2015.09.01

Books Received August 2015.

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Adamson, Peter. Classical philosophy. A history of philosophy without any gaps, 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xx, 346 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780199674534.

Adamson, Peter. Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. A history of philosophy without any gaps, 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xxiv, 428 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780198728023.

Algra, Keimpe and Katerina Ierodiakonou (edd.). Sextus Empiricus and ancient physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiii, 433 p. $135.00. ISBN 9781107069244.

Arruzza, Cinzia. Plotinus, Ennead II.5: on what is potentially and what actually. The Enneads of Plotinus with philosophical commentaries. Las Vegas; Zurich; Athens: Parmenides Publishing, 2015. 201 p. $37.00 (pb). ISBN 9781930972636.

Athanassiadi, Polymnia. Mutations of Hellenism in late antiquity. Variorum collected studies series, CS 1052. Farnham; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. 394 p. £ 85.50. ISBN 9781472443663.

Barringer, Judith M. The art and archaeology of ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xx, 438 p. $95.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521171809.

Bayley, Justine, Ian Freestone and Caroline Jackson (edd.). Glass of the Roman world. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2015. xxvi, 204 p. $70.00. ISBN 9781782977742.

Blondell, Ruby and Kirk Ormand (edd.). Ancient sex: new essays. Classical memories/modern identities. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015. xii, 342 p. $97.95. ISBN 9780814212837.

Boţan, Sever-Petru. Vase de sticlă în spaţiul dintre Carpaţi şi Prut (secolele II a. Chr. - II p. Chr.) / Glass vessels between the Carpathian Mountains and the Pruth River (2nd century BC - 2nd century AD). Pontica et Mediterranea, 4. Cluj-Napoca: Mega Publishing House, 2015. 363 p. ISBN 9786065435933.

Bruun, Christer and Jonathan Edmondson (edd.). The Oxford handbook of Roman epigraphy. Oxford handbooks. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xxxvii, 888 p. $185.00. ISBN 9780195336467.

Buchwald, Hans. Churches EA and E at Sardis. Archaeological exploration of Sardis, report 6. Cambridge, MA; London: Archeological Exploration of Sardis, 2015. xxiii, 341 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780674504400.

Caballos Rufino, Antonio, Enrique Melchor Gil and Juan Francisco Rodríguez Neila (edd.). De Roma a las provincias: las elites como instrumento de proyección de Roma. Juan Francisco Rodríguez Neila in honorem. Historia y geografía, 287. Sevilla; Córdoba: Universidad de Sevilla; UCOPress, Editorial Universidad de Córdoba, 2014. 668 p. € 39.00. ISBN 9788447215973.

Cinalli, Angela. Τὰ ξένια: la cerimonia di ospitalità cittadina. Studie e Ricerche, 27. Studi umanistici - Antichistica. Roma: Sapienza Università Editrice, 2015. xii, 101 p. (pb); also available as open access publication. ISBN 9788898533497.

Clackson, James. Language and society in the Greek and Roman worlds. Key themes in ancient history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv, 204 p. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521140669.

Dijkstra, Roald, Sanne van Poppel and Daniëlle Slootjes (edd.). East and West in the Roman Empire of the fourth century: an end to unity?. Radboud studies in humanities, 5. Leiden: Brill, 2015. ix, 183 p. $120.00. ISBN 9789004291928.

Docter, Roald F., Ridha Boussoffara and Pieter ter Keurs (edd.). Carthage: fact and myth. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2015. 144 p. $35.00. ISBN 9789088903113.

Engels, David (ed.). Von Platon bis Fukuyama: biologistiche und zyklische Konzepte in der Geschichtsphilosophie der Antike und des Abendlandes. Collection Latomus. Bruxelles: Éditions Latomus, 2015. 336 p. € 52.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042932746.

Esposito, Paolo and Christine Walde (edd.). Letture e lettori di Lucano: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Fisciano, 27-29 marzo 2012. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 62. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2015. 406 p. € 35.00 (pb). ISBN 9788846742544.

Fantuzzi, Marco and Christos Tsagalis (edd.). The Greek Epic Cycle and its ancient reception: a companion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiii, 678 p. $195.00. ISBN 9781107012592.

Faulkner, Andrew and Owen Hodkinson (edd.). Hymnic narrative and the narratology of Greek hymns. Mnemosyne, supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 384. Leiden: Brill, 2015. x, 298 p. $142.00. ISBN 9789004288133.

Fratantuono, Lee and R. Alden Smith. Virgil, Aeneid 5: text, translation and commentary. Mnemosyne, supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 386. Leiden: Brill, 2015. x, 762 p. $284.00. ISBN 9789004301245.

Fritsen, Angela. Antiquarian voices: the Roman Academy and the commentary tradition on Ovid's Fasti. Text and context. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015. xvi, 239 p. $69.95. ISBN 9780814273869.

Gorski, Gilbert J. and James E. Packer. The Roman Forum: a reconstruction and architectural guide. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxii, 437 p. $250.00. ISBN 9780521192446.

Hadjikyriako, Iosif and Mia Gaia Trentin (edd.). Cypriot cultural details: proceedings of the 10th Post Graduate Cypriot Archaeology Conference. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2015. vii, 224 p. $66.00 (pb). ISBN 9781785700668.

Hall, Edith. Introducing the ancient Greeks: from Bronze Age seafarers to navigators of the Western mind. New York; London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. xxviii, 305 p. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 9780393351163.

Høgel, Christian. The human and the humane: humanity as argument from Cicero to Erasmus. Reflections on (In)Humanity, 8. Göttingen; Taipei: V&R unipress; National Taiwan University Press, 2015. 130 p. € 29.99. ISBN 9783847104414.

Hunter, Richard. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica: Book IV. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xi, 339 p. $39.99 (pb). ISBN 9781107636750.

Junker, Klaus and Sina Tauchert. Helenas Töchter: Frauen und Mode im frühen Griechenland. Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie; Sonderbände der Antiken Welt. Darmstadt: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2015. 136 p. € 29.95. ISBN 9783805348584.

Kalas, Gregor. The restoration of the Roman Forum in late antiquity: transforming public space. Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2015. xv, 228 p. $60.00. ISBN 9780292760783.

Lepinski, Sarah and Susanna McFadden (edd.). Beyond iconography: materials, methods, and meaning in ancient surface decoration. Selected papers on ancient art and architecture, 1. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 2015. 218 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781931909310.

Marder, Tod A. and Mark Wilson Jones (edd.). The Pantheon: from antiquity to the present. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xix, 471 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521809320.

Matijević, Krešimir. Ursprung und Charakter der homerischen Jenseitsvorstellungen. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015. 272 p. € 39.90. ISBN 9783506782328.

Migeotte, Léopold. Économie et finances publiques des cités grecques, volume II: choix d'articles publiés de 2002 à 2014. Collection de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 54; Série épigraphique et historique, 8. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée - Jean Pouilloux, 2015. 463 p. € 39.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356680532.

Papakonstantinou, Kalliopi K. Συμβολή στη μελέτη των λειτουργιών της δικαστικής απόφασης στην αρχαία Ελλάδα / Beitrag zum Studium der Funktionen des gerichtlichen Urteils im antiken Griechenland. Πηγές και Μελέτες Ιστορίας Ελληνικού και Ρωμαϊκού Δικαίου, 8. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2015. xvii, 296 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9789601222219.

Pedersen, Ralph K. (ed.). On sea and ocean: new research on Phoenician seafaring. Proceedings of the symposion held in Marbug, June 23-25, 2011 at Archäologisches Seminar, Philipps-Universität Marburg. Marburger Beiträge zur Archäologie, Bd 2. Marburg: Eigenverlag des Archäologischen Seminars der Philipps-Universität 2015. ix, 129 p. € 69.00. ISBN 9783818505165.

Perrone, Serena. Papiri dell'Università di Genova (PUG), volume quinto. Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2015. 149 p., xxxi p. of plates. € 34.00 (pb). ISBN 9788863727777.

Remijsen, Sofie. The end of Greek athletics in late antiquity. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiii, 389 p. $115.00. ISBN 9781107050785.

Roisman, Joseph, Ian Worthington and Robin Waterfield. Lives of the Attic orators: texts from Pseudo-Plutarch, Photius, and the Suda. Clarendon ancient history series. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xvii, 381 p. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9780199687671.

Scardino, Carlo. Edition antiker landwirtschaftlicher Werke in arabischer Sprache. Band 1: Prolegomena. Scientia Graeco-Arabica, Bd 16/1. Boston; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. ix, 429 p. € 119.95. ISBN 9781614517825.

Vasaly, Ann. Livy's political philosophy: power and personality in early Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015. xi, 209 p. $90.00. ISBN 9781107065673.

Wefers, Stefanie. Die Mühlenkaskade von Ephesos: technikgeschichtliche Studien zur Versorgung einer spätantiken bis frühbyzantinischen Stadt. Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 118. Mainz: Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2015. x, 318 p., 66 p. of plates, 41 p. of color plates. € 75.00. ISBN 9783884672228.

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