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American Journal of Philology 128.4 (2007) 609-614
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Adams, Colin. Land Transport in Roman Egypt: A Study of Economics and Administration in a Roman Province. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv + 331 pp. 3 maps. Cloth, $110.
Aloni, Antonio, and Alessandro Iannucci. L'elegia greca e l'epigramma dale origini al v secolo: con un'appendice sulla 'nuova' elegia di Archiloco. Florence: Le Monnier Università, 2007. xiv + 274 pp. Paper, €19.40.
Ascalone, Enrico. Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians. Trans. Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia. Dictionaries of Civilization. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. 368 pp. 321 color ills. Numerous maps and historical tables. Paper, $24.95. Co-published with Mondadori Electa, Milan. Translation of Mesopotamia: assiri, sumeri e babilonesi (Milan: Electa, 2005).
Baines, John. Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xviii + 420 pp. 51 black-and-white figs. 2 tables. 1 map. Cloth, $140.
Beck, Roger. The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xvi + 285 pp. 20 black-and-white figs. Paper, $99.
Bell, Catherine, ed. Teaching Ritual. AAR Teaching Religious Studies Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv + 298 pp. Cloth, $19.95.
Berti, Emanuele. Scholasticorum Studia: Seneca il Vecchio e la cultura retorica e letteraria della prima età imperiale. Biblioteca di "Materiali e discussioni per l'anilisi dei testi classici" 20. Pisa: Giardini, 2007. 408 pp. Cloth, €168; paper, €84.
Bingen, Jean. Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture. Ed. with Intro. by Roger S. Bagnall. Hellenistic Culture and Society 49. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xx + 305 pp. 19 black-and-white ills. 3 maps. Paper, $24.95.
Bodelot, Colette, ed. Éléments "asyntaxiques" ou hors structure dans l'énoncé latin. Actes du Colloque international de Clermont-Ferrand, Université Blaise-Pascal, 16 et 17 septembre 2005. Collection ERGA: Recherches sur l'Antiquité 9. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2007. 311 pp. Paper, €29.
Boitani, Piero. Winged Words: Flight in Poetry and History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv + 262 pp. 3 black-and-white figs. Cloth, $29. Trans. of Parole alate: voli nella poesia e nella storia da Omero all'11 settembre (Milan: Mondadori, 2004). [End Page 609]
Booth, Joan, and Robert Maltby, eds. What's in a Name?: The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2006. x + 196 pp. Cloth, $90.
Brucia, Margaret A., and Gregory N. Daugherty. To Be a Roman: Topics in Roman Culture. Wauconda, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2007. viii + 155 pp. 84 black-and-white figs. Paper, $25.
Canfora, Luciano. Julius Caesar: The Life and Times of the People's Dictator. Trans. Marian Hill and Kevin Windle. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xvi + 392 pp. Cloth, $29.95. Trans. of Giulio Cesare: il dittatore democratico (Roma-Bari: Laterza, 1999).
Carawan, Edwin, ed. Oxford Readings in The Attic Orators. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xxiv + 450 pp. Cloth, $130; paper, $45.
Colakis, Marianthe, and Mary Joan Masello. Classical Mythology & More: A Reader Workbook. Wauconda, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2007. xii + 457 pp, 5 maps. Numerous black-and-white ills. Paper, $35.
Conte, Gian Biagio. The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian Epic. Ed. S. J. Harrison. Trans. Elaine Fantham and Glenn Most. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 250 pp. Cloth, $85.
Dolven, Jeff. Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 281 pp. 15 black-and-white ills. Cloth, $29.
Ebeling, Florian. The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times. Trans. David Lorton. Foreword by Jan Assmann. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007. xv + 158. 8 black-and-white ills. Cloth, $29.95. Originally published as Das Geheimnis des Hermes Trismegistos (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2005).
Elsner, Jas´. Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. xviii + 350 pp. 12 color plates. 88 black-and-white figs. Cloth...

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