Books Received

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Carbone, Marco Benoît. Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity: The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. xv + 256 pages, $115.00, hardcover, ISBN 9781350118188.

Davis, Jack L. A Greek State in Formation: The Origins of Civilization in Mycenaean Pylos. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. xxxiv + 127 pages, $34.95, paperback, ISBN 9780520387249.

De Marre, Martine and Bhola, Rajiv K., eds. Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. xvi + 324 pages, $160.00, hardcover, ISBN 9780367371449.

Ferrara, Silvia. The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts. Translated by Todd Portnowitz. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2022. viii + 289 pages, $29.00, hardcover, ISBN 9780374601621.

Foss, Pedar W. Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. xvii + 333 pages, $160.00, hardcover, ISBN 9780415705462.

Fowler, Robert L. Pindar and the Sublime: Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric Experience. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. xii + 261 pages, $26.95, paperback, ISBN 9781350198166.

Garcia, Edgar. Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 121 pages, $22.50, paperback, ISBN 9780226818597.

Grand-Clément, Adeline and Ribeyrol, Charlotte, eds. The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. xiii + 271 pages, $120.00, hardcover, ISBN 9781350169722.

Hamilton, John T. Complacency: Classics and Its Displacement in Higher Education. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 123 pages, $22.50, paperback, ISBN 9780226818627.

Heise, Paul Brian. The Wound that Will Never Heal: An Allegorical Interpretation of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung. Washington and London: Academica Press, 2021. xix + 592 pages, $99.95, hardcover, ISBN 9781680538120.

Klein, V. Sophie. Plautus: Menaechmi. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. x + 179 pages, $24.95, paperback, ISBN 9781350092723.

Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings. New York: Basic Books, 2022. xiv + 431 pages, $35.00, hardcover, ISBN 9781541600348.

Maurice, Lisa and Bibring, Tovi, eds. Gender, Creation Myths and Their Reception in Western Civilization: Prometheus, Pandora, Adam and Eve. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. xv + 247 pages, $120.00, hardcover, ISBN 9781350212824.

McKie, Stuart. Living and Cursing in the Roman West: Curse Tablets and Society. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 285 pages, $115.00, hardcover, ISBN 9781350102996.

McNamara, James and Pagán, Victoria Emma, eds. Tacitus' Wonders: Empire and Paradox in Ancient Rome. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. viii + 281 pages, $90.00, hardcover, ISBN 9781350241725.

Nelson, Stephanie. Time and Identity in Ulysses and the Odyssey. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2022. xiii + 282 pages, $85.00, hardcover, ISBN 9780813069357.

Ruprecht, Louis A., Jr. Reach without Grasping: Anne Carson's Classical Desires. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. 220 pages, $100.00, hardcover, ISBN 9781793637666.

Sellars, John. The Pocket Epicurean. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 126 pages, $12.50, hardcover, ISBN 9780226798646.

Sternberg, Rachel Hall. The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. xviii + 161 pages, $45.00, hardcover, ISBN 9781477322918.

Withun, David. Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. viii + 244 pages, $74.00, hardcover, ISBN 9780197579589.