Books Received

Kempe Algra and Katerina Ierodiakonou (eds.). Sextus Empiricus and Ancient Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xiii, 433. $135.00. ISBN 978–1-107–06924–4.

With contributions by the editors and R. Bett, M. J. White, G. Betegh, R. J. Hankinson, S. Bobzien, T. Brennan, and J. Warren.

Anastasia Bakogianni and Valerie M. Hope (eds.). War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict. Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. Pp. xiv, 454. $154.00. ISBN 978–1-47252–229–0.

With contributions by the editors and T. Myers, N. Yamagata, N. W. Bernstein, H. Lovatt, L. Swift, E. Bridges, A. Capra, R. Ash, J. A. Simard, E. Macaulay-Lewis, A. Fear, J. M^cConnell, G. Van Steen, J. Hesk, and S. Nevin.

Han Baltussen and Peter J. Davis (eds.). The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. vi, 329. $79.95. ISBN 978–0-8122–4735–0.

With contributions by the editors and A. Hartwig, L. O’Sullivan, G. Manuwald, I. Ziogas, M. Wilson, J. Penwill, P. Allen, B. Neil, M. Cassidy-Welch, F. Soyer, and J. Parkin.

Ruby Blondell. Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xvii, 289. $24.95 (pb.). ISBN 978–0-19–026353–9.

Alain Bresson. The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy: Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xxvi, 620. $45.00. ISBN 978–1-4008–5245–1.

Elizabeth Donnelly Carney. King and Court in Ancient Macedonia: Rivalry, Treason and Conspiracy. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2015. Pp. xxvi, 326. $110.00. ISBN 978–1-905125–98–2.

James Clackson. Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Key Themes in Ancient History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv, 204. $29.99 (pb.). ISBN 978–0-521–14066–9.

Pascale Derron (ed.). Cosmologies et cosmogonies dans la littérature antique: Huit exposés suivis de discussions et d’un épilogue. Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique, 61. Vandœuvres: Fondation Hardt pour l’étude de l’Antiquité classique, 2015. Pp. x, 355. CHF 75.00. ISBN 978–2-600–00761–0.

Entretiens préparés par Therese Fuhrer et Michael Erler.

With contributions by P. Ducrey, T. Fuhrer, M. Erhler, S. Maul, K. Schmid, J. S. Clay, G. Campbell, D. T. Runia, J. D. BeDuhn, K. Volk, R. Brague, and R. Durrer.

David L. Eastman (tr.). The Ancient Martyrdom Accounts of Peter and Paul. Writings from the Greco-Roman World, 39. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2015. Pp. xxv, 469. $59.95 (pb.). ISBN 978–1-62837–090–4.

Lowell Edmunds. Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. xvii, 430. $49.50. ISBN 978–0-691–16512–7.

Marco Fantuzzi and Christos Tsagalis (eds.). The Greek Epic Cycle and Its Ancient Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xiii, 678. $195.00. ISBN 978–1-107–01259–2.

With contributions by the editors and J. Burgess, G. Nagy, J. M. Foley, J. Arft, M. L. West, W. Kullmann, M. Finkelberg, A. Bernabé, A. Rengakos, D. Konstan, T. H. Carpenter, G. D’Alessio, E. Cingano, J. B. Torres-Guerra, A. Debiasi, B. Currie, A. Kelly, P. J. Finglass, G. Danek, M. Noussia-Fantuzzi, I. Rutherford, A. H. Sommerstein, E. Sistakou, M. Squire, U. Gärtner, G. Rosati, C. McNelis, D. F. Elmer, S. Bär, and M. Baumbach.

Greg Fisher (ed.). Arabs and Empires Before Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxvii, 580. $225.00. ISBN 978–0-19–965452–9.

With contributions by the editor and M. C. A. Macdonald, A. Corcella, T. Daryaee, M. Gibbs, A. Lewin, D. Violante, C. Whately, C. J. Robin, D. Gene-quand, P. Edwell, G. Greatrex, P. Wood, G. Bevan, B. Hamarneh, P. Schadler, W. Ward, Z. T. Fiema, A. Al-Jallad, L. Nehmé, H. Munt, O. Edaibat, R. Hoyland, and I. Toral-Niehoff.

Anne Fortier. The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel. New York: Ballantine Books, 2015. Pp. 592. $16.00...