BOOKS RECEIVED MARCH 2010
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BAKOLA, EMMANUELA. Cratinus and the Art of Comedy. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2009. Pp. xv + 380. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN
978–0–19–956935–9.
BRADLEY, MARK. Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 267. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN
978–0–521–11042–6.
CANEPA, MATTHEW P. The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual Kinship
Between Rome and Sasanian Iran. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2009. Pp. xx + 425. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 978–0–520–25727–6.
CARTLEDGE, PAUL. Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xv + 6 maps + 24 plates + 261. Cloth,
$19.95. ISBN 978–0–19–923338–0.
CROWTHER, NIGEL B. Sport in Ancient Times. Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 2010. Pp. xxiii + 183. Paper, $19.95. ISBN
978–0–8061–3995–1.
DUBOIS, PAGE. Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2010. Pp. xi + 154. Paper, $24.95. ISBN
978–0–19–538085–9.
GREEN, PETER, tr. Diodorus Siculus: The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens,
Books 11–14.34 (480–401 BCE). Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
Pp. xiii + 332. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 978–0–292–72125–8.
GREENE, ELLEN. The Erotics of Domination: Male Desire and the Mistress in
Latin Love Poetry. Oklahoma Series in Classical Literature 37. Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. Pp. xvi + 142. Paper, $16.95. ISBN
978–0–8061–4050–6.
HALL, EDITH. Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii + 413. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN
978–0–19–923251–2.
HEATHER, PETER. Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of
Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvii + 734. Cloth,
$34.95. ISBN 978–0–19–973560–0.
LIGHTFOOD, J.L., ed., tr. Hellenistic Collection: Philitas. Alexander of
Aetolia. Hermesianax. Euphorion. Parthenius. Loeb Classical Library 508.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xix + 662. Cloth, $24.00.
ISBN 978–0–674–99636–6.
MILLER, JOHN F. Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 408. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN
978–0–521–51683–9.
NASRALLAH, LAURA SALAH. Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture:
The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi + 334. Paper, $95.00. ISBN
978–0–521–76652–4.
O’KEEFE, TIM. Epicureanism. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2010. Pp. xvii + 206. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 978–0–520–26471–7.
OAKLEY, FRANCIS. Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in
Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050). The Emergence of
Western Political Thought in the Latin Middle Ages, Vol. 1. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv + 306. Cloth, $38.00. ISBN
978–0–300–15538–9.
REED, NANCY B. Awesome Grandeur: Greco-Roman Classicism in American
Railroad Stations. Salt Lake City: American University & College Press,
2009. Pp. 160. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 978–1–58982–570–3.
REYNOLDS, PAUL. Hispania and the Roman Mediterranean, AD 100–700:
Ceramics and Trade. London: Duckworth, 2010. Pp. xi + 372. Cloth, $80.00.
ISBN 978–0–7156–3862–0.
SCHOFIELD, MALCOM, ed. Plato: Gorgias, Menexenus, Protagoras. Translated by
Tom Griffith. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. New
York: Cambridge University Pres, 2009. Pp. xliv + 214. Paper, $29.99. ISBN
978–0–521–54600–3.
SHACKLETON BAILEY, D.R., ed., tr. Cicero’s Orations: Philippics 1–6.
Revised by John T. Ramsey and Gesine Manuwald. Loeb Classical Library 189.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. lxvii + 321 + 3 maps. Cloth,
$24.00. ISBN 978–0–674–99634–2.
SHACKLETON BAILEY, D.R., ed., tr. Cicero’s Orations: Philippics 7–14.
Revised by John T. Ramsey and Gesine Manuwald. Loeb Classical Library 507.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 365. Cloth, $24.00.
ISBN 978–0–674–99635–9.
SIDWELL, KEITH. Aristophanes the Democrat: The Politics of Satirical Comedy
during the Peloponnesian War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Pp. xv + 407. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–51998–4.
SOLODOW, JOSEPH B. Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and the
Romance Languages. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xii +
356. Paper, $22.99. ISBN 978–0–521–73418–9.
VORLESUNG, JULIUS-WELLHAUSEN. Albrecht Dihle: Hellas und der Orient. Berlin
and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. Pp. 60. Paper, $13.97. ISBN
978–3–11–021956–2.
WRIGHT, M.R. Introducing Greek Philosophy. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 244. Paper, $24.95. ISBN
978–0–520–26148–8.
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