BMCR 2007.04.01

BMCR Books Received (March)

Agapiou, Natalia, Endymion au Carrefour. La fortune littéraire et artistique du mythe d’Endymion à l’aube de l’ère moderne. Ikonographische Repertorien zur Rezeption des antiken Mythos in Europa, Beiheft IV. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2005. Pp. 285. €48.00. ISBN 3-7861-2499-X.

Aldrete, Gregory S., Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. 338. $60.00. ISBN 978-0-8018-8405-4.

Alexiou, Evangelos V., Ploutarchou Paralleloi Vioi. He problematike ton ‘thetikon’ kai ‘arnhtikon’ paradeigmaton. Thessalonike: University Studio Press 2007. Pp. 348. ISBN 978-960-12-1572-3.

Ancona, Ronnie (ed.), A Concise Guide to Teaching Latin Literature. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. 112. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8061-3797-1.

Andrisano, Angela M. (ed.), Il corpo teatrale fra testi e messinscena. Dalla drammaturgia classica all’esperienza laboratoriale contemporanea. Lingue e Letterature Carocci 67. Roma: Carocci Editore, 2006. Pp. 253. €22.50 (pb). ISBN 978-88-430-4048-3.

Bastianini, Guido, Michael Haslam, Herwig Maehler, Franco Montanari, and Cornelia Römer (edd.), Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in Papyris Reperta (CLGP). Pars I: Commentaria et Lexica in Auctores, Vol. 1. Fasc. 4: Aristophanes-Bacchylides. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. 303, Plates 8. €138.00. ISBN 978-3-598-73054-2.

Bergemann, Lutz, Kraftmetaphysik und Mysterienkult im Neuplatonismus. Ein Aspekt neuplatonischer Philosophie. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 234. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. 430. €96.00. ISBN 978-3-598-77846-9.

Bleckmann, Bruno, Fiktion als Geschichte. Neue Studien zum Autor der Hellenika Oxyrhynchia und zur Historiographie des vierten vorschristlichen Jahrhunderts. Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Philologisch-Historische Klasse Dritte Folge, Band 277. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006. Pp. 154. €68.90. ISBN 978-3-525-82549-5.

Boudon-Millot, Véronique (ed.), Galien. Introduction générale sur l’ordre de ses propres livres. Sur ses propres livres Que l’excellent médecin est aussi philosophe. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007. Pp. 314. €75.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-00536-2.

Boulhol, Pascal, Françoise Gaide, and Mireille Loubet (edd.), Guérisons du corps et de l’âme. Approches pluridisciplinaires. Actes du colloque international organisé du 23 au 25 septembre 2004, centre Paul-Albert Février, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (MMSH) d’Aix-en-Provence. Textes et documents de la Méditerranée antique et médiévale. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l’Université de Provence, 2006. Pp. 366. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-85399-651-8.

Brancacci, Aldo, and Pierre-Marie Morel (edd.), Democritus: Science, The Arts, and the Care of the Soul. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Democritus (Paris, 18-20 September 2003). Philosophia Antiqua Vol. 102. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. 348. $147.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15160-4.

Brisson, Luc, and Jean-François Pradeau (trans.), Plotin Traités 38-41. Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 2007. Pp. 417. €12.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-0812-0075-3.

Brosius, Maria, The Persians. An Introduction. Peoples of the Ancient World. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 217. £15.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-32090-0.

Brunschwig, Jacques (ed.), Ariostote. Topiques Tome II, Lives V-VIII. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007. Pp. 331. €71.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-00537-9.

Canfora, Luciano, Julius Caesar. The Life and Times of the People’s Dictator. Translated by Marian Hill and Kevin Windle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. 392. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-520-23502-1.

Canfora, Luciano, Julius Caesar. The People’s Dictator. Translated by Marian Hill and Kevin Windle. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. Pp. 392. £24.99. ISBN 978-0-7486-1936-8.

Carney, Elizabeth, Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great. Women of the Ancient World. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 221. £18.99 (pb). ISBN 0-415-33317-2.

Casiday, A. M., Evagrius Ponticus. The Early Chruch Fathers. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 250. £17.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-32447-2.

Cerri, Giovanni (ed.), A.I.O.N. Annali dell’Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli. Dipartimento di Studi del Mondo Classico e del Mediterraneo Antico. Sezione Filologico-Letteraria. XXVIII (2006). Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2006. Pp. 174. €34.00 (pb). ISSN 1128-7209.

Champeaux, Jacqueline (trans.), Arnobe. Contre les gentils (Contre les paens). Vol. 3, Book 3. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007. Pp. 175. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-01445-6.

Cooper, Craig (ed.), Politics of Orality. Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece, Vol. 6. Mnemosyne Supplement 280. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. 377. $174.00. ISBN 978-90-04-14540-5.

D’Alessandro Behr, Francesca, Feeling History. Lucan, Stoicism, and the Poetics of Passion. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2007. Pp. 259. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8142-1043-7.

D’Ambra, Eve, Roman Women. Cambridge Introduction to Roman Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 215. $18.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-52158-1.

Dahmen, Karsten, The Legend of Alexander the Great on Greek and Roman Coins. London/New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 179. £19.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-39452-9.

Day, Jasmine, The Mummy’s Curse. Mummymania in the English-Speaking World. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 230. £18.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-34022-9.

Dickinson, Oliver, The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age. Continuity and Change between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries B.C. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 298. £16.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-13590-0.

Dominik, William, and Jon Hall (edd.), A Companion to Roman Rhetoric. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. 523. $149.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-2091-3.

Dräger, Paul (ed.), Eusebios. Über das Leben des glückseligen Kaisers Konstantin (De vita Constantini). Oberhaid: Utopica Verlag, 2007. Pp. 411. €39.95. ISBN 978-3-938083-04-8.

Dufallo, Basil, The Ghosts of the Past. Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome’s Transition to a Principate. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2007. Pp. 175. $49.95. ISBN 9780-8142-1044-4.

Dufallo, Basil, and Peggy McCracken (edd.), Dead Lovers. Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2007. Pp. 172. $60.00. ISBN 978-0-472-11560-0.

Fantham, Elaine, Julia Augusti: the Emperor’s Daughter. Women of the Ancient World. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 175. £18.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-33146-3.

Fiocchi Nicolai, Vincenzo, and Jean Guyon (edd.), Origine delle catacombe romane. Atti della giornata tematica dei Seminari di Archeologia Cristiana (Roma, 21 marzo 2005). Roma: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 2006. Pp. 268. $55.00. ISBN 978-88-85991-43-9.

Fitzgerald, William, Martial: The World of Epigram. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 248. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-226-25253-1.

Flessa, Nicolas (ed.), Corpus Papyrorum Raineri, XXVII. “(Gott) schütze das Fleisch des Pharao.” Untersuchungen zum Magischen Handbuch pWien Aeg 8426. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. 156; pls. 4. €58.00. ISBN 978-3-598-77952-7.

Gaertner, Jan Felix (ed.), Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond. Mnemosyne Supplement 283. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. 300. $134.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15515-2.

Gibson, Roy K., Excess and Restraint: Propertius, Horace, and Ovid’s Ars Amatoria. BICS Supplement 89. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2007. Pp. 168. £30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-1-905670-02-4.

Golder, Herbert (ed.), Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. Winter 2007. Boston, MA: Boston University, 2007. Pp. 184. $9.50. ISSN 0095-5809.

Göransson, Kristian, The Transport Amphorae from Euesperides. The Maritime Trade of a Cyrenaican City, 400-250 B.C. Acta Archaeologica Lundensia, Series in 4, 25. Lund: Lunds Universitet, 2007. Pp. 251. (pb). ISBN 978-91-22-02164-3.

Hansen, Inge Lyse, and Richard Hodges (edd.), Roman Butrint. An Assessment. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007. Pp. 214. $60.00. ISBN 978-1-84217-234-6.

Harder, Annette, and Martijn Cuypers (edd.), Beginning from Apollo. Studies in Apollonius Rhodius and the Argonautic Tradition. Caeculius: Papers on Mediterranean Archaeology and Greek and Roman Studies, vol. 6. Leuven: Peeters, 2005. Pp. 156. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-90-429-1629-6.

Harrison, Stephen (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Horace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 381. $27.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-53684-4.

Hasitzka, Monika R. M. (ed.), Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Koptisches Sammelbuch III. Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer, XXIII. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. 276. €84.00. ISBN 978-3-598-78010-3.

Heilmeyer, Marina, Ancient Herbs. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2007. Pp. 101. $19.95. ISBN 978-0-8923-6884-6.

Herman, Gabriel, Morality and Behaviour in Democratic Athens: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 472. $110.00. ISBN 978-0-521-85021-5.

Humphries, Mark, Early Christianity. Classical Foundations. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 276. £14.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-20539-9.

Hurst, Isobel, Victorian Women Writers and the Classics. The Feminine of Homer. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 253. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-19-928351-4.

Isayev, Elena, Inside Ancient Lucania: Dialogues in History & Archaeology. BICS Supplement 90. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2007. Pp. 284. £50.00 (pb). ISBN 978-1-905670-03-1.

Johne, Klaus-Peter, Thomas Gerhardt, and Udo Hartmann (edd.), Deleto Paene Imperio Romano. Transformationsprozesse des Römischen Reiches in 3. Jahrhundert und ihre Rezeption in der Neuzeit. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 446; pls. 16. €74.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-515-08941-8.

Kallendorf, Craig W. (ed.), A Companion to the Classical Tradition. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. 491. $149.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-2294-8.

Kamm, Antony, Julius Caesar: a Life. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 172. £16.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-41121-9.

Kolovou, Foteini (ed.), Die Briefe des Eustathios von Thessalonike. Einleitung, Regesten, Text, Indizes. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 239. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. 360. €94.00. ISBN 978-0-598-77851-3.

Küchler, Max, and Karl Matthias Schmidt (edd.), Texte-Fakten-Artefakte. Beiträge zur Bedeutung der Archäologie für die neutestamentliche Forschung. Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments, 59. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006. Pp. 229. €39.90. ISBN 978-3-525-53962-0.

Lesher, James, Debra Nails, and Frisbee Sheffield (edd.), Plato’s Symposium. Issues in Interpretation and Reception. Hellenic Studies 22. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (on hehalf of the Center for Hellenic Studies), 2006. Pp. 446. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-674-02375-7.

Levitan, William (trans.), Abelard & Heloise. The Letters and Other Writings. Also includes Selected Songs and Poems, translated by Stanley Lombardo and Barbara Thorburn. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007. Pp. 356. $12.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-87220-875-9.

Little, Lester K. (ed.), Plague and the End of Antiquity. The Pandemic of 541-750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 360. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-521-84639-0.

Lo Cascio, Elio, Innovazione tecnica e progresso economico nel mondo romano. Atti degli incontri capresi di storia dell’economia antica (Capri 13-16 Aprile 2003). Bari: Edipuglia, 2006. Pp. 325. €40.00. ISBN 978-88-7228-405-6.

Lucarini, C. M. (ed.), Paulinus Pellaeus: Carmina. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. 38. €48.00. ISBN 978-3-598-71323-1.

Marconi, Clemente, Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World: The Metopes of Selinus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 352. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-85797-0.

Mariotta, Giuseppe (ed.), [Herodotou] Peri politeias. Padova: S.A.R.G.O.N. Editrice e Libreria, 2006. Pp. 101. (pb).

Micheli, Maria Elisa, Valeria Purcaro, and Anna Santucci, La raccolta di antichità Baldassini-Castelli. Itinerario tra Roma, Terni e Pesaro. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2007. Pp. 268. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-4671728-3.

Moignard, Elizabeth, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Great Britain Fasicule 22, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University, Marischal Museum Collection. Photographs by Robert L. Wilkins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 102; pls. 53. £65.00. ISBN 978-0-19-726376-1.

Moretti, Paola Francesca (ed.), La Passio Anastasiae: Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione. Studi e Testi Tardo Antichi 3. Roma: Herder Editrice e Libreria, 2006. Pp. 238. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-89670-17-0.

Mueller, Katja, Settlements of the Ptolemies. City Foundations and New Settlement in the Hellenistic World. Studia Hellenistica 43. Leuven: Peeters, 2006. Pp. 249. €59.00 (pb). ISBN 978-90-429170-5.

Müller, Carl Werner, Christian Brockmann, and Carl Wolfram Brunschön (edd.), Ärzte und ihre Interpreten. Medizinische Fachtexte der Antike als Forschungsgegenstand der klassischen Philologie. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 238. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. 260; pls. 18. €86.00. ISBN 978-3-598-77850-6.

Nauta, Ruurd R. (ed.), Desultoria Scientia. Genre in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and Related Texts. Caeculus: Papers on Mediterranean Archaeology and Greek and Roman Studies, vol. 5. Leuven: Peeters, 2006. Pp. 121. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-90-429-1846-7.

Newby, Zahra, and Ruth Leader-Newby (edd.), Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 303. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86851-8.

Nikitinski, H. (ed.), David Ruhnkenius: Elogium Tiberii Hemsterhusii. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. 41; pls. 2. €32.00. ISBN 978-3-598-71322-4.

Obbink, D. (ed.), Anubio. Carmen Astrologicum Elegiacum. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2006. Pp. 79; pls. 4. €58.00. ISBN 978-3-598-71228-9.

Pagán, Victoria Emma, Rome and the Literature of Gardens. London: Duckworth, 2006. Pp. 160. $23.50 (pb). ISBN 978-0-7156-3506-3.

Panhuis, Dirk, Latin Grammar. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2006. Pp. 230. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-472-11542-6.

Pásztori-Kupán, István, Theodoret of Cyrus. The Early Church Fathers. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 278. £17.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-30961-5.

Pébarthe, Christophe, Cité, démocratie et écriture. Histoire de l’alphabétisation d’Athènes à l’époque classique. Culture et cité 3. Paris: De Boccard, 2006. Pp. 398. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7018-0204-0.

Ponce Hernández, Carolina, and Lourdes Rojas Álvarez (edd.), Estudios Clásicos en América en el Tercer Milenio. Colección Filología Humanismo y Tradición Clásica. Cuidad Universitaria: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2006. Pp. 214 (pb). ISBN 977-970-32-3739-8.

Pormann, Peter E., and Emilie Savage Smith, Medieval Islamic Medicine. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2007. Pp. 223. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-58901-161-8.

Pormann, Peter E., and Emilie Savage-Smith, Medieval Islamic Medicine. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. Pp. 223. £ 18.99(pb). ISBN 978-0-7486-2067-8.

Ramsey, John T., A Descriptive Catalogue of Greco-Roman Comets from 500 B.C. to A.D. 400. Syllecta Classica Volume 17 (2006). Iowa City, IA: The University of Iowa, 2006. Pp. 242. $20.00 (pb).

Rashed, Marwan, L’héritage aristotélicien: Textes inédits de l’antiquité. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007. Pp. 601. €60.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-18105-9.

Raynal, Dominique, Archéologie et histoire de l’église d’Afrique. Uppenna I. Les fouilles 1904-1907. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2005. Pp. 306; plan 1. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-85816-806-7.

Raynal, Dominique, Archéologie et histoire de l’église d’Afrique. Uppenna II. Mosaïques funéraires et mémoire des martyrs. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2005. Pp. 855; CD 1, plans 4. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-85816-807-5.

Rehak, Paul (ed.), Imperium and Cosmos. Augustus and the Northern Campus Martius. Edited by John G. Younger. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Pp. 222; figs. 46. $60.00. ISBN 978-0-299-22101-5.

Roldanus, Johannes, The Church in the Age of Constantine. The Theological Challenges. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 227. £16.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-40904-9.

Rosenbloom, David, Aeschylus: Persians. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 2006. Pp. 224. $22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-7156-3286-4.

Russell, Norman, Theophilus of Alexandria. The Early Church Fathers. London/New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 222. £17.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-28915-3.

Schofield, Louis, The Mycenaeans. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2007. Pp. 208. $29.95 ( pb). ISBN 978-0-89236-867-9.

Schroeder, Caroline T., Monastic Bodies. Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Pp. 237. $79.95. ISBN 978-0-8122-3990-4.

Seaford, Richard, Dionysos. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 158, £14.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-32488-5.

Terry, Ann, and Henry Maguire, Dynamic Splendor. The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Eufrasius at Porec. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2007. Pp. 416; ills. 301. $95.00. ISBN 978-0-271-02873-6.

Tougher, Shaun, Julian the Apostate. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. Pp. 201. £19.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-7486-1887-3.

Trzcionka, Silke, Magic and the Supernatural in Fourth-century Syria. London/New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 220. £17.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-39242-6.

Uhalde, Kevin, Expectations of Justice in the Age of Augustine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Pp. 232. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-8122-3987-4.

Vicente Sánchez, Ana, Las Cartas de Temístocles: lengua y técnica compositiva. Monografías de Filología Griega 17. Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza, 2007. Pp. 484. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 84-96214-74-5.

Vitiello, Massimiliano, Il principe, il filosofo, il guerriero. Lineamenti di pensiero politico nell’Italia Ostrogota. Hermes Einzelschriften, 97. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. Pp. 284. €54.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-515-08875-6.

Vivante, Bella, Daughters of Gaia. Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Praeger Series on the Ancient World. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2007. Pp. 230. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-275-98249-1.

Volk, Robert, die Schriften des Johannes von Damaskos. VI/2. Historia animae utilis de Barlaam et Joasaph (spuria). Text und zehn Appendices. Patristische Texte und Studien, Band 60. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 512. $159.30. ISBN 978-3-11-018134-7.

Wildfang, Robin Lorsch, Rome’s Vestal Virgins. A Study of Rome’s Vestal Priestesses in the Late Republic and Early Empire. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 158. £19.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-39796-4.

Winkler, Martin M. (ed.), Spartacus. Film and History. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. 267. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-4051-3181-0.