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Volume 88 - November 1998

I. General

Reviews

W. M. Bloomer, Latinity and Literary Society at Rome. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. vii + 327. ISBN 0-8122-3390-5. £37.95.

S. Fine, Sacred Realm: the Emergence of the Synagogue in the Ancient World. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press and Yeshiva University Museum, 1996. Pp. xxiv + 203, 51 pls, 2 maps, ISBN 0-19-510224-X (bound); 0-19-510225-8 (paper). £50.00 (bound); £20.00 (paper).

Tal Ilan, Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine: an Inquiry into Image and Status (Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum 44). Tübingen: Mohr, 1995. Pp. xiii + 270. ISBN 3-16-146283-1. DM 158.

II. The Republic

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S. L. Ager, Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 337–90 B.C.Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xvii + 579. ISBN 0-520-08162-5. £55.00/US$70.00.

A. M. Eckstein, Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius (Hellenistic Culture and Society 6). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. xi + 331. ISBN 0-5200-8520-5. US $48.00.

D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Onomasticon to Cicero's Treatises. Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1996. Pp. x + 142. ISBN 3-5190-7432-X. DM 74.

B. Bar-Kochva, Pseudo-Hecataeus, ‘On The Jews’: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (Hellenistic Culture and Society 21). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 396. ISBN 0-520-20059-4. £45.00/US$55.00.

III. The Empire

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M. Goodman with the assistance of J. Sherwood, The Roman World 44 B.C.–A.D. 180. London: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xxiii + 380, 18 pls, 22 figs, ISBN 0-415-04969-5 (bound); 0-415-04970-9 (paper). £50.00 (bound); £16.99 (paper).

M. Wifstrand Schiebe, Vergil und die Tradition von den römischen Urkönigen (Hermes Einzelschriften 76). Stuttgart: Steiner, 1997. Pp. 194. ISBN 3-515-07019-2. DM 68.

P. von Cranach, Die Opuscula Agrimensorum Veterum und die Entstehung der Kaiserzeitlichen Limitationstheorie (Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft 26). Basle: Reinhardt, 1996. Pp. 208, 3 illus. ISBN 3-7245-0928-6. Sw.Fr. 98.

G. Tissol, The Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 238. ISBN 0-691-01102-8. £29.95/US$39.50.

Jeffrey Wills, Repetition in Latin Poetry: Figures of Allusion. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xv + 506. ISBN 0-1981-4084-3. £45.00.

M. Elefante, Velleius Paterculus ad M. Vinicium Consulem Libri Duo (Bibliotheca Weidmanniana 3). Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Olms, 1997. Pp. xxxvi + 583. ISBN 3-487-10257-9. DM 118.

G. B. Conte, The Hidden Author: an Interpretation of Petronius' Satyricon. Trans. E. Fantham (Sather Classical Lectures 60). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Pp. X + 226. ISBN 0-520-20715-7. £28.00/US$35.00.

Phlegon of Tralles, Book of Marvels. Trans. and comm. W. Hansen. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1996. Pp. xvi + 215. ISBN 0-85989-425-8. £11.95.

J. C. Yardley and W. Heckel, Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus Books 11–12, Alexander the Great. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xxiv + 360, 3 maps, ISBN 0-1981-4908-5. £17.99.

M. Pagano, I Diari di scavo di Pompeii, Ercolano e Stabiae di Francesco e Pietro la Vega (1764–1810) (Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompeii Monographie 13). Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1997. Pp. 190, 11 figs, ISBN 88-7062-967-8. L. 200,000.

R. Ling, The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii, Volume I: the Structures. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. 393, 131 pls, 62 figs, ISBN 0-1981-3409-6. £85.00.

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Volume 88 - November 1998

I. General

Reviews

II. The Republic

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III. The Empire

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