APRIL 2009 BOOKS RECEIVED 

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BOWERSOCK, G.W. From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition. 
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 240. Cloth, 
$45.00. ISBN 978–0–19–537667–8.

DOHERTY, LILLIAN E., ed. Homer’s Odyssey. Oxford Readings in Classical 
Studies. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 360. 
Paper, $59.95. ISBN 978–0–19–923333–5.

HECKEL, WALDEMAR AND LAWRENCE A. TRITLE, eds. Alexander the Great: A New 
History. Oxford, Chichester, and Malden, MA: Wiley–Blackwell, 2009. Pp. 
xxi + 366. Paper, $45.00. ISBN 978–1–4051–3082–0.

HOLZBERG, NIKLAS. Horaz: Dicter und Werk. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2009. Pp. 240. 
Cloth, €24.90. ISBN 978–3–406–57962–2.

HÜBNER, SABINE R. AND DAVID M. RATZAN, eds. Growing Up Fatherless in 
Antiquity. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 
xvi + 333. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN 978–0–521–49050–4.

JOYCE, ROSEMARY A. Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and 
Archaeology. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2009. Pp. 152 + 35 illustrations. 
Paper, $17.95. ISBN 978–0–500–28727–9.

MALKIN, IRAD, CHRISTY CONSTANTAKOPOULOU AND KATERINA PANAGOPOULOU, eds. 
Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean. London and New York: 
Routledge, 2009. Pp. xiii + 321. Cloth, $115.00. ISBN 
978–0–415–45989–1.

MARIN, PAMELA. Blood in the Forum: The Struggle For the Roman Republic. 
London and New York: Continuum, 2009. Pp. xix + 205. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 
978–1–8472–5167–1.

MITCHELL, LYNETTE AND LENE RUBINSTEIN, eds. Greek History and Epigraphy: 
Essays in Honour of P.J. Rhodes. Oakville, CT: The David Brown Book Co., 
2009. Pp. xxviii + 301. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN 978–1–905125–23–4.

PARKER, GRANT. The Making of Roman India. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge 
University Press, 2008. Pp. xv + 357. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–85834–2.

PAVAN, ALBERTO. La gara delle quadrighe e il gioco della guerra: saggio di 
commento a P. Papinii Statii Thebaidos liber VI 238–549. Alessandria: 
Edizioni dell’Orso, 2009. Pp. x + 283. Paper, €20,00. ISBN 
978–88–6274–103–3.

PHILLIPS, DAVID D. Avengers of Blood: Homicide in Athenian Law and Custom 
from Draco to Demosthenes. Historia Einzelschriften 202. Stuttgart: Franz 
Steiner, 2008. Pp. 279. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN 978–3–515–09123–7.

PITASSI, MICHAEL. The Navies of Rome. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 
2009. Pp. xxvii + 348. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN 978–1–84383–409–0.

PRAG, JONATHAN AND IAN REPATH. Petronius: A Handbook. Oxford, Chichester, 
and Malden, MA: Wiley–Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xiv + 256. Cloth, $100.00. 
ISBN 978–1–4051–5687–5.

RIMELL, VICTORIA E. Martial’s Rome: Empire and the Ideology of Epigram. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. viii + 231. 
Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–82822–2.

ROUSSEAU, PHILIP, ed. A Companion to Late Antiquity. Oxford, Chichester, 
and Malden, MA: Wiley–Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xxix + 709. Cloth, $200.00. 
ISBN 978–1–4051–1980–1.

SAUNDERS, TIMOTHY. Bucolic Ecology: Virgil’s Eclogues and the 
Environmental Literary Tradition. London: Duckworth, 2008. Pp. 184. Paper, 
€18.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3617–6.

SHIPLEY, GRAHAM, JOHN VANDERSPOEL, DAVID MATTINGLY AND LIN FOXHALL, eds. 
The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization. Cambridge and New York: 
Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xliv + 981. Paper, $36.99. ISBN 
978–0–521–73150–8.

WATERFIELD, ROBIN. Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths. New York and 
London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009. Pp. xxv + 245. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN 
978–0–393–06527–5.

WINKLER, MARTIN M. Cinema and Classical Texts: Apollo’s New Light. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 347. 
Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–51860–4.


BOOKS RECEIVED FOR FORUM REVIEW

The following are books, translations and textbooks of pedagogical interest 
currently offered for Online Forum review. Reviewers should first consult 
the reviewer guidelines at
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ALDRETE, GREGORY S. Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia. 
The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series. Norman: University 
of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Pp. xv + 278. Paper, $55.00. ISBN 
978–0–8061–4027–8.

BENARDETE, SETH, tr. The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato’s 
Gorgias and Phaedrus. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 
2009. Pp. ix + 205. Paper, $25.00. ISBN 978–0–226–04241–1.

——, tr. The Tragedy and Comedy of Life: Plato’s Philebus. Chicago and 
London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 250. Paper, $27.50. 
ISBN 978–0–226–04276–3.

CHAMBERS, P.L. The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius: An Intermediate Reader 
and Grammar Review. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 
108. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 978–0–8061–3993–7.

FAINLIGHT, RUTH AND ROBERT J. LITTMAN, trs. The Theban Plays: Oedipus the 
King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University 
Press, 2009. Pp. lxiv + 219. Paper, $18.95. ISBN 978–0–8018–9134–2.

GOFF, BARBARA. Euripides: Trojan Women. Companions to Greek and Roman 
Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 2009. Pp. 173. Paper, €12.99. ISBN 
978–0–7156–3545–2.

JOHNSTON, IAN, tr. Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morals. 
Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2009. Pp. 135. Paper, $13.95. 
ISBN 978–0–9797571–9–8.

——, tr. Friedrich Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy. Arlington, VA: 
Richer Resources Publications, 2009. Pp. 128. Paper, $13.95. ISBN 
978–1–935238–90–4.

——, tr. Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil. Arlington, VA: 
Richer Resources Publications, 2009. Pp. 189. Paper, $17.95. ISBN 
978–09797571–6–7.

——, tr. Immanuel Kant: Universal Natural History and Theory of the 
Heavens. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2008. Pp. 147. 
Paper, $14.95. ISBN 978–1–935238–91–1.

——, tr. Sophocles: Philoctetes. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources 
Publications, 2008. Pp. 79. Paper, $8.95. ISBN 978–193523892–8.

JOYAL, MARK, IAIN MCDOUGALL AND J.C. YARDLEY. Greek and Roman Education: A 
Sourcebook. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. xx + 292. Paper, 
$35.95. ISBN 978–0–415–33807.

LAURIN, JOSEPH R. Heracles and Oedipus in Greek Classical Drama. Victoria, 
BC, Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2008. Pp. 321. Paper, $27.00. ISBN 
14–2517–237–7.

——. Poets of Tragedy in Classical Athens. Victoria, BC, Canada: 
Trafford Publishing, 2008. Pp. 301. Paper, $27.00. ISBN 
14–2516–400–5.

RELIHAN, JOEL C., tr. Apuleius: The Tale of Cupid and Psyche. Indianapolis 
and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2009. Pp. xxiii + 102. 
Paper, $8.95. ISBN 978–0–87220–972–5.

SANSONE, DAVID. Ancient Greek Civilization. Oxford, Chichester, and Malden, 
MA: Wiley–Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xxvii + 288. Paper, $35.00. ISBN 
978–1–4051–6732–1.

STOREY, IAN C., tr. Euripides: Suppliant Women. Companions to Greek and 
Roman Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 2008. Pp. 160. Paper, €12.99. ISBN 
978–0–7156–3626–8.

TRACY, STEPHEN V. Pericles: A Sourcebook and Reader. Berkeley, Los Angeles 
and London: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. xxiii + 219. Paper, 
$17.95. ISBN 978–0–520–25604–0.


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