BMCR 2006.10.04

BMCR Books Received (September)

Amendola, Stefano, Donne e Preghiera: Le preghiere dei personaggi femminili nelle tragedie superstiti di Eschilo Supplementi di Lexis, XXXVIII. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2006. Pp. 133. €36.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-1206-7.

Anastasiades, B. I., Eleusina: Theatro mias Antidrastikes Outopias. Athens: Institouto tou Bibliou, 2006. Pp. 207. ISBN 960-354-188-5.

Ando, Clifford, and Jörg Rüpke (edd.), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beitrage, Band 15. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 176. €42.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08854-7.

Arrighetti, Graziano, Poesia, Poetiche e Storia nella Riflessione dei Greci. Biblioteca di Studi Antichi, 89. Pisa: Giardini Editori e Stampatori in Pisa, 2006. Pp. 512. €160.00. ISBN 88-0427-1445-3.

Asheri, David, O Estado Persa: Ideologias e instituições no império aquemênida. Debates, 304. Originally published as The Persian State. Translated by P. Butti de Lima. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2006. Pp. 165. R$33.00 (pb). ISBN 85-273-0746-4.

Berrino, Nicoletta Francesca, Mulier potens: realtà femminili nel mondo antico. Historie, 4. Galatina: Congedo Editore, 2006. Pp. 198. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 8880866567.

Bispham, Edward, Thomas Harrison, and Brian A. Sparkes (edd.), The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Pp. 604. £120.00. ISBN 0-7486-1629-2.

Bos, A. P., The Soul and its Instrumental Body: A Reinterpretation of Aristotle’s Philosophy of Living Nature. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, 112. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. 429. $194.00. ISBN 90-04-13016-0.

Brisson, Luc, and Francesco Fronterotta, Lire Platon. Quadrige Manuels. Paris: PUF, 2006. Pp. 288. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 2-13-055809-7.

Brouquier-Redde, Veronique, Estelle Bertrand, Marie-Bernadette Chardenoux, Katherine Gruel, and Marie-Claude L’Huillier (edd.), Mars en Occident: Actes du colloque international “Autour d’allonnes (Sarthe). Les sanctuaires de Mars en Occident”. Le Mans, Université du Maine, 4-5-6 Juin 2003. Archeologie & Culture. Rennes: PUR, 2006. Pp. 337. €34.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7535-0207-2.

Bücher, Franz, Verargumentierte Geschichte. Exempla Romana im politischen Diskurs der späten römischen Republik. Hermes Einzelschrift 96. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 363; CD-rom. €76.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08870-9.

Cantarella, Eva, and Alberto Maffi (edd.), DIKE: Rivista di storia del diritto greco ed ellenistico, 7, 2004. Milano: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2004. Pp. 213. €27.00 (pb). ISSN 1590-1807.

Capuccino, Carlotta, Filosofi e Rapsodi: Testo, traduzione e commento dello Ione platonico. Quaderni di dianoia 3. Bologna: CLUEB, 2006. Pp. 348. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 88-491-2513-5.

Cipolla, Paolo (ed.), Studi sul teatro greco. Supplementi di Lexis XL. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2006. Pp. 149. €36.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-1211-3.

Citti, Vittorio, Studi sul testo delle Coefore. Supplementi di Lexis, XXXIV. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2006. Pp. 274. €64.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-1208-3.

Cohen, Getzel M., The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa. Hellenistic Culture and Society XLVI. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. 501; illus. 8. $85.00. ISBN 0-520-24148-7.

Corte, Jose Carlos Fernandez, and Juan Antonio Gonzalez Iglesias, Catulo, Poesas. Edición bilingüe. Madrid: Catedra Letras Universales 2006. Pp. 802. €14.05 (pb). ISBN 84-376-2293-X.

Deger-Jalkotzy, Sigrid, and Irene S. Lemos (edd.), Ancient Greece: From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer. Edinburgh Leventis Studies 3. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Pp. 695. £90.00. ISBN 0-7486-1889-9.

Edlund-Berry, Ingrid, Giovanna Greco, and John Kenfield (edd.), Deliciae Fictiles III. Architectural Terracottas in Ancient Italy. New Discoveries and Interpretations. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2006. Pp. 508. $70.00. ISBN 1-84217-208-5.

Errington, R. Malcom, Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 352; map, 1. $45.00. ISBN 0-8078-3038-0.

Fantuzzi, Marco, and Theodore Papanghelis (edd.), Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. 654. $299.00. ISBN 90-04-14795-0.

Fattal, Michel, Plotin chez Augustin. Suivi de Plotin face aux Gnostiques. Ouverture Philosophique. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2006. Pp. 181. €16.50 (pb). ISBN 2-296-01120-9.

Gagliardi, Lorenzo, Mobilità e integrazione delle persone nei centri cittandini romani. Aspetti Giuridici, I, La classificazione degli incolae. Università degli studi di Milano, pubblicazioni dell’istituto di diritto romano. Milano: Dott. A. Giuffrè Editore, 2006. Pp. 584. €60.00 (pb). ISBN 88-14-12232-6.

Galistu, Anna Maria, L’Edizione eschilea di Adrian Tournebus. Prefazione di Renzo Tosi. Supplementi di Lexis, XXXV. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2006. Pp. 221. €50.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-1209-1.

Gill, Mary Louise, and Pierre Pellegrin (edd.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. 791. $149.95. ISBN 0-631-21061-X.

Graham, Daniel W., Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. 368. $45.00. ISBN 0-691-12540-6.

Haas, Jochen, Die Umweltkrise des 3. Jahrhunderts n.Chr. im Nordwesten des Imperium Romanum. Interdisziplinäre Studien zu einem Aspekt der allgemeinen Reichkrise im Bereich der beiden Germaniae sowie der Belgica und der Raetia. Geographica Historica, Band 22. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 322. €52.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08880-6.

Heinen, Heinz, Vom hellenistischen Osten zum römischen Westen. Ausgewählte Schriften zur Alten Geschichte. Historia Einzelschriften 191. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 553. €80.00. ISBN 3-515-08740-0.

Johannsen, Nina, Dichter über ihre Gedichte: Die Prosavorreden in den “Epigrammaton libri” Martials und in den “Silvae” des Statius. Hypomnemata 166. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006. Pp. 404. €69.90. ISBN 3-525-25265-x.

Kaspersen, Soren, and Erik Thuno (edd.), Decorating the Lord’s Table: On the Dynamics between Image and Altar in the Middle Ages. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006. Pp. 170. $45.00. ISBN 87-635-0133-3.

Klingenberg, Georg (ed.), Corpus der römischen Rechtsquellen zur Sklaverei (CRRS). Teil X: Juristisch speziell definiert Sklavengruppen, Band 6: Servus Fugitivus. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Pp. 233. €44.00. ISBN 3-515-08745-1.

Krause, Jens Uwe, and Christian Witschel (edd.), Die Stadt in der Spätantike – Niedergang oder Wandel? Historia Einzelschrift 190. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 492. €68.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08810-5.

Laird, Andrew (ed.), Ancient Literary Criticism. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 491. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-925866-x.

Littlewood, R. Joy, A Commentary on Ovid’s Fasti Book 6. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 257. $115.00. ISBN 0-19-927134-8.

Loprieno, Antonio (ed.), Mensch und Raum von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Colloquium Rauricum Band 9. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. 221. €64.00. ISBN 3-598-77380-3.

Luther, Andreas, Mischa Meier, and Lukas Thommen (edd.), Das Frühe Sparta. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 224. €36.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08635-8.

Mannack, T. (ed.), Haspels Addenda: Additional References to C. H. E. Haspels Attic Black-figured Lekythoi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 84. €20.00. ISBN 0-19-726315-1.

Marconi, Giampietro, Baudelaire: Dalla Aemulatio all Creazione. Scriptores Latini, 22. Roma: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 2006. Pp. 276. €70.00. ISBN 88-8476-114-X.

Matthews, John, The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business, and Daily Life in the Roman East. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. 264; b/w ills. 34. $60.00. ISBN 0-300-10898-2.

McDonnell, Myles, Roman Manliness: Virtus and the Roman Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 481. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-82788-4.

Medda, Enrico, “Sed nullus editorum vidit”: la filologia di Gottfried Hermann e L’Agamennone di Eschilo. Supplementi di Lexis, XXXI. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2006. Pp. 250. €60.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-1213-x.

Millar, Fergus, Rome, the Greek World, and the East. Volume 3: The Greek World, the Jews, and the East. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 552; ills. 4, maps 3. $70.00 (pb). ISBN 0-8078-3030-5.

Mitchell, Stephen, A History of the Later Roman Empire. AD 284-641. Blackwell History of the Ancient World. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. 470. $34.95. ISBN 1-4051-0856-8.

Mortensen, Lars Boje (ed.), The Making of Christian Myths in the Periphery of Latin Christendom (c. 1000-1300). Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006. Pp. 348. $59.00. ISBN 87-635-0407-3.

Novelli, Stefano, Studi sul testo dei Sette contro Tebe. Supplementi di Lexis, XXXIII. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2005. Pp. 358. €80.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-1204-0.

Olshausen, Eckart, and Holger Sonnabend (edd.), Troianer sind wir gewesen. Migrationen in der antiken Welt. Stuttgarter Kolloquium zur Historischen Geographie des Altertums 8, 2002. Geographica Historica, Band 21. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 431. €78.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08750-8.

Potter, David S. (ed.), A Companion to the Roman Empire. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. 691. $124.95. ISBN 0-631-22644-3.

Prauscello, L., Singing Alexandria: Music between practice and textual transmission. Mnemosyne Suppl. 274. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. 241. $146.00. ISBN 90-04-14985-6.

Rao, Sirish, and Gita Wolf, Euripides’ Hippolytos. Classic Tragedies Made New. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2006. Pp. 19; 5 illus. $19.95. ISBN 0-89236-864-0.

Reinhardt, Tobias, and Michael Winterbottom (edd.), Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 435. $160.00. ISBN 0-19-926265-9.

Reis, Burkhard (ed.), The Virtuous Life in Greek Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 277. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-85937-9.

Reshotko, Naomi, Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-Nor-Bad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 204. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-84618-8.

Rives, James B., Religion in the Roman Empire. Blackwell Ancient Religions. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. 237. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-0656-5.

Salles, Ricardo, The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism. Burlington: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. 132. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-3976-2.

Sayre, Kenneth M., Metaphysics and Method in Plato’s Statesman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 265. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-86608-1.

Sear, Frank, Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study. Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 534. $360.00. ISBN 0-19-814469-5.

Smith, R. R. R. (ed.), Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2006. Pp. 336; figs. 27, pls. 136. €76.80. ISBN 3-8053-3527-X.

Snodgrass, A. M., Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. Pp. 485. $39.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-7354-8.

Sorabji, Richard, Self. Ancient and Modern Insights About Individuality, Life, and Death. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 320. $35.00. ISBN 0-226-77825-2.

Strauss, Barry, The Trojan War: A New History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Pp. 258. $26.00. ISBN 0-7432-6441-X.

Strinati, Maria Gabriella, La Vera Historia di Luciano: un volgarizzamento dal greco del secondo Quattrocento. Supplementi di Lexis, XXXII. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2005. Pp. 143. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 90-256-1205-9.

von der Osten, Dorothee Elm, Jörg Rüpke, and Katharina Waldner (edd.), Texte als Medium und Reflexion von Religion im römischen Reich. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, Band 14. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 260. €49.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08641-2.

von Ungern-Sternberg, Jürgen , Römische Studien: Geschichtsbewusstein – Zeitalter der Gracchen – Krise der Republik. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 232. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. 434. €118.00. ISBN 3-598-77844-9.

Wilch, John R., Ruth. Concordia Commentary. A Theological Exposition of Sacred Scripture. St. Louis: Concordia, 2006. Pp. 418. $42.99. ISBN 0-570-06388-4.

Winkler, Martin M. (ed.), Troy: From Homer’s Iliad to Hollywood Epic. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. 231. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-3183-7.

Woodard, Roger. D., Indo-European Sacred Space. Vedic and Roman Cult. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. Pp. 312. $50.00. ISBN 0-252-02988-7.