BMCR 1994.04.21

Books Received May-June 1994

Anderson, Graham, The Second Sophistic: A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire. New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. 303. $59.95. ISBN 0415-09988-9.

Austin, Norman, Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. 223. $29.95. ISBN 0-8014-2955-2.

Bonfante, Giuliano, La Lingua Parlata in Orazio. Edizioni Osanna Venosa, 1994. Pp. 615. L. 20.000.

Bowersock, G.W. and Cornell, T.J. (edd.), A.D. Momigliano: Studies on Modern Scholarship. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. 341. $ 17.00. ISBN 0-520-08545-0.

Brunei, Pierre (ed.), Companion to Literary Myths, Heroes and Archetypes. New York: Routledge, 1992. Pp. 1223. $125.00. ISBN 0-415-06460-0.

Conte, Gian Biagio, Latin Literature: A History, revised. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. 827. $65.00. ISBN 0-8018-4638-2.

Dee, James H., The Epithetic Phrases for the Homeric Gods: A Repertory of the Descriptive Expressions for the Divinities of the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Albert Bates Lord Studies in Oral Tradition. New York: Garland, 1994. Pp. 165. $28.00. ISBN 0-8153-1727-1.

Dillon, John (trans.), Alcinous: The Handbook of Platonism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. 225. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-824472-X.

Dodgeon, Michael H. and Lieu, Samuel N.C. (edd.), The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 226-363: A Documentary History. Paperback reprint from 1991. New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. 431. $24.95. ISBN 0-415-10317-7 (pb).

Gale, Monica R., Myth and Poetry in Lucretius. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 260. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-45135-3.

Ginouvès, René, et al., Macedonia from Philip II to the Roman Conquest. Translated by David Hardy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp 254. $75.00. ISBN 0-691-03635-7.

Kaster, Robert A., Studies on the Text of Suetonius De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. Pp. 164. $19.95. ISBN 155540-721-8 (pb).

Lomas, Kathryn, Rome and the Western Greeks 350BC-AD200: Conquest and Acculturation in Southern Italy. New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. 244. $59.95. ISBN 0-415-05022-7.

MacDonald, Dennis Ronald, Christianizing Homer: The Odyssey, Plato, and the Acts of Andrew. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. 352. $42.50. ISBN 0-19-508722-4.

Nussbaum, Martha C., The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. 530. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-03342-0.

O’Brien, Joan V., The Transformation of Hera: A Study of Ritual, Hero, and the Goddess in the Iliad. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993. Pp. 248. $22.95. ISBN 0-8476-7808-3 (pb).

Orchard, Andy, The Poetic Art of Aldhelm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 314. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-45090-X.

Pomeroy, Sarah B., Xenophon Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. 38S. $75.00. ISBN 0-19814082-7.

Robert, Louis (ed.), Le Martyre de Pionios. Prêtre de Smyrne. Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1994. Pp. 152. $35.00. ISBN 0-88402-217-X.

Rudich, Vasily, Political Dissidence under Nero: The Price of Dissimulation. New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. 354. $49.95. ISBN 0-415-06951-3.

Sagan, Eli, The Honey and the Hemlock: Democracy and Paranoia in Ancient Athens and Modern America. Reprint from 1991. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. 429. $14.95. ISBN 0-691-00103-0 (pb).

Slavitt, David R., The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. 342. $14.95. ISBN 0-8018-4798-2 (pb).

Snider, Robert D. (ed.), Collected Works of Erasmus v.56: New Testament Scholarship. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Pp. 480. $110.00. ISBN 0-8020-2803-9.

Trombley, F.R., Hellenic Religion & Christianization: c.370-529. Part One. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1993. Pp. 344. $114.50. ISBN 90-04-09624-8.

Trombley, F.R., Hellenic Religion & Christianization: c.370-529. Part Two. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994. Pp. 430. $100.00. ISBN 90-04-09691-4.

Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew, Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. 244. $49.50. ISBN 0-691 – 06987-5.

Whittaker, C.R., Frontiers of the Roman Empire: A Social and Economic Study. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. 341. $39.95. ISBN 908018-4677-3.

Wilkins, John & Hill, Shaun (trans.), Life of Luxury: Archestratus. Devon: Prospect Books, 1994. Pp. 112. £7.99. ISBN 0-907325-53-X (pb).

Worthington, Ian (ed.), Ventures into Greek History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. 401. $67.00. ISBN 0-19-814928-X.

Zanker, Graham, The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1994. Pp. 174. $34.50. ISBN 0-472-10514-0.