Books Received

Peter J. Ahrensdorf and Thomas L. Pangle (trs.). Sophocles. The Theban Plays: Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. Pp. xix, 195. $55.00 (hb.). ISBN 978–0-8014–5201–7; $12.95 (pb.). ISBN 978–0-8014–7871–0.

Pauline Allen (tr.). John Chrysostom, Homilies on Philippians. Writings from the Greco-Roman World, 16. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013. Pp. xxiv, 345. $54.95 (hb.). ISBN 978–1-58983–778–2; $39.95 (pb.). ISBN 978–1-58983–759–1.

Josephine Balmer. Piercing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii, 271. $99.00. ISBN 978–1-19–958509–0.

John Bauschatz. Law and Enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xi, 415. $99.00. ISBN 978–1-107–03713–7.

Joseph Bienvenu (tr.). The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus. New Orleans: Diálogos Books, 2013. Pp. 180. $16.00 (pb.). ISBN 978–1-935084–17–4.

With illustrations by Thaddeus Conti.

Joshua Billings, Felix Budelmann, and Fiona Macintosh (eds.). Choruses, Ancient and Modern. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 424. $185.00 (hb.). ISBN 978–0-19–967057–4.

With contributions by the editors and C. Biet, L. Dreyfus, C. Dudouyt, Z. Dunbar, H. Eastman, E. Fisher-Lichte, S. Goldhill, C. Güthenke, E. Hall, E. Ioannidou, S. Murnaghan, A.-E. Peponi, M. Revermann, I. Rutherford, R. Savage, R. Seaford, and H. Slaney.

Barbara E. Borg. Crisis and Ambition: Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century CE Rome. Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture and Representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xx, 308. $185.00. ISBN 978–0-19–967273–8.

Dylan M. Burns. Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. xix, 321. $69.95. ISBN 978–0-8122–4579–0.

Marcos Carmignani, Luca Graverini, and Benjamin Todd Lee (eds.). Collected Studies on the Roman Novel: Ensayos sobre la novela romana. Ordia Prima Studia, 7. Córdoba, Argentina: Editorial Brujas, 2013. Pp. 312. $30.00 (pb.). ISBN 978–987–591–389–9.

With contributions by the editors and M. Fucecchi, G. Schmeling, N. W. Slater, G. Vannini, A. Setaioli, S. Harrison, L. Nicolini, W. Keulen, S. Montiglio, and D. Konstan.

Paola Ceccarelli. Ancient Greek Letter Writing: A Cultural History (600 BC— 150 BC). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xx, 435. $185.00. ISBN 978–0-19–967559–3.

Michael W. Champion. Explaining the Cosmos: Creation and Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Gaza. Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity. Pp. xi, 241. $74.00. ISBN 978–0-19–933748–4.

Anna Collar. Religious Networks in the Roman Empire: The Spread of New Ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xii, 322. $99.00. ISBN 978–1-107–04344–2.

Joan Breton Connelly. The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of the West’s Most Iconic Building and the People Who Made It. New York: Albert A. Knopf, 2014. Pp. xxiii, 485. $35.00. ISBN 978–0-307–59338–2.

Edmund P. Cueva and Shannon N. Byrne (eds.). A Companion to the Ancient Novel. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. Pp. xiii, 612. $120.00. ISBN 978–1-4443–3602–3.

With contributions from the editors and J. Alvares, G. Anderson, B. Baldwin, A. Bierl, K. S. Chew, E. D. Finkelpearl, S. Frangoulidis, M. P. Futre Pinheiro, G. Garbugino, M. Genre, T. Glaser, L. Graverini, J. P. Hallett, J. Hindermann, H. Hofmann, A. Holzmeister, P. James, D. Konstan, S. Lalanne, F. Létoublon, J. F. Makowski, C. Moreschini, J. N. O’Sullivan, M. P. Pattoni, J. Perkins, I. Ramelli, C. Ruiz-Montero, A. Setaioli, N. W. Slater, S. Stephens, K. De Temmerman, S. Tilg, P. von Möllendorff, M. M. Winkler, and G. Zanetto.

Nicola Cusumano, Valentino Gasparini, Attilio Mastrocinque and Jörg Rüpke (eds.). Memory and Religious Experience in the Greco-Roman World. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 45. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. Pp. 223. €53.00 (pb.). ISBN 978–3-515–10425–8.

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