Books Received

Allan, William, ed. Euripides: Helen. With intro. and comm. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiii + 371 pp. Cloth, $99; paper, $38.99.

Ashton, Sally-Ann. Cleopatra and Egypt. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2008. xiii + 219 pp. 3 black-and-white figs. 41 black-and-white plates. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $29.95.

Bohak, Gideon. Ancient Jewish Magic: A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ix + 483 pp. 11 black-and-white figs. Cloth, $135.

Brisson, Luc. How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology. Trans. by Catherine Tihanyi. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xiv + 206 pp. Paper, $19. First published as Einführung in die Philosophie des Mythos, vol 1: Antike, Mittelalter und Renaissance (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1996).

Budin, Stephanie. The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 376 pp. Cloth, $90.

Cacciatore, Paola Volpe, ed. Musica e Generi Letterari nella Grecia di Età Classica. Atti del II Congresso Consulta Universitaria Greco (Fisciano, 1 Dicembre 2006). Quaderni del dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità 33. Naples: Università degli Studi di Salerno, 2007. 142 pp. 7 black-and-white figs. Paper, €15.

Cairns, Francis. Papers on Roman Elegy, 1969-2003. Eikasmos: Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica, Studi 16. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2007. viii + 483 pp. Paper, €35.

Castelletti, Cristiano, ed. Porfirio: Sullo Stige. With intro. and trans. Presentation by Tiziano Dorandi. Milan: Bompiani, 2006. 485 pp. 36 black-and-white ills. Paper, €13.50.

Christesen, Paul. Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xvii + 580 pp. 5 black-and-white ills. Cloth, $115.

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, Katerina. L'Histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace (VIe s. av. J.-C.-IIe s. ap. J.-C.). MEΛETHMATA 51. Athens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2007. Distributed by Boccard. 431 pp. 64 black-and-white plates. Paper, €90.

Cufalo, Domenico, ed. Scholia Graeca in Platonem. Vol I: Scholia ad Dialogos Tetralogiarum I-VII Continens. Pleiadi 5.1. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2007. cliii + 331 pp. Paper, €66.

Edmondson, Jonathan, and Alison Keith, eds. Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture. Phoenix. Supplementary Volumes XLVI. Studies in Greek and Roman Social History I. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. xviii + 370 pp. 57 black-and-white figs. Cloth, $85.

Faraone, Christopher A. The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii + 200 pp. Cloth, £45.

Ferreri, Luigi. La Questione Omerica dal Cinquecento al Settecento. Pleiadi 10. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2007. xii + 372 pp. Paper, €48.

Filppula, Markku, Juhani Klemola, and Heli Paulasto. English and Celtic in Contact. Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics 13. New York: Routledge, 2008. xix + 312 pp. 3 black-and-white figs. 5 tables. 18 black-and-white maps. Cloth, $125.

Finglass, P. J., ed. Pindar: Pythian Eleven. With intro., trans., and comm. Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. ix + 158 pp. Cloth, $99.

---, ed. Sophocles: Electra. With intro. and comm. Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 646 pp. Cloth, $160.

Gillespie, Stuart, and Philip Hardie, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv + 365 pp. 14 black-and-white ills. Cloth, $90; paper, $34.99.

Gregory, Justina, ed. A Companion to Greek Tragedy. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2008. xviii + 552 pp. 14 black-and-white ills. Paper, $45.

Hall, Edith. The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. vii + 296 pp. 23 black-and-white ills. Cloth, $35.

Hatzopoulos, M. B., ed. ΦΩNHΣ XAPAKTHP ΕΘNIKOΣ. Actes du Ve Congrès International de Dialectologie Grecque (Athènes 28-30 Septembre 2006). With Vassiliki Psilakakou. MEΛETHMATA 52. Athens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2007. Distributed by Boccard. 335 pp. 23 black-and-white plates. Paper, €48.

Heckel, Waldemar. The Conquests of Alexander the Great. Key Conflicts of Classical Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxii + 218 pp. 11 black-and-white figs. 9 black-and...