BMCR 2000.06.08

Books Received (May)

Alföldy, Géza, Brian Dobson and Werner Eck (edd.), Kaiser, Heer und Gesellschaft in der Römischen Kaiserzeit. Gedenkschrift für Eric Birley. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. Pp. 509. DM/sFr 148. ISBN 3-515-07654-9.

Anderson, R. Dean Jr., Glossary of Greek Rhetorical Terms Connected to Methods of Argumentation, Figures and Tropes from Anaximenes to Quintilian. Leuven: Peeters, 2000. Pp. 131. 600 BEF/15 Euro. ISBN 90-429-0846-7.

Borza, Eugene N., Before Alexander: Constructing Early Macedonia. Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians 6. Claremont: Regina Books, 1999. Pp. 89. $12.95. ISBN 0-941690-96-0.

Bottéro, Jean, Clarisse Herrenschmidt and Jean-Pierre Vernant, Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Translated from the 1996 French edition by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Pp. 206. $25. ISBN 0-226-06715-7.

Burgess, Richard, Studies in Eusebian and Post-Eusebian Chronography. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 358. DM/sFr 144. ISBN 3-515-07530-5.

Crisp, Roger (ed.), Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 213. $49.95. ISBN 0-521-63221-8.

Ertzdorff Xenja von, and Rudolf Schulz (edd.), Beschreibung der Welt: Zur Poetik der Reise- und Länderberichte. Vorträge eines interdisziplinären Symposiums vom 8. bis 13. Juni 1998 an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen. Chloe: Beihefte zum Daphnis vol. 31. Amsterdam: L Rodopi B.V., 2000. Pp. 571. ISBN 90-420-0480-0.

Fitzgerald, William, Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 129. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-77031-9.

Frank, Georgia, The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity. Transformations of Classical Heritage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. 232. $40. ISBN 0-520-22205-9.

Gaisser, Julia Haig, Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men: A Renaissance Humanist and His World. Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contexts. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Pp. 362. $52.50. ISBN 0-472-11055-1.

Haubold, Johannes, Homer’s People: Epic Poetry and Social Formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 240. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-77009-2.

Haye, Thomas (ed.), Humanismus im Norden: Frühneuzeitliche Rezeption antiker Kultur und Literatur an Nord- und Ostsee. Chloe: Beihefte zum Daphnis vol. 32. Amsterdam: L Rodopi B.V., 2000. Pp. 384. ISBN 90-420-0539-4.

Healy, John F., Pliny the Elder on Science and Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 467. $110. ISBN 0-19-814687-6.

Heilen, Stephan, Laurentius Bonincontrius: De rebus naturalibus et divinis. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 679. ISBN 3-598-77678-0.

Locher, Josef, Topographie und Geschichte der Region am ersten Nilkatarakt in griechisch-römischer Zeit. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 365. ISBN 3-598-77538-5.

Ma, John, Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 403. $98. ISBN 0-19-815219-1.

Markner, Reinhard and Giuseppe Veltri, Friedrich August Wolf: Studien, Dokumente, Bibliographie. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 144. DM/sFr 48. ISBN 3-515-07637-9.

Merker, Gloria S., Corinth XVIII, Pt. iv, The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Terracotta Figurines of the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies, 2000. Pp. 394; 79 plates. $100. ISBN 0-87661-184-6.

Müller, Carl Werner, Kleine Schriften zur antiken Literatur und Geistesgeschichte. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 676. ISBN 3-598-77681-0.

Olson, S. Douglas and Alexander Sens, Archestratos of Gela: Greek Culture and Cuisine in the Fourth Century BCE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 259. $80. ISBN 0-19-924008-6. </p> <p>Opsomer, Jan, <title>In Search of the Truth: Academic Tendencies in Middle Platonism.</i> Brussels: Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, 1998 (available from Brepols). Pp. 332. ISBN 90-6569-666-0. </p> <p>Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard, <i>First Person Futures in Pindar.</i> Hermes Einzelschriften 81. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 105. DM/sFr 64. ISBN 3-515-07564-X. </p> <p>Reichl, Karl (ed.), <i>The Oral Epic: Performance and Music.</i> Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2000 ( <a href="www.vwb-verlag.com">www.vwb-verlag.com</a>). Pp. 246. DM 68. ISBN 3-86135-643-0. </p> <p>Slaatté, Howard Alexander, <i>Plato’s Dialogues and Ethics.</i> Lantham: University Press of America, 2000. Pp. 152. $39.50. ISBN 0-7618-1500-7. </p> <p>Stroh, Wilfried, <i>Apocrypha: Entlegene Schriften.</i> Edited by Jürgen Leonhardt and Georg Ott. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. Pp. 277. DM/sF 88. ISBN 3-515-07667-0. </p> <p>Usher, Stephen, <i>Greek Oratory: Tradition and Originality.</i> Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 388. $95. ISBN 0-19-815074-1. </p> <p>Wardy, Robert, <i>Aristotle in China: Language, Categories and Translation.</i> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 170. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-77118-8. </p> <p>Weinlich, Barbara, <i>Ovids Amores: Gedichtfolge und Handlungsablauf.</i> Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 295. ISBN 3-598-77677-2. </p> <p>Wijsman, H. J. W., <i>Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book VI.</i> ISBN 90-04-11718-0. </p> <p>Wilson, Peter, <i>The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia: The Chorus, the City and the Stage.</i> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 435. $85. ISBN 0-521-55070-X. </p> <p>Wlodarczyk, Marta Anna, <i>Pyrrhonian Inquiry.</i> Supplementary Volume n. 25. Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 2000. Pp. 72. 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