BMCR 2000.02.05

Books Received (December 1999, January 2000)

Adrados, Francisco Rodríguez, History of the Graeco-Latin Fable. Vol. 1, Introduction and From the Origins to the Hellenistic Age. Translated by Leslie A. Ray from Spanish [Historia de la fábula greco-latina]. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 1999. Pp. iix, 739. ISBN 90-04-11454-8.

Allen, Danielle S., The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 449. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-05869-5.

*Assman, Jan, Das verschleierte Bild zu Sais: Schillers Ballade und ihre griechischen und ägyptischen Hintergründe. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1999. Pp. ix, 71.

Athanassiadi, Polymnia and Michael Frede (eds.), Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 211. $70.00. ISBN 0-19-815252-3.

Beard, Mary and Michael Crawford, Rome in the Late Republic. London: Duckworth, 1999, 2nd edition (1st edition 1985). Pp. viii, 120. £10.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-2928-X.

*Beversluis, John, Cross-Examining Socrates : A Defense of the Interlocutors in Plato’s Early Dialogues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, Pp. vii, 416. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-55058-0.

*Blázquez, José María, Mosaicos romanos de Espan~a. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 1993. Pp. 720. ISBN 84-376-1125-3 (pb).

*Boegehold, Alan L., When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 154. $32.50. ISBN 0-691-00263-0.

*Booth, Joan, Lee Guy (trans.), Catullus to Ovid. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2nd ed. 1999 (1st ed. 1995). Pp. vi, 164. £9.95 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-606-8.

*Buddensiek, Friedemann, Die Theorie des Glücks in Aristoteles’ Eudemischer Ethik. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999. Pp. ix, 287. DM 92.00. ISBN 3-525-25222-6.

Budelmann, Felix, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication and Involvement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 297. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-66040-8.

Carlisle, Miriam and Olga Levaniouk, Nine Essays on Homer. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Pp. v, 241. ISBN 0-8476-9423-2 (hb); ISBN 0-8476-9424-0 (pb).

*Cavanagh. W. G. and S. E. C. Walker (eds.), Sparta in Laconia: Proceedings of the 19th British Museum Classical Colloquium (BSA Studies Series No. 4). London: The British School at Athens, 1999. Pp. 170. £26.50 (+ post/packing). ISBN 0-904887-36-7.

Claassen, Jo-Marie, Displaced Persons: The Literature of Exile from Cicero to Boethius. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. Pp. v, 352. $19.95 (pb), $49.95 (hb). ISBN 0-299-16644-9.

*Clauss, Manfred, Kaiser und Gott: Herrscherkult im römischen Reich. Stuttgart und Leipzig: B.G.Teubner, 1999. Pp. 13, 595. ISBN 3-519-07444-3.

*Coles, John, Bewley, Robert, amd Mellars, Paul, eds., World Prehistory: Studies in Memory of Grahame Clark. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 246. 8 plates. £52.00. ISBN 0-19-726196-5.

*Collins, Derek, Immortal Armor: The Concept of Alke in Archaic Greek Poetry. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998. Pp. ix,139. ISBN 0-8476-8821-6 (pb); ISBN 0-8476-8820-8 (hb).

*De Franceschini, Marina, Le ville Romane Della X Regio (Venetia et Hitria): Catalogo e carta archeologica dell’insediamento romano nel territorio, dall’età repubblicana al tardo impero. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 1998. Pp. 973. ISBN 88-8265-019-7.

*Demaine, Mary R. and Taylor, Rabun M., Life of the Average Roman: A Symposium. White Bear Lake: PZA Publishing, 1999. Pp. 137. $30.00. ISBN 0-9673471-0-6.

*Demos, Marian, Lyric Quotation in Plato. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Pp. vii, 101. ISBN 0-8476-8909-3 (pb); ISBN 0-8476-8908-5 (hb)

*Desanges, Jehan, Toujours Afrique apporte fait nouveau. Paris: De Boccard, 1999. Pp. 406. ISBN 2-7018-0129-X.

*Dominik, William J. and William T. Wehrle, Roman Verse Satire Lucilius to Juvenal: A Selection with an Introduction, Text, Translations, and Notes. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2000. Pp. xv, 221. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-442-8.

*Edwards, Mark, Martin Goodman and Simon Price, eds., Apologetics in the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews and Christians. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 315. $82.00 .

Faulkner, Thomas M., Felson, Nancy and Konstan, David, Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Pp. v, 359. ISBN 0847697339 (pb); ISBN 0847697320 (hb).

*Fleming, Stuart J., Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1999. Pp. xii, 208. ISBN 0-924171-73-1.

*Fowden, Elizabeth Key, The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 227. $55.00 (hb). ISBN 0-520-21685-7.

*Funke, Peter, Athen in Klassischer Zeit. München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 1999. Pp. v, 128. DM 14.80. (pb). ISBN 3-406-44574-8.

*Gärtner, Thomas, Klassische Vorbilder mittelalterlicher Trojaepen (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 133). Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1999. Pp. 580. $19.95.

*Hanson, Maury (ed., trans.), Hippocrates on Head Wounds. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999. Pp. xi, 130. ISBN 3-05-003339-8.

*Hemelrijk, Emily A., Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna. London: Rutledge, 1999. Pp., vii, 382. $90.00. ISBN 0-415-19693-0.

*Hoffman, Heinz, ed., Latin Fiction: The Latin Novel in Context. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. v, 277. $90.00 (hb). ISBN 0-415-14721-2.

*Holst-Warhaft, Gail and McGann, David R., eds., The Classical Moment: Views from Seven Literatures. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Pp. vii, 139. ISBN 0847694194 (hb); ISBN 0847694208 (pb).

*Hopkins, Keith, A World Full of Gods: Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. Pp. viii, 402. £25.00. ISBN 0-297-81982-8.

*Hornung, Erik, Akhenaten and the Religion of Light. Translated from the 1995 German edition by David Lorton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 146. $29.95. ISBN 0-8014-3658-3

*Irby-Massie, Georgia L., Military Religion in Roman Britain. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 1999. Pp. v, 386. ISBN 90-04-10848-3.

*Kovacs, David (ed. and trans.), Euripides, Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion (Loeb Classical Library, Euripides IV). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. 511. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-99574-0.

Kraus, Christina Shuttleworth, ed., The Limits of Historiography: Genre and Narrative in Ancient Historical Texts. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 1999. Pp. v, 364. ISBN 90-04-10670-7.

*Krumeich, Ralf, Bildnisse Griechischer, Herrscher und Staatsmänner im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. München: Verlag Biering & Brinkmann, 1997. Pp. v, 274. ISBN 3-93069-15-0.

Krumeich, Ralf, Nikolaus Pechstein and Bernd Seidensticker (eds.), Das griechische Satyrspiel. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1999. Pp.iv., 676. DM 148.00 / Fr 131.00. ISBN 3-534-14593-3.

*Levick, Barbara, Vespasian. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. vii, 310. $40.00. ISBN 0-415-16618-7.

Marcovich, Miroslav, ed., Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum, Vol. I, Libri I-X. Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1999. Pp. l, 825. ISBN 3-519-01316-9.

Marcovich, Miroslav, ed., Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum, Vol II, Excerpta byzantina. Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner. 1999. Pp. 346. ISBN 3-519-01317-7.

*Matthaios, Stephanos, Untersuchungen zur Grammatik Aristarchs: Texte und Interpretation zur Wortartenlehre. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999. Pp 11, 707. DM 198.00. ISBN 3-525-25223-4.

*McInerney, Jeremy, The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phocis. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 391. $50.00 (hb), ISBN 0-292-75229-6; $24.95 (pb), ISBN 0-292-75230-X.

*Miles, Geoffrey, ed., Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. vii, 456. $24.99 (pb), $80.00 (hb). ISBN 0-415-14755-7.

*Miles, Richard ed., Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. v, 262. $75.00. ISBN 0-415-19406-7.

Moore, R.W., Comparative Greek and Latin Syntax. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1999 (1st. edition 1934). Pp. vii, 224. £12.95 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-598-3.

Morgan, Catherine et al., eds., Isthmia: Vol. VIII, The Late Bronze Age Settlement and Early Iron Age Sanctuary. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1999. Pp. vi, 526. $100.00. ISBN 0-87761-938-3.

*Mouton, Michel ed., MLEIHA I: Environmennement, stratégies de subsistance et artisanats. Lyon: Maison de l’Orient Méditerranén, 1999. Pp. vii, 292. ISBN 2-903264-71-6.

Ousterhout, Robert, Master Builders of Byzantium. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 320. ISBN 0-691-00535-4.

*Padilla, Mark W., ed., Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece: Literature, Religion, Society. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1999. Pp 7, 312. ISBN 0-8387-5418-X.

Panagiotaki, Marina, The Central Palace Sanctuary at Knossos (BSA Supplementary Volume No. 31). London: The British School at Athens, 1999. Pp. xiv, 300, 42 plates. £72 (+ post/packing). ISBN 0-904887-30-8.

*Plantzos, Dimitris, Hellenistic Engraved Gems (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 148, 96 Plates. $145.00. 0-19-815037-7.

Quinn, Kenneth, Catullan Revolution. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2nd. ed., (1st ed. 1955). Pp. vii, 119. £11.95 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-600-9.

*Quinn, Stephanie, ed., Why Vergil? A Collection of Interpretations. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2000. Pp. xxiii, 451. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-418-5.

Raaflaub, Kurt, Nathan Rosenstein (eds.), War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 484. $50.00. ISBN 0-674-94660-X.

*Rice, Michael, Who’s Who in Ancient Egypt. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. vii, 257. $29.99. ISBN 0-415-15448-0.

*Riggsby, Andrew M., Crime and Community in Ciceronian Rome. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1999. Pp. x, 249. $40.00 (hb), ISBN 0-292-77098-7; $19.00 (pb). ISBN 0-292-77099-5.

*Riu, Xavier, Dionysism and Comedy. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Pp. v, 294. ISBN 0847694410 (hb); ISBN 0847694429 (pb).

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

Slings, S.R., Plato Clitophon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. vii, 360. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-62368-5.

*Sultan, Nancy, Exile and the Poetics of Loss in Greek Tradition. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Pp. v, 137. ISBN 084768752X (pb); ISBN 0847687511 (hb).

*Swaddling, Judith, The Ancient Olympic Games. London: British Museum Press, 1999 2nd edition (1st edition 1980). Pp. vii, 112. £8.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7141-2161-4.

Todorov, Tzvetan, ed., Voices from the Gulag: Life and Death in Communist Bulgaria (trans. Robert Zaretsky). University Park, Pa.: Penn State University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 178. $28.50. ISBN 0-271-01961-1.

Tsetskhladze, Gocha R., Pichvnari and its Environs: 6th c BC – 4th c AD. Paris: Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises, 1999. Pp. 230. F 210 (pb). ISBN 2-913322-42-5.

*Van De Mieroop, Marc, Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. v, 196. $22.99 (pb). ISBN 0-415-19533-0.

Webster, Graham, The Roman Invasion of Britain. London: Routledge, 1999 (first edition 1980). Pp. vii, 224. $25.99 (pb). ISBN 0-415-21828-4.

*Wieling, Hans (ed.), Corpus der römischen Rechtsquellen zur antiken Sklaverei (CRRS); Teil 1, Die Begründung des Sklavenstatus nach Ius Gentium und Ius Civile. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 167. DM/sFr 68 (hb). ISBN 3-515-07488-0.

Zetzel, James E. G., ed., Cicero, On the Commonwealth and On the Laws. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xlviii, 207. $54.95 (hb). ISBN 0-521-45344-5; $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-521-45959-1.

*Zwierlein, Otto, Die Ovid- und Vergil-Revision in tiberischer Zeit. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999. Pp. vii, 685. DM 228. ISBN 3-11-016635-6.