Books Received

Francisco Rodríguez Adrados. A History of the Greek Language: From Its Origins to the Present. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. xix, 345. $134.00. ISBN 90-04-12835-2.

Translated from the Spanish by Francisca Rojas del Canto.

Aevum Antiquum. n.s. 2 (2002). Valerio Flacco. Milan: Pubblicazioni dell'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2002. Pp. 290 (pb.). €42.00.

A special issue devoted to Valerius Flaccus, with articles by F. Caviglia, P. Esposito, M. Tuececchi, G. Manuwald, T. Pellucchi, A. Perutelli, F. Spaltenstein, and H. J. Tschiedel; as well as eight other articles on miscellaneous subjects.

Lindsey Allen. The Persian Empire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 208. $35.00. ISBN 0-226-01447-9.

Ronnie Ancona and Ellen Greene (eds.). Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 372. $55.00. ISBN 0-8018-8198-6.

With contributions by the editors and T. Fear, K. Ormand, E. Sutherland, C. Brunelle, P. Salzman-Mitchell, V. Rimell, H. Valladares, K. O'Neill, P. L. Lowell Bowditch, T. S. Welch, and E. Spentzou.

Jan Assmann. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 490. $59.95. ISBN 0-8014-4241-9.

Translated by David Lorton.

Egbert J. Bakker. Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2005. Pp. xiii, 205. $17.95 (pb.). ISBN 0-674-01955-5.

Published for the CHS by Harvard University Press. Nine previously published articles here reprinted in revised form.

Alessandro Barchiesi (ed.). Ovidio: Metamorfosi. Vol. 1: Libri I–II. Scrittori Greci e Latini. Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori, 2005. Pp. ci, 310. €27.00. ISBN 88-04-54481-3.

With a facing Italian translation by Ludovica Koch and an introduction by Charles Segal, "Il corpo e l'io nelle Metamorfosi di Ovidio." The Latin text is that of Richard Tarrant's OCT. Future volumes of the Metamorphoses will be edited by P. Hardie, E. J. Kenney, J. D. Reed, and G. Rosati.

Anthony R. Birley. The Roman Government of Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 532. $150.00. ISBN 0-19-925237-8.

Synnøve des Bouvrie (ed.). Myths and Symbol II: Symbolic Phenomena in Ancient Greek Culture. Papers from the second and third international symposia on symbolism at The Norwegian Institute at Athens, September 21–24, 2000 and September 19–22, 2002. Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 7. Bergen: The Norwegian Institute at Athens, 2004. Pp. 391. ISBN 82-91626-22-7.

With contributions by the editor and W. Hansen, M. Nielsen, C. Auffarth, P. Ellinger, John Henderson, J. Bremmer, C. Sourvinou-Inwood, P. Vidal-Naquet, M. Skafte Jensen, V. Masciadri, D. Jordan, H. Whittaker, J. Stroszeck, and L. Bruit Zaidman.

Anne Pippin Burnett. Pindar's Songs for Young Athletes of Aigina. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 276. $90.00. ISBN 0-19-927794-X.

Giacomo Casanova (tr.). Iliade di Omero in Veneziano: Tradotta in ottava rima. Venice: Editoria Universitaria, 2005. Pp. 790. €50.00 (pb.). ISBN 88-88618-34-1.

Edited by Albert Gardin, with transcription of the ms. (which is reproduced page by page facing its printed version) by Federico Boschetti. With an introduction by Mario Geymonat. In his own introduction (written in Tuscan), Casanova defends his decision to translate into the Venetian dialect books 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, and 14. The first stanza: Gran Dea, che, co volè, sè tanto cara, | Del gran fio de Pelèo cantè la bile, | Colera rovinosa, orrenda, amara, | Despetto atroce dell'ardente Achille. | Cantè quanto quell'ira ha costà cara | A l'aneme de mille Eroi, e mille | Morti, e all'orrido inferno condannài | Da Cani, e Corvi i corpi devorai.

Ursula Coope. Time for Aristotle: Physics IV.10–14. Oxford Aristotle Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. ix, 194. $55.00. ISBN 0 19-924790-5.

Bruno Currie. Pindar and the Cult of Heroes. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 487. $125.00. ISBN 0...