Books Received

Bagg, Robert (trans.). The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone (intro. Robert and Mary Bagg). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press 2004. Pp. xii, 269; cloth $80.00 ISBN 1-55849-453-7; paper $19.95 ISBN 1-55849-454-5.

Bernardini, Paola Angeli (ed.). La Città di Argo: Mito, Storia, Tradizioni Poetiche (Atti del Convegno Internazionale: Urbino, 13–15 Giugno 2002). Rome: Edizioni dell'ateneo 2003. Pp. 339; cloth n.p. ISBN 88-8476-032-1.

Betegh, Gábor. The Derveni Papyrus: Cosmology, Theology, and Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004. Pp. xii, 441; cloth $110.00 ISBN 0-521-80108-7.

Botley, Paul. Latin Translation in the Renaissance: The Theory and Practice of Leonardo Bruni, Gainnozzo Manetti, and Desiderius Erasmus (Cambridge Classical Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004. Pp. x, 207; cloth $70.00 ISBN 0-521-83717-0.

Bradbury, Scott (trans.). Selected Letters of Libanius from the Age of Constantius and Julian (Translated Texts for Historians, vol. 41). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2004. Pp. x, 289; paper n.p. ISBN 0-85323-509-0.

Brisson, Luc. How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology (trans. Catherine Tibanyi). Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2004. Pp. xiii, 224; cloth $30.00 ISBN 0-226-07535-4.

Burkert, Walter. Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2004. Pp. 178; cloth $22.95 ISBN 0-674-01489-8.

Chauveau, Michel. Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth (trans. David Lorton). Ithaca: Cor-nell University Press 2004. Pp. 128; paper $16.95 ISBN 0-8014-8953-9.

Edmonds, Radcliffe G. III. Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the "Orphic" Gold Tablets. New York: Cambridge University Press 2004. Pp. xii, 276; cloth $75.00 ISBN 0-521-83434-1.

Gill, Anton. Il Gigante: Michelangelo, Florence, and the David, 1492–1504. New York: St. Martin's Griffin 2004. Pp. x, 338; paper $14.95 ISBN 0-312-31443-4.

Halporn, James W. (trans.). Cassiodorus: Institution of Divine and Secular Learning and On the Soul (intro. Mark Vessey) (Translated Texts for Historians, vol. 42). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2004. Pp. x, 315; paper n.p. ISBN 0-86323-998-3.

Hyland, Drew. Questioning Platonism: Continental Interpretations of Plato. Albany: State University of New York Press 2004. Pp. ix, 202; cloth $45.00 ISBN 0-7914-6195-5.

Imber, Colin. The Ottoman Empire, 1300–1650: The Structure of Power. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press 2004. Pp. xiv, 405; paper $19.95 ISBN 0-333-61387-2.

Kelly, Christopher. Ruling the Later Roman Empire (Revealing Antiquity 15). Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2004. Pp. 341; cloth $35.00 ISBN 0-674-01564-9.

Liu, Benjamin. Medieval Joke Poetry: The Cantigas d'Escarnho e de Mal Dizer (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature 50). Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2004. Pp. 166; paper n.p. ISBN 0-674-01664-5.

Liverani, Mario. Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography (Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop, ed. and trans.). Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2004. Pp. xiv, 214; cloth $70.00 ISBN 0-8014-4333-4.

Maronitis, D. N. Homeric Megathemes: War-Homilia-Homecoming (trans. David Connolly). Lantham: Lexington Books 2004. Pp. xiii, 186; cloth $70.00 ISBN 0-7391-0883-2.

Martin, Dale. Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2004. Pp. xii, 307; cloth $29.95 ISBN 0-674-01534-7.

Moralee, Jason. "For Salvation's Sake": Provincial Loyalty, Personal Religion, and Epigraphic Production in the Roman and Late Antique Near East (Studies in Classics.). New York: Routledge 2004. Pp. xv, 244; cloth n.p. ISBN 0415-96778-3.

Regier, Willis Goth. Book of the Sphinx (Texts and Contexts Series). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2004. Pp. 320; cloth $35.00 ISBN 0-8032-3956-4.

Salzman, Michele Renee. The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2004. Pp. xiv, 354; paper $19.95 ISBN 0-674-01603-3.

Severy, Beth. Augustus and the Family...