MAY 2008 BOOKS RECEIVED 

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BRISSON, LUC. How Philosophers Saved Myths. Translated by Catherine 
Tihanyi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. 221. Paper, 
$19.00. ISBN 978–0–226–07537–2.

BUDIN, STEPHANIE LYNN. The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 366. Cloth, 
$90.00. ISBN 978–0–521–88090–9.

CHRISTESEN, PAUL. Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History. Cambridge 
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 580. Cloth, $115.00. 
ISBN 978–0–521–86634–7.

CYRINO, MONICA, ed. Rome, Season One: History Makes Television. Malden, MA, 
Oxford and Victoria: Blackwell Publishing Company, 2008. Pp. 272. Paper, 
$34.95. ISBN 978–1–4051–6775–8.

ECKSTEIN, ARTHUR M. Rome Enters the Greek West: From Anarchy to Hierarchy 
in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230–170 BC. Malden, MA, Oxford and 
Victoria: Blackwell Publishing Company, 2008. Pp. 439. Cloth, $120.00. ISBN 
978–1–4051–6072–8.

FITCH, JOHN, ed. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Seneca. New York: 
Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. vi + 438. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 
978–0–19–928209–8.

GILLESPIE, STUART AND PHILIP HARDIE, eds. The Cambridge Companion to 
Lucretius. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 
365. Paper, $34.99. ISBN 978–0–521–61266–1.

GREGORY, JUSTINA, ed. A Companion to Greek Tragedy. Malden, MA, Oxford and 
Victoria: Blackwell Publishing Company, 2008. Pp. 552. Paper, $45.00. ISBN 
978–1–4051–7549–4.

GRENE, DAVID. Of Farming & Classics: A Memoir. Chicago: University of 
Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 169. Paper, $16.00. ISBN 978–0–226–30802–9.

KALDELLIS, ANTHONY. Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek 
Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition. Cambridge and New 
York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xi + 468. Cloth, $125.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–87688–9.

LEWIS, JOHN DAVID. Solon the Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens. 
London: Gerald Duckworth & Company, 2008. Pp. 184. Paper, $29.95. ISBN 
978–0–7156–3728–9.

LINDBERG, DAVID C. The Beginnings of Western Science. Chicago: University 
of Chicago Press, 2008. Halftones, line drawings, maps, table. Pp. 480. 
Paper, $25.00. ISBN 0–226–48205–7.

MCHARDY, FIONA. Revenge in Athenian Culture. London: Gerald Duckworth & 
Company, 2008. Pp. 152. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3569–8.

PHANG, SARA ELISE. Roman Military Service: Ideologies of Discipline in the 
Late Republic and Early Principate. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge 
University Press, 2008. Pp. 336. Cloth, unlisted. ISBN 978–0–521–88269–9.

POMEROY, ARTHUR J. ‘Then it was destroyed by the Volcano’: The ancient 
world in film and on television. London: Gerald Duckworth & Company, 2007. 
Pp. 152. Paper, $27.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3026–6.

SANDERS, LIONEL JEHUDA. The Legend of Dion. Toronto: Edgar Kent, 2008. Pp. 
302. Cloth, $82.50. ISBN 978–0–88866657–4.

STRAY, CHRISTOPHER, ed. Remaking the Classics: Literature, Genre and Media 
in Britain 1800-2000. London: Gerald Duckworth & Company, 2008. Pp. xi + 
153. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3673–2.

TATUM, W. JEFFREY. Always I am Caesar. Malden, MA, Oxford and Victoria: 
Blackwell Publishing Company, 2008. Pp. 216. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 
978–1–4051–7525–8.

TAYLOR, JOHN. Classics and the Bible: Hospitality and Recognition. London: 
Gerald Duckworth & Company, 2007. Pp. 204. Paper, $33.00. ISBN 
978–0–7156–3481–3.

VON REDEN, SITTA. Money in Ptolemaic Egypt. Cambridge and New York: 
Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. 354. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–85264–7.

WARDEN, JOHN. Taking Back the Text: Poetic Technique in Catullus, 
Propertius and Tibullus. Toronto: Edgar Kent, 2008. Pp. 111. Cloth, $72.50. 
ISBN 978–0–88866–656–7.

WOOTEN, CECIL. A Commentary on Demosthenes’ Philippic I. American 
Philological Association Texts and Commentaries Series. New York: Oxford 
University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii + 179. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 
978–0–19–533326–8.


AVAILABLE FROM THE PRESS

BINDER, CARSTEN. Plutarchs Vita des Artaxerxes. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 
Publishers, 2008. Pp. 417. Paper, $145.00.

JANACEK, KAREL. Studien zu Sextus Empiricus, Diogenes Laertius und zur 
pyrrhonischen Skepsis. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Publishers, 2008. Pp. 386. 
Paper, $145.00.

SEEWALD, MARTIN. Studien zum 9. Buch von Lucans Bellum Civile. Mit einem 
Kommentar zu den Versen 1–733. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Publishers, 2008. 
Pp. 507. Paper, $145.00.


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