Monday, November 2, 2015

2015.11.01

Books Received October 2015.

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This list contains all books and notifications of new books received in the previous month by BMCR. Potential reviewers should not respond to this email, but should use the request form linked here (Books Available for Review). Some books listed in this email may already have been assigned to reviewers.)

Althoff, Jochen, Sabine Föllinger and Georg Wöhrle (edd.). Antike Naturwissenschaften und ihre Rezeption,. AKAN - Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption, Bd 25. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015. 230 p. € 28.50 (pb). ISBN 9783868215939.

Ammirati, Serena. Sul libro latino antico: ricerche bibliologiche e paleografiche (premessa di Mario Capasso, prefazione di Guglielmo Cavallo). Biblioteca degli "Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia," 12. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2015. 195 p. € 120.00 (pb). ISBN 97862278140.

Barker, Andrew. Porphyry's commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics: a Greek text and annotated translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. vii, 581 p. $160.00. ISBN 9781107003859.

Bierl, Anton and Joachim Latacz (edd.). Homer's Iliad: the Basel commentary. Prolegomena (English edition translated by Benjamin W. Millis and Sara Strack and edited by S. Douglas Olson; first edition 2000). Homer's Iliad: the Basel commentary. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. xviii, 284 p. $182.00. ISBN 9781614517375.

Böhr, Elke. Corpus vasorum antiquorum, Deutschland, Bd 98; München, Antikensammlungen, ehemals Museum Antiker Kleinkunst, Bd 18: Attisch bilingue und rotfigurige Schalen. Corpus vasorum antiquorum. München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2015. 159 p., 21 p. of figures, 84 p. of plates. € 98.00. ISBN 9783406677489.

Brodersen, Kai. Classics outside classics. Rezeption der Antike, Bd 3. Heidelberg: Verlag Antike, 2015. 160 p. € 37.90. ISBN 9783938032909.

Canellis, Aline, Élisabeth Gavoille and Benoît Jeanjean (edd.). Caritatis scripta: mélanges de littérature et de patristique offerts à Patrick Laurence. Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Antiquité, 199. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 2015. 376 p. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9782851212757.

Carney, Elizabeth. King and court in ancient Macedonia: rivalry, treason and conspiracy. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2015. xxvi, 326 p. $110.00. ISBN 9781905125982.

Codoñer, Carmen and Juan A. González Iglesias. Priapea. Exemplaria Classica, Anejo III 2014. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2015. 374 p. (pb). ISBN 9788416061587.

Corrigan, Kirsty. Brutus: Caesar's assassin. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2015. xix, 252 p. $39.95. ISBN 9781848847767.

de Nie, Giselle (ed., trans.). Gregory of Tours: Lives and miracles. Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 39. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2015. xxx, 944 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674088450.

Debié, Muriel. L'écriture de l'histoire en syriaque: transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et islam: avec des répertoires des textes historiographiques en annexe. Late antique history and religion, 12. Leuven; Paris; Bristol, CT: Peeters, 2015. xxxiv, 724 p. € 105.00. ISBN 9789042932371.

Dorati, Marco. Finestre sul futuro: fato, profezia e mondi possibili nel plot dell'Edipo Re di Sofocle. Filologia e critica, 101. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2015. 293 p. € 96.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862278072.

Edmunds, Lowell. Stealing Helen: the myth of the abducted wife in comparative perspective. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. xvii, 430 p. $49.50. ISBN 9780691165127.

Friis-Jensen, Karsten, Karin Margareta Fredborg, Minna Skafte Jensen, Marianne Pade and Johann Ramminger (edd.). The Medieval Horace. Analecta Romana Instituti Danici - Supplementum, 46. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2015. 229 p. € 32.00 (pb). ISBN 9788871406008.

Gildenhard, Ingo. Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299: Latin text, study questions, commentary and interpretative essays. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2012. ix, 307 p. £ 15.95 (pb). ISBN 9781909254152.

Gysembergh, Victor and Andreas Schwab (edd.). Le Travail du Savoir / Wissensbewältigung: philosophie, sciences exactes et sciences appliquées dans l'Antiquité. AKAN - Einzelschriften, 10. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015. 252 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9783868215885.

Hansen, Mogens Herman. Political obligation in ancient Greece and in the modern world. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 8, vol. 10. Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab / The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2015. 75 p. DKK 80.00 (pb). ISBN 9788773043912.

Harrison, George W. M. (ed.). Brill's companion to Roman tragedy. Brill's companions in classical studies. Leiden; Bostpm: Brill, 2015. xxi, 450 p. $181.00. ISBN 9789004231597.

Harrison, Stephen (ed.). Characterisation in Apuleius' Metamorphoses: nine studies. Pierides, 5. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. xvii, 190 p. £ 41.99. ISBN 9781443875332.

Hofstetter-Dolega, Eva. Corpus vasorum antiquorum Deutschland, Bd 97; Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Skulpturensammlung, Bd 2: Attisch rotfigurige keramik. Corpus vasorum antiquorum. München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2015. 111 p., 19 p. of figures, 76 p. of plates. € 98.00. ISBN 9783406677472.

Jaulin, Annick and David Lefebvre (edd.). La Métaphysique de Théophraste: principes et apories. Aristote. Traductions et études. Louvain-La-Neuve; Leuven; Paris; Bristol, CT: Editions de l'Institut Supérieur de Philosophie; Peeters, 2015. 190 p. € 48.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042931305.

Kleu, Michael. Die Seepolitik Philipps V. von Makedonien. Kleine Schriftenreihe zur Militär- und Marinegeschichte, Bd 24. Bochum: Verlag Dr. Dieter Winkler, 2015. 254 p. € 42.45 (pb). ISBN 9783899112368.

Krieter-Spiro, Martha. Homer's Iliad: the Basel commentary. Book III (English edition translated by Benjamin W. Millis and Sara Strack and edited by S. Douglas Olson; first edition 2009). Homer's Iliad: the Basel commentary. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. xv, 198 S. $182.00. ISBN 9781614517382.

Lee, Geoff, Helène Whittaker and Graham Wrightson (edd.). Ancient warfare: introducing current research, volume 1. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. xvi, 361 p. £ 52.99. ISBN 9781443876940.

Lefèvre, Eckard. Studien zur Originalität der römischen Tragödie: kleine Schriften. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 324. Berlin; München; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. xiii, 674 p. $182.00. ISBN 9783110342147.

Lloyd, G. E. R. Analogical investigations: historical and cross-cultural perspectives on human reasoning Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. vi, 139 p. $34.99 (pb). ISBN 9781107518377.

Louvier, Patrick, Philippe Monbrun and Antoine Pierrot (edd.). Afti inè i Kriti!: identités, altérités et figures crétoises. Actes du colloque international et pluridisciplinaire organisé par l'EA 4424 (C.R.I.S.E.S.) à l'Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier (16, 17 et 18 octobre 2013). Scripta receptoria, 4. Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2015. 319 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356131379.

McDonald, Katherine. Oscan in southern Italy and Sicily: evaluating language contact in a fragmentary corpus. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xix, 306 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107103832.

Morgan, Teresa. Roman faith and christian faith: pistis and fides in the early Roman empire and early churches. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xi, 626 p. $155.00. ISBN 9780198724148.

Nelsestuen, Grant A. Varro the agronomist: political philosophy, satire, and agriculture in the late Republic. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015. xiv, 316 p. $69.95. ISBN 9780814212912.

Poirier, Paul-Hubert, Agathe Roman and Thomas S. Schmidt (edd.). Titus de Bostra: Contre les manichéens. Corpus Christianorum in translation (CCT), 21. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. 483 p. € 60.00. ISBN 9782503550176.

Pongratz-Leisten, Beate. Religion and ideology in Assyria. Studies in ancient Near Eastern records, 6. Boston; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. xvii, 553 p. $154.00. ISBN 9781614514824.

Potter, David. Theodora: actress, empress, saint. Women in antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. ix, 277 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780199740765.

Raja, Rubina and Jörg Rüpke (edd.). A companion to the archaeology of religion in the ancient world. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history. Chichester; Malden, MA; Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2015. xiii, 502 p. $195.00. ISBN 9781444350005.

Salanitro, Maria. Petronio e i Veteres Poetae a Reims. Nuovi saggi, 117. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2015. 106 pages. € 38.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862277792.

Šterbenc Erker, Darja (ed.). Frauenbild im Wandel. IPHIS - Gender Studies in den Altertumswissenschaften, 7. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015. 210 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9783868215847.

Talalay, Lauren E. and Margaret Cool Root. Passionate curiosities: tales of collectors & collections from the Kelsey Museum. Kelsey Museum Publication, 13. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2015. x, 205 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9780990662334.

Tietz, Werner. Hirten - Bauern - Götter: eine Geschichte der römischen Landwirtschaft. München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2015. 370 p. € 29.95. ISBN 9783406682339.

Valente, Stefano. The Antiatticist: introduction and critical edition. Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker (SGLG), . Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. xxviii, 292 p. $140.00. ISBN 9783110401479.

Vickers, Michael. Aristophanes and Alcibiades: echoes of contemporary history in Athenian comedy. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. xxi, 241 p. $112.00. ISBN 9783110437539.

Walker, Henry John. The twin horse gods: the Dioskouroi in mythologies of the ancient world. London: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2015. ix, 271 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781784530037.

Welch, Kathryn (ed.). Appian's Roman History: empire and civil war. Roman culture in an age of civil war. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2015. xxvi, 326 p. $100.00. ISBN 9781910589007.

Welch, Tara S. Tarpeia: workings of a Roman myth. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015. xii, 331 p. $68.95. ISBN 9780814212813.

Wittke, Anne-Maria (ed.). Frühgeschichte der Mittelmeerkulturen: historische-archäologisches Handbuch. Der neue Pauly - Supplemente, 10. Stuttgart; Weimar: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 2015. 656 p. € 199.95. ISBN 9783476024701.

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