BMCR 2001.09.11

Books Received

August Books Received

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δική : Revista di storia del diritto greco ed ellenistico 3/2000. Università Degli Studi di Milano, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza. Milano: Edizioni Universitarie de Lettere Economia Diritto, 2000. Pp. 227

Argos 24/2000: Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios Clásicos, julio 2001. Buenos Aires: Gráfica General Belgrano, 2001. Pp. 240

Alcock, Susan E., John F. Cherry & Jas Elsner, eds., Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 392. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-512816-8.

*Alföldy, Géza and Silvio Panciera, eds., Inschriftliche Denkmäler als Medien der Selbstdarstellung in der römischen Welt. Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, 2001. Pp. 229. ISBN 0930-1208.

*Ambler, Wayne (trans.), Xenophon: The Education of Cyrus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. Pp. x + 304. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8750-1.

*Arnason, Johann P. and Peter Murphy, eds., Agon, Logos, Polis: The Greek Achievement and its aftermath. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. Pp. 255. DM 86.05 (pb). ISBN 3-515-07747-2.

*Baltzly, Dirk, Dougal Blyth and Harold Tarrant, eds., Power and Pleasure, Virtues and Vices Prudentia Supplement 2001. West Harbour, New Zealand: Polygraphia Ltd., 2001. Pp. xiii + 386. $22.50. ISBN 0-9582211-5-4.

*Bechtle, Gerald and Dominic J. O’Meara, eds., La Philosophie des Mathématiques de l’Antiquité Tardive. Fribourg: Editions Universitaires Fribourg Suisse, 2000. Pp. viii, 242. ISBN 2-8271-0871-2.

*Bettini, Maurizio, Classical Indiscretions: A millenial enquiry into the state of the classics. London: Duckworth, 2001. Translated from the 1995 edition I classici nell’ età dell’indiscrezione by John McManamon. Pp. 160. L 12.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-2970-0.

Bodel, John ed., Epigraphic Evidence: Ancient History from Inscriptions. New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xxvi + 246. $75.00. ISBN 0-415-11623-6.

*Capra, Andrea, ed., ἀγὼν λόγων : Il Protagora di Platone tra eristica e commedia. Università degli Studi di Milano, Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Milano: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2001. Pp. 237. Lire 44.000. ISBN 88-7916-149-0.

*Carson, Anne (trans.) and Michael Shaw (comm.), Sophocles’ Electra. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 127. (pb). ISBN 0-19-504960-8.

*Cerri, Giovanni, ed., La Letteratura Pseudepigrafa Nella Cultura Greca e Romana. Atti di un Incontro di studi Napoli, 15-17 gennaio 1998. Napoli: Instituto Universitario Orientale, 2000. Pp 543. (pb) ISBN 1128-7209.

Davies, Malcolm, The Greek Epic Cycle. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2001. Reprint of 1989 ed. Pp. viii + 93. $15.95 (pb

*Dixon, Suzanne ed., Childhood, Class and Kin in the Roman World. New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xvi + 282. $80.00. ISBN 0-415-23578-2.

Engels, Donald, Classical Cats: The rise and fall of the Sacred Cat. New York: Routledge, 2001. Reprint of the 1999 edition. Pp. xii + 227. $21.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-26162-7.

*Esposito, Paolo and Luciano Nicastri, eds., Interpretare Lucano, Miscellanea Di Studi. Università Degli Studi Di Salerno, Quaderni Del Dipartimento Di Scienze Dell’ Antichità. Napoli: Arte Tipographica, 1999. Pp. 504. Lire 70.000 (pb).

Georg, Bernhard, Exegetische und schmückende Eindichtungen im ersten Properzbuch. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2001. Pp. 211. $48.00. ISBN 3-506-79067-6.

Goldhill, Simon ed., Being Greek Under Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. viii + 395. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-66317-2.

Heck, Eberhard and Gudrun Schickler, eds., Lactantius, Göttliche Unterweisungen in Kurzform. Leipzig: K.G. Saur München, 2001. Pp. 190. (pb). DM 79.00. ISBN 3-598-73006-3.

Hinz, Vinko, Nunc Phalaris doctum protulit ecce caput: Antike Phalarislegende und Nachleben der Phalarisbriefe. Leipsig: K.G. Saur, 2001.

*Holloway, R. Ross and Susan S. Lukesh, Ustica I: Archaeologia Transatlantica XIV: The Results of Excavations of the Regione Siciliana Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali ed Ambientali Provincia di Palermo in collaboration with Brown University in 1990 and 1991. >. Providence: Center for Old World Archaeology and Art, 1995. Pp. ii + 102. $40.00.

*Holloway, R. Ross and Susan S. Lukesh, Ustica II: Archaeologica Transatlantica XIX. Excavations of 1994 and 1999 of the Regione Siciliana Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali ed Ambientali Provincia di Palermo in collaboration with Brown University. Providence: Center for Old World Archaeology and Art, 2001. Pp. 83. $40.00.

Joshel, Sandra R., and Sheila Murnaghan, edd., Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture. New York: Routledge, 2001. Reprint of 1998 ed. Pp. xii + 287. $25.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-26159-7.

*Kerkhof, Rainer, Dorische Posse, Epicharm und Attische Komödie. Leipzig: K. G. Saur München, 2001. Pp. 194. ISBN 3-598-77696-9.

Laffi, Umberto, ed., Studi di storia romana e di diritto. Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2001. Pp. 722 + 5 black and white plates (pb). Lire 160.000. ISBN 88-87114-70-6.

Le Guen, Brigitte, Les associations de Technites dionysiaques à l’ époque hellénistique. I: Corpus documentaire; II: Synthèse. Etudes d’Archéologie Classique 11-12, Nancy: Association pour la Diffusion de la Recherche sur l’Antiquité (ADRA), 2001. Pp.356; 224. ISBN 2-913667-03-1; 2-913667-04-X.

Lefèvre, Eckard, Panaitios’ und Ciceros Pflichtenlehre: Vom philosophischen Traktat zum politischen Lehrbuch. Historia Eingzelschriften 150. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. Pp.226. DM 84. ISBN 3-515-07820-7.

*Mayer, Roland, ed., Tacitus: Dialogus de Oratoribus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 227. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-47040-4.

Mayor, Adrienne, The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Reprint of the 2000 edition. Pp. xx + 361. $17.95 (pb). ISBN 0-691-08977-9.

*McHugh, Heather (trans.) and David Konstan (comm.), Euripides’ Cyclops. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 77. (pb). ISBN 0-19-514303-5.

*McKirahan, Richard trans., Simplicius: On Aristotle’s Physics 8.6-10. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. Pp 247. ISBN 0-8014-3787-3.

*Rolfes, Susanne, Die Lateinische Poetik Des Marco Girolamo Vida Und Ihre Rezeption Bei Julius Caesar Scaliger. Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2001. Pp. 304. DM 168.00 ISBN 3-598-77698-5.

Rothaus, Richard M., Corinth: The First City of Greece. An Urban History of Late Antique Cult and Religion. Leiden: Brill, 2000. Pp. x + 173. ISBN 90-04-10922-6. 8/27/2001

Scrivener, Michael, Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. Pp. xii + 303. $55.00. ISBN 0-271-02109-8.

Sommerstein, Alan (ed.), Aristophanes’ Wealth. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 2001.

*Traunecker, Claude, The Gods of Egypt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. Pp. x + 134. $27.95. ISBN 0-8014-3834-9.

*Vorwerk, Matthias, Plotins Schrift “Über Den Geist, Die Ideen Und Das Seiende”, Enneade V 9 [5]. Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2001. Pp. 206. DM 156.00. ISBN 3-598-77694-2.

*Walbridge, John, Wisdom of the Mystic East: Suhrawardi and Platonic Orientalism. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001. Pp. xiii + 170. (pb) ISBN 0-7914-5052-x. 8/4/2001

Whitehorne, John, Cleopatras. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. x + 243. $23.95 (pb). ISBN 0-414-26132-5

Still Available for Review

*Adams, Colin and Ray Laurence, eds., Travel & Geography in the Roman Empire. New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. x, 224. $75.00. ISBN 0-415-23034-9.

*Arrighetti, Graziano and Mauro Tulli, Letteratura e riflessione sulla letteratura nella cultura classica. Pisa: Giardini Editori, 2001. Pp. 448. (pb). ISBN 88-427-0322-2

*Boedeker, Deborah and David Sider, eds., The New Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-513767-1.

*Fantuzzi, Marco (trans.); Maria Noussia (comm.), Solone. Frammenti dell’opera poetica. Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizozzoli, 2001. Pp. 380. L.22.000. ISBN 88-17-86646-6.

*Felmy, Andreas, Die Römische Republik im Geschichtsbild der Spätantike. Berlin: dissertation.de, 2001. Pp. 336. (pb). ISBN 3-89825-209-4.

*Kuefler. Mathew, The Manly Eunuch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. x, 437. $45.00. ISBN 0-226-45739-7.

*Ladewig, Theodor (Ursula Gärtner and Ekkehard Stärk eds.), Schriften zum römischen Drama republikanischer Zeit. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2001. Pp. 281. DM 158.00. ISBN 3-598-77610-1.

*Lepelley, Von Claude, Rom und das Reich in der Hohen Kaiserzeit 44 v. Chr.-260 n. Chr.: Band II Die Regionen das Reiches. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2001. Pp. xv, 529. ISBN 3-598-77449-4

*Susanetti, Davide, trans., Euripide: Alcesti. Venezia: Marsilio, 2001. Pp. 301 (Pb). Lire 30.000. ISBN 88-317-7589-8.

*Thome, Gabriele and Jens Holzhausen (eds.), Lateinische Geschichtsschreibung der Spät- und Nachantike. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2001. Pp. 213. ISBN 3-598-77690-X.

*Mercogliano, Felice, “Actiones ficticiae”. Tipologie e datazione. Camerino: Jovene Editore, 2001. Pp. xix, 159. ISBN 88-243-1386-8.

*Scheidel, Walter (ed.), Debating Roman Demography. Leiden/Boston/Köln: Brill, 2001. Pp. x, 242. ISBN90-0411525-00.

*Tsomis, Georgios, Zusammenschau der frühgriechischen monodischen Melik (Alkaios, Sappho, Anakreon). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. Pp. 306. ISBN 3-515-07668-9.

On Offer (book will be sent directly from the press)

Susan Deacy, Alexandra Villing (edd.), Athena in the Classical World. Brill, 2001.

Niall Livingstone, A Commentary on Isocrates’ Busiris. Brill, 2001.

Christoph Otte (ed.), Galen, De plenitudine. Serta Graeca vol.9. Reichert, 2001.

James E. Reeson, Ovid Heroides 11, 13 and 14: A Commentary. Brill, 2001.

L. Rossi, The Epigrams Ascribed to Theocritus: A Method of Approach. Peeters, 2001.