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*La città murata in Etruria: atti del XXV Convegno di studi etruschi ed italici, Chianciano Terme, Sarteano, Chiusi, 30 marzo - 3 aprile 2005: in memoria di Massimo Pallottino. Atti di convegni / Istituto nazionale di studi etruschi ed italici; 25. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 538 p. € 960.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862270267.

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

Thesaurus linguae latinae: Editus iussu et auctoritate consilii ab academiis societatibusque diversarum nationum electi. Vol. X, 2 Fasc. XVI, pubertas - pulso. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. 174 p. (pb). ISBN 9783110203721.

Austin, Colin and S. Douglas Olson (edd., trans., comm.). Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae (paperback reprint of 2004 edition). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. cvi, 363 p., [1] leaf of plates. $75.00 (pb). ISBN 9780199553839.

*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.

*Beard, Mary. The fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii lost and found. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. 360 p., [16] p. of plates. $26.95. ISBN 9780674029767.

*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.

*Bergen, 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.

*Bos, Abraham P. and Rein Ferwerda (edd., trans., comm.). Aristotle, On the life-bearing spirit (De spiritu): a discussion with Plato and his predecessors on pneuma as the instrumental body of the soul. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. 209 p. $129.00. ISBN 9789004164581.

*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.

*Carolla, Pia (ed.). Priscus Panita, Excerpta et fragmenta. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 2000. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. xlviii, 140 p. $81.00. ISBN 9783110201383.

*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.

*Chankowski, Véronique. Athènes et Délos à l'époque classique. Recherches sur l'administration du sanctuaire d'Apollon délien. Bibliothèque des Ecoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome; 331. Athènes: EFA - Ecole Française d'Athênes, 2008. 590 p. € 90.00 (pb). ISBN 9782869581975.

*Classen, Carl Joachim. Vorbilder - Werte - Normen in den homerischen Epen. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 260. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. x, 287 p. $137.00. ISBN 9783110202595.

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.

*Damrosch, David. How to read world literature. How to study literature. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. viii, 139 p. $25.00(pb). ISBN 9781405168274.

*Ferrari, Gloria. Alcman and the cosmos of Sparta. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. viii, 184 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780226668673.

*Fiema, Zbigniew T. and Jaakko Frösén. Petra - The Mountain of Aaron. The Finnish Archaeological Project in Jordan. Volume I. The church and the chapel. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2008. 447 p.; 69 figs. € 125.00. ISBN 9789516533646.


*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.

Gardner, Gregg and Kevin L. Osterloh. Antiquity in antiquity: Jewish and Christian pasts in the Greco-Roman world. Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum, 123. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008. viii, 475 p. € 109.00. ISBN 9783161494116.

*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.

*Gentili, Bruno and Liana Lomiento. Metrics and rhythmics: history of poetic forms in ancient Greece (English translation by E. Christian Kopff of 2003 edition). Studi di metrica classica 12. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 350 p. € 120.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862270595.

*Hansen, William (comm.), Anonymous Life of Aesop. Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr Commentaries, 2008. Pp.101. $11.95. ISBN 9781931019040.


*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.

*Hurst, André (ed., trans., comm.). Lycophron, Alexandra. Collection des universités de France Série grecque. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. xciii, 334 p. € 55.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005515.

Johns, Catherine. Dogs: history, myth, art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. 208 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780674030930.

*Johnston, Sarah Iles. Ancient Greek divination. Blackwell ancient religions. Malden, MA; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. xiii, 193 p. $89.95. ISBN 9781405115728.

*Joyce, Jane Wilson (ed., trans., comm.). Statius, Thebaid: a song of Thebes. Masters of Latin literature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xxxv, 502 p. $27.95 (pb). ISBN 9780801482854.

Katsari, Constantina and Enrico Dal Lago (edd.). From captivity to freedom: themes in ancient and modern slavery. Leicester Archaeology Monograph 18. Leicester: School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester, 2008. x, 171 p. £ 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9780956017901.

*Keith, A. M. Propertius: poet of love and leisure. Classical literature and society. London: Duckworth, 2008. x, 214 p. $33.00(pb). ISBN 9780715634530.

*Kim, Seyoon. Christ and Caesar: the Gospel and the Roman Empire in the writings of Paul and Luke. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008. xvi, 228 p. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 9780802860088.

*King, Helen and Véronique Dasen. La médecine dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine. Lausanne: Bibliothèque d'Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé, 2008. ix, 129 p. € 18.66 (pb). ISBN 9782970053668.

*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.

*Kropp, Amina. Magische Sprachverwendung in vulgärlateinischen Fluchtafeln (defixiones). ScriptOralia; 135. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008. 450 p. € 98.00. ISBN 9783823364368.

*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.

*Martínez Fernández, Ángel. Epigramas helenísticos de Creta. Manuales y anejos de "Emerita"; 48. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Filología, 2006. 346 p., liii p. of plates. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788400084691.

*Mason, Steve and Honora Chapman (ed., trans., comm.). Flavius Josephus: translation and commentary. Vol. 1b, Judean war 2. Leiden: Brill, 2008. xx, 522 p. $269.00. ISBN 9789004169340.

Mastromarco, Giuseppe and Piero Totaro. Storia del teatro greco. Lingue e letterature. Grassina: Le Monnier università, 2008. vi, 294 p., 8 p. of plates. € 22.30 (pb). ISBN 9788800860567.

*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.

*Neils, Jenifer. The British Museum concise introduction to Ancient Greece. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. 191 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9780472033294.


*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.

*Ruiz Yamuza, Emilia. Tres verbos que significan "deber" en griego antiguo. Zaragoza: Libros Pórtico, 2008. 190 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9788479560485.

*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.

Sistakou, Evina. Reconstructing the epic: cross-readings of the Trojan myth in Hellenistic poetry. Hellenistica Groningana; 14. Leuven: Peeters, 2008. 210 p. € 54.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042921177.

*Stella, Francesco (ed.). Corpus rhythmorum musicum saec. IV-IX. I: Songs in non-liturgucal sources / Canti di tradizione non liturgica. 1. Lyrics / Canzoni. Millennio medievale 72. Tavarnuzze: SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007. clxxxiv, 446 p. with CD-ROM. € 260.00. ISBN 9788884502513.

*Thorsrud, Harald. Ancient scepticism. Ancient Philosophies. Stocksfield: Acumen, 2008. xvi, 248 p. £ 14.99 (pb). ISBN 9781844651313.

*Tueller, Michael A. Look who's talking: innovations in voice and identity in Hellenistic epigram. Hellenistica Groningana; 13. Leuven: Peeters, 2008. vii, 231 p. € 54.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042920118.

*Vivante, Bella. Daughters of Gaia: women in the ancient Mediterranean world. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xxxi, 232 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806139920.

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

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*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.

*Beale, Alan (ed.). Euripides talks. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2008. x, 139 p. £ 12.99 (pb). ISBN 9781853997129.

*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.

*Brisson, Luc. Le sexe incertain: androgynie et hermaphrodisme dans l'Antiquité gréco-romaine (1st edition 1997). Vérité des Mythes. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. 182 p. € 21.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251324456.

*Brisson, Luc (ed.). Platon, Oeuvres complètes. Paris: Flammarion, 2008. xxi, 2204 p. € 59.00. ISBN 9782081218109.

*Calame, Claude. Sentiers transversaux: Entre poétiques grecques et politiques contemporaines. Collection Horos. Grenoble: Editions Jérôme Millon, 2008. 332 p. € 23.00 (pb). ISBN 9782841372393.

*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.

*Castner, Catherine J. (ed., trans., comm.). Biondo Flavio's Italia illustrata: text, translation, and commentary. Volume I: Northern Italy. Binghamton, NY: Global Academic Publishing, 2005. xxxvi, 385 $36.00 (pb). ISBN 9781586842550.

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

*Cerri, Giovanni. La poetica di Platone: una teoria della comunicazione (Terza edizione aggiornata e ampliata di Platone sociologo della communicazione). Il vello d'oro 26. Lecce: Argo, 2007. 175 p. € 14.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882343910.

*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.

*Desanges, Jehan (ed., trans., comm.). Pline I' Ancien, Histoire naturelle, livre VI 4e partie (L'Asie africaine sauf l'Égypte, les dimensions et les climats du monde habité). Collection des Universités de France. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. xlii, 327 p. € 31.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251014500.

*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.

*Gritti, Elena. Proclo: dialettica, amima, esegesi. Il filarete / Università degli studi di Milano, Facoltà di lettere e filosofia; 257. Milano: LED, 2008. 419 p. € 36.00 (pb). ISBN 9788879163859.

*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.

*Irvine, William B. A guide to the good life: the ancient art of Stoic joy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii, 314 p. $19.95. ISBN 9780195374612.

*Konstantakos, Ioannis M. Akicharos: He Diegese tou Achikar sten Archaia Hellada (2 vols.). Athens: Stigmi, 2008. 332; 424 p. ISBN 9789602066.

*Liveley, Genevieve and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell. Latin elegy and narratology: fragments of story. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. x, 285 p. ISBN 9780814204061.

*Mehl, Véronique and Pierre Brulé (edd.). Le sacrifice antique: Vestiges, procédures et stratégies. Collection Histoire. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008. viii, 276 p. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9782753506688.

*Pirenne-Delforge, Vinciane. Retour à la source. Pausanias et la religion grecque. Kernos Suppléments 20. Liège: Centre international d’Étude de la religion Grecque Ancienne, 2008. 411 p. € 40.00 (pb). ISBN 9782960071733.

*Ramelli, Ilaria (ed.). Atti di Mar Mari. Testi del Vicino Oriente antico 7, Letteratura della Siria cristiana 2. Brescia: Paideia, 2008. 234 p. € 25.80 (pb). ISBN 9788839407450.

*Rinon, Yoav. Homer and the dual model of the tragic. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. 220 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780472116638.

*Rogl, Christine. Die hellenistischen Reliefbecher aus Lousoi: Material aus den Grabungen im Bereich Phournoi (1983-1994). Ergänzungshefte zu den Jahresheften des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien; Heft 10. Wien: Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, 2008. 224 p. € 62.70 (pb). ISBN 9783900305505.

*Rosenberger, Veit (ed.). Die Ideale der Alten Antikerezeption um 1800. Friedenstein-Forschungen Bd. 3. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. 199 p. € 44.00. ISBN 9783515090001.

*Russi, Roberto (ed.). Esilio. Quaderni di Synapsis: Atti della Scuola Europea di Studi Comparati, Pontignano, 18-25 settembre 2006. Firenze: Le Monnier, 2008. vi, 250 p. € 17.90 (pb). ISBN 9788800208390.

*Russo, Alessandro (ed., trans., comm.). Quinto Ennio. Le opere minori, Vol. I. Praecepta, Protrepticus, Saturae, Scipio, Sota. Testi e studi di cultura classic 40. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2007. 299 p. € 23.00 (pb). ISBN 9788846718198.

Saïd, Suzanne. Approches de la mythologie grecque: Lectures anciennes et modernes. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. 168 p. € 17.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251443515.

*Schulz, Raimund. Kleine Geschichte des antiken Griechenland. Ditzingen: Philipp Reclam, 2008. 480 p. € 19.90. ISBN 9783150106792.

*Sedley, David (ed.). Oxford studies in ancient philosophy. Vol. 34, Summer 2008. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 423 p., [2] p. of plates. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9780199544899.

*Timmer, Jan. Altersgrenzen politischer Partizipation in antiken Gesellschaften. Studien zur Alten Geschichte; Bd. 8. Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2008. 416 p. € 64.90. ISBN 9783938032190.

*Tschemplik, Andrea. Knowledge and self-knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008. ix, 183 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780739125731.

*Verdan, Samuel, Anne Kenzelmann Pfyffer and Claude Léderrey. Céramique géométrique d'Erétrie. Eretria XX, Fouilles et recherches. Gollion: Ecole suisse d'archéologie en Grèce,, 2008. 252 p. € 65.00 (pb). ISBN 9782884744096.

*Vial, Claude. Inscriptions de Délos. Index, tome II: les Déliens. Paris: De Boccard, 2008. 150 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9782877542029.

*Waxman, Sharon. Loot: the battle over the stolen treasures of the ancient world. New York: Times Books, 2008. xiv, 414 p., [8] p. of plates. $30.00. ISBN 9780805086539.

*Wendt, Christian. Sine fine: die Entwicklung der römischen Aussenpolitik von der späten Republik bis in den frühen Prinzipat. Studien zur alten Geschichte; Bd. 9. Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2008. 297 p. € 49.90. ISBN 9783938032244.

*Wersinger, Anne Gabrièle. La sphère et l'intervalle: Le schème de l'harmonie dans la pensée des anciens Grecs d'Homère à Platon. Horos. Grenoble: Millon, 2008. 379 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9782841372300.

*Wulfram, Hartmut. Das römische Versepistelbuch: eine Gattungsanalyse. Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2008. 539 p. € 69.90. ISBN 9783938032213.

*Zacharia, Katerina (ed.). Hellenisms: culture, identity, and ethnicity from antiquity to modernity. Aldershot; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. xvi, 473 p. $99.95. ISBN 9780754665250.

*Ziolkowski, Jan M. Solomon and Marcolf. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 2008. xvii, 451 p.$40.00. ISBN 9780674028418.

*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.

*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.

*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.

*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.

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

*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.

*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.

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

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

*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.

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