BOOKS RECEIVED NOVEMBER 2009
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ANDRIANOU, DIMITRA. The Furniture and Furnishings of Ancient Greek Houses
and Tombs. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 213.
Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 978–0–521–76087–4.
BELL, SINCLAIR AND INGE LYSE HANSEN, eds. Role Models in the Roman World:
Identity and Assimilation. Supplements to the Memoirs of the American
Academy in Rome. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. Pp. x +
316. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 978–0–472–11589–1.
BERTMAN, STEPHEN AND LOIS PARKER, eds. The Healing Power of Ancient
Literature. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. Pp.
xii + 127. Cloth, $52.99. ISBN 1–4438–0988–8.
COLTMAN, VICCY. Classical Sculpture and the Culture of Collecting in
Britain Since 1760. Classical Presences. New York: Oxford University Press,
2009. Pp. xiv + 315. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–19–955126–2.
CONNELLY, JOAN BRETON. Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient
Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xv + 421 + 27
plates. Paper, $45.00. ISBN 978–0–691–14384–2.
FLOWER, HARRIET I. Roman Republics. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2010. Pp. xv + 204. Paper, $29.95. ISBN 978–0–691–14043–8.
FÖLLINGER, SABINE. Aischylos: Meister der griechischen Tragödie. Munich:
C.H. Beck, 2009. Pp. 224. Cloth, €24.90. ISBN 978–3–406–59130–3.
GRETHLEIN, JONAS AND ANTONIOS RENGAKOS, eds. Narratology and
Interpretation: The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature. Trends
in Classics. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. Pp. vii + 630. Cloth,
$140.00. ISBN 978–3–11–021542–9.
HALLA-AHO, HILLA. The Non-Literary Latin Letters: A study of their syntax
and pragmatics. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 124. Helsinki: Societas
Scientiarum Fennica, 2009. Pp. 189. Paper, €22.00. ISBN
978–951–653–363–9.
JOHNSON, MARK J. The Roman Imperial Mausoleum in Late Antiquity. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xviii + 296. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN
978–0–521–51371–5.
KIM, HYUN JIN. Ethnicity and Foreigners In Ancient Greece and China.
London: Duckworth, 2009. Pp. vi + 217. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN
978–0–7156–3807–1.
KRONENBERG, LEAH. Allegories of Farming from Greece and Rome: Philosophical
Satire in Xenophon, Varro, and Virgil. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 223. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–51726–3.
LEONHARDT, JÜRGEN. Latein: Geschichte einer Weltsprache. Munich: C.H.
Beck, 2009. Pp. ix + 339. Cloth, €24.90. ISBN 978–3–406–56898–5.
MAYOR, ADRIENNE. The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates,
Rome’s Deadliest Enemy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp.
xxii + 448. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 978–0–691–12683–8.
MIGEOTTE, LEOPOLD. The Economy of the Greek Cities: From the Archaic Period
to the Early Roman Empire. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
Pp. 210. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 978–0–520–25366–7.
ROSATI, GIANPIERO, ed. Metamorfosi di Ovidio. Vol. III Libri V–VII.
Translated by Gioachino Chiarini. Pp. 416. Cloth, €30,00. ISBN
978–88–04–58348–6.
BOOKS RECEIVED FOR ONLINE 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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COWAN, ROSS. Roman Conquests: Italy. South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military,
2009. Pp. xvii + 162. Cloth, £19.99. ISBN 184415937–X.
HARRISON, S.J., ed. Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry
in English. Classical Presences. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Pp. xiv + 346. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–19–923373–1.
HARRISON, THOMAS, ed. The Great Empires of the Ancient World. Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty, 2009. Pp. 288 + 80 b/w illustrations. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN
978–0–89236–987–4.
ROBERTSON, ROBIN, tr. Euripides: Medea. New York and London: Free Press,
2009. Pp. xxiv + 87. Paper, $9.99. ISBN 978–1–4165–9225–9.
SHEPPARD, D.J. Plato’s Republic. Indiana Philosophical Guides.
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 176.
Paper, $19.95. ISBN 978–0–253–22159.
ZETZEL, JAMES E.G., tr. Cicero: Ten Speeches. Indianapolis: Hackett
Publishing Company, Inc., 2009. Pp. xxxvii + 332. Paper, $14.95. ISBN
978–0–87220–989–3.
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