2017.11.01

Books Received October 2017.

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Baghdassarian, Fabienne and Gweltaz Guyomarc'h (ed.). Réceptions de la théologie aristotélicienne: d'Aristote à Michel d'Ephèse. Aristote: traductions et études, 39. Leuven: Peeters, 2017. 300 p. €84,00. ISBN 9789042934832.

Baumann, Stefan and Holger Kockelmann (ed.). Der ägyptische Tempel als ritueller Raum: Theologie und Kult in ihrer architektonischen und ideellen Dimension: Akten der internationalen Tagung, Haus der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 9.-12. Juni 2015. Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion, 17. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. xi, 592 p., 5 p. of plates. €144,00. ISBN 9783447107945.

Benelli, Luca. Sapphostudien zu ausgewählten Fragmenten Teil 1 und 2. Sonderreihe der Abhandlungen Papyrologica Coloniensia. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2017. xxii, 555 p. €110,00 (pb). ISBN 9783506788399.

Berardi, Francesco. La retorica degli esercizi preparatori: glossario ragionato dei Progymnásmata. Spudasmata, 172. Hildesheim; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2017. 346 p. €58,00. ISBN 9783487155951.

Berkes, Lajos. Dorfverwaltung und Dorfgemeinschaft in Ägypten von Diokletian zu den Abbasiden. Philippika, 104. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. xv, 316 p. €84,00. ISBN 9783447195539.

Biard, Guillaume. La représentation honorifique dans les cités grecques aux époques classique et hellénistique. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 376. Athènes; Paris: École française, 2017. 632 p., 52 p. of plates. €89,00. ISBN 9782869582774.

Briand, Michel, Sandrine Dubel and Arianne Eissen (ed.). Rire et dialogue. La Licorne, 126. Rennes: PU Rennes, 2017. 210 p. €22,00 (pb). ISBN 9782753554962.

Brix, Kerstin. Sueton in Straßburg: die Übersetzung der Kaiserviten durch Jakob Vielfeld (1536). Spolia Berolinensia, 36. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2017. 568 p. €88,00. ISBN 9783615004274.

Capponi, Livia. Il ritorno della fenice: intellettuali e potere nell'Egitto romano. Studi e testi di storia antica, 23. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2017. 325 p. €28,00 (pb). ISBN 9788846747914.

Cavallini, Eleonora (ed.). Scrittori che traducono scrittori: traduzioni 'd'autore' da classici latini e greci nella letteratura italiana del Novecento. Culture antiche. Studi e testi, 30. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2017. xxix, 192 p. €18,00 (pb). ISBN 9788862747707.

Chambert-Protat, Pierre, Franz Dolveck and Camille Gerzaguet (ed.). Les douze compilations pauliniennes de Florus de Lyon: un carrefour des traditions patristiques au IXe siècle. Collection de l'École française de Rome, 524. Rome: École française de Rome, 2016. 223 p. €27,00 (pb). ISBN 9782728312184.

Chi, Jennifer, Rachel Herschman and Kenneth D. S. Lapatin (ed.). Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 132 p. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 9780691178691.

Cool, H. E. M. The small finds and vessel glass from Insula VI.1 Pompeii: excavations 1995-2006. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 17. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2017. xii, 314 p. £50.00. ISBN 9781784914523.

Cornwell, Hannah. Pax and the politics of peace: Republic to Principate. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiv, 254 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780198805632.

Dengler, Fabiola. Non sum ego qui fueram: Funktionen des Ich in der römischen Elegie. Philippika, 108. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. xii, 234 p. €58,00. ISBN 9783447107884.

Derron, Pascale (ed.). Économie et inégalité: ressources, échanges et pouvoir dans l'Antiquité classique: huit exposés suivis de discussions. Entretiens sur l'Antiquité classique, 63. Genève: Fondation Hardt, 2017. xi, 394 p. $90.00. ISBN 9782600007634.

Deru, Xavier and Germaine Leman-Delerive (ed.). Franz Cumont. Comment la Belgique fut romanisée. Bibliotheca cumontiana. Scripta minora, 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 350 p. €65,00 (pb). ISBN 9789074461863.

Dickey, Eleanor. Stories of daily life from the Roman world. Extracts from the ancient colloquia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 150 p. $15.99 (pb). ISBN 9781316627280.

Dilley, Paul. Monasteries and the care of souls in late antique Christianity: cognition and discipline. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xii, 350 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781107184015.

Drake, H. A. A century of miracles: Christians, pagans, Jews, and the supernatural, 312-410. Oxford; New York: Oxford University press, 2017. xvi, 312 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780199367412.

Dreischmeier, Martin. Sprache als humanisierende Macht: die Singularität des Lateinischen in Lorenzo Vallas Quintilian-Rezeption. Noctes neolatinae, 29. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2017. 482 p. €88,00 (pb). ISBN 9783487155555.

Durbec, Yannick (trans.). Les épigrammes de Posidippe, (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309). Classical and Byzantine monographs, 82. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2014. 90 p. €14,00 (pb). ISBN 9789025612979.

Engels, David. Benefactors, kings, rulers: studies on the Seleukid Empire between East and West. Studia Hellenistica, 57. Leuven; Paris; Briston, CT: Peeters, 2017. xiii, 603 p. €110,00 (pb). ISBN 9789042933279.

Fabre, Georges and Jacques Lapart. Inscriptions latines d'Aquitaine. Auscii. Inscriptions latines d'Aquitaine, 9. Bordeaux: Ausonius Publications, 2017. 233 p. €40,00. ISBN 9782356131935.

Favi, Federico. Fliaci testimonianze e frammenti. Studia comica, 7. Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2017. 532 p. €89,00. ISBN 9783946317043.

Fischer-Bossert, Wolfgang, Ute Wartenberg, Orla Mulholland, Lauri O. Th Tudeer and Tuukka Talvio (ed.). Coins, artists, and tyrants: Syracuse in the time of the Peloponnesian War. Numismatic studies, 33. New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2017. xxv, 371 p., [30 p. of plates]. $200.00. ISBN 9780897223416.

Flower, Harriet I. The dancing lares and the serpent in the garden: religion at the Roman street corner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. xiii, 394 p., [24 p. of plates]. $45.00. ISBN 9780691175003.

Follet, Simone (ed., trans.). Philostrate sur les héros. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 531. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017. cciv, 348 p., 3 p. of plates. €65,00 (pb). ISBN 9782251006178.

Franciosi, Vincenzo, Amedeo Visconti, Alessandra Avagliano and Vittorio Saldutti (ed.). Appellati nomine lupi: giornata internazionale di studi sull'Hirpinia e gli Hirpini, Napoli, 28 febbraio 2014. Napoli: Università Degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, 2017. 381 p. €15,00 (pb). ISBN 9788896055793.

Frendo, David and Anasthasios Fotiou (trans.). John Kaminiates. The capture of Thessaloniki: translation, introduction and notes. Byzantina Australiensia, 12. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017. xli, 189 p. $57.00 (pb). ISBN 9781876503000.

Gehrke, Hans-Joachim (ed.). Die Welt vor 600: frühe Zivilisationen. Geschichte der Welt. München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2017. 1082 p. €49,95. ISBN 9783406641015.

Gilhaus, Lennart. Fragmente der Historiker: Die Alexanderhistoriker (FGrHist 117-153). Bibliothek der griechischen Literatur, 83. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 2017. viii, 515 p. €218,00. ISBN 9783777217215.

Gourinat, Jean-Baptiste. Les stoïciens et l'âme. Bibliothèque d'histoire de la philosophie. Paris: Vrin Editions, 2017. 168 p. €12,00 (pb). ISBN 9782711627752.

Haarmann, Harald. Plato's philosophy reaching beyond the limits of reason: contours of a contextual theory of truth. Philosophische texte und studien, 121. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2016. 376 p. €49,80 (pb). ISBN 9783487155425.

Harper, Kyle. The fate of Rome: climate, disease, and the end of an empire. The Princeton history of the ancient world. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. xii, 417 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780691166834.

Hitch, Sarah and Ian Rutherford (ed.). Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world. Cambridge; New York: Camrbidge University Press, 2017. ix, 340 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521191036.

Image, Isabella Christine. The human condition in Hilary of Poitiers: the will and original sin between Origen and Augustine. Oxford theology and religion monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. x, 241 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780198806646.

Jöne, Angela. Abschiedsszenen Liebender im lateinischen Epos. Orbis antiquus, 52. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2017. xviii, 564 p. €76,00 (pb). ISBN 9783402144596.

Knoch, Stefan. Sklavenfürsorge im Römischen Reich Formen und Motive zwischen humanitas und utilitas. Sklaverei - Knechtschaft - Zwangsarbeit, 2. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2017. viii, 360 p. €48,00 (pb). ISBN 9783487155982.

Kuhn, Gerhard. Das heilige Tor. Kerameikos, 19. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2017. 280 p. €110,00. ISBN 9783954902354.

Lenfant, Dominique (ed., trans.). Pseudo-Xénophon. Constitution des Athéniens. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 532. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017. clxii, 247 p. €45,00 (pb). ISBN 9782251006185.

Lichtenberger, Achim and Rubina Raja (ed.). The diversity of classical archaeology. Studies in Classical archaeology, 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. xv, 353 p. €130,00 (pb). ISBN 9782503574936.

Luna, Concetta and Alain Philippe Segonds (ed., trans.). Proclus. Commentaire sur le "Parménide" de Platon. Tome VI, Livre VI. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 533. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017. cxv, 472 p. €55,00 (pb). ISBN 9782251006130.

Maclennan, Keith (ed.). Virgil. Aeneid Book VIII. Bloomsbury Latin texts. London; Oxford; New York; New Delhi; Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 284 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781472527875.

Marshall, C. W. Aeschylus: libation bearers. Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy, . London; Oxford; New York; New Delhi; Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. xii, 181 p. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 9781474255080.

Meyer, Marion. Athena, Göttin von Athen. Kult und Mythos auf der Akropolis bis in klassische Zeit. Wiener Forschungen zur Archäologie, 16. Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2017. 552 p. €99,00. ISBN 9783851611762.

Moorhead, John. Popes and the church of Rome in late antiquity. London; New York: Routledge, 2017. 322 p. $44.95 (pb). ISBN 9781138305779.

Morantin, Patrick. Lire Homère à la Renaissance: philologie humaniste et tradition grecque. Travaux d'humanisme et renaissance, DLXXV. Genève: Droz, 2017. 407 p. $129.60 (pb). ISBN 9782600019118.

Morenval, Alexandra. Le tout et l'infini dans le De rerum natura de Lucrèce. Lexis ancient philosophy, 12. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert - Publishing, 2017. 460 p. €80,00 (pb). ISBN 9789025613235.

Morrell, Kit. Pompey, Cato, and the governance of the Roman Empire. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. ix, 309 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780198755142.

Mosshammer, Alden A. (ed.). The prologues on Easter of Theophilus of Alexandria and [Cyril]. Oxford early Christian texts. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. x, 194 p. $125.00. ISBN 9780198792574.

Muecke, Francis and Maurizio Campanelli (ed.). The invention of Rome: Biondo Flavio's Triumphans and its worlds. Travaux d'humanisme et renaissance, 576. Genève: Droz, 2017. 296 p. $57.60 (pb). ISBN 9782600047890.

Natali, Carlo. Il metodo e il trattato: saggio sull'Etica nicomachea. Studi di storia della filosofia antica, 4. Rome: Edizioni di Storia E Letteratura, 2017. xiii, 211 p. €22,00 (pb). ISBN 9788893590549.

Navarro Caballero, Milagros. Perfectissima femina. Femmes de l'élite dans l'Hispanie romaine (2 vols.). Scripta Antiqua, 101. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2017. 863 p. €45,00. ISBN 9782356131928.

Nehring, P., M. Stróżyński and R. Toczko (ed.). Scrinium Augustini: the world of Augustine's letters: proceedings of the international workshop on Augustine's correspondence, Torun, 25-26 June 2015. Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia, 76. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 381 p. €95,00. ISBN 9782503575162.

Németh, Attila. Epicurus on the self. Issues in ancient philosophy. London; New York: Routledge, 2017. xix, 205 p. $140.00. ISBN 9781138633858.

Parker, Grant (ed.). South Africa, Greece, Rome: Classical confrontations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 520 p. £110.00. ISBN 9781107100817.

Partoens, Gert, Anthony Dupont and Shari Boodts (ed.). Praedicatio Patrum: studies on preaching in late antique north Africa. Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia, 75. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 500 p. €120,00. ISBN 9782503570174.

Pellegrin, Pierre. L'excellence menacée: sur la philosophie politique d'Aristote. Les anciens et les modernes, études de philosophie, 32. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2017. 448 p. €25,00 (pb). ISBN 9782406063681.

Poehler, Eric. The traffic systems of Pompeii. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xviii, 276 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780190614676.

Powell, Barry B. (trans.). Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, & the Shield of Herakles. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017. xii, 184 p. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 9780520292864.

Raja, Rubina (ed.). Contextualizing the sacred in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East: religious identities in local, regional, and imperial settings. Contextualizing the sacred, 8. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. xvii, 254 p. €120,00 (pb). ISBN 9782503569635.

Renberg, Gil H. Where dreams may come: incubation sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman world (2 vols.). Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 184. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017. lxix, 1046 p. $292.00. ISBN 9789004299764.

Rezakhani, Khodadad. Reorienting the Sasanians: eastern Iran in late antiquity. Edinburgh atudies in ancient Persia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. 224 p. £56.00. ISBN 9781474400299.

Scafoglio, Giampiero. Ajax: un héros qui vient de loin. Classical and Byzantine monographs, 90. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 2017. 139 p. €32,00 (pb). ISBN 9789025613259.

Scharinger, Stephan. Die Wunder des Pythagoras Überlieferungen im Vergleich. Philippika, 107. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. vi, 262 p. €68,00. ISBN 9783447107877.

Schmid, Alfred. Die Geburt des Historischen aus dem Geiste der Politik: zur Bedeutung frühgriechischerGeschichtsschreibung, mit einem Seitenblick auf Altchina. Schwabe interdisziplinär, 9. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2016. 596 p. $68.00. ISBN 9783796534591.

Shipley, Lucy. The Etruscans: lost civilizations. Lost civilizations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 208 p. $25.00. ISBN 9781780238326.

Simonis, Marcel. Cum servis nullum est conubium: Untersuchungen zu den eheähnlichen Verbindungen von Sklaven im westlichen Mittelmeerraum des Römischen Reiches. Sklaverei - Knechtschaft - Zwangsarbeit, 17. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2017. viii, 271 p. €48,00 (pb). ISBN 9783487155999.

Sinomnetti, Elsa Giovanna. A perfect medium? Oracular divination in the thought of Plutarch. Plutarchea Hypomnemata. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2017. 256 p. €75,00. ISBN 9789462701113.

Slane, Kathleen W. Tombs, burials, and commemoration in Corinth's northern cemetery. Corinth: results of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 21. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2017. xxix, 270 p., 91 p. of plates. $150.00. ISBN 9780876610220.

Spies, Yannick. Kornelbibliographie: Die gesamte Literatur von und über Cornelius Nepos bis zum Ende des Jahres 2015. Kalliope - Studien zur griechischen und lateinischen Poesie, 14. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. x, 270 p. €35,00. ISBN 9783825367824.

Squillace, Giuseppe. Filistione di Locri: un medico del IV secolo a.C. tra Grecia, Magna Grecia e Sicilia. Spudasmata, 170. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2017. 266 p. €48,00. ISBN 9783487155791.

Stewart, Edmund. Greek tragedy on the move: the birth of a panhellenic art form c.500-300 BC. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xviii, 261 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780198747260.

Stiebing, William H. and Susan N. Helft. Ancient near eastern history and culture, 3rd edition. London; New York: Routledge, 2017. 468 p. $120.95 (pb). ISBN 9781138686410.

Tagliabue, Aldo. Xenophon's Ephesiaca: a paraliterary love-story from the ancient world. Ancient narrative supplementum, 22. Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing; Groningen University Library, 2017. viii, 243 p. €90,00. ISBN 9789492444127.

Tempest, Kathryn. Brutus the noble conspirator. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017. xviii, 314 p. £25.00. ISBN 9780300180091.

Trillmich, Walter. Augustus und seine Gründung: Emerita in Hispanien. Trierer Winckelmannsprogramme, 26. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. 72 p., 10 p. of plates. €30,00. ISBN 9783447107099.

Waxenberger, Gaby, Hans Sauer and Kerstin Kazzazi (ed.). Von den Hieroglyphen zur Internetsprache: das Verhältnis von Schrift, Laut und Sprache. From hieroglyphs to internet language: the relation of script, sound and language. LautSchriftSprache - ScriptandSound, 2. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2017. xxiii, 344 p. €98,00. ISBN 9783954901463.

Wheeler-Reed, David. Regulating sex in the Roman Empire: ideology, the Bible, and the early Christians. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017. xxi, 177 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780300227727.

Winkler, Martin M. Classical literature on screen: affinities of imagination. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xi, 410 p. £90.00. ISBN 9781108131148.

Wohl, Birgitta. Terracotta lamps II: 1967-2004. Isthmia, 10. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2017. xxi, 162 p., 58 p. of plates. $150.00. ISBN 9780876619308.

Yanes, Elena Spangenberg (trans.). Prisciani Caesariensis Ars, Liber XVIII, Pars altera, 2. Bibliotheca weidmanniana, VI 13.2.2. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2017. lxxii, 527 p. €89,00. ISBN 9783615004328.

Zago, Anna (ed.). Pompeii Commentum in Artis Donati partem tertiam, a cura di Anna Zago. Tomo I: Introduzione, testo critico e traduzione. Tomo II: Note di commento, appendice e indici. Bibliotheca weidmanniana, VI. 15. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2017. 570 p. €136,00 (pb). ISBN 9783615004298.