BMCR 2005.07.76

BMCR Books Received (July)

Allen, Michael J.B., and James Hankins (trans.), Marsilio Ficino. Platonic Theology. Volume 5: Books XV-XVI. I Tatti Renaissance Library, 17. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 353. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01719-6.

Ault, Bradley A., and Lisa C. Nevett (edd.), Ancient Greek Houses and Households. Chronological, Regional, and Social Diversity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Pp. 200; ills. 45. $55.00. ISBN 0-8122-3875-3.

Bartsch, Shadi, and Thomas Bartscherer (edd.), Erotikon. Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 328; figs. 16. $29.00. ISBN 0-226-03838-6.

Bierl, Anton, L’Orestea di Eschilo sulla scena moderna. Concezioni teoriche e realizzazioni sceniche. Originally published in German as Die Orestie des Aischylos auf der modernen Bühne: Theoretische Konzeptionen und ihre szenische Realsierung. Traduzione di Luca Zenobi. Premessa di Massimo Fusillo. Postfazione dell’autore alla nuova edizione italiana. Roma: Bulzoni, 2004. Pp. 219; pls. 62. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8319-989-8.

Braund, David (ed.), Scythians and Greeks. Cultural Interactions in Scythia, Athens and the Early Roman Empire (sixth century BC – first century AD). Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2005. Pp. 254. £50.00. ISBN 0-85989-746-X.

Briant, Pierre, Alexandre le Grand. Collection Que sais-je? 6th edition. First published in 1974. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2005. Pp. 128. €8.00 (pb). ISBN 2-13-055186-6.

Bushnell, Rebecca (ed.), A Companion to Tragedy. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. 556. $124.95. ISBN 1-4051-0735-9.

Calder, William M., III, Theatrokratia. Collected Papers on the Politics and Staging of Greco-Roman Tragedy. Edited by R. Scott Smith. Spudasmata, 104. Hildesheim: Olms, 2005. Pp. xiv, 434; pls. 2. €78.00. ISBN 3-487-12855-1.

Cawkwell, George, The Greek Wars. The Failure of Persia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 328. $115.00. ISBN 0-19-814871-2.

Cracolici, Vincenzo, I sostegni di fornace dal Kerameikos di Metaponto. Beni Archeologici – Conoscenza e Tecnologie. Quaderno 3. Bari: Edipuglia, 2003. Pp. 210; pls. 28. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7228-321-3.

Dalby, Andrew, Venus. A Biography. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2005. Pp. 168. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-89236-824-1.

Favaretto, Irene, and Francesca Ghedini (edd.), Eidola. International Journal of Classical Art History. 1 (2004). Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2005. Pp. 239. Subscription: Italy – €45.00 (individuals); €65.00 (institutions); Abroad – €65.00 (individuals); €95.00 (institutions). ISSN 1824-6192.

Francis, Karen, et al., Explorations in Albania, 1930-39. The Notebooks of Luigi Cardini, Prehistorian with the Italian Archaeological Mission. BSA Suppl., 37. Athens: The British School at Athens, 2005. Pp. 266; figs. 99. £56.00. ISBN 0-904887-48-0.

Gardiner, Stephen M. (ed.), Virtue Ethics, Old and New. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. 222. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8968-7.

Gaunt, Jasper, CVA. Great Britain, Fascicule 21. Harrow School. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 144. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-726306-2.

Gold, Barbara K., and John F. Donahue (edd.), Roman Dining. A Special Issue of American Journal of Philology. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. 140. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8018-8202-8.

Golder, Herbert (ed.), Arion. Spring/Summer 2005. Third series 13.1. Boston: Boston University, 2005. Pp. 198. Subscription: $35.00 (institutions); $19.00 (individuals); $12.00 (students). ISSN 0095-5809.

Greaney, George L. (trans.), Aeschines. De falsa legatione. Studies in Classics, 31. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. Pp. 114. $99.95. ISBN 0-7734-6148-5.

Grund, Gary R. (trans.), Humanist Comedies. I Tatti Renaissance Library, 19. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 460. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01744-7.

Gurd, Sean Alexander, Iphigenias at Aulis. Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. 188. $39.95. ISBN 0-8014-4329-6.

Hecht, Jamey (trans.), Sophocles. Three Theban Plays. Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 2004. Pp. 224. £3.99 (pb). ISBN 1-84022-144-5.

Kantzios, Ippokratis (ed.), The Trajectory of Archaic Greek Trimeters. Mnemosyne Suppl., 265. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 208. €112.00. ISBN 90-04-14536-2.

Keaveney, Arthur, Sulla. The Last Republican. Second edition. London/New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 233. $33.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-33661-9.

Lehmler, Caroline, Syrakus unter Agathokles und Hieron II. Die Verbindung von Kultur und Macht in einer hellenistischen Metropole. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Antike, 2005. Pp. 256; figs. 97. €37.90. ISBN 3-938032-07-3.

Luther, Andreas, Odyssee-Rezeptionen. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Antike, 2005. Pp. 128. €24.90. ISBN 3-938032-05-7.

McHardy, Fiona, James Robson, and David Harvey (edd.), Lost Dramas of Classical Athens. Greek Tragic Fragments. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2005. Pp. 248. £40.00. ISBN 0-85989-752-4.

McKeon, Richard, Selected Writings. Volume 2: Culture,, Education, and the Arts. Edited by Zahava K. McKeon and William G. Swenson. With an Introduction by Wayne C. Booth. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 368. $50.00. ISBN 0-226-56038-4.

Mols, Stephan T.A.M., and Eric M. Moormann (edd.), Omni pede stare. Saggi architettonici e circumvesuviani in memoriam Jos de Waele. Studi della Soprintendenza archeologica di Pompei, 9. Napoli: Electa, 2005. Pp. 342; ills. €130.00 (pb). ISBN 88-510-0265-7.

Monella, Paolo, Procne e Filomela dal mito al simbolo letterario. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2005. Pp. 270. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-555-2798-3.

Moorhead, John, Gregory the Great. The Early Church Fathers. London/New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 177. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-23390-9.

Munson, Rosaria Vignolo, Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians. Center for Hellenic Studies, 9. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 121. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01790-0.

O’Donnell, James J., Augustine: A New Biography. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Pp. 416. $26.95. ISBN 0-06-053537-7.

O’Keefe, John J., and R.R. Reno, Sanctified Vision. An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. 156. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8018-8088-2.

Overwien, Oliver, Die Sprüche des Kynikers Diogenes in der griechischen und arabischen Überlieferung. Hermes Einzelschriften, 92. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Pp. 500. €76.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08655-2.

Pani, Mario (ed.), Storia romana e storia moderna. Fasi in prospettiva. Documenti e studi, 38. Bari: Edipuglia, 2005. Pp. 166. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7228-410-4.

Paschalis, Michael, Roman and Greek Imperial Epic. Rethymnon Classical Studies, Vol. 2 (2005). Herakleion: Crete University Press, 2005. Pp. 195. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 960-524-203-6.

Pernot, Laurent, Rhetoric in Antiquity. Originally published in French as La Rhétorique dans l’Antiquité by Librairie Générale Française (2000). Translated by W.E. Higgins. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005. Pp. 269. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8132-1407-6.

Piepenbrink, Karen, Christliche Identität und Assimilation in der Spätantike. Probleme des Christseins in der Reflexion der Zeitgenossen. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, 3. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Antike, 2005. Pp. 456. €54.90. ISBN 3-938032-06-5.

Platschek, Johannes, Studien zu Ciceros Rede für P. Quinctius. Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und antiken Rechtsgeschichte, 94. München: C.H. Beck, 2005. Pp. xi, 300. €74.00 (pb). ISBN 3-406-53408-2.

Queyrel, François, L’Autel de Pergame. Images et pouvoir en Grèce d’Asie. Paris: Picard, 2005. Pp. 208; ills. 200. €55.00. ISBN 2-7084-0734-1.

Saracino, Massimo, Prima del Tornio. Introduzione alla tecnologia della produzione ceramica. Storia antica & archeologia moderna, 1. Bari: Edipuglia, 2005. Pp. 108. €12.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7228-419-8.

Sauer, Eberhard, Coins, Cult and Cultural Identity: Augustan Coins, Hot Springs and the Early Roman Baths at Bourbonne-les-Bains. Leicester Archaeology Monographs 10. Leicester: University of Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, 2005. Pp. 324; ills. 51, pls. 11. £30.00 (pb). ISBN 0-9538914-4-5.

Stenhouse, William, Reading Inscriptions & Writing Ancient History: Historical Scholarship in the Late Renaissance. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 86. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2005. Pp. x, 204; pls. £50.00 (pb). ISBN 0-900587-98-9.

Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel, The Impact of Yom Kippur on Early Christianity. The Day of Atonement from Second Temple Judaism to the Fifth Century. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 163. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003. Pp. 445. €94.00. ISBN 3-16-148092-9.

Strauss, Barry, The Battle of Salamis. The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece — and Western Civilization. First published in 2004. Paperback edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Pp. 294. $14.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7432-4451-6.

Tuplin, Christopher, Xenophon and his World. Papers from a conference held in Liverpool in July 1999. Historia Einzelschriften, 172. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. 524. €84.00. ISBN 3-515-08392-8.

Vössing, Konrad (ed.), Biographie und Prosopographie. Internationales Kolloquium zum 65. Geburtstag von Anthony R. Birley. Historia Einzelschriften, 178. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Pp. 146. €37.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08538-6.

Wallinga, H.T., Xerxes’ Greek Adventure. The Naval Perspective. Mnemosyne Suppl. 264. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. xiv, 178. €97.00. ISBN 90-04-14140-5.

White, Jeffrey A. (trans.), Biondo Flavio. Italy Illuminated. Vol. 1, Books I-IV. I Tatti Renaissance Library, 20. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 489. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01743-9.

Wintjes, Jorit, Das Leben des Libanius. Historische Studien der Universität Würzburg, 2. Rahden/Westf.: Leidorf, 2005. Pp. 303. €71.50. ISBN 3-89646-834-0.