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BIERL, ANTON, REBECCA LÄMMLE AND KATHARINA WESSELMANN, eds. Literatur und
Religion: Wege zu einer mythisch-rituellen Poetik bei den Griechen. 2 Vols.
MythosEikonPoiesis series. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter Press, 2007. Pp.
422 + 352. Cloth, $137.00 per volume. ISBN vol. 1 978–3–11–019484–5; vol. 2
978–3–11–019485–2.
CLARKE, JOHN R. Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in
Roman Visual Culture, 100 BC–AD 250. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London:
University of California Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 322. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN
978–0–520–23733–9.
COURSEN, H.R. The Aeneid: A Dramatization. [Proof Copy.] Topsham, ME: Just
Write Books, 2007. Pp. 197. Paper, unlisted. ISBN 978–0–9722839–1–5.
FARNEY, GARY D. Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in Republican
Rome. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi +
337. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 978–0–521–86331–5.
GRAVER, MARGARET R. Stoicism and Emotion. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2007. Pp. x + 289. Cloth, $37.50. ISBN 978–0–226–30557–8.
HENDERSON, JOHN, ed. Mayor’s Juvenal: “Thirteen Satires.” 2 Vols. with
Introduction. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007. Pp. 451 + 525. Cloth,
$139.95. ISBN 978–1–904675–70–9.
HOLZBERG, NIKLAS. Ovids Metamorphosen. Munich: C.H. Beck Press, 2007. Pp.
128. Paper, €7.90. ISBN 978–3–406–53621–2.
KLINGER, JÖRG. Die Hethiter. Munich: C.H. Beck Press, 2007. Pp. 128. Paper,
€7.90. ISBN 978–3–406–53625–0.
LUSCHNIG, C.A.E. An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach.2
Revised by C.A.E. Luschnig and Deborah Mitchell. Indianapolis and
Cambridge, UK: Hackett Publishing, 2007. Pp. xiv + 374. Paper, $34.95. ISBN
978–0–87220–889–6.
MAAß, MICHAEL. Das antike Delphi. Pp. 128. Paper, €7.90. ISBN
978–3–406–53631–1.
MEINECK, PETER AND PAUL WOODRUFF. Sophocles Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of
Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes. Translated with Introduction and Notes.
Indianapolis and Cambridge, UK: Hackett Publishing, 2007. Pp. xlii + 267.
Paper, $9.95. ISBN 978–0–87220–763–9.
NAGLE, D. BRENDAN AND STANLEY M. BURSTEIN. Readings in Greek History:
Sources and Interpretation. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
2007. Pp. xix + 314. Paper, $41.25. ISBN 978–0–19–517825–4.
PALAGI, LAURA BOCCIOLINI. La Trottola di Dioniso: Motivi Dionisiaci nel VII
Libro dell’Eneide. Testi e Manuali per l’Insegnamento Universitario del
Latino 97. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2007. Pp. 237. Paper, €16.00. ISBN
978–88–555–2932–7.
PATTERSON, CYNTHIA B., ed. Antigone’s Answer: Essays on Death and Burial,
Family and state in Classical Athens. Helios 33 Supplement. Lubbock: Texas
Tech University Press, 2006. Pp. 220. Paper, $42.00. ISSN 0160–0923.
PENELLA, ROBERT J., tr. Man and the Word: The Orations of Himerius. The
Transformation of the Classical Heritage XLIII. Berkeley, Los Angeles and
London: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. xiv + 312. Cloth, $55.00.
ISBN 978–0–520–25093–2.
POMEROY, SARAH B., STANLEY M. BURSTEIN, WALTER DONLAN AND JENNIFER TOLBERT
ROBERTS. Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History. Second
edition. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xxiv +
568. Paper, $53.00. ISBN 978–0–19–530800–6.
RADKE, GYBURG. Die Kindheit des Mythos: Die Erfindung der
Literaturgeschichte in der Antike. Munich: C.H. Beck Press, 2007. Pp. xii +
366. Cloth, €34.90. ISBN 978–3–406–56333–1.
RELIHAN, JOEL C., tr. Apuleius: The Golden Ass; Or, A Book of Changes. With
introduction. Indianapolis and Cambridge, UK: Hackett Publishing, 2007. Pp.
xlv + 277. Paper, $11.95. ISBN 978–0–87220–887–2.
ROTH, ROMAN. Styling Romanisation: Pottery and Society in Central Italy.
Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2007. Pp. xvi + 237. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–87567–7.
SCHAUER, MARKUS. Aeneas dux in Vergils Aeneis: Eine literarische Fiktion in
augusteischer Zeit. Zetemata: Monographien zur klassischen
Altertumswissenschaft 128. Munich: C.H. Beck Press, 2007. Pp. 304. Paper,
unlisted. ISBN 978–3–406–56483–3.
SCHNEIDER, HELMUTH. Geschichte der antiken Technik. C.H. Beck Press, 2007.
Pp. 128. Paper, €7.90. ISBN 978–3–406–53632–8.
SVARLIEN, DIANE ARNSON, tr. Euripides’ Alcestis Medea Hippolytus. With
introduction and notes by Robin Mitchell-Boyask. Indianapolis and
Cambridge, UK: Hackett Publishing, 2007. Pp. xxxvii + 205. Paper, $9.95.
ISBN 978–0–87220–822–3.
VALAVANIS, PANOS, ed. Great Moments in Greek Archaeology. Los Angeles: J.
Paul Getty, 2007. Pp. 379. Cloth, $75.00. ISBN 978–0–89236–910–2.
VAN ECK, CAROLINE. Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern
Europe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii +
225. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 978–0–521–84435–2.
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