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  • 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.

Colin Austin and S. Douglas Olson (eds.). Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. cvi, 363. $75.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-19-955383-9.

The 2004 hb is still in print, at $242.50. ISBN 978-0-19-926527-5.

Han Baltussen. Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius: The Methodology of a Commentator. London: Duckworth, 2008. $80.00. Pp. xii, 292. ISBN 978-0-7156-3500-1.

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Peter Fibiger Bang. The Roman Bazaar: A Comparative Study of Trade and Markets in a Tributary Empire. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xv, 258. $110.00. ISBN 978-0-521-85532-7.
Shirley A. Barlow. The Imagery of Euripides: A Study in the Dramatic Use of Pictorial Language. 3rd Edition. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2008. Pp. xxviii, 169. $25.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-1-85399-710-5.

Foreword by Froma I. Zeitlin and a new introduction by the author Originally published in 1971.

Mary Beard. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 360. $26.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02976-7.
Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton. Autobiography: A Scholar’s Life. American Journal of Ancient History 5 (2006) [2008]). Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2008. Pp. xvii, 310. $62.50 (pb.). ISBN 978-1-59333-837-4.

Edited by T. Corey Brennan, T. Alan Broughton (Bob’s son), Ryan C. Fowler, Andrew G. Scott, and Kathleen J. Shea. Also containing an unpublished lecture by TRSB: “Roman Studies in the 20th Century” (1970).

Katrina Cawthorn. Becoming Female: The Male Body in Greek Tragedy. London: Duckworth, 2009. Pp. ix, 188. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-7156-3712-8.

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Cindy Clendenon. Hydromythology and the Ancient Greek World: An Earth Science Perspective Emphasizing Karst Hydrology. Lansing, Mich: Fineline Science Press, 2009. Pp. xvii, 502. $32.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-9818421-0-3.
Christopher Collard and Martin Cropp (trs.). Euripides. Fragments: Oedipus–Chrysippus. Other Fragments. Loeb Classical Library, 506. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xxiii, 710. $24.00. ISBN 978-0-674-99631-1.
Susan Deacy. Athena. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. xviii, 175. $28.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-415-30066-7. [End Page 205]
William Desmond. Cynics. Ancient Philosophies, 3. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. Pp. vi, 290. $18.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-520-25861-7.
A. M. Devine and Laurence D. Stephens. The Prosody of Greek Speech. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. $45.00 (pb.). Pp. xvii, 565. ISBN 978-0-19-537335-6.

The title page of the pb says 1994, the publication date of the original hb, which is still in print at $125.00. ISBN 978-0-19-508546-4.

Margaret Dickin. A Vehicle for Performance: Acting the Messenger in Greek Tragedy. Lanham: University Press of America, 2009. Pp. v, 212. $32.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-7618-4355-9.

Illustrations by Alan Dickin.

Eric Dugdale. Sophocles: Electra. Cambridge Translations from the Greek Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. viii, 120. $11.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-521-67826-1

Introduction to the Greek Theatre by P. E. Easterling

Gloria Ferrari. Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. viii, 184. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-226-66867-3.

With 23 colored illustrations.

Zbigniew T. Fiema and Jaakko Frösén. Petra–The Mountain of Aaron: The Finnish Archaeological Project in Jordan. Vol. 1. The Church and the Chapel. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2008. Pp. vii, 447. €150.00. ISBN 978-951-653-364-6.

With 69 colored figures and a pull-out plan of the site.

Kate Gilhuly. The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xii, 208. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-521-89998-7.
Sabrina Grimaudo. Difendere la Salute: Igiene e disciplina del soggetto nel De Sanitate...

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