Books Received

Aperghis, G. G. The Seleukid Royal Economy: The Finances and Financial Administration of the Seleukid Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi + 361 pp. 9 black-and-white figs. 5 tables. 1 map. Cloth, $90.

Babcock, Michael A. The Night Attila Died: Solving the Murder of Attila the Hun. New York: Berkley Books, 2005. x + 324 pp. Numerous black-and-white ills. Cloth, $23.95.

Basset, Louis, and Frédérique Biville, eds. Les Jeux et les ruses de l'ambiguïté volontaire dans les texts grecs et latins. Actes de la Table ronde organisée à la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université Lumière—Lyon 2 (23–24 novembre 2000). Collection de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée 33, Série Linguistique et Philologique 4. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée - Jean Pouilloux, 2005. 244 pp. Paper, €25.

Beagon, Mary, trans. The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal: Natural History Book 7. With intro. and comm. Clarendon Ancient History Series. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. xxii + 515 pp. Paper, $150.

Bartsch, Shadi, and Thomas Bartscherer, eds. Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 338 pp. 11 black-and-white ills. Cloth, $29.

Calderan, Roberto, ed. Tito Maccio Plauto: Vidularia. Rev. ed. with intro. and comm. Ludus Philologiae 13. Urbino: QuattroVenti, 2004. xii + 173 pp. Paper, €18. First published in 1982 by Vittorietti (Palermo).

Carbone, Gabriella. Tabliope: Ricerche su gioco e letteratura nel mondo Greco-Romano. Publicazioni del Dipartimento di Filologia Classica "F. Arnaldi" dell'Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II 26. Naples: Francesco Giannini, 2005. 463 pp. Paper, price not stated.

Cawkwell, George. The Greek Wars: The Failure of Persia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 316 pp. Cloth, $115.

Colish, Marcia L. Ambrose's Patriarchs: Ethics for the Common Man. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. viii + 193 pp. Cloth, $35; paper, $15.

Craig, Edward, ed. The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2005. xxvi + 1077. Cloth, $45.

Crivelli, Paolo. Aristotle on Truth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 340 pp. Cloth, $85.

Dalley, Stephanie. Old Babylonian Texts in the Ashmolean Museum: Mainly from Larsa, Sippir, Kish, and Lagaba. With copies contributed by Eleanor Robson and Tina Breckwoldt. Oxford Editions of Cunieform Texts 15. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. x + 234 pp. 381 black-and-white ills. 9 black-and-white photos. Paper, $130.

Detel, Wolfgang. Foucault and Classical Antiquity: Power, Ethics, and Knowledge. Trans. David Wigg-Wolf. Modern European Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. x + 281 pp. Cloth, $75. Trans. of Macht, Moral, Wissen: Foucault und die Klassische Antike (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1998).

Dugan, John. Making a New Man: Ciceronian Self-Fashioning in the Rhetorical Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. x + 388 pp. Cloth, $120.

Fowden, Garth, and Elizabeth Key Fowden. Studies on Hellenism, Christianity and the Umayyads. Meletemata 37. Athens: Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2004. (Dist. by de Boccard, Paris.) 219 pp. 32 black-and-white ills. Paper, price not stated.

Garulli, Valentina. Il Πεpì πoiητωv di Lobone di Argo. Eikasmos: Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica, Studi 10. Bologna: Pàtron, 2004. 220 pp. €16.

Gill, Christopher, ed. Virtue, Norms, and Objectivity: Issues in Ancient and Modern Ethics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005. xii + 326 pp. Cloth, $74.

Greene, Ellen, ed. Women Poets in Ancient Greece and Rome. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. xxii + 234 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $16.95.

Holford-Strevens, Leofranc, and Amiel Vardi, eds. The Worlds of Aulus Gellius. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvi + 392 pp. Cloth, $145.

Johnson, Marguerite, and Terry Ryan. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge, 2005. xxvi + 244 pp. 11 black-and-white ills. Paper, $33.95.

Holt, Frank L. Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan. Hellenistic Culture and Society. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. xiv + 241 pp. 4 maps. Cloth, $24.95.

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