BMCR 1998.08.01

Books Received July 1998

Axer, Jerzy and Woldemar Görler, eds., Scaenica Saravi-Varsoviensia: Beiträge zum antiken Theater und zu seinem Nachleben. Warszawa: Universität des Saarlandes, 1997. Pp. iv, 169. ISBN 83-7181-006-7.

Bäbler, Balbina, Fleissige Thrakerinnen und wehrhafte Skythen. Nichtgriechen im klassischen Athen und ihre archäologische Hinterlassenschaft. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1998. Pp. 306, 10 pls. DM 118. ISBN 3-519-07657-8.

Becker, Lawrence C., A New Stoicism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 216. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-01660-7.

Berrenberg, Rüdiger Schneider, Kronos und Rhea. Metrologische Anmerkungen zu einem Römischen Tempel in Athen. Bonn: Die Berrenberg Presse, 1998. Pp. 52, 17 figs. DM 59. ISBN none (pb).

Blanco, Walter, trans. and ed., and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, ed., Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, A New Translation, Backgrounds, and Context Interpretations. A Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998. Pp. xxvii, 554. $14.50. ISBN 0-393-97167-8 (pb).

Bravo, Benedetto, Pannychis e simposio. Feste private notturne di donne e uomini nei testi letterari e nel culto. With an iconographical study by Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux. Pisa and Rome: Istituti editoriali e poligrafic internazionali, 1997. Pp. 140, 7 pls. ISBN 88-8147-007-1.

Brockhaus, Cathrin, Aphra Behn und ihre Londoner Komödien. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1998. Pp. 426. Gb 98. ISBN 3-8253-0732-8.

Buck, Robert J., Thrasybulus and the Athenian Democracy. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pp. 140. DM/sFr 56. ISBN 3-515-07221-7.

Crane, Gregory, Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 348. $45.00. ISBN 0-520-20789-0.

Cribiore, Raffaella, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 316, 80 pls. ISBN 0-7885-0277-8.

Dalley, Stephanie, ed., The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii, 227. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-814946-8.

Feldherr, Andrew, Spectacle and Society in Livy’s History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 251. $17.95. ISBN 0-520-21027-1 (pb).

Finkelpearl, Ellen D., Metamorphosis of Language in Apuleius: A Study of Allusion in the Novel. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 241. $42.50. ISBN 0-472-10889-1.

Garnsey, Peter, Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Essays in Social and Economic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii, 336. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-59147-3.

Garrison, Daniel H., Horace: Epodes and Odes. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991 (reprint 1998). Pp. xvii, 397. $14.50. ISBN 0-8061-2374-5 (pb).

Graf, Fritz, ed., Ansichten griechischer Rituale. Geburtstags-Symposium für Walter Burkert. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1998. Pp. 467, 19 pls. DM 198. ISBN 3-519-07433-8.

Hadot, Pierre, The Inner Citadel. Trans. by Michael Chase. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998 (French ed. 1992). Pp. xii, 351. $45.00. ISBN 0-674-46171-1.

Hansen, Mogens Herman, Polis and City State: An Ancient Concept and its Modern Equivalent. Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1998. Pp. 217. DKK 200,00. ISBN 87-7304-293-5.

Heidegger, Martin, Plato’s Sophist. Trans. by Richard Rojcewicz and André Schuwer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Pp. xxvii, 476. $39.95. ISBN 0-253-33222-2.

Henderson, Jeffrey, trans. and ed., Aristophanes, Acharnians and Knights. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 408. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-99567-8.

Jacoby, C., ed., Dionysius Halicarnaseus. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1967 (reprint 1998). Pp. 69. DM 45. ISBN 3-519-01291-X.

Knauer, Elfriede Regina, The Camel’s Load in Life and Death. Iconography and Ideology of Chinese Pottery Figurines from Han to Tang and Their Relevance to Trade Along the Silk Routes. Zurich: Akanthus, Verlag für Archäolgie, 1998. Pp. 159, 92 figs. ISBN 3-905083-12-4.

Korzeniowski, Georg Schwertlob, Verskolometrie und hexametrische Verskunst römischer Bukoliker. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1998. Pp. x, 390. DM 98. ISBN 3-525-25215-3.

Kovacs, David, trans. and ed., Euripides, Plays, vol.3. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 455. $19.95. ISBN 0-674-99566-X.

Le Guen, Brigitte, ed., De la scène aux gradins: théâtre et représentations dramatiques après Alexandre le Grand. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 1997. Pp. xviii, 281. FF 130. ISBN 2-85816-342-1.

Ludwich, A., ed., Homerus, Odyssea. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1889, 1891 (reprint 1998). 2 vols. Pp. xxviii, 315; x, 360. DM 69. ISBN 3-519-04288-6; DM 78. ISBN 3-519-04289-4.

Ludwig, Walther, Hellas in Deutschland. Hamburg: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1998. Pp. 104. DM 32. ISBN 3-525-86295-4 (pb).

Masaracchia, Agostino, Riflessioni sull’ antico. Studi sulla cultura greca. Ed. Giovanni d’Anna and Massimo di Marco. Pisa and Rome: Istituti editoriali e poligrafic internazionali, 1998. Pp. xx, 608. ISBN 88-8147-010-1.

Nelson, Stephanie, God and the Land. The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil. Including translation of Hesiod’s Works and Days by David Grene. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 252. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-511740-9.

Nikolaou, Sousanna-Maria, Die Atomlehre Demokrits und Platons Timaios. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1998. Pp. 233. DM 78. ISBN 3-519-07661-6.

Patterson, Cynthia B., The Family in Greek History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. 286. $35.00. ISBN 0-674-29270-7.

Riemer, Ulrike, Das Tier auf dem Kaiserthron? Eine Untersuchung zur Offenbarung des Johannes als historischer Quelle. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1998. Pp. 200. DM 74. ISBN 3-519-07663-2.

Romer, F. E., ed. and trans., Pomponius Mela’s Description of the World. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 165. $42.50. ISBN 0-472-10773-9 (hb); $21.95. ISBN 0-472-08452-6 (pb).

Rosenberger, Veit, Gezähmte Götter: Das Prodigienwesen der römischen Republik. Stuttgart: Verlag, 1998. Pp. 288. DM/sFr 68. ISBN 3-515-07199-7.

Slavitt, David R. and Palmer Bovie, Euripides, 1. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 300. $40.00. ISBN 0-8122-3415-4.

Slavitt, David R. and Palmer Bovie, Menander. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 275. $40.00. ISBN 0-8122-3444-8.

Slavitt, David R. and Palmer Bovie, Sophocles, 1. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 284. $40.00. ISBN 0-8122-3446-6.

Tornau, Christian, Plotin. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1998. Pp. 519. DM 168. ISBN 3-519-07662-4.

Vidal-Naquet, Pierre, The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World. Trans. by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986 (reprint 1998). (French ed. 1981, 1983.) Pp. xxii, 367. $18.95. ISBN 0-8018-5951-4 (pb).

Watt, W.S., ed., Velleius. Paterculus. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1998. Pp. 103. DM 49. ISBN 3-8154-1873-9.