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Books Received September 2015.

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Adamson, Peter, Rotraud Hansberger and James Wilberding (edd.). Philosophical themes in Galen. BICS supplement, 114. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2014. v, 327 p. £ 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9781905670505.

Ambuel, David. Turtles all the way down: on Plato's Theaetetus, a commentary and translation. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2015. 315 p. € 29.50 (pb). ISBN 9783896656407.

Baltussen, Han and Peter J. Davis (edd.). The art of veiled speech: self-censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. vi, 329 p. $79.95. ISBN 9780812247360.

Barta, Heinz, Martin Lang and Robert Rollinger (edd.). Prozessrecht und Eid: Recht und Rechtsfindung in antiken Kulturen. Philippika, 86. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. 264 p. € 56.00. ISBN 9783447103640.

Brecoulaki, Hariclia, Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker (edd.). Mycenaean wall painting in context: new discoveries, old finds reconsidered. ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ, 72. Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation / Institute of Historical Research, 2015. 403 p. ISBN 9789609538343.

Brun, Patrice. Démosthène: rhétorique, pouvoir et corruption à Athènes. Nouvelles biographies historiques. Paris: Armand Colin, 2015. 336 p. € 24.90 (pb). ISBN 9782200602666.

Butler, Shane. The ancient phonograph. New York: Zone Books, 2015. 278 p. $29.95. ISBN 9781935408727.

Cairns, Douglas L. and Laurel Fulkerson (edd.). Emotions between Greece and Rome. BICS supplement, 125. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2015. vii, 199 p. £ 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9781905670536.

Casertano, Giovanni, et al. Eleatica 2011: da Parmenide di Elea al Parmenide di Platone. Eleatica, 4. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2015. 235 p. € 32.80 (pb). ISBN 9783896656759.

Christian, Timo. Gebildete Steine: zur Rezeption literarischer Techniken in den Versinschriften seit dem Hellenismus. Hypomnemata, Bd 197. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. 416 p. $113.00. ISBN 9783525253229.

Clark, Christina A., Edith Foster and Judith P. Hallett (edd.). Kinesis: the ancient depiction of gesture, motion, and emotion. Essays for Donald Lateiner. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. xi, 323 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780472121168.

Cook, John Granger. Crucifixion in the Mediterranean world. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 327. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015. xxiv, 522 p. € 69.00 (pb). ISBN 9783161537646.

Corrigan, Kirsty. Virgo to virago: Medea in the Silver Age. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. ix, 300 p. £ 49.99. ISBN 9781443846554.

Croisille, Jean-Michel. Natures mortes dans la Rome antique: naissance d'un genre artistique. Antiqua. Paris: Éditions Picard, 2015. 160 p. € 43.00. ISBN 9782708409842.

Del Forno, Davide. La dialettica in Proclo: il quinto libro dell'In Parmenidem tradotto e commentato. Studies in ancient philosophy, 14. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2015. 375 p. € 46.50 (pb). ISBN 9783896656308.

Delcomminette, Sylvain, Pieter d'Hoine and Marc-Antoine Gavray (edd.). Ancient readings of Plato's Phaedo. Philosophia antiqua, 140. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. $163.00. ISBN 9789004282179.

Deligiannis, Ioannis. Μ. Τύλλιου Κικέρωνα, Περί Πολιτείας Βιβλία Έξι. Εισαγωγή – Κείμενο – Μετάφραση – Σχόλια. Κλασική Βιβλιοθήκη Καρδαμίτσα. Athens: Ινστιτούτο του Βιβλίου - Α. Καρδαμίτσα, 2015. 67, 504 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9789603543657.

den Boeft, J., Jan Willem Drijvers, Daniël den Hengst and H. C. Teitler. Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXX. Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus, 11. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. $142.00. ISBN 9789004299955.

Derron, Pascale (ed.). Cosmologies et cosmogonies dans la littérature antique: huit exposés suivis de discussions et d'un épilogue. Entretiens sur l'Antiquité classique, 61. Vandœuvres: Fondation Hardt pour l'étude de l'Antiquité classique, 2015. x, 355 p. CHF 75.00. ISBN 9782600007610.

Dusinberre, Elspeth R. M. Empire, authority, and autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia (paperback reprint; first published 2013). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxvi, 374 p. $39.99 (pb). ISBN 9781107577152.

Emmenegger, Gregor. Wie die Jungfrau zum Kind kam: zum Einfluss antiker medizinischer und naturphilosophischer Theorien auf die Entwicklung des christlichen Dogmas. Paradosis, 56. Fribourg: Academic Press Fribourg, 2014. xii, 355 p. CHF 64.00 (pb). ISBN 9783727817526.

Faraone, Christopher A. Vanishing acts on ancient Greek amulets: from oral performance to visual design. BICS supplement, 115. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2012. xii, 105 p. £ 38.00 (pb). ISBN 9781905670406.

Fontaine, Michael. Joannes Burmeister, Aulularia and other inversions of Plautus. Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2015. 380 p. € 75.00. ISBN 9789462700086.

Fünfschilling, Sylvia. Die römischen Gläser aus Augst und Kaiseraugst: kommentierter Formenkatalog und ausgewählte Neufunde 1981-2010 aus Augusta Raurica (2 vols.). Forschungen in Augst, 51.1-2. Augst: Augusta Raurica, 2015. 708 p. € 160.00. ISBN 9783715100517.

Furley, William. Menander, Perikeiromene or The shorn head. Edited with introduction and commentary. BICS supplement, 127. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2015. x, 209 p. £ 46.00. ISBN 9781905670598.

Gardner, Andrew, Edward Herring and Kathryn Lomas (edd.). Creating ethnicities and identities in the Roman world. BICS supplement, 120. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2013. xiii, 278 p. £ 38.00 (pb). ISBN 9781905670468.

Gibson, A. G. G. (ed.). Robert Graves and the classical tradition. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University press, 2015. x, 370 p. $125.00. ISBN 9780198738053.

Green, Richard and Michael Edwards (edd.). Images and texts: papers in honour of Professor Eric Handley CBE FBA. BICS supplement, 129. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2015. x, 135 p. £ 32.00 (pb). ISBN 9781905670567.

Griffith, Mark. Greek satyr play: five studies. California classical studies, 3. Berkeley: California Classical Studies, 2015. xiii, 188 p. $29.95 (pb), also available for open-access page view. ISBN 9781939926043.

Harris, Jonathan. The lost world of Byzantium. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2015. xi, 264 p. $38.00. ISBN 9780300178579.

Haselberger, Lothar. The Horologium of Augustus: debate and context. JRA supplementary series, 99. Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2014. 206 p. $89.50. ISBN 9780991373031.

Hobson, Matthew S. The North African boom: evaluating economic growth in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis (146 B.C. - A.D. 439). JRA Supplementary series, 100. Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2015. 181 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780991373048.

Hurst, André. Dans les marges de Ménandre. Recherches et rencontres, 33. Genève: Librairie Droz, 2015. 174 p. CHF 35.00 (pb). ISBN 9782600018883.

Iara, Kristine. Hippodromus Palatii: die Bauornamentik des Gartenhippodroms im Kaiserpalast auf dem Palatin in Rom. Palilia, Bd 30. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2015. 269 p. € 29.90 (pb). ISBN 9783954900886.

James, Peter and Peter van der Veen (edd.). Solomon and Shishak: current perspectives from archaeology, epigraphy, history and chronology. Proceedings of the Third BICANE Colloquium held at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 26-27 March, 2011. BAR international series, 2732. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2015. xii, 281 p. £ 47.00 (pb). ISBN 9781407313894.

Kastely, James L. The rhetoric of Plato's Republic: democracy and the philosophical problem of persuasion. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xviii, 260 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780226278629.

Kazakidi, Natalia. Εικόνες εν γυμνασίω, Έργα γλυπτικής στο ελληνιστικό γυμνάσιο: Ηπειρωτική Ελλάδα και νησιά του Αιγαίου. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2015. 376 p. € 42.00. ISBN 9789601221731.

Kirkendale, Ursula and Warren Kirkendale. Hesiod's Theogony as source of the iconological program of Giorgione's Tempesta: the poet, Amalthea, the infant Zeus and the Muses. Pocket library of studies in art, 41. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki editore, 2015. iv, 102 p. € 28.00. ISBN 9788822264084.

Kiss, Dániel (ed.). What Catullus wrote: problems in textual criticism, editing and the manuscript tradition. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2015. xxx, 194 p. $95.00. ISBN 9781905125999.

Kremmydas, Christos, Jonathan Powell and Lene Rubinstein (edd.). Profession and performance: aspects of oratory in the Greco-Roman world. BICS supplement, 123. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2013. v, 133 p. £ 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9781905670512.

Laird, Margaret L. Civic monuments and the Augustales in Roman Italy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvii, 349 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107008229.

Lauwers, Jeroen. Philosophy, rhetoric, and sophistry in the high Roman Empire: Maximus of Tyre and twelve other intellectuals. Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 385. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. $163.00. ISBN 9789004301528.

Lavan, Luke (ed.). Local economies?: production and exchange of inland regions in late antiquities. Late antique archaeology, 10. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. xiv, 637 p. $97.00. ISBN 9789004277038.

Lavan, Luke and Michael Mulryan (edd.). Field methods and post-excavation techniques in late antique archaeology. Late antique archaeology, 9. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. xiv, 687 p. $97.00. ISBN 9789004277021.

Leunissen, Mariska (ed.). Aristotle's Physics: a critical guide. Cambridge critical guides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xi, 297 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107031463.

Lindner, Molly M. Portraits of the Vestal virgins, priestesses of ancient Rome. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. xxii, 291 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780472118953.

Lombardo, Stanley (trans.). Statius: Achilleid. Indianapolis; Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2015. xxxv, 53 p. $9.00 (pb). ISBN 9781624664069.

Mack, Peter and John North (edd.). The afterlife of Ovid. BICS supplement, 130. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2015. xi, 237 p. £ 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9781905670604.

Marcone, Arnaldo (ed.). L'imperatore Giuliano: realtà storica e rappresentazione. STUSMA - Studi sul mondo antico, 3. Milano; Firenze: Mondadori; Le Monnier università, 2015. vi, 349 p. € 28.00 (pb). ISBN 9788800745864.

Masi, Francesca Guadalupe and Stefano Maso (edd.). Epicurus on eidola. Peri Phuseos Book II: update, proposals and discussions. Lexis ancient philosophy, 10. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert - Publishing, 2015. 221 p. € 60.00 (pb). ISBN 9789025613020.

Maurice, Lisa (ed.). The reception of ancient Greece and Rome in children's literature: heroes and eagles. Metaforms, 6. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. 350 p. $175.00. ISBN 9789004298590.

Moinier, Bernard and Olivier Weller. Le Sel dans l'Antiquité: ou les cristaux d'Aphrodite. Realia. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2015. 356 p. € 23.50 (pb). ISBN 9782251338422.

Montanari, Franco, Stephanos Matthaios and Antonios Rengakos (edd.). Brill's companion to ancient Greek scholarship (2 vols.). Brill's companions in classical studies. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. xx, vii, 1504 p. $535.00. ISBN 9789004245945.

Moretti, Jean-Charles, Lionel Fadin, Myriam Fincker and Véronique Picard. Atlas. Exploration archéologique de Délos, 43. Athènes: École française d'Athènes, 2015. 39 p., 51 p. of plates. € 240.00. ISBN 9782869582644.

Nikolsky, Boris. Misery and forgiveness in Euripides: meaning and structure in the Hippolytus (translated from the Russian by Mikhail Nikolsky). Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2015. xv, 215 p. $95.00. ISBN 9781910589038.

Papathanasiou, Anastasia, Michael P. Richards and Sherry C. Fox (edd.). Archaeodiet in the Greek world: dietary reconstruction from stable isotope analysis. Hesperia supplement, 49; Occasional Wiener Laboratory Series (OWLS), 2. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2015. xii, 211 p. $75.00 (pb). ISBN 9780876615492.

Patay-Horvath, Andras. The origins of the Olympic Games. Archaeolingua Series minor, 36. Budapest: Archaeolingua, 2015. 156 p. $30.00 (pb). ISBN 9789639911727.

Pfälzner, Peter and Michel Maqdissi (edd.). Qaṭna and the networks of Bronze Age globalism: proceedings of an international conference in Stuttgart and Tübingen in October 2009. Qaṭna-Studien. Supplementa, Bd 2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. xi, 584 p. € 170.00. ISBN 9783447103503.

Pisano, Carmine. Hermes, lo scettro, l'ariete: configurazioni mitiche della regalità nella Grecia antica. Religioni e storia, 3. Napoli: M. D'Auria editore, 2014. 304 p. € 32.00 (pb). ISBN 9788870923629.

Provencal, Vernon L. Sophist kings: Persians as other in Herodotus. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. viii, 330 p. $112.00. ISBN 9781780936130.

Renaud, François and Harold Tarrant. The Platonic Alcibiades I: the dialogue and its Ancient reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii, 292 p. $99.99. ISBN 9780521199124.

Riesenweber, Thomas. C. Marius Victorinus, Commenta in Ciceronis Rhetorica (2 vols.). Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Bd 120.1-2. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. xxiii, 531 p., 50 p. of plates; 520 p. $266.00. ISBN 9783110316377.

Roubineau, Jean-Manuel. Les cités grecques (VIe-IIe siècle avant J.-C.): essai d'histoire sociale. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2015. 476 p. € 29.00 (pb). ISBN 9782130633624.

Sagona, Claudia. The archaeology of Malta: from the Neolithic through the Roman period. Cambridge world archaeology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xix, 449 p. $135.00. ISBN 9781107006690.

Scafuro, Michele. L'area tra il Kolonos Agoraios e l'Areopago dall'XI al VI sec. a.C.: contesti e aree funzionali. Studi di Archeologia e di Topografia di Atene e dell'Attica, 8. Atene; Paestum: Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene; Pandemos, 2015. 184 p., 1 CD. € 80.00. ISBN 9788887744620.

Stek, Tesse D. and Gert-Jan Burgers (edd.). The impact of Rome on cult places and religious practices in ancient Italy. BICS supplement, 132. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2015. viii, 331 p. £ 48.00 (pb). ISBN 9781905670581.

Stoneman, Richard. Xerxes: a Persian life. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2015. xi, 275 p. $38.00. ISBN 9780300180077.

Stray, Christopher and Graham Whitaker (edd.). Classics in practice : studies in the history of scholarship. BICS supplement, 128. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2015. vi, 187 p. £ 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9781905670574.

Walters, Brian (trans.). Lucan: Civil war. Indianapolis; Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2015. xlviii, 266 p. $17.00 (pb). ISBN 9781603849968.

Weidmann, Clemens. Augustinus, Sermones selecti. Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Bd 101. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. vi, 238 p. $140.00. ISBN 9783110333992.

Winkler, Martin M. (ed.). Return to Troy: new essays on the Hollywood epic. Metaforms, 5. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. x, 284 p. $163.00. ISBN 9789004292765.

Wolff, Catherine. L'éducation dans le monde romain: du début de la République à la mort de Commode. Antiquité synthèses, 16. Paris: Édition Picard, 2015. 271 p. € 39.00. ISBN 9782708409934.

Young, Elizabeth Marie. Translation as muse: poetic translation in Catullus's Rome. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2015. viii, 259 p. $50.00. ISBN 9780226279916.

Zafiropoulos, Christos A. Socrates and Aesop: a comparative study of the introduction of Plato's Phaedo. International Plato studies, 34. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2015. 290 p. € 58.00. ISBN 9783896656575.