BMCR 1999.05.08

Books Received

Beissinger, Margaret et al., eds., Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 314. $17.95. ISBN 0-520-21038-7 (pb).

Beltrami, Lucia, Il sangue degli antenati: stirpe, adulterio efiglisenzepadre nella cultura romana (Scrinia 9). Bari: Edipuglia, 1998. ISBN 88-7228-141-5.

Döffinger-Lange, Erdmuthe, Der Gauvain-Teil in Chrétiens “Contedu Graal”. Forschungsbericht und Episodenkommentar. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1998. Pp. 398. DM 128. ISBN 3-8253-0836-7.

Fortin, Michel and Olivier Aurenche, eds., Natural Space, Inhabited Space in Northern Syria (10th-2nd millennium B.C.). Quebec: Canadian Society forMesopotamian Studies, 1998. Pp. vi, 304. ISBN 2-903264-56-2 (pb).

Golder, Herbert ed., Aias (Ajax) by Sophocles. Richard Pevear, trans. New York:Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 100. $9.95. ISBN 0-19-512819-2 (pb).

Hadas, Moses, trans. Heliodorus: An Ethiopian Romance. Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999 (first edition 1957). Pp. x, 277. $17.95. ISBN 0-8122-1672-5 (pb).

Halliwell, Stephen, Aristophanes. Birds and Other Plays. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 1998. Pp. lxxx, 297. $9.95. ISBN 0-19-282408-2 (pb).

Hamilton, J.R., Plutarch. Alexander. London: Duckworth, 1999 (second edition). Pp. lxxv, 231. £14.95. ISBN 1-85399-574-6 (pb).

Holt, Frank L., Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 230. $55.00. ISBN 0-520-21140-5.

Hopwood, Keith, Organised Crime in Antiquity. London: Duckworth, 1999. £40.00. ISBN 0-7156-2905-0.

Hunter, Richard, ed., Theocritus: A Selection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 308. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-57416-1.

Jacoby, F., Die fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Indexes of parts I, II and III. Indexes of Ancient Authors. By Pierre Bonnechere. Leiden: Brill, 1998. ISBN 90-04-11392-4.

King, Helen, Hippocrates’ Women: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xvii, 322. $27.00. ISBN0-415-13895-7 (pb).

Mellor, Ronald, The Roman Historians. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. x, 212. $21.99. ISBN 0-415-11774-7 (pb).

Meyer, Marvin W. and Richard Smith, eds., Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999 (reprint 1994 ed.). Pp. xiii, 409. $17.95. ISBN 0-691-00458-7 (pb).

Moret, Jean-Marc, Les pierres gravées antiques représentant le rapt du Palladion. Texte et Planches. Mainz: Philip von Zabern, 1997. Pp. x, 366 (texte); xii, 120 pls. ISBN 3-8053-2302-6.

Plass, Paul, The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999 (reprint 1995 ed.). Pp. ix, 283. $17.95. ISBN 0-299-14574-3 (pb).

Roth, J.P., Logistics of the Roman Army at War. Leiden: Brill, 1998. ISBN 90-04-11271-5.

Schofield, Malcolm, Saving the City: Philosopher-Kings and Other Classical Paradigms. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. x, 242. $75.00. ISBN 0-415-18467-3.

Thesleff, Holger, Studies in Plato’s Two-Level Model. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1999. Pp. vii, 143. ISBN 951-653-298-5 (pb).

Udolph, Jürgen, Ostern. Geschichte eines Wortes. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1999. Pp. 125. Kt 28,-/ATS 204,-/SFr 25,-. ISBN 3-8253-866-9 (pb).