Books Received

Publishers are invited to submit new books for inclusion in this column to Professor David Sider, Department of Classics, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, Room 503, New York, NY 10003; e-mail: david.sider@nyu.edu.

Opuscula: Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome. Vol. 2 (2009). Stockholm: Svenksa Instituten i Athen och Rom. Pp. 232 (pb.). ISBN 978-91-977798-0-7.
With contributions by K. Demakopoulou, N. Divari-Valakou, M. Nilsson, A.-L. Schallin. S. Voutsaki, S. Dietz, A. J. Nijboer, L. Karlsson, A. Penttinen, B. Wells (bis), D. Mylona, P. Pakkanen, J. Pakkanen, A. Karivieri, A. Hooton, E. Savini, T. Theodoropoulou, A. Karydas, J. Wallensten, D. Grassinger, Y. Backe-Forsberg, and T. Staub.

Alan Appelbaum: The Rabbis’ King-Parables: Midrash From the Third-Century Roman Empire. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2010. Judaism in Context, 7. Pp. x, 341. $132.80. ISBN 978-1-61719-159-6.

Roger Bagnall. Everyday Writing in the Græco-Roman East. Sather Classical Lectures, 69. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. xiv, 179. $49.95. ISBN 0-520-26702-2.

J. A. Baird and Claire Taylor. Ancient Graffiti in Context. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge, 2011. Pp. xiv, 243. $95.00. ISBN 978-0-415-87889-0.
With contributions by the editors and R. R. Benefiel, K. V. Huntly, A. V. Zadorojnyi, K. Volioti, R. Mairs, P. Keegan, and A. Chaniotis.

D. H. Berry and Andrew Erskine (eds.). Form and Function in Roman Oratory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv, 353. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76895-5.
With contributions by the editors and J. G. F. Powell, C. Steel, G. Davies, C. Craig, A. M. Riggsby, R. Rees, B. Gibson, A. Corbeill, J. T. Ramsey, R. May, C. J. Classen, H. Hine, W. W. Batsone, C. S. Kraus, C. Smith, R. Mayer, and A. J. Woodman.

Stephen Bertman. The Genesis of Science: The Story of Greek Imagination. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2010. Pp. 293. $27.00. ISBN 978-1-61614-217-9.

Hans Bjur and Barbro Santillo Frizell (eds.). Via Tiburtina: Space, Movement & Artefacts in the Urban Landscape. Stockholm: Svenska Institutet i Rom, 2009. Pp. 239. $157.50. ISBN 978-91-7042-177-8.
With contributions by the editors and S. Malmberg, O. Brandt, K. Hellerström, H. Hökerberg, B. Magnusson, A. Klynne, M. Azimzadeh, K. Lisitzin, and J. Westin.

Nancy Bookidis. Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: The Terracotta Sculpture. Corinth. Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, XVIII.5. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2010. Pp. xxv, 315. $150.00. ISBN 978-0-87661-185-2.
With 126 black-and-white plates.

Barbara Weiden Boyd and Cora Fox (eds.). Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition. Approaches to Teaching World Literature, 113. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2010. Pp. viii, 294. $37.50 (hb.). ISBN 978-1-60329-062-3; $19.75 (pb.). ISBN 978-1-60329-063-0.
With contributions by the editors and S. C. Anderson, W. S. Anderson, P. Cheney, R. Cormier, F. A. De Armas, J. Ellis, N. Endres, J. C. Fumo,J. P. Hallet, R. W. Hanning, R. W. Harris, R. Hexter, S. Huskey, M. Jaeger, P. Katz, S. Keilen, A. Keith, P. E. Knox, S. Maisano, C. M. McDonough, M. McGowan, P. A. Miller, F. Palmeri, W. C. Peek, L. N. Quartarone, B. Redford, M. U. Sowell, G. V. Stanivukovic, and M. L. Stapleton.

Allen Brent. Cyprian and Roman Carthage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xv, 365. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-51547-4.

Shane Butler. The Matter of the Page: Essays in Search of Ancient and Medieval Authors. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. Pp. x, 158. $29.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-299-24824-6.

Alan Cameron. The Last Pagans of Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xi, 878. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-19-974727-6.

Luca Castagnoli. Ancient Self-Refutation: The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument from Democritus to Augustine. Cambridge...