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Études Platoniciennes V. Le divin dans la tradition platonicienne. Publication annuelle de la Société d'Études Platonicienne. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. 215 p. € 35.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251443614.

*Mythos. Rivista di Storia delle Religioni 1 n. s. 2006-2007 (13-14 serie continua). Caltanissetta: Salvatore Sciascia Editore, 2006-2007. 264 p. € 40.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882412951.

*Allen, Michael J. B. (ed., trans.). Marsilio Ficino: Commentaries on Plato. Volume I, Phaedrus and Ion. The I Tatti Renaissance library. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2008. lix, 269 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674031197.

*Anzinger, Silke. Schweigen im römischen Epos: zur Dramaturgie der Kommunikation bei Vergil, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus und Statius. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde; Bd. 237. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. xi, 408 p. $137.00. ISBN 9783110194784.

*Bang, Peter Fibiger. The Roman bazaar: a comparative study of trade and markets in a tributary empire. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv, 358 p. $110.00. ISBN 9780521855327.

*Bendall, Lisa Maria. Economics of religion in the Mycenaean world: resources dedicated to religion in the Mycenaean palace economy. Oxford University School of Archaeology, Monographs 67. Oxford: Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2007. xvi, 369 p. $80.00. ISBN 9781905905027.

Cambitoglou, Alexander and Michael Turner. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. The Nicholson Museum, The University of Sydney. The red figure pottery of Apulia. The Nicholson Museum Fascicule 1 [Australia Fascicule 1]. Sydney: Australian Arcgaeological Institute at Athens; The Nicholson Museum, The University of Sydney, 2008. 97 p., [9] p. of figures, [105] p. of full color plates, CD. AUS $200.00. ISBN 9781742100913.

*Chastagnol, André. Le pouvoir impérial à Rome: figures et commémorations. Scripta varia IV (Textes édités par Stéphane Benoist & Ségolène Demougin). Hautes Études du Monde Gréco-Romain 41. Genève: Droz, 2008. xvi, 492 p. $134.40 (pb). ISBN 9782600013437.

*Chatfield, Mary P. (trans.). Cristoforo Landino: Poems. The I Tatti Renaissance library 35. Cambridge, Mass.; London,: Harvard University Press, 2008. xxv, 398 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674031487.


*Christakis, Kostandinos S. The politics of storage: storage and sociopolitical complexity in neopalatial Crete. Prehistory monographs; 25. Philadelphia: Institute for Aegean Prehistory Academic Press, 2008. xviii, 183+ p. $60.00. ISBN 9781931534505.

*Clendenon, Cindy. Hydromythology and the ancient Greek world: an earth science perspective emphasizing karst hydrology. Lansing, Mich.: Fineline Science Press, 2009. xvii, 502 p. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 9780981842103.

Darbandi, Seyed Mohammad Reza and Antigoni Zournatzi (edd.). Ancient Greece and ancient Iran: cross-cultural encounters. 1st international conference (Athens, 11-13 November 2006). Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation; Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO; Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2008. xxix, 377 p. (pb). ISBN 9789609309554.

*Dickin, Margaret. A vehicle for performance: acting the messenger in Greek tragedy. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2009. v, 212 p. $32.00 (pb). ISBN 9780761843559.

*Draycott, Catherine M. and Geoffrey D. Summers. Kerkenes special studies 1: sculpture and inscriptions from the monumental entrance to the palatial complex at Kerkenes Dağ, Turkey. Oriental Institute Publications 135. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2008. xxiv, 87 p., [98] p. of plates. $90.00. ISBN 9781885923578.

*Dugdale, Eric (trans.). Sophocles, Electra. Cambridge translations from Greek drama. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. viii, 120 p. $11.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521678261.

*Emlyn-Jones, Chris (trans., comm.). Plato, Republic 1-2.368c4. Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 2007. vi, 194 p. $36.00. ISBN 9780856687570.

*Fortson IV, Bejamin W. Language and rhythm in Plautus: Synchronic and diachronic studies. Sozomena / Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts; 3. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. 250 p. $98.00. ISBN 9783110205930.

*Frangoulidis, Stavros. Witches, Isis and narrative: approaches to magic in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. Trends in classics - Supplementary volumes; 2. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. xii, 255 p. $98.00. ISBN 9783110205947.

*Gall, Dorothee and Anja Wolkenhauer (edd.). Laokoon in Literatur und Kunst: Schriften des Symposions "Laokoon in Literatur und Kunst" vom 30.11.2006, Universität Bonn. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd. 254. Berlin; New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2009. 266 p., [22] p. of plates. $137.00. ISBN 9783110201260.

*Gilhuly, Kate. The feminine matrix of sex and gender in classical Athens. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xii, 208 p. $80.00. ISBN 9780521899987.

Gleba, Margarita. Textile production in pre-Roman Italy. Ancient textiles series 4. Oxford;Oakville, CT: Oxbow Books, 2008. xxv, 269 p. $70.00. ISBN 9781842173305.

*Gleba, Margarita and Hilary Becker (edd.). Votives, places, and rituals in Etruscan religion: studies in honor of Jean MacIntosh Turfa. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world; 166. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. xliv, 291 p. $154.00. ISBN 9789004170452.

Gunderson, Erik. Nox philologiae: Aulus Gellius and the fantasy of the Roman library. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. ix, 313 p. $55.00. ISBN 9780299229702.

Günther, Sven. "Vectigalia nervos esse rei publicae": die indirekten Steuern in der Römischen Kaiserzeit von Augustus bis Diokletian. Philippika. Marburger alterumskundliche Abhandlungen 26. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2008. viii, 197 p. € 48.00 (pb). ISBN 9783447058452.

Hall, Edith and Rosie Wyles (edd.). New directions in ancient pantomime. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvii, 481 p. $140.00. ISBN 9780199232536.

Halliwell, Stephen. Greek laughter: a study of cultural psychology from Homer to early Christianity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiii, 616 p. $65.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521717748.

*Halper, Edward C. One and many in Aristotle's Metaphysics: books alpha-delta. Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2009. xli, 524 p. $48.00. ISBN 9781930972216.

*Hankinson, R. J. (ed.). The Cambridge companion to Galen. Cambridge companions. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxi, 450 p. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521525589.

*Havlíček, Aleš and Martin Cajthaml (edd.). Plato's Symposium: proceedings of the fifth Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Prague: Oikoumene, 2007. 349 p. € 18.00. ISBN 9788072982936.

*Hayes, Julie Candler. Translation, subjectivity, and culture in France and England, 1600-1800. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009. x, 321 p. $60.00. ISBN 9780804759441.

Hoogendijk, F. A. J. and B. P. Muhs (edd.). Sixty-five papyrological texts: Presented to Klaas A. Worp on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Papyrologico Lugduno-Batava 33. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. xl, 416 p. $216.00. ISBN 9789004166882.

*Hunter, Richard. On coming after: studies in post-classical Greek literature and its reception (2 vols.). Trends in classics - Supplementary volumes; 3. Berlin; New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2008. 908 p. $184.00. ISBN 9783110204414.

*Inwood, Brad (ed.). Oxford studies in ancient philosophy. Vol. 35, winter 2008. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 314 p. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9780199557806.

*Jaro, Benita Kane. Betray the night: a novel about Ovid. Mundelein, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2009. 312 p. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865167124.

*Jeffreys, Elizabeth, John F. Haldon and Robin Cormack (edd.). The Oxford handbook of Byzantine studies. Oxford handbooks. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxix, 1021 p. $158.00. ISBN 9780199252466.

*Johne, Klaus-Peter (ed.). Die Zeit der Soldatenkaiser: Krise und Transformation des Römischen Reiches im 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr. (235-284) (2 vols.). Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008. xii, 1409 p., [7] p. of plates. € 178.00. ISBN 9783050045290.

*Joint Association of Classical Teachers Greek Course. Speaking Greek, second edition. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 2 Audio CDs. $31.99. ISBN 9780521728966.


*Joint Association of Classical Teachers Greek Course. The World of Athens: an introduction to classical Athenian culture. second edition (revised by Robin Osborne). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiv, 434 p. $34.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521698535.

*Joint Association of Classical Teachers. Greek Course. An independent study guide to reading Greek (second edition). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xi, 267 p. $32.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521698504.

*Kaltsas, Nikolaos and Alan Shapiro (edd.). Worshiping women: ritual and reality in classical Athens. New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA), 2008. 367 p. (pb). ISBN 9780977659845.

*Ketterer, Robert C. Ancient Rome in early opera. Urbana; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xi, 253 p. $40.00. ISBN 9780252033780.

Keulen, Wytse. Gellius the satirist: Roman cultural authority in attic nights. Mnemosyne supplements 297. Leiden: Brill, 2008. 365 p. $179.00. ISBN 9789004169869.

*Kockelmann, Holger. Praising the goddess: a comparative and annotated re-edition of six demotic hymns and praises addressed to Isis. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. 131 p. $84.00. ISBN 9783110212242.

*Kokkinia, Christina (ed.). Boubon: the inscriptions and archaeological remains; a survey 2004-2006. Meletemata 60. Athens: Diffusion de Boccard, 2008. x, 193 p., [23] p. of plates. € 86.00 (pb). ISBN 9789607905475.

*Langdon, Susan Helen. Art and identity in dark age Greece, 1100-700 B.C.E. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xviii, 388 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780521513210.

*Lowe, Dunstan and Kim Shahabudin (edd.). Classics for all: reworking antiquity in mass culture. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. xviii, 287 P. £ 44.99. ISBN 9781443801201.


*Lowe, N. J. and Classical Association (Great Britain). Comedy (Paperback reprint of 2007 edition). Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics, no. 37. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 169 p. $21.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521706094.

*Lugaresi, Leonardo. Il teatro di Dio: il problema degli spettacoli nel cristianesimo antico (II-IV secolo). Supplementi adamantius; 1. Brescia: Morcelliana, 2008. 895 p. € 40.00 (pb). ISBN 9788837222574.

Mattusch, Carol C. (ed.). Pompeii and the Roman villa: art and culture around the Bay of Naples. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2008. xvi, 365 p. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 9780894683534.

*Miguélez Cavero, Laura. Poems in context. Greek poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD. Sozomena. Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts; 2 2. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. 316 p. $118.00. ISBN 9783110202731.

Moog-Grünewald, Maria (ed.). Mythenrezeption: Die antike Mythologie in Literatur, Musik und Kunst von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Der Neue Pauly. Supplemente 5. Stuttgart: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 2008. ix, 749 p. € 179.95. ISBN 9783476020321.

*Mori, Anatole. The politics of Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ix, 261 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521882255.

Morris, Ian and Walter Scheidel (edd.). The dynamics of ancient empires: state power from Assyria to Byzantium. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii, 381 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780195371581.

*Mouracade, John (ed.). Aristotle on life. Kelowna, BC: Academic Printing and Publishing, 2008. x, 197 p. $28.95 (pb). ISBN 9780920980972.

*Mullaney, Ann E. (trans.). Teofilo Folengo: Baldo. Volume 2, Books XIII-XXV. The I Tatti Renaissance library; 36. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2008. xii, 544 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674031241.

*Papanghelis, Theodore D. and Antonios Rengakos (edd.). Brill's companion to Apollonius Rhodius. Second, revised edition. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. xiii, 479 p. $225.00. ISBN 9789004161856.

*Pavlock, Barbara. The image of the poet in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. 208 p. $55.00. ISBN 9780299231408.

*Pernot, Laurent (ed.). A l'école des anciens: professeurs, élèves et étudiants: précédé d'un entretien avec Jacqueline de Romilly. Signets Belles Lettres 4. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. xxiv, 310 p. € 13.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251030043.

*Pietilä-Castrén, Leena and Vesa Vahtikari (edd.). Grapta poikila II: saints and heroes. Papers and monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens vol. 14. Helsinki: Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens, 2008. i, 132 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9789519880693.

*Pöhlmann, Egert. Gegenwärtige Vergangenheit: ausgewählte kleine Schriften. Herausgegeben, mit einem Vorwort und einem Schriftenverzeichnis versehen von Georg Heldmann). Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd. 262. Berlin; New York: Walter De Gruyter, 2009. 316 p., 12 p. of plates. $95.00. ISBN 9783110204421.

*Pradeau, Jean-François. La communauté des affections: études sur la pensée éthique et politique de Platon. Histoire de la philosophie. Paris: Vrin, 2008. 224 p. € 24.00 (pb). ISBN 9782711621491.

*Primavesi, Oliver. Empedokles Physika I: eine Rekonstruktion des zentralen Gedankenganges. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete Beiheft, 22. Berlin; New York: Walterde Gruyter, 2008. 84 p., 3 plates. $56.00. ISBN 9783110209259.

*Sampson, Adamantios. The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Vol. 1, Intra-site analysis, local industries, and regional site distribution. Prehistory monographs; 21. Philadelphia: Institute for Aegean Prehistory Academic Press, 2006. xxii, 255+ p. . $80.00. ISBN 9781931534208.

*Schörner, Günther and Darja Šterbenc Erker (edd.). Medien religiöser Kommunikation im Imperium Romanum. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. 148 p. € 40.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515091886.

*Segvic, Heda. From Protagoras to Aristotle: essays in ancient moral philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. xvii, 196 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780691131238.

*Shapiro, Alan (trans.). Euripides: Trojan women. Greek tragedy in new translations. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 113 p. $12.95 (pb). ISBN 9780195179101.

*Shelmerdine, Cynthia W. (ed.). The Cambridge companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Cambridge companions. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxxvi, 452 p., [63] p. of plates. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521891271.

*Stavrianopolou, Eftychia, Alex Michaels and Claus Ambos (edd.). Transformations in sacrificial practices: from antiquity to modern times. Proceedings of an international colloquium, Heidelberg, 12-14, July 2006. Performanzen/Performances 15. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2008. vii, 310 p. € 34.90 (pb). ISBN 9783825810955.

*Usher, Stephen. Cicero's speeches: the critic in action. Oxford: Aris $ Phillips, 2008. vi, 296 p. $60.00 (pb). ISBN 9780855688744.

*Van Nortwick, Thomas. The unknown Odysseus: alternate worlds in Homer's Odyssey. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. xiv, 144 p. $50.00. ISBN 9780472116737.

*Vasiliou, Iakovos. Aiming at virtue in Plato. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. x, 311 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521862967.

*Warren, Karen J. (ed.). An unconventional history of Western philosophy: conversations between men and women philosophers. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009. xvii, 554 p. $59.95 (pb). ISBN 9780742559240.

*Webb, Ruth. Demons and dancers: performance in late antiquity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. viii, 296 p., [10] p. of plates. $45.00. ISBN 9780674031920.

*Welch, Katherine E. The Roman amphitheatre: from its origins to the Colosseum. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxii, 355 p., [16] p. of plates. $85.00. ISBN 9780521809443.

*Williams, Michael Stuart. Authorised lives in early Christian biography: between Eusebius and Augustine. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: University of Cambridge Press, 2008. xi, 262 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521894906.

*Wittke, Anne-Maria, Eckart Olshausen and Richard Szydlak. Historischer Atlas der antiken Welt. Neue Pauly. Supplemente 3. Stuttgart: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 2007. xix, 308 p. € 179.95. ISBN 9783476020314.

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*Caneva, Stefano and Victoria Tarenzi. Il lavoro sul mito nell'epica greca: Letture di Omero e Apollonio Rodio. Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Pavia 119. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2007. 139 p. € 15.00 (pb). ISBN 9788846719782.

*Collins, Billie Jean, Mary R. Bachvarova and Ian Rutherford (edd.). Anatolian interfaces: Hittites, Greeks and their neighbours: proceedings of an International Conference on Cross-cultural Interaction, September 17-19, 2004, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2008. 213 p. $90.00. ISBN 9781842172704.

*Styka, Jerzy (ed.). Violence and aggression in the ancient world. Classica Cracoviensia, 10. Kraków: Ksiegarnia Akademicka, 2006. 227 p. (pb). ISBN 9788371889171.


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*. Philologia Antiqua: an international journal of classics (1 - 2008). Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 201 p. (pb). ISBN 19719078.

*Barlow, Shirley A. The imagery of Euripides: a study in the dramatic use of pictorial language (third edition). London: Bristol Classical Press, 2008. xxviii, 169 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9781853997105.

*Bartels, Jens. Städtische Eliten im römischen Makedonien: Untersuchungen zur Formierung und Struktur. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd. 242. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. x, 258 p. $137.00. ISBN 9783110195002.

*Beretta, Marco and Francesco Citti (edd.). Lucrezio , la natura e la scienza. Biblioteca di Nuncius / Istituto e Museo distoria della scienza, Firenze; 66. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2008. vi, 237 p. € 26.00 (pb). ISBN 9788822258120.

*Bergren, Ann. Weaving truth: essays on language and the female in Greek thoughts. Hellenic studies; 19. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2008. xii, 417 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674023727.

*Breuer, Johannes. Der Mythos in den Oden des Horaz: Praetexte, Formen, Funktionen. Hypomnemata Bd. 178. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. 444 p. € 85.00. ISBN 9783525252857.

*Catoni, Maria Luisa. La comunicazione non verbale nella Grecia antica. Universale Bollati Boringhieri 560. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 2008. 416 p. € 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788833918969.

*Fornis, César. Grecia exhausta: ensayo sobre la guerra de Corinto. Hypomnemata, Bd. 175. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. 362 p. € 98.00. ISBN 9783525252864.

*Fricker, Miranda and Samuel Guttenplan (edd., comm.). Reading ethics: selected texts with interactive commentary. Reading philosophy. Chichester, U.K.; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. ix, 331 p. $39.95. ISBN 9781405124744.

*Gazziero, Leone. Rationes ex machina: La micrologie à l’âge de l’industrie de l’ argument,. Problèmes & Controverses. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2008. 283 p. € 26.00 (pb). ISBN 97827116199924.

*Heckel, Waldemar. Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great: prosopography of Alexander's empire (paperback reprint of 2006 edition). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. xxv, 389 p. $44.95 (pb). ISBN 9781405188395.

*Heinen, Heinz (ed.). Menschenraub, Menschenhandel und Sklaverei in antiker und moderner Perspektive: Ergebnisse des Mitarbeitertreffens des Akademievorhabens Forscjhungnen zur antiken Sklaverei (Mainz, 10. Oktober 2006). Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei, Bd. 37. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008. xii, 219 p., 9 p. pl. € 39.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515090773.

*Klinck, Anne L. Woman's songs in Ancient Greece. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. xxii, 290 p. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 9780773534490.

*Konstan, David. A life worthy of the gods: the materialist psychology of Epicurus (revised and expanded edition, in part originally published in 1973 as Some Aspects of Epicurean Psychology by E. J. Brill, Leiden). Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2008. xx, 176 p. $34.00 (pb). ISBN 9781930972285.

*Laurens, Pierre. La dernière muse latine: Douze lectures poétiques, de Claudien à la génération baroque. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. xvii, 327 p. € 27.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251443539.

*Macaluso, Rosalia. La Sicilia e la moneta: dai mezzi di scambio premonetari alla coniazione in argento dell'unitá ponderale indigena. Supplementi a "Kókalos", 20. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 117 p. € 125.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862271042.

*Meid, Christopher. Die griechische Tragödie im Drama der Aufklärung: "bei den Alten in die Schule gehen". Drama; n.S.; Bd. 6. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008. 136 p. € 39.90 (pb). ISBN 9783823364191.

*Miletti, Lorenzo. Linguaggio e metalinguaggio in Erodoto. Aion, Quaderni 13. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 176 p. € 48.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862271301.

*Nikolaidis, Anastasios G. (ed.). The unity of Plutarch's work: "Moralia" themes in the "Lives", features of the "Lives" in the "Moralia". Millennium-Studien 19. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. xviii, 851 p. $198.00. ISBN 9783110202496.

*Perkams, Matthias. Selbstbewusstsein in der Spätantike die neuplatonischen Kommentare zu Aristoteles' "De anima". Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie Bd. 85. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. xiv, 468 p. $137.00. ISBN 9783110204926.

*Prósper, Blanca María. El bronce celtibérico de Botorrita. Ricerche sulle lingue di frammentaria attestazione; 6. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 97 p. € 38.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862271188.

*Radt, Stefan (ed., trans., comm.). Strabons Geographika Band 7. Buch IX - XIII: Kommentar. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. 577 p. € 198.00. ISBN 9783525259566.

*Schellenberg, H. M., V. E. Hirschmann and A. Krieckhaus (edd.). A Roman Miscellany: Essays in Honour of Anthony R. Birley on His Seventieth Birthday. Akanthina 3. Gdánsk: Foundation for the Development of Gdánsk University (for the Department of Archaeology Gdánsk University), 2008. ii, 236 p. $90.00. ISBN 9788375311464.

*Wright, Matthew. Euripides: Orestes. Duckworth companions to Greek and Roman tragedy. London: Duckworth, 2008. 176 p. £ 12.99 (pb). ISBN 9780715637142.

*Avezzù, Guido (ed.). Didaskaliai II: Nuovi studi sulla tradizione e l'interpretazione del dramma attico Verona: Edizioni Fiorini, 2008. ix, 466 p. € 38.00 (pb). ISBN 9788887082760.

*Bell, Sinclair and Inge Lyse Hansen (edd.). Role models in the Roman world: identity and assimilation. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary volume; 7. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. x, 316 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780472115891.

*Bergeron, M. and R. Dufour (trans., comm.). Alexandre D'Aphrodise. De l’Âme. Textes & Commentaires. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2008. 416 p. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9782711619733.

*Cancik, Hubert and Helmuth Schneider (edd.). Brill's new Pauly: Antiquity, Volume 13, (Sas-Syl). Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. lvi p., 988 columns. $382.00. ISBN 9789004142183.

*Cawthorn, Katrina. Becoming female: the male body in Greek tragedy. London: Duckworth, 2008. ix,188 p. £ 50.00. ISBN 9780715637128.

*Daverio Rocchi, Giovanna (ed.). Tra concordia e pace: parole e valori della Grecia antica: giornata di studio, Milano, 21 ottobre 2005. Quaderni di Acme; 92. Milano: Cisalpino, 2007. xxviii, 376 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788832360769.

*Diez del Corral Corredoira, Pilar. Y Dioniso desposó a la rubia Ariadna: Estudio iconográfico de la cerámica ática (575-300 a. C.). BAR International Series 1719. Oxford: John and Erica Hedges, 2007. 392 p. £ 51.00 (pb). ISBN 9781407302027.

*Heiden, Bruce. Homer's cosmic fabrication: choice and design in the Iliad. American Philological Association, American classical studies 52. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi, 254 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780195341072.

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