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Books Received March 2016.

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Alcock, Susan E., Mariana Egri and James F. D. Frakes (edd.). Beyond boundaries: connecting visual cultures in the provinces of ancient Rome. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2016. xxi, 386 p. $69.95. ISBN 9781606064719.

Antonetti, Claudia and Edoardo Cavalli (edd.). Prospettive corciresi. Diabaseis, 5. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2015. xii, 237 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788846741189.

Attia, Élodie. The Masorah of Elijah ha-Naqdan: an edition of Ashkenazic micrographical notes. Materiale Textkulturen, 11. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. ix, 161 p. $98.00. ISBN 9783110417913.

Augoustakis, Antony. Statius, Thebaid 8. Edited with an introduction, translation, and commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. lxxvii, 449 p. $165.00. ISBN 9780199655335.

Balık, Deniz. Deciphering ornament: discourses and thresholds in architectural history. Phoibos humanities series, 4. Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2015. 44 p. € 29.00 (pb). ISBN 9783851611151.

Banks, Elizabeth C. Lerna, VII: the neolithic settlement. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2015. xxi, 331 p., 53 p. of plates. ISBN 9780876613078.

Barker, Elton, Stefan Bouzarovski, Christopher Pelling and Leif Isaksen (edd.). New worlds from old texts: revisiting ancient space and place. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xviii, 385 p. $135.00. ISBN 9780199664139.

Bearzot, Cinzia and Franca Landucci (edd.). Studi sull'Epitome di Giustino: II. Da Alessandro Magno a Filippo V di Macedonia. Contributi di storia antica, 13. Milano: Vita e pensiero, 2015. viii, 144 p. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788834331071.

Bénatouïl, Thomas, Jean-Baptiste Gourinat and Michel Narcy (edd.). Questions sur le scepticisme pyrrhonien. Philosophie antique, 15. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2015. 297 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9782757411414.

Benoist, Stéphane, Anne Daguet-Gagey and Christine Hoët-Van Cauwenberghe (edd.). Une mémoire en actes: espaces, figures et discours dans le monde romain. Histoire et civilisations, 1629. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2016. 318 p. € 28.00 (pb). ISBN 9782757412718.

Beretta, Marco. La rivoluzione culturale di Lucrezio: filosofia e scienza nell'antica Roma. Biblioteca di testi e studi, 1042. Roma: Carocci editore, 2015. 311 p. € 32.00 (pb). ISBN 9788843079452.

Beyer, Brian. Legends of early Rome: authentic Latin prose for the beginning student. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2015. xvi, 109 p. $30.00 (pb). ISBN 9780300165432.

Bianchi, Francesco Paolo. FrC 3.2 Kratinos: Archilochoi - Empipramenoi (frr.1-68). Fragmenta Comica, 3.2. Heidelberg: Verlag Antike, 2016. 460 p. € 87.90. ISBN 9783938032930.

Biella, Maria Cristina and Enrico Giovanelli (edd.). Nuovi studi sul bestiario fantastico di età orientalizzante nella penisola italiana. Quaderni di Aristonothos, 5. Trento: Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche, 2016. 469 p. € 46.00. ISBN 9788864581279.

Bouchard, Elsa. Du Lycée au Musée: théorie poétique et critique littéraire à l'époque hellénistique. Hellenica. Paris: Presses de l'université de Paris-Sorbonne (PUPS), 2016. 357 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9791023105216.

Breij, Bé. [Quintilian]. The son suspected of incest with his mother (Major Declamations, 18-19). Collana di Studi Umanistici, 7. Cassino: Edizioni Università di Cassino, 2015. 609 p. € 50.00 (pb). ISBN 9788883170577.

Brethes, Romain and Jean-Philippe Guez (edd.). Romans grecs et latins. Editio minor. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2016. lvii, 1234 p. € 49.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251445465.

Briquel, Dominique. Catalogue des inscriptions étrusques et italiques du musée du Louvre. Les manuels d'art et d'archéologie antiques. Paris: Éditions Picard, 2016. 398 p. € 59.00. ISBN 9782708410039.

Christidis, Dimitrios A. Λουκιανός, 3. Σάτιρα απληστίας και ματαιοδοξίας. Εισαγωγή, κείμενο, μετάφραση, σχόλια. Aρχαίοι συγγραφείς, 156. Thessaloniki Εκδόσεις Ζήτρος, 2015. 611 p. € 25.44. ISBN 9789604632794.

Colot, Blandine. Lactance: penser la conversion de Rome au temps de Constantin. Biblioteca della rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa. Studi, 31. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2016. xlviii, 356 p. € 48.00 (pb). ISBN 9788822264121.

Cucchiarelli, Andrea (trans., comm.). Orazio. L'esperienza delle cose (Epistole, Libro I). Letteratura universale Marsilio, 317. Venezia: Marsilio Editori, 2015. 182 p. € 14.00 (pb). ISBN 9788831723121.

Damm-Meinhardt, Ursula. Baubefunde und Stratigraphie der Unterburg (Kampagnen 1976 bis 1983): die mykenische Palastzeit (SH III B2) und beginnende Nachpalastzeit (Beginn SH III C). Tiryns, 17.1. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2015. xvi, 303 p. € 58.00. ISBN 9783954900916.

Dell'Oro, Francesca and Odile Lagacherie (edd.). Πολυφόρβῃ Γαίῃ: Mélanges de littérature et linguistique offerts à Françoise Létoublon. Gaïa, 18 - 2015. Grenoble: Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3, 2015. 652 p. € 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9782843103100.

Dipartimenti di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica e di Civilità e forme del sapere dell 'Università di Pisa (ed.). Epigrafi di Iasos nuovi supplementi, II: in memoria di Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli. Studi classici e orientali, 61.2. Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2015. 217 p. € 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788867415496.

Dolveck, Franz. Paulini Nolani Carmina. Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina, 21. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. 748 p. € 395.00. ISBN 9782503558073.

Eidinow, Esther. Envy, poison, and death: women on trial in classical Athens. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xii, 421 p. $110.00. ISBN 9780199562602.

Fitzgerald, William. Variety: the life of a Roman concept. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. ix, 243 p. $55.00. ISBN 9780226299495.

Fogelmark, Staffan. The Kallierges Pindar: a study in Renaissance Greek scholarship and printing (2 vols.). Köln: Verlag Jürgen Dinter, 2015. xvii, 787 p. € 180.00. ISBN 9783924794606.

Gaillard-Goukowsky, Danièle and Paul Goukowsky. Diodore de Sicile. Bibliothèque historique, Tome XI, Livre XVI. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 519. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2016. ccxl, 202 p. € 55.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251006031.

Galinsky, Karl (ed.). Memory in ancient Rome and early Christianity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiv, 406 p. $135.00. ISBN 9780198744764.

Gärtner, Ursula. Phaedrus: ein Interpretationskommentar zum ersten Buch der Fabeln. Zetemata, 149. München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2015. 298 p. € 78.00 (pb). ISBN 9783406673634.

Gogou, Alexandra, Adam Izdebski and Karin Holmgren (edd.). Mediterranean Holocene climate, environment and human societies. Quaternary Science Reviews - Special issue, 136. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2016. 252 p. ISSN 0277-3791. Goldwyn, Adam J. (ed.). The Trojan wars: and the making of the modern world. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Graeca Upsaliensia, 22. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 2015. viii, 270 p. SEK 278.00. ISBN 9789155493226.

Gonçalves, Rodrigo Tadeu. Performative Plautus: sophistics, metatheater and translation. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 130 p. £ 41.99. ISBN 9781443882576.

Goulet, Richard. Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, VI: de Sabinillus à Tyrsénos. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2016. 1323 p. € 95.00. ISBN 9782271089892.

Graf, Fritz. Roman festivals in the Greek East: from the early empire to the Middle Byzantine Era. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvi, 363 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781107092112.

Hardie, Philip (ed.). Augustan poetry and the irrational. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiv, 327 p. $125.00. ISBN 9780198724728.

Holt, Frank L. The treasures of Alexander the Great: how one man's wealth shaped the world. Onassis series in Hellenic culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xvii, 295 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780199950966.

Jaulin, Annick. Eidos et Ousia: de l'unité théorique de la Métaphysique d'Aristote. Les anciens et les modernes - études de philosophie, 25. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 352 p. € 60.00 (pb). ISBN 9782812450341.

Jenkyns, Richard. Classical literature: an epic journey from Homer to Virgil and beyond. New York: Basic Books, 2016. xi, 270 p. $27.99. ISBN 9780465097975.

Johnson, Marguerite. Ovid on cosmetics: Medicamina faciei femineae and related texts. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xiii, 171 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9781472506573.

Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald. Literary territories: cartographical thinking in late antiquity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiv, 195 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780190221232.

Jones, Richard, Sara T. Levi, Marco Bettelli and Lucia Vagnetti. Italo-Mycenaean pottery: the archaeological and archaeometric dimensions. Incunabula graeca, 103. Roma: CNR - Istituto di studi sul Mediterraneo antico, 2014. 588 p., 12 p. of plates. (pb). ISBN 9788887345209.

Kania, Raymond. Virgil's Eclogues and the art of fiction: a study of the poetic imagination. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. viii, 175 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107080850.

Kelp, Ute. Grabdenkmal und lokale Identität: ein Bild der Landschaft Phrygien in der römischen Kaiserzeit. Asia Minor Studien, 74. Bonn: Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt, 2015. x, 318 p., 5, 67 p. of plates. € 89.00. ISBN 9783774938090.

Krapinger, Gernot and Antonio Stramaglia. [Quintilian]. Der Blinde auf der Türschwelle (Größere Declamationen, 2). Collana di Studi Umanistici, 8. Cassino: Edizioni Università di Cassino, 2015. 357 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788883170584.

Kraus, Christina S. and Christopher Stray (edd.). Classical commentaries: explorations in a scholarly genre. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xvii, 533 p., [4] p. of plates. $200.00. ISBN 9780199688982.

Lagouanère, Jérôme and Sabine Fialon (edd.). Tertullianus Afer: Tertullien et la littérature chrétienne d'Afrique (IIe-VIe siècles). Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia, 70. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. 380 p. € 110.00. ISBN 9782503555782.

Lapp, Eric C. The clay lamps from ancient Sepphoris: light use and regional interactions. Sepphoris excavation reports, 2. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2016. xiv, 262 p. $79.50. ISBN 9781575064048.

Lezra, Jacques and Liza Blake (edd.). Lucretius and modernity: Epicurean encounters across time and disciplines. The new antiquity. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. vii, 225 p. $32.00 (pb). ISBN 9781137591890.

Martin, Paul Marius. Les hommes illustres de la ville de Rome. Collection des universités de France. Série latine, 410. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2016. xc, 197 p. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251014708.

Maso, Stefano. Grasp and dissent: Cicero and Epicurean philosophy. Philosophie hellenistique et romaine, 2. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. 272 p. € 70.00 (pb). ISBN 9782503550305.

Mason, Steve. A history of the Jewish War, A.D. 66-74. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xii, 689 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780521853293.

McPhee, Ian (ed.). Myth, drama and style in south Italian vase-painting: selected papers by A.D. Trendall. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature, PB 182. Uppsala: Åströms förlag, 2016. xl, 299 p. € 60.00. ISBN 9789170812057.

McShane, Myron and Mark Young. Giannozzo Manetti. A translator's defense. The I Tatti Renaissance library, 71. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. xxxviii, 306 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674088658.

Ménard, Hélène and Rosa Plana-Mallart (edd.). Espaces urbains et périurbains dans le monde méditerranéen antique. Mondes anciens. Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2015. 200 p. € 21.00 (pb). ISBN 9782367811680.

Mili, Maria. Religion and society in ancient Thessaly. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xiii, 430 p. $175.00. ISBN 9780198718017.

Mustakallio, Katariina and Jussi Hanska (edd.). Agents and objects: children in pre-modern Europe. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 42. Roma: Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 2015. 199 p. (pb). ISBN 9788871406909.

Nowak, Maria. Wills in the Roman empire: a documentary approach. Journal of Juristica Papyrology. Supplement, 23. Warszawa: Journal of Juristica Papyrology, 2015. xvii, 490 p. € 60.00. ISBN 9788393842520.

Öhlinger, Birgit. Ritual und Religion im archaischen Sizilien: Formations- und Transformationsprozesse binnenländischer Kultorte im Kontext kultureller Kontakte. Italiká, 4. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2015. 239 p., 47 p. of plates. € 88.00. ISBN 9783954901524.

Osada, Toshihiro (ed.). The Parthenon Frieze: the ritual communication between the Goddess and the Polis. Parthenon- Project Japan, 2011-2014. Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2016. 175 p. € 69.00 (pb). ISBN 9783851611243.

Pakkanen, Petra and Susanne Bocher (edd.). Cult material: from archaeological deposits to interpretation of early Greek religion. Papers and monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, 21. Helsinki: Suomen Ateenan-Instituutin säätiö, 2015. 155 p., [11] p. of plates. (pb). ISBN 9789526721194.

Patay-Horváth, András (ed.). New approaches to the temple of Zeus at Olympia: proceedings of the First Olympia- Seminar, 8th-10th May 2014. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 305 p. £ 52.99. ISBN 9781443878166.

Pavúk, Peter. Troia VI Früh und Mitte: Keramik, Stratigraphie, Chronologie. Studia Troica Monographien, 3. Bonn: Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt, 2014. 695 p. € 109.00. ISBN 9783774939448.

Pilhofer, Susanne. Romanisierung in Kilikien?: das Zeugnis der Inschriften. 2., erweiterte Auflage. Quellen und Forschungen zur antiken Welt, 60. München: Herbert Utz Verlag, 2015. xv, 324 p. € 34.00 (pb). ISBN 9783831643677.

Porter, James I. The sublime in antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xxii, 690 p. $160.00. ISBN 9781107037472.

Queyrel, François. La sculpture hellénistique: formes, thèmes et fonctions. Les manuels d'art et d'archéologie antiques. Paris: Éditions Picard, 2016. 424 p. € 89.00. ISBN 9782708410077.

Ritter, Stefan and Philipp von Rummel. Archäologische Untersuchungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte von Thugga: die Ausgrabungen südlich der Maisondu Trifolium 2001 bis 2003. Thugga, 3. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2015. 388 p. € 98.00. ISBN 9783954900312.

Roby, Courtney. Technical ekphrasis in Greek and Roman science and literature: the written machine between Alexandria and Rome. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. ix, 336 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781107077300.

Rosen, Klaus. Attila: der Schrecken der Welt. Eine Biographie. München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2016. 320 p. € 24.95. ISBN 9783406690303.

Saretta, Phyllis. Asiatics in Middle Kingdom Egypt: perceptions and reality. Bloomsbury Egyptology. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xiii, 311 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781474226233.

Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara. "Artes Grammaticae" in frammenti: i testi grammaticali latini e bilingui greco-latini su papiro. Edizione commentata. Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker (SGLG), 17. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. xv, 585 p. $210.00. ISBN 9783110445039.

Schauer, Markus. Der Gallische Krieg: Geschichte und Täuschung in Caesars Meisterwerk. München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2016. 271 p. € 19.95. ISBN 9783406687433.

Schein, Seth L. Homeric epic and its reception: interpretive essays. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. x, 225 p. $75.00. ISBN 9780199589418.

Schmidt-Hofner, Sebastian. Das klassische Griechenland: der Krieg und die Freiheit. C.H.Beck Geschichte der Antike. München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2016. 368 p. € 16.95 (pb). ISBN 9783406679155.

Shields, Christopher. Aristotle: De anima. Translated with an introduction and commentary. Clarendon Aristotle series. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. li, 415 p. ISBN 9780199243440.

Slaney, Helen. The Senecan aesthetic: a performance history. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. viii, 320 p. $120.00. ISBN 9780198736769.

Smith, Andrew. Plotinus, Ennead I.6: On beauty. Translation with an introduction and commentary. The Enneads of Plotinus with philosophical commentaries. Las Vegas; Zurich; Athens: Parmenides Publishing, 2016. 146 p. $37.00. ISBN 9781930972933.

Solitario, Michele. Leonidas of Tarentum: between Cynical polemic and poetic refinement. Quaderni dei Seminari romani di cultura greca, 19. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2015. 110 p. € 31.00 (pb). ISBN 9788871406077.

Stang, Charles M. Our divine double. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2016. 309 p. $49.95. ISBN 9780674287198.

Stoevesandt, Magdalene. Homer's Iliad: the Basel Commentary. Book VI. Boston; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. xvii, 220 p. $182.00. ISBN 9781614517399.

Stover, Justin A. A new work by Apuleius: the lost third book of the De Platone. Edited and translated with an introduction and commentary. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xviii, 216 p. $115.00. ISBN 9780198735748.

Thonemann, Peter. The Hellenistic world: using coins as sources. Guides to the coinage of the ancient world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxxi, 230 p. $34.99 (pb). ISBN 9781107451759.

Trainor, Conor P. The ceramics industry of Roman Sikyon: a technological study. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature, PB 181. Uppsala: Åströms förlag, 2015. xviii, 125 p. € 36.00. ISBN 9789170812033.

Trovato, Paolo. Everything you always wanted to know about Lachmann's method: a non-standard handbook of genealogical textual criticism in the age of post-structuralism, cladistics, and copy-text. Storie e linguaggi, 7. Padova: libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni, 2014. 357 p. € 29.90 (pb). ISBN 9788862925280.

Van Oyen, Astrid. How things make history: the Roman Empire and its terra sigillata pottery. Amsterdam archaeological studies, 23. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. 184 p. € 79.00. ISBN 9789462980549.

Veyne, Paul. Palmyra: Requiem für eine Stadt. München: Verlag C. H. Beck,, 2016. 127 p. € 17.95. ISBN 9783406692376.

Vlachou, Vicky (ed.). Pots, workshops and early Iron age society: function and role of ceramics in early Greece. Proceedings of the international symposium held at the Université libre de Bruxelles, 14-16 novembre 2013. Études d'archéologie, 8. Bruxelles: CReA-Patrimoine, 2015. 289 p. (pb). ISBN 9789461360502.

Warnking, Pascal. Der römische Seehandel in seiner Blütezeit Rahmenbedingungen, Seerouten, Wirtschaftlichkeit. Pharos, 36. Rahden/Westf.: VML Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2015. 421 p. € 45.80. ISBN 9783867572644.

Wilson, Allan M. Ugolino Verino. Fiammetta; Paradise. I Tatti Renaissance library, 69. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. xxiv, 471 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674088627.

Wilson, Catherine. Epicureanism: a very short introduction. Very short introductions, 452. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xvii, 136 p. $11.95 (pb). ISBN 9780199688326.

Wilson, N. G. Aldus Manutius. The Greek classics. The I Tatti Renaissance library, 70. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. xvii, 395 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674088672.

Wulfram, Hartmut (ed.). Der römische Alexanderhistoriker Curtius Rufus: Erzähltechnik, Rhetorik, Figurenpsychologie und Rezeption. Wiener Studien. Beiheft, 38. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2016. 450 p., [18] p. of plates. € 65.00 (pb). ISBN 9783700178644.