BMCR 2004.05.09

BMCR Books Received (April)

Armstrong, David, et al. (edd.), Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. 352. $55.00. ISBN 0-292-70181-0.

Arweiler, Alexander, Cicero rhetor. Die Partitiones oratoriae und das Konzept des gelehrten Politikers. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 68. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2003. Pp. 339. €98.00. ISBN 3-11-018096-0.

Bagordo, Andreas, Reminiszenzen früher Lyrik bei den attischen Tragikern. Beiträge zur Anspielungstechnik und poetischen Tradition. Zetemata-Heft 118. München: C.H. Beck, Pp. 288. €59.90 (pb). ISBN 3-406-51743-9.

Balch, David L. and Carolyn Osiek (edd.), Early Christian Families in Context. An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003. Pp. 412. $28.00 (pb). ISBN 0-8028-3986-X.

Basson, A.F. and W.J. Dominik (edd.), Literature, Art, History: Studies on Classical Antiquity and Tradition. In Honour of W.J. Henderson. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. xi, 355. €128.00 (pb). ISBN 3-631-36837-2.

Berkin, Jon, The Orientalizing Bucchero from the Lower Building at Poggio Civitate (Murlo). Archaeological Institute of America, Monographs New Series, no. 6. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (distributed by Oxbow Books in U.K., David Brown Book Company in U.S.), 2003. Pp. 200; 31 b/w figs., 25 b/w pls., 13 tables. $45.00. ISBN 1-931909-03-2.

Braund, Susanna and Glenn W. Most (edd.), Ancient Anger. Perspectives from Homer to Galen. Yale Classical Studies 32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 325. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-82625-X.

Celenza, Christopher S., The Lost Italian Renaissance. Humanists, Historians, and Latin’s Legacy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. 232. $45.00. ISBN 0-8018-7815-2.

Cipolla, Paolo, Poeti minori del dramma satiresco. Testo critico, traduzione e commento. Supplementi di Lexis, 23. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2003. Pp. 445. ISBN 90-256-1179-6.

Criniti, Nicola (ed.), Ager Veleias. Tradizione, società e territorio sull’Appennino Piacentino (con nuova edizione e traduzione della Tabula Alimentaria di Veleia). Parma: La Pilotta Editrice, 2003. Pp. 387. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7532-071-3.

Dalby, Andrew, Bacchus. A Biography. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2003. Pp. 166; ills. 18. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-89236-742-3.

Deming, Will, Paul on Marriage and Celibacy. The Hellenistic Background of 1 Corinthians 7. Second Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans 2004. Pp. xxii, 271. $28.00 (pb). ISBN 0-8028-3989-4.

Dillon, John and Lloyd P. Gerson, Neoplatonic Philosophy. Introductory Readings. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004. Pp. 373. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-707-2.

Doonan, Owen P., Sinop Landscapes. Exploring Connection in a Black Sea Hinterland. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004. Pp. 211; figs. 97, tables 14. $39.95. ISBN 0-931707-65-0.

Dunn, James D.G. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to St Paul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 301. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-78155-8.

Evers, Cécile and Athena Tsingarida (edd.), Rome et ses provinces. Genèse et diffusion d’une image du pouvoir. Hommages à Jean-Charles Balty. Lucernae Novantiquae. Bruxelles: Le Livre Timperman, 2002. Pp. 302. £44.50 (pb). ISBN 90-71868-56-7.

Fine, Gail, Plato on Knowledge and Forms. Selected Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 464. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-924559-2.

Freely, John and Ahmet S. Cakmak, Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 322. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-77257-5.

GAIA. Revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grèce archaïque. Numéro 7 (2003). Actes du colloque “Homère virtuel” à Grenoble, novembre 2002. Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3. Pp. 652. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 2-912935-05-9.

Gippert, Susanne, Joseph Addison’s Ovid. An Adaptation of the Metamorphoses in the Augustan Age of English Literature. Die Antike und ihr Weiterleben, 5. Remscheid: Gardez! Verlag, 2003. Pp. 304. €33.00 (pb). ISBN 3-89796-120-2.

Goldhill, Simon, Aeschylus. The Oresteia. A Student’s Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 95. $15.00 (pb). ISBN 0-521-53981-1.

Guglielmo, Marcella and Edoardo Bona (edd.), Forme di comunicazione nel mondo antico e metamorfosi del mito: dal teatro al romanzo. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2003. Pp. 336. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7694-692-6.

Hall, Edith, Fiona Macintosh and Amanda Wrigley (edd.), Dionysus since 69. Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 504. $110.00. ISBN 0-19-925914-3.

Holzberg, Niklas, Applaus für Venus. Die 100 schönsten Liebesgedichte der Antike. München: C.H. Beck, 2004. Pp. 173. €15.40. ISBN 3-406-51502-9.

Johnson, Robert Bowie, Jr., The Parthenon Code: Mankind’s History in Marble. Annapolis, MD: Solving Light Books, 2004. Pp. 288. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-9705438-3-2.

Kaldellis, Anthony, Procopius of Caesarea. Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 320. $49.95. ISBN 0-8122-3787-0.

Le Roy, Julien-David, The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments in Greece. Translated by David Britt. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Pp. 568; ills. 101. $60.00 (pb). ISBN 0-89236-669-9.

Martos, Juan, Apuleyo de Madauros. Las metamorfosis o El asno de oro. Introduccin, texto latino, traduccin y notas. 2 volumes. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas, 2003. Pp. clv, 68; 226. ISBN 84-00-08187-0.

Minamikawa, Takashi (ed.), Material Culture, Mentality and Historical Identity in the Ancient World. Understanding the Celts, Greeks, Romans and the Modern Europeans. Proceedings of the First International Conference for the Study of European Identity from a Historical Perspective in September 2003. Kyoto: Kyoto University, 2004. Pp. 68. ISBN 4-9901929-0-7.

Morstein-Marx, Robert, Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 313. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-82327-7.

Mossé, Claude, Alexander. Destiny and Myth. Originally published in French in 2001 as Alexandre: La destinée d’un mythe. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. 244. $21.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8018-7996-5.

Murray, Penelope and Peter Wilson (edd.), Music and the Muses. The Culture of Mousike in the Classical Athenian City. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 456. $115.00. ISBN 0-19-924239-9.

Nagle, Betty Rose (trans.), The Silvae of Statius. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004. Pp. 256. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-253-21667-2.

Nannini, Simonetta, Analogia e polarità in similitudine. Paragoni iliadici e odissiaci a confronto. Supplementi di Lexis, 21. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2003. Pp. 140. ISBN 90-256-1180-X.

Neri, Camillo, Erinna. Testimonianze e Frammenti. Eikasmos, Studi, 9. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2003. Pp. 715; pls. 4. €46.00 (pb). ISBN 88-555-2715-0.

Pharos. Journal of the Netherlands Institute in Athens. Volume X (2002). Assen: Van Gorcum, 2004. Pp. viii, 180. €30.00 (pb). ISSN 1380-2240.

Plant, I.M. (ed.), Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome. An Anthology. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Pp. 304. $21.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8061-3622-7.

Radicke, Jan, Lucan poetische Technik. Studien zum historischen Epos. Mnemosyne Suppl. 249. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. xiv, 586. €85.00. ISBN 90-04-13745-9.

Reinders, H. Reinder (ed.), Prehistoric Sites at the Almirós and Soúrpi Plains (Thessaly, Greece). Publications of the Netherlands Institute of Athens. Assen: Van Gorcum, 2004. Pp. vi, 158. €24.95 (pb). ISBN 90-232-4026-X.

Reinhardt, Tobias (ed.), Cicero’s Topica. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 356. $115.00. ISBN 0-19-926346-9.

Rhoby, Andreas, Reminiszenzen an antike Stätten in der mittel- und spätbyzantinischen Literatur. Eine Untersuchung zur Antikenrezeption in Byzanz. Göttinger Studien zur byzantinischen und neugriechischen Philologie, Bd. 1. Göttingen: Peust & Gutschmidt, 2003. Pp. 270. €24.80 (pb). ISBN 3-933043-11-5.

Rhodes, P.J. and Robin Osborne, Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 632. $175.00. ISBN 0-19-815313-9.

Rieger, Anna-Katharina, Heiligtümer in Ostia. Studien zur antiken Stadt, 8. München: Pfeil, 2004. Pp. 320; ills. €ISBN 3-89937-042-2.

Sedley, David (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. XXV (Winter 2003). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 392. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-926825-8.

Sehlmeyer, Markus (trans.), Origo Gentis Romanae. Texte zur Forschung, 82. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgessellschaft, 2004. Pp. 176. €34.90. ISBN 3-534-16433-4.

Smith, Martin Ferguson, Supplement to Diogenes of Oinoanda The Epicurean Inscription. Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici. La Scuola di Epicuro. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2003. Pp. 156; figs. 6. ISBN 88-7088-441-4.

Solin, Heikki, Die griechischen Personennamen in Rom. Zweite Auflage. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2003. Pp. 1716. €278.00. ISBN 3-11-015244-4.

Sonderegger, Erwin, Proklos. Grundkurs über Einheit. Grundzüge der neuplatonischen Welt. Text, Übersetzung, Einleitung und Kommentar. Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 5. Sankt Augustin: Academia, 2004. Pp. 280. €34.50 (pb). ISBN 3-89665-270-2.

Stein, Gabriele, Mutter – Tochter – Geliebte. Weibliche Rollenkonflikte bei Ovid. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 214. €82.00. ISBN 3-598-77816-3.

Stewart, Peter, Roman Art. Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics, no. 34. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 155. $12.99 (pb). ISBN 0-19-852081-6.

Storey, Ian C., Eupolis. Poet of Old Comedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 456. $115.00. ISBN 0-19-925992-5.

Struck, Peter T., Birth of the Symbol. Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. 312. $39.50. ISBN 0-691-11697-0.

Tsingarida, Athena and Donna Kurtz (edd.), Appropriating Antiquity. Saisir l’Antique. Collections et collectionneurs d’antiques en Belgique et en Grande-Bretagne au XIX e siècle. Bruxelles: Le Livre Timperman, 2002. Pp. 359. £44.50 (pb). ISBN 90-71868-73-7.

Walker, Henry John (trans.), Valerius Maximus. Memorable Deeds and Sayings. One Thousand Tales from Ancient Rome. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004. Pp. 361. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-674-2.