New Books for Classical Studies – January 2005

Central Library Only

 

 

Art and Architecture

 

[Pompei : storia, vita e arte della città sepolta. English] Pompeii : the history, life and art of the buried city / edited by Marisa Ranieri Panetta ; [translation, Catherine Bolton]. Vercelli : White Star, c2004. 415 p. : col. ill., maps ; 37 cm.

N5770 .P6613 2004     

 

Sturgeon, Mary C. (Mary Carol), 1943-

Sculpture : the assemblage from the theater / Princeton, N.J. : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004. xxxiv, 236 p., [78] p. of plates : ill. ; 31 cm. Corinth ; v. 9, pt. 3

DF261 .C65 A6 v.9 pt.3                                  

 

 

History

 

Spivey, Nigel Jonathan.

Panorama of the classical world / Nigel Spivey and Michael Squire. Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004. 368 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.

DE59 .S67 2004          

 

Bekker-Nielsen, Tonnes.

The roads of ancient Cyprus / Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2004. 307, [34] p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

DS54.3 .B45 2004              

 

Greek History

 

Latacz, Joachim.

[Troia und Homer. English.] Troy and Homer : towards a solution of an old mystery / Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004. 342 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

DF221 .T8 L2713 2004                   

 

Blösel, Wolfgang.

Themistokles bei Herodot : Spiegel Athens im fünften Jahrhundert : Studien zur Geschichte und historiographischen Konstruktion des griechischen Freiheitskampfes 480 v. Chr. / Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. 422 p. ; 25 cm.  Historia Einzelschriften, Heft 183

DF226 .T45 B567 2004                   

 

Prevas, John.

Envy of the Gods : Alexander the Great's ill-fated journey across Asia / Cambridge, MA : Da Capo, 2004. xii, 242 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

DF234 .P74 2004                        

 

Rogers, Guy MacLean.

Alexander : the ambiguity of greatness / New York : Random House, c2004. xxxviii, 420 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

DF234 .R73 2004                        

 

Frost, Frank J., 1929-

Politics and the Athenians : essays on Athenian history and historiography / Toronto : Edgar Kent, Publishers, 2005.

DF285 .F767 2005         

 

 

Roman History

 

Allison, Penelope Mary.

Pompeian households : an analysis of material culture / Los Angeles : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, c2004. xvii, 255 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Monograph ; 42

DG70 .P7 A645 2004                     

 

Leighton, Robert.

Tarquinia : an Etruscan city / London : Duckworth, 2004. xii, 218 p.. [12] p, of ill. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Duckworth archaeological histories

DG70 .T35 L455 2004                    

 

Aldrete, Gregory S.

Daily life in the Roman city : Rome, Pompeii and Ostia / Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004. xv, 278 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. The Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series,

DG78 .A53 2004                         

 

Pagan, Victoria Emma, 1965-

Conspiracy narratives in Roman history / Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004. viii, 197 p. ; 24 cm.

DG205 .P24 2004                         

 

The historians of ancient Rome / edited by Ronald Mellor. 2nd ed. New York : Routledge, 2004. x, 617 p. ; 23 cm.

DG207 .H57 2004                        

 

Matyszak, Philip.

The enemies of Rome : from Hannibal to Attila the Hun / London : Thames & Hudson, 2004. 296 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

DG211 .M389 2004                    

 

Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith.

Cannae / London : Cassell, 2001. 200 p. : col. ill, col. maps ; 23 cm. Cassell's Fields of battle

DG 247.3 .G65 2001                      

 

Ermatinger, James William, 1959-

The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press, 2004. xxxi, 187 p., [13] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Greenwood guides to historic events of the ancient world

DG311 .E75 2004      

   

 

Language and Literature

 

Women writers of ancient Greece and Rome : an anthology / edited by I.M. Plant. University of Oklahoma Press ed. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2004. viii, 268 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

PA3621 .W66 2004          

 

Greek Language and Literature

 

Rademaker, Adriaan.

Sophrosyne and the rhetoric of self-restraint : polysemy & persuasive use of an ancient Greek value term / Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005. x, 375 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 259

PA 430 .S66 R24 2005    

 

Burkert, Walter, 1931-

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis : eastern contexts of Greek culture / Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004. 178 p. ; 22 cm.

PA3070 .B868 2004                      

 

Cueva, Edmund P., 1964-

The myths of fiction : studies in the canonical Greek novels / Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004. 154 p. ; 24 cm.

PA3267 .C84 2004          

 

Hesiod.

Theogony ; Works and days ; Shield / translation, introduction, and notes by Apostolos N. Athanassakis. 2nd ed. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xix, 163 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

PA 4010 .E5 T5 2004                    

 

Haskins, Ekaterina V., 1969-

Logos and power in Isocrates and Aristotle / Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina press, c2004. 172 p. ; 24 cm. Studies in rhetoric/communication

PA4218 .H37 2004                       

 

Lape, Susan, 1965-

Reproducing Athens : Menander's comedy, democratic culture, and the Hellenistic city / Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004. xiii, 294 p. ; 25 cm.

PA4247 .L37 2004                       

 

Heath, Malcolm.

Menander : a rhetor in context / Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. xvii, 374 p. ; 23 cm.

PA4248 .M13 H438 2004                  

 

Sophocles.

Oedipus at Colonus / translated by Eamon Grennan and Rachel Kitzinger. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. xi, 122 p. ; 21 cm. Greek tragedy in new translations

PA4414 .O5 G74 2005                    

 

Theophrastus.

[Characters. English & Greek] Characters / edited with introduction, translation and commentary by James Diggle. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii, 600 p. ; 23 cm. Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 43

PA4449 .E5 C5 2004                     

 

The long march : Xenophon and the ten thousand / edited by Robin Lane Fox. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004. xi, 351 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.

PA4494 .A7 L66 2004                    

 

Xenophon and his world : papers from a conference held in Liverpool in July 1999 / Christopher Tuplin (ed.) ; with contributions from V. Azoulay ... [et al.]. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner, c2004. 524 p., 4 p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.  Historia. Einzelschriften, Heft 172

PA4497 .X466 2004                       

 

 

Latin Language and Literature

 

Janson, Tore, 1936-

A natural history of Latin / translated and adapted into English by Merethe Damsgaard Sorensen and Nigel Vincent. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. x, 305 p. ; 23 cm.

PA2057 .J36713 2004    

 

Chappuis Sandoz, Laure.

Terres d'abondance : paysages et images poétiques de la fertilité et du don dans la littérature latine / Bruxelles : Editions Latomus, 2004. 478 p. ; 24 cm. Collection Latomus; v. 284

PA6029 .N3 C466 2004                    

 

Puccini-Delbey, Géraldine.

Amour et désir dans les Métamorphoses d'Apulée / Bruxelles : Latomus, 2003. 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Collection Latomus ; v. 274

PA6217 .P83 2003                 

 

Cicero the advocate / edited by Jonathan Powell and Jeremy Paterson. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. x, 448 p. : map ; 24 cm.

PA6320 .C535 2004                      

 

Nisbet, R. G. M. (Robin George Murdoch)

A commentary on Horace : Odes, book III / by R.G.M. Nisbet and Niall Rudd. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. xxx, 389 p. : 23 cm.

PA 6411 .N57 2004                      

 

Martin, Anna Julia.

Was ist Exil? : Ovids Tristia und Epistulae ex Ponto / Hildesheim : G. Olms, 2004. 193 p.; 21 cm. Spudasmata, Bd. 99

PA6519 .T9 M378 2004                   

 

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.

[Heroides. Italian & Latin] Heroides / a cura di Pierpaolo Fornaro. Alessandria : Edizioni dell'Orso, c1999. 424 p. ; 22 cm. Millennium (Alessandria, Italy) ; 1.

PA6525 .H4 F67 1999                     

 

Ziolkowski, Theodore.

Ovid and the moderns / Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005. xvi, 262 p. ; 24 cm.

PA6537 .Z56 2005                       

 

Phaedrus.

Aesop's human zoo : Roman stories about our bodies / translated from Phaedrus's Latin by John Henderson ; with illustrations by Thomas Bewick. Chicago : University of Chicago, 2004. ix, 137 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

PA6564 .E5 H455 2004                   

 

Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328.

Commento alla Phaedra di Seneca / a cura di Maria Chiabò. Bari : Edipuglia, 2004. 132 p. ; 24 cm. Quaderni di "Invigilata lucernis" ; 22

PA6664 .P53 T758 2004                  

 

Davis, Peter J.

Seneca : Thyestes / London : Duckworth, 2003. 172 p. ; 22 cm. Duckworth companions to Greek and Roman tragedy

PA6664 .T53 D385 2003                  

 

Aygon, J.-P. (Jean-Pierre)

Pictor in fabula : l'ecphrasis-descriptio dans les tragédies de Sénèque / Bruxelles : Editions Latomus, 2004. 534 p. ; 24 p. Collection Latomus ; v. 280

PA6685 .A946 2004                      

 

Sénèque le tragique : huit exposés suivis de discussions : Vandoeuvres-Genève, 1-5 septembre 2003 / par Wolf-Lüder Liebermann ... [et al.] ; entretiens préparés et présidés par Margerethe Billerbeck et Ernst A. Schmidt ; avec la participation de Claudia Wick ; index rédigé par Claudia Wick. Genève : Fondation Hardt, c2004. xviii, 448 p. ; 23 cm. Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique, t. 50

PA6685 .S464 2004                      

 

Spaltenstein, François.

Commentaire des Argonautica de Val*erius Flaccus (livres 3, 4 et 5) / Bruxelles : Latomus, 2004. 561 p. ; 24 cm. Collection Latomus ; v. 281

PA6791 .V5 S6242 2004                  

 

Van Sickle, John.

The design of Virgil's Bucolics / 2nd ed. London : Bristol Classical Press, 2004. 258 p. ; 22 cm. Bristol classical paperbacks

PA6804 .B7 V3 2004                     

 

Romane Memento : Vergil in the fourth century / editor, Roger Rees.  London : Duckworth, 2003. 240 p. ; 24 cm.

PA6825 .R663 2003          

 

 

Numismatics

 

Krzyszkowska, O. (Olga)

Aegean seals : an introduction / London : Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2005. xxx, 425 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; maps ; 26 cm.

CD5363 .K799 2005  

 

Christiansen, Erik, 1939-

Coinage in Roman Egypt : the hoard evidence / Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, c2004. 208 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

CJ 1072 .C57 2004          

 

 

 

Philosophy

 

Cooper, John M. (John Madison), 1939-

Knowledge, nature, and the good : essays on ancient philosophy / Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004. x, 410 p. ; 24 cm.

B171 .C684 2004                        

 

Brickhouse, Thomas C., 1947-

Routledge philosophy guidebook to Plato and the trial of Socrates / Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith. New York : Routledge, 2004. vi, 297 p. ; 21 cm. Routledge philosophy guidebooks

B365 .B73 2004                         

 

Dancy, R. M.

Plato's introduction of forms / Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii, 348 p. ; 24 cm.

B 398 .F57 D35 2004                    

 

Ousager, Asger.

Plotinus on selfhood, freedom and politics / Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, c2004. 397 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Aarhus studies in mediterranean antiquity ; 6 Acta Jutlandica ; v. 79, pt. 1.

B 693 .Z7 O87 2004                     

 

Hadot, Ilsetraut.

[Selections. English. 2004] Studies on the Neoplatonist Hierocles / translated from the French by Michael Chase. Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 2004. vi, 152 p.; 26 cm. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, v. 94, pt. 1

BJ214 .H8 H33 2004  

 

Clark, Randall Baldwin, 1965-

The law most beautiful and best : medical argument and magical rhetoric in Plato's Laws / Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2003. xiv, 178 p. ; 24 cm.

JC71 .C53 2003                         

 

Whitaker, Albert Keith.

A journey into Platonic politics : Plato's Laws / Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2004. x, 244 p. ; 22 cm.

JC 71 .P264 W45 2004                   

 

Woodruff, Paul, 1943-

First democracy : the challenge of an ancient idea / Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. xi, 284 p. : ill., maps ; 19 cm.

JC75 .D36 W66 2005                                

 

Averroës, 1126-1198.

Averrois Cordubensis commentum magnum super libro De celo et mundo Aristotelis / in lucem edidit Rüdiger Arnzen ; editioni praefatus est Gerhard Endress. Leuven, Belgium : Peeters, 2003. 2 v. (47, 765 p.) ; 24 cm. Recherches de théologie et philosophie médiévales. Bibliotheca ; 4

QB41.A73 A9317 2003 t. 1

 

 

Religion/Myths

 

Berrens, Stephan.

Sonnenkult und Kaisertum von den Severern bis zu Constantin I. (193-337 n. Chr.) / Stuttgart : Steiner, 2004. 282 p., 2 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Historia. Einzelschriften, Heft 185

BL438 .B477 2004                       

 

Brisson, Luc.

[Sauver les mythes. English] How philosophers saved myths : allegorical interpretation and classical mythology / translated by Catherine Tihanyi. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv, 206 p. ; 24 cm.

BL727 .B7513 2004                      

 

Buxton, R. G. A.

Complete world of Greek mythology / New York : Thames & Hudson, 2004. 256 p. : col. ill., maps ; 26 cm.

BL783 .B88 2004                        

 

Wiseman, T. P. (Timothy Peter)

The myths of Rome / Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2004. xxii, 390 p., [30] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, music ; 26 cm.

BL803 .W57 2004                        

 

Martini, Maria Cristina.

Le vestali : un sacerdozio funzionale al "cosmo" romano / Bruxelles : Editions Latomus, 2004. 263 p. ; 24 cm. Collection Latomus ; v. 282

BL815 .V4 M378 2004                    

 

Motta, Daniela, 1970-

Percorsi dell'agiografia : società e cultura nella Sicilia tardoantica e bizantina / 2. ed. ampliata ed aggiornata Catania : Edizioni del Prisma, 2004. vi, 409 p. ; 21 cm. Testi e studi di storia antica ; 4

BR 877 .S5 M68 2004     

 


Misc – books vaguely relating to Classics (in call number order)

 

Landscapes of change : rural evolutions in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / edited by Neil Christie. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004. xviii, 324 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

GF90 .L383 2004              

 

Younger, John G. (John Grimes), 1945-

Sex in the ancient world from A to Z / London ; New York : Routledge, 2005. xvii, 217 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. The ancient world from A to Z

HQ13 .Y65 2005             

 

Garton, Stephen.

Histories of sexuality: antiquity to sexual revolution / New York : Routledge, c2004. xiv, 311 p. ; 24 cm.

HQ23 .G378 2004  

 

Gender in the early medieval world : East and West, 300-900 / edited by Leslie Brubaker and Julia M.H. Smith. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi, 333 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

HQ1075.5 .E85 G46 2004    

 

Pizzato, Mark, 1960-

Theatres of human sacrifice : from ancient ritual to screen violence / Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2005. ix, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture

PN1995.9 .V5 P59 2005

 

Ptolemy, 2nd cent.

[Almagest. Liber primus. Latin] Claudii Ptolemaei Magnae constructionis, liber primus : cum Theonis Alexandrini commentariis Io. Baptista Porta Neapolitano inprete / [traduzione di] Giovan Battista Della Porta ; a cura di Raffaella De Vivo. Napoli : Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 2000. xxiii, 236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Edizione nazionale delle opere di Giovan Battista Della Porta ; 18

QB41 .P964 2000   

 

Ihm, Sibylle.

Clavis commentariorum der antiken medizinischen Texte / Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002. 268 p. ; 25 cm. Clavis commentariorum. Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi ; v. 1

R138 .I36 2002              

 

Sidebottom, Harry.

Ancient warfare : a very short introduction / New York : Oxford University Press Inc., 2004. [xvii], 165 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.  Very short introductions

U33 .S52 2004                          

 

International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology (9th : 2000 : Venice, Italy)

Boats, ships and shipyards : proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Venice 2000 / edited by Carlo Beltrame. Oxford : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Co., c2003. xiv, 362 p. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.

VM16 .I54 2000                         

 

 

Video/DVD

 

Enigma of the Etruscans / a co-production of Gedeon Programmes, ARTE France, CNRS Images/Media, Le Musee du Louvre. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2004.  1 videocassette (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

Videotape 2861