Books Received

Books Received

Colin Adams. Land Transportation in Roman Egypt: A Study of Economics and Administration in a Roman Province. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 331. $110.00. ISBN 978-0-19-920397-0.

Antonio Aloni and Alessandro Iannucci. L'Elegia greca e l'epigramma dalle origini al V secolo. Con un'appendice sulla <<nuova>> elegia di Archiloco. Florence: Le Monnier Università, 2007. Pp. xiii, 274. €19.40 (pb.). ISBN 978-88-00-20492-7.

David Ambuel. Image and Paradigm in Plato's Sophist. Las Vegas: Parmenides, 2007. Pp. xv, 279. $32.00. ISBN 978-1-930972-04-9.

Enrico Ascalone. Mesopotamia. Dictionaries of Civilization. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. 368. $24.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-520-25266-0.

Roger Beck. The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. $39.95 (pb.). Pp. xv, 285. ISBN 978-0-19-921613-0.

The hardcover (2005) is still available: $99.00. ISBN 978-0-19-814089-4.

Jean Bingen. Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 305. $65.00 (hb.). ISBN 978-0-520-25141-0; 24.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-520-25142-7.

Piero Boitani. Winged Words: Flight in Poetry and History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 262. $29.00. ISBN 978-0-226-06561-8.

Charles Bonnet and Dominique Valbelle. The Nubian Pharaohs: Black Kings on the Nile. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2006. Pp. 215. $39.95. ISBN 978-977-416-010-3.
Translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre. Foreword by Jean Leclant. With many color photographs.

Maria Brosius. The Persians: An Introduction. Peoples of the Ancient World. Routledge: New York, 2006. Pp. 217. $29.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-415-32090-0.

Archie Burnett (ed.). The Letters of A. E. Housman. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. liv, 643; 585. $330.00. ISBN 978-0-19-818496 6.

Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet and Nathalie Ernoult (eds.). Problèmes du genre en Grèce ancienne. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2007. Pp. 347. .27.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-2-85944-565-2.
Genre here means gender. With contributions by the editors and B. Lion, J. Delamard, L. Mariaud, J.-C. Couvenhes, B. Legras, S. Boehringer, L. B. Zaidman, J.-B. Bonnard, S. Lalanne, A. Wittenburg, P. S. Pantel, P. Akar, C. Goblot-Cahen, V. Azoulay, A. Iriarte, and C. Leduc.

Andrew Dalby. Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origins of the Epic. Pp. xi, 266. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2006. $15.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-393-33019-9.

Catharine Edwards. Death in Ancient Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 287. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-300-11208-5.

Ja¿ Elsner. Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 350. $49.50. ISBN 978-0-691-096773-3.

Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson. Plotinus on Intellect. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. viii, 232. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-19-928170-1.

Michael Erler and Luc Brisson (eds.). Gorgias-Meno: Selected Papers from the Seventh Symposium Platonicum. International Plato Studies, 25. Sankt Augustin: Academia, 2007. Pp. xi, 389. €58.00. ISBN 978-3-89665-357 4.
Contributions by the editors and T. Penner, H. Tarrant, J. J. Cleary, L. P. Gerson, F. Arends, N. Notomi, C. Gill, A. Neschke-Hentschke, M. Tulli, H. Thesleff, A. Macé, C. Rowe, F. Bravo, E. N. Ostenfeld, R. F. Stalley, J. Moravczik, T. C. Brickhouse and N. Smith, A. Vallejo, G. Casertano, W. Mesch, H. W. Ausland, M. Migliori, G. Arrighetti, T. Ebert, L. M. Napolitano, J. Szaif, Y. Kurihara, B. Castelnérac, A. Havlicek, E. C. Halper, T. M. Tuozzo, E. Cattanei, M.-H. Yang, R. Ferber, V. Politis, C. Helmig, S. Scolnicov, L.-A. Dorion, F. Ferrari, M. Vorwerk, M. Narcy, R. Renaud, A. Larivée, C. Kahn, and T. A...