BMCR 2005.05.46

BMCR Books Received (May)

Aperghis, G.G., The Seleukid Royal Economy. The Finances and Financial Administration of the Seleukid Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 361. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-83707-3.

Bona, Giacomo, Scritti di Letteratura Greca e di storia della Filologia a cura di Vittorio Citti e Gianfranco Gianotti. Parte I: Scritti di Letteratura greca; Parte II: Scritti di storia della filologia. Suppementi di Lexis, 25. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2005. Pp. 375. €98.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-1196-6.

Boschi, Alberto, et al., I greci al cinema. Dal peplum d’autore alla grafica computerizzata. Nemo: Confrontarsi con l’antico, 6. Bologna: Digital University Press, 2004. Pp. 108. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 88-86909-73-X.

Brancacci, Aldo, Antisthène. Le discours propre. Collection “Tradition de la pensée classique”. Originally published as Oikeios logos. La filosofia del linguaggio di Antistene = Elenchos 20 (Napoli 1990). Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2005. Pp. 286. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7116-1726-2.

Bresson, Alain, Anne-Marie Cocula, and Christophe Pébarthe (edd.), L’écriture publique du pouvoir. Ausonius éditions. Études 10. Paris: De Boccard, 2005. Pp. 219. €40.00. ISBN 2-910023-49-4.

Bridgman, Timothy, Hyperboreans. Myth and History in Celtic-Hellenic Contacts. Studies in Classics, 7. London/New York: Routledge, 200 Pp. 192. $65.00. ISBN 0-415-96978-6.

Brugnoli, Giorgio, Studi di filologia e letteratura latina. Edited by Silvia Conte and Fabio Stok. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2004. Pp. 249. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 88-467-0972-1.

Calderan, Roberto (ed.), Tito Maccio Plauto. Vidularia. Ludus Philologiae, 13. Urbino: QuattroVenti, 2004. Pp. 180. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-392-0686-8.

Canali De Rossi, Filippo (ed.), Iscrizioni dello Estremo Oriente Greco. Un repertorio. Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien, Bd. 65. Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt, 2004. Pp. xvi, 410; ills. €98.00. ISBN 3-7749-3277-8.

Capponi, Livia, Augustan Egypt. The Creation of a Roman Province. Studies in Classics. London/New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 320. $75.00. ISBN 0-415-97217-5.

Colish, Marcia L., Ambrose’s Patriarchs. Ethics for the Common Man. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. Pp. 208. $15.00 (pb). ISBN 0-268-02365-4.

Crivelli, Paolo, Aristotle on Truth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 340. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-82328-5.

Edmunds, Susan, Prudence Jones, and Gregory Nagy, Text & Textile: An Introduction to Wool-Working for Readers of Greek and Latin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, Classics Department, 2005. DVD. Running time: 30 minutes. $30.00. ISBN 0-9759617-0-5.

Esposito, Paolo (ed.), Gli scolii a Lucano ed altra scoliastica latina. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 32. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2004. Pp. 208. €13.00 (pb). ISBN 88-467-1081-9.

Fantuzzi, Marco, and Richard Hunter, Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 511. $120.00. ISBN 0-521-83511-9.

Fattal, Michel (ed.), La philosophie de Platon. Tome 2. Ouverture philosophique. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005. Pp. 371. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7475-8264-7.

Flash, Dieter (trans.), Marcus Porcius Cato. Über den Ackerbau. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Pp. 204; pls. 5. €29.00. ISBN 3-515-08632-3.

Garulli, Valentina, Il Peri poiêtôn di Lobone di Argo. Eikasmos. Studi, 10. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2004. Pp. 220. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 88-555-2793-2.

Gerster, Georg, The Past from Above. Aerial Views of Great Archaeological Sites. Edited by Charlotte Trümpler. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Pp. 416; ills. 528. $65.00. ISBN 0-89236-817-9.

Grant, John N. (ed.), Collected Works of Erasmus. Vol. 35: Adages III iv 1 to IV ii 100. Translated and annotated by Denis L. Drysdall. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Pp. 592. $150.00. ISBN 0-8020-3643-0.

Hayden, Barbara, Reports on the Vrokastro Area. Easter Crete Volume III: The Vrokastro Regional Survey Project, Sites and Pottery. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2005. Pp. 117; figs. 119; pls. 25. $75.00. ISBN 1-931707-79-0.

Hillbom, Niklas, Minoan Games and Game Boards. Lund: Lund University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, 2005. Pp. 359. ISBN 91-628-6447-5.

Holford-Strevens, Leofranc, and Amiel Vardi (edd.), The Worlds of Aulus Gellius. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 408. $145.00. ISBN 0-19-926482-1.

Holzberg, Niklas, Anticni Roman. Translation of Der antike Roman. Ein Einführung. Lujbljana, Slovenia: Zalozba ZRC, 2004. Pp. 172. €16.10 (pb). ISBN 961-6500-73-2.

Kannicht, Richard (ed.), Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. Vol. 5: Euripides. 2 volumes. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004. Pp. 1164. €368.00. ISBN 3-525-25755-4.

Lang, Philippa (ed.), Re-Inventions: Essays on Hellenistic and Early Roman Science. Kelowna, BC: Academic Printing and Publishing, 2005. Pp. vi, 135. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 0-920980-89-9.

Lendon, J.E., Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. 468. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-10663-7.

Lucarini, C.M. (ed.), Herodianus. Regnum post Marcum. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005. Pp. li, 183. €68.00. ISBN 3-598-71282-0.

Miralles, Carles , Studies on Elegy and Iambus. Suppementi di Lexis, 14. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2004. Pp. 310. €70.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-1188-5.

Montes Cala, J.G., et al., Studia Hellenistica Gaditana. I: Teócrito, Arato, Argonáuticas órficas. Cádiz: Universidad de Cádiz, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2003. Pp. 321. €12.00 (pb). ISBN 84-96274-21-7.

Morales, Helen, Vision and Narrative in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 270. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-64264-7.

Moreschini, C. (ed.), M. Tullius Cicero. Fasc. 43: De finibus bonorum et malorum. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005. Pp. xviii, 215. €84.00. ISBN 3-598-71280-4.

Naddaf, Gerard, The Greek Concept of Nature. SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005. Pp. 265. $70.00. ISBN 0-7914-6373-7.

Nadeau, Yvan, Safe and Subsidized. Vergil and Horace Sing Augustus. Collection Latomus, vol. 285. Bruxelles: Latomus, 2004. Pp. 327. €47.00 (pb). ISBN 2-87031-226-1.

Nieddu, Gian Franco, La scrittura “Madre delle Muse”: Agli di un nuovo Modello di comunicazione culturale. Suppementi di Lexis, 9. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2004. Pp. 200. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-1191-5.

Nordling, John G., Philemon. Concordia Commentary. A Theological Exposition of Sacred Scripture. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing, 2004. Pp. 379. $42.99. ISBN 0-7586-0272-3.

Oakley, John H., Picturing Death in Classical Athens. The Evidence of the White Lekythoi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 268. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-82016-2.

Olson, Linda, and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (edd.), Voices in Dialogue. Reading Women in the Middle Ages. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. Pp. 528. $50.00. ISBN 0-268-03717-5.

Paolucci, Giulio, Documenti e memorie sulle antichità e il museo di Chiusi. Biblioteca di “Studi Etruschi”. Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2005. Pp. 236; pls. €240.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8147-379-8.

Questa, Cesare, Sei letture plautine. Ludus Philologiae, 14. Urbino: QuattroVenti, 2004. Pp. 175. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 88-392-0687-6.

Raia, Ann, Cecelia Luschnig, and Judith Lynn Sebesta (edd.), The Worlds of Roman Women. A Latin Reader. Focus Classical Commentary. Newburyport, MA: Focus, 2005. Pp. 200. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58510-130-3.

Rapp, Claudia, Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity. The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 37. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 346. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-24296-3.

Rescigno, Andrea, Alessandro di Afrodisia, Commentario al de Caela di Aristotele Frammenti del Primo Libro. Suppementi di Lexis, 26. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2004. Pp. 750. €160.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-1192-3.

Richier, Olivier, Centuriones ad Rhenum. Les centurions légionnaires des armées romaines du Rhin. Gallia Romana VI. Publications du Centre Albert Grenier de l’Université de Nancy 2. Paris: De Boccard, 2004. Pp. 773; figs. 3, pls. 33. €75.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7018-0173-7.

Riedweg, Christoph, Pythagoras. His Life, Teaching, and Influence. Originally published as Pythagoras. Leben, Lehre, Nachwirkung (München: C.H. Beck, 2002). Translated from the German by Steven Rendall. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. 184. $29.95. ISBN 0-8014-4240-0.

Santini, Carlo, and Fabio Stok (edd.), Hinc italiae gentes. Geopolitica ed etnografia dell’Italia nel commento di Servio all’Eneide. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 31. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2004. Pp. 316. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-467-0979-9.

Schiefsky, Mark J., Hippocrates. On Ancient Medicine. Translated with Introduction and Commentary. Studies in Ancient Medicine, 28. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 415. €118.00. ISBN 90-04-13758-0.

Sineux, Pierre (ed.), Le législat€et la loi dans l’Antiquité. Hommage à Françoise Ruzé. Actes du colloque de Caen, 15-17 mai 2003. Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen, 2005. Pp. 262. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 2-84133-237-3.

Stamper, John W., The Architecture of Roman Temples: The Republic to the Middle Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 287. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-81068-X.

Stein-Hölkeskamp, Elke, Das römische Gastmahl. Eine Kulturgeschichte. München: C.H. Beck, 2005. Pp. 364; pls. 18, maps 4. €29.90. ISBN 3-406-52890-2.

Stewart, Andrew, Attalos, Athens, and the Akropolis. The Pergamene “Little Barbarians” and Their Roman and Renaissance Legacy. With an essay on the Pedestals and the Akropolis South Wall by Manolis Korres. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 358. $95.00. ISBN 0-521-83163-6.

Vattuone, Riccardo, Il mostro e il sapiente. Studi sull’erotica greca. Studi di Storia, 11. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2004. Pp. 345. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 88-555-2802-5.

Vattuone, Riccardo (ed.), Sparta fra tradizione e storia. Giornata di studio, Bologna 20 Marzo 2003. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2004. Pp. 229. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 88-555-2801-7.

Virgilio, Biagio (ed.), Studi Ellenistici XVI. Pisa: Giardini Editori e Stampatori in Pisa, 2005. Pp. 564. €185.00 (pb). ISBN 88-427-0795-3.