BMCR 1997.03.02

Books Received February 1997

Bagnall, Roger and Dirk Obbink (edd.), Columbia Papyri X. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996. Pp. 234, 50 plates. $49.95. ISBN 0-7885-0275-1.

Beetham, Frank, Beginning Greek with Homer: An Elementary Course based on Odyssey V. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1997. Pp. 264. =A312.95. ISBN 1-85499-480-4. (pb).

Bowersock, G.W., Fiction as History: Nero to Julian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 (reprint). Pp. 195. $15.95. ISBN 0-520-20881-1 (pb).

Branham, R. Bracht & Marie-Odile Goulet-Caze, The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity & its Legacy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. 462. $55.00. ISBN 0-520-20449-2.

Bromwich, James, The Roman Remains of Southern France: A Guidebook. New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. 309. $59.95. ISBN 0-415-00837-9.

Calame, Claude, L’Eros dans la Grece antique. Paris: Editions Belin, 1996. Pp. 252. ISBN 2-7011-2160-4.

Cameron, Averil, Procopius and the Sixth Century. New York: Routledge, 1996 (reprint). Pp. 297. $18.95. ISBN 0-415-14294-6 (pb).

Conte, Gian Biagio, The Hidden Author: An interpretation of Petronius’ Satyricon (translated by Elaine Fantham). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. 236. $35.00. ISBN 0-520-20715-7.

Dalby, Andrew, Siren Feasts: A History and Gastronomy in Greece. New York: Routledge, 1997 (reprint). Pp. 320. ISBN 0-415-15657-2 (pb).

Dreyfus, Renee & Ellen Schraudolf, Pergamon: The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar, vol.1. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1996. Pp. 120. ISBN 0-88401-089-9 (pb).

Dumezil, Georges, Archaic Roman Religion vol. 1 (translated by Philip Krapp). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1996 (reprint). Pp. 394. $18.95. ISBN 0-8018-5480-6 (pb).

Dumezil, Georges, Archaic Roman Religion vol. 2 (translated by Philip Krapp). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1996 (reprint). Pp. 317. $18.95. ISBN 0-8018-5481-4 (pb).

Dyck, Andrew, A Commentary on Cicero, de Officiis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. Pp. 716. $69.95. ISBN 0-472-10719-4.

Economou, George (translator), William Langland’s Piers Plowman: The C version. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Pp. 262. $17.95. ISBN 0-8122-1561-3 (pb).

Edwards, Catharine, Writing Rome: Textual approaches to the city. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 146. $49.95. ISBN 0-521-55080-7.

Elefante, Marie (ed), Velleius Paterculus (vol. 3) Ad M. Vinicium consulem libri duo. Hildesheim: Goerg Olms Verlag, 1997. Pp. 583. DM 118,-. ISBN 3-487-10257-9 (pb).

Everson, Stephen (ed), Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 280. $27.95. ISBN 0-521-48243-7.

Fowler, Barbara Hughes, Vergil’s Eclogues. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. 49. $9.95. ISBN 0-8078-4653-8 (pb).

Golden, Mark & Peter Toohey, Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism, Periodization, & the Ancient World. New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 238. $18.95. ISBN 0-415-09960-9 (pb).

Gordon, Pamela, Epicurus in Lycia: The Second-Century World of Diogenes of Oenoanda. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. 140. $37.50. ISBN 0-472- 10461-6.

Hallett, Judith & Thomas van Nortwick, Compromising Traditions: The personal voice in classical scholarship New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 196. $17.95. ISBN 0-415-14284-9 (pb).

Holloway, R. Ross, The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium. New York: Routledge, 1996 (reprint). Pp. 203. $19.95. ISBN 0-415-14360-8 (pb).

Laurence, Ray, Roman Pompeii: Space and society. New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. 158. $16.95. ISBN 0-415-14103-6 (pb).

Lloyd, G.E.R., Aristotelian Explorations. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 242. $49.95. ISBN 0-521-55422-5.

Lombardo, Stanley, transl., Homer’s Iliad. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997. Pp. 511. $34.95. ISBN 0-87220-353-0.

Mattingly, Harold B., The Athenian Empire Restored: Epigraphic & Historical Studies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. 716. $72.50. ISBN 0-472-10656-2.

McDonald, William, ed., Fifteenth-Century Studies, vol. 23. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1997. Pp. 292. ISBN 1-57113-135-5 (pb).

McPherran, Mark L., The Religion of Socrates. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. Pp. 353. $35.00. ISBN 0-271-01581-0.

Narducci, Emanuele, Cicerone e l’eloquenza romana: Retorica e progetto culturale. Rome: Laterza, 1997. Pp. 186. ISBN 88-420-5124-1 (pb).

Ober, Josiah & Charles Hedrick, edd., Demokratia: A conversation on democracies, ancient and modern. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. 466. $24.95. ISBN 0-691-01109-5 (pb).

Ober, Josiah, The Athenian Revolution: Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. 212. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-01095-1.

Oniga, Renato, Sallustio e l’etnografia. Pisa: Giardini, 1995. Pp. 147. ISBN 88-427-0258-7 (pb).

Rigsby, Kent J., Asylia: Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. 689. $90.00. ISBN 0-520-20098-5.

Sage, Michael, Warfare in Ancient Greece: A sourcebook. New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. 252. $19.95. ISBN 0-415-14355-1 (pb).

Vickers, Michael, Pericles on Stage: Political comedy in Aristophanes’ early plays. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. Pp. 296. $37.50. ISBN 0-292-78727-8.

Whitaker, Albert Keith (transl), Plato’s Parmenides. Newburyport: Focus Publishing, 1996. Pp. 92. ISBN 0-941051-96-X (pb).

Zanker, Graham, The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. 174. $19.95 (pb).