2011.03.01

BMCR Books Received (February, 2011).

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This is a list of books received by BMCR during the previous month; it does not include books on offer for review or books still available for review. You will find the updated list of books available for review at http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/booksavailable.html.

Adluri, Vishwa. Parmenides, Plato, and mortal philosophy: return from transcendence. Continuum studies in ancient philosophy. London; New York: Continuum, 2011. xv, 212 p. $120.00. ISBN 9780826457530.

Alvar Ezquerra, Antonio. De Catulo a Ausonio: lecturas y lecciones de poesía latina. Madrid: Liceus, 2009. 348 p. € 35.00 (pb). ISBN 9788498228618.

Amitay, Ory. From Alexander to Jesus. Hellenistic culture and society, 52. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 2010. xii, 246 p. $49.95. ISBN 9780520266360.

Andò, Valeria and Nicola Cusumano (edd.). Come bestie?: forme e paradossi della violenza tra mondo antico e disagio contemporaneo. Mathesis, 4. Caltanissetta; Roma: Salvatore Sciascia editore, 2010. x, 313 p. € 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882413569.

Angier, Tom P. S. Technê in Aristotle's Ethics: crafting the moral life. Continuum studies in ancient philosophy. London; New York: Continuum, 2010. viii, 176 p. $120.00. ISBN 9780826462718.

Arnold, Thomas Kerchever. Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition (reprint of 1843 fifth edition). Cambridge library collection. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. viii, 176 p. $19.99 (pb). ISBN 9781108011426.

Bagnall, Roger S. Everyday writing in the Graeco-Roman East. The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature, 69. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 2011. xiv, 179 p. $49.95. ISBN 9780520267022.

Ballestra-Puech, Sylvie, Béatrice Bonhomme and Philippe Marty (edd.). Musées de mots: l'héritage de Philostrate dans la littérature occidentale. Histoire des idées et critique littéraire, 463. Genève: Librairie Droz, 2010. 250 p. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9782600014434.

Barbour, Amy L. (ed., comm.). Selections from Herodotus. Second edition (first published 1929). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. ix, 388 p. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806141701.

Baumbach, Manuel, Andrej Petrovic and Ivana Petrovic (edd.). Archaic and classical Greek epigram. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv, 439 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521118057.

Bearzot, Cinzia and Franca Landucci (edd.). Storie di Atene, storia dei Greci: studi e ricerche di attidografia. Contributi di storia antica, 8. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2010. viii, 343 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9788834319505.

Belardinelli, Anna Maria and Giovanni Greco (edd.). Antigone e le Antigoni: storia forme fortuna di un mito. Atti del Convegno internazionale Roma 13, 25-26 Maggio 2009, Sapienza Università di Roma. Le Monnier Università studi. Milano: Mondadori Education, 2010. xi, 314 p. € 23.00 (pb). ISBN 9788800740227.

Bentz, Martin, Wilfred Geominy and Jan Marius Müller (edd.). Tonart: Virtuosität antiker Töpfertechnik [Eine Ausstellung im Akademischen Kunstmuseum - Antikensammlung der Universität Bonn, 18. November 2010 - 17. April 2011]. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2010. 247 p. $57.50. ISBN 9783865686107.

Blandenet, Maëlys, Clément Chillet and Cyril Courrier (edd.). Figures de l'identité: naissance et destin des modèles communautaires dans le monde romain. Sociétés, espaces, temps. Lyon: ENS Éditions, 2010. 350 p. € 32.00 (pb). ISBN 9782847882193.

Blänsdorf, Jürgen (ed.). Fragmenta poetarum Latinorum epicorum et lyricorum: praeter Enni Annales et Ciceronis Germanicique aratea. Post W. Morel et K. Büchner (fourth revised edition). Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2011. xxiv, 490 p. $140.00. ISBN 9783110209150.

Bonnet, Corinne, Carlo Ossola and John Scheid (edd.). Rome et ses religions: culte, morale, spiritualité. En relisant Lux Perpetua de Franz Cumont. Supplemento a Mythos 1 n.s. 2010. Caltanissetta: Salvatore Sciascia editore, 2010. ix, 145 p. € 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882413552.

Boyle, A. J. (ed., trans., comm.). Seneca: Oedipus. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. cxxv, 437 p. $160.00. ISBN 9780199547715.

Bradley, Mark (ed.). Classics and imperialism in the British Empire. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xxiii, 335 p. $125.00. ISBN 9780199584727.

Broc-Schmezer, Catherine. Les figures féminines du Nouveau Testament dans l'œuvre de Jean Chrysostome. Collection des Études Augustiniennes: Série Antiquité, 185. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 2010. 581 p. € 39.81 (pb). ISBN 9782851212306.

Bruer, Stephanie-Gerrit and Detlef Rößler (edd.). Festschrift für Max Kunze: "... die Augen ein wenig zu öffnen". Der Blick auf die antike Kunst von der Renaissance bis heute. Mainz: Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen, 2011. 320 p. € 78.00. ISBN 9783447064330.

Buraselis, Kostas and Katerina Meidani (edd.). Μαραθών: η μάχη και ο αρχαίος Δήμος / Marathon: the battle and the ancient deme. Αθήνα: Ινστιτούτο του Βιβλίου - Α. Καρδαμίτσα / Institut du livre - A. Kardamitsa, 2010. 374 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9789603542728.

Caneva, Giulia. Il codice botanico di Augusto: Roma, Ara Pacis: parlare al popolo attraverso le immagini della natura = The Augustus botanical code: Rome, Ara Pacis: speaking to the people through the images of nature. Roma: Gangemi editore, 2010. 223 p. € 30.00. ISBN 9788849219333.

Capponi, Livia. Roman Egypt. Classical world series. London; New York: Bristol Classical Press, 2010. 89 p. $23.00 (pb). ISBN 9781853997266.

Cotton, Hannah M., Leah Di Segni, Werner Eck, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Haggai Misgav, Jonathan Price, Israel Roll and Ada Yardeni (edd.). Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume 1: Jerusalem, Part 1: 1 - 704. Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palestinae. A multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. xxiv, 694 p. $182.00. ISBN 9783110222197.

Cozzo, Andrea (ed.). Le orecchie e il potere: aspetti socio-antropologici dell'ascolto nel mondo antico e nel mondo contemporaneo. Aglaia, 2. Roma: Carocci editore, 2011. 288 p. € 26.50 (pb). ISBN 9788843057566.

Cudjoe, Richard V. The social and legal position of widows and orphans in classical Athens. Symboles, 3. Athens: Centre for Ancient Greek and Hellenistic Law, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, 2010. xxi, 309 p. (pb). ISBN 9789609925006.

Dodge, Hazel. Spectacle in the Roman world. Classical world series. London; New York: Bristol Classical Press, 2011. 99 p. $23.00 (pb). ISBN 9781853996962.

Erickson, Brice L. Crete in transition: pottery styles and island history in the archaic and classical periods. Hesperia supplements, 45. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2010. xxvii, 380 p. $75.00 (pb). ISBN 9780876615454.

Ewans, Michael (trans., comm.). Aristophanes: Lysistrata; The women's festival; and Frogs. Translated with theatrical commentaries. Oklahoma series in classical culture, 42. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. xiii, 324 p. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806141510.

Finkelberg, Margalit (ed.). Homer encyclopedia (3 vols.). Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. l, xiv, xiv, 1072 p. $495.00. ISBN 9781405177689.

Frede, Michael. A free will: origins of the notion in ancient thought. Sather classical lectures, 68. Berkeley; Los Angeles; Oxford: University of California Press, 2011. xiv, 206 p. $49.95. ISBN 9780520268487.

Fronda, Michael P. Between Rome and Carthage: southern Italy during the Second Punic War. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xxviii, 374 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521516945.

Galand-Hallyn, Perrine, Fernand Hallyn, Carlos Lévy and Wim Verbaal (edd.). Quintilien: ancien et moderne études réunies. Latinitates, 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. 576 p. € 95.00 (pb). ISBN 9782503528656.

Goodwin, William W. Syntax of the moods and tenses of the Greek verb (reprint of 1867 third edition). Cambridge library collection. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xv, 264 p. $23.99 (pb). ISBN 9781108011761.

Gray, Vivienne J. Xenophon's mirror of princes: reading the reflections. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. vii, 406 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780199563814.

Haines, John. Medieval song in Romance languages. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xi, 304 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780521765749.

Harrison, Thomas. Writing Ancient Persia. Classical essays. London; New York: Bristol Classical Press, 2011. 190 p. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 9780715639177.

Haugen, Kristine Louise. Richard Bentley: poetry and enlightenment. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2011. vii, 333 p. $39.95. ISBN 9780674058712.

Hernández, Alain-Christian (ed.). Démocratie athénienne - démocratie moderne: tradition et influences. Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique, 56. Vandœuvres; Genève: Fondation Hardt, 2010. xxxviii, 417 p. CHF 85.00. ISBN 9782600007566.

Hornblower, Simon. Thucydidean themes. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xvii, 415 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780199562336.

Imhausen, Annette and Tanja Pommerening (edd.). Writings of early scholars in the ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece: translating ancient scientific texts. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 286. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. xiii, 436 p. $154.00. ISBN 9783110229929.

Jackson, Ralph. Cosmetic sets of late Iron Age and Roman Britain. London: British Museum Press, 2010. vi, 224 p. $60.00 (pb). ISBN 9780861591817.

Janko, Richard (ed., trans., comm.). Philodemus, On poems, Books 3-4, with the fragments of Aristotle, On poets. Philodemus translation series. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xvi, 629 p. $175.00. ISBN 9780199572076.

Kaizer, Ted and Margherita Facella (edd.). Kingdoms and principalities in the Roman Near East. Oriens et Occidens, Bd 19. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 453 p. € 68.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515097154.

Kovacs, George and C. W. Marshall (edd.). Classics and comics. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xiii, 265 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9780199734191.

Kramer, Norbert and Christiane Reitz (edd.). Tradition und Erneuerung: mediale Strategien in der Zeit der Flavier. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 285. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. xi, 577 p., 72 p. of plates. $182.00. ISBN 9783110247145.

Kutash, Emilie. Ten Gifts of the Demiurge: Proclus on Plato's Timaeus. London; New York: Bristol Classical Press, 201. x, 309 p. $80.00. ISBN 9780715638545.

Lelli, Emanuele (ed.). Παροιμιακως (Paroimiakòs): il proverbio in Grecia e a Roma (3 vols.). Philologia antiqua, 2, 2009; 3, 2010; 4, 2011. Pisa: Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2010. 233; 234; 240 p. € 240.00. ISBN 9788862273435.

Lennox, James G. and Robert Bolton (edd.). Being, nature, and life in Aristotle: essays in honor of Allan Gotthelf. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvi, 289 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521768443.

Leutsch, E. L. von and F. G. Schneidewin (edd.). Corpus Paroemiographorum Graecorum, Volume 1, Paroemiographi Graeci: Zenobius, Diogenianus, Plutarchus, Gregorius Cyprius cum appendice proverbiorum (reprint of 1839 edition). Cambridge library collection. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. p. $43.00 (pb). ISBN 9781108015530.

Limberis, Vasiliki. Architects of piety: the Cappadocian Fathers and the cult of the martyrs. Oxford; New York: Oxford university Press, 2011. xviii, 232 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780199730889.

Luciani, Sabine. Temps et éternité dans l'oeuvre philosophique de Cicéron. Rome et ses renaissances. Paris: Presses de l'université Paris-Sorbonne, 2010. 465 p. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9782840507154.

MacPhail Jr., John A. (ed., trans., comm.). Porphyry's Homeric questions on the Iliad: text, translation, commentary. Texte und kommentare, Bd 36. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2011. 310 p. $137.00. ISBN 9783110195439.

Matthiessen, Kjeld (ed., trans., comm.). Euripides, Hekabe. Edition und Kommentar. Texte und Kommentare, Bd 34. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. viii, 458 p. $182.00. ISBN 9783110229455.

McPherran, Mark L. (ed.). Plato's Republic: a critical guide. Cambridge critical guides. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiii, 273 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780521491907.

Mitchell, Margaret M. Paul, the Corinthians, and the birth of Christian hermeneutics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xiv, 178 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780521197953.

Morgan, Llewelyn. Musa pedestris: metre and meaning in Roman verse. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. vi, 412 p. $130.00. ISBN 9780199554188.

Muckensturm-Poulle, C. and E. Geny (edd.). Inde-Grèce: regards et influences. Dialogues d'histoire ancienne supplément 3. Franche-Comté: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2010. 111 p. € 11.00 (pb). ISBN 9782848673097.

Muecke, Frances and John Dunston (edd.). Domizio Calderini, Commentary on Silius Italicus. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 477. Genève: Librairie Droz, 2011. 958 p. $150.00. ISBN 9782600014342.

Müller, Jörn and Roberto Hofmeister Pich (edd.). Wille und Handlung in der Philosophie der Kaiserzeit und Spätantike. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 287. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2010. viii, 337 p. $140.00. ISBN 9783110221312.

Ndoye, Malick. Groupes sociaux et idéologie du travail dans les mondes homérique et hésiodique. Franche-Comté: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2010. 335 p. € 29.00 (pb). ISBN 9782848673103.

Nightingale, Andrea and David Sedley (edd.). Ancient models of mind: studies in human and divine rationality. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. ix, 250 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521113557.

Oleson, John Peter. Humayma excavation project, 1: resources, history, and the water-supply system. American Schools of Oriental Research archeological reports, 15. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2010. xxii, 526 p. $89.95. ISBN 9780897570831.

Osgood, Josiah. Claudius Caesar: image and power in the early Roman empire. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiii, 357 p. $32.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521708258.

Pagano, Vincenzo (ed., trans., comm.). L'Andromeda di Euripide. Edizione e commento dei frammenti. Minima philologica. Serie greca, 6. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2010. xi, 270 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862742313.

Papadopoulou, Thalia. Aeschylus: Suppliants. Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy. London; New York: Bristol Classical Press, 2010. 189 p. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 9780715639139.

Pavel, Cătălin. Describing and interpreting the past: European and American approaches to the written record of the excavation. Bucureşti: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2010. 261 p. (pb). ISBN 9789737378811.

Pelosi, Francesco. Plato on music, soul and body. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. vi, 228 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521760454.

Pfeiffer, Stefan. Der römische Kaiser und das Land am Nil: Kaiserverehrung und Kaiserkult in Alexandria und Ägypten von Augustus bis Caracalla (30 v. Chr. - 217 n. Chr.). Historia Einzelschriften, 212. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 378 p. € 67.00. ISBN 9783515096508.

Porter, James I. The origins of aesthetic thought in ancient Greece: matter, sensation, and experience. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvii, 607 p. $145.00. ISBN 9780521841801.

Posamentir, Richard (edd.). The polychrome grave stelai from the early Hellenistic necropolis. Chersonesan studies, 1. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. xvi, 489 p. $75.00. ISBN 9780292723122.

Pratt, Louise H. The essentials of Greek grammar: a reference for intermediate readers of Attic Greek. Oklahoma series in classical culture, 39. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. xxi, 126 p. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806141435.

Pratt, Louise H. and Plato. Eros at the banquet: reviewing Greek with Plato's Symposium. Oklahoma series in classical culture, 40. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. xxiii, 407 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806141428.

Roisman, Hanna and C. A. E. Luschnig (edd., comm.). Euripides' Electra: a commentary. Oklahoma series in classical culture, 38. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. xvii, 366 p. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806141190.

Rummel, Ute. Iunmutef: Konzeption und Wirkungsbereich eines altägyptischen Gottes. Sonderschriften des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo, 33. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. x, 406 p., 20 pl. $154.00. ISBN 9783110240313.

Ruschenbusch, Eberhard (ed., trans., comm.). Solon: das Gesetzeswerk-Fragmente. Übersetzung und Kommentar. Historia Einzelschriften, 215. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 168 p. € 46.00. ISBN 9783515097093.

Schieder, Christian. Interesse und Sachwert: zur Konkurrenz zweier Grundbegriffe des Römischen Rechts. Quellen und Forschungen zum Recht und seiner Geschichte, 17. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2011. 188 p. € 24.00 (pb). ISBN 9783835308770.

Schmitt Pantel, Pauline. La cité au banquet: histoire des repas publics dans les cités grecques. Les Classiques de la Sorbonne, 2. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2011. xi, 585 p. € 19.00 (pb). ISBN 9782859446574.

Scodel, Ruth. An introduction to Greek tragedy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. viii, 216 p. $24.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521705608.

Sidebotham, Steven E. Berenike and the ancient maritime spice route. California world history library, 18. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 2011. xvii, 434 p. $49.95. ISBN 9780520244306.

Sonnino, Maurizio (ed., comm.). Euripidis, Erechthei quae exstant. Biblioteca nazionale. Testi con commento filologico, 19. Firenze: Felice le Monnier, 2010. 520 p. € 37.00 (pb). ISBN 9788800740067.

Spevak, Olga (ed.). Le syntagme nominal en Latin: nouvelles contributions. Actes de l'atelier du centre Alfred Ernout. Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), 11 octobre 2008. Kubaba. Série grammaire et linguistique. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2010. 229 p. € 21.00 (pb). ISBN 9782296132054.

Szidat, Joachim. Usurpator tanti nominis: Kaiser und Usurpator in der Spätantike (337-476 n. Chr.). Historia Einzelschriften, 210. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 458 p. € 76.00. ISBN 9783515096362.

Taplin, Oliver and Rosie Wyles (edd.). The Pronomos Vase and its context. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv, 299 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780199582594.

van Bremen, Riet and Jan-Mathieu Carbon (edd.). Hellenistic Karia: proceedings of the First International Conference on Hellenistic Karia, Oxford, 29 June-2 July 2006. Études, 28. Talence: Ausonius Éditions, 2010. 602 p. € 40.00. ISBN 9782356130365.

Van der Meeren, Sophie (ed., trans.). Exhortation à la philosophie: le dossier grec, Aristote. Fragments, 11. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2010. xxxii, 279 p. € 35.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251742106.

Vancamp, Bruno. Untersuchungen zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung von Platons Menon. Palingenesia, Bd 97. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 115 p. € 30.00. ISBN 9783515098113.

von Reden, Sitta. Money in classical antiquity. Key themes in ancient history. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xxi, 237 p. $31.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521459525.

Wood, Philip. 'We have no king but Christ': Christian political thought in greater Syria on the eve of the Arab conquest (c.400-585). Oxford studies in Byzantium. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xii, 295 p. $110.00. ISBN 9780199588497.