Books Received

Alter, Stephen G. William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xvi + 339 pp. Cloth, $49.95.

Anagnostopoulos, Konstantinos Napoleonta, ed. From Codices 1062 and 1081 of The National Library of Greece, with facsimiles of the codices, prefatory material and commentary, a trans. into English by William H. Race, and a trans. into modern Greek by Christos Soteriou Kontoules. Athens: ELTA (Hellenic Post), 2004. 396 pp. Cloth, price not stated.

Austin, Colin, and S. Douglas Olson, eds. Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae. With intro. and comm. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. cviii + 363 pp. 2 color plates. Cloth, $150.

Black, Jeremy, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, and Gábor Zólyomi, trans. The Literature of Ancient Sumer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. lxiv + 372 pp. 39 black-and-white ills. Cloth, $120.

Brubaker, Leslie, and Julia M. H. Smith, eds. Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300–900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 333 pp. 17 black-and-white ills. Cloth, $80; paper, $29.99.

Buchan, Mark. The Limits of Heroism: Homer and the Ethics of Reading. The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. x + 282 pp. Cloth, $65.

Calame, Claude. Masks of Authority: Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics. Trans. Peter M. Burk. Myth and Poetics. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005. xvi + 248 pp. Cloth, $49.95.

Cataldi, Silvio, ed. Poleis e politeiai: Esperienze politiche, tradizioni letterarie, progetti costituzionali. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Storia Greca, Turin, 29–31 May 2002. Fonti e studi di Storia Antica 13. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2004. x + 549 pp. Paper, €70.

Chaniotis, Angelos. War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History. Ancient World at War. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005. xxiv + 308 pp. 12 black-and-white figs. 5 maps. 1 table. Paper, $27.95.

Clark, Randall Baldwin. The Law Most Beautiful and Best: Medical Argument and Magical Rhetoric in Plato's Laws. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2003. xvi + 179 pp. Cloth, $55.

Clay, Diskin. Archilochos Heros: The Cult of Poets in the Greek Polis. Hellenic Studies 6. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2004. (Distributed by Harvard University Press.) xiv + 215 pp. 22 black-and-white figs. 36 black-and-white plates. Paper, $39.95.

Cueva, Edmund P. The Myths of Fiction: Studies in the Canonical Greek Novels. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 154 pp. Cloth, $47.50.

Davies, Jason P. Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on Their Gods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 341 pp. Cloth, $85.

de Haas, Frans, and Jaap Mansfeld, eds. Aristotle's on Generation and Corruption, Book I: Symposium Aristotelicum. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. x + 347 pp. Cloth, $74.

Dmitriev, Sviatoslav. City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi + 428 pp. 1 black-and-white plate. 2 maps. Cloth, $74.

Dorion, Louis-André. Socrate. Que sais-je? Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004. 127 pp. Paper, €7.50.

Fantuzzi, Marco, and Richard Hunter. Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. x + 511 pp. Cloth, $120. Originally published in Italian as Muse e modelli: La Poesia ellenistica da Alessandro Magno ad Augusto (Rome: Laterza, 2002).

Forsythe, Gary. A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. xvi + 400 pp. Cloth, $45.

Frost, Frank J. Politics and the Athenians: Essays on Athenian History and Historiography. Toronto: Edgar Kent, 2005. 302 pp. Cloth, $55.

Gärtner, Ursula. Quintus Smyranaeus und die Aeneis: Zur Nachwirkung Vergils in der grieschischen Literatur der Kaiserzeit. Zetemata 123. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2005. 320 pp. Paper, €68.

Gale, Monica, ed. Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition, and Individuality. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2004. xxiv + 264 pp. Cloth, $69.50.

Gerson, Lloyd P. Aristotle and Other Platonists. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. xii + 335 pp. Cloth, $49.95.

Grainger, John D. Nerva and the...