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ALLAN, WILLIAM, ed. Euripides: Helen. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii + 370. 
Paper, $38.99. ISBN 978–0–521–54541–9.

ASH, RHIANNON, ed. Tacitus: Histories Book II. Cambridge Greek and Latin 
Classics. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 
xiii + 415. Paper, $39.99. ISBN 978–0–521–89135–6.

CARTER, WARREN. John and Empire: Initial Explorations. New York and London: 
T&T Clark, 2008. Pp. xii + 423. Paper, $39.95. ISBN 978–0–567–02840–2.

CHALLIS, DEBBIE. From the Harpy Tomb to the Wonders of Ephesus: British 
Archaeologists in the Ottoman Empire 1840–1880. London: Duckworth 
Publishing, 2008. Pp. xi + 211. Paper, $33.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3757–9.

COLLINS, DEREK. Magic in the Ancient Greek World. Malden, MA, Oxford and 
Victoria: Blackwell Publishing Company, 2008. Pp. xiv + 207. Paper, $28.00. 
ISBN 978–1–4051–3239–8.

COULSON, F.T. AND A.A. GROTANS. Classica et Beneventana: Essays Presented 
to Virginia Brown on the Occasion of her 65th Birthday. TEMA 36. Turnhout: 
Brepols Publishers, 2008. Pp. xxiv + 444. Paper, €49.00. ISBN 
978–2–503–52434–4.

DAL LAGO, ENRICO AND CONSTANTINA KATSARI, eds. Slave Systems Ancient and 
Modern. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii 
+ 375. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–88183–8.

EMERSON, MARY. Greek Sanctuaries: An Introduction. London: Bristol 
Classical Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 172. Paper, $24.00. ISBN 
978–1–85399–689–4.

HALL, EDITH. The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer’s Odyssey. 
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. vii + 296. Cloth, 
$35.00. ISBN 978–0–8018–8869–4.

HECKEL, WALDEMAR. The Conquests of Alexander the Great. Cambridge and New 
York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xxii + 218. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–84247–1.

HOWE, TIMOTHY. Pastoral Politics: Animals, Agriculture and Society in 
Ancient Greece. Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians 9. 
Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2008. Pp. 143. Paper, unlisted. ISBN 
978–1–930053–54–0.

KELLY, GAVIN. Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian. Cambridge 
Classical Studies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 
2008. Pp. xi + 378. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–84299–0.

KÖNIG, JASON AND TIM WHITMARSH, eds. Ordering Knowledge in the Roman 
Empire. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii 
+ 304. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–85969–1.

LANZI, ANGELO, ed. Gli epitalami di Blossio Emilio Draconzio (Rom. 6 et 7). 
Biblioteca di Cultura Romanobarbarica 10. Rome: Herder Editrice e Libreria, 
2007. Pp. 297. Paper, €60.00. ISBN 978–88–89670–30–9.

LEE, JOHN W.I. A Greek Army on the March: Soldiers and Survival in 
Xenophon’s Anabasis. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 
2008. Pp. xii + 323. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–87068–9.

MCGINN, THOMAS A.J. Widows and Patriarchy Ancient and Modern. London: 
Duckworth Publishing, 2008. Pp. vii + 230. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 
978–0–7156–3743–2.

MITCHELL-BOYASK, ROBIN. Plague and the Athenian Imagination. Cambridge and 
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv + 209. Cloth, $99.00. 
ISBN 978–0–521–87345–1.

OSBORNE, ROBIN, ed. Debating the Athenian Cultural Revolution: Art, 
Literature, Philosophy, and Politics 430–380 BC. Cambridge and New York: 
Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xv + 341. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–87916–3.

PRETZLER, MARIA. Pausanias: Travel Writing in Ancient Greece. Classical 
Literature and Society. London: Duckworth Publishing, 2007. Pp. xiv + 225. 
Paper, $33.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3496–7.

REDFORD, BRUCE. Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century 
England. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. Pp. 232. Plates. Cloth, 
$49.95. ISBN 978–0–89236–924–9.

ROWE, CHRISTOPHER. Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing. Cambridge 
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. ix + 290. Cloth, 
$99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–85932–5.

SINIOSSOGLOU, NIKETAS. Plato and Theodoret: The Christian Appropriation of 
Platonic Philosophy and the Hellenic Intellectual Resistance. Cambridge 
Classical Studies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 
2008. Pp. xi + 267. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN 978–0–521–88073–2.

STERN, PAUL. Knowledge and Politics in Plato’s Theaetetus. Cambridge and 
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. x + 315. Cloth, $80.00. 
ISBN 978–0–521–88429–7.

TAYLOR, RABUN. The Moral Mirror of Roman Art. Cambridge and New York: 
Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii + 274. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–86612–5.

VLASSOPOULOS, KOSTAS. Unthinking the Greek Polis: Ancient Greek History 
beyond Eurocentrism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 
2007. Pp. xiv + 288. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–87744–2.

WEBER, MAX. Roman Agrarian History. Trans. by Richard I. Frank. Claremont, 
CA: Regina Books, 2008. Pp. xiv + 244. Paper, unlisted. ISBN 1–930053–55–x.

WHITMARSH, TIM, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi + 392. 
Paper, $36.99. ISBN 978–0–521–68488–0.

WILES, DAVID. Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy: From Ancient Festival 
to Modern Experimentation. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University 
Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 320. Plates. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN 978–0–521–86522–7.

WILLMOTT, JO. The Moods of Homeric Greek. Cambridge Classical Studies. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 264. 
Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–87988–0.

YATROMANOLAKIS, DIMITRIOS. Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception. 
Hellenic Studies 28. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 
2008. Pp. xxi + 442. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 978–0–674–02686–5.


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