Friday, January 29, 2010

BMR Classical Book Reviews

There is a great website that has recent reviews of books in Classics. Here are the titles of some recently reviewed books that bear directly on issues that we discuss in class.

John R. Hale, Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy. New York: Viking, 2009. Pp. xxxiii, 395. ISBN 9780670020805. $29.95.

Basiles Kalphas (ed.), Aristoteles. Meta ta Physika. Biblio A'. Archaioi philosophoi. Athena: Ekdoseis Polis, 2009. Pp. 356. ISBN 9789604352272. (pb).

Elton T. E. Barker, Entering the Agon: Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography and Tragedy. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii, 433. ISBN 9780199542710. $140.00.

Bronwen L. Wickkiser, Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-century Greece: Between Craft and Cult. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 178. ISBN 9780801889783. $55.00.

The link to the BMR website of recent reviews is here.

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