BMCR 2003.11.03

BMCR Books Received (October)

Abulafia, David (ed.), The Mediterranean in History. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2003. Pp. 320; ills. 300. $50.00. ISBN 0-89236-725-3.

Agosti, Gianfranco (ed.), Nonno di Panopoli. Parafrasi del Vangelo di San Giovanni. Canto Quinto. Studi e Testi, 22. Firenze: Università degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità “Giorgio Pasquali”, 2003. Pp. 558. EUR 40.00. ISBN 88-89051-08-6.

Assmann, Jan, The Mind of Egypt. History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs. Originally published in German in 1996 as Ägypten. Eine Sinngeschichte. Translated by Andrew Jenkins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 513; ills. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01211-9.

Auernheimer, Birgit, Die Sprachplanung der karolingischen Bildungsreform im Spiegel von Heiligenviten. Vergleichende syntaktische Untersuchungen von Heiligenviten in verschiedenen Fassungen, u.a. der Vita Corbiniani, auf der Basis eines valenzgrammatischen Modells. Mit einer CD-ROM-Beilage. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2003. Pp. 296. EUR 82.00. ISBN 3-598-73013-6.

Ausbüttel, Frank M., Theoderich der Große. Der Germane auf dem Kaiserthron.“Gestalten der Antike.” Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2003. Pp. 190. EUR 24.90. ISBN 3-89678-470-6.

Avvisati, Carlo, Pompei. Mestieri e Botteghe 2000 anni fa. Roma: Bardi Editore, 2002. Pp. 233. EUR 26.00 (pb). ISBN 88-85699-99-5.

Bagnall, Roger S. and Peter Derow (edd.), The Hellenistic Period. Historical Sources in Translation. New edition. Previous published in 1981 as Greek Historical Documents: The Hellenistic Period. Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Pp. 319. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-0133-4.

Ball, Larry F., The Domus Aurea and the Roman Architectural Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 311. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-82251-3.

Battezzato, L. (ed.), Tradizione testuale e ricezione letteraria antica della tragedia greca. Atti del convegno Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 14-15 Giugno 2002. Supplementi di Lexis, XX. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2003. Pp. 207. ISBN 90-256-1175-3.

Biscardi, Arnaldo, Scritti di diritto greco. A cura di Eva Cantarella e Alberto Maffi. Università degli Studi di Milano. Facoltà di Giurisprudenza. Pubblicazioni dell’Istituto di Diritto Romano, 34. Milano: Dott. A. Giuffrè Editore, 1999. Pp. 298. EUR 21.69 (pb). ISBN 88-14-07716-9.

Bonamici, Marisa, Volterra. L’acropoli e il suo santuario. Scavi 1987-1995. 2 volumes. Terra Italia, 6. Pisa: Giardini Editori e Stampatori in Pisa, 2003. Pp. 599. EUR 300.00 (pb). ISBN 88-427-0302-8.

(Bonnechere, P., Trophonios de Lébadée. Cultes et mythes d’une cité béotienne au miroir de la mentalité antique. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 150. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. 430. EUR 99.00. ISBN 90-04-13102-7.

Boyle, A.J., Ovid and the Monuments. A Poet’s Rome. Bendigo: Aureal, 2003. Pp. 318. $49.00 (pb). ISBN 0-949916-13-7.

Brunschwig, Jacques and Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd (edd.), A Guide to Greek Thought. Major Figures and Trends. First published as Le savoir grec: dictionnaire critique (Flammarion, 1996). Translated under the direction of Catherine Porter. Paperback version of the 2000 edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 486; 2 maps. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-02156-8.

Brunschwig, Jacques and Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd (edd.), The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge. First published as Le savoir grec: dictionnaire critique (Flammarion, 1996). Translated under the direction of Catherine Porter. Paperback version of the 2000 edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 387; 2 maps, 1 table. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-02155-X.

Burns, Thomas S., Rome and the Barbarians, 100 BC – AD 400. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. 480. $49.95. ISBN 0-8018-7306-1.

Cantarella, Eva (ed.), Dike. Rivista di storia del diritto greco ed ellenistico. Vols. 1-4 (1998-2001). Milano: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, Subscription: EUR 22.00 (Italy); EUR 32.00 (Europe); EUR 42.00 (other countries). ISSN 1128-8221.

Carroll, Maureen, Earthly Paradise. Ancient Gardens in History and Archaeology. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2003. Pp. 133; ills. 92. $35.00. ISBN 0-89236-721-0.

Catalano, Virgilio, Case abitanti e culti di Ercolano. Nuova edizione con gli Indices a cura di Laurentino García y García e Giovanni Panzera. Roma: Bardi Editore, 2002. Pp. 248; pls. 63. EUR 42.00 (pb). ISBN 88-85699-97-9.

Champion, Craige B. (ed.), Roman Imperialism. Readings and Sources. Interpreting Ancient History. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Pp. 324. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 0-631-23119-6.

Cresci, Lia Raffaella, Francesca Gazzano, and Domenica Paola Orsi, La retorica della diplomazia nella Grecia antica e a Bisanzio. Rapporti interstatali nell’antichità, 2. Roma: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2002. Pp. 166. ISBN 88-8265-205-X.

Crompton, Louis, Homosexuality and Civilization. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 623. $35.00. ISBN 0-674-01197-X.

Di Marco, Massimo and Bruna M. Palumbo Stracca, Poiesis. Bibliografia della poesia greca 2001. II 2002. Coordinata da Emanuele Lelli. Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2003. Pp. 551. ISBN

Droste, Meike, Arles. Gallula Roma. Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie. Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 2003. Pp. 155. EUR 37.50. ISBN 3-8053-3090-1.

Dyson, Stephen L., The Roman Countryside. Duckworth Debates in Archaeology. London: Duckworth, 2003. Pp. 128. £10.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3225-6.

Everett, Nicholas, Literacy in Lombard Italy, c. 568-774. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th Series, vol. 53. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 382. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-81905-9.

Francovich, Riccardo and Richard Hodges, Villa to Village. Duckworth Debates in Archaeology. London: Duckworth, 2003. Pp. 127. £10.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3192-6.

Freedman, Luba, The Revival of the Olympian Gods in Renaissance Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 301. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-81576-2.

Gagliardi, Lorenzo, Decemviri e centumviri. Origini e competenze. Università degli Studi di Milano. Facoltà di Giurisprudenza. Pubblicazioni dell’Istituto di Diritto Romano, 36. Milano: Dott. A. Giuffrè Editore, 2002. Pp. 570. EUR 69.706 (pb). ISBN 88-14-08850-0.

George, A.R., The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic. Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts. 2 volumes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 1200. $250.00. ISBN 0-19-814922-0.

Gigon, Olof (trans.), Cicero. Gespräche in Tusculum. Bibliothek der Alten Welt. Düsseldorf/Zürich: Artemis & Winkler, 2003. Pp. 394. EUR 25.60. ISBN 3-7608-4107-4.

Gilbertson, Michael, God and History in the Book of Revelation. New Testament Studies in Dialogue with Pannenberg and Moltmann. Society for New Testament Studies. Monograph Series, 124. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 235. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-82466-4.

Giordano, Carolo and Isidoro Kahn, The Jews in Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae and in the Cities of Campania Felix. English translation by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski. Third Edition, revised and enlarged by Laurentino García y García. Roma: Bardi Editore, 2001. Pp. 120. EUR 16.00 (pb). ISBN 88-85699-91-X.

Harrison, Robert Pogue, The Dominion of the Dead. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 208. $22.50. ISBN 0-226-31791-9.

Lefkowitz, Mary, Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. 352; ills. 53, maps 2. $30.00. ISBN 0-300-10145-7.

Lohse, Gerhard (ed.), Aktualisierung von Antike und Epochenbewusstsein. Erstes Bruno Snell-Symposion der Universität Hamburg am Europa-Kolleg. BzA 195. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2003. Pp. 428. EUR 88.00. ISBN 3-598-77807-4.

Maclennan, Keith (comm.), Virgil. Aeneid VI. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2003. Pp. 231. £9.99 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-653-X.

Maehler, Herwig (ed.), Bacchylides. Editio undecima. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2003. Pp. 172. EUR 88.00. ISBN 3-598-71116-6.

Marasco, Gabriele (ed.), Greek & Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity. Fourth to Sixth Century A.D. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. 540. EUR 170.00. ISBN 90-04-11275-8.

Marchesini, Simona and Paolo Poccetti (edd.), Linguistica è storia. Scritti in onore di Carlo De Simone. Ricerche sulle lingue di frammentaria attestazione, 2. Pisa: Giardini Editori e Stampatori in Pisa, 2003. Pp. 183. ISBN 88-427-0304-4.

Movia, Giancarlo (ed.), Alessandro di Afrodisia e la “Metafisica” di Aristotele. Temi metafisici e problemi del pensiero antico. Studi e testi, 94. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2003. Pp. 314. EUR 25.00 (pb). ISBN 88-343-1039-X.

Padgett, J. Michael, The Centaur’s Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 424; ills. $65.00. ISBN 0-300-10163-5.

Phillips, Carl (trans.), Sophocles. Philoctetes. With introduction and notes by Diskin Clay. Greek Tragedy in New Translations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 128. $10.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-513657-8.

Piccirilli, Luigi, L’invenzione della diplomazia nella Grecia antica. Rapporti interstatali nell’antichità, 1. Roma: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2002. Pp. 151. ISBN 88-8265-197-5.

Powell, Barry B., Homer. Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Pp. 176. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-631-23386-5.

Pradeau, Jean-François, L’imitation du principe. Plotin et la participation. Histoire des doctrines de l’antiquité classique, XXX. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2003. Pp. 185. EUR 25.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7116-1615-0.

Radke, Gyburg, Die Theorie der Zahl im Platonismus. Ein systematisches Lehrbuch. Tübingen/Basel: A. Francke, 2003. Pp. 885. EUR 136.00. ISBN 3-7720-3343-1.

Ramsey, John T., Cicero: Philippics I and II. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 349. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-41106-8.

Rufener, Rudolf (trans.), Platon. Der Staat. Einführung, Erläuterungen, Inhaltsübersicht und Literaturhinweise von Thomas Alexander Szlezák. Bibliothek der Alten Welt. Düsseldorf/Zürich: Artemis & Winkler, 2003. Pp. 564. EUR 25.60. ISBN 3-7608-4106-6.

Segal, Erich, The Death of Comedy. First published in 2001. Paperback edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 589. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01247-X.

Shaw, Pamela-Jane, Discrepancies in Olympiad Dating and Chronological Problems of Archaic Peloponnesian History. Historia Einzelschriften, 166. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. Pp. 304. EUR 44.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08174-7.

Stephenson, Paul, The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 164; pls. 7. $40.00. ISBN 0-521-81530-4.

Traupman, John C., Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency. Phrase Book and Dictionary. Third Edition. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2003. Pp. 398. $29.00 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-438-X.

Ulf, Christoph (ed.), Der neue Streit um Troia. Eine Bilanz. München: C.H. Beck, 2003. Pp. 381. EUR 78.00. ISBN 3-406-50998-3.

Valverde Abril, Juan J. (ed.), Io. Genesius Sepulveda. Epistolarum libri septem in quibus cum alia multa quae legantur dignissima traduntur, tum varii loci graviorum doctrinarum eruditissime et elegantissime tractantur. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2003. Pp. 342. EUR 86.00. ISBN 3-598-71252-9.

Wälchli, Philipp, Studien zu den literarischen Beziehungen zwischen Plutarch und Lukian. BzA 203. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2003. Pp. 245. EUR 78.00. ISBN 3-598-77815-5.

Williams, Rose, The Labors of Aeneas. What a pain it was to found the Roman race. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2003. Pp. 108. $11.50 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-556-4.

Witherington, Ben, III (comm.), Revelation. New Cambridge Bible Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 307. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-80609-7.