason Moralee.

  • 2007.06.06:  Annette Harder, Martijn Cuypers, Beginning from Apollo. Studies in Apollonius Rhodius and the Argonautic Tradition. Leuven: 2005. Pp. xii, 156. €30.00. ISBN 90-429-1629-X.
    Reviewed by Wolfgang Polleichtner.

  • 2007.06.07:  Oliensis on Rudd on Stephen Harrison, The Cambridge Companion to Horace.
    Response by Ellen Oliensis.

  • 2007.06.08:  Eleanor Dickey, Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica and Grammatical Treatises, from their Beginnings to the Byzantine Period. An American Philological Association Book. London and New York: 2007. Pp. 368. £45.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-531292-8.
    Reviewed by William Slater.

  • 2007.06.09:  Luc Brisson, Jean-François Pradeau, Platon. Les Lois. Vol. 1: Livres I à VI. Vol. 2: Livres VII à XII. Traduction, introduction et notes. Paris: 2006. Pp. 457; 426. €9.80 (vol. 1). ISBN 2-08-071059-1.
    Reviewed by Pedro de Blas.

  • 2007.06.10:  Tobias Gregory, From Many Gods to One. Divine Action in Renaissance Epic. Chicago: 2006. Pp. 240. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-226-30755-8.
    Reviewed by Pramit Chaudhuri.

  • 2007.06.11:  Mark Humphries, Early Christianity. New York: 2006. Pp. 276. $25.95. ISBN 0-415-20539-5.
    Reviewed by Todd W. Ewing.

  • 2007.06.12:  Stanley Lombardo, Homer. Iliad. Audiobook. 12 CDs. 15 hours. Las Vegas, NV: 2006. $42.00. ISBN 1-930972-08-3.
    Stanley Lombardo, The Essential Iliad. Abridged. 5 CDs. Las Vegas, NV: 2006. $20.00. ISBN 978-1-930972-10-0.
    Stanley Lombardo, The Essential Homer. Substantial and Complete Passages from Iliad and Odyssey. Abridged. 14 CDs. Las Vegas, NV: 2006. $48.00. ISBN 978-1-930972-12-4.
    Reviewed by Bret Mulligan.

  • 2007.06.13:  Stephen Mitchell, A History of the Later Roman Empire AD 284-641: The Transformation of the Ancient World. Blackwell History of the Ancient World. Malden and Oxford: 2007. Pp. xv, 469. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-0856-0.
    Reviewed by Raymond Van Dam.

  • 2007.06.14:  Catherine Johns, Horses: History, Myth, Art. Cambridge, MA: 2006. Pp. 192. ISBN 10: 0-674-02323-4.
    Reviewed by Mary Ann Eaverly.

  • 2007.06.15:  D. Evely, Lefkandi IV: The Bronze Age. The Late Helladic IIIC Settlement at Xeropolis. BSA Suppl. 39. London: 2006. Pp. 350; pls. 103, figs. 104, one CD with 121 pp. and 7 figs. £98.00. ISBN 0-904887-51-0.
    Reviewed by Margaretha Kramer-Hajos.

  • 2007.06.16:  Nancy Thomson de Grummond, Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend. Philadelphia, PA: 2006. Pp. xvi, 270. $59.95. ISBN 1-931707-86-3.
    Reviewed by Barry B. Powell.

  • 2007.06.17:  M.J. Clarke, B.G.F. Currie, R.O.A.M. Lyne, Epic Interactions: Perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the Epic Tradition presented to Jasper Griffin by former pupils. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xiii, 441. £70.00. ISBN 0-19-927630-7.
    Reviewed by Simon Goldhill.

  • 2007.06.18:  Shaher M. Rababeh, How Petra was Built. An analysis of the construction techniques of the Nabataean freestanding buildings and rock-cut monuments in Petra, Jordan. BAR International Series 1460. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xii, 237; ills. 193. £36.00. ISBN 1-84171-898-X.
    Reviewed by John Peter Oleson.

  • 2007.06.19:  Bruce Gibson, Statius. Silvae 5. Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: 2006. Pp. lii, 492. $145.00. ISBN 0-19-927715-X.
    Reviewed by Bret Mulligan, Jennifer L. Brown, Matthew C. Farmer, Theodore J. Freeman, Mage Macchione, and Elizabeth H. Spear.

  • 2007.06.20:  Edoardo Sanguineti, Teatro antico. Traduzioni e ricordi. A cura di Federico Condello e Claudio Longhi. BUR Scrittori Contemporanei. Milano: 2006. Pp. 337. €11.20. ISBN 88-17-01251-3.
    Reviewed by Roberto Chiappiniello.

  • 2007.06.21:  Ilaria Ramelli, Il basileus come nomos empsychos tra diritto naturale e diritto divino. Spunti platonici del concetto e sviluppi di età imperiale e tardo-antica. Naples: 2006. Pp. 131. € 20.00. ISBN 978-88-7088-528-6.
    Reviewed by Peter Van Nuffelen.

  • 2007.06.22:  R. D. Dawe, Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Revised edition. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 214. $31.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-61735-9.
    Reviewed by Robin Mitchell-Boyask.

  • 2007.06.23:  Jan Bouzek, Lidia Domaradzka, The Culture of Thracians and their Neighbours, Proceedings of the International Symposium in Memory of Prof. Mieczyslaw Domaradzki, with a Round Table "Archaeological Map of Bulgaria". BAR International Series 1350. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xiv, 282. £36.00. ISBN 1-84171-696-0.
    Reviewed by Dobrinka Chiekova.

  • 2007.06.24:  John F. Drinkwater, The Alamanni and Rome 213-496. Caracalla to Clovis. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xi, 408. $110.00. ISBN 978-0-19-929586-5.
    Reviewed by Hendrik Dey.

  • 2007.06.25:  L. Richardson, Jr., Propertius. Elegies I-IV. Norman, OK: 2006. Pp. 504. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8061-34468-2.
    Reviewed by Corby Kelly.

  • 2007.06.26:  Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti, Meals and Recipes from Ancient Greece. Translated by Ruth Anne Lotero. Los Angeles: 2007. Pp. 122. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-89236-876-1.
    Reviewed by Camilla MacKay.

  • 2007.06.27:  Antony Kamm, Julius Caesar. A Life. London: 2006. Pp. 192. $110.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-415-41121-9.
    Reviewed by Robin Seager.

  • 2007.06.28:  Adam H. Becker, Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom. The School of Nisibis and the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia. Philadelphia: 2006. Pp. 312. $69.95. ISBN 0-8122-3934-2.
    Reviewed by Lorenzo DiTommaso.

  • 2007.06.29:  M. Perkams, R.M. Piccione, Proklos: Methode, Seelenlehre, Metaphysik. Philosophia Antiqua, Vol. 98. Leiden: 2006. Pp. xi, 431. $180.00. ISBN 90-04-15084-6.
    Reviewed by John Dillon.

  • 2007.06.30:  Johannes Roldanus, The Church in the Age of Constantine: The Theological Challenges. London: 2006. Pp. xii, 227. $100.00. ISBN 0-415-40904-7.
    Reviewed by Brad Eden.

  • 2007.06.31:  Rudd on Oliensis on Rudd on Stephen Harrison, The Cambridge Companion to Horace.
    Response by Niall Rudd.

  • 2007.06.32:  Peter Green, The Hellenistic Age. A Short History. New York: 2007. Pp. xxxvi, 204. $21.95. ISBN 978-0-679-64279-4.
    Reviewed by John Bauschatz.

  • 2007.06.33:  Curnow on Jirsa on Trevor Curnow, Ancient Philosophy and Everyday Life.
    Response by Trevor Curnow.

  • 2007.06.34:  Mikeal C. Parsons, Body and Character in Luke and Acts: The Subversion of Physiognomy in Early Christianity. Michigan: 2006. Pp. 192. $21.99. ISBN 0-8010-2885-X.
    Reviewed by Alberto Alonso Guardo.

  • 2007.06.35:  Hans Beck, Karriere und Hierarchie: die römische Aristokratie und die Anfänge des cursus honorum in der mittleren Republik. Klio. Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte. Beihefte. Neue Folge, Bd. 10. Berlin: 2005. Pp. 452. €69.80. ISBN 3-05-004154-4.
    Reviewed by James Thorne.

  • 2007.06.36:  Elizabeth Blyth, Karnak. Evolution of a Temple. London/New York: 2006. Pp. 258. $46.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-40487-8.
    Reviewed by Peter C. Nadig.

  • 2007.06.37:  Christina Riggs, The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xxiii, 334 . $150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-927665-3.
    Reviewed by David Frankfurter.

  • 2007.06.38:  Barry B. Powell, The War at Troy: a True History. Philadelphia, PA: 2006. Pp. 299. $21.99 (pb). ISBN 1-4257-2278-4.
    Reviewed by Silvio Bär.

  • 2007.06.39:  Larry W. Hurtado, The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins. Grand Rapids, MI: 2006. Pp. xiv, 248. $20.00. ISBN 978-0-8028-2895-8.
    Reviewed by Jonathan More.

  • 2007.06.40:  Naomi Reshotko, Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-Nor-Bad. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. xiv, 204. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-84618-9.
    Reviewed by Randall M. Jensen.

  • 2007.06.41:  Anthony Grafton, Megan Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea. Cambridge, MA: 2006. Pp. xvi, 367. ISBN 10: 0-674-02314-5.
    Reviewed by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson.

  • 2007.06.42:  André Laks, Introduction à la "philosophie présocratique". Paris: 2006. Pp. 172. €16.00. ISBN 2-13-055663-9.
    Reviewed by John Palmer.

  • 2007.06.43:  P. J. Davis, Ovid & Augustus: A political reading of Ovid's erotic poems. London: 2006. Pp. 183. £45.00. ISBN 0-7156-3559-X.
    Reviewed by Frédéric Nau.

  • 2007.06.44:  G.A.A. Kortekaas, Commentary on the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri. Leiden: 2007. Pp. xiv, 935. $228.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15594-7.
    Reviewed by Donald Lateiner.

  • 2007.06.45:  Brad Inwood, Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xvi, 376. ISBN 10: 0-19-925089-8.
    Reviewed by Margaret Graver.

  • 2007.06.46:  BMCR Books Received (June).


  • 2007.06.47:  Jens Daehner, Grenzen der Nacktheit. Studien zum nackten männlichen Körper in der griechischen Plastik des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Dissertation Freie Universität Berlin April 2005, abgedruckt im Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 120. Berlin: 2006. Pp. 155. €84.00. ISBN 978-3-11-018566-9.
    Reviewed by Nikolaus Himmelmann.

  • 2007.06.48:  Victoria C. Gardner Coates, Jon L. Seydl, Antiquity Recovered. The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Los Angeles: 2007. Pp. 304; figs. 121. $60.00. ISBN 978-0-89236-872-3.
    Reviewed by Eric M. Moormann.

  • 2007.06.49:  Alain Cadotte, La Romanisation des Dieux. L'interpretatio romana en Afrique du Nord sous le Haut-Empire. RGRW 158. Leiden: 2007. Pp. 750. $195.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15258-8.
    Reviewed by Ioana Costa.

  • 2007.06.50:  Loren J. Samons II, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. xx, 343. $75.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-80793-7.
    Reviewed by Kelly Joss.

  • 2007.07.01:  Liv Mariah Yarrow, Historiography at the End of the Republic. Provincial Perspectives on Roman Rule. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xiv, 396. $115.00. ISBN 0-19-927754-0.
    Reviewed by C. S. Kraus.

  • 2007.07.02:  Ramelli on van Nuffelen on Ilaria Ramelli, Il basileus come nomos empsychos tra diritto naturale e diritto divino. Spunti platonici del concetto e sviluppi di età imperiale e tardo-antica.
    Response by Ilaria Ramelli.

  • 2007.07.03:  Aaron P. Johnson, Ethnicity and Argumentation in Eusebius' Praeparatio evangelica. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 288. ISBN 10: 0-19-929613-8.
    Reviewed by Sabrina Inowlocki.

  • 2007.07.04:  Giovanni Colonna, Daniele F. Maras, Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum, Academiis Litterarum Borussica et Saxonica legatum, Carolus Pauli primum edidit. Voluminis secundi, Instituti Studiis Etruscis et Italicis Provehendis et Academiae Scientiarum Berolinensis et Brandenburgensis communi opera et studio resumpti prolatique, Instituto Studiis de Gentibus Italiae Marisque Mediterranei Antiqui Provehendis Italicis Scientiis Pervestigandis Consilii curante. Sectionis I, Fasciculum 5 (Tit. 6325-6723) et additamentum Sectionis II, Fasciculi 1 (Tit. 8881-8927). Inscriptiones Veiis et in agro veientano, nepesino sutrinoque repertae, additis illis in agro capenate et falisco inventis, quae in fasciculo CIE II, 2, 1 desunt, nec non illis perpaucis in finitimis sabinis repertis. Pisa-Rome: 2006. Pp. viii, 140; figs. 37, b/w pls. ISBN 10: 88-8147-452-3.
    Reviewed by Jean MacIntosh Turfa.

  • 2007.07.05:  A.M.C. Casiday, Tradition and Theology in St John Cassian. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 302. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-929718-5.
    Reviewed by M.A. Claussen.

  • 2007.07.06:  Megan Hale Williams, The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship. Chicago: 2006. Pp. 312. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-226-89900-8.
    Reviewed by Catherine Conybeare.

  • 2007.07.07:  Andrew Laird, Oxford Readings in Ancient Literary Criticism. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xii, 491. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-925866-X.
    Reviewed by Casper C. de Jonge.

  • 2007.07.08:  Darien Shanske, Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History. Cambridge: 2007. Pp. 267. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86411-4.
    Reviewed by Edith Foster.

  • 2007.07.09:  G.W. Bowersock, Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam. Cambridge, MA: 2006. Pp. 146; ills. 50. $22.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02292-8.
    Reviewed by Nayla Kabazi Muntasser.

  • 2007.07.10:  Nina Johannsen, Dichter über ihre Gedichte: Die Prosavorreden in den 'Epigrammaton libri' Martials und in den 'Silvae' des Statius. Hypomnemata, 166. Göttingen: 2006. Pp. 404. ISBN 10: 3-525-25265-X.
    Reviewed by Farouk F. Grewing.

  • 2007.07.11:  Ulrike Babusiaux, Id quod actum est. München: 2006. Pp. 330. €74.00. ISBN 978-3-406-54432-3.
    Reviewed by Richard Gamauf.

  • 2007.07.12:  A. M. Snodgrass, Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece. Edinburgh: 2006. Pp. 485. £60.00. ISBN 0-7486-2333-7.
    Reviewed by Timothy Howe.

  • 2007.07.13:  Basil Dufallo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. Columbus, OH: 2007. Pp. xi, 175. ISBN 10: 0-8142-1044-9.
    Reviewed by John Jacobs.

  • 2007.07.14:  J. C. Yardley, Livy: The Dawn of the Roman Empire (Books 31-40). With an introduction and notes by Waldemar Heckel. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: 2000. Pp. xlii, 612. $14.95. ISBN 0-19-283293-X.
    Reviewed by John Jacobs.

  • 2007.07.15:  Anna Arvanitake, Heroas kai Pole: To Paradeigma tou Herakle sten Archaike Eikonographia tes Korinthou. Thessalonike: 2006. Pp. 374; figs. 153. €45.00. ISBN 960-12-1494-1.
    Reviewed by Kyriaki Karoglou.

  • 2007.07.16:  Christopher P. Jones, Philostratus. Apollonius of Tyana: Letters of Apollonius; Ancient Testimonia; Eusebius's Reply to Hierocles. Loeb Classical Library, 458. Cambridge, MA: 2006. Pp. 264. $21.50. ISBN 0-674-99617-8.
    Reviewed by Adam Kemezis.

  • 2007.07.17:  Jane W. Crawford, Judith A. Hayes, A Cicero Workbook. Wauconda, IL: 2006. Pp. x, 233. $22.00. ISBN 0-86516-643-9.
    Reviewed by David W. Madsen and Nora MacDonald.

  • 2007.07.18:  L. Bravi, L'Epitome di Santa Croce dall'Anabasi di Arriano -- Un bifoglio greco del decimo secolo nell'Archivio Diocesano di Urbino. Urbino: 2006. Pp. 69; tables 10. €16.30. ISBN 88-87573-26-3.
    Reviewed by Stefano Martinelli Tempesta.

  • 2007.07.19:  Charles Martindale, Richard F. Thomas, Classics and the Uses of Reception. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xiii, 335. $36.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-4051-3145-2.
    Reviewed by Sheila Murnaghan.

  • 2007.07.20:  Cornelius P. Mayer, CAG 2: Corpus Augustinianum Gissense. Second edition. CD-ROM and bound user's manual in four languages. Basel: 2004. €980.00 (single user); €780.00 (single user who had purchased the CAG 1 and returns the CD); €2150.00 (multiple-user license); €1500.00 (multiple-user license for purchaser of CAG1 returning the CD). ISBN 978-3-7965-2060-0.
    Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell.

  • 2007.07.21:  Rachel Hall Sternberg, Pity and Power in Ancient Athens. Cambridge: 2005. Pp. 356. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-84552-1.
    Reviewed by David Rosenbloom.

  • 2007.07.22:  E. Olshausen, H. Sonnabend, "Troianer sind wir gewesen" -- Migrationen in der antiken Welt. Stuttgarter Kolloquium zur Historischen Geographie des Altertums 8, 2002. Stuttgart: 2006. Pp. 431. ISBN 10: 3-515-08750-8.
    Reviewed by Jacek Rzepka.

  • 2007.07.23:  Ralph M. Rosen, Ineke Sluiter, City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity. Mnemosyne Supplements 279. Leiden: 2006. Pp. x, 390. €129.00. ISBN 90-04-15043-9.
    Reviewed by Ruth Scodel.

  • 2007.07.24:  L. Canfora, Julius Caesar: the People's Dictator. Edinburgh: 2007. Pp. xvi, 392. £24.99. ISBN 978-0-7486-1936-8.
    Reviewed by Robin Seager.

  • 2007.07.25:  J. G. F. Powell, M. Tulli Ciceronis De re publica, De legibus, Cato Maior De senectute, Laelius De amicitia. Oxford: 2006. Pp. lxxvi, 390. $35.00. ISBN 0-19-814669-8.
    Reviewed by W. H. Shearin.

  • 2007.07.26:  Robert A. Kaster, Cicero: Speech on behalf of Publius Sestius. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xvi, 493. £70.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-928303-3.
    Reviewed by Catherine Steel.

  • 2007.07.27:  Katja Mueller, Settlements of the Ptolemies. City Foundations and New Settlement in the Hellenistic World. Studia Hellenistica 43. Leuven: 2006. Pp. 249. €59.00 (pb). ISBN 978-90-429-170-5.
    Reviewed by Sara Saba.

  • 2007.07.28:  Trevor Curnow, The Philosophers of the Ancient World: An A-Z Guide. London: 2006. Pp. 296. £16.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3497-6.
    Reviewed by William O. Stephens.

  • 2007.07.29:  Heath on de Jonge on Andrew Laird, Oxford Readings in Ancient Literary Criticism.
    Response by Malcolm Heath.

  • 2007.07.30:  Compton on Lefkowitz on Todd Compton, Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman And Indo-European Myth and History.
    Response by Todd Compton.

  • 2007.07.31:  Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Juan Fernández Valverde, Enrique Montero Cartelle, Marco Valerio Marcial. Epigramas. Volumen II (Libros 8-14). Madrid: 2005. Pp. 330. ISBN 10: 84-00-08301-6.
    Reviewed by Peter J. Anderson.

  • 2007.07.32:  Roger B. Ulrich, Roman Woodworking. New Haven, CT: 2007. Pp. 400. $85.00. ISBN 0-300-10341-7.
    Reviewed by Barbara A. Barletta.

  • 2007.07.33:  Marcello Carastro, La cité des mages: Penser la magie en Grèce ancienne. Grenoble: 2006. Pp. 271. €25.00. ISBN 2-84137-190-5.
    Reviewed by Gabriel Bodard.

  • 2007.07.34:  Robert Parker, Polytheism and Society in Ancient Athens. Oxford: 2005. Pp. 544. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-927483-5.
    Reviewed by Corinne Bonnet.

  • 2007.07.35:  Daniel M. Hooley, Roman Satire. Oxford: 2007. Pp. xi, 189. $24.95. ISBN 1-4051-0689-1.
    Reviewed by Lee Burnett.

  • 2007.07.36:  Y. Hamilakis, N. Momigliano, Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the 'Minoans.' Creta Antica (Rivista annuale di studi archeologici, storici ed epigrafici, Centro di Archaeologica Cretese, Università di Catania), 7. Padua: 2006. Pp. 277; figs. 62. ISBN 10: 88-6125-007-6.
    Reviewed by John F. Cherry.

  • 2007.07.37:  Gabriel Herman, Morality and Behaviour in Democratic Athens: A Social History. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. xxi, 472. $110.00. ISBN 978-0-521-85021-6.
    Reviewed by Matthew R. Christ.

  • 2007.07.38:  Johann Joachim Winckelmann, History of the Art of Antiquity. Introduction by Alex Potts. Translation by Harry Francis Mallgrave. Los Angeles: 2006. Pp. 448; b/w ills. 38. $67.50. ISBN 0-89236-668-0.
    Reviewed by A.A. Donohue.

  • 2007.07.39:  Harriet I. Flower, The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture. Chapel Hill, NC: 2006. Pp. xxiv, 400. $59.95. ISBN 0-8078-30630-1.
    Reviewed by David Meban.

  • 2007.07.40:  Norbert Kunisch, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Deutschland Band 81: Bochum, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität, Band 2. München: 2006. Pp. 83; figs. 26; Beilagen 11; pls. 76. €88.00. ISBN 978-3-406-54442-2.
    Norbert Kunisch, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Deutschland Band 82: Bochum, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität, Band 3. München: 2007. Pp. 109; figs. 23; Beilagen 9; pls. 71. €88.00. ISBN 978-3-406-55854-2.
    Reviewed by Jenifer Neils.

  • 2007.07.41:  Robin Waterfield, Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age. Cambridge, MA: 2006. Pp. xiv, 248. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02356-7.
    Reviewed by Lee T. Pearcy.

  • 2007.07.42:  Michael Bordt, Platons Theologie. Freiburg/München: 2006. Pp. 286. €40.00. ISBN 978-3-495-48190-7.
    Reviewed by Barbara Sattler.

  • 2007.07.43:  Sabrina Mutino, L'insediamento pre-romano di Barrata. Storia di un recupero nel territorio potentino. Collana di studi archeologici "Adrias", IX. Bari: 2006. Pp. 200; pls. 63. €45.00. ISBN 88-7228-470-8.
    Reviewed by Paolo Daniele Scirpo.

  • 2007.07.44:  Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Martial, Book IV. A Commentary. Mnemosyne Supplement 278. Leiden: 2006. Pp. 618. $188.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15192-5.
    Reviewed by Antony Augoustakis.

  • 2007.07.45:  Marie-Henriette Quet, La "crise" de l'Empire romain de Marc Aurèle à Constantin. Mutations, continuités, ruptures. Paris: 2006. Pp. 715. €40.00. ISBN 2-84050-465-0.
    Reviewed by Joerg Fuendling.

  • 2007.07.46:  Erich S. Gruen, Cultural Borrowings and Ethnic Appropriations in Antiquity. Oriens et Occidens. Studien zu antiken Kulturkontakten und ihrem Nachleben 8. Stuttgart: 2005. Pp. 314. €44.00. ISBN 3-515-08735-4.
    Reviewed by Nicolas Wiater.

  • 2007.07.47:  Peter Brown, Terence: The Comedies. Translated with introduction and explanatory notes. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 338. £60.00. ISBN 0-19-814971-9.
    Reviewed by John Barsby.

  • 2007.07.48:  Joseph W. Shaw, Kommos: A Minoan Harbor Town and Greek Sanctuary in Southern Crete. Princeton: 2006. Pp. 171; figs. 77. $45.00 (hb). ISBN 0-87661-660-0.
    Reviewed by Gerald Cadogan.

  • 2007.07.49:  Richard Sorabji, Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death. Chicago: 2006. Pp. xi, 400. ISBN 10: 0-226-76825-2.
    Reviewed by Mark R. Wheeler.

  • 2007.07.50:  Richard Finn, Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire: Christian Promotion and Practice (313-450). Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: 2006. Pp. ix, 302. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-928360-6.
    Reviewed by Adam Serfass.

  • 2007.07.51:  Richard Hunter, The Shadow of Callimachus. Studies in the Reception of Hellenistic Poetry at Rome. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. xi, 162. $85.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-87118-1.
    Reviewed by James J. Clauss.

  • 2007.07.52:  Laurent Pernot, L'Ombre du tigre. Recherches sur la réception de Démosthène. Napoli: 2006. Pp. 355. €80.00. ISBN 88-7092-260-X.
    Reviewed by Brad L. Cook.

  • 2007.07.53:  Antonio Aloni, Alessandro Iannucci, L'elegia greca e l'epigramma dalle origini al V secolo. Con un'appendice sulla 'nuova' elegia di Archiloco. Firenze: 2007. Pp. xiii, 274. €19.40. ISBN 978-88-00-20492-7.
    Reviewed by Douglas E. Gerber.

  • 2007.07.54:  Lauren Hackworth Petersen, The Freedman in Roman Art and Art History. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 213. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-85889-5.
    Reviewed by Lisa A. Hughes.

  • 2007.07.55:  Karsten Dahmen, The Legend of Alexander the Great on Greek and Roman Coins. London & New York: 2007. Pp. xv, 179; maps 3. £60.00 (hb). ISBN 0-415-39451-1.
    Reviewed by Stanley Ireland.

  • 2007.07.56:  Louise Schofield, The Mycenaeans. Los Angeles: 2007. Pp. 208. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-89236-867-9.
    Reviewed by Stefanie A. H. Kennell.

  • 2007.07.57:  Paul Dräger, Eusebios. Über das Leben des glückseligen Kaisers Konstantin (De vita Constantini). Oberhaid: 2007. Pp. 411. €39.95. ISBN 978-3-938083-04-8.
    Reviewed by John Noël Dillon.

  • 2007.07.58:  Françoise Dunand, Roger Lichtenberg, Mummies and Death in Egypt. Foreword by Jean Yoyotte. Translated from the French by David Lorton. Ithaca: 2006. Pp. xvi, 234. ISBN 10: 0-8014-4472-1.
    Reviewed by Allen Kerkeslager.

  • 2007.07.59:  Geraint Osborn, Hadrian's Wall and its People. Exeter: 2006. Pp. 132; ills. 25. £12.99 (pb). ISBN 1-904675-19-0.
    Reviewed by Joseph Lemak.

  • 2007.07.60:  Stephen Makin, Aristotle: Metaphysics Book Theta. Translated with an Introduction and Commentary. Clarendon Aristotle Series. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 289. $35.00. ISBN 0-19-875108-7.
    Reviewed by Daniel P. Maher.

  • 2007.07.61:  Christian Tornau, Zwischen Rhetorik und Philosophie. Augustins Argumentationstechnik in De civitate Dei und ihr bildungsgeschichtlicher Hintergrund. Berlin: 2006. Pp. 466. €98.00. ISBN 978-3-11-019130-1.
    Reviewed by Karla Pollmann.

  • 2007.07.62:  Johan C. Thom, Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus. Tübingen: 2005. Pp. 200. €50.00. ISBN 3-16-148660-9.
    Reviewed by Scott Rubarth.

  • 2007.07.63:  Sviatoslav Dmitriev, City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. Oxford: 2005. Pp. xiii, 428. £45.00. ISBN 0-19-517042-3.
    Reviewed by Andrea Raggi.

  • 2007.07.64:  Daniel Graham, Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy. Princeton: 2006. Pp. viii, 344. $45.00. ISBN 0-691-12540-6.
    Reviewed by John E. Sisko.

  • 2007.07.65:  Kenneth S. Rothwell, Jr., Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Greek Comedy: A Study of Animal Choruses. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. xiv, 326. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-86066-0.
    Reviewed by James Bradley Wells.

  • 2007.08.01:  BMCR Books Received (July).


  • 2007.08.02:  Emanuele Narducci, Cicerone nella tradizione europea: dalla tarda antichità al Settecento. Atti del VI Symposium Ciceronianum Arpinas. Firenze: 2006. Pp. xi, 113. €11.50. ISBN 88-00-20462-7.
    Reviewed by James E. G. Zetzel.

  • 2007.08.03:  William W. Batstone, Cynthia Damon, Caesar's Civil War. Oxford: 2006. Pp. xiv, 225. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-19-516511-1.
    Reviewed by Rex Stem.

  • 2007.08.04:  Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell, Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. xiv, 316; pls. 76, tables 58, charts 4. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-85318-7.
    Reviewed by Ann Steiner.

  • 2007.08.05:  Corinne Bonnet, Jörg Rüpke, Paolo Scarpi, Religions orientales - culti misterici: Neue Perspektiven - nouvelles perspectives - prospettive nuove. Im Rahmen des trilateralen Projektes "Les religions orientales dans le monde greco-romain"; unter Mitarbeit von Nicole Hartmann und Franca Fabricius, Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 16. Stuttgart: 2006. Pp. 269. €56.00. ISBN 3-515-08871-7.
    Reviewed by Tommaso Gnoli.

  • 2007.08.06:  Silke Trzcionka, Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth-Century Syria. London and New York: 2007. Pp. 227. £17.99. ISBN 0-415-39242-X.
    Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus.

  • 2007.08.07:  Raffaella Cribiore, The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch. Princeton: 2007. Pp. 376. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-691-12824-5.
    Reviewed by Robert Lamberton.

  • 2007.08.08:  Willi Braun, Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities. Studies in Christianity and Judaism 16.. Waterloo, Ontario: 2005. Pp. 267. $59.95. ISBN 0-88920-462-4.
    Reviewed by Rubén R. Dupertuis.

  • 2007.08.09:  Martin M. Winkler, Troy: From Homer's Iliad to Hollywood Epic. Malden, MA: 2007. Pp. xi, 231; b/w pls. 20. $30.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-3183-7.
    Reviewed by Mary-Kay Gamel.

  • 2007.08.10:  Carlos A. Picón, Joan R. Mertens, Elizabeth J. Milleker, Christopher S. Lightfoot, Sean Hemingway, Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome. With contributions from Richard De Puma. New York: 2007. Pp. viii, 508; color pls. 595, duotones 19, b/w ills. 22, maps 7. ISBN 978-0-300-12031-8 (Yale).
    Reviewed by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway.

  • 2007.08.11:  Graham Ley, A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater. Revised Edition. Chicago: 2006. Pp. 126. $12.00 (pb). ISBN 0-226-47761-4.
    Reviewed by Timothy Dugan.

  • 2007.08.12:  Holford-Strevens on Zetzel on Emanuele Narducci (ed.), Cicerone nella tradizione europea: dalla tarda antichità al Settecento.
    Response by Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

  • 2007.08.13:  Ryan K. Balot, Greek Political Thought. Malden, MA: 2006. Pp. xiii, 339. $69.95 (hb). ISBN 978-1-4051-0029-8.
    Reviewed by Thornton Lockwood.

  • 2007.08.14:  Donald Lateiner, Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War. Translated by Richard Crawley and revised by Donald Lateiner, with an introduction and notes by Donald Lateiner. Barnes & Noble Classics. New York: 2006. Pp. 605. $9.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-59308-091-4.
    Reviewed by Tim Rood.

  • 2007.08.15:  Jeffrey A. Gibbs, Matthew 1:1-11:1. Concordia Commentary. St. Louis: 2006. Pp. xxxvi, 548. ISBN 10: 0-7586-0318-5.
    Reviewed by Stephen J. H. Tu.

  • 2007.08.16:  David Sedley, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Volume XXXI (Winter 2006). Oxford: 2006. Pp. viii, 414. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-920422-5.
    Reviewed by Yancy Hughes Dominick.

  • 2007.08.17:  Renée Koch, Comment peut-on être dieu? La secte d'Épicure. Paris: 2005. Pp. 303. €26.00. ISBN 978-2-7011-4024-7.
    Reviewed by Morgan Gaulin.

  • 2007.08.18:  Michael Bordt, Aristoteles' Metaphysik XII. Darmstadt: 2006. Pp. 183. €24.90. ISBN 978-3-534-15578-1.
    Reviewed by Lloyd P. Gerson.

  • 2007.08.19:  Mary Louise Gill, Pierre Pellegrin, A Companion to Ancient Philosophy. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Malden, MA: 2006. Pp. xxxvi, 791. $149.95. ISBN 0-631-2106-1.
    Reviewed by Mariska Leunissen.

  • 2007.08.20:  Daniel Kölligan, Suppletion und Defektivität im griechischen Verbum. Bremen: 2007. Pp. iii, 575. ISBN 10: 3-934106-56-0.
    Reviewed by Coulter H. George.

  • 2007.08.21:  Paul Rehak, Imperium and Cosmos. Augustus and the Northern Campus Martius. Edited by John G. Younger. Madison, WI: 2006. Pp. 222; figs. 46. $60.00. ISBN 0-299-22010-9.
    Reviewed by Andrew Gallia.

  • 2007.08.22:  Isobel Hurst, Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer. Classical Presences. Oxford: 2006. Pp. 253. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-19-928351-4.
    Reviewed by Kathleen Riley.

  • 2007.08.23:  Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev, Diaspora Judaism in Turmoil, 116/117 CE: Ancient Sources and Modern Insights. Leuven: 2005. Pp. xiii, 302. €40.00. ISBN 90-429-1605-2.
    Reviewed by Brent Landau.

  • 2007.08.24:  Joachim Gruber, Kommentar zu Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae. 2., erweiterte Auflage. Texte und Kommentare, 9. Berlin and New York: 2006. Pp. xi, 520. €128.00. ISBN 978-3-11-017740-4.
    Reviewed by Gerard O'Daly.

  • 2007.08.25:  Lester Little, Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 380. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-521-84639-4.
    Reviewed by Hannah Friedman.

  • 2007.08.26:  Susan Weber Soros, James "Athenian" Stuart: the Rediscovery of Antiquity. New Haven: 2007. Pp. 672; b/w ills. 100, color ills. 500. $100.00. ISBN 0-300-11713-2.
    Reviewed by David Cast.

  • 2007.08.27:  Elizabeth Carney, Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great. New York and London: 2006. Pp. 221. $110.00. ISBN 0-415-33317-2.
    Reviewed by Boris Dreyer.

  • 2007.08.28:  Michael Rieger, Tribus und Stadt. Die Entstehung der römischen Wahlbezirke im urbanen und mediterranen Kontext (ca. 750-450 v. Chr.). Beihefte zum Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft, 17. Göttingen: 2007. Pp. 738. €99.00. ISBN 978-3-89744-237-5.
    Reviewed by Michael Hesse.

  • 2007.08.29:  Marilynn Desmond, Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence. Ithaca: 2006. Pp. 232; halftones 38. $20.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-7317-9.
    Reviewed by Ann Higgins.

  • 2007.08.30:  Max Küchler, Karl Schmidt, Texte - Fakten - Artefakte: Beiträge zur Bedeutung der Archäologie für die neutestamentliche Forschung. Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus 59. Fribourg and Göttingen: 2006. Pp. xii, 231. ISBN 3-7278-1559-0.
    Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst.

  • 2007.08.31:  P. M. Nigdelis, G. A. Souris, Anthupatos legei. Ena diatagma tôn autokratorikôn chronôn gia to gumnasio tês Beroias. Tekmêria. Sumboles stên Istoria tou Ellênikou kai Rômaikou Kosmou. Parartêma 1. Thessaloniki: 2005. Pp. 159. ISBN ISSN 1106-661X.
    Reviewed by Nigel M. Kennell.

  • 2007.08.32:  John T. Ramsey, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greco-Roman Comets from 500 B.C. to A.D. 400. Syllecta Classica, 17. Iowa City, IA: 2006. Pp. 242. $20.00 (pb).
    Reviewed by Alexandra Smith.

  • 2007.08.35:  Roy K. Gibson, Excess and Restraint. Propertius, Horace, & Ovid's Ars Amatoria. BICS, Suppl. 89. London: 2007. Pp. ix, 169. £30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-1-905670-02-4.
    Reviewed by Beert Verstraete.

  • 2007.08.36:  David J. Breeze, J. Collingwood Bruce's Handbook to the Roman Wall. 14th edition. Newcastle upon Tyne: 2006. Pp. 512. ISBN 13: 978-0-901082-65-7.
    Reviewed by Thomas C. Rust.

  • 2007.08.37:  Ray Laurence, Roman Pompeii: Space and Society. 2nd edition. New York: 2007. Pp. xvi, 216; figs. 22, maps 36, pls. 24. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-415-39125-2.
    Reviewed by Gillian McIntosh.

  • 2007.08.38:  G.R. Tsetskhladze, Greek Colonisation: An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas. Volume 1. Leiden: 2006. Pp. 564. €186.00. ISBN 978-90-04-12204-8.
    Reviewed by Tamar Hodos.

  • 2007.08.39:  Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy, Irene S. Lemos, Ancient Greece: From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer. Edinburgh Leventis Studies 3. Edinburgh: 2006. Pp. 695. £90.00. ISBN 0-7486-1889-9.
    Reviewed by Silke Knippschild.

  • 2007.08.40:  Archie Burnett, The Letters of A. E. Housman. Oxford: 2007. Pp. 960. $330.00. ISBN 978-0-19-818496-6.
    Reviewed by David Butterfield.

  • 2007.08.41:  Catherine Steel, Roman Oratory. Greece & Rome. New Surveys in the Classics, no. 36. Cambridge: 2006. Pp. 90. $19.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-68722-5.
    Reviewed by Andrea Balbo.

  • 2007.08.42:  K. Volk, G.D. Williams, Seeing Seneca Whole: Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry and Politics. Leiden: 2006. Pp. 222. $139.00. ISBN 90-04-15078-1.
    Reviewed by Steven J. Green.

  • 2007.08.43:  Joan Breton Connelly, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Princeton: 2007. Pp. xv, 415; figs. 109, color pls. 27. $39.50. ISBN 978-0-691-12746-0.
    Reviewed by Catherine M. Keesling.

  • 2007.08.44:  Francesca D'Alessandro Behr, Feeling History. Lucan, Stoicism, and the Poetics of Passion. Columbus, OH: 2007. Pp. 259. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8142-10