2019.10.01

Books Received September 2019.

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Ashmawy, Aiman, Dietrich Raue and Daniel von Recklinghausen (ed.). Von Elephantine bis zu den Küsten des Meeres. Die Kulttopographie Ägyptens nach den Gauprozessionen der Spätzeit und der frühptolemäischen Epoche. Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion, 24. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2019. 420 p. €98,00. ISBN 9783447111140.

Augoustakis, Antony, Emma Buckley and Claire Stocks (ed.). Fides in Flavian literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. xi, 328 p. $75.00. ISBN 9781487505530.

Barton, William M. Mountain aesthetics in early modern Latin literature. London; New York: Routledge, 2016. 254 p. $124.00. ISBN 9781138228641.

Bitton-Ashkelony, B. Ladder of prayer and the ship of stirrings: the praying self in late antique east Syrian Christianity. Late antique history and religion, 22. Leuven; Paris: Peeters, 2019. xii, 270 p. €95,00. ISBN 9789042939189.

Brand, Steele. Killing for the Republic: citizen-soldiers and the Roman way of war. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. xix, 370 p. $34.95. ISBN 9781421429861.

Brockliss, William. Homeric imagery and the natural environment. Hellenic studies series, . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 294 p. $28.50 (pb). ISBN 9780674987357.

Brunet, Michèle, Anne Coulié, Patrice Hamon, Bernard Holtzmann, Jean-Yves Marc, Arthur Muller and Olivier Picard. Thasos: Heurs et malheurs d'un Eldorado antique. Athens: École française d'Athènes, 2019. 240 p. €49,00. ISBN 9782708410473.

Celia, Francesco. Preaching the gospel to the Hellenes: the life and works of Gregory the Wonderworker. Late antique history and religion, 20. Leuven; Paris: Peeters, 2019. x, 378 p. €105,00. ISBN 9789042938168.

Constantinidou, Soteroula. The gaze of Homer: light and vision in the Iliad. Athens: Institut du Livre - Kardamitsa, 2019. xii, 180 p. €30,00 (pb). ISBN 9789603544999.

Coralini, Antonella. Pompei: insula IX 8. Vecchi e nuovi scavi (1879-). Studi e scavi. Nuova serie, 40. Bologna: AnteQuem, 2017. 806 p. ISBN 9788878491151.

Curbera, Jaime, Adolf Kirchhoff, Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen and David Lewis (ed.). Inscriptiones Graecae Voluminis 2 et 3 editio tertia. Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriores. Pars 4: Dedicationes et tituli sacri; Fasciculus 3: Tituli sacri. Tituli theatri Bacchi. Indices. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. 601-814 p., clxxxv p. of plates. ISBN 9783110656565.

Dawson, Kellie, David E. Spiech and James Seaton (ed.). George Santayana. Three philosophical poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe. The works of George Santayana, volume VIII. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2019. xxxvi, 239 p. $75.00. ISBN 9780262043359.

Delouis, Olivier and Mossakowska-Gaubert. Maria. La vie quotidienne des moines en Orient et en Occident (IVe-Xe siècle). Volume II, Questions transversales. Athens: École française d'Athènes, 2019. 491 p. €78,00. ISBN 9782724707151.

Edmunds, Lowell. Toward the characterization of Helen in Homer: appellatives, periphrastic denominations, and noun-epithet formulas. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 87. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. xii, 183 p. €79,95. ISBN 9783110626025.

Elkins, Nathan T. A monument to dynasty and death: the story of Rome's Colosseum and the emperors who built it. Witness to ancient history. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. 184 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9781421432557.

Fiori, Roberto (ed.). Re e popolo Istituzioni arcaiche tra storia e comparazione. Göttingen: V & R Unipress, 2019. 758 p. $107.00. ISBN 9783847110224.

González Cesteros, Horacio and Piero Berni Millet. Roman amphorae in Neuss: Augustan to Julio-Claudian contexts. Roman and late antique mediterranean pottery, 12. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018. viii, 135 p. £35.00. ISBN 9781789690521.

Gorzelany, Dorota. Macedonia - Alexandria: monumental funerary complexes of the late classical and Hellenistic Age. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2019. iv, 236 p. (pb). ISBN 9781789691368.

Greenslade, Simon (ed.). Excavations on the Vrina Plain. Volume 2: the finds. Butrint archaeological monograph series, 6. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2019. xx, 268 p. £55.00. ISBN 9781789252170.

Hardie, Philip R. Classicism and Christianity in late antique Latin poetry. The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature, 74. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. viii, 293 p. $49.95. ISBN 9780520295773.

Helmer, Étienne (ed., trans., comm.). Platon. Ménexène. Bibliothèque des textes philosophiques. Paris: Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2019. 180 p. €9,00 (pb). ISBN 9782711628261.

Ianziti, Gary and Massimo Zaggia (trans., ed.). Pier Candido Decembrio. Lives of the Milanese tyrants. The I Tatti Renaissance library, 88. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. liii, 339 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674987524.

Kampakoglou, Alexandros. Studies in the reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic poetry. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 76. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. xiv, 454 p. €129,95. ISBN 9783110641400.

Kazantzidis, George (ed.). Medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world. Trends in classics, supplementary volumes, 81. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. viii, 225 p. €99,95. ISBN 9783110660371.

Klooster, Jacqueline (ed.). Callimachus revisited: new perspectives in Callimachean scholarship. Hellenistica Groningana, 24. Leuven; Paris: Peeters, 2019. vi, 394 p. ISBN 9789042938502.

Kolb, Anne (ed.). Roman roads: new evidence - new perspectives. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. vi, 434 p. €79,95. ISBN 9783110618693.

Lamarra, Antonio and Claudio Buccolini (ed.). Nomos-lex: XV colloquio internazionale (Roma, 4-6 gennaio 2016). Lessico intellettuale europeo, 127. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2019. xiv, 356 p. €42,00. ISBN 9788822266552.

Lange, Carsten Hjort and Frederik Vervaet (ed.). The historiography of Late Republican Civil War. Historiography of Rome and its Empire, 5. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019. xiii, 527 p. €130,00. ISBN 9789004373594.

Leiendecker, Tim. "causam facundo reddidit ore deus": Studien zu den Göttergesprächen in Ovids "Fasti". Schriftenreihe altsprachliche Forschungsergebnisse, Band 14. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2019. 629 p. €138,90. ISBN 9783339109668.

Leigh, Andrew. Latin prose compostion: a guide from GCSE to A level and beyond. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. vi, 236 p. £14.99 (pb). ISBN 9781350048034.

Mack, Peter. Reading old book: writing with traditions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. 256 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780691194004.

Mathys, Audrey. Adverbes et participes en grec ancien: morphologie et syntaxe des formes en -wç dérivées de participes d'Homère à Polybe. Cahiers de l'ERIAC, . Mont-Saint-Aignan: Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2019. 227 p. €21,00 (pb). ISBN 9791024011585.

Mazzilli, Francesca. Rural cult centres in the Hauran: part of a broader network of the Near East (100 BC-AD 300). Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 51. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018. viii, 200 p. $64.00 (pb). ISBN 9781784919542.

Meier, Ludwig. Kibyra in hellenistischer Zeit: Neue Staatsverträge und Ehreninschriften. Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 516. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2019. 115 p. €80,00. ISBN 9783700183464.

Migliarino, Stella (ed.). Segno e testo. International journal of manuscripts and text transmission, 16. Spoleto: Università degli Studi di Cassino, 2018. 466 p., [28 p. of plates]. (pb). ISBN 9788868092580.

Möller, Melanie (ed.). Von "Allusion" bis "Metonymie": Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die Wirkmacht rhetorischer Tropen und Figuren. Heidelberger Forschungen, 44. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2019. 240 p. €40,00. ISBN 9783825346102.

Pace, Nicola. Tragurii Fetus Mirabilis: Studi sulla Controversia Secentesca Relativa al Frammento di Petronio Trovato in Dalmazia. Studi e Ricerche. Milan: LED Edizioni, 2019. 212 p. €29,00. ISBN 9788879168915.

Palagia, Olga (ed.). Handbook of Greek sculpture. Ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture, volume 1. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. ix, 789 p. €229,95. ISBN 9781614515401.

Passa, Enzo and Olga Tribulato (ed.). The paths of Greek: literature, linguistics and epigraphy: stuides in honour of Albio Cesare Cassio. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 85. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. xx, 283 p. €99,95. ISBN 9783110621082.

Peirano, Irene. Persuasion, rhetoric and Roman poetry. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ix, 287 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107104242.

Pelttari, Aaron (ed., comm.). The Psychomachia of Prudentius: text, commentary, and glossary. Oklahoma series in classical culture, . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. 344 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806164021.

Perkins, Judith and Janet E. Spittler (ed.). The narrative self in early Christianity: essays in honor of Judith Perkins. Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series, 15. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2019. xi, 245 p. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 9781628372519.

Pigman, G. W. (ed., trans.). Giovanni Gioviano Pontano. The virtues and vices of speech. The I Tatti Renaissance library, 87. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. xxxvii, 495 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674987500.

Porter, Andrew. Agamemnon, the pathetic despot: reading characterization in Homer. Hellenic studies series, 78. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 264 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674984455.

Puddu, Mauro. Funerary archaeology and changing identities: community practices in Roman-period Sardinia. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 55. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2019. vi, 180 p. £40.00 (pb). ISBN 9781789690002.

Quaegebeur, J., Willy Clarysse and Ana I. Blasco Torres (ed.). Egyptian language in Greek sources: scripta onomastica of Jan Quaegebeur. Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, 280. Leuven: Peeters, 2019. xii, 372 p. €95,00. ISBN 9789042937758.

Radulescu, Adrian. Ovid in exile. Las Vegas; Palm Beach: Vita Histria, 2019. 186 p. $39.99. ISBN 9781592110193.

Raue, Dietrich (ed.). Handbook of ancient Nubia, (2 vols.). De Gruyter reference. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. 1111 p. €249,00. ISBN 9783110416695.

Revermann, Martin (ed.). A cultural history of theatre in antiquity. Cultural history of theatre, volume 1. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. x, 254 p. €85,50. ISBN 9781472585691.

Schmidt, Ernst A. Kreis und Gerade: Moderne Konstruktionen der griechischen Antike als Gegenbildentwürfe. Schriften der Philosophisch- historischen Klasse der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 59. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2019. 184 p. €38,00. ISBN 9783825346188.

Schmitt, Arbogast. Die Moderne und die Antike: Gründe und Folgen des gröten Kulturbruchs in Europa. Studien zu Literatur und Erkenntnis, 16. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2019. 290 p. €36,00. ISBN 9783825346119.

Siemoneit, Gabriel (ed., trans., comm.). Johannes Freinsheim. Supplementa in Q. Curtium: supplemente zu Q. Curtius. Die neulateinische Bibliothek. Wien: Verlag Holzhausen, 2019. 320 p. €45,00. ISBN 9783903207066.

Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, Christina and Aidan O'Sullivan (ed.). Experimental archaeology: making, understanding, story-telling. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2019. vi, 106 p. £28.00. ISBN 9781789693195.

Spatharas, Dimos. Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens. Ancient emotions II. Trends in classics, supplementary volumes, 83. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. 220 p. €79,95. ISBN 9783110618037.

Storin, Bradley K. Self-portrait in three colors: Gregory of Nazianzus's epistolary autobiography. The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. ix, 261 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780520304130.

Vacalebre, Natale (ed.). Five centuries later. Aldus Manutius: culture, typography and philology. Biblioteca di bibliografia, 207. Firenze; Milano: Olschki; Biblioteca Ambrosiana, 2018. xxxvi, 244 p. €35,00 (pb). ISBN 9788822266019.

Walter, Hans, Angelika Clemente and Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier. Ursprung und Frühzeit des Heraion von Samos. Teil 1: Topographie, Architektur und Geschichte. Samos, 21,1. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2019. 356 p. €78,00. ISBN 9783954903993.

Weidemann, Hermann (ed., trans., comm.). Marcus Tullius Cicero. Über das Schicksal. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. 379 p. €49,95. ISBN 9783110471182.

Yunis, Harvey (ed.). Albert Henrichs. Greek myth and religion. Collected Papers 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. 600 p. €129,95. ISBN 9783110446654.

Zanker, Andreas Thomas. Metaphor in Homer: time, speech, and thought. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. x, 263 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781108491884.

Zwierlein, Otto. Die 'Carmina christiana' des Dracontius : kritischer Kommentar. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Band 133. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. ix, 222 p. €79,95. ISBN 9783110648348.