BMCR 2008.07.51

BMCR Books Received (July, 2008)

Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici – 59. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 239 p. €70.00. ISSN 03926338.

Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica, Nuova serie 87 – N. 3 – 2007 (Vol. 116 della serie continua). Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 192 p. (pb). ISSN 00334987.

Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale, Anno L – Numero 1 – Gennaio-Giugno 2008. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 225 p. (pb). ISSN 00356085.

Scripta. An international journal of codicology and paleography, 1 – 2008. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 173 p. (pb). ISSN 19719027.

Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia. Rivista internazionale, 4 – 2007. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 115 p. (pb). ISSN 17246156.

Amerise, Marilena. Girolamo e le Senectus: età della vita e morte nell’epistolario. Studia ephemeridis Augustinianum 109. Roma: Institutum patristicum Augustinuanum, 2008. 150 p. (pb). ISBN 8879611186.

Archibald, Zofia H., John K. Davies and Vincent Gabrielsen (edd.). Making, moving and managing: the new world of ancient economies, 323-31 BC. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2005. vi, 368 p. $130.00. ISBN 9781842171578.

Ash, Rhiannon (ed., comm.). Tacitus: Histories Book II. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ix, 415 p. $39.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521891356.

Benoist, Stéphane and Anne Daguet-Gagey (edd.). Un discours en images de la condamnation de mémoire. Centre Régional Universitaire Lorrain d’Histoire Site de Metz 34. Metz: Université Paul Verlaine – Metz 2008. 302 p. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 2857300395.

Brancacci, Aldo. Studi di storiografia filosofica antica. Accademia Toscana di scienze e lettere “La Colombaria” 243. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2008. vi, 161 p. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788822257727.

Breeze, David J. Edge of empire: Rome’s Scottish frontier, the Antonine Wall. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2008. 128 p. £14.99 (pb). ISBN 9781841587370.

Brisson, Luc, Marie-Hélène Congourdeau and Jean-Luc Solère (edd.). L’Embryon: formation et animation. Antiquité grecque et latine, traditions hèbraïque, chrétienne et islamique. Histoire des doctrines de l’Antiquité classique 38. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2008. 290 p. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 9782711619573.

Burger, Ronna. Aristotle’s dialogue with Socrates: on the Nicomachean Ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. viii, 309 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780226080505.

Centrone, Bruno (ed., trans.). Platone, Sofista. Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi 402. Torino: Einaudi, 2008. lxxv, 264 p. €19.00 (pb). ISBN 9788806192402.

Cerboni Baiardi, Giorgio, Liana Lomiento and Franca Perusion (edd.). Enjambment: Teoria e tecniche dagli antichi al Novecento. Collana di memorie e atti di convegni 37. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2008. 255 p. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788846718105.

Challis, Debbie. From the Harpy Tomb to the wonders of Ephesus: British archaeologists in the Ottoman Empire 1840-1880. London: Duckworth, 2008. xi, 211 p. $33.00 (pb). ISBN 9780715637579.

Collard, Christopher and Martin Cropp (edd., trans.). Euripides VII, Fragments: Aegeus-Meleager. Loeb classical library; 504. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2008. xxxix, 640 p. $24.00. ISBN 9780674996250.

Dräger, Paul (ed., comm.). Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Homers Ilias: (Vorlesung WS 1887/1888 Göttingen). (Zweite, ergänzte Auflage). Spudasmata, Bd. 109. Hildesheim: Olms, 2008. 445 p. €68.00 (pb). ISBN 9783487136196.

Erasmo, Mario. Reading death in ancient Rome. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. xii, 257 p. $49.95. ISBN 9780814210925.

Futre Pinheiro, Marília P. Mitos e Lendas: Grécia Antiga, Volume I. Lisboa: Livros e Livros, 2007. 522 p. €27.50 (pb). ISBN 9789727911899.

Gonzales, Antonio (ed.). La fin du statut servile ? (affranchissement, libération, abolition) (2 vols.). Franche-Comté: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2008. x, 281 p. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 9782848672250.

Harker, Andrew. Loyalty and dissidence in Roman Egypt: the case of the Acta Alexandrinorum. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. vi, 256 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521887892.

Harries, Jill. Law and crime in the Roman world. Key themes in ancient history. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. x, 148 p. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521535328.

Hillman, D. C. A. The chemical muse: drug use and the roots of Western civilization. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, 2008. 243 p. $24.95. ISBN 9780312352493.

Hinard, François. Svllana varia: Aux sources de la première guerre civile romaine. De l’archéologie à l’histoire. Paris: De Boccard, 2008. 168 p. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 9782701802428.

Howatson, M. C. and Frisbee C. C. Sheffield (edd., trans.). Plato. The symposium. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxxv, 91 p. $13.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521682985.

Izzet, Vedia. The archaeology of Etruscan society. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii, 320 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521858779.

Jones, Peter. Vote for Caesar: How the ancient Greeks and Romans solved the problems of today. London: Orion, 2008. viii, 264 p. £9.99. ISBN 9780752891408.

Kindiy, Oleh. Christos Didaskalos: The Christology of Clement of Alexandria. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008. 245 p. (pb). ISBN 9783836466905.

König, Jason and Tim Whitmarsh (edd.). Ordering knowledge in the Roman Empire. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii, 304 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521859691.

Kousser, Rachel Meredith. Hellenistic and Roman ideal sculpture: the allure of the classical. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv, 208 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780521877824.

Leemans, Pieter de and Michèle Goyens (edd.). Aristotle’s Problemata in different times and tongues. Mediaevalia Lovaniensia. series 1, studia 39. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2006. xvi, 325 p. $59.95 (pb). ISBN 9789058675248.

Lehoux, Daryn. Astronomy, weather, and calendars in the ancient world: parapegmata and related texts in classical and Near Eastern societies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv, 566 p. $125.00. ISBN 9780521851817.

Lo Presti, Roberto. In forma di senso: l’encefalocentrismo del trattato ippocratico Sulla malattia sacra nel suo contesto epistemologico. Studi e ricerche. Sezione greca / Aglaia, Dipartimento di studi greci, latini e musicali, Università di Palermo; 10. Roma: Carocci, 2008. xiii, 225 p. €19.20 (pb). ISBN 9788843045921.

Luraghi, Nino. The ancient Messenians: constructions of ethnicity and memory. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiv, 389 p. $120.00. ISBN 9780521855877.

Magnaldi, Giuseppina (ed.). La Filippiche di Cicerone. Edizione critica. Minima Philologica 5. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2008. lxv, 275 p. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862740548.

Masciadri, Virgilio. Eine Insel im Meer der Geschichten: Untersuchungen zu Mythen aus Lemnos. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge; Bd. 18. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008. 412 p. €68.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515088183.

Mitchell-Boyask, Robin. Plague and the Athenian imagination: drama, history, and the cult of Asclepius. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiv, 209 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521873451.

Motte, A. and P. Somville (edd.). Ousia dans la philosophie grecque des origines à Aristote: Travaux du centre d’études aristotéliciennes de l’université de Liège. Aristote: traductions et études. Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters, 2008. 493 p. €74.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042919839.

Offermann, Ursula. Lebendige Kommunikation: die Verwandlung des Odysseus in Homers Odyssee als kognitiv-emotives Hörerkonzept. München: Iudicium, 2006. xx, 303 p. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 9783891295922.

Olson, S. Douglas (ed., trans.). Athenaeus, IV: The learned banqueters: books 8-10.420e. Loeb classical library; 235. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. xii, 488 p. $24.00. ISBN 9780674996267.

Polansky, Ronald (comm.). Aristotle’s De anima. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvi, 580 p. $100.00. ISBN 9780521862745.

Popovic, Mladen. Reading the human body: physiognomics and astrology in the Dead Sea scrolls and Hellenistic-early Roman period Judaism. Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 67. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2007. xx, 346 p. $155.00. ISBN 9789004157170.

Remes, Pauliina. Plotinus on self: the philosophy of the ‘We’. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ix, 287 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521867290.

Sabin, Philip, Hans van Wees and Michael Whitby (edd.). The Cambridge history of Greek and Roman warfare (2 vols.). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxx, 663; xxi, 608 p. $440.00. ISBN 9780521857796.

Santé, Paolo. Gli scoli metrici a Pindaro. Studi di metrica classica 13. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 71 p. €36.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862271080.

Schniewind, Alexandrine (ed., trans., comm.). Plotin.Traité 5: V, 9. Les Écrits de Plotin. Paris: Cerf, 2007. 241 p. €37.00 (pb). ISBN 9782204075107.

Schott, Jeremy M. Christianity, empire, and the making of religion in late antiquity. Divinations. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 254 p. $59.95. ISBN 9780812240924.

Siniossoglou, Niketas. Plato and Theodoret: the Christian appropriation of Platonic philosophy and the Hellenic intellectual resistance. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xi, 267 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521880732.

Spawforth, A. J. S. (ed.). The court and court society in ancient monarchies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii, 358 p. $115.00. ISBN 9780521874489.

Stamper, John W. The architecture of Roman temples: the republic to the middle empire (Paperback edition; first published in 2005). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv, 287 p. $32.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521723718.

Steel, Carlos (ed.). Procli in Platonis Parmenidem commentaria: tomus II, libros IV-V continens. Oxford classical texts. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xv, 331 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780199291717.

Steinmann, Andrew E. Daniel. Concordia Commentary. Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2008. xlviii, 628 p. $42.99. ISBN 9780758606952.

Stern, Paul. Knowledge and politics in Plato’s Theaetetus. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. x, 315 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780521884297.

Taub, Liba. Aetna and the moon: explaining nature in ancient Greece and Rome. Horning Visiting Scholars Series. Corvallis, Or.: Oregon State University Press, 2008. xiv, 138 p. $24.95. ISBN 9780870711961.

Trachsel, Alexandra. La Troade: un paysage et son héritage littéraire: les commentaires antiques sur la Troade, leur genèse et leur influence. Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana 28. Basel: Schwabe, 2007. xx, 501 p. €40.50. ISBN 9783796522543.

Woodard, Roger D. (ed.). The ancient languages of Asia and the Americas. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xix, 264 p. $39.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521684941.

Woodard, Roger D. (ed.). The ancient languages of Asia Minor. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 184 p. $39.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521684965.

Woodard, Roger D. (ed.). The ancient languages of Europe. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xix, 261 p. $39.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521684958.

Woodard, Roger D. (ed.). The ancient languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 251 p. $39.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521684972.

Zumbrunnen, John G. Silence and democracy: Athenian politics in Thucydides’ History. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. viii, 200 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780271033570.