BOOKS RECEIVED JULY 2009

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BALOT, RYAN K., ed. A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought. 
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Chichester and Malden, MA: 
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xxviii + 659. Cloth, $199.99. ISBN 
978–1–4051–5143–6.

BATTEGAZZORE, ANTONIO M., et al., eds. Sandalion: Quaderni di Cultura 
Classica, Cristiana e Medievale 29–30. Sassari: Università degli Studi 
di Sassari, 2007. Pp. 305. Paper, no price given. ISBN 88–6025–036–6.

BITEL, LISA M. Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit 
of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe. Oxford and New York: 
Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 299. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 
978–0–195–33652–8.

BOONE, JAMES L. Lost Civilization: The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and 
Portugal. Duckworth Debates in Archaeology. London: Duckworth, 2009. Pp. 
176. Paper, $22.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3568–1.

BOWIE, EWEN AND JAS ELSNER, eds. Philostratus: Greek Culture in the Roman 
World. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 
401. Cloth, $135.00. ISBN 978–0–521–82720–1.

BRENNAN, T. COREY AND HARRIET I. FLOWER, eds. East & West: Papers in 
Ancient History Presented to Glen W. Bowersock. Loeb Classical Monographs 
14. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. ix + 208. 
Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 978–0–674–03348–1.

BRIGHTON, MARK ANDREW. The Sicarii in Josephus' Judean War: Rhetorical 
Analysis and Historical Observations. Early Judaism and Its Literature 27. 
Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. Pp. xiv + 186. Paper, $26.95. ISBN 
978–90–04–16920–3.

BUDELMANN, FELIX. Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric. Cambridge Companions 
to Literature. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 
Pp. xxii + 482. Paper, $39.99. ISBN 978–0–521–84944–9.

CASANOVA-ROBIN, HÉLÈNE, ed. Ovide: Figures de l’Hybride. Colloques, 
congrès et conférences sur la Renaissance européenne 64. Paris: Honoré 
Champion, 2009. Pp. 509. Cloth, €94.00. ISBN 978–2–7453–1792–6.

CLAASSEN, JO-MARIE. Ovid Revisited: The Poet in Exile. London: Duckworth, 
2008. Pp. xii + 292. Paper, $40.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3783–8.

FLEURY, PHILIPPE AND OLIVIER DESBORDES, eds. Roma Illustrata: 
Représentations de la ville. Actes du colloque international de Caen 
(6–8 octobre 2005). Caen: Caen University Press, 2008. Pp. 456. Paper, 
€22.00. ISBN 978–2–84133–310–3.

GAISSER, JULIA HAIG. Catullus. Blackwell Introductions to the Classical 
World. Chichester and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. x + 256. 
Cloth, $99.95. ISBN 978–1–4051–1889–7.

GALLO, LUCIANA. Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture: The Elgin 
Drawings at the British Museum. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge 
University Press, 2009. Pp. xvii + 354. Cloth, $150.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–88163–0.

GERSON, LLOYD P. Ancient Epistemology. Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 179. 
Paper, $28.99. ISBN 978–0–521–69189–5.

GOLDEN, JONATHAN M. Ancient Canaan and Israel: An Introduction. Oxford and 
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 413. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 
978–0–19–537985–3.

GOLDHILL, SIMON AND EDITH HALL, eds. Sophocles and the Greek Tragic 
Tradition. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 
xiv + 352. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–88785–4.

GOTTLIEB, PAULA. The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics. Cambridge and New York: 
Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xix + 262. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–76176–5.

HALE, JOHN R. Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the 
Birth of Democracy. New York: Viking Press, 2009. Pp. xxxiii + 395. Cloth, 
$29.95. ISBN 978–0–670–02080–5.

HERRMAN, JUDSON, ed. Hyperides: Funeral Oration. With Translation and 
Commentary. American Classical Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 
2009. Pp. xiv + 168. Cloth, $68.00. ISBN 978-0–195–38865–7.

HOWELL, PETER. Martial. Ancients in Action. London: Bristol Classical 
Press, 2009. Pp. 126. Paper, $23.00. ISBN 978–1–85399–702–0.

HUNTER, RICHARD AND IAN RUTHERFORD, eds. Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek 
Culture: Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism. Cambridge and New York: 
Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 344. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–89878–2.

KAGAN, JEROME. The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and 
the Humanities in the 21st Century. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge 
University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 324. Paper, $70.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–51842–0.

KALDELLIS, ANTHONY. The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in 
Byzantine Athens. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 
Pp. xvi + 252. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–88228–6.


KAMESAR, ADAM, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Philo. Cambridge Companions 
to Philosophy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 
Pp. xv + 301. Paper, $29.99. ISBN 978–0–521–67802–5.

KNOX, PETER E., ed. A Companion to Ovid. Blackwell Companions to the 
Ancient World. Chichester and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xviii 
+ 534. Cloth, $199.95. ISBN 978–1–4051–4183–3.

LEVIN, FLORA R. Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music. Cambridge and New 
York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxiii + 364. Cloth, $85.00. 
ISBN 978–0–521–51890–1.

LIVELEY, GENEVIEVE AND PATRICIA SALZMAN-MITCHELL, eds. Latin Elegy and 
Narratology: Fragments of Story. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 
2008. Pp. x + 285. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 978–0–8142–0406–1.

MAGUIRE, LAURIE. Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood. Chichester and 
Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xviii + 258. Paper, $35.00. ISBN 
978–1–4051–2635–9.

MARTÍN, S.R. El tópico grecolatino del concilio de los dioses. Spudasmata 
125. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2009. Pp. 464. Paper, €68.00. ISBN 
978–3–487–13984–5.

NETZ, REVIEL. Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xv + 272. 
Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–89894–2.

OPPER, THORSTEN. Hadrian: Empire & Conflict. Cambridge: Harvard University 
Press, 2008. Pp. 256. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 978–0–674–03095–4.

OSBORNE, ROBIN. Greece in the Making: 1200 – 479 BC. 2nd Edition. 
Routledge History of the Ancient World. London and New York: Routledge, 
2009. Pp. xx + 377. Paper, $41.95. ISBN 978–0–415–46992–0.

PALAGIA, OLGA, ed. Art in Athens During the Peloponnesian War. Cambridge 
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 302 + 76 tones + 
8 plates. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN 978–0–521–84933–3.

PANOUSSI, VASSILIKI. Greek Tragedy in Vergil’s “Aeneid”: Ritual, 
Empire, and Intertext. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 
2009. Pp. xiii + 257. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 978–0–521–89522–4.

PAPPALARDO, UMBERTO. The Splendor of Roman Wall Painting. Photographs by 
Luciano Romano. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2009. Pp. 240. Cloth, $. 
ISBN 978–0–89236–958–4.

PARTENIE, CATALIN, ed. Plato’s Myths. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge 
University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 272 + 11 tones. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–88790–8.

POWELL, BARRY B. Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of 
Civilization. Chichester and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xx + 
276. Cloth, $99.95. ISBN 978–1–4051–6256–2.

THOMPSON, E.A. The Visigoths in the Time of Ulfila. 2nd Edition. Foreword 
by Michael Kulikowski. London: Duckworth, 2008. Pp. xxiii + 186. Paper, 
$24.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3700–5.

TRAINA, GIUSTO. 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire. 
Preface by Averil Cameron. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. 
xix + 203. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 978–0–691–13669–1.

TUOMINEN, MIIRA. The Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle. Ancient 
Philosophies 6. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California 
Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 336. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 978–0–520–25981–2.

WATERFIELD, ROBIN. Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths. New York: W.W. 
Norton & Company, 2009. Pp. xxv + 253. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN 
978–0–393–06527–5.

WILLIAMS, J.D., ed. An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric: Essential 
Readings. Chichester and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xii + 560. 
Paper, $54.95. ISBN 978–1–4051–5860–2.

YATROMANOLAKIS, DIMITRIOS. Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception. 
Hellenic Studies 28. Cambridge, MA and London: Center for Hellenic Studies, 
2007. Pp. xx + 442. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 978–0–674–02686–5.


BOOKS RECEIVED FOR FORUM REVIEW

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BUDIN, STEPHANIE LYNN. The Ancient Greeks: An Introduction. Oxford and New 
York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 467. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 
978–0–19–537984–6.

MCGEOUGH, KEVIN M. The Romans: An Introduction. Oxford and New York: Oxford 
University Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 380. Paper, $34.95. ISBN 
978–0–195–37986–0.

SANSONE, DAVID. Ancient Greek Civilization. 2nd edition. Malden, MA and 
Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xxvii + 288. Paper, $34.95. ISBN 
978–1–4051–6732–1.



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