Books Received

Alvoni, Giovanna. Altertumswissenschaften digital: Datenbanken, Internet, und e-Ressourcen in der altertumswissenschaftlichen Forschung (mit Beiträgen von Ulrich Rausch) (Studienbücher Antike Band 5). Hidesheim: Georg Olms Verlag 2001. Pp. 192; paper DM 29,80 ISBN 3-487-11248-5.

Brennan, T. Corey. The Praetorship in the Roman Republic (two volumes). Oxford: Oxford University Press 2000. Pp. xvii, 972; cloth $175.00 ISBN 0-19-513867-8.

Burkert, Walter. Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece (trans. Peter Bing). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2001. Pp. xiv, 110; cloth $28.00 ISBN 0-226-08085-4.

Carson, Anne (trans.) Sophocles: Electra (Introduction and Notes by Michael Shaw) (Greek Tragedy in New Translations). Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001. Pp. ix, 127; paper $10.95 ISBN 0-19-504960-8.

Dixon, Suzanne (ed.). Childhood, Class, and Kin in the Roman World. London: Routledge 2001. Pp. xvi, 282; cloth $80.00 ISBN 0-415-23578-2.

Edmunds, Lowell. Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2001. Pp. xx, 201; cloth $42.00 ISBN 0-8018-6511-5.

Frangoulidis, Stavros. Roles and Performances in Apuleius's Metamorphoses (Beiträge zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption 16). Stuttgart: Verlag J. B. Metzler 2001. Pp. viii, 197; paper n.p. ISBN 3-476-45284-0.

Fraschetti, Augusto (ed.). Roman Women (trans. Linda Lappin). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2001. Pp. vi, 248; paper $20.00 ISBN 0-226-26094-1.

Krier, Theresa M. Birth Passages: Maternity and Nostalgia, Antiquity to Shakespeare. Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2001. Pp. xvii, 266; cloth $42.50 ISBN 0-8014-3893-4.

Krostenko, Brian A. Cicero, Catullus, and the Language of Social Performance. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2001. Pp. xvi, 360; paper n.p. ISBN 0-226-45444-4.

McHugh, Heather (trans.) Euripides: Cyclops (Introduction and Notes by David Konstan) (Greek Tragedy in New Translations). Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001. Pp. ix, 77; paper $9.95 ISBN 0-19-514303-5.

Mayer, Roland (ed.). Tacitus: Dialogus de Oratoribus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001. Pp. ix, 227; cloth $59.95 ISBN 0-521-47040-4, paper $22.95 ISBN 0-521-46996-1.

Mouritsen, Henrik. Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001. Pp. vi, 164; cloth $54.95 ISBN 0-521-79100-6.

O'Bryhim, Shawn (ed.). Greek and Roman Comedy: Translations and Interpretations of Four Representative Plays. Austin: University of Texas Press 2001. Pp. viii, 320; paper n.p. ISBN 0-292-76055-8.

Rosenmeyer, Patricia A. Ancient Epistolary Fictions: The Letter in Greek Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001. Pp. x, 370; cloth $64.95 ISBN 0-521-80004-8.

Scheid, John and Jesper Svenbro. The Craft of Zeus: Myths of Weaving and Fabric (trans. Carol Volk) (Revealing Antiquity 9). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1996. Pp. viii, 226; paper n.p. ISBN 0-674-00578-3.

Thompson, Norma. The Ship of State: Statecraft and Politics from Ancient Greece to Democratic America. New Haven: Yale University Press 2001. Pp. 246; cloth $35.00 ISBN 0-300-08817-5.

Traunecker, Claude. The Gods of Egypt (trans. David Lorton). Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2001. Pp. x, 134; cloth $27.95 ISBN 0-8014-3834-9.

Waquet, Françoise. Latin or The Empire of the Sign: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries (trans. John Howe). London: Verso 2001. Pp. 346; cloth $30.00 ISBN 1-85984-615-7.

Yunis, Harvey (ed.). Demosthenes: On the Crown (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001. Pp. xii, 314; cloth $74.95 ISBN 0-521-62092-9, paper $27.95 ISBN 0-521-62930-6.