BMCR 1999.05.15

Books Received

Ancona, Ronnie, Horace: Selected Odes and Satire 1.9. Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1999. Pp. xxxii, 199. $19.00. ISBN 0-86516-416-9 (pb).

Baumgarten, Roland, Heiliges Wort und Heilige Schrift bei denGriechen: Hieroi Logoi und verwandte Erscheinungen. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1998. Pp. 250. DM 96. ISBN 3-8233-5420-5.

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 e figli senzepadre nella cultura romana (Scrinia 9). Bari: Edipuglia, 1998. ISBN 88-7228-141-5.

Benz, Lore and Eckard Lefèvre, eds., Maccus barbarus: Sechs Kapitel zur Originalität der Captivi des Plautus. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1998. Pp. 204. DM 78. ISBN 3-8233-4564-8.

Blondell et al., ed. and trans., Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xv, 495. $22.99. ISBN 0-415-90774-8 (pb).

Braun, Maximilian, Die “Eumeniden” des Aischylos und der Areopag. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1998. Pp. 261. DM 78. ISBN 3-8233-4878-7 (pb).

Byrne, Shannon N. and Edmund P. Cueva, eds., Veritatis Amicitiaeque Causa: Essays in Honor of Anna Lydia Motto and John R. Clark. Wauconda:Bolchazy-Carducci, 1999. Pp. xvi, 345. $45.00. ISBN 0-86516-454-1 (pb).

Calame, Claude, The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 213. $35.00. ISBN 0-691-04341-8.

Calder, William M. III and Renate Schlesier, eds., Zwischen Rationalismus und Romantik: Karl Otfried Müller und die antike Kultur. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 1998. Pp. xii, 461. DM 88. ISBN 3-615-00198-2 (pb).

Cerutti, Steven M., Cicero. Pro Archia Poeta Oratio: A Structural Analysis of the Speech and Companion to the Commentary. Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci,1999. Pp. xxii, 117. $20.00. ISBN 0-86516-439-8 (pb).

Chanson, Hubert, The Hydraulics of Roman Aqueducts: Steep Chutes, Cascades and Dropshafts. Brisbane: University of Queensland, 1998. Pp. 97. ISBN 0-86776-775-3 (pb).

Clack, Jerry, Asclepiades of Samos and Leonidas of Tarentum. The Poems. Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1999. Pp. vii, 270. $30.00. ISBN 0-86516-456-8(pb).

Danek, Georg, Epos und Zitat: Studien zu den Quellen der Odyssee. Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1998. Pp. viii, 526. ISBN 3-7001-2720-0 (pb).

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.

Donlan, Walter, The Aristocratic Ideal and Selected Papers. Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1999. Pp. xviii, 364. $40.00. ISBN 0-86516-411-8 (pb).

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

Gentili, Bruno, ed., Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica. Nuova Serie 60, N.3. Pisa: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 1998. Pp. 183. ISSN 0033-4987 (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).

Greene, Ellen, The Erotics of Domination: Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love Poetry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 142. $37.50. ISBN 0-8018-5981-6.

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: Oxford University 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).

Henriksen, Joan Felicia, Astrid: A Viking Saga. Raleigh: Pentland Press, 1999. Pp. 291. $19.95. ISBN 1-57197-139-4.

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 (hb). 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

Johnston, Sarah Iles, Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 329. $40.00. ISBN 0-520-21707-1.

Jouanna, Jacques, Hippocrates. Trans. by M.B. Debevoise. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 520. $49.95. ISBN 0-8018-5907-7.

Kennedy, George A., Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition. Introductory to the Study of Rhetoric. Fort Collins: George A. Kennedy, 1999. Pp. xii, 176. $29.50.

King, Helen, Hippocrates’ Women: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xvii, 322. $27.00. ISBN 0-415-13895-7 (pb).

Klees, Hans, Sklavenlegen im klassischen Griechenland. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pp. vi, 513. DM 148. ISBN 3-515-07484-8 (pb).

Louden, Bruce, The Odyssey: Structure, Narration, and Meaning. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 182. $35.95. ISBN 0-8018-6058-X.

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. 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.

Murison, Charles Leslie, Rebellion and Reconstruction: Galba to Domitian. An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio’s Roman History Books 64-67 (A.D. 68-96). Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 291. $42.00. ISBN 0-7885-0547-5.

Muth, Susanne, Erleben von Raum: Zur Funktion mythologischer Mosaikbilder in der römisch-kaiserzeitlichen Wohnarchitektur. Heidelberg: Verlag Archäologie und Geschichte, 1998. Pp. 468, 48 pls. ISBN 3-9804648-6-5.

Netz, Reviel, The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 327. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-62279-4.

Notomi, Noburu, The Unity of Plato’s ‘Sophist’: Between the Sophist and the Philosopher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxi, 346. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-63259-5.

Perkell, Christine, ed., Reading Vergil’s Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Pp. vi, 353. $18.95. ISBN 0-8061-3139-X (pb).

Plass, Paul, The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. 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.

Sickinger, James P., Public Records and Archives in Classical Athens. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. x, 274. $49.95. ISBN 0-8078-2469-0.

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

Titchener, Frances B. and Richard F. Moorton, Jr., eds., The Eye Expanded:Life and the Arts in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 294. $45.00. ISBN 0-520-21029-8.

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).

West, M.L., The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 662. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-815221-3 (pb).

Wiesehöfer, Josef, Das Frühe Persien: Geschichte eines antiken Weltreichs. München: C.H. Beck, 1999. Pp. 128. DM 14,80. ISBN 3-406-43307-3 (pb).