BMCR 2012.05.01

Books Received April 2012

The following books are available for review this month (only those with an asterisk are available; those that appear without asterisks are already assigned to reviewers). Qualified volunteers should indicate their interest by sending a message to classrev@brynmawr.edu, with their last name and requested author in the subject line. They should state their qualifications (both in the sense of degrees held and in the sense of experience in the field concerned) and explain any previous relationship with the author. Volunteers are expected to have received their PhDs. Graduate students writing theses will be considered on the condition that they provide the name of a supervisor who has agreed in advance to read and vet the review, and that the review is approved by the supervisor before submission.

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*. Semanas de Estudios Romanos, Volumen XV. Viña del Mar: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, 2010. 511 p. (pb).

*Aloni, Antonio and Massimiliano Ornaghi (edd.). Tra panellenismo e tradizioni locali: nuovi contributi. Orione, 4. Messina: Dipartimento di scienze dell’antichità, 2011. xi, 448 p. € 60.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882680299.

Armoni, Charikleia. Studien zur Verwaltung des Ptolemäischen Ägypten: das Amt des Basilikos Grammateus. Abhandlungen der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste. Sonderreihe Papyrologica Coloniensia, 36. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2012. xxiv, 304 p. € 59.90 (pb). ISBN 9783506775801.

*Arnold, Felix, Alexandra Busch, Rudolf Haensch and Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt (edd.). ForschungsCluster 3. Orte der Herrschaft: Charakteristika von antiken Machtzentren. Menschen – Kulturen – Traditionen, Bd 3. Rahden: VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2012. vi, 180 p. € 59.80 (pb). ISBN 9783867573832.

*Arnson Svarlien, Diane and Ruth Scodel (trans.; comm.). Euripides: Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan women. Indianapolis; Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2012. xxxiii, 202 p. $11.95 (pb). ISBN 9781603847353.

*Bakhouche, Béatrice (ed., trans., comm.). Calcidius: Commentaire au Timée de Platon (2 vols.). Histoire des doctrines de l’antiquité classique 42. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2011. 934 p. € 75.00 (pb). ISBN 9782711622641.

*Baraz, Yelena. A written republic: Cicero’s philosophical politics. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. xi, 252 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780691153322.

*Barnes, Jonathan, et al. Eleatica 2008: Zenone e l’infinito (a cura di Livio Rossetti e Massimo Pulpito). Eleatica, 2. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2011. 209 p. € 36.80. ISBN 9783896655585.

*Barney, Rachel, Tad Brennan and Charles Brittain (edd.). Plato and the divided self. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xi, 396 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521899666.

Boatwright, Mary T. Peoples of the Roman world. Cambridge introduction to Roman civilization. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xviii, 241 p. $25.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521549943.

*Bosselmann-Ruickbie, Antje. Byzantinischer Schmuck des 9. bis frühen 13. Jahrhunderts: Untersuchungen zum metallenen dekorativen Körperschmuck der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit anhand datierter Funde. Spätantike, frühes Christentum, Byzanz: Kunst im ersten Jahrtausend. Reihe B: Studien und Perspektiven, Bd 28. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2011. 420 p. € 128.00. ISBN 9783895007170.

Boyd, Barbara Weiden. Vergil’s Aeneid: selected readings from books 1, 2, 4, and 6 (Clyde Pharr’s classic, fully revised and updated for contemporary readers). Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2012. xxxiv, 164 p. $37.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865167643.

Bremmer, Jan N. and Marco Formisano (edd.). Perpetua’s passions: multidisciplinary approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis (with text and translation by Joseph Farrell and Craig Williams). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. viii, 383 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780199561889.

*Brocca, Nicoletta. Lattanzio, Agostino e la Sibylla Maga: ricerche sulla fortuna degli Oracula Sibyllina nell’Occidente latino. Roma: Herder editrice e libreria, 2011. 437 p. € 50.00 (pb). ISBN 9788889670651.

Caciagli, Stefano. Poeti e società: comunicazione poetica e formazioni sociali nella Lesbo del VII/VI secolo a. C. Opera vincitrice del premio Giuseppe Cevolani per il 2011. Supplementi di Lexis, 64. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert editore, 2011. 357 p. € 84.00 (pb). ISBN 9789025612726.

*Caramuscio, Giuseppe and Francesco De Paola (edd.). ΦΙΛΟΙ ΛΟΓΟΙ: studi in memoria di Ottorino Specchia a vent’anni dalla scomparsa (1990-2010). Quaderni de l’Idomeneo, 11. Galatina: Edizioni Panico, 2011. 348 p. (pb). ISBN 9788896943229.

Crivelli, Paolo. Plato’s account of falsehood: a study of the Sophist. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xi, 309 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521199131.

*Cusset, Christophe (ed., trans., comm.). Cyclopodie: édition critique et commentée de l’Idylle VI de Théocrite. Collection de la maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, 46. Série littéraire et philosophique, 15. Lyon: Maison de l’orient méditerranéen, 2011. 222 p. € 31.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356680266.

*D’Amico, J. C., A. Testino-Zafiropoulos, P. Fleury and S. Madeleine (edd.). Le mythe de Rome en Europe: modèles et contre-modèles. Actes du colloque de Caen (27-29 novembre 2008). Symposia. Caen: Presses universitaires de Caen, 2012. 412 p. € 27.00 (pb). ISBN 9782841334001.

De Franceschini, Marina and Giuseppe Veneziano. Villa Adriana architettura celeste: i segreti e i solstizi. Accademia Villa Adriana, 1. Roma: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2011. xxi, 231 p. € 80.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882656133.

*Delrieux, Fabrice. Les monnaies du Fonds Louis Robert (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres). Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 45. Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2011. 343 p., 53 p. of maps. (pb). ISBN 9782877542708.

*Denizot, Camille and Emmanuel Dupraz (edd.). Anaphore et anaphoriques: variété des langues, variété des emplois. Cahiers de l’ERIAC, no 4. Fonctionnements linguistiques. Mont-Saint-Aignan: Publications des universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2012. 368 p. € 27.00 (pb). ISBN 9782877755368.

*Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità dell’Università degli Studi di Milano, (ed.). Convivenze etniche e contatti di culture. Atti del Seminario di Studi Università degli Studi di Milano (23-24 novembre 2009). Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico, 4. Trento: Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche, 2012. 235 p. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788864580401.

*Drews, Friedemann. Menschliche Willensfreiheit und göttliche Vorsehung bei Augustinus, Proklos, Apuleius und John Milton (2 vols.). Topics in ancient philosophy / Themen der antiken Philosophie, Bd 3. Frankfurt ; New Brunswick, N.J.: Ontos Verlag, 2009. xiv, 804 p. € 249.00. ISBN 9783868380378.

*du Bouchet, Julien and Christophe Chandezon (edd.). Études sur Artémidore et l’interprétation des rêves, I. Rêves et société dans les civilisations du passé. Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2012. 243 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782840160809.

*Dudley, John. Aristotle’s concept of chance: accidents, cause, necessity, and determinism. SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. xii, 469 p. $95.00. ISBN 9781438432274.

Eck, Bernard. La mort rouge: homicide, guerre et souillure en Grèce ancienne. Collection d’Études anciennes. Série greque, 145. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012. 447 p. € 35.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251326825.

Essler, Holger. Glückselig und unsterblich: epikureische Theologie bei Cicero und Philodem (mit einer Edition von Pherc. 152/157, Kol. 8-10). Schwabe Epicurea, 2. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2011. 399 p. € 60.00. ISBN 9783796526008.

*Falcon, Andrea. Aristotelianism in the first century BCE: Xenarchus of Seleucia. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xi, 227 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521876506.

*Fermani, Arianna. L’etica di Aristotele: il mondo della vita umana. Filosofia, 36. Brescia: Editrice Morcelliana, 2012. 398 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788837225506.

*Ferrara, Silvia. Cypro-Minoan inscriptions. Volume 1: Analysis. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 336 p. $125.00. ISBN 9780199607570.

*Fletcher, Judith. Performing oaths in classical Greek drama. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xi, 277 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521762731.

Gasti, Fabio (ed., trans., comm.). Sant’Agostino: Storie di conversione (Confessioni, Libro VIII). Letteratura universale Marsilio. Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 2012. 174 p. € 14.00 (pb). ISBN 9788831711067.

*Gering, Jens. Domitian, dominus et deus?: Herrschafts- und Machtstrukturen im Römischen Reich zur Zeit des letzten Flaviers. Osnabrücker Forschungen zu Altertum und Antike-Rezeption, Bd 15. Rahden: VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2012. 433 p. € 74.80. ISBN 9783896467362.

*Glucker, John and Charles Burnett (edd.). Greek into Latin from antiquity until the nineteenth century. Warburg Institute colloquia, 18. London; Turin: Warburg Institute; Nino Aragno Editore, 2012. xiii, 226 p. (pb). ISBN 9781908590411.

*Gordon, Pamela. The invention and gendering of Epicurus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. viii, 222 p. $70.00. ISBN 9780472118083.

*Hamel, Debra. The mutilation of the herms: unpacking an ancient mystery. [North Haven, CT]: Debra Hamel, 2012. i, 54 p. (pb). ISBN 9781475051933.

*Heller, Anna and Anne-Valérie Pont (edd.). Patrie d’origine et patries électives: les citoyennetés multiples dans le monde grec d’époque romaine. Scripta antiqua, 40. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2012. 407 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356130617.

*Hillar, Marian. From logos to trinity: the evolution of religious beliefs from Pythagoras to Tertullian. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xi, 320 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107013308.

*Huysecom-Haxhi, Stéphanie. Les figurines en terre cuite de l’Artémision de Thasos: artisanat et piété populaire à l’époque de l’archaïsme mûr et recent (2 vols.). Études Thasiennes, 21. Athènes: École française d’Athènes, 2009. 655 p., 90 plates. € 90.00 (pb). ISBN 9782869582095.

*Jeremiah, Edward T. The emergence of reflexivity in Greek language and thought: from Homer to Plato and beyond. Philosophia antiqua, 129. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012. xvi, 300 p. $151.00. ISBN 9789004221956.

Johnson, William A. Readers and reading culture in the high Roman Empire: a study of elite communities. Classical culture and society. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. x, 227 p. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 9780199926718.

Jong, Irene J. F. de (ed.). Space in ancient Greek literature. Studies in ancient Greek narrative, volume three. Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 339. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012. xiv, 610 p. $252.00. ISBN 9789004222571.

*Kilgour, Maggie. Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xxiii, 373 p. $135.00. ISBN 9780199589432.

*Koukouli-Chryssanthaki, Haïdô, René Treuil, Laurent Lespez and Dimitria Malamidou. Dikili Tash, village préhistorique de Macédoine orientale: recherches franco-helléniques dirigées par la Société Archéologique d’Athènes et L’École Française d’Athènes (1986 – 2001). Bibliothèque de la Société Archéologique d’Athènes, 254. Athènes: Société Archéologique d’Athènes, 2008. 416 p. € 80.00 (pb). ISBN 9789608145689.

*Kozloff, Arielle P. Amenhotep III: Egypt’s radiant pharaoh. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xi, 351 p. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 9781107638549.

*Kroll, S., C. Gruber, U. Hellwag, M. Roaf and P. Zimansky (edd.). Biainili-Urartu: the proceedings of the symposium held in Munich 12-14 October 2007 / Tagungsbericht des Münchner Symposiums 12.-14. Oktober 2007. Acta Iranica, 51. Leuven: Peeters, 2012. viii, 528 p. € 125.00. ISBN 9789042924383.

*Lambert, S. D. (ed.). Sociable man: essays on ancient Greek social behaviour in honour of Nick Fisher. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2011. xiii, 378 p. $110.00. ISBN 9781905125517.

*Lehmann, Gustav Adolf. Forschungen zur Alten Geschichte: kleine Schriften (2 vols.) (edited by Bruno Bleckmann and Boris Dreyer). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. xxiv, 1072 p. € 124.00. ISBN 9783515098878.

*Lincoln, Bruce. Gods and demons, priests and scholars: critical explorations in the history of religions. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xii, 228 p. $27.50 (pb). ISBN 9780226481876.

*Lutz, Mark J. Divine law and political philosophy in Plato’s Laws. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012. ix, 200 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780875804453.

*Macgregor, Sherry Lou. Beyond hearth and home: women in the public sphere in Neo-Assyrian society. Publications of the Foundation for Finnish Assyriological Research, no. 5; State Archives of Assyria studies, 21. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2012. xvi, 153 p.p. $59.00 (pb). ISBN 9789521013379.

*Malamud, Martha A. (trans.). Prudentius. Origin of Sin: an English translation of the Hamartigenia. Cornell studies in classical philology. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 2011. xii, 235 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780801488726.

*Mann, Joel E. Hippocrates, On the art of medicine. Studies in ancient medicine, 39. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012. x, 279 p. $151.00. ISBN 9789004224131.

*Mannetter, Drew Arlen. I came, I saw, I translated: an accelerated method for learning classical Latin in the 21st century. Boca Raton, FL: BrownWalker Press, 2012. viii, 551 p. $46.95 (pb). ISBN 9781612335117.

*Maresch, Klaus. Ptolemäische Bankpapyri aus dem Herakleopolites (P. Herakl. Bank): Papyri der Sammlungen in Heidelberg, Köln und Wien. Abhandlungen der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste. Sonderreihe Papyrologica Coloniensia, 35. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2012. xii, 339 p., DVD. € 64.90 (pb). ISBN 9783506775436.

*Métry-Tresson, Carolle. L’aporie ou l’expérience des limites de la pensée dans le Péri Archôn de Damaskios. Philosophia antiqua, 130. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012. xix, 509 p. $258.00. ISBN 9789004207325.

*Mojsik, Tomasz. Between tradition and innovation: genealogy, names and the number of the Muses (translation: Marcin Fijak). Akme.Studia historica, 9. Warszawa: Akme.Studia historica, Uniwersytet Warszawski, 2011. 134 p. (pb). ISBN 9788390459692.

*Muchnová, Dagmar. Entre conjonction, connecteur et particule: le cas de επει en grec ancien. Étude syntaxique, sémantique et pragmatique. Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica monographia, 163. Prague: Université Charles de Prague; Éditions Karolinum, 2011. 205 p. (pb). ISBN 9788024619385.

*Mueller, Hans-Friedrich. Caesar: Selections from his Commentarii De Bello Gallico. Text, notes, vocabulary. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2012. xli, 372 p. $37.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865167520.

*Mulroy, David (trans.). Sophocles. Oedipus Rex: a dramatized audiobook. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. 1 CD. $24.95. ISBN 9780299282578.

*Nagy, Blaise (ed.). Thucydides reader: annotated passages from books I-VIII of the Histories. Second edition (first published 2005). Focus classical commentary. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2012. xvi, 160 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781585104123.

Nutton, Vivian (ed., trans., comm.). Galen: On problematical movements (with an edition of the Arabic version by Gerrit Bos). Cambridge classical texts and commentaries, 47. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. x, 404 p. $140.00. ISBN 9780521115490.

*Paolucci, Giulio and Susanna Sarti (edd.). Musica e Archeologia: reperti, immagini e suoni dal mondo antico. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2012. 75 p. € 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788871404684.

*Petersen, Lauren Hackworth and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell (edd.). Mothering and motherhood in ancient Greece and Rome. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012. xii, 260 p. $55.00. ISBN 9780292729902.

Pizzirani, Chiara. Il sepolcreto etrusco della Galassina di Castelvetro (Modena). Studi e scavi, nuova serie 24. Bologna: Ante Quem, 2009. 210 p. € 22.50 (pb). ISBN 9788878490444.

*Pormann, Peter E. (ed.). Epidemics in context: Greek commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic tradition. Scientia Graeco-Arabica, Bd 8. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. vi, 334 p. $154.00. ISBN 9783110259797.

Pultrová, Lucie. The Latin deverbative nouns and adjectives. Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica monographia, 162. Praha: Université Charles de Prague; Éditions Karolinum, 2011. 180 p. (pb). ISBN 9788024619446.

*Putnam, Michael C. J. The humanness of heroes: studies in the conclusion of Virgil’s Aeneid. The Amsterdam Vergil lectures, 1. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011. 183 p. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9789089643476.

*Raffarin, Anne (ed., trans., comm.). Flavio Biondi. Rome restaurée / Roma Instaurata, Tome II: Livres II et III – Libri II et III. Les Classiques de l’Humanisme. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012. xxiii, 313 p. € 45.00 (pb.). ISBN 9782251800257.

*Rees, Roger (ed.). Latin panegyric. Oxford readings in classical studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xvi, 430 p. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 9780199576722.

*Richer, Nicolas. La religion des Spartiates: croyances et cultes dans l’Antiquité. Histoire. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012. 806 p. € 55.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251381138.

*Roberts, Deborah H. (trans., comm.). Aeschylus: Prometheus bound. Indianapolis; Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2012. xxxv, 59 p. $7.95 (pb). ISBN 9781603841900.

*Roman, Agathe. L’erreur et la faute dans l’Histoire de la guerre de Peloponnèse de Thucydide. Collection d’Études Classiques, 24. Leuven; Walpole, MA: Peeters, 2012. 265 p. € 48.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042924635.

Schmitz, Thomas A. and Nicolas Wiater (edd.). The struggle for identity: Greeks and their past in the first century BCE. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. 305 p. € 54.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515096713.

Scippacercola, Nadia. Il lato oscuro del Romanzo Greco. Supplementi di Lexis, 62. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert editore, 2011. 209 p. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9789025612702.

*Seaford, Richard. Cosmology and the polis: the social construction of space and time in the tragedies of Aeschylus. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiii, 366 p. $110.00. ISBN 9781107009271.

*Simon, Mathilde. Le rivage grec de l’Italie romaine: la grande Grèce dans l’historiographie augustéenne. Collection de l’École française de Rome, 442. Rome: École française de Rome, 2011. viii, 527 p. € 80.00 (pb). ISBN 9782728308552.

*Squillace, Giuseppe. Menecrate di Siracusa: un medico del IV secolo a.C. tra Sicilia, Grecia e Macedonia. Spudasmata, Bd 141. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2012. 250 p. € 39.80 (pb). ISBN 9783487147383.

*Squire, Michael. The Iliad in a nutshell: visualizing epic on the Tabulae Iliacae. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xxv, 467 p., [24] p. of plates. $160.00. ISBN 9780199602445.

*Stafford, Emma. Herakles. Gods and heroes of the ancient world. London; New York: Routledge, 2012. xxvi, 302 p. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415300681.

*Stang, Charles M. Apophasis and pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: “No longer I”. Oxford early Christian studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. vi, 236 p. $110.00. ISBN 9780199640423.

*Tahko, Tuomas E. (ed.). Contemporary Aristotelian metaphysics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xi, 263 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107000643.

*Talbot, Alice-Mary and Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (trans.). Miracle tales from Byzantium. Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 12. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2012. xxiv, 448 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674059030.

*Tarán, Leonardo and Dimitri Gutas (edd., comm.). Aristotle Poetics: editio maior of the Greek text with historical introductions and philological commentaries. Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 338. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012. 99 p. $226.00. ISBN 9789004217409.

*Tsamakda, Vasiliki. Die Panagia-Kirche und die Erzengelkirche in Kakodiki: Werkstattgruppen, kunst- und kulturhistorisches Analyse byzantinischer Wandmalerei des 14. Jhs. auf Kreta. Denkschriften der philosophisch- historischen Klasse, 427; Archäologische Forschungen, 21. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012. 411 p. € 79.00. ISBN 9783700169055.

*Tziatzi-Papagianni, Maria (ed.). Theodori Metropolitae Cyzici Epistulae: accedunt epistulae mutuae Constantini Porphyrogeniti. Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae, 48. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. x, 112*, 249 p. $154.00. ISBN 9783110224740.

*Unger, Dominic J. (ed. trans., comm.). St. Irenaeus of Lyons: Against the heresies (Book 2). Ancient Christian writers, 65. New York; Mahwah, NJ: Newman Press, 2012. xvi, 185 p. $34.95. ISBN 9780809105991.

*Valente, Stefano. I lessici a Platone di Timeo Sofista e Pseudo-Didimo: introduzione ed edizione critica. Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker, Bd 14. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. viii, 316 p. $182.00. ISBN 9783110240795.

*Vassallo, Christian. Filosofia e ‘sonofera’ nei libri ii e iii della Repubblica di Platone. Supplementi di Lexis, 63. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert editore, 2012. 303 p. € 72.00 (pb). ISBN 9789025612719.

*Vertoudakis, Vassilios P. Το όγδοο βιβλίο της Παλατινής Ανθολογίας. Μια μελέτη των επιγραμμάτων του Γρηγορίου του Ναζιανζηνού. Athens: Ινστιτούτο του Βιβλίου – Α. Καρδαμίτσα, 2011. 285 p. € 21.30 (pb). ISBN 9789603542933.

*Wilkinson, Richard H. (ed.). Tausret: forgotten queen and pharaoh of Egypt. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xii, 145 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780199740116.

*Zumbrunnen, John. Aristophanic comedy and the challenge of democratic citizenship. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012. viii, 165 p. $65.00. ISBN 9781580464178.