BMCR 2008.04.01

BMCR Books Received (March, 2008)

Ahl, Frederick (trans.). Two faces of Oedipus: Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Seneca’s Oedipus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. Pp. x, 266. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 9780801473975.

Bermon, Emmanuel (ed., trans., comm.). La signification et l’enseignement: Texte latin, traduction française et commentaire du de magistro de saint Augustin. Textes et traditions, 15. Paris: Vrin, 2007. Pp. 610. EUR 55.00 (pb). ISBN 9782711619511.

Bettini, Maurizio. Voci: Antropologia sonora del mondo antico. Saggi, 892. Torino: Einaudi, 2008. Pp. xiv, 304. EUR 24.00 (pb). ISBN 9788806191320.

Biddau, Federico (ed., trans., comm.). Q. Terentii Scauri De orthographia. Bibliotheca Weidmanniana, 6, Pars. 5. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2008. Pp. cxiv, 244. EUR 58.00 (pb). ISBN 9783615003413.

Bintliff, John, Phil Howard and Anthony Snodgrass. Testing the Hinterland: The Work of the Boeotia Survey (1989-1991) in the Southern Approaches to the City of Thespiai. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archeological Research, 2007. Pp. xviii, 320. $134.00. ISBN 9781902937373.

Boiy, Tom. Between High and Low: A Chronology of the Early Hellenistic Period. Oikumene Studien zur antiken Weltgeschichte, Bd. 5. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Antike, 2007. Pp. 175. EUR 29.90. ISBN 9783938032206.

Bresson, Alain. L’économie de la Grèce des cités (fin VIe-Ier siècle a. C.). I. Les structures et la production. Collection U. Paris: A. Colin, 2007. Pp. 264. EUR 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782200265045.

Bresson, Alain. L’économie de la Grèce des cités (fin VIe-Ier siècle a. C.). II. Les espaces de l’échange. Collection U. Paris: A. Colin, 2008. Pp. 335. EUR 28.50 (pb). ISBN 9782200353582.

Case, Alison, and Harry E. Shaw (edd.) Reading the nineteenth-century novel: Austen to Eliot. Reading the novel. Malden: Blackwell, 2008. Pp. vii, 204. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 9780631231431.

Cooper, Kate. The fall of the Roman household. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 319. $99.00. ISBN 9780521884600.

Cuomo, S. Technology and culture in Greek and Roman antiquity. Key themes in ancient history. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 210. $29.99. ISBN 9780521009034.

Cyrino, Monica S. (ed.). Rome, season one: history makes television. Malden: Blackwell, 2008. Pp. 255. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 9781405167758.

Diefenbach, Steffen. Römische Erinnerungsräume: Heiligenmemoria Und Kollektive Identitaten Im Rom Des 3 Bis 5 Jahrhunderts N Chr. Millennium-Studien, Bd. 11. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2007. Pp. xi, 635. EUR 88.00. ISBN 9783110191295.

Dignas, Beate, and Engelbert Winter. Rome and Persia in late antiquity: neighbours and rivals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 347. $32.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521614078.

Drago, Anna Tiziana (ed., trans., comm.). Aristaenetus: Lettere d’amore. Satura, 5. Lecce: Pensa multimedia, 2007. Pp. 656. EUR 38.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882325503.

Dreher, Martin. Das antike Sizilien. Beck’sche Reihe, 2437. Mnchen: Beck, 2008. Pp. 128. EUR 7.90 (pb). ISBN 9783406536373.

Elice, Martina (ed., trans., comm.). Romani Aquilae De figuris. Bibliotheca Weidmanniana, 12. Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2007. Pp. 243. EUR 58.00 (pb). ISBN 9783487134734.

Errington, R. Malcolm. A history of the Hellenistic world: 323-30 BC. Blackwell history of the ancient world. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. $39.95. ISBN 9780631233886.

Fabbrini, Delphina. Il migliore dei mondi possibili: Gli epigrammi ecfrastici di Marziale per amici e protettori. Studi e testi, 26. Firenze: Università degli Studi di Firenze. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità “Giorgio Pasquali”, 2007. Pp. xxii, 301. EUR 30.00 (pb). ISBN 8889051124.

Fitzgerald, William, and Emily Gowers. Ennius perennis: the Annals and beyond. Cambridge classical journal. Supplementary volume, 31. Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 2007. Pp. xiii, 172. $90.00. ISBN 9780906014301.

Genève, L’association des étudiants en histoire des religions de l’Université de. ASDIWAL, revue genevoise d’anthropologie et d’histoire des religions: Numéro 2 2007. Genève: Université de Genève, 2007. Pp. 177.

George, Coulter, Matthew McCullagh, Benedicte Nielsen, Antonia Ruppel and Olga Tribulato (edd.). Greek and Latin from an Indo-European perspective. Cambridge classical journal. Supplementary volume, 32. Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 2007. Pp. viii, 214. $90.00. ISBN 9780906014318.

Giannuzzi, Maria Elisabetta (ed., trans., comm.). Stratone di Sardi: Epigrammi. Satura, 7. Lecce: Pensa multimedia, 2007. Pp. 478. EUR 34.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882356408.

Gruben, Gottfried. Klassische Bauforschung. Mnchen: Hirmer, 2007. Pp. 304. $56.00. ISBN 9783777430850.

Harder, Annette, Alasdair A. MacDonald and Gerrit J. Reinink (edd.). Calliope’s classroom: studies in didactic poetry from antiquity to the Renaissance. Leuven: Peeters, 2007. Pp. 324. EUR 60.00. ISBN 9789042918085.

Hardwick, Lorna, and Christopher Stray (edd.). A companion to classical receptions. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture. Malden: Blackwell, 2008. Pp. xii, 538. $174.95. ISBN 9781405151672.

Hejduk, Julia Dyson. Clodia: a sourcebook. Oklahoma series in classical culture, v. 33. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Pp. 269. $21.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806139074.

Holmes, Michael W. (ed. and trans.). The Apostolic Fathers: Greek texts and English translations. 3rd edition. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007. Pp. 801. $42.99. ISBN 9780801034688.

Holzberg, Niklas. Virgilo. (Italian translation of Vergil. Der Dichter und sein Werk, 2006.). Le vie della civiltà. Bologna: il Mulino, 2008. Pp. 310. EUR 21.00 (pb). ISBN 9788815120397.

Horsley, G. H. R. The Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Burdur Archaeological Museum. Regional Epigraphic Catalogues of Asia Minor. The British Institute at Ankara Monographs, 34. London: The British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2007. Pp. xiii, 321; 362 pl. $120.00. ISBN 9781898249184.

Howe, Tankred. Vandalen, Barbaren und Arianer bei Victor von Vita. Studien zur alten Geschichte, Bd. 7. Frankfurt: Verlag Antike, 2007. Pp. 411. EUR 57.90. ISBN 9783938032176 (hb).

Hummel, Horace D. Ezekiel 21-48. Concordia Commentary. Saint Louis: Concordia, 2007. Pp. xxv, 974. $42.99. ISBN 9780758610010.

Illert, Martin (ed.). Doctrina Addai; De imagine Edessena = Die Abgarlegende; Das Christusbild von Edessa. Fontes Christiani, Bd. 45. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. Pp. 372. EUR 37.29 (pb). ISBN 9782503521145.

Istituto di studi sulle civiltà italiche e del Mediterraneo antico. Mediterranea: quaderni annuali dell’Istituto di studi sulle civiltà italiche e del Mediterraneo antico del Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche. Pisa/Roma: Fabrizio Serra, 2007. Pp. 298. ISSN 1827-0506.

Krapinger, Gernot (ed., trans., comm.). [Quintilian] Der Gladiator (Grössere Deklamationen, 9). Collana Scientifica, 18. Cassino: Università degli Studi di Cassino, 2007. Pp. 203. EUR 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9788883170416.

Leone, Anna, Domenico Palombi and Susan Walker (edd.). Res bene gestae: ricerche di storia urbana su Roma antica in onore di Eva Margareta Steinby. Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae – Supplementum, IV. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2007. Pp. 478. EUR 134.00 (pb). ISBN 9788871403533.

Lindner, Martin. Rom und seine Kaiser im Historienfilm. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Antike, 2007. Pp. 332. EUR 49.90. ISBN 9783938032183.

Marchionni, Roberta (ed., trans., comm.). Corrado di Hirsau: Dialogo sugli autori. AION. Quaderni, 12. Pisa/Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. Pp. 190. EUR 48.00. ISBN 9788862270069.

Millett, Paul. Theophrastus and his world. Cambridge classical journal. Supplementary volume, 33. Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 2007. Pp. x, 188. $90.00. ISBN 9780906014325.

Narducci, Emanuele, Sergio Audano and Luca Fezzi (edd.). Aspetti della Fortuna dell’Antico nella Cultura Europea: atti della quarta giornata di studi, Sestri Levante, 16 marzo 2007. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 41. Pisa: ETS, 2008. Pp. 185. EUR 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788846720078.

Otto, Eckart. Das antike Jerusalem: Archäologie und Geschichte. Beck’sche Reihe, 2418. Mnchen: Beck, 2008. Pp. 128. EUR 7.90 (pb). ISBN 9783406568817.

Patillon, Michel (ed. and trans.). Corpvs rhetoricvm. Anonyme: Préambule à la rhétorique. Aphthonios: Progymnasmata. En annexe: Pseudo Hermogène: Progymnasmata.. Collection des universités de France, 460. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. Pp. 263. EUR 52.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005430.

Pfeiffer, Stefan (ed.). Ägypten unter fremden Herrschern zwischen persischer Satrapie und römischer Provinz. Oikumene Studien zur antiken Weltgeschichte, Bd. 3. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Antike, 2007. Pp. 224; 16 pl. EUR 49.90. ISBN 9783938032138.

Phyntikoglou, Vasiles A. (ed., trans., comm.). Virgiliou. Vougonia: To epullio tou Aristaiou (Georgikon IV 281-558). Vivliotheke Archaion Sungrapheon, 42. Athens: Stigme, 2007. Pp. 388. (pb). ISBN 9789602691946.

Pretagostini, Roberto. Ricerche sulla poesia alessandrina, II: forme allusive e contenuti nuovi. Quaderni dei seminari romani di cultura greca, 11. Roma: Quasar, 2007. Pp. viii, 234. EUR 31.00 (pb). ISBN 9788871403526.

Ranocchia, Graziano (ed., trans., comm.). Aristone, Sul modo di liberare dalla superbia nel decimo libro De vitiis di Filodemo. Accademia Toscana di scienze e lettere. La Colombaria. Studi, 237. Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2007. Pp. xvii, 436. EUR 58.00 (pb). ISBN 9788822256256.

Reden, Sitta von. Money in Ptolemaic Egypt: from the Macedonian Conquest to the end of the third century BC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 354. $110.00. ISBN 9780521852647.

Rincón Sánchez, Francisco Miguel del. Trágicos menores del Siglo V A.C. (de Tespis a Neofrón): estudio filológico y literario. Tesis doctorales cum laude. Serie L (Literatura), 45. Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Espaola, 2007. Pp. 518. EUR 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788473926768.

Rodighiero, Andrea. Una serata a Colono: fortuna del secondo Edipo. Kátoptron / Università degli studi di Verona, 1. Verona: Fiorini, 2007. Pp. xiii, 127. EUR 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788887082661.

Rollinger, Robert, Andreas Luther and Josef Wiesehöfer (edd.). Getrennte Wege?: Kommunikation, Raum und Wahrnehmung in der Alten Welt. Oikumene Studien zur Antiken Weltgeschichte, Bd. 2. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Antike, 2007. Pp. 655. EUR 79.90. ISBN 9783938032145.

Sallaberger, Walther. Das Gilgamesch-Epos: Mythos, Werk und Tradition. Beck’sche Reihe, 2443. Mnchen: Beck, 2008. EUR 7.90 (pb). ISBN 9783406562433.

Sander-Pieper, Gudrun. Komische bei Plautus: eine Analyse zur plautinischen Poetik. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd. 244. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. Pp. viii, 292. $130.00. ISBN 9783110195101.

Scaltsas, Theodore, and Andrew S. Mason (edd.). The philosophy of Epictetus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 181. $59.95. ISBN 9780199233076.

Scardino, Carlo. Gestaltung und Funktion der Reden bei Herodot und Thukydides. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd. 250. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2007. Pp. xi, 858. EUR 148.00. ISBN 9783110195118.

Scholtz, Andrew. Concordia discors: eros and dialogue in classical Athenian literature. Hellenic studies, 24. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2007. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674025981.

Scott, Ann Reynolds. Cosa: the black-glaze pottery 2. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary Volumes, 5. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 221; 63 pl. $80.00. ISBN 9780472115853.

Solin, Heikki, and Francesco Di Donato (edd.). Identità e culture del Sannio. Storia, epigrafia e archeologia a Venafro e nella alta valle del Volturno. Atti del Congresso Internazionale in ricordo di Theodor Mommsen a cento anni dalla morte (1903-2003). Venafro 13 dicembre 2003.. Special issue of Samnium, LXXX, 20 n.s. nn. 1-4 (Genaio – Dicembre 2007). Benevento, 2007. Pp. 293. EUR 35.00 (pb). ISSN 0391-8718.

Spadoni, Maria Carla. I prefetti nell’amministrazione municipale dell’Italia romana. Bari: Edipuglia, 2004. Pp. 282. EUR 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788872284155.

Stone, Tom. Zeus: a journey through Greece in the footsteps of a god. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008. Pp. xxiv, 310. ISBN 9781582345185.

Stoneman, Richard. Alexander the Great: a life in legend. New Haven [Conn.]; London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xvii, 314; 16 pl. $35.00. ISBN 9780300112030.

Stramaglia, Antonio (ed. and comm.). Giovenale, Satire 1, 7, 12, 16. storia di un poeta. Testi e manuali per l’insegnamento universitario del latino, 103. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2008. Pp. 400. EUR 28.00 (pb). ISBN 9788855529679.

Stroh, Wilfried. Cicero: Redner, Staatsmann, Philosoph. Beck’sche Reihe, 2440. Mnchen: Beck, 2008. Pp. 128. EUR 7.90 (pb). ISBN 9783406562402.

Swain, Simon, Stephen Harrison and Jas Elsner (edds.). Severan culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 569. $160.00. ISBN 9780521859820.

Tsagalis, Christos. The Oral palimpsest: exploring intertextuality in the Homeric epics. Hellenic studies, 29. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2008. Pp. 325. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674026872.

van der Meer, L. Bouke, Liber Linteus Zagrabensis. The Linen Book of Zagreb. A Comment on the Longest Etruscan Text. Monographs on Antiquity, 4. Leuven: Peeters, 2007. Pp. x, 210. EUR 72. ISBN 978-90-429-2024-8.

Várady, László. Classical political thought at work: Thucydides, Roman convergence, modern challenges. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2007. Pp. 87. $20.00. ISBN 9789630585354.

Wedde, Michael (ed.). Celebrations: Sanctuaries and the vestiges of cult activity. Selected papers and discussions from the Tenth Anniversary Symposium of the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 12-16 May 1999. Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 6. Bergen: The Norwegian Institute at Athens, 2004. Pp. 303. $87.50 (pb). ISBN 8291626235.

Wilkinson, Richard H. (ed.). Egyptology today. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 283. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521682268.