SEPTEMBER 2008 BOOKS RECEIVED
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ALROTH, BRITA, ed. Opuscula Romana 31–32: Annual of the Swedish Institute
in Rome 2006–07. Stockholm: Svenska institutet i Rom, 2008. Pp. 222.
Cloth, €139.66. ISSN 0471–7309.
BARRINGER, JUDITH M. Art, Myth, and Ritual in Classical Greece. Cambridge
and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xv + 267. Paper,
$27.99. ISBN 978–0–521–64647–5.
BATTEGAZZORE, ANTONIO M., ET AL., eds. Sandalion: Quaderni di Cultura
Classica, Cristiana e Medievale 26–28. Sassari: Università degli Studi
di Sassari, 2007. Pp. 305. Paper, no price given. ISBN 88–6025–034–X.
BERNAYS, JACOB. Geschichte der Klassischen Philologie. Spudasmata 120.
Hildesheim, Zurich and New York: Georg Olms Press, 2008. Pp. 198. Cloth,
€29.80. ISBN 978–3–487–13697–4.
BERNSTEIN, NEIL W. In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in
Flavian Epic. Phoenix Supplementary Volumes. Toronto, Buffalo and London:
Toronto University Press, 2008. Pp. ix + 281. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN
978–0–8020–9879–5.
BROWN, P. The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early
Christianity. 20th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2008. Pp. 504. Paper, $27.50. ISBN
9–780231–144070.
BUCKLER, JOHN AND HANS BECK. Central Greece and the Politics of Power in
the Fourth Century BC. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press,
2008. Pp. xviii + 309. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–83705–7.
CUNLIFFE, B. Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC – AD 1000. New Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. 518. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN
978–0–300–11923–7.
LOBUR, J.A. Consensus, Concordia, and the Formation of Roman Imperial
Ideology. New York and London: Routledge, 2008. Pp. 322. Cloth, $95.00.
ISBN 978–0–415–97788–3.
MATTERN, S.P. Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2008. Pp. 279. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN
978–0–8018–8835–9.
BOOKS RECEIVED FOR FORUM REVIEW
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currently offered for Online Forum review. Reviewers should first consult
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CHRISTENSON, DAVID, ed. Plautus: Casina, Amphitryon, Captivi, Pseudolus.
Focus Classical Library. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2008. Pp. v +
272. Paper, $14.95. ISBN 978–1–58510–308.
DEHORATIUS, ED. Ovid Reader. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2008. Pp.
vii + 254. Paper, $26.95. ISBN 978–1–58510–149–8.
DUNMORE, CHARLES W. AND RITA M. FLEISCHER. Studies in Etymology. Second
Edition. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2008. Pp. ix + 236. Paper,
$28.95. ISBN 978–1–58510–012–5.
GANIBAN, RANDALL T. Vergil: Aeneid Book 2. Newburyport, MA: Focus
Publishing, 2008. Pp. viii + 175. Paper, $15.95. ISBN
978–1–58510–226–6.
GEANNIKIS, ERIKK, ANDREW ROMITI AND P.T. WILFORD. Greek Paradigm Handbook.
Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2008. Pp. 250. Paper, $12.95. ISBN
978–1–58510–307–2.
HARRIS, E.M., tr. Demosthenes, Speeches 20–22. Austin: University of
Texas Press, 2008. Pp. 211. Cloth, $22.95. ISBN 978–0–292–71784–8.
HARTNETT, MATTHEW. By Roman Hands: Inscriptions and Graffiti for Students
of Latin. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2008. Pp. xviii + 110. Paper,
$16.95. ISBN 978–1–58510–294–5.
HENDERSON, JEFFREY. Aristophanes’ Frogs. Focus Classical Library.
Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2008. Pp. 107. Paper, $9.95. ISBN
978–1–58510–308–9.
IRWIN, ELIZABETH AND EMILY GREENWOOD, eds. Reading Herodotus: A Study of
the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus’ Histories. Cambridge and New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xv + 343. ISBN
978–0–521–87630–8.
MOURELATOS, A.P.D. The Route of Parmenides. Revised and Expanded. Las
Vegas, Zurich and Athens: Parmenides Publishing, 2008. Pp. 408. Paper,
$42.00. ISBN 978–1–930972–11–7.
NEUMANN, JEANNE MARIE. Lingua Latina: A College Companion based on Hans
Orberg’s Latine Disco. With Vocabulary and Grammar. Newburyport, MA:
Focus Publishing, 2008. Pp. xxiii + 323. Paper, $24.95. ISBN
978–1–58510–191–7.
ROISMAN, HANNA M. Sophocles: Electra. Focus Classical Library. Newburyport,
MA: Focus Publishing, 2008. Pp. 120. Paper, $8.95. ISBN
978–1–58510–281–5.
SACHS, JOE. Aristotle: Poetics. Focus Philosophical Library. Newburyport,
MA: Focus Publishing, 2008. Pp. 80. Paper, $10.95. ISBN
978–1–58510–187–0.
SAGE, M. The Republican Roman Army: A Sourcebook. New York and London:
Routledge, 2008. Pp. 310. Paper, $41.95. ISBN 978–0–415–17880–8.
SCHODER, RAYMOND V. AND VINCENT C. HORRIGAN. Transition to Attic Greek: A
Supplement to A Reading Course in Homeric Greek. Newburyport, MA: Focus
Publishing, 2008. Pp. 37. Paper, $12.95. ISBN 978–1–58510–196–2.
SHELMERDINE, C.W. Introduction to Greek. Second Edition. Newburyport, MA:
Focus Publishing, 2008. Pp. xiv + 240. Paper, $36.95. ISBN
978–1–58510–184–9.
THOMPSON, DAMIAN. Counterknowledge: How we surrendered to conspiracy
theories, quack medicine, bogus science, and fake history. New York and
London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. Pp. 162. Cloth, $21.95. ISBN
978–0–393–06769–9.
WYKE, M. Caesar: A Life in Western Culture. Chicago and London: University
of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. 287. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN:
978–0–226–921–453–2.
ZIOLKOWSKI, T. Minos and the Moderns. Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 2008. Pp. 173. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN
978–0–19–533691–7.
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