BOOKS RECEIVED (Long form with tables of contents: July 1993)
Annas, Julia, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, vol. X. Oxford: 1992. Pp. 293. ISBN-0-19-824047-3.
Craft and Fineness in Plato's Ion (Christopher Janaway) 1
Plato's Cratylus: The Naming of Nature and the Nature of Naming (Allan Silverman) 25
Plato's "Refutation" of Protagorean Relativism: Theaetetus 170-171 (Richard J. Ketchum) 73
Tragedy and Self-Sufficiency: Plato and Aristotle on Fear and Pity (Martha Nussbaum) 107
The Cyrenaic Theory of Knowledge (Voula Tsouna McKirahan) 161
"What all men believe -- must be true": Common Conceptions and consensio omnium in Aristotle and Hellenistic Philosophy (Dirk Obbink) 193
White on Aristotelian Happiness (Roger Crisp) 233
Socratic Puzzles: A Review of Gregory Vlastos, Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher (T.H. Irwin) 241
Metacommentary (Jonathan Barnes) 267
Index Locorum 283
Carey, Christopher (ed.), Apollodoros Against Neaira. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1992. Pp. 164. $19.95. ISBN-0-85668-526-7.
Preface vii
Abbreviations viii
Introduction
1. Dramatis personae 1
2. Date 3
3. The law 3
4. The hidden agenda 4
5. Apollodoros' case 8
6. The speech 12
7. Women in Athens 15
8. Authorship and style 17
9. The documents 20
10. The text 20
Text and translation 30
Commentary 84
Appendix 152
Index 158
Edwards, Catharine, The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1993. $54.95. ISBN-0-512-40083-X.
Introduction 1
1. A moral revolution? The law against adultery 34
2. Mollitia: reading the body 63
3. Playing Romans: representations of actors and the theatre 98
4. Structures of immorality: rhetoric, building and socialhierarchy 137
5. Prodigal pleasures 173
Bibliography 207
Index locorum 221
Index of subjects and proper names 225
Gaisser, Julia Haig, Catullus and HIs Renaissance Readers. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. 446. $75.00. ISBN-0-19-814882-8.
Illustrations x
Abbreviations xi
Selective Chronology xii
Introduction: Fortuna Catulli 1
1. Emendatio: from the Editio Princeps to the First Aldine 24
2. Interpretatio: making sense of Catullus 66
3. Praelectio: Pierio Valeriano at the University of Rome 109
4. Commentarius: Marc-Antoine de Muret, Achilles Statuis, and Joseph Scaliger 146
5. Imitatio: Catullan poetry from Martial to Johannes Secundus 193
6. Parodia: Catullus and the Res Publica Litterarum 255
Conclusion: the Renaissance Catullus 272
Notes 275
Appendices 401
Bibliography 416
Index Locorum 433
General Index 439
Gowers, Emily, The Loaded Table. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. 334. $65.00. ISBN-0-19-814695-7.
Abbreviations x
1. An Approach to Eating 1
2. barbarian Spinach and Roman Bacon: The Comedies of Plautus 50
3. Black Pudding: Roman Satire 109
Introduction 109
Horace 126
Persius 180
Juvenal 188
4. A Taste of Things to Come: Invitation Poems 220
Introduction 220
Catullus 13 229
Martial 245
Pliny, Epistle 1.15 267
5. Garlic Breath: Horace, Epode 3 280
References 311
Index 325
Gruzelier, Claire, Claudian. De Raptu Proserpinae. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. 309. $65.00. ISBN-0-19-814777-5.
Abbreviations xi
Introduction xvii
Sigla 1
Text and Translation 2
Commentary 79
Further Bibliography 302
Index Verborum 303
Index Rerum et Nominum 305
Hainsworth, Bryan, The Iliad: A Commentary: books 9-12. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. 380. ISBN-0-512-23711-4.
Abbreviations xv
Introduction
1. Formulas 1
i. Hapax legomena 6
ii. localization 7
iii. Phrase Patterns 9
iv. Sentence patterns 10
v. Minimal statements 12
vi. Synonyms 13
vii. Substitution 15
viii. Formulas proper 16
ix. Types of formula 18
x. Whole-line formulas, couplets, and runs 19
xi. Ornamental epithets 21
xii. Special and generic epithets 22
xiii Extension 23
xiv Economy 24
xv Modification, etc. 26
xvi. Clustering 27
xvii. Conservatism and replacement 28
2. The Iliad as heroic poetry 32
i. The verse and the singer 34
ii. The tradition 38
iii. The hero 44
a) Exemplary Character 45
b) Status 45
c) Force and will 47
d) Egotism and A)EIKE/A E)/RGA 49
iv. The Greek tradition and the Iliad 50
Commentary 55
Index 367
Halliwell, S. (trans.), Plato Republic V. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1993. Pp. 228. $24.95. ISBN-0-85668-536-4.
Preface vii
Abbreviations & References ix
Introduction 1
1.1 Design & Discovery: Approaching Bk. 5 1
1.2 The Structure of Argument in Bk. 5 3
1.3 The Status of the Arguments in bk. 5 5
2. Nature, Individuals and Society 7
2.1 Plato's Female Guardians 9
2.2 Eugenics and Kinship 16
3. War, Greeks and Barbarians 21
4. Philosophy, Knowledge and Value 25
Notes to the Introduction 31
Bibliography 36
Note on the Text and Translation 39
Text and Translation 41
Apparatus Criticus 130
Commentary 131
Appendix: Republic 5 and Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae 224
Index 227
Halpern, Baruch & Hobson, Deborah W. (edd.), Law, Politics and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993. Pp. 291. $70.00. ISBN 1-85075-350-4.
Abbreviations 7
Introduction 9
Reuven Yaron: "Social Problems and Policies in the Ancient Near East" 19
Maynard P. Maidman: "Some Late Bronze Age Legal Tablets from the British Museum: Problems of Context and Meaning" 42
Robert R. Wilson: "The Role of Law in Early Israelite Society" 90
Virginia J. Hunter: "Agnatic Kinship in Athenian Law and Athenian Family Practice: Its Implications for Women" 100
Marguerite Deslauriers: "Some implications of Aristotle's conception of authority" 122
Paul R. Swarney: "Social Status and Social Behaviour as Criteria in Judicial Proceedings in the Late Republic" 137
Jonathan Edmondson: "Instrumenta Imperii: Law and imperialism in Republican Rome" 156
Deborah W. Hobson: "The Impact of Law on Village Life in Roman Egypt" 193
Roger S. Bagnall: "Slavery and Society in Late Roman Egypt" 220
Patrick T.R. Gray: "Palestine and Justinian's Legislation on Non-Christian Religions" 241
Martin I. Lockshin: "Truth or peshat? Issues in Law and Exegesis" 271
Index of References 280
Index of Authors 288
Heckel, Waldemar, The Marshals of Alexander's Empire. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. 416. ISBN-0-415-05053-7.
List of Abbreviations xiii
List of Maps xx
Preface xxi
Part I
i: The 'Old Guard' 3
ii: The 'New Men' 57
iii: Casualties of the Succession 164
iv: The So-called 'Boyhood Friends' of Alexander 205
Part II
v: The Somatophylakes 237
A. Career Progress 237
B. The Careers of the Somatophylakes 259
C. Pages and Royal Hypaspists 289
vi: Commanders of Regular Hypaspists 299
vii: Commanders of the Argyraspids 307
viii: Commanders of Infantry 320
ix: Commanders of Cavalry 344
Appendices
I. Hephaistion's Chiliarchy 366
II. The father of Leonnatos 366
III. The battle of Amorgos 371
IV. Artakoana 373
V. The marriage of Attalos and Atalante 381
VI. Asandros son of Philotas 385
General Bibliography 387
Concordance 413
Hill, D.E. (ed.), Ovid Metamorphoses V-VIII. Warminster: Aris & Philllips Ltd., 1992. Pp. 248. $24.95. ISBN-0-85668-395-7.
Preface vii
Introduction 1
Metamorphoses
Book V 10
Book VI 38
Book VII 68
Book VIII 104
Commentary 141
Bibliography 239
Index 245
Holst-Warhaft, Gail, Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments and Greek Literature. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. 227. ISBN-0-415-07249-2.
A note on transliteration and translation x
Introduction 1
Death, tears and ideas: lament in cross-cultural perspective 14
The painful art: women's laments for the dead in rural Greece 40
The politics of revenge in the laments of Inner Mani: duty, honour and poisoned eggs 75
Mourning in a man's world: the Epitaphios Logos and the banning of laments in fifth-century Athens 98
From the Erinyes to the Eumenides: tragedy and the taming of lament 127
Epitaphs and photographs: laments in modern Greek literature 171
Notes 195
Bibliography 215
Index 222
MacMullen, Ramsay, Enemies of the Roman Order. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. 370. $17.95. ISBN-0-415-08621-3.
I. Cato, Brutus, and Their Succession 1
II. Philosophers 46
III. Magicians 95
IV. Astrologers, diviners, and Prophets 128
V. Urban Unrest 163
VI. The Outsiders 192
VII. Conclusion 242
Appendix A. Famines 249
Appendix B. Brigandage 255
Bibliography 269
Abbreviations 293
Notes 295
Index 367
Pleiner, Radomir, The Celtic Sword. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. 191. $95.00. ISBN-0-19-813411-8.
Introduction 1
1. The Origin of the Celtic long sword in early Europe 4
The Birth of the sword 5
The origin of the long sword 6
The sword and combat in Homer 10
Changes in warfare in southern Europe 11
The genesis of the Celtic sword 13
2. Styles of combat among the Celts 19
The written evidence and its value 19
The nature of continental Celtic warfare during the great invasions 24
Single combat and the survival of Archaic customs in fighting 28
The Celtic long sword as seen by the Classical world 33
The later role of the sword in society 35
3. Notes on the archaeology of the Celtic sword 38
Sword graves in cemeteries 39
The problem of Chieftains' graves 42
Mass deposits 59
4. The Characteristics of the Celtic sword 61
The long sword 61
Punchmarks 64
Scabbards 65
The anthropoid short sword 69
Rapiers 69
5. How the long sword was made 71
The starting point 71
Forging trials 73
Making flat blade A 75
Making blade B, with midrib 76
Fitting a hilt 77
6. Metallographic examinations of swords from Czechoslovakia 78
The finds 78
Methods of investigation 80
Results of investigations 81
7. Metallographic examinations of other La Tne period swords from Europe and the British isles 99
The finds and methods of investigation 100
Investigation results 104
8. Techniques of sword manufacture 134
The manufacture of sword blades 134
Group A: swords made of wrought iron 140
Group B: swords with medium or hard steel edges 143
Hardening 151
Surface finishing 152
Hilts 153
The manufacture of scabbards 154
8. Battleworthiness 157
Criticism in ancient sources 157
Notches on blades 159
Practical testing 163
Summary and Conclusions 165
Bibliography 170
Glossary of technical terms 182
Topographical index 187
Subject index 191
Porter, William M., Reading the Classics and Paradise Lost. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Pp. 222. ISBN-0-8032-3706-5.
Introduction 1
1. Nec plura adludens: Allusion 13
The difficulty of attempting to isolate literary allusions 13
Lesser forms of literary intertexuality 21
The critical allusion 32
Allusion as enthymeme 35
2. Descende caelo: thought 43
"Above the Aonian Mount" 44
Hesiod's titanomachy 53
Horace's "Descende caelo" 67
The playfulness of the Miltonic critique 80
3. Facilis descensus Auerno: design 83
Homer and Vergil 83
"A poem in twelve books" 94
The Aeneid inside out 97
The Aeneid in a mirror 105
"... imperium Oceano, famam qui terminet astris ..." 116
"Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?" 119
4. Quantum mutatus: language 129
Allusion and translation 129
Dobson's Paradisus Amissus 136
"Quantum mutatus ab illo" 140
Sannazaro, imitation, and allusion 153
Translation in reverse 167
Appendix 171
Notes 179
Works cited 207
Index 219
Potter, T.W. and Johns, Catherine, Roman Britain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Pp. 239. $35.00. ISBN-0-520-08168-4.
Introduction 7
1. Britain before AD 43 12
2. Conquest and occupation 38
3. The Romanisation of town and Country 66
4. Architecture and art 99
5. Personal possessions 123
6. Pagan gods and goddesses 158
7. The fourth century and beyond 185
Gazetteer of sites to visit 218
Notes 221
Bibliography 228
Photographic acknowledgements 232
Index 233
Richardson, Nicholas, The Iliad: A Commentary, vol. VI: books 21-24. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. 387. ISBN-0-512-30960-3.
Abbreviations xiv
Introduction
1. Structure and themes 1
i. Structure 1
ii. Themes 14
2. Two special problems 20
i. Book division 20
ii. The end of the Iliad in relation to the Odyssey 21
3. Homer and his ancient critics 25
i. From Homer to Aristotle 25
ii. The Hellenistic period 35
iii. Rome (to the Augustan period) 40
iv. Later Greek criticism 43
v. Neoplatonists and Christians 46
Commentary 51
General index to volume VI 363
Index of Greek words for all volumes 369
Segal, Charles, Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993. Pp. 183. $22.95. ISBN-0-8057-7979-5.
Illustrations vii
Note on the References and Acknowledgments viii
Chronology xi
Literary and Historical Context
1. Historical and Cultural Background 3
2. Why read Oedipus Tyrannus? 12
3. Reception and Influence 16
4. Performance, Theater, and Social Context 36
5. The Oedipus Myth and Its Interpretation 44
6. Oedipus and the Trials of the Hero 70
7. Life's Tragic Shape: Plot, Design, and Destiny 75
A Reading
8. The Crisis of the city and the king 97
9. Discovery and reversal 114
10. Resolution: tragic suffering, heroic endurance 134
11. Inner vision and theatrical spectacle 148
Notes 159
Selected bibliography 167
Index 175
Sherwin-White, Susan and Kuhr, Amelie, From Samarkhand to Sardis. Berkeley: 1993. Pp. 270, 29 Plates & 11 Maps. $40.00. ISBN-0-520-08183-8.
List of Illustrations vii
Preface ix
Introduction 1
1. Building the Seleucid Empire 7
2. The Seleucid Empire in the Third Century 40
3. The Seleucid Empire in Iran and South-West Central Asia 72
4. The Eastern Frontiers and Beyond 91
5. Kings and Kingship 114
6. Colonialism and Imperialism: aspects of the problem of 'hellenisation' and Greek interactions with non-Greek civilisations in the Seleucid empire 141
7. Antiochus III: imperialist and warrior 188
8. The Disintegration of the Seleucid Empire 217
Chronology of Seleucid and Parthian Kings 230
The Seleucid Family in the Third Century 231
Abbreviations 232
Bibliography 235
Index of Texts and Documents 250
General Index 251
Slonczewski, Joan, Daughter of Elysium. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993. Pp. 521. $25.00. ISBN-0-688-12509-3.
I. The Snake
II. The Child
III. The Dance of Fire
IV. The Immortals
Svenbro, Jesper, Phrasikleia: an anthropology of reading in ancient Greece. Translated from 1988 French edition by Janet Lloyd. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. 233. $12.95. ISBN-0-8014-9752-3.
Foreword by Gregory Nagy ix
Translations consulted xiii
Introduction 1
1. Phrasikleia: from silence to sound 8
2. I write, therefore I efface myself: the speech-act in the earliest greek inscriptions 26
3. The reader and the reading voice: the instrumental status of reading aloud 44
4. The child as signifier: the "inscription" of the proper name 64
5. The writer's daughter: Kallirhoe and the thirty suitors 80
6. Nomos, "Exegesis," reading: the reading voice and the law 109
7. True metempsychosis: Lycurgus, Numa, and the tattooed corpse of Epimenides 123
8. Death by writing: Sappho, the poem, and the reader 145
9. The inner voice: on the invention of silent reading 160
10. The reader and the eromenos: the pederastic paradigm of writing 187
Index 217
Taplin, Oliver, Comic Angels. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. 129. $62.00. ISBN 0-19-814797-X.
Select Bibliography ix
1. Athens 1
2. Megale Hellas 12
3. Tragedy and Iconography 21
4. Comedy and Iconography 30
5. Phylakes 48
6. Comic and Tragic Angels 55
7. Metatheatrical Players 67
8. Paratragedy and Paraiconography 79
9. The Transplantation of Athenian Comedy 89
Appendix 1. The Getty Birds 101
Appendix 2. Possible Metatheatrical Pipers in Comedy 105
Catalogue of Illustrations 111
General Index 121
Index of More Important Passages 126
Index of Chief Theatre-Related Vases Discussed 128
Tuplin, Christopher, The Failings of Empire. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1993. Pp. 264. ISBN 3-515-05912-1.
Preface 5
Abbreviations 9
1. Introduction 11
2. Athens, Asia Minor and the Outbreak of the Corinthian War 43
3. The Corinthian War 65
4. The Consolidation of Spartan Power 87
5. After the Cadmeia I: Friendship and Tyranny 101
6. After the Cadmeia II: Sparta 125
7. After the Cadmeia III: Thebes and Athens 147
8. Conclusions 163
Endnotes 167
Appendices I-VII 189
Bibliography 217
Indices 238
Versnel, H.S., Inconsistencies in Greek & Roman Religion 2: Transition and Reversal in Myth and Ritual. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1993. Pp. 354. ISBN 90-04-09267-6.
Preface xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
I. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander: myth and ritual, old and new
1. Questions 16
2. The rise and growth of myth and ritual theory 20
3. The fuses blow: out and out myth and ritual theorists 37
4. Criticism 41
5. Initiation, a modern complex 48
6. Eppure si muove...: myth and ritual pari passu 74
7. Prospects 79
II. Kronos and the Kronia
1. Myth 90
2. Ritual 99
3. Contradictions 106
4. The festival of reversal 115
5. The ambiguity of the Kronia and related festivals 122
6. The king of a primeval reversed world 129
7. Conclusions 132
III. Saturnus and the Saturnalia
1. The evidence 136
2. Saturnian myth and ritual: the carnivalesque signs of the reversed order 150
3. Looking back: origins 164
4. Looking forward: the continuing story of myth and ritual 190
IV. The Roman festival for Bona Dea and the Greek Thesmophoria
1. The festival of bona Dea 229
2. The Thesmophoria 235
3. Back to Bona Dea 261
4. Two festivals, one paradox 274
5. Gune-Parthenos: on the fatal ambiguity of the female race 276
6. Conclusion 284
V. Apollo and Mars one hundred years after Roscher
1. Comparing two gods: Roscher and after 290
2. Comparing two gods: a structuralist view 296
3. The social roots of a structural analogy 313
4. Kindred functions, different imges 328
bibliography 335
Indexes 345
Wilkins, John (ed.), Heraclidae. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. 198. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-814758-9.
List of Abbreviations and Editions viii
Introduction xi
The myth xi
Literary sources for the flight of the Heraclidae to Athens xiv
The Heraclidae of Aeschylus xviii
Innovations by Euripides? xix
The action of the play and the characters xx
The religious and social context xxii
The integrity of the play xxvii
Heraclidae in art xxxi
The date of the play xxxiii
The text xxxv
Sigla xxxvii
Text 1
Commentary 45
Index 197