BMCR 2005.02.01

BMCR Books Received (January)

Aldrete, Gregory S., Daily Life in the Roman City. Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia. The Greenwood Press ‘Daily Life Through History’ Series. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. Pp. 278. $49.95. ISBN 0-313-33174-X.

Amato, E., et al. (edd.), Primum legere. Annuario delle Attività della Delegazione della Valle del Sarno dell’AICC. II (2003). Sarno: A.I.C.C. – Delegazione della Valle del Sarno, 2003. Pp. 316. ISBN 88-88123-08-3.

Ambrose, Z. Philip (trans.), Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Focus Classical Library. Newburyport, MA: Focus, 2005. Pp. 460. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58510-103-6.

Amodio, Mark C., Writing the Oral Tradition. Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Pp. 320. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 0-268-02024-8.

Barber, Kimberly Anne, Rhetoric in Cicero’s Pro Balbo. An Interpretation. Series ‘Studies in Classics’. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 158. $65.00. ISBN 0-415-96995-6.

Barnouw, Jeffrey, Odysseus, Hero of Practical Intelligence. Deliberation and Signs in Homer’s Odyssey. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004. Pp. 388. $49.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7618-3026-X.

Bassett, Sarah, The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 291. $85.00. ISBN 0-521-82723-X.

Borca, Federico, Confrontarsi con l’Altro. I Romani e la Germania. Milano: Lampi di stampa, 2004. Pp. 125. €14.00 (pb). ISBN 88-488-0318-0.

Borca, Federico, Luoghi, corpi, costumi. Determinismo ambientale ed etnografia antica. Terre acque montagne, 5. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2003. Pp. 161. €20.50 (pb). ISBN 88-8498-108-5.

Burn, Lucilla, Hellenistic Art from Alexander the Great to Augustus. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2005. Pp. 192; ills. 108. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-89236-776-8..

Butrica, James L., et al. (edd.), Mouseion. Journal of the Classical Association of Canada, formerly, Echos du Monde Classique. XLVIII – Series III, Vol. 4, 2004 No. 1. Pp. 106. $25.00 (pb). ISSN 1496-9343.

Campbell, Brian, Greek and Roman Military Writers. Selected Readings. Routledge Classical Translations. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 231. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-28547-X.

Christiansen, Erik, Coinage in Roman Egypt. The Hoard Evidence. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2004. Pp. 208. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 87-7288-964-0.

Clark, Gillian, Christianity and Roman Society. Series ‘Key Themes in Ancient History’. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 137. $24.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-63386-9.

Clausen, W.V., and J.E.G. Zetzel (edd.), Commentum Cornuti in Persium. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 201. €62.00. ISBN 3-598-71578-1.

Clay, Diskin (trans.), Euripides. The Trojan Women. Focus Classical Library. Newburyport, MA: Focus, 2005. Pp. 122. $8.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58510-111-7.

Cordero, Néstor-Luis, By Being, It is. The Thesis of Parmenides. Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing (distributed by the University of Chicago Press), 2004. Pp. 215. $28.00. ISBN 1-930972-03-2.

Csapo, Eric, Theories of Mythology.“Ancient Cultures” Series. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. 338. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 0-631-23248-6.

Curd, Patricia, The Legacy of Parmenides. Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought. Originally published in 1998. Reprint with a new introduction. Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2004. Pp. 309. $22.00 (pb). ISBN 1-930972-15-6.

d’Alessandro, Paolo (ed.), Rufini Antiochensis Commentaria in metra Terentiana et de compositione et de numeris oratorum. Collectanea Grammatica Latina, 3. Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2004. Pp. 224. €29.80 (pb). ISBN 3-487-12752-0.

Davis, Theodore M., The Tomb of Hâtshopsîtû. Duckworth Egyptology. First published in 1906. Reprint. London: Duckworth, 2005. Pp. 128. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3125-X.

Edwards, Douglas R. (ed.), Religion and Society in Roman Palestine. Old Questions, New Approaches. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 194. $87.50. ISBN 0-415-30597-7.

Eiring, Jonas, and Jrgen Mejer (edd.), Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens IV. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2004. Pp. 258. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 87-7288-724-9.

Fantham, Elaine, The Roman World of Cicero’s De oratore. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 354. $120.00. ISBN 0-19-926315-9.

Fiedler, Martin (edd.), Kommentar zu V. 367-746 von Aviens. Neugestaltung der Phainomena Arats. BzA 211. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 342. €96.00. ISBN 3-598-77823-6.

Frank, Jill, A Democracy of Distinction. Aristotle and the Work of Politics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 208. $19.00 (pb). ISBN 0-226-26019-4.

Garrison, Daniel H., The Student’s Catullus. Third edition. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Pp. 256; maps 3. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8061-3635-9.

Gentili, Bruno (ed.), Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica. N.S. 77, 2 (2004). Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2004. Pp. 172. ISSN 0033-4987.

Gibson, Sophie, Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology. Studies in Classics. London/New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 264. $70.00. ISBN 0-415-97061-X.

Giuliano, Fabio Massimo, Studi di letteratura greca. Biblioteca di Studi Antichi, 87. Pisa: Giardini Editori e Stampatori in Pisa, 2004. Pp. 433. €95.00 (pb). ISBN 88-427-1385-6.

Grainger, John D., Nerva and the Roman Succession Crisis of AD 96-99. Reprint with Corrections. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 162. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-34958-3.

Hall, Linda Jones, Roman Berytus. Beirut in Late Antiquity. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 375. $95.00. ISBN 0-415-28919-X.

Harrison, Stephen (ed.), A Companion to Latin Literature. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. 450. $99.95. ISBN 0-631-23529-9.

Hawhee, Debra, Bodily Arts. Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005. Pp. 256; ills. 24. $40.00. ISBN 0-292-70584-0.

Hayes, Thomas E. (ed.), The Adventures of the Monkey Pilosus Naso. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2005. Pp. 220. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-497-5.

Hemelrijk, Emily A., Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna. First published in 1999. Paperback edition. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 382. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-34127-2.

Henig, Martin, Roman Sculpture from the North West Midlands. Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani, Great Britain, Vol. I, Fasc. 9. Oxford: published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 66; pls. 52. $135.00. ISBN 0-19-726290-2.

Hill, Timothy D., Ambitiosa Mors. Suicide and Self in Roman Thought and Literature. Series ‘Studies in Classics’. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 335. $80.00. ISBN 0-415-97097-0.

Hine, Daryl (trans.), Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns: Works and Days, Theogony, The Homeric Hymns, The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 219. $35.00. ISBN 0-226-32965-8.

Hofmann, Heinz (ed.), Latin Fiction. The Latin Novel in Context. First published in 1999. Paperback edition. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 277. $31.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-14722-0.

Horstmanshoff, H.F.J., and M. Stol (edd.), Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine. Studies in Ancient Medicine, 27. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 407. $110.00. ISBN 90-04-13666-5.

Johnson, Sara Raup, Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity. Third Maccabees in its Cultural Context. Hellenistic Culture and Society, 43. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. 253. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-23307-7.

Jourdan, Fabienne (trans.), Le papyrus de Derveni. Collection ‘Verité des mythes’. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2003. Pp. 166. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-32434-8.

Konrad, C.F. (ed.), Augusto augurio. Rerum humanarum et divinarum commentationes in honorem Jerzy Linderski. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. 203. €36.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08578-5.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek-English Lexicon. With Revised Supplement (1996). Logos Bible Software Series X. Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, 2005. CD-Rom. $145.00.

Livingston, Ivy, A Linguistic Commentary on Livius Andronicus. Series ‘Studies in Classics’. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 95. $65.00. ISBN 0-415-96899-2.

López Barja de Quiroga, Pedro, and Francisco Javier Lomas Salmonte, Historia de Roma. Akal Textos, 31. Madrid: Ediciones Akal, 2004. Pp. 700. €36.00 (pb). ISBN 84-460-1225-1.

Lupu, Eran, Greek Sacred Law. A Collection of New Documents (NGSL). Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 152. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 499; pls. 34. €118.00. ISBN 90-04-13959-1.

Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Athens: Its Rise and Fall. Bicentenary edition, edited by Oswyn Murray. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 610. $120.00. ISBN 0-415-32087-9.

Mackay, Christopher S., Ancient Rome. A Military and Political History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 400. $35.00. ISBN 0-521-80918-5.

Mattusch, Carol G., The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Garden. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2005. Pp. 416; ills. 500, maps 3. $85.00. ISBN 0-89236-722-9.

Mauerhofer, Kenneth, Der Hylas-Mythos in der antiken Literatur. BzA 208. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 485. €88.00. ISBN 3-598-77820-1.

Meier, Mischa, Barbara Patzek, Uwe Walter, and Josef Wiesehöfer, Deiokes, König der Meder. Eine Herodot-Episode in ihren Kontexten. Oriens et Occidens 7. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. 99. €28.00. ISBN 3-515-08585-8.

Meijer, Fik, Emperors don’t die in bed. First published in 2001 by Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep (Amsterdam). Translated by S.J. Leinbach. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 183. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-31202-7.

Merkelbach, Reinhold, and Josef Stauber (edd.), Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten. Band 5: Register. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 341. €92.00. ISBN 3-598-73008-X.

Miller, Mitchell, The Philosopher in Plato’s Statesman: together with “Dialectical education and unwritten teachings in Plato’s Statesman. Originally published in 1980 and 1999. Reprint with new preface. Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2004. Pp. 186. $20.00 (pb). ISBN 1-930972-16-4.

Mueller, Ian (trans.), Simplicius. On Aristotle’s On the Heavens 2.1-9. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. 224. $75.00. ISBN 0-8014-4102-1.

Mueller-Goldingen, Christian, Das Kleine und das Große. Essays zur antiken Kultur und Geistesgeschichte. BzA 213. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 162. €86.00. ISBN 3-598-77825-2.

Muellner, Leonard, The Anger of Achilles. Mnis in Greek Epic. Series “Myth and Poetics”. First published in 1996. Paperback edition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. 219. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8995-4.

Odahl, Charles Matson, Constantine and the Christian Empire. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 400. $104.95. ISBN 0-415-17485-6.

Osborne, Robin, Greek History. Series ‘Classical Foundations’. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 175. $17.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-31718-5.

Pache, Corinne Ondine, Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece. Series ‘Traditions’. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. 234. $40.00. ISBN 0-252-02929-1.

Pagán, Victoria Emma, Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005. Pp. 208. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-70561-1.

Renfrew, Jane, Roman Cookery. Recipes & History. With a Foreword by Loyd Grossman. First published in 1985. Revised edition. London: English Heritage, 2004. Pp. 96. $12.95. ISBN 1-85074-870-5.

Sauer, Eberhard W. (ed.), Archaeology and Ancient History. Breaking down the Boundaries. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 206. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-30201-3.

Schauer, Markus, Tragisches Klagen. Form und Funktion der Klagedarstellung bei Aischylos, Sophokles, und Euripides. Classica Monacensia, 26. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2004. Pp. 381. €54.00 (pb). ISBN 3-8233-4885-X.

Schmale, Michaela, Bilderreigen und Erzähllabyrinth. Catulls Carmen 64. BzA 212. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 307. €88.00. ISBN 3-598-77824-4.

Seager, Robin, Tiberius. Second edition. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. 310. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-1529-7.

Skinner, Marilyn B., Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture. Series ‘Ancient Cultures’. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. 343. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-631-23234-6.

Smith, Andrew, Philosophy in Late Antiquity. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 151. $26.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-22511-6.

Snell, Daniel C. (ed.), A Companion to the Ancient Near East. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. 504. $124.95. ISBN 0-631-23293-1.

Sonnabend, Holger, Thukydides. Studienbücher Antike, 13. Hildesheim: Olms, 2004. Pp. 140. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 3-487-12787-3.

Starkey, Kathryn, Reading the Medieval Book. Word, Image, and Performance in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Willehalm. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. Pp. 256. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 0-268-04109-1.

Stone, Jon R., The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations. The Illiterati’s Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs, and Sayings. London/New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 224. $17.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-96909-3.

Trépanier, Simon, Empedocles. An Interpretation. Series ‘Studies in Classics.’ London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 289. $85.00. ISBN 0-415-96700-7.

Trundle, Matthew, Greek Mercenaries from the Late Archaic Period to Alexander. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 196. $87.50. ISBN 0-415-33812-3.

van Kooten, George H., The Creation of Heaven and Earth. Re-interpretations of Genesis I in the Context of Judaism, Ancient Philosophy, Christianity, and Modern Physics. Themes in Biblical Narrative, 8. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 284. €109.00. ISBN 90-04-14235-5.

van Wijngaarden, G.J., et al. (edd.), Pharos. Journal of the Netherlands Institute in Athens. Volume XI (2003). Assen: van Gorcum, 2005. Pp. 160. €30.00 (pb). ISSN 1380-2240.

Vössing, Konrad, Mensa Regia. Das Bankett beim hellenistischen König und beim römischen Kaiser. BzA 193. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 627; pls. 13. €110.00. ISBN 3-598-77805-8.

Walker, Keith G., Archaic Eretria. A Political and Social History from the Earliest Times to 490 BC. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 348. $114.95. ISBN 0-415-28552-6.

Wallace, Rex E. (ed.), An Introduction to Wall Inscriptions from Pompeii and Herculaneum. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2005. Pp. 136. $29.00 (pb). ISBN 0-86516-570-X.

Whitehead, David, and P.H. Blyth, Athenaeus Mechanicus, On Machines. Translated with Introduction and Commentary. Historia Einzelschriften, 182. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Pp. 236. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08532-7.

Whittaker, C.R., Rome and its Frontiers. The Dynamics of Empire. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 246. $96.95. ISBN 0-415-31200-0.

Younger, John G., Sex in the Ancient World, from A to Z. London/New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 217. $79.00. ISBN 0-415-24252-5.

Zahle, Jan, and Kjeld Kjeldsen, The Maussoleion at Halikarnassos. Reports of the Danish Archaeological Expedition to Bodrum. Volume 6: Subterranean and Pre-Maussollan Structures on the Site of the Maussolleion. Jutland Archaeological Society Publications XV: 6, 2004. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2004. Pp. 243; pls. 12. ISBN 87-88415-16-3.

Zgoll, Christian, Phänomenologie der Metamorphose. Verwandlungen und Verwandtes in der augusteischen Dichtung. Classica Monacensia, 28. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2004. Pp. 405. €68.00 (pb). ISBN 3-8233-6025-6.