New Books for Classical Studies – January 2006

CENTRAL Library only

 

 

Archaeology

 

Prehistoric landscape to Roman villa : excavations at Beddington, Surrey 1981-7 / Isca Howell (ed.). London : Museum of London Archaeology Service, 2005. xiv, 135 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm. MoLAS monograph 26

DA670 .S96 P745 2005        

 

Yule, Brian.

A prestigious Roman building complex on the Southwark waterfront : excavations at Winchester Palace, London, 1983-90 / London : Museum of London Archaeology Service, c2005. xiv, 189 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm. MoLAS monograph 23

DA685 .S7 Y854 2005                    

 

 

History

 

Mediterranean urbanization 800-600 BC / edited by Robin Osborne & Barry Cunliffe. Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2005. xiv, 279 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm. Proceedings of the British Academy ; 126

AS122 .L5 v.126                        

 

Classical pasts : the classical traditions of Greece and Rome / edited by James I. Porter. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. xiii, 450 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

DE71 .C495 2006           

 

Greek History

 

Hillbom, Niklas.

Minoan games and game boards / Lund : Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University, 2005. 359 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

DF220.3 .H556 2005               

 

Bryce, Trevor, 1940-

The Trojans and their neighbours / Trevor Bryce. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. xiv, 225 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.  Ancient peoples

DF221 .T8 B79 2006                     

 

Dewald, Carolyn.

Thucydides' war narrative : a structural study / Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2005. xiv, 258 p. ; 24 cm. The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature

DF 229 .T6 D48 2005                    

 

Cantor, Norman F.

Alexander the Great : journey to the end of the earth / Norman F. Cantor, with Dee Ranieri.  New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2005. ix, 180 p. : map ; 22 cm.

DF234 .C26 2005                        

 

The Parthenon : from antiquity to the present / edited by Jenifer Neils. New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvi, 430 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

DF287 .P3 P37 2005 

 

Brulé, Pierre.

[Femmes grecques à l'époque classique. English] Women of ancient Greece / translated by Antonia Nevill. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2003. 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

HQ1134 .B7813 2003      

     

Roman History

 

Harvey, Brian K.

Roman lives : ancient Roman life as illustrated by Latin inscriptions / Newburyport, MA: Focus Pub./R. Pullins Co, c2004. ix, 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Focus classical sources

DG78 .H36 2004                         

 

The Cambridge companion to the Age of Augustus / edited by Karl Galinsky. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvii, 407 p. : ill., (some col.), maps ; 23 cm.

DG279 .C35 2005   

 

Tacoma, Laurens Ernst, 1967-

Fragile hierarchies : the urban elites of third century Roman Egypt / Leiden ; Boston : Brill Academic Publishers, 2006 353 p. : map ; 25 cm.  Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum  ; 271.

HN786 .Z9 E48 2006             

 

Senatores populi Romani : Realität und mediale Präsentation einer Führungsschicht : Kolloquium der Prosopographia Imperii Romani vom 11.-13. Juni 2004 / Werner Eck, Matthäus Heil (Hg.). Stuttgart : Steiner, 2005. viii, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien ; Bd. 40

JC85 .S4 S46 2005                      

 

 

Language and Literature

 

Greek Language and Literature

 

Bakker, Egbert J.

Pointing at the past : from formula to performance in Homeric poetics / Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii, 205 p. ; 23 cm. Hellenic studies ; 12

PA4177 .E6 B35 2005                    

 

The new Posidippus : a Hellenistic poetry book / edited by Kathryn Gutzwiller. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi, 394 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

PA4399 .P15 N48 2005                   

 

Sophocles and the Greek language : aspects of diction, syntax and pragmatics / edited by I.J.F. de Jong and A. Rijksbaron. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006. xiv, 267 p. ; 25 cm. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 269

PA 4432 .S66 2006                      

 

Latin Literature

 

Welch, Tara S., 1967-

The elegiac cityscape : Propertius and the meaning of Roman monuments / Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2005. x, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

PA6646 .W45 2005              

 

 

Philosophy

 

Sextus, Empiricus.

Against the logicians / translated and edited by Richard Bett. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xliii, 207 p. ; 24 cm. Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy

B621 .P682 E5 2005                     

 

 

Seals

 

Dusinberre, Elspeth R. M.

Gordion seals and sealings : individuals and society / Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum, c2005. xv, 179 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.). University Museum monograph ; 124

CD5344 .D87 2005                       

CDROM 598                            

 

 

Civilization/Religion/Customs

 

Pedley, John Griffiths.

Sanctuaries and the sacred in the ancient Greek world / New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. xviii, 272 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

 BL795 .S47 P43 2005      

 

Tinsley, Barbara Sher, 1938-

Reconstructing western civilization : irreverant essays on antiquity / Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press, c2006. 392 p. ; 25 cm.

CB 311 .T57 2006     

 

Convivio : storia e cultura dei piaceri della tavola dall'antichità al medioevo : [antologia / a cura di] Massimo Montanari. Roma : Laterza, 1989. xxiv, 537 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm. Storia e società

GT2853 .E8 C65 1989 

 

Why Plato? : Platonism in twentieth century English literature / edited by Daniela Carpi. Heidelberg : Winter, 2005. 209 p. ; 25 cm. Anglistische Forschungen ; Bd. 350

PR127 .W48 2005