BMCR 2007.12.02

BMCR Books Received (November, 2007)

Anceschi, Barbara, Die Götternamen in Platons Kratylos. Ein Vergleich mit dem Papyrus von Derveni. Studien zur klassischen Philologie, 158. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007. Pp. 225. $51.95 (pb). ISBN 978-3-631-56529-2.

Arjava, Antti, Matias Buchholz, and Traianos Gagos (edd.), The Petra Papyri III. American Center of Oriental Research Publications, 5. Amman: The American Center of Oriental Research, 2007. Pp. xxii, 215; pls. 87. $100.00. ISBN 978-9957-8543-2-4.

Bell, Sinclair, and Glenys Davies (edd.), Games and Festivals in Classical Antiquity. Proceedings of the Conference held in Edinburgh 10-12 July 2000. BAR International Series, 1220. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004. Pp. vi, 153; figs. 37, tables 7. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 1-84171-580-8.

Bernardini, Paola Angeli (ed.), L’epos minore, le tradizioni locali e la poesia arcaica. Atti dell’incontro di studio, Urbino, 7 giugno 2005. Biblioteca di Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, 9. Pisa/Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2007. Pp. 155; figs. 9. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-6227-034-2.

Bita, Lili, Women of Fire and Blood. Ancient Myths, Modern Voices. Translated by Robert Zaller. Boston: Somerset Hall Press, 2007. Pp. 53. (pb). $12.95. ISBN 978-0977461073.

Boehringer, Sandra, L’homosexualité féminine dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine. Collection d’Etudes Anciennes, 135. Série grecque. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007. Pp. 405. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-32663-4.

Boëldieu-Trevet, Jeannine, Commander dans le monde grec au Ve siècle avant notre ère. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité. Franche-Comté: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2007. Pp. 294. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84867-188-8.

Burstein, Stanley M., The Reign of Cleopatra. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 180. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8061-3871-8.

Capdetrey, Laurent, Le Pouvoir séleucide. Territoire, administration, finances d’un royaume hellénistique (312-129 avant J.-C.). Collection Histoire. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007. Pp. 536; maps 5, table 1. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-0524-7.

Charles, Michael B., Vegetius in Context. Establishing the Date of the Epitoma Rei Militaris. Historia Einzelschriften, 194. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Pp. 205. €46.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-515-08989-0.

Chin, Catherine M., Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Pp. 272. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8122-4035-1.

Clark, Anna J., Divine Qualities. Cult and Community in Republican Rome. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 376; ills. 11. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-19-922682-5.

Clarke, John R., Looking at Laughter. Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 322; pls. 24, figs. 119. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-520-23733-9.

Constantakopoulou, Christy, The Dance of the Islands. Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 330; figs. 13. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921595-9.

Cuffel, Alexandra, Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 430; figs. 10. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-268-02367-6.

Curd, Patricia (ed. and trans.), Anaxagoras of Clazomenae. Fragments and Testimonia. A Text and Translation with Notes and Essays. The Peonix Presocratics, 6. Phoenix Supplementary Volumes, 44. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 279. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-8020-9325-7.

D’Alfonso, Francesca, Euripide in Giovanni Malala. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2007. Pp. v, 103. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7694-901-2.

Davies, Siriol, and Jack L. Davis (edd.), Between Venice and Istanbul. Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece. Hesperia Supplement, 40. Princeton, NJ: ASCSA Publications, 2007. Pp. xii, 260; figs. 57, tables 12. $75.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-87661-540-9.

Davis, Jack L. (ed.), Sandy Pylos. An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino. Second edition. Princeton, NJ: ASCSA Publications, 2008 Pp. lix, 342; figs. 135. $24.95 (pb), ISBN 978-0-87661-961-2.

de Roguin, Claire-Françoise, “… et recouvre d’une montagne leur cité !” La fin du monde des héros dans les épopées homériques. Hypomnemata, 169. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007. Pp. 295. €78.90. ISBN 978-3-525-25280-2.

Del Bello, Davide, Forgotten Paths. Etymology and the Allegorical Mindset. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 187. $64.95. ISBN 978-0-8132-1484-9.

Dik, Helma, Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogue. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 281; tables 6. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-927929-6.

Dunshirn, Alfred, Griechisch für Philosophen. Originaltexte mit Übersetzungen und Erläuterungen. manual. Vienna: Facultas, 2007. Pp. 152. €11.90 (pb). ISBN 978-3-7089-0102-2.

Eidinow, Esther, Oracles, Curses, and Risk among the Ancient Greeks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 516; figs. 6, maps 2. $160.00. ISBN 978-0-19-927778-0.

Endreffy, Kata, and András Gulyás (edd.), Proceedings of the Fourth Central European Conference of Young Egyptologists. 31 August – 2 September, 2006, Budapest. Studia Aegyptiaca, 18. Budapest: La Chaire d’Egyptologie, 2007. Pp. 415; figs. passim. ISBN 978-963-463-952-7.

Falcone, Lidia, and Virginia Ibelli, La ceramica campana a figure nere. Tipologia, sistema decorativo, organizzazione delle botteghe. Mediterranea Supplementi, 2. Pisa/Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2007. Pp. 185; figs. 49, pls. 29. €220.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-6227-092-2.

Ferrari, G.R.F. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato’s Republic. Cambridge Companions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xxvi, 531. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-54842-7.

Fox, Matthew, Cicero’s Philosophy of History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 344. $130.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921192-0.

Foxhall, Lin, Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece. Seeking the Ancient Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 294; figs. 66, tables 8. $117.00. ISBN 978-0-19-815288-0.

Gaisser, Julia Haig (ed.), Catullus. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 606. $70.00 (pb).. ISBN 978-0-19-928035-3.

Gale, Monica R. (ed.), Lucretius. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 441. $47.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-19-926035-5.

Gamberale, Leopoldo, Plauto secondo Pasolini. Un progetto di teatro fra antico e moderno. Ludus Philologiae, 15. Urbino: Edizione QuattroVenti, 2006. Pp. xii, 209. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-392-0763-0.

Gemelli Marciano, M. Laura, Democrito e l’Accademia. Studi sulla transmissione dell’atomismo antico da Aristotele a Simplicio. Studia Praesocratica, 1. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. Pp. xii, 376. €91.59. ISBN 978-3-11-018542-3.

Gentili, Bruno (ed.), Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica. Nuova serie 84 N.3 2006 (Vol. 113 della serie continua). Pisa/Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2007. Pp. 141. ISBN 0033-4987.

Gentili, Bruno (ed.), Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica. Nuova serie 85 N.1 2007 (Vol. 114 della serie continua). Pisa/Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2007. Pp. 177. ISBN 0033-4987.

Giesecke, Annette Lucia, The Epic City. Urbanism, Utopia, and the Garden in Ancient Greece and Rome. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2007. Pp. xiv, 204; figs. 19. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-674-02374-1.

Gigandet, Alain, and Pierre-Marie Morel (edd.), Lire Epicure et les épicuriens. Quadrige. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2007. Pp. 207. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-13-056476-8.

Goldhill, Simon, How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 248. $18.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-226-30128-0.

Gourinat, Jean-Baptiste, Le stoïcisme. Que sais-je? Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2007. Pp. 127. €8.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-13-056267-2.

Grainger, John D., Alexander the Great Failure. The Collapse of the Macedonian Empire. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007. Pp. xix, 236; maps 5. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-84725-188-6.

Guérin-Beauvois, Marie, and Jean-Marie Martin (edd.), Bains curatifs et bains hygiéniques en Italie de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge. Collection de l’École française, 383. Roma: De l’École française de Rome, 2007. Pp. 428; figs. passim, pls. passim. €65.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7283-0782-1.

Hankins, James (ed. and trans.), Leonardo Bruni. History of the Floerentine People. Volume 3 – Books IX-XII. Memoirs. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 27. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xxv, 477; maps 2. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-01682-8.

Hardwick, Lorna, and Carol Gillespie (edd.), Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 422. $130.00. ISBN 978-0-19-929610-7.

Henderson, John (ed.), Mayor’s Juvenal. “Thirteen Satires.” (2 vols.). Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007. Pp. XXX, lvi, 526; xx, 451. $139.95 (2-Volume Set). ISBN 978-1-904675-70-9.

Heyworth, S.J. (ed.), Classical Construction. Papers in Memory of Don Fowler, Classicist and Epicurean., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 368; ills. 5. $110.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921803-5.

Hodske, Jürgen, Mythologische Bildthemen in den Häusern Pompejis. Die Bedeutung der zentralen Mythenbilder für die Bewohner Pompejis. Stendaler Winckelmann-Forschungen, 6. Ruhpolding/Mainz: Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen, 2007. Pp. 328; ills. passim, pls. 212, CD-ROM. €98.00. ISBN 978-3-938646-13-7.

Kallendorf, Craig, The Other Virgil. Pessimistic Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 252; figs. 12. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921236-1.

Kugelmeier, Christoph, Die innere Vergegenwärtigung des Bühnenspiels in Senecas Tragödien. Zetemata, 129. München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2007. Pp. 301. €64.00 (pb). ISBN 978-3-406-56484-0.

Liddel, Peter, Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 443. $150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-922658-0.

Mattiacci, Silvia, and Andrea Perruccio, Anti-mitologia ed eredità neoterica in Marziale. Genesi e forme di una poetica. Arti Spazi Scritture, 3. Pisa: Pacini Editore, 2007. Pp. 261. €11.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7781-833-1.

Meineck, Peter, and Paul Woodruff (trans.), Sophocles. Four Tragedies. Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2007. Pp. xlii, 267. ISBN 978-0-87220-763-9.

Meserve, Margaret, and Marcello Simonetta (edd.), Pius II—Commentaries. Volume 2 – Books III-IV. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 29. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. vii, 407; map 1. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02489-2.

Micozzi, Laura (ed. and comm.), Il catalogo degli eroi. Saggio di commento a Stazio Tebaide 4, 1-344. Testi e commenti, 4. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2007. Pp. xii, 317. €30.00. ISBN 978-887642217-1.

Miller, Paul Allen, Postmodern Spiritual Practices. The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. Classical Memories/Modern Identities. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 270. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8142-1070-3.

Miller, Peter N. (ed.), Momigliano and Antiquarianism. Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. 416. $75.00. ISBN 978-0802092071.

Miralles, Carles (ed.), Quaderns Catalans de Cultura Clàssica. Núm. 21 2005. Classicisme i anticlassicisme com a necessitats intellectuals. Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis Catalans, 2006 Pp. iv, 284. (pb). ISBN 0213-6643.

Moreno, Alfonso, Feeding the Democracy. The Athenian Grain Supply in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xix, 420; figs. 10, maps 3, tables 5. $130.00. ISBN 978-0-19-922840-9.

Neumann, Jeanne Marie, Lingua Latina. A College Companion. based on Hans Orberg’s Latine Disco, with Vocabulary and Grammar. Newburyport, MA: Focus Press, 2008 Pp. xxiii, 323. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-58510-191-7.

Oliver, G.J., War, Food, and Politics in Early Hellenistic Athens., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xxiii, 360; tables 4, maps 7, figs. 8. $115.00. ISBN 978-0-19-928350-7.

Paparrega-Artemiade, Lydia (ed.), Epeteris tou Kentrou Ereunes tes Historias tou Ellenikou Dikaiou (= Annual of the Research Centre for the History of Greek Law), 40. Athena: Akademia Athenon, 2007. Pp. 328. (pb). ISBN 1105-0055.

Pavese, Carlo Odo, Opuscula selecta. Miscellanea, 11. Padova: Il Poligrafo, 2007. Pp. 470. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7115-544-9.

Polz, Daniel, Der Beginn des Neuen Reiches. Zur Vorgeschichte einer Zeitenwende. Sonderschriften des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo, 31. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. Pp. xvi, 446; ills. 111, pls. 35, CD-ROM. €110.28. ISBN 978-3-11-019347.

Rashed, Marwan, Essentialisme. Alexandre d’Aphrodise entre logique, physique et cosmologie. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina. Quellen und Studien, 2. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. Pp. xi, 356. €91.59. ISBN 978-3-11-018680-2.

Renfrew, Colin, Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos 1974-77. Supplementary Volume, 42. Athens: The British School at Athens, 2007. Pp. xvi, 521; figs. 202, tables 47, pls. 61. £123.00. ISBN 978-0-904887-54-9.

Scarpat, Giuseppe, Lucio Anneo Seneca. Anticipare la morte o attenderla. La lettera 70 a Lucilio. Antichità classica e christiana, 35. Brescia: Paideia Editrice, 2007. Pp. 114. €12.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-394-0742-9.

Schmitz, Thomas A., Modern Literary Theory and Ancient Texts. An Introduction. Translation of 2002 German edition. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. x, 241. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-4051-5374-4.

Scott, Kathleen L., Tradition and Innovation in Later Medieval Manuscripts. London: The British Library, 2007. Pp. xiii, 194; figs. 112. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-7123-4936-9.

Stratton, Kimberly B., Naming the Witch. Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 289. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-231-13836-9.

Stray, Christopher (ed.), Oxford Classics. Teaching and Learning 1800-2000. London: Duckworth, 2007. Pp. x, 275. $81.00. ISBN 978-0-7156-3645-9.

Sundell, Michael G., Mosaics in the Eternal City. ACMRS Occasional Publications, 3. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2007. Pp. ix, 211; figs. 71. $39.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-86698-376-1.

Tahan, Ilana, Hebrew Manuscripts. The Power of Script and Image. London: The British Library, 2007. Pp. 160; pls. 140. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-7123-4921-5.

Tepedino Guerra, Adele (ed. and comm.), Favorino Di Arelate. L’esilio. (Pap. Vat. Gr. 11 verso). Edizione critica, tradizione e commento. Testi e commenti, 20. Roma: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 2007. Pp. 268; pls. 22. €80.00 (pb). ISBN 88-8476-105-0.

Thomas, Carol G., and Craig Conant, The Trojan War. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 209. $16.95. ISBN 978-0-8061-3847-9.

Trappes-Lomax, John M., Catullus. A Textual Reappraisal. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2007. Pp. xi, 315. $69.50. ISBN 978-1-905125-15-9.

Trofimova, A. (ed.), Alexander the Great. The Road to the East. Exhibition catalogue. The State Hermitage Museum. In Russian with English summary. St. Petersburg: Hermitage Museum, 2007. Pp. 512; ills. passim. ISBN 5-93572-235-6.

Ulery, Robert W., Jr. (ed. and trans.), Pietro Bembo. History of Venice. Volume 1 – Books I-IV. The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 28. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xxv, 357; map 1. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02283-6.

Ward, Julie K., Aristotle on Homonymy. Dialectic and Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 Pp. x, 220. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87486-1.