Bryn Mawr Classical Review

BMCR Books Received (December 2010).
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*Amato, Eugenio (ed.). Rose di Gaza: gli scritti retorico-sofistici e le Epistole di Procopio di Gaza. Hellenica 35. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2010. x, 697 p. € 80.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862742337.

*Bailey, Lisa Kaaren. Christianity's quiet success: the Eusebius Gallicanus sermon collection and the power of the church in late antique Gaul. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. x, 278 p. $34.00 (pb). ISBN 9780268022242.

*Battistoni, Filippo. Parenti dei Romani: mito troiano e diplomazia. Pragmateiai, 20. Bari: Edipuglia, 2010. 248 p. € 40.00. ISBN 9788872286005.

*Bertman, Stephen. The genesis of science: the story of Greek imagination. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2010. 293 p., [8] p. of plates. $27.00. ISBN 9781616142179.

*Blanchard, Alain (ed., trans.). Theocrite, Idylles bucoliques. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2010. 168 p. € 16.50 (pb). ISBN 9782296128019.

*Bockmuehl, Markus. The remembered Peter: in ancient reception and modern debate. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 262. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. xii, 263 p. € 79.00. ISBN 9783161505805.

*Bosnakis, Dimitris, Klaus Hallof and Kent Rigsby (edd.). Inscriptiones Coi insulae: decreta, epistulae, edicta, tituli sacri. Inscriptiones Graecae XII 4,1. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2010. xi, 339, vii p. $419.00. ISBN 9783110218794.

*Brent, Allen. Cyprian and Roman Carthage. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xv, 365 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521515474.

*Bussi, Silvia and Daniele Foraboschi (edd.). Roma e l'eredità ellenistica: atti del convegno internazionale, Milano, Università statale, 14-16 gennaio 2009. Studi ellenistici, 23. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2010. 226 p. € 95.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862272780.

*Butler, Shane. The matter of the page: essays in search of ancient and medieval authors. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. x, 158 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780299248246.

*Cameron, Alan. The last pagans of Rome. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xi, 878 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780199747276.

*Camerotto, Alberto and Riccardo Drusi (edd.). Il nemico necessario: duelli al sole e duelli in ombra tra le parole e il sangue. Atti dell'Incontro di Studio, Venezia, 17-18 dicembre 2008. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità e del Vicino Oriente - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia 6. Padova: S.A.R.G.O.N. Editrice e Libreria, 2010. 281 p. (pb). ISBN 9788895627120.

*Capdetrey, Laurent and Yves Lafond (edd.). La cité et ses élites: pratiques et représentation des formes de domination et de contrôle social dans les cités grecques. Actes du colloque de Poitiers, 19-20 octobre 2006. Ausonius Éditions. Études, 25. Pessac: Ausonius, 2010. 433 p. € 35.00. ISBN 9782356130112.

*Caspar, Timothy W. Recovering the ancient view of founding: a commentary on Cicero's De Legibus. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010. vii, 217 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780739134184.

*Castagnoli, Luca. Ancient self-refutation: the logic and history of the self-refutation argument from Democritus to Augustine. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xx, 394 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521896313.

*Charpin, Dominique. Reading and writing in Babylon (translated by Jane Marie Todd). Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2010. xiii, 315 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674049680.

*Clark, Matthew D. H. Augustus, first Roman emperor: power, propaganda and the politics of survival. Greece and Rome live. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2010. 149 p. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9781904675143.

*Daris, Sergio. Dizionario dei nomi geografici e topografici dell'Egitto greco-romano, supplemento 5 (2006-2009). Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia, 8. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2010. 115 p. € 165.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862273633.

*de Angelis, Francesco (ed.). Spaces of justice in the Roman world. Columbia studies in the classical tradition 35. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010. xii, 434 p. $199.00. ISBN 9789004189256.

*Di Nino, Margherita Maria. I fiori campestri di Posidippo: ricerche sulla lingua e lo stile di Posidippo di Pella. Hypomnemata, Bd 182. Göttingen; Oakville, CT: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010. 378 p. € 76.00. ISBN 9783525252925.

*Dimakopoulou, Adrienne. χλωρηις αηδών (chlôrêis aêdôn) pâle rossignol: une étude sémantique. Paris: Apolis éditions, 2010. 156 p. € 12.00 (pb). ISBN 9782953249538.

*Fragu, Bernard (ed., trans., comm.). Arnobe, Contre les gentils. Tome VI, livres VI-VII: contre les païens. Collection des universités de France. Série latine, 396. Paris: Belles lettres, 2010. lxxiii, 257 p. € 51.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251014555.

*Fredriksen, Paula. Augustine and the Jews: a Christian defense of Jews and Judaism. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2010. xxiii, 488 p. $20.00 (pb). ISBN 9780300166286.

*Grafton, Anthony and Joanna Weinberg. "I have always loved the holy tongue": Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a forgotten chapter in Renaissance scholarship. Cambridge, MA; London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. x, 380 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780674048409.

*Grob, Eva Mira. Documentary Arabic private and business letters on papyrus: form and function, content and context. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, Beiheft 29. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2010. xix, 269 p. $140.00. ISBN 9783110247046.

*Gruen, Erich S. (ed.). Cultural identity in the ancient Mediterranean. Issues & debates. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2010. vii, 535 p. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9780892369690.

*Gruen, Erich S. Rethinking the other in antiquity. Martin classical lectures. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. xiv, 415 p. $39.50. ISBN 9780691148526.

*Guillaumin, Jean-Yves (ed., trans.). Les arpenteurs romains. Tome II, Hygin; Siculus Flaccus. Collection des universités de France. Série latine, 397. Paris: Belles lettres, 2010. xxxii, 168 p. € 37.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251014579.

*Hardie, Philip and Helen Moore (edd.). Classical literary careers and their reception. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xii, 330 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521762977.

*Horstmanshoff, Manfred (ed.). Hippocrates and medical education: selected papers presented at the XIIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, Universiteit Leiden, 24-26 August 2005. Studies in ancient medicine, 35. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010. xxviii, 564 p. $200.00. ISBN 9789004172487.

*Hübner, Wolfgang (ed., trans., comm.). Manilius, Astronomica, Buch V (2 vols.). Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare, . Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2010. x, 303 p., [4] p. of plates; 450 p. $249.00. ISBN 9783110206708.

*Ismard, Paulin. La cité des réseaux: Athènes et ses associations, VIe-Ier siècle av. J-C. Histoire ancienne et médiévale, 105. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2010. 522 p. € 40.00 (pb). ISBN 9782859446536.

*Kaster, Robert A. Studies on the text of Macrobius' Saturnalia. American Philological Association, American classical studies 55. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. viii, 128 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780199751365.

*Kenny, Anthony. A new history of Western philosophy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xvii, 1058 p. $39.95. ISBN 9780199589883.

*Kim, Lawrence. Homer between history and fiction in imperial Greek literature. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xi, 246 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521194495.

*Laks, André and Michel Narcy (edd.). Philosophie et mathématiques. Philosophie antique: problèmes, renaissances, usages, numéro 10. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2010. 303 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9782757401798.

*Lattmann, Claas. Das Gleiche im Verschiedenen: Metapher des Sports und Lob des Siegers in Pindars Epinikien. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Bd 102. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2010. xi, 370 p. $154.00. ISBN 9783110247107.

*Long, Christopher P. Aristotle on the nature of truth. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiii, 275 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780521191210.

*Luz, Christine. Technopaignia, Formspiele in der griechischen Dichtung. Mnemosyne supplements 324. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010. xxi, 443 p. $216.00. ISBN 9789004189782.

*Magnetto, Anna, Donatella Erdas and Cristina Carusi (edd.). Nuove ricerche sulla legge granaria ateniese del 374/3 a.C.. Studi e testi di storia antica 20. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2010. 304 p. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788846728265.

*Major, Wilfred E. and Abigail Roberts. Plato: a transitional reader. Ancient Greek transitional reader series. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers Inc., 2010. xix, 102 p. $36.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865167216.

*Martin Pruvot, Chantal, Karl Reber and Thierry Theurillat (edd.). Ausgegraben!: Schweizer Archäologen erforschen die griechische Stadt Eretria. Eine Ausstellung der Schweizerischen Archäologischen Schule in Griechenland in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig. Basel: Verlag Schwabe, 2010. 317 p. CHF 42.00 (pb). ISBN 9783796526701.

*Mattingly, David J. Imperialism, power, and identity: experiencing the Roman empire. Miriam S. Balmuth lectures in ancient history and archaeology. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. xxiv, 342 p. $39.95. ISBN 9780691146058.

*Miller, John F. and A. J. Woodman (edd.). Latin historiography and poetry in the early empire: generic interactions. Mnemosyne supplements 321. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010. ix, 248 p. $146.00. ISBN 9789004177550.

*Mitsis, Phillip and Christos Tsagalis (edd.). Allusion, authority, and truth: critical perspectives on Greek poetic and rhetorical praxis. Trends in classics - supplementary volumes 7. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2010. viii, 460 p. $140.00. ISBN 9783110245394.

*Neer, Richard. The emergence of the classical style in Greek sculpture. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xiv, 262 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780226570631.

*O'Neil, John H. and Timothy F. Winters. Homer: a transitional reader. Ancient Greek transitional reader series. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2010. xx, 122 p. $36.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865167209.

*Pache, Corinne Ondine. A moment's ornament: the poetics of nympholepsy in ancient Greece. Cambridge; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. vi, 213 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780195339369.

*Palagia, Olga and Bonna D. Wescoat (edd.). Samothracian connections: essays in honor of James R. McCredie. Oxford; Oakville, CT: Oxbow Books, 2010. vi, 242 p. $80.00. ISBN 9781842179703.

*Patterson, Lee E. Kinship myth in ancient Greece. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. xiv, 255 p. $60.00. ISBN 9780292722750.

*Scheck, Thomas P. (trans.). St. Jerome's commentaries on Galatians, Titus, and Philemon. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. xi, 416 p. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 9780268041335.

*Schipp, Oliver. Der weströmische Kolonat von Konstantin bis zu den Karolingern (332 bis 861). Studien zur Geschichtsforschung des Altertums, Bd 21. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2009. x, 633 p. € 128.00 (pb). ISBN 9783830045755.

*Snell, Daniel C. Religions of the ancient Near East. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xii, 179 p. $25.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521683364.

*Stansbury-O'Donnell, Mark. Looking at Greek art. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiv, 253 p. $27.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521125574.

*Twomey, D. Vincent and Janet E. Rutherford (edd.). The Holy Spirit in the fathers of the church: the proceedings of the Seventh International Patristic Conference, Maynooth, 2008. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. 203 p. $65.00. ISBN 9781846822551.

*Van Riel, Gerd and Pierre Destrée (edd.). Ancient perspectives on Aristotle's De anima. Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series I 41. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2009. xii, 196 p. $55.00. ISBN 9789058677723.

*Wendrich, Willeke (ed.). Egyptian archaeology. Blackwell studies in global archaeology [13]. Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. xii, 292 p. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 9781405149884.

*Xenis, Georgios A. (ed.). Scholia vetera in Sophoclis Trachinias. Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker, Bd 13. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2010. x, 267 p. $154.00. ISBN 9783110227024.

*Βασιλειάδης, Αλέξανδρος. Από την φιλίαν στην φίλησιν ουσιαστικά σε –σις στο αριστοτελικό corpus: συμβολή στη μελέτη των μηχανισμών δημιουργίας φιλοσοφικών τεχνικών όρων. Αριστοτελικά μελετήματα 1. Θεσσαλονίκη: Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης, 2010. 180 p. (pb). ISBN 9789602436707.