BMCR 2003.10.06

BMCR Books Received (September)

Bakewell, Geoffrey W. and James P. Sickinger (edd.), Gestures. Essays in Ancient History, Literature, and Philosophy presented to Alan L. Boegehold. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2003. Pp. 363. $75.00. ISBN 1-84217-086-4.

Bishop, Tom (trans.), Ovid. Amores. London/New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 109. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-96741-4.

Bottini, Angelo and Elisabetta Setari, La necropoli italica di Braida di Vaglio in Basilicata. Materiali dallo scavo del 1994. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2003. Pp. 136; pls. 48. EUR 115.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-199-4.

Bowden, William, Epirus Vetus. The Archaeology of a Late Antique Province. London: Duckworth, 2003. Pp. 280. £45.00. ISBN 0-7156-3116-0.

Cashford, Jules (trans.), The Homeric Hymns. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2003. Pp. 174. $12.00 (pb). ISBN 0-140-43782-7.

Catucci, Margherita, Lorena Jannelli and Lucia Sanesi Mastrocinque, Il deposito votivo dall’acropoli di Cuma. Corpus delle stipi votive in Italia, 16. Archaeologica 138. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2002. Pp. 124; pls. 28. ISBN 88-7689-202-8.

Chandezon, Christophe, L’élevage en Grèce (fin V e – fin I er s. a.C.). L’apport des sources épigraphiques. Scripta Antiqua, 5. Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2003. Pp. 463; figs. 14. EUR 48.00 (pb). ISBN 2-910023-34-6.

Colonna, Giovanni (ed.), Il santuario di Portonaccio a Veio I: Glio scavi di Massimo Pallottino nella zona dell’altare (1939-1940). Monumenti Antichi, 58 (Serie miscellanea vol. VI, 3). Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2002. Pp. 173; pls. 80. EUR 150.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-209-5.

Comella, Annamaria, Il santuario di Punta della Vipera (Santa Marinella – Comune di Civitavecchia). I., I materiali votivi. Corpus delle stipi votive in Italia, 13. Archaeologica 131. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2001. Pp. 156; pls. 42. EUR 180.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-208-7.

Cooley, M.G.L. and B.W.J.G. Wilson, The Age of Augustus. LACTOR 17. London: The London Association of Classical Teachers, 2003. Pp. 414. ISBN 0-903625-30-X.

Cosmopoulos, Michael B., Greek Mysteries. The Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek Secret Cults. London/New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 272. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-24873-6.

Damschen, Gregor, Rainer Enskat and Alejandro G. Vigo (edd.), Plato und Aristoteles – sub ratione veritatis. Festschrift für Wolfgang Wieland zum 70. Geburtstag. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003. Pp. 339. EUR 79.00. ISBN 3-525-30139-1.

De Bernardi Ferrero, Daria (ed.), Saggi in onore di Paolo Verzone. Hierapolis Scavi e Ricerche, IV. Archaeologica 137. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2002. Pp. 286; ills. 280. EUR 280.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-201-X.

DeBrohun, Jeri Blair, Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. 263. $54.50. ISBN 0-472-11276-7.

Dillon, Matthew, Girls and Women Classical Greek Religion. First published in 2002. Paperback edition. London/New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 436. $36.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-31916-1.

duBois, Page, Slaves and Other Objects. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 312; ills. 25. $45.00. ISBN 0-226-16787-9.

Dyck, Andrew R. (ed.), Cicero. De natura deorum. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 236. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-80360-8.

Elayi, J. and J. Sapin (edd.), Transeuphratène. Recherches pluridisciplinaires sur une province de l’Empire achéménide. 26 (2003). Paris: Librairie Gabalda, 2003. Pp. 189; pl. 5. EUR 54.00 (pb). ISBN 2-85021-148-6.

Elster, Ernestine S. and Colin Renfrew (edd.), Prehistoric Sitagroi: Excavations in Northeast Greece, 1968-1970. Volume 2: The Final Report. Monumenta Archaeologica, 20. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 2003. Pp. 519. $65.00. ISBN 1-931745-03-X.

Evans, Dale Wilt, Truth and Mockery in Platon and Modernity. A New Perception of Platon’s Euthyphron, Apology, Criton and Phaidon. San Jose: Writers Club Press, 2001. Pp. 276. $21.95 (pb). ISBN 0-595-17629-1.

Fezzi, Luca, Falsificazione di documenti pubblici nella Roma tardorepubblicana (133-31 a.C.). Grassina (Firenze): Le Monnier Università, 2003. Pp. 151. EUR 10.00 (pb). ISBN 88-00-86061-3.

Friedrich, Wolf-Hartmut, Wounding and Death in the Iliad. Homeric Techiniques of Description. Translated by Peter Jones and Gabriele Wright. Appendix by Kenneth Saunders. First English edition. London: Duckworth, 2003. Pp. 167. £45.00. ISBN 0-7156-2983-2.

Gillett, Andrew, Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th series, vol. 55. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 335. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-81349-2.

Given, Michael and A. Bernard Knapp, The Sydney Cyprus Survey Project: Social Approaches to Regional Archaeological Survey. Monumenta Archaeologica, 21. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 2003. Pp. 356. $60.00. ISBN 1-931745-04-8.

Gnilka, Christian, Prudentiana III. Supplementum. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2003. Pp. 100. EUR 60.00. ISBN 3-598-73009-8.

Hales, Shelley, The Roman House and Social Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 294. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-81433-2.

Hardwick, Lorna, Recpetion Studies. Greece & Rome. New Surveys in the Classics, 33. Published for The Classical Association. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 128. $13.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-852865-5.

Heidegger, Martin, Plato’s Sophist. Translated by Richard Rojcewicz and André Schuwer. Studies in Continental Thought. Paperback reprint. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. 512. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-253-21629-X.

Hübner, Wolfgang, Raum, Zeit und soziales Rollenspiel der vier Kardinalpunkte in der antiken Katarchenhoroskopie. BzA 194. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2003. Pp. 335. EUR 88.00. ISBN 3-598-77806-6.

Keesling, Catherine M., The Votive Statues of the Athenian Akropolis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 272. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-81523-1.

La Torre, Gioacchino Francesco, Un tempio arcaico nel territorio dell’antica Temesa. L’edificio sacro in località Imbelli di Campora San Giovanni. Corpus delle stipi votive in Italia, 14. Archaeologica 133. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2002. Pp. 388; figs. 70, pls. 34. EUR 250.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-206-0.

Mackie, Hilary, Graceful Errors. Pindar and the Performance of Praise. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. 127. $57.50. ISBN 0-472-11330-5.

Maslowski, T. (ed.), M. Tullius Cicero. Fasc. 17: Orationes in L. Catilinam quattuor. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2003. Pp. 108. EUR 68.00. ISBN 3-598-71187-5.

Merkelbach, Reinhold, Mithras. Ein persisch-römischer Mysterienkult. 2. Aufl. Weinheim: Beltz, Athenäum, 1994. Now available at K.G. Saur. Pp. xvi, 412. EUR 98.00. ISBN 3-598-73014-4.

Mikalson, Jon D., Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. 269. $45.00. ISBN 0-8078-2798-3.

Nevo,Yeuda D. and Judith Koren, Crossroads to Islam. The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State. Negev Archeological Project for Study of Ancient Arab Desert Culture. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003. Pp. 462; maps, ills. $32.00. ISBN 1-59102-083-2.

Papadopoulos, John K. and Richard M. Leventhal (edd.), Theory and Practice in Mediterranean Archaeology: Old World and New World Perspectives. Cotsen Advanced Seminars, 1. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 2003. Pp. 390. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 1-913745-10-2.

Papathomopoulos, Manolis (ed.), Oppianus Apameensis. Cynegetica. Eutecnius Sophistes. Paraphrasis metro soluta. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2003. Pp. 225. EUR 78.00. ISBN 3-598-71256-1.

Platter, Charles (comm.), Aristophanes. Acharnians. Bryn Mawr Greek Commentaries. Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr Commentaries, 2003. Pp. 95. ISBN 0-929524-99-3.

Sacks, David, Language Visible. Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z. New York: Broadway Books, 2003. Pp. 395. $24.95. ISBN 0-7679-1172-5.

Santini, Carlo and Ida Mastrorosa and Antonio Zumbo (edd.), Letteratura scientifica e tecnica di Grecia e Roma. Roma: Carocci, 2002. Pp. 604. EUR 35.20 (pb). ISBN 88-430-2142-7.

Small, Jocelyn Penny, The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 253. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-81522-3.

Szpakowska, Kasia, Behind Closed Eyes. Dreams & Nightmares in Ancient Egypt. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2003. Pp. 237. $55.00. ISBN 0-9543845-0-4.

Trenchard, Warren C., A Concise Dictionary of New Testament Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 177. $15.00 (pb). ISBN 0-521-52111-4.

von Albrecht, Michael, Literature als Brücke. Studien zur Rezeptionsgeschichte und Komparatistik. Spudasmata, 90. Hildesheim: Olms, 2003. Pp. 370. EUR 48.00 (pb). ISBN 3-487-11893-9.