Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Bryn Mawr Classical Review publishes timely open-access, peer-reviewed reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies, including archaeology. This site is the authoritative archive of BMCR’s publications, from 1990 to the present.
Recent Publications
More light from the ancient East: understanding the New Testament through papyri
Peter Arzt-Grabner, John S. Kloppenborg, Christina M. Kreinecker, Gregg Schwendner / Brill, 2023
Reviewed by Lajos Berkes ,
Fate and the hero in Virgil’s Aeneid: Stoic world fate and human responsibility
Graham Zanker / Cambridge University Press, 2023
Reviewed by Sergio Casali ,
Tios/Tieion on the southern Black Sea in the broader context of Pontic archaeology
Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Şahin Yıldırım / Archaeopress, 2023
Reviewed by Thibaut Castelli ,
Reading fear in Flavian epic: emotion, power, and stoicism
Dalida Agri / Oxford University Press, 2022
Reviewed by Esther Meijer ,
The fractured voice: silence and power in imperial Roman literature
Amy A. Koenig / University of Wisconsin Press, 2023
Reviewed by Louis Autin ,
Pietrabbondante. I rinvenimenti numismatici dalle campagne di scavo 1959-2019
Simone Boccardi / Giorgio Bretschneider Editor, 2023
Reviewed by Antonino Crisà ,
Belisarius and Antonina: love and war in the age of Justinian
David Alan Parnell / Oxford University Press, 2023
Reviewed by Jason C. Fossella ,
La lex Iulia de pecuniis repetundis: nell’interpretazione dei giuristi del principato
Stefania Pietrini / LED Edizioni, 2023
Reviewed by Carolina Ferraro ,
Critical notes on Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana
Gerard Boter / De Gruyter, 2023
Reviewed by N. G. Wilson ,
Lateres plumbei Hispani. Production et commerce du plomb hispanique à l’époque romaine (iie siècle av. J.-C. – ier siècle apr. J.-C.)
Claude Domergue, Christian Rico / Casa de Velázquez, 2023
Reviewed by Linda R. Gosner ,
Imperial cults: religion and politics in the early Han and Roman Empires
Rebecca Robinson / Oxford University Press, 2023
Reviewed by James B. Rives ,
Gandharan art and the classical world: a short introduction
Peter Stewart / Archaeopress, Pp. 2023
Reviewed by Marike van Aerde ,
Letters in Plautus: writing between the lines
Emilia A. Barbiero / Cambridge University Press, 2022
Reviewed by Carol Martins da Rocha ,
Early Christianity in Macedonia: from Paul to the late sixth century
Julien M. Ogereau / Brill, 2023
Reviewed by Brittany N. Joyce ,
Sappho and Homer: a reparative reading
Melissa Mueller / Cambridge University Press, 2023
Reviewed by Pei He ,
The heart in antiquity: a journey through Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, pre-Hispanic America, and Greece
Fabio Zampieri, Sabino Illiceto / "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2022
Reviewed by Marco Vespa ,
Priscien: Grammaire. Livre VIII: le verbe
Marc Baratin, Frédérique Biville, Guillaume Bonnet, Manuela Callipo, Bernard Colombat, Alessandro Garcea, Louis Holtz, Séverine Issaeva, Madeleine Keller, Diane Marchand, Jean Schneider / Vrin, 2023
Reviewed by James E. G. Zetzel ,
Alexander the Great. Letters: a selection
Giustina Monti / Liverpool University Press, 2023
Reviewed by Brad L. Cook ,
Drawing the Greek vase
Caspar Meyer, Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis / Oxford University Press, 2023
Reviewed by Najee Olya ,
Hadrianeum: il progetto architettonico e le fasi costruttive
Claudio Parisi Presicce, Massimo Baldi / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2024
Reviewed by Pier Luigi Tucci ,
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The Iliad, or The Poem of Force. The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force. Force employed by man, force that enslaves man, force before which man’s flesh shrinks away.
Here are 113 Iliad essay topic ideas and examples to help you get started: Compare and contrast the characters of Achilles and Hector. Analyze the role of women in The …
What does the Iliad reveal about early Greek culture? Explain the heroic code in the Iliad through friendship, hospitality, loyalty, and courage. How many books are in the Iliad?
"The Iliad, or The Poem of Force" (French: L'Iliade ou le poème de la force) is a 24-page essay written in 1939 by Simone Weil. The essay is about Homer's epic poem the Iliad and contains reflections on the conclusions one can draw from the epic regarding the nature of force in human affairs. Weil's work was first published in 1940 under the title L'Iliade ou le poème de la force in Les Cahiers du Sud
Heroism and Power in Homer’s “The Illiad” Essay. Exclusively available on Available only on IvyPanda® Made by Human • No AI. Table of Contents. Rage of Gods Enslaves People: Relationships between Apollo and …
This new edition of Simone Weil’s famous essay on the Iliad gives it a very different status than it has in the version in which I, and probably many other readers of BMCR, …
Simone Weil wrote the essay "The Iliad or the Poem of Force" in 1939, shortly after the commencement of World War II. The essay describes how the Iliad demonstrates the way force, exercised to the extreme in war, reduces both …