BMCR 2005.10.01

BMCR Books Received (September)

Albracht, Franz, Battle and Battle Description in Homer. A Contribution to the History of War. First published in German in 1886 and 1895. Translated and edited by Peter Jones, Malcolm Willcock, and Gabriele Wright. London: Duckworth, 2005. Pp. 140. £45.00. ISBN 0-7156-3241-8.

Amerise, Marilena, Il battesimo di Costantino il Grande. Storia di una scomoda eredità. Hermes Einzelschriften, 95. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Pp. 177. €34.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08721-4.

Andersen, Flemming Gorm, Danish Contributions to Classical Scholarship 1971-1991. A Bibliography. Danish Humanist Texts and Studies, vol. 27. Copenhagen: The Royal Library, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004. Pp. 154. €32.00. ISBN 87-7289-822-4.

Barringer, Judith M., and Jeffrey M. Hurwit (edd.), Periklean Athens and Its Legacy. Problems and Perspectives. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005. Pp. 380. $55.00. ISBN 0-292-70622-7.

Bearzot, Cinzia, and Franca Landucci (edd.), Diodoro e l’altra Grecia. Macedonia, Occidente, Ellenismo nella Biblioteca storica. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2005. Pp. 423. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 88-343-5006-5.

Berard, Stephen A., De philosophia quantali deque institutione publica. Bruxelles: Melissa, 2005. Pp. 122. ISBN 2-87290-022-5.

Berti, Monica, Fra tirannide e democrazia. Ipparco figlio di Carmo e il destino dei Pisistratidi ad Atene. Fonti e Studi di Storia Antica, 8. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2004. Pp. 232. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7694-814-7.

Branham, R. Bracht (ed.), The Bakhtin Circle and Ancient Narrative. Ancient Narrative, Suppl. 3. Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing & The University Library Groningen, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 347. €70.00. ISBN 90-77922-00-8.

Brisson, Luc (ed.), Porphyre. Sentences. Histoire des doctrines de l’antiquité classique, XXXIII. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2005. Pp. 874. €45.00 (both volumes). ISBN 2-7116-1632-0.

Champlin, Edward, Nero. First published in 2003. Paperback edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 346; ills. 5, maps 5. $17.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01822-2.

Chaniotis, A., et al. (edd.), Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Vol. LI (2001). Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 2005. Pp. 937. €160.00. ISBN 90-5063-459-1.

Constantinou, Stavroula, Female Corporeal Performances: Reading the Body in Byzantine Passions and Lives of Holy Women. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia, 9. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2005. Pp. 225. ISBN 91-554-6292-8.

Dupont, Florence, and Emmanuelle Valette-Cagnac (edd.), Façons de parler grec à Rome. Collection “L’antiquité au présent”. Paris: Belin, 2005. Pp. 286. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7011-4071-4.

Ebbesen, Sten (ed.), Cahiers de l’Institute du Moyen-ge grec et latin. Université de Copenhague. Vol. 75. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004. Pp. 220. €34.00 (pb). ISBN 87-635-0227-5.

Eck, Werner, and Matthäus Heil (edd.), Senatores populi Romani. Realität und mediale Präsentation einer Führungsschicht. HABES, 40. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Pp. 329. €50.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08684-6.

Fischer-Hansen, Tobias, CVA Denmark, 10. Copenhagen: NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, fasc. 1. Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2004. Pp. 165; pls. 132. ISBN 87-7452-272-8.

Frede, Dorothea, and Brad Inwood (edd.), Language and Learning. Philosophy of Language in the Hellenistic Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 353. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-84181-X.

Giardina, Giancarlo, Properzio. Elegie. Edizione critica e traduzione. Roma: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 2005. Pp. 418. €95.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8476-118-2.

Goff, Barbara (ed.), Classics & Colonialism. London: Duckworth, 2005. Pp. 166. £14.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3311-2.

Golden, Leon, Understanding the Iliad. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2005. Pp. 156. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4208-1351-X.

Harrison, Stephen, Michael Paschalis, and Stavros Frangoulidis (edd.), Metaphor and the Ancient Novel. Ancient Narrative, Suppl. 4. Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing & The University Library Groningen, 2005. Pp. xiii, 281. €60.00. ISBN 90-77922-03-2.

Heck, Eberhard, and Antonie Wlosok (edd.), Lactantius. Divinarum institutionum libri septem. Fasc. 1: Libri I et II. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005. Pp. 200. €62.00 (pb). ISBN 3-598-71265-0.

Herring, Adam, Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, A.D. 600-800. A Poetics of Line. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 316. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-84246-8.

Hjte, Jakob Munk, Roman Imperial Statue Bases from Augustus to Commodus. Acta Jutlandica 80, 2; Humanities series 78. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2005. Pp. 664; ills. $59.95. ISBN 87-7934-146-2.

Homoth-Kuhs, Clemens, Phylakes und Phylakon-Steuer im griechisch-römischen Ägypten. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des antiken Sicherheitswesens. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, Beiheft 17. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005. Pp. 222. €98.00. ISBN 3-598-77592-X.

Horster, Marietta, and Christiane Reitz (edd.), Wissensvermittlung in dichterischer Gestalt. Palingenesia, 85. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Pp. 348. €60.00. ISBN 3-515-08698-6.

Keener, Craig S., 1-2 Corinthians. New Cambridge Bible Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 299. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-83462-7.

Kramer, Bärbel, et al. (edd.), Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete. Inhalt der Bände 1-50 (1991-2004). München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005. Pp. 64. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 3-598-77528-8.

Kunze-Götte, Erika, CVA. Deutschland, 78. München, Antikensammlungen ehemals Museum Antiker Kleinkunst. Band 14. Attisch-Schwarzfigurige Halsamphoren. München: C.H. Beck, 2005. Pp. 94; ills. 49, pls. 95. ISBN 3-406-53203-9.

Lloyd, Michael, Sophocles: Electra. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 2005. Pp. 160. £11.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3280-9.

Minnis, Alastair, and Ian Johnson (edd.), The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Volume II: The Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 865. $160.00. ISBN 0-521-30007-X.

Most, Glenn W., Doubting Thomas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 267. $27.95. ISBN 0-674-01914-8.

Paoletti, Orazio (ed.), Dinamiche di sviluppo delle città nell’Etruria meridionale. Veio, Caere, Tarquinia, Vulci. Atti del XXIII Convegno di studi etruschi ed italici, 1-6 ottobre 2001. 2 volumes. Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2005. Pp. xii, 752; figs. 223, pls. 107. €860.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8147-377-1.

Pearcy, Lee T., The Grammar of Our Civility. Classical Education in America. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2005. Pp. 184. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 1-932792-16-3.

Penn, Michael Philip, Kissing Christians. Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church. Series ‘Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion’. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Pp. 186. $42.50. ISBN 0-8122-3880-X.

Porter, Barbara Nevling (ed.), Ritual and Politics in Ancient Mesopotamia. American Oriental Series 88. New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 2005. Pp. xi, 120. $42.00. ISBN 0-940490-19-6.

Rothstein, Bret L., Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 262. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-83278-0.

Ruden, Sarah (trans.), Homeric Hymns. Introduction and Notes by Sheila Murnaghan. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2005. Pp. 128. $8.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-725-0.

Sblendorio Cugusi, Maria Teresa, L’uso stilistico dei composti nominali nei Carmina Latina Epigraphica. Quaderni di “Invigilata Lucernis”, 25. Bari: Edipuglia, 2005. Pp. 144. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7228-422-8.

Schmal, Stephan, Tacitus. Studienbücher Antike, 14. Hildesheim: Olms, 2005. Pp. 240. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 3-487-12884-5.

Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios, and Panagiotis Roilos (edd.), Greek Ritual Poetics. Hellenic Studies, 3. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 482; ills. 21. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01792-7.