Wednesday, July 1, 2015

2015.07.01

Books Received June 2015.

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This list contains all books and notifications of new books received in the previous month by BMCR. The books on this list that are available for review, and those still available for review from previous months, can be requested by filling out the form linked on the Books Available for Review page.

Adams, Sean A. The genre of Acts and collected biography. Society for New Testament Studies: Monograph series, 156. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xiii, 319 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107041042.

Ando, Clifford. Roman social imaginaries: language and thought in contexts of empire. Robson classical lectures. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2015. x, 124 p. $45.00. ISBN 9781442650176.

Backes, Burkhard and Jacco Dieleman (edd.). Liturgical texts for Osiris and the deceased in Late Period and Greco-Roman Egypt / Liturgische Texte für Osiris und Verstorbene im spätzeitlichen Ägypten: proceedings of the colloquiums at New York (ISAW), 6 May 2011, and Freudenstadt, 18-21 July 2012. Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion, 14. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. viii, 306 p. € 98.00. ISBN 9783447103695.

Backes, Burkhard and Caroline von Nicolai (edd.). Kulturelle Kohärenz durch Prestige. Münchner Studien zur Alten Welt, 10. München: Herbert Utz Verlag, 2015. 306 p. € 37.99. ISBN 9783831642632.

Bancalari Molina, Alejandro. La idea de Europa en el mundo romano: proyecciones actuales. El saber y la cultura. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 2015. 148 p. $10.00 (pb). ISBN 9789561124721.

Beckwith, Christopher I. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's encounter with early Buddhism in Central Asia. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. xxi, 275 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780691166445.

Benson, Hugh H. Clitophon's challenge: dialectic in Plato's Meno, Phaedo, and Republic. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. x, 318 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780199324835.

Bernhardt, Johannes Christian. Das Nikemonument von Samothrake und der Kampf der Bilder. Altertumswissenschaften. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. 169 p. € 42.00. ISBN 9783515108645.

Berthelet, Yann. Gouverner avec les dieux: autorité, auspices et pouvoir, sous la République romaine et sous Auguste. Mondes anciens. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2015. 435 p. € 27.50 (pb). ISBN 9782251300016.

Blackwood, Stephen. The consolation of Boethius as poetic liturgy. Oxford early Christian studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xxi, 338 p. $125.00. ISBN 9780198718314.

Blaudeau, Philippe and Peter Van Nuffelen (edd.). L'historiographie tardo-antique et la transmission des savoirs. Millennium-Studien / Millennium studies, 55. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. xi, 380 p. € 109.95. ISBN 9783110406931.

Boylan, Michael. The origins of ancient Greek science: blood--a philosophical study. Routledge monographs in classical studies, 22. New York; London: Routledge, 2015. xiii, 170 p. $140.00. ISBN 9780415843935.

Brockmann, Christian (ed.). Handschriften- und Textforschung heute: zur Überlieferung der griechischen Literatur. Festschrifte für Dieter Harlfinger aus Anlass seines 70. Geburtstages. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2014. 384 p. € 98.00. ISBN 9783954900503.

Brookins, Timothy A. Corinthian wisdom, stoic philosophy, and the ancient economy. Society for New Testament Studies: Monograph series, 159. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xv, 264 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107046375.

Butterfield, D. J. (ed.). Varro varius: the polymath of the Roman world. Cambridge Classical Journal supplementary volume, 39. Cambridge: Cambrdge Philological Society, 2015. ix, 218 p. £ 30.00. ISBN 9780956838148.

Caubet, Annie, Sabine Fourrier and Marguerite Yon. Kition-Bamboula VI: le sanctuaire sous la colline. Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée. Série recherches archéologiques, 67. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 2015. 414 p.; IX plans. € 44.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356680488.

Chan, Paul, Sarah Ruden and Richard Fletcher. Hippias Minor or the art of cunning: a new translation of Plato's most controversial dialogue. Brooklyn, NY: Badlands Unlimited, 2015. 152 p. (pb). ISBN 9781936440894.

Cheshire, Keyne. Murder at Jagged Rock: a translation of Sophocles' Women of Trachis. Washington, DC: Word Works, 2015. 111 p. $17.00 (pb). ISBN 9780915380985.

Cojannot-Le Blanc, Marianne, Claude Pouzadoux and Évelyne Prioux (edd.). L'Héroïque et le Champêtre, volume I: les catégories stylistiques dans le discours critique sur les arts. Modernité classique. Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2014. 264 p., [7] p. of plates. € 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9782840161844.

Cojannot-Le Blanc, Marianne, Claude Pouzadoux and Évelyne Prioux (edd.). L'Héroïque et le Champêtre, volume II: appropriation et déconstruction des théories stylistiques dans la pratique des artistes et dans les modalités d'exposition des œuvres. Modernité classique. Paris: Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2014. 380 p., [5] p. of plates. € 23.00 (pb). ISBN 9782840161899.

Daehner, Jens M. and Kenneth Lapatin (edd.). Power and pathos: bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic world. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015. 368 p. $65.00. ISBN 9781606064399.

Daguet-Gagey, Anne. Splendor aedilitatum: l'édilité à Rome (Ier s. avant J.-C.-IIIe siècle après J.-C.). Collection de l'Ecole française de Rome, 498. Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 2015. 807 p. € 60.00 (pb). ISBN 9782728310579.

De Giorgio, Jean Pierre. L'écriture de soi à Rome: autour de la correspondance de Cicéron. Collection Latomus, 347. Bruxelles: Éditions Latomus, 2015. 305 p. € 51.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042932388.

de la Bédoyère, Guy. The real lives of Roman Britain: a history of Roman Britain through the lives of those who were there. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2015. xxi, 242 p. $40.00. ISBN 9780300207194.

De Lucia Brolli, Maria Anna and Jacopo Tabolli. I Tempi del Rito: il santuario di Monte Li Santi-Le Rote a Narce. Roma: Officina Edizioni, 2015. 191 p. € 24.00 (pb). ISBN 9788860491312.

de Vos Raaijmakers, Mariette and Redha Attoui. Rus Africum, tome III: la Via a Karthagine Thevestem, ses milliaires et le réseau routier rural de la règion de Dougga et Téboursouk. Bibliotheca archaeologica, 37. Bari: Edipuglia, 2015. 154 p. € 50.00 (pb). ISBN 9788872287651.

Dickmann, Jens-Arne and Alexander Heinemann (edd.). Vom Trinken und Bechern: das antike Gelage im Umbruch. Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung, Archäologische Sammlung der Universität Freiburg, 26. April - 28. Juni 2015. Freiburg: Archäologische Sammlung der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2015. 338 p. (pb). ISBN 9783000493225.

Dräger, Paul. Decimus Magnus Ausonius. Sämtliche Werke, Band 3: Spätwerke aus Bordeaux. Trier: Kliomedia, 2015. 857 p. € 84.00. ISBN 9783898901932.

Dzino, Danijel and Ken Parry (edd.). Byzantium, its neighbours and its cultures. Byzantina australiensia, 20. Brisbane: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 2014. vi, 294 p. (pb). ISBN 9781876503017.

Eastmond, Antony (ed.). Viewing inscriptions in the late antique and medieval world. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvii, 261 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107092419.

Ebrey, David (ed.). Theory and practice in Aristotle's natural science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. viii, 261 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107055131.

Fedeli, Paolo, Irma Ciccarelli and Rosalba Dimundo. Properzio. Elegie, libro IV (2 vols.). Studia Classica et Mediaevalia, 7. Nordhausen: Verlag T. Bautz, 2015. 798 p.; 735 p. € 160.00. ISBN 9783883099378.

Fratantuono, Lee. A reading of Lucretius' De rerum natura. Lanham; Boulder; New York; London: Lexington Books, 2015. xii, 505 p. $140.00. ISBN 9781498511544.

Gardner, Gregg E. The origins of organized charity in rabbinic Judaism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvi, 235 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107095434.

Giuliani, Luca. Das Wunder vor der Schlacht: ein griechisches Historienbild der frühen Klassik. Jacob Burckhardt-Gespräche auf Castelen, 30. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2015. 109 p. € 14.00. ISBN 9783796534607.

Golden, Mark. Children and childhood in classical Athens. Second edition (first edition 1990). Ancient society and history. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xix, 243 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781421416861.

Grogan, Jane. The Persian empire in English Renaissance writing, 1549-1622. Early modern literature in history. New York: Palgave Macmillan, 2014. x, 256 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780230343269.

Günther, Hans-Christian (ed.). Augustus und Rom: 2000 Jahre danach. Studia Classica et Mediaevalia, 9. Nordhausen: Verlag T. Bautz, 2015. 348 p. € 60.00. ISBN 9783959480000.

Gwynn, David M. Christianity in the later Roman empire: a sourcebook. Bloomsbury sources in ancient history. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. xix, 293 p. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 9781441106261.

Hamel, Debra. The Battle of Arginusae: victory at sea and its tragic aftermath in the final years of the Peloponnesian War. Witness to ancient history. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. xvii, 125 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9781421416816.

Hammerstaedt, Jürgen and Martin Ferguson Smith. The Epicurean inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda: ten years of new discoveries and research. Bonn: Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt, 2014. 288 p. € 69.00. ISBN 9783774939271.

Hardie, Philip and Gioachino Chiarini. Ovidio. Metamorfosi, Volume VI: Libri XIII-XV. Scrittori greci e latini. Milano: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla; Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2015. lxv, 717 p. € 30.00. ISBN 9788804651628.

Harding, Phillip E. Athens transformed, 404-262 BC: from popular sovereignty to the dominion of the elite. Routledge monographs in classical studies, 23. New York; London: Routledge, 2015. xv, 186 p. $140.00. ISBN 9780415873925.

Hayes, Evan and Stephen Nimis. Lucian's Dialogues of the gods: an intermediate Greek reader. Greek text with running vocabulary and commentary. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2015. xvii, 146 p. $13.95 (pb). ISBN 9781940997117.

Hayes, Evan and Stephen Nimis. Lucian's Dialogues of the dead: an intermediate Greek reader. Greek text with running vocabulary and commentary. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2015. xix, 210 p. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 9781940997100.

Hayes, Evan and Stephen Nimis. Lucian's Judgment of the goddesses: an intermediate Greek reader. Greek text with running vocabulary and commentary. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2015. xiii, 47 p. $8.95 (pb). ISBN 9781940997124.

Hayes, Evan and Stephen Nimis. Lucian's Assembly of the gods: an intermediate Greek reader. Greek text with running vocabulary and commentary. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2015. xv, 45 p. $8.95 (pb). ISBN 9781940997148.

Howells, Daniel Thomas. A catalogue of the late antique gold glass in the British Museum. Research publication, 198. London: British Museum, 2015. v, 183 p. £ 40.00 (pb). ISBN 9780861591985.

Jarry, Claude. Jean Philopon: Traité de l'astrolabe. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 512. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2015. clxxxv, 72 p. € 47.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005966.

Knight, Sarah and Stefan Tilg (edd.). The Oxford handbook of Neo-Latin. Oxford handbooks. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xvii, 614 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780199948178.

Kogan, Leonid. Genealogical classification of Semitic: the lexical isoglosses. Boston; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. xv, 734 p. € 179.95. ISBN 9781614517269.

La Penna, Antonio and Rodolfo Funari. C. Sallusti Crispi Historiae I: fragmenta 1.1-146. Texte und Kommentare, Bd 51. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 387 p. € 139.95. ISBN 9783110195668.

Lagneau-Fontaine, Sylvie and Catherine Langlois-Pézeret. Gilbert Ducher. Epigrammes. Textes littéraires de la Renaissance, 18. Paris: Éditions Honoré Champion, 2015. 728 p. € 135.00. ISBN 9782745329127.

Lange, Carsten Hjort and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet (edd.). The Roman republican triumph: beyond the spectacle. Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. Supplementum, 45. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2014. 261 p. € 32.00 (pb). ISBN 9788871405766.

Laudenbach, Benoît. Strabon: Géographie. Tome XIV, Livre XVII. 1re partie, L'Egypte et l'Ethiopie Nilotique. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 514. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2015. cv, 325 p. € 55.00. ISBN 9782251005980.

Longobardi, Concetta, Christian Nicolas and Marisa Squillante (edd.). Scholae discimus: pratiques scolaires dans l'Antiquité tardive et le Haut Moyen Âge. Collection Études et Recherches sur l'Occident Romain - CEROR, 46. Lyon: CEROR, 2014. 332 p. € 36.00 (pb). ISBN 9782364420533.

Lovascio, Domenico. Un nome; mille volti: Giulio Cesare nel teatro inglese della prima età moderna. Lingue e letterature Carocci, 192; Serie AIA Book Prize, 2. Roma: Carocci editore, 2015. 207 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9788843075416.

Marinis, Vasileios. Architecture and ritual in the churches of Constantinople: ninth to fifteenth centuries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvii, 243 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107040168.

Marmodoro, Anna and Brian D. Prince (edd.). Causation and creation in late antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xi, 299 p. $95.00. ISBN 9781107061538.

Meier, Mischa and Steffen Patzold (edd.). Chlodwigs Welt: Organisation von Herrschaft um 500. Roma aeterna, Bd 3. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. 622 p. € 89.00. ISBN 9783515108539.

Micklem, N. The men who were honest to Jesus and what they did. Leicestershire: Matador, 2015. ix, 130 p. £ 7.99 (pb). ISBN 9781784622442.

Pernot, Laurent. Epideictic rhetoric: questioning the stakes of ancient praise. Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. xiv, 166 p. $50.00. ISBN 9780292768208.

Pizzone, Aglae (ed.). The author in Middle Byzantine literature: modes, functions, and identities. Byzantinisches Archiv, Bd 28. Boston; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. xiv, 351 p. € 119.95. ISBN 9781614517115.

Rashed, Roshdi. Angles et grandeur: d'Euclide a Kamâl al-Dîn al-Fârisî. Scientia Graeco-Arabica, Bd 17. Boston; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. viii, 706 p. € 169.95. ISBN 9781501510700.

Ruiz Arzalluz, Iñigo, Alejandro Martínez Sobrino, Mª Teresa Muñoz García de Iturrospe, Iñaki Ortigosa Egiraun and Enara San Juan Manso (edd.). Estudios de filología e historia en honor del profesor Vitalino Valcárcel (2 vols.). Anejos de Veleia. Series Minor, 32. Bilbao: Universidad del País Vasco; Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 2014. xxv, 1,144 p. € 40.00 (pb). ISBN 9788498600483.

Salskov Roberts, Helle. Sūkās XI: the Attic pottery and commentary on the Greek inscriptions found on Tall Sūkās. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 4, vol. 3; Publications of the Carlsberg Expedition to Phoenicia, 14. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2015. 165 p. 280.00 DKK (pb). ISBN 9788773043813.

Scioli, Emma. Dream, fantasy, and visual art in Roman elegy. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. xii, 278 p. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 9780299303846.

Sekunda, Nicholas Victor and Bogdan Burliga (edd.). Iphicrates, peltasts and Lechaeum. Monograph series 'Akanthina', 9. Gdańsk: Foundation for the Development of Gdańsk University, 2014. 144 p. £ 35.00. ISBN 9788375311679.

Shalev-Hurvitz, Vered. Holy sites encircled: the early Byzantine concentric churches of Jerusalem. Oxford studies in Byzantium. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xviii, 430 p., 20 p. of plates. $175.00. ISBN 9780199653775.

Southern, Pat. The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine. Second edition (first edition 2001). London; New York: Routledge, 2015. xvii, 501 p. $49.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415738088.

Squillace, Giuseppe. Le lacrime di Mirra: miti e luoghi dei profumi nel mondo antico. Saggi, 822. Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2015. 297 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9788815254412.

Stead, Henry and Edith Hall (edd.). Greek and Roman classics in the British struggle for social reform. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception, 3. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. xv, 368 p. £ 80.00. ISBN 9781472584267.

Suvák, Vladislav (ed.). Antisthenica Cynica Socratica. Mathésis, 9. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2014. 437 p. 478 Kč. ISBN 9788072981946.

Swetnam-Burland, Molly. Egypt in Italy: visions of Egypt in Roman imperial culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii, 249 p., viii p. of plates. $110.00. ISBN 9781107040489.

Tiverios, Michalis, Vasiliki Misailidou-Despotidou, Eleni Manakidou and Anna Arvanitaki (edd.). Η κεραμική της αρχαικής εποχής στο βόρειο Αιγαίο και την περιφέρειά του (700- 480 π.Χ.): Πρακτικά αρχαιολογικής συνάντησης, Θεσσαλονίκη 19-22 Μαίου 2011 / Archaic pottery of the Northern Aegean and its periphery (700 - 480 BC): proceedings of the archaeological meeting, Thessaloniki, 19-22 May 2011. Δημοσιεύματα Αρχαιολογικού Ινστιτούτου Μακεδονικών και Θρακικών Σπουδών, 11. Thessaloniki: Αρχαιολογικό Ινστιτούτο Μακεδονικών και Θρακικών Σπουδών, 2012. 502 p. (pb). ISBN 9789608731493.

Travillian, Tyler T. Pliny the Elder: The natural history Book VII (with Book VIII 1-34). Bloomsbury Latin texts. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. vii, 360 p. $23.95 (pb). ISBN 9781472535665.

Uzzi, Jeannine Diddle and Jeffrey Thomson. The Poems of Catullus: an annotated translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. viii, 224 p. $24.99 (pb). ISBN 9781107682139.

Valavanis, Panos and Eleni Manakidou (edd.). Εγραφσεν και εποίεσεν: μελέτες κεραμικής και εικονογραφίας προς τιμήν του καθηγητή Μιχάλη Τιβέριου / Essays on Greek pottery and iconography in honour of Professor Michalis Tiverios. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2014. 598 p. ISBN 9789601221960.

Wilkinson, Kate. Women and modesty in late antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ix, 174 p. $95.00. ISBN 9781107030275.

Wohl, Victoria. Euripides and the politics of form. Martin classical lectures. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. xvi, 200 p. $39.95. ISBN 9780691166506.

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