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.
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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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