BOOKS RECEIVED MAY 2009

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BERTI, IRENE AND MARTA GARCÍA MORCILLO, eds. Hellas on Screen: Cinematic 
Receptions of Ancient History, Literature and Myth. Alte Geschichte Habes 
45. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2009. Pp. 266. Paper, €48.00. ISBN 
978–3–515–09223–4.

BRAUND, SUSANNA, tr. Seneca, De Clementia. Oxford and New York: Oxford 
University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 456. Cloth, $150.00. ISBN 
978–0–19–924036–4.

COFFEE, NEIL. The Commerce of War: Exchange and Social Order in Latin Epic. 
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 326. Cloth, 
$50.00. ISBN 978–0–226–11187–2.

FRIEDENBERG, DANIEL M. Sasanian Jewry and Its Culture: A Lexicon of Jewish 
and Related Seals. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 
Pp. xiv + 74. Paper, $40.00. ISBN 978–0–252–03367–4.

GOLDSWORTHY, ADRIAN. How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower. New Haven and 
London: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 531. Cloth, $32.50. ISBN 
978–0–300–13719–4.

HALL, JON. Politeness and Politics in Cicero’s Letters. Oxford and New 
York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 275. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 
978–0–19–532906–3.

JOHNSON, W.R. A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome: Readings in Propertius and His 
Genre. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 165. Cloth, 
$29.95. ISBN 978–0–8142–0399–6.

KAHN, CHARLES H. Essays on Being. Oxford and New York: Oxford University 
Press, 2009. Pp. 225. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 978–0–19–953480–7.

LEROUX, VIRGINIE, ed. Juvenilia. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2009. Pp. 567. 
Cloth, €130.55. ISBN 978–2–600–01222–5

PAVLOCK, BARBARA. The Image of the Poet in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Madison, 
WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. Pp. x + 198. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 
978–029923140–8.

PERKINS, JUDITH. Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era. 
Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. London and New York: Routledge, 
2009. Pp. x + 209. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN 978–0–415–39744–5.

SOMMERSTEIN, ALAN H. Talking about Laughter and other studies in Greek 
Comedy. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 343. 
Cloth, $125.00. ISBN 978–0–19–955419–8.

STROUMSA, GUY G. The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late 
Antiquity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Translated by Susan 
Emanuel. Pp. xviii + 136. Cloth, $32.00. ISBN 978–0–226–77738–2.

WINKLER, MARTIN M. The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology. Columbus: 
Ohio State University Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 223. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN 
978–0–8142–0864–9.

ZEITLIN, FROMA I. Under the Sign of the Shield: Semiotics and Aeschylus’ 
Seven Against Thebes. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 
Inc., 2009. Pp. xix + 177. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 978–0–7391–2589–2.


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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GRAF, FRITZ. Apollo. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World. London and New 
York: Routledge, 2009. Pp. xviii + 190. Paper, $30.95. ISBN 
978–0–415–31711–5.

MEINECK, PETER, CECELIA EATON LUSCHNIG AND PAUL WOODRUFF, trs. Aeschylus, 
Euripides, Sophocles: The Electra Plays. Indianapolis and Cambridge: 
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2009. Pp. xxxvii + 180. Paper, $11.95. 
ISBN 978–0–87220–964–0.

PLATT, RICHARD. Roman Diary: The Journal of Iliona of Mytilini, Who Was 
Captured and Sold as a Slave in Rome, AD 107. Illustrated by David Parkins. 
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2009. Pp. 64. Cloth, $18.99. ISBN 
978–0–7636–3480–3.


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