BMCR 2007.09.62

BMCR Books Received (September 2007)

Agnesini, Alex (ed. and comm.), Il carme 62 di Catullo. Edizione critica e commento. Quaderni di “Paideia,” 5. Cesena: Stilgraf Editrice, 2007. Pp. 510. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-902201-1-1.

Andreae, Bernard, and Karin Rhein, Kleopatra und die Caesaren. Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg 28. Oktober 2006 bis 4. Februar 2007. München: Hirmer Verlag, 2006. Pp. 264; ills. $42.00. ISBN 978-3-7774-3245-8.

Austin, Scott, Parmenides and the History of Dialectic. Three Essays. Las Vegas/Zurich/Athens: Parmenides Publishing, 2007. Pp. xiii, 98. $28.00. ISBN 978-1-930972-19-3.

Bang, Peter F., Mamoru Ikegucki, and Hartmut G. Ziche (edd.), Ancient Economies, Modern Methodologies. Archaeology, comparative history, models and institutions. Pragmateiai, 12. Bari: Edipuglia, 2006. Pp. 279. €40.00. ISBN 978-88-7228-488-9.

Beltrán, José, Alfredo P. Encuentra, Gonzalo C. Fontana, José Javier Iso, Ana I. Magallón, and Rosa Ma Marina, Marco Valerio Marcial. Actualización científica y bibliográfica. Tres décadas de estudios sobre Marcial (1971-2000). Monografías de Filología Latina, 13. Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza, 2005. Pp. 363. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 84-96214-60-5.

Burkert, Walter, Kleine Schriften VII. Tragica et Historica. Hypomnemata. Supplement-Reihe, 2. Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Rösler. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007. Pp. ix, 230. €46.90. ISBN 978-3-525-25274-1.

Burton, Philip, Language in the Confessions of Augustine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 198. $72.00. ISBN 978-0-19-926622-7.

Canali De Rossi, Filippo, I Greci in Medio Oriente ed Asia Centrale. dalla fondazione dell’Impero Persiano fino alla spedizione di Alessandro Magno (550-336 a.C. circa). Roma: Herder Editrice e Libreria, 2007. Pp. 196. €35 (pb). ISBN 978-88-896-70-21-3.

Canali De Rossi, Filippo, Le relazioni diplomatiche di Roma. Volume II. Dall’intervento in Sicilia fino alla invasione annibalica (264-216 a.C.). Roma: Herder Editrice e Libreria, 2007. Pp. 148. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-89670-20-0.

Connolly, Joy, The State of Speech. Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 304. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-691-12364-6.

Cosentino, Augusto, Il battesimo gnostico. Dottrine, simboli e riti iniziatici nello gnosticismo. Collana di studie storico-religiosi, 9. Cosenza: Edizioni Lionello Giordano, 2007. Pp. 357. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-8691923-4.

Dräger, Paul (ed. and comm.), Almann von Hautvillers. Lebensbeschreibung oder eher Predigt von der Heiligen Helena gemäss der Verfasserschaft Almanns, eines Klosterbruders von Hautvillers : Aus den Acta Sanctorum (1737/1867), verglichen mit einer Handschrift der Stadtbibliothek Trier. Trier: Kliomedia, 2007. Pp. 340. €28.90 (pb). ISBN 978-3-89890-113-0.

Dreyer, Boris, Die römische Nobilitätsherrschaft und Antiochos III (205 bis 188 v.Chr.). Frankfurter althistorische Beiträge, 11. Hennef: Buchverlag Marthe Clauss, 2007. Pp. 484. €88.00. ISBN 978-3-934040-09-0.

Erkut, Gülden, and Stephen Mitchell (edd.), The Black Sea. Past, Present and Future. Proceedings of the international, interdisciplinary conference Istanbul, 14-16 October 2004. BIAA Monograph, 42. London: British Institute at Ankara, 2007. Pp. 172. $60.00. ISBN 978-1-898249-21-4.

Esperanza Torrego, Ma, José Miguel Baños, Concepción Cabrillana, and Julián Méndez Dosuna (edd.), Praedicativa II. Esquemas de complementación verbal en griego antiguo y en Latín. Monografías de Filología Latina, 15. Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza, 2007. Pp. 289. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 978-84-7733-893-2.

Felsch, Rainer C.S. (ed.), Kalapodi II. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen im Heiligtum der Artemis und des Apollon von Hyampolis in der antiken Phokis. Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 2007. Pp. xv, 558; Abb. 12, Tafeln 106, Beilg. 13. €144.00. ISBN 978-3-8053-3771-7.

Fernández Delgado, José, Francisca Pordomingo, and Antonio Stramaglia (edd.), Escuela y Literatura en la Grecia Antigua. Actas del Simposio Internacional Universidad de Salamanca 17-19 Noviembre de 2004.Collana Scientifica, 17. Studi Archeologici, Artistici, Filologici, Filosofici, Letterari e Storici. Cassino: Universit degli Studi di Cassino, 2007. Pp. 750. €58.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-8317-042-3.

Finkel, I.L. (ed.), Ancient Board Games in Perspective. Papers from the 1990 Britsh Museum colloquium, with additional contributions. London, The British Museum Press, 2007. Pp. vi, 281. $100.00. ISBN 978-0-714-11153-7.

Francese, Christopher, Ancient Rome in So Many Words. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2007. Pp. 248. $12.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-7818-1153-8.

Freu, Christel, Les figures du pauvre dans les sources italiennes de l’antiquité tardive. Études d’archéologie et d’histoire ancienne. Paris: De Boccard, 2007. Pp. 657; tables. 9. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7018-0217-6.

Frösén, Jaakko, Tiina Purola, and Erja Salmenkivi (edd.), Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Papyrology Helsinki, 1-7 August, 2004. 2 vols. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum, 122. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2007. Pp. 1075; pls. 34. ISBN 978-951-653-345-5; 978-951-653-346-2.

Gibbons, Reginald, and Charles Segal (trans.), Sophocles. Antigone. Greek Tragedy in New Translations. Paperback reprint of 2003 edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 197. $10.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-19-514310-2.

Gutzwiller, Kathryn, A Guide to Hellenistic Literature. Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. xv, 261; figs. 11; maps 3. $84.95. ISBN 978-0-6312-3321-3.

Hendrich, Christof, Die Säulenordnung des ersten Dipteros von Samos. Deutsche Archäologische Institut. Samos, 25. Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt, 2007. Pp. 150; Beilg. 47, Tafeln 22, Plan 3. €78.00. ISBN 978-3-7749-3506-8.

Herman, Gabriel, and Israel Shatzman (edd.), Greeks East and West. Essays in Greek Literature and History in Memory of David Asheri. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2007. Pp. 204. (pb). ISBN 965-208-170-1.

Herrero de Jáuregui, Miguel, Tradición órfica y cristianismo antiguo. Estructuras y Procesos. Religión. Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2007. Pp. 413. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 978-84-8164-915-4.

Kenny, Anthony, Philosophy in the Modern World. A New History of Western Philosophy, 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 347. $25.00. ISBN 978-0-19-875279-0.

Keulen, W.H. (ed. and comm.), Apuleius Madaurensis Metamorphoses Book I. Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 2007. Pp. 569. €125.00. ISBN 978-90-6980-154-4.

Luschnig, C. A. E., An Introduction to Ancient Greek. Second edition, revised by C. A. E. Luschnig and Deborah Mitchell. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007. Pp. 374. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-87220-889-6.

Manuwald, Gesine (ed. and comm.), Cicero, Philippics 3-9, 2 vols. Texte und Kommentare, 30. Volume 1. Introduction, Text and Translation. Volume 2. Commentary. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. Pp. xvi, 1094. €157.01. ISBN 978-3-11-019325-1.

McNamee, Kathleen, Annotations in Greek and Latin Texts from Egypt. American Studies in Papyrology, 45. New Haven: American Society of Papyrologists, 2007. Pp. xvii, 577; figs. 8, tables 5, pls. 33. $125.00. ISBN 978-0-9700591-7-8.

Méthy, Nicole, Les lettres de Pline le Jeune. Une représentation de l’homme. Roma antiqua. Paris: PUPS, 2007. Pp. 489. €31.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84050-518-1.

Mitchell, Stephen, and Constantina Katsari (edd.), Patterns in the Economy of Roman Asia Minor. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2005. Pp. xii, 335. $79.50. ISBN 978-1-905125-02-9.

Paratore, Ettore, Una Nuova ricostruzione del “De poetis” di Suetonio. Ludus philologiae, 17. First edition 1946. Urbino: Edizione QuattroVenti, 2007. Pp. xvi, 447. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-392-0791-3.

Piazzi, Lisa (ed.), P. Ovidii Nasonis, Heroidum Epistula VII. Dido Aeneae. Biblioteca Nazionale Testi con Commento Filologico, 13. Firenze: Felice Le Monnier, 2007. Pp. 349. €39.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-00-20667-9.

Questa, Cesare, La metrica di Plauto e di Terenzio. Ludus philologiae, 16. Urbino: Edizione QuattroVenti, 2007. Pp. xiii, 550. €54.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-392-0794-4.

Raffaelli, Renato, and Alba Tontini (edd.), Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates X. Menaechmi. Ludus philologiae, 10. Urbino: Edizione QuattroVenti, 2007. Pp. 185. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-392-0809-5.

Regtuit, R.F. (ed.), Scholia in Thesmophoriazusas; Ranas; Ecclesiazusas et Plutum. Scholia in Aristophanem, III 2/3. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 2007. Pp. 131. €110.00. ISBN 978-90-6980-173-5.

Rilinger, Rolf, Ordo und dignitas. Beiträge zur römischen Verfassungs- und Sozialgeschichte. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Pp. 400. €72.00. ISBN 978-3-515-08609-7.

Rummel, Philipp von, Habitus barbarus. Kleidung und Repräsentation spätantiker Eliten im 4. und 5. Jahrhundert. Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, 55. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2007. Pp. xi, 481; Abb. 60. $172.80. ISBN 978-3-11-019150-9.

Rüpke, Jörg (ed.), A Companion to Roman Religion. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. xxx, 542; figs. 68, maps 2. $174.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-2943-5.

Sassi, Maria Michela, Tracce nella mente. Teorie della memoria da Platone e i moderni. Seminari e Convegni, 9. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2007. Pp. x, 265; ills. 12. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7642-222-5.

Schmitt Pantel, Pauline, and François de Polignac (edd.), Athènes et le politique. Dans le sillage de Claude Mossé. Bibliothèque Histoire. Paris: Albin Michel, 2007. Pp. 352. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-226-17901-2.

Skinner, Marilyn B. (ed.), A Companion to Catullus. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. xxvi, 590. $149.95. ISBN 978-1-4051-3533-7

Smith, Amy C., Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Great Britain, Fascicule 23. Great Britain Reading Museum Service (Reading Borough Council). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 47; pls. 40. £55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-726389-1.

Sommerstein, Alan H., and Judith Fletcher (edd.), Horkos. The Oath in Greek Society. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 304. $95.00. ISBN 978-1-904675-67-9.

Stokes, Michael C., Dialectic in Action. An Examination of Plato’s Crito. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2005. Pp. 246. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-9543845-9-3.

Stray, Christopher (ed.), Gilbert Murray Reassessed. Hellenism, Theatre, and International Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 400. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-19-920879-1.

Swain, Simon (ed.), Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul. Polemon’s Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 200. Pp. 699; figs. 4, pls. 7. $160.00. ISBN 978-0-19-929153-3.

Whitacre, Rodney A. (trans. and comm.), A Patristic Greek Reader. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2007. Pp. xxiv, 279. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-59856-043-5.

Wilson, Emily, The Death of Socrates. Profiles in History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 247; ills. 18. $19.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02683-4.

Woolf, Greg, Et Tu, Brute? A Short History of Political Murder. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 199; ills. 24. $19.95. ISBN 978-0-674-025684-1.

Zeruneith, Keld, The Wooden Horse. The Liberation of the Western Mind, from Odysseus to Socrates. New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2007. Pp. 605. $37.95. ISBN 978-1-58567-818-1.