BMCR 2002.12.10

Books Received November

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*Allan, William. Euripides: Medea. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 2002. Pp. 143. £9.99. ISBN 0-7156-3187-X.

*Anderson, William S. and Lorina N. Quartarone. Approaches to Teaching Vergil’s Aeneid. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2002. Pp. xiii, 255. $18.00 (pb). ISBN 0-87352-772-0.

*Beamish, Caroline and David Britt. Giovanni Battista. Piranesi. Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette. Los Angeles: Getty Publication, 2002. Pp. 168; ills. 42. $35.00. ISBN 0-89236-636-2.

*Cecconi, Giovanni Alberto. Commento storico al libro II dell’Epistolario di Q. Aurelio Simmaco. Pisa: Giardini Editori, 2002. Pp. 478. EUR 125.00 (pb). ISBN 88-427-0317-6.

*Chamoux, François. Hellenistic Civilization. First published 1981 in French by Arthand as La civilisation hellénistique. English translation by Michel Roussel. Oxford: Blackwells, 2003. Pp. 452. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 0-631-22242-1.

*Citti, Francesco and Camillo Neri. Seneca nel Novecento. Sondaggi sulla fortuna di un “classico”. Roma: Carocci, 2001. Pp. 271. EUR 15.49. ISBN 88-430-1979-1.

Clark, Gillian and Tessa Rajak. Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World. Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 350. $72.00. ISBN 0-19-829990-7.

Devereux, Paul. Mysterious Ancient America. An Investigation into the Engimas of America’s Pre-history. London: Vega, 2002. Pp. 174. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 1-84333-594-8.

*Dräger, Paul. Ausonius. Mosella, Bissula, Briefwechsel mit Paulinus Nolanus. Düsseldorf/Zürich: Artemis & Winkler, 2002. Pp. 320. EUR 25.60. ISBN 3-7608-1729-7.

*Geerlings, Wilhelm and Christian Schulze. Der Kommentar in Antike und Mittelalter. Beiträge zu seiner Erforschung. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. 371. ISBN 90-04-12528-0.

*Grisolia, Raffaele. Oikonomia. Struttura e tecnica drammatica negli scoli antichi ai testi drammatici. Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di Filologia Classica dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, 20. Napoli: 2001. Pp. 123.

*Knippschild, Silke. “Drum bietet zum Bunde die Hände.” Rechtssymbolische Akte in zwischenstaatlichen Beziehungen im orientalischen und griechisch-römischen Altertum. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 5. Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 2002. Pp. 223; pls. 23. EUR 50.00. ISBN 3-515-08079-1.

*Laguna Mariscal, Gabriel. Estudio literario de la poesía 67 de Catulo. Classical and Byzantine Monographs, LII. Amsterdam: A.M. Hakkert, 2002. Pp. 138. EUR 32.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-0638-5.

*Lloyd, G.E.R. The Ambitions of Curiosity. Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 198. £15.95 (pb). ISBN 0-521-89461-1.

*Lo Cascio, Elio. Il princeps e il suo impero. Studi di storia amministrativa e finanziaria romana. Bari: Edipuglia, 2000. Pp. 369. EUR 25.82. ISBN 88-7228-265-9.

*Lo Cascio, Elio. Mercati permanenti e mercati periodici nel mondo romano. Atti degli Incontri capresi di storia dell’economia antica (Capri 13-15 ottobre 1997). Bari: Edipuglia, 2000. Pp. 279. EUR 30.99. ISBN 88-7228-246-2.

*Lo Cascio, Elio and Alfredina Storchi Marino. Modalità insediative e strutture agrarie nell’Italia meridionale in età romana. Bari: Edipuglia, 2001. Pp. 658. EUR 62.00. ISBN 88-7228-288-8.

MacDonald, William L. The Pantheon. Design, Meaning, and Progeny. Reprint of 1976 edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 160. $17.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01019-1.

Mason, H.A.. To Homer through Pope. Reprint of 1972 edition. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2002. Pp. 216. £14.99. ISBN 0-86292-156-2.

May, James M.. Brill’s Companion to Cicero: Oratory and Rhetoric. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. 632. $174.00. ISBN 90-04-12147-1.

*Meagher, Robert Emmet. The Meaning of Helen. In Search of an Ancient Icon. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2002. Pp. x, 191. $24.95. ISBN 0-86516-510-6.

*Nielsen, Thomas Heine. Even More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre, 6. Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 2002. Pp. 294. EUR 64.00. ISBN 3-515-08102-X.

*Obeyesekere, Gananath. Imagining Karma. Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. 477. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-520-23243-7.

*Ottone, Gabriella. Libyka. Testimonianze e Frammenti. I frammenti degli storici greci. Tivoli: Tored, 2002. Pp. 707. ISBN 88-88617-00-0.

*Pradeau, Jean-François. Plato and the City. A New Introduction to Plato’s Political Thought. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002. Pp. 181. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-85989-654-4.

*Rees, Roger. Layers of Loyalty in Latin Panegyric AD 289-307. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 250. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-924918-0.

*Reusser, Christoph. Vasen für Etrurien. Verbreitung und Funktionen attischer Keramik im Etrurien des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. 2 volumes. Zürich: Akanthus, 2002. Pp. 208; 272. $75.00. ISBN 3-905083-17-5.

*Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 340; pls. 15. $70.00. ISBN 0-19-924233-X.

Rosslyn, Felicity. Pope’s Iliad. A Selection with Commentary. Reprint of 1985 edition. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2002. Pp. 228. £14.99. ISBN 0-86292-049-3.

*Schrempp, Gregory and William Hansen. Myth. A New Symposium. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. 304. $49.95. ISBN 0-253-34158-2.

*Siewert, Peter. Ostrakismos-Testimonien I. Historia Einzelschriften 155. Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 2002. Pp. 555. EUR 100.00. ISBN 3-515-07947-5.

*Tsetskhladze, G.R. (ed.). Ancient West & East. Volume 1/1, 2002. Leiden: Brill. Pp. 239. $140.00. ISSN 1570-1921. ISBN 90-04-12813-1.

*Tylawsky, Elizabeth Ivory. Saturio’s Inheritance. The Greek Ancestry of the Roman Comic Parasite. Artists and Issues in the Theatre, 9. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. Pp. 192. $53.95. ISBN 0-8204-4128-7.

Volk, Katharina. The Poetics of Latin Didactic. Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 288. $70.00. ISBN 0-19-924550-9.

*West, David. Horace Odes III Dulce Periculum. Text, Translation and Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 200. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-872165-X.

Wilson, Donna F. Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-80660-7.

STILL AVAILABLE

*Gerber, Douglas E., A Commentary on Pindar Olympian Nine. Hermes Einzelschriften 87. Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 2002. Pp. 94. EUR 34.00. ISBN 3-515-08092-9.

*Jashemski, Wilhelmina Feemster and Frederick G. Meyer, The Natural History of Pompeii. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 528; 12 line diagrams, 159 half-tones, 216 colour plates, 23 tables. £125.00. ISBN 0-521-80054-4.

*Jongman, Willem and Marc Kleijwegt, After the Past. Essays in Ancient History in Honour of H.W. Pleket. Mnemosyne Suppl. 233. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. 378. EUR 79.00/ $92.00. ISBN 90-04-12816-6.

* Merrill, Rodney (trans.) and Thomas R. Walsh, The Odyssey of Homer. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. 432; maps 3. $27.95. ISBN 0-472-08854-8.

*Schuol, Monica, Udo Hardmann and Andreas Luther, Grenzüberschreitungen. Formen des Kontakts zwischen Orient und Okzident im Altertum. Oriens et Occidens 3. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2002. Pp. 414; pls. 4. EUR 76.00. ISBN 3-515-07962-9.

*Spielvogel, Jörg, Wirtschaft und Geld bei Aristophanes. Untersuchungen zu den ökonomischen Bedingungen in Athen im bergang vom 5. zum 4. Jh. v.Chr. Frankfurter Althistorische Beiträge, Band 8. Frankfurt am Main: Buchverlag Marthe Clauss, 2001. Pp. 231. ISBN 3-934040-05-5.

*Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum, Hildegard (ed.), Die Kaiserinnen Roms von Livia bis Theodora. München: C.H. Beck, 2002. Pp. 541; ills. 58. EUR 30.80. ISBN 3-406-49513-3.

*Toner, Jerry, Rethinking Roman History. Cambridge: Oleander, 2002. Pp. 138. $15.00. ISBN 0-906672-49-X.

*von Möllendorff, Peter, Aristophanes. Olms Studienbücher 10. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2002. Pp. 223. EUR 16.80. ISBN 3-487-11487-9.

*Wiseman, T.P. (ed.), Classics in Progress. Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome. Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. 451. $72.00. ISBN 0-19-726270-8.

AGAIN AVAILABLE

Omitowoju, Rosanna, Rape and the Politics of Consent in Classical Athens (Cambridge 2002)