BMCR 2003.12.01

BMCR Books Received (November)

Anderson, Greg, The Athenian Experiment. Building an Imagined Political Community in Ancient Attica, 508 – 490 B.C. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. 307; pls. 26. $60.00. ISBN 0-472-11320-8.

Bartley, Adam Nicholas, Stories from the Mountains, Stories from the Sea. The Digressions and Similes of Oppian’s Halieutica and the Cynegetica. Hypomnemata 150. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003. Pp. 342. EUR 66.00. ISBN 3-525-25249-8.

Brancacci, Aldo, Antichi e moderni nella filosofia di età imperiale. Atti del II colloquio internazionale Roma, 21-23 settembre 2000. La filosofia in età imperiale, 2. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2001. Pp. 390. EUR 35.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7088-403-1.

Cameron, H.D., Thucydides. Book I. A Student’s Grammatical Commentary. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. 143; map. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 0-472-06847-4.

Camporeale, Giovannangelo, Die Etrusker. Geschichte und Kultur. Originally published in Italian as Gli Etrusci. Storia e civiltà (Turin, 2000). Düsseldorf: Patmos, 2003. Pp. 617. EUR 41.10. ISBN 3-7608-2300-9.

Cappelletto, Pietro, I frammenti di Mnasea. Introduzione, testo e commento. Il Filarete, 209. Milano: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2003. Pp. 420. EUR 36.00. ISBN 88-7916-209-8.

Carcopino, Jérôme, Daily Life in Ancient Rome. Second edition, with a new introduction and bibliographic essay by Mary Beard. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. 368. $18.00 (pb). ISBN 0-300-10186-4.

Carpino, Alexandra A., Discs of Splendor. The Relief Mirrors of the Etruscans. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. Pp. 156; pls. 120. $45.00. ISBN 0-299-18990-2.

Christ, Karl, Hannibal. Gestalten der Antike. Darmstadt: Primus, 2003. Pp. 251. EUR 24.90. ISBN 3-89678-472-2.

Cooley, Alison, Pompeii. Duckworth Archaeological Histories. London: Duckworth, 2003. Pp. 160. £14.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3161-6.

Cucchiarelli, Andrea (trans.), La veglica di Venere (Pervigilium Veneris). BUR Classici Greci e Latini. Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2003. Pp. 167. EUR 10.00 (pb). ISBN 88-17-10635-6.

Dalby, Andrew, Flavors of Byzantium. London: Prospect Books, 2003. Pp. 268. £25.00. ISBN 1-903018-14-5.

Ehrman, Bart D. (trans.), The Apostolic Fathers. 2 vols. LCL 24-25. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 443; 481. $21.50 (each). ISBN 0-674-99607-0; 0-674-99608-9.

Franchet d’Espèrey, Sophie Gotteland and Jean-Michel Roddaz (edd.), Fondements et crises du pouvoir. Ausonius. Études, 9. Bordeaux: De Boccard, 2003. Pp. 484. EUR 64.00. ISBN 2-910023-37-0.

Garber, Marjorie and Nancy J. Vickers (edd.), The Medusa Reader. London/New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 310. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-90099-9.

Gates, Charles, Ancient Cities. The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece, and Rome. London/New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 444. $31.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-12182-5.

Grajetzki, Wolfram, Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt: Life in Death for Rich and Poor. London: Duckworth, 2003. Pp. 165. $21.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3217-5.

Hamilton, John T., Soliciting Darkness. Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 348. $27.50 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01257-7.

Hoepfner, Wolfram, Der Koloss von Rhodos. Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie. Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 2003. Pp. 107. EUR 34.80. ISBN 3-8053-3253-X.

Holt, Frank L., Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions. Hellenistic Culture and Society, 44. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 217; ills. $24.95. ISBN 0-520-23881-8.

Holzberg, Niklas, Powiesc Antyczna. Polish translation of Der antike Roman: Eine Einführung (Patmos 2001). Krakow: Homini, 2003. Pp. 207. ISBN 83-87933-87-2.

Kingsley, Peter, Reality. Inverness, CA: The Golden Sufi Center, 2003. Pp. 591. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 1-890350-09-5.

Leppin, Hartmut, Theodosius der Große. Gestalten der Antike. Darmstadt: Primus, 2003. Pp. 280. EUR 29.90. ISBN 3-89678-471-4.

Liu, Li and Xingcan Chen, State Formation in Early China. Duckworth Debates in Archaeology. London: Duckworth, 2003. Pp. 189. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3224-8.

Lomas, Kathryn (ed.), Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean. Papers in Honour of Brian Shefton. Mnemosyne Suppl., 246. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. 504. EUR 99.00. ISBN 90-04-13300-3.

MacDonald, Dennis R., Does the New Testament Imitate Homer? Four Cases from the Acts of the Apostles. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. 224. $38.00. ISBN 0-300-09770-0.

MacMullen, Ramsay, Feelings in History, Ancient and Modern. Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2003. Pp. 208. $24.95. ISBN 1-930053-25-8.

Nickel, Rainer (trans.), Archilochos. Gedichte. Sammlung Tusculum. Düsseldorf/Zürich: Artemis & Winkler, 2003. Pp. 325. EUR 41.10. ISBN 3-7608-1733-5.

Noegel, Scott, Joel Walker and Brannon Wheeler (edd.), Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World. The Magic in History Series. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2003. Pp. 255. $22.50 (pb). ISBN 0-271-02258-2.

O’Higgins, Laurie, Women and Humor in Classical Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 262. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-82253-X.

O’Meara, Dominic J., Platonopolis. Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 249. £35.00. ISBN 0-19-925758-2.

Planinc, Zdravko (ed.), Politics, Philosophy, Writing. Plato’s Art of Caring for Souls. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Pp. 261. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8262-1343-X.

Ramelli, Ilaria (ed.), Anneo Cornuto. Compendio di teologia greca. Milano: Bompiani Il Pensiero Occidentale, 2003. Pp. 605. EUR 27.00. ISBN 88-452-9249-5.

Reddé, Michel, Laurent Dubois, Dominique Briquel, Henri Lavagne, and François Queyrel, La naissance de la ville dans l’antiquité. De l’archéologie à l’histoire. Paris: De Boccard, 2003. Pp. 298. ISBN 2-7018-0161-3.

Roller, Duane W., The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene. Royal Scholarship on Rome’s African Frontier. London/New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 335. $95.00. ISBN 0-415-30596-9.

Schiesaro, Alessandro, The Passions in Play. Thyestes and the Dynamics of Senecan Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 284. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-81801-X.

Schniewind, Alexandrine, L’éthique du sage chez Plotin. Le paradigme du spoudaios. Histoire des doctrines de l’antiquité classique, XXXI. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2003. Pp. 238. EUR 32.00. ISBN 2-7116-1616-9.

Skinner, Marilyn B., Catullus in Verona. A Reading of the Elegiac Libellus, Poems 65-116. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2003. Pp. 256. $59.95. ISBN 0-8142-0937-8.

Taub, Liba, Ancient Meteorology. Science of Antiquity Series. London/New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 271. $28.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-16196-7.

Thibodeau, Philip and Harry Haskell (edd.), Being There Together. Essays in Honor of Michael C.J. Putnam on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Afton, MN: Afton Historical Society Press, 2003. Pp. 301. ISBN 1-890434-62-0.

Weeber, Karl-Wilhelm, Luxus im alten Rom. Die Schwelgerei, das süße Gift … Darmstadt: Primus, 2003. Pp. 176; ills. EUR 34.90. ISBN 3-89678-239-8.

Yardley, J.C., Justin and Pompeius Trogus. A Study of the Language of Justin’s Epitome of Trogus. Phoenix Suppl. 41. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. 284. $95.00. ISBN 0-8020-8766-3.