BOOKS RECEIVED SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2009

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ALMAZOVA, NINA, et al., eds. Hyperboreus. Vol. 14.1. Munich: C.H. Beck, 
2008. Pp. 152. Paper, €34.90. ISSN 0949–2615.

ATHANASSAKI, LUCIA et al., ed. Apolline Politics and Poetics: International 
Symposium. Athens: European Culture Centre of Delphi, 2009. Pp. xxxv + 702. 
Paper, €40.00. ISBN 978–960–88520–4–4.

BOYS-STONES, GEORGE, et al., eds. The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies. 
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xxi + 889. Cloth, $150.00. 
ISBN 978–0–19–928614–0.

BUXTON, RICHARD. Forms of Astonishment: Greek Myths of Metamorphosis. New 
York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 281. Cloth, $100.00. ISBN: 
978–0–19–924549–9.

DUE, CASEY, ed. Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights From the 
Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad. Hellenic Studies Series. Cambridge: 
Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 167. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 
978–0–674–03202–6

GREEN, MANDY. Milton’s Ovidian Eve. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 
2009. Pp. xi + 235. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN 978–0–7546–6666–0.

HAMILAKIS, YANNIS. The Nation and Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and 
National Imagination in Greece. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 
Pp. xxii + 352. Paper, $45.00. ISBN 978–0–19–957290–8.

KENNEDY, REBECCA FUTO. Athena’s Justice: Athena, Athens and the Concept 
of Justice in Greek Tragedy. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2009. 
Pp. 169. Cloth, $74.95. ISBN 978–1–4331–0454–1.

MCGOWAN, MATTHEW M. Ovid in Exile: Power and Poetic Redress In The Tristia 
and Epistulae Ex Ponto. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Pp. x + 262. Cloth, $147.00. 
ISBN 978–90–04–17076–6.

MACKIE, C.J. Rivers of Fire: Mythic Themes in Homer’s Iliad. Washington, 
DC: New Academia Publishing, 2008. Pp. 263. Paper, $26.00. ISBN 
978–0–9800814–2–8.

METCALF, ROBERT D. AND MARK B. TANZER, trs. Martin Heidegger: Basic 
Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy. Studies in Continental Thought. 
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 
279. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN 978–0–253–35349–8.

MYRSIADES, KOSTAs, ed. Reading Homer: Film and Text. Cranbury: Associated 
University Presses, 2009. Pp. 258. Cloth, $56.50. ISBN 
978–0–8386–4219–1.

RUSTEN, JEFFREY S., ed. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Thucydides. 
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 519. Paper, $65.00. ISBN 
978–0–19–920619–3.

SQUILLACE, GIUSEPPE. Filippo il Macedone. Roma: Laterza & Figli Spa, 2009. 
Pp. ix + 119. Paper, €13.00. ISBN 978–88–420–9066–3.

STEVENSON, TOM AND MARCUS WILSON, ed. Cicero’s Philippics: History, 
Rhetoric, Ideology. Aukland: Polygraphia Ltd., 2008. Pp. x + 374. Paper, 
$80.00. ISBN 978–1–877332–56–2.

SWIFT, LAURA. Euripides’ Ion. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman 
Tragedy. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2009. Pp. 127. Paper, $24.00. 
ISBN 978–0–7156–3744–9.

TAYLOR, RICHARD C., tr. Averroes’ Long Commentary on the De Anima of 
Aristotle. Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy. New Haven: Yale University 
Press, 2009. Pp. cix + 498. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 978–0–300–11668–7.

VAN BLADEL, KEVIN. The Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet of 
Science. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 278. Cloth, 
$74.00. ISBN 978–0–19–537613–5.

WEINBERG, GLADYS AND E. MARIANNE STERN. Vessel Glass. The Athenian Agora: 
Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical 
Studies at Athens, Vol. XXXIV. Princeton: ASCSA, 2009. Pp. xxxiii + 214 + 
23 figures + 36 plates. Cloth, $150.00. ISBN 978–0–87661–234–7.

ZANKER, GRAHAM, tr. and ed. Herodas: Mimiambs. Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 
2009. Pp. xi + 252. Paper, $36.00. ISBN 978–0–85668–873–7.


BOOKS RECEIVED FOR ONLINE FORUM REVIEW

The following are books, translations and textbooks of pedagogical interest 
currently offered for Online Forum review. Reviewers should first consult 
the reviewer guidelines at 
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ANDERSON, WILLIAM S. A Terence Reader: Selections from Six Plays. 
Mundelein: Bolchazy–Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2009. Pp. xvii + 109. 
Paper, $19.00. ISBN 978–0–86516–678–3.

DANKER, FREDERICK WILLIAM. The Concise Greek–English Lexicon of the New 
Testament. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 390. 
Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 978–0–226–12615–8.

DE ALBENTIIS, EMIDIO. Secrets of Pompeii: Everyday Life in Ancient Rome. 
Photography by Alfredo and Pio Foglia. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty, 2009. 
Pp. 196 + color photographs. Cloth, $44.95. ISBN 978–0–89236–941–6.

DEHORATIUS, ED. The Journey of Odysseus. Follow Your Fates. Mundelein: 
Bolchazy–Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2009. Pp. x + 116. Paper, $12.00. 
ISBN 978–0–86516–710–0.

——. The Wrath of Achilles. Follow Your Fates. Mundelein: 
Bolchazy–Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2009. Pp. ix + 62. Paper, $12.00. 
ISBN 978–0–86516–708–7.

HAMMOND, MARTIN, tr. Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War. New York: Oxford 
University Press, 2009. Pp. lxiv + 707 + 10 maps. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 
978–0–19–282191–1.

ROSS, DAVID, tr. Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics. New York: Oxford 
University Press, 2009. Pp. xliii + 277. Paper, $14.95. ISBN 
978–0–19–921361–0.

SLAVITT, DAVID R., tr. The Theban Plays of Sophocles. New Haven: Yale 
University Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 237. Paper, $28.00. ISBN 
978–0–300–11901–5.

SWIFT, LAURA. Euripides’ Ion. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman 
Tragedy. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2009. Pp. 127. Paper, $24.00. 
ISBN 978–0–7156–3744–9.

VERNHES, JEAN-VICTOR. Hermaion: Discovering Ancient Greek Step by Step: A 
New and Efficient Method. Translated and adapted by Monique L. Cardell. 
Paris: Ophrys, 2009. Pp. xxii + 479. Paper, $42.00. ISBN 
978–2–7080–1219–6.

WILLIAMS, ROSE. The Clay-Footed Superheroes. Mythology Tales for the New 
Millennium. Mundelein: Bolchazy–Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2009. Pp. ix + 
63. Paper, $12.00. ISBN 978–086516–719–3.


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