BMCR 1999.10.08

Books Received

Arweiler, Alexander, Die Imitation antiker und spätantiker Literaturin der Dichtung ‘De spiritalis historiae gestis’ des Alcimus Avitus. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1999. Pp. xi, 384. DM 248. ISBN 3-11-016248-2.

Bettini, Maurizio, The Portrait of the Lover. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. xiv, 339; 6 b/w ills. $45.00. ISBN 0-520-20580-1.

Bober, Phyllis P., Art, Culture & Cuisine: Ancient & Medieval Gastronomy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 442. $50.00. ISBN 0-226-06253-8.

Colvin, Stephen, Dialect in Aristophanes: The Politics of Language in Ancient Greek Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. vi, 347. $75.00. ISBN 0-19-815249-3.

Dalby, Andrew, ed. and tr., Cato: On farming. Devon, England: Prospect Books,1998. Pp. 243. £12.50. ISBN 0907325-807.

Domenicucci, Patrizio, Astra Caesarum: Astronomia, astrologi e catasterismo da Cesare a Domiziano. Pisa: Edizioni Ets, 1996. Pp. 191. L.20,000. ISBN 88-7741-932-6.

Dummer, Jürgen and Meinolf Vielberg (edd.), Leitbilder der Spätantike – Eliten und Leitbilder. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 133. DM 64. ISBN 3-515-07547-X.

Fairclough, H.R. (trans.), Virgil: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid 1-6, revised by G.P. Goold. Loeb Classics Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. 597. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-99583-X.

Garland, Lynda, Bysantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byantium AD 527-1204. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xx, 343. ISBN 0-415-14688-7.

Graf, Fritz, Magic in the Ancient World. Translated by Philip Franklin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. 313. $16.95. ISBN 0-674-54153-7.

Grainger, John D., The League of the Aitolians. Mnemosyne Supplement. Pp. xvii, 585; maps. ISBN 90-04-10911-0.

Habicht, Christian, Athens from Alexander to Antony. Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 406. $18.95. ISBN 0-674-05112-2.

Hill, D. E., ed. and trans., Ovid: Metamorphoses IX-XII. Wiltshire: Aris, 1999. Pp. vii, 230. $32.00 (pb). ISBN 0-85668-646-8.

Manuwald, Gesine, Die Cyzicus-Episode und ihre Funktion in den Argonautica des Valerius Flaccus. Hypomnenata 127. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1999. Pp. 292. DM 96. ISBN 3-525-25224-2 (pb).

Martinex, David G. (ed.), P. Michigan XIX, Baptized for Our Sakes: A Leather Trisagion from Egypt. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1999. Pp. 115. ISBN 3-519-07669-1.

Nevett, Lisa C., House and Society in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp xi, 220. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-64349-X.

Niles, John D., Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature. Philadelphia: University of Penn. Press, 1999. Pp. 280. $45.00. ISBN 0-8122-3504-5.

Parkinson, Richard, Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. 208. $27.50 (pb). ISBN 0-520-22248-2.

Pomeroy, Arthur J. (ed.), Arius Didymus, Epitome of Stoic Ethics. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 160. $35.00. ISBN 0-88414-001-6.

Quaderni 1998. Università degli Studi Di Torino, Dipartimento di Filologia Linguistica e Tradizione Classica. Bologna: Patron Editore, 1998. Pp. 279. L.31,000. ISBN 88-555-2485-2.

Rudebusch, George, Socrates, Pleasure and Value. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 169. $35.00. ISBN 0-19-512855-9.

Scodel, Ruth, Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Versimilitude in Homer and Greek Tragedy. Suttgart: Teubner, 1999. Pp. 216. ISBN 3-519-07671-3.

Shanks, Michael, Art and the Early Greek State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 237. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-56117-5.

Sonnabend, Holger (ed.), Mensch und Landschaft in der Antike: Lexicon der Historichen Geographie. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1999. Pp. xii, 660. DM 98. ISBN 3-476-01285-9.

Swain, Simon (ed.), Oxford Readings in The Greek Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press,1999. Pp. x, 412. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-872188-9.

Thiel, Rainer, Simplikios und das Ende der neuplatonischen Schule in Athen. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 59. ISSN 0002-2977.

Vottero, Dionigi, L. Seneca: I Frammenti. Bologna: Patron Editore, 1998. Pp. 535. L.60,000. ISBN 88-555-2469-0.

Wellstein, Matthias, Nova Verba in Tertullians Schriften gegen die Häretiker aus montanistischer Zeit. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1999. Pp. 351. ISBN 3-519-07676-4.

Williams, Stephen and Gerard Friell, The Rome That Did Not Fall: The Survivalof the East in the Fifth Century. New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xii, 282. $75.00. ISBN 0-415-15403-0.

Yakobson, Alexander, Elections and Electioneering in Rome. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 251. DM 98. ISBN 3-515-07481-3.