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David Sider
Publishers are invited to submit new books to be reviewed to Professor David Sider, Department of Classics, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003; e-mail: david.sider@nyu.edu.
Approches de l'économie Hellénistique. Entretiens d'archéologie et d'histoire, 7. Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges: Diffusion de Boccard, 2006. Pp. 455. ISBN: 2-912729-05-X.
With an introduction by R. Descat and contributions by Y. Garlan, G. Finkielsztejn, F. de Callataÿ, O. Picard, M. Faraguna, C. Müller, C. Grandjean, G. J. Oliver, J. G. Manning, F. Burkhalter, R. J. van der Spek, A. Bresson, P. Briant, L. Capdetrey, L. Migeotte, J.-C. Couvenhes, and M. Sartre.
With an introduction by R. Descat and contributions by Y. Garlan, G. Finkielsztejn, F. de Callataÿ, O. Picard, M. Faraguna, C. Müller, C. Grandjean, G. J. Oliver, J. G. Manning, F. Burkhalter, R. J. van der Spek, A. Bresson, P. Briant, L. Capdetrey, L. Migeotte, J.-C. Couvenhes, and M. Sartre.
Stephen A. Barney, W. J. Lewis, J. A. Beach, and Oliver Berghof (trs.). The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 475. $150.00. ISBN 0-521-83749-9.
A liberal use of Latin and Greek words, along with occasional footnotes, makes it easy to see the real or imagined etymological links posited by Isidore.
A liberal use of Latin and Greek words, along with occasional footnotes, makes it easy to see the real or imagined etymological links posited by Isidore.
William W. Batstone and Cynthia Damon. Caesar's Civil War. Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xiii, 225. $74.00 (hb). ISBN 0-19-516510-1; $19.95 (pb.). ISBN 0 19-516511-X.
Roger Beck. A Brief History of Ancient Astrology. Brief Histories of the Ancient World. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2007. Pp. xii, 159. $54.95 (hb.). ISBN 1-4051-1087-2; $21.95 (pb.). ISBN 1-4051-1074-0.
Philip P. Betancourt (ed.). The Chysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and Its Territory. Hesperia Supplements, 36. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2006. Pp. 462. $65.00 (pb.). ISBN 0-87661-536-1.
Distributed by the David Brown Book Company. With contributions by the editor and E. A. Armpis, Y., Bassiakos, C. Beck, R. F. Beeston, M. Catapotis, B. Crowell, D. Evely, W. R. Farrand, S. C. Ferrence, C. R. Floyd, N. Gale, W. B. Hafford, D. C. Haggis, G. Jones, B. Koukaras, J. D. Muhly, G. H. Myer, E. Nodarou, L. Onyshkevych, J. Palatinus, N. Poulou-Papadimitriou, R. S. Powell, D. S. Reece, A. Schofield, E. B. Shank, E. Sikla, Z. Stos, E. C. Stout, C. P. Swann, C. M. Thompson, and T. Yangaki.
Distributed by the David Brown Book Company. With contributions by the editor and E. A. Armpis, Y., Bassiakos, C. Beck, R. F. Beeston, M. Catapotis, B. Crowell, D. Evely, W. R. Farrand, S. C. Ferrence, C. R. Floyd, N. Gale, W. B. Hafford, D. C. Haggis, G. Jones, B. Koukaras, J. D. Muhly, G. H. Myer, E. Nodarou, L. Onyshkevych, J. Palatinus, N. Poulou-Papadimitriou, R. S. Powell, D. S. Reece, A. Schofield, E. B. Shank, E. Sikla, Z. Stos, E. C. Stout, C. P. Swann, C. M. Thompson, and T. Yangaki.
John Boardman. The History of Greek Vases: Potters, Painters, and Pictures. London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. Pp. 320. $29.95 (pb.). ISBN 0-500-28593-4.
First paperback publication; originally published in 2001.
First paperback publication; originally published in 2001.
G. W. Bowerstock. Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam. Revealing Antiquity, 16. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 146. $22.95. ISBN 0-674-02292-0.
With many color illustrations. [End Page 181]
With many color illustrations. [End Page 181]
Aldo Brancacci and Pierre-Marie Morel (eds.). Democritus: Science, the Arts, and the Care of the Soul. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Democritus (Paris, 18–20 September 2003). Philosophia Antiqua, 102. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Pp. vi, 348. $147.00. ISBN 90-04-15160 5.
With contributions by the editors and W. Leszl, C. W. W. Taylor, J. Warren, J. Salem, L. Perilli, M. L. Gemelli Marciano, D. O'Brien, A. Jaulin, and J. Mansfeld.
With contributions by the editors and W. Leszl, C. W. W. Taylor, J. Warren, J. Salem, L. Perilli, M. L. Gemelli Marciano, D. O'Brien, A. Jaulin, and J. Mansfeld.
Luigi Bravi. Gli epigrammi di Simonide e le vie della tradizione. Filologia e Critica, 94. Rome: Ateneo, 2006. Pp. 179. ˛76.00 (hb.). ISBN 88-8476-125-5; ˛38.00 (pb.). ISBN 88-8476-124-7.
Brian W. Breed. Pastoral Inscriptions: Reading and Writing Virgil's Eclogues. Classical Literature and Society. London: Duckworth, 2006. Pp. viii, 199. $31.00 (pb.). ISBN 0-7156-3449-6.
John Breuker and Mardah B. C. Weinfield. A Little Book of Latin Love Poetry: A Transitional Reader for Catullus, Horace, and Ovid. Wauconda, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2006. Pp. xii, 138. $21.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-86516-601-1.
Gordon Lindsay Campbell. Strange Creatures: Anthropology in Antiquity. London: Duckworth, 2006. Pp. x, 185. $70.00. ISBN 0-7156-3391-0.
Guglielmo Cavallo. Lire à Byzance. Séminaires Byzantins, 1. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2006. Pp. viii, 165. ˛23.00 (pb.). ISBN 2-251...
