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BMCR Books Received (February, 2009)

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*Filologia, papirologia, storia dei testi: giornate di studio in onore di Antonio Carlini, Udine, 9-10 dicembre 2005. Biblioteca di studi antichi 90. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008. 389 p. € 120.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862270953.

*Alston, Richard and Onno van Nijf (edd.). Feeding the ancient Greek city. Groningen-Royal Holloway studies on Greek city after the classical age 1. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2008. x, 207 p. € 75.00. ISBN 9789042920378.

*Ancona, Ronnie and David J. Murphy. Horace: a Legamus transitional reader. Mundelein, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2008. xxiv, 189 p. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865166769.

Bablitz, Leanne. Actors and audience in the Roman courtroom. Routledge monographs in classical studies. London; New York: Routledge, 2007. ix, 290 p. $115.00. ISBN 9780415427609.

Biville, Frédérique, Jean-Claude Decourt and Georges Rougemont (edd.). Bilinguisme gréco-latin et épigraphie: actes du colloque , 17-19 mai 2004. Collection de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée 37; série épigraphique et historique 6. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen, 2008. 344 p. € 32.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356680006.

*Biville, Frédérique, Emmanuel Plantade and Daniel Vallat (edd.). Les vers du plus nul des poètes: nouvelles recherches sur les Priapées. Actes de la journée d'étude organisée le 7 novembre 2005 à l'université Lumière-Lyon 2. Collection de la maison de l'orient et de la Méditerranée 38. Série littéraire et philosophique 11. Lyon: Maison de l’Orient de la Méditerranée-Jean Pouilloux 2008. 200 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356680013.

*Blix, Göran. From Paris to Pompeii: French romanticism and the cultural politics of archaeology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 310 p. $59.95. ISBN 9780812241365.

*Boehm, Isabelle and Pascal Luccioni (edd.). Le médecin initié par l'animal: animaux et médecine dans l'Antiquité grecque et latine. actes du colloque international tenu à la Maison de l’Orient de la Méditerranée-Jean Pouilloux les 26 et 27 octobre 2006. Collection de la maison de l'orient et de la Méditerranée 39. Série littéraire et philosophique 12. Lyon: Maison de l’Orient de la Méditerranée-Jean Pouilloux 2008. 260 p. € 29.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356680020.

*Braund, Susanna. A Lucan reader: selections from Civil war. BC Latin readers. Mundelein, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2009. xxxiv, 134 p. $19.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865166615.

*Brunet, Claude (ed.). Des formes et des mots chez les Anciens. Mélanges offerts à Danièle Conso. Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté: Franche-Comté, 2008. 387 p. € 35.00 (pb). ISBN 9782848672472.

*Burgess, Jonathan S. The death and afterlife of Achilles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xii, 184 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780801890291.

*Burian, Peter and Alan Shapiro (edd.). The complete Euripides. Volume IV, Bacchae and other plays. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv, 364 p. $12.95 (pb). ISBN 9780195373400.

*Cadiou, François. Hibera in terra miles: les armées romaines et la conquête de l'Hispanie sous la république (218-45 av. J.C.). Bibliothèque de la Casa de Velázquez 38. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2007. 700 p. € 56.00. ISBN 9788496820074.

*Camerotto, Alberto, Clelia De Vecchi and Cristina Favaro (edd.). La nuova musa degli eroi: Dal mythos alla fiction. Atti degli Incontri di Studiop per il Bicentenario del Liceo Classico 'Antonio Canova', Casa dei Carraresi Treviso, 30 novembre 2007 - 8 febbraio 2008. Treviso: Fondazione Cassamarca, 2008. 157 p. (pb).

Carastro, Marcello (ed.). L'antiquité en couleurs: catégories, pratiques, représentations. [Actes des journées d'études organisées à Paris les 12 et 13 décembre 2005 organisées par l'atelier antiquité et sciences sociales du centre Louis Gernet de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes]. Horos. Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 2009. 346 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9782841372409.

*Cheshire, Keyne. Alexander the Great. Greece & Rome: texts and contexts. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. viii, 189 p. (pb). ISBN 9780521707091.

*Ciccolella, Federica. Donati Graeci: learning Greek in the Renaissance. Columbia studies in the classical tradition; 32. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2007. xxv, 638 p. $262.00. ISBN 9789004163522.

*Collard, Christopher and Martin Cropp (edd., trans.). Euripides, volume VIII, fragments: Oedipus-Chrysippus. other fragments. Loeb classical library 506. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2009. xxiii, 710 p. $24.00. ISBN 9780674996311.

*Cottier, M., M. H. Crawford, C. V. Crowther, J.-L. Ferrary, B. M. Levick, O. Salomies and M. Wörrle (edd.). The customs law of Asia. Oxford studies in ancient documents. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxi, 370 p. $120.00. ISBN 9780199551514.

*Csapo, Eric and Margaret Christina Miller (edd.). The origins of theater in ancient Greece and beyond: from ritual to drama (paperback edition; first published 2007). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xix, 439 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780521748339.

*Gale, Monica R. (ed., trans., comm.). Lucretius: de rerum natura v. Aris & Phillips classical texts. Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 2008. vii, 222 p. $36.00 (pb). ISBN 9780856688898.

*Gibbs, Laura. Aesop's fables in Latin: ancient wit and wisdom from the animal kingdom. Mundelein, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2008. xxxi, 366 p. $34.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865166950.

*Golden, Mark. Greek sport and social status. Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. xvi, 214 p. $50.00. ISBN 9780292718692.

*Grimaudo, Sabrina. Difendere la salute: igiene e disciplina del sogetto nel De sanitate tuenda di Galeno. Elenchos; 49. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2008. 280 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788870885439.

*Guagnano, Maria (ed., trans., comm.). Adomnano di Iona, I luoghi santi. Bari: Edipuglia, 2008. 285 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788872285473.

*Haldon, John F. (ed). A social history of Byzantium. Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. xxvii, 300 p. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 9781405132411.

*Hannah, Robert. Time in antiquity. Sciences of antiquity. London; New York: Routledge, 2009. xiii, 206 p. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415331562.

*Hopkinson, Neil (ed., comm.). Lucian: a selection. Cambridge Greek and Latin texts. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ix, 239 p. $34.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521603041.

*Itsumi, Kiichiro. Pindaric metre: 'the other half'. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xix, 464 p. $190.00. ISBN 9780199229611.

*Johnson, William A. and Holt N. Parker. Ancient literacies: the culture of reading in Greece and Rome. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xv, 430 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780195340150.

*La'da, Csaba A. (ed.). Greek Documentary Papyri from Ptolemaic Egypt. Corpus Papyrorum Raineri (CPR) Bd. 28. München: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. xxii, 229 p. $137.00. ISBN 9783110195231.

*Lamberz, Erich (ed.). Concilium universale Nicaenum secundum: concilii actiones I-III. Acta conciliorum oecumenicorum. Series secunda; v. 3, pt.1. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. lxxiv, 281 p. $277.00 (pb). ISBN 9783110190021.

*Le Glay, Marcel, Jean-Louis Voisin and Yann Le Bohec. A history of Rome (fourth edition). Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. xxvii, 639 p. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9781405183277.

*Lefebvre, René and Alonso Tordesillas (edd.). Faiblesse de la volonté et maîtrise de soi: Doctrines antiques, perspectives contemporaines. Philosophica. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009. 231 p. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9782753507371.

*Mariev, Sergei (ed., trans.). Ioannis Antiocheni fragmenta quae supersunt. Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae 47. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. x, 599 p. $207.00. ISBN 9783110204025.

*Meliadò, Claudio (ed., trans., comm.). E cantando danzerò, PLitGoodspeed 2. Orione. testi e studi di letteratura greca 1. Messina: Dipartmento di scienze dell'antichità 2008. 157 p. € 40.00 (pb). ISBN 8882680207.

*Mirto, Maria Serena (ed., trans., comm.). Euripide. Ione. Classici greci e latini. Milano: BUR, 2009. 345 p. € 12.00 (pb). ISBN 9788817028936.

*Mosshammer, Alden A. The Easter computus and the origins of the Christian era. Oxford early Christian studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xi, 474 p. $130.00. ISBN 9780199543120.

Nelis-Clément, Jocelyne and Jean-Michel Roddaz (edd.). Le cirque romain et son image: [actes du colloque tenu à l'institut Ausonius, Bordeaux, 2006]. Mémoires, 20. Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2008. 584 p. € 70.00. ISBN 9782356130013.

*Nichols, Mary P. Socrates on friendship and community: reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. viii, 229 p. $80.00. ISBN 9780521899734.

*Palagia, Olga (ed.). Greek sculpture: function, materials, and techniques in the archaic and classical periods (paperback edition; first published 2006). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv, 326 p., [8] p. of col. plates. $36.99. ISBN 9780521738378.

Pigoń, Jakub (ed.). The children of Herodotus: Greek and Roman historiography and related genres. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 404 p. £ 39.99. ISBN 9781443800150.

*Pittenger, Miriam R. Pelikan. Contested triumphs: politics, pageantry, and performance in Livy's Republican Rome. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiii, 365 p. $60.00. ISBN 9780520241398.

*Prince, Cashman Kerr (comm.). Chariton, Callirhoe. book I. Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr Commentaries, 2009. 57 p. (pb). ISBN 9781931019057.

*Race, William H. (ed., trans.). Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. Loeb classical library 1. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2009. xxxii, 511 p. $24.00. ISBN 9780674996304.

*Rigby, S. H. (ed.). A companion to Britain in the later Middle Ages. Blackwell companions to British history. Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. xviii, 665 p. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9781405189736.

*Ruffini, Giovanni. Social networks in Byzantine Egypt. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. x, 278 p. $110.00. ISBN 9780521895378.

*Rüpke, Jörg. Fasti sacerdotum: a prosopography of pagan, Jewish, and Christian religious officials in the city of Rome, 300 BC to AD 499. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. viii, 1107 p. $399.00. ISBN 9780199291137.

*Sartre, Maurice $35.00. Histoires grecques: snapshots from antiquity (translation of 2006 edition by Catherine Porter). Revealing antiquity 17. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. xviii, 422 p. ISBN 9780674032125.

*Savignago, Lorenza. Eisthesis: Il sistema dei margini nei papiri dei poeti tragici. Minima philologica 3. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2008. 356 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862740951.

*Scheidel, Walter (ed.). Rome and China: comparative perspectives on ancient world empires. Oxford studies in early empires. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiii, 240 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780195336900.

*Schmalz, Geoffrey C. R. Augustan and Julio-Claudian Athens: a new epigraphy and prosopography. Mnemosyne: supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity; 302. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2009. xvi, 369 p. $185.00. ISBN 9789004170094.

*Schulz, Meinhard-Wilhelm. Caesar zu Pferde: Ross und Reiter in Caesars Kommentarien und in der Germania des Tacitus. Spudasmata, Bd. 123. Hildesheim: Olms, 2009. x, 322 p. € 49.80 (pb). ISBN 9783487139296.

*Scodel, Ruth. Epic facework: self-presentation and social interaction in Homer. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2008. xii, 177 p. $80.00. ISBN 9781905125227.

*Scodel, Ruth and Anja Bettenworth. Whither Quo vadis?: Sienkiewicz's novel in film and television. Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. x, 292 p. $100.00. ISBN 9781405183857.

*Sizgorich, Thomas. Violence and belief in late antiquity: militant devotion in Christianity and Islam. Divinations: rereading late ancient religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. viii, 398 p. $55.00. ISBN 9780812241136.

*Sluiter, Ineke and Ralph M. Rosen (edd.). Kakos: badness and anti-value in classical antiquity. Mnemosyne: supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity; 307. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008. viii, 514 p. $231.00. ISBN 9789004166240.

*Sommerstein, Alan H. (ed., trans.). Aeschylus, volume II, Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-bearers. Eumenides. 146. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Loeb Classical Library, 2009. xxxvii, 494 p. $24.00. ISBN 9780674996281.

*Sommerstein, Alan H. (ed., trans.). Aeschylus, volume III, fragments. 505. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Loeb classical library, 2008. xiii, 363 p. $24.00. ISBN 9780674996298.

*Sommerstein, Alan H. (ed., trans.). Aeschyslus, volume I, Persians. Seven against Thebes. Suppliants. Prometheus Bound. Loeb classical Library 145. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Havrard University Press, 2009. xlvi, 576 p. $24.00. ISBN 9780674996274.


Stewart, Andrew. Classical Greece and the birth of Western art. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xviii, 358 p. $28.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521618359.

*Stewart, Peter. The social history of Roman art. Key themes in ancient history. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xvi, 200 p. $34.99. ISBN 9780521016599.

*Szilágyi, János György. Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Hongrie. Budapest, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Fascicule 2. [18]. Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2007. 135 p., [49] p. of plates. € 200.00. ISBN 9788882654566.

*Tomber, R. Indo-Roman trade: from pots to pepper. Duckworth debates in archaeology. London: Duckworth, 2008. 216 p. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 9780715636961.

*Trow, Stephen, Simon James and Tom Moore. Becoming Roman, being Gallic, staying British: research and excavations at Ditches 'hillfort' and villa 1984-2006. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2008. xv, 224 p. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 9781842173367.

*Verboven, Koenraad, Katelijn Vandorpe and Véronique Chankowski (edd.). Pistoi dia tèn technèn: bankers, loans, and archives in the ancient world: studies in honour of Raymond Bogaert. Studia Hellenistica; 44. Leuven: Peeters, 2008. xlviii, 482 p. € 84.00. ISBN 9789042919969.

Vlizos, Stavros (ed.). He Athene kata te Romaike epoche: Prosphates anakalypseis, nees ereunes / Athens during the Roman period: Recent discoveries, new evidence. Mouseio Mpenake - Parartema 40. Athens, 2008. 488 p. (pb). ISBN 9789604760022.

*Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew. Rome's cultural revolution. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxiv, 502 p., [16] p. of plates. $49.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521721608.

*Wells, Peter S. Image and response in early Europe. Duckworth debates in archaeology. London: Duckworth, 2008. 168 p. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 9780715636824.

*Wickkiser, Bronwen L. Asklepios, medicine, and the politics of healing in fifth-century Greece: between craft and cult. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiii, 178 p. $55.00. ISBN 9780801889783.

Wiseman, T. P. Remembering the Roman people: essays on late-Republican politics and literature. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 271 p. $110.00. ISBN 9780199239764.

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*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.

*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.

*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.

*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.

*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.

*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.

*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.

*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.

*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.

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

*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.

*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.

*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.

*. 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.

*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.

*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.

*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.

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