BMCR 2002.03.01

Books Received February

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*Baracchi, Claudia Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato’s Republic. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. 264. $49.95 (hb). $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-253-21485-8.

*Barbantani, Silvia Phatis nikephoros. Frammenti di elegia encomiastica nell’età delle Guerre Galatiche: Suppl. Hell. 958 e 969. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2001. Pp. 339. ISBN 88-343-0697-X.

Barja, Pedro López and Susana Reboreda Morillo, edd., Fronteras e identidad en el mundo griego antiguo. Universidad Santiago de Compostela e Universidad de Vigo, 2001. Pp. 301. ISBN 84-8121-955-X (USC) & 84-8158-183-7 (UV)

Baumbach, Manuel, Lukian in Deutschland: Eine Forschungs- und Rezeptions- Geschichtliche analyse vom Humanismus bis zur Gegenwart. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2002. Pp. 320. Euro 34.90. ISBN 3-7705-3597-9.

Chauveau, Michel, Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. 104. $22.50. ISBN 0-8014-3867-5.

*de Lima, Paulo Butti, Platone: Esercizi di filosofia per il giovane Teeteto. Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 2002. Pp. 167. E 15,50 (pb). ISBN 88-317-7898-6.

*Debnar, Paula, Speaking the Same Language: Speech and Audience in Thucydides’ Spartan Debates. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. 254. $54.50. ISBN 0-472-11236-8.

*Edwards, Mark W. Sound, Sense, and Rhythm. Listening to Greek and Latin Poetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. 208. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-08666-4.

Gaebel, Robert E. Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Pp. 368. $34.95. ISBN 0-8061-3365-1.

*García Quintela, Marco V., Dumézil: Une Introduction. Crozon: Éditions Armeline, 2001. Pp. 219 (pb). ISBN2-910878-16-3.

*Genequand, Charles Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Cosmos. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. 187. ISBN 90-04-11963-9.

*Gnilka, Christian Prudentiana II. Exegetica. Munich and Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 2001. Pp. 648. Euro 94.-. ISBN 3-598-77437-0.

Gotshalk, Richard The Temporality of Human Excellence. A Reading of Five Dialogues of Plato. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. Pp. 264. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7618-2071-X.

*Hammer, Dean, The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Pp. 304. $34.95. ISBN 0-8061-3366-X.

Hansen, William Ariadne’s Thread. A Guild to International Tales found in Classical Literature. Ithaca: Cornell, 2001. Pp. 548. $45.00. ISBN 0-8014-3670-2.

*Holzberg, Niklas Catull. Der Dichter und sein erotisches Werk. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2002. Pp. 228. ISBN 3-406-48531-6.

*Hornung, Erik The Secret Lore of Egypt. Its Impact on the West. Trans. by D. Lorton. Ithaca: Cornell, 2001. Pp. 229. $29.95. ISBN 0-8014-3847-0.

Irby-Massie, Georgia L. and Paul T. Keyser, Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook. Routledge, 2002. ISBN 041523848X.

*Körner, Christian, Philippus Arabs. Berlin/ New York: de Gruyter, 2002. Pp. 435. ISBN 3-11-017205-4.

*Kolb, Frank, Herrscherideologie in der Spätantike. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001. Pp. 274. Euro 19,80 (pb). ISBN 3-05-003432-7.

*Krawiec, Rebecca, Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity. Oxford/ New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 248. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-512943-1.

*Laks, André and Michel Narcy (edd.) Philosophie antique: problèmes, renaissances, usages. Nr. 1: Figures de Socrate. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Septentrion, 2002. Pp. 225. Euro 18.30. ISBN 2-85939-711-6.

*Maurach, Gregor Horaz. Werk und Leben. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2001. Pp. 506. Euro 42, -. ISBN 3-8253-1255-0.

*McGroarty, Kieran, ed., Eklogai: Studies in Honour of Thomas Finan and Gerard Watson. Maynooth: Department of Ancient Classics, 2001. Pp. xvii, 132 (pb). ISBN 0-901519-34-0.

*Meadows, Andrew and Kirsty Shipton, edd., Money and its Uses in the Ancient Greek World. Oxford/ New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 166, 20 plates. $85.00. ISBN 0-19-924012-4.

*Mettinger, Tryggve N.D., The Riddle of Resurrection: Dying and Rising Gods in the Ancient Near East. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2001. Pp. 275 (pb). ISBN 91-22-01945-6.

Näf, Beat (ed.) Antike und Altertumswissenschaft in der Zeit von Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus. Kolloquium Universität Zürich 14.-17. Oktober 1998. Mandelbachtal/Cambridge: edition cicero, 2001. Pp. 641. ISBN 3-934285-46-5.

*Noethlichs, Karl Leo, Die Juden im christlichen Imperium Romanum (4.-6. Jahrhundert). Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001. Pp. 271. Euro 19,80 (pb). ISBN 3-05-003431-9.

Oldsjö, Fredrik, Tense and Aspect in Caesar’s Narrative. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Latina Upsaliensia 26: Uppsala, 2001. Pp. 544 (pb). ISBN 91-554-5076-8.

*Poethke, Günter (ed.) Griechische Papyrusurkunden spätrömischer und byzantinischer Zeit aus Hermupolis Magna (BGU XVII). Munich: K.G. Saur, 2001. Pp. 184 + pls. 60. ISBN 3-598-77541-5.

*Rist, John M., Real Ethics: Rethinking the Foundations of Morality. Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 295. $23.00 (pb). ISBN 0-521-00608-2.

Nauta, Ruurd, Poetry for Patrons: Literary Communication in the Age of Domitian. Brill, 2001. Pp. 375. $98.00. ISBN 90-04-10885-8.

*Scheffer, Charlotte Ceramics in Context. Proceedings of the Internordic Colloquium on Ancient Pottery held at Stockholm, 13-15 June 1997. Stockholm Studies in Classical Archaeology 12. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell, 2001. Pp. 170. SEK 223,-. ISBN 91-22-01913-8.

*Sifakis, G.M., Aristotle: On the Function of Tragic Poetry. Herakleion: Crete University Press, 2001. Pp. 206. $30.00. ISBN 960-524-132-3.

Too, Yun Lee, Education in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. 477. ISBN 90-04-10781-9.

*Vogt, Ernst Das Leipziger Antikenmuseum und die griechische Literatur. Munich and Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 2001. Pp. 58. Euro 18.80. ISBN 3-598-77559-8.

*Wenham, J. W. The Elements of New Testament Greek, with Audio CD. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 268 + 132. $30.00 (pb). ISBN 0-521-00257-5.

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*Canali de Rossi, Filippo, Il ruolo dei patroni nelle relazioni politiche fra il mondo greco e Roma in età repubblicana ed augustea. München/Leipzig, 2001. Pp. 242. DM 169,00. ISBN 3-598-77708-6.

*Haffner, Medard Das Florilegium des Orion. Palingenesia, Band 75. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2001. Pp. 267. Euro 64,-. ISBN 3-515-07949-1.

*Harris, William V., Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 468. $49.95. ISBN 0-674-00618-6.

*Lamberton, Robert Plutarch. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. 192. $30.00 (hb). $15.00 (pb). ISBN 0-300-08811-6.

*Parrish, David, ed., Urbanism in Western Asia Minor: New Studies on Aphrodisias, Ephesos, Hierapolis, Pergamon, Perge and Xanthos. JRA Suppl. 45. Portsmouth: JRA, 2001. Pp. 191. ISBN 1-887829-45-8.

*Piepenbrink, Karen, Politische Ordnungskonzeptionen in der attischen Demokratie des vierten Jahrhunderts v. Chr.. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. Pp. 262. DM 78.23 (pb). ISBN 3-515-07848-7.

*Price, Jonathan J., Thucydides and Internal War. Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 410. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-78018-7.

*Schmitt, Tassilo, Die Bekehrung des Synesios von Kyrene. München/ Leipzig, 2001. Pp. 832. DM 210,00. ISBN 3-598-77695-0.

Varone, Antonio, Eroticism in Pompeii. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001. Pp. 115, 105 color illustrations. $24.95. ISBN 0-89236-628-1.

Wulfram, Hartmut, Literarische Vitruvrezeption in Leon Battista Albertis de re Aedificatoria. München/ Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2001. Pp. 441. DM 168,00. ISBN 3-598-77704-3.

*Campagner, Roberto, Lessico Agonistico Di Aristofane. Roma/ Pisa: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 2001. Pp. 338 (pb). ISBN 88-8476-096-8. ann, 2000. Pp. x, 518. E 78.00. ISBN 3-487-11279-5.

*Porciani, Leone, Prime forme della storiografia greca: Prospettiva locale e generale nella narrazione storica. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. Pp. 156. DM 68.45 (pb). ISBN 3-515-07869-X.

*Ruschenbusch, Eberhard, Ein altgriechisches Gesetzbuch: aus dem Kontext von Platons Gesetzen herausgehoben und in das Deutsche übersetzt. Munich: tuduv, 2001. Pp. 61 (pb). ISBN 3-88073-585-9.

*Stewart, Susan & Wesley Smith, trans., Euripides: Andromache. Oxford/ New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 67. $9.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-512561-4.

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*Dräger, Paul, Die Argonautika des Apollonios Rhodios: Das zweite Zorn-epos der griechischen Literatur. München/ Leipzig, 2001. Pp. 174. DM 158,00. ISBN 3-598-77707-8.

*Guizzi, Francesco, Hierapytna: Storia di una polis cretese dalla fondazione alla conquista romana (Rome 2001)

*Lyne, Raphael Ovid’s Changing Worlds: English Metamorphoses 1567-1632. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 303. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-818704-1.

Books on Offer (will be sent directly by the press)

Kai Brodersen (ed., trans.), Phlegon von Tralleis: Das Buch der Wunder (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2001)

Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais, Ubi diutus nobis habitandum est: Die Dekoration der suburbanen Grabräume des kaiserzeitlichen Rom (DAI Rome: Reichert, 2001)

Dieter Flach (ed., trans.), Marcus Terentius Varro: Gespräche über die Landwirtschaft, Buch 3 (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2001)

Dorothea Frede, Andre Laks (edd.), Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath (Brill 2001)

S. Inowlocki, Des idoles mortes et muettes au Dieu vivant: Joseph, Aséneth et le fîls de Pharaon dans un roman du Judiasme hellénisé (Brepols 2001)

Martin Langner, Antike Graffitizeichnungen: Motive, Gestaltung und Bedeutung (DAI Rome: Reichert, 2001)

Anne-France Morand, Études sur les Hymnes Orphiques (Brill 2002)

J. Ries (ed.), Homo Religiosus: Dieux, fêtes, Sacré dans la Grèce et la Rome antiques (Brepols 2001)