BOOKS RECEIVED DECEMBER 2009

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BARTSCH, SHADI AND DAVID WRAY, eds. Seneca and the Self. New York: 
Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 304. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–88838–7.

BERS, VICTOR. Genos Dikanikon: Amateur and Professional Speech in the 
Courtrooms of Classical Athens. Hellenic Studies 33. Cambridge: Harvard 
University Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 159. Paper, $15.95. ISBN 
978–0–674–03203–3.

BUTTERFIELD, DAVID AND CHRISTOPHER STRAY. A.E. Housman: Classical Scholar. 
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2009. Pp. x + 288. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 
978–0–7156–3808–8.

CALAME, CLAUDE. Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece: Heroic 
Reference and Ritual Gestures in Time and Space. Hellenic Studies 18. 
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 267. Paper, $19.95. 
ISBN 978–0–674–02124–2.

CARUSO, CARLO AND ANDREW LAIRD, eds. Italy and the Classical Tradition: 
Language, Thought and Poetry 1300–1600. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. 
Ltd., 2009. Pp. x + 269. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3737–1.

COLLINS, PAUL. Assyrian Palace Sculptures. Photographs by Lisa Baylis and 
Sandra Marshal. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. Pp. 144. Cloth, 
$45.00. ISBN 978–0–292–72169–2.

FÖLLINGER, SABINE. Aischylos: Meister der griechischen Tragödie. Munich: 
C.H. Beck, 2009. Pp. 224. Cloth, €24.90. ISBN 978–3–406–59130–3.

GOLDIN, OWEN, tr. Philoponus (?): On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 2. 
Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 
2009. Pp. ix + 213. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3788–3.

HALES, SHELLEY AND TAMAR HODOS, eds. Material Culture and Social Identities 
in the Ancient World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xv + 
339. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–76774–3.

HAMMON, PAUL. The Strangeness of Tragedy. New York: Oxford University 
Press, 2009. Pp. x + 203. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 978–0–19–957260–1.

HARTIGAN, KARELISA V. Performance and Cure: Drama and Healing in Ancient 
Greece and Contemporary America. Classical Inter/Faces. London: Gerald 
Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2009. Pp. xiv + 124. Paper, $27.00. ISBN 
978–0–7156–3639–8.

HERRMAN-OTTO, ELISABETH. Sklaverei und Freilassung in der 
griechisch-romischen Welt. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2009. Pp. 263. 
Paper, €19.80. ISBN 978–3–487–14251–7.

HOBSON, BARRY. Latrinae et Foricae: Toilets in the Roman World. London: 
Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2009. Pp. x + 190. Paper, $27.00. ISBN 
978–0–7156–3850–7.

JENKINS, IAN AND VICTORIA TURNER. The Greek Body. Los Angeles: J. Paul 
Getty Museum, 2009. Pp. 144 + 132 color illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 
978–1–60606–002–5.

JOHNSTONE, CHRISTOPHER LYLE. Listening to the Logos: Speech and the Coming 
of Wisdom in Ancient Greece. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 
2009. Pp. xii + 300. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 978–1–57003–854–9.

KAHLOS, MAIJASTINA. Forbearance and Compulsion: The Rhetoric of Religious 
Tolerance and Intolerance in Late Antiquity. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. 
Ltd., 2009. Pp. xii + 259. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3698–5.

KONIG, JASON. Greek Literature in the Roman Empire. Classical World Series. 
London: Bristol Classical Press, 2009. Pp. 119. Paper, $23.00. ISBN 
978–1–8539–9713–6.

MADSEN, JESPER MAJBOM. Eager to be Roman: Greek Response to Roman Rule in 
Pontus and Bithynia. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2009. Pp. ix + 
166. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3753–1.

OSBORNE, CATHERINE, tr. Philoponus on Aristotle Physics 1.4–9. Ancient 
Commentators on Aristotle. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2009. Pp. 
185. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3738–6.

SCOTT, WILLIAM C. The Artistry of the Homeric Simile. Hanover, NH and 
London: University Press of New England, 2009. Pp. viii + 267. Paper, 
$45.00. ISBN 978–1–58465–797–2.

SIPILA, JOONAS. The Reorganization of Provincial Territories in Light of 
the Imperial Decision-Making Process: Later Roman Arabia and Tres 
Palaestinae as Case Studies. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 126 2009. 
Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2009. Pp. vi + 328. Paper, price 
not given. ISBN 978–951–653–374–5.

SMITH, JOANNA S. Art and Society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the 
Iron Age. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xviii + 397. 
Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–51367–8.

TODD, ROBERT B., tr. Themisitus on Aristotle Physics 5–8. Ancient 
Commentators on Aristotle. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2008. Pp. 
ix + 198. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3664–0.

WILLI, ANDREAS. Sikelismos: Sprache, Literatur und Gesellschaft im 
Griechischen Sizilien (8.–5. JH. V. CHR.). Rome: Instituto Svizzero di 
Roma, 2008. Pp. xvi + 477. Cloth, €47.50. ISBN 978–3–7965–2255–0.


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CARTLEDGE, PAUL AND FIONA ROSE GREENLAND, eds. Responses to Oliver 
Stone’s Alexander: Film, History and Cultural Studies. Madison: 
University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. Pp. vii + 370. Paper, $26.95. ISBN 
978–0–299–23284–9.

EEZZUDUEMHOI, JAMES I.A. A Fundamental Greek Course. Edited by Glenn 
Storey. Lanham: University Press of America, Inc., 2009. Pp. xxxv + 547. 
Paper, $65.00. ISBN 978–0–7618–4861–5.

MUELLER, MARTIN. The Iliad. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 
206. Paper, $29.95. ISBN 978–1–85399–715–0.

STOUT, J.F., ed. Cicero: In Catilinam I–IV. London: Bristol Classical 
Press, 2009. Pp. 156. Cloth, $24.00. ISBN 978–1–85399–719–8.

TAYLOR, JOHN. Latin Beyond GCSE. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2009. Pp. 
xvi + 256. Paper, $27.00. ISBN 978–1–85399–720–4.

WILLIAMS, R.D. The Aeneid. 2nd ed. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2009. 
Pp. xv + 171. Paper, $29.95. ISBN 978–1–85399–714–3.




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