BMCR 2004.06.01

BMCR Books Received (May)

Angeli Bernardini, Paola (ed.), La città di Argo. Mito, storia, tradizioni poetiche. Atti del Convegno internazionale, Urbino, 13-15 giugno 2002. Roma: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 2004. Pp. 344; ills. €70.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8476-033-X.

Balbo, Andrea (ed.), I frammenti degli oratori romani dell’età augustea e tiberiana. Parte prima: Età augustea. Minima philologicca, 1. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2004. Pp. 295. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7694-743-4.

Bouquet, Monique and Françoise Morzadec, La sibylle. Parole et représentation. Collection “Interférence”. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004. Pp. 301. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86847-879-4.

Bruni, Stefano, Teresa Caruso and Morella Massa (edd.), Archaeologica pisana. Scritti per Orlanda Pancrazzi. Pisa: Giardini Editori e Stampatori in Pisa, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 424; ills. €200.00 (pb). ISBN 88-427-0301-X.

Celluprica, Vincenza and Cristina d’Ancona (edd.), Aristotele e i suoi esegeti neoplatonici. Logica e ontologia nelle interpretazioni greche e arabe. Atti del convegno internazionale, Roma, 19-20 ottobre 2001. Elenchos, XL. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2004. Pp. xxi, 282. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7088-461-9.

Curtis, Gregory, Disarmed. The Story of the Venus de Milo. New York: Knopf, 2003. Pp. 247. $24.00. ISBN 0-375-41523-8.

De Angelis, Franco, Megara Hyblaia and Selinous. The Development of Two Greek City-States in Archaic Sicily. Oxford University School of Archaeology, Monograph 55. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2003. Pp. 247; pls. 34. $85.00. ISBN 0-947816-56-9.

Dufour, Richard, Plotinus. A Bibliography 1950-2000. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. 175. €103.00. ISBN 90-04-12780-1.

Egan, Rory B. and Mark A. Joyal (edd.), Daimonopylai. Essays in Classics and the Classical Tradition Presented to Edmund G. Berry. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Centre for Hellenic Civilization, 2004. Pp. 496. CAN $30.00 (pb). ISBN 0-9734982-0-X.

Finn, Christine, Past Poetic. Archaeology in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney. London: Duckworth, 2004. Pp. 192. $59.00. ISBN 0-7156-3237-X.

Fossey, John M. and Jane E. Francis, The Diniacopoulos Collection in Québec. Montréal: Concordia University and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2004. Pp. 142. ISBN

Garver, Eugene, For the Sake of Argument. Practical Reasoning, Character, and the Ethics of Belief. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 264. $22.50 (pb). ISBN 0-226-28397-6.

Gasti, Fabio and Elisa Romano (edd.), “Buoni per pensare”. Gli animali nel pensiero e nella letteratura dell’antichità. Atti della II Giornata ghisleriana di Filologia classica (Pavia, 18-19 aprile 2002). Pavia: Collegio Ghislieri, 2003. Pp. 206. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7164-148-5.

Green, J.R., et al. (edd.), Ancient Voices. Modern Echoes. Theatre in the Greek World. Exhibition Catalogue. Sydney: The Nicholson Museum, The University of Sydney, 2003. Pp. 81. AUD $39.95 (pb). ISBN 0-909602-16-6.

Hemingway, Seán, The Horse and Jockey from Artemision. A Bronze Equestrian Monument of the Hellenistic Period. Hellenistic Culture and Society, 45. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. 248; ills. $65.00. ISBN 0-520-23308-5.

Jacobs, Andrew S., Remains of the Jews. The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity. Series “Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion.” Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. 249. $55.00. ISBN 0-8047-4705-9.

Jost, Lawrence J. and Roger A. Shiner (edd.), Eudaimonia and Well-Being. Ancient and Modern Conceptions. Kelowna, B.C.: Academic Printing and Publishing, 2003. Pp. xxxiii, 198. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-920980-79-1.

Knorr, Ortwin, Verborgene Kunst. Argumentationsstruktur und Buchaufbau in den Satiren des Horaz. Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 15. Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2004. Pp. x, 278. €34.80 (pb). ISBN 3-487-12539-0.

Koester, Helmut (ed.), Ephesos. Metropolis of Asia. An Interdisciplinary Approach to its Archaeology, Religion, and Culture. Harvard Theological Studies, 41. First published in 1995. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 357; map. $30.00 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01349-2.

Kremer, Mark (ed.), Plato’s Cleitophon. On Socrates and the Modern Mind. Series “Applications of Political Theory”. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004. Pp. 136. $21.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7391-0818-2.

Lamoureux, Jacques and Noël Aujoulat (edd.), Synésios de Cyrène. Tome IV. Opuscules I. Collection Budé. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2004. Pp. 347. €60.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-00517-6.

Leigh, Matthew, Comedy and the Rise of Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 241. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-926676-X.

Lloyd, G.E.R., Ancient Worlds. Modern Reflections. Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 240. $35.00. ISBN 0-19-927016-3.

Magnaldi, Giuseppina, Parola d’autore, parola di copista. Usi correttivi ed esercizi di scuola nei codici di Cic. Phil. 1.1-13.10. Minima philologicca, 2. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2004. Pp. 280. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7694-742-6.

Marconi, Clemente (ed.), Greek Vases: Images, Contexts and Controversies. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, 25. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. 149. €99.00. ISBN 90-04-13802-1.

Marinucci, Marcello, Batracomiomachia. Volgarizzamento del 1456 di Aurelio Simmaco de Iacobiti. Padova: Esedra editrice, 2001. Pp. 139. €18.07 (pb). ISBN 88-86413-50-5.

Mariotta, Giuseppe, Struttura politica e fisco nello “stato” miceneo. Aspetti e problemi della storia greca delle origini. Padova: S.A.R.G.O.N. Editrice, 2003. Pp. 277. ISBN

McCrorie, Edward (trans.), Homer. The Odyssey. With an introduction and notes by Richard P. Martin. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. 468. $35.00. ISBN 0-8018-6854-8.

Miller, Stephen G., Ancient Greek Athletics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. 288; ills. 292. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-10083-3.

Narducci, Emanuele (ed.), Cicerone tra antichi e moderni. Atti del IV Symposium Ciceronianum Arpinas. Arpino 9 maggio 2003. Firenze: Felice Le Monnier, 2004. Pp. 104. €11.50 (pb). ISBN 88-00-81504-9.

Narducci, Emanuele and Marco Fucecchi, Cicerone. Difesa di Cluenzio. Introduzione, traduzione e note. Testo latino a fronte. BUR Classici greci e latini. Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2004. Pp. 334. €12.00 (pb). ISBN 88-17-00158-9.

Netz, Reviel, The Works of Archimedes. Translated into English, together with Eutocius’ commentaries, with commentary, and critical edition of the diagrams. Vol. 1: The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 375. $125.00. ISBN 0-521-66160-9.

Piccione, Rosa Maria and Matthias Perkams (edd.), Selecta colligere, I. Akten des Kolloquiums “Sammeln, Neuordnen, Neues Schaffen. Methoden der Überlieferung von Texten in der Spätantike und in Byzanz.” (Jena, 21.-23. November 2002). Hellenica, 11. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2003. Pp. 196. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7694-683-7.

Polito, Roberto, The Sceptical Road. Aenesidemus’ Appropriation of Heraclitus. Philosophia Antiqua, 96. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. 202. €90.00. ISBN 90-04-13742-4.

Possanza, D. Mark, Translating the Heavens. Aratus, Germanicus, and the Poetics of Latin Translation. Lang Classical Studies, 14. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. Pp. 279. $29.95. ISBN 0-8204-6939-4.

Rees, Roger, Diocletian and the Tetrarchy. Debates and Documents in Ancient History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. Pp. 219. £16.99. ISBN 0-7486-1661-6.

Reshotko, Naomi (edd.), Desire, Identity and Existence. Essays in Honour of T.M. Penner. Kelowna, B.C.: Academic Printing and Publishing, 2004. Pp. xi, 310. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-920980-85-6.

Reydellet, Marc (ed.), Venance Fortunat. Poèmes. Tome III. Livres IX-XI. Appendice: In laudem sanctae Mariae. Collection Budé. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2004. Pp. 214. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-01434-9.

Rhodes, P.J. (ed.), Athenian Democracy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. Pp. 358. €19.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7486-1687-X.

Rollinger, Robert and Christoph Uhr (edd.), Griechische Archaik. Interne Entwicklungen – Externe Impulse. Oldenbourg: Akademie Verlag, 2004. Pp. 520. €69.80. ISBN 3-05-003681-8.

Rudd, Niall, Horace. Odes and Epodes. Loeb, 33. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 350. $21.50. ISBN 0-674-99609-7.

Sandin, Pär and Marianne Wifstrand Schiebe (edd.), Dais philesistephanos. Studies in Honour of Professor Staffan Fogelmark Presented on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, 12 April 2004. Uppsala: Dahlia Books, 2004. Pp. 447. SEK 450.00. ISBN 91-974094-7-2.

Schironi, Francesca, I frammenti di Aristarco di Samotracia negli etimologici bizantini. Hypomnemata 152. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004. Pp. 615. €109.00. ISBN 3-525-25251-X.

Simpson, Michael (trans.), The Metamorphoses of Ovid. First published 2001. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. Pp. 512. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 1-55849-399-9.

Stenger, Jan, Poetische Argumentation. Die Funktion der Gnomik in den Epinikien des Bakchylides. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 69. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004. Pp. xi, 383. €98.00. ISBN 3-11-018127-4.

Stenhouse, William, The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series A – Part VII. Ancient Inscriptions., volumes 1-3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004. Pp. 1,082; ills. 730. $375.00. ISBN 1-872501-12-5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002. Pp. 439. €200.00. ISBN 1-872501-45-1.

Stewart, Peter, Statues in Roman Society. Representation and Response. Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 333. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-924094-9.

Stoneman, Richard, Athens. A Traveller’s History. London: Phoenix, 2004. Pp. 370. £9.99. ISBN 1-84212-692-X.

Swain, Simon and Mark Edwards (edd.), Approaching Late Antiquity. The Transformation from Early to Late Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 487. $145.00. ISBN 0-19-926714-6.

Talbert, Richard and Kai Brodersen (edd.), Space in the Roman World. Its Perception and Presentation. Antike Kultur und Geschichte, 5. Münster: LIT, 2004. Pp. 141; figs. 19. €14.90 (pb). ISBN 3-8258-7419-2.

Tuilier, André, Guillaume Bady and Jean Bernardi (edd.), Saint Grégoire de Nazianze. Oeuvres poétiques. Tome I. 1 re partie. Poèmes personnels. II, 1, 1-11. Collection Budé. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2004. Pp. ccxviii, 209. €60.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-00516-1.

Vanotti, Gabriella and Claudia Perassi (edd.), In limine. Ricerche su marginalità e periferia nel mondo antico. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2004. Pp. 308. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 88-343-1076-4.

Wagner, Claudia and John Boardman, A Collection of Classical and Eastern Intaglios, Rings and Cameos. Studies in Gems and Jewellery, 1. Oxford: The Beazley Archive (in association with Archaeopress), 2003. Pp. 137; pls. 140. $130.00. ISBN 1-903767-05-9.

Warden, Gregory (ed.), Greek Vase Painting. Form, Figure & Narrative. Treasures of the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid. Dallas, TX: Meadows Museum and Southern Methodist University Press, 2004. Pp. 168; ills. 98. $35.00. ISBN 0-87074-489-5.

Wilson, Joseph P., The Hero and the City. An Interpretation of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus. First published in 1997. Paperback edition. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. 208. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 0-472-08688-X.

Winkler, Martin M. (ed.), Gladiator. Film and History. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Pp. 215. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-1042-2.

Zecchin de Fasano, Graciela, Odisea: Discurso y Narrativa. Serie Estudios Greco-Latinos, 2. Buenos Aires: Editorial de la Universidad del La Plata, 2004. Pp. 226. ISBN 950-34-0271-9.

Zehnacker, Hubert (ed.), Pline l’Ancien. Histoire naturelle. Livre III. Collection Budé. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2004. Pp. 315. €50.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-01407-1.