BMCR 1999.01.03

Books Received (December 1998)

Armstrong, Michael S., “Hope the Deceiver” Pseudo-Seneca De Spe. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1998. Pp. 242. DM 64. ISBN 3-487-10760-0 (pb).

Barnes, Timothy D., Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 290. $45.00. ISBN 0-8014-3526-9.

Beck, Jan-Wilhelm, “Germania” – “Agricola”: Zwei Kapitel zu Tacitus’ zwei kleinen Schriften: Untersuchungen zu ihrer Intention und Datierung sowie zur Entwicklung ihres Verfassers. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1998. Pp. 190. DM 39,80. ISBN 3-487-10742-2 (pb).

Donfried, Karl P. and Peter Richardson, eds., Judaism and Christianity in First-Century Rome. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998. Pp. xiv, 329. $24.00. ISBN 0-8028-4265-8 (pb).

Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline, Mythology et littérature à Rome: La réécriture des mythes aux Iers siècles avant et après J.-C. Laussanne: Editions Payot, 1998. Pp. 271. 149 F. ISBN 2-601-03228-6.

Fellmeth, Ulrich and Holger Sonnabend, eds., Alte Geschichte: Wege-Einsichten-Horizonte. Festschrift für Eckart Olshausen. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1998. Pp. viii, 224. DM 58. ISBN 3-487-10725-2 (pb).

G.J. Toomer, trans., Ptolemy’s Almagest. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 693. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-00260-6 (pb).

Grewing, Farouk, ed., Toto notus in orbe: Perspektiven der Martial-Interpretation (Paligenesia Vol. 65). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pp. 366. DM 148. ISBN 3-515-07381-7 (pb).

Hubbard, Thomas K., The Pipes of Pan: Intertextuality and Literary Filiation in the Pastoral Tradition from Theocritus to Milton. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 390. $52.50. ISBN 0-472-10855-7.

Jeskins, Patricia, The Environment and the Classical World. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 91. £8.95. ISBN 1-85399-547-9 (pb).

Lossau, Manfred Joachim, Aischylos. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1998. Pp. 177. DM 29,80. ISBN 3-487-10721-X (pb).

Mitchell, Stephen and Marc Waelkens, Pisidian Antioch: The Site and Its Monuments. London: Duckworth, 1998. Pp. xvii, 249. £48.00. ISBN 0-7156-2860-7.

Müller, Friedhelm L., Die beiden Satiren des Kaisers Julianus Apostata. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pp. 248. DM 88. ISBN 3-515-07394-9 (pb).

Ober, Josiah, Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 417. $35.00. ISBN 0-691-00122-7.

Proctor, Robert E., Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering a Tradition Can Improve Our Schools (2nd Ed.). Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998 (1st ed. 1988). Pp. xxvii, 239. $15.95. ISBN 0-253-21219-7 (pb).

Snodgrass, Anthony, Homer and the Artists: Text and Picture in Early Greek Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 186. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-62022-8.

Stroud, Ronald S., The Athenian Grain-Tax Law of 374/3 BC. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies, 1998. Pp. xiv, 140. $35.00. ISBN 0-87661-529-9.

Waldherr, G.H., Adolf Lippold. Die Historia Augusta. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pp. xxvi, 280. DM 124. ISBN 3-515-07272-1 (pb).

Wardle, D., Valerius Maximus. Memorable Deeds and Sayings. Book 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 301. $70.00. ISBN 0-19-815016-4.