BMCR 2002.04.09

March Books Received

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* Studi Miscellanei 32. Dipartimento de Scienze Storiche Archeologiche e Anthropologiche dell’ Antichità Sezione di Archeologia Greca Romana e Tardoantica Seminario di Archeologia e Storia dell’ Arte Greca e Romana Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2001. Pp. xxxiii, 288, 100 tavola. ISBN 88-8265-119-3. 3/26/2002

A.A. Long, Epictetus, A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002. Pp. 310. $29.95.ISBN 0-19-924556-8

Anthony Grafton, Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Paperbound reprint. Pp.432. $18.95. ISBN 0674008685.

*Asirvatham, Sulochana R., Corinne Ondine Pache & John Watrous, edd., Between Magic and Religion: Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Society. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001. Pp. 248. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8476-9969-2.

*Baier, Thomas, Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Buch VI. Zetemata: Monographien zur Klassischen Altertumswissenschaft Heft 112. München: C.H. Beck Verlag, 2001. Pp. 284. EUR 59,90 (pb). ISBN 3-406-48764-5.

*Balmelle, Catherine, Les Demeures Aristocratiques D’ Aquitaine. Bordeaux/Paris: Ausonius, 2001. Pp. 497. EUR 95,00. ISBN 2-910023-25-7.

Berenson, Jennifer K. & Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, (edd. & trans.), Flavius Philostratus: Heroikos. Writings from the Greco-Roman World. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001. Pp. xcvii, 318. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58983-008-3.

Bobzien, Susanne, Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 441. $26.95 (pb). Reprint of 1998 ed. ISBN 0-19-924767-6.

Brea, Luigi Bernabó with col. Madeleine Cavalier, Maschere e Personaggi del Teatro Greco, nelle Terracotte Liparesi. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2001. Pp. 316. ISBN 88-8265-120-7.

Briant, Pierre, Alexandre le Grand. Paris: Universitaires de France, 2002. Fifth edition. Pp. 128 (pb). ISBN 2-13-052532-6.

Briant, Pierre, Darius, Les Perses et l’Empire. Découvertes Gallimard, 2001. Third edition. Pp. 176 (pb). ISBN 2-07-053166-X.

Brisson, Luc, Sexual Ambivalence. Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. 195. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-520-22391-8.

*Budelmann, Felix and Pantelis Michelakis (edd.), Homer, Tragedy and Beyond. Essays in Honour of P.E. Easterling. London: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 2001. Pp. 262. ISBN 0-902984-19-5.

Cadili, Luca, Viamque adfecat Olympo. Memoria ellenistica nelle Georgiche di Virgilio. Milano: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2001. Pp. 178. EUR 15.50. ISBN 88-7916-151-2.

*Calder III, William M., R. Scott Smith and John Vaio, edd., Teaching the English Wissenschaft: The Letters of Sir George Cornewall Lewis to Karl Otfried Müller (1828-1839). Spudasmata, 85. Zürich/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2002. Pp. xxv, 119. (pb). ISBN 3-487-11558-1.

*Callaway, Cathy, ed., Ancient Journeys: A Festschrift in Honor of Eugene Numa Lane. Stoa Consortium: 2002. http://www.stoa.org/lane/

Cardauns, Burkhart, Marcus Terentius Varro: Einführung in sein Werk. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2001. Pp. 87. EUR 13,00 (pb). ISBN 3-8253-1269-0.

*Carter, T.L., Paul and the Power of Sin: Redefining ‘Beyond the Pale’. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 241. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81041-8.

*Chew, Kristina (trans.), Virgil. Georgics. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2002. Pp. 184. $9.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-609-2.

Cook, John Granger, The Interpretation of the New Testament in Greco-Roman Paganism. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2002. Reprint of 2000 Mohr edition. Pp. 385. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 1-56563-658-9.

de Jong, Irene, A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey. Cambridge/New York: 2001. Pp. xix, 627. $110.00. ISBN 0-521-46478-1.

*de la Combe, Pierre Judet, L’Agamemnon D’Eschyle: Commentaire des Dialogues. 2 vols. Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2001. Pp. 892. EUR 59,46 (pb). ISBN 2-85939-627-6.

*Easterling, Pat and Carol Handley (edd.), Greek Scripts. An Illustrated Introduction. London: Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 2001. Pp. 72. ISBN 0-902984-17-9.

*Fantuzzi, M. & R. Hunter, Muse e Modelli, La Poesia Ellenistica Da Allessandro Magno ad Augusto. Roma/Bari: Laterza, 2002. Pp. 600. EUR 48,00. ISBN 88-420-6537-4.

*Freeman, Philip, The Galatian Language: A Comprehensive Survey of the Language of the Ancient Celts in Greco-Roman Asia Minor. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001. Pp. 104. $59.95. ISBN 0-7734-7480-3.

Freudenburg, Kirk, Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 289. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 0-521-00621-X.

Göbel, Walter and Ross, Bianca, Renaissance Humanism — Modern Humanism(s). Festschrift for Claus Uhlig. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2001. Pp. 334. ISBN 3-8253-1259-3.

*Guastella, Gianni, L’ira e l’onore. Forme della vendetta nel teatro senecano e nella sua tradizione. Letteratura Classica 22. Palermo: Palumbo, 2001. Pp. 271. ISBN 88-8020-428-9.

Habinek, Thomas N., The Politics of Latin Literature: Writing, Identity, and Empire in Ancient Rome. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Paperbound reprint. Pp. 248. $18.95. ISBN 0-691-08984-1.

Hamilakis, Yannis, ed., Labyrinth Revisited: Rethinking ‘Minoan’ Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2002. Pp. 237. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 1-84217-061-9.

Hedreen, Guy Michael, Capturing Troy: The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. 298. $57.50. ISBN 0472111639.

Helldén, Jan, Minna Skafte Jensen & Thomas Pettitt, Inclinate Aurem: Oral Perspectives on Early European Verbal Culture. Odense: Odense Universitetsforlag, 2001. Pp. 280. DKK 250.00 (pb). ISBN 87-7838-680-2.

*Jones, Donald W., External Relations of Early Iron Age Crete, 1100-600 BC. The Archaeological Institute of America Monographs New Series, 4. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co, 2000. Pp. 395. ISBN 0-7872-7183-7.

*Joshel, Sandra R., Margaret Malamud & Donald T. McGuire Jr., edd., Imperial Projections: Ancient Rome in Modern Popular Culture. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. 299. ISBN 0-8018-6742-8. 3/26/2002

Kahane, Ahuvia & Andrew Laird, edd., A Companion to the Prologue of Apuleis’ Metamorphoses. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 325. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-815238-8.

Kruschwitz, Peter, Carmina Saturnia Epigraphica. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. Pp. 246. EUR 48,00 (pb). ISBN 3-315-07924-6.

*La Greca, Fernando, Fonti letterarie greche e latine per la storia della Lucania tirrenica. Studia Archaeologica 115. Roma: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2002. Pp. 418. ISBN 88-8265-161-4.

*Lapatin, Kenneth D.S., Chryselephantine Statuary in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 242, 14 colour plates, 249 b & w plates. $115.00. ISBN 0-19-815311-2.

*Lefèvre, Eckard, Plautus’ Aulularia. ScriptOralia 122. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2001. Pp. 227. ISBN 3-8233-5432-9.

*Lombardo, Stanley (trans.), Sappho. Poems and Fragments. Introduction by Pamela Gordon. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett, 2002. Pp. 96. $6.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-591-6.

Lorenz, Sven, Erotik und Panegyrik: Martials epigrammatische Kaiser. Classica Monacensia. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002. Pp. 302 (pb). ISBN 3-8233-4882-5.

Luraghi, Nino, ed., The Historian’s Craft in the Age of Herodotus. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 340. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-924050-7.

Meskell, Lynn, Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. 238. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-00448-X.

*Millar, Fergus, The Roman Republic in Political Thought. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2002. Pp. 201. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 1-58465-199-7.

*Mirecki, Paul & Marvin Meyer, edd., Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. xvii, 470. ISBN 90-04-10406-2.

Morelli, Giuseppe, Teatro attico e pittura vascolare: Una tragedia di Cheremone nella ceramica italiota. Spudasmata Band 84. Zürich/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2001. Pp. 179, 7 pls. (pb). ISBN 3-487-11494-1.

*Munson, Rosaria Vignolo, Telling Wonders. Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Works of Herodotus. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. 325. $59.50/£42.50. ISBN 0-472-11203-1.

*Murphy, Peter, Civic Justice from Greek Antiquity to the Modern World. New York: Humanity Books, 2001. Pp. 350. $59.00. ISBN 1-57392-951-4.

*Narducci, Emanuele, Lucano. Un’epica contro l’impero. Interpretazione della Pharsalia. Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2002. Pp. 542. EUR 36,00. ISBN 88-420-6602-8.

Ogden, Daniel, Greek and Roman Necromancy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-691-00904-X. 3/22/2002

*Ognibene, Susanna, La chiesa di Santo Stefano ad Umm al-Rasas. Il problema iconofobico. Studia Archaeologica 114. Roma: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2002. Pp. 519. ISBN 88-8265-145-2.

*Painter, Kenneth S., The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii. vol. IV: The Silver Treasure. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 89, 31 plates. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-924236-4.

Pensabene, Patrizio, Le terrecotte del Museo Nazionale Romano II: materiali dai depositi votivi di Palestrina: Collezioni Kircheriana e Palestrina. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2001. Pp. 449 + pls. 127. ISBN 88-8265-164-9.

*Perlès, Catherine, The Early Neolithic in Greece. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 356. $33.00. ISBN 0-521-00027-0.

*Pleines, Jürgen-Eckardt, Heraklit. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2002. Pp. 217. EUR 15,80 (pb). ISBN 3-487-11476-3.

Pouderon, Bernard, ed., with Christine Hunzinger & Dimitri Kasprzyk, Les personnages du roman grec. (Actes du colloque de Tours, 18-20 novembre 1999). Lyon: Maison de l’Orient Méditerranéen – Jean Pouilloux, 2001. Pp. 460 (pb). ISBN 2-903264-22-8.

*Reeve, C.D.C., (ed. & trans.), The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts. Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Co., 2002. Pp. x, 186. $7.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-589-4.

*Rouet, Philippe, Approaches to the Study of Attic Vases. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 167, 21 figs. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-815272-8.

Scanlon, Thomas F., Eros and Greek Athletics. Oxford/ New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 466. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-514985-8.

*Schmal, Stephan, Sallust. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2001. Pp. 216. EUR 15,80 (pb). ISBN 3-487-11442-9.

Schmidt, Ernst A., Zeit und Form. Dichtungen des Horaz. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2002. Pp. 533. EUR 50,-/SFr 86,-. ISBN 3-8253-1228-3. 3/19/2002

*Scott, A.B., Hildebertus Cenomannensis Episcopus. Carmina Minora. Editio altera. Munich: K. G. Saur, 2001. Pp. 112. EUR 58.00. ISBN 3-598-71984-1.

*Stoll, Oliver, Zwischen Integration und Abgrenzung: Die Religion des Römischen Heeres im Nahen Osten. St. Katharinen: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 2001. Pp. 703. EUR 57,50. ISBN 3-89590-116-4.

*True, Marion & Mary Louise Hart, edd., Studia Varia from the J. Paul Getty Museum Vol. II. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2001. Pp. 200, illus. 191. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 0-89236-634-6.

Voelke, Pierre, Un Théâtre de la Marge: Aspects figuratifs et configurationnels du drame satyrique dans l’Athènes classique. Bari: Levante Editori, 2001. Pp. 474. EUR 61,97 (pb). ISBN 88-7949-267-5.

*von den Hoff, Ralf & Stefan Schmidt, edd., Konstruktionen von Wirklichkeit. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001. Pp. 317. EUR 44,00. ISBN 3-515-07859-2.

*Wagner, Ellen, ed., Essays on Plato’s Psychology. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2001. Pp. 385 (pb). ISBN 0-7391-0258-3.

*Whitley, James, The Archaeology of Ancient Greece. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xxvi, 484 (pb). ISBN 0-521-62733-8.

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*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.

*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.

*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.

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

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

*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.

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

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

*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.

*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.

*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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Kloss, Gerrit, Erscheinungsformen Komischen Sprechens bei Aristophanes. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2001. Pp. 317.

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Köhne, Eckart, Cornelia Ewigleben (edd.). Gladiators and Caesars: The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp.153; 147 color and 15 b & w illustrations. $29.95. ISBN 0-520-22798-0.

Rappe, Sara, Reading Neoplatonism. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.266. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-65158-1. ISBN 0-521-65158-1.

Buxton, Richard (ed.), Oxford Readings in Greek Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 372. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-872190-0.

Brock, Roger, Stephen Hodkinson (eds.), Alternatives to Athens. Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 393. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-815220-5.

Flemming, Rebecca, Medicine and the Making of Roman Women. Gender, Nature and Authority from Celsus to Galen. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xxii, 453. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-924002-7

The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume XIV: Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, AD 425-600. Pp. xx, 1166. $160.00. ISBN 0-521-32591-9.

Gould, John, Myth, Ritual Memory, and Exchange. Essays in Greek Literature and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 423. $60.00. ISBN 0-19-815299-X.

Burton, Philip, The Old Latin Gospels. Oxford: Oxford Universtiy Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 232. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-826988-9.

Lane, Melissa, Plato’s Progeny. London: Duckworth, 2001. Pp. x, 165. £9.99 (pb). ISBN 07156-28925.

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