BMCR 1999.09.11

Books Received (August 1999)

Adams, J.N. and R.G. Mayer, eds., Aspects of the Language of Latin Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 447. $70.00. ISBN 0-19-726178-7.

Ankarloo, Bengt and Stuart Clark, eds., Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 378. $24.95 (pb), $55.00 (hb). ISBN 0-8122-1705-5 (pb).

Athanassiadi, Polymnia, Damascius: The Philosophical History. Athens: Apamea Cultural Association, 1999. Pp. 403. $45.00. ISBN 960-85325-2-3.

Avezzù, Guido, ed., DIDASKALIAI: Tradizione e interpretazione del dramma attico. (Studi Testi Documenti 9) Padova: Dipartimento di Scienze dell’ Antichità Università di Padova, 1999. Pp. 256.

Bekkum, Wout van, Houben, Jan, Sluiter, Ineke, and Versteegh, Kees, The Emergence of Semantics in Four Linguistic Traditions. Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek, Arabic. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1997. Pp. ix, 322. NLG 198.00 ISBN 90-272-4568-1.

Berlinerblau, Jacques, Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 288. $20.00 (pb), $50.00 (hb). ISBN 0-8135-2855-8 (pb).

Buchan, Morag, Women in Plato’s Political Theory. New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. vi, 189. $19.99 (pb), $70.00 (hb). ISBN 0-415-92184-8 (pb).

Busch, Stephan, Versus Balnearum. Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner, 1999. Pp. xiv, 616. ISBN 3-519-07256-4.

Camion, Arlette, Wolfgang Drost, Géraldi Leroy and Volker Roloff, eds., Über das Fragment – Du Fragment (Band IV der Kolloquien der Universitäten Orléans und Siegen). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1999. Pp. viii, 320. SFr 51. ISBN 3-8253-0806-5.

Chadwick, J., L. Godart, J.T. Killen, J.P. Olivier, A. Sacconi and I.A. Sakellarakis, eds., Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos: Vol. 4 (8000-9947 and Index to Volumes 1-4). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 295. $250.00. ISBN 0-521-32025-9.

Faraone, Christopher A., Ancient Greek Love Magic. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 223. $35.00. ISBN 0-674-03320-5.

Foley, John Miles, Homer’s Traditional Art. Penn State Press. Pp. xviii, 363. $48.50.

Fuhrer, Therese, and Michael Erler, Zur Rezeption der hellenistichen Philosphie in der Spätantike. Stuttgart: Frank Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 316. DM 134. ISBN 3-515-07442-2

Goldhill, Simon and Robin Osborne, eds., Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 417. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-64247-7.

Grebe, Sabine, Martianus Capella, ‘De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii’: Darstellung der Sieben Freien Künste und ihrer Beziehungen zueinander. Stuttgart und Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1999. Pp. 939. DM 268. ISBN 3-519-07668-3.

Green, P.H., ed., Ausonius, Opera. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxx, 316. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-815039-3.

Gribble, David, Alcibiades and Athens. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 304. $75.00. ISBN 0-19-815267-1.

Henning, Dirk, Periclitans res publica. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. Pp. 362. DM 148. ISBN 3-515-07485-6 (pb).

Ho+lkeskamp, Karl-Joachim, Schiedsrichter, Gesetzgeber und Gesetzgebung im archaischen Griechenland (Historia Einzelschriften 131). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 343. DM 98. ISBN 3-515-06928-3.

Hollerich, Michael J. (ed.), Eusebius of Caesarea’s Commentary on Isaiah. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. ix, 230. $70.00. ISBN 0-19-826368-6.

Hooper, Richard W. (trans.), The Priapus Poems. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Pp. xi, 147. $14.95. ISBN 0-252-06752-5 (pb).

Johansen, Karsten Friis (Henrik Rosenmeier trans.), A History of Ancient Philosophy: From the Beginning to Augustine. New York: Routledge, 1998 (First Printing in Danish, 1991). Pp. xii, 685. $140.00. ISBN 0-415-12738-6.

Johnstone, Stephen, Disputes and Democracy: the Consequences of Litigation in Ancient Athens. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 207. $17.95. ISBN 0-292-74053-0 (pb).

Khoury, Raif Georges, Urkunden und Urkundenformulare im Klassischen Alterum und in den orientalischen Kulteren. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1999. Pp. 228. Kt 78. ISBN 3-8253-0895-2 (pb).

Landels, John G., Music in Ancient Greece and Rome. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xii, 296. $85.00. ISBN 0-415-16776-0.

Lintott, Andrew, The Constitution of the Roman Republic. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 297. $80.00. ISBN 0-19-815068-7.

Long, A.A., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxxi, 427. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-44122-6.

McClure, Laura, Spoken Like A Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. 293. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-01730-1.

Moorwood, James (trans.), Euripides. Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. liii, 227. $79.00. ISBN 0-19-815094-6.

Morley, Neville, Writing Ancient History. London: Duckworth, 1999. Pp. 175. £12.95. ISBN 0-7156-2880-1.

Nichols, Peter, Aristophanes’ Novel Forms: The Political Role of Drama. London: Minerva Press, 1998. Pp. x, 258. £7.99. ISBN 1-86106-288-5 (pb).

Paschalis, Michael, Vergil’s Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 438. $115. ISBN 0-19-814688-4.

Pestalozzi, Karl (ed.), Der fragende Sokrates. Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner, 1999. Pp. xii, 316. ISBN 3-519-07417-6.

Pfeijffer, I. L., Three Aeginetan Odes of Pindar. Mnem. Suppl. 197. ISBN 90-04-11381-9.

Pomeroy, Sarah B., ed., Plutarch’s Advice to the Bride and Groom and A Consolation to His Wife (English Translations, Commentary, Interpretive Essays and Bibliography). New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 224. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-512023-X.

Price, Simon, Religions of the Ancient Greeks. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 217. $59.95 (hb); $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-521-38201-7.

Rose, Lynn E., Sun, Moon, and Sothis: A Study of Calendars and Calendar Reforms in Ancient Egypt. Deerfield Beach, FL: Kronos Press, 1999. Pp. xxxvi, 339. $35.00. ISBN 0-917994-15-9.

Slavitt, David R. and Bovie, Palmer (eds.), Aristophanes, 3: The Suits, Clouds, Birds. Philadelphia: U. of Penn. Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 308. $16.95. ISBN 0-8122-1698-9 (pb).

Slavitt, David R. and Bovie, Palmer (eds.), Euripides, 4: Ion, Childern of Heracles, The Madness of Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Orestes. Philadelphia: U. of Penn. Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 408. $19.95. ISBN 0-8122-1697-0 (pb).

Slavitt, David R., and Bovie, Palmer (eds.), Aristophanes, 2: Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, The Sexual Congress. Philadelphia: U. of Penn. Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 360. $17.95. ISBN 0-8122-1684-9 (pb).

Taylor, C. C. W., The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 308. $65.00. ISBN 0-8020-4390-9.

Thomas, Carol G. and Craig Conant, Citadel to City State. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999. Pp. xxxii, 199; 30 ills. $29.95. ISBN 0-253-33496-9.

Tonghini, Cristina, Qal’at Ja’bar Pottery: A Study of a Syrian Fortified Site of the Late 11th-14th Centuries (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology No. 11). New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 133; figs, pls. $130.00. ISBN 0-19-727010-7.

Travis, Roger, Allegory and the Tragic Chorus in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999. Pp. xii, 243. $21.95 (pb), $55.00 (hb). ISBN 0-8476-9609-X (pb).

Trout, Dennis E., Paulinus of Nola. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. xv, 326. ISBN 0-520-21709-8.

Usher, M.D., ed., Homerocentones Eudociae Augustae. Stuttgart und Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1999. Pp. xii, 115. DM 78. ISBN 3-519-01318-5.

Vázquez, Rafael Martínez, Emilia Ruiz Yamuza and M. Regla Fernández Garrido, Gramática Funcional-cognitiva del Griego Antiguo I: Sintaxis y Semántica de la Predicación. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 1999. Pp. 337. ISBN 84-472-0506-1.

Walsh, P.G., ed., Livy, Ab Urbe Condita (vol. 6, books 36-40). New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxix, 394. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-814664-7.

Watson, Alaric, Aurelian and the Third Century. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xvi, 303. $65.00. ISBN 0-415-07248-4.

Welwei, Karl-Wilhelm, Das Klassische Athen. Darmstadt: Primus-Verlag, 1999. Pp. viii, 468. DM 98. ISBN 3-89678-117-0.

Wood, S., Imperial Women: A Study in Public Images, 40 BC – AD 68. Mnem. Supp. 194. Leiden: Brill, 1999. ISBN 9004112812.