BMCR 2005.09.01

BMCR Books Received (August 2005)

Adamson, Peter, Han Baltussen, and Michael Stone (edd.), Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin Commentaries. BICS Supp 83.1 & 83.2. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2005. Pp. xii, 280; x, 198. £100.00 (both volumes). ISBN 0-900587-94-6; 0-900587-95-4.

Aravantinos, Vassilis L., et al., Thèbes. Fouilles de la Cadmée. IV: Les textes de Thèbes (1-433). Translitération et tableaux des scribes. Biblioteca di “Pasiphae”. Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2005. Pp. xii, 344. €120.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8147-434-4.

Ax, Wolfram (ed.), Lateinische Lehrer Europas. Fünfzehn Portraits von Varro bis Erasmus von Rotterdam. Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2005. Pp. xvi, 431. €34.90. ISBN 3-412-14505-X.

Baltes, Matthias, Epinoêmata. Kleine Schriften zur antiken Philosophie und homerischen Dichtung. Edited by Marie-Luise Lakmann. BzA 221. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005. Pp. xxii, 329. €88.00. ISBN 3-598-77833-3.

Beagon, Mary (trans.), The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal. Natural History, Book 7. Clarendon Ancient History Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 544. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-927701-X.

Bernabé, A. (ed.), Poetae Epici Graeci. Pars II. Fasc. 2. Testimonia et fragmenta. Bibliotheca Teubneriana. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005. Pp. xxv, 553. €178.00. ISBN 3-598-71708-3.

Bonaudo, Raffaella, La culla di Hermes. Iconografia e immaginario delle hydriai ceretane. Monografie della Rivista “Archaeologia Classica,” 1. Roma: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2004. Pp. 329. €175.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8265-264-5.

Brandenburg, Philipp, Apollonios Dyskolos. Über das Pronomen. Einführung, Text, Übersetzung und Erläuterungen. BzA 222. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005. Pp. 676. €120.00. ISBN 3-598-77834-1.

Buell, Denise Kimber, Why This New Race. Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. 288. $45.00. ISBN 0-231-13334-0.

Bührer-Thierry, Geneviève, et al., Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Moyen Âge. Tome 116/2 (2004). Rome: École française de Rome, 2005. Pp. 330. €50.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7283-0734-2.

Caccamo Caltabiano, M., D. Castrizio, M. Puglisi (edd.), La tradizione iconica come fonte storica. Il ruolo della numismatica negli studi di iconografia. Atti del I Incontro di Studio del Lexicon Iconographicum Numismaticae (Messina, 6-8 Marzo 2003). Semata e Signa, 1. Reggio Calabria: Falzea Editore, 2004. Pp. 527. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8296-132-X.

Cerri, Giovanni (ed.), A.I.O.N. Annali dell’Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli. Dipartimento di Studi del Mondo Classico e del Mediterraneo Antico. Sezione Filologico-Letteraria. XXVII (2005). Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2005. Pp. 265. Italia: €90.00 (individual); €265.00 (institution, with online edition). Abroad: €125.00 (individual); €295.00 (institution, with online edition). ISSN 1128-7209.

Charlton, William (trans.), Philoponus. On Aristotle’s On the Soul 2.7-12. Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. 240. $75.00. ISBN 0-8014-4337-7.

Ciarallo, Annamaria, Flora Pompeiana. Studia archaeologica, 134. Roma: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2004. Pp. 266. €150.00. ISBN 88-8265-299-8.

Dasen, Véronique, Jumeaux, Jumelles dans l’antiquité grecque et romaine. Kilchberg (Zürich): Akanthus, 2005. Pp. 336; ills. 185. €45.00/CHF 75.00 (pb). ISBN 3-905083-20-5.

Del Freo, Maurizio (ed.), I Censimenti di Terreni nei Testi in Lineare B. Biblioteca di “Pasiphae”. Collana di filologia e antichità egee, 5. Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2005. Pp. 287. €110.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8147-422-0.

Destrée, Pierre, and Nicholas D. Smith (edd.), Socrates’ Divine Sign: Religion, Practice and Value in Socratic Philosophy. Kelowna, BC: Academic Printing and Publishing, 2005. Pp. xii, 180. $26.95 (pb). ISBN 0-920980-91-2.

Di Marco, Massimo, and Bruna M. Palumbo Stracca (edd.), Poiesis. Bibliografia della poesia greca 2003. IV (2004). Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2005. Pp. 670 (pb); online edition also available. €200.00 (individuals in Italy); €250.00 (individuals abroad); €290.00 (institutions in Italy); €350.00 (institutions abroad). ISBN 88-8147-420-4.

Eliav, Yaron, God’s Mountain. The Temple Mount in Time, Place, and Memory. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. 432; drawings. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 0-8018-8213-3.

Fischer, Günter, and Susanne Moraw (edd.), Die andere Seite der Klassik. Gewalt im 5. und 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellunghalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 11.-13. Juli 2002. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Pp. 328. €48.00. ISBN 3-515-08450-9.

Follak, Andrea, Der “Aufblick zur Idee”. Eine vergleichende Studie zur Platonischen Pädagogik bei Friedrich Schleiermacher, Paul Natorp und Werner Jaeger. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005. Pp. 174. €39.90. ISBN 3-525-30149-9.

Fossati, Gaspard, Aya Sofia Contantinople. Octavo Digital Rare Books. Oakland, CA: Octavo, 2005. CD-Rom. $30.00. ISBN 1-891788-34-5.

Fraschetti, Augusto, The Foundation of Rome. First published in Italy as Romolo Il Fondatore (Roma-Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 2002). Translated by Marian Hill and Kevin Windle. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. Pp. 178. £18.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7486-2121-0.

Gentili, Bruno (ed.), Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica. N.S. 79, N. 1 (2005). Pisa/Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2005. Pp. 158. ISSN 0033-4987.

Gentili, Bruno, and Giovanni Cerri, La letteratura di Roma arcaica e l’ellenismo. Con la collaborazione di Salvatore Monda. Biblioteca Aragno. Torino: Nino Aragno Editore, 2005. Pp. 352. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8419-221-8.

George, Michele (ed.), The Roman Family in the Empire. Rome, Italy, and Beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 384. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-926841-X.

Green, Peter, The Poems of Catullus. A Bilingual Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 360. $24.95. ISBN 0-520-24264-5.

Habinek, Thomas, The World of Roman Song: From Ritualized Speech to Social Order. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. 329. $52.00. ISBN 0-8018-8105-6.

Henry, W.B., Pindar’s Nemeans. A Selection. Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005. Pp. xii, 133. €74.00. ISBN 3-598-73028-4.

Hoffmann, Adolf (ed.), Ägyptische Kulte und ihre Heiligtümer im Osten des römischen Reiches. Internationales Kolloquium 5./6. September 2003 in Bergama (Türkei). Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Abteilung Istanbul. Byzas 1. Istanbul: Ege Yayinlari, 2005. Pp. 282. ISBN 975-807-105-X.

Huffman, Carl A., Archytas of Tarentum. Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 665. $175.00. ISBN 0-521-83746-4.

Johnston, Sarah Iles, and Peter T. Struck (edd.), Mantikê. Studies in Ancient Divination. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 155. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. vi, 322. €89.00. ISBN 90-04-14497-8.

Karabélias, Évangélos (ed.), Epeteris tou Kentrou Ereunes tes Historias tou Hellenikou Dikaiou. Vol. 38 (2004). Athens: Academy of Athens, 2004. Pp. 319. ISSN 1105-0055.

Kasulke, Christoph Tobias, Fronto, Marc Aurel und kein Konflikt zwischen Rhetorik und Philosophie im 2. Jh. n. Chr. BzA 218. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005. Pp. 460. €96.00. ISBN 3-598-77830-9.

Kleiner, Diana E.E., Cleopatra and Rome. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. 340. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01905-9.

Kyriakidis, Stratis, and Francesco de Martino (edd.), Middles in Latin Poetry.“le Rane”, 38. Bari: Levante Editori, 2004. Pp. 429. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7949-365-5.

La Sala, Rosario, Die Züge des Skeptikers. Der dialektische Charakter von Sextus Empiricus’ Werk. Hypomnemata 160. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005. Pp. 204. €49.90. ISBN 3-525-25259-5.

Latte, Kurt, Opuscula inedita: zusammen mit Vortra+gen und Berichten von einer Tagung zum vierzigsten Todestag von Kurt Latte. Edited by Carl Joachim Classen. BzA 219. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005. Pp. vi, 102. €49.00. ISBN 3-598-77831-7.

Lichter, Clemens (ed.), How Did Farming Reach Europe? Anatolian-European Relations from the Second Half of the 7th through the First Half of the 6th Millennium cal BC. Proceedings of the International Workshop, Istanbul, 20-22 May 2004. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Abteilung Istanbul. Byzas 2. Istanbul: Ege Yayinlari, 2005. Pp. 327. ISBN 975-807-106-8.

Lloyd, G.E.R., The Delusions of Invulnerability. Wisdom and Morality in Ancient Greece, China and Today. Classical Inter/Faces. London: Duckworth, 2005. Pp. 176. £12.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3386-4.

Luber, Katherine Crawford, Albrecht Dürer and the Venetian Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 268. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-56288-0.

Martin, Geoffrey Thorndike, Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, c. 3000 BC – AD 1150. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 202. $190.00. ISBN 0-521-84290-5.

Medas, Stefano, De rebus nauticis. L’arte della navigazione nel mondo antico. Studia archaeologica, 132. Roma: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2004. Pp. 233; ills. €70.00. ISBN 88-8265-278-5.

Meyer, Doris, Inszeniertes Lesevergnügen. Das inschriftliche Epigramm und seine Rezeption bei Kallimachos. Hermes Einzelschriften, 93. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Pp. 335. €64.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08660-9.

Montiglio, Silvia, Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 288. $50.00. ISBN 0-226-53497-9.

Nicholson, Nigel James, Aristocracy and Athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 280. $70.00. ISBN 0-521-84522-X.

Nicotra, Laura, Archeologia al femminile. Il cammino delle donne nella disciplina archeologica attraverso le figure di otto archeologhe classiche vissute dalla metà dell’Ottocento ad oggi. Studia archaeologica, 129. Roma: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2004. Pp. 297. €160.00. ISBN 88-8265-284-X.

Noe, David C., Tres Mures Caeci. A Moral Tail in Latin. Illustrated by Michelle Thoburn. Purcellville, VA: Patrick Henry College Press, 2005. Pp. 48. $11.99. ISBN 0-9714458-1-9.

Olivieri, Achille, Erodoto nel Rinascimento. L’umano e la storia. Roma: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2004. Pp. 367. €50.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8265-251-3.

Pattoni, Maria Pia (ed.), Longo Sofista. Dafni e Cloe. BUR Classici Greci e Latini. Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2005. Pp. 512. €10.00 (pb). ISBN 88-17-00609-2.

Peachin, Michael, Frontinus and the curae of the curator aquarum. HABES, Bd. 39. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. 197. €39.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08636-6.

Piazzi, Lisa (ed.), Lucrezio e i Presocratici. Un commento a De rerum natura 1, 635-920. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2005. Pp. 322. €40.00. ISBN 88-7642-151-3.

Pollini, John (ed.), Terra marique. Studies in Art History and Marine Archaeology in Honor of Anna Marguerite McCann. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2005. Pp. 266; pls. 5. $50.00. ISBN 1-84217-148-8.

Prent, Mieke, Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults. Continuity and Change from Late Minoan IIIC to the Archaic Period. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 154. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 737. €169.00. ISBN 90-04-14236-3.

Rossi, Giovanni (ed.), La tradizione politica aristotelica nel Rinascimento europeo: tra familia e civitas. Torino: G. Giappichelli Editore, 2004. Pp. 284. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 88-348-4521-8.

Saliou, Catherine (ed.), Gaza dans l’Antiquité Tardive. Archéologie, rhétorique et histoire. Actes du colloque international de Poitiers (6-7 mai 2004). Cardo/2. Études et Textes pour l’Identité Culturelle de l’Antiquité Tardive. Salerno: Helios Editrice, 2005. Pp. 239. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 88-88123-09-1.

Shapiro, Susan O., O tempora! O mores! Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations. A student edition with historical essays. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. Pp. 304; maps 4. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8061-3662-6.

Share, Michael (trans.), Philoponus. Against Proclus’ On the Eternity of the World 6-8. Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. 240. $75.00. ISBN 0-8014-4217-6.

Sider, David, The Library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2005. Pp. 128; ills. 82. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 0-89236-799-7.

Spatafora, Francesca, and Stefano Vassallo (edd.), Das Eigene und das Andere. Griechen, Sikaner und Elymer. Neue archäologische Forschungen im antiken Sizilien. Im Anhang: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Aus einer antiken Stadt Siziliens, Die Dekrete von Entella und Nakone. Ausstellung Archäologische Sammlung der Universität Zürich, 20.10. 2004 bis 28.02. 2005. In Kommission von der Soprintendenza Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Palermo. Kilchberg (Zürich): Akanthus, 2004. Pp. 216; ills. 305. CHF 48.00/€30.00 (pb). ISBN 3-905083-21-3.

Stein, Robert M., and Sandra Pierson Prior (edd.), Reading Medieval Culture. Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. Pp. 520. $37.50. ISBN 0-268-04111-3.

Steiniger, Judith, P. Papinius Statius, Thebais. Kommentar zu Buch 4, 1-344. Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium 14. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Pp. 181. €34.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08683-8.

Stray, Christopher (ed.), The Owl of Minerva: the Cambridge Praelections of 1906. Reassessments of Richard Jebb, James Adam, Walter Headlam, Henry Jackson, William Ridgeway, and Arthur Verrall. PCPS Suppl. Vol. no. 28. Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 2005. Pp. 172. ISBN 0-906014-27-1.

Tetlow, Elisabeth Meier, Women, Crime, and Punishment in Ancient Law and Society. Vol. 2: Ancient Greece. New York/London: The Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005. Pp. 368. $35.00. ISBN 0-8264-1629-2.

Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios, and Panagiotis Roilos, Towards a Ritual Poetics. Athens: Foundation of the Hellenic World, 2003. Pp. 119. ISBN 960-7957-25-3.

Zelnick-Abramovitz, R., Not Wholly Free. Mnemosyne Suppl. 266. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. €112.00. ISBN 90-04-14585-0.

Zetzel, J. E. G., Marginal Scholarship and Textual Deviance: The “Commentum Cornuti” and the Early Scholia on Persius. BICS Supp. 84. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2005. Pp. xiv, 242; b+w figs. £45.00. ISBN 0-900587-96-2.

Zucker, Arnaud, Les classes zoologiques en Grèce ancienne, d’Homère à Élien (VIIIe av.-IIIe ap. J.-C.). Textes et documents de la Méditerranée antique et médiévale. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l’Université de Provence, 2005. Pp. 320. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 2-85399-603-4.