June 2007 Books Received

BEHR, FRANCESCA D’ALESSANDRO. Feeling History: Lucan, Stoicism, and the Poetics of 
Passion. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii + 259. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 
0–8142–1043–0.

*CANFORA, LUCIANO. Julius Caesar: The Life and Times of the People’s Dictator. 
Translated by Marian Hill and Kevin Windle. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University 
of California Press, 2007 (1999). Pp. xvi + 392. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 978–0–520–23502–1.

CARAWAN, EDWIN, ed. The Attic Orators. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford 
and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xxiv + 450. Paper, $36.00. ISBN 978–
0–19–927993–7.

CSAPO, ERIC AND MARGARET C. MILLER, eds. The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece 
and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University 
Press, 2007. Pp. xix + 440. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN 978–0–521–83682–1.

DICKEY, ELEANOR. Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and 
Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatical Treatises, from their 
Beginnings to the Byzantine Period. American Philological Association Classical Resources. 
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii + 345. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 
978–0–19–531293–5.

DOMINIK, WILLIAM AND JON HALL, eds. A Companion to Roman Rhetoric. Blackwell 
Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. 
xix + 523. Cloth, $149.95. ISBN 1–4051–2091–6.

DUFALLO, BASIL. The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome’s 
Transition to a Principate. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 175. 
Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0–8142–1044–9.

ELSNER, JA?. Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text. Princeton: Princeton 
University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii + 350. Cloth, $49.50. ISBN 978–0–691–09677–3.

FEENEY, DENIS. Caesar’s Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History. Sather 
Classical Lectures 65. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 
2007. Pp. xiv + 372. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 978–0–520–25119–9.

GANIBAN, RANDALL T. Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the 
Aeneid. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x + 258. Cloth, 
$90.00. ISBN 978–0–521–84039–2.

GOLDHILL, SIMON AND ROBIN OSBORNE, eds. Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient 
Greece. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xv + 319. 
Cloth, $100.00. ISBN 978–0–521–86212–7.

GREEN, PETER. The Hellenistic Age: A Short History. Modern Library Chronicles. New 
York: Random House, 2007. Pp. xxxiii + 199. Cloth, $21.95. ISBN 978–0–679–64279–4.

*JONES, PETER. Reading Ovid: Stories from the Metamorphoses. Cambridge and New 
York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x + 272. Paper, $25.99. ISBN 978–0–521–
61332–3.

KALLENDORF, CRAIG W., ed. A Companion to the Classical Tradition. Blackwell 
Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. 
xv + 491. Cloth, $149.95. ISBN 1–4051–2294–3.

KINZL, KONRAD H., ed. A Companion to the Classical Greek World. Blackwell Companions 
to the Ancient World. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. xviii + 606. 
Cloth, $129.95. ISBN 0–631–23014–9.

LAURENCE, RAY. Roman Pompeii: Space and Society. Second Edition. Oxford and New 
York: Routledge Press, 2007 (1994). Pp. xvi + 216. Paper, $39.95. ISBN 978–0–415–
39125–2.

*NAGLE, D. BRENDAN AND STANLEY M. BURSTEIN. Readings in Greek History: Sources 
and Interpretation. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xix +314. 
Paper, $39.95. ISBN 978–0–19–517825–8.

RAAFLAUB, KURT A., ed. War and Peace in the Ancient World. The Ancient World: 
Comparative Histories. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. xii + 385. 
Paper, $39.95. ISBN 978–1–4051–4526–8.

*ROBINSON, ANDREW. The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms. 
Second Edition. London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 2007 (1995). Pp. 232. Paper, 
$24.95. ISBN 978–0–500–28660–9.

ROSENBLOOM, DAVID. Aeschylus: Persians. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman 
Tragedy. London: Duckworth Publishers, 2006. Pp. 224. Paper, $22.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–
3286–4.

ROSENSTEIN, NATHAN AND ROBERT MORSTEIN-MARX, eds. A Companion to the Roman 
Republic. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell 
Publishing, 2006. Pp. xxx + 737. Cloth, $149.95. ISBN 1–4015–0217–9.

*SHELMERDINE, SUSAN C. Introduction to Latin: Revised First Edition. Newburyport, MA: 
Focus Publishing, 2007. Pp. xii + 351. Paper, $29.95. ISBN 978–1–58510–270–9.

*SMITH, R. SCOTT AND STEPHEN M. TRZASKOMA, trs. Apollodorus’ Library and Hyginus’ 
Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett 
Publishing Company, 2007. Pp. lv + 19 genealogical charts + 247. Paper, $12.95. ISBN 
978–0–87220–820–9.

TRAUPMAN, JOHN C. Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency: Phrase Book and 
Dictionary Classical and Neo-Latin. Fourth Edition. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 
2007. Pp. 411. Paper, $39.00. ISBN 978–0–86516–622–6.

—— AND MARK ROBERT MINER. Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency: Phrase Book 
and Dictionary, Audio Conversations. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2007. 2 Audio 
CDs, $25.40. ISBN 978–0–86516–635–6.

WORTHINGTON, IAN, ed. A Companion to Greek Rhetoric. Blackwell Companions to the 
Ancient World. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. xvi + 616. Cloth, 
$149.95. ISBN 1–4051–2551–9.


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