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BMCR Books Received (October, 2008)

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Ambaglio, Dino (comm.). Diodoro Siculo: Biblioteca storica: libro XIII: commento storico. Storia. Ricerche. Milano: V&P, 2008. xiv, 241 p. € 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788834315774.

 

Andreau, Jean and Véronique Chankowski (edd.). Vocabulaire et expression de l'économie dans le monde antique. Études, 19. Pessac: Ausonius, 2007. 463 p. € 35.00. ISBN 9788910023920.

 

Bammesberger, Alfred and Gaby Waxenberger (edd.). Das fuÞark und seine einzelsprachlichen Weiterentwicklungen: Akten der Tagung in Eichstätt vom 20. bis 24. Juli 2003. Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde; Bd. 51. Berlin; New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2006. xvi, 465 p. $157.00. ISBN 9783110190083.

 

Bearzot, Cinzia and Franca Landucci (edd.). 'Partiti' e fazioni nell'esperienza politica greca. Storia. Ricerche. Milano: V&P, 2008. ix, 263 p. € 21.00 (pb). ISBN 9788834316719.

 

Bernays, Jacob. Geschichte der Klassischen Philologie Vorlesungsnachschrift von Robert Münzel. Spudasmata Bd. 120. Hildesheim; New York: Olms, 2008. 198 p. € 29.80 (pb). ISBN 9783487136974.

 

Blevins, Jacob (ed.). Dialogism and lyric self-fashioning: Bakhtin and the voices of a genre. Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, 2008. 265 p. $60.00. ISBN 9781575911205.

 

Bourbon, Florence (ed., trans., comm.). Hippocrate, Tome XII 1re partie: Nature de la femme. Collection des Universités de France. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. cxli, 279 p. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005485.

 

Bowes, Kim. Private worship, public values, and religious change in late antiquity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xvi, 363 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521885935.

 

Brélaz, Cédric and Pierre Ducrey (edd.). Sécurité collective et ordre public dans les sociétés anciennes. Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique, 54. Genève: Fondation Hardt, 2008. x, 340 p. Fr. suisses 70.00. ISBN 9782600007542.

 

Brinker, Wolfram. Platons Ethik und Psychologie: philologischen Untersuchungen über thymetisches Denken und Handeln in den platonischen Dialogen. Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe 15, Klassische Philologie, Bd. 94. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008. 370 p. $81.95. ISBN 9783631535202.

 

Burckhardt, Leonhard. Militärgeschichte der Antike. Beck'schen Reihe; 2447. München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2008. 128 p. € 7.90 (pb). ISBN 9783406562471.

 

Burkert, Walter. Kleine Schriften VIII Philosophica (Herausgegeben von Thomas A. Szlezák und Karl-Heniz Stanzel). Hypomnemata. Supplement-Reihe; Bd. 2. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. ix, 310 p. € 69.90. ISBN 9783525252734.

 

Carey, Brian Todd, Joshua B. Allfree and John Cairns. Hannibal's Last Battle: Zama and the Fall of Carthage. Yardley: Westholme, 2008. xvi, 204 p. $26.00. ISBN 9781594160752.

 

Claughton, John. Herodotus and the Persian Wars. Greece and Rome: texts and contexts. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008. vii, 152 p. $26.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521689434.

 

Cottier, Jean-François. Profession latiniste. Profession. Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2008. 66 p. $9.95 (pb). ISBN 9782760620971.

 

Crevatin, Franco. Il libro dei morti di Ptahmose (Papiro Busca, Milano) ed altri documenti egiziani antichi. Studi di egittologia e di papirologia 6. Risa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 118 p. € 95.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862270519.

 

Denyer, Nicholas (ed., comm.). Plato, Protagoras. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiii, 207 p. $35.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521549691.

 

Desmond, William. Cynics. Ancient philosophies. Stocksfield: Acumen, 2008. vi, 290 p. £ 15.99 (pb). ISBN 9781844651290.

 

Dignas, Beate and Kai Trampedach (edd.). Practitioners of the divine: Greek priests and religious officials from Homer to Heliodorus. Hellenic studies; 30. Washington, DC; Cambridge, Mass.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2008. xii, 285 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674027879.

 

Dimitrova, Nora M. Theoroi and initiates in Samothrace: the epigraphical evidence. Hesperia Supplement, 37. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2008. xiv, 280 p. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 9780876615379.

 

Dugdale, Eric. Greek theatre in context. Greece and Rome: texts and contexts. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. viii, 200 p. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521689427.

 

Dunshirn, Alfred. Griechisch für das Philosophiestudium. UTB 8403. Wien: facultas.wuv, 2008. 172 p. € 14.90 (pb). ISBN 9783825284039.

 

Dutsch, Dorota M. Feminine discourse in Roman comedy: on echoes and voices. Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiii, 278 p. $110.00. ISBN 9780199533381.

 

Eliav, Yaron Z., Elise A. Friedland and Sharon Herbert (edd.). The sculptural environment of the Roman Near East: reflections on culture, ideology, and power. Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion, 9. Leuven; Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2008. xxvii, 769 p. € 85.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042920040.

 

Ferone, Claudio and Laurentino García y García. Questioni pompeiane: ed altri scritti di Raffaele Garrucci. Collezione Archeologica; 7. Roma: Bardi Editore, 2008. 216 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 978888620558.

 

Ferrari, Franco (ed., trans., comm.). Pindaro, Pitiche. Classici greci e latini. Milano: BUR, 2008. 211 p. € 10.50 (pb). ISBN 9788817024983.

 

Fezzi, Luca. Il tribuno Clodio. Biblioteca essenziale Laterza; 79. Roma: Laterza, 2008. 147 p. € 12.00 (pb). ISBN 9788842087151.

 

Giavatto, Angelo. Interlocutore di se stesso: la dialettica di Marco Aurelio. Europaea memoria. Reihe 1, Studien, Bd. 58. Hildesheim; New York: Olms, 2008. vi, 269 p. € 34.80 (pb). ISBN 9783487136417.

 

Gibbons, Reginald (trans.). Sophocles, Selected poems: odes and fragments. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. viii, 127 p. $18.95. ISBN 9780691130248.

 

Giordano, Carlo and Angelandrea Casale. Perfumes, unguents, and hairstyles in Pompeii = Profumi, unguenti e acconciature in Pompei antica (2nd edition, revised and updated by Laurentino García y García). Collezione Archeologica; 1. Roma: Bardi Editore, 2007. 93 p. € 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788888620435.

 

Goff, Barbara and Michael Simpson. Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone, and dramas of the African diaspora. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. viii, 401 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780199217182.

 

Golitsis, Pantelis. Les commentaires de Simplicius et de Jean Philopon à la Physique d'Aristote: tradition et innovation. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina. Quellen und Studien; Bd. 3. Berlin; New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2008. ix, 306 p. $118.95. ISBN 9783110195415.

 

Grammenos, Dimitrios V. and Elias K. Petropoulos (edd.). Ancient Greek colonies in the Black Sea 2 (2 vols.). BAR international series; 1675 (1-2). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007. viii, 1262 p. £ 140.00 (pb). ISBN 9781407301105.

 

Harders, Ann-Cathrin. Suavissima Soror: Untersuchungen zu den Bruder-Schwester-Beziehungen in der römischen Republik. Vestigia; Bd. 60. München: C. H. Beck, 2008. viii, 344 p. € 70.00. ISBN 9783406577772.

 

Hutchinson, G. O. Talking books: readings in Hellenistic and Roman books of poetry. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv, 332 p. $120.00. ISBN 9780199279418.

 

Kenny, Anthony. From Empedocles to Wittgenstein: historical essays in philosophy. Oxford; New York Oxford University Press, 2008. xii, 218 p. $60.00. ISBN 9780199550821.

 

Lamoureux, Jacques and Noël Aujoulat (edd., trans., comm.). Synésios de Cyrène, Tome V: Opuscules II. Collection des Universités de France. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. xii, 155 p. € 33.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005478.

 

Lamoureux, Jacques and Noël Aujoulat (edd., trans. comm.). Synésios de Cyrène, Tome VI: Opuscules III. Collection des Universités de France. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. x, 358 p. € 57.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005492.

 

Landucci Gattinoni, Franca (comm.). Diodoro Siculo: Biblioteca storica: libro XVIII: commento storico. Storia. Ricerche. Milano: V&P, 2008. liii, 345 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788834315781.

 

Levinson, Bernard M. Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxvi, 206 p. $75.00. ISBN 9780521513449.

 

Lianeri, Alexandra and Vanda Zajko (edd.). Translation and the classic: identity as change in the history of culture. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii, 435 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780199288076.

 

Lister, Bob (ed.). Meeting the challenge: international perspectives on the teaching of Latin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. viii, 168 p. (pb). ISBN 9780521690430.

 

Maltomini, Francesca. Tradizione antologica dell'epigramma greco: le sillogi minori di età bizantina e umanistica. Pleiadi 9. Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2008. 214 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788884984807.

 

Marchal, Joseph A. The politics of heaven: women, gender, and empire in the study of Paul. Paul in critical contexts. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2008. xiii, 213 p. $29.00. ISBN 9780800663001.

 

Matz, David. Daily life of the ancient Romans. Daily life through history. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2008. xxi, 164 p. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 9780872209572.

 

Melotti, Marxiano. Turismo archeologico: Dalle piramidi alle veneri di plastica. Turismo e società. Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2008. 214 p. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788861590946.

 

Morwood, James. Virgil, a poet in Augustan Rome. Greece and Rome: texts and contexts. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. v, 161 p. $26.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521689441.

 

Morwood, James and Mark Warman. Our Greek and Latin roots (2nd edition, first published 1990). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 72 p. $26.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521699990.

 

Murrell, John. Cicero and the Roman Republic. Greece and Rome: texts and contexts. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. vi, 184 p. $26.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521691161.

 

Ober, Josiah. Democracy and knowledge: innovation and learning in classical Athens. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xvi, 342 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780691133478.

 

Remes, Paulina. Neoplatonism. Ancient philosophies. Stocksfield: Acumen, 2008. xii, 244 p. £ 14.99 (pb). ISBN 9781844651252.

 

Schallenberg, Magnus. Freiheit und Determinismus: ein philosophischer Kommentar zu Ciceros Schrift De fato. Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie, Bd. 75. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. xiii, 369 p. $141.00. ISBN 9783110189407.

 

Steinby, Christa. The Roman republican navy: from the sixth century to 167 B.C. Commentationes humanarum litterarum, 123. [Helsinki]: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2007. 236 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9789516533509.

 

Tzachili, Iris (ed.). Aegean metallurgy in the Bronze Age: proceedings of an international symposium held at the University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece, on November 19-21, 2004. Athens: Ta Pragmata Publications, 2008. 345 p. (pb). ISBN 9789609826105.

 

Vickers, Michael. Sophocles and Alcibiades: Athenian politics in ancient Greek literature. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. x, 205 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780801447327.

 

Virgilio, Biagio (ed.). Studie ellenistici XX. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 553 p. € 195.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862271059.

 

Volk, Katharina (ed.). Vergil's Eclogues. Oxford readings in classical studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 293 p. $49.95 (pb). ISBN 9780199202942.

 

Volk, Katharina (ed.). Vergil's Georgics. Oxford readings in classical studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 281 p. $49.95 (pb). ISBN 9780199542949.

 

Whitmarsh, Tim (ed.). The Cambridge companion to the Greek and Roman novel. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv, 392 p. $36.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521684880.

 

Wiseman, T. P. The Myths of Rome (Second revised edition). Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2008. xxii, 390 p. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 9780859897044.

 

Wolfson, Stan. Tacitus, Thule and Caledonia: the achievements of Agricola's navy in their true perspective. BAR British series; 459. Oxford, England: Archaeopress, 2008. 118 p. £ 27.00 (pb). ISBN 9781407302744.

 

Worman, Nancy. Abusive mouths in classical Athens. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xi, 385 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521857871.

 

Worthington, Ian. Philip II of Macedonia. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008. xx, 303 p., [16] p. of plates. $35.00. ISBN 9780300120790.

 

Zweimüller, Serena (ed., trans., comm.). Lukian, "Rhetorum praeceptor" Einleitung, Text und Kommentar. Hypomnemata Bd. 176. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007. 499 p. € 89.90. ISBN 9783525252840.


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Bekker-Nielsen, Tonnes. Urban life and local politics in Roman Bithynia: the small world of Dion Chrysostomos. Black Sea studies, 7. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2008. 211 p. $40.00. ISBN 9788779343504.

 

Blanchard, Alain. Dans l'ouvroir du poète: structures et nombres de la poésie greque antique. Hellenica. Paris: PUPS, 2008. 146 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 978284050696.

 

Brunet, Claude, Danièle Conso, Antronio Gonzales, Thomas Guard, Jean-Yves Guillaumin and Catherine Sensal (ed., trans., comm.). Libri Coloniarum (Livres des colonies). Curpus Agrimensorum Romanorum, 7. Franche-Comté: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2008. xiv, 113 p. € 23.00 (pb). ISBN 9782848672298.

 

Debiasi, Andrea. Esiodo e l'Occidente. Hesperìa, 24. Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2008. 220 p. € 120.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882654870.

 

Fattal, Michel. Aristote et Plotin dans la philosophie arabe. Ouverture philosophique. Paris: Harmattan, 2008. 146 p. € 14.00 (pb). ISBN 9782296061217.

 

Galand-Hallyn, Perrine, Carlos Lévy and Wim Verbaal (edd.). Le plaisir dans l'Antiquité et à la Renaissance. Études réunies. Latinitates, 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. 400 p. € 85.00 (pb). ISBN 9782503528632.

 

Garland, Robert. Daily life of the ancient Greeks (Paperback edition, first published 1998). Daily life through history. Indianapolis; Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2008. xxi, 234 p. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 9780872209565.

 

Herrmann, Katrin and Klaus Geus (edd.). Dona sunt pulcherrima: Festschrift für Rudolf Rieks. Oberhaid: Utopica, 2008. 514 p. € 39.95. ISBN 9783938083123.

 

Hoyos, Dexter. Hannibal: Rome's greatest enemy. Greece and Rome live. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2008. xix, 163 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781904675471.

 

Inwood, Brad and Lloyd P. Gerson (trans.). The stoics reader: selected writings and testimonia. Indianapolis; Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2008. xvi, 234 p. $12.95 (pb). ISBN 9780872209527.

 

Kaimowitz, Jeffrey H. (trans.). The Odes of Horace. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xxxi, 173 p. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9780801889967.

 

Kamm, Antony. The Romans: an introduction (2nd edition, first published 1995). London; New York: Routledge, 2008. xii, 241 p. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415458252.

 

Kunze-Götte, Erika. Myrte als Attribut und Ornament auf attischen Vasen. Akanthiskos, 1. Kilchberg: Akanthus, 2006. 104 p. € 31.00 (pb). ISBN 9783905083231.

 

Lünstroth, Margarete. "Teilhaben" und "Erleiden" in Platons Parmenides: Untersuchungen zum Gebrauch von metechein und paschein. Vertumnus, Bd. 6. Göttingen: Edition Ruprecht, 2008. 198 p. € 27.90. ISBN 9783767530805.

 

Marr, J. L. and P. J. Rhodes (trans., comm.). The 'Old Oligarch': the Constitution of the Athenians attributed to Xenophon. Aris & Phillips classical texts. Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 2008. 178 p. $36.00 (pb). ISBN 9780856687815.

 

Matyszak, Philip. Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. 136 p. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 9780500287651.

 

Matyszak, Philip. Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. 144 p. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 9780500287606.

 

Motta, Beatrice. Il Contra fatum di Gregorio di Nissa nel dibattito tardo-antico sul fatalismo e sul determinismo. Studi sulla tardoantichità, 2. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 178 p. € 38.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862270847.

 

Nelson, Stephanie (trans., comm.). Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days. Focus Classical Library. Newburyport: Focus Publishing, 2009. 136 p. $12.95 (pb). ISBN 9781585102884.

 

Osterkamp, Ernst (ed.). Wissensästhetik: Wissen über die Antike in ästhetischer Vermittlung. Transformationen der Antike; Bd. 6. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. x, 386 p. $125.00. ISBN 9783110204919.

 

Panzram, Sabine (ed.). Städte im Wandel: bauliche Inszenierung und literarische Stilisierung lokaler Eliten auf der Iberischen Halbinsel: Akten des interntionalen Kolloquiums des Arbeitsbereiches für Alte Geschichte des Historischen Seminars der Universität Hamburg und des Seminars für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Trier im Warburg-Haus Hamburg, 20. - 22. Oktober 2005. Geschichte und Kultur der iberischen Welt; Bd. 5. Hamburg; Münster: Lit, 2007. vi, 400 p. € 39.90. ISBN 9783825808563.

 

Parkin, Tim G. and Arthur J. Pomeroy. Roman social history: a sourcebook. Routledge sourcebooks for the ancient world. London; New York: Routledge, 2007. xvii, 388 p. $37.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415426756.

 

Ricken, Friedo (trans., comm.). Platon, Politikos. Platon, Werke Bd. 2,4. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. 292 p. € 64.90. ISBN 9783525304075.

 

Robertson, Robin (trans.). Euripides: Medea. New York: Free Press, 2008. xxii, 85 p. $16.00. ISBN 9781416592235.

 

Scott, Dominic (ed.). Maieusis: essays in ancient philosophy in honour of Myles Burnyeat. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xi, 425 p. $120.00. ISBN 9780199289974.

 

Sekunda, Nick. Corolla Cosmo Rodewald. Monograph Series Akanthina 2. Gdánsk: Foundation for the Development of Gdánsk University, 2007. 192 p. $90.00. ISBN 9788375310603.

 

Wallraff, Martin and Rudolf Brändle (edd.). Chrysostomosbilder in 1600 Jahren: Facetten der Wirkingsgeschichte eines Kirchenvaters. Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte; Bd. 105. Berlin; New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2008. x, 466 p. $232.00. ISBN 9783110198249.

 

Warnecke, Heinz. Homers wilder Westen: die historisch-geographische Wiedergeburt der Odyssee. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. 341 p. € 39.00. ISBN 9783515091640.

 

Almog, Joseph. Cogito? Descartes and thinking the world. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. ix, 120 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780195337716.

 

Alroth, Brita (ed.). Opuscula Atheniensia. Annual of the Swedish Institute at Athens, 31-32, 2006-2007. Stockholm: Svenska Institutet i Athen, 2008. 264 p. (pb). ISSN 00785520.

 

Bertolín Cebrián, Reyes. Singing the dead: a model for epic evolution. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 171 p. $62.95. ISBN 9780820481654.

 

Binder, Vera, Martin Korenjak and Beate Noack (ed., trans., comm.). Epitaphien: Tod, Totenrede, Rhetorik; Auswahl, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Subsidia classica, Bd. 10. Rahden/Westf.: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2007. 358 p. € 39.80 (pb). ISBN 9783867571821.

 

Blasberg, Arnold. Vasilij Vasil'evic Kapnist und seine Übertragungen von Gedichten des Horaz ins Russische. Itinera classica, Bd. 5. Rahden/Westf.: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2007. viii, 408 p. € 34.80 (pb). ISBN 9783867571012.

 

Brethes, Romain. De l'idéalisme au réalisme: une étude du comique dans le roman grec. Cardo 6. Salerno: Helios, 2007. xiv, 298 p. € 48.00 (pb). ISBN 8888123334.

 

Cooke, Miriam, Erdag Göknar and Grant Parker (edd.). Mediterranean passages: readings from Dido to Derrida. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xiv, 399 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780807858714.

 

Fischer, Susanna E. Seneca als Theologe: Studien zum Verhaltnis von Philosophie und Tragödiendichtung. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde; Bd. 259. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. 312 p. $157.00. ISBN 9783110202601.

 

Funari, R. (ed.). Corpus dei papiri storici greci e latini. Parte B. Storici latini. 1. Autori noti. Vol. 2 Caius Sallustius Crispus. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 157 p. € 48.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862270816.

 

Graf, Jörg and Myriam Krutzsch (edd.). Ägypten lesbar machen --: die klassische Konservierung/Restaurierung von Papryi und neurere Verfahren: Beiträge des 1. Internationalen Workshops der Papyrusrestauratoren, Leipzig, 7.-9. September 2006. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete. Beiheft; 24. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. 121 p., xxxii p. of plates. $109.00. ISBN 9783110201178.

 

Gregory, Eric. Politics and the order of love: an Augustinian ethic of democratic citizenship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xv, 417 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780226307510.

 

Grillone, Antonino (ed., comm.). Blossi Aem. Draconti. Orestis Tragoedia. Introduzione, testo critico e commento. Invigilata Lucernis 33. Bari: Edipuglia, 2008. 221 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788872285237.

 

Hertel, Dieter. Das frühe Ilion: die Besiedlung Troias durch die Griechen (1020-650/25 v. Chr.). Zetemata, Heft 130. München: C.H. Beck, 2008. xiv, 279 p., [48] p. of plates. € 78.00 (pb). ISBN 9783406564857.

 

Leganés Moya, M. P. and F. G. Hernández Muñoz (edd.). Demosthenes In Midiam. Ediciones griegas y latinas 7. León: Universidad de León, 2008. 183 p. € 11.00 (pb). ISBN 9788497734196.

 

Mackay, E. Anne (ed.). Orality, literacy, memory in the ancient Greek and Roman world (Orality and literacy in ancient Greece, volume 7). Mnemosyne Supplementa 298. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. vi, 281 p., [8] p. of plates. $158.00. ISBN 9789004169913.

 

Maso, Stefano. Capire e dissentire: Cicerone e la filosofia di Epicuro. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2008. 366 p. € 40.00 (pb). ISBN 9788870885491.

 

Mattern, Susan P. Galen and the rhetoric of healing. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. x, 279 p. $55.00. ISBN 9780801888359.

 

Medaglia, Silvio Mario. Ecdotica ed esegesi. Quaderni del Dipartimento di scienze dell'antichità / Università degli studi di Salerno; 34. Napoli: Arte tipografica, 2007. 175 p. € 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788889776704.

 

Pieper, Christoph. Elegos redolere Vergiliosque sapere: Cristoforo Landinos "Xandra" zwischen Liebe und Gesellschaft. Noctes Neolatinae Bd. 8. Hildesheim: Olms,, 2008. xx, 356 p. € 88.00. ISBN 9783487135946.

 

Roisman, Hanna M. (trans.). Sophocles. Electra. Translation with notes, introduction, interpretive essay and afterlife.. Focus Classical Library. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2008. 135 p. $8.95 (pb). ISBN 9781585102815.

 

Schlegelmilch, Ulrich and Tanja Thanner (edd.). Die Dichter und die Sterne. Beiträge zur lateinischen und griechischen Literatur für Ludwig Braun. Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft - Neue Folge 2. Würzburg: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2008. xxvii, 273 p. (pb). ISBN 9783877176320.

 

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Wenley, R. M. Socrates and Christ; a study in the philosophy of religion (Reprint of 2002 edition). Adelaide; London; Washington: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. v, 207 p. L29.99. ISBN 9781904303190.

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Kooten, Goerge H. van. Paul's Anthropology in Context: The Image of God, Assimilation to God, and Tripartite Man in Ancient Judaism, Ancient Philosophy and Early Christianity. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 232. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008. 480 p. € 115.00. ISBN 9783161497780.

 

Nakhai, Beth Alpert (ed.). The World of Women in the Ancient and Classical Near East. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 200 p. $79.99. ISBN 9781443800303.

 

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Valantasis, Richard. The making of the self: ancient and modern asceticism. Cambridge: James Clarke and Co., 2008. xxi, 314 p. $47.50 (pb). ISBN 9781556352867.