BMCR 2005.12.01

BMCR Books Received (November)

Armoni, Charikleia, James M.S. Cowey, and Dieter Hagedorn, Die griechischen Ostraka der Heidelberger Papyrus-Sammlung. Veröffentlichungen aus der Heidelberger Papyrus-Sammlung, 11. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 514. €98.00. ISBN 3-8253-5087-8.

Barker, Andrew, Psicomusicologia nella grecia antica. Edited by Angelo Meriani. Napoli: Guida, 2005. Pp. 205. €11.90 (pb). ISBN 88-7188-989-4.

Berchman, Robert M., Porphyry Against the Christians. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 1. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 243. €129.00. ISBN 90-04-14811-6.

Boeft, J. den, J.W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst, and H.C. Teitler, Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXV. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 415. €105.00. ISBN 90-04-14214-2.

Bommas, Martin, Heiligtum und Mysterium. Griechenland und seine ägyptischen Gottheiten. Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie. Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 2005. Pp. 138. €41.00. ISBN 3-8053-3442-7.

Bonazzi, Mauro, and Vincenza Celluprica (edd.), L’eredità platonica. Studi sul platonismo da Arcesilao a Proclo. Elenchos 45. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2005. Pp. 335. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7088-484-8.

Bringmann, Klaus, Geschichte der Juden im Altertum. Vom babylonischen Exil bis zur arabischen Eroberung. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2005. Pp. 380. €32.00. ISBN 3-608-94138-X.

Chiaradonna, Riccardo (ed.), Studi sull’anima in Plotino. Elenchos 42. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2005. Pp. 412. €50.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7088-482-1.

Cleland, Liza, The Brauron Clothing Catalogues. Text, Analysis, Glossary and Translation. BAR International Series 1428. Oxford: John and Erica Hedges Ltd., 2005. Pp. 173. £39.00 (pb). ISBN 1-84171-719-3.

Curtis, John E., and Nigel Tallis (edd.), Forgotten Empire. The World of Ancient Persia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 272; ills. 300. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-24731-0.

Fasolo, Michele, La via Egnatia I. Da Apollonia e Dyrrachium ad Herakleia Lynkestidos. Viae Publicae Romanae 1. Second edition. Rome: Istituto Grafico Editoriale Romano, 2005. Pp. 293. €120.00 (pb).

Fedeli, Paolo (ed.), Aufidus. Volume 53 (2004). Roma: Edizioni Kepos, 2004. Pp. 263. €26.00 (pb). ISSN 0394-297X.

Fine, Steven, Art & Judaism in the Greco-Roman World. Toward a New Jewish Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 267. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-84491-6.

Forsdyke, Sara, Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy. The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. 360. $45.00. ISBN 0-691-11975-9.

Görler, Woldemar, Kleine Schriften zur hellenistisch-römischen Philosophie. Edited by Christoph Catrein. Philosophia Antiqua, 95. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Pp. 379. €101.00. ISBN 90-04-13736-X.

Goward, Barbara, Aeschylus: Agamemnon. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 2005. Pp. 158. £11.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3385-6.

Gowing, Alain M., Empire and Memory. The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture. Series ‘Roman Literature and Its Contexts’. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 178. $24.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-54480-7.

Gräslund, Bo, Early Humans and Their World. London/New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 182. $31.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-35345-9.

Guidorizzi, Giulio, and Marxiano Melotti (edd.), Orfeo e le sue metamorfosi. Mito, arte, poesia. Roma: Carocci Editore, 2005. Pp. 189. €18.10 (pb). ISBN 88-430-3348-4.

Hansen, Peter Allan (ed.), Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon. Volumen III: Pi to Sigma. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005. Pp. xxxiii, 404. €128.00. ISBN 3-11-017852-4.

Harrill, J. Albert, Slaves in the New Testament. Literary, Social, and Moral Dimensions. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006. Pp. 360. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 0-8006-3781-X.

Herrmann-Otto, Elisabeth (ed.), Unfreie Arbeits- und Lebensverhältnisse von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. Eine Einführung. Sklaverei – Knechtschaft – Zwangsarbeit, Bd. 1. Hildesheim: Olms, 2005. Pp. xvii, 417. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 3-487-12912-4.

Hingley, Richard, Globalizing Roman Culture. Unity, Diversity and Empire. London/New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 208. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-35176-6.

Holzberg, Niklas (ed.), Die Appendix Vergiliana. Pseudepigraphen im literarischen Kontext. Classica Monacensia, 30. Tübingen and Basel: A. Francke, 2005. Pp. xix, 294. €58.00 (pb). ISBN 3-8233-6202-X.

Hoyer, Timo, Tugend und Erziehung. Die Grundlegung der Moralpädagogik in der Antike. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, 2005. Pp. 280. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 3-7815-1418-8.

Huber, Irene, Rituale der Seuchen- und Schadensabwehr im Vorderen Orient und Griechenland. Formen kollektiver Krisenbewältigung in der Antike. Oriens et Occidens 10. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Pp. 287. €60.00. ISBN 3-515-08045-7.

Hurst, Henry, and Sara Owen (edd.), Ancient Colonizations. Analogy, Similarity & Difference. London: Duckworth, 2005. Pp. 165. £16.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3298-1.

Inwood, Brad, Reading Seneca. Stoic Philosophy at Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 200 Pp. 392. $85.00. ISBN 0-19-925089-8.

Kakridi, Christina, Cassiodors Variae. Literatur und Politik im ostgotischen Italien. BzA 223. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005. Pp. 419. €94.00. ISBN 3-598-77835-X.

Karavas, Orestis, Lucien et la tragédie. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 76. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005. Pp. vi, 374. €98.00. ISBN 3-11-018493-1.

King, Helen, Health in Antiquity. London/New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 292. $87.50. ISBN 0-415-22065-3.

Klinkott, Hilmar, Der Satrap. Ein achaimenidischer Amtsträger und seine handlungsspielräume. Oikumene Studien zur antiken Weltgeschichte, 1. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Antike, 2005. Pp. 578. €69.90. ISBN 3-938032-02-2.

Knust, Jennifer Wright, Abandoned Lust. Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity. Series ‘Gender, Theory, and Religion’. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Pp. 304. $45.00. ISBN 0-231-13662-5.

Kupreeva, Inna (trans.), Philoponus. On Aristotle’s On Coming-to-Be and Perishing 2.5-11. Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. 226. $79.95. ISBN 0-8014-4336-9.

Ladouceur, David J., The Latin Psalter. Introduction, Selected Text and Commentary. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2005. Pp. 126. £12.99 (pb). ISBN 1-85399-683-1.

Lana, Italo, and Ermanno Malaspina (edd.), Bibliografia Senecana del XX secolo. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2005. Pp. 878. €65.00 (pb). ISBN 88-555-2831-9.

Levick, Barbara, Vespasian. Originally published in 1999. Paperback edition. London/New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 310. $33.95 (pb). ISBN 0-415-33866-2.

Longo, Angela, Siriano e i principi della scienza. Elenchos 41. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2005. Pp. 450. €31.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7088-451-1.

Manchester, Peter, The Syntax of Time. The Phenomenology of Time in Greek Physics and Speculative Logic from Iamblichus to Anaximander. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 2. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 179. €99.00. ISBN 90-04-14712-8.

Mannetter, Drew A., Book 7 of Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum, with Introduction, Text, Vocabulary and Notes. Boca Raton, LA: BrownWalker Press, 2004. Pp. 382. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 1-58112-427-9.

Marks, Raymond, From Republic to Empire: Scipio Africanus in the Punica of Silius Italicus. Studien zur klassischen Philologie, vol. 152. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005. Pp. 308. €51.50. ISBN 3-631-54584-3.

Mojsov, Bojana, Osiris. Death and Afterlife of a God. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. 150. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 1-405-13179-9.

Moreno Soldevila, Rosario, Juan Fernndez Valverde, Enrique Montero Cartelle, Marco Valerio Marcial. Epigramas. Volumen II (Libros 8-14). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas, 2005. Pp. 330. ISBN 84-00-08301-6.

Mueller, Ian (trans.), Simplicius. On Aristotle’s On the Heavens 2.10-14. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. 189. $79.95. ISBN 0-8014-4415-2.

Pade, Marianne (ed.), On Renaissance Commentaries. Noctes Neolatinae, 4. Hildesheim: Olms, 2005. Pp. 139. $34.80 (pb). ISBN 3-487-12955-8.

Pallantza, Elena, Der Troische Krieg in der nachhomerischen Literatur bis zum 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Hermes Einzelschriften, 94. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005. Pp. 349. €78.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08679-X.

Quarantotto, Diana, Causa finale sostanza essenza in Aristotele. Saggio sulla struttura dei processi teleologici naturali e sulla funzione del telos. Elenchos 46. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2005. Pp. 372. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7088-486-4.

Ramelli, Ilaria (ed.), I Sette Sapienti. Vite e opinioni nell’edizione di Bruno Snell. Originally published as Leben und Meinungen der Sieben Weisen (1971). Milano: Bompiani, 2005. Pp. 264. €10.00 (pb). ISBN 88-452-3397-9.

Roisman, Hanna M., Sophocles: Philoctetes. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 2005. Pp. 159. £11.99 (pb). ISBN 0-7156-3384-8.

Romeyer Dherbey, G., and J.-B. Gourinat (edd.), Les Stoïciens. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2005. Pp. 622. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7116-1778-5.

Rudd, Niall, The Common Spring. Essays on Latin and English Poetry. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2005. Pp. 268. $80.00. ISBN 1-904675-48-4.

Sabatakakis, Vassilios, Aspects of Morphological and Stylistic Variation of the Verb in Erotokritos. Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia 9. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2004. Pp. 163. SEK 223.00. ISBN 91-22-02071-3.

Salzman-Mitchell, Patricia B., A Web of Fantasies. Gaze, Image, and Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2005. Pp. 262. $59.95. (Also available on CD-Rom for $9.95). ISBN 0-8142-0999-8.

Sedley, David (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Volume XXVIII. Summer 2005. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 386. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-928194-7.

Simons, Roswitha, Dracontius und der Mythos. Christliche Weltsicht und pagane Kultur in der ausgehenden Spätantike. BzA 186. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005. Pp. 430. €98.00. ISBN 3-598-77738-8.

Smith, Riggs Alden, The Primacy of Vision in Virgil’s Aeneid. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. 256; ills. 6. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-70657-X.

Stafford, Emma, and Judith Herrin (edd.), Personification in the Greek World from Antiquity to Byzantium. Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London, Publications 7. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. 376. $99.95. ISBN 0-7546-5031-6.

Stroumsa, Guy G., La Fin du sacrifice. Les mutations religieuses de l’Antiquité tardive. Collège de France. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2005. Pp. 214. €24.90 (pb). ISBN 2-7381-1634-5.

Sumi, Geoffrey, Ceremony and Power. Performing Politics in Rome between Republic and Empire. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. 360; figs. 4. $75.00. ISBN 0-472-11517-0.

Szilgyi, Jnos György, In Search of Pelasgian Ancestors. The 1861 Hungarian Excavations in the Appenines. Translated by Péter Agcs. Budapest: Atlantisz Publishing House, 2004. Pp. 219; ills.; map. ISBN

Tsagalis, Christos C., Epic Grief. Personal Lament in Homer’s Iliad. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 70. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004. Pp. 231. €78.00. ISBN 3-11-017944-X.

Tzermias, Pavlos, Aspekte der griechischen Philosophie von der Antike bis heute. Tübingen and Basel: A. Francke, 2005. Pp. 290. €59.90 (pb). ISBN 3-7720-8111-8.

van der Eijk, Philip J. (ed.), Hippocrates in Context. Papers read at the XIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 27-31 August 2002. Studies in Ancient Medicine, 31. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. 521. €149.00. ISBN 90-04-14430-7.

Walde, Christine (ed.), Lucan im 21. Jahrhundert. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2005. Pp. 358. €94.00. ISBN 3-598-73026-8..

Warner, J. Christopher, The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. Pp. 282. $75.00. ISBN 0-472-11518-9.

Zagorin, Perez, Thucydides. An Introduction for the Common Reader. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. 206. $24.95. ISBN 0-691-12351-9.