BOOKS RECEIVED JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2010

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ACOSTA-HUGHES, BENJAMIN. Arion’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic 
Poetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii + 252. Cloth, 
$39.50. ISBN 978–0–691–09525–7.

CARTLEDGE, PAUL. Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities. New York: 
Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xv + 259. Cloth, $19.95. ISBN 
978–0–19–923338–0.

CROTTY, KEVIN. The Philosopher’s Song: The Poets’ Influence on Plato. 
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2009. Pp. xxii + 247. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN 
978–0–7391–4406–0.

DUBOIS, PAGE. Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks. Cambridge: Harvard 
University Press, 2010. Pp. x + 236. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 
978–0–674–03558–4.

FELDHERR, ANDREW, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians. New 
York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xviii + 464. Paper, $40.00. 
ISBN 978–0–521–85453–5.

FERNÁNDEZ, ÁNGEL MARTÍNEZ, ed. Estudios de Epigrafía Griega. Serie 
investigación 1. La Laguna: Universidad de la Laguna, 2009. Pp. 532. 
Paper, €20.00. ISBN 978–84–7756–786–8.

FÖGEN, THORSTEN. Wissen, Kommunikation und Selbstdarstellung: zur Struktur 
und Charakteristik römischer Fachtexte der frühen Kaiserzeit. Zetemata 
134. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2009. Pp. ix + 340. Paper, €78.00. ISBN 
978–3–406–59259–1.

FÖLLINGER, SABINE. Aischylos: Meister der griechischen Trogödie. Munich: 
C.H. Beck, 2010. Pp. 224. Cloth, €24.90. ISBN 978–3–406–59130–3.

JANAN, MICAELA. Reflections in a Serpent’s Eye: Thebes in Ovid’s 
Metamorphoses. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. viii + 276. 
Cloth, $90.00. ISBN 978–0–19–955692–2.

JENKINS, IAN. The Greek Body. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty, 2010. Pp. 144 + 
132 color illustrations. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 978–0–89236–002–5.

KELLY, ADRIAN. Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus. Duckworth Companions to Greek 
and Roman Tragedy. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2009. Pp. 176. 
Paper, $14.99. ISBN 978–0–7156–3713–5.

LINDSAY, HUGH. Adoption in the Roman World. New York: Cambridge University 
Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 242. Cloth, $95.00. ISBN 978–0–521–76050–8.

MACDOWELL, DOUGLAS M. Demosthenes the Orator. New York: Oxford University 
Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 457. Cloth, $135.00. ISBN 978–0–19–928719–2.

MANNING, J.G. The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305–30 BC. 
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi + 264. Cloth, $39.50. 
ISBN 978–0–691–14262–3.

MILLER, J. Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets. Cambridge and New York: 
Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xi + 408. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN 
978–0–521–51683–9.

MILLER, STEPHEN G. The Berkeley Plato: From Neglected Relic to Ancient 
Treasure. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 92 + 8 
plates + 99 figures. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN 978–0–520–25833–4.

MUELLER, IAN, tr. Simplicus: On Aristotle on the Heavens 3.7–4.6. Ancient 
Commentators on Aristotle. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2009. Pp. 
viii + 216. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3844–6.

OLESON, JOHN PETER, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology 
in the Classical World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xviii 
+ 865. Paper, $60.00. ISBN 978–0–19–973485–6.

ROBERTSON, NOEL. Religion and Reconciliation in Greek Cities: The Sacred 
Laws of Selinus and Cyrene. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 
xii + 414. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–19–539400–9.

RODRIGUEZ, ANTONIO MARIA MARTIN. El Mito de Filomela en la Literatura 
Espanola. Leon: Universidad de Leon, 2008. Pp. 437. Cloth, €25.00. ISBN 
978–84–9773–449–3.

SACHS, JONATHAN. Roman Antiquity: Rome in the British Imagination, 
1789–1832. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 304. Cloth, 
$85.00. ISBN 978–0–19–537612–8.

SALKEVER, STEPHEN, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political 
Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 380. Paper, 
$29.99. ISBN 978–0–521–68712–6.

SCOTT, WILLIAM C. The Artistry of the Homeric Simile. Hanover and London: 
University Press of New England, 2010. Pp. viii + 267. Paper, $45.00. ISBN 
978–1–58465–797–2.

TAYLOR, MARTHA. Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the 
Peloponnesian War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 
311. Cloth, $85.00. ISBN 978–0–521–76593–0.

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 
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BARNSTONE, WILLIS, tr. Ancient Greek Lyrics. Bloomington and Indianapolis: 
Indiana University Press, 2010. Pp. xxxii + 338. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 
978–0–253–22121–6.

PAGAN, VICTORIA E. A Sallust Reader: Selections from Bellum Catilinae, 
Bellum Iugurthinum, and Historiae. Latin Readers. Mundelein: 
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2009. Pp. xlv + 159. Paper, $19.00. 
ISBN 978–0–86516–687–5.


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