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ISBN 9780521519533.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/IFB_PLjC6tQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-41.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/DANyzyjB2u0/2012-05-40.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-40.html Review of Kenneth G. Holum, Hayim Lapin, Shaping the Middle East: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in an Age of Transition, 400-800 C.E. Studies and texts in Jewish history and culture, 20. Bethesda, MD: 2011. Pp. ix, 263. $50.00. ISBN 9781934309315.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/DANyzyjB2u0" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-40.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/EkltmZzXUVc/2012-05-39.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-39.html Review of Geert Roskam, Luc Van der Stockt, Virtues for the People: Aspects of Plutarchan Ethics. Plutarchea hypomnemata. Leuven: 2011. Pp. 384. $80.00. ISBN 9789058678584.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/EkltmZzXUVc" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-39.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/SxpGPg5H5n8/2012-05-38.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-38.html Review of Trevor Bryce, The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: the Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire (paperback reprint; first published 2009). London; New York: 2012. Pp. lvi, 887. $74.95 (pb). 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Farnham; Burlington, VT: 2011. Pp. 343. $134.95. ISBN 9781409410072.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/L-NoV5GA5mM" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-36.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/ZPj0j0zcFzs/2012-05-35.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-35.html Review of Kyle Erickson, Gillian Ramsey, Seleucid Dissolution: the Sinking of the Anchor. Philippika, 50. Wiesbaden: 2011. Pp. 209. €44.00. ISBN 9783447065887.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/ZPj0j0zcFzs" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-35.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/KUKqdoJbe70/2012-05-34.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-34.html Review of Joachim Szidat, Usurpator tanti nominis: Kaiser und Usurpator in der Spätantike (337-476 n. Chr.). Historia Einzelschriften 210. Stuttgart: 2010. Pp. 458. €76.00. ISBN 9783515096362.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/KUKqdoJbe70" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-34.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/YN9nDY4Z7Uk/2012-05-33.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-33.html Review of Mark L. Lawall, John Lund, Pottery in the Archaeological Record: Greece and Beyond. Acts of the international colloquium held at the Danish and Canadian Institutes in Athens, June 20-22, 2008. Gösta Enbom monographs, 1. Aarhus: 2011. Pp. 168. $40.00. ISBN 9788779345874.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/YN9nDY4Z7Uk" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-33.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/8IW4ZGcrxfw/2012-05-32.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-32.html Review of David Pritchard, War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens. Cambridge; New York: 2010. Pp. xviii, 460. $110.00. ISBN 9780521190336.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/8IW4ZGcrxfw" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-32.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/Zn1Ajf5JefU/2012-05-31.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-31.html Review of Melissa Lane, Eco-Republic: What the Ancients can Teach us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living. Princeton; Oxford: 2012. Pp. ix, 245. $29.95. ISBN 9780691151243.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/Zn1Ajf5JefU" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-31.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/vn2y2UJqCd0/2012-05-30.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-30.html Review of Joann Freed, Bringing Carthage Home: the Excavations of Nathan Davis, 1856-1859. University of British Columbia studies in the ancient world, 2. Oxford; Oakville, CT: 2011. Pp. 264. $96.00. ISBN 9781842179925.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/vn2y2UJqCd0" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-30.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/jltLMyAHnO0/2012-05-29.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-29.html Review of Francesco Aronadio, I fondamenti della riflessione di Platone sul linguaggio: il Cratilo. Pleiadi, 14. Roma: 2011. Pp. xiii, 264. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 9788863723250.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/jltLMyAHnO0" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-29.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/ygdHpQ47Liw/2012-05-28.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-28.html Review of Ingo Gildenhard, Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53-86: Latin Text with Introduction, Study Questions, Commentary and English Translation. Cambridge: 2011. Pp. xiv, 193. £14.95 (pb). ISBN 9781906924539.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/ygdHpQ47Liw" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-28.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/Sklvp43g6dw/2012-05-27.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-27.html Review of Daniela Manetti, Anonymus Londiniensis. De medicina. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 2003. Berlin; New York: 2010. Pp. xxvii, 131. $90.00. ISBN 9783110218718.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/Sklvp43g6dw" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-27.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/mWwgBzzvEBo/2012-05-26.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-26.html Review of Concetta Luna, Alain-Philippe Segonds, Proclus. Commentaire sur le Parménide de Platon, Tome III (2 vols.). Collection des universités de France. Série grecque. Paris: 2011. Pp. cdvii; x, 360. €111.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005638.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/mWwgBzzvEBo" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-26.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/IBtKB8mlnEw/2012-05-25.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-25.html Review of Michael Davis, The Soul of the Greeks: an Inquiry. Chicago; London: 2011. Pp. ix, 237. $35.00. ISBN 9780226137964.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/IBtKB8mlnEw" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-25.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/fit6xYgvRfQ/2012-05-24.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-24.html Review of Hagith Sivan, Galla Placidia: the Last Roman Empress. Women in antiquity. Oxford; New York: 2011. Pp. x, 224. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 9780195379136.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/fit6xYgvRfQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-24.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~3/bQG6gpHmC0A/2012-05-23.html http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-23.html Review of Daniele F. Maras, Corollari: scritti di antichità etrusche e italiche in omaggio all'opera di Giovanni Colonna. Studia erudita, 14. Pisa; Roma: 2011. Pp. 235. €300.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862272353.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BrynMawrClassicalReview/~4/bQG6gpHmC0A" height="1" width="1"/> http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-05-23.html