BMCR 1995.12.03

1995.12.03, Books Received, November 1995

Cohen, David, Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. 214. $18.95. ISBN 0-521-38167-3 (pb). Cunliffe, Barry and Keay, Simon (edd.), Social Complexity and the Development of Towns in Iberia from the Copper Age to the Second Century A.D. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. 476. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-726157-4. Donzelli, G. Basta, Euripides. Electra. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1995. Pp. 83. DM 42,—. ISBN 3-8154-1325-7 (pb). Duke, E.A., Hicken, W.F., and Nicoll, W.S.M., Robinson, D.B., Strachan, J.C.G. (edd.), Platonis Opera: Tomus I: Tetralogias I-II Continens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. 572. $29.95. ISBN 0-19-814569-1. Gagarin, Michael and Woodruff, Paul (edd.), Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. 324. $18.95. ISBN 0-521-43768-7 (pb). [a reader] Gargola, Daniel J., Lands, Laws, and Gods: Magistrates and Ceremony in the Regulation of Public Lands in Republican Rome. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. 270. $43.95. ISBN 0-8078-2233-7. Gigante, Marcello, Philodemus in Italy: The Books from Herculaneum. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. 156. $32.50. ISBN 0-472-10569-8. Grubbs, Judith Evans, Law and Family in Late Antiquity: The Emperor Constantine’s Marriage Legislation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. 390. $60.00. ISBN 0-19-814768-6. Hansen, Mogens Herman, The Trial of Sokrates-from the Athenian Point of View. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, 1995. Pp. 36. DKK 60,00. ISBN 87-7304-266-8 (pb). Held, George F., Aristotle’s Teleological Theory of Tragedy and Epic. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1995. Pp. 162. DM 48,—. ISBN 3-8253-0300-4 (pb). Kingsley, Peter, Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1995. Pp. 422. $62.00. ISBN 0-19-814988-3. Lawton, Carol L., Attic Document Reliefs: Art and Politics in Ancient Athens. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. 167 + 96 Plates. $100.00. ISBN 0-19-814955-7. Lloyd, Michael (ed. and trans.), Euripides: Andromache. Warminster: Ares and Phillips, 1994. Pp. 178. $24.95. ISBN 0-85668-624-7 (pb). Loprieno, Antonio, Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. 322. $19.95. ISBN 0-521-44849-2 (pb). MacDowell, Douglas M., Aristophanes and Athens: an Introduction to the Plays. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 1995. Pp. 362. $19.95. ISBN 0-19-872159-5 (pb). Mora, Fabio, Il pensiero storico religioso antico. Autori greci e Roma I: Dionigi di Alicarnasso. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 1995. Pp. 464. ISBN 88-7062-887-6 (pb). Morel, W., Buechner, K., Blaensdorf, J. (edd.), Fragmenta Poetarum Latinorum. 3rd Ed. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G.Teubner, 1995. Pp. 494. DM 195,—. ISBN 3-8154-1371-0. Nails, Debra, Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1995. Pp. 264. $130.00. ISBN 0-7923-3543-0. Newlands, Carole E., Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. 254. $42.50. ISBN 0-8014-3080-1. Plass, Paul, The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. Pp. 283. $48.75. ISBN 0-299-14570-0. Reeder, Ellen D., Pandora’s Box: The Roles of Women in Ancient Greece. Baltimore: Institute for Mediterranean Studies: Video Lecture Series, Vol. 1, 1995. Rubin, David C., Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballad, and Counting-out Rhymes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. 385. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-508211-7. Segal, Charles, Sophocles’ Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. 276. $39.95. ISBN 0-674-82100-9. Vanotti, Gabriella, L’atro Enea: La testimonianza di Dionigi di Alicarnasso. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 1995. Pp. 343. ISBN 88-7062-908-2 (pb). Williamson, Margaret, Sappho’s Immortal Daughters. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. 196. $24.95. ISBN 0-674-78912-1.