BMCR 2006.07.64

BMCR Books Received (July)

Aguilar, David Paniagua (ed.), Flavio Vegecio Renato: Compendio de técnica militar. Letras Universales. Madrid: Catedra, 2006. Pp. 399. €10.00 (pb). ISBN 84-376-2313-8.

Allen, Joel, Hostages and Hostage: Taking in the Roman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 306. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-86183-7.

Amato, Eugenio (ed.), Approches de la Troisieme Sophistique: Hommages à Jacques Schamp. Collection Latomus, volume 296. Bruxelles: Latomus, 2006. Pp. 614. €89.00 (pb). ISBN 2-87031-237-7.

Asheri, David and Aldo Corcella (edd.), Erodoto: Le Storie, Libro IX, La Battaglia di Platea. Scrittori Greci e Latini. Traduzione di Augusto Fraschetti. Verona: Mondadori, 2006. Pp. 552. €27.00. ISBN 88-04-54918-1.

Baar, Mechthild, Dolor und Ingenium: Untersuchungen zur römischen Liebeselegie. Palingenesia, 88. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 267. €54.00. ISBN 3-515-08813-X.

Becker, Adam H., Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom: The School of Nisibis and the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. 312. $69.95. ISBN 0-8122-3934-2.

Berno, Francesca Romana (ed.), L. Anneo Seneca. Lettere a Lucilio Libro VI: le Lettere 53 – 57. Testi e Manuali per l’Insegnamento Universitario del Latino, Nuova Serie 91. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2006. Pp. 420. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 88-555-2864-5.

Beta, Simone (ed.), Vino e Poesia: Centocinquanta Epigrammi Greci sul Vino. Milano: La Vita Felice, 2006. Pp. 319. €13.50 (pb). ISBN 88-7799-176-3.

Bintliff, John (ed.), A Companion to Archaeology. Reprint of 2004 edition. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. 568; ills. 52. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-4979-5.

Boyd, Barbara Weiden, Vergil’s Aeneid 8 & 11: Italy & Rome. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2006. Pp. 102. $15.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-86516-580-9.

Bravi, Luigi, L’Epitome di Santa Croce Dall’Anabasi di Arriano – Un Bifoglio Greco del Decimo Secolo Nell’Archivio Diocesano di Urbino. Urbino: Accademia Raffaello, 2006. Pp. 60; tables 9. €17.30 (pb). ISBN 88-87573-26-3.

Brélaz, Cédric, La sécurité publique en Asie Mineure sous le Principat: Institutions municipales et institutions impériales das l’Orient romain. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 32. Basel: Schwabe, 2005. Pp. 530. €82.50. ISBN 3-7965-2200-9.

Capuis, Loredana, and A. M. Chieco Bianchi (edd.), Este II – La Necropoli di Villa Benvenuti. Monumenti Antichi pubblicati per cura della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, serie monografica volume vii (lxiv della serie generale). Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2006. Pp. 536; tab. 63. €290.00. ISBN 88-7689-232-x.

Cappers, René T.J., Roman Foodprints at Berenike: Archaeobotanical Evidence of Subsistence and Trade in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, monograph 55. Los Angeles: UCLA, 2006. Pp. 229. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 1-931745-26-9.

Carlsson, Leif, Round Trips to Heaven: Otherworldly Travelers in Early Judaism and Christianity. Lund Studies in History of Religions, 19. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2004. Pp. 398. ISBN 91-22-02106-X.

Collins, Susan D., Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 206. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-86046-6.

Costantini, M., F. Graziani and S. Rolet (edd.), Le Défi de l’Art: Philostrate, Callistrate et l’image sophistique. La Licorne 75. Paris: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2006. Pp. 286. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7535-0257-9.

Cygielman, Mario, and Lucia Pagnini (edd.), La Tomba del Tridente a Vetulonia. Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici Monumenti Etruschi 9. Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2006. Pp. 187. €490.00. ISBN 88-8147-320-8.

Demougin, Segolene, Xavier Loriot, Pierre Cosme and Sabine Lefebure (edd.), H.-G. Pflaum: Un Historien du XXe Siecle. Actes du colloque international Paris les 21, 22, et 23 octobre 2004. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Sciences Historiques et Philologiques. III Hautes Etudes du Monde Greco-Romain, 37. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2006. Pp. 542. ISBN 2-600-01099-88.

Desmond, Marilynn, Ovid’s Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. 232; halftones 38. $20.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-7317-9.

Elena, Pilar, and Jossee De Kock (edd.), Gramática y Traducción. Gramática Espanola Ensenanza e investigación I. Apuntes Metodológicos. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad, 2006. Pp. 307. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 84-7800-501-3.

Farenga, Vincent, Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece: Individuals Performing Justice and the Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 608. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-84559-9.

Gentili, Bruno (ed.), Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, Nuova serie 81, N. 3, 2005 (= Vol. 110 della serie continua). Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2006. Pp. 165. €34.00 (pb). ISBN 0033-4987.

Gilhus, Ingvild Saelid, Animals, Gods and Humans – Changing attitudes to animals in Greek, Roman and early Christian ideas. New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 336. £19.99 (pb). ISBN 0-415-38650-0.

Harris, Edward M., Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens. Essays on Law, Society, and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 518. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-85279-X.

Karamanolis, George E., Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 432. $90.00. ISBN 0-19-926456-2.

Krueger, Derek (ed.), Byzantine Christianity. A People’s History of Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006. Pp. 272. $35.00. ISBN 0-8006-3413-6.

Krüger, Thorsten, Die Liebesverhältnisse der olympischen Götter mit sterblichen Frauen. Strukturanalyse und Interpretation. Germanistik, 29. Hamburg: LIT, 2006. Pp. 136. €14.90 (pb). ISBN 3-8258-8708-1.

Laks, André, Introduction à la “philosophie présocratique”. Centre Marcel Granet Institut de la pensée contemporaine. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2006. Pp. 192. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 2-13-055663-9.

Langlands, Rebecca, Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 408. $99.00. ISBN 0-521-85943-3.

Lloyd, Michael, Euripides: Andromache. Second edition. The Plays of Euripides. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 2005. Pp. 208. $28.00 (pb). ISBN 0-85668-770-7.

Lorenz, Hendrik, The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 240. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-929063-6.

Miller, Stephen G., Ancient Greek Athletics. Reprint of 2004 edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. 304. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 0-300-11529-6.

Narcy, Michel, and Alonso Tordesillas (edd.), La “Métaphysique” D’Aristote: Perspectives Contemporaines. Études Aristotéliciennes. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2005. Pp. 249. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 2-87060-118-2.

Oniga, Renato, and Luigi Zennaro (edd.), Atti della “Giornata di Linguistica Latina” Venezia, 7 maggio 2004. Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio. Atti, 3. Venice: Cafoscarina, 2006. Pp. 251. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7543-101-9.

Pera, Rossella (ed.), L’immaginario del Potere – Studi di iconografia monetale. Serta Antiqua et Mediaevalia VIII. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2005. Pp. 279; tab. 22. €150.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-193-5.

Petriaggi, Roberto (ed.), Archaeologia Maritima mediterranea: An International Journal on Underwater Archaeology, 2:2005. Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2005. Pp. 230. €125.00 (pb). ISBN 1724-6091.

Putnam, Michael C. J., Poetic Interplay: Catullus & Horace. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 184. $39.95. ISBN 0-691-12537-6.

Riggsby, Andrew M., Caesar in Gaul and Rome. War in Words. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. 280; halftones 8, map 1, figs. 2, tables 4. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-71303-7.

Robson, James, Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes. Drama – Studien zum antiken Drama und zu seiner Rezeption, neue Serie, Band 1. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006. Pp. 215. €54.00 (pb). ISBN 3-8233-6220-8.

Roller, Matthew B., Dining Posture in Ancient Rome: Bodies, Values, and Status. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 248; color pls. 8, halftones 15, line ills. 3. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-12457-4.

Rosada, Guido (ed.), Agri Centuriati. An International Journal of Landscape Archaeology 2 (2005) Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2006. Pp. 187. €100.00 (pb). ISBN 1724-904x.

Rosenmeyer, Patricia A., Ancient Greek Literary Letters: Selections in Translation. Routledge Classical Translations. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 176. £16.99 (pb). ISBN 0-415-28551-8.

Scafoglio, Giampiero, L’Astyanax di Accio: Saggio sul background mitografico, testo critico e commento dei frammenti. Collection Latomus, 295. Bruxelles: Latomus, 2006. Pp. 157. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 2-87031-236-9.

Sedley, David (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Vol. XXX, Summer 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 406. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-928747-3.

Snodgrass, A. M., Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Pp. 485. £60.00. ISBN 0-7486-2333-7.

Zajko, Vanda, and Miriam Leonard (edd.), Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 464. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-927438-X.