BMCR 1997.02.01

The Odyssey Re-Formed

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Pp. 336. $22.95.ISBN 0-415-14357-8 (pb). *Braund, David, Ruling Roman Britain: Kings, queens, governors and emperors from Julius Caesar to Agricola. New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. 217. $59.95. ISBN 0-415-00804-2. *Calame, Claude, Thesee et l’imaginaire athenien: Legende et culte Grece antique. Lausanne: Editions Payot, 1996. Pp. 491. ISBN 2-601-03175-1 (pb, 2nd ed.). Calame, Claude, translated by D. Collins & J. Orion, Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role, and Social Functions. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. Pp. 282. ISBN 0-8226-3063-X (pb). Calder, William M. III (ed.), George Grote Reconsidered: A 200th Birthday Celebration with a First Edition of his Essay ‘Of the Athenian Government’. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 1996. Pp. 97. DM 29,80. ISBN 3-615-00180-X (pb). Clarke, M.L., Rhetoric at Rome: A historical survey (rev.). New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. 206. $18.95. ISBN 0-415-14155-9 (pb). *Deacy, S. & K.F. Pierce, Rape in Antiquity: Sexual violence in the Greek and Roman worlds. London: Duckworth, 1997. Pp. 274. L40 ISBN 0-7156-2754-6. Edmunds, Lowell, Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and its Later Analogues. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996 (reprint 1985). Pp. 242. $15.95. ISBN 0-8018-5490-3 (pb). *Elliott, T.G., The Christianity of Constantine the Great. Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 1997. Pp. 366. $24.95. ISBN 0-940866-58-7. *Fantuzzi, M. & R. Pretagostini, Struttura e Storia dell’ Esametro Greco, v. 2. Rome: Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale, 1996. Pp. 340. ISBN 88-8011-050-0 (pb). *Fantuzzi, M. & R. Pretagostini. Struttura e Storia dell’Esametro Greco, v.1. Rome: Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale, 1995. Pp. 434. ISBN 88-8011-050-0 (pb). *Freeman, Charles, Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 638. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-815003-2. Furley, William D., Andokides and the Herms: A Study of Crisis in fifth-century Athenian Religion. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1996. Pp. 170. L25. ISBN 0-900587-72-5 (pb). *Gotter, Ulrich, Der Diktator ist tot! Politik in Rom zwischen den Iden des Maerz und der Bergruendung des Zweiten Triumvirats. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996. Pp. 316. DM/sFr 124,-. ISBN 3-515-06815-5 (pb). Green, J.R., Theatre in Ancient Greek Society. New York. Routledge. 1994. Pp. 234. $49.95. ISBN 0-415-04751-X. *Hammond, N.G.L., The Genius of Alexander the Great. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. 220. $29.95. ISBN 0-8078-2350-3. *Hansen, Mogens Herman, More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996. Pp. 196. DM/sFr 68,-. ISBN 3-515-06969-0. *Harder, M.A., R.F. Regtuit & G.C. Wakker, edd., Hellenistica Groningana vol. 2: Theocritus. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1996. Pp. 267. ISBN 90-6980-064-5 (pb). *Henderson, Jeffrey (transl. & ed.), Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women. New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. 244. $16.95. ISBN 0-415-90744-6 (pb). Hijmans, B.L., Jr., R. Th. van der Paarst, V. Schmidt, B. Wesseling & M. immerman, Apuleius Madaurensis, Metamorphoses, Book 9: Text, Introduction & Commentary. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1995. Pp. 436. ISBN 90-6980-085-3. *Hofmann, H & M. Zimmerman, edd., Groningen Colloquia on the Novel, vol. 7. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1996. Pp. 151. ISBN 90-6980-095-0. (pb). *Hutchinson, Lucy, translator; ed. with and intro. by Hugh de Quehen, Lucretius’ De rerum natura. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1997. Pp. 245. $39.50. ISBN 0-472-10778-X. *J.A.C.T., The Triumph of Odysseus: Joint Association of Classical Teachers’ Greek Course. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 85. $18.95. ISBN 0-521-46587-7 (pb). *Kennedy, David (ed.), The Roman Army in the East (JRA suppl. 18). Portsmouth: JRA, 1996. 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Smith (edd.), Aphrodisias Papers 3: The settings and quarries, mythological and other sculptural decoration, architectural development, Portico of Tiberius, and Tetrapylon (JRA suppl. 20). Portsmouth: JRA, 1996. Pp. 224. $79.50. ISBN 1-887829-20-2. Sacks, David, A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. 306. $16.95. ISBN 0-19-511206-7 (pb). Scheidel, Walter, Measuring Sex, Age and Death in the Roman Empire: Explorations in ancient demography (JRA Suppl. 21). Portsmouth: JRA, 1996. Pp. 184. $59.50. ISBN 1-887829.21.0. Slater, William J., ed., Roman Theater and Society: E. Togo Salmon Papers I. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. 186. ISBN 0-472-10721-6. *Small, Alastair (ed), Subject and Ruler: The cult of the ruling power in classical antiquity (JRA suppl. 17). Portsmouth: JRA, 1996. Pp. 264. $89.50. ISBN 1-887829-17-2. *Spencer, Nigel, Time, Tradition & Society in Greek Archaeology. New York: Routledge, 1995. Pp. 179. $59.95. 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