BMCR 2003.08.04

BMCR Books Received (July)

Aloni, Antonio et al. (edd.), I Sette a Tebe. Dal mito alla letteratura. Atti del Seminario Internazionale, Torino 21-22 Febbraio 2001. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2002. Pp. 307. EUR 20.00 (pb). ISBN 88-555-2690-1.

Bahrani, Zainab, The Graven Image. Representation in Babylonia and Assyria. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. 240. $49.95. ISBN 0-8122-3648-3.

Boys-Stones, G.R. (ed.), Metaphor, Allegory and the Classical Tradition. Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 256. $74.00. ISBN 0-19-924005-1.

Brosius, Maria (ed.), Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions. Concepts of Record-Keeping in the Ancient World. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 384; ills. 30. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-925245-9.

Buckler, John, Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century BC. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. 544. EUR 160.00. ISBN 90-04-09785-6.

Calame, Claude, Myth and History in Ancient Greece. The Symbolic Creation of a Colony. First published in French under the title, Mythe et histoire dans l’Antiquité grecque: La création symbolique d’une colonie (Editions Payot Lausanne, Nadir s.a., 1996). Translated by Daniel W. Berman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 200. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-11458-7.

Calderini, Aristide and Sergio Daris (edd.), Dizionario dei nomi geografici e topografici dell’Egitto greco-romano. Suppl. 3 (1994-2001). Biblioteca degli “Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia”, 1. Pisa: Giardini Editori e Stampatori in Pisa, 2003. Pp. 167. ISBN 88-427-0815-1.

Derow, Peter and Robert Parker (edd.), Herodotus and his World. Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 400. $85.00. ISBN 0-19-925374-9.

Dillon, John, The Heirs of Plato. A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 264. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-823766-9.

Duff, Timothy E., The Greek and Roman Historians. Classical World Series. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2003. Pp. 136. £9.99 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-601-7.

Dusinberre, Elspeth R.M., Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 325. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-81071-X.

Elm, Eva, Die Macht der Weisheit. Das Bild des Bischofs in der Vita Augustini des Possidius und anderen spätantiken und frühmittelalterlichen Bischofsviten. Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 109. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. 304. EUR 79.00. ISBN 90-04-12881-6.

Eretria XII. Nina Mekacher:, Matrizengeformte hellenistische Terrakotten. Marek Palaczyk and Esther Schönenberger:, Amphorenstemple. Grabungen 1964-2001. Ecole suisse d’archéologie en Grèce. Gollio: Infolio, 2003. Pp. 256; ills. EUR 50.00/CHF 75.00. ISBN 2-88474-400-2.

Fortenbaugh, William W., Theophrastean Studies. Philosophie der Antike, 17. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. Pp. 345. EUR 72.00. ISBN 3-515-07808-8.

Frisone, Flavia, Leggi e regolamenti funerari nel mondo greco. I: Le fonti epigrafiche. Archeologia e storia, 7. Galatina (Lecce): Congedo, 2000. Pp. 193.EUR 28.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8086463-7.

Gabrielli, Chantal, Contributi alla storia economica di Roma repubblicana. Difficoltà politico-sociali, crisi finanziarie e debiti fra V e III sec. a.C. Biblioteca di Athenaeum, 50. Como: Edizioni New Press, 2003. Pp. 196. EUR 35.00 (pb). ISSN 1721-3274.

Gaca, Kathy L., The Making of Fornication. Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity. Hellenistic Culture and Society, 40. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 359. $60.00. ISBN 0-520-23599-1.

Gentili, Bruno and Liana Lomiento, Metrica e ritmica. Storia delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica. Milano: Mondadori Università, 2003. Pp. 332. EUR 21.80 (pb). ISBN 88-882-4208-2.

Gibson, Roy K. (comm.), Ovid. Ars Amatoria: Book 3. Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 446. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-81370-0.

Hägg, Robin (ed.), Peloponnesian Sanctuaries and Cults. Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 11-13 June 1994. Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae, series 4, 48. Stockholm, 2002. Pp. 231; figs. 221, tables 5. ISBN 91-7916-038-7.

Hölkeskamp, Karl-Joachim et al. (edd.), Sinn (in) der Antike. Orientierungssysteme, Leitbilder und Wertkonzepte im Altertum. Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 2003. Pp. 422; ills. EUR 75.80. ISBN 3-8053-3096-0.

Holzhausen, Jens, Euripides politikos. Recht und Rache in ‘Orestes’ und ‘Bakchen’. BzA 185. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2003. Pp. 340. EUR 89.00. ISBN 3-598-77737-X.

Horsfall, Nicholas (comm.), Vergil, Aeneid II. Mnemosyne Suppl. 244. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. 505. EUR 110.00. ISBN 90-04-12934-0.

Inwood, Brad, The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 438. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-77005-X.

Jaccottet, Anne-Franoise, Choisir Dionysos. Les associations dionysiaques ou la face cachée du dionysisme. Vol. I: Text; II: Documents. Kilchberg: Akanthus, 2003. Pp. 207; 367. CHF 125.00/EUR 85.00. ISBN 3-905083-18-3.

Johnson, Robert Bowie, Jr., Athena and Kain: The True Meaning of Greek Myth. Annapolis, MD: Solving Light Books, 2003. Pp. 224. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-9705438-2-4.

Jones, Peter, Homer’s Iliad. A Commentary on Three Translations. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2003. Pp. 345. £12.99 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-657-2.

Krause, Clemens, Villa Jovis. Die Residenz des Tiberius auf Capri. Sonderbände der Antiken Welt. Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 2003. Pp. 105; ills. EUR 34.80. ISBN 3-8053-3091-X.

Lévy, Edmond, Sparte. Histoire politique et sociale jusqu’à la conquête romaine. Collection Points. Paris: Seuil, 2003. Pp. 364. EUR 8.55 (pb). ISBN 2-02-032453-9.

Markovits, Michael, Die Orgel im Altertum. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. xxiv, 783; illus. 105. EUR 190.00. ISBN 90-04-12575-2.

McDonald, Mirianne, The Living Art of Greek Tragedy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. 223. $15.95 (pb). ISBN 0-253-21597-8.

Merkelbach, Reinhold, Platons Euthyphron. Griechisch und deutsch. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2003. Pp. 74. EUR 28.00 (pb). ISBN 3-598-73012-8.

Miller, Jon and Brad Inwood (edd.), Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 330. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-82385-4.

Mossman, Judith (ed.), Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Euripides. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 320. $27.50 (pb). ISBN 0-19-872184-6.

Nicastri, Luciano, Classici nel tempo. Sondaggi sulla ricezione di Properzio, Orazio, Ovidio. Salerno: Edisud, 2003. Pp. 258. EUR 20.00 (pb). ISBN 88-907-41-2.

Orth, Wolfgang (ed.), Isokrates. Neue Ansätze zur Bewertung eines politischen Schriftstellers. Europäische und Internationale Studien, 2. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2003. Pp. 236. EUR 23.00 (pb). ISBN 3-88476-584-1.

Phillippo, Susanna, Silent Witness. Racine’s Non-Verbal Annotations of Euripides. Legenda. Research Monographs in French Studies, 14. Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre, 2003. Pp. 230. $29.50. ISBN 1-900755-61-0.

Piltz, Anders et al. (edd.), For Particular Reasons. Studies in Honour of Jerker Blomqvist. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2003. Pp. 345. SEK 280. ISBN 91-89116-51-8.

Probert, Philomen, A New Short Guide to the Accentuation of Ancient Greek. BCP Advanced Language Series. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2003. Pp. 215. £12.99 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-599-1.

Raffa, Massimo, La Scienza Armonia di Claudio Tolemeo. Saggio Critico, traduzione e commento. Introduzione di Paola Radici Colace. Lessico & Cultura, 5. Messina: Edizioni Dr. Antonino Sfameni, 2002. Pp. 515. EUR 34.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7820-177-4.

Ringrose, Kathryn M., The Perfect Servant. Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 312. $40.00. ISBN 0-226-72015-2.

Roggen, Vibeke, Intellectual Play – Word and Picture. A Study of Nils Thomasson’s Latin rebus book Cestus sapphicus. With edition translation and a corpus of sources. 2 volumes. Oslo: University of Oslo, Faculty of Arts, 2002. Pp. 538; 177. ISBN 82-7477-105-2; 82-7477-106-0.

Sedley, David (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. XXIII, Winter 2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 240. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-925909-7.

Segal, Charles (ed.), Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 101. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 494. $49.50. ISBN 0-674-01273-9.

Sklenar, R., The Taste for Nothingness. A study of Virtus and Related Themes in Lucan’s Bellum Civile. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. 158. $60.00. ISBN 0-472-11310-0.

Smarczyk, Bernhard, Timoleon und die Neugründung von Syrakus. Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003. Pp. 187. EUR 49.90. ISBN 3-525-82523-4.

Thomas, Christine M., The Acts of Peter, Gospel Literature, and the Ancient Novel. Rewriting the Past. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 200. $42.00. ISBN 0-19-512507-X.

Tracy, Stephen V., Athens and Macedon. Attic Letter-Cutters of 300-229 B.C. Hellenistic Culture and Society, 38. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 232; ills. 60. $75.00. ISBN 0-520-23333-6.

Trapp, Michael, Greek and Latin Letters. An Anthology with Translation. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 348. $26.00 (pb). ISBN 0-521-49943-7.

Utili, Federico, CVA Deutschland, 75. Mannheim, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, ehemals Reiss-Museum, 2. München: C.H. Beck, 2003. Pp. 92; pls. 60. EUR 80.00. ISBN 3-406-50565-1.

Van Dam, Raymond, Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. 272; map 1. $45.00. ISBN 0-8122-3712-9.

von Albrecht, Michael, Cicero’s Style. A Synopsis followed by Selected Analytic Studies. Mnemosyne Suppl. 245. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. 281. EUR 80.00. ISBN 90-04-12961-8.

Watson, Lindsay and Patricia (edd.), Martial. Select Epigrams. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 374. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-55488-8.

Williams, Charles K., II and Nancy Bookidis (edd.), Corinth. The Centenary, 1896-1996. Corinth, XX. Athens: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2003. Pp. 475. $75.00. ISBN 0-87661-020-8.