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. 3 (2010). Stockholm: Svenksa Instituten i Athen och Rom. Pp. 227 (pb.). ISBN 978-91-977798-2-1.

With contributions by K. Demakopoulou, N. Divari-Valakou, M. Lowe Fri, M. Miller, M. Nilsson, A.-L. Schallin, J. K. Papadopoulos, M. G. Scapaticci, L. Karlsson, A.-M. Leander Touati, J. Habetzeder, F. Gilotta, and E. Weiberg.

Francesco Ademollo. The Cratylus of Plato: A Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xx, 538. $140.00. ISBN 978-0-521-76347-9.

A running philosophical commentary, not one lemmatized by Greek text.

Eric Adler. Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography. Ashley and Peter Larkin Series in Greek and Roman Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Pp. xi, 269. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-292-72628-4.

Zsolt Adorjáni. Auge und Sehen in Pindars Dichtung. Spudasmata, 139. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2011. Pp. 249. €39.80 (pb.). ISBN 978-3-487-14632-4.

Thomas W. Africa. A Historian's Palette: Studies in Greek and Roman History. Claremont, Ca.: Regina Books, 2011. Pp. xix, 420. $39.95 (pb.) ISBN 978-1-930053-58-8.

Thirty-one previously published essays by Africa, compiled with introduction by Frank L. Vatai.

Lauren J. Apfel. The Advent of Pluralism: Diversity and Conflict in the Age of Sophocles. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi, 380. $135.00. ISBN 978-0-19-960062-5.

Norman Austin. Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Great Soul Robbery. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. Pp. xiii, 282. $24.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-299-28274-5.

Amalia Avramidou. The Codrus Painter: Iconography and Reception of Athenian Vases in the Age of Pericles. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. Pp. xiii, 237. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-299-24780-5.

Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins (trans). Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xxii, 339. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-226-02674-9.

With an interpretive essay, notes, and glossary.

Martin Beckmann. The Column of Marcus Aurelius: The Genesis and Meaning of a Roman Imperial Monument. Studies in the History of Greece and Rome. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Pp. xii, 248. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-8078-3461-9.

W. Martin Bloomer. The School of Rome: Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. vii, 281. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-520-25576-0.

Claudia Bolgia, Rosamond McKitterick, and John Osborne (eds.). Rome Across Time and Space: Cultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas, c.500-1400. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xx, 351. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19217-0.

With contributions by the editors and M. Campanelli, M. D. Reeve, É. Ó. Carragáin, J. D. Billett, Y. Hen, J. J. Emerick, S. de Blaauw, J. Mitchell, D. Kinney, J. Hawkes, W. R. Day, Jr., J. Gardner, P. Binski, L. Bourdua, B. Bolton, and G. Dameron.

Larissa Bonfante (ed.). The Barbarians of Ancient Europe: Realities and Interactions. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xxiii, 395 (with 23 color plates). $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19404-4.

With contributions by the editor and P. T. Keyser, A. I. Ivantchik, R. Rolle, I. Marazov, B. Cunliffe (bis), P. S. Wells, O.-H. Frey, N. T. de Grummond, J. Marincola, and W. Stevenson.

Jean Bottéro. The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. x, 134. $17.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-226-06734-6.

Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. The 2004 hb is still in print at not much more than the pb: $22.50. ISBN 978-0-226-06735-3. (The pb mistakenly has 2004 as its date, but it is a new publication in this form.)

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