Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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. Mare Internum: archaeologia e culture del Mediterraneo. 1 - 2009. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2009. 166 p. (pb). ISBN 20350783.

Augoustakis, Antonios C. (comm.). Plautus Mercator. Bryn Mawr Latin Commentaries. Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr Commentaries, 2009. 128 p. (pb). ISBN 9781931019064.

Baños Baños, José Miguel (ed.). Sintaxis del latín clásico. E-excellence. Madrid: Liceus, 2009. 838 p. €55.00. ISBN 9788498228441.

Barnish, S., L. Cracco Ruggini, L. Cuppo, R. Marchese and M. Breu. Vivarium in context. Vicenza: Centre for medieval studies, Leonard Boyle, 2008. 140 p. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9788890203528.

Betancourt, Philip P. The Bronze Age begins: the ceramics revolution of early Minoan I and the new forms of wealth that transformed prehistoric society. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2008. xx, 136 p. $36.00 (pb). ISBN 9781931534529.

Bravo, Benedetto. La Chronique d'Apollodore et le Pseudo-Skymnos: érudition antiquaire et littérature géographique dans la seconde moitié du IIe siecle av. J.-C. Studia Hellenistica; 46. Leuven: Peeters, 2009. xxiv, 268 p. €70.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042921450.

Budelmann, Felix (ed.). The Cambridge companion to Greek lyric. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxi, 457 p. $39.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521614764.

Camia, Francesco. Roma e le poleis: L'intervento di Roma nelle controversie territoriali tra le comunità greche di Grecia e d'Asia Minore nel secondo secolo a.C.: le testimonianze epigrafiche. Tripodes 10. Atene: Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, 2009. 263 p. €50.00. ISBN 9789609839730.

Cecchini, Enzo. Scritti minori di filologia testuale. Ludus philologiae; 18. Urbino: QuattroVenti, 2008. 507 p. €38.00 (pb). ISBN 9788839208521.

Chaplin, Jane D. and Christina S. Kraus (edd.). Livy. Oxford readings in classical studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. x, 523 p. $60.00 (pb). ISBN 9780199286348.

Chiaradonna, Riccardo. Plotino. Pensatori; 3. Roma: Carocci editore, 2009. 202 p. €14.50 (pb). ISBN 9788843047611.

Conti Bizzarro, Ferruccio. Comici entomologi. Hellenica; 30. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2009. 238 p. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862741002.

Corcilius, Klaus and Christof Rapp (edd.). Beiträge zur Aristotelischen Handlungstheorie: Akten der 8. Tagung der Karl und Gertrud Abel-Stiftung vom 08.-11.07.2004 in Blankensee. Philosophie der Antike; Bd. 24. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008. 216 p. €45.00. ISBN 9783515090575.

Coskun, Altay. 51;kun, Altay. Bürgerrechtsentzug oder Fremdenausweisung?: Studien zu den Rechten von Latinern und weiteren Fremden sowie zum Bürgerrechtswechsel in der Römischen Republik (5. bis frühes 1. Jh. v.Chr.). HERMES - Einzelschriften Bd. 101. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. 236 p. €50.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515093033.

Craik, Elizabeth M. (ed., trans., comm.). The Hippocratic treatise On glands. Studies in ancient medicine v. 36. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2009. viii, 169 p. $123.00. ISBN 9789004175631.

Daly, Robert J. (ed.). Apocalyptic thought in early Christianity. Holy Cross studies in patristic theology and history. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2009. 303 p. $32.99 (pb). ISBN 9780801036279.

Daumas, Michèle. L'or et le pouvoir: armement scythe et mythes grecs. Nanterre: Presses universitaires de Paris ouest, 2009. 206 p., [16] p. of plates. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 9782840160427.

De Albentiis, Emidio. Secrets of Pompeii: everyday life in ancient Rome. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 196 p. $44.95. ISBN 9780892369416.

de Hann, Nathalie, Martijn Eickhoff and Marjan Schwegman (edd.). Archaeology and national identity in Italy and Europe 1800-1950. Fragmenta. Journal of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome 2 (2008). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2008. 263 p. ISBN 9782503524061.

Delattre, Charles. Le cycle de l'anneau: de Minos à Tolkien. L'antiquité au présent, . Paris: Belin, 2009. 279 p. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 9782701147024.

Eck, Werner, Matthäus Heil and Johannes Heinrichs (edd.). Prosopographia Imperii Romani Saec. I. II. III. Pars viii, Fasciculus 1. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. 140 p. $81.00. ISBN 9783110202953.

Foster, Benjamin R. and Karen Polinger Foster. Civilizations of ancient Iraq. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. xii, 297 p. $26.95. ISBN 9780691137223.

Fratantuono, Lee (comm.). A commentary on Virgil, Aeneid XI. Collection Latomus 320. Bruxelles: Éditions Latomus, 2009. 339 p. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 9782870312612.

Frazel, Thomas D. The rhetoric of Ciceros "In Verrem". Hypomnemata Bd. 179. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009. 264 p. €48.90. ISBN 9783525252895.

Gaisser, Julia Haig. Catullus. Blackwell introductions to the classical world. Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. x, 243 p. $99.95. ISBN 9781405118897.

Gallo, Luciana. Lord Elgin and ancient Greek architecture: the Elgin drawings at the British Museum. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvii, 344 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780521881630.

Giardina, Giovanna R. La chimica fisica di Aristotele: teoria degli elementi e delle loro proprietà. Analisi critica del De generatione et corruptione. Area 11 - Scienze storiche, filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche; 285. Roma: Aracne editrice, 2008. 309 p. €17.00 (pb). ISBN 9788854815452.

Giarrizzo, Giuseppe and Stefania Pafumi (edd.). Oggetti, uomini, idee. Percorsi multidisciplinari per la storia del collezionismo, Atti della tavola rotonda, Catania, 4 dicembre 2006. Studia erudita 11. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2009. 230 p. €72.00. ISBN 9788862271530.

Goldhill, Simon and Edith Hall (edd.). Sophocles and the Greek tragic tradition. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi, 336 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521887854.

Gorre, Gilles. Les relations du clergé égyptien et des lagides d'après des sources privées. Studia Hellenistica; 45. Leuven: Peeters, 2009. lviii, 641 p. €105.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042920354.

Gottlieb, Paula. The virtue of Aristotle's ethics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xix, 241 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780521761765.

Gourinat, Jean-Baptiste and Jonathan Barnes (edd.). Lire les stoïciens. Philosophie ancienne. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2009. vi, 234 p. € 15.00 (pb). ISBN 9782130573739.

Haack, Marie-Laurence (ed.). Écritures, cultures, sociétés dans les nécropoles d'Italie ancienne: table ronde des 14-15 décembre 2007, mouvements et trajectoires dans les nécropoles d'Italie d'époque pré-républicaine et républicaine, ENS Paris. Ausonius Éditions. Études, 23. Pessac: Ausonius 2009. 250 p. €35.00. ISBN 9782356130099.

Heinen, Heinz (ed.). Handwörterbuch der antiken Sklaverei (HAS). Lieferung I-II (2008). Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei 5. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. 1 CD-ROM. € 175.00. ISBN 9783515089197.

Herrman, Judson (ed., trans. comm.). Hyperides. Funeral oration. American Philological Association. American classical studies 53. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv, 148 p. $60.00. ISBN 9780195388657.

Hollender, Gabi. Amenophis I. und Ahmes Nefertari: Untersuchungen zur Entwichlung ihres posthuman Kultes anhand der Privatgr äber der thebanischen Nekropole. Sonderschrift 23. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. x, 182 p., [4] p. of plates. $123.00. ISBN 9783110204612.

Howe, Timothy and Jeanne Reames (edd.). Macedonian legacies: studies in ancient Macedonian history and culture in honor of Eugene N. Borza. Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2009. xvi, 310 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781930053564.

Hunter, Richard and Ian Rutherford (edd.). Wandering poets in ancient Greek culture: travel, locality and pan-Hellenism. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv, 313 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521898782.

Icks, Martijn. Images of Elagabalus (PhD thesis, Radboud Universiteit). Nijmegan, 2008. 339 p. ISBN 9789090236797.

Jacobsen, Torsten Cumberland. The Gothic War: Rome's final conflict in the West. Yardley: Westholme, 2009. x, 371 p. $26.00. ISBN 9781594160844.

Jasink, Anna Margherita. Cretan hieroglyphic seals: a new classification of symbols and ornamental / filling motifs. Biblioteca di "Pasiphae" 8. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2009. xiii, 222 p. €185.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862271554.

Kalfas, Vassilis (ed., trans., comm.). Aristoteles. Meta ta Physika. Biblio A'. Archaioi philosophoi. Athena: ekdoseis Polis, 2009. 356 p. (pb). ISBN 9789604352272.

Keaveney, Arthur and John A. Madden (edd., trans., comm.). Sir William Herbert. Ad Campianum Iesuitam eiusque Rationes Decem Responsio.. Noctes Neolatinae Bd. 11. Hildesheim; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2009. lii, 91 p. €34.80 (pb). ISBN 9783487139883.

King, Katherine Callen. Ancient epic. Blackwell introductions to the classical world. Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ix, 206 p. $89.95. ISBN 9781405159470.

Kubish, Sabine. Lebensbilder Der 2. Zwischenzeit: Biographische Inschriften der 13.-17. Dynastie. 34. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. x, 383 p., [12] p. of plates. $151.00. ISBN 9783110204957.

La Torre, Gioacchino Francesco (ed.). Dall'Oliva al Savuto: studi e ricerche sul territorio dell'antica Temesa. Atti del convegno, Campora San Giovanni (Amantea, CS), 15-16 settembre 2007. Biblioteca di "Calabria antica" 1. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2009. 303 p. €160.00. ISBN 9788862271172.

Lanciotti, Settimio (ed.). Titus Maccius Plautus. Curculio. Editio Plautina Sarsinatis; 8. Sarsina; Urbino: QuattroVnti, 2008. 86 p. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 9788839208514.

Langslow, David (ed.). Jacob Wackernagel. Lectures on syntax: with special reference to Greek, Latin, and Germanic. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxii, 982 p. $250.00. ISBN 9780198153023.

Lo Cascio, Elio. Crescia e declino: studi di storia dell'economia romana. Centro ricerche e documentazione sell'antichità classica. Monografie 23. Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2009. 386 p. €120.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882655624.

Longo, Giovanna (ed., trans., comm.). [Quintiliano], La pozione dell'odio (Declamazioni maggiori, 14-15). Collana scientifica 22. Cassino: Edizioni Università di Cassino, 2008. 227 p. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 9788883170492.

Majumdar, Deepa. Plotinus on the appearance of time and the world of sense: a pantomime. Aldershot; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. vi, 237 p. $99.95. ISBN 9780754655237.

Mastrocinque, Attilio. Des Mystères de Mithra aux Mystères de Jesus. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. 128 p., [7] p. of plates. €39.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515092500.

McIntosh, Jane. Handbook to life in prehistoric Europe (paperback version of 2006 edition). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii, 404 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780195384765.

Müller, Holger (ed.). 1000 & 1 Talente: Visualisierung antiker Kriegskosten. Begleitband zu einer studentischen Ausstellung. Gutenberg: Computus Druck Satz & Verlag, 2009. 208 p. €24.90 (pb). ISBN 9783940598042.

Netz, Reviel. Ludic proof: Greek mathematics and the Alexandrian aesthetic. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xv, 255 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521898942.

Nyström, Eva. Containing multitudes: Codex Upsaliensis Graecus 8 in perspective. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia 11. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet,, 2009. 340 p. (pb). ISBN 9789155475017.

Opper, Thorsten. Hadrian: empire and conflict. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. 256 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674030954.

Palagia, Olga (ed.). Art in Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi, 286 p., [8] p. of plates. $90.00. ISBN 9780521849333.

Papachrysostomou, Athina (ed., trans., comm.). Six comic poets: a commentary on selected fragments of Middle Comedy. Drama: Studien zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption; N.S., 4. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008. 303 p. € 58.00 (pb). ISBN 9783823363781.

Parkinson, R. B. Reading ancient Egyptian poetry: among other histories. Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. xxi, 392 p. $99.95. ISBN 9781405125475.

Partenie, Catalin. Plato's myths. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi, 255 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521887908.

Patillon, Michel (ed., trans.). Corpus rhetoricum. Tome II, Hermogène: les états de cause. Collection des universités de France . Série grecque, 470. Paris: Les Belles lettres, 2009. cvii, 205 p. €31.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005539.

Pinchard, Alexis. Les langues de sagesse dans la Grèce et l'Inde anciennes. Hautes Études du monde gréco-romain 43. Genève: Droz, 2009. x, 637 p. $140.00 (pb). ISBN 9782600013475.

Poinsotte, Jean-Michel (ed., trans.). Commodien. Instructions. Collection des universités de France . Série latine, 392. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2009. lxxvi, 557 p. €89.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251014524.

Questa, Cesare (ed.). Titus Maccius Plautus. Bacchides. Editio Plautina Sarsinatis; 4. Sarsina; Urbino: QuattroVenti, 2008. 108 p. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 9788839208477.

Raffaelli, Renato and Alba Tontini (edd.). Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates. XI. Mercator (Sarsina 29 settembre 2007). Ludus Philologiae. Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates 11. Urbino: QuattroVenti, 2008. 116 p. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 9788839208439.

Rajak, Tessa. Translation and survival: the Greek Bible of the ancient Jewish Diaspora. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xvi, 380 p. $140.00. ISBN 9780199558674.

Ramelli, Ilaria (ed.). Stoici romani minori. Bompiani Il pensiero occidentale. Milano: Bompiani, 2008. xlix, 2632 p. €45.00. ISBN 9788845261961.

Rashed, Roshdi (ed., trans., comm.). Apollonius de Perge, Coniques. Tomb 2.2: Livre IV. Commentaire historique et mathématique, édition et traduction du texte arabe. Scientia Graeco-Arabica; v. 1/2.2. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. x, 319 p. $140.00. ISBN 9783110199383.

Rebillard, Éric. Musarna 3: la nécropole impériale. Collection de l'École française de Rome; 415. Rome: École française de Rome, 2009. viii, 333 p., [86] p. of plates. €115.00 (pb). ISBN 9782728308194.

Riaño Rufilanchas, Daniel. Índices de "El Complemento Directo en Griego Antiguo". Raleigh, NC: Lulu, 2009. 140 p. $21.21 (pb). ISBN 9781409250791.

Rio, Alice. Legal practice and the written word in the early middle ages: Frankish formulae, c. 500-1000. Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought, fourth series. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xii, 299 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521514996.

Roberts, Michael. The humblest sparrow: the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. xii, 364 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780472116836.

Romano Martín, Sandra. El tópico grecolatino del concilio de los dioses. Spudasmata, Bd. 125. Hildesheim; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2009. 464 p. €68.00 (pb). ISBN 9783487139845.

Runia, David T. and Michael Share (ed., trans.). Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus. Vol. II. Book 2: Proclus on thecauses of the cosmos and its creation. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 410 p. $115.00. ISBN 9780521848718.

Schindler, Claudia. Per carmina laudes: Untersuchungen zur spätantiken Verspanegyrik von Claudian bis Coripp. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd. 253. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. 344 p. $137.00. ISBN 9783110201277.

Schmidt, Manfred G. (ed.). Hermann Dessau (1856-1931) zum 150. Geburtstag des Berliner Althistorikers und Epigraphikers. Beiträge eines Kolloquiums und wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz des Jubilars. Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum / Auctarium s.n., v. 3. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gryuter, 2009. xiv, 400 p. $140.00. ISBN 9783110215731.

Schmitz, Christine and Anja Bettenworth (edd.). Menschen - Heros - Gott: Weltentwürfe und Lebensmodelle im Mythos der Vormoderne. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. 183, [24] p. of plates. €44.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515092944.

Schwab, Andreas (ed., trans., comm.). Gregor von Nazianz. Über Vorsehung = Peri Pronoias. Classica monacensia, Bd. 35. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008. 140 p. € 39.90 (pb). ISBN 9783823364184.

Spatharas, Demos G (ed., trans., comm.). Isokrates. Kata Lochitou. Archaia Grammateia 2. Athena: Smile, 2009. 137 p. ISBN 9789607793911.

Tommasi Moreschini, Chiara Ombretta (ed., comm.). Giacomo Leopardi, Rhetores. Studi sulla tardoantichità 3. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2009. 352 p. €80.00. ISBN 9788862271684.

Tsakiris, Vasileios. Die gedruckten griechischen Beichtbücher zur Zeit der Türkenherrschaft: Ihr kirchenpolitischer Entstehungszusammenhang und ihre Quellen. Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte Bd. 111. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. xii, 377 p. $126.00. ISBN 9783110212846.

Tuominen, Miira. The ancient commentators on Plato and Aristotle. Ancient philosophies 6. Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009. xii, 324 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780520260276.

Vose, Robin. Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the medieval crown of Aragon. Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought; 4th series, 74. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xv, 294 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521886437.

Wheatley, Pat and Robert Hannah (edd.). Alexander & his successors: essays from the antipodes. Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2009. xxii, 372 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781930053588.

Williams, James D. (ed.). An introduction to classical rhetoric: essential readings. Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. xi, 544 p., [8] p. of plates. $54.95 (pb). ISBN 9781405158619.

Wolff, Étienne (ed., trans., comm.). Fulgence. Virgile dévoilé. Mythographes. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2009. 242 p. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782757400913.

Zwierlein, Otto. Petrus in Rom: die literarischen Zeugnisse. Mit einer kritischen Edition der Martyrien des Petrus und Paulus auf neuer handschriftlicher Grundlage. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Bd. 96. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. xiii, 476 p., [4] p. of plates. $137.00. ISBN 9783110208085.