Books Received

Sheila L. Ager and Riemer A. Faber (eds.). Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World. Phoenix Supplementary Volumes, 51. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Pp. xii, 399. $80.00. ISBN 978-1-4426-4422-9.

With contributions by the editors and P. Baker, P. Bing, G. Bugh, A. Coşkun, M. Depew, A. Eckstin, C. Eilers, A. Erskine, K. Gutzwiller, C. Hardiman, R. Höschele, E. Lyttle, L. Migeotte, D. Ogden, G. Reger, J. Scholten, C. Vester, and R. Westgate.

Peter Agócs, Chris Carey, and Richard Rawles (eds.). Receiving the Komos: Ancient and Modern Receptions of the Victory Ode. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements, 112. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, 2012. Pp. ix, 250. £50.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-1-905670-34-5.

A companion volume to these same editors’ Reading the Victory Ode (Cambridge, 2012). With contributions by the editors and S. Barbantani, A. D’Angour, D. Kozák, I. Rutherford, G. Ucciardello, V. Moul, P. Wilson, V. Dimoula, and F. Pontani.

Ben Akrigg and Rob Tordoff (eds.). Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xv, 271. $99.00. ISBN 978-1-107-00855-7.

With contributions by the editors and K. Bosher, C. Cox, D. Konstan, S. Lape, C. W. Marshall, S. D. Olson, D. Sells, C. Vester, and K. Wrenhaven.

Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott Bartell, and Alicia Aldrete. Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor: Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. ix, 279. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-0819-4.

Edward M. Anson. Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. xiii, 266. $110.00 (hb.). ISBN 978-1-4411-9379-7; $34.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-1-4411-1390-0.

Apostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow (tr.). The Orphic Hymns: Translation, Introduction, and Notes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xxi, 255. $40.00 (hb.). ISBN 978-1-4214-0881-1; $22.95 (pb.). ISBN 978-1-4214-0882-8.

A revision of Athanassakis’ 1977 translation, now with notes by both authors.

Colin Austin. Menander: Eleven Plays. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volumes, 37. Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 2012. Pp. xvii, 84. £35.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-0-9568381-2-4.

Published here are the texts of eleven plays as left at Austin’s death, which, along with the more major papyrus texts, were planned for his OCT, now to be completed by others: Γεωργός, Δὶς ἐξαπατῶν, Ἐγχειρίδιον, Ἥρως, Θεοφορουμένη, Καρχηδόνιος, Κιθαριστής, Κωνειαζόμεναι, Λευκαδία, Περινθία, and Φάσμα.

Egbert J. Bakker. The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii, 191. $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-11120-1.

Emmanuela Bakola, Lucia Prauscello, and Mario Telò (eds.). Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi, 404. $110.00. ISBN 978-1-107-03331-3.

With contributions by the editors and M. Silk, E. Csapo, R. Rosen, M. Revermann, C. Carey, R. Rawles, M. Wright, M. Fantuzzi, D. Konstan, E. Hall, J. Rusten, and N. Lowe.

Han Baltussen (ed.). Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition and its Afterlife. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2013. Pp. xxv, 200. $100.00. ISBN 978-1-905125-56-2.

Distributed in North America by the David Brown Book Company. With contributions by the editor and P. Adamson, G. Boys-Stones, J. H. K. O. Chong-Gossard, D. Konstan, J. Lössl, J. H. D. Scourfield, and M. Wilson.

Elizabeth Courtney Banks. Lerna: A Preclassical Site in the Argolid: The Settlement and Architecture of Lerna IV. Results of Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 6. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2013. Pp. xx, 484. $150.00. ISBN 978-0-87661-306-1.

Emily Baragwanath and Mathieu de Bakker (eds.). Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xi, 370. $150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-969397-9.

With contributions by the editors and C. Dewald, S. Saïd, I. de Jong, E. Vandiver, V. J. Gray, R. Vignolo Munson, C. C. Chiasson, R. Thomas, P. Vannicelli, and A. M. Bowie...