Books Received

Publishers are invited to submit new books for inclusion in this column to Professor David Sider, Department of Classics, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, Room 503, New York, NY 10003; e-mail: david.sider@nyu.edu.

Clifford Ando. The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire. The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 44. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. xxiv, 239. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-520-25083-3.

Beryl Barr-Sharrar. The Derveni Krater: Masterpiece of Classical Greek Metalwork. Ancient Art and Architecture in Context, 1. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2008. Pp. xvi, 240. $75.00. ISBN 978-0-87661-962-9.

With many black-and-white photographs and thirty-two color plates.

W. S. Barrett. Greek Lyric, Tragedy, and Textual Criticism: Collected Papers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 515. $160.00. ISBN 978-0-19-920357-4.

Not the typical "Collected Papers." Twenty-two pieces (plus some shorter notes), only five of which have been previously published, here meticulously assembled and edited by M. L. West from typescripts found after Barrett's death.

Tom Beghin and Sander M. Goldberg (eds.). Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xx, 366. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-226-04129-2.

With contributions by the editors and E. Le Guin, T. Erwin, J. Van Horn Melton, M. E. Bonds, J. Webster, L. Somfai, M. Brown, A. Richards, and E. Sisman. An accompanying DVD, with musical examples and texts, is keyed to the text.

Lili Bita. Women of Fire and Blood: Ancient Myths, Modern Voices. Boston: Somerset Hall Press, 2007. Pp. 53. $12.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-09774610-7 3.

David Bloch. Aristotle on Memory and Recollection: Text, Translation, Interpretation, and Reception in Western Scholasticism. Philosophia Antiqua, 110. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. xiii, 276. $125.00. ISBN 978-90-04-16046-0.

Stanley M. Burstein. The Reign of Cleopatra. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 179. $16.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-8061-3871-8.

First published in 2004.

Colette de Callataÿ van der Mersch. Les Quatre sens dud nombre. Leuven: 2007. Pp. 51. (Pb.). ISBN 978-90-429-2026-2.

James Clackson and Geoffrey Horrocks. The Blackwell History of the Latin Language. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2007. Pp. viii, 324. $100.00. ISBN 978-1-4051-6209-8.

Anna J. Clark. Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 376. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-19-922682-5.

John C. Clarke. Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 B.C.–A.D. 250. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 321. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-520-23733-9.

Christy Constantakopoulou. The Dance of the Islands: Insularity, Networks, the Athenian Empire, and the Aegean World. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 330. $120.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921595-9.

Patricia Curd. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia. Phoenix Supplementary Volumes, 64=Phoenix Presocratics, 6. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 279. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-8020-9325-7.

This completes the Phoenix Presocratics series.

Ed DeHoratius. Introduction to Latin, Revised First Edition: Study Guide and Reader. Newburyport, Mass.: Focus, 2008. Pp. xxiv, 336. $24.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-1-58510-283-9.

Daniel Delattre (ed.). Philodème de Gadara. Sur la musique. Livre IV. Collection des Universités de France. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007. 2 vols. with continuous pagination. Pp. cclxxxvii, 530. €115.00. ISBN 978-2-251-00540-9.

Accompanied by a CD: "Les sources documentaires du Livre IV des Commentaires sur la Musique de Philodème."

Esther Eidenow. Oracles, Curses, and Risk among the Ancient Greeks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 516. $160.00. ISBN 978-0-19-927778-0.

David Fearn. Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 428. $140.00. ISBN 978-0-19-921550-8.

G. R. F. Ferrari (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xxvi...