Category Archives: review

Reviewed in BMCR 2007.10.40: John Scheid, Res gestae divi Augusti. Hauts faits du divin Auguste. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007. Pp. ccxxiv, 126; figs. 4. ISBN 978-2-251-01446-3. €49.00 (pb). Reviewed by Josiah Osgood, Georgetown In this detailed and critical review … Continue reading →

Just catching up with this: last week in BMCR 2007.10.15 a review of Fritz Graf, Sarah Iles Johnston, Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets. London/New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. x, 246. ISBN 978-0-415-41551-4. £18.99 (pb). … Continue reading →

Titles of potential interest to epigraphers exerpted from BMCR 2007.09.62, Books Received September 2007: Titles marked by an asterisk are available for review. Qualified volunteers should indicate their interest by a message to classrev@brynmawr.edu, with their last name and requested … Continue reading →

Reviewed in BMCR 2007.09.49: Christian Flügel, Spätantike Arztinschriften als Spiegel des Einflusses des Christentums auf die Medizin. Beihefte zum Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft Band 20. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006. Pp. 410. ISBN 978-3-89744-258-0. €59.00. Reviewed by Thomas J. Kraus, … Continue reading →

In BMCR 2007.09.11 is a review of: Christian Marek (ed.), Die Inschriften von Kaunos. Vestigia, 55.   München:  C.H. Beck, 2006.  Pp. 416; ills. 240, maps 3.  ISBN 978-3-406-55074-4.  €100.70. Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi, Rome The review of this … Continue reading →

In Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.08.46: Joaquín Gómez-Pantoja, Hispania Epigraphica 1989-2000 (1 al 10). Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones, 2006. Pp. CD-Rom. ISBN 84-95215-53-5. €50.00 (individuals). €66.00 (institutions). Reviewed by David Noy, University of Wales Lampeter (d.noy@lamp.ac.uk) In his review of … Continue reading →

This week in BMCR 2007.08.43: Joan Breton Connelly, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 415; figs. 109, color pls. 27. ISBN 978-0-691-12746-0. $39.50. Reviewed by Catherine M. Keesling, Georgetown … Continue reading →

Reviewed today in BMCR 2007.08.06, a volume which includes detailed discussion of inscribed amulets and curse tablets: Silke Trzcionka, Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth-Century Syria. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 227. ISBN 0-415-39242-X. £17.99. Reviewed by Thomas … Continue reading →

In this months Books Received list in BMCR 2007.08.01, the following titles appear that may be of interest to epigraphers: Titles marked by an asterisk are available for review. Qualified volunteers should indicate their interest by a message to classrev@brynmawr.edu, … Continue reading →

A review in BMCR 2007.07.63 of: Sviatoslav Dmitriev, City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 428. ISBN 0-19-517042-3. GBP 45.00. Reviewed by Andrea Raggi, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche del Mondo Antico, Università … Continue reading →

In BMCR 2007.07.04 a review by Jean MacIntosh Turfa of: 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 … Continue reading →