BMCR 2004.11.01

BMCR Books Received (October)

Athanassakis, Apostolos N. (trans.), Hesiod. Theogony, Works and Days, Shield. Second Edition. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. 163. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8018-7984-1.

Athanassakis, Apostolos N. (trans.), The Homeric Poems. Second Edition. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. 106. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8018-7983-3.

Azoulay, Vincent, Xénophon et les grâces du pouvoir. De la charis au charisme. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2004. Pp. 511. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 2-85944-509-9.

Bagg, Robert (trans.), The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles. Introductions and Notes by Robert Bagg and Mary Bagg. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. Pp. 304. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 1-55849-454-5.

Baumbach, Jens David, The Significance of Votive Offerings in Selected Hera Sanctuaries in the Peloponnese, Ionia, and Western Greece. BAR International Series 1249. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004. Pp. 212. £35.00 (pb). ISBN 1-84171-609-X.

Bearzot, Cinzia, Federalismo e autonomia nelle Elleniche di Senofonte. Storia. Ricerche. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2004. Pp. 176. €14.00 (pb). ISBN 88-343-1113-2.

Bearzot, Cinzia, and Franca Landucci (edd.), Contro le ‘leggi immutabili’. Gli Spartani fra tradizione e innovazione. Contributi di Storia Antica, 2. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2004. Pp. 207. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-343-1985-0.

Bearzot, Cinzia, Franca Landucci, and Giuseppe Zecchini (edd.), Gli stati territoriali nel mondo antico. Contributi di Storia Antica (già Contributi dell’Istituto di Storia Antica), 1. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2003. Pp. 355. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 88-343-1003-9.

Berneder, Helmut, Magna Mater-Kult und Sibyllinen. Kulttransfer und annalistische Geschichtfiktion. Innsbruker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, Sonderheft 119. Innsbruck: Institut fuer Sprachen und Literaturen der Universitaet Innsbruck, 2004. Pp. 185. ISBN 3-85124-212-2.

Boatwright, Mary T., Daniel J. Gargola, and Richard J.A. Talbert, The Romans from Village to Empire. A History of Ancient Rome from Earliest Times to Constantine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 516. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-511876-6.

Bonnard, Jean-Baptiste, Le Complexe de Zeus. Représentations de la paternité en Grèce ancienne. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2004. Pp. 254. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 2-85944-508-0.

Boshnakov, Konstantin, Pseudo-Skymnos (Semos von Delos?). Palingenesia, 82. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. 268. €48.00. ISBN 3-515-08393-6.

Boustan, Ra’anan S., and Annette Yoshiko Reed (edd.), Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 335. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-83102-4.

Braund, Susanna Morton (trans.), Juvenal and Persius. Loeb Classical Library 91. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 536. $21.50. ISBN 0-674-99612-7.

Brisson, Luc, and Jean-François Pradeau (edd.), Études platoniciennes. Annuaire européen d’études platoniciennes. Volume 1 (2004). Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2004. Pp. 348. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-44265-0.

Brodersen, Kai (ed.), Crimina. Die Antike im modernen Kriminalroman. München: Verlag Antike, 2004. Pp. 239. €29.90. ISBN 3-938032-03-0.

Burkert, Walter, Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis. Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 178. $22.95. ISBN 0-674-01489-8.

Burridge, Richard A., What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography. Second Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans 2004. Pp. xiv, 366. $34.00 (pb). ISBN 0-8028-0971-5.

Callebat, Louis (ed.), Vitruve. De Architectura. Livre VI. Collection Budé. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2004. Pp. 254. €39.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-01437-3.

Cameron, Alan, Greek Mythography in the Roman World. APA American Classical Studies, 48. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 346. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-517121-7.

Christie, Neil (ed.), Landscapes of Change. Rural Evolutions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. 324. $84.95. ISBN 1-84014-617-6.

Cooper, John M., Knowledge, Nature, and the Good. Essays on Ancient Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. 400. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-691-11724-1.

Dillon, John M., Morality and Custom in Ancient Greece. First published in the UK in 2004 by Edinburgh University Press. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004. Pp. 217. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-253-21747-4.

Dinsmoor, William B., and William B. Dinsmoor, Jr., The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis. Volume II: The Classical Building. Edited by Anastasia Norre Dinsmoor. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004. Pp. 486; figs. 211, pls. 9, folded drawings 11. $125.00. ISBN 0-87661-941-3.

Doering, E. Jane and Eric O. Springsted (edd.), The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Pp. 264. $27.50 (pb). ISBN 0-268-02565-7.

Döring, Klaus (trans.), [Plato]. Theages. Platon Werke, V 1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004. Pp. 93. €29.90. ISBN 3-525-30416-1.

Edmonds, Radcliffe, III, Myths of the Underworld Journey. Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 276. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-83434-1.

Erasmo, Mario, Roman Tragedy. Theater to Theatricality. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. Pp. 224. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-70242-6.

Esposito, Paolo, and Enrico M. Ariemma (edd.), Lucano e la tradizione dell’epica latina. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi. Fisciano-Salerno, 19-20 ottobre 2001. Università degli Studi di Salerno. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità. Napoli: Guida, 2004. Pp. 203. €16.70 (pb). ISBN 88-7188-834-0.

Fantham, Elaine, Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 178. $15.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-515410-X.

Fontana, Benedetto, Cary J. Nederman, and Gary Remer (edd.), Talking Democracy. Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2004. Pp. 337. $55.00. ISBN 0-271-02456-9.

Foucault, Jules de (ed.), Polybe. Histoires, tome III – livre III. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée, traduction d’Eric Foulon et commentaire de Michel Molin. Collection Budé. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2004. Pp. 298. €59.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-00520-X.

Gauly, Bardo Maria, Senecas Naturales Quaestiones. Naturphilosophie für die römische Kaiserzeit. Zetemata, 122. München: C.H. Beck, 2004. Pp. 303. €64.00 (pb). ISBN 3-406-52348-X.

Godwin, John, Lucretius.“Ancient in Action” Series. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2004. Pp. 141. £10.99 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-671-8.

Goldhill, Simon, Love, Sex, Tragedy. How the Ancient World Shapes our Lives. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 336. $27.50. ISBN 0-226-30117-6.

Green, Steven J. (comm.), Ovid, Fasti 1. A Commentary. Mnemosyne, Suppl. 251. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. 365. €90.00. ISBN 90-04-13985-0.

Gruen, Erich S., Diaspora. Jews amidst Greek and Romans. First published in 2002. Paperback edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 386. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01606-8.

Hägg, Tomas, Parthenope. Studies in Ancient Greek Fiction. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004. Pp. 493. $58.00. ISBN 87-7289-907-7.

Hahn, Johannes, Gewalt und religiöser Konflikt. Studien zu den Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Christen, Heiden und Juden im Osten des Römischen Reiches (von Konstantin bis Theodosius II.). Klio. Beihefte, 8. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2004. Pp. 348. €69.80. ISBN 3-05-003760-1.

Hankins, James (trans.), Leonardo Bruni. History of the Florentine People. Volume 2, Books V-VIII. I Tatti Renaissance Library, 16. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 584; 2 maps. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01066-3.

Hanson, W.S. and I.P. Haynes (edd.), Roman Dacia. The Making of a Provincial Society. JRA Suppl. 56. Portsmouth, RI: JRA, 2004. Pp. 190. $79.50. ISBN 1-887829-56-3.

Heath, Malcolm, Menander. A Rhetor in Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 374. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-925920-8.

Hunter, Richard, Plato’s Symposium. Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 150. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-19-516080-0.

Hurley, Amanda Kolson, Catullus.“Ancient in Action” Series. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2004. Pp. 158. £10.99 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-669-6.

Imperio, Olimpia, Parabasi di Aristofane. Acarnesi, Cavalieri, Vespe, Uccelli. Studi e commenti, 13. Bari: Adriatica Editrice, 2004. Pp. 448. €23.00 (pb). ISBN

Johansen, T.K., Plato’s Natural Philosophy. A Study of the Timaeus-Critias. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 218. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-79067-0.

Jouan, François (ed.), Euripide. Tragédies. Rhésos. Collection Budé. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2004. Pp. 80. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-00519-6.

Kessler, Edward, Bound by the Bible. Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 222. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-83542-9.

Krause, Jens-Uwe, Kriminalgeschichte der Antike. München: C.H. Beck, 2004. Pp. 228. €24.90. ISBN 3-406-52240-8.

Landucci Gattinoni, Franca, L’arte del potere. Vita e opere di Cassandro di Macedonia. Historia Einzelschriften, 171. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. Pp. 184. €36.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08381-2.

Leighton, Robert, Tarquinia. An Etruscan City.“Duckworth Archaeological Histories” Series. London: Duckworth, 2004. Pp. 218. £16.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3162-4.

Lelli, Emanuele, Critica e polemiche letterarie nei Giambi di Callimaco. Hellenica, 13. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2004. Pp. 156. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7694-745-0.

Lendering, Jona, Alexander de Grote. De ondergang van het Perzische rijk. Amsterdam: Athenaeum – Polak & Van Gennep, 2004. Pp. 404; map. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 90-253-3144-0.

Liverani, Mario, Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography. Edited and Introduced by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van de Mieroop. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. 214. $75.00. ISBN 0-8014-4333-4.

Luchner, Katharina, Philiatroi. Studien zum Thema der Krankheit in der griechischen Literatur der Kaiserzeit. Hypomnemata 156. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004. Pp. 462. ISBN 3-525-25255-2.

Luther, Andreas, Könige und Ephoren. Untersuchungen zur spartanischen Verfassungsgeschichte. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, Bd. 2. München: Verlag Antike, 2004. Pp. 159. €24.90. ISBN 3-938032-01-4.

MacKinnon, Michael, Production and Consumption of Animals in Roman Italy: Integrating the Zooarchaeological and Textual Evidence. JRA Suppl. 54. Portsmouth, RI: JRA, 2004. Pp. 264; tables 61, figs. 23. $79.50. ISBN 1-887829-54-7.

Maronitis, D.N., Homeric Megathemes. War-Homilia-Homecoming. Translated by David Connolly. “Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches” Series. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004. Pp. 200. $70.00. ISBN 0-7391-0883-2.

Martin, Dale B., Inventing Superstition. From the Hippocratics to the Christians. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 307. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01534-7.

Martindale, Charles, and A.B. Taylor (edd.), Shakespeare and the Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 319. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-82345-5.

Penner, Todd, In Praise of Christian Origins. Stephen and the Hellenists in Lukan Apologetic Historiography. Emory Studies in Early Christianity. New York: T & T Clark, 2004. Pp. 400. $65.00. ISBN 0-5670-2620-5.

Powell, Jonathan and Jeremy Paterson (ed.), Cicero the Advocate. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 448. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-815280-9.

Ramelli, Ilaria, and Giulio Lucchetta, Allegoria. Volume I: L’età classica. Introduzione e cura di Roberto Radice. Temi metafisici e problemi del pensiero antico. Studi e testi, 98. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2004. Pp. 550. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 88-343-5007-3.

Reeve, C.D.C. (trans.), Plato. Republic. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004. Pp. 392. $9.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-736-6.

Rochberg, Francesca, The Heavenly Writing. Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 331. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-83010-9.

Salzman, Michele Renee, The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire. First published in 2002. Paperback edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 354. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01603-3.

Schleiermacher, F.D.E., Introductions aux dialogues de Platon (1804-1828). Leçons d’histoire de la philosophie (1819-1823). Suivies des textes de Friedrich Schlegel relatifs à Platon. Traduction et introduction par Marie-Dominique Richard. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2004. Pp. 579. €49.00 (pb). ISBN 2-204-07199-4.

Seelentag, Gunnar, Taten und Tugenden Traians. Herrschaftsdarstellung im Principat. Hermes Einzelschriften, Bd. 91. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. 556. €80.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08539-4.

Sluiter, Ineke, and Ralph M. Rosen (edd.), Free Speech in Classical Antiquity. Mnemosyne, Suppl. 254. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. 450. €120.00. ISBN 90-04-13925-7.

Steel, Louise, Cyprus before History. From the Earliest Settlers to the End of the Bronze Age. London: Duckworth, 2004. Pp. 279. £18.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3164-0.

Steinhart, Matthias, Die Kunst der Nachahmung. Darstellungen mimetischer Vorführungen in der griechischen Bildkunst archaischer und klassischer Zeit. Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 2004. Pp. 154; pls. 48. €86.00. ISBN 3-8053-3338-2.

Urbainczyk, Theresa, Spartacus.“Ancient in Action” Series. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2004. Pp. 144. £10.99 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-668-8.

van Wees, Hans, Greek Warfare. Myths and Realities. London: Duckworth, 2004. Pp. 349. £20.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-2967-0.

Walter, Uwe, Memoria und res publica. Zur Geschichtskultur im republikanischen Rom. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, Bd. 1. München: Verlag Antike, 2004. Pp. 478. €49.90. ISBN 3-938032-00-6.

Woodard, Roger D., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 1162. $160.00. ISBN 0-521-56256-2.

Woodman, A.J. (trans.), Tacitus. Annals. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004. Pp. 448. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-558-4.