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ABBENES, J.G. J. and S. R. SLINGS, I[NEKE]. SLUITER, eds. Greek Literary Theory After Aristotle: A Collection of Papers in Honour of D. M. Schenkeveld. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1995. xviii + 329 pp. Paper, price not stated.

[Contents: W. W. Fortenbaugh, "Theophrastus, Source no. 709 FHS&G," 1-16; Pierre Swiggers, Alfons Wouters, "Poetics and Grammar: From Technique to Tέχνη," 17-41; L. C. Montefusco, "Cicero and the Division of Virtue," 43-64; Jakob Wisse, "Greeks, Romans, and the Rise of Atticism," 65-82; J. I. Porter, ": A Reassessment," 83-109; D. C. Innes, "Longinus: Structure and Unity," 111-24; Zsigmond Ritoók, "Some Aesthetic Views of Dio Chrysostom and Their Sources," 125-34; Franco Montanari, "The Mythographus Homericus," 135-72; S. R. Slings, "Protreptic in Ancient Theories of Philosophical Literature," 173-92; Ineke Sluiter, "The Poetics of Medicine," 193-213; P. T. Struck, "Allegory, Aenigma, and Anti-Mimesis: A Struggle Against Aristotelian Rhetorical Literary Theory," 215-34; J. G. M. van Dijk, μύθων . Greek Fable Theory after Aristotle: Characters and Characteristics," 235-58; J. M. Bremer, "Menander Rhetor on Hymns," 259-74; Robin Jackson, "Late Platonist Poetics: Olympiodorus and the Myth of Plato's Gorgias," 275-99; Thomas Conley, "Practice to Theory: Byzantine 'Poetrics'," 301-20.]

AYRES, LEWIS, ed. The Passionate Intellect: Essays on the Transformation of Classical Traditions Presented to Professor I.G. Kidd. New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Transaction Publishers, 1995. xvi + 376 pp. Cloth, $49.95. (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, 7)

[Contents: Ian Kidd, "The Greeks and the Passionate Intellect," 1-10; K. J. Dover, "Poetic Rhythms in the Myth of the Soul," 13-22; S. Halliwell, "Plato, Imagination and Romanticism," 23-37; Mark Joyal, "Tradition and Innovation in the Transformation of Socrates' Divine Sign," 39-56; D. B. Robinson, " and in Plato's Cratylus," 57-66; R.W. Sharples, "Counting Plato's Principles," 67-82; Chris Carey, "Pindar and the Victory Ode," 85-103; E. M. Craik, "Euripides: Ion and Phoenissae," 105-15; J. S. Richardson, "The Roman Mind and the Power of Fiction," 117-30; Shigetake Yaginuma, "Did Thucydides Write for Readers or Hearers?" 131-42; F. D. Caizzi, "Aenesidemus versus Pyrrho: Il fuoco scalda 'per natura' (Sextus M. VIII 215 e XI 69)," 145-59; W. W. Fortenbaugh, "Theophrastus, no. 84 FHS&G: There's Nothing New Here!" 161-76; A. S. Gratwick, "Alexandria, Syene, Meroe: Symmetry in Eratosthenes' Measurement of the World," 177-202; H. M. Hine, "Seneca's Natural Questions-Changing Readerships," 203-11; Richard Janko, "Crates of Mallos, Dionysius Thrax and the Tradition of Stoic Grammatical Theory," 213-33; Jaap Mansfield, "Aenesidemus [End Page 171] and the Academics," 235-48; Robin Waterfield, "The Pathology of Ps. Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine," 249-58; Lewis Ayres, "The Discipline of Self-knowledge in Augustine's De trinitate Book X," 261-96; C. J. Classen, "Melanchthon's First Manual on Rhetorical Categories in Criticism of the Bible," 297-322; John Dillon, " 'A Kind of Warmth': Some Reflections on the Concept of 'Grace' in the Neoplatonic Tradition," 323-32; R. P. H. Green, "Ausonius at Prayer," 333-43; Jill Harries, "The Philosophy of the Codification of Law in Fifth Century Constantinople and Victorian Edinburgh," 345-61.]

BIERMANN, MARTIN. Die Leichenrede des Ambrosius von Mailand: Rhetorik, Predigt, Politik. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995. 232 pp. Paper, DM 76 SFr 76, ÖS 593. (Hermes Einzelschriften, 70)
BOCK, SUSAN. Los Hunos: Tradición e Historia. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia, Secretariado de Publicaciones, 1992. 503 pp. Paper, $50 (U.S.), 5000 Ptas. (Antigüedad y Cristianismo, 9)
BOUQUET, JEAN, ed. Dracontius: Oeuvres. Tome III: La tragédie d'Oreste. Poèmes profanes I-V. Introduction par Jean Bouquet et Étienne Wolff. Texte établi et traduit par Jean Bouquet. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1995. Pp. 1-89, 90-160 (double), 161-278. Cloth, 325 FF. (Collection des Universités de France publiée sous le patronage de l'Association Guillaume Budé)
BRACCESI, LORENZO. Poesia e memoria: nuove proiezioni dell'antico. Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1995. ix + 197 pp. Paper, price not stated. (L'Eredità dell'Antico: Passato e Presente, 4...

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