BMCR 1999.12.01

Books Received (November 1999)

Andreau, Jean, Banking and Business in the Roman World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 176. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-38031-6.

Ash, Rhiannon, Ordering Anarchy: Armies and Leaders in Tacitus’ Histories. London: Duckworth, 1999. Pp. ix, 246. £40.00. ISBN 0-7156-2800-3.

Bowersock, G.W., Peter Brown and Oleg Grabar (edd.), Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. 780. ISBN 0-674-51173-5.

Brown, Sarah Annes, Metamorphoses of Ovid. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 246. £40.00. ISBN 0-7156-2887-9.

Brunet, Phillippe (trans.), Marie-Christine Leclerc (ed.), Hésiode. La Théogonie, Les Travaux et les Jours et autres poèmes. Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 1999. Pp. 350. 33FF. ISBN 2-253-16041-5 (pb).

Buxton, Richard ed., From Myth to Reason? Studies in the Development of Greek Thought. New York: Oxford U. Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 368. $75.00. ISBN 0-19-815234-5.

Edwards, Mark, Martin Goodman and Simon Price eds., Apologetics in the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews, and Christians. New York: Oxford U. Press, 1999. Pp. x, 315. $82.00. ISBN 0-19-826986-2.

Franz, Michael, Von Gorgias bis Lukrez: Antike Ästhetik und Poetik als vergleichende Zeichentheorie. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999. Pp. xvi, 680. ISBN 3-05-003275-8.

Gentili, Bruno ed., La Colometria Antica Dei Testi Poetici Greci. Pisa-Rome: Instituti Editorali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 1999. Pp. 234. ISBN 88-8147-190-6 (pb).

Godwin, John, ed., Catullus: The Shorter Poems. A & P, 1999. £16.50. ISBN 0-85668-715-4.

Goward, Barbara, Telling Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 1999. Pp. vi., 214. £40.00. ISBN 0-7156-2795-3.

Hanson, Maury, tr., ed., Hippocrates: On Head Wounds. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999. Pp. 130. ISBN 3-05-003339-8.

Hardie, Philip, Alesandro Barchiesi, Stephen Hinds eds., Ovidian Transformations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 336. ISBN 0-906014-22-0 (pb).

Henderson, Jeffrey trans., Aristophanes: The Birds. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 1999. Pp. 96. $7.95. ISBN 0-941051-87-0 (pb).

Jordan, David R., Hugo Montgomery, and Einar Thomassen eds., The World of Ancient Magic: Papers from the first International Samson Eitrem Seminar at the Norwegian Institute at Athens 4-8 May 1997. Bergen, Norway: The Norwegian Institute at Athens, 1999. Pp. 335. 250 Norw. Crowus. ISBN 82-91626-15-4.

Junge, Rebekka, Nicholas Trevet und die Octavia Praetexta. Paderborn: Schönigh, 1999. Pp. 300. DM 88. ISBN 3-506-79604-1 (pb).

Kallendorf, Craig, Virgil and the Myth of Venice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 251. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-815254.

Krumeich, Ralf, Bildnisse Griechischer Herrscher und Staatsmänner Im 5. Jahrhundert V. Chr. München: Verlag Biering und Brinkmann, 1997. Pp. 274. ISBN 3-930609-15-0.

Manganaro, Giacomo, Sikelika: Studi di Antichità e di Epigraphia Della Sicilia Greca. Pisa-Rome: Instituti Editorali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 1999. Pp. 142. ISBN 88-8147-165-5 (pb).

Manniche, Lise, Sacred Luxuries: fragrance, aromatherapy, and cosmetics in Ancient Egypt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp.160. ISBN 0-8014-3720-2.

Mierse, William E., Temples and Towns in Roman Iberia. London, Berkeley, Los Angeles: U. of California Press, 1999. Pp. xxiii, 346. $65.00. ISBN 0-520-20377-1.

Müller, Hans Wolfgang, Eberhard Thiem, Gold of the Pharaohs. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. 256. $60.00. ISBN 0-8014-3725-3.

Nutton, Vivian trans., ed., Galen. On My Own Opinions. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999. Pp. 247. DM 168. ISBN 3-05-003340-1.

Raaflaub, Kurt, Nathan Rosenstein eds., War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 484. $50. ISBN 0-674-94660-x.

Riggsby, Andrew M., Crime and Community in Ciceronian Rome. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 249. $19.95. ISBN 0-292-77099-5 (pb).

Robson, Eleanor, Mesopotamian Mathematics 2100-1600 BC. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 334. $105.00. ISBN 0-19-815246-9 (pb).

Rowland, Ingrid D., Thomas Noble Howe eds., Vitruvius. Ten Books on Architecture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 333. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-55364-4.

Sallis, John, Chronology: On Beginning in Plato’s Timaeus. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 171, 4b/w ills. $16.95. ISBN 0-253-21308-8 (pb).

Slavitt, David R., The Voyage of the Argo. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Universtiy Press, 1999. Pp. x, 165. $15.95. 0-8018-6178-0 (pb).

Stray, Christopher ed., Classics in 19th and 20th Century Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 176. ISBN 0-906014-23-9 (pb).

Studi Classici e Orientali, XLVI-1. Rome: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 1998. Pp. 394. ISSN 0081-6124.

Studi Classici e Orientali, XLVI-2. Rome: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 1998. Pp. 757. ISSN 0081-6124.

Studi Classici e Orientali, XLVI-3. Rome: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 1998. Pp. 1164. ISSN 0081-6124.

Taylor, David, The Greek and Roman Stage. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 88. £8.95. ISBN 1-85399-591-6 (pb).