Books Received

Allen, Pauline, and Bronwen Neil, trans. and eds. Maximus theConfessor and His Companions: Documents from Exile. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. xvi + 210 pp. 2 maps. Cloth, $70.

Bakewell, Geoffrey W., and James P. Sickinger, eds. Gestures: Essays in Ancient History, Literature, and Philosophy Presented to Alan L. Boegeholdon the Occasion of his Retirement and his Seventy-Fifth Birthday. Oxford: Oxbow, 2003. xii + 363 pp. 11 black-and-white figs. Cloth, $75.

Bagnall, Roger S., and Peter Darow, eds. The Hellenistic Period: Historical Sources in Translation. 1981. 2d ed. Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History. Malden: Blackwell, 2004. xxx + 319 pp. 12 black-and-white ills. 6 tables and charts. Paper, $32.95. Originally published as Greek Historical Documents: The Hellenistic Period (Chico: Scholars Press).

Barnes, Jonathan, trans. and ed. Porphyry: Introduction. Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers. With intro. and comm. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xxvi + 415 pp. Cloth, $85.

Bassett, Samuel Eliot. The Poetry of Homer. 1938. New edition with intro. by Bruce Heiden. Forward by Gregory Nagy. Sather Classical Lectures 15. Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003. xxxii + 271 pp. Cloth, $80; paper, $27.95. Originally published by the University of California Press.

Bonfante, Giuliano, and Larissa Bonfante. The Etruscan Language: An Introduction. 1983. 2d ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002. xxvi + 253 pp. 57 black-and-white ills. 4 maps. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $27.95.

Boyle, A. J. Ovid and the Monuments: A Poet's Rome. Ramus Monographs. Bendigo: Aureal Publications, 2003. xviii + 318 pp. 32 black-and-white plates. 4 maps. Paper, $49.

Boys-Stones, G. R., ed. Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and Modern Revisions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 305 pp. Cloth, $74.

Brosius, Maria, ed. Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions: Concepts of Record Keeping in the Ancient World. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xxii + 361 pp. 30 black-and-white ills. Cloth, $65.

Brown, Sarah Annes. The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes. 1999. London: Duckworth, 2002. viii + 246 pp. Paper, $27.95.

Burns, Thomas S. Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.-A.D. 400. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xvi + 461 pp. 12 black-and-white ills. 6 maps. Cloth, $49.95.

Calame, Claude. Myth and History in Ancient Greece: The Symbolic Creation of a Colony. Trans. Daniel W. Berman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. xxx + 178 pp. Cloth, $39.50. Trans. of Mythe et histoire dans l'antiquité grecque: La création symbolique d'une colonie (Lausanne: Editions Payot, 1996).

Cameron, H. D. Thucydides Book I: A Students' Grammatical Commentary. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. xii + 145 pp. 1 map. Cloth, $50; paper, $34.95.

Champion, Craige B., ed. Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources. Interpreting Ancient History. Malden: Blackwell, 2004. xii + 324 pp. 6 figs. 6 maps. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $34.95.

Champlin, Edward. Nero. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. 346 pp. 5 black-and-white ills. 5 maps. Cloth, $29.95.

Csapo, Eric, and Margaret Miller, eds. Poetry, Theory, and Praxis: The Social Life of Myth, Word and Image in Ancient Greece. Essays in Honour of William J. Slater. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2003. xiv + 266 pp. 96 black-and-white ills. Cloth, $72.

DeBrohun, Jeri Blair. Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. xii + 263 pp. Cloth, $54.50.

Derolez, Albert. The Paleography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxii + 203 pp. 160 black-and-white plates. Cloth, $110.

Derow, Peter, and Robert Parker, eds. Herodotus and His World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv + 378 pp. 12 black-and-white figs. Cloth, $85.

Detienne, Marcel. The Writing of Orpheus: Greek Myth in Cultural Context. Trans. Janet Lloyd. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xvi + 193 pp. Cloth, $55. Trans. of L'Écriture d'Orphée (Paris...