BMCR 2007.01.01

BMCR Books Received (December)

Arvanitake, Anna, Heroas kai Pole: To Paradeigma tou Herakle sten Archaike Eikonographia tes Korinthou. Thessalonike: University Studio Press, 2006. Pp. 374; figs. 153. €45.00. ISBN 960-12-1494-1.

Balot, Ryan K., Greek Political Thought. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. Pp. 353. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-0030-3.

Barney, Stephen A., W. J. Lewis, J. A. Beach, and Oliver Berghof (trans.), The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 475. $150.00. ISBN 0-521-83749-9.

Beck, Roger, A Brief History of Ancient Astrology. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007. Pp. 159. $21.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-1074-0.

Berger, Albrecht (ed.), Life and Works of Saint Gregentios, Archbishop of Taphar. Millennium Studies 7. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 915. €119.63. ISBN 978-3-11-018445-7.

Billerbeck, Margarethe (trans.), Stepani Byzantii Ethnica. Volumen I, Alpha-Gamma. Recensuit germanice vertit adnotationibus indicibusque instruxit. CFHB 43/1. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 441. €138.32. ISBN 978-3-11-017449-6.

Blyth, Elizabeth, Karnak. Evolution of a Temple. London/New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 258; ills. 48. $46.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-415-40487-7.

Butcher, Marguerite Spoerri, Roman Provincial Coinage. Volume VII: Gordien I – Gordien III (238-244). 1 ere partie. Province d’Asie. London: The British Museum, 2006. Pp. 395; ills. 809, maps 5. $240.00. ISBN 0-7141-1813-3.

Canali de Rossi, Filippo (comm.), Iscrizioni storiche ellenistiche III. Decreti per ambasciatori greci al senato. Supplemento e indici. Roma: Herder Editrice e Libreria, 2006. Pp. cl, 256. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 88-89670-16-9.

Chaniotis, A., T. Corsten, R.S. Stroud, and R.A. Tybout (edd.), Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Volume LII. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. xxxv, 903. $216.00. ISBN 90-04-15508-2.

Chiesa, Mario (ed.), Teofilo Folengo. Baldus II (Livres VI-XV). Texte latin établi par Mario Chiesa, traduit par Gérard Genot et Paul Larivaille. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2006. Pp. 444. €43.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-73020-2.

Choat, Malcolm, Belief and Cult in Fourth-Century Papyri. Studia Antiqua Australiensia. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. Pp. 217. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 2-503-51327-1.

Couvenhes, Jean-Christophe, and Bernard Legras (edd.), Transferts culturels et politique dans le monde hellénistique. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2006. Pp. 188; ills. 5, maps 2. €19.00 (pb). ISBN 2-85944-554-4.

Crisci, Oronzo (ed.), Segno e testo. International Journal of Manuscripts and Text Transmission. 4 (2006). Università di Cassino – Dip. FIlologia e Storia. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. Pp. 430; ills. 19. €50.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-503-52519-8.

De Blois, Lukas, Peter Funke, and Johannes Hahn (edd.), The Impact of Imperial Rome on Religions, Ritual and Religious Life in the Roman Empire. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. 287. $139.00. ISBN 90-04-15460-4.

de Grummond, Nancy Thomson, Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. 286; ills. 215. $59.95. ISBN 1-931707-86-3.

Delneri, Francesca, I culti misterici stranieri nei frammenti della commedia attica antica. Eikasmos, Studi 13. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2006. Pp. 450. €37.00 (pb). ISBN 88-555-2897-1.

Dewald, Carolyn, and John Marincola (edd.), The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 378. $29.00 (pb). ISBN 0-521-53683-9.

Feichtinger, Barbara, Stephen Lake, and Helmut Seng (edd.), Körper und Seele. Aspekte spätantiker Anthropologie. BzA 215. Leipzig: K G Saur München, 2006. Pp. 265. €88.00. ISBN 3-598-77827-9.

Fleury, Pascale, Lectures de Fronton. Un rhéteur latin à l’époque de la Seconde Sophistique. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2006. Pp. 375. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-32661-0.

Flower, Harriet L., The Art of Forgetting. Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 424; ills. 75, maps 1. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8078-3063-5.

Fuller, Michael F., The Restoration of Israel. Israel’s Re-gathering and the Fate of the Nations in Early Jewish Literature and Luke-Acts. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 332. €91.59. ISBN 978-3-11-018896-7.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, Interroger les grecs. Études sur les Présocratiques, Platon et Aristote. Québec: Éditions Fides, 2006. Pp. 380. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7621-2526-X.

García Ruiz, M. A. Pilar (ed.), Claudio Mamertino Panegírico (Gratiarum Actio) al Emperador Juliano. Pamplona: EUNSA, 2006. Pp. 161. (pb). ISBN 84-313-2396-5.

Giangiulio, Maurizio (ed.), Erodoto e il ‘modello erodoteo.’ Formazione e trasmissione delle tradizioni storiche in Grecia. Labirinti 88. Trento: Università degli Studi di Trento, 2005. Pp. xxii, 396. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8443-118-2.

Gruber, Joachim (comm.), Kommentar zu Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae. TuK 9. Second edition. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 520. €119.63. ISBN 978-3-11-017740-4.

Günther, Hans-Christian (ed.), Brill’s Companion to Propertius. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. 476. $259.00. ISBN 90-04-13682-7.

Hooley, Daniel M., Roman Satire. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. 189. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-0689-1.

Hurtado, Larry W., The Earliest Christian Artifacts. Manuscripts and Christian Origins. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006. Pp. 262; ills. 9. $20.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8028-2895-8.

Ippolito, A. (ed.), Marii Victorini Explanationes in Ciceronis Rhetoricam. Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina CXXXII. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. Pp. 299. €180.00. ISBN 978-2-503-01321-3.

Jung, Reinhard, Chronologia Comparata. Vergleichende Chronologie von Südgrechenland und Süditalien von ca. 1700/1600 bis 1000 v.u.Z. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2006. Pp. 260; ills. 20, maps 7. €68.80 (pb). ISBN 978-3-7001-3729-0.

Kappl, Brigitte, Die Poetik des Aristoteles in der Dichtungs theorie des Cinquecento. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 351. €88.00. ISBN 978-3-11-018952-0.

Lelli, Immanuel (ed.), Callimachi Iambi XIV-XVII. Roma: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 2005. Pp. 217. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8476-018-6.

MacCormack, Sabine, On the Wings of Time. Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. 342; ills. 50. $35.00. ISBN 0-691-12674-7.

Marek, Christian (ed.), Die Inschriften von Kaunos. Vestigia Band 55. München: C.H. Beck, 2006. Pp. 416; ills. 240, maps 3. €100.70. ISBN 978-3-406-55074-4.

Marshall, C.W., The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. 320. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-86161-6.

Megino Rodríguez, Carlos, El pensamiento de Homero sobre la realidad psicológica en la Ilíada. Colección de Estudios. Madrid: UAM Ediciones, 2006. Pp. 327. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 84-7477-868-9.

Megino Rodríguez, Carlos, Orfeo y el Orfismo en la poesía de Empédocles: influencias y paralelismos. Colección de Estudios. Madrid: UAM Ediciones, 2005. Pp. 104. €10.00 (pb). ISBN 84-7477-966-9.

Meskell, Lynn, and Robert W. Preucel (edd.), A Companion to Social Archaeology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. 430. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 1-4051-5678-3.

Metzler, Karin, Eustathios von Thessalonike und das Mönchtum. Untersuchungen und Kommentar zur Schrift De Emendanda Vita Monachica. SBYZ 9. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 624. €119.63. ISBN 978-3-11-018905-6.

Nisbet, Gideon, Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix, 2006. Pp. 170; ills. 9. €12.99 (pb). ISBN 1-904675-12-3.

Osborn, Geraint, Hadrian’s Wall and its People. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix, 2006. Pp. 132; ills. 25. €12.99 (pb). ISBN 1-904675-19-0.

Parsons, Mikeal C., Body and Character in Luke and Acts. The Subversion of Physiognomy in Early Christianity. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006. Pp. 192. $21.99 (pb). ISBN 0-8010-2885-X.

Pernot, Laurent, La retorica dei greci e dei romani. Letteratura classica 29. Palermo: Palumbo, 2006. Pp. 292. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 88-6017-017-6.

Pikoulas, G.A., Eisagoge sten Archaia Hellenike Historia kai Archaiognosia. Athens: Kardamitsa, 2006. Pp. 274. ISBN 960-354-193-1.

Pradeau, Jean-François (ed.), Études Platoniciennes III. L’âme amphibie. Études sur l’âme selon Plotin. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2006. Pp. 462. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-44320-1.

Quet, Marie-Henriette (ed.), La ‘Crise’ de l’Empire romain de Marc Aurèle à Constantin. Paris: PUPS, 2006. Pp. 715. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 2-84050-465-0.

Raggi, Andrea, Seleuco di Rhosos. Cittadinanza e privilegi nell’Oriente greco in età tardo-repubblicana. Studi Ellenistici XVIII. Pisa: Giardini Editori e Stampatori in Pisa, 2006. Pp. 303; ills. 11, maps 2. €95.00 (pb). ISBN 88-427-1459-3.

Ramfos, Stelios, Fate and Ambiguity in Oedipus the King. Boston: Somerset Hall, 2006. Pp. 183. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-9724661-9-3.

Rengakos, Antonios, and Antonis Tsakmakis (edd.), Brill’s Companion to Thucydides. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. 947. $336.00. ISBN 90-04-13683-5.

Richardson, L., Jr. (comm.), Propertius. Elegies I-IV. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. Pp. 504. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8061-34468-2.

Romano, Irene Bald, Catalogue of the Cypriot, Greek, and Roman Stone Sculpture in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2006. Pp. 344; ills. 400. $59.95. ISBN 978-1-931707-84-8.

Rothwell, Kenneth S., Jr., Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Greek Comedy. A Study of Animal Choruses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 326; ills. 8. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-86066-0.

Sachs, Joe (trans.), Plato. Republic. Focus Philosophical Library. Newburyport, MA: Focus, 2006. Pp. 358. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-58510-261-7.

Schäfer, Christoph, Kleopatra. Gestalten der Antike. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006. Pp. 334; ills.30, maps 1. €34.90. ISBN 978-3-534-15418-0.

Schierl, Petra (comm.), Die Tragödien des Pacuvius. Ein Kommentar zu den Fragmenten mit Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung. TuK 28. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 678. €119.63. ISBN 978-3-11-018249-1.

Sommerstein, Alan H. (comm.), Aristophanes. Peace. The Comedies of Aristophanes, vol. 5. Second edition. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2005. Pp. xxv, 214. $36.00 (pb). ISBN 0-85668-785-5.

Sternberg, Rachel Hall, Tragedy Offstage. Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. 256. 445.00. ISBN 978-0-292-71416-8.

Summers, Kirk M. (trans.), The Iuvenilia of Marc-Antoine Muret. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2006. Pp. 217. $59.95. ISBN 0-8142-1037-6.

Tausend, Klaus, Verkehrswege der Argolis. Rekonstruktion und historische Bedeutung. Geographica Historica, 23. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 226; ills. 7, maps 20. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-515-08943-2.

Thomas, Carol G., Alexander the Great in his World. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. 254; ills. 26; maps 5. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 0-631-23246-X.

Torallas Tover, Sofía, and Klaas A. Worp, To the Origins of Greek Stenography (P. Monts. Roca I). Orientalia Montserratensia. Barcelona: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2006. Pp. 271; pls. 29. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 84-8415-847-0.

Tornau, Christian, Zwischen Rhetorik und Philosophie. Augustins Argumentationstechnik in De civitate dei und ihr bildungsgeschichtlicher Hintergrund. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 466. €82.24. ISBN 978-3-11-019130-1.

Tsetskhladze, Gocha R. (ed.), Greek Colonisation. An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas. Volume I. Mnemosyne Supplement 193. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. 564; ills. 20, maps 20. $256.00. ISBN 978-90-04-12204-8.

Ulrich, Roger B., Roman Woodworking. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 400; ills. 200. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-300-10341-0.

Vielberg, Meinolf, Der Mönchsbischof von Tours im ‘Martinellus.’ Zur Form des hagiographischen Dossiers und seines spätantiken Leitbilds. UaLG 79. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. 354. €91.59. ISBN 978-3-11-018858-5.

Vitsaxis, Vassilis, Myth and the Existential Quest. Boston: Somerset Hall, 2006. Pp. 301. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 0-9774610-0-9.

Volk, Katharina, and Gareth D. Williams (edd.), Seeing Seneca Whole. Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry and Politics. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. 222. $134.00. ISBN 9004-15078-1.

Vox, Onofrio (ed.), Memoria di testi teatrali antichi. Lecce: Pensa Multimedia, 2006. Pp. 285. €18.60 (pb). ISBN 88-8232-470-2.

Wildberger, Jula, Seneca und die Stoa. Der Platz des Menschen in der Welt. 2 vols. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006. Pp. xix, 1034. €168.00. ISBN 978-3-11-019148-6.

Worthingon, Ian (trans.), Demosthenes, Speeches 60 and 61, Prologues, Letters. The Oratory of Classical Greece. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. xxxv, 142. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-292-71332-1.