BMCR 2006.11.01

BMCR Books Received (October)

Aguilar, David Paniagua, El panorama literario técnico-científico en Roma (Siglos I-II D.C.). “Et docere et delectare.” Salamanca, Spain: Ediciones Universidad Salamanca, 2006. Pp. 507. €35,00. ISBN 84-7800-462-9.

Arrighetti, Graziano, Poesia, poetiche e storia nella riflessione dei Greci. Biblioteca di studi antichi, 89. Pisa: Giardini editori e stampatori in Pisa, 2006. Pp. xvi, 524. €160.00. ISBN 88-427-1445-3.

Ash, Rhiannon, Tacitus. Ancients in Action. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2006. Pp. 159. $20.00 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-687-4.

Ax, Wolfram, Text und Stil.Studien zur antiken Literatur und deren Rezeption. Edited by Christian Schwarz. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 316. €54.00. ISBN 3-515-08825-3.

Banfi, Antonio, Habent illi iudices suos. Studi sulli’ esclusività della giurisdizione ecclesiastica e sulle origini del privilegium fori in diritto romano e bizantino. Milano: Dott. A. Giuffrè Editore, 2005. Pp. 401. €38.00. ISBN 88-14-11847-7.

Bulwer, John (ed.), Classics Teaching in Europe. London: Duckworth, 2006. Pp. 143. $27.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3560-3.

Caiazza, Guglielmo, and Antonella Esposito (edd.), Primum Legere. Annuario delle Attività della Delegazione Valle del Sarno dell’A.I.C.C. Sarno: AICC – Delegazione della Valle del Sarno, 2005. Pp. xvi. 157. ISBN 88-902493-0-7.

Ceccarelli, Paola, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker e l’Antiquaria Napoletana. Carteggi Gervasio-Welcker e Minervini-Welcker. San Severo: Gerni Editori, 2006. Pp. 245. €24.00. ISBN 88-85077-59-5.

Darcque, Pascal, Michael Fotiadis, and Olga Polychronopoulou, Mythos. La préhistoire égéenne du XIXe au XXIe siècle après J.-C. BCH Supplément 46. Paris: De Boccard, 2006. Pp. 400. €80.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86958-195-5.

Dawe, R. D. (ed.), Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Revised Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 214. $31.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-61735-9.

De Luna, Maria Elena, La comunicazione linguistica fra alloglotti nel mondo greco. Da Omero a Senofonte. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2003. Pp. 346. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 88-467-0836-9.

Ramírez de Verger, A. (ed.), Ovidius. Carmina Amatoria. Editio Altera. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. 376. $134.00. ISBN 978-3-598-71844-1.

Demougin, Ségolène, Xavier Loriot, Pierre Cosme, and Sabine Lefebvre (edd.), H.-G. Pflaum: un historien du XX e siècle. Actes du Colloque international de Paris les 21, 22 et 23 octobre 2004. Hautes Etudes du monde gréco-romain, 37. Geneva: Droz, 2006. Pp. 544; ills. 20. €148.00 (pb). ISBN 2-600-01099-8.

Dubuisson, Michel, and Jacques Schamp (edd.), Jean le Lydien. Des magistratures de l’état romain. Tome I. Introduction Générale. Livre I. 2 vol. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2006. Pp. dcclxxiv, 140. €115.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-00533-1.

Dyson, Stephen L., In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts. A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii. 316. $45.00. ISBN 0-300-11097-9.

Esposito, Elena, Il fragmentum Grenfellianum (P. Dryton 50). Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2005. Pp. 198. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 88-555-2879-3.

Evans, James Allan, The Beginnings of History. Herodotus and the Persian Wars. Campbellville: Edgar Kent, Inc., 2006. Pp. 360. $82.50. ISBN 0-88866-652-7.

Fantasia, Ugo, Tucidide. La Guerra del Peloponneso. Libro II. Testo, traduzione et commento con saggio introduttivo. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2003. Pp. 648. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 88-467-0582-3.

Fedeli, Paolo (ed.), Aufidus. Rivista di scienza e didattica della cultura classica. 56-57. Roma: Edizioni Kepos, 2005. Pp. 237. €28.00 (pb). ISSN 0394-297X.

Ferrucci, Stefano, Iseo. La successione di Kiron. Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2005. Pp. 253. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-467-1194-7.

Garland, Robert, Celebrity in Antiquity. From Media Tarts to Tabloid Queens. Classical Inter/Faces. London: Duckworth, 2006. Pp. 177. $23.50 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3448-8.

George, Margaret, Helen of Troy. A Novel. New York: Viking, 2006. Pp. 611. $27.95. ISBN 0-670-03778-8.

Ghilardi, Matthieu, Apport et intérêt de la modélisation numérique de terrain en géomorphologie. Étude du site antique de Méthoni (Piérie-Grèce). Memoires du Laboratoire de Geomorphologie de l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes no.45. Dinard: Laboratoire de Géomorphologie et Environnement littoral, 2006. Pp. 114. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 2-900111-22-6.

Goldsworthy, Adrian, Caesar. Life of a Colossus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. 583. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-12048-6.

Grafton, Anthony, and Megan Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book. Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 367. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02314-7.

Haarer, F. K., Anastasius I. Politics and Empire in the Late Roman World. ARCA Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 46. Leeds: Francis Cairns, 2006. Pp. 340. $130.00. ISBN 0-905205-43-X

Habermehl, Peter, Petronius, Satyrica 79-141. Ein philologisch-literarischer Kommentar. Bd. 1: Sat.79-110. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. lxxi, 488. €119.30. ISBN 978-3-11-018533-1.

Hadot, Peter, The Veil of Isis. An Essay on the History of Idea of Nature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 399. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02316-1.

Heinen, Heinz, Antike am Rande der Steppe. Der nördliche Schwarzmeerraum als Forschungsaufgabe. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literature, Mainz. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 91. €17.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-515-08921-0.

Heller, Anna, Les Bêties des Grecs. Conflits et rivalités entre cités d’Asie et de Bithynie à l’époque romaine (129 a.C.-235 p.C.). Paris: De Boccard, 2006. Pp. 425. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 2-910023-74-5.

Henderson, John (trans.), Plautus. Asinaria. The One About the Asses. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Pp. 252. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-299-21994-1.

Hill, Robert C. (trans.), Theodoret of Cyrus. Commentary on Daniel. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006. Pp. xxxiv, 340. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58983-104-7.

Hill, Robert C. (trans.), Theodore of Mopsuestia. Commentary on Psalms 1-81. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006. Pp. xxxviii, 1137. $89.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58983-060-1.

Hinard, François (ed.), Cicéron. Discours. Pour Sextus Roscius. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2006. Pp. cviii, 110. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-01444-9.

Jehne, Martin, and Rene Pfeilschifter (edd.), Herrschaft ohne Integration? Rom und Italien in republikanischer Zeit. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Antike, 2006. Pp. 335. €54.90. ISBN 3-938032-11-1.

Johansson, Mikael, Libanius’ Declamations 9 and 10. Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia LXVII. Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2006. Pp. 308. ISBN 91-7346-560-7.

Kahane, Ahuvia, Diachronic Dialogues. Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition. Greek Studies. Interdisciplinary Approaches. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005. Pp. 274. $21.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1134-5.

Kyle, Donald G., Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. 403. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 0-631-22971-X.

Kyriakou, Poulheria, A Commentary on Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 504. $118.95. ISBN 3-11-019099-0.

Lewis, John, Solon The Thinker. Political Thought in Archaic Athens. London: Duckworth, 2006. Pp. ix, 178. $70.00. ISBN 0-7156-3456-9.

Lohse, Gerhard, and Solveig Malatrait (edd.), Die griechische Tragödie und ihre Aktualisierung in Moderne. Zweites Bruno Snell-Symposion der Universität Hamburg am Europa-Kolleg. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. 220. €78.00. ISBN 978-3-598-77836-0.

Metzler, Karin (ed.), Eustathii. Thessalonicensis de Emendanda Vita Monachica. Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 45. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 270. €91.59. ISBN 978-3-11-018904-9.

Michalopoulos, Andreas N., Ovid Heroides 16 and 17. Indroduction, Text and Commentary. Cambridge: Francis Cairns, 2006. Pp. x. 409. $160.00. ISBN 0-905205-44-8.

Mittag, Peter Franz, Antiochos IV. Epiphanes. Eine politische Biographie. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2006. Pp. 429. €69.80. ISBN 3-05-004205-2.

Morpeth, Neil, Thucydides’ War. Accounting for the Faces of Conflict. Hildesheim: Olms, 2006. Pp. 348. €49.80 (pb). ISBN 3-487-13256-7.

Parks, Danielle A., The Roman Coinage of Cyprus. Nicosia, Cyprus: Cyprus Numismatic Society, 2004. Pp. 316. CY£26.25. ISBN 9963-9070-0-8.

Perutelli, Alessandro, Ulisse nella cultura romana. Firenze: Felice Le Monnier, 2006. Pp. 131. €11.50 (pb). ISBN 88-00-86073-7.

Rizzo, Francesco Paolo, Sicilia Cristiana. Dal I al II secolo. Volume Secondo. 2 vol. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2006 Pp. 268. €85.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-229-X.

Roccos, Linda Jones, Ancient Greek Costume. An Annotated Bibliography, 1784-2005. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2006. Pp. 175. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7864-2774-4.

Roisman, Joseph, The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. 214. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-520-24787-1.

Scherer, Burkhard, Mythos, Katalog und Prophezeiung. Studien zu den Argonautika des Apollonios Rhodios. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 232. €48.00. ISBN 3-151-08808-3.

Schlegel, Catherine, and Henry Weinfield (trans.), Hesiod. Theogony and Works and Days. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2006. Pp. 116. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-472-06932-2.

Schollmeier, Paul, Human Goodness. Pragmatic Variations on Platonic Themes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 302. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-86384-8.

Sève, Michel (trans.), Aristote. Constitution d’Athènes. Le régime politique des Athéniens. Traduction nouvelle, introduction, notes et index. Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 2006. Pp. 190. €6.50 (pb). ISBN 2-253-16095-4-1.

Steingräber, Stephan, Abundance of Life. Etruscan Wall Painting. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2006. Pp. 320; ills. 250. $125.00. ISBN 0-89236-865-9.

Stilp, Florian, Die Jacobsthal-Reliefs. Konturierte Tonreliefs aus dem Griechenland der Frühklassik. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2006. Pp. 281; ills. 85. €180.76 (pb). ISBN 88-7689-211-7.

Timpe, Dieter, Römish-germanische Begegnung in der späten Republik und frühen Kaiserzeit. Voraussetzungen-Konfrontationen-Wirkungen. Gesammelte Studien. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. 470. €98.00. ISBN 978-3-598-77845-2.

Van de Mieroop, Marc, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 BC. Second edition. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. xix, 341. $31.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-4911-6.

Volpi, Angiola Maria, Sources et influences classiques dans la poésie de Dryden. Lille: Atelier National de Reproduction des Thèses, 2002. Pp. 600. €56.00 (pb). ISBN 2-284-04402-6.

Walker, Susan, and Sally-Ann Ashton, Cleopatra. Ancients in Action. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2006. Pp. 128. $20.00 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-673-4.

Wallraff, Martin (ed.), Julius Africanus und die christliche Weltchronistik. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 157. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. viii, 346. €91.59. ISBN 978-3-11-019105-9.

Wiener, M. H., J. L. Warner, J. Polonsky, and E. E. Hayes (edd.), Pottery and Society. The Impact of Recent Studies in Minoan Pottery. Gold Medal Colloquium in Honor of Philip P. Betancourt. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 2006. Pp. 157. $45.00. ISBN 1-931909-14-8.

Witek, Franz, Vergils Landschaften. Versuch einer Typologie literarischer Landschaft. Hildesheim: Olms, 2006. Pp. 274. €42.00 (pb). ISBN 3-487-13191-9.

Zhmud, Leonid, The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 331. $118.95. ISBN 3-11-017966-0

Zizza, Caesare, Le Iscrizioni nella Periegesi di Pausania. Commento ai Testi Epigrafici. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2006. Pp. 514. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 88-467-1598-5.