BMCR 2007.11.01

BMCR Books Received (October, 2007)

Abadie-Reynal, Catherine, La céramique romaine d’Argos (fin du II e s. av. J.-C.-fin du IV e s. ap. J.-C.). Études péloponnésiennes, 13. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2007. Pp. 342; pls. 78. €110.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86958-200-5.

Ashdowne, Richard, and James Morwood, Writing Latin. An Introduction to Writing in the Language of Cicero and Caesar. London: Duckworth, 2007. Pp. vi, 186. $23.50 (pb). ISBN 978-1-85399-701-3.

Asheri, David, Alan Lloyd, and Aldo Corcella (comm.), A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. lxxi, 721; maps 44, figs. 8. $320.00. ISBN 978-0-19-814956-9.

Asper, Markus, Griechische Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Formen, Funktionen, Differenzierungsgeschichten. Philosophie der Antike, 25. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Pp. 453. €66.00. ISBN 978-3-515-08959-3.

Barra-Salzédo, Edoarda, En soufflant la grâce. Âmes, souffles et humeurs en Grèce ancienne. Collection HOROS. Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 2007. Pp. 246. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84137-207-2.

Beard, Mary, The Roman Triumph. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 434; figs. 42, plan 1. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02613-1.

Berry, Joanne, The Complete Pompeii. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. Pp. 256; ills. 318. $40.00. ISBN 978-0-500-05150-4.

Bierl, Anton, Rebecca Lämmle, and Katharina Wesselmann (edd.), Literatur und Religion 1. Wege zu einer mythisch-rituellen Poetik bei den Griechen. MythosEikonPoiesis, 1/1. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. Pp. xviii, 422. €91.59. ISBN 978-3-11-019484-5.

Bollack, Jean, Parménide. De l’Étant au Monde. Lagrasse: Éditions Verdier, 2006. Pp. 349. €9.80 (pb). ISBN 978-2-86432-475-1.

Bonadeo, Alessia, and Elisa Romano (edd.), Dialogando con il passato. Permanenze e innovazioni nella cultura latina di età flavia. Le Monnier Università / Lingue e Litterature. Firenze: Felice Le Monnier, 2007. Pp. ix, 254. €21.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-00-20665-5.

Breeze, David J., Roman Frontiers in Britain. Classical World Series. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2007. Pp. 103. $20.00 (pb). ISBN 978-185399-6986.

Bresson, Alain, L’économie de la Grèce des cités (fin VI e -I er siècle a.C.). I. Les structures et la production. Collection U. Histoire. Paris: Armand Colin, 2007. Pp. 264. (pb). ISBN 978-2-2002-6504-5.

Brisson, Luc, and Jean-François Pradeau, Les Lois de Platon. Quadrige. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2007. Pp. vii, 186. €14.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-13-056475-1.

Burrus, Virginia, Saving Shame. Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects.Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 195. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-8122-4044-3.

Canali De Rossi, Filippo, Filius Publicus. Huios tês Poleôs e titoli affini in iscrzioni greche di età imperiale. Studi sul vocabolario dell’evergesia, 1. Roma: Herder Editrice e Libreria, 2007. Pp. xi, 272. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-89670-24-8.

Chioffi, Laura, La collezione epigrafica di Camillo Pellegrino a Casapulla. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2007. Pp. 45; figs. 31. €16.50 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7140-338-X.

Clarke, John R., Roman Life. 100 B.C. to A.D. 200. New York: Abrams, 2007. Pp. 175; ills. 144, CD-Rom. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-8109-9339-6.

Cumont, Franz, Les Religions orientales dans le paganisme romain. Bibliotheca Cumontiana. Scripta Maiora, 1. volume édité a cura di Corinne Bonnet e Françoise Van Haeperen avec la collaborazione di B. Toune. Torino: Nino Aragno Editore, 2006. Pp. lxxv, 403. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-8419-289-9.

den Boeft, J., J.W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst, and H.C. Teitler (edd.), Ammianus after Julian. Mnemosyne Supplementa, 289. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. x, 326. $139.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16212-9.

Fait, Paolo (trans. and comm.), Aristotele. Le confutazioni sofistiche. Organon VI. Biblioteca Universale Laterza, 599. Roma: Editori Laterza, 2007. Pp. lxi, 253. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-420-8316-0.

Farney, Gary D., Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in Republican Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 337; figs. 8, maps 4. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-86331-5.

Ferré, Michel (trans.), Martianus Capella. Les Noces de Philologie et de Mercure. Livre IV. La Dialectique. Collection des Universités de France. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007. Pp. xc, 141. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-01448-7.

Finglass, P.J, C. Collard, and N. J. Richardson (edd.), Hesperos. Studies in Ancient Greek Poetry Presented to M. L. West on his Seventieth Birthday. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. lvi, 406. $155.00. ISBN 978-0-19-928568-6.

Gigli, Rossella (ed.), MEGALAI NESOI. Studi dedicati a Giovanni Rizza per il suo ottantesimo compleanno. 2 vols. Studi e Materiali di Archeologia Mediterranea, 2 and 3. Catania: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche I.B.A.M., 2005. Pp. 327; 394; figs. passim. €280.00. ISBN 88-89375-01-9.

Goodman, Lenn E., and Robert B. Talisse (edd.), Aristotle’s Politics Today. SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. Pp. 167. $60.00. ISBN 978-0-7914-7227-9.

Graver, Margaret R., Stoicism and Emotion. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x, 289. $37.50. ISBN 978-0-226-30557-8.

Hall, Edith, and Amanda Wrigley (edd.), Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007. Peace, Birds, and Frogs. Oxford: Legenda, 2007. Pp. xix, 390. $69.00. ISBN 978-1-904350-61-3.

Hamilakis, Yannis, The Nation and its Ruins. Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xxii, 352; figs. 51. $110.00. ISBN 978-0-19-923038-9.

Harrison, S.J., Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 262. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-19-920358-1.

Hartmann, Elke, Frauen in der Antike. Weibliche Lebenswelten von Sappho bis Theodora. C.H. Beck Wissen. München: C.H. Beck, 2007. Pp. 278; ills. 13. €12.95 (pb). ISBN 978-3-406-54755-3.

Heilmann, Anja, Boethius’ Musiktheorie und das Quadrivium. Hypomnemeta, 171. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007. Pp. 400. €76.90. ISBN 978-3-525-25268-0.

Hinterberger, Martin, and Elisabeth Schiffer (edd.), Byzantinische Sprachkunst. Studien zur byzantinischen Literatur gewidmet Wolfram Hörander zum 65. Geburtstag. Byzantinisches Archiv, 20. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. Pp. x, 357; pls. 23. €119.63. ISBN 978-3-11-019501-9.

Holzberg, Niklas, Ovids Metamorphosen. C.H. Beck Wissen. München: C.H. Beck, 2007. Pp. 128. €7.90 (pb). ISBN 978-3-406-53621-2.

Jouanna, Jacques, Sophocle. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2007. Pp. 906. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-213-60384-1.

Kajava, Mika (ed.), Gunnar Mickwitz nella storiografia europea tra le due guerre. Atti del Colloquio all’Institutum romanum Finlandiae, 6-7 giugno 2005. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 34. Roma: Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 2007. Pp. 174. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7140-320-7.

Kollmann, Bernd, and Werner Deuse (trans.), Alexander Monachus. Laudatio Bernabae – Lobrede auf Barnabas. Fontes Christiani, 46. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. Pp. 162. €33.55 (pb). ISBN 978-2-503-52562-4.

Lafond, Yves, La mémoire des cités dans le Péloponnèse d’époque romaine (IIe siècle avant J.C.-IIIe siècle après J.C.). Collection “Histoire.” Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2006. Pp. 385. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-0304-5.

Lee, A.D., War in Late Antiquity. Ancient World at War. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. xxvi, 282; figs. 8, maps 4, tbls. 8. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-631-22926-1.

Lewis, John David, Early Greek Lawgivers. Classical World Series. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2007. Pp. 100. $20.00 (pb). ISBN 978-1-85399-697-9.

Liebs, Detlef, Vor den Richtern Roms. Berümte Prozesse der Antike. München: C.H. Beck, 2007. Pp. 253. €24.90. ISBN 978-3-406-56296-9.

Lobsien, Verena Olejniczak, and Claudia Olk (edd.), Neuplatonismus und Ästhetik. Zur Transformationgeschichte des Schönen. Transformationen der Antike, 2. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. Pp. 256. €72.90. ISBN 978-3-11-019225-4.

Lombardo, Stanley (trans.), Homer. The Essential Odyssey. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007. Pp. xxv, 262; map 1. $7.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-87220-899-5.

Maass, Michael, Das antike Delphi. C.H. Beck Wissen. München: C.H. Beck, 2007. Pp. 128; ills. 20. €7.90 (pb). ISBN 978-3-406-53631-1.

Maggiulli, Gigliola, Per alta nemora. La poesia del mondo vegetale in Seneca tragico. Quaderni della “Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale”, 9. Pisa/Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2007. Pp. 156; CD-ROM. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-6227-007-6.

Malfitana, Daniele, Jeroen Poblome, and John Lund (edd.), Old Pottery in a New Century. Innovating Perspectives on Roman Pottery Studies. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Catania, 22-24 Aprile 2004. Monografie dell’Instituto per i Beni Archeologici e Monumentali – C.N.R., 1. Catania: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche I.B.A.M., 2006. Pp. 589; figs. passim. €100.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-89375-03-5.

Markschies, Christoph, Origenes und sein Erbe. Gesammelte Studien. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 160. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. Pp. x, 283. €82.24. ISBN 978-3-11-019278-0.

McKeown, Niall, The Invention of Ancient Slavery? Duckworth Classical Essays. London: Duckworth, 2007. Pp. 174. $22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-7156-3185-0.

Melfi, Milena, I Santuari di Asclepio in Grecia. I. Studia Archeologica, 157. Roma: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2007. Pp. 578; figs. 72. €330.00. ISBN 978-88-8265-347-7.

Mertens, Dieter, Städte und Bauten der Westgriechen. Von der Kolonisationszeit bis zur Krise um 400 vor Christus. München: Hirmer Verlag, 2006. Pp. 463; ills. 752. $165.00. ISBN 978-3-7774-2755-3.

Mignucci, Mario (trans. and comm.), Aristotele. Analitici secondi. Organon IV. Biblioteca Universale Laterza, 606. Roma: Editori Laterza, 2007. Pp. xxxiii, 329. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-420-8383-2.

Milazzo, Antonino M., Dimensione retorica e realtà politica. Dione di Prusa nelle orazioni III, V, VII, VIII. Spudasmata, 115. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2007. Pp. 279. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-487-13479-6.

Momigliano, Nicoletta (ed.), Knossos Pottery Handbook. Neolithic and Bronze Age (Minoan). British School at Athens Studies, 14. London: The British School at Athens, 2007. Pp. xv, 276; figs. 148, tbls. 36, plt. 1. £60.00. ISBN 978-0-904887-55-6.

Netz, Reviel, and William Noel, Der Kodex des Archimedes. Das Berühmteste Palimpsest der Welt wird entschlüsselt. München: C.H. Beck, 2007. Pp. 303. €20.50. ISBN 978-3-406-56336-2.

Nielsen, Thomas Heine, Olympia and the Classical Hellenic City-State Culture. Historik-filosofiske Meddelelser, 96. Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2007. Pp. 139. DKK 120.00 (pb). ISBN 978-87-7304-309-7.

Nixon, Lucia, Making a Landscape Sacred. Outlying Churches and Icon Stands in Sphakia, Southwestern Crete. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2006. Pp. xii, 180; figs. 4, tables 13, pls. 21. $48.00 (pb). ISBN 978-1-84217-206-3.

Novello, Marta, Scelte tematiche e committenza nelle abitazioni dell’Africa Proconsolare. I mosaici figurati. Biblioteca di Eidola. Series Maior, 1. Pisa/Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2007. Pp. 311; pls. 140. €220.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-6227-013-7.

Pade, Marianne, The Reception of Plutarch’s Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy (2 vols.). Renaessancestudier, 14. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2007. Pp. 391, 353; ills. 18. $105.00. ISBN 978-87-635-0532-1.

Pàmias, Jordi, and Klaus Geus (trans. and comm.), Eratosthenes. Sternsagen (Catasterismi). Griechisch / Deutsch. Bibliotheca Classicorum, 2. Oberhaid: Utopica, 2007. Pp. 258. €29.95. ISBN 978-3-938083-05-5.

Penella, Robert J. (trans.), Man and the World. The Orations of Himerius. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 43, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 312. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-520-25093-2.

Petriaggi, Roberto, and Barbara Davidde, Archeologia sott’acqua. Teoria e pratica. “Archaeologia Maritima Mediterranea” Papers, 2. Pisa/Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2007. Pp. 268; figs. 33. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-6227-019-9.

Pires, Francisco Murari, Modernidades Tucidideans. Ktema es Aei. So Paulo: Editora da Universidade de So Paulo, 2007. Pp. 294. (pb). ISBN 978-85-314-1028-4.

Radke, Gyburg, Die Kindheit des Mythos. Die Erfindung der Literaturgeschichte in der Antike. München: C.H. Beck, 2007. Pp. 366. €34.90. ISBN 978-3-406-56333-1.

Rea, Jennifer A., Legendary Rome. Myth, Monuments, and Memory on the Palatine and Capitoline. London: Duckworth, 2007. Pp. xi, 180; ills. 3. $81.00. ISBN 978-0-7156-3646-6.

Relihan, Joel C. (trans.), Apuleius. The Golden Ass. Or, A Book of Changes. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007. Pp. xlv, 277; maps 4. $11.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-87220-887-2.

Roth, Roman, Styling Romanisation. Pottery and Society in Central Italy. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 237; ills. 14. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87567-7.

Schad, Samantha, A Lexicon of Latin Grammatical Terminology. Studia Erudita, 6. Pisa/Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2007. Pp. xxiv, 453; tbls. 5. €150.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-6227-003-18.

Schauer, Markus, Aeneas dux in Vergils Aeneis. Eine literarische Fiktion in augusteischer Zeit. Zetemata, 128. München: C.H. Beck, 2007. Pp. 304. €64.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-406-56483-3.

Schneider, Helmuth, Geschichte der antiken Technik. C.H. Beck Wissen. München: C.H. Beck, 2007. Pp. 128. €7.90 (pb). ISBN 978-3-406-53632-8.

Sidebotham, Steven E., and Willeke Wendrich (edd.), Berenike 1999/2000. Report on the Excavations at Berenike, including Excavations in Wadi Kalalat and Siket, and the Survey of the Mons Smaragdus Region. Cotsen Monographs, 56. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 2007. Pp. xix, 404; tbls. 30, figs. 171, pls. 206, maps 2. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 978-1-931745-28-4.

Snell, Daniel C. (ed.), A Companion to the Ancient Near East. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Paperback reprint of 2005 edition. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. xix, 538; figs. 14, maps 3. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-4051-6001-8.

Southern, Pat, The Roman Army. A Social and Institutional History. Paperback reprint of 2006. edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 383; maps 3. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-19-532878-3.

Straumann, Benjamin, Hugo Grotius und die Antike. Römisches Recht und römische Ethik im frühneuzeitlichen Naturrecht. Studien zur Geschichte des Völkerrechts, 14. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007. Pp. 221. €49.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-8329-2692-2.

Styka, Jerzy (ed.), Violence and Aggression in the Ancient World. Classica Cracoviensia, 10. Krakw: Ksiegarnia Akademicka, 2006. Pp. 227. (pb). ISBN 978-83-7188-917-1.

Svarlien, Diane Arnson (trans.), Euripides. Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007. Pp. xxix, 205; maps 2. $9.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-87220-822-3.

Torrance, Isabelle, Aeschylus. Seven Against Thebes. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 2007. Pp. 174. $22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-7156-3466-0.

Tuominen, Miira, Apprehension and Argument. Ancient Theories of Starting Points for Knowledge. Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, 3. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007. Pp. xiii, 327. €109.95. ISBN 978-1-4020-5042-8.

van Eck, Caroline, Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 225; ills. 54. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-521-84435-2.

Walberg, Gisela, Midea. The Megaron Complex and Shrine Area. Excavations on the Lower Terraces 1994-1997. 2 vols. Prehistory Monographs, 20. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 518; figs. 257, pls. 38, plans 4. $130.00. ISBN 978-1-931534-19-2.

Wolff, Etienne (trans.), Rutilius Namatianus. Sur son retour. Collection des Universités de France. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007. Pp. xcix, 118. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-01447-0.

Young, Frances M., Brokenness and Blessing. Towards a Biblical Spirituality. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2007. Pp. 140. $16.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8010-35040-3.