MARCH 2009 BOOKS RECEIVED Those interested in reviewing a book for Classical Journal may contact the CJ Book Review Editor Charles McNelis [log in to unmask] (include return address) after consulting reviewer guidelines at http://classicaljournal.org/available.php#guidelines. Requests for CJ Forum reviews should be directed to the Forum Editor, as detailed below after the break. Please note that some of the books listed may already be assigned to a reviewer and that a few books may not be assigned at all. COLLARD, CHRISTOPHER AND MARTIN CROPP, eds. and trs. Euripides, Volume VIII: Fragments: Oedipus–Chrysippus. Other Fragments. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xxiii + 710. Cloth, $24.00. ISBN 978–0–674–99631–1. FORTSON IV, BENJAMIN W. Language and Rhythm in Plautus: Synchronic and Diachronic Studies. Sozomena: Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts 3. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. Pp. xii + 301. Cloth, $98.00. ISBN 978–3–11–020593–0. FRANGOULIDIS, STAVROS. Witches, Isis, and Narrative. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Pp. xii + 255. Hardback, $98.00. ISBN 978–3–11–020594–7. GOLDHILL, SIMON, ed. The End of Dialogue in Antiquity. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. viii + 266. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–88774–8. HALDON, JOHN, ed. A Social History of Byzantium. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xxvii + 300. Paper, $40.00. ISBN 978–1–4051–3241–1. HOPKINSON, NEIL, ed. Lucian: A Selection. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. ix + 239. Paper, $34.99. ISBN 978–0–521–60304. HORNBLOWER, SIMON. A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books 5.25–8.109. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xix + 1107. Cloth, $510.00. ISBN 978–0–19–927648–6. HORSFALL, NICHOLAS. Virgil, Aeneid 2: A Commentary. Mnemosyne Supp. 299. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. Pp. xl + 632. Hardback, $262.00. ISBN 978–90–04–16988–3. HUNTER, RICHARD. On Coming After, Part 1: Hellenistic Poetry and its Reception; Part 2: Comedy and Performance, Greek Poetry of the Roman Empire, The Ancient Novel. 2 vols. Trends in Classics. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Pp.viii + 908. Hardback, $184.00. ISBN 978–3–11–020441–4. ITSUMI, KIICHIRO. Pindaric Metre: “The Other Half.” Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xix + 464. Cloth, $190.00. ISBN 978–0–10–922961–1. JOHNSON, WILLIAM A. AND HOLT N. PARKER, eds. Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xv + 430. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN 978–0–19–534015–0. LA’DA, CSABA A., ed. Corpus Papyrorum Raineri, Band XXVIII: Greek Documentary Papyri from Ptolemaic Egypt. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. Pp. xxii + 229. Cloth, $137.00. ISBN 978–3–11–019523–1. LIVELY, GENEVIEVE AND PATRICIA SALZMAN–MITCHELL, eds. Latin Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. Pp. x + 285. Cloth, $69.95. ISBN 978–0–8142–0406–1. NARDUCCI, EMANUELE. Cicerone: La parola e la politica. Rome and Bari: Gius. Laterza & Figli, 2009. Pp. xviii + 450. Cloth, €30,00. ISBN 978–88–420–8830–1. NICHOLS, MARY P. Socrates on Friendship and Community: Reflections on Plato’s Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. viii + 289. Cloth, $80.00. ISBN 978–0–521–89973–4. PAVLOCK, BARBARA. The Image of the Poet in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. Pp. x + 196. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 978–0–299–23140–8. PITTENGER, MIRIAM R. Contested Triumphs: Politics, Pageantry, and Performance in Livy’s Republican Rome. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. xiii + 365. Cloth, $60.00. ISBN 978–0–520–24139–8. RACE, WILLIAM H., ed. and tr. Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica. Loeb Classical Library 001N. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xxxii + 511. Cloth, $24.00. ISBN 978–0–764–99630–4. RICHARD, CARL J. The Golden Age of the Classics in America: Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 258. Cloth. $45.00. ISBN 978–0–674–03264–4. RUFFINI, GIOVANNI. Social Networks in Byzantine Egypt. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. x + 278. Cloth, $110.00. ISBN 978–0–521–89537–8. SAILOR, DYLAN. Writing and Empire in Tacitus. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 359. Cloth, $99.00. ISBN 978–0–521–89747–1. SCHEIDEL, WALTER, ed. Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xv + 240. Cloth, $74.00. ISBN 978–0–19–533690–0. SOMMERSTEIN, ALAN H., ed. and tr. Aeschylus, Volume I: Persians. Seven Against Thebes. Suppliants. Prometheus Bound. Loeb Classical Library 145N. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xlvi + 576. Cloth, $24.00. ISBN 978–0–674–99627–4. ——, ed. and tr. Aeschylus, Volume II: Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation–Bearers. Eumenides. Loeb Classical Library 146N. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xxxvii + 494. Cloth, $24.00. ISBN 978–0–674–99628–1. ——, ed. and tr. Aeschylus, Volume III: Fragments. Loeb Classical Library 505 Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 363. Cloth, $24.00. ISBN 978–0–674–99629–8. STEWART, ANDREW. Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xviii + 358. Paper, $28.99. ISBN 978–0–521–61835–9. TARDIEU, MICHEL. Manichaeism. Translated by M.B. DeBevoise. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Pp. xiii + 113. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 978–0–252–03278–3. THORSRUD, HARALD. Ancient Scepticism. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 248. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN 978–0–520–25982–9. Paper, $24.95. ISBN 978–0–520–26026–9. WALLACE–HADRILL, ANDREW. Rome’s Cultural Revolution. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xxiv + 502. Paper, $49.00. ISBN 978–0–521–72160–8. WALSH, DAVID. Distorted Ideals in Greek Vase-Painting: The World of Mythological Burlesque. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xxx + 420. Hardback, $95.00. ISBN 978–0–521–89641–2. WELCH, KATHERINE E. The Roman Amphitheatre: From Its Origins to the Colosseum. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxii + 355. Paper, $45.00. ISBN 978–0–521–74435–5. WICKKISER, BRONWEN L. Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece: Between Craft and Cult. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 2008. Pp. xiii + 178. Cloth, $55.00. ISBN 978–0–8018–8978–3. 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 http://classicaljournal.org/forumavailable.php#guidelines before contacting the Forum Editor, Emily West ([log in to unmask]) to request a book for review. Include return address. BURIAN, PETER AND ALAN SHAPIRO, trs. The Complete Euripides, Volume IV: Bacchae and Other Plays. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv + 364. Paper, $12.95. ISBN 978–0–19–537340–0. CHESHIRE, KEYNE. Alexander the Great. Greece & Rome: Texts and Contexts. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. viii + 189. Paper, $25.00. ISBN 978–0–521–70709–1. JOHNSTON, IAN, tr. Antigone. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2007. Pp. 60. Paper, $8.95. ISBN 978–0–9797571–0–5. ——, tr. Bacchae. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2008. Pp. 76. Paper, $8.95. ISBN 978–0–9797571–2–9. ——, tr. Birds. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2008. Pp. 107. Paper, $9.95. ISBN 978–0–9818162–2–7. ——, tr. Clouds. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2008. Pp. 104. Paper, $9.95. ISBN 978–0–9797571–3–6. ——, tr. Frogs. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2008. Pp. 108. Paper, $9.95. ISBN 978–0–9797571–4–3. ——, tr. The Iliad. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2006. Pp. 563. Paper, $24.50. ISBN 978–0–9776269–0–8. ——, tr. The Iliad Abridged. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2008. Pp. 183. $16.95. ISBN 978–0–9818162–8–9. ——, tr. Lysistrata. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2008. Pp. 80. Paper, $9.95. ISBN 978–0–9818162–3–4. ——, tr. Medea. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2008. Pp. 60. Paper, $8.95. ISBN 978–0–9818162–4–1. ——, tr. The Odyssey. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2006. Pp. 497. Paper, $24.50. ISBN 978–0–9776269–9–1. ——, tr. The Odyssey Abridged. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2008. Pp. 196. Paper, $16.95. ISBN 978–0–9818162–9–6. ——, tr. Oedipus the King. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2007. Pp. 75. Paper, $8.95. ISBN 978–0–9797571–1–2. ——, tr. The Oresteia. Arlington, VA: Richer Resources Publications, 2007. Pp. 156. Paper, $14.95. ISBN 978–0–9776269–7–7. You may remove yourself from the CJ–Online list–serv by sending an email to: [log in to unmask] Leave the subject line blank, and in the first line of the message write: UNSUBSCRIBE