BMCR 2003.07.04

BMCR Books Received (June)

Adler, Eve, Vergil’s Empire. Political Thought in the Aeneid. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Pp. 368. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7425-2167-2.

Adler, William and Paul Tuffin (trans.), The Chronography of George Synkellos. A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 600. $135.00. ISBN 0-19-924190-2.

Archibald, D. (ed.), Colby Quarterly, 38.2: Essays on Homeric Epic. Waterville, ME: Colby College, June 2002. Pp. 131-263. $5.00.

Avezzù, Guido, Il mito sulla scena. La tragedia ad Atene. Venezia: Marsilio, 2003. Pp. 305. EUR 23.00 (pb). ISBN 88-317-8070-0.

Bottéro, Jean, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, and Jean-Pierre Vernant, Ancestor of the West. Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece. Originally published as L’Orient ancient et nous: L’écriture, la raison, les dieux (Éditions Albin Michel S.A., 1996). Translated by T.L. Fagan, with a Foreword by F. Zabbal. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 194. $14.00 (pb). ISBN 0-226-06716-5.

Briant, Pierre, Darius dans l’ombre d’Alexandre. Paris: Fayard, 2003. Pp. 666. EUR 28.00 (pb). ISBN 2-213-60901-2.

Clarke, Jacqueline, Imagery of Colour and Shining in Catullus, Propertius, and Horace. Lang Classical Studies, 13. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. 337. $74.95. ISBN 0-8204-5672-1.

Clarke, John R., Roman Sex. 100 BC to AD 250. With new photographs by Michael Larvy. New York: Abrams, 2003. Pp. 168. $35.00. ISBN 0-8109-4263-1.

Dräger, Paul (ed.), C. Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica. Latin/German. Studien zur klassischen Philologie, 140. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. 620. $69.95 (pb). ISBN 3-631-50799-2.

Euben, J. Peter, Platonic Noise. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 224. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 0-691-11400-5.

Ferrari, G.R.F., City and Soul in Plato’s Republic. Lecturae Platonis, 2. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2003. Pp. 130. EUR 19.50. ISBN 3-89665-170-6.

Gastaldi, Silvia, Bios hairetotatos. Generi di vita e felicità in Aristotele. Saggi Bibliopolis, 71. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2003. Pp. 198. EUR 26.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7088-415-5.

Γκαστη, Ελενη, Η διαλεκτικη του χρονου στην Ηλεκτρα του Σοφοκλη. Πανειπστημιο Ιωαννινων Τμημα Φιλολογιας. Επιστημονικη Επετηριδα Φιλοσοφικης Σχολης. Δωδωνη· Παραρτημα 70. Ioannina: 2003. Pp. 254. ISBN 960-233-129-1.

Haley, Evan W., Baetica Felix. People and Prosperity in Southern Spain from Caesar to Septimius Severus. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2003. Pp. 297; maps 3. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-73464-6.

Hariman, Robert (ed.), Prudence. Classical Virtue, Postmodern Practice. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2003. Pp. 337. $65.00. ISBN 0-271-02255-8.

Holoka, James P. (ed.), Simone Weil’s The Iliad or The Poem of Force. A Critical Edition. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. 130. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8204-6361-2.

Hoyos, Dexter, Hannibal’s Dynasty. Power and Politics in the Western Mediterranean, 247-183 BC. London/New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 304. $80.00. ISBN 0-415-29911-X.

King, Karen L., What is Gnosticism? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 343. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01071-X.

Kokkinos, Nikos, Anonia Augusta. Portrait of a Great Roman Lady. First published by Routledge in 1992. New in paperback, with an additional review chapter. London: Libri Publications, 2002. Pp. 290. $32.00 (pb). ISBN 1-901965-05-8.

Kosmopoulou, Angeliki, The Iconography of Sculptured Statue Bases in the Archaic and Classical Periods. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. Pp. 259; figs. 107. $50.00. ISBN 0-299-17640-1.

Kyrieleis, Helmut (ed.), Olympia 1875-2000. 125 Jahre Deutsche Ausgrabungen. Internationales Symposion, Berlin 9.-11. November 2000. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2002. Pp. 376. EUR 45.00. ISBN 3-8053-2989-X.

Liapis, Vayos, Agnôstos Theos. Ὅρια τῆς ἀνθρώπινης γνώσης στοὺς Προσωκρατικοὺς καὶ στὸν Οἰδίποδα Τύραννο. Athens: Stigme, 2003. Pp. 128.

Morgan, Catherine, Early Greek States beyond the Polis. London/New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 326. $80.00. ISBN 0-415-08996-4.

Newman, Harold and Jon O. Newman, A Genealogical Chart of Greek Mythology. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. 272. $75.00. ISBN 0-8078-2790-8.

Olson, S. Douglas (ed.), Aristophanes. Peace. First published in 1998. Paperback edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 332. $37.50 (pb). ISBN 0-19-926284-5.

Opsomer, Jan and Carlos Steel (trans.), Proclus. On the Existence of Evils. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. 168. $65.00. ISBN 0-8014-4100-5.

Parthica. Incontri di Culture nel Mondo Antico. 4 (2002) Edited by Antionio Invernizzi. Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2002. Pp. 182; pls. 4. $250.00 (libraries); $125.00 (individuals) – (paberback).

Pietilä-Castrén, Leena and Marjaana Vesterinen (edd.), Grapta Poikila I. Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, VIII. Helsinki, 2003. Pp. i, 133; figs. 16. ISBN 951-98806-1-5.

Polverini, Leandro (ed.), Aspetti della storiografia di Ettore Pais. Incontri perugini di storia della storiografia antica e sul mondo antico, VII. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2002. Pp. 356. EUR 28.50 (pb). ISBN 88-495-0535-3.

Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica. 72, 3 (2002). Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2002. ISSN 0033-4987.

Ramírez de Verger, Antonio (ed.), Ovidius. Carmina Amatoria. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2003. Pp. 374. EUR 74.00. ISBN 3-598-71231-6.

Scolnicov, Samuel (trans.), Plato’s Parmenides. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 193. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-22403-5.

Slings, S.R. (ed.), Plato. Republic. Oxford Classical Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 454. $45.00. ISBN 0-19-924849-4.

Sommerstein, Alan H., The Comedies of Aristophanes. Vol. 12: Indexes. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 2002. Pp. 203. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-85668-751-0.

Spentzou, Efrossini, Readers and Writers in Ovid’s Heroides. Transgressions of Genre and Gender. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 256. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-925568-7.

Steinmann, Marc (trans.), Die ‘Collatio Alexandri et Dindimi’. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft – Beiheft, Band 3. Göttingen: Duehrkohp & Radicke, 2000. Pp. 180. EUR 25.05 (pb). ISBN 3-89744-113-6.

Vagnone, Gustavo (ed.), Dione di Prusa. Troiano or. XI.“Testi e Commenti”, 17. Roma: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 2003. Pp. 211. ISBN 88-8476-061-5.

Van de Mieroop, Marc, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 – 323 BC. Blackwell History of the Ancient World. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Pp. 313. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-631-22552-8.

Vernus, Pascal and Jean Yoyotte, The Book of the Pharaohs. First published in 1996 in French under the title, Dictionnaire des pharaons. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. 256. $35.00. ISBN 0-8014-4050-5.