Category Archives: review

Books available for review from BMCR

Posted on 2007-05-02 by Gabriel Bodard

As of today’s posting of BMCR 2007.05.01 the following titles of epigraphic interest are available for review (some of them not snapped up since last month). There must be epigraphers out there who want free books? Edmondson, Jonathan, Granite Funerary … Continue reading →

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Zizza, Le iscrizioni nella Periegesi, reviewed

Posted on 2007-05-02 by Gabriel Bodard

Reviewed in BMCR 2007.05.03: Cesare Zizza, Le iscrizioni nella Periegesi di Pausania. Commento ai testi epigrafici. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2006. Pp. 518. ISBN 88-467-1598-5. €32.00. Reviewed by Filippo Canali De Rossi, Liceo Classico Dante Alighieri, Rome (filippocanaliderossi@hotmail.com) Word count: 1858 … Continue reading →

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Review of Mattingly, An Imperial Possession

Posted on 2007-04-12 by Gabriel Bodard

Reviewed in BMCR 2007.04.22 (although not an epigraphic work itself, inscriptions and evidence from inscriptions are, as one would expect, discussed in several places): David Mattingly, An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire. London: Penguin, 2006. Pp. 622. ISBN … Continue reading →

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Reviewed: Brélaz, La sécurité publique en Asie Mineure

Posted on 2007-04-11 by Gabriel Bodard

Reviewed in BMCR 2007.04.15: Cédric Brélaz, La sécurité publique en Asie Mineure sous le Principat (Ier-IIIème s. ap. J.-C.). Basel: Schwabe, 2005. Pp. xii, 530. ISBN 3-7965-2200-9. €82.50. Reviewed by Thomas Corsten, University of Heidelberg (thomas.corsten@urz.uni-heidelberg.de) Word count: 2023 words

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Wiesehöfer (ed.) on Theodor Mommsen, reviewed

Posted on 2007-04-07 by Gabriel Bodard

A review (en français) of a collection of essays (auf Deutsch) on one of the fathers of modern epigraphy in BMCR this morning: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.04.07 Josef Wiesehöfer (ed.), Theodor Mommsen: Gelehrter, Politiker und Literat, unter Mitarbeit von … Continue reading →

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Reviewed: Texte als Medium und Reflexion von Religion im römischen Reich

Posted on 2007-04-05 by Gabriel Bodard

Reviewed in BMCR 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: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 260. ISBN 3-515-08641-2. EUR 49.00 (pb). Reviewed … Continue reading →

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BMCR 2007.04.01, BMCR Books Received (March)

Posted on 2007-04-03 by Gabriel Bodard

Titles of potential interest to epigraphers exerpted below: ———- 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 author in the subject line. … Continue reading →

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CIL Online

Posted on 2007-03-30 by Gabriel Bodard

As just reported by AIEGL, the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum have launched a website available in German and English at http://cil.bbaw.de/. The site appears to contain: Searchable database of CIL numbers, listing photographs, squeezes, and bibliography among the results Sample indices … Continue reading →

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Two reviewed: Sicilia cristiana

Posted on 2007-03-26 by Tom Elliott

R.J.A. Wilson has reviewed for BMCR (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: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2005. ISBN 88-7689-191-9 (worldcat record here). Ibid., Gli albori … Continue reading →

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LGPN IV reviewed

Posted on 2007-03-23 by Tom Elliott

Zosia Archibald has reviewed for BMCR (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: Clarendon Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-927333-2 (worldcat record here).

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