BMCR 2004.09.07

BMCR Books Received (August)

Albertocchi, Marina, Athana Lindia. Le statuette siceliote con pettorali di età arcaica e classica. Supplemento alla Rivista di Archeologia, 28. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2004. Pp. 194; pls. 35. €200.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-187-0.

Athanassopoulos, Effie and LuAnn Wandsnider (edd.), Mediterranean Archaeological Landscapes. Current Issues. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,, 2004. Pp. 256; figs. 53, tables 8. $39.95. ISBN 1-931707-73-1.

Baldoni, Daniela, Vasi a matrice di età imperiale a Iasos. Missione Archeologica Italiana di Iasos, III. Archaeologica, 139. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2003. Pp. x, 102; figs. 16, pls. 63. €146.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-196-X.

Bentz, Martin and Christoph Reusser, Attische Vasen in etruskischem Kontext: Funde aus Häusern und Heiligtümern. Beihefte zum CVA Deutschland, Band 2. München: C.H. Beck, 2004. Pp. 120; ills. €49.90. ISBN 3-406-51904-0.

Bernabé, A. (ed.), Poetae Epici Graeci. Pars II. Fasc. 1. Orphicorum et Orphicis similium testimonia et fragmenta. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. lxxxv, 394. €112.00. ISBN 3-598-71707-5.

Bierl, Anton et al. (edd.), Antike Literatur in neuer Deutung. Festschrift für Joachim Latacz anlässlich seines 70. Geburtstages. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. xi, 380. €92.00. ISBN 3-598-73016-0.

Bowe, Patrick, Gardens of the Roman World. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Pp. 176; illus. 197, map 1. $50.00. ISBN 0-89236-740-7.

Braccini, Tommaso (ed.), Carmen choliambicum quod apud Ps.-Callisthenis “Historiam Alexandri” reperitur. Florenz Univ. Diss., 2002. BzA 210. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. lxi, 220. €94.00. ISBN 3-598-77822-8.

Braun, Eliot, Early Beth Shan (Strata XIX-XIII): G.M. FitzGerald’s Deep Cut on the Tell. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004. Pp. 208; figs. 113, pls. 6, tables 22. $49.95. ISBN 1-931707-62-6.

Butcher, Kevin, Roman Syria and the Near East. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Pp. 472; ills. 130, maps 2. $55.00. ISBN 0-89236-715-6.

Calder, William M., III, and Robert Kirstein (edd.), “Aus dem Freund ein Sohn”. Briefwechsel 1872-1903. Theodor Mommsen – Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2003. Pp. lxii, 764. €118.00. ISBN 3-615-00284-9.

Celentano, Maria Silvana, Ars/Techne. Il manuale tecnico nelle civiltà greca e romana. Atti del Convegno Internazionale Università ‘G. d’Annunzio’ di Chieti-Pescara 29-30 ottobre 2001. Collana del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità. Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara. Sezione Filologica, 2. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2003. Pp. 235. €17.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7694-720-5.

Cerchiai, Luca, Lorena Jannelli, and Fausto Longo, The Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily. Photographs by Mark Edward Smith. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Pp. 288; ills. 240. $39.95. ISBN 0-89236-751-2.

Champion, Craige B., Cultural Politics in Polybius’s Histories. Hellenistic Culture and Society, 41. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. 328. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-23764-1.

Chapin, Anne P. (ed.), Charis. Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr. Hesperia, Suppl. 33. Oakville, CT: The David Brown Book Co., 2004. Pp. 452. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 0-87661-533-7.

Cunningham, I.C. (ed.), Herodas. Mimiambi. Cum appendice fragmentorum mimorum papyraceorum. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. xxvi, 89. €48.00. ISBN 3-598-71258-8. [reprint]

Dillon, John M., Salt and Olives. Morality and Custom in Ancient Greece. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. Pp. 217. £19.95. ISBN 0-7486-1618-7.

Drews, Robert, Early Riders. The Beginnings of Mounted Warfare in Asia and Europe. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 218. $90.00. ISBN 0-415-32624-9.

Ecole suisse d’archéologie en Grèce, Eretria. A Guide to the Ancient City. Translated from French by Steven Rendall. Gollion: Infolio, 2004. Pp. 316; plans 100, photos 200. CHF 29.00/€19.00 (pb). ISBN 2-88474-112-7.

El Cheikh, Nadia Maria, Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs. Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, 36. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 271. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-932885-30-6.

Elliott, Susan, Cutting Too Close for Comfort. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians in its Anatolian Cultic Context. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Suppl. 248. London/New York: Continuum, 2003. Pp. 391. $130.00. ISBN 0-8264-6660-5.

Fano Santi, Manuela (ed.), Studi di archeologia in onore di Gustavo Traversari. 2 volumes. Archaeologica 141. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2004. Pp. xl, 996; ills. €340.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-200-1.

Fornaro, Sotera, I Greci senza lumi. L’antropologia della Grecia antica in Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812) e nel suo tempo. Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, I. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Jahrgang 2004, Nr. 5. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004. Pp. 195. ISSN 0065-5287.

Hines, Brian, Return to the One. Plotinus’s Guide to God-Realization. A Modern Exposition of an Ancient Classic, the Enneads. Bloomington, IN: Unlimited Publishing, 2004. Pp. 369. $16.99 (pb). ISBN 1-58832-100-2.

Holford-Strevens, Leofranc, Aulus Gellius. An Antonine Scholar and his Achievement. Revised Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 450. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-926319-1.

Horster, Marietta, Landbesitz griechischer Heiligtümer in archaischer und klassischer Zeit. Rostock Univ. Habil.-Sch. 2003. Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, 53. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004. Pp. ix, 260. €84.00. ISBN 3-11-018219-X.

Horstmann, Sabine, Das Epithalamium in der lateinischen Literatur der Spätantike. Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Diss., 2002. BzA 197. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 349. €88.00. ISBN 3-598-77809-0.

Ihm, Sibylle, Eros und Distanz. Untersuchungen zu Asklepiades in seinem Kreis. BzA 167. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 156. €78.00. ISBN 3-598-77716-7.

Janka, Markus (ed.), Enkyklion kepion (Rundgärtchen). Zu Poesie, Historie und Fachliteratur der Antike. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 322. €88.00. ISBN 3-598-73017-9.

Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria S, Merker, and Joan R. Mertens, The Cesnola Collection: Terracotta. CD-ROM. New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. Ills. 425. $45.00. ISBN 0-300-10284-4.

Karfik, Filip, Die Beseelung des Kosmos. Untersuchungen zur Kosmologie, Seelenlehre und Theologie in Platons Phaidon und Timaios. Prag Univ. Habil.-Schr., 2002. BzA 199. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 293. €89.00. ISBN 3-598-77811-2.

Landolfi, Luciano (ed.), Nunc teritur nostris area maior equis. Riflessioni sull’intertestualità ovidiana. I fasti. Leuconoe. L’invenzione dei classici, 7. Palermo: Flaccovio, 2004. Pp. 139. €14.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7804-254-4.

Littlewood, C.A.J., Self-Representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 344. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-926761-8.

Lurje, Michael, Die Suche nach der Schuld. Sophokles’ Oedipus Rex, Aristoteles’ Poetik und das Tragödienverständnis der Neuzeit. Bern, Univ., Diss., 2001. BzA 209. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. xi, 505. €96.00. ISBN 3-598-77821-X.

Lydakis, Stelios, Ancient Greek Painting and Its Echoes in Later Art. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Pp. 304; ills. 281. $75.00. ISBN 0-89236-683-4.

Meriani, Angelo, Sulla musica greca antica. Studi e ricerche. Prefazione di Luigi Enrico Rossi. Università degli Studi di Salerno. Quarderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, 28. Napoli: Guida, 2003. Pp. 148. €16.30 (pb). ISBN 88-7188-794-8.

Najock, Dietmar, Statistischer Schlüssel zum Vokabular in Vergils Eklogen. Alpha-Omega. Reihe A. Band 177. Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2004. Pp. 333. €98.00. ISBN 3-487-12561-7.

Ousager, Asger, Plotinus on Selfhood, Freedom, and Politics. Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity, VI. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2004. Pp. 397; ills. DKK 318.00. ISBN 87-7934-098-9

Rhodes, P.J. (ed.), Athenian Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press (by arrangement with Edinburgh University Press), 2004. Pp. 358. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-522140-0.

Sanz, Domingo F. (ed.), Eneas Silvio Piccolomini. Epístola a Mehmet II. Nueva Roma, 20. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2003. Pp. 203. ISBN 84-00-08213-3.

Severy, Beth, Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire. London/New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 280. $104.95. ISBN 0-415-30959-X.

Stanton, Graham N., Jesus and Gospel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 239. $23.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-00802-6.

Suerbaum, Werner, Cato Censorius in der Forschung des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine kommentierte chronologische Bibliographie für 1900-1999 nebst systematischen Hinweisen und eine Darstellung des Schriftstellers M. Porcius Cato (234-149 v. Chr.). Bibliographien zur klassischen Philologie, Bd. 2. Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2004. Pp. 312. €44.80. ISBN 3-487-12589-7.

Swan, Peter Michael, The Augustan Succession. An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio’s Roman History Books 55-56 (9 B.C. – A.D. 14). American Philological Association. American Classical Studies, 47. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 428. ISBN 0-19-516774-0.

Ugaglia, Monica, Modelli idrostatici del moto da Aristotele a Galileo. Quaderni Sefir, 4. Rome: Lateran University Press, 2004. Pp. 273. €19.00 (pb). ISBN 88-465-0277-9.

Valavanis, Panos, Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece. Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Pp. 448; ills. 649. $75.00. ISBN 0-89236-762-8.

von Arnim, Hans, Stoicorum veterum fragmenta. Vol. I. Editio stereotypa editionis primae. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 142. €55.00. ISBN 3-598-74255-X.

von Arnim, Hans, Stoicorum veterum fragmenta. Vol. II. Editio stereotypa editionis primae. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 348. €84.00. ISBN 3-598-74256-8.

von Arnim, Hans, Stoicorum veterum fragmenta. Vol. III. Editio stereotypa editionis primae. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 269. €78.00. ISBN 3-598-74257-6.

von Arnim, Hans, Stoicorum veterum fragmenta. Vol. IV. Editio stereotypa editionis primae. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 221. €63.00. ISBN 3-598-74258-4.

Weiler, Ingomar, Die Beendigung des Sklavenstatus im Altertum. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Sozialgeschichte. Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei, 36. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. Pp. viii, 356. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08208-5.