Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Aliquot, Julien. La vie religieuse au Liban sous l'Empire romain. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique 189. Beyrouth: Presses de l'Ifpo, 2009. 450 p. €75.00 (pb). ISBN 9782351591604.

Anderson, Harald. The manuscripts of Statius. Revised edition. Volume I: introduction and catalogs of marterials. Arlington, VA: [Harald Anderson], 2009. xxxvii, 568 p. $23.84 (pb). ISBN 9781449931926.

Anderson, Harald. The manuscripts of Statius. Revised edition. Volume II: indices. Arlington, VA: [Harald Anderson], 2009. vi, 247 p. $11.10 (pb). ISBN 9781449932015.

Anderson, Harald. The manuscripts of Statius. Revised edition. Volume III: reception: the Vitae and Accessus. Arlington, VA: [Harald Anderson], 2009. xi, 151 p. $8.30 (pb). ISBN 9781449932053.

Arnzen, Rüdiger (ed., trans., comm.). Averroes: On Aristotle's "Metaphysics": an annotated translation of the so-called "Epitome". Scientia Graeco-Arabica 5. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. vii, 378 p. $124.00. ISBN 9783110220018.

Asso, Paolo (ed., trans., comm.). A commentary on Lucan, De bello civili IV: introduction, edition and translation. Texte und Kommentare. Eine altertumswissenschaftliche Reihe Bd. 33. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2009. x, 333 p. $184.00. ISBN 9783110203851.

Audano, Sergio (ed.). Aspetti della Fortuna dell'Antico nella Cultura Europea: atti della quinta giornata di studi, Sestri Levante, 7 marzo 2008. Testi e studi di cultura classica 45. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2009. 163 p. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788846726223.

Barletta, Barbara A. The Origins of the Greek Architectural Orders (paperback edition; first published 2001). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xi, 220 p. $26.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521124225.

Barolsky, Paul. A brief history of the artist from God to Picasso. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. xvi, 147 p. $49.95. ISBN 9780271036755.

Beecroft, Alexander. Authorship and cultural identity in early Greece and China: patterns of literary circulation. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. ix, 328 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780521194310.

Bierl, Anton. Ritual and performativity: the chorus in old comedy (translated by Alexander Hollmann). Hellenic studies 20. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2009. xviii, 400 p. $37.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674023734.

Bodson, Liliane. L'interprétation des noms grecs et latins d'animaux illustrée par le cas du zoonym seps-seps. Mémoires de la Classe des Lettres 2062. Bruxelles: Académie royale de Belgique, 2009. 368 p. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9782803102631.

Bonadeo, Alessia (ed., trans., comm.). L'Hercules Epitrapezios Novi Vindicis. Introduzione e commento a Stat. silv. 4,6. Studi latini 72. Napoli: Loffredo editore, 2010. 318 p. €27.00 (pb). ISBN 9788875644048.

Bonanno, Daniela. Ierone il Dinomenide: storia e rappresentazione. Supplementi a "Kokalos" 21. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2010. €345.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862272193.

Bowden, Hugh. Mystery cults of the ancient world. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. 256 p. $39.95. ISBN 9780691146386.

Bowes, Kim. Houses and society in the Later Roman Empire. Duckworth debates in archaeology. London: Duckworth, 2010. 120 p. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 9780715638828.

Breitenbach, Alfred (ed., trans.). Die Pseudo-Seneca-Epigramme der Anthologia Vossiana: ein Gedichtbuch aus der mittleren Kaiserzeit. Spudasmata Bd. 132. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2010. ix, 270 p.,14 p. of plates. €58.00 (pb). ISBN 9783487143446.

Brisson, Luc, Richard Dufour, Laurent Lavaud and Jean-François Pradeau (edd., trans., comm.). Plotin: Traités 45-50. GF 1444. Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 2010. 384 p. €14.80 (pb). ISBN 9782081231368.

Brown, Alison. The return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence. I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2010. xiv, 139 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780674050327.

Brysbaert, Ann. The power of technology in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean: the case of the painted plaster. Monographs in Mediterranean archaeology 12. London; Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2008. xiv, 258 p., [12] p. of plates. $100.00. ISBN 9781845534332.

Burns, Bryan E. Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean commerce, and the formation of identity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xii, 246 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780521119542.

Caragounis, Chrys C. (ed.). Greek: a language in evolution. Essays in honour of Antonios N. Jannaris. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2010. xiv, 344 p. €48.00. ISBN 9783487142555.

Connolly, Serena. Lives behind the laws: the world of the Codex Hermogenianus. Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010. xxiv, 270 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780253221476.

Cook, William W. and James Tatum. African American writers and classical tradition. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 454 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780226789965.

Coralini, Antonella. Cultura abitativa nella Cisalpina Romana. 1. Forum Popili . Flos Italiae. Documenti di archeologia della Cisalpina Romana 9. Firenze: All'Insegna del Giglio, 2010. 344 p., CD-Rom. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 9788878144149

Coralini, Antonella (ed.). Vesuviana. Archeologie a confronto. Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Bologna, 14-16 gennaio 2008). Bologna: Ante Quem, 2009. 890 p., CD. €90.00. ISBN 9788878490437.

Deliyannis, Deborah Mauskopf. Ravenna in late antiquity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xix, 444 p., [8] p. of plates. $95.00. ISBN 9780521836722.

Detel, Wolfgang (trans., comm.). Aristoteles Metaphysik: Bücher VII und VIII. Suhrkamp Studienbibliothek 17. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2009. 779 p. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 9783518270172.

Dillon, John M. and Wolfgang Polleichtner edd., trans., comm.). Iamblichus of Chalcis: The letters. Writings from the Greco-Roman world. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009. xxv, 119 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781589831612.

Dillon, Sheila. The female portrait statue in the Greek world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvi, 254 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780521764506.

Doody, Aude. Pliny's encyclopedia: the reception of the Natural history. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. viii, 194 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521491037.

Döring, Klaus. Kleine Schriften zur antiken Philosophie und ihrer Nachwirkung. Philosophie der Antike Bd. 31. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 391 p. €58.00. ISBN 9783515093286.

Dzino, Danijel. Illyricum in Roman politics, 229 BC-AD 68. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvii, 223 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521194198.

Engels, Johannes. Die Sieben Weisen: Leben, Lehren und Legenden. C. H. Beck Wissen in der Beck'schen Reihe 2485. München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2010. 127 p. €8.95 (pb). ISBN 9783406587856.

Evans, Nancy. Civic rites: democracy and religion in ancient Athens. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 2010. xvi, 272 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780520262034.

Finn, Richard. Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman world. Key themes in ancient history. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xii,182 p. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521681544.

Fögen, Thorsten and Mireille M. Lee (edd.). Bodies and boundaries in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. viii, 317 p. $155.00. ISBN 9783110212525.

Foster, Daniel H. Wagner's Ring cycle and the Greeks. Cambridge studies in opera. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xx, 377 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521517393.

Freely, John and Ahmet S. Çakmak. The Byzantine monuments of Istanbul (paperback edition; first published 2004). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvii, 322 p. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521179058.

Garland, Robert. Hannibal. Ancients in action. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2010. 168 p. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 9781853997259.

Gatto, Maurizio (ed., trans., comm.). Il Peri mechanematon di Ateneo meccanico. Edizione critica, traduzione, commento e note. Aio 567. Roma: Aracne editrice, 2010. xli, 581 p. €36.00 (pb). ISBN 9788854831025.

Geraci, Joseph. The path of the gods. London: Strand Fiction, 2009. 518 p. £ 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9781907340055.

Gerber, Albrecht. Deissmann the philologist. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche Bd. 171. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. xxiii, 649 p. $217.00. ISBN 9783110224313.

Gill, Christopher, Tim Whitmarsh and John Wilkins (edd.). Galen and the world of knowledge. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvii, 327 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521767514.

Grethlein, Jonas. The Greeks and their past: poetry, oratory and history in the fifth century BCE. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xii, 350 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521110778.

Grotkamp, Nadine. Völkerrecht im Prinzipat: Möglichkeit und Verbreitung. Studien zur Geschichte des Völkerrechts Bd. 21. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2009. vi, 263 p. €64.00 (pb). ISBN 9783832948269.

Hall, Edith and Stephe Harrop (edd.). Theorising performance: Greek drama, cultural history and critical practice. London: Duckworth, 2010. xiii, 305 p. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 9780715638262.

Heilporn, Paul. Thèbes et ses taxes: recherches sur la fiscalité en Egypte romaine (Ostraca de Strasbourg II). Études d'Archéologie et d'Histoire ancienne. Paris: De Boccard, 2009. 428 p. €57.00 (pb). ISBN 9782701802657.

Henry, W. Benjamin (ed., trans., comm.). Philodemus: On death. Writings from the Greco-Roman world. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009. xxxiv, 160 p. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 9781589834460.

Herrero de Jáuregui, Miguel. Orphism and Christianity in late antiquity. Sozomena. Studies in the recovery of ancient texts 7. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. xiii, 442 p. $136.00. ISBN 9783110206333.

Hindermann, Judith. Der elegische Esel Apuleius' Metamorphosen und Ovids Ars amatoria. Studien zur klassischen Philologie Bd. 162. Frankfurt am Mein: Peter Lang, 2009. 229 p. $66.95. ISBN 9783631592304.

Hölkeskamp, Karl-Joachim and Stefan Rebenich (edd.). Phaëthon: ein Mythos in Antike und Moderne. Eine Dresdner Tagung. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. 217 p. €39.00. ISBN 9783515094153.

Höschele, Regina. Die blütenlesende Muse: Poetik und Textualität antiker Epigrammsammlungen. Classica Monacensia Bd. 37. Tübingen: Narr, 2010. x, 375 p. €68.00 (pb). ISBN 9783823365525.

Houghton, L. B. T. and Maria Wyke (edd.). Perceptions of Horace: a Roman poet and his readers. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xii, 366 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521765084.

Hunt, Peter. War, peace, and alliance in Demosthenes' Athens. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiii, 317 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521835510.

Ioli, Roberta (ed., trans., comm.). Gogia di Leontini: Su ciò che non è. Testo greco, traduzione e commento. Spudasmata Bd. 130. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Gorg Olms Verlag, 2010. 205 p. €37.80 (pb). ISBN 9783487143088.

Kakoschke, Andreas. Die Personennamen in der römischen Provinz Gallia Belgica. Alpha-Omega 255. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2010. 565 p. €198.00. ISBN 9783487143187.

Kaldellis, Anthony (ed., trans.). Prokopios: The secret history: with related texts. Indianapolis; Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2010. lxxix, 195 p. $12.95 (pb). ISBN 9781603841801.

Kaufmann, Kerstin and Katja Wannack. Bibliographischer Index zum Römischen Staatsrecht von Theodor Mommsen. Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien Bd. 41. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2010. 287 p. €39.80 (pb). ISBN 9783487143224.

Konstan, David and Kurt A. Raaflaub (edd.). Epic and history. Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. xiii, 442 p. $149.95. ISBN 9781405193078.

Laffi, Umberto. Il trattato fra Sardi ed Efeso degli anni 90 a.C.. Studi ellenistici 22. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2010. 144 p. €80.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862272094.

Mackay, Christopher S. The breakdown of the Roman republic: from oligarchy to empire. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ix, 445 p., [38] p. of plates. $90.00. ISBN 9780521518192.

Maclennan, Keith (ed., comm.). Virgil: Aeneid I. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2010. 188 p. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 9781853997167.

Marek, Christian. Geschichte Kleinasiens in der Antike. Historische Bibliothek der Gerda Henkel Stiftung. München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2010. 941 p. €44.00. ISBN 9783406598531.

McKeown, J. C. Classical Latin: an introductory course. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2010. xx, 421 p. $53.95 (pb). ISBN 9780872208513.

Missere Fontana, Federica. Testimoni parlanti: le monete antiche a Roma tra Cinquecento e Seicento. Monete 4. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2009. 540 p. €28.00 (pb) ISBN 9788871404257.

Myers, E. A. The Ituraeans and the Roman Near East: reassessing the sources. Society for New Testament Studies, monograph series 147. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xv, 216 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521518871.

Necipoğlu, Nevra. Byzantium between the Ottomans and the Latins: politics and society in the late empire. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvii, 350 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521877381.

Odahl, Charles Matson. Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy. Routledge studies in ancient history 1. London: Routledge, 2009. xvi, 102 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780415874724.

Panayotakis, Costas (ed., trans., comm.). Decimus Laberius: the fragments. Cambridge classical texts and commentaries 46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xxix, 512 p. $135.00. ISBN 9780521885232.

Pellé, Natascia (ed.). Corpus dei papiri storici greci e latini. Parte A. Storici greci. 1. Autori noti. Vol. 8: I frammenti delle opere di Senofonte. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2010. 221 p. €80.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862272766.

Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia. Truly beyond wonders: Aelius Aristides and the cult of Asklepios. Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xxvi, 315 p. $135.00. ISBN 9780199561902.

Pinch, Geraldine. Magic in ancient Egypt. Revised edition (reprint of 2006 revised edition). Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. 192 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780714119366.

Puchner, Martin. The drama of ideas: Platonic provocations in theater and philosophy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xii, 254 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780199730322.

Quesada Sanz, Fernando. Armas de la antigua Iberia: de Tartesos a Numancia. Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros, 2010. 298 p. €42.50. ISBN 9788497349505.

Raffaelli, Renato. Esercizi plautini. Litteratura e antropologia 10. Urbino: Edizioni QuattroVenti, 2009. 350 p. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 9788839208880.

Raffaelli, Renato and Alba Tontini (edd.). Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinares XII. Miles gloriosus: (Sarsina, 27 settembre 2008). Ludus philologiae. Urbino: Edizioni QuattroVenti, 2009. 160 p. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788839208729.

Ramelli, Ilaria (ed., trans., comm.). Hierocles the Stoic:: Elements of ethics, fragments and excerpts (translated by David Konstan). Writings from the Greco-Roman world. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009. ixxxix, 179 p. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 9781589834187.

Rashed, Roshdi and Hélène Bellosta (edd., trans., comm.). Apollonius de Perge, La section des droites selon des rapports. Commentaire historique et mathématique, édition et traduction du texte arabe. Scientia Graeco-Arabica 2. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. vii, 493 p. $152.00. ISBN 9783110186772.

Roth, Jonathan P. Roman warfare. Cambridge introduction to Roman civilization. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvii, 310 p. $19.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521537261.

Rüpke, Jörg and John Scheid (edd.). Bestattungsrituale und Totenkult in der römischen Kaiserzeit = Rites funéraires et culte des morts aux temps impériales. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beitrage Bd. 27. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 298 p. €58.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515091909.

Sarri, Kalliope. Orchomenos IV: Orchomenos in der mittleren Bronzezeit. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch - historische. Klasse, Abhandlungen, n.F. 135. München: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; in Kommission beim Verlag C. H. Beck München, 2010. 479 p. €144.00. ISBN 9783769601237.

Schütrumpf, Eckart. Praxis und Lexis: ausgewählte Schriften zur Philosophie von Handeln und Reden in der klassischen Antike. Palingenesia Bd. 95. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. 368 p. €68.00. ISBN 9783515091473.

Sehlmeyer, Markus. Geschichtsbilder für Pagane und Christen: Res Romanae in den spätantiken Breviarien. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd. 272. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. 375 p. $170.00. ISBN 9783110220087.

Sekunda, Nicholas (ed.). Ergasteria: works presented to John Ellis Jones on his 80th birthday. Akanthina 4. Gdańsk: Gdańsk University, Institute of Archaeology, 2010. 188 p. $90.00. ISBN 9788392979807.

Smith, R. Angus K. Mochlos IIB: period IV. The Mycenaean settlement and cemetery: the pottery. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2010. xxii, 208 p., [13] p. of tables, 93 p. of figures, 35 p. of plates. $80.00. ISBN 9781931534543.

Sorek, Susan. The emperors' needles: Egyptian obelisks and Rome. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2010. xxiv, 168 p. $31.00 (pb). ISBN 9781904675303.

Spevak, Olga. Constituent order in classical Latin prose. Studies in language companion series (SLCS) 117. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010. xv, 318 p. $158.00. ISBN 9789027205841.

Stephenson, Paul. Constantine: Roman emporer, Christian victor. New York: Overlook Press, 2010. xv, 358 p. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 9781590203248.

Stockert, Walter (ed.). Titus Maccius Plautus: Cistellaria. Editio Plautina Sarsinatis 7. Urbino: Edizioni QuattroVenti, 2009. 88 p. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788839208750.

Timmerman, David M. and Edward Schiappa (edd.). Classical Greek rhetorical theory and the disciplining of discourse. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. ix, 192 p. $80.00. ISBN 9780521195188.

Trzaskoma, Stephen M. (trans., comm.). Two novels from ancient Greece: Chariton's Callirhoe and Xenophon of Ephesos' An Ephesian story: Anthia and Habrocomes. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2010. xxxvii, 195 p. $13.95 (pb). ISBN 9781603841924.

Tsingarida, Athena (ed.). Shapes and uses of Greek Vases (7th - 4th centuries B.C.). Proceedings of the symposium held atr the Université dde Bruzelles, 27-29 April 2006. Études d'Archéologie 3. Bruxelles: Centre de Recherches en Archéologie et Patrimoine (CReA-Patrimoine), 2009. 382 p. €90.00 (pb). ISBN 9789077723852.

Van Nuffelen, Peter (ed.). Faces of Hellenism: studies in the history of the Eastern Mediterranean (4th century B.C.-5th century A.D.). Studia Hellenistica 48. Leuven: Peeters, 2009. ix, 342 p. €62.00 (pb) ISBN 9789042922730.

Warren, James (ed.). The Cambridge companion to epicureanism. Cambridge companions. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ix, 342 p. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521695305.

Watts, Edward J. Riot in Alexandria: tradition and group dynamics in late antique pagan and Christian communities. The transformation of the classical heritage 46. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 2010. xv, 290 p. $55.00. ISBN 9780520262072.

Wilson, Emily R. (trans.). Seneca. Six tragedies. Oxford world's classics. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xxxvi, 240 p. $13.95 (pb). ISBN 9780192807069.

Wohl, Victoria. Law's cosmos: juridical discourse in Athenian forensic oratory. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv, 362 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521110747.

Woodman, A. J. (ed.). The Cambridge companion to Tacitus. Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi, 366 p. $32.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521697484.

Zuiderhoek, Arjan. The politics of munificence in the Roman Empire: citizens, elites, and benefactors in Asia Minor. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvii, 186 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521519304.