Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Books Received June 2015.

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Adams, Sean A. The genre of Acts and collected biography. Society for New Testament Studies: Monograph series, 156. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xiii, 319 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107041042.

Ando, Clifford. Roman social imaginaries: language and thought in contexts of empire. Robson classical lectures. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2015. x, 124 p. $45.00. ISBN 9781442650176.

Backes, Burkhard and Jacco Dieleman (edd.). Liturgical texts for Osiris and the deceased in Late Period and Greco-Roman Egypt / Liturgische Texte für Osiris und Verstorbene im spätzeitlichen Ägypten: proceedings of the colloquiums at New York (ISAW), 6 May 2011, and Freudenstadt, 18-21 July 2012. Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion, 14. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. viii, 306 p. € 98.00. ISBN 9783447103695.

Backes, Burkhard and Caroline von Nicolai (edd.). Kulturelle Kohärenz durch Prestige. Münchner Studien zur Alten Welt, 10. München: Herbert Utz Verlag, 2015. 306 p. € 37.99. ISBN 9783831642632.

Bancalari Molina, Alejandro. La idea de Europa en el mundo romano: proyecciones actuales. El saber y la cultura. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 2015. 148 p. $10.00 (pb). ISBN 9789561124721.

Beckwith, Christopher I. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's encounter with early Buddhism in Central Asia. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. xxi, 275 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780691166445.

Benson, Hugh H. Clitophon's challenge: dialectic in Plato's Meno, Phaedo, and Republic. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. x, 318 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780199324835.

Bernhardt, Johannes Christian. Das Nikemonument von Samothrake und der Kampf der Bilder. Altertumswissenschaften. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. 169 p. € 42.00. ISBN 9783515108645.

Berthelet, Yann. Gouverner avec les dieux: autorité, auspices et pouvoir, sous la République romaine et sous Auguste. Mondes anciens. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2015. 435 p. € 27.50 (pb). ISBN 9782251300016.

Blackwood, Stephen. The consolation of Boethius as poetic liturgy. Oxford early Christian studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xxi, 338 p. $125.00. ISBN 9780198718314.

Blaudeau, Philippe and Peter Van Nuffelen (edd.). L'historiographie tardo-antique et la transmission des savoirs. Millennium-Studien / Millennium studies, 55. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. xi, 380 p. € 109.95. ISBN 9783110406931.

Boylan, Michael. The origins of ancient Greek science: blood--a philosophical study. Routledge monographs in classical studies, 22. New York; London: Routledge, 2015. xiii, 170 p. $140.00. ISBN 9780415843935.

Brockmann, Christian (ed.). Handschriften- und Textforschung heute: zur Überlieferung der griechischen Literatur. Festschrifte für Dieter Harlfinger aus Anlass seines 70. Geburtstages. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2014. 384 p. € 98.00. ISBN 9783954900503.

Brookins, Timothy A. Corinthian wisdom, stoic philosophy, and the ancient economy. Society for New Testament Studies: Monograph series, 159. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xv, 264 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107046375.

Butterfield, D. J. (ed.). Varro varius: the polymath of the Roman world. Cambridge Classical Journal supplementary volume, 39. Cambridge: Cambrdge Philological Society, 2015. ix, 218 p. £ 30.00. ISBN 9780956838148.

Caubet, Annie, Sabine Fourrier and Marguerite Yon. Kition-Bamboula VI: le sanctuaire sous la colline. Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée. Série recherches archéologiques, 67. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 2015. 414 p.; IX plans. € 44.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356680488.

Chan, Paul, Sarah Ruden and Richard Fletcher. Hippias Minor or the art of cunning: a new translation of Plato's most controversial dialogue. Brooklyn, NY: Badlands Unlimited, 2015. 152 p. (pb). ISBN 9781936440894.

Cheshire, Keyne. Murder at Jagged Rock: a translation of Sophocles' Women of Trachis. Washington, DC: Word Works, 2015. 111 p. $17.00 (pb). ISBN 9780915380985.

Cojannot-Le Blanc, Marianne, Claude Pouzadoux and Évelyne Prioux (edd.). L'Héroïque et le Champêtre, volume I: les catégories stylistiques dans le discours critique sur les arts. Modernité classique. Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2014. 264 p., [7] p. of plates. € 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9782840161844.

Cojannot-Le Blanc, Marianne, Claude Pouzadoux and Évelyne Prioux (edd.). L'Héroïque et le Champêtre, volume II: appropriation et déconstruction des théories stylistiques dans la pratique des artistes et dans les modalités d'exposition des œuvres. Modernité classique. Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2014. 380 p., [5] p. of plates. € 23.00 (pb). ISBN 9782840161899.

Daehner, Jens M. and Kenneth Lapatin (edd.). Power and pathos: bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic world. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015. 368 p. $65.00. ISBN 9781606064399.

Daguet-Gagey, Anne. Splendor aedilitatum: l'édilité à Rome (Ier s. avant J.-C.-IIIe siècle après J.-C.). Collection de l'Ecole française de Rome, 498. Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 2015. 807 p. € 60.00 (pb). ISBN 9782728310579.

De Giorgio, Jean Pierre. L'écriture de soi à Rome: autour de la correspondance de Cicéron. Collection Latomus, 347. Bruxelles: Éditions Latomus, 2015. 305 p. € 51.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042932388.

de la Bédoyère, Guy. The real lives of Roman Britain: a history of Roman Britain through the lives of those who were there. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2015. xxi, 242 p. $40.00. ISBN 9780300207194.

De Lucia Brolli, Maria Anna and Jacopo Tabolli. I Tempi del Rito: il santuario di Monte Li Santi-Le Rote a Narce. Roma: Officina Edizioni, 2015. 191 p. € 24.00 (pb). ISBN 9788860491312.

de Vos Raaijmakers, Mariette and Redha Attoui. Rus Africum, tome III: la Via a Karthagine Thevestem, ses milliaires et le réseau routier rural de la règion de Dougga et Téboursouk. Bibliotheca archaeologica, 37. Bari: Edipuglia, 2015. 154 p. € 50.00 (pb). ISBN 9788872287651.

Dickmann, Jens-Arne and Alexander Heinemann (edd.). Vom Trinken und Bechern: das antike Gelage im Umbruch. Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung, Archäologische Sammlung der Universität Freiburg, 26. April - 28. Juni 2015. Freiburg: Archäologische Sammlung der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2015. 338 p. (pb). ISBN 9783000493225.

Dräger, Paul. Decimus Magnus Ausonius. Sämtliche Werke, Band 3: Spätwerke aus Bordeaux. Trier: Kliomedia, 2015. 857 p. € 84.00. ISBN 9783898901932.

Dzino, Danijel and Ken Parry (edd.). Byzantium, its neighbours and its cultures. Byzantina australiensia, 20. Brisbane: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 2014. vi, 294 p. (pb). ISBN 9781876503017.

Eastmond, Antony (ed.). Viewing inscriptions in the late antique and medieval world. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvii, 261 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107092419.

Ebrey, David (ed.). Theory and practice in Aristotle's natural science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. viii, 261 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107055131.

Fedeli, Paolo, Irma Ciccarelli and Rosalba Dimundo. Properzio. Elegie, libro IV (2 vols.). Studia Classica et Mediaevalia, 7. Nordhausen: Verlag T. Bautz, 2015. 798 p.; 735 p. € 160.00. ISBN 9783883099378.

Fratantuono, Lee. A reading of Lucretius' De rerum natura. Lanham; Boulder; New York; London: Lexington Books, 2015. xii, 505 p. $140.00. ISBN 9781498511544.

Gardner, Gregg E. The origins of organized charity in rabbinic Judaism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvi, 235 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107095434.

Giuliani, Luca. Das Wunder vor der Schlacht: ein griechisches Historienbild der frühen Klassik. Jacob Burckhardt-Gespräche auf Castelen, 30. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2015. 109 p. € 14.00. ISBN 9783796534607.

Golden, Mark. Children and childhood in classical Athens. Second edition (first edition 1990). Ancient society and history. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xix, 243 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781421416861.

Grogan, Jane. The Persian empire in English Renaissance writing, 1549-1622. Early modern literature in history. New York: Palgave Macmillan, 2014. x, 256 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780230343269.

Günther, Hans-Christian (ed.). Augustus und Rom: 2000 Jahre danach. Studia Classica et Mediaevalia, 9. Nordhausen: Verlag T. Bautz, 2015. 348 p. € 60.00. ISBN 9783959480000.

Gwynn, David M. Christianity in the later Roman empire: a sourcebook. Bloomsbury sources in ancient history. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. xix, 293 p. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 9781441106261.

Hamel, Debra. The Battle of Arginusae: victory at sea and its tragic aftermath in the final years of the Peloponnesian War. Witness to ancient history. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xvii, 125 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9781421416816.

Hammerstaedt, Jürgen and Martin Ferguson Smith. The Epicurean inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda: ten years of new discoveries and research. Bonn: Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt, 2014. 288 p. € 69.00. ISBN 9783774939271.

Hardie, Philip and Gioachino Chiarini. Ovidio. Metamorfosi, Volume VI: Libri XIII-XV. Scrittori greci e latini. Milano: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla; Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2015. lxv, 717 p. € 30.00. ISBN 9788804651628.

Harding, Phillip E. Athens transformed, 404-262 BC: from popular sovereignty to the dominion of the elite. Routledge monographs in classical studies, 23. New York; London: Routledge, 2015. xv, 186 p. $140.00. ISBN 9780415873925.

Hayes, Evan and Stephen Nimis. Lucian's Dialogues of the gods: an intermediate Greek reader. Greek text with running vocabulary and commentary. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2015. xvii, 146 p. $13.95 (pb). ISBN 9781940997117.

Hayes, Evan and Stephen Nimis. Lucian's Dialogues of the dead: an intermediate Greek reader. Greek text with running vocabulary and commentary. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2015. xix, 210 p. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 9781940997100.

Hayes, Evan and Stephen Nimis. Lucian's Judgment of the goddesses: an intermediate Greek reader. Greek text with running vocabulary and commentary. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2015. xiii, 47 p. $8.95 (pb). ISBN 9781940997124.

Hayes, Evan and Stephen Nimis. Lucian's Assembly of the gods: an intermediate Greek reader. Greek text with running vocabulary and commentary. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2015. xv, 45 p. $8.95 (pb). ISBN 9781940997148.

Howells, Daniel Thomas. A catalogue of the late antique gold glass in the British Museum. Research publication, 198. London: British Museum, 2015. v, 183 p. £ 40.00 (pb). ISBN 9780861591985.

Jarry, Claude. Jean Philopon: Traité de l'astrolabe. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 512. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2015. clxxxv, 72 p. € 47.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005966.

Knight, Sarah and Stefan Tilg (edd.). The Oxford handbook of Neo-Latin. Oxford handbooks. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xvii, 614 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780199948178.

Kogan, Leonid. Genealogical classification of Semitic: the lexical isoglosses. Boston; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. xv, 734 p. € 179.95. ISBN 9781614517269.

La Penna, Antonio and Rodolfo Funari. C. Sallusti Crispi Historiae I: fragmenta 1.1-146. Texte und Kommentare, Bd 51. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 387 p. € 139.95. ISBN 9783110195668.

Lagneau-Fontaine, Sylvie and Catherine Langlois-Pézeret. Gilbert Ducher. Epigrammes. Textes littéraires de la Renaissance, 18. Paris: Éditions Honoré Champion, 2015. 728 p. € 135.00. ISBN 9782745329127.

Lange, Carsten Hjort and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet (edd.). The Roman republican triumph: beyond the spectacle. Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. Supplementum, 45. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2014. 261 p. € 32.00 (pb). ISBN 9788871405766.

Laudenbach, Benoît. Strabon: Géographie. Tome XIV, Livre XVII. 1re partie, L'Egypte et l'Ethiopie Nilotique. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 514. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2015. cv, 325 p. € 55.00. ISBN 9782251005980.

Longobardi, Concetta, Christian Nicolas and Marisa Squillante (edd.). Scholae discimus: pratiques scolaires dans l'Antiquité tardive et le Haut Moyen Âge. Collection Études et Recherches sur l'Occident Romain - CEROR, 46. Lyon: CEROR, 2014. 332 p. € 36.00 (pb). ISBN 9782364420533.

Lovascio, Domenico. Un nome; mille volti: Giulio Cesare nel teatro inglese della prima età moderna. Lingue e letterature Carocci, 192; Serie AIA Book Prize, 2. Roma: Carocci editore, 2015. 207 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9788843075416.

Marinis, Vasileios. Architecture and ritual in the churches of Constantinople: ninth to fifteenth centuries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvii, 243 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107040168.

Marmodoro, Anna and Brian D. Prince (edd.). Causation and creation in late antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xi, 299 p. $95.00. ISBN 9781107061538.

Meier, Mischa and Steffen Patzold (edd.). Chlodwigs Welt: Organisation von Herrschaft um 500. Roma aeterna, Bd 3. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. 622 p. € 89.00. ISBN 9783515108539.

Micklem, N. The men who were honest to Jesus and what they did. Leicestershire: Matador, 2015. ix, 130 p. £ 7.99 (pb). ISBN 9781784622442.

Pernot, Laurent. Epideictic rhetoric: questioning the stakes of ancient praise. Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. xiv, 166 p. $50.00. ISBN 9780292768208.

Pizzone, Aglae (ed.). The author in Middle Byzantine literature: modes, functions, and identities. Byzantinisches Archiv, Bd 28. Boston; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. xiv, 351 p. € 119.95. ISBN 9781614517115.

Rashed, Roshdi. Angles et grandeur: d'Euclide a Kamâl al-Dîn al-Fârisî. Scientia Graeco-Arabica, Bd 17. Boston; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. viii, 706 p. € 169.95. ISBN 9781501510700.

Ruiz Arzalluz, Iñigo, Alejandro Martínez Sobrino, Mª Teresa Muñoz García de Iturrospe, Iñaki Ortigosa Egiraun and Enara San Juan Manso (edd.). Estudios de filología e historia en honor del profesor Vitalino Valcárcel (2 vols.). Anejos de Veleia. Series Minor, 32. Bilbao: Universidad del País Vasco; Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 2014. xxv, 1,144 p. € 40.00 (pb). ISBN 9788498600483.

Salskov Roberts, Helle. Sūkās XI: the Attic pottery and commentary on the Greek inscriptions found on Tall Sūkās. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 4, vol. 3; Publications of the Carlsberg Expedition to Phoenicia, 14. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2015. 165 p. 280.00 DKK (pb). ISBN 9788773043813.

Scioli, Emma. Dream, fantasy, and visual art in Roman elegy. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. xii, 278 p. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 9780299303846.

Sekunda, Nicholas Victor and Bogdan Burliga (edd.). Iphicrates, peltasts and Lechaeum. Monograph series 'Akanthina', 9. Gdańsk: Foundation for the Development of Gdańsk University, 2014. 144 p. £ 35.00. ISBN 9788375311679.

Shalev-Hurvitz, Vered. Holy sites encircled: the early Byzantine concentric churches of Jerusalem. Oxford studies in Byzantium. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xviii, 430 p., 20 p. of plates. $175.00. ISBN 9780199653775.

Southern, Pat. The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine. Second edition (first edition 2001). London; New York: Routledge, 2015. xvii, 501 p. $49.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415738088.

Squillace, Giuseppe. Le lacrime di Mirra: miti e luoghi dei profumi nel mondo antico. Saggi, 822. Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2015. 297 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9788815254412.

Stead, Henry and Edith Hall (edd.). Greek and Roman classics in the British struggle for social reform. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception, 3. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. xv, 368 p. £ 80.00. ISBN 9781472584267.

Suvák, Vladislav (ed.). Antisthenica Cynica Socratica. Mathésis, 9. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2014. 437 p. 478 Kč. ISBN 9788072981946.

Swetnam-Burland, Molly. Egypt in Italy: visions of Egypt in Roman imperial culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii, 249 p., viii p. of plates. $110.00. ISBN 9781107040489.

Tiverios, Michalis, Vasiliki Misailidou-Despotidou, Eleni Manakidou and Anna Arvanitaki (edd.). Η κεραμική της αρχαικής εποχής στο βόρειο Αιγαίο και την περιφέρειά του (700- 480 π.Χ.): Πρακτικά αρχαιολογικής συνάντησης, Θεσσαλονίκη 19-22 Μαίου 2011 / Archaic pottery of the Northern Aegean and its periphery (700 - 480 BC): proceedings of the archaeological meeting, Thessaloniki, 19-22 May 2011. Δημοσιεύματα Αρχαιολογικού Ινστιτούτου Μακεδονικών και Θρακικών Σπουδών, 11. Thessaloniki: Αρχαιολογικό Ινστιτούτο Μακεδονικών και Θρακικών Σπουδών, 2012. 502 p. (pb). ISBN 9789608731493.

Travillian, Tyler T. Pliny the Elder: The natural history Book VII (with Book VIII 1-34). Bloomsbury Latin texts. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. vii, 360 p. $23.95 (pb). ISBN 9781472535665.

Uzzi, Jeannine Diddle and Jeffrey Thomson. The Poems of Catullus: an annotated translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. viii, 224 p. $24.99 (pb). ISBN 9781107682139.

Valavanis, Panos and Eleni Manakidou (edd.). Εγραφσεν και εποίεσεν: μελέτες κεραμικής και εικονογραφίας προς τιμήν του καθηγητή Μιχάλη Τιβέριου / Essays on Greek pottery and iconography in honour of Professor Michalis Tiverios. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2014. 598 p. ISBN 9789601221960.

Wilkinson, Kate. Women and modesty in late antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ix, 174 p. $95.00. ISBN 9781107030275.

Wohl, Victoria. Euripides and the politics of form. Martin classical lectures. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. xvi, 200 p. $39.95. ISBN 9780691166506.