BMCR 2004.08.01

BMCR Books Received (July)

Alcock, Susan E. and John F. Cherry (edd.), Side-by-Side Survey. Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2004. Pp. 251. $80.00. ISBN 1-84217-096-1.

Allen, Michael J.B. and James Hankins (ed.), Marsilio Ficino. Platonic Theology. Volume 4: Books XII-XIV. I Tatti Renaissance Library, 13. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 371. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01482-0.

Allison, Penelope M. and Frank B. Sear (edd.), Casa della Caccia antica (VII 4, 48). Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Häuser in Pompeji, Band 11. München: Hirmer, 2002. Pp. 104; pls. 63. €128.00. ISBN 3-7774-8820-8.

Ancona, Ronnie, Writing Passion. A Catullus Reader. Latin Text, Notes, Vocabulary. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2004. Pp. xxxviii, 262; ills. 6. $29.50 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-482-7.

Bartels, Annette, Vergleichende Studien zur Erzählkunst des römischen Epyllion. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft. Beihefte. Band 14. Göttingen: Duehrkohp & Radicke, 2004. Pp. 244. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 3-89744-228-0.

Belozerskaya, Marina and Kenneth Lapatin, Ancient Greece. Art, Architecture, and History. First published in Italian (Milan 2001). Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Pp. 144; ills. 310, map 1. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-89236-695-8.

Bender, Henry and Phyllis Forsyth, Catullus for the AP: A Supplement to Bender and Forsyth’s 1998 volume, includes the nine poems added to the 2004-2005 Catullan syllabus. Student Text. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2004. Pp. 64. $9.00 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-575-0.

Bender, Henry V. and David J. Califf, Poet & Artist. Imaging the Aeneid. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2004. Pp. 83 + CD-Rom. $29.00 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-585-8.

Bishop, Paul (ed.), Nietzsche and Antiquity. His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Woodbridge: Camden House, 2004. Pp. 505. $95.00. ISBN 1-57113-282-1.

Borrelli, Frederica and Maria Cristina Targia, The Etruscans. Art, Architecture, and History. First published in Italian (Milan 2003). Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Pp. 144; ills. 310, map 1. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-89236-753-9.

Brosend, William F., III, James & Jude. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 206. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81482-0.

de Ste. Croix, G.E.M., Athenian Democratic Origins and Other Essays. Edited by David Harvey and Robert Parker, with the assistance of Peter Thonemann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 472. $145.00. ISBN 0-19-925517-2.

Dee, James H., Repertorium Homericae Poiesis Hexametricum. A Repertory of the Hexameter Patterns in the Iliad and the Odyssey. Pars I: Repertorium Versuum Ordine Dispositum; Pars II: Repertorium Versuum Forma Dispositum. Alpha – Omega. Reihe A. Lexika, Indizes, Konkordanzen zur klassischen Philologie, Bd. 238. Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2004. Pp. 1004. €248.00. ISBN 3-487-12568-4.

Dunand, Françoise and Christiane Zivie-Coche, Gods and Men in Egypt. 3000 BCE to 395 CE. Originally published in French as Dieux et hommes en Egypt (Armand Colin, 2002). Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. 378. $45.00. ISBN 0-8014-4165-X.

Fantazzi, Charles (ed.), Angelo Poliziano. Silvae. I Tatti Renaissance Library, 14. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 215. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01480-4.

Golder, Herbert (ed.), Arion. Spring/Summer 2004. Third series, vol. 12, no. 1. Pp. 210. Subscription $35.00 (institutions); $19.00 (individuals); $12.00 (students). ISSN 0095-5809.

Gourdouba, Maria, Leena Pietilä-Castrén, and Esko Tikkala (edd.), The Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Periods. Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, vol. IX. Helsinki, 2004. Pp. 98; figs. 49. ISBN 951-98806-3-1.

Green, Peter, From Ikaria to the Stars. Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. 424. $55.00. ISBN 0-292-70230-2.

Grossman, Janet Burnett, Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone. A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2003. Pp. 125. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-89236-708-3.

Hayden, Barbara J., Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete. II: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004. Pp. 520; ills. 83, CD. $95.00. ISBN 1-931707-59-6.

Heimbach, Elizabeth, Latin Everywhere, Everyday. A Latin Phrase Workbook. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2004. Pp. viii, 152. $22.00 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-572-6.

Hurwit, Jeffrey M., The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 304; CD-Rom of images. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-82040-5.

Jacobelli, Luciana, Gladiators at Pompeii. Translation of Gladiatori a Pompeii (L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2003). Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2003. Pp. 128; ills. 120. $29.95. ISBN 0-89236-731-8.

Kalli, Maria K., The Manuscript Tradition of Procopius’ Gothic Wars. A Reconstruction of Family y in the Light of a hitherto Unknown Manuscript (Athos, Lavra H-73). BzA 205. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 197; pls. 16. €86.00. ISBN 3-598-77817-1.

Karakasi, Katerina, Archaic Korai. First published in German (Munich 2001). Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Pp. 470; ills. 788. $125.00. ISBN 0-89236-699-0.

Kathariou, Kleopatra, To ergastêrio tou zôgraphou tou Meleagrou kai ê epochê tou. Thessalonike: University Studio Press, 2002. Pp. 439; ills. ISBN 960-12-1143-8.

Katz, Vincent (trans.), The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius. The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. 467. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 0-691-11582-6.

Leach, Eleanor Winsor, The Social Life of Painting in Ancient Rome and on the Bay of Naples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 345. $95.00. ISBN 0-521-82600-4.

Lembke, Katja, Ägyptens späte Blüte: die Römer am Nil. Unter Mitarbeit von C. Fluck und G. Vittmann. Sonderbände der Antiken Welt. Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie. Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 2004. Pp. 131; ills. €34.80. ISBN 3-8053-3276-9.

Lieu, Judith M., Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 320. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-926289-6.

Loverance, Rowena, Byzantium. British Museum Paperbacks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 96; color ills. 64, halftones 40, maps 2. $17.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01389-1.

Macaulay, G.C. (trans.), Herodotus. The Histories. Revised throughout by Donald Lateiner. With Introduction and Notes by Donald Lateiner. Barnes & Noble Classics. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2004. Pp. 584. $6.95 (pb). ISBN 1-59308-102-2.

Mahoney, Anne (comm.), Plautus. Amphitryo. Focus Classical Commentary. Newburyport, MA: Focus, 2004. Pp. 163. ISBN 1-58510-091-9.

Maiullari, Franco, Omero anti-Omero. Le incredibili storie di un trickster guillare alla corte micenea. Filologia e critica, 91. Roma: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 2004. Pp. 269. €56.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8476-016-X.

Martos Montiel, Juan Francisco (trans.), Plutarco. Obras morales y de costumbres (Moralia) XII: Tratados antiepicreos. Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 323. Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 2004. Pp. 281. €22.00. ISBN 84-249-2714-1.

Maslankowski, Willi, Platon. Vom Gerechten, Guten und Schönen. Das Ewige als Maßstab für das Vergängliche. 2nd edn. Sankt Augustin: Academia, 2004. Pp. 216. €24.50. ISBN 3-89665-268-0.

Mayhew, Robert, The Female in Aristotle’s Biology. Reason or Rationalization. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 128. $28.00. ISBN 0-226-51200-2.

Moore, Mary B., CVA. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Greek Geometric and Protoattic Pottery. Fasc. 5 [U.S.A. Fasc. 37]. Printed in Germany by Philipp von Zabern, Mainz, 2004. Pp. xi, 98; figs. 16, pls. 56. €118.00. ISBN 3-8053-3238-6.

Murphy, Trevor, Pliny the Elder’s Natural History. The Empire in the Encyclopedia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 242. $95.00. ISBN 0-19-926288-8.

Narcy, Michel and Éric Rebillard (edd.), Hellénisme & Christianisme. Collection “Mythes, Imaginaires, Religions”. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Septentrion, 2004. Pp. 198. €21.00 (pb). ISBN 2-85939-825-2.

Natoli, Anthony Francis, The Letter of Speusippus to Philip II. Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary. Historia Einzelschriften, 176. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. 196. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08396-0.

Neri, Camillo, La lirica greca. Temi e testi. Studi Superiori, 450. Roma: Carocci editore, 2004. Pp. 309. €21.40 (pb). ISBN 88-430-2842-1.

Netz, Reviel, The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World. From Problems to Equations. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 198. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-82996-8.

Papillon, Terry L. (trans.), Isocrates II. The Oratory of Classical Athens. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. 352. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 0-292-70246-9.

Perilli, Lorenzo, Menodoto di Nicomedia. Contributo a una storia galeniana della medicia empirica. BzA 206. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 252. €88.00. ISBN 3-598-77818-X.

Phillips, David and David Pritchard (edd.), Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2003. Pp. 416. $75.00. ISBN 0-9543845-1-2.

Picone, Giusto (ed.), Dioniso. Annale della Fondazione I.N.D.A. Numero 3. Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico. Palermo: G.B. Palumbo & C. Editore, 2004. Pp. 349. €25.00. ISBN

Polito, Marina, Il doumos. Un’associazione sacra in zone di contatto. Studium Salerni. Università degli Studi di Salerno. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità. Napoli: 2004. Pp. 114. €9.00 (pb). ISBN 88-87375-74-7.

Portella, Ivana della (ed.), The Appian Way from its Foundation to the Middle Ages. Photography by Franco Mammana. First published in Italian (Verona 2003). Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Pp. 240; ills. 220. $39.95. ISBN 0-89236-752-0.

Poulakos, Takis and David Depew (edd.), Isocrates and Civic Education. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. 277. $50.00. ISBN 0-292-70219-1.

Putnam, Michael C. (ed.), Maffeo Vegio. Short Epics. I Tatti Renaissance Library, 15. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 184. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01483-9.

Rodgers, R.H. (ed.), Frontinus. De aquaeductu urbis Romae. Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 431. $100.00. ISBN 0-521-83251-9.

Roochnik, David, Retrieving the Ancients. An Introduction to Greek Philosophy. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Pp. 238. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-0862-2.

Rufener, Rudolf (trans.), Platon. Apologie, Kriton, Phaidon. Mit einer Einführung und Literaturhinweisen von Thomas Alexander Szlezák. Düsseldorf/Zürich: Artemis & Winkler, 2004. Pp. 232. €19.90. ISBN 3-7608-4109-0.

Sedley, David, The Midwife of Platonism. Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 216. $60.00. ISBN 0-19-926703-0.

Sedley, David (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Volume XXVI. Summer 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 380. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-927250-6.

Semrov, Andrej, Die Fundmünzen der römischen Zeit in Slowenien. Kommission für Geschichte des Altertums der Akadademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz and Numizmaticni Kabinet Narodnega Muzeja Slovenije, Ljubljana. Teil V. Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 2004. Pp. 538. €65.50. ISBN 3-8053-3392-7.

Shanower, Eric, Sacrifice. Age of Bronze, vol. 2. Orange, CA: Image Comics, 2004. Pp. 224. $29.95. ISBN 1-58240-360-0.

Sienkewicz, Thomas J. and LeaAnn A. Osburn, Vergil. A Legamus Transitional Reader. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2004. Pp. xxiv, 136; pullout general word list. $27.00 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-578-5.

Staccioli, Romolo Augusto, The Roads of the Romans. Translation of Strade dei Romani (L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2003). Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2003. Pp. 132; ills. 120. $29.95. ISBN 0-89236-732-6.

Stray, Christopher, The Classical Association. The First Century 1903-2003. Greece & Rome Supplement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 316. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-852874-4.

Tarrant, R.J. (ed.), P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses. Oxford Classical Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 496. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-814666-3.

Trevet, Nicola, Commento alla Medea di Seneca. Edited by Luciana Roberti. Quaderni di “Invigilata Lucernis”, 23. Bari: Edipuglia, 2004. Pp. 123. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7228-400-7.

Trevet, Nicola, Commento alla Phaedra di Seneca. Edited by Maria Chiab. Quaderni di “Invigilata Lucernis”, 22. Bari: Edipuglia, 2004. Pp. 129. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7228-393-0.

Weiß, Alexander, Sklave der Stadt. Untersuchungen zur öffentlichen Sklaverei in den Städten des Römischen Reiches. Historia Einzelschriften, 173. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. 265. €46.00. ISBN 3-515-08383-9.

Wick, Claudia, M. Annaeus Lucanus. Bellum civile. Liber IX. Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung. BzA 201. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 155. €82.00. ISBN 3-598-77813-9.

Wick, Claudia, M. Annaeus Lucanus. Bellum civile. Liber IX. Kommentar. BzA 202. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 448. €96.00. ISBN 3-598-77814-7.