Books Received

Edwin A. Abbott. Flatland: An Edition with Notes and Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xi, 294. $50.00 (hb.). 978-0-521-76988-4; $14.99 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-521-75994-6.

With notes and commentary on the 1884 classic, by William F. Lindgren and Thomas F. Banchoff.

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes. Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xiii, 252. $39.50. ISBN 978-0-691-09525-7.

Revised versions of five previously published pieces.

Claudia Antonetti and Stefania De Vido. Temi selinuntini. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2009. Pp. 310. €35.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-884672179-2.

With contributions by the editors and F. M. Carinci, M. Albertocchi, S. M. Bertesago, A. Sanavia, S. Crippa, M. De Simon, J. Curbera, L. Gallo, L. Lazzarini, T. Lucchelli, C. Marconi, S. Palazzo, M. Perale, R. Pumo, G. Rocca, and F. Rohr Vio. See: http://www.edizioniets.com/Priv_File_Libro/492.pdf for table of contents.

Christoph Auffarth (ed.). Religion auf dem Lande: Entstehung und Verän-derung von Sakrallandschaften unter römischer Herrschaft. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 28. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2009. Pp. 271. $90.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-3-515-09347-7.

With contributions by the editor and G. Schörner, K. Matijevic, W. Eck & D. Koßmann, A. Schäfer, G. F. Chiai, I. M. Felten, L. E. Baumer, A. Hupfloher, and J. Rüpke.

Willis Barnstone (trans.). Ancient Greek Lyrics. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009. Pp. xxxii, 338. $19.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-253-22121-6.

This combines three earlier volumes of translations by Barnstone: Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets (1988), Sappho (1965), and Greek Lyric Poetry (1962).

Shadi Bartsch and David Wray (eds.). Seneca and the Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. ix, 304. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-88838-7.

With contributions by the editors and A. A. Long, B. Inwood, C. Gill, M. C. Nussbaum, E. Asmis, C. Edwards, J. Ker, A. Schiesaro, and A. Busch.

Bob Bennett and Mike Roberts. The Wars of Alexander's Successors, 323-281 BC. Vol. 2. Battles and Tactics. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Military, 2009. Pp. xviii, 202. $39.99. ISBN 978-1-84415-924-6.

Information at www.pen-and-sword.co.uk. Vol. 1 was published in 2008.

Victor Bers. Genos Dikanikon: Amateur and Professional Speech in the Courtrooms of Classical Athens. Hellenic Studies, 33. Washington, D. C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2009. Pp. ix, 159. $15.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-674-03203-3.

Distributed by Harvard University Press.

Anton Bierl. Ritual and Performativity: The Chorus of Old Comedy. Hellenic Studies, 20. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2009. Pp. xviii, 400. $37.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-674-02373-4.

Translated, with revisions by the author, from Der Chor in der alten Komödie, Ritual und Performativitat (Munich 2001) by Alexander Hollmann. Distributed by Harvard University Press.

Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro (eds.). The Complete Euripides: Volume III: Hippolytus and Other Plays. Greek Tragedy in New Translations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xix, 363. $12.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-19-538877-0.

Includes the Hippolytus, translated by R. Bagg; the Children of Herakles, translated by H. Taylor and R. A. Brooks; the Suppliant Women , translated by R. Warren and S. Scully; and the Ion, translated by W. S. Di Piero, with introduction and notes by P. Burian.

Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro (eds.). The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays. Greek Tragedy in New Translations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii, 430. $12.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-19-537330-1.

Includes the Ajax, translated by H. Golder and R. Pevear; the Women of Trachis, translated by C. K. Williams and G.W. Dickerson; the Electra, translated by Anne Carson, with introduction and notes by M. Shaw; and the Philoctetes, translated by C. Phillips, with introduction and notes by D. Clay.

Claude Calame. Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece: Heroic Reference and Ritual Gestures in Time and Space. Hellenic Studies, 18. Washington, D. C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2009. Pp. xii, 267. $19.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0...