BMCR 1994.06.01

1994.06.01, Books Received (May 1994)

  • Sider, 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.
  • 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.
  • Ginouves, Rene, 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.
  • Gale, Monica R., Myth and Poetry in Lucretius. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 260. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-45135-3.
  • Austin, Norman, Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. 223. $29.95. ISBN 0-8014-2955-2.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • Anderson, Graham, The Second Sophistic: A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire. New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. 303. $59.95. ISBN 0-415-09988-9.
  • Conte, Gian Biagio, Latin Literature: A History. Revised Edition. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. 827. $65.00. ISBN 0-8018-4638-2.
  • Sagan, Eli, The Honey and the Hemlock: Democracy and Paranoia in Ancient Athens and Modern America. Reprint from 1991.