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AUGUST 2008 BOOKS RECEIVED

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Please note that some of the books listed below may already be assigned to 
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Barrett, Anthony A., ed. Lives of the Caesars. Malden, MA and Oxford: 
Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Pp. xvii + 322. Paper, $35.00. ISBN 
978–1–4051–2755–4.

Bodel, John and Saul M. Olyan, eds. Household and Family Religion in 
Antiquity. The Ancient World: Comparative Histories. Malden, MA and Oxford: 
Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Pp. xvii + 324. Cloth, $100.00. ISBN 
978–1–4051–7579–1.

Collard, Christopher and Martin Cropp, eds. Euripides VII Fragments: 
Aegeus–Meleager. Loeb Classical Library 504. Cambridge and London: Harvard 
University Press, 2008. Pp. xxxix + 640. Cloth, $24.00. ISBN 
978–0–674–99625–0.

Drago, Anna Tiziana. Aristeneto: Lettere d’amore. Satura 5. Lecce: Pensa 
Multimedia, 2007. Pp. 656. Paper, €38.00. ISBN 97888–8232–550–3.

Erasmo, Mario. Reading Death in Ancient Rome. Columbus: Ohio State 
University Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 257. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 
978–0–8142–1092–5.

Gargarin, Michael. Writing Greek Law. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge 
University Press, 2008. Pp. xi + 282. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–88661–1.

Giua, Maria Antonietta. Ripensando Tacito (e Ronald Syme): Storia e 
storiografia. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2007. Pp. 231. Paper, no price given. 
ISBN 978–884672023–8.

Harries, Jill. Law and Crime in the Roman World. Key Themes in Ancient 
History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x + 
148. Paper, $29.99. ISBN 978–0–521–53532–8.

Hillman, D.C.A. The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western 
Civilization. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008. Pp. 243. Cloth, $24.95. 
ISBN 0–312–35249–2.

Howatson, M.C. and Frisbee C.C. Sheffield, eds. Plato: The Symposium. 
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge and New York: 
Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xxxv + 91. Paper, $13.99. ISBN 
978–0–521–68298–5.

Izzet, Vedia. The Archaeology of Etruscan Society. Cambridge and New York: 
Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 320. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–85877–9.

Karavites, Peter. Homer and the Bronze Age: The Reflection of Humanistic 
Ideals in Diplomatic Practices. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008. Pp. xv 
+ 242. Cloth, $107.00. ISBN 978–1–59333–985–2.

Kitchen, K.A. Ramesside Inscriptions Volume V: Setnakht, Ramesses III, & 
Contemporaries. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Pp. xxiv 
+ 523. Cloth, $400.00. ISBN 978–0–631–18431–7.

Kousser, Rachel Meredith. Hellenistic and Roman Ideal Sculpture: The Allure 
of the Classical. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 
Pp. xv + 208. Paper, $85.00. ISBN 978–0–521–87782–4.

Larson, Stephanie L. Tales of Epic Ancestry: Boiotian Collective Identity 
in the Late Archaic and Early Classical Periods. Historia Einzelschriften 
197. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Press, 2007. Pp. 238. Paper, €54.00. ISBN 
978–3–515–09028–5.

Lehoux, Daryn. Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World: 
Parapegmata and Related Texts in Classical and Near-Eastern Societies. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv + 566. 
Cloth, $125.00. ISBN 978–0–521–85181–7.

Luraghi, Nino. The Ancient Messenians: Constructions of Ethnicity and 
Memory. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv + 
389. Cloth, $120.00. ISBN 978–0–521–85587–7.

McNeely, Ian F. with Lisa Wolverton. Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria 
to the Internet. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. Pp. xxii + 318. 
Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 978–0–393–06506–0.

Olson, S. Douglas, ed. Athenaeus Vol. 4: The Learned Banqueters Books 
8–10.420e. Loeb Classical Library 235. Cambridge and London: Harvard 
University Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 488. Cloth, $24.00. ISBN 
978–0–674–99626–7.

Polansky, Ronald, ed. Aristotle’s “De Anima”: A Critical Commentary. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi + 580. 
Cloth, $100.00. ISBN 978–0–521–86274–5.

Remes, Paulina. Plotinus on Self: The Philosophy of the ‘We’. Cambridge and 
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. ix + 148. Cloth, $95.00. 
ISBN 978–0–521–86729–0.

Schott, Jeremy M. Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late 
Antiquity. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: 
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Pp. 254. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 
978–0–81224092–4.

de Souza, Philip and John France, eds. War and Peace in Ancient and 
Medieval History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 
Pp. xi + 247. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–81703–5.

Spawforth, A.J.S., ed. The Court and Court Society in Ancient Monarchies. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii + 358. 
Cloth, $115.00. ISBN 978–0–521–87448–9.

Stamper, John W. The Architecture of Roman Temples: The Republic to the 
Middle Empire. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 
Pp. xv + 287 + illustrations. Paper, $32.99. ISBN 978–0–521–72371–8.

Traill, Ariana. Women and the Comic Plot in Menander. Cambridge and New 
York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. x + 301. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–88226–2.

Voskuilen,Thijs and Rose Mary Sheldon. Operation Messiah: St. Paul, Roman 
Intelligence and the Birth of Christianity. London and Portland: Vallentine 
Mitchell, 2008. Pp. xxvi + 284. Paper, $32.95. ISBN 978–0–85303–702–6.

Woodard, Roger D., ed. The Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xix + 264. 
Paper, $39.99. ISBN 978–0–521–68494–1.

Woodard, Roger D., ed. The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor. Cambridge and 
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xix + 185. Paper, $39.99. 
ISBN 978–0–521–68496–5.

Woodard, Roger D., ed. The Ancient Languages of Europe. Cambridge and New 
York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xix + 261. Paper, $39.99. ISBN 
978–0–521–68495–8.

Woodard, Roger D., ed. The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xix + 262. 
Paper, $39.99. ISBN 978–0–521–68498–9.


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