BMCR 1998.11.05

Books Received (October 1998)

Baird, Joseph L. and Radd K. Ehrman, The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen Vol.II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 215. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-512010-8.

Beard, Mary et al., Religions of Rome. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 416. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-45015-2.

Bernstein, Frank, Ludi publici: Untersuchungen zur Entstehung und Entwicklung der öffentlichen Spiele im republikanischen Rom. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pp. 408. DM 148. ISBN 3-515-07301-9 (pb).

Brooten, Bernadette J., Love Between Women. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 412. $19.00. ISBN 0-226-07592-3 (pb).

Burkert et al., eds., Fragmentsammlungen philosophischer Texte der Antike: Le raccolet dei frammenti di filosofi antichi. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998. Pp. xiii, 433. DM 128. ISBN 3-525-25902-6 (pb).

Conacher, Desmond, Euripides and the Sophists. London: Duckworth, 1998. Pp. 128. £12.95. ISBN 0-7156-2816-X (pb).

Conington, J., trans., and H. Nettleship, ed., Persius: Satires. London: Duckworth, 1998 (1st ed. 1874, Clarendon Press). Pp. xxxii, 136. £13.95. ISBN 1-85399-572-X (pb).

Cramer, Robert, Vergils Weltsicht: Optimismus und Pessimismus in Vergils Georgica. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1998. Pp. x, 309. DM 198. ISBN 3-11-015728-4.

Derks, Ton, Gods, Temples and Religious Practices: The Transformation of Religious Ideas and Values in Roman Gaul. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. Pp. x, 325. $39.50. ISBN 90-5356-254-0.

Dyson, Stephen L., Ancient Marbles to American Shores: Classical Archaeology in the United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 320. $35.00. ISBN 0-8122-3446-4.

Favro, Diane, The Urban Image of Augustan Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xxi, 346. $27.95. ISBN 0-521-64665-0 (pb).

Gardner, Jane F., Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. x, 305. $85.00. ISBN 0-19-815217-5.

Garvie, A.F., Sophocles. Ajax. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1997. Pp. 200. ISBN 085668659-X.

Gill, Christopher, Norman Postlethwaite and Richard Seaford (eds), Reciprocity in Ancient Greece. New York: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 370. $90.00. ISBN 0-19-814997-2.

Glau, Katherina, Rezitation griechischer Chorlyrik (Die Parodoi aus Aischylos’ Agamemnon und Euripides’ Bakchen als Tonbeispiel auf CD mit Text- und Begleitheft). Heidelburg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1998. Pp. 40. ISBN 3-8253-0753-0 (pb).

Golden, Mark, Sport and Society in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 216. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-49698-5.

Halliwell, Stephen, Aristotle’s Poetics. London: Duckworth, 1998 (1st ed. 1986). Pp. xiv, 369. £14.95. ISBN 0-7156-2858-5 (pb).

Hamer, Mary, Julius Caesar. Northcote House Publishers, 1998. ISBN 07463087-X.

Hankinson, R.J., Galen on Antecedent Causes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 349. $80.00. ISBN 0-521962250-6.

Hanson, Victor Davis, Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 281. $14.95. ISBN 0-520-21596-6 (pb).

Kelly, J.N.D., Jerome: His Life, Writings, and Controversies. London: Duckworth, 1998 (1st ed. 1975). Pp. xi, 353. £14.95. ISBN 0-7156-1231-X (pb).

Kennedy, George A. (trans.), Publius Baebius Italicus. The Latin Iliad. Pp. 75.

Lee-Stecum, Parshia, Powerplay in Tibullus: Reading Elegies Book One. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 328. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-63083-5.

Lesher, J.H., ed., The Greek Philosophers: Selected Greek Texts from the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle. London: Duckworth, 1998. Pp. viii, 147. ISBN 1-85399-562-2 (pb).

Ling, Roger, Ancient Mosaics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. 144. $19.95. ISBN 0-691-00404-8 (pb).

Locke, John, Identité et différence: L’invention de la conscience, trans. Étienne Balibar (in French). Paris: Éditions du Sueil, 1998. Pp. 325. ISBN 2-02-026300-9 (pb).

Marr, J.L., ed. and trans., Plutarch Life of Themistocles. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1998. Pp. 172. $22.00. ISBN 085668677-8 (pb).

McLeish, Kenneth (trans. and adapt.), Four Greek Plays (Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Antigone; Aristophanes’ The Acharnians and Peace). London: Bristol Classical Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 205. £8.95. ISBN 1-85399-583-5.

Meineck, Peter, trans., Aeschylus. Oresteia. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1998. Pp. xlix, 166. $8.95. ISBN 0-87220-390-5 (pb).

Meineck, Peter, trans., Aristophanes I: Clouds, Wasps, Birds. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., Inc., 1998. Pp. xl, 417. $12.95. ISBN 0-87220-360-3 (pb).

Parmènide, Sur la nature ou sur l’étant: La langue de l’être?, trans. Barbara Cassin. (Greek and French). Paris: Éditions du Sueil, 1998. Pp. 317. ISBN 2-02-026301-7 (pb).

Reeve, C.D.C., trans., Plato. Cratylus. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1998. Pp. liii, 103. $12.95. ISBN 0-87220-416-2 (pb).

Solin, Hekki (ed.), Epigrafi e studi epigrafici in Finlandia (Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae Vol. XIX). Rome: Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 1998. Pp. x, 170. ISBN 951-96902-6-3.

Teeter, Timothy M., Columbia Papyri XI: Literary and Documentary Texts Relating to Early Christianity from the 3rd to the 7th centuries AD. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998. Pp. 128. $34.95. ISBN 0-7885-0433-9.

Thalmann, William G., The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations of Class in the Odyssey. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 330. $47.50. ISBN 0-8014-3473-3.

Van Keuren, Frances, Myth, Sexuality and Power: Images of Jupiter in Western Art. Louvain-La-Neuve: Université de Louvain, 1998. Pp. xi, 113. $45.00 (pb).

Weeber, Karl-Wilhelm, Mit dem Latein am Ende? Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1998. Pp. 156. DM 19.80. ISBN 3-525-34003-6 (pb).

Welch, Kathryn and Anton Powell (eds.), Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter: The War Commentaries as Political Instruments. London: Duckworth with the Classical Press of Wales, 1998. Pp. xii, 225. £40. ISBN 0-7156-2859-3.

Woodruff, Paul (trans.), Euripides. Bacchae. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1998. Pp. xlvi, 82. $5.95. ISBN 0-87220-392-1 (pb).