Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Alexiou, Evangelos (ed., comm.). Der Euagoras des Isokrates: ein Kommentar. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte Bd 101. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. ix, 238 p. $140.00. ISBN 9783110229882.

Alston, Richard and Samuel Lieu (edd.). Aspects of the Roman East: papers in honour of Professor Fergus Millar FBA, I. Studia antiqua australiensia 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. xiii, 230 p. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9782503526256.

Amato, Eugenio and Gianluca Ventrella (edd., trans., comm.). I Progimnasmi di Severo di Alessandria (Severo di Antiochia?): introduzione, traduzione e commento. Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. xxxiii, 181 p. $112.00. ISBN 9783110218671.

Anderson, Stephen and John Taylor. Writing Greek: an introduction to writing in the language of Classical Athens. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2010. xviii, 174 p. $27.00 (pb). ISBN 9781853997174.

Auberger, Janick. Manger en Grèce classique: la nourriture, ses plaisirs et ses contraintes. Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2010. viii, 242 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9782763786841.

Augoustakis, Antony. Motherhood and the other: fashioning female power in Flavian epic. Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xii, 314 p. $110.00. ISBN 9780199584413.

Azoulay, Vincent. Périclès: la démocratie athénienne à l'épreuve du grand homme. Nouvelles biographies historiques. Paris: Armand Colin Éditeur, 2010. 277 p. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9782200244187.

Bartsch, Tatjana, Marcus Becker, Horst Bredekamp and Charlotte Schreiter (edd.). Das Originale der Kopie: Kopien als Produkte und Medien der Transformation von Antike. Transformationen der Antike Bd 17. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. viii, 349 p. $112.00. ISBN 9783110225440.

Bechtold, Babette. Observations on the amphora repertoire of Middle Punic Carthage (revised edition). Carthage Studies 2. Gent: Department of Archaeology, Ghent University, 2008. 146 p. (pb). ISBN 9789078848028.

Bechtold, Babette. The pottery repertoire from late 6th-mid 2nd century BC Carthage: observations based on the Bir Messaouda excavations. Carthage studies 4. Gent: Department of Archaeology, Ghent University, 2010. 82 p. (pb). ISBN 9789078848059.

Becker, Valeska, Matthias Thomas and Andrea Wolf-Schuler (edd.). Zeiten - Kulturen - Systeme: Gedenkschrift für Jan Lichardus. Schriften des Zentrums für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Schwarzmeerraumes Bd 17. Langenweißbach: Beier & Beran, 2009. i, 387 p. € 79.00 (pb). ISBN 9783941171343.

Bérard, François, Denis Feissel, Nicolas Laubry, Pierre Petitmengin, Denis Rousset and Michel Sève. Guide de l'épigraphiste: bibliographie choisie des épigraphies antiques et médiévales. Quatrième édition entièrement refondue. Guides et inventaires bibliographiques 7. Paris: Éditions Rue d'Ulm / Presses de l'École normale supérieure, 2010. 448 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9782728804436.

Bett, Richard (ed.). The Cambridge companion to ancient scepticism. Cambridge companions. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xii, 380 p. $33.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521697545.

Blom, Henriette van der. Cicero's role models: the political strategy of a newcomer. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xi, 388 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780199582938.

Bollen, Elizabeth (ed.). Beauty & betrayal: ancient and neo-classical jewellery. Sydney: Nicholson Museum, the University of Sydney, 2010. 75 p. (pb). ISBN 9781742101873.

Bremmer, Jan N. The rise of Christianity through the eyes of Gibbon, Harnack and Rodney Stark: a valedictory lecture on the occasion of his retirement from the chair of Religious Studies, in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, delivered in abbreviated form before the University of Groningen on 29 January 2010 (Second edition). Groningen: Barkhuis, 2010. ix, 86 p. € 13.50 (pb). ISBN 9789077922705.

Brisson, Luc, Richard Dufour, Laurent Lavaud and Jean-François Pradeau (edd., trans. comm.). Plotin. Traités 51-54. GF 1444. Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 2010. 384 p. € 14.80 (pb). ISBN 9782081231368.

Brulet, Raymond, Fabienne Vilvorder and Richard Delage. La céramique romaine en Gaule du Nord. Dictionnaire des céramiques. La vaisselle à large diffusion. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2010. 462 p. € 79.00. ISBN 9782503535098.

Buongiorno, Pierangelo. Senatus consulta Claudianis temporibus facta: una palingenesi delle deliberazione senatorie dell'età di Claudio (41-54 d.C.). Collana della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Università del Salento. Nuova serie, 22. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2010. xi, 535. € 57.00 (pb). ISBN 9788849520118.

Bychkov, Oleg V. and Anne Sheppard (edd.). Greek and Roman aesthetics. Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xlii, 249 p. $30.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521547925.

Catling, R. W. V. and F. Marchand (edd.). Onomatologos: studies in Greek personal names presented to Elaine Matthews. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010. xxxii, 681 p. $180.00. ISBN 9781842179826.

Cevizoğlu, Hüseyin. Reliefkeramik archaischer Zeit aus Klazomenai. Schriften des Zentrums für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Schwarzmeerraumes Bd 18. Langenweißbach: Beier & Beran, 2010. 80 p., 52 p. of plates, 11 p. of figs. € 59.50 (pb). ISBN 9783941171367.

Docter, Roald, Kristina Panayotova, Jan de Boer, Lieve Donnellan, Winfred van de Put and Babette Bechtold. Apollonia Pontica 2007 (second edition). Gent: Department of Archaeology, Ghent University, 2010. 188 p. (pb). ISBN 9789078848042.

Dross, Juliette. Voir la philosophie: les représentations de la philosophie à Rome. Rhétorique et philosophie, de Cicéron à Marc Aurèle. Collection d'études anciennes . Série latine, 71. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2010. 413 p. € 55.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251328836.

Feldherr, Andrew. Playing gods: Ovid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. x, 377 p. ISBN 9780691138145$49.50.

Garland, Robert. The eye of the beholder: deformity and disability in the Graeco-Roman world. Second edition (first published 1995). Bristol Classical paperbacks. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2010. xxix, 222 p. $33.00 (pb). ISBN 9781853997372.

Gauthier, N., E. Marin and F. Prévot (edd.). Salona IV, Inscriptions de Salone chrétienne, IVe-VIIe siècles = Salona IV, Natpisi Starkršćanske Salone, IV.-VII. st. (Volume I of 2 volume set). Collection de l'École française de Rome, 194/4. Niz "Salona" Arheološkog Muzeja - Split, 12. Rome; Split: Ecole Française de Rome; Arheološki muzej - Split, 2010. 690 (of 1363) p. € 310.00 (2 vol. set) (pb). ISBN 9782728308620.

Grainger, John D. The Syrian wars. Mnemosyne supplements 320. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010. xvii, 447 p. $200.00. ISBN 9789004180505.

Grave, Johannes and Arno Schubbach (edd.). Denken mit dem Bild: philosophische Einsätze des Bildbegriffs von Platon bis Hegel. eikones. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2010. 187 p. € 29.90. ISBN 9783770550104.

Graziosi, Barbara and Emily Greenwood (edd.). Homer in the twentieth century: between world literature and the Western canon. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiii, 322 p. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 9780199591312.

Hadot, Pierre. Études de patristique et d'histoire des concepts. L'âne d'or. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2010. 350 p. € 37.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251420424.

Harmless, William (ed.). Augustine in his own words. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2010. xlii, 496 p. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 9780813217437.

Harries, Jill and Ian Wood (edd.). The Theodosian Code: studies in the imperial law of late antiquity. Second edition (first published 1993). Bristol Classical paperbacks. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2010. x, 261 p. $33.00 (pb). ISBN 9781853997402.

Haynes, Kenneth (ed.). Classics and translation: essays by D. S. Carne-Ross. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2010. 377 p. $75.00. ISBN 9780838757666.

König, Christoph and Denis Thouard (edd.). La philologie au présent: pour Jean Bollack. Cahiers de philologie 27. Série Apparat critique. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2010. 385 p. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9782757401163.

Le Guen, Brigitte (ed.). L'argent dans les concours du monde grec. Théâtres du monde. Saint-Denis: Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2010. 376 p. € 26.00 (pb). ISBN 9782842922566.

Leibowitz, David. The ironic defense of Socrates: Plato's Apology. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. ix, 194 p. $80.00. ISBN 9780521194792.

Leonard, Miriam (ed.). Derrida and antiquity. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xi, 406 p. $130.00. ISBN 9780199545544.

Levick, Barbara. Augustus: image and substance. Harlow; London; New York: Longman, 2010. xxiv, 351 p. £ 21.99 (pb). ISBN 9780582894211.

Martijn, Marije. Proclus on nature: philosophy of nature and its methods in Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Timaeus. Philosophia antiqua 121. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010. ix, 360 p. $179.00. ISBN 9789004181915.

Meijer, Fik. Chariot racing in the Roman Empire (translated by Liz Waters). Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2010. xiv, 185 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780801896972.

Mnesios, Matthaios. Pieridon Stephanos: Pydna, Methone kai oi archaiotetes tes boreias Pierias. Katerine: Ekdoseis ΑΦΕ, 2010. 333 p. ISBN 9789609930802.

Montenz, Nicola (ed.). Sinesio di Cirene. Il libro dei sogni. Milano: Archinto, 2010. 117 p. € 12.00 (pb). ISBN 9788877685568.

Moss, Candida R. The other Christs: imitating Jesus in ancient Christian ideologies of martyrdom. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xviii, 315 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780199739875.

Nadeau, Robin. Les manières de table dans le monde gréco-romain. Table des hommes. Rennes; Tours: Presses universitaires de Rennes / Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2010. 490 p. € 24.00 (pb). ISBN 9782753511286.

Olson, Ryan S. Tragedy, authority, and trickery: the poetics of embedded letters in Josephus. Hellenic studies 42. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2010. xiv, 254 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674053373.

Oppermann, Manfred. Das frühe Christentum an der Westküste des Schwarzen Meeres und im anschließenden Binnenland: historische und archäologische Zeugnisse. Schriften des Zentrums für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Schwarzmeerraumes Bd 19. Langenweißbach: Beier & Beran, 2010. iii, 363 p., 98 p. of plates. € 82.00. ISBN 9783941171305.

Rousset, Denis. De Lycie en Cabalide: la convention entre les Lyciens et Termessos près d'Oinoanda. . Fouilles de Xanthos X. Hautes études du monde gréco-romain 45. Genève: Droz Librairie, 2010. viii, 205 p., 50 figs. $62.00 (pb). ISBN 9782600012805.

Saastamoinen, Ari. The phraseology of Latin building inscriptions in Roman North Africa. Commentationes humanarum litterarum 127 2010. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2010. 646 p. € 35.00. ISBN 9789516533776.

Sebesta, Judith L. and Mark Haynes. Cicero: a Legamus transitional reader. The Legamus reader series. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2010. xiii, 222 p. $36.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865166561.

Squillace, Giuseppe and Theophrastus. Il profumo nel mondo antico. Con la prima traduzione italiana del "Sugli odori" di Teofrasto. Biblioteca dell' "Archivum romanicum". Serie I: Storia, letteratura, paelografia 372. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki editore, 2010. xx, 280 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9788822259837.

Steiner, Deborah (ed., comm.). Homer: Odyssey. Books XVII-XVIII. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. $34.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521677110.

Swanson, Judith A. and C. David Corbin. Aristotle's Politics: a reader's guide. Continuum reader's guides. London; New York: Continuum, 2009. ix, 168 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780826484994.

Toepfer, Georg and Hartmut Böhme (edd.). Transformationen antiker Wissenschaften. Transformationen der Antike Bd 15. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. xii, 354 p. $112.00. ISBN 9783110228212.

Tsingarida, Athéna and Annie Verbanck-Piérard (edd.). L' Antiquité au service de la Modernité? la réception de l'antiquité classique en Belgique au XIXe siècle. Actes du Colloque international organisé du 27 au 29 avril 2005 à l'Université libre de Bruxelles et au Musée royal de Mariemont. Lucernae novantiquae 3. Bruxelles: Le Livre Timperman, 2008. 379 p. € 50.00 (pb). ISBN 9789077723678.

Verde, Francesco (trans., comm.). Epicuro. Epistola a Erodoto. Classici 5. Roma: Carocci editore, 2010. 275 p. € 23.00 (pb). ISBN 9788843053209.

Xagorari-Gleißner, Maria. Meter Theon: die Göttermutter bei den Griechen. Peleus Bd 40. Ruhpolding: Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen, 2009. 175 p. € 32.00. ISBN 97839386462.

Zanker, Paul. Roman art (translated by Henry Heitman-Gordon). Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. ix, 205 p. $60.00. ISBN 9781606060308.

Zellner, Harold. The poetic style of the Greek poet Sappho: a study in word playfulness. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. iii, 130 p. $99.95. ISBN 9780773436268.