BMCR 2000.06.31

Books Received (June)

Bérard, François, Denis Feissel, Pierre Petitmengin, Denis Rousset, Michel Sève et collaborateurs, Guide de l’épigraphiste: Bibliographie choisie des épigraphies antiques et médiévales (3rd. ed.). Paris: Éditions Rue d’Ulm, 2000. Pp. 424. FF190. ISBN 2-7288-0254-8 (pb).

Beard, Mary, The Invention of Jane Harrison. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xii + 239. $35.00. ISBN 0-674-00212-1.

*Bonnafé, Annie, Jean-Claude Decourt et Bruno Helly (edd.), L’espace et ses représentations. Lyon: Maison de l’Orient Méditerranéen, 2000. Pp. 140 (11 ills.). FF150. ISBN 2-903264-74-0 (pb).

Brilliant, Richard, My Laocoön: Alternative Claims in the Interpretation of Artworks. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. The Discovery Series, 8. Pp. 162. $45. ISBN 0-520-21682-2.

*Cohen, Edward E., The Athenian Nation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xv + 250. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-04842-8.

*David, Jean-Michel, La République romaine. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2000. Pp. 304. ISBN 2-02-023959-0 (pb).

*Günnewig, Beatrix, Das Bild der Germanen und Britannier: Untersuchungen zur Sichtweise von fremden Völkern in antiker Literatur und moderner wissenschaftlicher Forschung. Europäische Hochschulschriften vol. 792. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1998. Pp.380. ISBN 3-631-33614-4.

*Hatscher, Christoph R., Charisma und Res Publica: Max Webers Herrschaftssoziologie und die Römisch Republik. Historia Einzelschriften 136. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. Pp. 263. DM/sFr 96. ISBN 3-515-07523-2.

*Hook, Brian S. and Russell R. Reno, Heroism and the Christian Life: Reclaiming Excellence. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000. Pp. 253. ISBN 0-664-25812-3.

Jacquemin, Anne, Offrandes monumentales à Delphes. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome fasc. 304. Paris: De Boccard, 2000. Pp. 434; plates 10. ISBN 2-86958-170-X.

*Loraux, Nicole, Born of the Earth: Myth and Politics in Athens. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. ix. + 175. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-3090-9.

Luck, Georg, Ancient Pathways and Hidden Pursuits: Religion, Morals, and Magic in the Ancient World. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. 313. $54.50. ISBN 0-472-10790-9.

Madigan, Arthur (trans.), Aristotle Metaphysics Books B and K 1-2. Clarenden Aristotle Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 185. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-875106-0.

Mauersberger, Arno, Polybios-Lexikon. Band I; Lieferung 1 (alpha-gamma). Second edition by Christian-Friedrich Collatz, Hadwig Helms and Melsene Schäfer. Munich: Akademie Verlag, 2000. Pp. 391. DM 78. ISBN 3-05-003499-8.

*McPherran, Mark (ed.), Recognition, Remembrance and Reality: New Essays on Plato’s Epistemology and Metaphysics. Apeiron vol. 32.4 (December 1999). Kelowna, Canada: Academic Printing and Publishing, 2000. Pp. xi + 157. $24.95. ISBN 0-920980-75-9 (pb).

Miller, Dean A., The Epic Hero. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. 501. $52. ISBN 0-8018-6239-6.

*Monoson, S. Sara, Plato’s Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. 252. ISBN 0-691-04366-3.

*Munn, Mark, The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. 525. $37.50. ISBN 0-520-21557-5.

*Olson, S. Douglas and Alexander Sens, Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century BCE: Text, Translation, and Commentary. American Philological Association, American Classical Studies 44. New York: Oxford University Press 2000/ Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999. Pp. 174. $19.95. ISBN 0-7885-0614-5.

Ramage, Andrew and Paul Craddock, King Croesus’ Gold: Excavations at Sardis and the History of Gold Refining. Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monographs, 11. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. 272. $75. ISBN 0-674-50370-8.

*Ranasinghe, Nalin, The Soul of Socrates. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. 196. $35. ISBN 0-8014-3746-6.

*Rutgers, L.V., Subterranean Rome: In Search of the Roots of Christianity in the Catacombs of the Eternal City. Leuven: Peeters, 2000. Pp. 164. 595 BEF/15 Euro. ISBN 90-429-0857-2.

*Sagovsky, Nicholas, Ecumenism, Christian Origins and the Practice of Communion. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. x, 221. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-77269-9.

*Sissa, Giulia and Marcel Detienne, The Daily Life of the Greek Gods. Translation of La Vie quotidienne des dieux grecs (Hachette 1989) by Janet Lloyd. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. 287. $49.50. ISBN 0-8047-3613-8.

*Thomson, R.W. (trans.), with historical commentary by James Howard-Johnston, The Armenian History attributed to Sebeos. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2000 (U.S. distribution: University of Pennsylvania Press). Pp. 464. $26.95. ISBN 0-85323-564-3 (pb) (2 vols.).

*Valantasis, Richard (ed.), Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi. + 511. $21.95. ISBN 0-691-05751-6 (pb).

*Vega, Ana Pérez and Francisco Socas Gavilán, Publio Ovidio Nasón: Cartas desde el Ponto. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2000. Pp. 252. ISBN 84-00-07818-7.