Books Received CW 107.2

Giorgio Agamben. Nymphs. London: Seagull Books, 2013. Pp. v, 66. $20.00. ISBN 978-0-85742-094-7.

Translated by Amanda Minervini.

Peter Agócs, Chris Carey, and Richard Rawles (eds.). Reading the Victory Ode. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xxxiv, 409. $114.00. ISBN 980-1-107-00787-1.

With contributions by the editors and G. B. D’Alessio, L. Prauscello, E. Bowie, S. Hornblower, A. D. Morrison, L. Athanassaki, F. Ferrari, F. Budelmann, Rosalind Thomas, G. W. Most, G. O. Hutchinson, C. Calame, and D. Fearn.

William Aylward (ed.). Excavations at Zeugma. Conducted by Oxford Archaeology. 3 vols. Pp. xii, 279 (plus 169 color plates); vi, 259 (plus 109 b-w plates); vi, 449. ISBN 978-1-938325-29-8.

With a preface by David W. Packard and contributions by the editor and R. Nardi, K. Schneider, J. Tobin, S. Rous, K. M. D. Dunbabin, B. Bergmann, R. Benefiel, K. Coleman, C. Crowther, C. B. Rose, J. Van Den Hoek, P. M. Kenrick, C. Doherty, P. Reynolds, M. Hawari, J. Gingras, S. Herbert, R. A. Grossmann, K. Butcher, E. Khamis, I. Scott, B. Charles, H. Parton, F. Cole, H. Elton, M. Hartmann, M. A. Speidel, D. Meiggs, D. Challinor, D. de Moulins, and R. Gale.

Bruce Karl Braswell (ed.). Didymos of Alexandria: Commentary on Pindar. Edited and Translated with Introduction, Explanatory Notes, and a Critical Catalogue of Didymos’ Works. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 41. Basel: Schwabe, 2013. Pp. 325. €82.00. ISBN 978-3-7965-2901-6.

Jan Breder. Attische Grabbezirke klassischer Zeit. Philippika: Marburger alter-tumskundliche Abhandlungen, 60. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013. Pp. xi, 387 (107 of them plates). €88.00. ISBN 9-783-447-06868-0.

Cyprian Broodbank. The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 672. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-19-999978-1.

With many illustrations.

R. W. Burgess and Michael Kulikowski. Mosaics of Time: The Latin Chronicle Traditions from the First Century BC to the Sixth Century AD. Vol. 1. A Historical Introduction to the Chronicle Genre from its Origins to the High Middle Ages. Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 33. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. Pp. xiv, 444. €65.58. ISBN 9-782-503-53140-3.

Paul Christesen. Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xvii, 309. $99.00. ISBN 978-1-107-01269-1.

Paul Christesen and Donald G. Kyle (eds.). A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2014. Pp. xxi, 658. $120.00. ISBN 978-1-4443-3952-9.

With contributions by the editors and W. L. Adams, G. S. Aldrete, C. M. Antonaccio, S. Bell, G. Bevagna, S. Brunet, M. J. Carter, H. Dodge, R. Dunkle, C. Epplett, G. G. Fagan, A. Lear, H. M. Lee, R. MacLean, K. Mammel, C. Mann, S. G. Miller, S. C. Murray, J. Neils, N. Nicholson, T. H. Nielsen, Z. Papakonstantinou, D. A. Parnell, T. P. J. Perry, W. Petermandl, H. W. Pleket, S. Remijsen, D. G. Romano, J. Rutter, M. Scott, J. Toner, Z. Martirosova Torlone, S. L. Tuck, I. Weiler, and J. Zaleski.

Paul Chrystal. Women in Ancient Rome. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing, 2013. Pp. 224. £20.00. ISBN 978-1-4456-0870-9.

Dee L. Clayman. Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt. Women in Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 270. $99.00 (hb.). ISBN 978-0-19-537088-1; $27.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-19-537089-8.

Lorenzo Cortesi. Il mondo dei Tolomei nella grande visione artistico-letter-aria di Posidippo di Pella. Torino: Ananke, 2012. Pp. 471. €28.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-88-7325-506-2.

Raffaella Cribiore. Libanius the Sophist: Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century. Townsend Lectures/Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. Pp. x, 260. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-8014-5207-9.

Jason Crowley. The Psychology of the Athenian Hoplite: The Culture of Combat in Classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...