2016.01.01

Books Received December 2015.

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Becker, Matthias. Porphyrios, Contra Christianos. Neue Sammlung der Fragmente, Testimonien und Dubia mit Einleitung, Übersetzung und Anmerkungen. Texte und Kommentare, Bd 52. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. x, 667 p. $196.00. ISBN 9783110440058.

Blessington, Francis C. (trans.). Euripides. Trojan women, Helen, Hecuba: three plays about women and the Trojan War. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison; London: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. xvi, 250 p. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 9780299305246.

Chronopoulos, Stylianos and Christian Orth (edd.). Fragmente einer Geschichte der griechischen Komödie / Fragmentary history of Greek comedy. Studia Comica, 5. Heidelberg: Verlag Antike, 2015. 336 p. € 76.90. ISBN 9783938032640.

Colin, Frédéric, Olivier Huck and Sylvie Vanséveren (edd.). Interpretatio: traduire l'altérité culturelle dans les civilisations de l'Antiquité. Collections de l'Université de Strasbourg. Études d'archéologie et d'histoire ancienne. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2015. 444 p. € 59.00 (pb). ISBN 9782701803753.

Damon, Cynthia. Studies on the text of Caesar's Bellum civile. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 329 p. $115.00. ISBN 9780198724063.

Debiasi, Andrea. Eumelo: un poeta per Corinto con ulteriori divagazioni epiche. Problemi e ricerche di storia antica, 31. Roma: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2015. xii, 324 p. € 180.00 (pb). ISBN 9788891308887.

D'Elia, Anthony F. Pagan virtue in a Christian world: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2016. x, 355 p. $39.95. ISBN 9780674088511.

Dutsch, Dorota and Ann Suter. Ancient obscenities: their nature and use in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. 356 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780472119646.

Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline and Alison Keith (edd.). Women and war in antiquity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. ix, 341 p. $55.00. ISBN 9781421417622.

Frederiksen, Rune, Elizabeth R. Gebhard and Alexander Sokolicek (edd.). The architecture of the ancient Greek theatre. Acts of an international conference at the Danish Institute at Athens 27-30 January 2012. Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, 17. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2014. 468 p. $70.00. ISBN 9788771243802.

Gasti, Fabio and Michele Cutino (edd.). Poesia e teologia nella produzione latina dei secoli IV-V: atti della X Giornata ghisleriana di filologia classica, Pavia, 16 maggio 2013. Pavia: Pavia University Press, 2015. x, 159 p. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788869520020.

Giannakis, Georgios K. (ed.). Ο γλωσσικός χάρτης της κεντρικής και βόρειας Ελλάδας κατά την αρχαιότητα. Thessaloniki: Κέντρο Ελληνικής Γλώσσας, 2015. 222 p. (pb). ISBN 9789607779717.

Giavatto, Angelo and Frédéric Le Blay (edd.). Autour de la Consolation de philosophie de Boèce. Forum. Neuilly: Éditions Atlande, 2015. 190 p. € 14.85 (pb). ISBN 9782350303161.

Graver, Margaret and A. A. Long. Seneca. Letters on ethics: to Lucilius. Translated with an introduction and commentary. The complete works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xxviii, 604 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780226265179.

Günther, Linda-Marie and Bärbel Morstadt (edd.). Phönizische, griechische und römische Gottheiten im historischen Wandel. Contextualizing the sacred, 5. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. xviii, 159 p. € 75.00. ISBN 9782503544571.

Harris, Edward M., David M. Lewis and Mark Woolmer (edd.). The ancient Greek economy: markets, households and city-states. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xiii, 474 p. $135.00. ISBN 9781107035881.

Hellmann, Oliver and David C. Mirhady (edd.). Phaenias of Eresus: text, translation and discussion. Rutgers University studies in classical humanties (RUSH), 19. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2015. x, 449 p. $89.95. ISBN 9781412862479.

Inwood, Brad (ed.). Oxford studies in ancient philosophy, Volume XLVIII: summer 2015. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 306 p. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 9780198735557.

Juster, A. M. Saint Aldhelm's riddles. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2015. xix, 173 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9781442628922.

Kehoe, Dennis P., David M. Ratzan and Uri Yiftach (edd.). Law and transaction costs in the ancient economy. Law and society in the ancient world. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. vi, 300 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780472119608.

Kliger, Ilya and Boris Maslov (edd.). Persistent forms: explorations in historical poetics. Verbal arts: studies in poetics. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. xviii, 477 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780823264858.

LaFleur, Richard A. (trans.). Ubi fera sunt: fabula et picturae ab Maurice Sendak. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2016. [37] p. $24.00. ISBN 9780865168312.

Lapini, Walter. L'Epistola a Erodoto e il Bios di Epicuro in Diogene Laerzio: note testuali, esegetiche e metodologiche. Pleiadi, 20. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2015. xxiv, 282 p. € 38.00 (pb). ISBN 9788863728279.

Laurent, Régis. An introduction to Aristotle's metaphysics of time: historical research into the mythological and astronomical conceptions that preceded Aristotle's philosophy (translated by Trista Selous). Paris: Villegagnons-Plaisance Editions, 2015. 234 p. € 39.00 (pb). ISBN 9782953384611.

Losansky, Gernot. Die Obergeschossareale der Stadthäuser in Herculaneum: architektonische Anlage, raumkontextuelle Einordnung und häusliches Leben. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2015. 417 p. € 148.00. ISBN 9783954901098.

Martos, Juan. Apuleyo de Madauros. Apología o Discurso sobre la magia en defensa propia; Floridas; [Prólogo de El dios de Sócrates]. Introducción, traducción y notas. Alma mater. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2015. cvi, 607 p. € 53.00. ISBN 9788400099435.

McCarter, Stephanie. Horace between freedom and slavery: the first book of Epistles. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison; London: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. xi, 359 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780299305703.

Meeusen, Michiel and Luc Van der Stockt (edd.). Natural spectaculars: aspects of Plutarch's philosophy of nature. Plutarchea Hypomnemata. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2015. 254 p. € 69.50. ISBN 9789462700437.

Meyer, Susan Sauvé. Plato: Laws 1 and 2. Translated with an introduction and commentary. Clarendon Plato series. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xiv, 361 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780199604081.

Minnema, Lourens. Tragic views of the human condition: cross-cultural comparisons between views of human nature in Greek and Shakespearean tragedy and the Mahābhārata and Bhagavadgītā. New York; London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. xi, 572 p. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 9781501305788.

Monfrinotti, Matteo. Creatore e creazione: il pensiero di Clemente Alessandrino. Fundamentis novis, 4. Roma: Città Nuova Editrice, 2014. 364 p. € 38.00 (pb). ISBN 9788831164047.

Naas, Valérie and Mathilde Simon (edd.). De Samos à Rome: personnalité et influence de Douris. Modernité classique. Nanterre: Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2015. 372 p. € 23.00 (pb). ISBN 9782840162070.

Orrells, Daniel. Sex: antiquity and its legacy. Ancients and moderns. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. x, 246 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780195380934.

Pezzini, Giuseppe. Terence and the verb 'to be' in Latin. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xvii, 355 p. $135.00. ISBN 9780198736240.

Rowe, Christopher. Plato: Theaetetus and Sophist. Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xlv, 184 p. $21.99 (pb). ISBN 9781107697027.

Russell, Amy. The politics of public space in Republican Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xix, 226 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107040496.

Salzman, Michele Renee, Marianne Sághy and Rita Lizzi Testa (edd.). Pagans and Christians in late antique Rome: conflict, competition, and coexistence in the fourth century. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xv, 419 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781107110304.

Scholz, Peter and Dirk Wiegandt (edd.). Das kaiserzeitliche Gymnasion. Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel, 34. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 288 p. $140.00. ISBN 9783050046419.

Seiler, Stephan. Die Entwicklung der römischen Villenwirtschaft im Trierer Land: agrarökonomische und infrastrukturelle Untersuchungen eines römischen Wirtschaftsgebiets. Philippika, 81. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. xii, 430 p. € 138.00. ISBN 9783447103220.

Sumi, Geoffrey S. Ceremony and power: performing politics in Rome between Republic and Empire. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. xii, 361 p., 4 p. of plates. $44.95 (pb). ISBN 9780472036660.

Tordo Rombaut, Karine. Pour une lecture interactive de Platon: le Philosophe insaisissable. Kaïnon, 3. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 404 p. € 43.00 (pb). ISBN 9782812437144.

Urlacher-Becht, Céline. Ennode de Pavie, chantre officiel de l'Église de Milan. Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Antiquité, 198. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 2014. 499 p. € 66.00 (pb). ISBN 9782851212726.

van Tilburg, Cornelis. Streets and streams: health conditions and city planning in the Graeco-Roman world. Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2015. 206 p. € 39.50. ISBN 97889059972131.

von den Hoff, Ralf, Felix Heinzer, Hans W. Hubert and Anna Schreurs-Morét (edd.). Imitatio heroica: Heldenangleichung im Bildnis. Helden - Heroisierungen - Heroismen, Bd 1. Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, 2015. 218 p. € 48.00 (pb). ISBN 9783956500954.

Williams, Rose. Latin of New Spain. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2015. xx, 280 p. $19.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865168336.

Winkler, Martin M. Arminius the Liberator: myth and ideology. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxiv, 356 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780190252915.

Wohlleben, Doren. Enigmatik: das Rätsel als hermeneutische Grenzfigur in Mythos, Philosophie und Literatur. Antike - Frühe Neuzeit - Moderne. Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Bd 146. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014. 335 p. € 54.00. ISBN 9783825363550.

Wolff, Étienne (ed.). Littérature, politique et religion en Afrique vandale. Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Antiquité, 200. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 2015. 378 p. € 48.00 (pb). ISBN 9782851212764.