BMCR 1996.06.09

Books Received May 1996

Abel, Karlhans, Sinnfrage des Lebens: Philosophisches Denken im Vor- und Umfeld des frueher Christentums. Philosophie der Antike, Band 3. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995. Pp. 334. DM 148,–. ISBN 3-515-06491-5.

Arafat, K.W., Pausanias’ Greece: Ancient Artists and Roman Rulers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 246. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-55340-7.

Bagnall, Roger, Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History. New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. 145. $15.95. ISBN 0-415-09377-5 (pb).

Berry, D.H. (ed.), Cicero: Pro P. Sulla Oratio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 335. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-48174-0.

Cornell, T.J., The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000-264 BC). New York: Routledge, 1995. Pp. 507. $25.00. ISBN 0-415-01596-0 (pb).

Derricourt, Robin, An Author’s Guide to Scholarly Publishing. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. 233. $14.95. ISBN 0-691-03709-4 (pb).

Elton, Hugh, Frontiers of the Roman Empire. London: B.T. Batsford, 1996. Pp. 150. L25.00. ISBN 0-7134-7320-7.

Galinsky, Karl, Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Introduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. 474. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-04435-X.

Gibert, John, Change of Mind in Greek Tragedy. Hypomnemata 108. Untersuchungen zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996. Pp. 286. DM 80,–. ISBN 3-525-25208-0.

Gill, Christopher, Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy: The Self in Dialogue. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. 510. $85.00. ISBN 0-19-814676-0.

Grant, Michael, Art in the Roman Empire. New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. 146. $29.95. ISBN 0-415-12031-4.

Hawley, Richard & Barbara Levick, Women in Antiquity: New Assessments. New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. 271. $17.95. ISBN 0-415-11369-5 (pb).

Hellstroem, Pontus & Alroth, Brita (edd.), Religion and Power in the Ancient Greek World. Proceedings of the Uppsala Symposium 1993. BOREAS; Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations 24. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1996. Pp. 204. SEK 174.00. ISBN 91-554-3693-5 (pb).

Howgego, Christopher, Ancient History from Coins. New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. 178. $16.95. ISBN 0-415-08993-X (pb).

Keaney, J.J. & Robert Lamberton (ed.), [Plutarch]: Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996. Pp. 321. $21.95. ISBN 0-7885-0260-3 (pb).

Knox, Peter E., Ovid’s Heroides: Select Epistles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. $22.95. ISBN 0-521-36834-0 (pb).

Kuklick, Bruce, Puritans in Babylon: The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880-1930. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. 253. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-02582-7.

Latacz, Joachim, Homer: His Art and His World. James P. Holoka (trans.). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. 175. $29.95. ISBN 0-472-10657.

Luschnig, C.A.E., The Gorgon’s Severed Head: Studies of Alcestis, Electra, & Phoenissae. Mnemosyne, Supplement 153. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995. Pp. 255. $78.00. ISBN 90-04-10382-1.

Peachin, Michael, Iudex vice Caesaris: Deputy Emperors and the Administration of Justice during the Principate. Heidelberger Althistorische Beitraege und Epigraphische Studien, Band 21. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996. Pp. 267. DM 88,–. ISBN 3-515-06772-8 (pb).

Rawson, Beryl, Marriage, Divorce, and Children in Ancient Rome. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. 252. $24.00. ISBN 0-19-815045-8 (pb).[reprint of 1991 edition]

Seaford, Richard (ed., trans., & intro.), Euripides, Bacchae. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1996. ISBN 0-85668-609-3 (pb).

Sowerby, Robin, The Greeks: An Introduction to their Culture. New York: Routledge, 1995 (Reprint of 1991 Ed.). Pp. 216. $15.95. ISBN 0-415-12042-X (pb).

Touchette, Lori-Ann, The Dancing Maenad Reliefs: Continuity and Change in Roman Copies. London: Bulletin Supplement 62. Institute of Classical Studies; University of London, 1995. Pp. 119 + 56 Ill. ISBN 0-900587-65-2 (pb).

These titles have been posted previously but are still available:

Nigel M. Kennell, The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education and Culture in Ancient Sparta (Chapel Hill 1995)

Michaela Kostial, Kriegerisches Rom? Zur Frage von Unvermeidbarkeit und Normalitaet Militaerischer Konflikte in der Roemischen Politik (Steiner 1995)

Christopher Charles Parslow, Rediscovering Antiquity: Karl Weber and the Excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae (Cambridge 1995)

M. Laureys ed., Ioannes Caballinus: Polistoria de Virtutibus et Dotibus Romanorum (Teubner 1995)

Andrea Nightingale, Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy (Cambridge 1996)