August 2007 Books Received

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*BATSTONE, WILLIAM W. AND CYNTHIA DAMON. Caesar’s Civil War. Oxford 
Approaches to Classical Literature. Oxford and New York: Oxford University 
Press, 2006. Pp. xiii + 225. Paper, $19.95. ISBN 0–19–516511–X.

*CRIBIORE, RAFFAELLA. The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch. 
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 360. 
Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 978–0–691–12824–3.

*DE GRUMMOND, NANCY THOMSON. Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend. 
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and 
Anthropology, 2006. Pp. xvi + 270. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 1–931707–86–3.

DENZEY, NICOLA. The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian 
Women. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007. Pp. xxi + 290. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN 
978–0–8070–1308–3.

EBELING, FLORIAN. The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism 
from Ancient to Modern Times. Foreword by Jan Assmann. Translated by David 
Lorton. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii + 158. 
Cloth, $29.95. ISBN 978–0–8014–4546–0.

GILMAN, BENEDICTE. Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the 
Eruption of Vesuvius. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Los Angeles: J. Paul 
Getty Museum, 2007. Pp. 39. Cloth, $19.95. ISBN 978–0–89236–900–3.

GRAVERINI, LUCA. Le Metamorfosi di Apuleio: Letteratura e Identita. Arti 
Spazi Scritture 5. Pisa: Pacini Publishing, 2007. Pp. x + 260. Paper, 
€16.00. ISBN 978–88–7781–869–0.

GRAY, VIVIENNE J., ed. Xenophon: On Government. Cambridge Greek and Latin 
Classics. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. x + 
231. Paper, $34.99. ISBN 978–0–521–58859–1.

*JENKINS, THOMAS E. Intercepted Letters: Epistolarity and Narrative in 
Greek and Roman Literature. Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. 
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. Pp. 162. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 
978–0–7391–1714–9.

*KASTER, ROBERT A., ed. Cicero: Speech on Behalf of Publius Sestius. 
Translated with introduction and commentary. Clarendon Ancient History 
Series. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi + 493. 
Paper, $55.00. ISBN 0–19–928302–8.

LADA-RICHARDS, ISMENE. Silent Eloquence: Lucian and Pantomime Dancing. 
Classical Literature and Society. London: Duckworth Publishers, 2007. Pp. 
240. Paper, $31.00. ISBN 978–0–7156–3491–2.

LEFKOWITZ, MARY R. Women in Greek Myth. Second Edition. Baltimore: Johns 
Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xix + 238. Paper, $22.00. ISBN 
0–8018–8650–3.

*LEY, GRAHAM. The Theatricality of Greek Tragedy: Playing Space and Chorus. 
Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2007. Pp. xix + 226. Cloth, 
$40.00. ISBN 978–0–226–47757–2.

LLOYD, G.E.R. Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity 
of the Human Mind. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 
201. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 978–0–19–921461–7.

LOW, POLLY. Interstate Relations in Classical Greece: Morality and Power. 
Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University 
Press, 2007. Pp. x + 313. Cloth, $90.00. ISBN 978–0–521–87206–5.

*MATTHEWS, JOHN. The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business, and Daily 
Life in the Roman East. Pp. xvii + 244. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 0–300–10898–2.

MATTIACCI, SILVIA AND ANDREA PERRUCCIO. Anti-Mitologia ed Eredita Neoterica 
in Marziale: Genesi e Forme di Una Poetica. Arti Spazi Scritture 3. Pisa: 
Pacini Publishing, 2007. Pp. 261. Paper, €16.00. ISBN 978–88–7781–833–1.

ORBERG, HANS H., ed. Plautus: Amphitryo. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 
1993. Pp. 84. Paper, $9.95. ISBN 87–997016–7–7.

——, ed. Petronii Cena Trimalchionis. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 
2000. Pp. 64. Paper, $8.95. ISBN 87–90696–04–2.

——, ed. C. Iulii Caesaris Commentarii De Bello Gallico: Ex Libris, I, IV, 
V. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2003. Pp. 87. Paper, $8.95. ISBN 
87–90696–06–9.

——, ed. Sermones Romani. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2004. Pp. 79. 
Paper, $12.95. ISBN 87–90696–07–7.

——, ed. Catilina: Ex C. Sallustii Crispi de Catilinae Coniuratione Libro et 
M. Tullii Ciceronis Orationibus in Catilinam. Newburyport, MA: Focus 
Publishing, 2005. Pp. 78. Paper, $10.95. ISBN 87–90696–11–5.

——, ed. Lingua Latina per Se Illustrata: Colloquia Personarum. Newburyport, 
MA: Focus Publishing, 2005. Pp. 79. Paper, $10.95. ISBN 1–58510156–7.

——, ed. Lingua Latina per Se Illustrata: Fabellae Latinae ad cap. I–XXV. 
Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2006. Pp. 24. Paper, Unlisted. 
87–90696–11–5.

POSTER, CAROL AND LINDA C. MITCHELL, eds. Letter-Writing Manuals and 
Instruction from Antiquity to the Present. Historical and Bibliographic 
Studies. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. x + 346. 
Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 978–1–57003–651–4.

RAMSBY, TERESA R. Textual Permanence: Roman Elegists and the Epigraphic 
Tradition. London: Duckworth Publishers, 2007. Pp. ix + 197. Cloth, $81.00. 
ISBN 978–0–7156–3632–9.

RAY, JOHN. The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt. Cambridge, 
MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 199. Cloth, $19.95. ISBN 
978–0–674–02493–9.

RHODES, P.J. The Greek City States: A Source Book. Second Edition. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii + 339. 
Paper, $29.99. ISBN 978–0–521–61556–3.

SCHNUR, RODA, ed. Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Bonnensis: Proceedings of the 
12th International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Bonn, 2003). Medieval and 
Renaissance Texts and Studies 315. Tempe: ACMRS, 2006. Pp. xxv + 906. 
Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 978–0–86698–360–0.

SHAPIRO, H.A., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece. Cambridge and 
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii + 303. Paper, $28.99. 
ISBN 978–0–521–52929–7.

SIM, MAY. Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius. Cambridge and 
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii + 224. Cloth, $85.00. 
ISBN 978–0–521–87093–1.

SPENCE, SARAH. Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian 
to the Twin Towers. Classical Inter/Faces. London: Duckworth Publishers, 
2007. Pp. 144. Paper, $23.50. ISBN 978–0–7156–3513–1.

VON DER OSTEN, DOROTHEE ELM. Liebe als Wahnsinn: Die Konzeption der Göttin 
Venus in den Argonautica des Valerius Flaccus. Potsdamer 
Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 20. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Press, 
2007. Pp. 204. Paper, €49.00. ISBN 978–3–515–08958–6.

The following books remain available for CJ-Online review:

*ALDRETE, GREGORY S. Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome. Ancient Society 
and History. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii 
+ 338. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 978–0–8018–8405–4.

*D’AMBRA, EVE. Roman Women. Cambridge Introduction to Roman Civilization. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xxi + 215. 
Paper, $18.99. ISBN 0–521–52158–0.

*DICKINSON, OLIVER. The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and 
Change Between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC. London and New York: 
Routledge Press, 2006. Pp. xvi + 298. Paper, $30.95. ISBN 0–415–13590–7.

*FANTHAM, ELAINE. Julia Augusti: The Emperor’s Daughter. Women of the 
Ancient World. London and New York: Routledge Press, 2006. Pp. xvi + 175. 
Paper, $33.95. ISBN 0–415–33146–3.

*PAGÁN, VICTORIA EMMA. Rome and the Literature of Gardens. Classical 
Inter/Faces. London: Duckworth Publishers, 2006. Pp. xii + 160. Paper, 
$23.50. ISBN 978–0–7156–3506–3.

*RAMSEY, JOHN T. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greco-Roman Comets from 500 BC 
to AD 400. Syllecta Classica XVII. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 
2007. Pp. 242. Paper, $20.00. ISSN 1040–3612.


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