2019.09.01

Books Received August 2019.

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Akçay, K. Nilüfer. Porphyry's On the cave of the nymphs in its intellectual context. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, volume 23. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xii, 218 p. €105,00. ISBN 9789004407596.

Álvarez Melero, Anthony. "Matronae equestres": la parenté féminine des chevaliers romains originaires des provinces occidentales sous le Haut-Empire romain (I-IIIe siècles). Institut historique belge de Rome. Etudes, 4. Bruxelles: Belgisch Historisch Instituut te Rome, 2018. 395 p. €85,00 (pb). ISBN 9789074461887.

Bagnall, Roger S. and Gaëlle Tallet (ed.). The Great Oasis of Egypt: the Kharga and Dakhla oases in antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 400 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781108482165.

Bakowska-Czerner, Grazyna and Rafa Czerner (ed.). Greco-Roman cities at the crossroads of cultures: the 20th anniversary of Polish- Egyptian conservation mission Marina el-Alamein. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2019. vi, 311 p. $96.00 (pb). ISBN 9781789691481.

Bauhaus, Stefan Heinrich. Olof Rudbeck der Jüngere und die Sprachen des Nordens: zwischen Gotizismus und Orthodoxie. Transformationen der Antike, Band 57. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. viii, 225 p. €79,95. ISBN 9783110620122.

Baumbach, Manuel, Horst Sitta and Fabian Zogg (ed., trans.). Griechische Kleinepik: griechisch-deutsch. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. 284 p. €39,95. ISBN 9783110534207.

Bochicchio, Vincenzo, Marco Mazzeo and Giuseppe Squillace (ed.). A lume di naso: olfatto, profumi, aromi tra mondo antico e contemporaneo. Macerata: Quodlibet, 2019. 186 p. €20,00 (pb). ISBN 9788822903464.

Brodersen, Kai (ed., trans.). Dictys/Dares: Krieg um Troja. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. 416 p. €59,95. ISBN 9783110620139.

Brown, Peter. Terence: the girl from Andros. Aris & Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. 324 p. £24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781789620115.

Carugati, Federica. Creating a constitution: law, democracy, and growth in ancient Athens. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xii, 239 p. $39.95. ISBN 9780691198712.

Cruccas, Emiliano. Numina magna: Roma e il culto dei Grandi Dei di Samotracia. Archaeopress Roman Archaeology, 56. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2019. x, 141 p. $48.00 (pb). ISBN 9781789690910.

Degl'Innocenti Pierini, Rita. Pomponio Secondo: profilo di un poeta tragico minore. Testi e manuali per l'insegnamento universitario del latino, 144. Bologna: Pàtron, 2019. 164 p. €18,00 (PB). ISBN 9788855534413.

Delmulle, Jérémy. Prosper d'Aquitaine contre Jean Cassien: le "Contra collatorem", l'appel à Rome du parti augustinien dans la querelle postpélagienne. Textes et études du Moyen Âge, 91. Barcelona; Roma: Fédération internationale des instituts d'études médiévales, 2018. xliv, 381 p. €55,00. ISBN 9782503584294.

Delsaux, Olivier. Traduire Cicéron - 'Le livre des offices' de Anjourrant Bourré. Edition critique. Cicero, 1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. 456 p. €79,95. ISBN 9783110620306.

Dougherty, Richard J. (ed.). Augustine's political thought. Rochester studies in medieval political thought, 2. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2019. 290 p. $125.00. ISBN 9781580469241.

Dräger, Paul (ed., trans., comm.). Apollonios von Rhodos. Die Fahrt der Argonauten: griechisch/deutsch. Universal-Bibliothek, 18231. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2019. 591 p. €16,00 (pb). ISBN 9783150182314.

Epstein, Katharina (ed., trans., comm.). Aristotle. Historia animalium: Buch V. Aristoteles Werke in deutscher Übersetzung, Band 16, teil III. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. ix, 609 p. €149,95. ISBN 9783110613322.

Färber, Roland and Fabian Link (ed.). Die Altertumswissenschaften an der Universität Frankfurt 1914-1950 Studien und Dokumente. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe AG, 2019. 373 p. 68.00 CHF. ISBN 9783796540394.

Geue, Tom. Author unknown: the power of anonymity in ancient Rome. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. vii, 361 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780674988200.

Gnilka, Christian. Pratum Patristicum. Chrêsis, 10. Basel: Schwabe AG, 2019. 470 p. €78,00. ISBN 9783796539763.

Goulet-Cazé, Marie-Odile. Cynicism and Christianity in antiquity. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 2019. xvii, 278 p. $75.00. ISBN 9780802875556.

Greenhalgh, Michael. Plundered empire: acquiring antiquities from ottoman lands. Heritage and identity, 6. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 664 p. €209,00. ISBN 9789004405462.

Hämmerling, Robin. Zwischen dynastischem Selbstbild und literarischem Stereotyp: Königinnen der Seleukiden und der Mittelmächte Kleinasiens. Pharos, Band 44. Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2019. 276 p. €44,00. ISBN 9783867572729.

Hasenzagl, Carina. North Tunisian red slip ware: from production sites in the Salomonson Survey (1960-1972). Babesch supplement, 37. Leuven: Peeters, 2019. 142 p. €54,00 (pb). ISBN 9789042939868.

Heller, Anna, Christel Müller and Arnaud Suspène (ed.). Philorhômaios kai philhellèn: hommage à Jean-Louis Ferrary. Hautes études du monde gréco-romain, 56. Genève: Librairie Droz, 2019. viii, 607 p. ISBN 9782600057431.

Jakobsmeier, Heinz. Die Gallier-Rede des Claudius aus dem Jahr 48 n. Chr.: historisch-philologische Untersuchungen und Kommentar zur tabula Claudiana aus Lyon. Quellen und Forschungen zur antiken Welt, Band 63. München: Herbert Utz Verlag, 2019. 266 p. €69,00. ISBN 9783831647699.

Lanzillotta, Monica (ed.). Scrittori che traducono scrittori: traduzioni d'autore da classici latini e greci nella letteratura italiana del Novecento. Levia Gravia, 20. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2019. vi, 282 p. €30,00 (pb). ISBN 9788862749534.

Liotsakis, Vasileios. Alexander the Great in Arrian's "Anabasis": A Literary Portrait. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, volume 78. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. xi, 284 p. €99,95. ISBN 9783110658798.

Litwa, M. David. How the Gospels became history: Jesus and Mediterranean myths. Synkrisis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. ix, 298 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780300249484.

Machuca, Diego E. (ed.). Les raisons du doute: études sur le septicisme antique. Rencontres, 409. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2019. 332 p. ISBN 9782406077350.

McClellan, Andrew M. Abused bodies in Roman epic. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xi, 310 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781108482622.

McKechnie, Paul. Christianizing Asia Minor: conversion, communities, and social change in the pre-Constantinian era. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ix, 332 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781108481465.

Morelli, Federico. I prezzi dei materiali e prodotti artiginali nei documenti tardoantichi del primo periodo arabo (IV ex. - VII d.C.). Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer), Neue Serie XXXIII. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. ix, 261 p. €119,95. ISBN 9783110652215.

Nolan, Roger. Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain: solving a 2,000-year-old mystery. Havertown: Pen & Sword Books, 2018. xxiii, 145 p., [8 p. of plates]. £15.99. ISBN 9781526747914.

Noreña, Carlos F. and Nikolaos Papazarkadas (ed.). From document to history: epigraphic insights into the Greco-Roman world. Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, volume 12. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xvii, 477 p. €123,00. ISBN 9789004382879.

Obluski, Artur. Monasteries and monks of Nubia. JJP, supplements, XXXVI. Warsaw: Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2019. xix, 414 p. £43.00. ISBN 9788394684860.

Oliensis, Ellen. Loving writing/Ovid's Amores. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. vii, 202 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781108482301.

Overwien, Oliver. Medizinische Lehrwerke aus dem spätantiken Alexandria: Die "Tabulae Vindobonenses" und "Summaria Alexandrinorum" zu Galens "De sectis". Scientia Graeco-Arabica, 24. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. 250 p. €99,95. ISBN 9783110626933.

Paturel, Simone. Baalbek-Heliopolis, the Bekaa, and Berytus from 100 BCE to 400 CE: a landscape transformed. Mnemosyne supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, volume 426. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xiv, 343 p. €160,00. ISBN 9789004400580.

Polleichtner, Wolfgang (ed.). Digitalisierung in Unterricht und Lehre der Alten Sprachen. Didaskalika, 3. Speyer: Kartoffeldruck-Verlag, 2019. 140 p. ISBN 9783939526407.

Sánchez Natalías, Celia (ed.). Litterae Magicae: studies in Honour of Roger S. O. Tomlin. Supplementa MHNH, 2. Málaga: Libros Pórtico, 2019. 262 p. ISBN 9788479561833.

Schulz, Verena. Deconstructing imperial representation: Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius on Nero and Domitian. Mnemosyne supplements, 427. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xii, 410 p. €132,00. ISBN 9789004407213.

Stallings, A. E. (trans.). The battle between the frogs and the mice: a tiny homeric epic. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2019. 94 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9781589881426.

Szlezák, Thomas A. Aufsätze zur griechischen Literatur und Philosophie. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2019. 700 p. €129,00. ISBN 9783896657459.

Themistius and Yoav Meyrav. Themistius' paraphrase of Aristotle's Metaphysics 12: a critical Hebrew-Arabic edition of the surviving textual evidence, with an introduction, preliminary studies, and a commentary. Aristoteles semitico-latinus, volume 25. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xvii, 650 p. €129,00. ISBN 9789004400436.

Tufano, Salvatore. Boiotia from within: the beginnings of Boiotian historiography. Teiresias supplements online. Münster: Universitäts und Landesbibliothek Münster, 2019. 507 p. ISBN 9783982117805.

Uhlig, Anna. Theatrical reenactment in Pindar and Aeschylus. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. x, 307 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781108481830.

Vogel, Christian. Von der Naturanlage zur Spitzenleistung: eine Studie zu Pindars Menschenbild. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Band 137. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. vi, 132 p. €79,95. ISBN 9783110645453.

Weeda, Leendert. Horace's Sermones book 1: credentials for maecenas. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. vii, 296 p. €99,95. ISBN 9783110642629.

Wiplinger, Gilbert. Der Degirmendere Aquädukt von Ephesos, (2 vols.). Babesch supplements, 36. Leuven: Peeters, 2019. 686 p. €172,00 (pb). ISBN 9789042938953.